Chapter 496

In the next few days, the later Jin Tartars were dispatching troops and generals. While transferring all the troops and horses in the north of Xuzhou, they secretly sent a team of infantry across the river to occupy a place on the other bank, and then set up a floating bridge.

Although Qin Huan was in Xuzhou, he always paid attention to the war in Daming mansion. The Tartars on the north bank moved and immediately guessed that Huang Taiji was going to send troops south.

Although he didn't want to put the battlefield in Henan so that the people in the Central Plains would not suffer from the fire of war, the other party was determined to come, and he had to start making arrangements to deal with the next harassment of Tartars.

Pay and return are always in direct proportion. Tartars will send troops south. Although they may destroy Kaifeng house again, they can't go back alone.

With Qin Huan's order, the whole Kaifeng government moved, all kinds of projects were stopped, and hundreds of thousands of workers immediately withdrew to Nanyang.

The border is blocked and all the caravans are returned. All cities are closed and guarded strictly. The people of all villages and towns stay in the fortress during the day and are not allowed to go out. All the militia are organized, and the fortress walls that can be reinforced are reinforced as much as possible.

Ruzhou, the third Corps resident, Li Dingguo has been in office for nearly two months, and has long been familiar with the situation of all battalions and towns.

The ten towns and five independent battalions of the third regiment have long been equipped, and their training is only a little worse than that of the second regiment.

Among the more than 100000 troops of the third corps, except Yunyang, Nanyang and Xiangyang, there is a town garrison to guard against Chuang army, and the other seven towns and five independent battalions are all stationed in Ruzhou, with a total of 120000 troops.

These days, with the war reports from the Second Corps, more than 100000 soldiers have long sharpened their swords. Their fighting intention is unprecedented. They all want to kill the enemy and make contributions.

Coach Li Dingguo was also itchy. However, Qin Huan rejected several requests for war. He had to stay in Ruzhou and wait, but he was ready to attack at any time.

On that day, he finally received Qin Huan's order. Li Dingguo and all the generals were very happy. Secretly, it was finally their third Legion's turn.

After some discussion, Li Dingguo decided to leave a town and continue to sit in Ruzhou to prevent the invading army of Henan government from entering, and then he took 100000 troops to Xuzhou.

At the same time, dorgun also took cavalry to cross the river from zhoujiadian, thirty miles northwest of Kaifeng. A Mongolian cavalry stepped on a floating bridge and crossed the Yellow River with a waist knife, a bow and arrow on his back, and a war horse.

People and horses could hardly see the end. It took two days for more than 200000 war horses to cross the Yellow River. Everyone was a double horse. As for 50000 Han soldiers, they had already arrived at the south bank, otherwise the Mongolian cavalry would not dare to cross the river in a big way, while the 5000 positive white flag led by Dourgen fell last.

The 150000 foot cavalry only carried ten days' rations. The Mongolian cavalry not only did not complain, but all were excited.

Because the Hebei provincial governments are not only poor to rob, but also Huang Taiji does not allow them to rob indiscriminately. They have long been suffocated.

But Henan is different. They have heard that the Han people there are rich and oil-rich. Almost all the Han people close to the North Bank of the Yellow River have fled to the south bank, so why don't they get excited?

At the thought of those charming little women of Han people with delicate skin and tender meat, the cavalry of Tartars would like to fly across the Yellow River.

The only dissatisfaction is that Huang Taiji only allowed them to carry two war horses, just two war horses. How much money, food and women can they carry at that time?

The Tartars had to cross the Yellow River. After all, the Yellow River almost ran through the whole of Henan. In fact, Qin Huan didn't want to prevent it at all. The Tartars were greedy for the wealth of Henan. He was also greedy for the Tartars' war horses.

Because if Tartars can't fight the Yellow River, even if they win in the end, after they run back to the grassland, they don't have a few years of preparation. Before they form enough cavalry, they don't dare to go on an expedition. Once they cross the river, they can almost calm thousands of miles of rivers and mountains in the Central Plains. From then on, there can't be any big war in the traditional Chinese area.

In addition to Cao Bianjiao's two cavalry battalions on the south bank, that is, to defend the national guards in the cities. The main task of these national guards is to defend the cities, not to deal with Tartars.

Although the cavalry led by Cao Bianjiao was the vanguard against the tartar cavalry, there was too much difference. He also chose to avoid its edge and let the tartar cross the river and hang aside from a distance.

After crossing the river, dorgun sent 20000 cavalry to fight Cao Bianjiao. He killed the cavalry first. However, Cao Bianjiao turned around and ran away. The tartar cavalry were afraid of being ambushed and did not dare to catch up too far. After the tartar cavalry returned, Cao Bianjiao pasted up again with his cavalry, keeping a distance of seven or eight miles.

After several times, dorgun was too lazy to take care of the cavalry. This time, he sent troops south. His task was to wantonly destroy and kill, attract the Qin army to rescue, and then use the advantage of the cavalry to destroy the Qin army.

In order to get rid of the burden, in addition to the necessary food and grass, everything else you grab can't be taken with you and burned.

Dorgun also knows that a big city like Kaifeng is not something he can chew now. Moreover, it is easy to be surrounded by the Qin army after a long delay.

After all, there are hundreds of thousands of troops in Ruzhou and Xuzhou, so they only stayed by the river for one day, and they took 100000 cavalry to the south. Even 50000 Han soldiers were riding horses. Where to attack at that time, they should dismount and fight.

Qin Huan sneered when he learned that the tartar army had finally crossed the Yellow River and ran south. There were more than 100000 people and more than 200000 war horses. There was not even a carriage carrying luggage.

He naturally understood that the Tartars were going to grab where they wanted to go, but Kaifeng government still planted all cotton this year. All grain was hoarded in the county, and each village had only one month's rations.

This situation is not to prevent Tartars from looting, but to prevent people and businessmen from taking the opportunity to hoard grain and smuggle. Therefore, when people in Kaifeng buy grain and salt, they have to buy them by household, and they can only buy rations for one family for one month at a time.

This is the situation after taking Jiangnan. In the past, we could only buy food and salt for ten days. After all, the rations and salt of millions of people in Kaifeng must be transported from Nanyang Lake. Once the people and businessmen hoard, it will increase the unnecessary transportation capacity in vain.

Besides, Qin Huan didn't want the people to use the money from selling cotton to hoard food and salt, but wanted them to buy cloth and other daily necessities.

He knew that if he did not guide and forcibly intervene, the first thing for the people after they had money was to hoard food crazily. There was no way to be hungry and afraid.

Qin Huan did not stand still in Xuzhou this time, nor did he cross the Yellow River in the north. Instead, he left 30000 people. The remaining 200000 troops killed east to guide house, and then divided into two. One was commander Qin Yi, who continued to push East, and the other was his own Commander, who killed southwest. If you add the 100000 troops of Li Dingguo in Xuzhou, Qin Huan obviously wanted to surround the Tartars in Kaifeng from the west to the southeast.