Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 639 The Marshal's Parting Gift ([-])

The situation in Shandong in September and October of 1647 was a nightmare for the Qing court.

First of all, Kou Mo Ming, who is famous all over North China, led an army of [-] horse infantry artillery and countless huge ships and boats.Afterwards, the yellow-clothed thieves who seized a large amount of luggage spent a day crossing the Weishui River and captured Anqiu for the second time, and then the whole army went north to capture Linqu County, which was only one step away from Qingzhou.

Luck Dehun, who led the 1000-eight banner soldiers who had gathered one after another to garrison Qingzhou City, played a sit-down war. His [-] cavalry infantry were able to hit the Ming army with one shot, but the yellow-clothed bandits suffered more damage. If he lost thousands of people and eight hundred kingdoms because he prevented the yellow clothes thief from attacking the city, then he would have a hard time in Leke Dehun.Shandong has already lost more than [-] men of various nationalities. If there is another problem with the remaining thousands of people, then he should just get out of it.Therefore, Luck Dehun simply pretended to be dead at this time, but sent troops from a distance to keep a close eye on the movement of the yellow-clothed thief, and then continued to urge the prefectures and counties to step up the purchase of food, grass and equipment, and the reinforcements from all over the country to gather in Qingzhou at a faster speed, and then slowly went to Qingzhou. Go forward, forcing the bandits in yellow to fight a decisive battle.

But when he thinks of this, Le Ke Dehun is a little depressed, because according to his experience, the thief in yellow will definitely retreat in this situation, and then take a boat to go away when the main force of the Qing Dynasty is concentrated somewhere, and then go ashore Looting is really a headache.But what can be done about this, is it possible that the yellow-clothed thieves should be invisible and let them gallop when they come?That is even more inappropriate.

No matter how distressed Luck Dehun was, the situation in Shandong could be described as turbulent at this time.After the Huangyi thieves made such a fuss, the anti-Qing sentiment that had been suppressed because of the heavy Qing army stationed in Shandong (a total of 9 people, there were not so many Qing troops in Shandong in history) exploded at this time.

Originally, Xie Qian, the "Gaoyuan thief" who had just been wiped out by the Qing army at this time in history, was still alive and kicking at this moment.This person was originally the slave of Han Yuan, a high-ranking official in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Han Yuan was sent to the Qing Dynasty to become a slave, but his slave Xie Qian did not want to be a slave to a foreign race. Together with a group of old brothers, they pulled up the pole, and soon conquered Gaoyuan County, beheaded Wu Zhenhua, the county magistrate appointed by the Qing court; silver.

Last month, he led his army to conquer Zichuan County between Jinan and Qingzhou, and captured the big traitor Sun Zhixie who was raising and transferring food and grass for the Qing army.Sun Zhixie died a miserable death. This shameless person who asked Dorgon to shave his hair and make clothes easier was pierced all over his scalp with an awl by Xie Qian, calling him "grow hair for you!".Later, he himself died after his mouth was sewn up. The whole family, including his great-grandson, were beheaded one by one, and the female relatives were humiliated to death, which is amazing.

Hearing that thousands of people under Xie Qian's troops had already passed Zichuan County, Mo Ming, who had been confronting the Qing army in Linqu for many days, was overjoyed. Hundreds of sabers were given as a gift, and it was suggested not to confront the Qing army head-on, and withdraw immediately if something went wrong. It is important to preserve the vitality-in history, Xie Qian was buried by the Qing army after two months of defending Zichuan County. The gunpowder bombed the city wall and failed.

At the same time, he led the whole army forward across the Shigou River and approached Qingzhou City to set up a stronghold, and invited the Qing army to fight, in order to prevent the Qing army from mobilizing as much troops as possible to wipe out Xie Qian's troops.At this time, Luck Dehun had just gathered more than [-] people brought by Li Shuitai. The force was only in the early [-]s, and the number was not even as good as the yellow-clothed bandits who had been reinforced by the servant army. Therefore, his invitation to Mo Ming to fight The book did not respond positively.

The Qing army was like a tortoise, so of course Mo Ming would not stare at him outside.I saw that he sent out some officers and scouts on hand to contact the anti-Qing armed forces in various places.In particular, he played the title of General of the Dashun System and Shandong Jiedushi, and prepared to attract some of the rest of the Shun Army from the "Yuyuan Thieves" at the junction of Zhengzongzhi, Shandong, and Henan to join forces.

The Yuyuan bandits were a loose peasant armed alliance based at Yuyuan Laozhai, Fan County, Puzhou, Dongchang Prefecture at this time.The land in Fan County has been lost for a long time, and a large amount of elm money fell into the land to take root and sprout, turning into an elm forest. A dozen armed forces led by Zhang Qi, Ren Qi (Ren Fuxing), Liang Min and others took this as their base , First against the Ming Dynasty, then against the Qing Dynasty, in short, against the government.They used the complex terrain here to carry out tunnel warfare and guerrilla warfare, and they have been dealing with the Qing army for several years.And because the primary enemy of the Qing army in Shandong has always been the bandits in yellow, their life is more nourishing than in history. They often send out large groups of horses to plunder the counties of the Qing court. The long-term persistence in cultivating "thief fields" in the dangerous terrain made Dongchang Prefecture's weak green camp of the Qing army powerless.

With the successive victories of the east coast army in Denglai and other places, the Qing army in the west and north of Shandong began to gather in the Qingzhou area, which undoubtedly created great convenience for the Yuyuan army's actions.Although these peasant armed forces totaling more than 20 to [-] are vulnerable in terms of combat effectiveness, they can still capture places and disrupt the Qing army's logistics when the Qing army has no time to care about them.

For example, in the fourth year of Shunzhi, Zhang Ruxiu, the governor of Shandong Province, made a statement: "Stealing photos of the two eastern bandits, known as cunning, haunting mountains and forests, and being unpredictable... The original amount of [-] is originally [-], and now it is only half of it. Outside the scabbard, there is not much left. It is far away from the towns and counties, and the provincial capital will be empty when it is heard that the prefectures and counties have changed and they are exhausted. It is difficult to respond to the urgent dispatch of troops from all walks of life.

It's a pity that the Yuyuan Army has a complex composition and a loose organizational structure, and many of them still have the style of local bandits. Therefore, only Ding Mingwu, who was once incorporated by Dashun, led tens of thousands of people through Gaotang Prefecture to enter Jinan Prefecture after careful consideration. , ready to plunder the empty Jinan Mansion while the Qing army was heading to Qingzhou to enrich their own strength.As for the others, although most of them were recruited by Dashun when Guo Sheng entered Shandong, but now and then, Dashun is hanging like that half-dead these days. Fame is nothing to them, and only that idiot Ding Mingwu will support the thief in yellow.

In addition, Ren Fuxing, a veteran in the Yuyuan Army, was quite moved by the proposal of the Dong'an people, because the Dong'an people had already explained to him bluntly that they had been nesting in Dongchang Mansion for a while. It's boring, it's better to come out and earn a lot of votes.And as the situation in Shandong is becoming more and more critical, the Qing government will inevitably mobilize troops from neighboring Beizhili and Henan to fight against it—although there are not many soldiers in these provinces.At that time, one hundred thousand Qing troops will gather, and it will only take a little effort to wipe out the Yuyuan Army.

It's just that Ren Fuxing's opinion didn't get the attention of others, so he had no choice but to send Du Chong, the small leader of the Yuyuan Army who was attached to him, to lead a cavalry team of [-] people and a team of more than [-] troops to the front line of Caozhou eastward, preparing to Looking for an opportunity to get in touch with the people on the east bank, and looting the richer prefecture and county of Yanzhou by the way.

In addition to the Yuyuan Army, there are also "more than fifty battalions" of local peasant armed forces on the ground in Shandong, which Zhu Langrong, the supervisory censor of Shandong Province in the Qing Dynasty, called "the famous drama bandits in the eastern province, who have tens of thousands of thieves". In addition, there are "hundreds of people who gather together, and each of them stands on one side, I don't know how many people are there."It can be said that Shandong in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties was definitely the province with the most armed local bandits and farmers among the thirteen provinces in China, and the province with the most fierce resistance to the government.The anti-Qing armed forces in these places are all potential collaborators for the people on the east bank. Even if they cannot be allowed to come to seek refuge, they should try their best to maintain a good relationship so that they can fight together in the future.

On October 10, after ten days of confrontation with the Qing army, the Qing army in Qingzhou City finally moved when the military team sent by Mo Ming returned from sweeping food in the surrounding countryside.However, they did not go out to fight the people on the east bank, but sent a force of about thousands of people westward to Zichuan, preparing to conquer this nail that was stuck on the Qing army's food road.

It is not without reason that they did this, because more than 4000 people from the Xieqian Department who occupied Zichuan County these days began to frequently attack the Qing army’s grain transport team from Jinan Prefecture to Qingzhou, and the Qing army was short of troops (Jinan only had more than 3000 troops) People) could not send a large army to escort, so a large amount of supplies and food were taken, and the loss was not small.In addition, a week ago, Mo Ming secretly sent 500 people from Zhai Cong'e's department and [-] soldiers to march westward with light clothes and take the mountain road to Zichuan. They also have their part in team affairs.

The dispatch of this Qing army seems to be a signal, and the tens of thousands of horses on both sides who were originally playing a sit-in war immediately started to run at high speed. On October 10, Marshal Mo ordered the entire army to attack Yidu County, the capital of Qingzhou.At this time, there were 1 soldiers from the Eight Banners in Yidu County, 3000 soldiers from Binzhou Township (5000 people from Dong Xueli's department had already entered Zichuan in the west), local miscellaneous troops from Jinan and Qingzhou prefectures (Xiangyong, Yanding, Shuiding, Catchers, etc.) Fast) [-] people, a total of just over [-].

As their opponent, the Yellow Clothes Thieves, at this time, they have 7000 main forces (including soldiers) including the Army Regular Army, Eight Banners New Army, Volunteers, and Mercenaries; Including the recently incorporated Jiangjun) and Chen Zhilong's Department, there are more than 5000 people, with a total force of more than 6000, and a complete range of infantry, cavalry, artillery, and luggage.Although there is a slight shortage of food, it will not be a problem to persist for more than half a month. If it is not possible, the livestock can be slaughtered. Maybe the Qing army who has been harassed by the food road will not be able to consume the people on the east coast.

On October 10, after the formation repelled a tentative attack by the Qing cavalry, the army on the east bank finally set up camp after spending two days, and then the 3-pound artillery of the artillery unit immediately fired at the enemy. Yidu County, which changed hands, launched a fierce shelling.

(End of this chapter)