They followed the south bank of the Yellow River westward until they reached Heyin before finally stopping, because He Luohui finally found a shoal where they could get away from the Ming navy.
Because the Yellow River channel to the north of Heyin has become extremely wide, twenty miles wide.
The result of the widening is that the river channel becomes shallower. In addition, it has not yet entered the rainy season, also known as the dry season, so the water depth in this section of the Yellow River is even less than three feet.
The water is just shallow, and it is divided into many strands.
Now the Ming Navy navy could only stare blankly.
He Luohui immediately came back and reported to Dorgon: "Master, we have found a point to cross the river. It is the river bend to the north of Guangwu Mountain. Because the water is shallow, Minggou's naval warships cannot enter the river bend."
"Okay." Dorgon said, "Then you should quickly lead people to build a pontoon bridge."
"嗻!" He Luohui knelt down and hit him with a thousand blows, then got on his horse and left.
As soon as He Luohui left, a real stone picture with a white flag on his forehead came over and reported: "Master, Li Zicheng sent a messenger, saying that he wants to exchange prisoners of war with us."
"Li Zicheng wants to exchange prisoners?" Dorgon was a little surprised and asked, "Who does he want to exchange for?"
Shi Tu said: "He wants to exchange King Huaishun and King Gongshun for Liu Zongmin and Niu Jinxing and his son."
Dorgon's face showed a look of embarrassment. Liu Zongmin could do it, but Niu Jinxing and his son could not.
The reason is also very simple. Niu Jinxing and his son have surrendered to the Qing court. We can't send them back to the Pseudo-Shun, right?
Hong Chengchou persuaded him and said: "Master, Niu Jinxing and his son are no more than mediocre people. In my Qing Dynasty, there are not many of them, and there are not many of them. But King Gongshun and King Zhishun are rare generals. They are both rare."
They are all from Dongjiang Town, and are especially good at water warfare and firearms. They will be of great use when we conquer the Southern Ming Dynasty again in the future."
Fan Wencheng, Ning Wan and I also echoed: "Master, please be clear about this."
"That's alright." Dorgon nodded immediately, "Then let's agree on a place to exchange prisoners."
Shi Tu said: "They have also decided on the location for the prisoner exchange, which is at the foot of Sishui Pass."
"No, they said it's under the Sishui Pass, right under the Sishui Pass?" Dorgon shook his head.
"Change the place, just between Sishui Pass and Heyin County. The time is set at noon tomorrow."
Speaking of this meal, Dorgon said again: "Shi Tu, you will be responsible for the prisoner exchange at noon tomorrow. If you have a chance, destroy the puppet army and snatch back Liu Zongmin and Niu Jinxing and his son. If you don't
Forget about the opportunity, you must also be careful not to let the puppet army plot against you."
"Hey!" Shi Tu got up and left.
After watching Shi Tu leave, Dorgon turned his attention to Kaifeng.
Hong Chengchou then turned to look in the direction of Kaifeng Mansion and said quietly: "Counting the time, Xianglan Banner should have dug out the embankment on the south bank of the Yellow River by now. Kaifeng Mansion is about to be flooded."
Fan Wencheng said: "It's a pity that the water volume of the Yellow River is a little low this year."
"It is indeed a pity." Ning Wanwan also had some regrets, "At most, it will flood Kaifeng Mansion and Guide Mansion. I don't know for sure in Xuzhou, but there is definitely no hope for Huai'an Mansion."
Dorgon was silent.
…
The Yellow River bursting its banks is terrible.
But it is not that easy to make the Yellow River burst its banks.
At this moment, Tunqi was jumping around and scolding his mother: "A bunch of pigs and dogs, what do you do for food?"
As he got angry, Tun Qi immediately ordered his bannermen to push all the hundreds of soldiers who had dug the embankment to the edge of the Yellow River and behead them. In an instant, rows of heads fell off the river embankment.
After killing hundreds of Bao Yis in one go, Tun Qi finally lost his temper.
Then they found hundreds of wrappers and started digging the Yellow River embankment again.
This time, because the construction was done on top of the original gap, the progress was greatly accelerated.
It took two days and nights to dig the original gap, but this time it only took less than half a day to dig the gap again.
Once the gap was dug, the turbid river water immediately overflowed and flowed down the gap. Upon seeing this, Tun Qi hurriedly led the flagmen to evacuate the embankment.
Then wait not far from the gap.
Although Tunqi was dissatisfied with Dorgon's arrangements, Jiannu had extremely severe tribal-style punishments, so they did not dare to ignore the tasks Dorgon assigned to Xianglan Banner.
Tunqi would not dare to leave until the Yellow River completely burst its banks.
However, after waiting for almost an hour, the river still did not flood.
Full of doubts, Tun Qi took Qiding back to the embankment.
At first glance, I was dumbfounded. The gap I dug was actually closed again.
"What's going on?" Tun Qi couldn't understand. "The gap in the river embankment that has been dug can be closed by itself? Didn't it mean that the Yellow River bursts every three years and changes its course once every hundred years? That's a lie, right? The gaps that have been dug are all covered.
If you can block it yourself, what's the point of making a decision? These smart dogs are so bad, they actually reported the disaster situation and defrauded the court of disaster relief money."
At this time, a man in charge said: "Master, I know the reason."
"The reason?" Tunqi asked with an unkind expression, "What is the reason?"
Baoyi said with some apprehension: "Because the water of the Yellow River contains a lot of sediment, if the river water does not flow fast enough when it overflows the gap, the sediment will be deposited on the gap, thereby blocking the gap."
Tunqi seemed to understand, but seemed not to understand: "What should I do if you just tell me?"
"The gap is too shallow." Bao Yi said fearfully, "It must be at least two feet deep."
"Do you want to dig so deep?" Tunqi was doubtful, but then he thought about it again. If he couldn't complete the task, Dorgon would definitely not let him go after he returned, so he immediately decided to give it a try.
At that moment, Tun Qi shouted: "dig deeper for me."
"If you don't dig two feet before dark today, you will die!"
Driven by Tun Qi and Qiding, hundreds of Baoyi waded barefoot into the mud of the gap, wielding hoes or pickaxes to dig the river embankment again, and dug deeper and deeper.
…
At this time, a navy fleet was meandering down.
"Fourth uncle, are we going back to Xuzhou like this?" Zheng Cai said unwillingly.
"Otherwise? What else do you want?" Zheng Hongkui said angrily, "The water depth of the Yellow River is less than three feet. If you go further up, it will be stranded. What does stranding mean? I don't need my fourth uncle to tell you, right?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Zheng Cai couldn't help but sigh when he heard this. Of course he knew what stranding meant.
At this moment, the sentry on the mast suddenly shouted: "General Town, look at the south bank."
Zheng Hongkui, who was talking to Zheng Cai, rushed out of the war tent and climbed up the ladder to the top of the war tent.
In the entire bird ship, apart from the command position on the main mast, the command position on the roof of the battle shed has the best view.
After Zheng Hongkui climbed to the roof of the war tent, he opened the telescope and pointed it at the south bank. The water surface of the Yellow River here is also extremely wide, conservatively estimated to be at least ten miles.
So even if you have a telescope, you can only see roughly.
"There seem to be a lot of corpses?" Zheng Hongkui said in a deep voice, "Get closer."
Zheng Hongkui gave an order, and the sailors on the ship immediately adjusted the direction of the sails, and then slowly sailed toward the south bank of the Yellow River with the cooperation of the ship's stern rocking oars.
As we got closer, we finally saw it clearly.
I saw a row of corpses lying on the embankment on the south bank of the Yellow River. There were at least two to three hundred corpses, and they were all headless corpses.
Then, if you aim the telescope at the river, you can even vaguely see people floating on their heads in the turbid river water.
"The thief and slave-builder are killing our people again." Zheng Hongkui also said that these hundreds of headless corpses were common people, and he couldn't help but feel angry until he died.
"Headquarters, there seems to be slaves outside the embankment!"
The sentry who climbed on the mast was able to see far because he was high up, so he could see the men who were digging the river embankment with hoes and pickaxes, as well as the flag men with blue flags who were watching.
Seeing this, the sentry immediately shouted: "They are digging embankments!"
"What?" Zheng Hongkui's face immediately darkened, "Dig embankments?!"
Once the Yellow River embankment is dug and the Yellow River water overflows, the consequences will be disastrous!
At that moment, Zheng Hongkui shouted sternly: "Send my order to all the warships to line up and approach them to stop them."
A total of six bird boats immediately lined up and quickly approached the south bank. At a distance of about two hundred steps, Zheng Hongkui ordered to drop anchor and then turned the boat sideways to face the south bank.
At this time, Jiannu outside the embankment on the south bank also discovered the Ming Navy.
When hundreds of Jiannu rushed up to the embankment on the south bank and tried to shoot with the large bows in their hands, they found that the Ming navy was two hundred steps away, so they could only yell and curse across the water of the Yellow River.
Of course, the Ming navy would not be polite to the prey that came to their doorstep.
With just one round of shelling, more than a dozen of the slaves on the embankment fell down and were all shattered.
If he was hit by a solid iron bullet from a Hongyi cannon, he would no longer be human if he could still remain intact.
The slaves on the river embankment hurriedly hid under the embankment and stopped showing their faces, but this could not stop Zheng Hongkui and the artillerymen of the Ming Navy who had rich experience in artillery operations.
Under the guidance of the sentry on the watchtower,
The navy's ship-mounted Hongyi cannon successfully fired curves one after another.
This time, it was not only the slaves who were building slaves who suffered, but also the people who were desperately digging the walls of the Yellow River embankment.
The entire excavation operation soon could not continue because the location of the excavation site chosen by Tunqi was not very good and the Yellow River embankment did not provide enough cover.
The Ming Navy's artillery shells could easily hit Jiannu.
But Jiannu seemed to have some capable people there, so he quickly changed the location.
The position chosen by Jiannu was very tricky, because there happened to be two small and medium-sized earth bags near the river embankment. These two earth bags seriously blocked the firing angle of the navy's ship-borne guns, making them unable to hit.
Seeing Jian Nu starting to dig the embankment again, Zheng Hongkui suddenly became anxious.
At that moment, Zheng Hongkui shouted to the deck: "Ah Cai, quickly take four people on a sampan to mobilize troops and mobilize all nearby warships."
After a pause, he added: "Then go to Xuzhou to report the news!"
"We, the Navy, alone may not be able to stop Jiannu."
"Please, Your Majesty, quickly mobilize the army to stop the slave establishment. Be quick!"
"Yes!" Zheng Cai responded and immediately led people to put down a sampan.
Then Zheng Cai took four sailors from the bird boat to the sampan. The four sailors also brought the paddles. The four paddles were flying up and down, stirring up pieces of water, and the small sampan was in the shape of a spindle.
The boat slid downstream like an arrow from the string, while Zheng Cai sat at the back of the boat and held the rudder to control the direction.
…
At midnight.
In the night, a fast horse galloped from the direction of Kaifeng Fucheng.
When Kankan passed an intersection, a dozen mutton-fat torches suddenly lit up like ghosts in the surrounding darkness.
The cavalryman who was galloping on the official road was startled. He reined in the horse fiercely, and the horse stood upright. The huge iron hooves kicked in the air several times before they could hold it back.
"Mi Keqi!" a voice shouted sternly.
Immediately, dozens of Yiding knights walked out of the fire.
"General Hu!" Yiding named Mi Keqi said happily, "Quick! Return to Xuzhou as soon as possible to report to the Holy One, asking the Holy One to quickly mobilize the army to Kaifeng Mansion. Jiannu wants to dig the Yellow River embankment!"
"What? The Jiannu want to dig the Yellow River embankment?!" Hu Guozhu's heart suddenly trembled when he heard this.
The next moment, Hu Guozhu turned around and shouted: "Ba Hanzhen, immediately take people to Guide Mansion, let Lord Jin lead the cavalry battalion to Kaifeng Mansion quickly, and then return to Xuzhou to report to the Holy One!"
"Yes." Bahanzhen's horse turned around and galloped away.
There were also several Yiding who left with Bahanzhen.
"Let's go to Kaifeng Mansion." Hu Guozhu reined in his horse and left.
"General, we only have nineteen riders, and now there are only fourteen left."
A group of Yiding horses caught up with Hu Guozhu and said loudly: "What's the point of going?"
"Then quickly inform other Yiding and go to Kaifeng." Even Hu Guozhu himself did not realize that after staying with Chongzhen for a long time and spending a long time with those diligent princes and scholars, his way of thinking had undergone tremendous changes.
Variety.
Although he is a Mongolian, Hu Guozhu's way of thinking has been completely Chineseized.
Even from the bottom of his heart, Hu Guozhu did not regard himself as a Mongolian.
But he only regarded himself as a great Ming Dynasty man.
This is very ridiculous.
…
Early the next morning.
Jin Hyun was neatly dressed and walked out of the tent.
In the quiet morning light, three thousand cavalrymen from the cavalry battalion were having breakfast.
Breakfast was as usual, a steamed bun, but this time I came out in a hurry and didn't bring a pot to boil water, so I had to knead the steamed bun with black beans and small pieces of vinegar steamed cake, mix it, and chew it, otherwise I wouldn't be able to eat it at all.
If your mouth is really dry, take a piece of black plum to moisten your throat.
Although Jin Xuan is a full-grade civil servant, he can only eat the same dry food.
And Jin Xuan didn't seem to have difficulty swallowing the food at all, and he didn't even use black plum.
For a ruthless person like Jin Hyun, this little suffering is not even a suffering.
After hurriedly eating breakfast, Jin Xuan was about to gather his troops when the sound of horse hooves suddenly sounded in front of him.
Immediately, several Yiding cavalry flew over, and the first one was Bahan Zhen, one of the ten most loyal and brave men in front of the emperor.
Without waiting for Jin Xuan to ask questions, Ba Hanzhen shouted loudly: "Master Jin, Jiannu wants to dig up the Yellow River embankment. Hu Junmen asks you to speed up the cavalry battalion to Kaifeng Mansion to stop Jiannu!"
"Huh? Jiannu wants to dig up the Yellow River embankment?!"
Jin Xuan's expression suddenly changed: "Send my military order, the whole battalion mounts and goes to Kaifeng Mansion!"
Jin Xuan gave an order, and three thousand cavalrymen got on their horses one after another, and followed Jin Xuan in a mighty charge toward Kaifeng.
Bahan Zhen led several Yiding cavalry, took more than ten horses from Jin Xuan, and headed straight for Xuzhou.
