Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 602 Jinan
"Your Majesty, the forward of the Ming army has occupied Zhangqiu." The first-class official, Gu Shan Ezhentu Lai hurried to the top of Jinan City, and reported to Prince Bo Luo, who was overlooking the buttresses.

"Zhangqiu Lvying City guarded the camp and surrendered directly. Like Zichuan and Zouping counties, there was no resistance." Tu Lai was extremely angry.

Boluo looked far away, as if he wanted to see the Ming army directly.

"The east of the Xiujiang River is now completely occupied by the Ming army. This time the Ming army seems to be going for real. Two years ago, we wanted to fight them but we couldn't. They always avoid the truth and ignore it. Let's go, let us catch up. But in just two years, they now have such overwhelming strength."

"Tell me, why is this happening?"

Tulai couldn't explain it clearly either, the situation continued to deteriorate like this.

In the past two years, they seemed to be trapped with their hands and feet. Although they were struggling all the time, the Ming army was flying around and biting in front of them like flies, making them unable to get out of the predicament and being trapped all the time. stuck here.

You can't attack by force, and you can't steal by sneak attack.

The days are getting worse every day.

Although they took over all the family members who were stationed in the Eight Banners in order to stabilize the morale of the army, they also built a full city in Jinan, Xuzhou, Yingzhou and other important cities, and they slapped horses on the land and accepted investment, so that the Eight Banners can be stationed with peace of mind.

However, no one cultivated the encircled land, and no one was willing to invest in it. The Han people whose land was encircled tried their best to escape, and they were unwilling to be their servants, or even coat them.

In an important place like Jinan, there is actually a large area of ​​barren land outside the city, with bushes growing in the ground.

The Yellow River broke its embankment, and even more so, the [-] miles along the Daqing River became a yellow flood zone, which was flooded several times a year, and not even a ghost escaped.

Even the outside of Jinan city is so desolate.

The Qing army was also powerless to build rivers and embankments, and could only watch a little heavy rain, and it would flood.

The local taxation and water transportation systems have completely collapsed. Now they can only be stationed in some big cities, and those county towns far away from the core cities can only be stationed by green battalions.

As for the villages and towns, they can only be defended by the city guard battalion in the green battalion and the Xuntang soldiers. However, these soldiers can only serve as a warning signal.

No taxes were paid and the court could not transport supplies.

They can only find a way to go to the countryside to rob.

They even took the Han people as slaves and worked them in the fields they surrounded in shackles.

This year, there have been three local officials and governors in Shandong, all of whom committed suicide while in office, because they were unable to complete the imperial court examinations and reminders after taking office, and could not afford to pay compensation.

If you die, at least your family will not be involved, otherwise you will have to pay for it and go bankrupt.

As for the local officials such as guardians, magistrates, and county magistrates, few can serve for a full year. They were either urged to commit suicide, or abandoned their official positions to escape, or even voted for the Ming, or they either resigned, or there were bold , At this time, I dared to think of a way to embezzle, and then I was arrested.

There are also those who were dismissed or demoted because of ineffectiveness.

Anyway, very few people in Shandong are willing to come here now, and even if they come, they will stay for less than three months.

Those civil servants changed like a lantern.

But the Eight Banners generals such as Boluo, Tan Tai, and Tulai could no longer leave, and their families had all moved here.

The city is in the people, the city is broken and the family is dead.

The Beijing imperial court moved their family members here, asked them to race horses to enclose the land, and accepted the Han people who occupied the land as household slaves, etc., but also gave them death orders, and they were responsible for guarding the land.

The unspoken meaning is that it is a crime to lose land.

"Qingcheng, Qidong, Xincheng, Changshan, Gaoyuan, Zouping, Zichuan, Zhangqiu, south of the Daqing River, east of Jinan, the eight counties are all lost." Boluo sighed. Prince Zheng, but in the face of this situation, he can only say that he is helpless.

When the Ming army launched a large-scale counterattack, he didn't even dare to send the Eight Banners to attack.

Instead, they could only order the population, livestock and supplies in the farms of the Eight Banners outside the city to withdraw as soon as possible to Jinan City.

Without him, there is no power to fight.

Strange to say, when they were outside the customs, facing Da Ming, they had the upper hand, they could attack in every way, and they didn't have to think about defense.

It seems that the Ming army would only repair the Ningjin line of defense, constantly build the city, and then shrink in these castles. Hou Jin could even calmly besiege the city for a long time, and at the same time set up military settlements outside the castle of the Ming army.

What a joyous battle it was.

Now, he can finally understand how the Ming army felt back then, because they are now the side that was surrounded and beaten but could do nothing.

He could only watch the Ming army occupy one city after another, but there was nothing he could do.

It's not that he's afraid, it's that he really doesn't have the ability.

The Ming army not only captured the eight counties in the east of Jinan City and the south of the Qing Dynasty, but also the eight counties of Lijin, Putai, Zhanhua, Haifeng, Yangxin, Binzhou, Wudingzhou, and Leling in the north of the Qing Dynasty in Jinan Prefecture. down.

There are still nine counties in the north, such as Qihe and Dezhou.

Jinan has almost become an isolated city.

The Ming army even sent troops from the direction of Xinzhou, and took Tai'an, Xintai, Laiwu, and Feicheng to the south of Mount Tai.

They newly established Tai'an Mansion.

The stationing of troops under Mount Tai also cut off the communication channel between Jinan and Yanzhou via Mount Tai.

Although Dongchangfu City in the east of Jinan was taken back by the Qing army from the Shandong bandit army, Dongping Prefecture was lost again. Jinan's connection with Jining and Yanzhou from the original canal line in the east has been cut off in all directions.

Not only Jinan became an isolated city, but Yanzhou and Jining were also besieged on all sides.

Xuzhou, further south, was also cut off and surrounded.

The Qing army is now in Shandong, just like a few isolated islands in the vast ocean.

Isolate and helpless, do not communicate with each other.

There is also a shortage of food, grass and equipment, and what is even more terrible is morale. The morale of the Eight Banners has never been so low.

It seems that there are Ming troops everywhere, in every direction, and outside every stronghold, Ming troops are already everywhere.

Just like now, they can only watch the Ming army encircle Jinan from all directions.

The Ming army's movements were not fast, but they were methodical and kept advancing.

"The Ming army is encircled by several routes, or we will fight together. No matter how many routes he comes, let's gather the elite and go all the way? Break through one by one?" Tu Lai is a veteran of the army with rich experience in combat. He was also very brave, and was promoted to the first-class public by virtue of his military exploits.

Boluo has evacuated all the Eight Banners around Jinan to Jinan. Now there are still [-] people in the Eight Banners, including about [-] in the Manchuria in the Eight Banners, and about [-] in the Mongolian and Han troops in the Eight Banners.

There are several green battalions outside the city with thousands of troops.

But Boluo doesn't trust these green battalions, and these green battalions haven't been paid for a long time, and haven't replenished their equipment. Now they have neither morale nor combat effectiveness, and it is even more difficult to guarantee their loyalty.

"If you really want to fight, I suggest that you keep the Mongols to guard the city, and the Han army flag is stationed outside the city. We only bring Manchuria, and there are not enough armored soldiers. You can bring Yu Ding, a family member, or even coat the flag of our Eight Banners. The strong give armored followers,

Han people can't be trusted, especially at this time. "

Up to now, there are only a few Han Chinese who can be trusted by the Manchus, Wu Sangui, Fan Wencheng, Qiao Mengfang, Ning Wan and me.

For the rest, Xu Yong, Zhang Yong, etc. count as a few.

Others, they can't believe it now.

Who knows which demoted officials are Hong Chengchou, Yan Wogong, Qian Qianyi, and which generals are Geng Zhongming, Tu Guobao, He Zhen, Jin Shenghuan, Wang Yongqiang, Jiang Guan, Li Chengdong, Wu Shengzhao?

At this time, only Manren can be trusted.

The Mongols can barely believe it, but the Han people can't believe it.

"Convene the generals to discuss."

Boluo summoned the Manchu and Mongolian military officers to discuss matters, but he did not call the Han army flag and the green battalion.

Even though the Han Army Banner is nominally a bannerman who entered the banner, Boluo, like Tulai, no longer dares to trust them.

The Ming army swept across twenty counties outside Jinan, and there was basically no battle. None of the city defense camps and regiments stationed there fought to the death and stood firm for the Qing Dynasty.

Even those local civil servants and local squires are the same, bloodless.

"In Zhangqiu, I sent Qingqi to investigate carefully. At present, Jin Gongyu's Ming Yuying and a town of Shence Town are stationed. Their troops are divided into three groups. They camped along the east bank of the Xiujiang River in the west of Zhangqiu City. One is stationed in the center of Zhangqiu City, 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 of Mount Tai."

It was Bayin Dai, the striker commander, who spoke.

"Is there 5000 people in one town of the imperial camp in the Southern Dynasties?" asked Du De, the commander of the guard army.

"It used to be [-], but now it is [-], but [-] are just soldiers. They have [-] auxiliary soldiers in a town, but they are not civilians, but well-equipped and well-trained soldiers. It's just tasks such as opening roads, building camps and guarding camps.

In addition, this time Shence Town was stationed in Zhangqiu, and many regiment training camps formed in the newly occupied land followed. For example, Gaoyuan bandit Xie Qian, his men formed a regiment training camp.

There seem to be quite a few such group training camps, and there must be thousands of people in total. "

Gu Shan Ezhen Tulai slammed his fist on the chopping board, "Even if regiment training is added, the [-] soldiers and [-] auxiliary soldiers, plus a few thousand regiments, will be at most ten thousand. I think we can fight, Jinan Zhangqiu is only eighty miles away, and now the autumn is crisp and clear, even if there is no water in the Xiujiang River, it will not hinder us from crossing the river with horses.

Eighty miles away, starting in the middle of the night, we will be able to reach the Ming camp before dawn, and he will be stationed in three groups, so we will attack each of them, concentrate [-] full soldiers to attack the camp, use cavalry to charge the camp, and infantry to cover up the kill, we will definitely destroy the Ming bandits! "

In the past, the Ming army was far away from them. They wanted to concentrate their forces to 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 is only [-] miles away from Jinan, especially this way, it can be killed in less than two hours.

"Where are the rest of the Ming army?" Boluo asked.

"Now there is a town on the north side of Daqing River, another town on the south side of Mount Tai, another town in Qingzhou, and a town in Xinzhou. There are also many Ming troops in Yan, Xu, and Cao in the west. .”

The towns of the Ming army were surrounded successively, and they were not far from each other.

Just like Shence Township stationed in Zhangqiu, there is another town in the north, south, and back of him, and the distance is only a few tens of miles away, a day's journey at most.

"I have a hunch that the Shence Town in Zhangqiu is always like a bait thrown by Zhu Yihai, just waiting to catch us out of Jinan City." Boluo looked at the map, holding a few golden beans on it Swaying back and forth, he finally said with a frown.

Tulai, the first-class public, was getting a little impatient.

He yelled loudly, "Even if Shence Town is the bait thrown by Zhu Yihai, we still have to bite, we have to take the initiative to attack and defeat them one by one, otherwise we really let them surround the city of Jinan like this, then we really have no chance of winning. "

(End of this chapter)