The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 631 Attacking the city with Ding Yi's method
Xu Liangxi was in his early twenties, with a handsome appearance, and looked like a scholar. It was hard to imagine that he was a member of the Intelligence Department trained by Lushun, and he still spoke a strong Sichuan dialect when he just spoke.

"Lord Ding, Li Zicheng's king Weiguo was defeated--" Xu Liangxi smiled wryly and said slowly.

It turns out that this year (1638) Li Zicheng's peasant army returned from Sichuan and captured southern Shaanxi, Ningqiang, and Qipanguan.Hong Chengchou, governor of the three borders of the Ming Dynasty, Sun Chuanting, governor of Shaanxi, Cao Bianjiao, the general of the Ministry, and He Renlong, the commander-in-chief, set up an ambush in the south of Tongguan.On the fourth day of October, Li Zicheng's peasant army marched into Nanyuan, and was attacked by Hong and Sun Ming's troops on both sides. Zicheng's entire army collapsed and lost his wife and daughter.Only Wang Weiguo, Deng Guangtie, Liu Zongmin, Tian Jianxiu, Li Guo (Zicheng's nephew), Li Cheng (Zicheng's brother), Gao Yigong (Zicheng's wife and brother), Wang Hu, Zhang Shijie, Zhang Neng, Gu Kecheng, Li Shuangxi (self-made adopted son), Yuan Zongdi, Zhang Nai, Liu Wenkui, Yu Bin, Gu Junen and more than [-] riders broke through the encirclement and sneaked into Shangluo Mountain.Later, it was transferred to Shangluo Mountain at the junction of Henan, Hubei, and Shaanxi, where it was concealed in a detour, gathered, rested and reorganized the army, waiting for the opportunity to make a comeback.

When Li Zicheng was hiding in Shangluo, Deng Guangtie was ordered to come out to find Xu Liangxi under the pretext of buying grain.

Because since Wang Weiguo followed Li Zicheng, where did Li's soldiers go, and where did the operatives of Ding Yi's intelligence department follow.

When Deng Guangtie saw Xu Liangxi, he didn't speak yet.

Xu Liangxi said: "Did you escape to Shangluo Mountain after being defeated by Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting?"

Deng Guangtie turned pale with shock: "How do you know?"

It was true that they were defeated, but no one knew where the twenty or so riders fled, otherwise the officers and soldiers would have chased them in.

"Master Ding is very predictable. He already guessed that Wang Weiguo was too careless. Obviously Master Ding reminded him to be careful about Shangluo Mountain."

Ding Yi couldn't remember that Li Zicheng was defeated there, he only remembered that Li Zicheng fled into Shangluo Mountain, so he reminded them to be careful when they encountered Shangluo Mountain or near Shangluo Mountain.

But after many years, who will remember these words.

Sure enough, Deng Guangtie blushed. Both he and Wang Weiguo listened to the training in front of Ding Yi. Ding Yi said many things. They kept nodding their heads and said they had written them down. In fact, they didn't write down many things.

Thinking about it now, I really regret it.

Because I remembered Ding Yi said before that they could not enter Meridian Valley, so they survived.

I didn't expect that I didn't remember it this time, and I suffered a big loss.

"Please Lord Ding save us." Deng Guangtie hurriedly bowed down.

Xu Liangxi looked like a magic stick, with his eyes slightly closed, he said frankly, "Don't panic, Mr. Ding has done the calculation."

"It's a good thing that you escaped to Shangluo."

"When you go back, you should advise Li Zicheng to build a stronghold and stock up on soldiers, rest his life and recuperate, and study with an open mind."

Xu Liangxi said a lot of things like a magic stick, and I don't know if Deng Guangtie remembered it.

After Deng Guangtie went back, he immediately told Wang Weiguo a lot of the original words.

At this time, the old brothers who ran out of Dengzhou with Wang Weiguo back then, only him and Deng Guangtie are still alive.

After Wang Weiguo thought about it, he decisively persuaded Li Zicheng to store up troops in the tent, recuperate, learn the art of war, and start all over again.

Li Zicheng built a stronghold and stationed troops in Dinglong Mountain. He also reflected that he did not understand the art of war, so he often patrolled Yerengou, Arm Valley, Banqiao, Xiong'er Mountain, Xianshen Village, Niucaochuan, Junling, Malianyu, Taibaiyan, In Quancun and other places, he visited different people all over the place, "seeking strange books", "shooting and hunting during the day, and reading at night" to inspire the generals around him with "Pei Gong of the Western Han Dynasty won the world after a hundred battles".

One day Li Zicheng invited several old men from Xiamajie Village of Dinglong Mountain to drink in the village, and asked if there were any sages in the nearby villages and towns who had hidden books. There is a West Mountain next to Qiaohan Village. Because the mountain looks like a saddle, it is also called Ma'an Mountain.

There was a temple built in the first year of Hongzhi on the mountain. In the temple lived an abbot surnamed Han, who was seventy years old and curious about his plan. He was a descendant of Han Xin, a general of the Western Han Dynasty. With astrology, you have good plans in your chest, and you have hidden armor in your belly.Because of the corruption of the Ming court, he abandoned his official position and became a monk. He didn't like the dust of the world. He lived quietly in Xishan Temple and often didn't meet people.According to legend, the abbot has a different book of "Han Xin's Art of War" handed down by his ancestors, which is so secret that people at that time did not know it. " Li Zicheng decided to go to Xishan Temple to visit the sages to seek different books.

Whether the master surnamed Han is a descendant of Han Xin does not know whether it is true or not, but Li Zicheng started to study humbly, read and write, as recorded in historical books, "shooting and hunting during the day, reading at night", and inspired all the generals around him, even Wang Weiguo also learned Start writing and read a book.

Li Zicheng's entire team got a qualitative improvement during his hiding in Shangluo Mountain.

Including Wang Weiguo and Li Zicheng, many people even got married and had children in Shangluo Mountain.

If it weren't for the boring life in the mountains, and not for everyone having wives, Li Zicheng and others might live in it and never come out for the rest of their lives.

Of course Xu Liangxi didn't know about Li Zicheng's stay in Shangluo Mountain. He only said that Li Zicheng fled to Shangluo Mountain. The Ming court originally wanted to send troops to look for it, but the mountain was really impossible to find. Li Zicheng should be able to catch his breath and survive this year.

Ding Yi laughed after hearing this: "Li Zicheng still has a few years to live. When you go back, keep a distance from them and contact them again every six months to a year."

"No." Xu Liangxi left Beizhili that day, returned to Henan, and then went to Sichuan.

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On October 10, Yan Jizu, the governor of Shandong, was ordered by Yang Sichang, Minister of the Ministry of War, to move to Dezhou (in the north and west of Shanxi, adjacent to Hebei Province), and later let him go to Gyeonggi, and was transferred back to Dezhou after a period of time. There were only 26 people in the bid, and they were transferred 3000 times within 50 days. The soldiers were exhausted, and it was already December 3 when they were finally ordered to specialize in Texas.

This is because the imperial court received the news that Lu Xiangsheng's entire army was wiped out, and was afraid that the Qing soldiers would invade Shandong from Dezhou.

At that time, Song Xuezhu, an official on patrol, was out on patrol. When he heard the news, he rushed to Jinan and found that there were only [-] soldiers in the city.

On the one hand, he transferred 700 troops from Laizhou, and on the other hand, he asked Xu Fuzuo, the commander-in-chief of Denglai, and Wang Weizhong, the commander-in-chief of Qingzhou, to ask for troops.

Xu Fuzuo first refused on the grounds of guarding Dengzhou, but after Lu Xiangsheng's death, the court panicked and came to transfer orders.

No way, Xu Fuzuo also set off with [-] soldiers and horses, and guarded Jinan with Wang Weizhong.

But the bigwigs of the Ming court concluded that the Qing soldiers would enter Shandong from Dezhou, and dispatched troops to Dezhou one after another.

In this way, at the end of January of the 12th year of Chongzhen, the two took two troops to Dezhou.

The luck of the two of them was really good, they walked for less than a few days.

Chongzhen 12th year (1639) January 1th.

Dorgon and Haoge brought more than 4 fine horsemen to meet under Jinan Prefecture and surrounded Jinan City.

In the history of the late Ming Dynasty, the defense of Jinan, which was more tragic than that of Daling River, began.

At this time, Ding Yi didn't know that the Qing soldiers were going to fight Jinan, and even if he knew, it would be too late to catch up.

He is gathering people everywhere who were destroyed by the Qing soldiers and robbed them of their wealth and food.

He started near the Daming, chased after the fart drums of the Qing soldiers, gathered and comforted the homeless people all the way, and when he arrived at Shunde Mansion, he had more than 5000 people in his hands.

This fashion is gratifying to have entered Shandong with more than 1 in the early stage, and the forwards of the Qing soldiers have entered Jinan.

But Ding Yi moved slowly because he brought a large number of people, and was nearly [-] miles away from Jinan.

Dorgon was not wrong to say that Ding Yi could only eat his farts. In the field battle, they rode back and forth like clouds, hundreds of miles a night, and Ding Yi collected people while walking, of course he couldn't keep up with them.

The Qing soldiers suddenly surrounded Jinan, and Jinan was shocked and frightened.

Originally, according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, vassal kings and clans were strictly prohibited from participating in military and political affairs, but De Wang Zhu Youshu probably knew the truth, not only rewarded soldiers with money, but also organized many clansmen and De Wangfu to participate in the defense of the city.

In the original history, Jinan City relied on more than 1000 soldiers and horses plus the strong people in the city to defend for a full [-] days, during which no Ming army came to rescue.

But this time they couldn't even hold out for six days.

Because Ding Yi brought the Qing soldiers the best way to break the city.

On January [-]th, while Dorgon was standing five miles away from Jinan City with his army on horseback, he also received the news that Yue Tuo's soldiers had been defeated and died.

After a moment of silence, he looked at the generals around him.

"The Ding Yi Department of the Ming Army is still behind. They followed the route we passed all the way, and they are probably in the area of ​​Shunde Mansion now."

"If we knew we were coming to Jinan, we would definitely come to help."

"So, we need the fastest time to break through Jinan Prefecture."

The faces of all the generals were serious, Yue Tuo's entire army was wiped out, entering the customs at this time was a huge failure, if Jinan was broken, then it would be considered victory, otherwise, there would be no way to explain it after returning.

"King Ershun, how long will it take for the artillery to arrive?" Dorgon asked.

"Three days." Kong Youde said immediately.

"Three days is too slow, I want two days, no, one day." Hauge said angrily.

Kong Youde hesitated, immediately jumped off the horse, and knelt down on one knee: "That's one day."

He doesn't like the Ming people at all. If this is Ding Yi's Lushun, he can let Pao go for five days to arrive, but this is the land of the Ming people.

Kong Youde immediately gave an order to urge the artillery battalion behind, and if they didn't arrive within a day, the whole army would be killed.

At this time, even if a nearby Ming army dared to come out, it would be able to destroy the artillery barracks of the Qing soldiers.

But in history, the Qing soldiers surrounded Jinan and fought for two months and [-] days, but no Ming army came over, which shows how timid and incompetent the other Ming troops are.

In this way, the artillery battalion of the Qing army swaggered freely in the territory of the Ming army, and they all walked on easy roads.

Finally, under Kong Youde's strict order, they continued day and night, and finally arrived in Jinan before dark on January [-].

When the Paoying came to Jinan, they found that thousands of sandbags and hundreds of shield vehicles had been prepared around them.

Early the next morning, Dorgon couldn't help laughing when he saw his preparations yesterday.

He said to the surroundings: "You said that if Ding Yi knew that I used his method to break Jinan, how would he feel?"

All the generals laughed.

In the past, everyone treated Ding Shuo very cruelly, and felt that he was shameless, but now he has to bear it, Ding Shuo still has some skills.

Now they are all attacking the city with the method of Ding Mouse, as long as there are no Ding Mouse in the city, they will definitely be able to break it in one go.

In the morning, Dorgon fed the whole army extremely full for the first time, and then at about nine o'clock, he gave an order and began to attack the city.

Before the siege, Dorgon ordered Haug, Du Du, and others to lead [-] troops each to guard the gates of Jinan City, and the rest of the army was at the west gate.

"Go." Following Dorgon's order, a large number of footmen picked up the sandbags that had been prepared and rushed forward from the ground.

In fact, behind Dorgon's rear army, there were tens of thousands of Ming people who were plundered by them after breaking through the city all the way, but Dorgon directly used his own Han army infantry for efficiency.

Many of this group of Han troops participated in the Battle of Jinzhou back then, and they all knew how to fight against Ding Yi, and they also used this style of fighting.

Song Xuezhu, the governor of Jinan, Zhang Bingwen, the governor of Shandong, Gou Haoshan, the prefect of Jinan, and others were very strange at this time.

Because the Qing soldiers did not possess the entire city, but let thousands of soldiers rush to their city gates.

"Quick, fire the cannons." Following Song Xuezhu's order, the Ming army's cannons also fired.

The Qing soldiers and the Han army rushed 100 meters away from the city gate under artillery fire, and then quickly dropped sandbags, stacking them one by one.

A large number of Qing soldiers watched the battle from behind. The scene was extremely strange, and many Ming soldiers didn't know why, because they had never seen such a siege.

Dorgon did not use this method when the Qing soldiers were raging everywhere before, because firstly, they were attacking small county towns, so there was no need for this; secondly, they did not want to expose the attack method in advance;

When they played against Golden State back then, they didn't have enough bags, and they were very aggrieved.

This time when entering the customs, in order to build a big city, all the cloth bags are going to be used here, and it is also the first time to use this method.

Soon, under the desperate efforts of thousands of Han soldiers, within a quarter of an hour, an artillery array stacked by thousands of sandbags appeared 100 meters away from the gate of Jinan City.

This Dorgon is also a ruthless person, and he piled it up 100 meters outside the city.

The artillery of the Ming army continued to sound. Jinan is a big city with many cannons on it. Hundreds of Qing soldiers were killed along the way, but they still couldn't stop it.

Kong Youde, who stood behind watching the battle, also had to admire Ding Yi's method, which was really a nightmare for defending the city.

Of course, if someone in the city could think of immediately organizing troops to block the urn city with stones, bricks, mud, etc., or similarly block the urn city with thousands of sandbags, it would be useless for the Qing soldiers to break the city gate.

But at this time, the people in Jinan City didn't know what the Qing soldiers wanted to do, so they thought about it right now, and it was too late to stop them.

Dorgon installed thousands of sandbags and hundreds of shield vehicles one day in advance. It is too late for you to install sandbags now.

Seeing that the artillery array was ready, Dorgon gave an order, and the whole army attacked the city. The Qing soldiers carried the ladders, only attacked the west, and pressed heavily.

The Ming army on the city changed their colors one after another, took up their weapons and prepared to fight.

But I saw a cannon of the Qing soldiers pushing forward fiercely in the middle.

However, the Ming army fired a lot of cannons to bombard the infantry of the Qing soldiers before, and now they have to cool down. Even if they don't cool down, it will be difficult to stop them.

Ding Yi had enough cannons back then, and Hou Jin couldn't stop Houjin from pushing the cannons outside the gate of Jinzhou City.

After Kong Youde's cannon was pushed up, the defenders of Jinan City thought about what the Qing soldiers wanted to do.

(End of this chapter)