Chapter 71 Decisive Battle (Part 1)

"good."

"What a magnificent word."

After the words came, Dingzhu and He Wei laughed and tugged their hands one after another. In recent days, almost all the bad news in their ears were the scrambles to surrender Zhu Tuhu. Suddenly, Li Hanqing, a stranger who was willing to live and die for the Yuan Dynasty, jumped out. As for whether his plan to kill Wu was easy to use, it was secondary. Anyway, the court would definitely not be stingy with a short title. Even if Zhang Shicheng refused to raise an army to attack Zhu Tuhu, there would be no loss for Dingzhu and He Weihu, and he could also take the opportunity to accept the three thousand musketeers trained by Li Hanqing.

He quickly weighed the pros and cons in his heart again, and Dingzhu nodded with a smile, "Well, since you are willing to issue a military order, I will give you a chance to come and serve you in person."

"I came here to prepare a letter to Zhang Shicheng for the Right Prime Minister, and I said that the Right Prime Minister, and I and Li Zhizhu's Office, jointly recommended him as King Yue and Prime Minister of Zhejiang Eastern Province, and allowed him to open a government office and appoint civil and military officials on his own. The letter of recommendation has been sent to the court. Just when he agreed to send troops to harass the Butcher Zhu, the imperial edict and seal will board the ship from Haigu." He Wei also smiled and added loudly.

According to the customs of senior Mongolian officials, the army carried reliable pen styles. (Note 1) So, after a while, two beautiful middle-aged literati walked in with their backs hunched over. One grinded ink and picked up the pen and wrote a letter to Zhang Shicheng for Dingzhu, and the other one spread out the paper, wrote a military order for Li Hanqing, and then asked the latter to sign and seal it.

After everything was over, Dingzhu immediately sent his confidant to Haigu, transferred the fastest whistleboat, and sent his letter to Hangzhou. He Wei fulfilled his previous promise to promote Li Hanqing to the Dinglu Dalu, the third-rank assistant of the Privy Council, and allocated 7,000 elite troops from the Central Army to supplement Zhongyi Rescue. He led by Li Hanqing, and the military pay and military rations were allocated according to the maximum limit.

"Thank you, the two prime ministers, who will go through fire and water in the future, and I will never give up." Li Hanqing finally got what he wanted and pretended to be grateful and thanked him.

"Get up, there is no need to go through fire and water. In the final battle, you can do your best." Seeing his servile appearance, He Wei's heart had just felt a little good feeling, but it disappeared in a blink of an eye. He forced a smile and whispered an order.

"Get up, and carefully integrate the new and old departments after going back, and don't let me down the trust of me and Zuo Gong." Ding Zhu changed his previous confusion and silence, walked forward with a smile, helped Li Hanqing up from the deck with both hands, and enthusiastically reminded him.

"Thank you, sirs." Li Hanqing struggled again and bowed, respectfully.

"Get up, I and Lord He are also a virtuous person for the country, so you don't have to be too polite." Dingzhu smiled, pulled Li Hanqing up again, and then patiently told him a few key points to control the army like an elder, then called Zuo Xiang Taiping and sent him out of the cabin.

However, when this person's back jumped onto the small boat for contact, Dingzhu's eyes quickly began to cool down. "This guy has ulterior motives and must not be entrusted with important tasks."

"Let him be happy for a few days. I have made a separate arrangement among the newly incorporated Zhongyi rescue team. If I find that there is such a despicable act, I will immediately kill him." He Wei's eyes were also as cold as a knife, staring at Li Hanqing's gradually moving away back and said.

Both of them were powerful ministers of the current dynasty, and they were martyred for the Yuan Dynasty, which was a proper reason. Li Hanqing was just a lowly slave and had never received any direct eyes from the court in his life. His predecessor, the boss, was wronged and killed. But now, this person still showed extraordinary loyalty, and his words and actions were really incomprehensible.

As the saying goes, things are abnormal and are monsters. For geniuses who do not understand and are uncertain whether they can control them, neither Dingzhu nor He Wei will risk keeping him and let his strength continue to grow.

However, for the two, the most important thing at the moment was not to find excuses to kill Li Hanqing and eliminate future troubles, but to try every means to delay time and strive to delay the date of encounter between the main forces of the enemy and us to Zhang Shicheng to react. Therefore, the two discussed a little, and stationed the army in the wilderness by the canal that night in the name of restoring physical strength. The next day, the march speed was slowed down by half, and slowly crawled forward at a speed of ten miles every day.

Perhaps it was Li Hanqing's strategy that had worked, or perhaps it was Xu Da who suddenly felt the danger. While Dingzhu slowed down the marching speed of the troops in his hands, the Huai'an army suddenly launched a new wave of offensives.

On the eighth day of March, the Fourth Corps of Huai'an forced a cross over the Zhang River, conquered Julu, and died in the battle on Shunde Road. More than 40 civil and military personnel including the prefect and the tutor, surrendered to Xingtai City, Guangping and Zhangde, Mongolian and Han officials crossed the Taihang Mountains to Jining, Handan, Yongnian, Linzhou and other cities without fighting. In an instant, there were too many new prefectures and counties. The Huaiyang Government Council had no time to send civil officials to take over, and could only promote the local gentry "hometown sages" who were brave enough to serve and provided convenience for the Huaiyang General Manager.

On March 15th, Xu Da personally led the army to conquer Enzhou. Immediately, Zhang Dingbian led an elite brigade to capture the old city. Wu Liang planned to lead the Fourth Legion to conquer Wuqiao and together with the main force, he formed a joint attack on Lingzhou. Zhang Habuhua, a wealthy businessman in Lingzhou, was the prefect of the prefect Wang Keji, donated 100,000 yuan to reward the army, and invited famous officials and gentry in the city to discuss strategies to resist the Huai thieves at home. Wang Keji did not know this plan and went there happily. Zhang Habuhua threw a cup on the ground during the meal. His family's generals and the dead soldiers of the Huaiyang Military Intelligence Department Operation Team were all out and the civil and military officials in the city were all killed.

After Lingzhou was broken, the Mongolian Yuan officers and soldiers and village warriors from all over the country were unable to continue to support it. On March 20, the Huai'an army divided into three groups on the left, center and right to advance in unison. Within a few days, Nangong, Zaoqiang, Ningjin, Leling and other places were restored one after another. At the end of the month, all the prefectures and counties along the way changed their flags, and Xu Da's troops were aimed directly at Dongguang.

After being the first general of the Yuan Dynasty, Dong Wenbing, Daluhuachi, was a long time ago. He judged the situation and established close exchanges with the Huaiyang General Administration. He heard that Xu Da's army was coming, Dong Bing was eager to make contributions. In the name of "fighting the Huai bandits", he personally led his troops to Dongguang, and then led his subordinates to ten thousand households. After experiencing the experience, he polite Mongolian and Han officials and invited them to the government office to plot to respond to the Huai Dynasty to seek wealth and honor for the rest of their lives.

Unexpectedly, he promoted his sworn brother Xu Deguang, but was scolded by him in public for embezzling military pay. He openly agreed to rectify the military horses. He abandoned the secrets and turned to the light. In private, he colluded with the prefect of Semu Huseyin and the thousand-house Li Hui. He suddenly raised an army in the middle of the night to "capture the rebellious".

Daluhuachi Dong Kyung was a hereditary military officer. He had average control skills, was rough and generous by nature, and had a broad relationship with others. He acted entirely on his will. In a hurry, he was caught off guard by Hussein and others. In less than an hour, the prefect who served as the temporary headquarters was broken. In addition to a young son who was sent to contact the Huaian army, Dong Kyung and his four sons and sons-in-law who accompanied the army all died in the chaos.

The war lasted all night. The next morning, Hussein, Xu Deguang and others killed all the confidants of Daluhuachi and Dong Kyung, as well as the military intelligence of Huai'an in the city. More than 10,000 local soldiers originally affiliated with Wanhu Mansion in Hejian, and the 20,000 temporary recruitment of the Dong family some time ago, most of them fled. The total number of those who were left by Hussein and others was less than 5,000.

Husse knew that with only 5,000 troops, he could not stop Xu Da's 200,000 troops, so he openly ransacked the city, snatched all the gold, silver, soft and other objects he liked, and then set off a big fire, leading Xu Deguang and others to escape to Nanpi, trying to seek refuge with Dingzhu.

As a result, when they were halfway through, they were chased by Wu Liangmou who had rushed over to hear the news. As soon as both sides lined up, the 5,000-yuan army collapsed immediately. Hussein, Xu Deguang, Li Hui and other generals were unable to escape and knelt down to pray for surrender. Shi Ludeshan, the commander of the Fifth Army of Huai'an, hated Hussein and others to harm the innocent. He quoted the old example of the trial of Zhang Mingjian that year, and the surrendered generals were sentenced to death on the spot, with their heads hanging on a high pole, which was a warning for later generations.

Three days later, when the Dong family in Hejian heard the bad news, they surrendered to Huaiyang. In early April, Xianzhou, Hejian, Fucheng and other places were conquered without attacking. At this time, the main force of the Yuan army under Dingzhu's troops arrived in Cangzhou, which was still more than a hundred miles away from Nanpi.

The Dong family has been entrenched on Hejian Road for nearly a hundred years, and is known as a ten-door family. It can be said that the tree is deep and deep. Therefore, the Dong family took the lead in surrendering to Huai'an, which caused great shock to the local area. Soon, several other Han army Shihou families on Zhending Road also raised flags of righteousness in the cities where they lived, or directly announced their submission to Huaiyang, or followed the example of the late Jin Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty, and built a village to protect themselves, preparing to judge the situation and wait for the price to be sold.

As soon as the Shihou's control over the people was relaxed, the people became increasingly eager to welcome the Huai'an army. Everyone knew that behind the Huai'an army was thousands of grain ships. Every time they regained their hometown in China, the first thing they did was to stop the ship and release grain to help the victims. As long as you walked to the control of the Huai'an army, no matter men, women, young and old, just do a few very easy things as the other party's instructions, or help drive a carriage or pull a few cables, you can exchange for food for a whole day.

Hejian did not suffer any disaster last year, but it was too close to the capital. Most of the grain produced was plundered by the government to support the Yuan army. Therefore, the people have not had a full meal since the beginning of spring. After getting the first bowl of grain from the civilian officials trained by the Huaiyang General Administration Office, they all were grateful and virtuous. Some clever and strong people simply asked to join the army on the spot. Those who were weak and slightly brave also spread the name of benevolence and righteousness of General Administration, hoping that the Yuan Dynasty's court would be finished as soon as possible, and replaced by Ju Fozi, a wise wise ruler who ascended the throne and saved the world from the fire and fire.

Unlike the people who were looking forward to the Huai'an army, there were also gentry and powerful men who were determined to be slaves along the way, and also tax officials fled northward and sent Xu Da's latest movements to Dingzhu and He Wei for free. The two found that they were close to the main force of the Huai'an army, and immediately stopped. While sending their confidant general Alutai to "recover" Hejian Prefecture, opening up the passage between Hejian Road and Baoding Road, Yuekuocha'er urged Yuekuocha'er to immediately lead local troops to reinforce, while seizing the favorable terrain around him, preparing to use Cangzhou City as a support to fight life and death with Xu Da (Note 2)

Note 1: Secretary, during the Yuan Dynasty, it was called "Bi Shi Qi", but in the Qing Dynasty, it was a tip for writing.

Note 2: Tax-bearing officials, a lazy government in the Yuan Dynasty, contracted the taxes of a certain place to the Semu people, who took taxes instead of the court to collect taxes. After paying a certain amount, the rest could be put into their own pockets. These Semu tax-bearing officials were insatiable, which led to the decline of local people's livelihood. The booming commercial culture since the Song Dynasty has rapidly shrank and cleared away.

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