Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 487 Stalemate and Breakthrough ([-])

"Dong Xueli is such a wonderful person. I really admire him a little bit now." Mo Ming sat down in the Haifeng County Government Hall, with guards and staff officers standing on both sides. At this time, the logistics staff was reporting the captured spoils to him.

Xiao Xi, the commander of the 102nd company, just came back from interrogating the prisoners outside, and immediately laughed when he heard the words: "Dong Xueli can be a man, with 3 taels of silver, [-] shi of corn, [-] shi of beans, [-] bundles of grass, and silk tea silk." There are also some silk, gold, silver and jade wares and books. I don’t know where they got them. They also sent soldiers to guard these things. As soon as we entered the city, these people directly handed over the well-preserved treasury to us. Grass, which song is this song from!"

"Actually, it's easy to understand." Mo Ming stood up from the grand teacher's chair and paced up and down in the lobby, "Isn't Dong Xueli just a warlord! What is the most important thing to him? The army! With the army, so money Women are not a problem. On the contrary, if there is no army, in this troubled world, it is hard to say whether women can keep their family property. Dong Xueli is also a veteran of the dead, and he sees these problems clearly."

"Dong Xueli left six or seven hundred Henan soldiers in the city. I didn't make it difficult for them. After confiscating the weapons, I let them go. One person was given ten catties of grain and two taels of silver as severance pay, but except for a few people, they took the money and food and left. Most of the people expressed their willingness to vote for us. I asked, these people basically have no relatives in Henan, and they really have no life skills except serving as soldiers and food. I think we can keep them as soldiers. , at least stronger than those freshly captured mud-legged ones." Xiao Xi spoke again for those Henan soldiers who were left behind by Dong Xueli as abandoned sons.

After thinking for a while, Mo Ming nodded and said, "That's fine, but after going back, we must dismantle the establishment, carry out some ideological education and observe for a long time before we can consider using it. Now, let's return some of the weapons to them first. Let them help us collect people and supplies in the city."

Due to the policy of forcibly relocating the people along the coast of Shandong, the army on the east bank began to forcibly drive out the people in the city the next day (June 6), counted the number of people, and then drove to the sea.They can still be considered humane, because they didn't just take away the strong and strong, women and children, some old people who were old and frail and of little value, if their family members were also included in the forced relocation, they would also take them away together. .The small Haifeng County does not have enough registered permanent residence, plus people from the east coast appeared on the seaside on June 13th, many people who listened to the Qing army’s smearing of the yellow-clothed pirates have long since fled with their old and young. The people from the east bank only got more than 6 people in the city.

There are only more than 3000 people, how can this be possible!So Marshal Mo gave an order, and more than 500 cavalry roared into the countryside around Haifeng County, extending the forced relocation to the rural areas.The gentry in the countryside who built a stronghold for self-protection often dared not show their air when they saw a large number of yellow-clothed bandit cavalry roaring towards them, and even took the initiative to send some money and food to curry favor.

As for the 150 elite scouts of the security team, they were also thrown out.They are usually in a group of five, each with three horses, and cooperate with a cavalry from the east coast to draw a map while scouting the enemy's situation, in case the main force of the east coast army in Haifeng City is attacked by surprise.

On June 6, two flute-shaped boats and four medium-sized fishing boats belonging to the Dongan people set sail back to Yantai Port, loaded with supplies seized in Haifeng City and more than 14 Ming people.Although the wind direction to Yantai is unfavorable to the six sailing ships, they can sail along some coastal currents, and it only takes about five or six days to arrive at Yantai Port.The return journey was much smoother, and it only took them three days to return to this place.

But the people on the east coast are not prepared to stay here for another ten days.Isn't this to die?It won't take ten days, but in three days, I'm afraid the Qing army cavalry from Jinan Prefecture will come over.According to the information obtained from yesterday's interrogation, Luck Dehun has [-] Manchurian Eight-Banner cavalry in Jinan, and more than [-] cavalry from the Green Camp of the Han Army.Well, maybe it's not impossible to kill a bloody way out, but the loss will inevitably be extremely heavy, so the gain outweighs the loss.

Therefore, on the 14th, the cavalry on the east bank rampaged through the countryside and captured two to 3000 people and a small amount of livestock and food. On the 15th, they began boarding operations by the sea and prepared to evacuate.Their next destination will be Ye County, Laizhou Prefecture, and the captains of the departing fleet have also been informed that after unloading supplies and personnel at Yantai Port, they will continue to sail westward to meet in the sea off Ye County.

It can be seen from the map that it is not far from Haifeng to Ye County, only Laizhou Bay is separated.If the main force of the army on the east coast took a fast steam engine sailboat, it would only take more than two days to go straight to the sea off Ye County, but if the Qing army cavalry started from near Haifeng, it would not be able to reach it in seven or eight days.If they started to set off after getting the news, when they arrived there, the day lily might be cold.Moreover, being mobilized back and forth on a large scale by the people on the east coast like this, even the super mobile Mongolian cavalry can't stand it. Even if the people can stand it, the horses can't stand it.

Therefore, in the face of extreme passiveness in strategy, how the Manchu Qing should deal with the dilemma of Shandong, Kinki (Northern Zhili), Liaoxi and even Liaodong with seas and defenses is indeed a matter of testing the wisdom of the Manchu ruling class.Although continuing to increase troops is a feasible strategy, the cost is really too high. In 20 prefectures and counties in Shandong, is it possible that you plan to send over 20 troops over, can you afford it?And 20 people are just to deal with the yellow-clothed pirates on the east coast who total no more than [-] people. Doesn't it make people laugh when they say it?I, the Qing Dynasty, can't afford to lose this face. At this time, Shandong can't afford to support [-] troops that don't do production.

Then, the only way to move borders and gather villages is to follow the example of Liaodong.However, this trick can be done in Liaodong, because there are often no people for a hundred miles, and it is very convenient to move.Not to mention the Forbidden Sea, they didn't have any navigation technology and equipment, so they all looked like birds.But Shandong is more troublesome. With the high speed of the army marching on the east coast, they often drive over in a day if you move thirty or fifty miles.Moreover, with their perverted siege ability, and the degree of disrepair of the city walls of these northern states and counties, they may not be able to hold them for a day.Two days to land, one day to march, one day to fight, two days to transport the spoils and personnel, that is to say, within six days they will be back on the seashore again.And at that time, the chasing Qing army would have to approach them at the risk of being bombarded by large-caliber naval guns. If they didn't want their army to collapse, they could only obediently let them go.

Six days!Can my Qing Dynasty mobilize a strong enough force to rush to the scene within six days from the moment the people from the east coast appear somewhere in the open sea?I'm afraid it will be difficult, unless there are a large number of troops stationed nearby, but in this case, the number of troops stationed in Shandong and Hebei will increase sharply, and the cost will be unbearably high.It's really hard to choose!

Besides, moving borders and banning the sea is a very sensitive topic in the first place. One can only imagine how much resistance there will be if the sea is abandoned for fifty or even a hundred miles along the coast!Countless coastal states and counties will become ruins, the fields will be left barren, and many ordinary people and even gentry who have lived there for generations will be displaced. Will they agree willingly?The answer is obviously no.But if it is enforced, it will be a big disappointment, and it will greatly shake the foundation of my Qing rule.

On June 6, when 16 military men, with the help of more than 500 Henan Jiangjun from Dong Xueli's Department, used small boats to transport supplies and personnel back and forth to the big ship moored in the deep water area, a group of us wearing lightning rods The cavalry of the Qing Dynasty's "Warrior in Riding and Shooting" appeared on the horizon in the distance.More than 3 spearmen from the No. 6-500 Squadron of the more elite stand-up team and more than 400 people from the Eight Banners New Army formed a thick square formation. The cavalry brigade has already boarded the ship in advance.

They had already heard the news that the Qing cavalry was coming.The scouts of the security team had fought against the scouts of the Qing army in advance, and these sturdy Shandan people even captured two prisoners and returned, embarrassing the Qing army's cavalry.The two scouts of the Qing army who were arrested turned out to be Saurons. You must know that they were also classified as Shandan (Shandar) by the people on the east coast. Quite a few Saurons from the mainland were serving.After the intelligence staff called these people, they immediately turned against the two Qing army scouts, and learned a lot of key information from them.

For example, Luck Dehun has officially started to set up a network to guard against people from the east coast in Jinan Prefecture.Among them, the eastern half of Shandong is currently in charge of Hauge's troops, while the western half and the Hejian Mansion in Northern Zhili are under the unified command of Luck Dehun.He deployed more than 4 troops in Yizhou Town in the south. At the same time, he also set up a coastal defense general in Binzhou in the north. According to the system, he also has [-] troops, but most of them are still on the way and have not yet returned to the town. Binzhou Coastal Defense General Now there are only less than [-] people in the area.

At present, most of the more than 2000 people who were born in Zhang Haoqian's bandits have been wiped out, and Dong Xueli has also fled. Only Li Sutai's 5000 people are still wandering around.This time, the Qing troops of the Lukede Hun tribe who were eating in Jinan City got the news, and immediately dispatched two thousand Manchu Eight Banners cavalry teams and two thousand Han Army Green Camp cavalry teams. Led by Alzin, they marched concurrently and arrived in Binzhou City yesterday.After a night's rest, the exhausted Qing army horse team continued to come to Haifeng County, and what the people on the east coast saw at the seaside was their vanguard.It's just that they marched quickly for half a day, and they couldn't immediately enter the battle. Moreover, the spear formations of the people on the east bank were well-defended, and the black-holed artillery made people feel frightened. They didn't dare to make mistakes for a while.

The [-] light cavalry troops who came all the way and were exhausted were not placed in the eyes of the battle-hardened east bank army.After waiting for almost everyone and cargo to board the ship in the evening, the army on the east bank retreated alternately under the cover of naval guns, and finally successfully retreated to the ship.During this process, the cavalry of the Qing army only rushed twice, but they were all repelled by long-range shells fired by more than [-] naval guns.

After successfully boarding, the ships on the east coast raised their sails and left the offshore sea one by one, heading southeast.

(End of this chapter)