Chapter 270 This Is Called a True Soldier

The 9th Infantry Battalion, the 8th Infantry Battalion, the 6th Infantry Battalion, the 4th Infantry Battalion...

One after another, the main old battalions were humiliated by the cavalry battalion, the reconnaissance unit, the sniper unit, the artillery, etc., and waves of uncontrollable anger broke out in the infantry team. Chen Ming could see that the morale of the team was rising like ten tons of gasoline, but it was too empty.

"The Grand Commander's provocation strategy really worked..." Liu Dezhao said excitedly. Since that night when he got drunk, Liu Dezhao had a new change in his position as the simple deputy director of the attendant's room. The secretariat was assigned to him, and Liu Dezhao served as the director of the secretariat.

"Too empty. It's all a moment of anger. A decisive battle cannot be won with this little force. Continue to go south. The Qing army dare not go to Gaoyouzhou, we will wait for them in Taizhou!" If the Fu Han army can restore its morale at that time.

On the bank of the Grand Canal, Chen Ming on horseback looked at the troops rolling south on the bank of the canal with cold eyes. His provocation did work, but the effect was too small. Today's Fu Han Army is like a big bubble. The morale seems to be in full swing, but in fact it will burst with a poke.

"Let the secret camp closely monitor the Qing army, especially the Qing army cavalry."

"Send the message to the people of Hunyuan Sect. This is a great opportunity for them. Winter is coming. Ask them if they have enough food."

Liu Wu said on the side: "The Qing army in Shandong has gone south with the army for 10,000 or 20,000 people, but the Hunyuan Sect is still hiding in the mountains like a turtle. These people... are not good people!"

"Humph!" Chen Ming snorted coldly. The Fu Han Army just sent power to the countryside, and it was irreconcilable with the gentry and landlord class. The Hunyuan Sect directly made a photoshopped picture of Confucius. Isn't this inferior to the Taiping Army smashing the Confucius Temple? Even if this thing was instructed by him, Chen Ming, but is there any evidence? Confucian scholars, scholars all over the world will only hate Hunyuan Sect.

When the Fu Han Army is really powerful and difficult to defeat, the gentry will kneel and lick, and the literati will bend. But what about Hunyuan Sect? They have really offended the scholars to death. No scholar with a little character will get involved with Hunyuan Sect. Moreover, Hunyuan Sect follows the way of Li Zicheng, who is nakedly eating the rich. They are the natural enemies of the gentry and landlord class in an absolute sense. The foothold of Hunyuan Sect is still Shandong, the land of saints. These people are destined to have a bleak future.

At this time, playing tricks can only be said that the vision of the three giants of Hunyuan Sect is just so-so.

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Li Xiaomei still lives in the general's mansion with her baby son. Little Chen Ding is already two years old and can walk very well. He is raised by his mother to be white and fat. The two-year-old baby weighs 30 kilograms.

As Chen Ming's legitimate wife, Li Xiaomei's dignity does not need to be said much, but at this time she was in tears. No matter how the maid next to her persuaded her, she could not stop Li Xiaomei's sadness.

After much investigation, the Fu Han Army's secret camp found traces of the Li family's stay in Yueyang, Hunan, but no clues could be found if they continued to investigate. Chen Chengzhi, who was ordered to do so, wandered around Hunan for nearly a month, but he had no clues at all, so he had to report to Li Xiaomei in a letter.

Chen Chengzhi wrote this report with a sad face. The future of the Fu Han Army is getting brighter and brighter, and the weight and dignity of the General's Mansion are getting bigger and higher. This is like the local rich man and the county magistrate, prefect, and governor in the countryside.

The Chen family was originally nested in the mountains. At that time, the Chen family was a local rich man. Li Xiaomei was a little more expensive in their one-third acre of land, but she would not exceed it too much, because the ceiling of the Chen family was too low. When the Fu Han Army became stronger step by step, the Chen family changed from a local rich man to a county magistrate, prefect, and even the current governor. How could it remain the same?

The Li family is the wife's family of the Grand Commander. The third generation of the direct line of the Chen family now only has the young master Chen Ding. Chen Ming has been fighting outside for a year. It is said that he has married a woman, but he has no children. There is no news of pregnancy. No matter how many women he has, it is useless. This will only make Li and the young master more noble.

Chen Chengzhi was ordered to track down the whereabouts of the Li family. This is a great job. As long as it is done, the Li family will earn a great favor. What a good job!

Now it has become futile. Chen Chengzhi can only pray that the wife of the Grand Commander will not bear a grudge against him for his hard work in Huguang for many days.

This report was passed to Lushan and to Li Xiaomei's hands. It was a great blow to Li Xiaomei. The pain of being separated from her husband for almost a year did not make Li Xiaomei cry in front of outsiders, but after reading this letter, Li Xiaomei could not help it.

What fate will the Li family suffer after leaving Yueyang? The south is now in chaos, and Li Xiaomei's chest is like a big stone blocking it, tears are flowing out, and she can't stop it.

"Oh, this child..."

The old lady and Gao were both startled, looking at Li Xiaomei who was holding the letter in her hand and crying, both faces were helpless.

"Old lady, Madam, the young master has been making a fuss to find the young lady since he woke up, but the young lady is..., I dare not bring the young master here. You two elders, please persuade the young lady. The young lady has been crying for half an hour, and the servants are useless and can't persuade her..."

This scene in the general's mansion has no effect on the general situation, because the power of the Fu Han Army is not in the hands of women. They are just appendages of men, just like the women of this period.

Since the base area sent a force south, the Qing troops in Kaifeng and Guide gradually returned to their original positions as the Qing army approached. Chen Ming's army obviously had to deal with the enemy from the north, and the threat to eastern Henan was greatly reduced. Therefore, the troops from the base area that went south were quickly taken back by the General's Office along with the return of the Qing army from the eastern battlefield, and 30,000 to 40,000 refugees were pulled back from Yunyang Prefecture.

Since the Fu Han Army evacuated Yunyang Prefecture last year, the latter..., because of the shortage of food, really suffered a disaster. Many villages and towns were deserted, and half of the ten people remained in the original place, which was already densely populated, and the shacks in the mountains were abandoned in pieces. If the Fu Han Army had not been short-lived, it would not be a problem to get back 100,000 or 80,000 from Yunyang Prefecture. Although the current 30,000 to 40,000 refugees are a little less, they can also provide 3,000 to 5,000 new soldiers for the Fu Han Army.

At this time, Chen Hui also received a secret letter from Chen Ming sent by a pigeon from the secret camp. He was originally confident about the decisive battle in Huai'an, but he frowned slightly, still full of confidence in this decisive battle.

"Ming'er's retreat is called true knowledge of soldiers. The ancients said it well, knowing yourself and the enemy, you can fight a hundred battles without danger. What does it mean to know yourself and the enemy? This is knowing yourself and the enemy. The sergeants in the army have no fighting spirit and still insist on fighting a decisive battle with the enemy. They are the most incompetent fools. I was confident about the battle in Huai'an, and now I am even more relieved." Chen Hui said this to the outside world. He was not pretending to be calm to reassure people, but he really thought and believed so.

The general high-level officials of the general's mansion tasted Chen Hui's words and had to admit that Chen Hui's words made sense. Chen Ming's actions are absolutely worthy of "knowing yourself and the enemy", so he can also "fight a hundred battles without danger"! I hope so.

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On the Grand Canal, a fleet of ships was moving, and they were all from Tianjin. The ships were loaded with food and military supplies. On the land on both sides of the canal, there were long dragon-like land and horse teams coming and going. The Qing army had 50,000 soldiers, almost 50,000 soldiers. In the Qing Dynasty, this was an absolutely large army.

When Qianlong fought with Myanmar, he only mobilized 20,000 people, and the Green Camp had to count the vacancies. In other words, the so-called 26,000 Qing troops led by Mingrui were only 26,000 on paper. After deducting the vacancies and the old and weak soldiers, he was thankful to have 20,000 people.

And now the "50,000" Qing troops that fought south of Beijing have truly become 50,000 Qing troops, although they are known as 100,000 heavenly soldiers.

Chen Ming doesn't care about this. The bigger the bubble of the Qing army's boasting now, the greater the shock caused after the defeat in the future. Chen Ming was even happier when he boasted that 50,000 people could be 200,000 or 300,000.

The red sun was rising, and the golden sunlight shone on the Grand Canal, with its scales glittering. The autumn wind mixed with cold and damp water vapor blew in his face, reflecting the number of green trees on both sides of the river. It was really a picturesque scene!

Feng Sheng'e was not only the commander-in-chief of the Eight Banners New Army, but also the Minister of the Imperial Guard, the Minister of War, and the commander-in-chief of the Blue Banner Mongolian Army. Only with this identity could he command 10,000 Eight Banners infantry and cavalry and command 50,000 Manchu and Han troops.

Standing at the bow, Feng Sheng'e was wearing ordinary clothes and a yellow jacket on his upper body, and his face was cold in the autumn wind. After receiving the news that the Fu Han Army withdrew from Huai'an, he was once ecstatic, but now he has calmed down. The autumn wind cooled his face and his fanatical heart.

It was just like what Hailancha said, this bandit chieftain, who was only in his twenties, was as experienced in using troops as a veteran on the battlefield. The army was coming down from the north, and it was a time when morale was high and the soldiers were sharp. Chen Ni's "retreat" seemed to show weakness, but it was actually beneficial and harmless.

The small stove in the cabin was burning, warming the wine, and bubbling with the fragrance of plum blossoms.

The monkeys on both sides of the river kept crying. The light boat had passed through thousands of mountains.

The army left Beijing, passed Shandong, and arrived at the Yellow River in a blink of an eye. The decisive battle... was coming. Feng Sheng'e faced the rising sun in the east, his face was hesitant, hesitant, pale, and fearful. Countless expressions kept changing, and finally stayed in perseverance, incomparable perseverance!

Feng Sheng'e was hesitant before the battle, and he was hesitant and fearful under heavy pressure. Feng Sheng'e was also a human being. He knew the heavy responsibility he was carrying, so he had to be afraid. He was carrying the hope of the entire Qing Dynasty, and he was facing another undefeated and victorious general. How could he be contemptuous? But Feng Sheng'e also knew the heavy responsibility he was carrying, so he made up his mind to fight to the death.

In this battle, he, Niuhulu Fengsheng'e, was not sure of success, but he was determined to die! He would fight to the death.

Emperor Qianlong in Beijing stared at northern Jiangsu with his eyes. The battle in northern Jiangsu was of vital importance to the overall situation. This army was the strongest card he could play. If Fengsheng'e could not achieve success in one fell swoop and drive Chen Ni out of Jiangnan - yes, Emperor Qianlong did not believe that Fengsheng'e could defeat Chen Ming's entire army in one battle, and even capture Chen Ming, the bandit chieftain who made him grit his teeth and hate him so much - then Chen Ni would really be incurable.