The beginning of summer is approaching and the Tartars are here.

On the banks of the Grand Canal, the land faces north and sends a clear signal.

That is, the Huai Army must go north and go north under the name of serving the king!

We must never sit in Xuzhou, Huaian, and Yangzhou, and let the Qing Dynasty be like the original history and time and space, and the Ming Dynasty officials who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty alone took Shandong and Henan into the two major provinces, with a large number of blank letters of appointment!

In Lu Si's previous life, after Li Zicheng retreated to the west, the Dashun local regime in Shandong, Henan and other places was overthrown by former Ming officials and gentry.

The Qing army mainly occupied the Gyeonggi area, which was dominated by Beijing, and there was no activity to resist the Qing army in the Gyeonggi area.

In addition to Dorgon following Fan Wencheng after leading his army into the pass, and Han officials such as Hong Chengchou changed their previous policy of massacre and looting, strictly prohibiting soldiers and without any offense to the people in the capital, the Qing army also strategically changed the previous strategy of not defending the city and took a large number of measures to win over Han officials, gentry and landlords.

For example, if you mourn for three days in Chongzhen, you will make a big announcement to express your relegation to Beijing's demoted officials as long as you submit to the Qing Dynasty, you will be restored to your post, or even be promoted. At the same time, you will announce that all land that was taken away by the Shun Army will be returned to your original lord, so that all the former Ming officials, gentry and landlords will celebrate.

These policies laid a solid foundation for the Qing Dynasty to quickly gain a foothold in the capital. Because of the preferential treatment of the Qing court, the surrendered officials in Beijing offered suggestions to the Qing court, one by one, volunteered to go to Shandong and Henan to surrender. This allowed the Qing Dynasty, which only had the capital, to obtain Shandong and Henan, two major provinces, without any effort, to lay the foundation for the Duodoran southern expedition a few months later.

This thing must never happen again.

There is no need to say much about the importance of Shandong and Henan provinces in China.

Then, Lu Si must seize Shandong and Henan before the traitors who served the Qing Dynasty went south to surrender, using Xuzhou as the base to first take down Shandong and Henan, suppressing those who heard that Li Zicheng had retreated to Beijing and jumped out to kill Dashun officials, holding high the banner of "Restoration of Ming Dynasty", and then killing the Beijing officials who were surrendered to "pick fruits" with blank appointment letters.

In this way, Shandong and Henan will no longer be the rear of the Qing army's southern expedition like Lu Si's previous life, but will be a disaster at the gate of their capital.

In fact, there is no difficulty in operating this matter. As long as the Huai Army goes north, it is enough, because the main force of the Qing army is chasing Li Zichengyao. In Shanxi and Shaanxi, the Shun Army continues to fight the Qing army. Although the Shun Army is constantly defeated, the Qing army cannot join the south to fight.

When the Qing Dynasty made a move to fight south, it would have to take down Henan and Shandong first.

The nature of taking two provinces without any effort is different.

This is Lu Si's opportunity, and it is also the opportunity of the Huai Army.

Although he left a letter similar to a suicide note to his nephew Guangyuan, Lu Si would never give up on fighting before the situation reached a fundamental despair; he would never sacrifice lightly before the last moment of his sacrifice!

Putting the battlefield in Shandong and Henan is also an established policy of "defending the enemy outside the basis". Even if this will attract key attacks from the Qing Dynasty, as long as Li Zicheng's main force still restrains most of the Qing army, Lu Si will lead the Huai army to death.

Such a dead head is not meaningless.

An incident that is beneficial to the Huai Army is that the Dashun Army will launch the Huaiqing Campaign in Henan. Before this battle is launched, if the Huai Army can suppress landlords and gentry in the occupied areas of Shandong and Henan, establish a local regime that will not be subverted, and assist and cooperate with the Shun Army to expand the results of this counterattack battle, it is very likely that it will annihilate or severely damage the southern expedition led by Duoduo, Kong Youde, and Geng Zhongming will inject a shot of a heart-warming injection into the national anti-Qing situation after Li Zicheng's defeat in Shanhaiguan!

Only in this way can the Qing army be prevented from moving south.

This is the only opportunity and the last chance.

Giving up this opportunity and watching the Qing Dynasty collect the Qing Dynasty's collection of Shandong, Henan, and only two and a half of the land faced by the Huai Army is even more cruel.

Failed in Shandong and Henan, Huaiyang still has to retreat.

Failed in Huaiyang, there is no way to retreat.

"When fighting north, officers and soldiers are brave enough to fight the enemy. This marquis is not stingy with gold and silver! Those who dare to make progress will have high officials and generous?"

On the second day of April, Lu Si convened a meeting of officers above the Huai Army. At this meeting, he formally ordered all departments of the Huai Army to prepare for the north and reported the results of the Shanhaiguan Battle and the news of the fall of Beijing.

These two incidents caused an uproar, and I also realized why I used braided straw men to train troops in recent days. It turned out that I really wanted to go north to kill the Tartars.

On the same day, Dong Xueli from Xuzhou City was told that the Qing army had entered the pass and that Beijing had fallen.

Lu Si didn't have the time to think about what Dong Xueli thought, because he had to work on two things.

Two competition matters.

One is the "Egg-hit" competition;

The second is a great competition for the whole army

The custom of Huaiyang people is to "hit eggs" on the day of summer.

The so-called "bumping eggs" means using boiled duck eggs, eggs, and goose eggs to collide with each other, and the egg shell is firm and not broken to win.

Considering that the Huai Army and the Surrender Army were in the early stages of running-in, their relationship was still stiff. The officers and soldiers were about to go north soon. In order to relieve pressure and promote the integration of officers and soldiers, Lu Si wanted to use this "Egg-hitting" competition to activate the atmosphere of the entire army, so he decided to hold the "Egg-hitting" competition on the beginning of summer.

The day before the race, each Huai Army sent three duck eggs, one goose egg, and the surrendered soldiers had two duck eggs and one goose egg.

The competition is organized first in a team. The winner will be given a silver reward of five taels. The winner will participate in the camp competition. The winner will be given a reward of ten taels, twenty taels and thirty taels respectively.

Then, the higher the competition level, the higher the winner, the higher the reward, the higher the winner, the final winner, Lu Si, was the first level of the town, and the first level of the army, was the first level of the army, and the first level of the army was awarded a merit, and each person received an additional reward of 500 taels.

This competition is quite interesting. Many officers and soldiers suddenly remembered the egg-hit game with their friends when they were childhood, so they immediately received enthusiastic support from tens of thousands of Huai troops. Everyone, including the surrendered soldiers, was very excited to participate.

Before the game, in order to win huge prizes, the officers and soldiers racked their brains to do their tricks on the eggs, and some glued the egg heads with glutinous rice juice, and some painted the egg heads with various colors.

In order to get the lottery, I also gave my eggs several names, some called Changsheng eggs, some called Invincible eggs, some called Bastards, some called Bastards

The officers and soldiers want to hit the eggs, and the generals want to hit the eggs.

It’s the beginning of summer, for auspicious and lively celebration.

Therefore, officers above the brigade commander organized a senior general competition alone, and Lu Si personally took the big goose egg as the marquis and the governor.

As a result, if you don’t take action, you will be defeated. You will be invincible with one move.

All the generals who were enemies of Marquis Dan were killed before they even went to fight. Their eggs were either broken or as vulnerable as paper. In the end, Marquis won the championship of the senior generals with an excellent record of eight wins and unfairness, winning a huge reward of 500 taels of gold for himself.
Chapter completed!