Huang Degong, Zhou Yuji, Tu Yuan and other generals in the county government feasted happily, and a bird was about to fade out of their mouths for many days, and they couldn't eat and sleep restlessly, which can be described as a storm at this time.

"Factory Governor, maybe some wine? One pot is enough! "Huang Degong can't bear it anymore, it's too painful to have food and no wine.

Chang Yu glanced at the generals, not only Huang Degong, Tu Yuan, Hao Shaoqi, Ji Jike, Li Muxian, etc., but even Zhou Yuji, who had always entered the mountain steadily, also had a longing look.

"How can a pot be, let go and drink it tonight!"

Generals cheer!

Li Yan couldn't drink alcohol because of his injury, so he didn't even eat much, so he ate some hastily and lay next to him.

"Why don't you see Lao Jia?" Tu Yuan, who was drinking at the wine table next to him, asked.

"Guarding the door for King Heng, you can't use people's money to eliminate disasters for others," Chang Yu said casually, and the generals laughed.

"I still want to let the two battalions under the command of the factory governor go to pick up Cheng Ming, it seems that another person will be sent" Li Yan frowned, seeing Chang Yu's puzzled expression, he said that he was about to run out of food and had no choice but to send Cheng Ming to Cangzhou to borrow grain.

Although I don't know how much Cheng Ming borrowed, but he only led a thousand people to escort grain and grass, the road is far away and afraid of chaos, at this time, the Qing army within a radius of 100 miles to explore the horses and run around, and there are horse thieves everywhere, if you run into it, it is not good.

Chang Yu pondered for a moment when he heard this: "At present, Linzi grain and grass are still available for ten days, and Cheng Ming is not in a hurry to hurry, so that he can safely travel to Xincheng County to prepare grain and grass for emergencies."

"The humble post has already made people go to the new city to raise food" Li Yan smiled slightly, and Chang Yu stretched out his thumb: "Take precautions, General Li's mind is alive."

"It's far inferior to the factory superintendent's strategy," Li Yan said.

Chang Yu laughed: "Let's not stick gold to each other" said and turned his head to scan the generals on the wine table: "Now there is Linzi, and the supply of grain and grass in the two counties of Xincheng can last more than a month with more than 30,000 troops, with food, drink and soldiers, and then it depends on how to fight with Dolgon."

"Eat and drink enough to fuck it!" Huang Degong had already drunk some big tongues, his face was flushed, and he shouted with a mouthful of wine.

Chang Yu smiled and said nothing, looking at Zhou Yuji.

"The soldiers will block, the water will come to cover the earth, and the factory superintendent will point out which humble duty to fight that" Zhou Yuji smiled slightly, he and Chang Yu have been side by side for a long time and have great trust in him.

"The question is, I don't know where to do now, okay?" Chang Yu smiled bitterly and his eyes stopped at Li Muxian, this Taoist priest of Youfang recovered from his illness, and his face was red and his neck was thick at this time, although he was not good at marching and fighting, he was good at planning and his eyes were very poisonous.

"In terms of military strength, we are on a par with the Tartars, the combat power is slightly inferior and the Tartars are the best at field warfare, looking at the overall situation, we don't seem to have any advantages at the moment, this is a tough battle" Li Muxian raised his glass and drank it all after speaking, looked at Chang Yu and said: "So the factory governor doesn't know where to point, right?" ”

Chang Yu nodded, Li Muxian explained that the army's combat strength was slightly inferior to that of the Qing army, but in fact, it was already taking into account everyone's face, and no one knew the gap between the two better than him, if he really let go of his hand and fought hard, the Qing army's 10,000 soldiers and horses could defeat the more than 30,000 people he had on hand.

This is the difference in strength, even if you don't accept it, the gap does exist.

The reason why he dared to fight hard outside the pass and won the battle, in addition to his scheming and tricks, one is the Guanning Iron Cavalry with Wu Sangui, the strongest army in the Ming Dynasty at the moment.

And at present, the soldiers and horses in the hands are the strongest with Huang Degong's thousands of cavalry, Zhou Yuji's is slightly inferior, and then Teng Xiangwei Jin Wuwei, Li Yan is at the bottom, and the combined forces are still inferior to the Qing army.

"Does the Taoist have a good plan?" Chang Yu got up and walked to the wine table with a solemn face: "This battle is very important, in addition to protecting the domain, we must drive the Qing army out of the customs in one fell swoop, and we can't let it continue to plague the territory of the Ming Dynasty!" ”

Li Muxian lowered his eyes and pondered: "If it is in the city, Ren Tartar has thousands of troops and factory governors in charge......"

"Say something useful, we can't fly in without wings outside the city now, and the Tartars can't let us into the city, and the governor doesn't want to enter the city" Chang Yu interrupted him: "And it's too passive in the city, the Tartars can completely trap us in the city, it's the same if you don't eat the meat of King Heng and attack the city and plunder the land in the surrounding area, at that time, we can only watch him do evil in the city, or that sentence is not only to protect the city but also to drive the enemy."

"Then let him attack the city" Li Muxian gritted his teeth and said: "The Tartars are only more than 20,000 troops, and there are more than 10,000 young and strong people under the command of the factory governor in Qingzhou City, and the Tartars must attack with heavy troops if they want to break the city, we will take the opportunity to send reinforcements, he has to divide his troops to block, is it possible that our more than 30,000 soldiers and horses can't break through the defense line of his tens of millions of people?" ”

"Yes, just do it, the Tartar forces are scattered at both ends, and the city can't be captured, and it can't be stopped" Huang Degong was the first to agree.

Chang Yu snorted and shook his head slightly: "No!" ”

"Why not, I think it's very good," Huang Degong asked.

Before Chang Yu could speak, Li Yan said for him: "Although the defenders of Qingzhou City are numerous, most of them are inexperienced people, and the Tartars may not use heavy troops to besiege, and the tens of thousands of people captured along the way can be used as cannon fodder to attack the city, and they can still adjust the army to block us, even if they intercept reinforcements with half of their troops, if it is flat, we may break through its defense line by virtue of our strength advantage, but they will definitely set up a defense line on the bank of the Beiyang River, and want to fight it......" Li Yan shook his head: "It's difficult, even if it passes at any cost, maybe Qingzhou City will be lost."

That's the reality.

It's a brutal reality.

The hall became quiet in a blink of an eye, Chang Yu and Li Yan drank tea silently, Huang Degong, Zhou Yuji lowered his head and drank and muttered something, but Li Muxian stared at the map next to him and frowned.

"Is there a road in the mountains?" Li Muxian said suddenly, everyone looked at him, Chang Yu was slightly puzzled: "Why do you want to drill the mountain if you don't go to Yangguan Avenue in Qingzhou?" Want to play Ning Yuan's set? It doesn't work! ”

Although Li Muxian did not participate in the battle of Ningyuan, he heard a lot about the deeds of the little eunuch Tibetan soldiers in the mountains, who took the mountain as the city and Wu Sangui looked at each other from the air, and was deeply impressed.

"No, no, no" Li Muxian shook his head: "Factory Governor, take a look......"

The crowd got up curiously and gathered around.

The little eunuchs in the county government and a group of bigwigs in the army are thinking hard about how to deal with the enemy, but outside the city is a different look: carnival!

Huang Degong and other bigwigs entered the city, and the generals under his command led the soldiers to camp on the shore of Taigong Lake in the east of the city, there are forests and waters, which can shelter the wind and rain and are close to the mountains.

The soldiers were already exhausted from running all the way, and they were busy setting up camp and felt hungry and thirsty, and at this time, the condolence group headed by the prince of Heng Wang came, and of course led the mighty people's volunteer logistics service team.

Li Shiyuan and Zou Fengji and Li Yan's subordinate generals Qin Songwang, Huang Degong's seven generals and Jin Wuwei's commanders greeted each other, because the situation was grim they had to wait at all times so that the front line could not enter the city, Zou Fengji also had the eyesight to prepare rich meals for them, of course, there was absolutely no wine.

The food of ordinary soldiers is still gruel and rice, but the hard life of the Ming army is used to having food, and it is easy to be satisfied without picking your mouth, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that there is shredded meat in the porridge today.

Chasing the enemy all the way for thousands of miles, several fierce battles and fighting nine deaths, eating and drinking gruel and bran, and even eating the last meal without the next meal, the kind of bitterness only they can understand the most, many people holding this bowl of meat porridge actually cried loudly, maybe they felt that they were too bitter, maybe they felt that their former brothers and former comrades-in-arms died without even drinking this porridge.

This kind of emotion Zou Fengji, He Wentang and other civil officials can't understand it, Li Shiyuan is okay, he even secretly wiped his tears, this year's Ming soldiers, it's really not easy!

The meat porridge is a surprise, but it is still silver that makes the barracks boil! More than a dozen carts of white silver were directly overturned to the ground, and Zhu Ci'an waved his hand: "Everyone has a share!" The cheers around shook the sky, making him feel a sense of attention!

Previously, more than 40,000 silver was raised in the city, and then the little eunuch got angry, so Zou Fengji gathered the rich gentry in the city together for a small meeting, and a message was transmitted: The big eunuch was very angry, and the consequences were very serious.

The big eunuch is from Dongchang, has military power, and is favored by the emperor, plus the particularity of the external situation at this time, these rich gentry as long as they are not stupid know how serious the consequences of his anger are, so serious that they can't be imagined.

So just one meal, 40,000 becomes 100,000!

Then he raised his hand and pulled them all out and distributed them to the soldiers, almost one person got three taels of silver, which is equivalent to the annual salary of an ordinary Ming army!

What's more, Zhu Ci'an roared again: "There is still a heavy reward for the Tartar Ziheng Palace, and one million taels of silver will be given to the meritorious soldiers!" ”

Million!

Linzi City was immediately bombed, and even Chang Yu and others, who were discussing countermeasures in the county government, thought that the outside world had been attacked by the enemy, so they hurriedly asked people to go to investigate, and the people in the city were even more frightened and pale.