Yifeng County is the gateway to the east of Kaifeng. It was taken over by Wang Jun, the Youqin of Jiangnan four days ago. .

The right admiral, Lord Kuenbu, set up his admiral's military tent outside the Yifeng South Gate. The admiral did not even enter the city. He wanted to show the world through this move that with him, the loyal and loyal bandits would not have the step to invade Kaifeng in the west.

Since leading the army north to pursue, Kuenbu has fought with the Ming army's Zhongzhen Camp six times. Except for one time, because the Ming reinforcements arrived, Kuenbu's troops were unable to deal with the two Ming troops at the same time, fearing that the retreat would be interrupted, they had to retreat in the other five battles. Among them, in the battle of Guide Ningling, the Yuan Gushan-Ezhen Jinli, who had made meritorious contributions under Kuenbu's troops, even killed the enemy's head Bai Jiaolong, and wiped out more than a thousand troops from his troops, which shocked all the major bandits.

When King Shun Li Laiheng learned that the Qing army of Jiangnanyou had actually rushed north to pursue him, King Shun Li Laiheng was very puzzled, because when he led his troops to attack Fengyang, Anhui Governor Jiang He sent someone to ask him to withdraw his troops, saying that the Qing Dynasty appointed the Jiangnanyou Admiral Kuenbu had already surrendered to His Highness the King of Qi. Now the two sides are conducting specific consultations on the surrender. If the Zhongzhen Camp attacks Fengyang and Lujiang now, it will inevitably anger Kuenbu, believing that the Ming Dynasty did not keep its promises and refused to surrender again.

At that time, Li Laiheng wanted to withdraw his troops, but his old generals refused. They all said that there were not many Qing troops in Fengyang and Lujiang. They all came, so there was no reason to return empty-handed. Under the insistence of the old generals, Li Laiheng had to risk offending the King of Qi and continue to go deep into Fengyang. As a result, the Qing army in Lujiang quickly came to support Fengyang and brought many cannons, with strong soldiers and horses. Although there were few people, they were extremely elite. If they fought hard, Zhongzhen Camp

There will definitely be great losses, and the situation is a bit difficult to get out of the way. Unexpectedly, the Qing Dynasty's right admiral Kuenbu also had no intention of fighting with Zhongzhen Camp. Through the Taiping Army, Zhongzhen Camp bribed a large number of gold, silver and money and grain, which made Li Laiheng finally tough and had an excuse to withdraw his troops. The old generals were already scared by Kuenbu's troops. After getting the benefits, they no longer shouted that the ducks could fly. They all said that only the little tiger was following.

In order to solve the problem that the entire army of Zhongzhen Camp was short of food and all the troops were half-dead, Li Laiheng and Liu Tichun decided to convene a meeting of leaders in Yongcheng to discuss future military strategies. In the end, the Yongcheng Conference decided to go north and risked his life to seize the Beijing decision. Subsequently, the various troops and horses of Zhongzhen Camp in eastern and southern Henan were gathered together with the major leaders of Yaohuang, as well as the local Henan local gangs collected along the way gathered in Guide.

According to the plan formulated by Liu Tichun, the northward army was divided into three routes. One was led by He Zhen, attacked Shan County from Guide to the north and seized the Zhuyikou Ferry; the other route was led by Wang Guangxing, led by Guide to Suizhou from the west, and then turned north to capture the Kaocheng Ferry; both of these troops and horses took the capture of the Yellow River Ferry as their primary task and supported each other. The main enemy of He Zhen's army was the Qing army from Shandong, and Wang Guangxing was to be prepared for the Qing army from Henan. The last route was also the main force of the entire battalion, led by Li Laiheng himself, and supported him in the middle of Guide Mansion. After the other two routes succeeded, they quickly crossed the Yellow River. The three routes advanced together and rushed to the north. Kill the capital.

However, when He Zhen's army captured the Zhuyikou Ferry, it was stubbornly resisted by the Qing army in Shandong. After leading troops to guard the Qing Beiletuntai in Xuzhou, he immediately led more than 4,000 Manchu and Han cavalry from Dangshan and arrived at Zhuyikou for two days, and immediately appeared behind He Zhen's army. The Qing army was tired, and the Ming army was even more tired. In addition, the Zhuyikou area was plain terrain, and there was no favorable terrain for the Ming army to support him. After a day of fierce battle, He Zhen's army died in battle, and thousands of others collapsed. He had to give up seizing the Zhuyikou Ferry and retreated in the night. Although the Qing army won a great victory, it was extremely tired and did not take advantage of the situation to pursue.

After He Zhen's right-road army lost, the only hope for Zhongzhen Camp to cross the Yellow River was the left-road army led by Wang Guangxing. While Li Laiheng ordered He Zhen to lead the right-road army westward to meet Wang Guangxing, he led his main force to bypass Guide Prefecture City and advance to Ningling in the northwest. Liu Tichun personally brought a cavalry over Ningling and rushed to Minquan to deal with the Eight Banners soldiers of the Qing army that might be dispatched. However, just as Li Laiheng's troops had just arrived in Ning.

During the magistrate, Ma Tengyun from the rear sent an urgent report. Kuenbu, the right admiral of Qingjiang in Anhui, led more than 10,000 infantry and cavalry suddenly heading north from Fengyang and heading straight for Guide. Ma Tengyun said that Kuenbu declared that he wanted to go north to serve the king, because he only had two or three thousand old, weak and disabled people in his hands, and was unable to stop this Qing army who was serving the king. The only thing he could do was to report the news quickly and then take his subordinates who could still run away from the Qing army.

Guide Mansion City is still in the hands of the Qing magistrate Zhao Chengxin. Although Zhao Chengxin refused to surrender, he did not dare to open the door to harass him. So Li Laiheng and others did not take the potential danger of Guide Mansion seriously. Now, things are a bit tricky. Ma Tengyun could not stop Kuenbu, and the other party would be able to arrive at Guide in a few days. At that time, with Guide Mansion as the support, he could threaten the rear wing of the Zhongzhen Camp at any time. Kuenbu's soldiers were all seen by the old generals when he was in Fengyang, and knew that although the other party had not many soldiers, they were much more elite than their own. During the Chongzhen period, the old generals who lived to this day knew that they did not know the soldiers and knew the soldiers. They understood that this war was not based on a large number of people, but on an elite with a very small number of people, such as the servants of the Ming army general and the "old foundations" under their command.

The Kuenbu team has nearly 10,000 people, and the infantry and cavalry armies. No matter how much it is, the old generals believe that the elite soldiers under Kuenbu can pull out will not be less than 3,000 elite soldiers and horses. Together with the local bandits, the total number is more than 100,000, and the real number of soldiers and horses will not exceed 30,000. Now it is divided into three groups, with half of Wang Guangxing and He Zhen, and the remaining half was taken by Liu Erhu to guard against Oboi. Therefore, only a few thousand people could pull out from Li Laiheng.

If he really wanted to sacrifice his life, Li Laiheng thought he could get rid of Kuhnbu, but the price was really high, especially now the strategic goal of Zhongzhen Camp is to go north to seize the capital, rather than to get involved with the Qing army in Henan. What's more, Li Laiheng had no enough food and grass for him to temporarily delay his advance north and turned around to clean up Kuhnbu. Kuhnbu's troops rushed north from Fengyang to serve the king. The army must not carry much food and grass, but there was food in Guide City. Nowadays, no matter how many soldiers there were, it was better to have food in hand. If you had rice, you would have enough confidence.

Li Laiheng would never be able to draw elite troops to block Kuenbu, but it would not be possible if he didn't. At least, he would have to force the other party to stop moving north and stay south of Guide. Otherwise, if the other party really entered Guide City, Li Laiheng would not be able to cross the Yellow River as soon as possible. If Kaifeng learned that there was a Qing army that could fight here, no matter how stupid Obai was, no matter how hard he struggled, he would definitely draw troops to respond to Guide and prevent Zhongzhen Camp from crossing the river.

There was no way, Li Laiheng could only let his subordinates draw lots, and whoever got the lottery would go to block Kuenbu. As a result, the leaders who went there were defeated by Kuenbu's troops one after another. According to the escaped people, Kumanbu had a Manchu and Mongolian cavalry under him. Although there were less than two thousand people, he could really fight. Often before the brigades of both sides moved, the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry rushed over and then opened the Ming army's queue. Bai Jiaolong, a leader from the Yaohuang Thirteen family, was defeated by the Qing army in this way. He was surrounded by the Qing army infantry that rushed up later, and finally let Jin Li cut his head with a knife.

The main elites could not be pulled away and sent troops with low combat power to fight one after another. Apart from giving heads to the other party and constantly damaging their morale, it was useless. Li Laiheng was so angry that he scolded Anhui Governor Jiang He for raising tigers, and actually released the tens of thousands of people from under his nose. He wrote a letter to send people to Jiangnan to complain to the court and to the King of Qi.
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