"The officials and gentry of Dezhou have been led by Taigong Xie and have presented their household registration album to the army."
In the last few days of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Laiheng received another piece of good news.
He had previously sent Xie Zheng to write a letter to Xie Sheng, Xie Bi and others, and indeed it played a great role. Xie Bi helped the Chu army open the city gate in Jinan, and Xie Sheng finally learned about the surrender of General Jiang of Datong. He put aside his aloof attitude and led the magistrates, guards, officials and gentry at all levels in Dezhou to open the city and ask for surrender.
In this way, except for a corner of the Denglai coast, most of the prefectures and counties in Shandong were basically occupied by the intruders.
Since the Chongzhen period, the Shandong area has suffered from the incoming and outgoing guest armies. There have also been major wars such as the Wuqiao Mutiny, and they were slaughtered and looted twice by the Qing army. The place is dilapidated, and the so-called "local bandits" and "local villages" "With no less than dozens of shares, the Ming court's rule in Shandong was already very fragile.
As soon as Li Laiheng's army arrived, he almost pacified a province without spending much effort. Compared with the situation in Suizhou where he had to fight hard for many years to gain a small area, it was really different.
After that, Li Laiheng listened to the advice of Fang Yiren, who had studied in Shandong, and recruited the local "country bandits" and "country village" forces in Shandong, and mixed them into the regular troops of the Breaking Army.
The local civilian rebels in Shandong are different in nature from the rebel army. They have a stronger temperament of local tyrants and heroes. The leaders of the rebels are many black and white leaders who are well-known in the local area, so Li Laiheng simply gave the proficient and " Xu Du, who dealt with "Heroes", used his power to act expediently and asked him to use the name of Shandong to recruit ambassadors, offer silver rewards, official titles, and recruit local Shandong native armed forces.
There were rebels Zhang Daya, Zhang Qianchu, and Han Jiben in the Lingshan Guard, and they joined forces with the Gaomi County rebels Shan Zhishang, Zhang Yu and other troops to besiege Jiaozhou. Xu Du went to Lingshan Guard in the name of Shandong Recruitment Envoy to recruit.
Zeng Hualong, the former governor of Dengzhou in the Ming Dynasty, also controlled part of the troops. He sent Dengzhou guard Teng Yinyu and other troops to attack the rebels. Li Haoxian, a local tycoon in Changyi County who originally accepted Li Laiheng's appointment as an official, also took the opportunity to lead his troops. Swarming in chaos.
Although the Lingshan Guards and Gaomi County rebels recruited by Xu Du were once repelled by the Dengzhou soldiers and were forced to lift the siege of Jiaozhou. But after that, Xu Du contacted Jimo Huang Zongxian in the name of Shandong's ambassador. On Saturday, Qiu Shangzuo, Wang Erxi and other tribes, as well as Pingdu Zhai Wushang, Zhang Guang and other tribes, jointly counterattacked and defeated Teng Yinyu. They also captured and killed local tyrant Li Haoxian, which shocked Jiaodong.
After that, the rebels in Manjiadong, Jiaxiang, armed the "Qingtian King" Gong Wencai, and the rebel troops led by Ma Yingzhao, Li Wensheng, Song Eryan, Yang Hongsheng, Yang Zhihua, Yan Qingyu and others in the Fujialou area also successively surrendered to the Chuang Army and accepted many The leaders of the capital were soon awarded positions ranging from brigade commander to department commander by Li Laiheng.
The local "Tuzhai" armed forces who were active in the Jiaodong Peninsula had a total of more than 100,000 family members and horses. Li Laiheng considered that Jinan Prefecture and Yanzhou Prefecture had suffered massacres and plunder by the Qing army, so that the number of civilian households had been reduced by half, It was decided to relocate all the landless family members and homeless abducted people in these "Tu Village" armed forces to Jinan and Yanzhou.
He planned to take this opportunity to continue to implement the methods of camps, farming, and militia that had been effective in Huguang in Shandong, restore the economy, and strengthen the people's power, and also take advantage of the situation to strengthen the control of the Chu army in Shandong.
It's just that Chen Xin, Chen Kexin and others have opened schools for rural officials in Xiangyang, Suizhou, Wuchang, and Hankou. But after all, it's still not long ago, and the newly trained township officials must first be assigned to major universities in Huguang where there is a shortage of manpower.
There are not many extra backbones in the prefectures and counties, and they can be transferred to Shandong to serve as officials.
So in general, the various new laws in Huguang are only slightly developed in Guide and Xuzhou, but they are far away from the whole Shandong.
However, even excluding the family members of the "Tuzhai", Li Laiheng recruited nearly 10,000 new soldiers from the local indigenous armed forces recruited from Xudu, eliminating the strong and leaving the weak. The weak and weak soldiers who were eliminated could also be placed with the newly occupied troops by the intruders.
In various states and counties, they temporarily served as militiamen and coaches.
Although their political stance may not necessarily be reliable, it is thought to be safer than demoting generals from the army, and being appointed in a different place can also avoid the worry of separatism in their local villages.
More worryingly, more than half of the reasons why these native village armed forces gathered in the mountains and forests were due to the Qing army's two invasions and massacres in the 11th and 15th years of Chongzhen.
Their hatred for the Eight Banners Soldiers is far beyond that of ordinary people.
When Zhang Daya, Zhang Qianchu and others were ordered to go to Jinan City to pay a visit to the former camp general of the Chuang Army, and the Northern Expeditionary Army's right-leg army was all lining up to envoy Li Laiheng, they happened to encounter the scene of the Chuang Army's public trial of Manchurian soldiers in the city.
In order to give full play to the role of the hundreds of Manchurian prisoners in his hands, Li Laiheng did not put them all on trial at once. Instead, he tried them slowly one by one in batches, time, and places. In Shandong occupied by the Chuang Army,
Each state and county takes turns to conduct a public trial.
When Zhang Daya first arrived in Jinan, the public trial he saw was the sixth public trial held by the Chuang Army against Manchurian prisoners in Jinan City.
The Manchus' bare scalps and tiny, wretched braids once left a terrifying impression on Zhang Daya. In the 11th year of Chongzhen's reign, he was just a military householder at the Qingshan Guards Station. Because the Qing army attacked Jinan, the imperial court
There were no soldiers to mobilize, so they were dragged to the battlefield even though they were called military households, but in fact they had never fought in a war for decades since they were born.
Zhang Daya, who was following more than a hundred of his fellow villagers, suddenly encountered a group of Manchurian cavalry in the eastern suburbs of Jinan City. Those Manchurian soldiers were like wolves and tigers, each wielding a lasso, and killed more than a dozen Qingshan Guards in one fell swoop.
The military household at the guard station was tied up.
The remaining people were frightened, and most of them fled in an instant. Although Zhang Daya was more courageous, he gripped the spear tightly and did not escape immediately. Instead, he felt that there were more than a hundred people on his side, and the Manchurian team was
There are less than twenty riders, so they should be capable of fighting.
Zhang Daya and his cousin stabbed the Manchu soldiers' horses with spears, but before he could react, his cousin was killed by an arrow from the Manchu soldiers.
Most people didn't have the courage to fight like Zhang Daya. The Manchurian soldiers rushed left and right, rushing into the formation. In one blow, they killed most of the dozens of people who had not escaped. Zhang was panicked.
Daya was tied up with a noose by the Manchu soldiers and taken back to Jinan along with other Han people Zhuang Shengkou.
It was only because the Qing army captured too many prisoners and managed them carelessly that Zhang Daya took advantage of one night to slowly break the rope and escape.
After he escaped, he originally wanted to go back to his hometown of Qingshan Guard, but the court blamed the fall of Jinan on the failure of the military households of Qingshan Guard Station to rescue the siege. Several generals were punished, and they later vented their anger on the escaped soldiers.
On the defeated soldiers.
Zhang Daya heard that one of his cousins had been accused of deserting and had been beheaded. He was afraid that he would make the same mistake again, so he never dared to return to his hometown, so he had no choice but to join the bandits in Jiaozhou. When the Qing army invaded again in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen,
There was great chaos in Shandong. The officers and soldiers could no longer even protect the city, and the local area was in chaos. Zhang Daya took the opportunity to gather people to build a local stronghold, and he gradually became the leader of an armed local stronghold.
On many nights, Zhang Daya had nightmares about returning to Chongzhen for eleven years. He dreamed hundreds of times that he was still tied up with a noose. In the dream, he was not as lucky as in reality, and he was not as lucky as in reality.
He did not break the rope and escape, but was taken away by the Manchus and became a slave of a wealthy Manchu family in the cold Liaodong.
Zhang Daya felt a strong sense of unreality when she looked at the Manchu soldiers on the high platform who were put on top hats and breastplates by the villagers.
The Manchu prisoners had a wooden sign hanging on their chest, which contained some substantiated crimes. Most of them were identified by local people and found to have participated in a certain massacre in a certain place, or to have participated in a certain massacre in a certain place.
Who to kill, what to plunder, etc.
These once arrogant and arrogant Manchu warriors now all wear tall hats made of straw paper. Their faces no longer look arrogant and mighty, but look timid and ridiculously timid.
Zhang Daya rubbed his eyes repeatedly, in disbelief at what he saw. He knew that the Chuang army seemed to have defeated the imperial army, but he never expected that the Chuang army had captured so many Manchus!
Is it true that a new dynasty is about to be founded?
A fire suddenly rose in his heart, and his stomach and chest were getting hotter and hotter. Li Sicheng, an officer of the army who was leading the way, couldn't help but look at Zhang Daya's unseen appearance.
smiled and said:
"Leader Zhang, our commander-in-chief has prepared all the military uniforms, armor, equipment, seals, and letters. We are waiting for you to come to Jinan City to collect them. You are one of the Jiaodong Rebels who came to Jinan to resume their duties. What does the commander-in-chief mean?
Well... Hey! At the very least, you can be a captain, maybe it is not impossible to become a captain."
Zhang Daya didn't know much about the military ranks of the Chuang Army, nor did he know what the terms "duwei" and "brigade commander" meant, so he asked cautiously: "May I ask, my lord, this captain, the officer in charge of the brigade, is equivalent to the imperial court...
…What kind of official position is it equivalent to in the previous dynasty?”
Li Sicheng smiled heartily and said: "Our Chu soldiers are slightly different from the Henan soldiers. This captain, in charge of the brigade, is already comparable to a general and a guerrilla. Leader Zhang...maybe he will be General Zhang soon. If you put this man on trial
If the conference is interested, you can stay in Jinan for a few more days. I heard that there are still forty or fifty real barbarians detained in the cells, and there will be a public trial and parade every five days!"