Defeating Duoduo is much more difficult than defeating Shunzhi!

Because Zhu Cihong still doesn't know where Duoduo is? And I don't know where he will strike? At present, there are only two approximate inferences, that is, guessed directions.

One direction is, of course, around Tianjinwei! Scofa besieged the city, and Duoduo rescued him...... From a purely military point of view, this is more likely. So Emperor Zhu sent Prince Kong to help Shi Kefa arrange his troops, although Shi Kefa has made great progress now, enough to beat Fulin, but Duoduo is not Fulin, and he has to let the "make-up teacher" Kong Dai personally go out.

And in the other direction, it is the Qing army's camp in the north and south of the Yellow River!

This time, the target of Zhu Cihong's Northern Expedition was not Shunzhi, he sent it to the door to find a fight! Emperor Zhu's target was Zhongzhou, which is the western part of Henan and Shandong provinces.

The key to the battle of Zhongzhou was the large camp built by the Qing army on the bank of the Yellow River near the city of Kaifeng.

The so-called North and South camps are actually two earthen cities built near the river. The two cities are far away from each other, and there is a pontoon bridge in the middle.

The two earthen cities were built into fortresses, and Shunzhi placed 10,000 elite soldiers in each of the two earthen cities according to Duoduo's suggestion, which were the soldiers of the Qing army's infantry camp. by Niu Hulu. Chen Tai and Ma Jia. The chief and deputy commanders of the two infantry battalions of Tuhai were under their command respectively, of which Chen Tai was stationed in the Henan battalion, and Tuhai was stationed in the Hebei battalion.

The task of the two is one - to defend the big camp (fortress) when the Ming army comes to attack, so as to consume the strength of the Ming army.

As long as the Ming army is almost exhausted on the side of the camp in Henan and Hebei, Duoduo will lead the Manchurian new army to kill!

When Duoduo wins, Zhongzhou will be able to keep it, and the Northern Qing Dynasty and the Southern Ming Dynasty will continue to confront each other. If they can't win, they dig a dam to flood Henan...... Hmph, don't think about it!

The task is quite simple, but Chen Tai and Tu Hai don't know what to do after the New Year? Because the bad news in the direction of Shandong and Beizhili came one after another! On the eighth and ninth days of the first lunar month, there is no news!

The saying that no news is good news does not apply now, because there has been constant contact between the Shunzhi Emperor and the Henan and Hebei camps.

Even after Emperor Shunzhi was frightened by Shi Kefa and ran back to Tianjin, he did not forget to send envoys to the Henan and Hebei camps, asking Chen Tai and Tuhai to obey the orders of the Empress Dowager Bumu Butai, and also informed Fuquan that he was the successor of the two yellow flags.

This is a bit of an explanation of the aftermath!

And after that, the news of Tianjin Wei is gone! There is no news from Beijing (Beijing has not received the holy decree of Shunzhi...... No matter how you look at it, something is wrong!

Chen Tai, who was guarding the Henan camp, also pretended to be in a good situation early this morning and patrolled the camp, and casually made up a few good news to tell the people below - the communication channels between the Henan and Hebei camps and the outside world have always been in the hands of Chen Tai and Tu Hai, so the people below don't know that the Qing Dynasty is already a little over.

But Chen Tai himself knew very well in his heart that if the emperor was really gone, the imperial uncle might run away, and then he, Tuhai and the 20,000 horses here would be dead......

Chen Tai, who was preoccupied, returned to his Chinese army, and just wanted to ask his staff if there was any news from Beijing or Tianjin, when there were hurried footsteps and Tuhai's loud voice outside the door.

"Gushan Ezhen (Chen Tai is still Gushan Ezhen with a yellow flag), is Gushan Ezhen back?"

"Linzhou, come in!" Chen Tai greeted.

Then I saw Tuhai, who looked dignified and looked like a loyal minister, pushed the door and walked in. MA Jia. Tuhai started with a pen and post, and was a member of the Shunzhi Emperor's "weak faction", accompanied Shunzhi to read and learn calligraphy, and also learned French together...... However, he is not like Suo Etu, Mingzhu, and Gao Sai, who like to show off their talents, he is an honest man, he doesn't understand, he asks, and he doesn't ask others, just ask Emperor Shunzhi. Asking and asking, it made Shunzhi feel that he was a gentleman who was not ashamed to ask.

Therefore, after Shunzhi came into power, among the group of "weak factions", he had the best official luck, and now he is the deputy commander of the infantry military camp, and his status is second only to the six ministers of the interior.

This is called humility and progress!

Chen Tai also values this deputy who can do things, speaks well, and looks dignified, and when he saw that he was going to give himself a thousand after he came in, he waved his hand and said: "It's red tape, if you have anything to say, just say it." ”

"Gushan is true, there is an emergency military situation!" Tu Hai's tone was solemn, "The horse team sent by the lowly government to the east to seek the enemy has returned...... When I went, I rode more than 300 times, but I came back with less than 100 rides, and I lost a lot! ”

Chen Tai was stunned, "How can a team of more than 300 horses ...... Did you accidentally fall into an ambush? ”

Tu Hai shook his head, frowned and said, "It's not that you are ambushed, it's worse than being ambushed!"

The humble duty was that he was worried that the cavalry of the squad would make people ambush, so he sent a brigade of more than 300 horsemen, and he also took special care not to pursue the archers of the Southern army, and he had to be careful when passing through villages and woods. But who knew that they had encountered thousands of ironclad spearmen, all of whom rode extremely majestic horses, impacting our horse team like a whirlwind...... I wonder where they got so many good horses? ”

They are the guards lancers who have met Emperor Zhu! It took me an unknown amount of money to raise the elite, the Tianzhu Folded Ear Horse of Yishui, and when it launched the attack, of course, it was not something that the Green Flag soldiers and horses on the market could carry by relying on Mongolian horses.

Therefore, Tuhai's 300 horsemen made people lose more than 200 ...... with a single charge. However, it was precisely because of this 300-cavalry brigade that the "black spear and mule soldiers" operating in units of dozens of cavalry were not easy to start, and the Ming army brigade that was marching along the north bank of the Yellow River was forced to send the trump card in their hands - the Guards Lancers!

"They must have been riding oceanic horses bought from the West!" Chen Tai's face turned pale, "These thousands of oceanic horses are transported from the West, and the price is sky-high, no matter how rich the Southern Barbarians are, they can't have much...... Their workhorse is coming! ”

"LinkedIn!" Tu Hai slapped his ass again.

In fact, he already knew that the horse team he sent had collided with the main force of the Ming army!

"It's a brigade again, it's a Yanma cavalry, and it's thousands of ......," Chen Tai took a breath, "It's not good!" Linzhou, you quickly send someone to report this news, especially the news that the Southern Barbarians have thousands of oceanic horse cavalry! ”

"Wow!" Tu Haidao, "As soon as I go back, I will arrange for someone to go to Beijing to deliver the letter." ”

In fact, the team that delivered the letter has already set off! Tu Hai didn't dare to delay at all - he was afraid that the cavalry of the Ming army would block the road near the camp in Hebei. Now the Ming army not only has "black lance mule soldiers", but also "lancer and horse soldiers". The cavalry of the Great Qing Kingdom is no longer able to play...... Moreover, the cavalry belonging to the battalions in Henan and Hebei are not good soldiers, they are all the original Green Banner or the cavalry of the Old Eight Banners Han Army, and there are no good people and no good horses.

If the black spearmen and Yanmar soldiers of the Ming army really blocked the road, then the two battalions north and south of the Yellow River would really have no way to contact their superiors!

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When Tu Hai reported to Chen Tai that his subordinates had encountered the Ming army's Western cavalry, Yan Yingyuan, the governor of Henan of the Ming Dynasty who sent these Western Cavalry soldiers, led the Northern Expedition West Route Army, composed of eight infantry divisions, an artillery regiment, a cavalry regiment and a large number of baggage militia regiments, and marched on the banks of the icy and snow-covered Yellow River.

The Yellow River is invisible, because Admiral Yan's army marched below the embankment of the Yellow River, and the surface of the Yellow River was "hanging" above Admiral Yan's head, and it was not too high, or one or two feet above the ground. This is still the situation in winter when the water is shallow, if it is full of water in summer, it will have to be much higher, and if the south bank embankment bursts, the flood will rush all the way to Huaibei, and it will be polite to inundate more than a dozen counties along the way. If there is too much rain on both sides of the Huai River, the water level is too high, and the Hongze Lake flood storage area can't bear it, then it will be a heavy loss!

Therefore, Zhu Cihong has already given Yan Yingyuan a death order, and he must not let the Yellow River flood the Henan Prefecture.