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The scale of the army of tens of thousands of people is not trivial, and Zhu Dadian made careful arrangements. The cavalry unit headed by the Guanning Army was the vanguard, the reinforcements from Tianjin, Hebei and other places and the local soldiers and horses of Shandong were in the center, and the Qiongzhou battalion was drawn from the camp in order. In Zhu Dadian's view, the Guanning army, which can be called the strongest cavalry, can take the lead to avoid the rebellion caused by the rebels' attacks and disturbances, and the rear of the Qiongzhou battalion, which has good combat effectiveness, can stabilize the morale of the army. The counterinsurgency war is nearing its end, and nothing can go wrong at this juncture.

When the army marched into the territory of Huang County, the rebels came to harass them. After Li Jiucheng died in battle, there were not many generals in Dengzhou who could take charge alone, and it was Wang Zideng who led the army to fight this time. Guan Ningjun, as the vanguard, did not let him come forward to fight.

The result of the battle was not unexpected, in terms of personal bravery and ability to lead troops, Wang Zideng was not as good as Li Jiucheng, he was defeated in a few rounds, more than 100 people were killed in the battle, and dozens of people were captured, and he was completely here to send people to the head. The battle ended at the end of Chenshi, and news came from the time that the Guanning army was going to behead all these dozens of prisoners of war under the city of Dengzhou in order to seize the enemy's morale.

Wang Qinian, who had been with the army, heard the news, found Xia Nan, and put forward the idea of releasing the prisoners of war and sneaking into Dengzhou with them.

“…… Now that the army is about to besiege the city, this is the only chance to infiltrate Dengzhou. ”

Xia Nan thought about it for a while and thought it could be tried. At the beginning, he infiltrated Dengzhou City with the Liaodong soldiers who were rebelled by the rebels, and these Liaodong soldiers became the key players in the fall of Dengzhou. The strategy is simple and crude, but practical.

He said to Wang Qinian: "You make arrangements first, and I'll go to Futai to talk about it." ”

After seeing Zhu Dadian and proposing this plan, Zhu Dadian was a little puzzled, and asked rhetorically: "Now that the rebels are turtles in the urn, what we have to do is to break through Dengzhou and annihilate the rebels. Even if you send people to sneak into the city, the siege of the city is complete, and the two armies are facing each other, and you are afraid that not a single mosquito will be able to fly, how can you pass on the news? ”

Others don't know, but Xia Nan knows that before the city is broken, the rebels will flee by sea from Shuicheng, and although Dengzhou can be recovered, it is just a good willingness to completely annihilate the rebels. Most importantly, he wanted to grasp the exact time and route of the rebels' escape, so that he could intercept them at sea in time to avoid the Hongyi cannons and cannon casting craftsmen in the city from being taken to Liaodong by Kong Youde to present to Huang Taiji. With Huang Taiji's knowledge, it does not take too long to master the art of casting cannons and the rapid formation of combat effectiveness of cannons. In the future, the Qiongzhou battalion will always encounter Huang Taiji, and the Houjin army with and without artillery is very different from the Qiongzhou battalion.

But he couldn't say this explicitly, or he would have become a god stick for the unknown prophet. could only say vaguely: "Futai clearly sees that it is not difficult to besiege Dengzhou, but it is necessary to prevent Kong Youde and others from escaping by sea." Outside the north gate of Dengzhou is the water city, which was originally stationed in the imperial court sailors, and it did not take long to withdraw from the main city to the sea through the water city. If the last general's sailors are now stationed on an island twenty or thirty miles off Dengzhou, if they can find out the time and route of the rebels' escape, the sailors can intercept and ambush them at sea, and if they can recover Dengzhou City and annihilate the rebels at sea, it will also be a great achievement. Otherwise, if Kong Youde and others cast Tartars in the north, wouldn't it be cheaper for Huang Taiji? ”

Gao Qiqian on the side disagreed, and sneered: "You are worried about the sky, no matter how unbearable Kong Youde and his ilk are, they also followed Mao Wenlong and Tartar to fight hard, and there is a lot of Tartar blood on his hands." Even if he wants to escape, he will flee back to Dongjiang Town, and it is impossible to defect to the Tartar Pseudo-Khan, so he is not afraid that the Pseudo-Khan Emperor Taiji will cut him to avenge the revenge of the year? ”

Xia Nan was a little speechless, this eunuch took it for granted, he underestimated Huang Taiji too much. If you don't even have this little belly, how can Huang Taiji become a generation of heroes who lead a local regime to overthrow the Ming Dynasty?

He resisted the urge to kick high and dive, and patiently explained: "My father-in-law doesn't know that Kong Youde and others left Dongjiang because of a disagreement with the new Dongjiang commander-in-chief Huang Long, and were recruited by Sun Yuanhua, the then governor of Denglai. Now Dongjiang Town is still full of infighting, there are many factions, and there is no place for Kong Youde, besides, Kong Youde is charged with rebellion, how can he return to Dongjiang Town to throw himself into the net? ”

In addition to groveling in front of Chongzhen, Gao Qiqian has always been used to being touted, and he has rarely been scolded, and when he saw Xia Nan refuting his remarks, his face collapsed suddenly, and he was so gloomy that he seemed to be dripping water.

Seeing this, Zhu Dadian knew that Gao Qiqian had resentment in his heart. If there were other military attachés in front of him, he would not offend this eunuch for him. However, Xia Nan knows how to be a man and will come to things, and he also promised to transport away the hungry people to solve the people's problems and train a new army for him, which must be guaranteed. So he played a round from it: "Gonggong Gao is right, if Kong Youde wants to escape, he will only flee back to the Dongjiang River." However, General Xia's concerns are not unreasonable, so let's do it, if you go to Guan Ningjun and ask for these prisoners, just say that I said it, as for how to use the prisoners to sneak into Dengzhou City, whether it can succeed or not depends on you. ”

In the summer, Nan was happy, Zhu Dadian was relieved, and things were much easier. "Thank you Futai for your success, the last general will go to Guan Ningjun."

Rushed through the large army to the front, found Wu Sangui, and told him about it, Wu Sangui agreed.

"If someone else comes to ask for a prisoner, I, Guan Ningjun, won't even look at him. But General Xia Shen is a different story. Please wait a minute, and I'll go talk to my uncle. ”

After a while, Wu Sangui returned and informed Xia Nan: "Uncle agreed." Thirty-six of these captives will be handed over to you. ”

Xia Nan thanked him again and again: "Thank you General Wu for your success, and thank General Zu for me." ”

Wu Sangui said with a smile: "It's just a gesture, Xia Shen only needs to remember our deal." ”

"Definitely, definitely."

On the way back to his camp with the prisoners, Xia Nan couldn't help but feel that it was really difficult to do something in the system, even if it was related to whether Huang Taiji would be able to have firearms and cannons in the future. If he hadn't deliberately made friends with Zhu Dadian and Guan Ningjun, as long as one of the links was stuck, it would be impossible for these prisoners to be handed over to him.

Back in the camp, Xia Nan called Wang Qinian and beat the prisoners in front of him.

"If it weren't for me today, you would already be a ghost under Guan Ning's saber. Now that the army is about to besiege Dengzhou, Kong Youde and others are already fighting the trapped beasts, and the destruction is only in the blink of an eye, do you want to abandon the darkness and turn to the light, or give Kong Youde a funeral? By the way, Li Jiucheng died at my hands. ”

The current situation, even if Xia Nan doesn't say it, these rebel prisoners also know it, they follow Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde to make trouble, it's just for the sake of wealth and women, since this road has reached a dead end, why bother going all the way to the dark? They looked at each other, nodded to each other, and then knelt down and begged for mercy: "The little ones are willing to abandon the darkness and turn to the light, and ask the general to show a clear way." ”