Chapter 60: Choice
"What is this Liu Qingtai's thoughts!"
When Liu Qingtai spoke, Nie Fuchen simply couldn't believe his eyes.
"Let Lao Tzu transfer the soldiers from the granary back to Luoyang, Luoyang is important, isn't the 400,000 stone grain important?"
No wonder Nie Fuchen was so annoyed, originally, he was born as a volunteer soldier and was extremely dissatisfied with Liu Qingtai, the "Henan Governor of the Manchu Dynasty", in his eyes, Liu Qingtai was just a traitor, that is, the king of Chu would believe those traitors. Now that he heard that he ordered all the 5,000 soldiers guarding the granary to withdraw to Luoyang, he naturally couldn't hold back the anger in his heart anymore, and he doubted his intentions.
even felt that he simply wanted to give up the granary to the Manchu Qing, this person was a traitor, and he definitely didn't have any good ideas to do it now.
"Could it be that he really wants to use those hundreds of thousands of stone granaries to fund the enemy?"
Staring at Liu Qingtai with wide eyes, Nie Fuchen, who was suspicious of the other party's intentions, asked coldly.
"Governor Liu, what do you mean, I transferred all the soldiers guarding the granary back to the city, and then threw the granary to the Qing soldiers, right?"
When he said this, Nie Fuchen stared at Liu Qingtai, he even secretly had a plan, if this guy wanted to surrender, he just had a reason to cut off his head. You must know that after knowing that Liu Qingtai was anyway, he had been looking forward to this day. This surnamed Liu has no less Han blood on his hands!
In fact, the granary outside Luoyang City does not have much grain itself, but it is only a hundred thousand stones, and at the least, it is even only tens of thousands of stones. Now because of the Chu army's northern expedition, this Luoyang has become a transshipment and distribution center for military grain, those grains are transported all the way to the Yellow River through the north of the river through the waterway, and after the grain is transported to Luoyang, it is loaded into the granary, waiting to be released to Shanxi, and then transported to the armies.
Now there are 400,000 stone of grain in the granary of Luoyang, which is the military food of the Northern Expeditionary Army. If the Qing army gets this grain, they will no longer need to worry about food and grass in the next few months, or even a year.
Now that so much grain is just thrown outside the city, just like this, it is thrown to them, how can Nie Fuchen be willing. What's more, if this grain is lost, what will happen to the food of the Northern Expedition army at that time? What will they eat then?
When the time comes, the king's side will definitely blame. In any case, the grain could not be left for the Qing army.
"It's not to throw it to the Qing army, but to send it!"
Liu Qingtai didn't mean to hide it at all, and when he said this, it was as if he was saying something insignificant. His answer only surprised Nie Fuchen. He asked as if he hadn't heard clearly.
"What did you say?"
"I said, give the grain to the Qing army!"
Facing Nie Fuchen's sight, Liu Qingtai knew that this surnamed Nie looked down on him, and even wanted to kill him and kill him, a traitor. Nie Fuchen was born in the Righteous Army, after Liu Qingtai was appointed as the governor of Henan, but he did not kill the Righteous Army, and now one of the two is the governor of Henan, and the other is the chief soldier of Henan.
"The surname Liu, it's hard for you to do it, you really want to be an enemy!"
Staring at Liu Qingtai, Nie Fuchen roared, this would make him really ready to kill.
"It's not about the enemy, it's about keeping the enemy!"
Facing the angry Nie Fuchen, Liu Qingtai picked up the tea and said disapprovingly.
"Nie Junmen, don't be so angry, you listen to Liu Mou's words first, if after finishing speaking, you still feel that Liu Mou is an enemy, so you directly take off Liu's head, and Liu Mou has no complaints!"
Life is like a play, it depends on whether he can act, at least, Liu Qingtai is still a master in acting, otherwise, he would not be able to surrender to Nurhachi with all his lives, and be named by Nurhachi.
Now he is also acting. He even put on a careless and awe-inspiring appearance, and there was even a feeling of forbearance and humiliation in that tone.
"Liu heard that since the Qing Dynasty entered Henan, because of the lack of land to obtain grain and grass, so that the grain and grass in his army are increasingly insufficient, from the military gate, if the Qing army knows that there are 400,000 stone grain in this Luoyang granary, how can they turn a blind eye?"
Staring at Nie Fuchen, Liu Qingtai completely looked like you don't understand what I mean.
"Naturally not!"
Marching and fighting are inseparable from food, how could Nie Fuchen not understand this common sense.
"The Qing army has more than 100,000 troops, if its soldiers are in Luoyang, dare to ask Nie Junmen, Luoyang is only 12,000 soldiers, how many days can it be held?"
Staring at Nie Fuchen, Liu Qingtai asked rhetorically.
This......
How many days can you keep it?
was asked by Liu Qingtai, Nie Fuchen really had no confidence, saying that it was 12,000 soldiers, but in fact, these 12,000 people were just old, weak, sick and disabled...... Can it be kept?
It must be untenable!
In the face of such a question, Nie Fuchen was naturally speechless for a while, and only spoke for a while.
"If the people in the city are strong, not to mention anything else, it is not impossible to keep it for ten days and half a month, and when the time comes, the king of Chu will naturally send troops to rescue!"
Perhaps this is the last hope, and the king will definitely not sit idly by and watch Luoyang be conquered by the Qing army.
"Smack, smack......"
Applauding one after another, Liu Qingtai, who seemed to applaud Nie Fuchen, then asked rhetorically.
"It's okay to levy the people to defend the city, but what if the reinforcements don't arrive after ten days?"
"How could it not be, now not only the king has sent tens of thousands of troops to pursue, but even the king of Huai ......"
The words stopped abruptly when he came to his mouth, and Nie Fuchen suddenly realized the problem, and King Huai ...... King Huai also sent troops, and King Huai had already occupied the Daimyo's Mansion, and if the Chu army dared to break into the Daimyo or pass near the Daimyo, there might be any trouble.
The king will definitely have scruples in this regard at that time, in case the king does not send troops, or because he is worried about the Huai army, he will send troops in a few days at night, and it will be all over by then.
"This ,......"
With his brows tightly locked, Nie Fuchen looked at Liu Qingtai and asked rhetorically.
"What do you mean, the Governor?"
What the hell does he mean? What does he want to do?
"That's why Liu ordered you to throw the grain to the Qing Dynasty, Nie Junmen, if you have no food in your hands, you urgently need grain and grass. What will happen to you if someone throws food at you? ”
At this time, Liu Qingtai stared at Nie Fuchen, knowing that he was probably a little overwhelmed at this time.
"If this is the case, the grain will naturally be transported away first......"
Nie Fuchen's eyes suddenly lit up, and he immediately said.
"I understand, the governor wants to use the 400,000 stone grain in the granary as bait to lure the Qing army to Luoyang, after they get the grain, they will inevitably find a way to transport the grain away, but if all the 400,000 stone grain is transported away, it will take tens of thousands of carts to transport it at one time, but they got tens of thousands of carts from there? Even if they wanted to, they couldn't grab so many big cars. In this way, this grain has become a poison for the Qing army, and it is reluctant to abandon it, if it is transferred in batches, I am afraid that it will not take ten days and half a month, or even longer, how can it all be transported away? ”
Nie Fuchen, who seemed to have figured out the clue, then asked rhetorically.
"Yes...... My lord, what if they attack Luoyang again? ”
Although he felt that Liu Qingtai's method was feasible, the faint Nie Fuchen still felt that there seemed to be something strange in this method.
"Do you think that if you are Aobai, it is more important to transport grain to Shaanxi or Luoyang?"
Shaanxi!
Liu Qingtai reminded him like this, and Nie Fuchen finally understood why the Qing army wanted to cross the river.
"My lord, do you mean that the Qing army is going to Shaanxi?"
Now Shaanxi is still under the control of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, after the recovery of Luoyang, Nie Fuchen tried to persuade Tongguan Taoist Tang Bin to surrender the city through his friends, but Tang Bin was looking like he wanted to live and die with the Qing Dynasty, and rejected him, and now the Qing army is going to Shaanxi...... That person would definitely not stop him, and now that the whole province of Shaanxi was under the control of the Manchus, it was understandable that they would go there. But why are they there?
"Why did they go to Shaanxi, shouldn't the Qingyu go out of the customs?"
Faced with Nie Fuchen's incomprehension, Liu Qingtai explained.
"Qingyu is going to get out of the customs, but the question is where are they going now? Back to Liaodong? Now Liaodong has been restored by King Huai, and the Qing prisoner is already a lost dog,"
When he said this, Liu Qingtai was even a little glad that if the choice he made at the beginning was a desperate road to the black, maybe not only would he not be able to save his life now, but I am afraid that even after death, he would not want to have a reputation as a loyal minister, after all, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was exhausted.
"Naturally, they can't tolerate them in the Central Plains, so where do you let them go? Therefore, didn't you see that after the Qing captives left Beijing, they went all the way to Zhang Heng into Mongolia, and the other way went south, how could they be in Henan? Naturally, it is not Henan, the reason why they went south is to force the king not to send troops to pursue the women and children of the Qing captives, if the king sends troops to Zhang Heng, the Qing captives in the south can naturally erode the place, so as to attract the king to send troops south, and they naturally did not send them south to die, this Shaanxi is their way of life......"
When saying these words, Liu Qingtai couldn't even help but admire the people who planned all this, this move seems to be risky, but in fact there is no risk at all, that is, the king of Chu will not let himself fall into the situation of taking care of one or the other, this southbound army, except for being attacked by the Huai army, has never encountered any obstacles, if they want, they can cross the river at any time, and then quickly rush to Tongguan, from Tongguan into Shaanxi. After arriving in Shaanxi, they can rely on the Tongguan natural danger there, and slowly map the future, whether it is hand or walk, it can depend on the situation, this move is beautiful!
"Shaanxi is their way of life?"
With a slight frown, Nie Fuchen looked at Liu Qingtai puzzled.
"After the Qing captives enter Shaanxi, they can temporarily rest in Shaanxi, as long as they occupy Tongguan, my Ming Dynasty will not be able to pose a threat to it for the time being, and they will be able to view the Central Plains according to the northwest. Even if I conquer Tongguan in the Ming Dynasty, they will be able to go all the way to the north, cross the north into Mongolia, and then escape into the grassland, so that this Shaanxi is naturally their birthplace! ”
In fact, Liu Qingtai didn't know why the Qing army went south, but after being reminded by Fan Yongzhong that day, he naturally knew the "plan" of the Qing army, and all he needed was to push the boat down the river and let the granary out, of course, it took him a whole night to come up with this method, and the reason for giving up the granary was for "Luoyang" and for the tens of thousands of people in the city.
It's just that Nie Fuchen will agree to his proposal?
At this time, Nie Fuchen's whole person seemed extremely hesitant, Liu Qingtai's "guess" made him vaguely realize that after the Qing army fled to Shaanxi, there was no doubt that the tiger would return to the mountain, but if it was blocked, how could it be stopped? If Luoyang City is broken, how many people will die tragically under the butcher's knife of the Qing army.
"Nie Junmen, although Liu is not from Henan, but as a parent in Henan, he has to think about the safety of the people of Henan, hundreds of thousands of stone grain may be important, but it is not comparable to the lives of the people of Henan, not to mention, using these grains as bait can make the Qing prisoners fall outside Luoyang City, and when the king's army arrives, it will naturally be the end of the Qing Dynasty!"
Liu Qingtai did not persuade Nie Fuchen to agree to his suggestion, but he deliberately emphasized in his words that he was not from Henan, since he was not from Henan and was worried about the lives of Henan people, how could you, Nie Fuchen, as a native of Henan, not care about the lives of villagers? Moreover, the grain was not given out for nothing, but was used to induce the Qing army to be fooled, so that it could slowly transfer the grain in Luoyang, and when the reinforcements arrived, not only could they not transport much of the grain, but even the people had to stay, and this grain was just a delaying tactic.
So, what else do you have to hesitate about?
Liu Qingtai's seeming persuasion fell on Nie Fuchen's ears, although he had some doubts, but in the end, his mind was still biased towards the lives of the villagers, as a native of Henan, he could not ignore these, he could not sit back and watch his fellow villagers being killed by the Qing captives.
"If all the grain in the granary is taken away by the Qing army. What will happen to the king then? ”
Nie Fuchen asked with some concern, he can consider his fellow villagers, but where is the king, how will he explain when the time comes?
These grains are the military rations of the Northern Expeditionary Army, what will the Northern Expeditionary Army eat when there is no such food?
"Then I'll think about how to do it then. The most important thing at the moment is to protect the people in Luoyang City. ”
Liu Qingtai's directness made Nie Fuchen hesitate for a while before nodding.
"If we don't come out of the city, I don't know how long the city will be closed, if so, I'm afraid we will have to transport more food to the city, in case the reinforcements come late, we can be prepared."
Nie Fuchen's consent made Liu Qingtai's heart suddenly happy, and the matter was finally over! He nodded repeatedly.
"What the military gate says is very true, what he says is very true!"
While Liu Qingtai praised again and again, he said in a solemn tone.
"That's a good thing, after all...... In case King Huai is in possession of the Daimyo Mansion and does not let our Chu army come over, it will ...... then."
When the words came to his lips and sighed, Nie Fuchen sighed on the side.
"Futai, you said, this King Huai sent troops to the name so fiercely, King Huai shouldn't want to do something to the king!"
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