"Your Majesty, the vanguard of the Ming army has occupied Zhangqiu." The first-class Duke, Gushan'er Zhentulai, hurried to the top of Jinan City and reported to Prince Heshuo Duanzhong, Prince Boluo, who was overlooking the city battlements.
"Zhangqiu Lvying City defended the camp and surrendered directly. Just like Zichuan and Zouping counties, there was no resistance." Tu Lai was extremely angry.
Boluo looked far into the distance, as if he wanted to see the Ming army directly.
"The east of the Xiujiang River is now occupied by the Ming Army. It seems that the Ming Army is going to take action this time. Two years ago, we tried to fight them but failed. They always avoid the truth and make mistakes with one blow.
Let's go, so that we can't catch up. But in just two years, they now have such overwhelming strength."
"Tell me, why is this happening?"
Tu Lai can't explain clearly, the situation is constantly deteriorating like this.
In the past two years, they seemed to be trapped hand and foot. Although they had been struggling, the Ming army was flying around and biting them like flies, making them unable to get out of the predicament and kept being trapped.
Trapped here.
You can't defeat it with a strong attack, and you can't steal it with a sneak attack.
The days are getting worse day by day.
Although in order to stabilize the morale of the army, they took over all the family members who were stationed in the Eight Banners. They also built full cities in Jinan, Xuzhou, Yingzhou and other important cities, and also encircled the land and accepted donations so that the Eight Banners could safely garrison.
However, no one cultivated the enclosed land, and no one was willing to surrender it. The Han people who had their land taken away from them tried their best to escape, but they were unwilling to work as village servants for them, and they were even unwilling to work as servants. They did not know how to commend them.
In an important place like Jinan, there are large areas of desolation outside the city, and bushes have grown out of the ground.
The Yellow River burst its banks, turning the 800 miles along the Daqing River into a yellow flood zone. Floods occur several times a year, and not even a ghost can escape.
Even outside Jinan City, it is so desolate.
The Qing army was completely unable to repair the embankment of the river, and could only watch the river flood after heavy rain.
The local taxation and water transportation systems have completely collapsed. Now they can only be stationed in some big cities. Those counties far away from the core city can only be garrisoned by the Green Battalion.
As for towns and villages, they can only be guarded by the city defense camp in the green camp, and the flood-tang soldiers can be separated for defense. However, these soldiers can only serve as a warning.
Without taxes to pay, the court could not transport supplies.
They can only think of a way to go to the countryside to rob them.
They even captured Han people as slaves and worked in shackles on their enclosed fields.
This year, there have been three local officials and governors in Shandong. They all committed suicide while in office because they were unable to complete the imperial examination after taking office.
If you die, at least your family will not be implicated, otherwise you will have to pay compensation and lose everything.
As for the local shoudao, prefect, county magistrate and other officials, very few can serve for a full year. They are either urged to commit suicide, abandon their posts and run away, or even surrender, or resign, or some are brave.
, at a time like this, you still dare to think of ways to commit corruption and then be arrested.
There are also people who have been removed from their posts or demoted due to poor performance.
Anyway, not many people in Shandong are willing to come now, and even if they come, they won’t stay for less than three months.
Those civil servants changed like a carousel.
But the Eight Banners generals such as Boluo, Tan Tai and Tu Lai could no longer leave. Their families had all moved here.
The city is there and the people are there, but the city is broken and the family is destroyed.
The imperial court in Beijing moved their families to them, let them run horses and enclose the land, and take the Han people on the enclosed land as slaves of the farmers, etc., but it also gave them a death order and had the responsibility to defend the land.
The unspoken meaning is that one is guilty of losing one’s territory.
"Qingcheng, Qidong, Xincheng, Changshan, Gaoyuan, Zouping, Zichuan, Zhangqiu, the eight counties south of the Daqing River and east of Jinan are all lost." Boluo sighed.
Prince Zheng, but facing this situation, he can only say that he is powerless.
When the Ming army launched a massive counterattack, he no longer even dared to send the Eight Banners to attack.
Instead, they could only order the people, livestock, and materials in the Eight Banners' farms outside the city to withdraw to Jinan City as quickly as possible.
Without him, there is nothing to fight.
Strange to say, when they faced the Ming Dynasty outside the Pass, they had the upper hand and could attack in every possible way without having to think about defense.
The Ming army seemed to only be able to build the Guan-Ningjin defense line, constantly build the city, and then huddle in these castles. Houjin could even calmly besiege the city for a long time, and while besieging the city, they could also build military garrison outside the Ming army's castle.
That battle was so enjoyable back then.
Now, he could finally understand how the Ming army felt back then, because now they were the one being surrounded and beaten but unable to do anything.
He could only watch as the Ming army occupied one city after another, but was unable to do anything.
It's not that he's afraid, it's that he really doesn't have the ability.
The Ming army not only captured the east of Jinan City, but also the eight counties of Henan in the Qing Dynasty, Lijin, Putai, Zhanhua, Haifeng, Yangxin, Binzhou, Wuding Prefecture, and Leling counties in the Qing Dynasty and Hebei Province of Jinan Prefecture.
Got off.
Only Qihe, Dezhou and other nine counties in the north are still there.
Jinan has almost become an isolated city.
The Ming army even sent troops from the direction of Xinzhou and captured Tai'an, Xintai, Laiwu and Feicheng south of Mount Tai.
They newly established Tai'an Prefecture.
Stationing troops at the foot of Mount Tai also cut off the communication channel between Jinan and Yanzhou via Mount Tai.
Although Dongchang Fucheng in the east of Jinan was recaptured by the Qing army from the Shandong rebels, Dongping Prefecture was lost again. Jinan's connection with Jining and Yanzhou from the original canal line in the east has been cut off from all sides.
Not only did Jinan become an isolated city, Yanzhou and Jining were also besieged from all sides.
Xuzhou further south was also cut off and surrounded.
The Qing army in Shandong is like a few isolated islands in the vast ocean.
Isolated and helpless, disconnected from each other.
There was also a shortage of food, grass and equipment, and what was even worse was morale. The morale of the Eight Banners had never been so low.
It seems that Ming troops are everywhere, in every direction, and outside every stronghold, Ming troops are already everywhere.
Just like now, they can only watch as the Ming army encircles Jinan from all directions.
The Ming army's movements were not very fast, but they were methodical and continued to advance.
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Tu Lai is a veteran general who has experienced many battles. He has rich military experience and is very brave in combat. He has been promoted to a first-class officer based on his military merits.
Boluo has already withdrawn all the Eight Banners around Jinan to Jinan. There are still about 10,000 people from the Eight Banners, including about 5,000 from the Eight Banners Manchurians, and about 8,000 from the Eight Banners Mongolian and Eight Banners Han troops.
There are several green camps outside the city, with thousands of troops.
However, Bolo does not trust these green battalions, and these green battalions have not been paid or replenished with equipment for a long time. Now they have neither morale nor combat effectiveness, and it is even harder to guarantee their loyalty.
"If we really want to fight, I suggest that the Mongols be left to guard the city and the Han army flags be stationed outside the city. We only bring the Manchus. We don't have enough armored soldiers. We can bring the rest of our family members with us. We can even wrap up our Eight Banners. Among the servants of Zhuang Ding under the household
The strong man gives armor to his followers,
The Han people cannot be trusted, especially at this time."
To this day, there are only a few Han people who the Manchus can still trust, including Wu Sangui, Fan Wencheng, Qiao Mengfang, and Ning Wanme.
The rest include Xu Yong, Zhang Yong, etc.
They can't trust others now.
Who knows which of the demoted officials is Hong Chengchou, Yan Wogong, Qian Qianyi, and which general is Geng Zhongming, Tu Guobao, He Zhen, Jin Shenghuan, Wang Yongqiang, Jiang Xiang, Li Chengdong, Wu Shengzhao?
At this time, only the Manchus can be trusted.
The Mongols can barely trust it, but the Han people can never trust it.
"Convene the generals to discuss matters."
Bolo summoned the Manchu and Mongolian officers to discuss the matter, but did not call the Han army flag and Green Camp officers.
Even though the Han Army Banners were nominally bannermen, Bolo, like Tu Lai, no longer dared to trust them.
The Ming army swept through twenty counties outside Jinan, and there was basically no fighting. None of the city garrison camps and regiment training stationed there fought to the death for the Qing Dynasty and held on.
Even the local civil servants and local squires are the same, bloodless.
"Over Zhangqiu, I sent Qingqi to conduct a detailed investigation. Currently, the Ming Dynasty Camp led by Jin Gongyu is stationed in a town in Shence Town. Their troops are divided into three groups. They camp along the east bank of Xiujiang River in the west of Zhangqiu City.
, one unit is stationed in the center of Zhangqiu City, and is divided into two wings. The left wing is stationed at the foot of Changbai Mountain in the north, and the right wing is stationed at the foot of the Great Wall Ridge of Mount Tai."
The one who spoke was the vanguard commander Baiyin Dai.
"There are five thousand people in the Southern Dynasty imperial camp, right?" Dulde, the commander of the guard army, asked.
"It used to be eight thousand, but now it is five thousand, but the five thousand are just fighting soldiers. They have one thousand and eight auxiliary soldiers in one town, but they are not civilians, they are also well-equipped and well-trained soldiers, but they are mainly used as transportation baggage and engineers.
It's just tasks like opening roads and building and defending camps.
In addition, this time when Shence Town was stationed in Zhangqiu, many regiment training camps formed in the newly occupied areas followed. For example, Xie Qian, the thief of Gaoyuan, organized his troops into a regiment horse training camp.
There seem to be quite a few such group training camps, with a total of several thousand people."
Gushan Ezhentulai punched the chopping board, "Even if we include regiment training, the five thousand combat soldiers and one thousand and eighty auxiliary soldiers, plus the thousands of regiment training, will only reach ten thousand people at most. I think we can definitely fight, Jinan to
Zhangqiu is only eighty miles away, and the autumn air is crisp now. Even if there is little water in the Xiujiang River, it will not prevent us from riding across the river.
Eighty miles away, starting in the middle of the night, we can reach the Ming camp before dawn. He is stationed in three groups, so we can defeat them individually. We must gather 10,000 troops for a surprise attack, use cavalry to rush into the camp, and infantry to cover them up. We will defeat the Ming thief!
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In the past, the Ming army was far away from them. They wanted to concentrate their forces and attack, but their whereabouts were always exposed halfway. The Ming army retreated into the castle early, making it difficult for them to succeed.
This time, Shence Town was only eighty miles away from Jinan. Especially since the road was so flat, they could be reached in less than two hours.
"Where are the rest of the Ming army?" Bolo asked.
"Now there is a town to the north of the Daqing River, another town to the south of Mount Tai, another town in Qingzhou, and a town in Xinzhou. There are also many Ming troops in the Yan, Xu, and Cao areas to the west.
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The Ming army surrounded each town one after another, not far from each other.
Just like Shence Town in Zhangqiu, there are two towns to the north, south and back. The distance between them is only a few dozen miles, or a day's journey at most.
"I have a hunch that this Shence Town in Zhangqiu is always like a bait thrown by Zhu Yihai for us, just waiting to lure us out of Jinan City." Bolo looked at the map and put a few golden beans on it.
He waved it back and forth, and finally said with a frown.
First-class public servant Tulai was already a little impatient.
He shouted loudly, "Even if Shence Town is the bait thrown by Zhu Yihai, we still have to bite it. We have to take the initiative and defeat them one by one. Otherwise, if they really let them surround Jinan City like this, then we really have no chance of winning.