Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1184 The Battle of the Three Kings ([-])

After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, several waves of rebels against the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty rose up in Shandong.

The earliest batch was the one who followed King Ji to rebel against the Qing Dynasty, but was soon appeased by the Qing court. Wang Yan belonged to the second batch, mainly Zhao Jun from Qingzhou and several other troops, and the third batch was Xie Wang. Moved to the Yuyuan Army.

The Shijie in Qian Yifeng's mouth was changed to Huo Yuanfang, and his style name was Shijie. He was a freshman from Qingzhou, and the two had been classmates.

Back then, he and Qian Yifeng joined Zhao Yingyuan and participated in Qingzhou's fight against the Qing Dynasty. Later, both of them broke out with Wang Yan, but later the Qing army encircled and suppressed them fiercely. There was no news of Huo Yuanfang.

"Is it an old acquaintance of the supervising army?" Seeing this, Man Dazhuang turned his head and asked.

Qian Yifeng nodded, "He is a righteous man who followed His Highness the King of Chu to fight against the Qing Dynasty in Qingzhou."

The seniority of the Five Loyalist Army ranks, the oldest is the person who participated in the Qingzhou Incident. I heard that he was a participant in the Qingzhou Incident and an old acquaintance of Wang Yan. Man Dazhuang laughed immediately, "That's my own. Come, let's talk internally. I would like to thank you all for what happened last night, otherwise, if I were to be black-handed by the Qing army, I would really have no face to explain to His Highness."

At the moment when several people entered the cabin, Huo Yuanfang and the others were just rebels after all. Seeing that there were many soldiers on the warship, they were solemn and dignified, but they were still a little cautious.

Qian Yifeng first introduced: "This is the governor of the Donghai Navy, the governor of Mandu!"

"I've seen Man Dudu!" Several people hurriedly saluted.

Man Dazhuang waved his hand and asked everyone to sit down. After Qian Yifeng was seated, he asked: "At first I thought Shijie was not in the rebellious army. I don't want to see him again today. It's really lucky. I don't know what happened in the past ten years , How did Shijie live, why didn't he go south to vote for His Highness?"

The first batch of rebels in Shandong only existed for a few months, and Huo Yuanfang participated in the subsequent uprising against the Qing Dynasty. It is simply a living fossil of Shandong's anti-Qing history.

Hearing Qian Yifeng's question, he exchanged glances with several volunteer generals, all showing sad expressions.

Huo Yuanfang clasped his fists and said: "Master Qian, after I was separated from the main force, I have been hiding in Yimeng Mountain to recuperate my injuries. When I recovered from my injuries, when I came out of the mountain, the Qing army had already occupied the southern capital. Because the Qing army controlled the main roads and there was no news, So I pulled up a team and stayed in the Yimeng Mountains for activities. Later, the Yuyuan Army rebelled, and I also voted for Li Huajing to fight against the Qing Dynasty in the Caozhou area."

Huo Yuanfang said, his eyes were already red, "The rebel army was originally powerful, and it echoed Gao Yuanhou. Who would have thought that the Qing army would dig the Yellow River, flood Caozhou, kill millions, Yuyuan army suffered heavy losses, and Caozhou was broken by the Qing army. Li Dashuai and others were killed, only I rushed out with a few subordinates, and then moved into the Yimeng Mountain area."

Since ancient times, water and fire have been ruthless. The Yuyuan army once claimed to be millions. Most of them were drowned when they were washed by the water of the Yellow River. The rest also starved to death because of lack of food.

The scene where the country was flooded and the country was full of mourning, everyone still feels very heartbroken and hates it when they recall it.

It is this kind of hatred that drives them to persist in resisting the Qing Dynasty under extremely difficult conditions.

There was a moment of silence in the warehouse, Huo Yuanfang paused for a while, his tone changed, and he continued: "Not long ago, someone from the Tiandihui contacted the humble officer, saying that Ming Dynasty was about to make a northern expedition, and asked us to cooperate and attack everywhere to cause trouble for the Qing army. Department transferred to Qingzhou."

In order to cooperate with the Northern Expedition, Tiandihui also began to contact the rebels active in Shandong in order to cooperate with the Northern Expedition, ordering the rebels from all walks of life to support the Ming army to go north, or to capture prefectures and counties to contain the Qing army.

After the failure of the Yuyuan Army, Huo Yuanfang has been flying the "Wang" flag, claiming to be the old Ministry of the Ming Chu King, and has a great momentum in the Yimeng Mountains. .

In the past few years, the Qing army has been encircling and suppressing him very fiercely. He has been in Yimeng Mountain, and his subordinates have been beaten from more than 2000 to only more than [-] people, but he still persists.

A month ago, a large number of secret agents from the Ming Dynasty entered Shandong to contact the rebel army. He was very excited when he got the news of the Ming army's northern expedition. Things like kerosene and sulfur caught his attention.

Huo Yuanfang's statement was relatively concise, and the events of the past ten years could be explained in a few words, but there was a lot of sadness in his words, which can be summed up almost as follows: "After the failure of the Anti-Qing Dynasty, he drilled into the mountains, went out to fight against the Qing Dynasty, and then failed again and then went to the mountains again." Mountain."

"It's not easy!" Qian Yifeng couldn't help sighing with emotion.He knew how difficult the conditions of the rebel army were. They had no clothes when they were cold, no food when they were hungry, and they had to face the chasing and killing of the Qing army all the time. It was really not easy to persevere until now.

"Fortunately, now that Wang Shibei is finally here, our mission of waiting has been completed!" Huo Yuanfang laughed.

This may also be the mood of the volunteers, they finally made it through.

"General Huo wants to rest, but I'm afraid he can't do it!" Hearing this, Man Dazhuang interrupted with a smile: "You have been in Shandong for a long time, and you know the reality of Shandong. I am afraid that you are still needed as the vanguard of the army!"

At the end of the hard days, the generals of the rebel army will naturally not rest at this time. They also have to think about their fame, and they clasped their fists happily. "

Man Dazhuang nodded, and then asked: "Let me ask you first, as far as I know, the Qing army in Shandong has been concentrated in Xuzhou, and the Qing army's strength in northern Lubei should be very empty. Which troops wanted it last night?" Attack the governor?"

This incident made Man Dazhuang's face very ugly. Fortunately, the Qing army did not succeed, otherwise he would really have no way to meet people.

"Reporting to the governor, it is Wang Zhongqing, the general of Shandong, who came to Hekou from Jinan a few days ago to set up an ambush. The humble officer came to stop it because he got the news!" Huo Yuanfang said.

"Oh, Wang Zhongqing?" Man Dazhuang raised his spirits. According to his understanding, this character is not easy to deal with.

This guy was originally a famous general, and later surrendered, and then surrendered. He has no integrity, but he can do it in all three families, so you know he has some skills.

People who have experienced the Ming, Shun, and Qing dynasties have spent at least ten years in this troubled world, and they cannot be underestimated in terms of using troops to fight.Full of carelessness, he almost capsized in the gutter.

At this time, he couldn't help becoming serious, "How many soldiers and horses does that guy have, and dare to come to ambush this town?"

"Wang Zhongqing was originally only the guard of Dengzhou, and he only had more than 4000 people in his hands, but he was good to his subordinates, and these 4000 people obeyed him!" Huo Yuanfang continued: "But although this guy has been promoted to the Shandong Army, but Governor Ma Guanghui held on to military power, so his military strength did not increase."

"There are only 4000 people, and he dared to attack the governor!" Man Dazhuang couldn't help being a little angry, "This time, the governor will definitely capture this thief!"

Immediately, Man Dazhuang ordered the army to go ashore, first went to Qingzhou, Laizhou, and Wuding, and then went straight to Jinan.

The Qing army was very weak in the north of Lu, and Jiang Xiang in Shanxi rebelled against the Qing, which caused a great shake to the rule of the Manchu Qing. Therefore, as soon as the Ming army landed, all places fell in anticipation.

The Ming army took refuge in a large number of prefectures and counties with little effort. Man Dazhuang did not dare to waste time, leaving Xu Junsheng with 5000 men to guard the warship, and led 7000 men to Jinan.

After the failed sneak attack at Hekou, Wang Zhongqing retreated back to Jinan in a hurry. Almost at the same time, officials and Qing troops fled back one after another from Qingzhou, Wuding and other directions.

Wang Zhongqing knew that this was the Ming army landing from the sea and coming from the east.

Now the main force of the Qing army was either supported by the Ming army, or was surrounded and attacked. Wang Zhongqing looked around and saw that there was no one who could help him.

If the Ming army surrounded Jinan, Ma Guanghui in Xuzhou would not be able to protect himself, and the last 3 Qing troops in Beijing did not dare to move, and he would not receive any support.

Inside the General Army Mansion, Wang Zhongqing paced back and forth anxiously, he only had four thousand elite soldiers, how could he resist the menacing Ming army?

Just when he was thinking hard, someone suddenly reported, "Junmen, the forward of the Ming army has arrived outside Jinan City."

Wang Zhongqing's expression turned cold, followed by another twist, he suddenly stopped, and said in a deep voice: "Go and inform the guards, follow this town to inspect the yamen!"

(End of this chapter)