Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 271 The Great Ming Bing Arrives in Xuzhou City, Loyal to Wang Datou! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)
Although the order given by Mu Zhan is to "accelerate forward", but the order belongs to the order, and the execution belongs to the execution. This acceleration...doesn't say how much?Isn't adding more and adding less a plus?
Now the friendly army is in trouble, and Mu Zhan's banner army and green battalion are not as immovable as a mountain, which is already worthy of the salary of those two soldiers.

Of course, Mu Zhan is a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty, but he is the eldest son of Jintaishi. If he is not a loyal minister, who is loyal?
So hurry up!

But, the premise of hurrying up is to ensure your own safety, especially when Gerstai, the vanguard, leads the cavalry into the encirclement of the rebels. Mu Zhan is surrounded by almost all infantry, and he also pulls a lot of artillery and luggage.What should we do if we are attacked by rebel cavalry?

And the cavalry of the rebels. Coming soon!
Here in Huaibei is the Great Plains, and there has always been a tradition of raising horses.The Nian Army in history has a large number of mules and horses, which can conduct long-distance maneuvers on the vast northern land, and even beat the exhausted Seng Gelinqin to a deadly ambush during the mobile combat!Therefore, there are cavalry teams under each of the battalion leaders Li Zhongtang recruited in Huaibei. A horse team that can travel like the wind on the Great Plains.Moreover, they are also very familiar with the topography of Huaibei. They know where the rivers, big and small, can be crossed and where they can't.

And these Huaixi cavalry are now gathered by Li Dazhongtang, and handed over to Wang Leiyong and Yu Haitao, two cavalry generals brought by Wu Xiaotu (both of them and He Tianran are Wu Guogui's servants).And these two cavalry generals and He Tianran brought some veterans (both Wu Guogui's personal soldiers) with them when they transferred to Li Dazhongtang's door. Later, in the process of following Li Zhongshan, they recruited some more men, and now each has a few The old ten cavalry brothers, relying on these old brothers, Wang Leiyong and Yu Haitao easily mastered thousands of Huaixi cavalry.

Of course, these Huaixi cavalry could not face Gestai's Eight Banners cavalry, but Gestai had already entered the encirclement, so the land of Huaibei was their world!

In addition to these less elite Huaixi cavalry, Ma Bao's brother Ma Weixing, who was transferred from Wu Sangui to Geng Jingzhong by the Qing court to "exchange rebellion experience", also had a cavalry under him, and they were much more elite. The old man was born in a camp!

At this moment, Wang Leiyong, Yu Haitao, and Ma Weixing were all sent out, each leading a team of cavalry to move north of Suishui. Mu Zhan led an army of [-] to several thousand infantry, of course they couldn't escape the eyes of these cavalry.

With a shout of "enemy attack, cavalry", the [-] Qing warriors under Mu Zhan who "see the thief and slow down" all let out a long sigh of relief!
"Boss, there are a large band of bandits and horses in front of our army and on the left and right sides, the total number is no less than [-]!"

Mu Zhan, who was riding slowly forward, almost spurted blood when he heard the report from the subordinates. Twenty thousand cavalrymen?How dare you make it up!

Looking at the smoke and dust rising from the plains in front and on the left and right sides, there are at most a few thousand cavalry, how could there be [-]?This is a blatant lie about the military situation!

"Explore again!"

Mu Zhan spit out two words in a calm voice, and then continued to lead the troops slowly.

After a while, a few more cavalrymen under Mu Zhan's command rushed to him as if they were flying, and then dismounted and beat thousands, and reported loudly: "Report! Thousands of elite cavalry were found twenty or thirty miles ahead, and they were still riding 'horses' The character and the character 'Wu' recognize the flag!"

"What? Thousands of fine riders still have the characters 'horse' and 'Wu' to recognize the flag? Could it be?"

The atmosphere suddenly became very tense!

Li Zhongshan is absolutely unable to pull thousands of fine riders, but his good friend Wu Shifan has it!The "horse" character recognition flag should not be Ma Bao, the cavalry chief under Wu Sangui's command, right?
"Director," Shang Kejiao immediately rode forward, and arrived at Mu Zhan's side, "This place is only [-] miles away from Nanyang Prefecture. If Wu Shifan sends troops, he can arrive in seven days!"

Nian Xialing also immediately echoed: "Boss, Wu Shifan and Wang Datou have a fateful friendship, and his sister is also Wang Datou's wife, so naturally we have to help each other with all our strength!"

The prestige of the Wu family army is much greater than that of the Huaixi army!

This story is compiled to a high level, which is more like the [-] Huaixi cavalry under Wang Datou.

However, Mu Zhan couldn't withdraw his troops back to Xuzhou just because Wu Shifan was in front of him!

"Form a phalanx, advance slowly!" Mu Zhan said.

The generals below have been waiting for Mu Zhan's words for a long time--if the friendly army is in trouble, even if they cannot move like a mountain and retreat like the wind, they must move forward like a tortoise and a snail!

"Whoo!"

The generals made cheerful voices, and Mu Zhan felt a little relieved.

But prudent and slow progress is still moving forward, even if it is really the same as crawling with a turtle, there will always be a time to climb to the battlefield.In addition, although the turtle can still crawl, the communication with Fu Liji in the front and Xuzhou City in the back is completely cut off.

This is the suffering when the infantry meets the cavalry. The front and back are sealed up for you, and you don't know anything. You don't even know if the Qing Dynasty is still there.

So their cheerful mood didn't last long before they became serious.

But what they don't know is that they will soon get good news that will completely free them from the Xu Su battlefield!

On the fourth day after the start of the battle of Fuliji, when the encirclement of Fuliji was tightened and the soaring cannon that could fire 24 catties of flower bombs was erected.When the [-] relief troops led by Mu Zhan approached Fuliji at a speed of ten miles a day.When the already cloudy sky began to drizzle.Amidst the rain and fog, an army horse finally approached the west of Xuzhou City when the sky was getting dark.

At this time, Xuzhou was bordered by the Yellow River on both sides in the northeast, Yunlong Lake in the south, and only the west side was flat and open.At this time, the west gate of Xuzhou has been opened, and the people coming and going are continuously transporting grain from several market towns near Xuzhou.Since a month ago, Xuzhou has been preparing to deal with the siege. Because Xuzhou's terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack, the "attack" in the "siege" can only be an auxiliary, and the "siege" is the main means.

To cope with the "encirclement", a large amount of grain and grass must be stored.Therefore, before Nian Yaling, the magistrate of Xuzhou, led his troops to follow Mu Zhan on the expedition, he sent people to buy grain at high prices from all the nearby market towns.

I didn't expect to buy many. After all, the market towns near Xuzhou are the same as the market towns in Huaibei, Anhui.Selling grain to the government of the Qing Dynasty now, it is better to take grain nephews and nephews to form a group to participate in the anti-Qing and Ming Dynasty, and then fight for ancestral wealth.

But I didn't expect that there was an eye for money!Mr. Zhao Xiaolian (juren) from the Zhao family circle in Xiaoxian County, Xuzhou took out [-] shi of aged rice to sell to Xuzhou government. The grain transport fleet came along the Yellow River and arrived outside Xuzhou city last night.

Thank goodness for that!
Therefore, the officials staying in Xuzhou Mansion hurriedly asked people to open the city gate, and also summoned hundreds of civilians from the city to move grain from the Yellow River pier to the west gate of Xuzhou City.And this Xuzhou city gate was closed for the past few days because it wanted to prevent sneak attacks by rebels.Chickens, ducks, fish, melons, fruits and vegetables outside the city, and even firewood and coal for fire cannot be transported into the city.And the people in the city were not ready to deal with the siege, they didn't have many things in the house, and they were all in a panic.

Today, I found that the gate of the city was actually opened, and they all flocked out to buy, and those small merchants who lived nearby seemed to know that the city would be opened in advance, and had already prepared all kinds of goods. Vendors outside.

For a while, there was a market outside the west gate of Xuzhou City. Even though it was still raining lightly, it was still crowded with people.

As for the Qing army staying in Xuzhou, although there were not many people, there was only one garrison camp with less than a thousand people, but at this time they were not worried about the enemy's sneak attack at this time. Instead, they started charging stall fees one by one!There are also some green battalion soldiers who set up checkpoints at the gate of the city to collect money under the pretext of preventing thieves.

And when the sky was completely bright, Mr. Zhao's food had already been sent into the city, but the business outside the west gate of Xuzhou was getting bigger and bigger, and people who didn't know the news were pouring out - hurry up and buy some !If you don’t buy it today, you won’t be able to buy it in a few days!Moreover, the businessmen who come to Xuzhou Ximen to do business today are neither treacherous nor fraudulent, they don’t take the opportunity to drive up prices, they don’t go short, they don’t buy goods one by one, and they don’t even bargain well.

And these businessmen also look honest, all of them are good guys with strong physiques
Mr. Zhao, who brought food to Xuzhou, and his Zhao family members did not leave after receiving the money, but brought a lot of oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea from the boat, and set up a stall outside the city gate of Xuzhou to sell them. .The clansmen who came with him were all strong young men in their early twenties, with tendon flesh visible on their bare arms!
The people in Xuzhou City hadn't known the outside situation for several days. Taking advantage of the opportunity to buy supplies, they started chatting with those loyal businessmen whose arms were full of tendons.

These loyal businessmen knew at a glance that they were well-informed people, and they were right.

"How is the big head of the rebel king? Was he beaten to death by the court's heavenly soldiers?"

"No. The heavenly soldiers of the imperial court. Didn't fight well!"

"Ah, lost?"

"Not yet defeated, just surrounded, waiting for the imperial court to send soldiers to rescue it!"

"Where did Wang Datou get so many soldiers? How did he surround the imperial court's tens of thousands of troops?"

"He doesn't have that many soldiers, but his father-in-law does! Do you know who his father-in-law is?"

"It's Wu Ni. No, it's the son of Prince Xi!"

"The son of Prince Xi surrounded Lord Kangxi in Xi'an a while ago! Why does he have an army of [-] to [-]?"

"It must be someone. It seems that Li Zhongtang borrowed the Western soldiers, and he will win a big victory soon! After he wins, will he come to Xuzhou?"

"That's for sure Xuzhou has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times!"

"Then let's get ready"

"We have to prepare. You see, this is a tan, and this is a pot. Do you always know what they are for?"

"Know, know"

"Then buy two?"

"Buy two pairs of little old children, there are many people in the family!"

Just when the people in Xuzhou City were preparing to deal with Li Zhongshan, a group of civilian men driving carts had already driven towards the west gate of Xuzhou.The leader of these men was a strong man with delicate features, wearing a white robe, holding a folding fan in his hand, riding a big bay red horse, and there were several entourages wearing short shirts and guns in their belts. You can tell which young master it is by looking at it.

A person who is in charge of guarding the west gate of Xuzhou is standing in front of a stall selling pans and pots, holding a pan and looking at it carefully. It is necessary to choose a better one, and it will be decent to hold pancakes in the future!

Suddenly, someone shouted in my ear: "Who are you? Where did you come from?"

"Hey! Blind your dog's eyes, this is our Yangzhou old man!"

The visitor speaks Yangzhou dialect!

What time is this?Why are there still Yangzhou businessmen coming to Xuzhou?To smuggle salt?
The chief immediately became vigilant, and looked over with the Yangzhou accent, and immediately saw the old man Chang on the horse. People are called "grandfather".

Look at the entourage next to the old master Chang, who also looks like a thug from the Salt Gang.

"What are you doing in Xuzhou now that the army is in turmoil?"

That always put the tan back on the side stall, and then pressed the handle of the knife with one hand, and pointed at the "Old Master Chang" with the other, and asked a question.

"Hahaha!" Xing Chang laughed three times, and then said loudly, "I am the queen of Kaiping King of Ming Dynasty, and Changwei of Jiangdu is also ordered by Li Zhongtang Jun to take Xuzhou. You should surrender quickly. !"

The Great Tomorrow Soldiers are here!

The general subconsciously shouted to catch the traitor, but his head was blocked by something like an iron pipe. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw that it was the man from the Zhao family who had just bought the tan for him. An iron rod was pressed against his head.

If this stick continues, the head will bloom!

The man was very polite, and handed the shovel to the boss with a pleasant face. There was also a steamed bun in the scorpion, and said with a smile: "I will exchange this shovel and this steamed bun for your knife! Do you want to change it?"

"Change, change" the general quickly let go of the handle of the knife, and then let the opponent take away his waist knife, then took the scorpion containing a steamed bun, held it up high, and shouted: "Xuzhou people welcome Master Daming!"

When he yelled, the others immediately reacted, and they all yelled together: "The people of Xuzhou welcome the Heavenly Soldiers of the Great Ming King!"

"Master Daming is here!"

"Master Wang has entered the city!"

In fact, everyone is looking forward to Master Daming from the bottom of their hearts!

If Master Wang takes Xuzhou, Xuzhou will not be surrounded, and the life of the big guys will not be affected.

In addition, Xuzhou is the central city of Huaibei. The people in Xuzhou are actually the same as the people in this "collection" and that "collection" outside!Nine times out of ten, it is also the ancestral Ming army. Who wants to be loyal to the Qing Dynasty?
Seeing this scene, Chang Wei knew that the west gate of Xuzhou City could almost be taken, but he didn't dare to take it lightly, so he took out a flintlock pistol and shot it into the sky. This is the signal for action!
As soon as the gun was fired, those who were doing business, those who worked as laborers, Zhao Juren and his nephews all went into a rage, they stopped doing business, and they all took out big swords and long swords from the carts they were pushing and the goods they picked up. Spears shouted together, "Da Ming soldiers have arrived", and then rushed towards the west gate of Xuzhou.

At the same time, some people waved a red flag and rushed towards the tower of the west gate of Xuzhou.

Now the city of Xuzhou is very empty, the defenders are no more than a thousand people, and there is no desire to fight to the death-the defenders are generally locals, and it is enough to defend the city against the bandits, but Daming is now the master of the king, and Huaixi is "" The Old District of Ming Dynasty", how many people are willing to help the Qing Dynasty fight against the Ming Dynasty?It's not realistic at all!

On a small hill only seven or eight miles away from the west gate of Xuzhou, dozens of knights reined in their horses and stood on it, quietly watching the chaos at the gate of Xuzhou city, and the red flag was planted on the head of Xuzhou city.The leader among them was Zhou Chang, Li Zhongtang's military advisor.

The battle of Xuzhou this time was planned by him, Luo Dawei and Shang Shuying.However, this first effort has to be given to Chen Yonghua's brother-in-law, Chang Wei. This is politics!
Of course, Zhou Chang, Luo Dawei, and Shang Shuying will not suffer, especially Zhou Chang and Luo Dawei. After this war, both of them will be Li Zhongtang's right-hand man in the military.

Seeing the red flag flying over the city of Xuzhou, Zhou Chang finally suppressed the churning emotions in his heart. He turned his head and said to the officers surrounded by him, "Now you can enter Xuzhou. Remember, you must restrain the team, and you must Qiu has done nothing wrong, and Xuzhou will be taken!"

"Yes!"

(End of this chapter)