The Dashun Army was originally deployed on both sides of the Yellow River. Since the main force of the Qing Army in front of them has moved to the battlefield in southwest Shandong, there are no remaining enemies in northern Henan. Therefore, the three field divisions of Liu Tichun, Liu Rukui, and Li Polu have also begun to advance eastward.
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Liu Rukui came from Anyang, Liu Tichun came from Kaizhou, and Li Polu came from Huixian. The three generals had already met in Dongping. While they blocked Azige's possible route to the west, they continued to advance toward the southwest of Shandong.
The Dashun Army's defenders located in various places were unable to extricate themselves because Dorgon's main force was trapped under Xuzhou City, and thus gained sufficient freedom of movement.
Now that all the armies from the Central Plains were gathered together, when Liu Tichun met the two generals Liu Rukui and Li Polu in Dongping, he could not conceal his joy about the outcome of the war and was confident about it.
"Lao Zao, His Highness the King of Jin has intercepted Dorgon in Xuzhou, and the opportunity to avenge the deer is about to come. We have all been promoted by Lao Wansui, and we have been deeply cared and protected by the Holy Lord for many years.
The opportunity to avenge Dashun has come. No matter what, we must catch up with this battle."
Liu Tichun and Liu Rukui have been old friends for many years, so it would not be obvious to call them "Lao Zao". However, Li Polu was originally an officer of Lu Xiang's Shengtianxiong Army. He only joined the Dashun Army for a few years, and he has always followed Chu.
I have never been too familiar with Liu Tichun and Liu Rukui, veterans of the battle.
There was still some tension between Li Polu and Er Liu, and they seemed quite reserved. However, in the previous defensive battle in Hebei, thanks to Li Polu holding down the formation and constantly sending troops to supplement Liu Tichun, Liu Rukui's loss helped stabilize the front and blocked the battle.
Dorgon's three-axe.
Therefore, neither Liu Tichun, the second tiger, nor Liu Rukui, the soap eagle, treated Li Polu as an outsider.
Yuan Zongdi is still recuperating in Yanjin due to his illness. The right army of the palace is under the full command of Liu Tichun, who is acting expediently.
Liu Tichun held the hands of Li Polu and Liu Rukui at the same time and said sincerely:
"To avenge Lao Long Live, to be loyal to the Dashun Dynasty, and also to the poor people who are suffering all over the world, after winning this battle, His Highness the King of Jin will be able to spread the things he did in the Central Plains to the whole world...
I, Erhu, know very little about civil affairs, but I can completely see how skillfully the King of Jin managed the people. The world in the Ming Dynasty has been in chaos for so many years, what does that sentence say?"
Li Polu added: "People's minds are calm."
"Yes! People's minds are calm." Liu Tichun said, "Everyone in the world is waiting for the Holy Sage and the King of Jin to calm down the world and end this troubled world that has been turbulent for more than ten years. We are born into the Three Sages, and we should be worthy of being the emperor of the Dashun Dynasty.
Grace is mighty!"
Liu Rukui, who had a dark complexion, smiled strangely and said, "Which staff officer or secretary in charge taught you what to say? Erhu, when did you learn to be so polite?"
Liu Tichun chuckled and said, "You can't even hide this from Lao Zao."
Liu Rukui said sternly: "There is no war in Hebei now. The Right Army has mobilized 20,000 mobile troops to go south to rescue Xuzhou. If we fail to catch up with the battle, or cause problems with Hebei's defense, the three of us can't withstand this situation.
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Li Polu said in a deep voice: "I understand! Marshal Yuan is still in Hebei. After we set off, it won't be long before Marshal Yuan's body can begin to command the defenders. There will be no problems in Hebei...
Back then, I followed Marshal Lu and was besieged by the Donglu in Julu. I watched Marshal Lu die in battle and martyred his country, but I survived alone. How can I continue to watch His Highness the King of Jin fight alone today? Am I just standing aside and watching?
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I must personally cut off the head of the famous Hulu king so that I can pay homage to Marshal Lu’s spirit in heaven.”
Liu Rukui and Liu Tichun both looked at each other. Lu Xiangsheng was the commander-in-chief of the Ming army, and he fought many battles with the rebels back then. But after all, so many years have passed, and Lu Xiangsheng, unlike Yang Sichang, proposed equalizing land to avoid poverty among the people.
With his own strategy, he was not like Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting who frequently killed and surrendered the peasant armies who were recruiting for peace.
So although we were enemies in the past, after so many years, even the Tianxiong Army no longer existed. Liu Rukui and Liu Tichun no longer had any concerns in their hearts. Instead, they felt that this battle had indeed gathered the anti-Qing army.
Most of the elite.
In this land, almost all the armies with a glorious history of resisting the Qing Dynasty were finally able to gather under the banner of the Dashun Army.
"Let's go! It's to avenge Lao Long live, to be loyal to the Dashun Dynasty, to avenge the tens of thousands of Han people who died at the hands of the slaves, and to be loyal to China, which has protected the Eastern captives from years of massacre and plunder!"
The field army under the third general set out last, while the local guards under Li Jiyu arrived in Xuzhou first because they were already tasked with escorting grain and fodder.
Behind Li Jiyu, in addition to the more than 20,000 regular soldiers of the Shun Army field troops rushing to the battlefield, there are also a large number of militiamen originally deployed near Kaifeng south of the Yellow River, totaling nearly 10,000 standing militiamen.
They were rushing towards Xuzhou under the command of Pang An, the recruiting envoy of Nanyang Prefecture.
After Chen Xin defeated He Tengjiao's Hunan Ming army in the first battle, Pang An was promoted from Qianjiang County, Yangwu Prefecture, to Yangwu Prefecture's Pooper Envoy. Soon he was transferred to Nanyang Prefecture, and was ordered to assemble all states in southern Henan.
The county's standing militia maintained law and order in place of the local guards who went north to join the war.
Now that the great battle was imminent, the ruling order in the resurgent Henan-Chu region of Dashun was very consolidated. So Niu Quan and Chen Xin gradually pieced together some standing militiamen to form another support army, and rushed to Xuzhou to participate in the battle under the command of Pang An.
Pang An is from Zaoyang, and his younger brother Pang Cun is now serving as a captain in the Yulin Army in the palace. Pang An himself has been promoted from the village chief in Zaoyang County to a thief catcher to the current recruitment and training envoy of Nanyang Prefecture.
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His career as an official was smoother than that of his younger brother who was brave and good at fighting.
Pang An, who was born as an old farmer, had put on a dark blue cloth armor. He did not ride a horse, but walked like the rest of the militiamen. He boosted the morale of the soldiers and led the troops to advance along the south bank of the Yellow River towards Xuzhou. Now they have reached Guide.
Within the territory of the government.
The weather has turned warm in eastern Henan, and Pang An was inevitably sweating a lot while wearing thick armor.
After wiping his sweat vigorously, he looked at the eastern skyline, still worried about his younger brother Pang Cun who was fighting in Xuzhou, and murmured to himself:
"Prince Jin has even killed Zuo Liangyu. With such an invincible god and man here, my second brother will definitely be fine... Come on, come on, Chen Jinglue and Niu Jiedu want me to rush to Xuzhou for reinforcements.
It needs to be faster."
In addition to these soldiers and horses, there are many other guards in various states and counties in Henan and Hebei. The militia troops are being transferred eastward one after another. On both sides of the Yellow River, which is gradually melting and melting, what is more turbulent than the surging river is the fearless Dashun who is marching eastward.
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Looking down from the sky, on the vast Huanghuaihai Plain, countless giant dragons formed by people are advancing towards Xuzhou.
Compared with the huge potential strength of the Dashun Army, the Nanming Navy that Dorgon expected, and the Azige East Route Army that Dorgon expected to be trapped in the Taishan defense line, are completely insignificant!