After the tentative attack, it didn't take long for Meng Qiaofang to organize his men and horses to storm the ferry again.

Because he figured out the defensive methods of the Ming army, Meng Qiaofang made sufficient preparations, he ordered the soldiers to carry two fast planks, and put them on the soles of their feet when approaching the mountain, to guard against the vicious methods of the Ming army, and then attack the mountains on both sides at the same time.

The intention of the Jin army is obvious, that is, they hope to take the mountains on both sides, set up artillery to bombard the Ming army in the valley, and the ferry will be at your fingertips.

This time, the Jin army rushed to the top of the hill and engaged in a close battle with the Ming army, but because the Ming army under the long wall of the valley made a detour to the foot of the mountain to attack the back of the Jin army, the Jin army retreated again.

The time soon came to the middle of January, the Ming army in the north of the ferry, the 500 Ming soldiers, first by the Jin army Sun Sike annihilated, the Jin army in the upstream raft, down the river sneak attack the ferry, but were repelled by the 500 Ming troops guarding the ferry.

After Sun Sike attacked the ferry and contained Wang Guangtai's energy, Meng Qiaofang once again regrouped and launched an attack on the Ming army's front. And this time, he relied on the superiority of his troops to carry out a frontal feint, and the main force stormed the hills on both sides.

After a morning of fighting between the two sides, the Jin army suffered heavy casualties, and the Ming army's front was also in danger. Wang Guangtai saw that the right-wing hill was about to be lost, so he hurriedly released wolf smoke for help.

Li Laiheng in Wubao County always paid attention to the battle situation at the ferry, and when he saw the wolf smoke, he immediately led his army to attack the Jin army outside the city, forcing Meng Qiaofang to retreat again.

The battle at the ferry gradually turned into a tug-of-war, Meng Qiaofang attacked the ferry, and Li Laiheng stormed the Jin army outside the eastern city.

The whole battle was extremely fierce, the Ming and Jin armies were heavily killed and wounded, and at the end of January, the Jin army attracted a turnaround, and Chang'an sent another 15,000 troops to Meng Qiaofang.

The Jin army was replenished to a certain extent, and the battle situation in northern Shaanxi was more and more unfavorable to the Ming army, and after the two mountains were lost, Wang Guangtai led the remnants of the army to retreat into the ferry to defend it.

However, in February, the weather gradually warmed up, and seeing the snow on the top of the mountain slowly melting, Meng Qiaofang did not have enough time.

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Time entered 1658 AD, the ninth year of the Ming Dynasty, and eleven years after Jin Yongzhang, seeing that the spring flowers were about to bloom, the Jin country also became anxious because of the gradually rising temperature.

As soon as the cold winter passed, the Jin Kingdom lost its protective umbrella, and the surging attack of the Ming army was coming.

Jin Guo was passively beaten, defended everywhere, and Guanzhong always had a day when it was breached, Hauge realized this, and the whole Jin country hoped to break this predicament.

While fighting fiercely in northern Shaanxi, Jin tried to launch several small-scale counterattacks in order to change the unfavorable situation.

Tang Tong carried out a surprise attack on the Ming army out of Tongguan and captured more than 20 red-coated cannons of the Ming army, but the Ming army in Henan gathered, and Tang Tong's counterattack was only short-lived, and he soon hurriedly retreated to Guanzhong.

In order to change the passive situation, Wu Sangui also took He Tengjiao and Ma Jinzhong's men and horses in Guangyuan, Jiange and other places, and was blocked in the south of Daba Mountain, without the opportunity to echo the Huguang Ming army, and led 30,000 iron cavalry and 20,000 infantry troops along the Han River into Huguang.

At present, the situation of the Jin country is too much to be able to maneuver the troops, form a local advantage, fight a counterattack, and seek a breakthrough, otherwise in terms of the national strength of the two countries, the Jin country will be passively defended everywhere and will not be able to avoid defeat.

Hao Ge and Wu Sangui are both capable of fighting, both of them are thinking of ways to break the situation, and Wu Sangui intends to break Hao Shaoqi in Huguang first, and He Tengjiao in Sichuan is not worried.

Wu Sangui wanted to remove the threat from Hanzhong first, so that he could have a chance to support Guanzhong and reverse the current unfavorable situation.

The Ming army really didn't expect that the Jin army would fight back again and again, and their fighting spirit was obviously much stronger than the previous Qing army.

Wu Sangui in a passive situation, into Huguang, hit the Ming army by a mistake, even broke through Baitu Pass, Zhuxi, Zhushan, Yunxi and other places, broke the Ming army's three battalions of men and horses, captured countless people, Xianghan shocked.

After achieving certain results, Wu Sangui killed the base camp of the Ming army non-stop, intending to capture Xiangyang in one fell swoop, so that the Ming army's plan to attack Guanzhong would inevitably be affected, but Hao Shaoqi led 50,000 Ming troops to Xiazhai in Yunxian County, no matter how Wu Sangui provoked, he could not hold out, closed his door without fighting, and blocked Wu Sangui in the boundary of Yunyang Mansion.

Wu Sangui had no way to take the Ming army's Wang Bazhai, there was no way to speak, he didn't want to attack hard, causing too many casualties to the army, the two armies were deadlocked until the end of January, after Wu Sangui ransacked Yunyang Mansion, he could only lead the army back to Hanzhong.

At present, the entire battlefield is divided into three large blocks, northern Shaanxi, Hanzhong and Guanzhong, Guanzhong is facing 300,000 heavy troops of the Ming Dynasty, and it is unlikely that they want to fight a counterattack, so Tang Tong's attack is just a flash in the pan, and he was soon driven back to Tongguan.

The most promising breakthrough of the Jin army was in northern Shaanxi and Hanzhong, but Meng Qiaofang fell into a brutal tug-of-war in northern Shaanxi, and failed to annihilate Li Laiheng, Wang Guangtai, and Wang Yongqiang in northern Shaanxi, changing the disadvantage of northern Shaanxi.

Although Wu Sangui once entered Huguang and caused a great earthquake in the Jianghan Plain, he did not defeat Hao Shaoqi's main force.

After Wu Sangui retreated to Hanzhong, he was still facing a situation of being attacked from both sides of Sichuan and Huguang, and the Jin State did not make a breakthrough in Hanzhong.

At the beginning of February, in the fierce battle in northern Shaanxi, the blood flowed like a river, Wu Sangui had just retreated to Hanzhong, and the Ming army, which had been dormant for a winter, finally opened the prelude to the destruction of Jin.

At this time, in Henan, the assembled men and horses have included 60,000 Rui soldiers in Zhongzhi Town and Zhongyong Town, 30,000 rampaging horse troops, 90,000 horse infantry troops in the three towns of the Wuwei Army, 90,000 people in the three towns of the Zhenwu Army, and 30,000 new dragoons, totaling 300,000 horse infantry troops.

If you add the government soldiers, volunteers, and people who support logistics, the number is boundless.

Since last year, the grain, grain and grass, ordnance, gunpowder, and artillery needed by the Ming army have begun to be transported to Henan.

After a period of pause in winter, just after the beginning of spring, hundreds of thousands of slender men and people along the canal began to transport materials from the south of the Yangtze River along the canal to Huai'an. Then more people, pushing wheelbarrows, driving donkey carts, mule carts, and covering the road, from morning to night, there was an endless stream of transportation to Henan.

From Jiangnan to Huai'an, it is okay, there is a canal to go, after arriving in Huai'an, it is changed to a land route, all relying on manpower and animal power, and the people can be said to be miserable.

Seeing the slow transportation, Wang Yan intended to dredge the Grand Canal from Kaifeng to Huai'an, restore the prosperity and capacity of the Henan Grand Canal in the Song Dynasty, closely connect the Central Plains region with the south of the Yangtze River, and at the same time strengthen the control of Guanzhong in the future.

As soon as Wang Yan pondered this, he was immediately excited, like discovering a new toy, if he could restore the capacity of the Grand Canal to the Tang and Song dynasties, the sense of accomplishment it would bring him would be no less than the destruction of gold.

On this day, Wang Yan summoned a few ministers in the study, he couldn't help the excitement in his heart, put down the fold in his hand, and suddenly said to a few scholars: "The lonely side just looked at the fold of the household, and found that the grain, grass and materials needed in Henan were transported from Jiangnan to Huai'an, it only took half a month, and the people were less than 200,000, but it took more than a month from Huai'an to Kaifeng and Luoyang, and the people were more than 700,000, and the consumption was very great. Gu intends to dredge the canal from Kaifeng to Huai'an, what do several pavilion elders think? ”

After Wang Yan finished speaking, he looked at a few people with some expectation, if the Grand Canal is dredged, it will definitely be a good thing for Henan, and it will also strengthen the connection between the imperial court and the northwest.

Chen Zilong, Du Yinxi, Su Guansheng and others sitting in the study changed their faces in unison, and there was no bright look in Wang Yan's eyes, as if they were not impressed by Wang Yan's ideas and ambitions, but their faces became gloomy.

As soon as Wang Yan's words fell, Du Yinxi stood up suddenly, walked in front of him, and opened his mouth to squirt, "Does the prison country think that my Ming people are not bitter enough, do you want to force the people to rise up?" ”

Du Yinxi's body was thin, but he was full of energy, because he was too excited, he almost roared out, and his spit flew straight away.

Wang Yan was stunned for a while, what did I say? If you want to be so excited, you can't do it! He stood up a little confused, "Why did the Blocking Cabinet Department say this!" Not really! ”

Wang Yan doesn't like blocking Yinxi very much, this old man likes to dismantle his platform the most, fight for him everywhere, he does a little bit badly, blocking Yinxi can be angry, saying that he has been for a long time.

Wang Yan didn't plan to take him out this time, but Du Yinxi had to follow, and Wang Yan couldn't do it.

"Not really?" Plugging Yinxi didn't give Wang Yan any face, and said coldly: "At present, the war against Jin is being waged, and the prison country has requisitioned nearly one million people, which has affected the agricultural time, and the people have long complained, and the contradiction is more acute. ”

Plug Yinxi has long seen that Wang Yan is not pleasing to the eye, the main thing is that as soon as the lord gains power, he is a little floating, too capable of tossing, and so happy.

Plug Yinxi sees that he is very beautiful now, but he may not know when he will make a mess in the world, and finally leave a stench for 10,000 years.

Wang Yan is in a high position, he usually makes a little mistake, and it is not good to scold him, but today he grabbed the opportunity, so he naturally wanted to scold him and dispel the signs of danger.

Wang Yan was sprayed in the face, and he also realized that it was not suitable to dredge the canal now, and he was a little unconfident.

Seeing this, Du Yinxi was more energetic, and he didn't intend not to let him go, and then said: "Emperor Wen of Sui left Emperor Yang of Sui such a rich family business, the grain warehouse was full, and the treasury was full of copper coins, but he couldn't afford to dig a canal to conquer Goguryeo. At present, the Jin State is much stronger than Goguryeo, and my Ming Dynasty has not destroyed the Jin State, and the Jian State wants to dredge the canal, which is to mess with the world. ”

Before Wang Yan could speak, he was squirted violently by Yinxi, spitting Xingzi on Wang's face, and didn't give him a chance to speak.

Wang Yan has a lot of problems, although he has a good face, but he is not unable to listen to the persuasion of others.

After listening to Yin Xi's scolding, he realized that he was indeed a little overjoyed at the thought of dredging the canal. That's a big project, and the Ming Dynasty can't get it up now.

Plugging Yinxi's words made Wang Yan unable to refute, he embarrassedly wiped the spit on his face with his sleeve, and had no choice but to laugh and say: "It's Lonely Menglang." ”

Seeing that Wang Yan admitted his mistake, Du Yinxi said with satisfaction, "The minister is also good for the prison country, for the good of the Ming Dynasty, I hope the prison country can understand." ”

Wang Yan could only nod his head, showing a generous and wise side, and said with a smile: "Lonely thanks to the elder for reminding the lonely king and supervising the lonely king!" ”

Du Yinxi was like a rooster who had won a fight, refreshed, he saluted slightly, and sat down with his head held high.

Wang Yan was angry in his heart, not very pleasant, and after talking for a while, he found an excuse to end the discussion and talk about it at another date. He sent a few people back and locked himself in his study to get angry, but he obviously wouldn't give up on the canal.

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