Zhang Jiayu replied: "The last general will obey the order." ”

He turned around and retreated, but only a moment later, he hurried back and said to Zhu Linmiao: "Your Majesty, General Li of the Swift Battalion has sent an urgent report that there is an abnormal movement of the thieves in the direction of Henan.

"The Aobai Department suddenly left Shangqiu, and nearly 10,000 people went to Luoyang. In addition, Wei Zhouyin and Kong Xigui transferred more than 20,000 defenders from Runing, Chenzhou, Xuzhou and other places, all of whom gathered in the Luoyang area. ”

Previously, Li Dingguo led his troops to attack Xuzhou, and Dolgon sent Ao Bai to intercept it. Unexpectedly, after the Ming army crossed the Huai River, it conquered most of Shandong with lightning speed. Ao Bai was worried about being surrounded by the main force of the Ming army, so he had to flee to Shangqiu, Henan to escape.

Zhu Linmiao frowned, Henan is located in the middle of the whole of China, and the junction of Shandong, Jin, Shaanxi, Chu, Nanzhi, and Beizhi. Therefore, although the previous Jianyu evacuated the troops of Jiangbei provinces, it never moved Henan, which shows the importance of its strategic location.

At present, almost all the Qing troops in Yujing are converging on the south bank of the Yellow River, leaving most of Henan empty, which is definitely not right.

He then instructed Zhang Jiayu: "Gather all the generals and discuss the affairs of the political envoy and the yamen." ”

"Yes!"

After a short time, the main generals of the Ming army in Jinan City gathered together.

After Zhang Jiayu briefly said the dynamics of Jianyu, Zhao Shichao immediately stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, as the last general can see, the captives seem to be about to give up Henan." ”

On the side, Gan Hui nodded in agreement, "My army suddenly captured Jinan, and the soldiers pointed directly at Zhigu, once Beijing was broken again, Henan would be a lonely place, and the captives there would become turtles in the urn."

"Yes, the thieves can only withdraw from the Henan defenders first."

Zhu Linmiao groaned: "It's just that the thieves should go north to Kaifeng and return to Beijing through Anyang, why are they concentrated in the direction of Luoyang?" ”

After a while, Zhang Jiayu said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, Jiang Jianxian and the captive He Luohui are facing off in the Linfen area. If the Henan thief army passes through Puzhou City, crosses the Yellow River from Pujin, and enters Shanxi in the north, then Jiang is in danger! ”

Zhu Linmiao immediately looked at the map in front of him.

To the east of Pujindu is the Hedong region of Shanxi, which is southwest of Linfen. If the 30,000 Qing troops suddenly appeared here, then Jiang Jian would be attacked on his back, and with the 10,000 horses in his current hands, most of them were new soldiers, I am afraid that he would soon be defeated.

"So, Dolgon is planning to exchange Henan for Shanxi?"

Zhao Shichao shook his head and said, "General Zhang, if that's the case, Dolgon Mo is dizzy?"

"The roads in Xi'an and Hanzhong have been dug up by the thieves themselves, as long as our army advances west from Jinan at this time, it will be easy to block these tens of thousands of thieves east of the Yangtze River."

"yes." Huang Qishou continued, "Nanyang Mansion is broken, and our army can also take advantage of the situation to go south and recover Henan in one fell swoop, but the thieves are trying to ......."

"Motoko is right!" Zhu Linmiao measured the distance on the map, and suddenly said, "Dolgon is trying to stall for time!"

"He must not have expected that our army would be able to recover Shandong so quickly, and the thieves in Beijing had not yet prepared for defense, so he could only abandon his pawn to protect the car and use He Luohui and Aobai to lead me to Shanxi.

"Jinan is thousands of miles away from Linfen, and it takes two months to march back and forth, plus the battle, it will take another half a month. By the time our army returned to Beijing, it would be at least June. If you want to recover Henan again, I am afraid that it will be delayed until August and September. ”

Deng Shan said in a thick voice when he heard this: "Then we will ignore him, the army can just continue to go north, wait for the breakthrough of Beijing City, and then turn back and slowly take care of the Tartars in Shanxi." ”

"It can't be like that." Zhang Jiayu hurriedly said, "Dolgon has a backhand for this plan. If we ignore the war in Shanxi, Jiang will not be able to last long, and the Jin land will be restored to the base of the Jianjiao. Then they will gather their troops in the Datong area, and when our army attacks Beijing, they will attack from the west, so that our army will fall into the situation of being attacked by the enemy. ”

Gan Hui continued: "Even if we can divide our troops to block the thieves in the direction of Datong, they can also take advantage of the situation to sneak attack Shandong and cut off the grain road behind me." ”

Deng Shan was stunned for a moment, and then pouted: "Then without further ado, let's quickly reorganize the army and march westward, and first clean up the tens of thousands of thieves." ”

Gan Hui said regretfully: "This can only be the case now." It's just that the thieves have been given a chance to breathe for nearly half a year, and when they have collected the summer grain, the difficulty for us to recover Beijing will increase several times. ”

"Even Dolgon will lead the northern army to the south, or create a thousand miles of red land like Yangzhou to stop our army."

Zhu Linmiao said that, all the generals showed a worried look. Seeing that Beijing is in front of him, he has to follow Jianyu in circles, so I am afraid that the recovery of the northern capital will have to wait until next year.

"Yes, we must not let Dorgon lead the way!" Zhu Linmiao looked around at everyone, "They beat theirs, and we beat ours." When the grain and grass arrive, our army will still immediately go north and capture Zhigu! ”

Zhang Jiayu said in his heart, does His Majesty want to take Beijing before Jiang Jian's army is defeated? He hurriedly bowed his hand and said: "Your Majesty, it will take at least ten days for our army to complete the repair and then adjust the grain and grass." If we want to recover Beijing quickly, time will inevitably be less than ......"

Zhu Linmiao waved his hand and smiled: "I'm afraid everyone has forgotten that my Ming Field Army still has a third battalion." ”

White Pole Army? Zhang Jiayu thought for a moment, and said: "Your Majesty, Qin Zuoming's department is still chasing Wang Jincai's chaotic army in Baoqing. There are only more than 6,000 white-pole troops in southern Shaanxi, and when Aobai, Wei Zhouyin and other captives enter the Jin, the Qing army in Shanxi has about 45,000, and I am afraid that the white-pole army will be difficult to deal with. ”

Zhu Linmiao said with great confidence: "The combat power of the White Pole Army at the moment is by no means worse than when the Dragon Guard Army was first established. This time, the 20,000 Han troops who went north and south of the river were mediocre, and the enemy's honor guard was only 14,500 Jianzhou soldiers from He Luohui and Aobai.

"6,000 white pole troops, 8,000 Sichuan troops under Wang Yingxiong, and 10,000 righteous troops under Jiang Ting's department, if you just drag the thieves, it shouldn't be a problem."

The generals looked at each other, obviously still a little unsteady in their hearts. Zhu Linmiao knew that they were all habitual thinking, and the previous fierce battle between the White Pole Army and Haoge in northern Sichuan was rare, which made everyone feel bottomless.

But the current White Pole Army is all armed with flintlock guns, and there are even more than 1,000 new rifled guns. In addition, they have dozens of cannons in their hands, of which thirty percent have already been improved by cavalry artillery. As for cotton armor, plate armor, binoculars, four-wheeled carriages, etc., there is everything.

In addition, most of the officers at all levels of the White Pole Army have taken turns to study in the officer academy, although the time is not long, most of the modern military concepts have entered the door.

It can be said that even if the current White Pole Army comes to the Dragon Guard Army in the early years of Longwu, it has at least a forty-percent victory rate.

In addition, once the fight starts, the White Pole Army still has several cities such as Linfen to rely on, and there is Wang Yingxiong behind him to support. Zhu Linmiao believed that they could drag more than 40,000 Qing troops in Shanxi for at least two or three months, and that would be enough!