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Chapter 138 Da Ming Qi, is it really over?

In the lobby of the Longping County Government, Hauge, Prince of the Qing Dynasty and Shuosu, continued the topic he had just talked about.

He only listened to his suggestion: "Since we entered the customs, we have seized a lot of artillery from the Ming Dynasty, but they have all been used by King Gongshun's subordinates. He Chenggong's department will face Lu Xiangsheng head-on, and use the advantages of firecrackers and artillery to attack his positions. Our Eight Banners heavy armored infantry cooperate and attack the enemy's formation at any time."

He added: "Then we will use the warriors from all the Mongolian banners of our army to harass the Lu tribe by cavalry and shooting on both wings, so that they can't look at each other. As long as their formation is a little chaotic, they can find a gap to rush in and completely defeat them."

Doro Raoyu Belle Abata interjected: "Indeed, what Prince Su said is very true."

He was very supportive of Hauge's tactics, and continued: "Our army still needs to split up and plunder to the south, so that we can lure them to follow up.

So I stick one of them to Lu Xiangsheng, thinking that when the army gathers, if we can encircle Lu's tribe, as long as we concentrate our elites, break through with all our strength, and defeat one of them, the Ming army will surely flee for their lives. Lu Xiangsheng is not in our pocket. ! "

Yibai, the bannerman of the Mongolian Zhengbai Banner of the Eight Banners, added in time: "Our army has to send out a few bands of rangers to monitor the surrounding Ming army so that they dare not rescue Lu Xiangsheng."

"There is one more point that needs more attention?"

Rao Yubei Le Abatai said: "Our army divides up the troops to plunder in the south. The captured Dingkou, wealth, silk and grain should be stored in a centralized manner, and guarded by a large army, so as not to be like Gao Yang, who worked so hard to capture the captives, but use them to finance the enemy."

Everyone was silent, Hauge stared at his eyes, although what Abatai said was right, it made him feel very unhappy. After a long time, Dorgon said thoughtfully:

"It seems that when fighting with Lu Xiangsheng's troops, we must avoid their sharp edge and be cautious. Our armies from all walks of life are divided into groups, and we must be diligent in contact. If we encounter Lu's troops, we must avoid them, and we must not allow them to injure our army again. No merit, maybe if you don’t need me to wait for the siege, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty may punish him.”

He made up his mind, looked around at everyone in the hall and said: "Lu Xiangsheng, Zhang Cheng and others, I must get rid of them, so as to imitate others. This matter should be done sooner rather than later. This general has decided that when the army goes south, choose an appropriate time and terrain. ,
Gather tens of thousands of elite soldiers and wipe out Lu Xiangsheng and Zhang Cheng's tribes with a thunderbolt. What's your opinion? "

His eyes were piercing, scanning the crowd.

Hauge, Abatai, Tan Tai, Holborn and others all stood up, impassioned, and agreed with the general who was ordered.

Anyway, even if the army attacks Lu Xiangsheng, Zhang Cheng and others in the future, it is impossible for them to be the main force, so why not do it?
Most of the Eight Banners and Mongolian banner owners who entered the customs this time were lured to rob together as new affiliated troops. Naturally, they had no room to intervene in such a strategic and tactical matter.

However, Facing Dorgon's aggressive posture and seeing his growing desire for power, Hauge endured some displeasure in his heart, looking thoughtful.

Seeing that all the generals in the hall agreed with his opinion, Dorgon showed a complacent expression on his face, and finally said loudly: "Everyone, let's act according to the policy agreed today. This king will send a letter to General Yangwu, and ask him to lead his troops." Come join us and lure Lu Xiangsheng."

At this time, Yue Tuo, as General Yangwu, was in charge of the right-wing troops of the Qing soldiers who invaded the bandits.

But a few years ago, because of his arrogance and rudeness in front of Huang Taiji, Yue Tuo was deprived of his position as Baylor, demoted to Beizi, and fined 5000 taels of silver.

Although Huang Taiji regained his position as Baylor years ago, Yue Tuo was much more stable than before. In addition, Yue Tuo was a Baylor, and his title was second class lower than that of Dorgon. The Qing soldiers who invaded this time, In fact, Dorgon is respected.

Therefore, in this military discussion, although Yue Tuo, who was the commander of the right-wing army, was not there, Dorgon still dared to make a decision directly, almost ordering Yue Tuo to execute it.

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Zhang Cheng led his troops and Lu Xiangsheng's Supervising Biao Battalion to form the Chinese Army, headed southeast from Zhending all the way, crossed Jinzhou, turned south in Shulu County, passed through Baichikou Inspection Department, passed Xinhe County, and continued southbound.

Along the way, everywhere is dilapidated, there are few pedestrians on the official road, and the villages and forts encountered are full of smoke, and they are all looted and empty.

On both sides of the official road, there are dead willows and broken branches. From time to time, some civilian corpses will be seen hanging on it. Even on the official road, or in the ditches on both sides, there are occasional civilian corpses, all of which are hideous in shape.

At the beginning, some soldiers would come out from the army to untie the corpses of these people and bury them, but along the way, they encountered too many things, and gradually became a little numb...

The soldiers all looked into the distance. There are many plains in southern Hebei, and there are more fertile fields on both sides of the official road. Some villages and castles stand near the official road. At this time, most of them are emitting sparse thick smoke.

These villages and forts have been looted long ago. Now, there are only sentry cavalry from the two armies, who occasionally avoid the wind and snow, especially the sentry cavalry of the Qing army. Smoke billowed.

Zhang Cheng rode his horse along the official road, and always felt that there was someone hiding in the weeds on both sides of the official road, between the fields. At first, he thought it was a sentry cavalry of the Qing army, and he was hiding in the middle to spy on it, so he sent fine cavalry to patrol.

Only then did they find out that they were fleeing civilians, hiding among them, all yellow and thin, trembling. Zhang Cheng could not lead them on the march, and had no extra grain to feed them, so he had to tell them to look for a big city nearby to avoid the Qing army.

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On this day, the army camped in Sutian Village, ten miles south of Xinhe County.

The camp was next to an unknown small river. The village was extremely dilapidated, almost all the houses were destroyed, and very few were intact, but there were two wells that were still usable.

From Zhending all the way to here, along the way, I only met some small groups of sentry cavalry from the Qing army. They all ran away after meeting each other. As for the Qing army brigade, they never met a single one.

Presumably they were all wreaking havoc in the south of Jinan, so Lu Xiangsheng accelerated his marching speed since Shu Lu broke and headed south.

However, the army was short of food and wages. Every day, they only had breakfast and were half full. For dinner, they basically cooked porridge with wild vegetables, grass roots, bark and a small amount of miscellaneous grains.

At the beginning, the soldiers could bear it, but as time went on, the morale of the army seemed to be shaken, and some people began to sigh and scold the treacherous officials in power, harming the country and the people.

On the night of the camp, Lu Xiangsheng's supervising battalion was stationed in Sutian Village. He and Yang Tinglin were both handling military affairs on an earthen kang.

Yang Tinglin originally came to Lu Xiangsheng's army full of enthusiasm and wanted to help him, but since he joined the army to praise painting, he has been helpless.

Now, he knows more things than when he was an official in Beijing, and he is even more disappointed and dissatisfied with the court. He often asks himself in his heart: "Is Daming's fate really coming to an end?"

　Last night, my right hand was accidentally injured, and I needed 14 stitches. Today, I came back with an anti-inflammatory infusion, and barely insisted on writing.

　　I really don't know if I can persist tomorrow. In short, the snail will work hard. As long as it can be done, it will never be lazy. If there is an accident, it may be off for a few days to heal the hand injury.

　　Please understand.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)