Baofeng County, belonging to Ruzhou, is in the north of Nanyang Province and northwest of Runing Province, rich in coal, iron and other mineral deposits.

After Gao Yihuan asked for the mine in Baofeng County from Li Yan, he invested a large amount of manpower and material resources here to mine, and built a smelting workshop to directly smelt the ore, and then sent the crude iron to Runing to practice again to meet the needs of building weapons and agricultural tools.

Around the mines, smelting workshops, and transportation and other matters, a total of more than 10,000 young people work in Baofeng, and counting their families, the number is even more.

On the 16th day of the first lunar month, there were no clouds, and the sun hung in the sky, but the snow on the ground had not completely melted, and the weather was much colder than warm.

At this time, on the road from Jiaxian to Baofeng, thousands of cavalry galloped forward as vanguards, horses' hooves trampled on the ice-covered road, and the cavalry passed through the snow-white road, and the road immediately turned the color of dirt.

"Where?" Gao Yihuan asked as he waved his horsewhip.

"Just entered the Baofeng realm, more than ten miles ahead, is the mine!" Jin Shenghuan replied in the middle of the Mercedes-Benz.

Baofeng County is located in the hinterland of Henan, surrounded by Lushan, Huoshan and Shenwu Mountains, and the mountains are complex, which is not suitable for cavalry combat.

Gao Yihuan really didn't expect that just after Duoduo's army crossed the Yellow River, the men and horses arrived at the foot of Luoyang City, so he rode lightly and sent his men and horses deep into the remaining veins of Funiu Mountain to hit the border of Ruzhou.

Gao Yihuan stopped talking when he heard this, but waved his horsewhip and continued to move forward.

The Qing army actually attacked his iron ore field, which made Gao Yihuan very angry, and the mountains of Ruzhou were extended, and he was not afraid of the Qing army when he arrived, so he brought a large number of soldiers to come, wanting to leave the Qing army that killed in Ruzhou.

After discussing with many of his staff, Gao Yihuan had already decided not to confront Duoduo head-on, and the army would not easily go out of the mountains and hilly areas, and would not give the Qing army a chance to annihilate them in a field battle.

The army will rely on Funiu Mountain and the rest of the veins to attack the Qing army on the plain.

Now that the Qing army has penetrated into the branch of Funiu Mountain, it will be an opportunity for Gao Yihuan.

At this time, because of the sudden arrival of the Qing army, almost all the villages along the way were empty.

Gao Yihuan rode past many villages, and found that there was no one in the village, and there was hardly a living person in sight, so he couldn't help frowning.

At this time, the army ran out for more than ten miles, and the villages along the way were quiet, only the crows chirped from time to time in the mountains and forests, which made people feel as if the army had entered a ghost.

"Dashuai, there is no human figure in these villages, and there are no corpses, and the people are afraid that they have all been taken away by the Tartars!" The army passed another village, Jin Shenghuan looked around, frowned and said.

Last year, he ate a board, but it was only a skin injury, and it didn't take long for him to fully recover.

After the displaced people in Xuzhou and Xinzheng were resettled, the people were busy with their livelihoods and had no time to hate him.

The last time I went north to attack Xingyang, the corpses of the people killed by the Qing army could be seen everywhere along the way, and this time the Qing army actually didn't kill anyone, which made Gao Yihuan a little surprised.

It's just that with his understanding of the Qing army, I'm afraid that these brutes won't have any good intentions. If you don't kill it now, I'm afraid it's a worse idea.

Gao Yihuan pondered for a while, "The Qing army kidnapped the people, I'm afraid that they are going to use them to attack Luoyang City, or to farm for Duoduo." ”

In terms of strength comparison, Gao Yihuan and Li Yan together are not Duoduo's opponents, so Gao Yihuan is not optimistic about the Battle of Luoyang.

It turned out that Li Yan relied on the Tiger Prison Pass to block the Qing army in the eastern Henan region, just like Tongguan guarding the Guanzhong Plain, and the surroundings of Luoyang were safe, but now the Qing army crossed the river from Mengjin, just like an enemy army from Pujin to the Guanzhong, and the natural danger in the Guanzhong lost its meaning.

Now with the Duoduo army crossing the river from the Mengjin ferry, the mountains and city passes around Luoyang have also lost their meaning, the Qing cavalry can gallop on the wilderness around Luoyang, Luoyang's Shun army can not defeat the Qing army at all, Gao Yihuan did not dare to fight with the Qing army on the plain, and with the fall of the cities around Luoyang one after another, Luoyang has become a lonely city, and the final fall has become inevitable.

In this battle of Luoyang, hard fighting will only make Gao Yihuan's blood drain, so Gao Yihuan does not want to fight hard, what he wants to see most is that Duoduo has suffered heavy losses under Luoyang City, which can give him a chance to take advantage of, or Duoduo will return north after running out of food.

According to the method taught by Chen Mingxia, Gao Yihuan pushed back, and he could roughly guess Duoduo's intention to kidnap the people, and this was what he was afraid of.

If the Qing army consumed the defenders in Luoyang City with the people, it would be difficult for Gao Yihuan to expect Duoduo to suffer heavy losses.

If the Qing army did not kill all the people after plundering the surrounding areas of Luoyang and robbing the people's grain, but left some people to continue farming, so that the Qing army could obtain a continuous supply of grain and grass, then after the Qing army captured Luoyang, it would be able to gain a firm foothold in northern Henan, so that Gao Yihuan would always be threatened.

For a while, Gao Yihuan's heart was a little heavy, if Duoduo was in Luoyang, looting everywhere, kidnapping the people to participate in the siege of the city, and then farming, the situation would be very unfavorable to him.

At this time, Gao Yihuan was worried, and a gust of mountain wind blew in front of him, but Gao Yihuan suddenly frowned.

"The smell of blood?" When Gao Yihuan smelled it, there was a strong smell of blood in the wind, and he couldn't help but strangle the war horse.

"Jieshuai, there is a situation at the entrance of the mine!" At this time, a cavalryman galloped back against the ranks.

Jin Shenghuan hurriedly asked, "But there are Tartars?"

"No, it was the Tartars who killed all of us." With a look of anger on his face, the visitor replied.

Gao Yihuan listened, his face sank, and he whipped on the horse's buttocks, "Go, lead the way in front." ”

At that moment, the men and horses continued to move forward, and when they turned over a raised high slope and appeared at the foot of the mine, the faces of the soldiers of the horse army changed.

At the foot of the mine, large patches of snow were red, and on the snow-covered mountainside, there was a gray cover, and a small hill just blocked the entrance to the mine.

From a distance, the hill looked like ore piled up in a mine, but it certainly wouldn't be ore.

Gao Yihuan and the generals couldn't help but hold on to the reins, slowly reduced the speed of the horse, and when they were ten steps away, everyone invariably reined in the war horse and stopped.

Gao Yihuan and the others, who were riding on the horse, changed their faces in unison, and instantly became angry.

One of the cavalrymen "wow", vomited a mouthful of turbidity, hurriedly turned over and dismounted, squatted aside and retched.

Everyone saw that halfway up the mountainside, there was a layer of headless corpses, and blood flowed out of the corpses, penetrated into the snow, and then was frozen, and the foot of the mountain was red, like a sea of netherworld blood.

The hill wasn't a mine, but a landscape made of tens of thousands of people.

It's not that Gao Yihuan hasn't seen the picture of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, but this is the first time he has seen such a scene, and the sight of tens of thousands of corpses being fortified made his heart particularly shocked.

Gao Yihuan's throat moved, he was full of anger, beat his horse and walked slowly to the front of the hill, and the soldiers also endured the shock and followed.

At this time, several generals turned over and dismounted to check, examining the heads of the people stacked together in front of them. Wang Deren looked at it carefully, turned around and said, "Jie Shuai, they are all women and old and weak heads......

The Qing army killed many people, slaughtering tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, at a time, but he killed people and put it like this, what did he want to do? To intimidate, or to provoke?

(End of chapter)