Azig was furious, and all the Qing troops suspended the attack on other counties that had not yet surrendered, and Azig fully mobilized 20,000 troops to conquer Tai'an County, which was garrisoned by only 2,000 people.

The 20,000 Qing army consisted of 1,000 Manchu Eight Banner Iron Cavalry, 3,000 Mongolian Iron Cavalry, and 16,000 Han Banner Army, and was led by a Manchu named Sukhnara Zhang Jing. The 4,000 cavalry took the lead, and the 16,000 Han Banner Army infantry followed closely, slaughtering Tai'an County in a mighty manner, vowing to make Tai'an County pay a heavy price.

In Tai'an County, Yan Yingyuan ordered the county order and the county Cheng to be put in prison. That's all, and the county order and the county were not made public, which was also to avoid hitting the people's morale and morale of Tai'an at such a critical moment.

"Yan Yingyuan, I'm the county magistrate of Tai'an County, you can't do this to me!" The county commander gritted his teeth and said to Yan Yingyuan.

As the county magistrate and county governor of Tai'an County, Xue Zhongmu and Miao Kai never dreamed that they would be imprisoned in Tai'an County. The conditions in the cell were so bad that the county order could not bear it.

"Bullshit's county order, you are a dog thief who collaborates with the enemy and betrays the country, if you dare to say a word, I will let the eldest brother kill both of you dog thieves immediately." Feng Houdun had a hot temper, glaring at him, and his murderous aura was awe-inspiring, so frightened that the county commander and the county Cheng hurriedly shut up, not daring to say a word.

The county commander and the county man gritted their teeth, and at the same time thought maliciously: Let the three of you brothers be arrogant for a few days, wait for the full people to come in, and see what happens to you.

After Yan Yingyuan ordered a few henchmen to guard the county order and the county magistrate, the three brothers came out of the cell.

"Big brother, the two dog officials of the county order and the county Cheng dare to commit treason to the enemy, why don't you kill them with one sword, I really don't understand why you have to go so troublesome to keep them in prison, and you have to waste manpower to guard them in vain." Feng Houdun said.

According to his opinion, the Qing captives will come to attack the city in a short time, and Tai'an is already short of manpower, how can he waste people on guarding two traitorous thieves in vain, and simply kill a hundred.

Yan Yingyuan shook his head and said: "We can't kill them, although we have caught tangible evidence to prove that the county order and the county Cheng collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country, but the state has national laws, and the two of them are the officials of the imperial court, in terms of position, the county order is still our top boss, if we kill them directly, it will be difficult to explain to the imperial court in the future." ”

In fact, now Yan Yingyuan knows very well that his actions have long been difficult to explain to the imperial court, he has arrested the county commander and the county Cheng for collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country, although there are many witnesses, but this action is really not within the scope of his functions. Once it spreads, it will touch the taboo of many people, and set a precedent for military attaches to arrest their civilian bosses, in the Ming Dynasty, where civil officials are respected, this is something that countless civil servants can not bear, if someone in the court in the future will talk about his crime with this article, I am afraid that no one will speak for him.

Yan Yingyuan was a little melancholy, but in his heart he suddenly thought of the strange holy decree appointing him as the county magistrate of Tai'an County, which had a sentence on it, no matter how urgent it was, he had the right to decide all the affairs of Tai'an County, and no one was allowed to interfere. There is no doubt that the decree was written by the emperor, and he did not know what the emperor meant by writing this sentence.

Yan Yingyuan sighed slightly, forget it, he set up an ambush and killed three hundred Manchu Eight Banner Iron Cavalry, it is inevitable that the Manchus will send people to attack the city, whether they can survive or not, what do they want to do so far, keep Tai'an, and the court will not cure their own crimes.

"Report, Lord County Lieutenant, the Qing Lu has sent an army to attack the city, and it is about to arrive at the city of Tai'an." A soldier rushed to report it.

"Prepare for battle now!" Yan Yingyuan's expression was solemn. It was long expected that a large number of men and horses of the Qing army would come to attack the city, but Yan Yingyuan did not expect that the Qing army would send 20,000 horses over at one time, and he really looked up to Tai'an.

At this time in Tai'an County, in addition to the original 2,000 soldiers and horses, Yan Yingyuan also urgently recruited 1,000 strong men, and they are still recruiting one after another, with Yan Yingyuan's reputation in Tai'an County, many people are willing to follow Yan Yingyuan to fight against the Qing captives.

The three brothers of Yan Yingyuan climbed the city tower of Tai'an County, at this time, with the rise of dust and smoke in the distance, the sound of horses' hooves rumbled, and there were not a few cavalry! When the Qing army approached, Yan Yingyuan glanced at it and was sure that it was 4,000 cavalry and 16,000 infantry, and his heart was immediately relieved. Because whether the cavalry was Manchu or Mongol, it was impossible for the Manchus to let them participate in the siege, so the siege could only be the 16,000 Han Banner Army infantry, Yan Yingyuan was confident that he would rely on the men and horses of Tai'an County to hold Tai'an steadily.

Manchu Zhangjing Sukhnara looked at the Tai'an city wall that was only more than two feet high, and smiled coldly, it was just a small county town, this time he came with 20,000 troops, and he would definitely be able to set foot here in an instant and avenge the three hundred Manchu children!

"Siege!"

"Kill" Sukhnara waved his hand, and suddenly thousands of Han Banner troops led by a staff general pit siege equipment to kill Tai'an.

Tai'an is just a county town, because of the backing of the mountain, Tai'an only has two city gates, one south and one north, and the Qing army is too lazy to attack the two gates together, because they don't think that the small Tai'an can block the attack of 20,000 troops.

On the city wall, Yan Yingyuan calmly commanded two thousand Tai'an soldiers and one thousand young men to deploy defenses on the city wall.

Because Yan Yingyuan led the Tai'an soldiers out of the city to suppress bandits from time to time in the past few months, a few months allowed him to train Tai'an's original 2,000 city guards into a rare elite army. At the same time, Yan Yingyuan also has a very good set of defending the city, and he is well armed, which can minimize the casualties of his own side and better kill and injure the besieging enemy.

The Qing army did not carry cannons, thousands of Han banner troops carried more than 20 ladders to attack the city at the same time, archers shot arrows outside the city towards the city, and the city wall also shot a dense rain of arrows to return fire.

Tai'an County has a population of 100,000, Yan Yingyuan not only recruited young people to help defend the city, but also called on the people to help make arrows, for this reason, Yan Yingyuan had before the Qing army came to attack the city, ordered to cut down the bamboo forest within a radius of ten miles outside the city, used to make light bows and arrows, although the lethality of the light bow made of bamboo in a hurry is not as good as the standard strong bow of the imperial court and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but because it is in a high place, shooting arrows from top to bottom, adding a lot of power to the arrows, and it is more than enough to counterattack the Qing army attacking the city outside the city.

The battle of Tai'an County broke out, and the fighting became more and more fierce in a few days, and finally even evolved into a major war that affected the entire Shandong war situation, and Yan Yingyuan also became famous in one battle, adding another star to the Ming Dynasty.

It was also at the time of the outbreak of the battle of Tai'an County, Anqing, the decisive battle between the imperial court and Zuo Liangyu's rebels finally divided the winner, unexpectedly, the imperial court, which had only more than 200,000 troops, defeated the more than 600,000 troops of Zuo Liangyu's rebels in one fell swoop, and the imperial court only lost tens of thousands of horses, and the world was shocked!

At the same time, the news of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's robbery and invasion of Shandong also reached the ears of Zhu Cihong, who was on the front line of Jiujiang.

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