Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 663 Fight and retreat ([-])

Just when Shao Shude made the decision to fight and retreat in the underground command room of the Yantai Fortress, Marshal Mo Mingmo had already led his army into the territory of Yanzhou Prefecture.After conquering Sishui County without bloodshed, more than [-] troops turned to the southwest and headed towards Qufu County, the hometown of Confucius.

On December 12, Dong Xueli, who served as a forward, sent a letter to Marshal Mo: Kong Zhenkan, the magistrate of Qufu County in the Qing Dynasty, secretly sent someone to discuss the "redemption of the city bank".Kong Zhenkan, a descendant of Confucius, is the current county magistrate of Qufu, a position he held in the Ming Dynasty.After Dashun annihilated the Ming Dynasty, when the soldiers arrived in Shandong, Kong Zhenkan impatiently ordered to enshrine the Dragon Throne of Emperor Dashun, offering ten horses and 10 taels of silver as a tribute, and at the same time acted as a leading party to lead the Dashun army to a relatively wealthy place. Linqing.

After the failure of Dashun, the Qing army went to Shandong, and Kong Zhenkan welcomed the Qing army into the city under the direction of Kong Yinzhi, the contemporary Yan Shenggong. At the same time, Kong Yinzhi also wrote a few extremely nasty articles to flatter the Qing court. As a result, he was continued to be named Yan Shenggong by Emperor Shunzhi.When the Qing court ordered the whole country to shave their hair and make clothes easier, Yan Shenggong responded positively and held a very grand shaving ceremony, which objectively boosted the power of the Qing court and had a very bad influence.

This time, after Niu Chenghu, the commander-in-chief of Yizhou Town in the Qing Dynasty, led his troops to the north, the Yanzhou government was empty. At the same time, the nearby Yuyuan Army and some local bandits also appeared one after another, looting everywhere in the countryside, and Qufu County was shocked three times a day.It was so easy to get through until Li Qingshan and other bandits plundered southward, but unexpectedly the god-killing bandits in yellow came again.

Today, the reputation of the yellow-clothed thief is well-known in the four provinces of South, North Zhili, Shandong, and Henan. It is rumored that "no city will not be destroyed, no village will not be pulled up, and the yellow-clothed cannon will turn into powder."Now that tens of thousands of yellow-clothed thieves have entered Qufu by different routes, Kong Zhenkan and even Yan Shenggong's family are quite frightened, especially when the Kong family, Yan family, Lu family, Meng family and other hereditary families are located outside the city. After the troops of Ding Mingwu, Du Chong (joined in Yanzhou Mansion at the end of November), Xie Qian and other troops for unknown reasons robbed them, they were even more worried that this gang of pirates, who never seemed to behave according to the rules, would bring their whole family into a catastrophe .

Under such a psychological entanglement of sincerity and fear, Kong Zhenkan came forward to contact the yellow-clothed thief on behalf of several big families, and sent a hundred pieces of silk, two hundred pigs and sheep, and 3000 taels of silver. Clothes thieves, for the sake of saints, don't go abroad.It's just that he overestimated how much respect Marshal Mo's group of Qiu Ba had for the sage Kong, and Dong Xueli, who was the vanguard, didn't buy it at all. He directly asked for 20 taels of "redemption silver" and a hundred fine tribute horses.Not to mention this, he also quietly asked Kong Zhenkan to quickly send several beautiful women into the camp to serve Marshal Mo.

In desperation, Kong Zhenkan could only ask Marshal Mo to discuss the "redemption of the city bank".At this moment, after hearing Dong Xueli's report, Mo Ming didn't bother to see Kong Zhenkan. Instead, he sent Yin Baoheng, the former magistrate of Yutai County, Yanzhou Prefecture, Dashun, and former Ming student, to negotiate.Even though Yin Baoheng is a freshman, he has been in the Dashun Army for many years, and morality has long been put aside. At this moment, even in the face of the descendants of saints, he will not let go, and Kong Zhenkan is like a philistine businessman. The price is really humiliating.

In the afternoon, after hearing that Du Chong’s subordinates had kidnapped a group of people who could not afford food outside the city, and wanted to attack the Confucian estate, Kong Zhenkan finally let go, and agreed with the people from the east coast to offer 12 taels of silver to redeem the city— ——This is the largest amount of redemption money that people on the east coast have received so far—fifty tribute horses, three hundred silks, and five hundred pigs and sheep. Although it is not a small number for the family, it is definitely not to the point of hurting the bones.

After reaching an agreement with Qufu County, the increasingly large east bank troops continued to move south, heading towards Ziyang, the prefecture of Yanzhou, and Jining Prefecture by the canal.The pioneers were more than 1 people from Ding Mingwu's department who had recently voted - only half of them had knives and guns; Du Chong, who was ordered by Ren Fuxing to come to the joint battle, had thousands of cavalry (a mixture of mounted horses, donkeys, and mules).

Behind these people is a neat formation of about 2400 black heavy infantry. Their iron armor is placed on the pack horse team beside them, and they are taken care of by the North Korean soldiers. They hold a 4.2-meter-high spear in their hands and look from a distance. , but also quite powerful.Then there are the logistics and transportation convoys, the main combat troops, and Zhai Cong'e and Qin Shangxing's second divisions who serve as guards.

Now the size of the army on the east bank is getting bigger and bigger, but the marching speed is getting slower and slower. No, they walked for three days in a short distance from Qufu to Ziyang - there were two days in the middle Is crossing the river.Fortunately, there was no cavalry of the Qing army nearby when crossing the river, otherwise a single charge would have killed most of this chaotic army.

Looking at this messy army, Mo Ming was also depressed. In his opinion, among these people, the East Bank Army, Standing Team, Cavalry Brigade, and Dong Xueli's troops were relatively clean, followed by Zhai Cong'e, Qin Shangxing, etc. The purged troops, others such as Chen Zhilong, Xie Qian, Ding Mingwu, and Du Chong's troops, are simply a mess.Mo Ming dared to assert that, even if they were facing the Green Army of the Qing army, except for Chen Zhilong's troops who still had a chance to fight, the other three families would be defeated in one blow.It's okay to fight with the wind, but if the two armies are at a stalemate, they probably won't be able to survive.

At this time, Mo Ming was thinking of retreating.Although there were basically no battles along the way and the ammunition was still sufficient, but with so many mobs in the army, the overall combat effectiveness has declined.At the beginning, Li Sutai and Luck Dehun were intimidated by the powerful fighting power of the east bank army. If they saw the chaotic situation of the increasingly bloated east bank army at this time, they would go out of the city to fight in the field.

In such a tangled and hesitant state of mind, the siege of Ziyang County finally started.The magistrate of Yanzhou appointed by the Qing court faced the dilemma of [-] to [-] yellow-clothed thieves outside the city, while there were one or two thousand old, weak and disabled soldiers guarding the city. fight to the death.However, contrary to expectations, most of the people they raised with money were green-skinned rogues. I'm afraid everyone knows the combat power of these people.

Therefore, after the first cannon shot on December 12, one-third of the green skins at the top of the city ran away, and the rest were also trembling, as if they would run away if there was any trouble. On December 14, a large area near the city gate of Ziyang County was bombed—the reason for the bombardment for three full days was that the artillery used a large amount of captured Qing army gunpowder in order to save money, and the quality of this gunpowder was relatively low— ——After the city was broken, Ding Mingwu, who had been on standby for a long time, rushed over with rakes, hoes, wooden spears, etc. in several strands.

The siege raiders walked in some order at the beginning, but the closer they got to the city wall, the more chaotic they became. Various emotions such as tension, excitement, excitement, and fear surrounded this group of so-called "rebels" who were still muddy legs before. It just flooded into the city through the gap in a mess.Even at the gap, some rebel soldiers were squeezed to the ground and trampled, killing and injuring nearly a hundred people.

Mao Desheng, who was the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, couldn't bear to see these chaotic servants, but fortunately, their opponents were also rubbish.Those green-skinned hooligans were already filled with guilty consciences, and now facing a large group of mud-legged people with flushed faces and whimpering noises, they only resisted for a while before giving up.Then he took off his livery, and simply robbed the people in the city in groups with knives and guns.

And the mud legs of Ding Mingwu who rushed into the city immediately became red-eyed after seeing what these Qingpis did, so they didn't care about anything else, and rushed into the shops and houses on both sides of the street, looting property, raping Women, and even some people who came from bandits even set fire to the house, it was like a group of demons dancing wildly.

After the army on the east bank found out that the situation was wrong and sent soldiers to the city to maintain order, one-third of the entire Ziyang County had been burnt down, and the people had suffered greatly.So far, Mo Ming has no illusions about the fighting power, fighting will and military discipline of these servants. Facing the 10,000+ army of the Seventh General Army of the Manchu Qing Dynasty to suppress the three provincial capitals, he finally confirmed that most of the troops under him are unusable. He is indeed powerless Facing such a large number of Qing army troops at once in a field battle—especially these people are still relatively capable of fighting in the northern green battalion, such as Gaodi, the former general soldier of Shanhaiguan, and others.

After beheading more than 300 rebels who had been burning, killing and looting in the city with solid evidence—in fact, it was far more than that—after using the law of the army, a group of more than ten scouts from Yantai finally brought a new black Water Security Commander Shao Shude's latest order: Fight and retreat, gather craftsmen, doctors, and low-level scholars from all counties along the way; at the same time contact all departments of the Yuyuan Army to go to Dengzhou for development, and if you don't want to go to Dengzhou, try to inform the Qing army of the latest trends , lest they suffer unnecessary losses.

Mo Ming also recognized Shao Shude's order. Therefore, on December 12, after a meeting of senior generals of the whole army was held, Mo Ming officially ordered the whole army to retreat in batches, and go to Jining Prefecture, Teng County, and Yizhou. Finally, they assembled near Haizhou to transport away a batch of inconvenient materials and personnel, and then the large force entered Qingzhou Prefecture along the coastline, and then waited for an opportunity to make further plans.

On December 12, Mo Ming ordered Dong Xueli to be the vanguard, to attack Jining Prefecture with light clothes, and the rest of the troops followed slowly.While setting off, Ding Mingwu embarrassedly reported to Marshal Mo: Yesterday's iron-blooded style of beheading and looting the rebellious soldiers in the city frightened some people. Say goodbye.After Ding Mingwu finished his report, Du Chong also came to report, and more than 19 of his subordinates also slipped away quietly. Obviously, he also felt that the military discipline on the east bank was too strict.

Naturally, Mo Ming had no intention of retaining these bandit-like people, so he didn't say anything, but ordered the two troops to speed up their march and strive to reach the city of Jining Prefecture within two days.

And just when the army from the east coast was going to Jining Prefecture, Kong Xigui, the commander-in-chief of Hebei Province and Gao Di, the commander-in-chief of Henan Province, finally finished raising the supplies and weapons. 12th) entered the territory of Guide Mansion, while calming down the local bandits in the mansion, while collecting information, preparing to enter the adjacent territory of Yanzhou Mansion in Shandong.

(End of this chapter)