The people who are following Zhu Hongsan are all civil officials, and they are also some new affiliated civil officials. These people have superior administrative abilities, but military abilities are not enough. Hou Xun was the governor back then, but his strength is logistics coordination and selection of talents. Hou Xun is not good at real marching and fighting. It is precisely because of this that Zhu Hongsan does not have the military capabilities that Zhu Hongsan is so chaotic. If Zhu Hongsan is surrounded by people with military experience, such as Li Zhi and Zhang Jiayu, he must not let Zhu Hongsan use any fire attack strategy.

Zhu Hongsan was the emperor, and the emperor's words were the imperial edict, so Zhu Hongsan gave an order and all his subordinates began to prepare for ambush on the mountains around the official road.

Zhu Hongsan's plan was very simple, which was to bury gunpowder on the cliff at the exit of the official road, then explode the rocks and block the road ahead. The next step was to learn from Zhuge Liang to throw flammable things into the valley and burn these Qing troops to death.

After all the preparations were completed, Zhu Hongsan and his men were lying on both sides of the valley, waiting for the arrival of the Qing army. However, after waiting for half a month, there was no news about the Qing army. Zhu Hongsan once thought that Li Yuanyin was powerful and wiped out the Qing army in Feicheng, but he did not expect that the Qing army would come half a month later.

Zhu Hongsan was very happy when he learned that the Qing army had entered the valley. He saw that I was also playing with fire and burning the camp!

The Pingyin official road was not long in total, only more than twenty miles in the valley. Soon the Qing army fell in front of him. Seeing the Qing army entering the ambush circle, Zhu Hongsan gave an order to blew up the mountain pass rocks and block the Qing army's way forward.

Zhu Hongsan stood on the mountain and saw that his plan was successful, laughing and said, "Yuele, you bastard, you almost beat you out of shit in Anshan Lake. This time I burn you to death! Come on, set fire!" Someone from the Ming army soon threw the collected firewood into the valley and set fire!

Yue Le was very anxious at first seeing the road ahead being blocked. Now it was over, and he was going to be buried here with 50,000 people! But Yue Le calmed down and looked around and was overjoyed, and finally he didn't have to die!

It turns out that Shandong is different from Sichuan. During peacetime, Shandong has tens of millions of people in the province. Pingyin is close to Jinan and is also a place where the canal passes by, and the population is very dense. Although the population in the Taishan Mountains is not as large as plains, there are also many. In addition to the official roads, there are still several small roads that can be accessed in the mountainous areas.

Yue Le saw several paths that stretched up the mountain. Yue Le was overjoyed and shouted: "Daishan, take a thousand people, go up the mountain from this path and catch the dog emperor!"

In fact, Zhu Hongsan had blocked some paths, but he had too few people. In the past half a month, he only discovered more than a dozen paths, and there were still many paths hidden in the grass. The Qing army had a large number of people, and the potential exploded at the critical moment of life and death, so he found several paths on the steep cliff. Some people climbed up the cliff and headed towards Zhu Hongsan.

Zhu Hongsan originally thought that the fire should be like in the play, and all the Qing soldiers were burned to death one after another, and then he became an emperor like Li Shimin and was admired by later generations. But he did not expect that the ending was different from what he thought. The Qing soldiers could actually climb the cliff. Zhu Hongsan was so scared that he shouted: "Come here, protect the car!"

At this time, the Qing army had already climbed up to five or six thousand people. In order to ensure that the entire official road had people to prevent fire, Zhu Hongsan sent out his eight thousand people separately. Now there were less than one thousand people around Zhu Hongsan. These people, led by Han Sanqiang, firmly surrounded Zhu Hongsan in the middle and protected him, preparing to deal with the rushing Qing army.

Although the number of Qing soldiers was large, they had not had a good rest in the past half month and had not had a serious meal. At the same time, because they climbed the cliff and had only short swords, they were not enough to face the Ming army armed to the teeth. Zhu Hongsan looked at it in danger, but there was no danger of life.

Yue Le's personal soldiers saw that there were not many Ming troops at the Yamaguchi, so he quickly asked someone to go out and move the rocks away and let the Qing army brigade leave.

At this time, Li Yuanyin's Ming army arrived behind. For a moment, the Qing army did not care about capturing Zhu Hongsan's emperor, and moved the rocks at the entrance of the mountain, and most of the surrounded Qing army escaped in the valley.

Zhu Hongsan stood on the top of the mountain and saw Yue Le escape from the valley with more than 20,000 people, bypassing Pingyin County, and running into the direction of Dongchang Prefecture. Zhu Hongsan cursed in his heart: Damn, that bastard said that the Qing generals were fighting in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. I used a strategy today, or Zhuge Liang's strategy, why didn't it work? What a fucking book kills people!

In fact, if Zhu Hongsan did not do these flower jobs, guarded Pingyin County honestly, and used cannons to block the valley exit, Yue Le could not have escaped with so many people. But he didn't know what Zhu Hongsan had to learn Zhuge Liang or what tricks he had to do. Now Yue Le escaped with most of the Eight Banners of Manchuria and some of the Mongolian nobles, leaving a lot of trouble for the future solution to Dongchang Prefecture.

Although the Central Plains War was flawed at the end, the main purpose of the battle was achieved, and all 150,000 mobile troops of the Qing Dynasty were eliminated. The more than 20,000 people taken away by Yue Le only fled the battlefield on foot, and the horses and supplies were thrown in Pingyin. Now there are only a few strong cities left in the entire Central Plains battlefield, namely the Dongchang Prefecture Liaocheng on the canal, the Zhangde Prefecture in Henan, and the Jinan Prefecture in Shandong. There are more than 100,000 Qing troops in these three strong cities, but most of these people are the Eight Banners of the Han Army and the New Affiliated Army of the Ming Dynasty. The combat effectiveness is completely incomparable to Yue Le's 150,000 cavalry, and it is only a matter of time to break through these three cities.

The emperor was in Pingyin, and in the next few days several heads of the Eastern Army rushed to Pingyin to pay homage to the emperor. Zhu Hongsan has also been very depressed these days. He let tens of thousands of Qing troops and Yue Le run away because of his reasons. Zhu Hongsan was not worried about the tens of thousands of Qing troops, but he was worried about Yue Le. Zhu Hongsan knew that this guy was not simple, and he might cause trouble in the future if he lets go. But there was no way to take the medicine for regret. Zhu Hongsan had no choice but to accept reality.

After a few days of rest, Zhu Hongsan issued an imperial edict, asking several military leaders to visit his camp and study what to do next.

In this Northern Expedition, except for Li Yuanyin's cavalry, there were a total of seven divisions. Two divisions in Tai'an did not come, and the others came. Under the leadership of Qian Yong and Zhao Guodong, several division commanders entered the tent to pay homage to Zhu Hongsan.

Everyone knows that because of the emperor's great joy, Yue Le and more than 20,000 Qing troops were released, but no one was a fool. After entering the tent, he bowed his head and refused to speak.

In the end, the old fried dough man Hou Xun spoke first, and he said, "Your Majesty, the Central Plains War has finally ended, and all the mobile cavalry of the Qing Dynasty in the Central Plains have been eliminated. What should I do next?" Hou Xun was very good at speaking and only picked good things to say. Did the Qing Dynasty cavalry be eliminated? As for Yue Le's run away, it was just a problem of elbows and armpits, and it could not affect the overall situation at all.

Zhu Hongsan's face was much more relaxed when he heard Hou Xun say this: "Mr. Hou is right. Jiergalang brought 300,000 troops, and now 150,000 troops have been eliminated. The remaining troops are only distributed in the three cities of Zhangde, Liaocheng, and Jinan! These three cities are stumbling blocks for our army to go north, so I decided to take down these three cities, and then go north to Tianjin, and attack Shuntian Prefecture!"

Everyone knows that this time is probably the last war. As long as these three cities are solved, the Qing Dynasty will have no vitality in the pass, so it can only withdraw from Shanhaiguan. At that time, they will be the heroes of the revival of the Ming Dynasty. All of them are teachers here. Thinking that they will be granted the title of Duke and Marquis like Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, Li Wenzhong and others in the near future, they are all full of excitement.

Zhu Hongsan looked at his generals and said, "Jinan is handed over to Zhao Guodong. If you take three divisions, don't let Jiergalang run away! If you hand over to Qian Yong, you take two divisions to ensure the smooth flow of the canal supply line! If Zhangde is handed over to Makun, the news from the Jinyiwei has already crossed the Yellow River in Kaifeng and will arrive at Zhangde in another ten days! Li Yuanyin and Zhao Hu, you will take cavalry to Dezhou, don't let the Qing soldiers retreat to Tianjin. Do you know?"

The generals quickly stood up and bowed to receive the order. Zhu Hongsan sighed and said, "As for me, I have been a little tired in the past month. I am waiting for your good news here in Pingyin!"

Zhu Hongsan was originally a little confident in himself, and felt that even if he was not as good as the military genius Li Shimin, he would be at least stronger than Zhu Yuanzhang who was begging for food. However, after this Central Plains War, he found that he was not the material for leading troops to fight. He was good at strategy and tactics. He was just a little short of it. He just seemed to Zhao Kuangyin! Because Zhu Hongsan realized his shortcomings, he decided not to make trouble, but to hand over the military to professionals. He just wanted to be his own emperor. Didn’t Han Xin tell Liu Bang that I can command troops, but the king can command generals. I, Zhu Hongsan, will be the general!

Zhu Hongsan ordered the generals very happy. They all knew that the emperor liked to command blindly, but it was not enough not to obey the orders. Now it's fine, and we can finally let go of our hands.

After the meeting, everyone started to take action. Zhao Guodong took his second division back to Tai'an, where two divisions were left, which were all his troops attacking Jinan.

Jinan was guarded by Jiergalang. There were 80,000 Qing troops. In addition to the 50,000 Han army and Eight Banners, there were more than 30,000 local troops, while Zhao Guodong only had 45,000 people under his command. However, the combat effectiveness was not a simple sum of the number of people. Zhao Guodong's subordinates were troops that had confronted the Qing Dynasty in Yangzhou for many years, and their combat effectiveness was the highest among Zhu Hongsan's group. It was precisely because of this that Zhu Hongsan was relieved to hand over the task of attacking Jinan to Zhao Guodong.

Zhao Guodong returned to Tai'an to convey the emperor's orders, and his subordinates were also very happy, but Jiang Pengju, the commander of the Second Division, asked: "Sir, Jinan is a strong city, and it is difficult to break the city wall with our army cannons alone!"
Chapter completed!