The vanguard of the Qing army, with at least 20,000 troops, has arrived in Juye County. Juye County is named after Daye Ze in the north, but Daye Ze disappeared as early as the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, and the name Juye still remains.
It has been preserved and has not changed for more than a thousand years.
The movement of heaven is constant, and it does not exist for Yao, nor does it perish for Jie.
Most of the soldiers of the Qing army, including Dorgon and a group of Aixinjueluo clan dignitaries, had not removed their armor and saddles for a day and a night.
The army galloped through the starry night, and after withdrawing from Kaizhou City, Bo Hetuo stayed and burned the Qing army's camp, and retreated step by step on guard against Liu Tichun's pursuit. Dorgon had already taken big steps, and he was not as Gu Junen expected
Instead of passing through Liaocheng, we headed south through the more difficult and difficult route of southwestern Shandong.
The Dashun Army's defense line in Shandong formed a crescent-shaped encirclement network against Azig in Jinan. After Boluo failed to raid Liaocheng, Shandong Economic Envoy Gu Kecheng transferred his reserve troops eastward.
Changfu strengthened the defense in Liaocheng area.
In this way, the entire southwestern Shandong region of Puzhou, Yuncheng, Juye, Jiaxiang, Jinxiang, Yutai... has completely become an undefended area with no military strength.
The Shun Army's garrison in Yanzhou Prefecture was small in number, and they were mainly concentrated in Ziyang, the capital city of Yanzhou Prefecture, Jining, the strategic point of the Grand Canal, and Qufu, a place of special significance.
The terrain of Shandong is mainly hilly, with bulging mountains in the central part, gentle hills in the east, but low-lying and flat areas in the southwest and northwest. Especially in the southwest of Shandong, it connects with northern Anhui and eastern Henan, forming a large plain with a vast hinterland.
Except for the Yellow River in the middle, as long as they crossed the Yellow River from southwest Shandong, the Qing army could march into the Central Plains unimpeded.
The plains of southwestern Shandong and northern Anhui and eastern Henan are thousands of miles of fertile land. It turns out that during the late Ming Dynasty in history, the officials and gentry in Kaifeng dug up the dams of the Yellow River, turning this area into a flooded yellow floodplain.
Now the Yellow River dams have been properly maintained by the Dashun Army. This land, which was often tortured by the power of nature due to the diversion of the Yellow River, rarely maintained a stable and peaceful situation in the chaotic times of the late Ming Dynasty.
As the central hinterland of the Dashun Army, southwestern Shandong, northern Anhui and eastern Henan have rarely been affected by the war. The new law of the camp is in full swing here. After the victory in Liaocheng, the matter of liberating slaves and slaves has also been carried out.
It has been put on the agenda in the Jin Palace, as if a new era has arrived, and the local people are enjoying a rare peace in the world of chaos.
However, the 100,000-strong Dongbu army left Hebei at this time and rushed into southwest Shandong. Dorgon personally led the two white flags as the vanguard to clear the way. The Manchurian armored cavalry burned and looted and swept past. For the Qing army, they suddenly came from Kaizhou City.
Withdrawing from the siege and breaking into the hinterland of the Dashun regime was an extremely risky move.
But this is also a helpless solution, because in a war of attrition, as long as the stalemate persists, victory will definitely belong to Dashun, which has stronger resource mobilization power.
The Qing army's 100,000 troops plundered Puzhou and Yuncheng. They no longer carried out indiscriminate and crazy killings like they did in daimyo. Instead, under the strict supervision of Dorgon, they maintained unprecedentedly strict military discipline and carried out killings and plunders.
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The purpose of the Donglu was to obtain food, and one hundred thousand troops broke into the hinterland of the Dashun regime. If something happened, this would be a battle without a rear.
The Qing army did not carry much food, so from the beginning Dorgon attached great importance to defeating the enemy with food. He ordered that wherever the army passed, the cellars of all cities and villages must be opened and the farmers' hidden food must be taken away.
The last spring seed.
Prince Rui did not show any sympathy for the famine after the spring.
His heart was completely filled with considerations of personal fame and fortune. Even the fate of the Qing court and the Manchu tribes were used by Dorgon as a tool for his struggle for power, let alone the common people in southwest Shandong.
Nikan held a waist knife stained with blood and filth in his hand, and galloped to Dorgon's army to report:
"Your Majesty, Juye County has been completely wiped out. All the grain grains have been lost to the army. There are many local traitors who have escaped. How should we deal with it?"
"How to deal with it?"
Dorgon was riding on a horse, and his expression looked much haggard and older than when he faced off with Li Laiheng in Shaanxi last year. There has been a rumor among the Manchus that Dorgon was a "sick man without good fortune."
He is not in good health. In recent times, due to being tired from military and political affairs, he has suffered from occasional illnesses and his energy has been declining. Now he is riding south without taking off his armor and saddle all day and night. He looks very ungraceful and unheroic.
Spirit.
Dorgon coughed twice and then said: "Originally, we should have wiped out all the cunning people. But now that the military is in trouble, the Qing Dynasty really has no time to waste on such treacherous people and local sticks. Leave them alone.
As long as we get the food, let’s not waste any time and head south immediately until we reach Xuzhou before we can stop for a short rest.”
The soldiers of the two white flags were all arranged in a solemn and neat line. Only their unsheathed butcher knives and the blood stains on their armor could tell what these Eight Banners soldiers had just done.
There are powerful rebel forces everywhere in Shandong, ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. However, Boluo's previous attack on Liaocheng raised Gu Kecheng's vigilance. After that, Shandong's envoy Xu Du was ordered to
Mobilize rebel armed forces from various places to the front lines of each defense line to prepare for enemy raids.
This reduced the resistance of the defenders in southwestern Shandong, playing into Dorgon's plan.
Dorgon also said: "In the second year of Chongde, the late emperor once issued a special edict saying, 'In the past Jin Xizong followed Han customs, wore Han clothes, and completely forgot the language of his country, and Taizu Taizong's career declined. My husband's bow arrows are my great skills.
, I don’t ride and shoot with you now, but I only indulge in feasting, so my military preparations will be rested. Every time I go hunting, I hope not to forget to ride and shoot, and train my soldiers diligently. The kings and beilefu turn to warn each other, so that future generations will not change the system of their ancestors. The sacred teachings of our ancestors
, descendants will not dare to forget it; ancestors have made it their own, and descendants cannot change it. 'Riding and shooting are my great skills; braiding hair is the foundation of my country. After the evil forces are pacified, we must continue to implement the order of shaving hair in the Central Plains."
Dorgon's tone was unusually calm and calm, as if he didn't know what the three words "order to shave his head" meant.
Nikan was also indifferent. Only Bo and Tuo added new worries about the future resistance of the Han people.
To pacify Chuang Ni? Even if Chuang Ni is really pacified, will the regent continue to implement the hair-shaving order? In that case, the Han people will inevitably continue to resist. After Chuang Ni is destroyed, there will always be other enemies.
Could the Manchus, a mere tribe of hundreds of thousands, really be able to kill all the tens of millions of Han people?
But Bo Hetuo didn't say this. He thought that Dorgon must have his own considerations. The hair-shaving order can identify loyalties and traitors, and can also force the rebels hiding in the Qing Dynasty to expose themselves. Maybe it's like this
, the regent always has the right considerations.
The army continued to march southward, and all the soldiers of the Qing army, including some pampered young clan dignitaries, were now moving forward desperately under the pressure of the regent.
Everyone knows that since the Qing army withdrew from Kaizhou City, they have embarked on a road with no turning back.
Now we can only move forward. No matter how slow Chuang Ni's reaction is, no matter how clever Dorgon's deployment and planning from southwestern Shandong to Xuzhou is, the enemy will always react.
"The enemy has probably received the news that Puzhou and Yuncheng have been looted by us." Bo Hetuo said, "If nothing unexpected happens, the main force of the evil forces may have chased Puzhou by now. We must also speed up the pace.
That’s it, there really isn’t much time left for the Qing Dynasty.”
Dorgon's whole body was wrapped in white cloth armor. Manchurians were accustomed to the cold weather, but the regent's sick body seemed a little unable to endure the Shandong winter.
He exhaled white breath and said to Fan Wencheng, who was following the army in embarrassment: "Xuzhou is a famous ancient battlefield, right?"
Fan Wencheng said yes, and Dorgon added: "After crossing the Yellow River and arriving in Henan, you won't have to worry about food!"