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"There are slaves and thieves in Liaodong who are holding back the imperial troops. The imperial court probably won't send troops from Liaodong to Henan!" Hong Chengchou said with a frown.
All the elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were in Henan.
Once the imperial court desperately transfers the troops stationed in Liaodong to Henan, no matter how powerful the Tiger Banner's army is, it is impossible for the two armies to face each other without any damage.
More importantly, without the Ming Dynasty's soldiers and horses in Liaodong to contain the army of slave thieves, the slave thieves would probably move south in large numbers, and the tiger-character flag would become a wedding dress for the slave thieves.
Li Shuheng said: "Henan is almost gone. Do you think the court still cares about this? I am afraid that in the eyes of many ministers in the court, the Tiger Flag is more disgusting to them than the slaves and thieves in Liaodong."
"That's true." Hong Chengchou nodded subconsciously.
Then he realized that he had said the wrong thing and smiled awkwardly.
"Okay, I know very well the virtues of you civil servants. There is a saying that I would rather be an outsider than a domestic slave. This is a perfect description of you civil servants." Li Shuheng said sarcastically.
Tiger Flag has its own channels for obtaining news.
As a senior member of the Tiger Banner, he had access to many things that others could not access, and he had already seen through the hypocrisy of the civil servants in the Ming Dynasty.
"There are all kinds of officials in the court, but there are still some good officials." Hong Chengchou defended himself. After all, he was also a civil servant. In the words of the Song Dynasty, he was also a scholar who sang the praises of Donghuamen.
Li Shuheng smiled after hearing this.
The two of them were already working together, and he didn't want to argue with Hong Chengchou.
After all, he knew very well who Hong Chengchou was. He was no different from the civil servants in the Ming Dynasty. The only difference was that he was a little more capable than the mediocre people in the court.
In Sishui Town between Xingyang and Zhengzhou, the Tiger Banner army was stationed and camped here.
"Master Zheng, Li Futai sent someone to deliver an official document." Staff officer Qin Rong walked into the room with a document in his hand and came to Chen Xunping.
He handed the document in his hand to Chen Xunping.
"Li Futai? Which Li Futai?" When Chen Xunping heard Li Futai's name, he was stunned for a moment, but he still reached out to take the document handed to him.
Qin Rong said: "Li Futai is the former Deputy Director Li. He just came to Henan not long ago. You forgot about him so quickly."
"Oh, oh, oh, I remembered it." Chen Xunping patted his forehead with his hand and said, "The deputy director is the first governor of our Tiger Banner. I have been thinking about how to capture Zhengzhou in the past two days. Forgot about this."
"Okay, let's see what Li Fu said in the audience!" Qin Rong handed over the paperwork, picked up the kettle on the side, and filled some hot water for himself and Chen Xunping's cups.
Chen Xunping on the other side opened the document and read it in front of him.
There were not many words written on the document, and he quickly read the contents.
"What did Li Futai say?" Qin Rong held a water glass and sat on an empty seat next to Chen Xunping.
Chen Xunping put down the documents in his hand, frowned and said, "Li Futai thinks we are too slow, so he asked us to speed up and capture Zhengzhou."
"Then speed up the march. We can reach Zhengzhou City tomorrow." Qin Rong said disapprovingly.
Sishui Town is not far from Zhengzhou. If the march had not been slower in the past two days, we would have reached the gate of Zhengzhou today.
Chen Xunping pursed his lips, nodded helplessly, and said: "If someone else comes to urge me, I can ignore it, but if this Li Futai comes to urge me, there is no way I won't take it seriously!"
"This shows that the master understands you and knows how to pinch your seven inches." Qin Rong joked with a smile.
Chen Xunping smiled bitterly when he heard this and said, "No wonder my lord brought Li Futai to Henan to take charge. This is putting an emperor's sword over my head. Don't worry about me not paying attention to my work."
"Actually, I think there is nothing wrong with attacking Zhengzhou as soon as possible. Yang He and Henan's troops are all in Zhengzhou. As long as we take Zhengzhou and deal with Yang He and the army around him, our journey in Henan will be smooth and we will never encounter another enemy. What kind of resistance?" Qin Rong said.
Chen Xunping spread his hands and said, "Since you, the senior staff officer, have said so, what else can I say, come here!"
He shouted toward the door.
As the voice fell, the messenger walked in from the door.
Chen Xunping said to him: "Send an order to each camp to bury the pots and make rice an hour early tomorrow. Go ahead!"
"Yes." The messenger agreed, turned and left the room.
Zhengzhou City is dozens of miles away from Bishui Town.
Yang He stood on the top of the city, looking at the extra black armored cavalry outside the city, his face gloomy.
The black armored cavalry outside the city were all rebels' black cavalry. He did not expect the rebels to catch up to Zhengzhou so quickly.
"Supervisor, it's too cold on the city wall, why not go back to the Yamen first." Zhizhou Zhizhou, who was following next to him, advised.
Standing high on the city wall, the northwest wind blew in along the collar, and many Zhengzhou officials were so cold that they stamped their feet on the spot.
Yang He tightened his cloak and said, "Okay, let's go back first."
The group returned to the Yamen in the city.
Now Zhizhou Yamen has become the White Tiger Hall in the military.
Yang He occupies a high position alone, with a group of military generals on his left, and a group of civil officials such as Zhengzhou Zhizhou on his right.
"This Han general seems to have some skills." Mantu looked at a group of desperate Han troops rushing out of the camp, nodded with satisfaction, and then said to a few men around him, "Take the men and follow me. .”
He didn't care at all whether the Han army could defeat the enemies outside the camp.
These Han troops were originally used by him to consume the enemy's strength. Only then did he and the remaining flag soldiers have the opportunity to take advantage of the enemy's attention being attracted by the Han troops and kill them in one fell swoop.
As long as the enemy could not exert the power of firearms, he was confident to kill all the Nikans outside the camp with swords.
As long as he can rush to Nikan, he believes that the final victory belongs to Daikin.
As soon as the Han army left the camp, they immediately became the target of artillery fire.
However, the cannons brought by the Tiger Flag were not many, and the damage to the Han army was limited.
Even so, the Han army was almost defeated several times, but the Eight Banners soldiers who followed behind stopped the Han army that wanted to flee, forcing the Han army to continue to charge forward.
These Han soldiers must die in the way of blocking the Eight Banners soldiers who followed them.
The Han army suffered more and more casualties, but it was getting closer and closer to the front line with the tiger flag, and it was even less than a hundred steps away.
But there were still four to five hundred Han troops left, and the number of Han troops who were killed or wounded at the muzzle was only a few dozen at most, not even a hundred.
Mantu, who was following the Han army, looked happy.
Seeing that his plan was about to succeed, he raised the corners of his mouth and began to imagine the Eight Banners soldiers killing the Nikan army.
