Ning Wan, Fan Wencheng and I also pricked up our ears.
These two traitors have never been to the Central Plains and do not know the geography of the Yellow River.
Hong Chengchou sighed and continued: "The characteristic of the Yellow River embankment is that it is higher in the south and lower in the north!"
"High in the south and low in the north?" Dorgon understood immediately upon hearing this and said solemnly, "Hengjiu, do you mean that once we dig the south embankment of the Yellow River, the Ming army will also follow suit and dig the north embankment?"
"A sage is no better than a master." Hong Chengchou said, "If our Qing soldiers dug up the south embankment of the Yellow River, then the Ming army would definitely dig out the north embankment of the Yellow River. And because the south embankment is higher than the north embankment, the river water will definitely flow under the same conditions.
If it flows northward, judging from the topography, it is very likely that it will pass through the Daimyo and take the Daqing River into the sea."
I have to admit that Hong Chengchou, a bitch and traitor, is quite capable.
Hong Chengchou not only knew the military, but also had some knowledge of hydrology and geography. He was actually able to estimate the flow direction of the Yellow River after it burst its banks.
Because the next time the Yellow River changes course, it will flow forward.
Moreover, the flow direction is also from Damingfu to the Daqing River and flows into Bohai Sea.
After a slight pause, Hong Chengchou continued: "In this way, instead of flooding Xuzhou, the flood will only flood Daming Prefecture, Dongchang Prefecture and Jinan Prefecture. By the end of this year, Beizhi and our Da Ming Prefecture will be flooded."
Under the rule of the Qing Dynasty, there will be widespread famine in various prefectures in Shandong, which will in turn weaken the Qing Dynasty's national power."
"This!" Dorgon was speechless when he heard this.
Ning Wan, Fan Wencheng and I also broke out in cold sweats.
It turns out that digging up the Yellow River has such terrible consequences.
Isn't this like shooting yourself in the foot?
After a long while, Dorgon stepped forward to help Hong Chengchou up and said sincerely: "Thank you, Mr. Hengjiu, for reminding me. If it weren't for Mr. Hengjiu, I would have really missed something big this time."
"A slave is terrified," Hong Chengchou said, "This is what a slave should do."
Dorgon's eyes returned to the map of Xuzhou, and he said with a wry smile: "It seems that the strategy of quick victory is really unworkable, and we can only adopt the strategy of long-term siege of Xuzhou."
"My master has a clear lesson," Hong Chengchou said, "the best policy is to besiege the city for a long time."
Fan Wencheng also said: "A long-term siege can achieve the greatest victory at the lowest cost. It is indeed the best choice. The late emperor also relied on this strategy to defeat the Ming army's fortresses in western Liaoning."
At this point, Dorgon finally made up his mind to continue the siege!
At that time, Dorgon said: "During the Battle of Songjin, the late emperor wavered for a time. It was with the urging of Mr. Gongfu and Mr. Xiandou that he firmed up the long-term siege of Jinzhou, and then Songshan
Great victory."
"I don't dare." Fan Wencheng and Ning Wanwo were extremely proud in their hearts, but they kept saying they didn't dare.
After a pause, Dorgon continued: "This king has actually been shaken by the battle in Xuzhou. If not for the urging of the three gentlemen, I might have ordered the troops to withdraw. Therefore, the three gentlemen, please accept my respect."
After saying this, Dorgon cupped his hands and bowed to the ground towards Hong Chengchou and the other three.
This really gave Hong Chengchou and the three others face, because Dorgon practiced Han etiquette, and this was also to show his courtesy to Hong Chengchou and other three Han officials.
Dorgon really knows how to win people's hearts.
The effect of his move is also quite good.
"The master has seen thousands of miles away, and the slaves and others have no choice but to kill themselves in retribution."
Hong Chengchou, Fan Wencheng and Ning Wanme fell to their knees and burst into tears of gratitude.
Immediately, Dorgon sent people to find Gang Lin, Qi Chongge, Suk Saha and other confidants.
When deciding on major national policies, Hong Chengchou, Fan Wencheng and Ning Wanwo need to be used to plan, but when it comes to the specific implementation stage, they still have to rely on Manchu ministers.
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In Xuzhou, on the ninth peak of Yunlong Mountain.
"Where is it? Where is it?" Chongzhen came quickly with Zhu Cijiong.
"Your Majesty, over there." Xu Yingwei pointed to the southeast and said, "It happened once about half a month ago, but this time the attack was more fierce than the last time."
"Isn't it because something big happened in Huai'an Mansion?"
As he spoke, Chongzhen had already opened the telescope and raised it.
The view through the telescope becomes clearer.
On the river about a thousand steps away from Yunlong Mountain, a Ming army messenger was gliding quickly on ice, making various evasive movements continuously during the gliding process.
On the banks on both sides, there were many Jian slaves standing.
I saw these Buddhist slaves holding large bows and shooting the messengers as if they were rabbits.
Jiannu did not go to the ice to pursue him, he just stayed on the shore to shoot with his bow and arrows.
While drawing the bow and releasing arrows, they also made various shouts, which seemed like a competition.
On the other hand, the soldiers on the gun platform at the Ninth Peak were cheering for the messenger with clenched fists.
"Hugh!" A heavy arrow passed by the courier and nailed into the ice with a thud. It was already the fifth day of May, and the hardness of the ice was far less than in winter and had become much brittle.
Another arrow missed, and the slaves on the shore screamed in anger.
Prince Qin, who was guarding the gun platform at the ninth peak, cheered loudly.
The applause of Prince Qin attracted more slave archers.
The number of Jiannu archers joining the hunt quickly increased to hundreds.
Now the Ming army messenger's tossing and turning became even more difficult. After gliding forward for hundreds of steps, he was finally pierced by two heavy arrows in the chest, and then fell to the ice like a sawed-down log.
"Okay!" The Jiannu archers lined up on both sides of the shore cheered loudly.
"Alas!" Prince Qin, who was on the gun platform at the ninth peak, let out a long sigh and failed again.
However, Chongzhen continued to focus his telescope on the ice of the Yellow River, and saw more than a dozen couriers lying on the ice. The blood flowing from the couriers almost dyed the ice red.
"Sign language!" At this moment, Xu Yingwei shouted, "Your Majesty, the messenger seems to be using sign language!"
Chongzhen's heart condensed, and he aimed the telescope at the messenger again, only to find that the messenger was indeed not dead yet, and was struggling to make continuous gestures towards Yunlong Mountain.
"They will send a group of couriers at midnight tonight!"
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In a river valley twenty miles away from Xuzhou.
Lu Zhenfei called Hua Xia and Lu Xiangtong to him and said, "No matter whether Gou Sheng signed in sign language before he died, or whether the Holy Lord and the scholars on the mountain saw his sign language, we must sign the sign language tonight."
Send the letter in, because the longer it is delayed, the blockade of the slaves will only become tighter, and it will be even more difficult to send it in in the future."
"Agree." Lu Xiangtong and Hua Xia nodded at the same time, "Success or failure depends on this one move."
Lu Xiangtong called Wu Sanwang, the captain of the Xiangyong team, to him again: "Sanwang, among all the people, you have the best ice skills, so you have the greatest hope of breaking through the Jiannu blockade. I will now dictate the message that needs to be submitted to the Holy Father.
Here it is, make sure you remember it clearly and don’t make a mistake.”
It is impossible to leave a letter to the messenger.
Otherwise, the letter will most likely fall into the hands of Jiannu, which will be troublesome.
So he could only dictate it orally, which really stumped Wu Sanwang. It took him a long time to remember the content of the memorial.
When the time came, Wu Sanwang and a dozen local warriors stepped on the ice tree at the same time, slid out of the valley where they were hiding, and quietly entered the ice of the Yellow River.
At this time, the weather became warmer and the ice on the Yellow River began to melt.
Therefore, the gliding on the ice is not that smooth, and the ice will leave deep marks when it is rolled over.
However, compared to marching on foot or even on horseback, the ice opera was much faster. In less than a quarter of an hour, Wu Sanwang and a dozen other village warriors arrived outside the blockade of Jiannu.
Jiannu dug dozens of miles of trenches outside Xuzhou.
Except for the Yellow River channel, all other directions are blocked by trenches.
Fortunately, there is still the Yellow River, otherwise they would not be able to send letters there.
Wu Sanwang used a little force to speed up, and patted the Xiangyong on the shoulders one by one. The dozen Xiangyong immediately formed a sparse and irregular formation. Fortunately, the river was wide enough to create a gap.
The night was dark, and Wu Sanwang and the others quickly entered the blockade area.
However, there was silence on both sides of the river bank, and Jiannu seemed unprepared.
It seemed that he was lucky, Wu Sanwang breathed a sigh of relief quietly, but at this moment, countless torches suddenly lit up on the originally silent shore.
The entire river was illuminated as bright as day.
Then hundreds of Jiannu archers appeared from the river bank.
"The traitor has been waiting for us for a long time!" Wu Sanwang cursed with a dark face.
Then he yelled: "Speed up and rush over. No matter what, you must rush over!"
As Wu Sanwang roared at the top of his lungs, more than a dozen local warriors bent down at the same time and began to accelerate.
Immediately afterwards, the sound of heavy arrows tearing through the air continued to sound, and occasionally there were screams. Ming soldiers and Xiangyong were constantly being killed by heavy arrows.
Jiannu's bows and arrows are said to be the pinnacle of cold weapons, but they are really not a boast.
Whether it is the lethality of the large bows and heavy arrows, or the overall level of archery of the Jiannu, they are better than any previous local barbarian regime.
I saw hundreds of Jian slaves standing on the river bank, forming a formation that was several miles long.
These slave-building archers really treated Wu Sanwang and the others as rabbits and shot them for fun. Otherwise, if they had gathered thousands of archers and fired a single volley, they would have turned a dozen village warriors into hedgehogs.
But Jian Nu didn't do that, and wanted to shoot Xiang Yong as a rabbit.
Xiang Yong beside Wu Sanwang fell into a pool of blood one after another.
Soon, Wu Sanwang was the only Xiangyong left gliding on the ice.
The slaves on the bank of the Yellow River became even more fanatical and seemed to be betting on him.
Looking up again, I saw that the section of the river controlled by Jiannu was still at least a hundred steps away.
Are you still unable to get in after all? Wu Sanwang let out a desperate lament.
However, just when Wu Sanwang was thinking that he was going to die, the sound of horse hooves suddenly sounded from the banks on both sides.
Immediately, Jiannu, who was standing on the bank of the Yellow River, panicked and pointed their bows and arrows at the night sky in front of them.
Are reinforcements coming? Has the Holy One sent troops to meet them? Wu Sanwang was overjoyed, and immediately accelerated and rushed forward. After a while, he finally broke through the Jiannu blockade, and the sound of "bang bang bang" was heard behind him.
