The project of damming and besieging the Qing army's camp on the south bank of the Yellow River soon began in full swing. The area around the Henan camp turned into a large construction site in less than half a month.
A huge camp for more than 200,000 people has been built around the camp on the south bank of the Yellow River. Fences, trenches, and camp walls are all in place, and nothing is careless at all. And it's not just a general camp, but dozens of fortresses. The military camp and the Pizi camp are mixed together, and it's not just mixed together, but a regiment-level military camp looks at a Pizi camp with 3,000 people.
There are independent fences and camp walls between each camp head, and passages are also left for infantry and cavalry to enter and exit. From a distance, this is a city made up of soldiers and civilians!
And between these camp heads and the Qing army's Henan camp, the prototype of a dam has suddenly appeared!
On the top of the embankment, which was piled up with sandbags, many Ming soldiers carrying muskets (flintlock guns) patrolled back and forth.
Countless civilians have already gone to the construction site, either using carts or carrying them on their shoulders, stacking sandbags one by one on one side of the embankment (near the side of the Ming army camp). There were countless people involved in the construction, and they were well organized and orderly. Therefore, this crescent-shaped dike built around the Qing army's Henan camp is "growing" at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Farther away, teams of mules, horses, carts and Han farmers pushing wheelbarrows continued to come. There are big and small bags of grain piled on carts and wheelbarrows!
These carts, wheelbarrows and people were all hired by Feng San's men and their horse teams from villages scattered throughout Kaifeng Prefecture!
Feng San himself is from Henan, and he served as the commander-in-chief in Runing and Nanyang for a long time. He has a group of old brothers from Henan under his command, some of whom still have some foundation in Kaifeng Prefecture - the current Kaifeng Prefecture has long been The world is not ruled by scholar-bureaucrats, but by various powerful men, big and small.
And these powerful people who can occupy the grassroots level of Kaifeng Mansion in troubled times are certainly not good people. Nine times out of ten, they came here by licking blood from the edge of a knife, so they all know "The Red Lady on Jigong Mountain" and "Feng Sanlang on Jigong Mountain". name.
Hosaburo's men came to the door and said dirty things to the family. Who wouldn't give him some face? Moreover, Feng Sanlang is now a court official and the commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty, representing the King's Division!
How many years have the people of Henan looked forward to Master Wang? Now Master Wang is finally here, and he is also a Master Wang who has made a fortune!
When Master Wang gets rich, he neither orders people nor takes things from the common people in vain. His military discipline is even more strict. The most important thing is that he can fight and kill. Even the Tatars are afraid of him!
How can the people not welcome this kind of king? Can you not support it? Can you not eat the pot of slurry to welcome it? If you don't welcome him, he must be the traitor that Master Wang hates the most...
Moreover, Master Wang is really rich. Copper coins and silver are brought in cart after cart... If you don’t love Master Wang, how can you not love money?
So in less than half a month, the 100,000 people promised by Feng San were gathered together, and they also brought hundreds of thousands of dan of millet, hay and bean cakes, enough to feed the army led by Yan Yingyuan and Xu Ermo for a while. .
If there are enough manpower, enough wages, and enough food, can the construction speed not be fast? With more than 100,000 or 200,000 people working hard, how can the embankment of this siege be built up day and night?
The weather has warmed up now, and the Yellow River has begun to thaw. It seems that it won’t be long before the Henan camp will be flooded!
Chen Tai and Tu Hai were on the second floor of the Henan camp watching the Ming army build a dam to surround them every day. Of course they could guess what they were thinking?
Chen Tai looked at the construction scene of more than 100 to 200 thousand people, shook his head and said: "Linzhou, it looks like we are not flooding Nikan this time, but Nikan is flooding us... This is how to do ah!"
"Commander," Tu Hai frowned, "Our Henan camp is not afraid of water, right?"
"Afraid... I shouldn't be afraid..." Chen Tai said, "But there is a lot of food stored in the Henan camp after all... When the rice grains are gone, we will be doomed!"
Tu Hai thought for a while and said: "If we abandon the Henan camp now, I'm afraid we will cheat the Emperor Taishu! The Emperor Taishu probably wouldn't have thought that the Confederate army was so capable of building dams and repairing water conservancy... "
Chen Tai sighed: "What a miscalculation! Why didn't you think of it? I haven't done anything else in the past few years but dug canals and built dams at home... If Huang Ama was still here, he would have thought of it!"
Duduo's fighting skills are first-class, but he doesn't think carefully about the problem. Moreover, he has been busy with the stalls outside the pass these years and has no understanding of the skills of Nanming's migrant workers - he is not interested in digging canals and building dams, so I have never studied the size of the Huang-Huaiyun Project in the Ming Dynasty.
Tuhai said: "Commander, it seems that Zhongzhou is no longer available...but we still abandon the Henan camp, because once we abandon the Henan camp, the Ming army that is building the dam will lose control."
"Yes, yes!" Chen Tai said, "We have to hold on to the Henan camp. Uncle Huang will definitely come to save us."
Tuhai paused and said, "But the Emperor's uncle may not know the situation here in Henan Camp! We haven't sent cavalry out for some days."
These days, the Ming army's black gun and mule soldiers are hanging around outside the camps in Henan and Hebei. Chen Tai and Tu Hai have limited cavalry, so of course they dare not send them to their deaths casually.
"Then what should we do?" Chen Tai didn't have any other options.
"How about this... The commander gives Beizhong 300 cavalry. Beizhong still has more than 100 cavalry on hand. Beizhong will charge out with a group of more than 400 cavalry. We should be able to escape a little."
"Okay," Chen Tai nodded repeatedly, "Linzhou, you have to be careful. If you really can't get out, come back. We have an army of 20,000 and the food can last for at least another year. Even if the Henan camp is not saved, we can still There is a Hebei camp to defend."
"Beizi understands that if we can't get out, Beizi will come back. Let's defend to the end together!"
To hold on to the end is to wait for death... Tu Hai still has not repaid Jun's kindness, so of course he is not willing to wait for death. In fact, he has been sending his confidants out at night every day these days, and he has already found a way to escape. The reason why he asked Chen Tai for people was actually to let these hundreds of cavalry attract the attention of the Ming army cavalry, so that he could escape with his confidants.
Four hundred cavalry attacking at night would be a large formation and would definitely attract the attention of the Ming army's cavalry, allowing Tuhai to take the opportunity to escape.
He has prepared one person and three horses for himself and a few of his confidants, as well as sufficient dry food and horse supplies. It will be no problem to run for three days and three nights... Nine times out of ten, he will be able to reach the Emperor Tai Uncle came to cry and beg!
Don’t you know where the Emperor’s uncle is now? They should have led their troops into the customs, right?
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The place where Emperor Taishu Duduo stationed troops was called Renqiu, located in Hejian Prefecture. Although it was in the center of Beizhili, it was a rather closed place. To the north of Renqiu is Baiyangdian, to the east is Yudai River, to the west is Hutuo River, and Hutuo River and Yudai River intersect in the south of Renqiu. Therefore, after the ice surface of Baiyangdian, Hutuo River and Yudai River melts, Renqiu will be a relatively closed place.
Because this closed place is close to Baiyangdian, which is rich in water resources, it is a rare and fertile place in this era of frequent droughts. Not long after the Qing army entered the customs, it was occupied by the Zhenglan Banner. Hauge also built a large manor here, but before the manor was built, he was beaten by an unknown person in the "Battle of Bloody Creek" died.
And in Hauge's manor, Duduo saw Tuhai, who was coming here after a long journey, and heard him talk about the dangerous situation in the camps in Henan and Hebei.
It's "Bubble City" again, it's the foreign cavalry soldiers again...and there are still so many of them! It’s clear that we are going to surround the place and call for reinforcements!
Tuhai had finished speaking, and in the lobby, a group of Manchu Batulu all turned their attention to Duduo.
Now there are people from Tianjin Wei who are encircling the points to call for reinforcements, and there are also people from Henan and Hebei Daying who are encircling the points to call for reinforcements. What should we do? Who should I call? Come up with an idea quickly!
Duduo sighed: "Now that the emperor is besieged in Tianjin, Gu, the emperor's uncle, cannot ignore it... Well, let's go and fish him out!"
