Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 462 Intersection

In the second year of Shaotian, summer.

In Laizhou Bay, Zhu Yihai was looking at the blueprint. Not far away, the seaside was bustling, and many hungry people came to gather for the Ming army's porridge relief.

After finishing the porridge, he obeyed the arrangement to help repair the water village.

The drawings drawn by Zhu Yihai himself plan to build a water village at the mouth of Laizhou Bay's Yeshui River, just like Dengzhou Fucheng is one mansion and two cities.

Compared with the two cities of Dengzhou, Laizhou's prefectural city, Ye County, is more than ten miles away from the sea. On the bank of the Yehe River, Zhu Yihai planned to defend Denglai as a base for the Northern Expedition. The city defense of Laizhou seemed monotonous, so he planned to imitate Penglai at the mouth of the Yehe River. In the water city, a water village is also built.

However, it does not have the geographical advantage of Penglai Water City, and there is no way to enclose a small sea in the water city like that, and there are no protruding mountains to guard the high ground.

However, the Ming army has a water advantage, so the water village is still feasible.

There is no need to make it too complicated. Zhu Yihai's drawing is a simple seaside bastion fortress. In order to deal with the siege of the Qing army, especially for fire prevention guns, the bastion that has been popular in Europe for many years is actually a very good one. choose.

Compared with the traditional Chinese city, the biggest difference between a bastion is that it highlights the defensive performance of a military fortress. It is not suitable for a city that integrates residence and market transactions, but it has a strong defensive performance as a military fortress.

Especially dealing with artillery is very prominent.

The bastion has edges and corners, and its biggest feature is that his triangular fort and half-moon fort can form crossfire and achieve no dead ends of firepower.

A simple pentagonal bastion can make each front and city wall have the best shooting angle, and each corner has a solid bastion extending out, ensuring the most basic firepower coverage requirements under the premise of meeting the minimum amount of construction .

The bastion defends against the enemy mainly by artillery.

Zhu Yihai's pentagonal bastion was built at the mouth of the Yehe River, with the river on one side and the sea on the other. This terrain is like a protruding triangle.

The bastion is built here, which is unique.

With the upper slopes, trenches, and the surrounding half-moon fort, it can also form a three-dimensional defense.

A five-cornered main bastion city, plus five triangular forts on the periphery, and two dikes, is equivalent to having ten fortresses, and it is covered by firepower without dead ends.

With the red cannons of the Qing army at this stage, even if it is a heavy cannon of six or seven thousand catties, it is difficult to effectively destroy the city wall.

It can garrison a lot of soldiers and set up a lot of artillery. It is easy to defend but difficult to attack. The problem is that this kind of bastion is actually not difficult to repair.

Now that Zhu Yihai set up a porridge shed, countless hungry people came, and each of them drank two bowls of porridge, and then they could start to help with work.

In order to take advantage of the navy, Zhu Yihai also designed piers on both sides of the river and sea of ​​the bastion, and even built a wooden floating city platform on the sea.

"His Majesty."

Chen Qianfu, the General Staff of the Imperial Battalion, came to pay a visit, "Boluo led 1 horses and is heading north from Xuzhou."

"Which way do you go?"

Zhu Yihai asked the guards to fetch a map.

"From Xuzhou to Yizhou, it seems that they will pass through Yishui, pass Muling Pass and arrive in Qingzhou."

Compared with the map, Zhu Yihai found that this was one of the four main passages in Shandong, and it was through this passage that Liu Yu went through in his Northern Expedition to destroy Yan.The advantage of this road is that it is relatively close, but the disadvantage is that it has to cross Daxian Mountain.

The State of Qi once built a Qi Great Wall in Shandong, and Muling Pass was known as the most majestic pass in the world at that time.

The Great Wall of Qi winds for thousands of miles, starting from Pingyin in the west and reaching Langyatai in the east. Muling Pass guards the dangerous pass.

"Boluo's troops are rushing northward, and the advantage is in a quick battle. The minister suggested that we should seize Muling Pass to make it impossible to enter."

"Then let Liu Shixun of Haizhou go around behind him, cut off his food road, capture Yizhou, and cut off his back."

"Then it will be attacked by the enemy, trapped in the mountains, protracted for a long time, and its vigor will be depressed, and it will be wiped out in one battle!"

Zhu Yihai looked at the map, and Boluo's reaction was very quick. His surprise attack on Denglai was already very sudden, but Boluo still came very quickly.

Or take the nearest and most dangerous Mulingguan Passage.

It was obvious that Boluo was afraid of being late and letting the Ming army seize the two important towns of Qingzhou and Jinan. He went to the meeting alone and came directly to protect Qingzhou.

"Where are the ministries now?"

Zhu Yihai asked Chen Qianfu directly, but did not immediately adopt his suggestion, because Muling Pass is not in the hands of the Ming army now.

Muling Pass is located on the mountain in the south of Linqu County, south of Yidu County, Qingzhou Prefecture.

After Zhu Yihai landed in Shandong and attacked Denglai, he divided his troops into multiple groups, but he also took Tiemenguan and Qingdao first, then Haizhou, and then swept the hinterland of Denglai and Denglai.

After these small goals are completed and the troubles are eliminated, we can send troops out of Qingzhou and Jinan.

"Jin Gongyu led an army to attack Changle and Shouguang in Qingzhou Prefecture, and Lu Xiangguan led an army to attack the front and rear of Xiahe Village in Langyatai, and they are dividing their troops to take Rizhao and Zhucheng.

The troops who captured Tiemen Pass are going up the Daqing River and have just recovered Putai and Binzhou,"

The progress of the Ming army was still very rapid. After basically clearing the two prefectures of Denglai, they began to attack the two prefectures of Qingzhou and Jinan without much resistance.

Basically, when the Ming army arrived, after a pass of persuasion, the local officials and the gentry surrendered.

For those who are stubborn, it is almost enough to fire two cannonballs.

The main reason is that at this time, after the two main forces of Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming were wiped out, there were no soldiers here.

The Shandong governor Ding Wensheng couldn't suppress the uprisings that broke out in Weixian and other places before, and he had to rely on the second general Kong Geng to send troops. Before that, rebellions broke out in Changping one after another, and there were many thieves in Shandong, which was even more depressing.

The governor's standard battalion has not yet been restored and rebuilt. Although the government has allowed local gentry to hold group training, everyone only keeps one-third of an acre of land for their own homes, and they don't care about the rest.

Kong Youde died, Geng Zhongming was defeated, and Jinan panicked completely.

Now there are some soldiers in Qingzhou Prefecture and Jinan Prefecture, and only the local regiments are left in other places to practice Xiangyong.

"How many soldiers are there in Qingzhou?"

"Not many, some of them were put together at random, probably a few thousand people, stationed in Yidu, Linzi, and Linqu, each with two or three thousand, but I think that as long as we immediately dispatch troops to attack, we should be able to win in one battle. At that time, Boluo's reinforcements can be blocked outside Muling Pass."

In terms of geographical advantages, in fact, Qingzhou is the most dangerous and solid place in Shandong Province. It is located between Haidai.

According to records in Wu Bei Zhi, Shandong is a place of thousands of miles.Those who talk about the situation must take Jinan as the gateway and Qingzhou as the root.

The shape is superior to textual research. The site is leaning against the mountains and overlooking the streams. The base site is magnificent, the battlements are densely packed, and the valleys are piled up to garrison troops. It can accommodate [-] people.

In terms of terrain, Dabian pans to the south, flaps its wings to face Xuyan, and passes through the left side of the gate, reaching to the palm and controlling Denglai.

And the [-]th level of the Muling Pass is based on the huge dip of the Bohai Sea.

The hegemony of Burma is dominated by the people of solid origin, covering the rocky frontiers of the four fortresses, which is actually due to the dangers of the land.

Geography is very important here.

Especially if Zhu Yihai wants to occupy Denglai and fight for Qilu, then Qingzhou will be a strategic highland.

But Zhu Yihai looked at the map but hesitated.

Because Jinan is not in his control now, even if he goes to grab Qingzhou now, and if he grabs it, and can block Muling Pass first, but because Jinan in the north is not in his hands, it is actually useless to grab a small door and window .

Moreover, Qingzhou is dangerous, and it is not easy for Zhu Yihai to transport artillery there, but without artillery, it is not easy to fight with 1 people in Boluo with only soldiers.

He was even more worried that he would be dragged by Boluo at Muling Pass, and the Qing army would come from Jinan, and the Ming army would be trapped in the inland mountainous area to fight the Qing army instead.

This is a situation that Zhu Yihai does not want to face.

The morale of the imperial camp is very high now, and they have no fear of the Tartars, but if the two sides really want to fight hand-to-hand, the gap is still quite obvious.

The armor-wearing rate alone is much worse. Now the armor-wearing rate of the imperial camp does not exceed [-]%, and the elite of the Eight Banners of the Tartars has almost one armor-wearing rate.

In terms of actual combat experience, there must still be a gap, and this must be faced squarely.

Far from the sea, without the cover of the navy, there is no chance of winning this battle.

Sun Tzu's Art of War has repeatedly emphasized momentum, and what is required is to establish an absolute advantage. You can't try your best to block your luck every time. You have to plan well before the battle and accumulate enough advantages before you start fighting.

As it is now, it is worth a try to seize Qingzhou, seize Muling Pass, and block Boluo from a corner point of view.But if you have to consider the overall situation in Shandong, this is a bit dangerous.

He looked back at his map and the construction progress of the Laizhou Bastion.

There is a Mi River in Qingzhou that leads to Laizhou Bay, about [-] miles long, but this river varies in width and narrowness, especially in summer, when mountain torrents pour down and the current is turbulent, the upstream often breaks the embankment, causing the river to divert.The alkali flats in the lower reaches become fertile fields for a season due to silt and alkali pressure.

The situation in Mihe is not conducive to the Navy's contact with Qingzhou.

"Since Boluo is here, and in such a hurry, there must be reinforcements behind, Xu Yan will also have reinforcements, and there will definitely be reinforcements from the north."

Zhu Yihai stared at the map for a while.

"In this way, Jin Gongyu is urgently ordered to gather troops to attack Qingzhou, Lu Xiangguan takes Yishui City from Zhucheng, and Liu Shixun takes Yizhou City from Haizhou..."

The Lubei Plain is very flat, Zhu Yihai plans to rush to grab a wave first.

If you can grab Qingzhou, you will be green, and if you grab it, you can block Boluo for a while.

I don't intend to compete with the Qing army in a decisive battle in Qingzhou, but to buy some time first, wait for the main force of the Qing army to come, and then retreat to Denglai, relying on the sea, castles, and navy, to fight the Qing army.

"Send more scouts out for reconnaissance. We must firmly grasp the movements of the tartars, so as not to be bitten by their light cavalry, it will be difficult to escape."

Tartar cavalry can march hundreds of miles a day on the plains, so they must be careful.

For this reason, Zhu Yihai drew a line cautiously, that the Ming army should not leave Qingzhou Prefecture, and the troops in Jinan Prefecture should not go any further, so that they would almost retreat back to Tiemen Pass.

Qingzhou City is only two hundred miles away from the Daqing River.

It took at most one day for the Qing army to cross the Daqing River to attack Qingzhou Fucheng, so once the Qing army was found to be close to the Daqing River, the Ming army had to withdraw from Qingzhoufu, Muling Pass, etc. to Laizhou.

"Let the ministries be as close as possible."

Tartars have the ability to run thousands of miles and pursue repeatedly, so they must not be underestimated.

"The reinforcements from the Tartars have yet to show up. If there are 1 people in Boluo, let's withdraw directly. Isn't it too early?"

"Before it's too early, you have to be cautious when fighting, and you must not take it lightly. When the Tartars come, it will be too late." Zhu Yihai doesn't think there is anything wrong with this, "If we can attract the main force of the Tartars, we will fight with them." Fighting by the seaside, we can let them try their best at that time, and even send troops to Lushun and Tianjin for a walk, we must always hold the initiative in our hands."

(End of this chapter)