The King of Jin has not arrived yet, but the King of England has already arrived.
Azig suddenly left Jinan and went south to attack with all his strength the Dashun Army's consolidated defense line originally built on Mount Tai, Guishan, Guanshan, Liangfushan, Gongshan, Sishui, Fangshan, Peiwei Mountain, and Mengshan. The offensive was so fierce that
It completely copied Jierhalang's tactics against Taiyuan.
The Qing army obviously wanted to do whatever it took, at least to contain the Dashun Army and other Shandong garrison troops, and at the most to achieve the goal of joining forces with Dorgon in Xuzhou.
The Azige East Route Army has tens of thousands of troops, including the first-class elite soldiers of the Eight Banners of Manchuria like the Xianghuang Banner and the Zhenghuang Banner of Hauge's old department. Such a powerful army has been "residing" in Jinan until now, recuperating its strength.
It also caused the Shandong battlefield to fall silent for a time.
Now, with the furious advance of Dorgon's Middle Route Army, Azig's actions finally became rapid.
The Eastern Route Army of the Qing Dynasty abandoned Jinan and went south with all its strength, aiming at Xuzhou. The mighty army stretched for more than ten miles across Mount Tai. The troops of Geng Zhongming, the king of Sanshun, were also deployed by Dorgon.
In the Azige battle, this army also had no shortage of heavy artillery for siege.
The terrain of Shandong is gentle in the southwest and densely mountainous and hilly in the central part. To reach Xuzhou from Jinan, Azig inevitably needs to pass through the steep mountainous area near Mount Tai.
Although the original strength of the Dashun Army here was mobilized several times due to the Battle of Liaocheng, and later because Gu Kecheng and Xu Du rushed to Xuzhou to set up defenses, it had been weakened a lot.
But based on the high mountains and ridges, it is not too difficult to fight against tens of thousands of Eastern Route Army troops and contain them for a period of time.
Ma Bao, Dang Shousu, and Ren Jirong, who were originally gathered near Dongchang Prefecture, had already moved to central and southern Shandong to assist in defense as early as when Dorgon broke into the hinterland of Shandong from southwest Shandong.
Now the troops under the command of the three generals of the Dianqian Army were mobilizing in the direction that Azig was heading. The two armies, which were marching rapidly, met unexpectedly in the mountainous area of central Shandong.
This was a very cleverly timed encounter. Ma Bao, Dang Shousu, Ren Jirong and other troops did not learn about the Azige East Route Army going south until they arrived in Dongping Prefecture.
The battle broke out in the form of an encounter, which was more or less beyond the expectations of both armies. However, the Shun army was able to rely on its original mountain defense line to fight and gain the upper hand in the situation.
And there is an even more important point.
That is Guo Sheng.
From Deputy General Liugou of the Ming Army to Shandong Jiedu Envoy of Dashun Army, Guo Sheng has been stationed at the former enemy headquarters in Yidu, Qingzhou Prefecture during this period, responsible for resisting Azig's defense line in the hills of central and eastern Shandong.
After Azige moved southward, the Qing troops behind Jinan fell into a vacuum. Guo Sheng did not follow Azige step by step, but instead boldly led thousands of elite troops from Qingzhou Prefecture directly into Azige East Road.
The rear hinterland of the army.
Since the Qing army had very few troops left in Jinan, although Guo Sheng's troops only had a few thousand men, Guo Sheng had already appointed Ma Yingzhao, a famous local hero in Shandong, to serve as the vanguard.
Therefore, wherever the Dashun army reached, those gentry and heroes who could not bear the brutality of the Qing army and the humiliation of the hair-cutting order, as well as the tenant farmers and domestic slaves who were attracted by Dashun's liberated slaves and low status, all ate the juice from the pots.
Ying Liang Jingcong.
Within a few days of Guo Sheng's attack, gentry, heroes, poor peasants, miners, wealthy businessmen, and people of all kinds from the three counties of Zouping, Xincheng, and Changshan all came to greet him.
The Han people have untied the shameful, ugly and terrifying pig tail braids on the back of their heads, re-tied their crowns and nets, and resumed Han clothing.
The Qing army basically left few real Manchu soldiers in all the states and counties of Jinan Prefecture. Except in the city of Jinan, Azig left hundreds of Manchu soldiers and more than 2,000 other banner soldiers and horses.
Apart from the 7,000 Han soldiers of the Green Camp guarding the city, in all other prefectures and counties in Shandong occupied by the Qing army, only the Green Camp soldiers remained.
Now the people are rising up and organizing themselves to fight against the Qing army. Not long after Azig sent troops, his rear base camp has already fallen into complete turmoil and chaos.
Soldiers and civilians rose up in droves. Although these people lacked military experience, the Sixiang soldiers were all temporarily organized farmers with no combat experience at all. Although they were large in number, they could not fight against the regular Qing army.
However, Guo Sheng's subordinate Ma Yingzhi, one of the armed leaders of the Shandong Rebel Army, had already dispatched many key military officers and non-commissioned officers. Relying on Ma Yingzhi's local connections in Shandong, he had penetrated into the prefectures and counties of Jinan and made arrangements with many famous people in advance.
The gentry and the heroic leader established contact.
After rebels emerged in various places, these key officers of the compliant army quickly helped the gentry and powerful men who lacked military experience to assume the responsibility of organizing and training the army.
So at the beginning, a small number of Green Camp soldiers were able to easily suppress a large number of revolting people. However, with the addition of key officers of the Dashun Army, and after reorganization and reorganization, the Green Camp left behind by the Qing government, which was not particularly powerful in terms of combat capabilities, was
Bing immediately felt a completely different pressure.
After thousands of Dashun regular troops led by Guo Sheng personally arrived in Zouping, the people responded one after another. Civil uprisings broke out in Jinan and Zhangqiu, and dozens of armed groups of rebels appeared, intercepting and killing Qing troops.
The troops and logistics equipment made the situation in Jinan Prefecture favorable to the army.
Before thousands of Guo Sheng's roundabout troops arrived in Zhangqiu County, the local people and gentry had already taken action spontaneously. At that time, the county magistrate was trying to recruit civilians to repair the city defenses and guard the city walls, but unexpectedly he was surrounded by subordinate officials from the county.
Beating.
The subordinate officials are usually the powerful natives of the county. Once they unite to act, their strength is definitely not comparable to that of the outsider county magistrates who are parachuted in. What's more, most of the gentry and the powerful are also inclined to follow the army, and the people in the city are "happy to the thieves."
, not happy to defend the Qing Dynasty." There was no one to defend the city for the Qing Dynasty.
The few green soldiers were surrounded by a sea of gentry and civilians, and had no resistance at all.
Originally, Geng Zhongming was ordered to lead the Hongyi artillery team to follow the British King Azig in the expedition. However, due to the heavy weight of the "Western Cannon", the escort was slow. Therefore, when Azig had already begun to attack the Taishan defense line of the Shun Army, Geng Zhongming had just arrived.
Near the mountain, not far from Zhangqiu.
Geng Zhongming was not a bannerman, but in the political struggle when Dorgon defeated Prince Su Hauge, he betrayed Hauge with extremely despicable means. As a result, Huang Taiji's eldest son was defeated by Dorgon, and the two yellow banners lost power.
Although Dorgon had all the military and political power at the center of the Qing court, he could not immediately carry out a large-scale purge of the Two Yellow Banners. The main force of the Qing army in Shandong is still dominated by the Two Yellow Banners of Hauge's old department, the Xianghuang Banner, and the Zhenghuang Banner.
All the generals with higher status in the army and close relationship with Huang Taiji Hauge and his son hated Geng Zhongming deeply.
Therefore, allowing Geng Zhongming to follow the Eastern Route Army to participate in the campaign may cause disunity within the Qing army.
Azig himself was simple-minded and acted recklessly, so he never expected to be so meticulous. But Geng Zhongming had already noticed this under the faint threat of the generals with yellow flags and yellow flags.
He took the initiative to ask for help and led his troops to change direction, preparing to suppress the uprising people in Jinan Prefecture first, resisting Guo Sheng's surprise attack from behind, and just in time to avoid the dissatisfaction and fear of him by the generals of the two yellow flags.
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I would like to recommend the new book "Jin Jin" written by Zhihu history editor Zhibao Daqin Haibo:
The heroes of the Three Kingdoms came together and fought for hundreds of years, but they only ushered in an era when the noble families were corrupted and the Hu kings and the chiefs were ready to take action.
The Eight Kings Rebellion is about to detonate the whole of China. After the end of the twenty years of peace in the Western Jin Dynasty, there will be chaos in the Northern and Southern Dynasties that will last for three hundred years.
Kang Zhupi, a time-traveler who is deeply involved in this apocalyptic chaos, will he build a great cause that is hard to describe on the ashes of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, or will he ignite the fire that burns the dreams of the great achievements of the aristocratic King Hu and illuminates the way forward for the wheel of history?