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Chapter 335 Engineering
Zhu Yousong pretended to be cowardly, and in the event of victorious battles, he assumed a posture of giving in and seeking peace, and sent Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Damu as envoys for peace talks to the Qing army camp in Baishagang and Luoyang City respectively to seek peace. During the news period, the Ming army was not idle for a day, and it can be said that it was working around the clock to meet the construction period.

Zhu Yousong concluded that the Tatars would not have any results soon, and at least ten and a half days would be enough time. Even if Dorgon agreed to sign the peace agreement, it would be in vain. Dorgon's ambition will never agree to the peace talks, so Zhu Yousong doesn't have to worry about making false statements during the intermediary.

The reason why Zhu Yousong is so confident is because of Zhu Yousong's understanding of Dorgon, which is also the mystery of Zhu Yousong's plan to delay the army.

Just before the angel officer of the Qing Dynasty arrived at the front line in Luoyang with Dorgon's decree, several major projects in the Ming army's camp had all been completed.

Now Zhu Yousong is taking He Xuanjiao, Li Quan, Liu Chunhong and others to see the first project. In fact, Zhu Yousong has not been idle for a day these days. For example, there are three projects, and Zhu Yousong watched the construction every day.

Although he knew that the Tartars would not come to make trouble these days, one was the new defeat of the Tartars, and the other was the temptation or interference of the peace talks, but Mingying's war preparations did not relax at all. Zhu Yousong still let Liu Zhaoji's imperial camp and Ma Jinhua's loyalty The battalion is in charge, and the general Zu Keyong cooperates with Ma Bao. Now Ma Bao's injuries are all healed.

The first project designed by Zhu Yousong was to build a circular closed city wall inside the gate of the camp. The community built by the construction developer is like enclosing the community with a simple wall before the community is completed.

But this is not an ordinary wall. It can be regarded as a formal anti-dumping fortress. The height of the wall is [-] feet, and the width of the wall is [-] meters. As a result, there are countless window holes lined up on the wall, people can look out inside, and they can fire guns and arrows outside, just like the bunker built by the Japanese invaders.

After the wall was repaired, Zhu Yousong's wilderness camp turned into a small city, and the wall became a city wall, but there were no buildings in the city, only tents, no people, only the emperor of Ming Dynasty and tens of thousands of troops.

There are tunnel entrances and exits on the inside of the city wall, which can lead to the tents inwards and lead to the mountains and forests several miles away.

This tunnel is the second major project designed by Zhu Yousong. This is the retreat route of the Ming army. It was completely concealed. Thousands of Ming troops rushed to the project day and night. Zhu Yousong took several courtiers to complete the project. I am quite satisfied after seeing the city wall. It is not easy to build such a city wall in just ten days.

Zhu Yousong has now entered the tunnel, which is not wide enough to accommodate one person and one rider, but there are several such tunnel camps, and it is not difficult for tens of thousands of horses to evacuate from here.The tunnel was several miles long, and when Zhu Yousong rode his thousand-mile lamp out of the tunnel, it suddenly became clear that there was a mountain forest outside, which had already been secretly controlled by the Ming army.

The air in the mountains is fresh and the scenery is pleasant.

Zhu Yousong turned around and returned to the camp along the tunnel. Now he began to look at the third project. Relatively speaking, this project was the simplest and the most critical. Zhu Yousong had been planning for so many days, all counting on this It's a project, and the others are all decorations or props.

The third project is divided into two parts, the underground part and the above-ground part. The above-ground part is relatively simple. There are dry firewood, withered grass and some perishable things between the camps, piled up one by one, almost side by side. There is a stack of firewood and grain depots of the Ming army on the surface.

But in fact it is not the case. The above are fire starters, and the focus is on the underground construction. The underground construction is all in the tents, and the tents are all shallowly buried with explosives and shells.

In the former, the Tartars attacked the Ming camp at night, and one hundred thousand Qing troops stormed the Ming camp from the south and north camps. At that time, Zhu Yousong was not willing to fire a single shot. It turned out that all the ammunition was reserved for them, and now it is used intensively. Here it is.

Zhu Yousong collected all the explosives, as well as all the artillery shells in the artillery battalion. Li Zhushi, the commander of the artillery battalion, was still a little puzzled at the time, but now he finally knows what His Majesty's plan is. After the shallow burial, Li Zhushi was puzzled again, can explosives and shells be used in this way?

However, when he saw that there were piles of firewood and other flammable objects outside the camp, he suddenly realized it, and praised him with his big finger in his heart. His Majesty is really a genius, and he came up with such a unique trick. Let's see how unlucky the Tartars are!
After seeing all the projects, Zhu Yousong was very satisfied. After calculating the time, he felt that the Qing court should have news soon.

Sure enough, in the evening of that day, Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Damu returned to the camp from Baishagang Qing army camp and Luoyang City successively. All care and regards.

The two uncles and nephews clasped their hands together and smiled, and said humorously: "Thank you, my lords are concerned, the Tartars are really filial, every day there is wine, meat, singing, dancing, and beautiful women. If we don't think about your majesty's kindness and the benefits of everyone, we are really a little I don't want to come back."

Everyone laughed.Amidst the laughter, Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Damu saw Zhu Yousong knelt down and saluted, "Your Majesty, the Tartars do not agree with the peace talks, so let the humble officials come back and send you a message, asking you to surrender unconditionally and capture you without a fight, otherwise our big brother will be killed." Turned into dust."

"Hahaha..." Zhu Yousong laughed loudly, "Okay, okay, Dorgon, who knows me, is what I want, and I won't let them down, and my camp will soon be reduced to ashes. Come on, pass on my will. Tonight, all the cannons, food, grass, horses, etc. must be transferred to the forest five miles southwest of the camp. Zheng Damu and Zu Keyong led 5000 troops to be responsible for the security in the forest. Will all go into the wall, ready for battle."

Under Zhu Yousong's order, each battalion moved separately, and the Ming camp became busy.Under the night, those who loaded cars, led horses, and pushed cannon carts were extremely busy. Although there were no shells and explosives for the time being, Zhu Yousong was reluctant to throw away these cannons, as well as food, grass, horses, tents, etc. Nothing can be left behind.

I was busy until the third watch, before I settled down according to Zhu Yousong's will. Then I saw that the tents in the camp were gone, and they were all piles of firewood and flammable things.Except for the scouts and Jin Yiwei who tipped off the news, there was not a single Ming army on the ground, and they all entered the tunnels and walls. Zhu Yousong ordered the battalions to rest in place and not to leave the designated positions without authorization.

Zhu Yousong knew that the Tartars were going to make a big move soon, everything was ready, and they were waiting for the Tartars to come and die.

(End of this chapter)