"King of Heaven, King Wu has led the army to Fengqiu. As long as we cross the Yellow River, we will reach Kaifeng!"
Hundreds of thousands of troops marched southward.
Naturally, it is impossible to hide any traces, so the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did not do any strategic deception or the like.
Instead, they headed south with all their strength, assuming a posture that they would not give up until Kaifeng was broken.
"What's happening in the Ming court?"
Liu Zhixie asked.
"Nothing has happened yet. In the past two days, I heard that Emperor Zhu's sixth son was born, and he was born to his queen. Emperor Zhu has three legitimate sons."
"Hmph! After giving birth to so many sons, I am not afraid that a ninth son will come to Emperor Zhu's family to seize the legitimate rights!" Liu Zhixie snorted coldly and said, "Emperor Zhu will definitely not sit back and watch Kaifeng be taken away. He will definitely send troops northward, and with Emperor Zhu's With his character, he will definitely lead the troops personally this time!"
Liu Zhixie guessed it right.
How could Emperor Zhu be absent from the battle to regain the Central Plains?
"As long as he comes!" Liu Zhixie gritted his teeth and said, "Go tell King Wu and ask him to wait until Emperor Zhu arrives in Kaifeng before fighting again. This battle is guaranteed to be defeated but not won. It is best to lure Emperor Zhu as far north as possible. Can lead to Daming Mansion!"
Liu Zhixie stared at the map.
Daming Mansion.
That is a famous mansion in the Central Plains.
I don’t know how many famous people in history have governed here and brought peace and stability to the country. In the Song Dynasty alone, famous officials such as Kou Zhun, Wang Qinruo, Lu Yijian, Han Qi, and Ouyang Xiu served here one after another. In "Water Margin", Cai Jing's son-in-law Liang Shijie and Liang Zhongshu guarded this place, and he had many powerful generals such as the king Li Cheng, Yang Zhi, and Suo Chao. Lu Junyi and Yan Qing were born here. Lu Junyi in "Water Margin" is from Damingfu.
This is the place where heroes are born in large numbers and where their bones are buried.
Thinking of this, Liu Zhixie punched the map of Daming Mansion.
"In ancient times, Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty was besieged by Bai Deng. Today, I want Emperor Zhu to be besieged by a Daming Mansion!"
What should Emperor Zhu do if he is surrounded?
Of course we have to negotiate conditions.
As for what the conditions are.
The bottom line is that he is the King of Qin. If he plays well, he will probably earn several million yuan of coins every year.
If you don't play well.
If you can't fight well, just be the king of Pingxi.
Liu Zhixie thought.
have to say.
What Liu Tianwang thought was indeed very ideal.
After the battle is completed, if you become the king of Qin, you can still extort some yearly coins.
If he doesn't play well, he still has Wu Sangui's future.
It’s really a guarantee of harvest despite drought and flood.
Liu Tianwang's abacus was crackling.
Beside the Yellow River in Chenqiao Town, Fengqiu County.
The royal flag of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Wu Wang Yao Zhifu was flying high on the edge of the Yellow River.
This Chenqiao Town is the place where Song Taizu Chen Qiao rebelled and wore a yellow robe.
Today it is the forefront of the "military demarcation line" between the Ming Dynasty and the Taiping Rebellion.
So far, there has been no large-scale war between the two sides.
But now it seems.
These two armies, which had a common enemy, were about to meet each other at this time. They fought fiercely on the edge of the Yellow River in Kaifeng Prefecture, Henan.
Soldiers with red scarves on their heads gathered from Henan and southern Zhili to Chenqiao Town.
There were huge crowds of people, and the number of troops was incalculable.
There are military camps everywhere along the Yellow River.
The company camp is dozens of miles away.
But if you take a closer look at the soldiers of this huge army.
But it can be found.
Except for a few elite men wearing battle jackets and holding sharp blades and muskets, their faces were rosy and the flesh on their faces was bulging, obviously they were well nourished.
And most of the soldiers.
They all have disheveled faces, ragged clothes, and various costumes.
Some were wearing long shirts and mandarin jackets, some were wearing green military uniforms of the Qing army, and some were wearing ordinary clothes.
In Henan in winter, the temperature has already reached below freezing.
So the soldiers were wrapped in various rags and cotton-padded jackets.
They are simply an army of beggars.
It is not possible to dress warmly.
Not to mention food.
At this time, each camp had already started cooking rice.
The stick gnocchi soup was boiling on the big iron pot.
However, there weren't many lumps, but there were quite a lot of wild grasses and vegetables. Once stewed in a pot, there were all kinds of flavors. The tangy smell would make an ordinary person nauseous if he saw it.
But these Taiping soldiers all had green eyes in their eyes, waiting for their superiors to give orders to go up and receive their meals.
caused this situation.
Naturally, it has something to do with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom’s poor logistics supply.
By this time.
Western Henan, around Luoyang.
The people either fled to the territory that was inevitably controlled by the Ming Dynasty, or they were wrapped up in advance by Fukang'an.
What was left to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was a white land.
Going north to Zhili is almost the same.
There was almost no human habitation for thousands of miles, the villages were burned down, and the people were huddled in the fortresses built in dangerous places, with deep trenches and high walls.
A small force cannot defeat it at all.
The troops are coming.
You have to pay heavy casualties before you can do it.
But even if such a castle is broken down, the supplements it can get will be a drop in the bucket for the hundreds of thousands or millions of Taiping troops.
Therefore, the supplies of the Taiping Army are now transferred from Guanzhong.
But how can Guanzhong support the consumption of so many troops?
So now the Taiping Army can only give priority to ensuring the supplies of the Old Brothers Battalion.
Other soldiers.
You can fish out some stick noodles in the wild vegetable soup.
It can be said that the senior leaders of the Taiping Army love their soldiers like their own children.
But it was the Chinese army's large tent owned by King Wu Yao Zhifu.
At this time, there is a big banquet, and the wine is fragrant.
King Wu's Shandong chefs served one Shandong cuisine dish after another.
Sixi meatballs, sweet and sour Yellow River carp, jar meat, braised sea cucumber with green onions, braised prawns.
Plus Fenjiu bought from Shanxi Laokeng people.
Under the command of King Wu, officers above the military commander level, as well as Sihou Luo Siju, Yidu Hou Zhang Zhengmo, and Zhijiang Hou Nie Jieren gathered together, with oil flowing from the corners of their mouths and fattened by wine.
King Wu Yao Zhifu didn't have much appetite.
He looked very worried.
Zhang Zheng, the Marquis of Yidu, didn't see it, stood up and said with a smile: "Why bother King Wu? We have an army of 300,000. Emperor Zhu of the Ming Dynasty has 40,000 to 50,000 troops in Liaodong, and another 40,000 to 50,000 in Zhaosi, the Central Plains. His How many soldiers and horses can the Zhongdu court have at its disposal now? It’s only twenty to thirty thousand, so why should we be afraid of him!"
Yao Zhifu cheered up after hearing this.
"The King of Heaven wants to lure Emperor Zhu to go north, but Emperor Zhu has not made any move yet. It seems that we can't do it without urging him!"
"After you have had enough wine and food, you will go back to your camp, restrain your subordinates, and cross the Yellow River early tomorrow morning!"
"First remove the Ming army strongholds around Kaifeng City and reach the city! I don't believe that Emperor Zhu can just sit back and watch Kaifeng be attacked!"
As Yao Zhifu's words fell.
The generals in the tent immediately cheered.
"Yes, Emperor Zhu can be so great. We fought all the way and we are not afraid of anyone coming!"
"If Emperor Zhu dares to lead his troops here, don't even think about going back!"
"It's better to just break through Kaifeng and go south to seize Emperor Zhu's throne!"
"It's a pity that the King of Heaven is not here. If he were to come, we would stage a Chenqiao mutiny and wear yellow robes."
mutiny?
What changes?
A bunch of uneducated bumpkins.
Yao Zhifu shook his head in his heart, but said with a smile on his face: "When I return from the victory, I will drink with the generals again!"
Now is the dry season of the Yellow River, so the river surface is not wide.
Even crossing the river is not a big problem.
Of course, the weather is so cold that it is easy for soldiers to get frostbite while crossing the river.
Therefore a simple floating bridge is still needed.
Anyway, there is only twenty or thirty steps of river surface.
Since ancient times, the Yellow River has not been a "natural danger". In the Northern Song Dynasty, the Kaifeng Prefecture in Tokyo had no danger and could only rely on hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops to defend Kaifeng.
So crossing the Yellow River is not difficult.
The key is how to fight after crossing the Yellow River.
Since you want to cheat defeat.
It must be acted more realistically.
Emperor Zhu cannot be allowed to see the flaw.
Otherwise, how can it be considered a fraud?
When Yao Zhifu's army arrived at the edge of the Yellow River.
December 27, 1793.
The cavalry of the brigade is entering Xuzhou Mansion.
This is the Guards Corps led by Ming Emperor Zhu Daohua himself.
This regiment was organized into a Guards Cavalry Brigade, two Dragoon Brigades, and an Artillery Brigade.
Whether it's the Guards Cavalry or the Dragoons, or the Artillery Brigade.
They are all configured with one person and two horses.
The difference is that the artillery brigade is equipped with a large number of draft horses that look very tall and strong, dragging cannons rolling forward.
The total number of Emperor Zhu's Guards Corps was eighteen thousand.
It is Emperor Zhu's bodyguard unit, and it is also the army that Emperor Zhu will definitely mobilize every time he goes on a personal expedition.
Along with the Guards Corps, there was an officer observation camp composed of graduates from the Ming Army Officer Academy. The Ming Army's 1st Brigade, the most well-equipped army in the Ming Dynasty.
The total number was almost twenty-five thousand.
Among them, the First Cavalry Brigade of the Guards Corps was the first real cavalry brigade in the Ming Dynasty.
The composition of the army was based on the selection of veterans from the original cavalry battalions and companies of each brigade. At the beginning of last year, a national martial arts competition was held in the Ming Dynasty, and more than 8,000 martial arts scholars were admitted. Two thousand men with superb equestrian skills entered the First Cavalry Brigade of the Ming Guards Corps.
It can be regarded as a step to the sky, and he has become a retinue of the emperor of tomorrow.
These Wu Xiucai were mixed with old brothers selected from various brigades.
It became the initial foundation of the First Cavalry Brigade of the Ming Dynasty Guards Regiment.
After nearly a year of training.
All 5,000 people in this cavalry brigade went north with Emperor Zhu to join the battlefield in the northern Central Plains!
Emperor Zhu was riding on his horse at this time.
Next to him is this Guards Cuirassier with bright breastplates!
There are only five thousand people, but they don’t know how much wealth they spent to accumulate it.
The highest standard of training, the highest standard of equipment.
The war horses are all Indian fold horses and Arabian horses bought from India and Arabia. They are also equipped with a Mongolian horse for daily riding.
Now that Ming Dynasty has Liaodong, there is no shortage of horses.
The breastplate is forged from one piece of steel and is painted brightly.
It is equipped with lances, sabers, and the newly developed Type 1793 revolver 0.4-inch caliber six-shooter pistol in the second year of Liberation.
Emperor Zhu even thought.
Just rely on this cavalry.
It will sweep across the Central Plains.
However, it was not the soldiers of this elite Guards Cavalry who swept across the Central Plains.
They want to gallop in Mobei, the Western Regions, Central Asia, and Siberia.
The Cossacks of Tsarist Russia are their enemies!
(End of chapter)
