Leaving a heavy topic, let's talk about the situation in Xuzhou, at the beginning of October of the fifth year of Yongli, with the cold snap of early winter, Wang Yuncai and Wang Jincai, the vanguard of the Ming army, were ready to blow some cold snaps for the Qing army south of the Yellow River. At the beginning of October, Wang Jincai's troops captured Xiao County, which was fifty miles west of Xuzhou City, and only four days later, another Wang Yuncai Department captured Pei County, one hundred and twenty miles west of Xuzhou City, and the title of 'Pei Gong' of Han Gaozu was obtained here. And Xuzhou was called Pengcheng in ancient times, which is the hometown of the overlord Xiang Yu.

The overlord burned down the Afang Palace that year, saying that 'the rich do not return to their hometown, such as brocade clothes at night', saying that they wanted to return to Pengcheng, and Pengcheng is Xuzhou. It is said that there is another wonder in Xuzhou, that is, the "Words of the Golden Bottle and Plum" before the birth of "Dream of Red Mansions". There is a saying that "Golden Bottle Plum" is the ancestor of "Dream of Red Mansions", and the background of the story of Golden Bottle Plum, one of the four great strange books of the Ming Dynasty, may be Xuzhou.

deviated, and then Wang Jincai killed Han Gaozu's hometown, Feng County, one hundred and fifty miles west of Xuzhou, didn't Liu Bang call Pei Gong, how did he go to Feng County? People are going to neighboring counties to be officials, just like Wu Erlang of Qinghe killed a tiger in Yanggu County and started to be the head of Yanggu, but the story of the Golden Bottle Meili is said to be Xuzhou, I didn't say that the Qinghe in "Water Margin" is also Xuzhou, let's only talk about "The Words of the Golden Bottle". It's going to be again, hold back, I'm going to forget "Golden Vase Plum"! Eh, Lanling smiled and smiled, you are really harmful, but you don't tell us who you are, are you really Wang Shizhen? Stop! If you don't study the book, you will find out who the author is, what kind of trouble are you going to make?

Besides, after Wang Yuncai occupied Dangshan County in mid-October, the Ming army had actually completed the encirclement of Xuzhou before the arrival of Dolgon's main army. But this is not the end, besides, Gao Bizheng in Henan led his headquarters to continue to attack in the northwest direction at this time. In early October, after breaking the Luyi of Guide Prefecture, he crossed the already garrisoned Hao Yongzhong in Haozhou, interspersed with Henan again from the territory of Nanzhili, and captured Yongcheng County of Guide Prefecture to the northwest, then turned back to capture Xiayi County of Guide Prefecture, and finally captured Yucheng County of Guide Prefecture to the north, and stationed here.

Ma Guozhu, the governor of Jiangnan of the Qing army, who was stationed in the city of Defu, had 7,500 people from the eight banners of the Qing army and the Han army, and behind him was the main force of the two giant beasts, Dolgon and Jilharang, to the west. At this point, the war is about to begin. However, before that, the Ming army also made some moves, the first was Li Jindong, a loyal battalion in northern Shaanxi, to Fenzhou in western Shanxi. Ma Jinzhong's headquarters in Fenzhou changed guards with Li Jin, and the commander-in-chief was not in the army in Nanjing, so his troops were about to be transferred to the rear and returned to northern Shaanxi. There is also Liu Tichun's troops in northern Shaanxi to Pingyang in the southwest of Shanxi, and Liu Wenxiu, the king of Shu in Pingyang, went to Tongguan to replace Li Dingguo to defend this pass, and Li Dingguo became a mobile force.

Since then, the distribution situation of the Ming army is that there are 133,000 elite main forces of Li Dingguo's Ming army in Tongguan west of Luoyang; To the east of Kaifeng, there are 62,200 people of the Ming army Gao Bizheng in Yucheng County, Guide Prefecture; Dangshan County, Xuzhou Prefecture, not far from the west of Gao Bizheng, has 10,800 people in Wang Yuncai's Ming army; Adjacent to Feng County, Xuzhou Prefecture, there are 11,000 Ming Army Wang Jincai, and 71,000 people from Hao Yongzhong's Imperial Camp Left Front Army in the southeast of Guide Prefecture, and Gao Bizheng of Yucheng County, just north of Haozhou, forming horns to support each other; In addition, there are 70,000 Zhu Chenggong's water divisions on the Yellow River waterway, and a total of 358,000 Ming troops above.

And Zhu Si, the Ming Emperor's 410,000 people from the imperial camp has arrived in Fengyang, and the distance from the most advanced Yucheng Gaobi is the same as the distance between Kaifeng Dolgon and Jierharang from Yucheng, which is about five or six hundred miles, and the total strength of these two Qing armies is 335,000 people.

The Qing army also had 29,200 people of Meng Qiaofangxiang Red Flag in Xuzhou, 18,400 people of Li Guohan, and 7,500 people of Ma Guozhu, the governor of Jiangnan stationed in Guide Mansion, these three Qing armies totaled 55,100 people. The total strength of the Ming army on the battlefield was 768,000 people, and most of them were elite troops in the Ming army. The total strength of the Qing army is 391,000 people, and the two sides have invested a total of 1,159,000 troops, which will be a super showdown.

The river city is picturesque, and the mountains look at the clear sky.

Two water sandwich mirrors, double bridges fall rainbow.

The people are cold orange grapefruit, and the autumn color is old sycamore.

Who reads the north upstairs, and the wind is full of thanks.

At 14:51 on October 8, the 5th year of the Yongli calendar, not long after the main force of the Ming army set out, there was a partial solar eclipse celestial phenomenon, and the city of Nanjing was even more snowy and colorful. Ruixue has turned Nanjing's mountains and trees into jade carvings, and the sky has become a rime scene like the Songhua River. For a time, the people of Jiangnan were excited, and they all regarded it as an auspicious omen, although Wang Chuanshan, Gu Tinglin and others who stayed behind did not think that this kind of auspicious omen would make the army achieve a victory, but the Empress Dowager Cisheng, who was in charge, was still very happy after receiving the report of Qin Tianjian. The old empress dowager, who had a more keen sense of smell, immediately led the two princes and the queen's palace concubine to the Temple of Heaven to burn their watches and worship, and granted amnesty to the world, and also issued a decree to let the state capitals of the world make this celestial phenomenon and the auspicious occurrence of Nanjing City public.

The old queen mother is really a political master, this move not only inspires the people, but also inspires the military spirit of the Ming army that is about to launch a decisive battle. And in the camp of the Qing army, whose morale was hit by this, Dolgon could only complain: "Why is this? Why? Why doesn't it snow in Beijing, but it snows like that in Nanjing. Fan Wencheng came up with another idea for Dolgon, let the regent inspect the army, and tell everyone in the Qing army: what is so strange about the rime, there is always such a scenery in winter on the Songhua River, and only the rime on the pine water of Baishan is the most spectacular, the nasty old woman in Nanjing is just pretending to be a ghost, and what about the solar eclipse? There is only one sun in the sky, you can see the solar eclipse, we can also see the solar eclipse, and it is not prepared for the Ming Dynasty alone, and it is even more boring.

However, Zhu Si and Dolgon, who are in Fengyang, must have different opinions, although he also grew up in Baishan Songshui in his previous life, he still thinks that the rime in Nanjing must be more beautiful. The simultaneous occurrence of the solar eclipse and the celestial phenomenon proves that this is an out-and-out auspiciousness, and Zhu Si admires the old lady's psychological warfare very much. Especially after seeing the confidence in the army, I really want to run back and kiss my wife, my mother is really amazing.

The Ming Dynasty can really be said to be mobilized from top to bottom, and the Empress Dowager Cisheng is fighting in the rear; The Ming army fought a fortified battle at the front. Hao Yongzhong's troops and Jiaolian's troops have begun to attack Xuzhou. Didn't Zhu Si say that he wanted to surround the point and send reinforcements? How did you really attack Xuzhou? In fact, it is necessary to attack a tough battle, if you don't pull up the posture of really attacking Xuzhou, how can you mobilize the main force of the Qing army?