Ming Zhengzhi, I am Zheng Kezang

Due to the existence of [-] Mongolian cavalry in the Dongchang camp of the Qing army, the Xia army of the East Road could not besiege the spring city of Jinan with confidence. Set up big camps on both sides of the southeast to monitor the movement of the green camps in Jinan City and prevent the Qing army from fleeing from the city.

Among them, the Tianmazhai camp in the southwest of the city has more than 9000 troops, including the fourth division of the Guangwei Army, the siege artillery regiment directly under the Privy Council, four regiments of the Annan Army, and one battalion of the Korean Army; The soldiers and horses include [-] regiments of the Shence Army, the Heavy Artillery Regiment directly under the Privy Council, four regiments of the Vietnamese Army, and one battalion of the Korean Army. Although joining can strengthen the Xia army's momentum, if he is allowed to really participate in the war, some people will inevitably attack him in the future and use alien races to massacre the people of his own country.

After deducting the left-behind soldiers and horses of the two battalions, there are still four divisions of the East Xia Army that can maneuver, but one of the divisions needs to be deployed along the west line of the Grand Canal to maintain the East Route Army's own food roads, so Yang Bokang can only use the remaining The next three divisions attacked Qingzhou and other prefectures eastward.It’s just that Yang Bokang also had the idea to win the reward of the Duke Wang promised by Zheng Kezang. Therefore, he considered that Qingzhou and other places had been attacked by the Xia army, and the prefectures and counties to which he belonged should be frightened, so he boldly used only two divisions to advance eastward. The troops went north to attack Wuding, Yangxin and other places, threatening the front lines of Cangzhou, Dezhou and Tianjin.

Yang Bokang seemed to be right. The Qing government's defense in Northeast Shandong was extremely weak. As soon as the Xia army arrived, people from all over the country offered their cities one after another. The Xia army captured the entire Wuding Mansion almost without bloodshed.

But relatively speaking, the Xia army who captured Qingzhou and other places on the East Road did not go so smoothly.

This is not because of how tenacious the Qing army resisted in Qinglaidengjiao and other places. On the contrary, the defenders of the above-mentioned prefectures and counties under their rule abandoned the city and fled when they saw the Xia army attacking. Soon the whole Ludong and Jiaolai were ingested.

It’s just that the Qing army who abandoned the city fled into the deserted wilderness and turned into a very dangerous bandit. In order to prevent these bandits from looting the counties that had become the Chinese territory, the Xia army could only break it up into pieces. The regiment as a unit carried out drag-net raids on the more harmful bandit villages.However, the bandits who were converted from the local green camp quickly escaped into the mountains or went south to Yizhou Prefecture, continuing to harass the local area and threaten Xia Jun's grain road.Under such circumstances, Yang Bokang could only continue to strengthen the garrisons in Xuzhou, Yizhou, Huai'an and other places to protect the safety of food roads, and stationed garrisons in the state capital of Qingdeng Jiaolai and some key passes, and sent commissioners to appease the bandits , but before the Ludong bandits were wiped out or surrendered, the two divisions on the East Road would definitely be unable to move.

Seeing that the force in his hand was rapidly diluted with the expansion of the territory, Yang Bokang also scratched his head.

The current plan is to take back the Sixth Division of the Xuanwu Army in the direction of Wuding to strengthen the direction of Jinan?Or should the Sixth Division of the Wuxuanwu Army continue to take advantage of the Dongchang Qing army being restrained by the main force of the Xia army to seize Dezhou, Cangzhou and even Tianjin?

The benefits of the Sixth Division of the Xuanwu Army continuing to attack Dezhou, Cangzhou and other places are self-evident. Not only can it cut off the rear routes of the Qing army in Jinan and Dongchang, threaten the safety of the Qing army's food roads, but also create the illusion that the Xia army is directly attacking Beijing. , Shake the morale of the Qing army, forcing the main force of the Qing army to retreat or an early decisive battle.

However, the danger of doing so is self-evident. It must be known that the sixth division of the Xuanwu Army has only ten thousand men. If the Qing army dispatched more than [-] Mongolian cavalry to attack, it is entirely possible that the sixth division of the Xuanwu Army will be killed before the main force of the Xia army reacts. The Sixth Division can deal with it, and even if it is not good enough, it can be trapped to death in a certain city.

If the Sixth Division of the Xuanwu Army is taken back to Jinan, it will naturally help to strengthen the strength of the Xia Army on the outskirts of Jinan, and prevent the Dongchang Qing Army from choosing to use the Xia Army on the East Road as a breakthrough point, thereby reversing the entire battle situation.

But in this way, the original first move becomes a waste of chess, and the officers and soldiers below who have gone wrong will scold their mothers behind their backs.What was even more detrimental to Yang Bokang himself was that once he made such a decision, he and the entire Donglu Xia Army could only act as spectators in this battle, and at most they would get some leftovers at the end.

It's okay to eat leftovers left by others, but if you miss this battle, Huaxia will rule the world, and if you use troops, the scale will not be enough for yourself, the deputy envoy of the Privy Council.Thinking that his colleagues could get the reward of the duke, but he was still a mere county magistrate, Yang Bokang categorically denied the possibility of being transferred back to the Sixth Division of the Xuanwu Army.

Of course, Yang Bokang is also a veteran of many battles, and he would not order the Sixth Division of the Xuanwu Army to advance alone. You must know that the East Route Army is a partial division after all. The Central Army came to fight.Therefore, the well-planned Yang Bokang immediately presented his strategy to Zheng Kezang's imperial court.

Zheng Kezang was thinking about how to eliminate the Mongolian cavalry in the Dongchang camp, and he was overjoyed to see Yang Bokang's strategy.

Judging from the map and the information obtained by the frontline sentries, the deployment of the Qing army in Zhangde and Daming is mainly defensive, hoping to block the advance route of the Xia army like a gate, and the role of the Qing army in Jinan is similar. The Dongchang Qing army is the key position of the door latch. If they can find another way to bypass the door and force the door latch to open by itself, then the chance of victory will come.

After two groups of simultaneous war games, the Privy Council came to a judgment similar to that of Zheng Kezang, so Zheng Kezang instructed the Privy Council to mobilize six divisions including the third division of the Tianwu Army, four heavy artillery regiments, and one siege artillery regiment 7 people arrived in Tangyin to contain the enemies of Zhangde; nine divisions including Gongsheng Army, Yulin Army, and Yongwei Army, five heavy artillery regiments, and two siege artillery regiments, a total of 11 people arrived in Puyang. On the front line of North and South Music, they made a posture that they were about to attack the daimyo; the remaining 24 divisions, 28 heavy artillery regiments, and four siege artillery regiments of the Xia Army in the middle route totaled [-] people.

28 vs. 19 sounds like an absolute advantage, but Zheng Kezang still needs to mobilize the Qing army further.

On July 14th, the [-]th year of Huaxia Wucheng, the five divisions of the Hussar Army and the Cavalry Army of the Xia Army quietly disappeared from the front of Dongchang, leaving only the fourth division of the Cavalry Army and the four divisions of the Flying Cavalry Army to continue to confuse on the front line of Dongchang Qing army.

On July [-]th, the first division of the Xia Army Hussars who disappeared from Dongchang bypassed Jinan and entered Zibo to rest.Two days later, the Sixth Division of the Xuanwu Army of the Xia Army left Wuding and rushed to Cangzhou.As soon as the Xuanwu Army left, the Iron Cavalry Army and other departments entered Wuding, and at the same time imposed a strict blockade on the borders between Wuding, Dezhou, and Jinan to ensure that the situation of the headquarters would not be known to the Qing army.

Cangzhou is the gateway to Beijing and Tianjin. Although all the main forces of the Qing army were transferred to the line from Zhangde to Jinan, the Qing government still sent several important officials, including Governor of Zhili Marhan, to take over.With the arrival of Xingyuan, the governor of Zhili, there are also one or two thousand Goshha and guards in the small city of Cangzhou.It is a joke to expect Goshha and the guards to defend the city, so Malhan spared no expense to sell the Qing court's famous utensils at a low price, and recruited nearly [-] village braves from more than [-] regiments.

Cangzhou is known as the hometown of martial arts. After temporary training, these brave folks still look like that.However, Malhan was worried that the Xiangyong regiment would not be able to face the Xia army's firearms directly, so he asked for an order to transfer an outer firearms battalion and ten Shenwei general guns from the last strength of the Qing army guarding Beijing.

With the artillery battalion and the courage of the country, Geshha and the guards were barely able to fight on the city wall after some emergency drills, and Malhan began to gather Yanding again.Speaking of which, there used to be a Changlu Salt Field on the coast of Cangzhou, but under the threat of the Xia Army Navy, the salt field was abandoned, and the Qing government’s salt administration also changed to directly collecting finished salt from individual salt workers. He has been promoted, so he is naturally unwilling to take the risk of becoming a soldier.

Fortunately, there must be private salt dealers in every era. With Malhan's order, all places in Zhili desperately seized private salt, and all the salt lords caught were escorted to Cangzhou. Faced with the choice of losing their heads or serving as soldiers and eating food to serve the Qing Dynasty However, the brave private salt dealers could only choose to save their own lives first, so Malhan had another battalion of elite soldiers.

Perhaps thinking that using death row prisoners was a good idea, Malhan ordered the government to escort all the prisoners in the cells to Cangzhou for his military training, but this plan has not been realized, Xia Jun killed the generals and surrounded Cangzhou.Malhan immediately sent people to highlight the encirclement of Xia's army and report to Beijing, Tianjin, Dongchang, Jinan and other places, and at the same time personally went into battle to supervise the battle and vowed to defend Cangzhou to the death.

I don't know if the Sixth Division of the Xuanwu Army thought that Cangzhou City was small and easy to attack and treated it with contempt, or it was deliberately staged to attract the Mongolian cavalry.Although the morale of the Qing army was greatly boosted, the Xia army was furious.The division commander Tao Yue, who was born in the Jiayin period of the Boy Scouts, transferred the [-]-point artillery of the division's artillery regiment to bombard Cangzhou. It was only because the destructive power of the [-]-point artillery was still insufficient that the city wall of Cangzhou was not destroyed. After Xia Jun's shelling, the city walls of Cangzhou were still full of potholes, as if they had been baptized by meteorites.Malhan, who was restless, had no choice but to send out troops asking for help all at once. Some of them were intercepted by Xia Jun, and some were deliberately let go by Xia Jun. It was just these letters of help sent out after "untold hardships" Like a stone sinking into the sea, the reinforcements never appeared from the beginning to the end.

Xia Jun also felt that if it dragged on, the scene would be ruined, so the chief director at the front gave an order, and the Sixth Division of the Xuanwu Army immediately used the tunnel dug under the cover of shelling to blow up the east wall of Cangzhou City.When the turbulent Xia army rushed into the city of Cangzhou to fight in the street with the martial arts masters and the salt lords who had to fight desperately, Malhan sent the last messenger with his legacy

Cangzhou fell, the news that Xia Jun bypassed Hejian, and Tianjin pointed directly at Bazhou to attack Beijing finally shocked Kangxi, who was as stable as Mount Tai.

At the end of July in the 51st year of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, several groups of envoys from the capital appeared in the Dongchang camp, either earnestly or forcefully requesting the prince Yinti to mobilize the Mongolian army to return to Beijing to intercept the lone army of the Xia army going north.However, Yinti often explicitly refused to mobilize the Mongolian army to return to the division because the situation in Dezhou and Jinan was unclear.

At the beginning of August in the 14th year of Huaxia Wucheng, the Sixth Division of the Xuanwu Army of the Xia Army conquered Ba, Xiong, Yongqing, Gu'an and other counties, and further approached Beijing. Under this critical situation, Kangxi had to send two princes to Dongchang with orders.

In the imperial edict, Yinti was reprimanded for sitting back and watching Beijing fall, and threatened to depose Yinti from the position of prince and change the commander in front of the battle.

Under the threat of Kangxi, and considering that the grain road was blocked after the capital was shaken, Yinti had no choice but to agree to mobilize the Mongolian army to help