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  Chapter 409 407 [Seize the City Alone] (add more for the penguin boss)

  Jining Prefecture.

   "Report!"

   "Ni Jin, the history of Laiwu classics, and Wu Ruming, a scholar, led the mob to kill the county magistrate and rebel!"

  Zuo Liangyu waved his hand and said, "Understood, let's go down."

  Zuo Liangyu regretted surrendering a little. First, the situation in Shandong was too bad, and second, his whole family was taken to Beijing by Dorgon.

  Even if he chooses to defect in the future and his family members are all in Beijing, he still cannot escape the fate of cutting off his children and grandchildren.

   Alas, I can only have a new son!

  Hong Chengchou said: "My lord, the enemy in front must be killed as soon as possible, otherwise there will be more and more troubles in Shandong."

   "Then tell me, how should we suppress it?" Duoduo said unhappily.

   The place where Fei Ruhe was stationed at this time disgusted Duoduo.

  It is called Nanyang Town, and the terrain is different at the end of Ming Dynasty than it was hundreds of years later.

  The east of Nanyang Town is Dushan Lake, and the west is Nanyang Lake. There is only a narrow land between the two lakes. The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal passes through the center of the town and meets three other rivers to the north of the town.

   In other words, Fei Ruhe's camp was surrounded by two lakes and four rivers.

  Duoduo wants to break through this place, he must first defeat the Datong Navy.

  If Duoduo attacked by detour, he had to cross Heshui (Wanfu River) to the west, and Surabaya, Baima River, Beisha River, Nanliangshui, and Nansha River to the east. No matter which side you march from, you may be hit halfway.

   Even if he is allowed to cross the river calmly, he can only capture Feng and Pei counties. Further south is the Yellow River (Huaihe River), which will be impossible to advance or retreat, and Fei Ruhe cut off the food road to make dumplings.

Hong Chengchou carefully studied the map and said: "If the enemy army in Nanyang Town can't be defeated, then we can only change the direction of attack. On the Jining side, leave 10,000 soldiers to garrison, and the army will retreat for the time being. One can walk along the river and go straight to the Yellow River. On the other side, cross the river to surprise Kaocheng, but it is easy to be cut off from the grain road, and it is also easy to be discovered halfway. The second option is to go to Qingzhou and gather heavy troops to kill Zhang Tieniu and Huang Fei."

   "Did you cringe, why is it so troublesome?"

  Duoduo didn't want to fight like this, because Hong Chengchou was too stable, so stable that he was already passive.

  The Qing Dynasty did not fight so passively, they always took the initiative!

Duoduo stared at the map for a long while, and suddenly made up his mind: "Our army has many soldiers, and the enemy has few troops. We will forcefully cross Heshui in sections. If we can't hit Nanyang Town, we will go directly to Peixian County. If we are cut off from the food road , then grab food in Pei County and Feng County, and cut off the enemy’s food road in turn! Don’t look at Nanyang Town, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, after the food road is cut off, it will be a place of death!”

  Zuo Liangyu reminded: "Although Yutai County is my territory, the city guard has surrendered to the enemy. If you want to attack Pei County, you must first conquer Yutai."

  In the Ming Dynasty, Yutai County was much more southwest than it was hundreds of years later.

  Duoduo said: "Attacking Yutai is easier than attacking Nanyang Town. If there is no navy, it will not be possible to take down Nanyang Town after a hundred years of fighting."

  Geng Zhongming has not spoken. He followed Duoduo on the expedition, and he will not steal Duduo's limelight.

  The Eight Banners Army that came to Shandong this time is dominated by Duoduo's inlaid white flag.

  After Dorgon became the regent, he felt that his power was weak. It happened that Duoduo committed a crime and robbed Fan Wencheng's wife. Therefore, he took the opportunity to confiscate Duduo's 15 Niulu, and exchanged the number of his Xiangbai Banner with Duoduo's Zhengbai Banner.

  Thus, Duoduo became the owner of the inlaid white flag, and Azig became the owner of the small inlaid white flag.

  Now, Duoduo leads a group of generals to confront Fei Ruhe head-on. Azige led a group of surrendered generals to fight against Zhang Tieniu and Huang Fei in Qingzhou Prefecture.

  Duoduo has about 9,000 people under the Eight Banners of Manchuria, Eight Banners of the Han Army, and Eight Banners of Mongolia, which is less than Fei Ruhe's 10,000 regular army. But there are still a bunch of surrendered generals and soldiers, adding up to more than 60,000. Tang Tong and these surrendered generals are also in the Duoduo army.

  Azig who fought against Zhang Tieniu, plus the surrendered soldiers and generals, there are more than 50,000 people.

  …

   Jinxiang.

  Yan Yingyuan, the commander-in-chief of Jiangyin on the 81st, is now the official history of Jinxiang County.

  He was originally a son of a gentry in Tongzhou. Seeing that the situation was wrong, he took his whole family south to seek refuge before Li Zicheng attacked Beijing. Traveling to Shandong, he was intercepted by soldiers again, and finally had to go to Jinxiang to join his friends.

  Some time ago, the classic history of Jinxiang passed away from the plague. Yan Yingyuan was unanimously elected as the classic history by the gentry in the neighborhood because of his effective prevention and control of the plague.

  How to prevent and control the plague?

  It is to imitate the method from the south. Anyone who goes out has to wear a boiled mask. Yan Yingyuan hadn't done the canon history yet, so he was in the place where he lived, and he and his friends scoured the nearby streets, and beat anyone who didn't wear a mask immediately.

   and others made a canon history, and Yan Yingyuan promoted this method to the whole city.

  Because he was able to control his subordinates well, officials did not dare to take the opportunity to blackmail the people. Jinxiang County was governed by him in an orderly manner, at least the spread of the plague was quickly contained.

   "Brother Yan, when will we do it?" Dong Yongqing asked.

  Yan Yingyuan said: "Just today!"

  Xu Ying spread a lot of meticulous work in Shandong, with an average of three in each county.

   Of the three small farmers in Jinxiang County, two died of the plague, and only Dong Yongqing was left.

  The method of wearing a mask to prevent the plague was passed down to Jinxiang by Dong Yongqing.

  Dong Yongqing said: "After the Datong Army appeared outside the city, 13 of the gentry and merchants in the city were willing to rebel. Twenty-seven of the scholars in the city, including Tongsheng, were willing to rebel."

  Yan Yingyuan said: "Enough, county government official, I have eight confidantes."

   Their enemy is Lu Guangzu with more than 3,000 soldiers!

  In the afternoon of that day, Yan Yingyuan organized officials to go to the gate tower with food to condolence to the guard.

  Lu Guangzu is from Liaodong, and his hometown is Haizhou, which was captured by Hu Dinggui. He had a deep hatred with the Tartars, but in history, the Manchus were surrendered, and the hatred of their relatives was completely ignored.

  At this moment, Lu Guangzu stood on the tower, looking at the Datong cavalry who had just left.

   Fei Ruhe's 2,500 cavalry were all sent to Jinxiang, and they went along the river to check whether the Qing army wanted to cross the river. Even in the river, there are many sentry ships of the Datong Army. At least ten miles away from the Grand Canal, the Qing army would never even think of coming from the other side of the river.

  Zuo Liangyu's number one confidant was next to Beizhili, so he was afraid of being beaten, so he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.

   As the second confidant, Lu Guangzu was stationed not far from Xuzhou, so he wanted to surrender to the Datong Army.

  However, Lu Guangzu fought many battles with the Manchus, and he had a deep fear in his heart. He had never fought against the Datong Army, so he was always uncertain which side would win. What if he surrendered to the Datong Army, but the Man Qing took over the world?

  Besides, in Shandong at this time, the Manchu and Qing forces are dominant, and he doesn't want to take risks so early.

   Wait a little longer, you can wait a little longer.

   Wait for the Datong Army to win a battle, and immediately surrender!

  Many generals under Zuo Liangyu's command had the same idea. Once the Manchus were defeated, they would turn over in an instant.

   "General, Yan Dianshi Laojun is here."

  Lu Guangzu didn't think much, just said: "Let him come up, he can come up alone."

   It's not that he doubts Yan Yingyuan, but that he is afraid that more people will be infected with the plague.

  Yan Yingyuan boarded the tower alone, and as for the food he brought, he handed it over to Lu Guangzu's personal soldiers.

  Lu Guangzu looked back and saw Yan Yingyuan with a bow and a knife on his back. He couldn't help laughing and said, "Dian Shi came to defend the city?"

  Yan Yingyuan also smiled and said: "I am going to help the general defend the city."

  Lu Guangzu had a good impression of Yan Yingyuan, mainly because of the prevention and control of the plague. At that time, many gentry wrote letters, recommending Yan Yingyuan as a canonist, and Lu Guangzu agreed to recruit him.

   "Have you practiced bow and arrow?" Lu Guangzu asked.

  Yan Yingyuan said: "If you can draw a stone bow, will the general be tested?"

  Lu Guangzu smiled and said: "Let's shoot outside the city and see how far you can shoot. If you can shoot long distances, I will promote you to be a general."

   "It's a deal!"

  Yan Yingyuan originally planned to get close and then violently kill people, but at this time he could shoot with a bow and arrow.

  He pretended to be struggling, gritted his teeth and pulled the bowstring hard. When the bow reaches 70% full, then suddenly turn around, no need to aim at all, just rely on memory to find the target position.

   Whoosh!

   An arrow shot out, hitting Lu Guangzu's throat.

  Lu Guangzu's eyes were wide open, with a resigned expression on his face. He was ready to join the Datong army at any time, why was he killed in a daze?

  There were four soldiers beside Lu Guangzu, two of them were stunned on the spot, one retreated in horror, and one drew his sword and advanced.

  Yan Yingyuan threw away his bow and arrow, drew his knife and rushed out, hacking the soldier to death with one blow.

   Then came another knife, hacking to death the guard who was still in a daze. The third soldier was so frightened that he turned around and wanted to run away, but Yan Yingyuan chased him and killed him.

   "Forgive me, the hero spare me!"

  The fourth soldier knelt on the ground and kowtowed, trembling all over.

  Yan Yingyuan said: "The Datong Army is not far outside the city. Do you want to be a slave to the Tartars? If you are still a man, you can kill the Tartars with me!"

  The soldier said: "I wish... I also escaped from Liaodong."

   "Stand up!" Yan Yingyuan shouted.

  The soldiers stood up when they heard the sound, but they didn't dare to stand next to Yan Yingyuan, because the nearby soldiers had already discovered the situation and surrounded them.

Yan Yingyuan stood there alone, and said to hundreds of soldiers with a smile: "Zuo Liangyu took refuge in the Tartars, and he was enshrined as a king to enjoy wealth. Why do you take refuge in the Tartars? Are you sending them to the Tartar officials' bridal chambers in order to marry their children in the future?" ? Or do you think the little braid looks good, and you will be a girl with braids in the future?"

  Although these soldiers surrounded Yan Yingyuan, no one did anything, because Yan Yingyuan spoke to their hearts.

  Xi Zuo had posted big-character posters in the city long ago, with half-truths and half-false contents. After the scholars read it, they all believed it, so it spread more and more widely, so that the whole city knew that a girl had to give it to the Tazi official to spend the night before getting married.

  The soldiers also heard about it, and they were very resistant to it.

Yan Yingyuan said: "The cavalry of the Datong Army arrived in Jinxiang three days ago. The infantry of the Datong Army will also come after two days. Zhao Tianwang swept across the southern provinces. Can you really stop Zhao Tianwang's heavenly soldiers and generals? If you are an egg, follow me to seize the city!"

  The soldiers looked at each other in blank dismay. They were indeed afraid that the Datong Army would kill them.

  Yan Yingyuan stopped talking, raised his knife and walked forward, and these soldiers gave way one after another.

   Arriving at the edge of the city wall, Yan Yingyuan waved towards the city.

   Not long after, Dong Yongqing brought scholars, merchants and gentry, as well as their domestic slaves, and came to take over the city wall with sticks.

  Soldiers from other city walls also came running one after another. Yan Yingyuan cut off Lu Guangzu's head, held it high in his hand and shouted: "Lu Guangzu is dead, and the heavenly soldiers of Datong will arrive tomorrow. If you don't want to die, come and seize the city with me!"

   "Kill the Tartars!" A soldier from Liaodong shouted.

  Lu Guangzu is a native of Liaodong. He likes to use his fellow countrymen, and when he sees people fleeing from Liaodong, he accepts them as soldiers.

  These Liaodong soldiers were the first to respond to Yan Yingyuan. They really didn't want to join the Manchu Qing. After all, they all had blood and blood.

   In a blink of an eye, hundreds of people have followed.

   Someone even reminded: "Lu Guangzu's clan brother is guarding Beicheng, he must be killed!"

  Yan Yingyuan held the knife and shouted: "Follow me to kill!"

  (end of this chapter)