If these two people can really cooperate with each other, then the war in Jiangbei will not be easy to solve. Zhou Yuji thought about it and said: "These days, our troops have competed with Hong Chengchou's men many times. Hong Chengchou's troops are divided into two parts. One part is

He recruited and trained about 50,000 soldiers by himself, and it was this army that blocked the offensive in the two northwest towns."

"As for the 50,000 people transferred to him after Chongzhen, according to intelligence, these may be soldiers and horses transferred from the Yingtianfu camp, and they were also elites."

"And the 150,000 soldiers commanded by Zhu Chunchen are all veterans who have experienced war."

"These two armies are in front of us. It is not easy to cross them. The best option is to deal with one first and hold the other down." Zhao Yuqi mused: "Delay one and deal with the other. It is indeed the best at the moment.

If we can encircle the point and call for reinforcements, just like the battle in Jinzhou, then the situation will be better." Fang Yunchu took out his charcoal and drew while saying: "Hong Chengchou's position is very critical. These 100,000 people are blocking Xuzhou. We

It will be difficult to get over. In this case, we might as well put our current target on Zhu Chunchen. He deployed a large number of troops on the Runing front line and used him as an introduction to attract Hong Chengchou and Zhu Guobi to encircle and reinforce." Zhou Yuji

Then he began to think: "Several Zhu Chunchen's troops are stationed in Runing, Kaifeng, and Guide. Our army can take a detour to launch an attack. It is best to deal with Zhu Guobi in the Huaihe River area first, or to contain him. Then we can attack again.

Launch an offensive against Kaifeng and Guide, forcing these two places to ask for help from Zhu Chunchen. Now in Henan, we will give Zhu Chunchen a painful beating." Zhao Yuqi smiled and placed a chess piece on the map: "In this way, Hong Chengchou must rescue Zhu Chunchen. We

There is no need to eat Zhu Chunchen's army in one go and let it become a drag on Hong Chengchou, which is more in line with our strategic purpose."

"Once Hong Chengchou and Zhu Chunchen come into contact, we can use more things, including Ying Tianfu's attitude, which can become our magic weapon to win." Several people communicated and quickly made up their minds.

On the third day of August in the seventh year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, Datong sent troops from Daming Prefecture, a total of six towns, to march south to Guide Prefecture.

The Ming army in Guide Prefecture only numbered more than 30,000, and it was difficult to resist the attack of the Datong soldiers in the six towns. Therefore, the Ming army in Kaifeng Prefecture had to launch a rescue. However, the Ming army in Kaifeng Prefecture encountered two Datong troops in the middle of the road.

Therefore, the Ming army in Guide Prefecture immediately asked for help from Zhu Chunchen's camp in Runing and Hong Chengchou in Xuzhou.

Naturally, Zhu Chunchen could not let tens of thousands of his soldiers be dealt with by Datong like this. The Ming army in Kaifeng and Runing quickly mobilized to fight the Datong army in the Guide area.

The Datong Army of the Six Towns fought a battle with Zhu Chunchen's main force in Guide Mansion. Both sides fired countless artillery shells. Inside Guide Mansion, the sound of cannons rumbled like thunder, and large groups of soldiers clashed with each other. The cries of killing were extremely fierce.

Subsequently, the Datong Army launched support for the Guide area, mobilized two towns and mobilized troops from eight towns. Zhu Chunchen found it extremely difficult to resist in Guide, so he had to ask Hong Chengchou for help.
Chapter completed!