The main force of the Tartars' Southern Route Army did not go to fight Li Zicheng, nor did they go to Jianghuai to beat Nanming.

Emperor Chongzhen's luck is really good.

In history, the Manchu Qing Dynasty had just entered the customs, and Chongzhen was going to send troops to the south in the winter of the seventeenth year, but the result was that Li Zicheng himself made a big death, and played a counterattack in Huaiqing, but he saved Nanming and buried himself!

Now Li Zicheng's situation is very different from history, Jinnan is still firmly in his hands, Datong and Taiyuan are still very strong, and it is impossible for the Manchu Qing to send another army to detour through Mongolia and attack Yulin in northern Shaanxi from the north when Datong has not yet been taken.

Li Zichengzi also did not need to organize troops to risk entering northern Henan, and put on the appearance of attacking Beizhili in the north to relieve the crisis of his main battlefield - of course, it may also be to boost morale.

Historically, the result of this was to set himself on fire and attract the Tartars' army of Dordor, who were preparing to go south. Not to mention the backstop for Nanming, he was defeated in Tongguan and lost all in the northwest. It's really burning yourself to illuminate others. Now that he is gone, the Huaiqing counterattack is gone, and it is not a two-sided enemy - the Qing army fought Yulin Yan'an on the north road, and Tongguan on the south road, and generally stabilized the shelf. At least before the fall of Datong or Taiyuan, he couldn't fall on this shelf.

And if Jinxi can't hold it and let the Tartars then enter the Guanzhong, it will be a lack of strength.

But this time and space has more battles of Qilu made by Zheng Zhilong. It was impossible for the Manchus to go south.

Although the Manchu Qing did not want to fight with Nanming at all now.

Qilu hasn't settled down yet, and they're going south to fart.

Guo Sheng, who fled into Qingzhou, didn't talk about it first, only the Qingzhou camp was not something that Liu Zeqing could easily solve, not to mention that there was Denglai, who was even more powerful behind Qingzhou.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty did not contact Zeng Ying. But after the fall of the Longwu Dynasty, when the Yongli Dynasty was five years old, when there was no hope for the Great Tomorrow, they would rather hang themselves than surrender, let alone now.

The Manchu Qing successively sent two people to Dengzhou to deliver letters to him, but he cut off their heads.

His own will to resist the Qing Dynasty is firm, not to mention, but also scattered all the family wealth in Denglai to reorganize the armament, the eldest son Zeng Wende, the second son Zeng Wensi, the younger brother Zeng Zhi and his son Zeng Wenhui, more than ten children of the Zeng family joined the army.

There is more support from Zheng Jun behind him, Zheng Zhilong arranged soldiers and horses in Denglai and built a fortress, what is the purpose of that, how can the Manchu Qing Dynasty, who already have the two painful lessons of Juehua Island and Jinmen, not know?

So at this time, the Manchu Qing really didn't plan to attack Nanming at all. The two are still the situation that the well water does not interfere with the river water.

For Tatar Ziyan, it is the first priority to quickly defeat Li Zicheng, calm Qilu, and sweep the north.

In this way, taking advantage of Zheng Zhilong's 'distance' to Japan, it is necessary to quickly wave troops to attack Denglai.

Zeng Wende looked at Zheng Zhibao with some concern, Laizhou Mansion had been surrounded, and Dengzhou was about to go. But the sudden outbreak of sunshine attracted Tartar's eyes to Laoshan, which made his father a little worried, lest his 'support' with Zheng Zhibao change, so he sent his eldest son to meet Zheng Zhibao to inquire about one or two.

Zheng Zhibao smiled loudly: "Don't worry, nephew." These places are nails, which are themselves firmly nailed to the seashore. That Jiang Zhe had expected today, and he had been preparing for this day from the first moment he settled in Laoshan Mountain. ”

"Today's Laoshan has many complete facilities, sufficient ammunition, a lot of troops, and high morale, and it is wishful thinking for the Tartars to quickly capture Laoshan. If I really want to gather tens of thousands of troops in Laoshan, I want to be happy. "Then there's less pressure elsewhere.

"And this time the Tartars used a small 100,000 horses before and after, but the supplies they needed were gone, and with the current situation in Qilu, they couldn't afford to support them, unless those gentry were willing to bleed."

"But if they're willing to bleed, then why do they take refuge in the Tartars?"

Zeng Ying also raised money from the gentry of the states and counties below, and the money and food were pitiful. These gentlemen were unwilling to bleed for Daming at the beginning, but now they are willing to tartar?

What Zheng Zhibao wants to see most now is that the Tartars are wild, and they rob the gentlemen fiercely, which is called a show.

Call them iron cocks one by one, and let them kneel and lick their tartars with joy! Satisfied now, right?

Zheng Zhibao waved his hand and said to Zeng Wende: "You can tell your father to rest assured. I will never go back on what I promised. ”

Jiang Zhe didn't ask him for help at all, Laoshan was not empty, Jiang Zhe had already formed a new battalion head, although it was only a cold weapon unit. I didn't even ask for money, food, and armor, at most I asked for some artillery ammunition.

Just when Zeng Wende breathed a sigh of relief, a person walked in outside the door, but it was the intelligence officer of the Black Ice Platform.

No one knows why Zheng Zhilong gave the intelligence department such a strange name, because no one has ever watched the TV series "Great Qin Empire", right?

The intelligence officer walked in and whispered to Zheng Zhibao, "The fleet to Juehua Island has returned. It is said that the command of General Lin (Qingye) has gathered about 1,000 Korean troops. I will be able to arrive at Zhifu with the boat in early July. ”

Because of Shen Qiyuan, the Zheng family's influence in North Korea is rising rapidly. With Lin Qingye's call, a thousand Korean young men have been brought in a few months, and it is normal to form an army, isn't it?

Zheng Zhilong has long targeted Jeju Island, which is now Tamna Island, and this North Korea will also be one of the sources of cannon fodder for Zheng Jun in the future.

"Good, good. In this way, there is one more battalion in Denglai. Zheng Zhibao's face was full of smiles, and Zeng Wende was also happy. The stronger the strength of this Denglai, the better?

Zheng Zhibao exchanged pleasantries with him for a while, then got up and took Zeng Wende to the school field.

The latter is being trained by new recruits.

Denglai was the main battlefield between the Zheng clan and the Manchu Qing in the future, and it was impossible for all the reinforcements to be in the rear. You also have to have hematopoietic ability!

The current Zhifu Island, bounded by the Yijing River in the north, is a strange mountain. Located in the south of the Yijing River, the county seat of Fushan and the Qishan Institute, together with Zhifu, form a triangle, and the size and area are similar to the Laoshan Governor's District, but the defensive posture is obviously inferior to the latter.

Zheng Zhibao and Zheng Zhipeng before them, their approach was to stuff Fushan County and Qishan City, and there were also fortresses of different sizes between the three corners. As for the gentry living in this area, if they are willing to go with them, they will either go to the city or to the island.

Not only Zhifu Island, but also the Changshan (Temple Island) archipelago in the Bohai Sea. Before Huang Fei led the army and civilians to the south, he lost the remnants of Liaodong Town in Lushun, Phidao and other places, and they all shrank in the Changshan Islands. Now it's okay to transport people to the island to escape the fighting.

Zeng's is a scholarly family, Zeng Wende is also a person who has been writing for 20 years, and now he suddenly changed to a knife handle, adapting to it and not saying, but he is very enthusiastic and persevering.

On the school grounds, you can not only see the training of recruits, but also hear the rumbling of artillery not far away. This is a drill for the gunners.

After all, artillery is crucial to the Zhifu dialect.

Its lethality and deterrence were the key to Zheng Jun's ability to resist the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

As the old nest of Zheng Jun in the land of Qilu and the most important base set up by Zheng Zhilong in the north so far, the Zhifu area has a number of artillery pieces that make people's scalps tingle.

It's not those tiger squatting cannons, it is said that in order to strengthen their firepower, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has already run out of the warehouse with the few big Buddha Lang machines left after squandering. At the beginning, they melted all the cannons and small cannons that were either intact or had been destroyed to smelt iron and make armor, and now they are distressed.

The artillery strength in the Zhifu area has been divided into two parts, one is the field artillery, which is mainly five-pound guns, and the main force is the artillery battalion with a staggering number of 125 guns, which is a fully formed artillery battalion. The total strength reached two thousand people. In addition, the artillery teams attached to each battalion were more or less numerous, ranging from twelve to three or four, and from five to three guns. The total number of doors will be one hundred and sixty or seventy.

And then there were fixed fort batteries.

From the early Zhifu Island Fort, to the later fortress of Fushan and Qishan, there are one more fortresses, and the number of cannons under the unification is definitely more than 200, and there are eight or nine out of ten ten-pound cannons, twelve-catty cannons, and only a few eight-catty cannons and five-catty cannons.

There are about 400 Hongyi cannons in the Zhifu area alone, which is not an ordinary luxury in today's era.

Whether it was Zheng Zhilong in the early days, or Zheng Zhipeng and Zheng Zhibao later, they were all determined to build Zhifu into an impregnable bridgehead, and it is not surprising that so many cannons were concentrated here.

It's just that Zheng Zhibao didn't expect that the Zhifu area where he is located has not yet suffered the test of Tartars, but Laoshan, which is hundreds of miles away, has eaten the first crab first.

Who told Jiang Zhe to take Rizhao and stab the Tartar first?

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The north of Laoshan Mountain.

Groups of cavalry appeared in the field, and Jiang Zhe, as the supreme commander, stood on the watchtower and looked out, and everywhere he saw was a large group of Tartar cavalry wearing foam nail armor and lightning rods.

Naturally, such a mocking title came from the mouth of his boss Zheng Zhilong.

Most people don't understand what a lightning rod is.

Jiang Zhe finally knew the metal core in the mouth of the faucet at the four corners of the roof.

It was full of Tartar territory, and there were no formed cavalry units fighting the Tartars here in Laoshan. The cavalry is still a short board of the Zheng army, and the cavalry of all sizes has now been taken to Japan by Zheng Zhilong.

Therefore, Jiang Zhe can only watch the Tartars go wild outside, and can only order the snipers to shoot when they see the opportunity.

But the Tartars were not brainless, and when they found that when they entered the city, they were not a place of arrows, and even a land of two arrows still ate guns, they avoided them one after another.

Most of these scouts are old fighters, and they don't look for death in vain.

The Germans in that army also explained to Nikan the power of rifled guns, although it was difficult to load a hundred ammunition, but they could be lethal and accurate.

Then Nikan ordered people to move five hundred meters away. Not only is it forbidden to approach without permission, but also the Tartars are not allowed to scatter in groups.

After all, there is still a gate of artillery at the head of the city.

Nikan, who didn't have much hope of taking Laoshan in his heart, was reluctant to even go to the Eight Banners of Menghan, let alone let the Eight Banners of Man go to death.

It's very simple to fight lively, can you let the Green Flag soldiers go to death?

As long as they can survive until the end of autumn, when winter arrives and the sea is covered with thick ice, that is when they really exert their strength.

Before that, he only had to play lively in Laoshan.

Anyway, the regent of the capital will not blame himself, this strategy has been set a long time ago.

Even these artillery pieces under his command, after Laoshan has been lively here for a while, they will also be transported to Ye County (Laizhou Prefecture) one after another.

He already knows how powerful the fortress is, and he has to fight to the death, is he stupid?