Chapter 161: The Yellow River Embankment

"Your Majesty!" Nalan stood up, took a step forward, flapped his sleeves a few times, and knelt on the ground, "The slave thinks that the imperial court will send the Eight Banners of the Jingshi to rescue Bahai as soon as possible!" Bahai lost too few cavalry, if there are 50,000 cavalry, Wu will be defeated! ”

The reason for the small number of cavalry in Bahai is actually the Qing court's blind pursuit of the New Army of the Eight Banners, strengthening firearms but reducing cavalry, the so-called New Army of the Eight Banners in Bahai, most of the musketeers are actually coated minions, after all, there are not many real Manchurian archers, and they can only be trained as musketeers to make up for it. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The current Eight Banners of the Jingshi Division are actually the original elite Eight Banners outside the Guan. After the elite Eight Banners outside the customs entered the customs, only a small part followed Bahai to Henan, and most of the musketeers and gunners who went to Henan were composed of clothed minions. After the rest of the Eight Banners outside the customs entered the customs, they were all stationed in the capital.

"Your Majesty!" Tong Guogang also stood up and knelt on the ground to report, "The slave thinks that you can't be in a hurry, the original Beijing Division Eight Banners was sent to Guanwai, and it has been more than two years since you conquered North Korea!" Now they can be sent to the customs to quell the rebellion! The imperial court can also dispatch the Korean Eight Banners and the Korean Green Battalion to help in the war! ”

Jue Luole stepped forward and knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, it will take at least three months to dispatch the Korean Eight Banners and the Korean Green Battalion into the customs!" I'm afraid that within three months, Wu Zhidu will come to the capital and go down to the city! In order to solve the urgent need, it is better to transfer the Eight Banners of the Beijing Division first! ”

"No!" Tong Guogang resolutely objected, "Wu is against the big trend, and if our army wants to defeat Wu against it, we must concentrate our forces!" If the Eight Banners of the Beijing Division and the Eight Banners of Korea were scattered, wouldn't it give Wu Wei a chance to break through? Emperor! The minions thought that my Qing Heavenly Soldiers should gather all their forces and fight Wu Wei in Baoding! In order to express my determination to fight a decisive battle in the Qing Dynasty, the Yamen of the Governor of Zhili was also relocated to Baoding! ”

"Dispatch troops and horses into the customs, and the governor's yamen move to Baoding, it will take time! Can Bahai stop Wu Yi for three months? Nalan asked.

Trimester? Some of the civil and military officials sighed, and some shook their heads, thinking that it was impossible.

"If you don't wait for the Guanwai and the Korean army, and rashly transfer the Eight Banners of the Beijing Division, then wouldn't it be for Wu Yi to break through? Wait until the Eight Banners of the Jingshi are destroyed, and then transfer the Guanwai and the Korean army to give Wu Sangui credit? Tong Guogang bowed his hand to Kangxi, "Your Majesty, the slave thinks that dividing troops is a taboo for soldiers, and now the situation in my Qing Dynasty is precarious, and only by concentrating forces and launching a life-and-death decisive battle with Wu Reverse can we save my Qing Dynasty!" ”

"But Bahai can't stop Wu Wei for three months!" Kangxi shook his head with a sad face.

At this time, the scholar of the Zhonghe Temple, Tuhaitu Zhongtang, who had not spoken, stood up.

"Your Majesty!" Tu Hai knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly, "The slave has a plan to make General Bahai delay Wu Wei for three months!" As long as it is delayed for three months, the army outside the customs can enter the customs and fight a decisive battle with Wu Yi in Baoding! ”

"What's the plan?" Kangxi was overjoyed.

"Pick up the embankment on the north bank of the Yellow River! Flooded southern area of Naoli! Wu's army marched by land and water and was attacking Fengqiu. As long as our army opens the embankment of the Yellow River in Fengqiu, it can flood Wu Wei! Tuhai advised.

"Tuhai!" Wang Xi stood up with an angry face, "Dig the embankment of the Yellow River and flood Zhili Shandong, how many people are you going to kill?" When this flood is flooded, can the people of the world still obey me? Wu Cheng has a sailor again, and if he opens the embankment, Wu Shun will not have much loss! If I use this strategy, I am finished! ”

Tu Hai knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly: "Your Majesty! Although opening the embankment can't eliminate Wu Rebellion, it can slow down Wu Rebellion's pace! Buy time for our army! This plan is made by the minions, and the minions are willing to bear the responsibility! ”

"Get up, Tu Aiqing!" Kangxi Road.

Bu Mu Butai in the back was full of anger: "Tu Aiqing! It's not feasible! How many people will this kill? ”

Listening to Bumu Butai's words, Wang Xi hurriedly knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly: "The emperor is wise!" The Empress Dowager is wise! The emperor and the empress dowager are worried about the people of the world, and the micro-ministers have thanked the emperor, the empress dowager! ”

"Give Bahai an order and let him try his best to delay Wu Rebellious! Give Dadu an order again, let him quickly lead the troops into the customs! Kangxi nodded and said.

"If you have something to do, you have nothing to do!" The eunuch's shrill voice sounded again.

After retiring from the dynasty, Li quoted evidence and asked people to secretly go to Tuhai: "Tuzhongtang, Gonggong Li is looking for you." ”

The black cauldron always has to be carried by someone, of course, it can't be Kangxi and Bumu Butai to carry this black cauldron. The plan of digging the embankment of the Yellow River and blocking Wu Sangui's footsteps was actually agreed by Kangxi and Bumu Butai in their hearts, but they couldn't play it.

After Tu Hai saw Li Yin, the two discussed, and Tu Hai said: "Please tell the emperor and the Empress Dowager Lafayette, this matter will definitely be done seamlessly!" ”

The messenger who carried the holy decree was in a hurry for 800 miles and rushed from the capital to Henan. Eight hundred miles are urgent, eight hundred miles a day, and the holy decree is sent from the capital to Fengqiu, Henan, but it will arrive in two days. After retiring from the dynasty, Kangxi went back to draft the decree, and Tuhai secretly met the messenger again, explained his message to the messenger, and then the messenger left Beijing. On the evening of the third day, the messenger appeared at the camp of Bahai.

The content of the holy decree is very simple, only Bahai must try his best to stop Wu Sangui for three months.

Ba Hai put out the incense case, and after receiving the holy decree, the messenger handed the holy decree to Ba Hai, and said in a low voice: "General, Tu Zhongtang ordered the humble post to tell the general one thing: we must do everything possible to stop Wu Sangui for three months!" In just three months, the North Korean Eight Banners and the Green Camp will be able to enter the customs! At that time, the general led people to withdraw to Baoding. ”

As the messenger spoke, he glanced at the embankment of the Yellow River a few times.

Ba Hai naturally understood what the messenger meant, it was impossible for the emperor's holy decree to let him open the Yellow River embankment, and it was impossible for Tu Hai's edict to let him open the Yellow River embankment, but Tu Hai had already asked the messenger to hint at it.

After the messenger left, Bahai sent an order: "Pick up the embankment of the Yellow River on the north bank!" ”

Thousands of Qing troops climbed the embankment of the Yellow River, dug on the embankment, and buried clay pots filled with gunpowder and connected them to the lead. Then the Qing army withdrew, and someone lit the fuse. After a while, only an earth-shattering loud "boom" was heard, and a gap appeared in the embankment of the Yellow River, which had been dug with holes, and the turbulent Yellow River water roared out and rushed towards the southwestern part of Shandong and the southern part of Zhili, and soon flooded a large area.

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Wu Sangui's camp, someone came to report: "Report to the handsome!" Big things are wrong! The Tartars opened the embankment of the Yellow River in Fengqiu! ”

"Lost conscience!" The civil officials and generals of the Wu army scolded one after another.

Wu Sangui had rich combat experience, and the large camps stationed were naturally at high places, and it was impossible for the Qing army to flood Wu Sangui's camp by opening the embankment of the Yellow River. However, the turbulent river roared out, flooding a large area in southern Lunan and Zhili, forming a yellow flood area of thousands of miles, and the river did not recede so quickly, even if it retreated, the yellow flood area was muddy and difficult to walk, and the pace of Wu Sangui's army attack was also delayed.