Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 451 The Mountain Rain Is Coming (Part [-])

The follow-up troops that Mo Ming said will be available soon.It is said that the Qing army has recently attacked the remnants of the Shun army and the peasants' anti-Qing armed forces in Manjiadong in the three prefectures of East and West in Shanxi. Many people could not hold on and fled to Qingzhou and even the second prefecture of Denglai.Some people were collected by Zhao Yingyuan, while a large part continued eastward, heading straight for Denglai.

Yantai, as the home of the famous Yellow Clothes Army and the flood zone of the Ninghai defense envoy appointed by Dashun, naturally attracted a large number of failed anti-Qing armed forces to vote.Mo Ming naturally did not refuse these people, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled were weeded out to work in the fields, and those who were strong enough to fight were incorporated into the army and trained strictly.In mid-to-late February, even Wang Jiazhong, who had been lingering in Dengzhou City for some reason, led his army to the vicinity of Yantai to join the people on the east bank for unknown reasons.Wang Jiazhong is also a well-known "drama bandit" for a long time. If Fang Dayou, the governor of Shandong Province in Qing Dynasty, compiled a poker arrest warrant like the 2st century U.S. Army, Mo Ming would undoubtedly be the king, but Wang Jiazhong and Zhai Cong'e and his ilk would definitely be veterans too. Big names like K...

Wang Jiazhong had slightly fewer subordinates than Zhai Cong'er, and there were more than 2000 people left after Wucunjing was removed. Mo Ming planned to send them to Jeju Island together.At that time, Zhai Cong'e will occupy Jeju Prefecture, and Wang Jiazhong will occupy Jingyi County. The two will control the whole island much stronger.Moreover, there are too many anti-Qing armed forces who came to vote this time, and the people on the east bank are not prepared to accept them all. At that time, they will probably appoint one of the Dashun officials who voted last year as a general, and let him lead a team. [-] people also went to the island to increase the influence of the people on the east coast.

The six ships of the navy were already fully loaded with 2000 people from Zhai Cong'e, 500 soldiers from the military team, artillery from the east coast, and a large amount of luggage, and headed eastward for Jeju Island.As for Wang Jiazhong's 500 people, as well as the 102nd Company of the East Coast Army and the [-]rd Battalion of the Eight Banners New Army that are still in Yantai Port, they can only wait for four of the transport ships to return.The two escort gunboats will take advantage of their tonnage, speed, and firepower to continuously search for North Korean navy ships in the waters near Jeju Island to attack, so as to prevent them from reinforcing the North Korean army on Jeju Island.

On February 2, when the four large ships transporting the landing troops to Jeju Island returned, the east coast immigrant fleet transporting the population to Australia also sailed into Yantai Port.There are only five ships in the fleet, all of which have completed simple maintenance. As for the other two ships, according to the captain Liu Haiyang who led the team, the hull condition is not optimistic, and they are undergoing major repairs on Rishiri Island. They may not be able to keep up with Australia's transport of immigrants.

When it comes to transporting immigrants, the migrant fleet of East Coasters has completed two transports in this transport season (October-April of the following year) on the voyage from the Blackwater area to Australia.During the first transportation, seven ships full of people filled nearly 10 people, and the total tonnage was less than 4 tons. Although this transportation ratio is much better than that of Europeans transporting black slaves (one Tons of a few people or even a dozen people, the death rate is 7000% to half), but it is the first time for such a high proportion to transport immigrants, so the death rate is still very alarming.Although the journey went smoothly and at high speed, it took only 7000 days to arrive at Jinshan Port, but only 30 of the 20 people arrived there alive, and the death rate was as high as 7000%.

In late December, the fleet sailed for the second time, and the six ships ("Breaking Waves" were suspended for overhaul) were fully loaded with 12 people. The death rate this time was about 6000%, which was still very high.For the third voyage right now, only five ships can move. They loaded 15 people on Rishiri Island and planned to load another 2000 people in the Yantai area, and then sailed to southern Australia.If they arrived smoothly, in the transportation season of 3000-1644, almost three batches of 45 people were transported out of the Blackwater area. Even if only half of these people arrived in the mainland alive, that would be 8000 people.This is a figure that is enough to surprise and worry the bureaucrats of the local Ministry of Civil Affairs, because the impact on the east coast with a population of only 9000 is obviously not small.

After replenishing the two fleets with various supplies and sending them to their destinations, before Mo Ming could relax for a while, an urgent report came from Qingzhou.Hauge, Prince Su of the Qing Dynasty, personally brought a large number of cannons in red and went south to Jinan with the Eight Banners. Hetuo and others in Jinan City were originally the Zhenglan Banner soldiers led by Hauge, so Hauge took over the Shandong Qing army on the spot He then led the tens of thousands of Qing troops stationed in various states and counties near Jinan to Qingzhou without taking a rest.This time, the scale of the Qing army was huge, the smoke and dust obscured the sun, and the momentum was extremely alarming. The anti-Qing armed forces that were extremely active in various places also disappeared without a trace.

According to the intelligence analysis sent back by the scouts, coupled with the situation of the Qing army in Shandong, the intelligence staff judged that the total strength of the Qing army may have exceeded 8000, close to 2, and the number of soldiers should be 1. to about 7000 people.Among them, there are 6000 Qing troops from the Hetuo Department, with 5000 soldiers; [-] soldiers from the Han Banner under Li Shitai, with more than [-] soldiers; The Duo Ministry came to aid more than [-] Qing soldiers. The number of soldiers is unknown, but it is estimated that there are [-] soldiers from Manchuria, [-] soldiers from the Han army, and a few soldiers from the surrendered Ming army.This is the information I had before. From the statistics here, it is known that the strength of the Qing army has reached [-], and the number of soldiers is about [-].

However, how many troops and how many cannons Hauge brought this time have not yet been found out due to the short time.However, the intelligence staff judged that the number of troops it brought would not be too many. It is likely that there are only three to five thousand troops from the Eight Banners. , The total force brought by Hauge to Shandong should be around 1.Calculated in this way, the total strength of the Qing army is as many as 2 to 6, and the number of soldiers is 5000, which is almost seven or eight times that of the people on the east coast.

Such a large gap cannot be filled by the east coast army relying on some advanced tactical ideas or weapons and equipment.The total number of soldiers from the east bank is only a few thousand, and only half of them are worthy of battle. If they fight so many Qing troops in a field battle, they will surely die without a place to die.It seems that we should guard Yantai Fort honestly. This fort is extremely strong, with strong firepower and special terrain. It is difficult for the attacking enemy to deploy troops.Such a small but strong fortress castle, with [-] infantry mixed with hot and cold weapons stationed, can basically be defended as impregnable as gold.With the siege ability of the Manchu Qing, even if an army of [-] came, there was no possibility that they could capture Yantai Fort.

But before that, some things should be cleared up.For example, the remaining armed landlords near the Yantai Fortress, the people on the east coast did not move them for various considerations before, but now they can't take much care of them.[-]% of these landlords' armed forces will be incorporated by the Qing army and become part of the green battalion army that conquered the whole country.Some of the gentry's food can no longer be kept, all of them will be robbed!Anyway, judging from the current collapsed production order in Shandong, the Qing army must have robbed them when they came, otherwise the Qing army would have nothing to eat, so keeping them at this moment will be used as a resource for the enemy in the future, which is absolutely impossible!As for what these gentry and their families will eat after the robbery?I control you to die!

The population must also be collected!At this time, it has entered the stage of a race against time. When the Qing army comes, the refugees will inevitably be blocked outside Yantai Fort, so it will be inconvenient to collect people around here in the future.Anyway, a total of about 5500 tons of grain and sea fish are hoarded in several warehouses. Anyway, there are nearly [-] donkeys, mules, horses, pigs, cattle and other livestock. Anyway, there are only [-] refugees left in several strongholds. Anyway, Jeju Island can be won immediately, anyway, we can get hundreds of tons of grain from North Korea and Japan this year, so what are you waiting for?Hurry up and collect more people!If it's too late, it's too late!

Beginning on February 2, the east bank troops in Yantai Fort almost came out in full force, and began to plunder people, gold, silver and food everywhere.The gentry in neighboring states and counties are also fine people. They transferred all their assets to other places early on, and only allowed the people on the east bank to seize a small amount of grain, livestock and various materials.The biggest capture may have been the battle against the local gentry's armed forces in Zhaoyuan. In this battle, people from the east and west coasts used both foot and horse to defeat more than 21 local armed forces in Zhaoyuan without firing a single shot. Entered and occupied Zhaoyuan County.After this battle, the people from the east bank carried out a bloody cleansing of the gentry in Zhaoyuan, and seized a large amount of gold from their villages.

On February 2, the main force of the Manchu Qing army led by Hauge entered the city of Qingzhou. Before they came, many bandits armed with the power of the Qing army had already fled in the city of Qingzhou, all the way east to Denglai Second Mansion. Go, the number of troops under the control of Zhao Yingyuan is only more than 23 people.Facing the power of tens of thousands of Qing troops and more than a dozen red-clothed cannons, Zhao Yingyuan, deeply unmatched, took the initiative to surrender.Haoge led his troops into the city after falsely agreeing, and then beheaded Zhao Yingyuan, Yang Wangxiu and hundreds of their backbones. At the same time, he declared that he would not ask questions. strength.

On February 2, Dong Xueli, the former general of the Shun Army who had surrendered to the Qing army, led 24 troops from Henan to help. So far, the total strength of Hauge's men is believed to have exceeded 2.In history, when the Manchu and Qing forces were strongest in Shandong, there were only more than [-] people, and most of them moved to Jianghuai soon to guard against Nanming.At that time, Ke Yongsheng's Four Thousand Town Army in Jiaozhou almost wiped out all the "rebels" on the bright side of Shandong, with an unbelievable ease.But now, under the toss of the people on the east coast, the Manchu Qing has gathered more than [-] troops and more than a dozen red-clothed cannons. They even gave up the threat of Nanming and vowed to calm down the entire situation in Shandong.

People on the east coast are facing unprecedented pressure!

(End of this chapter)