Chapter 138: Confrontation

Thousands of Mongols were strewn with corpses, and the scene was extremely spectacular, whether it was Shi Kefaru Yanshou and other generals or other soldiers, they were all shaken.

"The wound was peculiar, not like a sword wound, not an arrow wound, and there seemed to be a faint smell of gunpowder in the air." Shi Kefa personally went to inspect the corpses of the Mongols, frowning and thinking.

"All of these Mongols should have been killed by firearms." Shi Kefa confirmed.

"Inspector, look at it again, not only that, all the corpses seem to be Mongols." Lu Yanshou asked. This is too unreasonable, since ancient times, a thousand people died in battle, and eight hundred self-losses, no matter how invincible an army is, it is impossible to kill thousands of enemy soldiers and not die a single person, according to common sense, there is no half possibility, unless the corpse of one side has been collected, so only the corpse of the other side is left on the battlefield.

Shi Kefa also frowned.

"Newspaper"

"Inspector Qiqi, no Qing prisoners have been found outside the city of Tai'an, Tai'an is still safe, and there are countless corpses of Qing soldiers under the city!" At this time, a scout came on horseback to report it.

"Supervisor, it should be the imperial court that sent reinforcements to rescue." Lu Yanshou said happily.

Shi Kefa wondered, since the imperial court sent reinforcements, why didn't he, the Shandong governor, know?

Shi Kefa was suddenly a little unhappy, in fact, what he didn't know was that although Ma Shiying and others in Nanjing City had already learned the news of him in Jining City, Zhu Cihong, who was on the front line of Jiujiang, had not yet received the news, and the reinforcements were not sent through the military department of Nanjing City, but were directly dispatched after Zhu Cihong defeated Zuo Liangyu.

However, knowing that Tai'an was still in the hands of the imperial court and that the Qing army was defeated and retreated, Shi Kefa, LΓΌ Yanshou and others were still relieved and were able to confidently and boldly order the army to enter Tai'an.

"Brother Yan, come with me to meet Inspector Shi." After Ji Feng learned that Shi Kefa was about to enter Tai'an with his army, he smiled and took Yan Yingyuan to the city gate to greet him.

"Thank you General Ji for your love!" Yan Yingyuan bowed down and thanked him.

Outside the city, Shi Kefa led the army to the city of Tai'an, and was shocked to see the corpses of the Qing army all over the ground. At this time, a few people suddenly came out of Tai'an City, and Shi Kefa recognized Ji Feng at a glance.

"It turned out to be General Ji!" Shi Kefa gestured to Ji Feng.

"Ji Feng meets Inspector Shi!" Ji Feng replied.

Ji Feng is the emperor's confidant general, and when he saw Ji Feng, Shi Kefa knew where the reinforcements came from. He had already heard the news that the emperor had defeated Zuo Liangyu's army in Anqing, presumably Ji Feng should have been sent by the emperor directly from Anqing, and he didn't go through the military department, no wonder he didn't know.

"General Ji, is the emperor okay?" Shi Kefa asked.

Originally, he heard that Zhu Cihong planned to drive the expedition in person was also extremely opposed, and he had a lot of twists and turns, but Zhu Cihong was too lazy to pay attention to it and insisted on going his own way, although Shi Kefa was worried, but there was no way, until he heard that Zhu Cihong had achieved a great victory in Anqing.

"The emperor is naturally fine, and he is worried about Inspector Laoshi." Ji Feng said with a smile.

After some politeness, Ji Feng welcomed Shi Kefa into Tai'an City. Along the way, Shi Kefa was shocked to learn that Ji Feng had only brought an army of 15,000 people to repel the Qing army.

Shi Kefa always knew that the emperor had personally trained an army of more than 30,000, as if he was called Ying Longjun, he thought it was just the emperor messing around, for which he had also opposed it many times, but he never thought that Ying Longjun's combat power was so strong, after seeing the muskets configured by Ying Long's soldiers, and at the same time thinking of the trauma on the corpses of the Mongols and Qing soldiers, Shi Kefa was sure that it was Ying Longjun who did it, Shi Kefa was not only impressed, but also ashamed of his short-sightedness.

"Sure enough, God bless Daming!" Shi Kefa was excited, the emperor was indeed the lord of the Ming Dynasty.

Ji Feng smiled, of course the emperor is the master of Zhongxing in the Ming Dynasty.

When he came to the Ya Council Hall of Tai'an Mansion, Ji Feng suddenly took out a gold medal from his arms.

Seeing the gold medal as if seeing the saint, Shi Kefa and everyone present were all shocked, knelt down and shouted: "Long live the emperor, long live, long live!" ”

"The emperor decreed that Ji Feng, the commander of the First Army of the Dragon Army, should lead all military affairs in Shandong and be fully responsible for expelling the Qing captives from Shandong!" Ji Feng solemnly said Zhu Cihong's message.

"Your Ministers obey!"

Shi Kefa's face turned a little pale, and he felt that the emperor must have been annoyed that he had lost Jinan City, but he had no complaints in his heart, he should have been responsible for such a thing, and the emperor had already been gracious if he did not punish him, and he also retained his position as governor.

With the gold medal given by Zhu Cihong in hand, Ji Feng officially led the military affairs of Shandong. As for Yan Yingyuan and the others, Zhu Cihong ordered them to go south to Wuchang immediately, and Zhu Cihong made other arrangements.

On November 19, the 17th year of Chongzhen, Azig led the remaining 70,000 Qing troops to retreat to Jinan City.

On November 21, the 17th year of Chongzhen, Zhu Cihong ordered the general army of Jianghuai and Huai to go north to Tai'an, and came under the command of Ji Feng, and under the leadership of Ji Feng, he was ready to start recovering Shandong.

The Jianghuai two-way army arrived with a total of 50,000 troops this time, plus the 25,000 army brought by Shi Kefa in Jining City, and the 15,000 Yinglong army, Ji Feng has 100,000 troops under his command at the moment, although it is not more than the Qing army, it is difficult to attack Jinan City, but it is not a problem to recover half of Shandong and the Qing army in Jinan City to form a confrontation.

Immediately, Ji Feng's troops divided into two routes, one was personally led by him to attack Laiwu, formed a mutual defense front with Tai'an, and marched east to recover Yantai, Qingdao and the coastal generation.

Due to the presence of the Ying Long army, Azig did not dare to fight hard with the Ming army, and gathered 100,000 Qing troops to defend the city of Jinan.

"As long as I hold Jinan City, half of Shandong will be in the hands of my Qing Dynasty." After hearing the news of the coastal areas of Laiwu and Yantai, Azig was unwilling and ashamed, but he was still unmoved and made up his mind to defend the city of Jinan.

Ji Feng attacked Laiwu for five days, and wanted to lure Azig out to rescue, but although Azig was angry, he did not lose his mind. Ji Feng had no choice but to order the army to increase the offensive, and soon took down Laiwu.

The other army was led by Lu Yanshou, because of the defeat of Azig in Tai'an, and the reason why the turtle retreated to Jinan City, Yantai and other coastal areas have heard the wind and surrendered, and in less than ten days Ji Feng recovered half of Shandong, Chen Bing Tai'an, and the Qing army in Jinan City formed a confrontation.

After so many days, the details of the Anqing Battle finally came out, and with the incomparably strong battle under Tai'an City, the Ying Long Army shocked the world.

Beijing City, Dolgon's face was gloomy, the appearance of Ying Longjun was extremely unfavorable to the Qing Dynasty's domination of the world, and the little emperor of the Ming Dynasty was even more difficult, if he was given time, he was really likely to completely reverse the decline of the Ming Dynasty and revive the Ming Dynasty. Once this situation occurs, the Qing Dynasty will not only not be able to dominate the world, but will likely be driven back to Guanwai, which is absolutely unacceptable.

Dolgon considered whether he should immediately withdraw the main force of the Qing Dynasty that attacked Tongguan, and instead went south to fight a decisive battle with the Ming Dynasty, taking advantage of the Ming Dynasty's continuous loss of the north, and experiencing many rebellions, and destroying the Ming Dynasty before its vitality recovered.

In fact, compared to the combat power shown by Ying Longjun, Dolgon was even more afraid of Zhu Cihong. Although Ying Long's army is strong, but thinking carefully about the tactics of Ying Long's army in the two major battles, it is not difficult to see that Ying Long's army actually has many weaknesses and is not difficult to defeat. But Zhu Cihong is different, just looking at Zhu Cihong's ability to escape from Beijing to the south to inherit the unification, to the rapid annihilation of Wei Guogong and the Donglin Party, in one fell swoop, firmly grasped the military and political power, and the subsequent measures made by the government, his mind can almost match that of his Dolgon.

You must know that although Dolgon thinks that he is wiser than Zhu Cihong, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, how can the foundation of the Qing Dynasty be compared with the Ming Dynasty. Although Dolgon didn't want to admit it, he knew very clearly that if it weren't for the natural disasters of the Ming Dynasty** that caused internal and external difficulties, coupled with the imperial court and local officials**, which corroded the Ming Dynasty, they would not have any possibility of entering the customs at all.

Dolgon was a little embarrassed, the red-coated cannon was about to reach Tongguan, with Li Zicheng's characteristics, if Li Zicheng was not destroyed first, once the Qing army withdrew, he would definitely counterattack, and it was difficult for the Qing Dynasty to concentrate all its strength to go south, which was extremely bad.

In the end, Dolgon gritted his teeth, and decided to destroy Li Zicheng first and sweep the rear, only in this way could he concentrate all his strength to go south to fight a decisive battle with the Ming Dynasty and fight for the unification of the world.

"Come on, send two hundred more Eight Banner warriors to Balza, and order him to find an opportunity to do it as soon as possible, and get rid of the little emperor of Nanming!" Dolgon's face was ruthless, although he decided to kill Li Zicheng first, but during this period, he couldn't help but do something, if he could assassinate the little emperor of Nanming in one fell swoop, it would be the best!

"Wow!"

It's been a little bit of a card in the past two days.,I hope you understand a lot.,It's going to get better in two days at most.,When the time comes, Tianya will definitely work hard to make up for it.,Thank you!

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