Chapter 241: If you surrender, you will be fierce (ask for subscription)
Tunqi retreated to Dengzhou before he remembered Laoshan Mountain, where although Li Shutai, the governor of Qilu, personally led the troops, but the partial division is the partial division, and Li Shuitai only had 8,000 people under him. In the face of Jiang Zhe's more than enough defense and insufficient attack, he didn't even dare to fight head-on, this was more Zheng Zhilong......
Then he hurriedly sent someone to report the urgency to Li Shutai, but it was too late.
Zheng Zhilong's soldiers were divided into two routes, all the way from the north of Laoshan Bay to land at Aoshanwei, in the northwest direction, the light troops stepped forward to capture Jimo County, blocking the road for Li Shutai to retreat to Pingdu; The other road was directly inserted into Jiaozhou Bay and landed on the west side of Yin Island (now Hongdao), blocking the line of retreat of the Thai army led by Li to Jiaozhou.
Li Shutai, who led 8,000 troops and had been stationed outside Laoshan for some days, was caught between two soldiers and horses, and became a turtle in an urn when he landed.
What does it feel like to have an ice cellar?
The bone-chilling cold, the endless despair, Li Shutai experienced today.
A piece of paper fell from his hand weakly, and the five fingers of his right palm were wide open, and he grabbed his bare head fiercely, and the whole person didn't know what to do.
"What should I do?" He asked himself frantically in the bottom of his heart.
But there was never an answer.
Seeing that Daqing was about to enter the harvest stage in Denglai, Zheng Zhilong suddenly stepped in. And Zheng Zhilong didn't go to save the crisis in Ye County, but he came to Jiaozhou, what did he think?
Li Shutai couldn't wait to pull Zheng Zhilong's neck and asked.
After receiving the news of the fall of Jimo County, he knew that things were not good, things had changed, and he hurriedly led the army to retreat north. even left some people to be substitutes for the dead ghosts, because Jiang Zhe, who had been shrinking up, was also in trouble. organized a big stab of soldiers and horses to press over.
Li Shutai wanted to retreat cleanly, not only to give up a large number of military supplies, but also to leave a team of soldiers and horses.
Among the people in his circle, he chose a general named Guo Guangfu to lead the army.
Then he rushed to Jiaozhou with the main force, but before he could go far, the news of the fall of Jiaozhou also came.
Now he is facing enemies on three sides, surrounded by water on one side, and he is really cornered.
The specific number of enemies in Jimo and Jiaozhou is not very clear, but they are indispensable. Thousands of enemy troops.
Li Shutai knows very well that he is not an opponent on either side, let alone break out.
His 8,000 people couldn't even defeat the two battalions of Zheng Army in Jiang Zhe's hands, so he could only blindly hold on. Now that a part of it has been divided, can it still beat a few thousand Zheng Jun?
His only option now was to find a place to hold on. Then he prayed that the army of Ye County would come to the rescue before he was finished.
There was a sudden noise in his ears, and Li Shutai was suddenly furious.
Now that the situation is so critical, the army is still so chaotic, will it be dispersed in a hurry after a while?
Pick up the sword, turn on the horse, and lead the group to rush to the noisy place.
But when he found out that the noisy fuse was a group of defeated soldiers who had lost their armor, Li Shutai's anger disappeared in an instant like pouring ice water.
The garrison Hao Shangzhou pulled away the people around him, and "poof" knelt down in front of Li Shuotaima.
"How did you lose?" Li Shutai knew that Hao Shangzhou was Guo Guangfu's subordinate. Looking at the scene now, what else is there not to understand? But Guo Guangfu also has two or three thousand people under him, how could he be defeated so quickly?
"The military gate forgives the sin. That Guo Xiezhen (deputy general) surrendered to Zheng Thief, and the villain was unwilling to turn his back on the court, so he fled back with his brothers and was ...... ......"
Hao Shangzhou doesn't need to say more, Li Shutai still doesn't understand anything.
"Guo Guangfu, what a dog thief, I'm going to cut you with a thousand knives......"
The hatred in Li Shutai's heart is that he can't wait to eat his flesh and sleep on his skin, and he hates Guo Guangfu so much that he goes crazy. But I never thought that I was quite good at doing things, so let Guo Guangfu be the queen of the palace, didn't he just ask someone to send him to death. Then Guo Guangfu was originally a general, and now it is difficult to demote again?
He's angry.
It is to vent all the fears, troubles and fears that suddenly arise in the life and death situation that suddenly arise in the heart towards Guo Guangfu. For a while, my teeth were clucking!
The generals under his tent were also lonely and silent at this time, just like Li Shutai's heart, and each of them also had endless anger, anger, anxiety and fear in their hearts.
The road ahead is gone, and the back road is cut off, how can these five or six thousand soldiers and horses survive? Zheng Jun came in three ways, if he was in trouble, where would he have his own way of life?
"Go to Li Gezhuang (town)." Li Shutai, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke up and went to Li Gezhuang. Although there are no mountains in that place, there is water, a Dagu River, and a Jiaolai Water (artificial canal), which converge outside Li Gezhuang.
Even if the Jiaolai water (canal) was not dug for five years in the Mengyuan period, and it was started again in the Jiajing period of Zhu Ming, due to the limitation of technical conditions, the river channel near the watershed for dozens of miles had low navigation capacity, and there was no water source guarantee, so it could not be navigable soon. But Jiaolai water is a river after all.
After the army drilled into Li Gezhuang, it was three sides of the water, and Zheng Jun wanted to attack and kill, and it would not be easy to get it.
And the most important thing is that Brother Li Zhuang is close.
The generals retreated silently, and the few who had different opinions, their faces changed a few times, and finally sighed, giving up their plans to come out.
Li Gezhuang is Li Gezhuang, there is really no better choice around, this generation is the plain - Jiaolai Plain, and the nearest mountain is Laoshan Mountain. Could it be that he was really able to persuade Li Shutai to let go of his five or six thousand soldiers and flee into the mountains without fighting?
What's more, now that Jiang Zhe is following behind his ass, it is too late for them to turn around and run to Laoshan.
After another half of the ring, Li Shutai moved his body, turned his head to look at the map that had just been hung, and his eyes were fixed on Li Gezhuang's location. In fact, he didn't have to look at the map at all, everything on it had already been engraved in Li Shutai's heart.
Ligezhuang is a very famous place in Jiaozhou, although it cannot be compared with the prosperous Banqiao Town in history, and the Tabutou that is still very prosperous today, but as a town along the Dagu River, it is also very good.
There is at least one town wall that is two feet high.
There were also three or four hundred households, and as soon as the Qing army arrived, most of them failed to escape, and they were all driven by the Qing army to strengthen the town wall.
However, even so, it is very whimsical for Li Shutai to rely on this, so it is very whimsical to reject Zheng Jun.
After all, Li Gezhuang is just a small town, not to mention the food problem, only to say that the town wall less than two zhang high has been reinforced, and when Zheng Jun drove outside Zhuangzi, he couldn't even compare with the most ordinary small county town defense, so how could it be the opponent of Zheng Jun's artillery?
"Boom, boom, boom......"
On that day, the roar of the cannon continued to sound.
Thirty or forty five-pound guns continued to bombard, and the iron-blue muzzles spewed out scorching flames, and the white smoke that rose was already shrouded in the sky above the artillery position in a short time.
And as time went on, the number of these cannons also increased.
The Qing army didn't even have a few cannons, and on the way to escape, they had already discarded too many things.
The morale was already low, and the enemy was still outnumbered, but now it has almost fallen to the point where it is only beaten and does not fight back, so the morale of the Qing army is even lower.
One by one, the cannonballs fell on the town walls and houses, and the town walls of Li Gezhuang quickly turned into ruins under the continuous bombardment of cannons.
It was only when the sun was in the west that many of the town walls around it collapsed.
Then Zheng Zhilong did not give the order to attack, but ordered the artillery to continue to fire extended into the town.
At this time, don't worry about whether it will hurt the innocent, then it is the first thing to get rid of the Qing soldiers.
Until dusk and sunset, Zheng Zhilong waved his hand. Immediately, the murderous war drums rang out.
"Kill, ......" shouted everywhere.
To the north, Guo Guangfu was eager to make meritorious contributions, yelling and shouting, and he personally carried a big knife and led the troops to charge.
On the Jiaolai River in the west, the shallow river water could not stop Zheng Jun at all, and on the Dagu River, which was quite wide and deep, flat boats loaded with groups of Zheng Jun soldiers rushed towards Li Gezhuang Town.
"Kill!" In the earth-shattering roar, the dejected Qing army that was hit by the cannon resisted extremely weakly.
For example, in the battle in the north, when Guo Guangfu rushed up with hundreds of soldiers who dared to fight, one by one the Qing soldiers came out of the ground like ants, and collided with Guo Guangfu's troops of the Zheng army who rushed to the front.
They were obviously more numerous, but they were defeated by Guo Guangfu's troops.
The sound of killing was shocking, and the artillery that had been so powerful before was still firing into the town.
Zheng Zhilong couldn't help but raise his eyebrows when he looked at Guo Guangfu's progress, does this Ming army have to surrender once or twice before its combat strength will skyrocket? Looking at the current Guo Guang auxiliary army, it is called a morale like a rainbow and high morale. In the blink of an eye, the Tartars in the north were defeated, which Zheng Zhilong didn't expect......
"Kill-" Guo Guangfu was hit by an arrow, but he didn't hit the vital point, only cut the flesh and skin, but he was not afraid at all, and he still led the way into Li Gezhuang Town with his wounds.
A stroke of bravery.
But it is because of Guo Guangfu that he knows that all his hard work today will not be in vain, his own efforts, his injuries, are of absolute value.
Not only can it wash away its stigma, but it can also exchange it for a new future.
Even he wished that this arrow could be inserted deeper, so as to leave a deeper impression on Zheng Zhilong, right?
According to Zheng Zhilong, he Guo Guangfu abandoned the army and surrendered, without hurting the people in the camp, which is a great achievement. It is another great achievement to keep the grain and military materials in the battalion in good condition. With these two credits alone, he was incorporated on the spot, and he didn't have to go to labor reform anymore. But he was not a regular Zheng army now, but only an inferior garrison.
If you want to be promoted from a second-class garrison to a real Zheng army, you still need to work hard.
Guo Guangfu knew that in the future, he would have to obey orders under Jiang Zhe, the former old opponent of Laoshan Governor.
So, is it worth it for him to show his face desperately under Jiang Zhe, or is it more cost-effective to show his face directly in front of Zheng Zhilong, these are all questions that can be judged without distinguishing.
Zheng Ping was holding a telescope to look at the situation in the town of Li Gezhuang, and the corners of his mouth were getting bigger and bigger. "This Guo Guangfu is so brave, how can he no longer surrender in Beizhili?"
Li Zicheng came to descend Li Zicheng, and Tartar came to descend Tartar. Zheng Ping was very disdainful of this person, but now that he looks, Guo Guangfu is a brave man.
Zheng Zhilong smiled on the side without saying a word, and the corners of Zheng Sen's mouth also grinned.
People who don't have an in-depth understanding of the Ming Dynasty will not understand why the 'three family slaves' are so brave.