Li Yan, who was in Dezhou, confronted the Qing army across the former Yellow River path.

After receiving the order from the Luoyang Princess, although she could not return to rescue Luoyang, she could not just watch it.

Although Dorgon's army on the opposite side still did not draw a man and a horse to Shanhaiguan, he did not have a single soldier and a soldier, so he could strengthen his opponent.

Therefore, Li Yan decided to formally launch the Northern Expedition, which was used to involve the Qing Dynasty and could not continue to increase troops to Luoyang.

There is no need to pay attention to the flag sacrifice. The army has been in charge for two months and everything has been done. Just wait for an order to be issued.

Everything was ready, but the weather was not good. The rain began to pour out on this day, so heavy that there was no sight on the opposite side.

Faced with the sudden heavy rain, all the soldiers became worried.

In such weather, an attack cannot be launched. At the same time, such heavy rain will cause the water on the old Yellow River to rise sharply, causing great difficulties for the army to cross.

In this way, the Northern Expedition will be delayed again until unknown when.

However, in the face of such a ghost weather, Li Yan suddenly became extremely excited.

"This is God helping us."

Faced with his statement, everyone simply suspected that he was crazy.

Faced with the puzzled generals, Li Yan said: "The military strategy is the trick, and the war is the trick, which is just how unexpected it is.

We had been confronting the Qing soldiers on the opposite side for two months. Of course they knew that we were going to fight the Northern Expedition, so they did not draw any soldiers and soldiers here. But they would definitely think that we would never attack under such heavy rain.

After these two months of nervous confrontation, I think the Qing soldiers on the opposite side are most likely to take advantage of such ghost weather and take advantage of the surge in the Yellow River water, so that the soldiers can rest and relax their nerves."

This explanation makes a lot of sense. But Li Jinjiang once again raised his concern: "But we launch an attack, and although we can successfully land on the other side of the shore, our cannon gunpowder is afraid of water, so we cannot exert our firepower."

Li Yan directly refuted this question: "Our gunpowder will be exposed to rain, but you must remember that all our cannons have sub-guns. As long as we load these sub-guns here in advance and pay attention to it, our cannons are still the enemy's nightmare. However, the cannons of the Qing soldiers on the opposite side are different from ours. Most of them are still bulky front-loading cannons. In such weather, they are truly restricted."

"But our soldiers' rifles cannot be fired."

Li Yan seriously criticized the three commanders under his command: "Although our rifles cannot be fired on such heavy rainy days, what are the bayonets on the rifle? Can't we fight if the rifle cannot be fired? Because our prince is too convinced of the importance of firearms, he has equipped you with such advanced firearms, but it has made you a serious dependence on firearms and no longer the spirit of fighting against the enemy in the past. This is not bad."

The three commanders lowered their heads in shame for their superiors' criticism.

Li Yan was right. Because Wang Xuejun was too superstitious about the advancement of firearms, he equipped these soldiers with advanced rifles and cannons.

As a result, the upward and downward effect were achieved, and the soldiers gradually became dependent on firearms.

So in every battle, the first thing they think of is to summon cannons, first cover the enemy's artillery fire, then the dense rifle fires, and then charge.

After dense artillery fire, there were almost few people standing at the enemy's positions baptized by dense rifles.

When the soldiers rushed forward with bayonet rifles, the enemy had no ability to resist, and they had already raised their hands to surrender.

After getting used to this tactic, people became increasingly dependent on artillery and muskets. As a result, they gradually thought that bayonets were fighting, which was a war pattern a long time ago.

With the continuous renewal of the hot weapons of the Xinming army, the war has completely entered the era of hot weapons, and cold weapons have withdrawn from the war mode of this world.

It is no longer necessary to fight with each other in close combat, at least for Xinming's army.

"Tell the soldiers that we will officially cross the river and fight north, and tell the soldiers that we will prepare to fight for bayonets. No matter how strong the enemy on the opposite side is, we will use bayonets again and fight with hand-to-hand combat to defeat them."

With this order, all the generals stood at attention and received the order.

The Yellow River, which is almost dry, is under the heavy rain that is rippling, and the rumbling sound of water can be heard more than ten miles away.

The roaring and turbid river water kept shaking down the riverbeds on both sides that had become loose in the hot weather, making the river water more turbid and aggressive.

Under the power of God, human life becomes extremely small.

The supplies originally planned to build a pontoon bridge were no longer available, but the ferry that had been prepared to pass the wide, gentle water flow was no longer enough.

Li Yan immediately ordered the river governor Cao Boss: "I am now in the name of the former commander-in-chief of the army, and I will immediately collect all the big ships of your Cao Gang on the canal. And I will only give you one night. Just before dawn tomorrow, I must see your ferry, docking on the surging Yellow River."

Then he stared at him: "I'm not discussing with you, I'm ordering you."

Boss Cao immediately felt the sternness of Li Yan's tone, and there was no room for negotiation.

Looking at the roaring and roaring Yellow River, Boss Cao also knew that during the time he was preparing for the ferry, many ferries would capsize here, and many of his own gang brothers would die here.

One stood up: "Please ensure that the task is completed."

He came to the headquarters of the Texas Gang in the heavy rain and said in a deep voice to all the leaders of the gangs who rushed over: "Everyone also knows that our regent has entered Liaodong, and our regent has been isolated from the northeast by Shanhaiguan and Beijing. As long as the enemy in front of us draws out an elite force to rescue the northeast, our prince will be in danger.

As we all know, Wu Sangui's bastard has surrounded our capital Luoyang. We don't care about anything else. Our prince's wife is surrounded by the enemy and is at risk of being destroyed at any time.

Therefore, General Li Yan decided to take advantage of the heavy rain and the enemy was unprepared to launch a sudden fierce attack and start a northern expedition, so that the Qing soldiers would be assigned to the battlefield of the prince and his wife by horse."

These leaders were already excited and anxious: "Don't talk about the second leader, just tell us what we want to do."

"I want my brother who dares to die. I want all the ferries to enter the Yellow River, which is the old Yellow River, and then carry our army to launch a northern expedition."

In such weather, everyone knows that boating in the turbid and roaring Yellow River is a life-threatening death.

But for the sake of the overall situation, all the men patted their chests and shouted loudly: "No need to say, fight."

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