The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 731 It's all left over from my play

Afterwards, the Qing troops in Linqu, Yidu and other places to the north of Yizhou were like frightened birds. When the Ming army was still fifty or sixty miles away from the city, the defenders fled one after another.

Even in less than half a month, the Ming army had arrived at the city of Jinan.

It's just that they couldn't even kill half of the Jian captives along the way, which made the soldiers of the Dragon Guards and Po Lu camp quite boring. It wasn't until Jinan that the [-] captives guarding the city did not abandon the city and run away.

Suddenly there was a creaking sound from the city gate, and it seemed that a group of people and horses poured out of it.

Seeing this, Huang Qishou, who was in charge of commanding the infantry line, was so excited that his hand holding the hilt of his sword was sweating, "Damn it, it's not easy to meet such a fat man! The bones are almost rusting these days, and today's time is too much." It’s time to fight a battle! Order..."

He was about to order to beat the drums to face the enemy, but he vaguely saw the oncoming captive seem to be nodding and bowing, holding a white flag in his hand.

He couldn't help but tremble in his heart, wow, this posture seems to be begging for surrender...

Twelve miles southeast of Jinan, the Ming army camp.

Zhu Linming glanced at the middle-aged man who had kowtowed on the ground for a while, and said calmly, "Speak, what are you here for?"

Although the man was wearing a Hanfu, his hair was shaved into a rattail, which looked nondescript.He paused and said: "The guilty minister Zhang Yutian was forced by the captives, so he had no choice but to serve as the general soldier of Shandong."

He said holding up a piece of brocade, "Governor Fang Dayou, Mr. Fang is grateful for the might of the sky, and he is very clear in his heart, and he dare not forget it. This time when the army is approaching the city, Mr. Fang is very terrified. He specially envoys the criminals to offer five thousand pieces of gold, in order to ask the sage to spare the city." The generals will be punished with death."

He signaled to the outside of the tent again, "The gold transportation vehicle is outside, please take a look at it. As long as the Holy Majesty forgives my life, I will open the city immediately to welcome the surrender."

Zhu Linmei looked at Shi Lin and said, "Have you passed the inspection?"

"Go back to Your Majesty and inspect them one by one. There are ten boxes in total, all of which are gold ingots."

Zhu Linmi frowned, always feeling that something was wrong, and suddenly remembered that when Zhang Yutian was speaking, his eyes kept moving upwards to the right.

He had watched an American drama before and mentioned that this is an important feature of lying, so he got up and pretended to go to see the golden car, and when he passed by Shi Lin's side, he whispered: "Take them all."

Anyway, it doesn't matter if you guess wrong, the most you can do is let it go.

Shi Lin only gave one look, and the surrounding imperial soldiers immediately threw Zhang Yutian and his followers down.

"Eh? What is this for? Your Majesty is merciful, we are sincerely here!"

Zhu Linmi ignored him, and told Shi Lin, "Check the box carefully... wait a minute, move it to an open place first, so that people can break it open from the side carefully. Be careful!"

"Yes!"

Zhang Yutian and others who were pressed to the ground immediately turned pale when they heard the words, and shut up and stopped struggling.

After a while, Shi Lin returned to report: "As expected by Your Majesty, five of the boxes were filled with gunpowder at the bottom, and the flintlock machine was tied to the gold ingot with string. If you pick up the gold ingot rashly, It's bound to explode."

Zhu Linmi couldn't help being taken aback for a moment, and then smiled, isn't this what she left over from playing in the past?Many members of the White Lotus Sect were killed outside Ningyuan City, but now Jianlu has played on his own head again.

Deng Shan was just responsible for leading people to dismantle the gold box. Now that he understood the reason of the matter, he couldn't help saying angrily: "Damn traitor, this is trying to murder His Majesty! At the end of the day, Jinan will be captured and captured in the city for His Majesty!"

"Wait a minute," Zhu Linmi suddenly raised her hand to stop him, "Fang Dayou wants to blow me up and then attack the camp in the chaos, so we might as well give him this chance! Send an order..."

Suddenly, there was an earth-shattering loud noise from the camp of the Ming army, and countless pieces of gold were blown away a mile away along with the flames.

Not long after, panic began to appear in the camp of the Ming army. This situation spread quickly to the besieged Ming army formation like a plague.

The line array that was originally as neat as a knife immediately became distorted, and quickly shrank back. Before retreating half a mile, it was already in a mess.

Immediately, a trumpet was heard in Jinan City, and the city gate opened.

Fang Dayou took the lead, followed by the real Zhang Yutian, leading the people in the city to rush out.It turned out that the one who had just gone to the Ming army camp to die was a Jianzhou dead soldier.

Both of them waved their knives and shouted: "Emperor Nanming is dead! Follow me to kill the Southern Army!"

The Ming army seemed to have no struggle at all, and they scrambled to retreat one after another, throwing weapons and flags all over the ground.Thousands of captive soldiers in the city were overjoyed, howled and chased after them, full of anticipation that they could kill a few southerners in exchange for military exploits.

When the Qing army chased them five miles away, they suddenly saw that the Ming army, which was still fleeing just now, suddenly separated to the two sides, revealing a neat row of infantry.

Fang Dayou was startled, before he realized what was going on, he heard thunderous cannons roaring from both sides, and nearly a hundred French machine guns pierced through more than four hundred captive soldiers in an instant.

Zhang Yutian hurriedly turned around and shouted: "There is an ambush, retreat quickly... woo."

Someone in the hunting camp not far away aimed a gun at the back of his head, and the Mini bullet hit the back of his neck, and the body fell off the horse in response.

Fang Dayou fled desperately back to the city of Jinan under the cover of the guards, but saw the city gate closed tightly from a distance, and the soldiers standing on the top of the city wearing dark green military uniforms were aiming down the city with firecrackers in their hands.

Just after dinner time, the fighting was all over.The soldiers of the Ming army gathered in the camp in twos and threes, eating and chatting with their rice bowls in their hands. It seemed that the ambush during the day was just a routine training.

"Your Majesty, there were only 16 bandit soldiers left in the city at that time, and they were shot dead by General Ma in no time. The houses and treasury in the city are all intact." Zhang Jiayu said with a booklet in hand, "There are [-] captive soldiers outside the city. All were captured and killed, and none escaped. The puppet generals Fang Dayou, Zhou Lianggong and the following [-] people were captured alive, and Zhang Yutian, Li Taijian, etc. were killed..."

Zhu Linmei suddenly raised her hand to interrupt him and said, "Wait a minute, since Fang Dayou was captured, have his official documents, seals, etc. been found?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, General Ma's subordinates took control of the government office in the city in a short while, so it shouldn't be difficult to find these things." He seemed to have thought of something when he said this, "Your Majesty wants to 'deliver orders' to the prefectures in Shandong?"

"Haha, Yuanzi is really talented, that's exactly what I mean."

"Yes, I will arrange this at the end."

Because the city of Jinan was destroyed too quickly, before the news could spread, the Qing army in Tai'an, Laizhou, Dengzhou and other prefectures in Shandong received Fang Dayou's military order, asking them to "deploy all their troops to Jinan for reinforcements."

These transfer orders were all written by Fang Dayou himself, and all kinds of seals were available. All the captives did not suspect him, and immediately led their troops out of the city according to the order.

Jinan Chief Envoy Si Yamen.

Looking at the mansion newspaper in her hand, Zhu Linmei couldn't help nodding her head slightly. In less than ten days, Tai'an and Laizhou had been recovered, and yesterday the guards of Dengzhou also surrendered—there were only a few hundred weak soldiers left in the cities of these places. , the dragoon battalion was full of bloodless soldiers along the way, and they recovered almost immediately.

He handed the residence report to Zhang Jiayu and said, "Let the army rest in Jinan for a period of time. Now the road to the north of Zhili has been completely flat. The next battle will be to capture Zhigu, and Beijing will be right in front of us."

It's not that he doesn't want to go north immediately. Shandong, Beizhili and other places have been ruled by Jianlu for a longer period of time, and they have penetrated deeper into the people.

In addition, Dorgon had scavenged all the grain and grass in the north before, and the Ming army had to transport grain from the south of the Yangtze River. Before launching a general attack on Beijing, it had to hoard a batch of grain, grass, and luggage.

(End of this chapter)