Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 396 Calculation
Hamo was originally the leader of the Mongolian Xianglan Banner, but was promoted by Hong Chengchou to serve as the deputy general under Zhou Ze's command, which naturally meant monitoring Zhou Ze.

However, this Hamo may be an honest man, after hearing what Zhou Ze said, he couldn't help admiring Zhou Ze very much, and hurriedly said: "Your Excellency, like Zhuge Liang, is good at scheming, good at scheming."

"General Ha has a great reputation, and now General Lao Ha sent someone to report to Hong Zhongtang, saying that we have outwitted the Xinghua Camp, and the main force of the Guards has withdrawn to the east. Should our troops stay at Xinghua Camp or continue to pursue, please ask." Lord Zhongtang shows me."

After Zhou Ze finished speaking, he called Li Yongxing, one of his confidantes, over: "You also go together and write a battle report to Lord Baylor for me."

Zhou Ze asked Jin Yiwei Li Yongxing, who was pretending to be his own soldier, to return to Le Ke Dehun. Naturally, he wanted Li Yongxing to take the opportunity to inquire about the main force of Hong Chengchou's Qing army.

Hong Chengchou just smiled lightly when he learned that Zhou Ze occupied Xinghuaying.

But at the same time, Luck Dehun also received a letter from Zhou Ze, but he happily slapped the table: "Good servant, it is his cleverness that Ben Baylor took a fancy to, and it took only two hundred rides to kill Xinghua. You succeeded in cheating, Hong Zhongtang, you have to ask Admiral Zhou for this credit."

"I want to invite you, but Lord Baylor, the main force of this family has withdrawn to the east. Occupying the Xinghua Camp is nothing more than occupying an empty city."

Hong Chengchou smiled slightly as he spoke, and Luc Dehun didn't say anything else.

He also had to admit that Zhou Ze's victory was indeed a little watery, and at the same time he felt very annoyed: "Zhou Ze, this dog slave, report yourself a battle, why do you have nothing to do with the main force retreating east?"

"Lord Baylor, Hong Zhongtang, I feel that the important thing right now is not Admiral Zhou's occupation of the Xinghua Camp but the retreat of the main force of the Guards to the east. A certain person is very puzzled, retreating east into Fengyang, is it possible that the main force of his guards will return to Nanjing?"

Wu Sangui stopped the dispute between Luck Dehun and Hong Chengchou in time, and hurriedly mentioned the business.

But Hong Chengchou couldn't help but smile and said: "This is not the main force of the Guards retreating east, this is obviously going north!"

"Going north?" Luke Dehun stood up: "My slave clearly wrote that the guards retreated eastward."

"What Admiral Zhou saw was just a superficial appearance. There is no point in retreating to the east. If you were Zhu Youjian, would you withdraw the main force to the east? Wouldn't you immediately go north for reinforcements and block our retreat? Fortunately, Between Xuanwuwei and Sun's family ferry, eat us?"

Although Hong Chengchou looked down on Zhou Ze, the admiral of Henan, he also thought that Zhou Ze, the admiral of Henan, had no great ability. He thought that Zhou Ze's ability to take back Xinghua Ying was just playing tricks. Does it make sense for the main force of the Guards to retreat eastward?

Zhou Ze also guessed that Hong Chengchou would think so.

So he didn't make a fuss and said that he predicted that the main force of the guards would go north, so that Hong Chengchou would not believe his own words, but would instinctively deny his views.

And if you act stupid and just say that you saw the main force of the guards retreating eastward, with Hong Chengchou's conceit and wisdom, he can naturally guess that after the guards retreat eastward, they can go north and cross the Yellow River from Lanyang Lijinggaokou to the north to reinforce the defense force at the ferry.

Therefore, at this time, Hong Chengchou firmly believed that he was not wrong in his judgment, and another main force of the Guards in the south of Kaifeng City had already gone north.

Hong Chengchou was also quite upset about this. He thought that the main force of the Guards was not in Henan, so he never thought that the Guards would suddenly appear on the north bank of the Yellow River.

As a civil servant who is good at governing the army, and he has always had a strong memory, he also knows that there are three places to cross the Hebei from Henan, one is to leave Xuanwuwei to Hulao Pass, and the other is to pass through the current Sun family There is another ferry crossing from Lanyang to Lijiakou.

But just because he didn't expect that the main force of the Guards was still in Henan, he didn't expect that the main force of the Guards would cross the Yellow River to block his retreat.

Hong Chengchou couldn't help blaming himself secretly, thinking how he had forgotten that the safety of food and roads was the most important thing, so that he fell to this point.

Fortunately, Hong Chengchou's authority in the Qing army is still there, so after he said this, Luck Dehun and Wu Sangui deeply agreed.

Hong Chengchou also directly ordered: "Tell Zhou Ze to stay in Xinghua Camp temporarily, and send scouts to inquire about the direction of Xuanwuwei!"

"Listen to what Zhongtang said, our more than [-] troops still want to seize the Sun Family Ferry and the river defense instead of taking Xuanwuwei to get in touch with the first-class Duke He Luohui. Didn't Zhongtang just say that the main force of the Guards has already Going north, why do we have to go head-to-head?"

Pingxi Wang Wu Sangui raised his doubts.

"The march of the guards is very strange. Sometimes Hong is not sure how the guards will go next. Although according to common sense, he will naturally go north, but maybe it will be a ecstasy formation. He wants us to withdraw, after all, after we cross the river, we will be in the hinterland of the Qing Dynasty, and his guards will not be able to stop us."

Hong Chengchou was suspicious, but now that he realized that the guards had played a trick on him once, he became more careful, and worried that the guards would deliberately trick him.

Therefore, I thought that while it is not far from the bank of the Yellow River, it is better to attack once. If it is not the main force of the Guards, the main force of the Qing Army can easily cross the river and retreat. If it is the main force of the Guards, his 30 Qing troops There shouldn't be any disadvantages, the worst thing is to withdraw and join forces with Zhou Zebu to attack Xuanwuwei from north to south.

Therefore, Hong Chengchou still insisted on continuing to go north.

……

Yan Yingyuan led Xia Wanchun and other 1000 people directly under the Association to follow Hong Chengchou and other main forces of the Qing army.

However, Yan Yingyuan did not take Xia Wanchun and others to harass Hong Chengchou and other main forces of the Qing army along the way.

Yan Yingyuan grabbed Xia Wanchun directly:

"Brother Duan, Yan thinks it is not a good strategy for His Majesty to let us harass Hong Chengchou and other main forces of the Qing army. Think about it, if you were an old fox like Hong Chengchou, you would definitely be very careful. If we harassed along the way, he would definitely think that we didn't want to Asking him to lead the main force of the Qing army northward will make him speed up the northward recklessly."

"Commander Yan, how dare you question His Majesty's decision, but what you said seems reasonable, but it also seems unreasonable. Don't forget, the purpose of His Majesty asking us to harass Hong Chengchou and other main forces of the Qing Army is to assist the third guard of the Guards." Army First Corps."

Xia Wanchun looked at Yan Yingyuan in astonishment.

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