The counteroffensive launched by the Dashun Army in Huaiqing Prefecture, Henan Province on October 15th was not the same thing as the local counteroffensive known as the Huaiqing Counterattack in history. It just happened in a similar location.

The scale of the Huaiqing counterattack in history was quite limited. The Dashun Army had no more than 20,000 troops, and it was not Li Zicheng’s elite main force. This time, the Huaiqing counterattack commanded by Tian Jianxiu and Li Guo invested a whole

Forty thousand veteran soldiers!

In addition, this Huaiqing battle was carefully planned and prepared! According to Li Zicheng's original plan, these 40,000 elite soldiers of the old battalion would suddenly attack and launch a large outflank after the main force of the Qing army was attracted to the Guguan Great Wall.

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To this end, Tian Jianxiu and Li Guo spent more than a month preparing and collected the defense status of the Qing troops in Huaiqing, Weihui, Zhangde, Dezhou and other places.

In addition, they also sent people to contact Lu Daqi, the new Ming Dynasty governor of Henan who was stationed at Wupingwei in Bozhou (belonging to Fengyang Prefecture), and requested to join forces in the Northern Expedition.

Although Lu Daqi did not agree to send troops, he still agreed to a truce and sent a letter to Liu Liangzuo, the commander-in-chief of Henan Province, and Xu Dingguo, the commander-in-chief of Guide, so that they could prepare for war and station a force in Xiaosongji, located in Kaifeng Prefecture (located north of the Yellow River).

, to frighten the Qing army in Daming Mansion.

Because they were well prepared and deployed enough troops, Tian Jianxiu and Li Guo also adopted the tactic of showing weakness to lure the enemy. They disguised the Dashun army as Wangwushan bandits and occupied Jiyuan County and

After Huaiqing Mansion, they did not publicly display the banner of Dashun. Instead, they displayed the banner of the general military officer of Huaiqing Guards in the Ming Dynasty, which made Zu Kefa (the adopted son of Zu Dashou) who was stationed at Huaiqing Mansion mistakenly think that it was Wangwushan.

The bandits were recruited by the governor's office of Henan in the Ming Dynasty.

In order to clear away the suspicion of being transparent, Zu Kefa did not dare to delay for a moment and led his troops to recapture Huaiqing Mansion. However, like Jin Yuhe, he ran into the ambush set by Tian Jianxiu and Li Guo.

Three to two thousand men were also wiped out, and even Zukfa himself was taken prisoner.

Immediately afterwards, Tian Jianxiu and Li Guo took Zukfa hostage and attacked Wei Hui Mansion. They did not use the banner of Dashun, but used the banners of Liu Liangzuo, the commander-in-chief of Henan Province in the Ming Dynasty, and Xu Dingguo, the commander-in-chief of Guide. They were deceived.

The gentry in Weihui City thought that the Ming Dynasty had counterattacked, so they were unwilling to help the prefect sent by the Qing Dynasty to defend the city. Weihui Mansion was soon captured by the Dashun Army!

After capturing Wei Hui Mansion, Tian Jianxiu and Li Guo openly took up the banner of Dashun Army and led 35,000 troops into Zhangde Mansion and Daming Mansion like a tide! Zhu Guozhu, the Qing Dynasty's Zhangde commander-in-chief, and

The famous magistrate Zhang Yutian was caught off guard and both were defeated. Anyang, the first county of Zhangde, and Yuancheng, the first county of the famous name, both fell into the hands of Dashun's army.

At the same time, the main force of the three Qing armies that invaded Taiyuan and Datong Prefecture also encountered a lot of trouble.

In the direction of Taiyuan Prefecture, Wu Sangui and Azig both wanted to preserve their strength, so they did not pursue Li Zicheng fiercely. This allowed Li Zicheng to withdraw his entire army to Taiyuan.

Duduo's troops heading south from the North Road were blocked at Shiling Pass north of Taiyuan Fucheng and were blocked by Chen Yongfu for two days. Therefore, they lost the opportunity to outflank and cut off Li Zicheng's retreat.

The delay of these two days caused the Qing army to temporarily lose control of the movements of Li Zicheng's main force. So when Duduo, Azige, and Wu Sangui met at the foot of Taiyuan City, they did not know whether Li Zicheng had withdrawn into Taiyuan City?

On the other hand, Li Zicheng used these two days to strengthen Taiyuan's defense. He left Shanxi patrol commander Li Ruoxing and Shanxi Jiedushi Han Wenquan to form General Chen Yongfu's department, leaving a total of 25,000 troops in Taiyuan.

, 3,000 of them are veterans of the camp who have experienced battles for a long time.

Because Li Zicheng had left enough garrison troops in Taiyuan, Chen Yongfu not only garrisoned the isolated city of Taiyuan, but also built camps on the east mountain and on the west bank of the Fen River. He asked Li Ruoxing and Han Wenquan to lead their troops to garrison them to form a horn.

This caused a lot of trouble for Wu Sangui who was trying to besiege the city. Azig and Duduo were worried that Li Zicheng was still in Taiyuan, so they did not dare to lead their troops to leave immediately. Instead, they led their troops to guard Taiyuan City. At the same time, they ordered

Wu Sangui went to capture Qingyuan, Jiaocheng, Wenshui, Xugou, Taigu, Qixian, Pingyao and other places near Taiyuan City.

The delay of Duduo's troops at the gate of Taiyuan City also affected the war in Datong Prefecture in the north. What was supposed to be a north-south pincer attack turned into Hauge going deep alone from the direction of Xuanfu. He didn't go too far, right at the junction of Datong and Xuanfu.

The Suppression Guards were blocked by the Ming Army who had just divided their fields!

Just when the three Qing armies attacking Shanxi suffered temporary setbacks, the armies of Tian Jianxiu and Li Guo aggressively entered the territory of Beizhili.

The originally clear situation became very confusing within a few days!

October 20, Nanjing.

Wu Ruzheng, the envoy of the General Administration Department, went straight to the Dagong Hall of Dagongfang early in the morning with the Tang newspaper he had just received from the Henan Governor's Yamen.

When he arrived at the Dagong Hall, he realized that he was not the first to arrive. Zhu Chunjie, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, Cao Youyi, the commander of the Military Order Guards, and Wu Sanfu, who had just been transferred to the commander-in-chief of the Beijing Camp, had already arrived.

Before Zhu Cihong himself came out, Zhu Chunjie, Cao Youyi and Wu Sanfu called Wu Ruzheng, who was rushing over.

"Marquis Gongshun, is there a report from the North?" Wu Sanfu, the uncle of the state, asked.

"The Tatars in Henan's Tangbao seem to be in trouble." Wu Ruzheng knew that Zhu Chunjie, Cao Youyi, and Wu Sanfu were all Zhu Cixiang's most trusted guards. The Tangbao he had just received would be copied to these three, so there was no need to hide anything.

Already.

By the way, the confidentiality work of the General Affairs Department of the Ming Dynasty is now much better than before!

All edicts, writings and memorials are divided into four confidentiality levels: A, B, C, and D. Except for D-level documents similar to "announcements" that can be viewed at will, the other three levels of edicts, writings, and memorials

Report, only designated officials can view it.

In addition, the Military Order Guard and the Jinyi Guard have their own independent information transmission systems. The former is used to transmit military orders from the Grand Marshal's Palace and military reports from the New Army to overcome difficulties, while the latter is a secret information transmission channel.

Wu Ruzheng placed the box containing the memorials that he brought with him on the table, then took the tea bowl from a waiter, Xiao Huangmen, took a sip of tea, then picked up the cakes placed on the coffee table and took a bite.

After a while, he continued: "The Tatars seemed to have been tricked by the rogues, and all the soldiers were lured into Shanxi. And the rogues' 100,000 elite soldiers crossed Wangwu Mountain and invaded Huaiqing Mansion, and then went north to defeat Wei Hui and Zhangde.

, the name is so powerful that it is invincible. In addition, according to Zu Kefa’s account, the Tatars also sent a group of soldiers to invade Datong from Xuanfu!”

"Zukefa?" Wu Sanfu was stunned, "What's going on?"

"He was caught by the bandits and put in a prison car and sent to Guide Mansion. Lu Futai went to Guide in person and interrogated Zukefa there."

This Zukefa was really unlucky. Not only was he captured alive, he was also used to deceive Wei Hui's Qing army. Now he was even treated as a gift and sent to Guide Mansion for Liu Liangzuo, Xu Dingguo and others to visit.

"Is there such a thing?" Wu Sanfu took a breath, "It seems that the rogue bandits who invaded Beizhili are really elite soldiers!"

"His Royal Highness the Prince of Fujun has arrived!"

The eunuch's roll call suddenly rang out, and several people in the lobby stood up one after another, and then took their positions according to their official positions. When they saw Zhu Cixiang coming out, they kowtowed together.

Zhu Cixiang waved his hands to them and said with a smile: "Sit down, please all sit down."

Zhu Chunjie, Cao Youyi, and Wu Sanfu all took their seats, and Wu Ruzheng handed the box containing the memorial to Huang Xiaobao with both hands. Huang Xiaobao opened the box and saw two memorials placed inside, so he took them out and placed them on Zhu Cihong's imperial case.

Zhu Cihong picked up the first memorial, which was written by Lu Daqi, the governor of Henan Province. The content was what Wu Ruzheng had just said. Zhu Cihong read it quickly. Then he picked up the second memorial, which was written by Shi Kefa, the governor of seven provinces and the governor of Shandong.
Chapter completed!