Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 426 Muddy Waters ([-])

November 1644, 11, the sixth day of the tenth lunar month.On the seventh day after Wang Aoyong's death, Zhao Yingyuan, who was far away in Qingzhou, had successfully invited a large number of anti-Qing armed forces to gather, and the momentum was shocked for a while. In order to increase his appeal, he began to think about preparing to support King Heng in Qingzhou City, and It is planned to make Heng Wang Zhu Youfei officially enthroned on the eighth day of October.But what he didn't know was that as early as last month, Wang Aoyong had already asked Beijing to send reinforcements because Dengzhou was rejected.The Qing court agreed to his request, and then ordered Mei Le Zhang Jing, He Tuo, and Li Sutai to lead the army into Shandong. Today, this Qing army has quietly arrived in Jinan.

From Jinan to Qingzhou, if you march lightly, it will only take two days.And everything that happened in Qingzhou City has been reported to Fang Dayou, the governor of Shandong in Jinan. Originally, he only had 1 soldiers on hand, and he was panicked when he saw more than 1 reinforcements coming. There were more than [-] "true Manchurian officers and soldiers" among them, which gave him the confidence to regain Qingzhou at once.

And in Jiaozhou City at this time, the people on the east bank are also making final preparations before departure.Last night, people from the east coast "collected" some carts, mules and horses in the city, and the grain shops run by the local gentry were the focus of their care. They gathered the owners of these grain shops and announced that they would levy ten stones to one dollar according to the amount of grain stored. Grain ranging from a hundred stones.Although these people are unwilling, the current situation is stronger than others, and those who are hard-pressed to give up money may be hanged up by these east bank yellow-clothed thieves immediately, so the logistics staff successfully collected about 400 shi of grain.

After collecting the food, the logistics staff was ordered to distribute some of the old grain beans left in the warehouse to the people in the city who had no food left, and then gave freedom to more than 300 prisoners in the prison.These prisoners included Jiangyang bandits, ordinary people who were framed, and captured remnants of the Shun Army. Most of these people expressed their willingness to go with the people from the East Bank.In the end, the people from the east bank also recruited refugees for reclamation in the city as usual, but only a few hundred people were willing to go to unknown places with these "thieves" for reclamation.Due to the lack of food, the people on the east bank no longer use forced means to relocate Ming people, so they only got a total of more than 300 people in Jiaozhou City this time.But this is enough. These people are basically young and strong, and they are good at work. If there are too many people, they may not be able to support them.

In addition, they captured more than 400 prisoners in the battle yesterday afternoon, and nearly 6 Qing troops died in battle, including about 9 to 15 Han army banner officers and soldiers.The casualties of the people on the east coast were unusually slight. Except for 31 riders who died in battle and 61 people were slightly injured, only the volunteer team killed [-] people and injured [-] people, with a total of [-] casualties. A piece of cake.However, after the war, after reading the battle process dictated by the squadron leaders who participated in the battle, the training staff and the combat staff agreed that the volunteer team needed to strengthen targeted training in order to improve their combat effectiveness, otherwise they would encounter difficulties such as the Manchurians in the future. Time may suffer.

As for the treatment of these captives, Mo Ming quickly made up his mind and took them all away for labor reform in the Heishui Coal Mine.If they performed well during the transformation period, then they still had a chance to become "normal people", otherwise they would be working in the coal mine to the rhythm of death.These officers and soldiers of the Qing army who had shaved their hair were tied together with ropes one by one by the soldiers of the military team, and then threw them beside the carts, preparing them to move with the carts containing grain.People from the East Bank seized more than 70 carts belonging to Ke Yongsheng in Jiaozhou City, plus some collected by the people, there were about [-] carts; Shipped dozens of tons of goods.

"Has the navy ship arrived at the mouth of the Dagu River?" Mo Ming spread out the map and began to ask the intelligence staff.According to the plan, the navy's two armed transport ships, two transport ships and two gunboats will sail along the coast of Shandong and maintain close contact with the army on land.According to the plan made before departure, these ships will berth near the mouth of the Dagu River in Jiaozhou Bay, waiting for the army to send people to contact them.

"It's already here." The intelligence staff nodded and said with certainty, "I sent the scouts of the public security team to the mouth of the Dagu River to investigate yesterday afternoon. They found the navy's ships, and all six ships were there. A small convoy went to deliver supplies to them."

"That's good." Mo Ming nodded.The seized food, materials and livestock had to be shipped as soon as possible, and the recruited more than 300 people and the more than 400 captured Qing army prisoners had to be shipped away as soon as possible.It is already November, and this year looks like another cold winter. Yantai Port may freeze again at the coldest moment, so ships will not be able to call at the port, so the things that can be transported now should be hurry up luck.Moreover, some pioneer immigrants from Heishui Port and Dabo Port have to be transported to the winter camp on Rishiri Island as soon as possible, otherwise there will be no way out after the port freezes.

So, under the order of Mo Ming, the soldiers from the east bank moved quickly. They loaded the supplies onto the carts and pack horses, and then, escorted by the officers and soldiers of the two squadrons, they headed for less than ten kilometers. away from the sea.After leaving a standing squadron to guard the warehouse in Jiaozhou City, Mo Ming took the army that had just finished breakfast and embarked on the journey again.

This time their goal is Gaomi, located in the northwest of Jiaozhou.Gaomi County is currently in the hands of the armed landlords, and the leader is Li Shiyuan, the former Qingzhou garrison of the Ming Dynasty-of course he is now the Qingzhou garrison of the Qing Dynasty.The county seat was still in the hands of Dashun in mid-May, but later the county gentry launched a rebellion and forced away Dashun county magistrate Sun Zhiyu and his entourage (he was killed in the official history).However, this time Sun Zhiyu swaggered back as the squadron leader of the No. 7 Squadron of the Standing Team, which made people feel like 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi.Mo Ming and others joked back then that they would organize a Dashun Returning Home Mission, but it was his grandson who was the first to realize it.

Li Shiyuan had about 20 soldiers on hand at this time, and his combat quality was poor. Most of them were mud-legged Xiangyong who had just joined the army and hadn't eaten food for a long time. It basically didn't take much effort to deal with them.Gaomi County is only more than [-] kilometers away from Jiaozhou, and the marching speed of the people on the east bank is extremely fast. The cavalry arrived outside Gaomi City at noon, while the infantry did not arrive here until sunset.

Although Gaomi County was low and dilapidated, the people from the east bank were not in a hurry to attack as it was already dark.The soldiers of the military team began to set up camp, fetch water and cook, and the people on the east coast were going to rest for one night before attacking tomorrow.The double barbed wire camp was equipped with a large number of sentries and military dogs. After all, Li Shiyuan did not dare to send anyone to attack the camp at night.But it is more likely that the soldiers under him suffer from night blindness and have no night combat ability at all.

On November 11th, with the sound of the crisp trumpet, the army of the people from the east coast slowly lined up outside Gaomi County.First there were 5 people in 4 squadrons of the Standing Team, then more than 1000 people in two battalions of the Eight Banners New Army, and then artillery and musketeers.As for the [-] cavalry, they were dispersed to the two wings of the army early on for vigilance.

If the enemy dare not go out of the city to fight in the field, then things will be much easier to handle.

The battle is still the same as the old three.After roughly cleaning the city with a howitzer, Sergeant Bernini, the deputy commander of the artillery company, pulled all eight long-barreled cannons not far from the city wall.The enemies at the head of the city cannot attack this place, but their shells can easily hit the city wall.After seeing the cannon pulled out by the people from the east bank, the Qing army at the head of the city was obviously very commotion, but they quickly calmed down under the scolding of the officer.

The people on the east bank ignored them, but blindly concentrated eight light and heavy artillery on a certain section of the city wall that looked like it had been repaired and began to bombard it.The process of fighting seemed a bit boring to the people on the east bank, but it was definitely not fun for the Qing army under Li Shiyuan in the city.

After a leisurely lunch of steak and caviar prepared by a special chef in the temporary prefab room, Mo Ming even opened a bottle of Xiangshan dry red with great interest.At this time, the liaison staff officer hurried in and reported to him that the city wall had been blown down with a gap of about six or seven meters. At present, the grenadiers were already holding powder kegs under the cover of artillery and preparing to blast forward.

After handing over the red wine to his orderly, Mo Ming grabbed the command knife and walked to the front line unhurriedly.At this time, the artillery had already pulled several howitzers to the front. These 8-pound howitzers fired a lot of explosive bombs and grape bombs at the gap, and swept away the Qing army that was crowded there to block the gap.Especially the bunches of grape bullets turned those Qing troops who were forced by the officers to rush to repair the gaps into mutilated corpses.How could these Qing troops with low morale survive such a scene, they immediately dispersed in a crowd, and it was useless for the officers to beat and scold them.

Under the cover of artillery and several rows of musketeers, the heroic grenadiers approached the gap in the city wall, and then quickly dug tunnels, buried powder kegs, and laid fuses. The whole process was orderly.More than [-] cavalry and about a hundred scouts from the public security team hovered outside the range of the Qing army at the top of the city, ready to attack the fleeing Qing army at any time.

Finally, after everything was ready, there was only a loud bang, and the city wall, which was already crumbling from the cannonballs, collapsed in a large area.The infantry formation on the east bank lined up next to the artillery position let out a loud cheer. Soon, the combat staff officer issued an order for an assault. The front marched past, and then the command system and the Eight Banners New Army.

The final battle also came to an end before the sun set.The weak rural warriors could not defeat the people on the east coast in armed field battles, and they later discovered that they seemed to be unable to defeat them even in street fighting.These yellow-clothed thieves never fought against them recklessly. They formed a tight formation, with spearmen outside and musketeers mixed in. Any villager who tried to get close was beaten into a hornet's nest.When encountering a house guarded by Xiangyong, they even directly pulled the cannons and blasted the whole house down.Faced with this kind of ingenious and clumsy tactics, these village warriors quickly collapsed, and the guard Li Shiyuan took the lead with more than a hundred confidants to open the city gate and escape.After Li Shiyuan ran away, the remaining more than 1000 Xiangyongs in the city immediately lost their backbone, most of them also collapsed, and a small number simply abandoned their weapons and surrendered. Gaomi County announced that it changed hands within a day.

(End of this chapter)