November 27, Denglai, Yexian (now Laizhou City, Shandong).

Han Mengbo, the deputy general of the Right Association of Denglai Town, turned the document in his hand over and over, reading it at least five times, with an uncertain expression on his face.

"You said that there are tens of thousands of slave-building troops outside the city, and they have surrounded our Yexian county. No matter how you look at it, there is a danger of the city being destroyed and people killed at any time." Han Mengbo handed the letter to a general next to him, and then smiled.

facing the ground

Several other generals said: "Either this Yang Chengzu is devoted to me, and is willing to be buried in Ye County with us. Or, he must have some unknown purpose. What do you think?"

"What General Han said is true!" A guerrilla said with a smile: "Not to mention the critical situation in our Ye County now, but judging from the current situation in the world, it is also the strongest slave builder. This Yang Chengzu does not want to be a slave for others, but he wants to

Why did you come here to pretend to surrender? You didn’t say anything, lure him into the city, chop him with a knife, and then send his head back to Jiannu. Let those surrenderers who have forgotten their ancestors take a closer look. This is what people treat as dogs.

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"If this Yang Chengzu really surrenders because he cannot bear the suspicion and oppression of the slaves, we will kill him indiscriminately. If other slave generals of the Ming Dynasty surrender to me, will they be left in the cold?

Are you determined to sacrifice your life for the slaves?" The general beside Han Mengbo frowned and said.

"What's so difficult about this?" said the guerrilla: "Then if Yang Chengzu really wants to surrender to us, he has to make some noise in the slave camp, either by burning the food and grass of the slaves, or by attacking and killing several of the slaves.

A major general must have a certificate of surrender, right?"

"Old Zhou is right." Han Mengbo said with a smile: "That's it, let Yang Chengzu's messenger send a message back, and set a date to burn the food and grass in the slave camp, and then come to join me in the Ming Dynasty. I think.

If you want to fake surrender, you have to come up with something to convince us!"

In the Qing army camp outside Ye County, Yang Chengzu heard a messenger say that the defenders of Ye County in the city required him to submit a surrender letter before surrendering to the Ming Dynasty. They were obviously suspicious of his coming to surrender at this time.

manner.

Not daring to neglect, Yang Chengzu immediately took the messenger to Duduo's tent to report the progress of the false surrender here.

Duduo stared at Yang Chengzu expressionlessly and did not speak for a long time, which made the atmosphere in the tent freeze to the extreme. The two white teeth standing beside him held their hands on their waists and lowered their hilts, staring eagerly.

"The grain and grass carried by the army are only three days' reserve. If it is burned down, the army will really be in a panic." Duduo said: "If the Ming army sneaks to the rear of the army and attacks Changyi

, destroy Wei County and cut off our army's food supply route, even if we don't do it, tens of thousands of our troops will be killed here. General Yang, don't you think so?'

"Prince Yu, the general...the general will definitely not dare to actually burn the food and grass in the camp." Yang Chengzu heard Doduo's unkind words and hurriedly knelt on the ground, "But the general of the Naye County garrison sent me a message

, you need to submit a petition to him. The general thought, it would be better to clear a space in the camp, collect firewood and trees, and then light a fire to make it look like the food and grass were being burned."

"If the Ming army in Naye County still doesn't believe it and wants you to kill this king, how will you respond?" Duduo asked.

"How dare you, the general, do such a treasonous thing!" Yang Chengzu heard the words, sweating like raindrops, and kowtowed several times, "Prince Yu, the general will be loyal to the Qing Dynasty, and to you, the prince."

, and even more respected as parents, how could this happen?

Doing this...an act of an animal? Your Majesty knows this!...Since the Ming army does not believe in the general's plan to surrender, tomorrow, General Wei will lead his troops to attack Ye County. We, the Qing Dynasty, will surely seize this city and destroy Denglai.

, capture and kill the false emperor Yongchu!"

"Ye County is a fortified city with tight defenses and numerous firearms. Are you sure that we will capture it tomorrow?" Duduo sneered. "You will be loyal to our Qing Dynasty in the end, and you will not be afraid of life and death, so why bother with this life!"

Hearing this, Duduo felt contempt in his heart. The Ming Dynasty has supported you for decades, but you are still unable to be loyal. It is because you are afraid of the might of the Qing army that you have to surrender. It makes you seem so loyal and unyielding as a warrior.

"Batu, you go down and make arrangements with General Yang." Duduo turned to an Eight Banners officer in the tent and ordered:

"if

If you can gain the trust of the city's defenders, it's best to sneak into the city and act as an internal response."

When Yang Chengzu heard this, he felt relieved, knowing that Duduo planned to let him continue to fake the surrender, and had some hope for him. Since the siege of Ye County for several days, various Han armies took turns attacking the city, leaving only corpses everywhere.

There was almost no progress, and not even a small fortress was conquered, making coach Duduo anxious.

Even after conquering Ye County, there is still Huang County behind. I heard that the city defense facilities in Penglai, the capital of Denglai, are even better than those in Ye County. The generals of the Eight Banners of the Qing Army who came all the way had the illusion that they were attacking cities in Liaodong more than ten years ago.

There are also many fortresses, and the defenders in the city have many artillery pieces and the soldiers are not capable of fighting. It may be difficult for the Qing army to win quickly.

However, the two armies of the north and south, with hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, consume countless supplies and grain every day, all relying on the rear for transportation. The grain roads stretching for hundreds of miles not only made the Qing army's officers and soldiers who supervise the grain and grass miserable, but also the rear to raise funds.

Ding Wensheng, the governor of Shandong who had supplies, was also unable to survive.

Excessive looting has caused signs of instability among the people in Shandong, Henan, Huaibei and other places. Dozens of prefectures and counties have experienced varying degrees of civil unrest, resistance to grain requisitions, and donations. If the war continues for a long time, maybe Denglai

If it fails to calm down, there will be chaos in the rear.

Bolo, who was based in Laiyang, received a series of bad news.

The Han armies of Hao Xuanzhong and Zhang Tianfu failed to attack Qixia for several days, but suffered more than 3,000 casualties and were unable to fight again. They immediately attacked Qixia City and asked Boluo to send more reinforcements.

After Luck Dehun captured Jimo, he divided his forces and attacked along the coast. He successively captured Dasongwei, Haiyangsuo (now Haiyang City, Shandong), and Rushan. Then he attacked Wendeng in the northeast, but was attacked by the defenders in the city.

After a fierce blockade, they were unable to defeat them for several days. Later, due to the lack of supplies, they temporarily retreated to Rushan. However, nothing was gained by plundering the surrounding areas, so they requested the rear to quickly transport grain and grass to attack the main army and continue their attack on Wendeng.

Yesterday evening, Liu Wuyuan, who was attacking Rizhao County, sent a horse to report that more than 3,000 Ming troops had landed near Rizhao County, and they were accompanied by the Qi army in black. The army would withdraw from the siege after repelling the reinforcements.

Rizhao, planned to stick to Juzhou and Jiaozhou to cover the retreat of the army, but still asked Boluo to send the elite Eight Banners back in case of emergency.

However, before Boluo responded, early this morning, he received another report from Juzhou Kuaima, saying that the Han army's Guo Hu tribe had turned against the enemy, and the Eight Banners Han army had set up a red flag. Liu Wuyuan's and Li Qifeng's tribe were defeated, and only more than a thousand people escaped.

Return to Juzhou. After the Ming-Qi coalition forces and Li Benshen's Ming army in Rizhao County merged, they have surrounded Juzhou and are about to begin attacking the city. Therefore, please ask Boluo to send reinforcements back quickly to relieve the difficulties in Juzhou.

Boluo was shocked. He wanted to know that the food supply for the Qing army on the South Road was transported from Jining to Yizhou, and from Huaibei through the Yihe River, transported to Yizhou by canal boat, and then transported all the way to Ju on a packhorse frame. Prefecture, and from there, it was transferred to Jiaozhou and Laiyang for use by the army on the front line.

I thought that Juzhou was far away from the sea. Even if the Ming army landed nearby with the help of boats, Juzhou would receive the news as soon as possible and prepare for the response. Moreover, Bolo specially kept Liu Wuyuan and Li Qifeng. Guo Hu and other Eight Banners Han troops, plus the soldiers and horses left behind in Juzhou and Jiaozhou, totaled more than 10,000 troops. By defending the city, they should be able to ensure the army's retreat.

Unexpectedly, Liu Wuyuan, Li Qifeng and others had not yet captured Rizhao County, but they were caught off guard by the Ming army that suddenly landed, and suffered more than 6,000 casualties. As a result, Juzhou was in danger, and the entire southern army's retreat was blocked. There is also the risk of being cut off.

Boluo immediately ordered an attack on Qixia, and Wendeng's two Qing troops retreated to Laiyang and Jimo respectively to wait for orders. He personally ordered more than 5,000 Eight Banners armored cavalry to set off from Laiyang City and gallop towards Juzhou.

Seeing the raging fire in Juzhou City, Niuhu thought to himself, what a pity. Then he led a large group of people to Yizhou, which was more than a hundred miles away.

In the battle outside Rizhao City, due to the rebellion of Guo Hu's troops, the Ming and Qi allied forces defeated the Qing army and captured and killed more than 3,000 people. Li Benshen's 400 cavalry chased him north, leaving behind more than 1,000 Qing and Eight Banner Han troops.

After the battle, the coalition forces did not waste any time and left more than a thousand defenders in Rizhao City. They requisitioned all the packhorses and livestock in the city, marched day and night, and quickly attacked Juzhou.

In the early morning of November 27, the coalition forces immediately launched an attack on the city without waiting for the artillery to be dragged to Juzhou. At the same time, they forced hundreds of surrender troops to dig soil and trenches under the city and plant explosives. They defeated Juzhou at noon that day.

Niuhu asked the accompanying civilians to take some of the grain and bring it back to Rizhao County. Niuhu ordered the Qing army's grain reserves to be set on fire, and then headed west to attack Yizhou without stopping.

On the evening of November 28, a cavalry unit of the Ming and Qi Allied Forces arrived in Yizhou first, immediately cut off contact with Jining, and hunted and killed Qing army cavalry.

In the morning of the next day, the Ming and Qi coalition forces rushed to the foot of Yizhou City. They first burned all the dozens of watercrafts at the Yihe pier, and then began to besiege Yizhou.

From the Qing troops captured in Juzhou, we learned that there were only more than 3,000 soldiers and horses in the entire city of Yizhou. Except for the two Manchurian Eight Banners Zhenghuang Banner, which had more than 400 soldiers, the rest were all Liu Zeqing who surrendered when the Qing army attacked. The combat effectiveness of the troops is negligible.

The coalition forces still used their same tactics, bombarding the city wall with artillery, and then divided out several groups of personnel, sneaked close to the city wall, dug holes and buried explosives. After paying the price of more than 200 casualties, the Yizhou city wall collapsed, Guo Hu and Li Under the cover of Qi's muskets, Benshen's troops rushed into the city and started a street battle with the Eight Banners armored soldiers.
Chapter completed!