As night fell, Hong Chengchou stood on the top of the mountain and looked at the brightly lit Ming army camp at the foot of the mountain. He felt very moved: If he had known this, it would have been better than to die for the country and leave a good reputation. It is estimated that reinforcements would not be able to come at all. Although the Ming army had only more than 25,000 cavalry, the Huai army was too elite. Perhaps more than 200,000 Qing army heading south to reinforce might be blocked by the 25,000 Ming army cavalry, so Hong Chengchou's 150,000 Qing army became an isolated army.

"Sir, I am willing to lead 10,000 troops from our headquarters to attack Li Laoer's camp at night!" Li Yong pointed to the Huai Army camp at the foot of the mountain and volunteered to fight.

Hong Chengchou cursed: "Don't be fooled! Then Li Ergou is the best at night attacks. What kind of traitors cooperate, authentic attacks, and various attack methods emerge one after another. The tricks have never been repeated. If you attack Li Laoer at night, wouldn't that be a show of his avatar?"

Indeed, as Hong Chengchou said, the Qing army had no chance of success in attacking the Huai Army. Several towers were set up in the Huai Army camp, and bonfires were lit outside, torches were inserted on the village walls, soldiers were guarding at night, soldiers were patrolling in the camp from time to time in the camp; patrol soldiers and secret posts lurking everywhere on the outside.

The Huai Army camp was heavily guarded, so the Qing army could not have the opportunity to attack at night. Dig tunnels? There was no possibility of digging tunnels from the mountain to the bottom of the mountain.

Hong Chengchou gave up his unrealistic night attack plan and could only stay on the mountain and wait for assistance. He only hoped that the 200,000 Qing reinforcements from the north could arrive here smoothly and rescue them.

Unfortunately, Hong Chengchou was disappointed again. He went to intercept the Qing army's Huai cavalry. With his excellent weapons and flexible tactics, he could completely stop 200,000 Qing army reinforcements.

In the northeast of Nanyang, in the Gaolao Mountain and Wulipo, several green figures poked out from the grass on the hillside. These figures were not only wearing green military uniforms, but also wearing green mesh cloth. Grass leaves and branches were woven on the mesh cloth, which looked like they were integrated with nature. Even if the enemy walked in front of them, it was difficult to find them.

These figures stared at the foot of the mountain in a flash. Soon after, they discovered that the Qing army was coming. The front of the operation was a Mongolian Eight Banners cavalry of about 10,000 people, followed by five thousand Eight Banners cavalry.

After the Qing cavalry passed, there were groups of green camp infantry soldiers behind. In the middle of the team was the Wuzhenchaoha camp of the Han Eight Banners, and at the end were auxiliary soldiers driving mules and donkeys, pulling various supplies and following the Qing army to the southwest. Now the Qing army's logistics convoy is also equipped with many four-wheeled trucks bought from the Ming Dynasty at high prices. However, the number of four-wheeled trucks only accounts for a small part of the auxiliary soldiers, and most of the Qing army's auxiliary soldiers still use old two-wheeled carriages.

The four-wheeled truck is easy to use, with a large cargo capacity, a solid body, and lightweight to run, but the price is too expensive. The Qing court could not afford such a high price, so it was impossible to replace all the supplies vehicles with four-wheeled freight vehicles.

Because the Qing Dynasty had shortage of food and various materials before, it was necessary to spend silver to import goods from the Ming Dynasty. As a result, the silver flowing water from the Qing Dynasty flowed into the pockets of the Ming merchants, causing the embarrassment of lack of silver.

In fact, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty were not unreasonable. They had to trade silver. But the question is, where can the Qing Dynasty get the goods that can be exchanged with the Ming Dynasty? In addition to the very small output of Dongzhu, mink and ginseng, there are also Liao ginseng and medicinal materials. Although these things are high-end goods, the output is too low. It is just a piece of grain import. It cannot be paid by relying on these goods, and it requires a lot of money.

What's more, the Qing Dynasty not only imported food, but also imported cotton, silk, tea, tobacco, salt and other goods. These goods are necessities of daily life, and now tobacco has become necessities of daily life. Whether it is the Eight Banners soldiers or the Green Camp, they are obsessed with tobacco produced in the Ming Dynasty. People who are addicted to smoking will be exhausted and feel uncomfortable if they don't smoke.

The huge trade deficit in the Qing Dynasty caused a large loss of silver. Later, Dorgon was inspired by the paper money issued by major silver accounts in the Ming Dynasty and also established the Qing Dynasty royal silver account, which was created by Fan Yongdou.

After Fan Yongdou founded the Royal Bank of the Qing Dynasty, he made a lot of money at the beginning because the printed banknotes could be exchanged for real goods. Where can I make more profitable business in the world than starting a printing machine?

Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. Not long after, the Qing Dynasty treasure banknotes began to depreciate wildly. From the beginning, one tael of silver treasure banknotes were exchanged for one tael of silver. First, the treasure banknotes that were turned into one tael of silver could only be exchanged for one qian, and then the treasure banknotes that fell to one tael of silver could only be exchanged for one copper plate. Of course, the denomination of the Qing Dynasty treasure banknotes was also printed larger and larger, from the initial maximum denomination of ten taels of silver, to one hundred taels and one thousand taels...

Now, the Qing Dynasty treasure banknote with a denomination of 100,000 taels of silver can only be exchanged for a copper plate! The Qing Dynasty treasure banknote with a maximum denomination can reach an astonishing tens of millions of silver! In other words, in the current Qing Dynasty, everyone is a billionaire, even beggars, a millionaire of tens of millions of dollars.

The collapse of the economy forced the Qing Dynasty to start killing chickens and retrieving eggs. However, Dorgon was not able to attack the gentry who supported the Qing Dynasty, so he simply slaughtered all the Shanxi merchants as fat pigs, and tried to make Shanxi merchants pay for the Qing Dynasty every day. By squeezing Shanxi merchants, the economic crisis of the Qing Dynasty was barely resolved.

But now that Dorgon is dead, Shunzhi, who is in charge of power, has made the economy mess.

Every Eight Banners soldier and Green Battalion soldier was a billionaire, and they were filled with a lot of Qing treasure money in their pockets, but these Qing treasure money were actually a pile of waste paper. Shunzhi's slutty operation made even the Eight Banners soldiers dissatisfied with the Qing Dynasty at first, let alone those bitter Green Battalion soldiers.

After Ye Bushe, who was ambushing the mountain, discovered the Qing army and immediately sent a signal to Cao Bianjiao and Wang Fuchen.

The signal transmission is very simple. From the top of the mountain to Cao Bianjiao and his central army, every 300 to 500 steps, there is a signal soldier carrying a flag every 300 to 500 steps. Ye Buyan sent the message to the signal soldier, and the signal soldier sent the flag-speaking signal, and then the next signal soldier sent the flag-speaking signal. In this way, Ye Buyanjiao found the information and was sent to Cao Bianjiao twenty miles away.

In addition to the night-don-stop hidden on the top of the mountain, there are also night-don-stop riding horses, marching around, and the Jinyiwei spies who are active in various places as ordinary people. The Huai Army has made great efforts to ensure the transmission of battlefield intelligence.

Just when Cao Bianjiao and his friends discovered the 200,000 Qing troops who came to reinforce, Li Guodong obtained an important military information through the Jinyiwei.

The secret spy stationed outside the pass released a Haidongqing. This Haidongqing was familiar with the information station set up by Li Guodong in Wuchang, and an important piece of information was sent to the battlefield in Xiangyang through a fast horse.

Li Guodong opened the information and saw that it read: "The puppet empress dowager of the Qing Dynasty has asked for help from the outer vassal Mongolia. In addition to the Korchin Mongolia, they will send 100,000 troops into the pass, and the various foreign vassal Mongolian troops will also send 200,000 troops into the pass."

"Things are getting more and more complicated!" Li Guodong sneered, "This battle in Xiangyang is crucial. If Hong Chengchou and the Qing army that came down from the north to reinforce as soon as possible, then the 200,000 troops of the foreign vassal Mongolia will be used by me soon! Our enemy will only be more than 100,000 Korqin Mongolian troops left! If it can be operated well, Korqin Mongolia can be used by me!"

"Dude, the Korqin Mongols are ally of Jiannu and enemies of our army. Can they use it for me?" Wang Quan asked.

"Of course it can be used for me!" Li Guodong smiled, "As long as we defeat the Qing Dynasty, we will have a way to make the Korqin people surrender. They are not stupid and will not be buried with the doomed Qing Dynasty."
Chapter completed!