Chapter 80: Confrontation (Ask for Collection)
Zheng Zhilong really has no score in his heart. "When things go wrong, there must be demons." No matter how calm he was on his face, he panicked in his heart.
Looking at the posture of the Tartars, it seems that he is going to fight to the death with Zheng Jun. He wasn't afraid of this. Zheng Zhilong still has confidence in Dai Jiaji and Zheng Jun's guns and grenades.
But there were so many Tartars, which made him a little flustered.
If Ziyang Mingjun and Xiao Yuan Ying of Zou County turned a blind eye to Tartar's movements, wouldn't he be under pressure to increase dramatically?
Fortunately, he still has Dai Jiaji. The preparation of these days was not in vain, and the delivery of a large amount of supplies would not be done in vain, which gave him the confidence to come and fight the Tartars.
Although he didn't know how the Qing army suddenly showed his sword to himself, he was confident that he would knock off the big teeth of the tartar.
Of course, he still didn't want the defenders of Ziyang and Zou County to just close the city and defend it, and there was no restraint on the Qing army, which was too chilling.
Jiang Zhe thought of Abatai, "Maybe the enemy chieftain divided a group of soldiers and horses and went south lightly?" He only thought that reinforcements had arrived from the Tartars.
The Abatai Department grasped the large amount of money, grain and materials looted by the Qing army in Beizhili and Dongchang, and there were all the general troops led by Hong Chengchou on the opposite side, with an army of 100,000, so it was not easy to want the whole army to go south?
He and Zheng Zhilong both recognized Hong Chengchou's talent. They all think that Hong Chengchou has many generals under him, and Cao Bianjiao and Wang Tingchen are two loyal and brave men. With his ability, it would not be a problem to stick to Abatai.
So neither of them expected that Abatai would be able to lead the army south. They really look up to the Ming army.
Turg would not be annoyed that the five Eight Bannermen had lost their heads. He is now pondering carefully against Zheng Jun's camp, and seeing where to start, it will save time and effort.
Turg had always heard that Zheng Zhilong was like a rat and kept running the Dai family market, but he didn't care at all. You Zheng Zhilong is a turtle again, when Ziyang is in an emergency, and when Zou County and Qufu are in an emergency, don't you still have to obediently drill out of that layer of turtle shell?
Compared with the angry Abatai, Turg didn't expect that he would make the battle of Yanzhou so tattered.
After the defeat of Zou County, he didn't panic, because there was still the fatal Qufu, which Zheng Zhilong would never dare not save. But he didn't expect Zheng Zhilong's reaction to be so fast, and he immediately let Yuan Shizhong take a division of troops. Moreover, the Kong family also mobilized, not only the city of Qufu was full of people, but even Kong Lin was guarded.
That really hit Turg to the point.
The latter is the place where Huang Taiji strictly ordered not to 'move', and now that he has the soldiers and horses of Xiao Yuan's battalion, he is making a gesture to storm Qufu, whether it is Zheng Zhilong or Ziyang City, he will not panic.
Then Tugel was surprised to find that he was helpless against Yanzhou Mansion. He can bypass these places to attack other places, such as bypassing Zou County to attack Teng County, but he can't continue south from Teng County.
Shi Kefa, the governor of Caoyun, has gathered a lot of civilian troops in Huai'an Mansion, and Pizhou is the top priority, not to mention that a lot of Ming troops have also gathered in Xuzhou. Liu Zeqing was forced by the current situation in Guide Mansion (Shangqiu) - it was flooded and had been transferred to Xuzhou. After Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo defeated Zhang Xianzhong in Qianshan, he has also returned to Fengyang at this moment, which is close to Xuzhou.
It is not uncommon for Turg to be helpless in such a situation. After all, the Tartars are still short of troops!
There are only 130,000 or 40,000 soldiers in the battle of Songjin, and there are a large number of Mongolian army flags and Han army flags in it. Forty or fifty thousand people were sent out to enter the Central Plains, and they were already going all out.
You must know that Huang Taiji also has to arrange some people to press Ningyuan.
No matter how rough the skin and thick flesh of the tartar is, no matter how durable it is, it can't be fully mobilized for several years in a row. No one, no force, can afford to be treated like this.
Therefore, don't look at the history books of later generations, it is recorded that Abatai has an army of 100,000 troops in the south this time, but in fact, Abatai can have 40,000 or 50,000 soldiers in his hands, which is already a Tartar and does not brag.
Turg has 20,000 people in his hands, and this number is distributed in many strategic points in Yanzhou, which is not an advantage. But if all the forces are concentrated in one place, it can really pose a deadly threat to it.
Whether it is Daijiaji, or Ziyang or Zou County. The difference is only that it is not cost-effective to eat tartars raw and hard.
Zheng Zhilong climbed the observation tower in the center of Nanying, and looked at the Qing army from a distance.
The observation tower is a wooden structure, five feet high, and there is a small shed on the top floor to shelter from the wind and cold.
Zheng Zhilong stood on the top, and could clearly overlook the dozens of miles around Dai Jiaji, whether it was his own camp or the barracks of the Qing army, he could see it clearly.
"Why are there so many Tartars?"
"I'm afraid this is all the troops of the South Road Tartars."
"What about Ziyang and Zou County? Or just abandon them all, and don't take precautions at all? ”
The people on the tower said one after another. No one mentioned that the Ming troops in Ziyang and Zou County would sit back and watch the enemy move and not move, but they were also a little flustered.
"Since the Tartars have come to surround them, why did they bring so many people, women and children?" Behind Zheng Zhilong, Shen Nanguang said very puzzled. Even if there is a lack of people, it will not bring so many people, and there are many women and children inside.
Then he found that his words had made Zheng Zhilong and many other people present have a gloomy look on their faces. Tartar brought a large number of old and weak women and children, so what he wanted to do, Zheng Zhilong could imagine it with his toes.
"Brother Guangming......" Jiang Zhe tugged down his sleeve.
"Birds and beasts are not as good, birds and beasts are not as good as ......" After Jiang Zhe whispered an explanation for Shen Nanguang, the latter was like thunder, and the whole person only had gritted his teeth and hated when he came back to his senses.
Zheng Zhilong had already shifted his attention to his own family. Although he was a little apprehensive now, and even regretted it, why didn't he listen to Jiang Zhe's advice, but he was not afraid in the end. Dai Jiaji, as a barrier he single-handedly created, still made him feel safe.
It's natural.
He is not a battle-hardened 'warrior' at all, but in the face of an unexpected situation, he suddenly found himself a little cowardly. But if he was cowardly, he confessed. Life first, and we must not fight such uncertain battles in the future.
The enemy is outnumbered, and the Qing army has an absolute advantage in field warfare, so the Ming army is not ready to fight if it wants to, but to leave if it wants. How many of the Ming army dare to chase? In other words, the Tartars have the initiative in this war, which is very passive.
Zheng Zhilong, who saw the Yanzhou battlefield very thoroughly, was very empathetic to Deng Fanxi and Yuan Shizhong, and they all thought of excuses. But he never thought of taking Abatai into his sights, so he deserved to be beaten.
"It is not surprising that Jianyu has such a method, and on the battlefield of the two armies, such tricks have long been commonplace. However, such a means can not only shake the will of our army, but also lower the morale and fighting spirit of our army. Zheng Dashuai, you have to guard against it. Yanzhou Tongzhi Tan Si said.
Tan Tongzhi is reasonable. Tell me to go down and spread the matter in the army as soon as possible. Zheng Zhilong said in a calm tone. Before the Tartars, they took the coat and opened the way with the Han army flag and the Mongolian army flag, which is essentially no different from now.
Although he can 'calmly' deal with the current scene, it is the greatest sorrow of the Huaxia family.
Although Zheng Zhilong himself saw it "very open", he also knew that if he could make it public before the Tartar used this poisonous move, then when the Tartar used this trick again, it would most likely greatly stimulate the bloodiness of the Zheng army's soldiers.
"Remember the current scene, and when the army rolls up outside the pass in the future, don't be merciful to the Tartars." When we come to the current era, we must not confuse the Manchu compatriots of later generations with the current Jianguo. (Later generations of Manchu compatriots made great contributions to China during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and they were tempered in the melting pot, but what contribution did the current Jianyu have?) )
Zheng Zhilong laughed, made a fearless look on his face, and deliberately said this to Shen Nanguang.
At this moment in Dai Jiaji, the chest wall and the ground outside the Zheng army camp are doing the final "reinforcement", and the soldiers no longer go to Surabaya to fetch water, but set up a cauldron in the breast wall and start boiling water.
By the time the next pot of ice and snow meltwater was delivered, the cold water that had been spilled before had already turned into crystal clear.
The breastwork outside the stockade was incoherent, with a gap at every interval, which was used for the passage of hand-to-hand soldiers, and was not very wide. But it's enough for hand-to-hand fighters to go out and cut off people's heads.
The task of the latter was to cut off people's heads, not to fight hand-to-hand with the Qing army.
If you can talk with guns and bullets, don't use knives and guns to force you blindly. Zheng Zhilong's consistent concept now is to kill at zero distance.
Although he knew it was difficult.
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South Camp Lodging.
The soldiers were all seizing the time to rest, and after returning from the main camp, the main general Li Shiyuan visited the military houses one by one.
In this regard, the soldiers and horses of the southern camp enjoy a grade higher than the treatment of the Xinzhai defenders. There are a lot of houses in their camp, and even if some are demolished, the rest is enough for the Qingzhou camp.
Back at his residence, Li Shiyuan drank a bowl of steaming ginger tea to ward off the cold, and looked at the sturdy back of a sharpening knife outside the house, Li Shixuan said beside him: "Big brother, isn't this Shi Meng stupid, I'll sharpen his big knife today." ”
"Look at the posture is to be desperate, but don't fight and ignore the formation, and go straight to the Tartar with a big sword."
Li Shixuan also understands Shi Meng, the family finally ran to Qilu from Liaodong, but the last time the Tartars invaded Qilu, he and a sister were the only ones left in the family. In the past two years, he has married his sister-in-law, and then caught up with the Tartar into the plug, so it would be just desperate. "If you just die like this, it's not worth it."
Li Shiyuan glanced at this brother and said nothing. If he has time to talk to him, he might as well go back to his room and squint for a while. But lying on the bed, Li Shiyuan couldn't sleep.
Not afraid.
The Tartars are powerful, over the years, the Ming army has lost one battle after another, tens of thousands of defeats, and after hearing a lot of news, anyone will look up to the Tartars in their hearts.
However, compared with those who are afraid of death, such as Li Shiyuan, they are more afraid of being able to stretch if they have ambitions.
The Ming court did not treat him badly, he Li Shiyuan was from an ordinary background, but because he was a martial artist, he was now only in his thirties and became the garrison of Qingzhou, and the Ming Dynasty really did not wronged him.
But it was precisely because he was placed in Qingzhou that Li Shiyuan entered the fence with a tiger and was sent to the park in a cage. Then who has food and drink, comfortable, but in the end it is not as good as he wants.
Li Shiyuan is a goshawk yearning for the blue sky, but he is not willing to be a golden bird.
Fortunately, he met Zheng Zhilong, and after the military power was collected, he was even promised to be reused, and now he has been pushed to the position of the chief general of Nanying, if he can show his means and be seen by many people, then the future is limitless.
Li Shiyuan squinted his eyes for a long time, he didn't feel sleepy at all, he was a little worried and a little excited, he really couldn't sleep, so he simply sat up.
"Your Excellency!" Outside the room, Shi Meng's honest voice sounded.
"Let's go. Come with me to the camp. ”