Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 642 Big Scene

On November 1647, 11, outside Lijin County.

Zhou Zuoding, the deputy captain of the third brigade of the stand-up team, who had just landed from the sea, looked at the ready-to-go convoy, then turned around and said to a young man standing respectfully behind him: "Cai Zhanglu, the commander promised you The food is here. Seeing that the weather is turning cold, you should act as soon as possible. If you are short of manpower, you will conscript the local people. I have left [-] soldiers to assist you. In short, don’t let the food be cheap for the Tartars.”

Cai Huaze looked at the endless wheat fields outside Lijin County, laughed and said, "Don't worry, Vice Captain Zhou, I will definitely clean up this wheat field and leave no grain for the Tartars."

Cai Huaze was in charge of the brigade in the Dashun Army. He was not a high-ranking officer, but he was a subordinate of Guo Sheng, so in the hearts of Li Guo and others, he was definitely his own person.Therefore, Guo Sheng strongly recommended Cai Huaze as the liaison officer when he took the returning East Coast gunboat to Yantai to communicate with the people on the East Coast.

They set off from Yuezhou in September, met a steam engine sailboat on the seaside of Daishan Island in the later generations, and replenished some water and coal, and then went north along the coastline together, and arrived at Yantai Port in mid-October .

After arriving in Yantai, Cai Huaze greeted Li Wenchang, the artillery captain guarding Yantai, and then placed a group of about 1000 orphans of Shunjun soldiers in the residential area of ​​Zhifu Island.In addition to these people, there were five hundred young women captured by the Shun Army from the area controlled by the Qing Army in Hubei. Army support.

No, this time Cai Huaze came to alms again on behalf of the Dashun regime.Although Mo Minggang sent five cannons, fifty sets of armor, four hundred muskets and fifteen hundred guns to the Shunjun Li Guo, Gao Yigong, Liu Fangliang, Yuan Zongdi and other troops in Yuezhou as far away as Yuezhou. However, the Shun army who had just been defeated by Kong Youde, Shang Kexi, Geng Jingzhong, Shen Zhixiang and others in the battle for Hubei was cramped in most of Hunan, lacking both food and equipment.

In particular, they are planning to counterattack Hubei recently, which requires a lot of military resources and food, and the cost of building a few bastions is definitely not small, so it is really impossible for them to come to the people on the east coast at this time.Their troops had suffered heavy losses in the repeated tug-of-war with the Qing army in the past year. Not only were the experienced veterans from Shaanxi and Gansu suffered heavy losses, but they were also in extreme shortage of ordnance, mules, and medicines.By the middle of this year, when the crops were running low, the Chuang army, which had expanded to more than [-] people, even began to run short of food.

In such an extremely embarrassing situation, Hao Yaoqi, Wang Jincai, Ma Jinzhong and several other troops left without saying goodbye. They took away 23 of the total 13 horses in the Chuang army, and then ran to Hengyang to vote for He Tengjiao, He Tengjiao, Block Yinxi two people.These few foreign generals who were not from Li Zicheng's direct lineage have been collude with the Nanming court for a long time. In addition, Nanming has suffered a crushing defeat on the southeast battlefield and lost several provinces in succession. He hardly has a single soldier at hand. .At this time, I was overjoyed to see someone coming to vote. Although they were born as thieves, at this moment of life and death, they had to hold their noses and admit it. The most important thing was to save their lives.

Hao Yaoqi and others were able to vote for Nanming, but Li Guo, Gao Yigong and others were still unable to hold back their face for the time being.However, they also expressed goodwill to Nanming, and voluntarily withdrew from the two counties bordering Nanming's He Tengjiao Tribe to show that they did not want to compete with them for Hengyang. Their goal was to conquer Hubei and recover Jingxiang.

However, recovering Hubei is really an unattainable task for the current Dashun regime.First of all, the troops of Kong Youde and others are brave and good at fighting, so they are not easy to mess with.Perhaps the more than 4 people led by Li Guo were not afraid to fight against him at the beginning, but today, with the massive expansion of troops and the tug-of-war that has lasted for a year, the Shun Army, which is not as good as Kong Youde's in terms of reserve troops and ordnance replenishment, has gradually become unable to do what it wants. .Historically, at this time, the Shun Army was defeated by the Eight Banners soldiers transferred from Nanjing and Wuchang, waiting for work. Then Kong Youde and others followed up and killed the Shun Army.

And in this time and space, because Marshal Mo galloped across the Jiangbei area, surrounded Yangzhou City with soldiers and bombarded Shi Tingzhu, he was so majestic and majestic that he attracted all the main forces of the Eight Banners in Jiangnan to Jiangbei.Not to mention, a large number of Green Battalion troops who were going to Hubei were also transferred to Jiangbei to encircle and suppress the yellow-clothed thieves.In this way, Kong Youde and others who did not receive key supplements were also struggling. After barely regaining most of Hubei, they had to stop at the front line of Jingzhou and Yuezhou with heavy casualties, licking their wounds while waiting for reinforcements and supplies. The arrival of supplies.

The Dashun Group, which suffered more casualties than Kong Youde and others, seized this rare respite to rest, especially after Hao Yaoqi and others took away more than 10 horses, Li Guo and Gao, who had only [-] people left. Yigong and the others are at their most vulnerable right now. They are short of everything now, even food.Therefore, when Cai Huaze came to Shandong this time, one of the major tasks was to find a way to get some food back for emergency.Of course, it would be even better if we could get something other than food.

Asking the people on the east bank who were relatively short of food to ask for food, the people in Dashun obviously didn't understand the situation.But if this matter is left in the past, it will be useless, because the people on the east bank don't have enough food for themselves.But today, when the situation in Shandong has changed drastically, Marshal Mo Mingmo, who received a request from Cai Huaze and others during the march, only said lightly, "You guys are in good time", and then instructed them to go to the field to harvest wheat by themselves.

The end of October is the time to harvest wheat, and due to war and other factors, large areas of wheat fields in the wild have been left there without management.It's a pity to waste this food. Therefore, as early as mid-October, Mo Ming, who was leading the main force to fight in Binzhou, ordered Yantai Fortress to send some soldiers and reserve soldiers to Denglaiqing Sanfu, where the Qing army had been wiped out. area to harvest grain.Of course, they don't need to harvest these grains by themselves, they just need to go to the ground, and then use knives and guns to coerce the local people to harvest by themselves.

But the people on the east coast also know how to measure and will not do things to the extreme.Especially in the Second Mansion of Denglai, where they have a certain foundation, they usually only take half of the harvested grain, and distribute the remaining half to the poor people, which makes the few gentry in the area lament and anger, and scold the East Bank People are "pirate pirates, remnants of thieves", so why is Marshal Mo even more "unlike a master", because he actually doesn't treat gentlemen well, how can he still win the world?

In Qingzhou Prefecture and Jinan Prefecture, where the Qing army was relatively stubborn, and Yantai Fort on the east bank sent a battalion of black soldiers and [-] Korean soldiers to fight in the counties under their control, such as Yidu, Linqu, and Zichuan. In , Changshan, Xincheng, Gaoyuan and other places, people were expropriated on a large scale to harvest wheat.After the harvested wheat was dried on the spot, it was loaded into trucks and transported to the seaside. Among them, the people on the east coast would take [-]%, and the rest would be distributed to the poor. As for the gentry, there was not even a grain of grain.

After entering November, I learned that Marshal Mo was "progressing rapidly" in Shandong. Wei Boqiu, who was in the rear and organizing the transshipment of immigrants, also sent out all 11 volunteer squadrons led by Zhou Zuoding, and sent them to Marshal Mo who was near Binzhou. The last few ships of supplies and supplies.At the same time, they will also bring back a batch of spoils. After all, in half a month, the Bohai Sea may be frozen. At this time, it is better to hurry up and transport more things.

It was under such a background that Cai Huaze and the 400 soldiers of the Shun Army who came with him came to Binzhou.The food in Lijin, Zhanhua, and Haifeng counties of Binzhou was "given" to Cai Huaze by Marshal Mo. After all, the manpower on the east coast is almost stretched to the limit, and Yantai Fort has sent all the people who can be dispatched to enlist manpower. After harvesting the grain, there are still a large number of counties that are difficult to take care of—this is the case in Binzhou.In this case, it might as well leave it to Cai Huaze and others. He has [-] people on hand, and controlling two or three counties is not a problem, so let him toss about.How much wheat can be harvested and returned is their own ability. Anyway, the opportunity has been given, so you can play with it yourself.

As for Binzhou City, it is controlled by [-] soldiers from the east bank brought by Zhou Zuoding. Just like what they did in Dengzhou, Laizhou and other places, they expropriated the people on the spot to harvest grain, then dried it and stored it, waiting for Zhou Zuoding The transport convoy returned from Mo Dashuai's camp.

A thousand soldiers led by Zhou Zuoding conscripted thousands of masters in Binzhou City to transport supplies for the front line.And when they return, they usually bring back a large amount of gold, silver, silk, books, livestock and captives. These things will be transported together with the grain harvested in several counties near Binzhou to the east coast transport ship moored off the coast of Lijin County. Then transport it back to Yantai or Jeju Island for unified storage.

And just when the Qing army shrunk its front line to the vicinity of Jinan and abandoned a large number of prefectures and counties in Jinan, Qingzhou, Laizhou, and Dengzhou to the people on the east coast, Mo Ming, who was stationed in Qingcheng County, was also very entangled at the moment. Should we move forward and approach Jinan City, or just let it go?After holding a military meeting, due to the large differences among everyone, Mo Ming, who did not get any results, decided to move on and see the situation first.Anyway, the Qing army lost a lot of troops in Shandong, and it will not be able to threaten the increasingly large east coast army for a while.

Under the guidance of such a way of thinking, tens of thousands of troops on the east bank conquered Qidong County on November 11 and arrived in Jiyang on November 14. After a night of fierce fighting, they defeated the 17 defenders of the Qing Dynasty and successfully captured the city.At this time, Ding Mingwu of the rebel army also fought hard to the west and recovered Yucheng County. After hearing the news, a large number of Yuyuan troops came to join Ding Mingwu. Everyone was gearing up and eager to go to Jinan.

On November 11, in view of the increasingly serious situation in Shandong, the Qing court officially issued an edict: Tiao Yi Yonggui was appointed as the general soldier of Linqing, and Tong Yangliang was appointed as the general soldier of Dengzhou. Niu Chenghu, the commander-in-chief of Yizhou, and Li Shutai, the commander-in-chief of Binzhou coastal defense who had retreated to Jinan, accepted the unified command of Luck Dehun to help defend Jinan; (Referring to the area guarding the three prefectures north of the Yellow River in Henan Province) Kong Xigui also led his troops and horses to march quickly to Dongchang Mansion, accepting the command of Meile Zhangjing Lai Nu who was sent here by Luck Dehun, and wiped out the Yuyuan bandits as soon as possible .

In order to calm down the situation in Shandong as soon as possible, the Qing court dispatched seven generals to Shandong at once, almost mobilizing all of its mobile forces in the north.Not to mention, it is said that in the capital, Jierhalang is ready to lead tens of thousands of Manchurian Eight Banners soldiers to the south at any time. The Shandong issue suddenly detonated by the yellow-clothed Marshal Mo has once again become the focus of the Manchu government and the opposition.

(End of this chapter)