Jinan Prefecture, Jinyiwei Yamen.

Thousand Houses Loft.

A huge map is placed on a table, with Qingzhou Prefecture written in the most conspicuous position, and other places also have the names of Yidu, Linzi, Boxing, Shouguang and other counties respectively. It is obviously a detailed map of Qingzhou Prefecture.

In addition, hundreds of small colorful flags divided three arrows on the map, one directly pointing to Qingzhou Prefecture, one pointing to Juzhou, and the other pointing to Gaoyuan County.

"Ganyang, Wu Feng, Peng Guan, you three have brought 20,000 troops to attack Linzi, bring all the siege equipment, and after taking Linzi, they will surround Qingzhou Prefecture, and only siege not attack, waiting for others."

Su Hao pointed to the map and said, "Tian Ming, Liang Ping, Jiang Shizhong, you three brought 20,000 troops to attack Gao Yuan, and after taking Gao Yuan, Boxing, Le'an and other places, they would join forces with Gan Yang to attack the city."

"Guo Hong, Liao Qing, you two have brought 30,000 troops to attack Juzhou and take down all the counties in Qingzhou Prefecture as much as possible."

The 140,000 army led by Wang Congyi has almost completely drained the troops of the entire Shandong. Now there are not many troops left in the Shandong prefectures. Only the Qingzhou Left Guard and Hengwangfu Yiwei Department, and the Hengshan Pastoral Office are the escorts of Hengwangfu. The former guards of the royal palace, while the latter raises horses for the royal palace.

Because of his performance when he attacked other counties in Jinan Prefecture, the wealthy families in Qingzhou Prefecture basically did not take the initiative to recruit village warriors for each prefecture. After all, he is not the real White Lotus Sect. Those real White Lotus Sect are people who cannot survive. Every time they capture a county town, they will immediately loot wealthy families. This practice will naturally make all wealthy families fight to the death. After all, they don’t want to die, and their property will be stolen.

Throughout the dynasties, those who won the world have never won the hearts of the people, but those who won the hearts of gentry. In terms of winning the hearts of the people, who can compare with Li Zicheng and others. However, since ancient times, who have won the world, has won the world? Even Zhu Yuanzhang did not win the world by relying on the common people.

"Yes, Qianhu!"

Hearing Su Hao's orders, everyone responded.

Soon after, three troops and horses left Qingzhou Prefecture in three groups. For a moment, the whole Shandong shook again.

………

Qingzhou Prefecture City, government office.

The prefect Liu Yingjiu and the commander of the Qingzhou Left Guard Gao Ting were both worried. The rebels came to attack. It was only more than 200 miles from Jinan Prefecture City to Qingzhou Prefecture City. There was a tiger next to them. Naturally, they would not take it lightly.

"Commander Gao, now the rebels are coming to this side, what should we do?"

Liu Yingjiu had a bitter face. Why did he encounter such a thing? Wang Congyi is really a waste. He could still be defeated with more than 100,000 troops.

what to do?

Hearing Liu Yingjiu's words, Gao Ting almost rolled his eyes. Since he became the commander of the Qingzhou Left Guard, he has been to the camp for a few times. Now he is temporarily rushing to the ducks on the shelves. How do he know what to do?

Since the Tumu Fort Incident, civil servants have never stopped occupying military power. In the capital, the Ministry of War swallowed most of the power of the Five Army Governor's Office and set up military patrols and military preparation roads in the local area, which were held by senior officials of the Censorate Division. The duties of military preparation roads are to train troops, suppress bandits, farm farms, food and pay, and to steal all the powers of these guard commanders.

….

In the entire Shandong garrison, except for the guard commander of the Yanhe garrison directly under the governor of the garrison, who had to escort grain and had some power, the guard commander of other garrisons was similar to him, and he had not been to the camp several times in more than ten years.

This time, Su Hao brought down the officials from the Censorate of the Execution and Censorate in Jinan Prefecture City. The Jinan Prefecture did not retake it, and the court was not ashamed to reappoint officials such as the Censorate and Censorate, so he could only lead the garrison. However, he had not even been to the camp for more than ten years, let alone studying military books. Now he suddenly asked him to take care of him, what else could he do?

【In view of this,

But after thinking about it, Gao Ting still said, "Prince, there are only more than 2,000 soldiers in the garrison station. It is difficult to defend the city. The magistrate might as well go to the Heng Palace, lend out the escorts in the palace, and then ask the wealthy families in the city to donate one more.

Just get some money and food to recruit some township soldiers to help defend the city.”

When Liu Yingjiu heard Gao Ting's method, he looked even more bitter. If this method was useful, he would have used it long ago, but there was no such thing as the guards of the royal palace were not something he could mobilize, and the wealthy families in the city ignored him. What could he do?

The first two months were the critical moments of tax collection, but Su Hao often sent people to various counties to interfere with tax collection, resulting in the fact that the city did not collect much tax at all. There were no donations from wealthy families, and the government did not have any money to recruit rural brave men. Moreover, Su Hao gave such high treatment when recruiting new recruits, but he could not give such high treatment.

But he had no choice but to use these wealthy families. These people have their own backers in the officialdom. Even if they don't donate, he has no choice. After all, these people have not colluded with rebels, so he cannot come to the door to search the house.

"Main Lord, King Heng takes the escort of the prince's mansion to leave the city!"

At this time, a yamen runner hurried in.

"What did you say?"

When Liu Yingjiu heard the words of the yamen run, his face suddenly changed. If even King Heng runs away, then a large number of wealthy families and people may also follow him, and the entire Qingzhou Prefecture will be completed.

"Go and stop it."

After coming back to his senses, Liu Yingjiu said quickly.

On the other hand, Jiang Shizhong and others divided into three groups and approached Qingzhou Prefecture. There were only a few townships in each county, and they could not stop the army led by Jiang Shizhong and others. Every time they arrived at a county, they took the county town without spending much money.

………

Jinan Prefecture, Jinyiwei Yamen.

"Master, according to Jiang Baihu and his friends who sent people to repay, they have already taken down Linzi, Gaoyuan, and Boxing cities, and are moving towards Qingzhou Prefecture. Do we need to send people to support?"

Ding Zimo bowed.

"unnecessary."

Su Hao waved his hand while looking through the official documents: "Just train them."

Except for Jinan Prefecture and Kaifeng Prefecture, there are not many masters in other prefecture cities. For example, Qingzhou Prefecture, there are generally about seven or eight first-class warriors. Although Jiang Shizhong and others have fewer masters, they have an advantage in military strength. In general, they still have an absolute advantage.

….

Before, Tang Xiangjin had made enough contributions to Dongchang Prefecture. Now Tang Xiangjin, Yang Bao, Hao Yi, He Liu and Luo Yi were left to guard Dongchang Prefecture by him. Now Jiang Shizhong and the others should have some performance. Otherwise, when he takes over Qingzhou Prefecture and arrives in the second prefecture, he is preparing to establish a country and become an emperor. When he rewards merits, he is likely to be the only one who is the only one who is the only one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the

This will go against the balance he has always been intentionally maintained. It is not that he is suspicious, but that he is planning ahead. It is better to be prepared in advance than to turn against each other in the future.

Besides, Tang Xiangjin cannot rely solely on the army. As the territory he occupied became larger and larger, more and more places needed to defend, and Tang Xiangjin did not have the ability to clone, so Jiang Shizhong and the others must grow up as soon as possible.

"Zi Mo, please arrange people to go to those county towns to recruit new recruits."

After thinking for a while, Su Hao spoke, he only received more than 20,000 local guards from Shandong, and the others were arranged to farm. The roots of these people were not here. Once the court attacked again, these people would be unstable.

Therefore, his always conscription standard is local, preferably under his rule, because in this way, he can ensure the loyalty of these soldiers to the greatest extent.

"Yes, Master."

Ding Zimo nodded.

At this time, Su Hao put down the official document in his hand and said with a serious expression: "Zi Mo, how are the personal guards I asked you to form now?"

When Luo Yi and the others were asked to establish the Four Seas Gang, he had been training his personal soldiers. However, in order to avoid suspicion, he had not trained many personal soldiers. Now he has rebelled. Naturally, he must have his own direct personal soldiers. Although his strength is already strong enough now, he cannot do everything himself. Besides, the strong

A tiger cannot hold back the wolves and does not have its own personal soldiers. Once someone has a strange intention, he may be surrounded and killed.

Ding Zimo replied: "Master, there are now thousands of candidates for personal guards, and there are 121 official personal guards."

"No hurry to do this, take it slowly."

Su Hao nodded and said, "The requirements cannot be relaxed. Joining the personal guards must at least have the strength to be in the right place, and the training of bows and arrows cannot be left behind."

Now his strength is enough to protect himself, and he rarely leaves the capital, so he does not have that urgent demand for personal soldiers, so he has high requirements for personal soldiers, at least he must have in-class strength. After all, with his current strength, at least the innate masters can threaten him, and ordinary soldiers can't help him at all.

As for bow and arrow training, for innate masters, even intra-level warriors, it is difficult for them to approach him. The only ones that can affect innate masters are long-range weapons. Muskets and other things are difficult to inject internal strength, but bows and arrows are different. Under the influence of internal strength, the power of bow and arrow is much greater than that of ordinary muskets.

Although it is unlikely to kill the innate master, even the innate master dares not carry the bows and arrows shot by the incoming warriors with their physical body. After all, they will still be somewhat injured.

"Don't worry, Master."

Ding Zimo nodded.

………

Time passed little by little, and the 40,000 army led by Jiang Shizhong, Gan Yang and others gathered outside the city of Qingzhou. For a moment, countless people in the city were in panic.

….

In the tent of the commander, Gan Yang, Wu Feng, Peng Guan, Tian Ming, Liang Ping and Jiang Shizhong looked at the city map of Qingzhou Prefecture. As the provincial capital of Shandong, Jinan Prefecture naturally had detailed maps of each prefecture.

"Old Tian, ​​how do you think this Qingzhou Prefecture City should be fought?"

Looking at the map, Jiang Shizhong felt a little overwhelmed. Although he had been studying military books recently, he had no foundation in this area before, and he was not even half a bucket of water for the time being. The walls of Qingzhou Prefecture City were extremely high, a little higher than Dongchang Prefecture. The only advantage was that the terrain was not too steep.

"Attack hard."

After looking at the map, Tian Ming said in a deep voice: "We have absolute advantages in terms of military strength and enough siege equipment. We will lead the team to attack from the north to attract the attention of the defenders in the city. You and Liang Ping will take thousands of people to the south wall to attract the attention of the other party and distract their troops. If you have the opportunity, you will attack the city. If you don't have the chance, then divide the troops to other city walls. The opponent has only more than 4,000 people, so you will definitely not be able to divide too many troops."

"good."

Jiang Shizhong nodded. They had absolute military strength and could completely make the other party run away.

A moment later, Jiang Shizhong and Liang Ping each led 5,000 people to the south and east walls.

On the city wall, Liu Yingjiu looked at the seven or eight tall arrow towers outside the city and couldn't help but feel cold in his heart. Each of these arrow towers is four feet high, while the city walls of Qingzhou Prefecture City are only three or seven feet high. Although one arrow tower can carry not many soldiers, seven or eight arrow towers can carry six or seven hundred archers, and the advantages of Qingzhou Prefecture City's wall were offset a lot.

"Commander Gao, do you think we can defend it?"

Liu Yingjiu whispered in a low voice.

Keep it?

After taking a look at the siege equipment of the army outside the city, Gao Ting looked helpless. Arrow towers, red barbarian cannons, tiger squat cannons, rushing cars, siege hammer chariots, almost all heavy siege equipment.

There are tens of thousands of defenders in the city now. Liu Yingjiu and King Heng jointly captured all the young and strong men in the city and forced them to defend the city. However, the morale is said that under the supervision of the supervision team, no one has escaped for the time being.

Moreover, not only those strong men, but even the soldiers of his garrisons had no fighting spirit. The rebels' recruitment treatment had spread throughout Shandong. They were given silver, land, rent, and labor service. It can be said that if it were not for their personal soldiers who supervised the soldiers, the soldiers of the garrisons would have offered the city directly. This kind of morale still wanted to defend Qingzhou Prefecture City. He could only say that Liu Yingjiu really dared to think about it!

At this time, the army outside the city began to gather, and a large number of soldiers were arranged in a row. A wooden chariot and a carriage were arranged in front. Thousands of soldiers were carrying sacks behind them, obviously loading sand and stones to fill the moat. In addition, there were also large ones.

A large number of shield soldiers held shields to cover the soldiers.

At this time, eight red cannons were pushed onto a temporary turret.

Reload!

ignition!

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Under the influence of gunpowder, six solid iron balls weighing 20 kilograms turned into a small black dot with terrifying kinetic energy, and quickly crossed the sky, and then rushed towards the city wall!

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

For a moment, it seemed as if the earth was shaking, and smoke and dust covered a small section of the city wall. Some were stomped and smashed, and the cracked gravel killed and injured several soldiers. Some smashed a big hole on the city wall, and some directly smashed into the city.

At this time, the army began to advance slowly, and soldiers carrying sacks approached the moat under the cover of siege equipment.

"Arrow!"

"fire!"

Seeing the rebels approaching, Liu Yingjiu yelled hurriedly.

Hearing Liu Yingjiu's words, the drummer quickly beat the drum and sent an order.
Chapter completed!