Chapter 122: Chaos in Shandong
100,000 Qing soldiers surrounded the city of Jinan, adopting a typical Manchu approach, encircling three and missing one. Strangely, three days passed, and the Qing soldiers still did not move, as if they were really waiting for the heavy siege artillery to arrive.
"Inspector, the Qing soldiers have not moved, there will be no deception, right?" Shandong deputy chief soldier Lu Yanshou said to Shi Kefa.
It is said that with the urgency of the Manchurians, it is unlikely that they have waited for so many days without any action, it is too calm, it makes people's hearts palpitate, and there is a feeling of depression before the storm, which is very uneasy.
"It's a little strange, have you found any unusual movements in the city these days?" Shi Kefa frowned. Shandong's strategic position is very important, needless to say, the Manchu Qing Dynasty coveted it, it is likely that they have already ambushed the spy in Jinan City, but I don't know how big the power of this spy is, it has to be worried!
"Back to the overseer, I didn't find any changes in the city." Lu Yanshou shook his head and said.
Shi Kefa sighed slightly: "In this way, we can only send more people to change into civilian clothes and walk around the city, and each city gate cannot be garrisoned by only one general, there must be more than three generals to contain each other, and no one can be given a chance." ”
Although Shi Kefa expected that there might be a spy in the city, he never imagined that this spy was so powerful, and under the cooperation with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Jinan City fell in an instant.
Li Huaxi's army camp, as soon as it gets dark tonight, Li Huaxi summoned several henchmen and generals to conspire together.
"The opportunity to make a contribution is tonight, there has been news outside the city, tonight the fire is lit, open the east gate and let the Qing Iron Rider enter the city!" Lee Hwa-hee solemnly announced.
All the generals nodded in unison, they had already gotten on Li Huaxi's thief ship, and there was no room for repentance, so they could only go one way to the dark.
When the time came to the end of the day, Li Huaxi took two henchmen and more than 100 personal soldiers to pretend to go to the east gate to inspect. Tonight, the east gate is guarded by three thousand generals, and there is another general and several other thousand generals on the city wall, but the focus of tonight is the city gate.
As far as the city gate alone is concerned, a place more than three meters wide and four meters high, there are three thousand generals leading three thousand soldiers, which can be described as a heavy guard.
Two of the three thousand are Li Huaxi's people, and there are also two thousand people on the city wall who are always Li Huaxi's people, so it can be said that everything is ready, and only the code is owed.
At this time, there were suddenly five houses in the city that were on fire for no reason, and the flames soared into the sky, illuminating half of Jinan City, causing a lot of panic among the people.
"Order all the troops to mount and prepare to enter Jinan City!"
With the order of Azig, 10,000 Manchu Eight Banners and 20,000 Mongolian iron cavalry horses all turned over and jumped on horseback, ready to charge. The 70,000 Han banner army was also led by Shang Kexi, ready to follow into the city.
"There must be a conspiracy to make a rebellion, immediately send an order, and all the city gates are on guard! If anyone approaches the city gate indiscriminately, they will be killed on the spot! Shi Kefa realized that something was wrong, gritted his teeth and gave a ruthless order.
The order was conveyed to the various city gates, and all the soldiers defending the city entered the first level of security, and no one was allowed to approach the city gates.
"Who is it?" At this time, more than 100 figures suddenly appeared at the East City Gate, which aroused the vigilance of the soldiers stationed here.
"It turned out to be Master Li!" As the appearance of these more than 100 figures gradually revealed, it was found that it was Li Huaxi, and all the soldiers were relieved and did not have any vigilance against Li Huaxi.
"It is the general soldier, there are spies in the city, the general soldier came to inspect the various city gates under the order of the superintendent, and called the generals of more than 100 generals to the general soldier, and the general soldier has something to explain!" Li Huaxi commanded expressionlessly.
In a moment, the three thousand and thirty hundred gathered here.
Li Huaxi secretly glanced at two of them, and suddenly these two thousand presidents were unaware and quietly approached the other thousand presidents, and more than a dozen hundred presidents also made some small moves at the same time.
There were two hundred bosses who secretly noticed something unusual, their eyes opened slightly wide, and there was silence here.
Mr. Qian, who was not on Li Huaxi's side, frowned, and faintly felt a little unusual, and immediately looked at Li Huaxi opposite and asked, "I don't know what Mr. Li has to explain?" ”
Li Huaxi ignored the chief soldier, but glanced behind him, and after finding that everyone was ready, Li Huaxi sneered and said gloomily: "It's not that this chief soldier has something to explain, but you should explain your own future!" ”
"What!" This Qian always inhaled instantly, and his eyes widened.
Before this Qian boss made any moves, Li Huaxi shouted: "Do it!" ”
"Boom!"
"Whew! Laugh at! Suddenly, the other two Qianzong pulled out their sabers at the same time, one left and one right, and stabbed this Qianzong in the back, so that he was killed instantly before he even had time to scream!
More than a dozen Bai Zong also drew their knives at the same time and slashed at the dead Qian Zong's subordinates.
"Kill ---, open the city gate and welcome the Great Qing Iron Horse into the city!" Li Huaxi shouted, and more than 100 soldiers behind him immediately drew their swords and went to the city gate.
Because 2,000 of the 3,000 men and horses stationed at the city gate were Li Huaxi's men, and the other 1,000 were killed in an instant, the dragons were leaderless, and they were defeated by Li Huaxi in a moment.
"Open the gates -----"
The gates were slowly opened, and the drawbridge was lowered.
"Oh no, the city gate has been opened, go down quickly and take the city gate back." When the two generals stationed on the city wall saw the city gate suddenly opened, they were so frightened that their hair stood on end, and they immediately shouted at the soldiers on the city wall.
However, before the soldiers on the city wall went down to recapture the city gate, the two thousand soldiers on the city wall suddenly rebelled under the leadership of two thousand generals, and there was a chaotic battle on the city wall, and there would not be many people who would drive down the city wall to retake the city gate for a while.
Outside the city, Azig saw the gate of Jinan City being slowly opened, laughed, pulled out the saber at his waist, and pointed forward.
"The Great Qing Iron Cavalry charges and captures Jinan City!" 30,000 Manmeng iron horsemen rode war horses and quickly rushed to the open city gate, and 70,000 Han banner troops also broke out under the leadership of Shang Kexi, shouting and killing, and slaughtered towards Jinan City.
"The Qing Dynasty is invincible, kill -----"
With the cooperation of Li Huaxi, 40,000 rebels and 100,000 Qing troops divided and surrounded Shi Kefa's Shandong army into several pieces, and the shouts of killing in Jinan City shook the sky.
"Report ---"
"Inspector Qi, Li Huaxi reversed, led the Qing soldiers into the city, and Jinan City was broken!" A soldier came to report to Shi Kefa with a bloody face.
Shi Kefa staggered, his eyes widened in disbelief and said, "What did you say!" Lee Hwa Hee, he's the opposite? ”
Lu Yanshou also took a sharp breath of disbelief, unbelievable that Li Huaxi would rebel and defect to the Manchu Qing. This is a traitorous act, isn't he Li Huaxi afraid that future generations will poke the backbone of their Li family.
"Supervisor, since Li Huaxi is reversed, I'm afraid Jinan City won't be able to keep it, you can leave quickly, you can't have anything to do anymore." Lu Yanshou immediately persuaded Shi Kefa.
"Hateful! If this overseer doesn't leave, this superintendent will definitely kill Li Huaxi with his own hands, this traitor! Shi Kefa gritted his teeth and said. is extremely stubborn, and after speaking, he picked up his saber and led his own soldiers to find Li Huaxi.
"Think twice, the imperial court can no longer afford a big man like you to fall into the hands of the Manchu Qing again." Lu Yanshou immediately stepped forward and grabbed Shi Kefa.
At that time, Hong Chengchou was an important minister of the Ming Cabinet, and once led the extermination of the Convection Kou, as well as taking over the Liaodong defense line, and was regarded as the pillar of the Ming Dynasty, but in the end, the army was defeated and surrendered, giving the Ming Dynasty the heaviest morale blow. Shi Kefa's current status is not much worse than that of Hong Chengchou back then, if he was also captured by the Manchu Qing and lured to surrender, it would also be a great blow to the Ming Dynasty.
Shi Kefa shook his hand violently and shook off Lu Yanshou's pull: "Let go, this superintendent is not Hong Chengchou, and he would rather die than give the Manchu Qing a chance." "Shi Kefa is too stubborn, he doesn't care about his life and death at all, and just wants to kill Li Huaxi, a traitor, with his own hands.
Lu Yanshou couldn't persuade him, seeing that Shi Kefa was bent on going his own way, and insisted on fighting to the death with Qing Bing and Li Huaxi, no matter how he stopped him, he immediately gritted his teeth, and immediately rushed forward, slashing Shi Kefa on the back of the head with a knife, stunting Shi Kefa.
"Quick, put the overseer on your back, and break through with me!" Lu Yanshou shouted at a few of his own soldiers.
On November 8, the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the city of Jinan was broken, and the deputy commander-in-chief Lu Yanshou led more than 2,000 remnants of the army to break out of the siege and disappeared, and together with Shi Kefa, temporarily disappeared from people's sight.
Because of the battle of Jinan City, the 80,000 troops guarding Shandong, 40,000 with Li Huaxi surrendered to the Qing, the rest of the army was wiped out, this is almost all the strength of Shandong, lost so many men and horses at once, plus the imperial army is in Anqing and Zuo Liangyu decisive battle, there is no reinforcement at all, Shandong is difficult to resist so many Qing troops, 100,000 Qing troops and 40,000 rebel soldiers divided into nine roads, swept the entire territory of Shandong, countless Shandong officials have surrendered to the Qing, in less than five days, there are more than 20 counties were easily taken by the Qing army, The whole territory of Shandong is in danger.
Just when everyone thought that the whole territory of Shandong would inevitably be taken by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, an outlier suddenly appeared in Tai'an County, which not only kept Tai'an, but also greatly delayed the pace of the Qing army to take the whole of Shandong, and after the decisive battle between the imperial court and Zuo Liangyu, calmly mobilized troops and horses to rescue and won time, which eventually led to the bankruptcy of the Manchu Qing's plan to take the entire Shandong.
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