Yang Sichang from the capital to Jinan is quite smooth, but what he saw along the way is full of devastation, Rao is he is officialdom old fritters are unbearable, so he ordered Liu Zeqing to send troops to Linqing, and Linqing as the center, and gradually eliminate the surrounding small scattered Qing army, the effect is very obvious at the beginning, the right army led by Yue Tuo is also carried away, basically a few hundred people dare to attack the county seat, thousands of people directly occupy the city. The Shandong army moved 5,000 people, and naturally swept all the way, and soon recovered a large amount of lost land, in fact, it was the Qing army that plundered the remaining dilapidated cities, but this is also a great merit, compared to Lu Xiangsheng turtle shrinking in Baoding is much better. Just when Yang Sichang was writing a chapter to the imperial court, Duoduo came, and more than 20,000 red-eyed elites of the two red flags did not need Duoduo to supervise the battle, they needed a big victory to wash away the shame of losing their commander. Originally, they were determined to fight to the death in the river, but Duoduo told them that their compatriots scattered all over the country were being counterattacked by the Ming army, and the governor of the Ming army had arrived in Linqing! So Linqing became a catharsis for more than 20,000 taels of red flag elites, and at the end of World War I, more than 3,000 infantry casualties in Shandong Town! At this moment, Yang Sichang woke up like a dream, and remembered the rumor that the Jurchen was not satisfied with ten thousand and was invincible. finally understood Lu Xiangsheng's distress in Baoding City. The combat effectiveness of the soldiers in this Shandong town is already poor, if it opens its posture and fights the Qing army in the field, it is estimated that the first battle will be defeated, and the whole army may be wiped out if it is fought again!

Yang Sichang, who calmed down, thought about how to retreat from the enemy, and thought about how to get rid of the city and defend it. As for asking for help, Yang Sichang knew very well in his heart that except for a few guards in Shandong, the rest could not be counted on. Lu Xiangsheng is difficult to protect himself. In the end, Liu Zeqing proposed to let Yang Hongzhang send Haoge and Yue Tuo over as a shield Although Yang Sichang agreed, he also knew very well in his heart that if Yang Hongzhang was so stupid, it would be impossible to win a battle. Fortunately, Linqing has developed water conservancy and transportation, and it is an important transit point for the canal to the north, and supplies to Nanshan can still be sent. But Yang Sichang was also anxious, if he was blocked here by Duoduo, then he would become the second Lu Xiangsheng, or even inferior to Lu Xiangsheng, because the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty knew that Lu Xiangsheng was fighting against Dolgon, the Prince of Rui, and he was only facing the right army that had lost its commander Yue Tuo. Yang Sichang was even more worried that he had restrained Duoduo, Lu Xiangsheng entangled Dolgon, and the monkey in the river was unattended, and he could show his skills, so in comparison, the three people might have nothing to do with him Yang Sichang! Yang Sichang even more dare not imagine that if he was defeated in Linqing, Duoduo returned to the north to sweep the river and Gaoyang, and then joined Dolgon in Baoding, if Lu Xiangsheng could not bear it, then the entire Ming Jinggi would no longer have an army that could balance the Qing army, and when the Qing army was on the Qianli Plain, it was even possible to come to Beijing, then he, the governor of Shandong and Zhili, would not be able to keep his head. So from the bottom of his heart, he still hoped that Yang Hongzhang, a monkey, could continue to jump and attract the attention of the Qing army as much as possible. It's best that even Dolgon in Baoding is attracted to it.

Dolgon was furious in the Chinese army tent at the moment, and he couldn't imagine that the dignified Prince of Su Haoge, plus the first warrior of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Ao Bai, led three thousand elites to attack Gaoyang County without Sun Chengzong's seat, and would actually fail! Not only did they lose their troops, but they were also taken prisoner by themselves. Even Yue Tuo, who was the first to enter the customs and successfully attracted the Ming army for the army, became a prisoner. That's Yue Tuo, the whole big please have a brave and resourceful Dolgon can be seen as one of the few people Ah Yue Tuo in the river he can understand, this guy has always been not very good-looking, this march is too smooth, and there is a Ming Dynasty granary between the river, so it is very likely that he made a mistake, so he was ready to sit in the river to dispatch and command, but the Groha guarding the river was also a waste, and was successfully attacked the city between the rivers, not to mention, even the commander didn't have time to escape. How did Dorgon know that Groha was eager for revenge, and he was killed on the spot.

The southerners all said that eating a trench grows a wisdom, and with the rut between Haoge and Aobai, Kubilong led 3,000 troops again, plus more than 2,000 remnants of the previous siege of Gaoyang, five or six thousand people were defeated, and thousands of people were lost in the first battle. Please not be a Ming Dynasty, with thousands of miles of mountains and rivers and tens of thousands of people. The population of Dazhu is only one million, and the excellent cavalry is only a hundred thousand, which is really one less than one death. Now the Manchu elite who died in the hands of Yang Hongzhang in just half a month is almost 3,000 people, and you have to add Groha, Aobai, Haoge and Yue Tuo! Dolgon really wanted to fly into the river and slap him to death!

However, after calming down a little, Dorgon knew that he could not criticize Suppression Billon, and what Suppression did between Gaoyang and the River could be said to be quite good, at least much more clever than Hauge and Aobai. You must know that Hauge is also known for his bravery. It is already very good that Kupilon can use stratagem to take Gaoyang, and carry the refugees to storm the city between the rivers to minimize the casualties of the Qing army. The problem lies with that Yang Hongzhang. Although he looked down on Haoge, but with the combination of Haoge and Aobai, the general commander of the Ming army would definitely not be the opponent of the two of them. What's more, there is Groha, who is trained by Yue Tuo, and he is guarding the city. So who is this Yang Hongzhang? Why did he promise him that he was indifferent to the commander of the right army, but he was willing to take thousands of people to be trapped in the river? The plan for today is to hope that Duoduo will defeat the soldiers and horses of Shandong Town as soon as possible, and then come to Baoding before the general soldier of Shanxi Town, Hu Dawei, arrives in Baoding. Otherwise, the situation is a bit more complicated. Because if it drags on any longer, the soldiers and horses of Henan and Shaanxi may come to King Qin. At that time, hundreds of thousands of pigs will stand in place and let the warriors of the Great Invitation cut it, and it will be said that the knife will be cut and the blade will be curled.

He was very glad that Prince Rui Dolgon did not deprive him of his command because of the loss of thousands of elites in the First World War, but let him be optimistic about the tiger in Hejian, and could not let Yang Hongzhang go out of the city, let alone let him go east to the north to harass the transportation line and the right army. Let more than 4,000 screaming Manchu elite cavalry watch the city gate from afar and don't let the enemy escape, indeed to curb Bilong. However, with the rut ahead, Ji Bilong did not dare to slack off, and he now knew that it was not bad for Prince Rui to say that Yang Hongzhang in the city was a tiger. Didn't Hauge and Ao Bai be captured by his night raid in the first place?

The Qing army stopped attacking the city, Xiang Siwen and the eunuch Gao Keng were naturally very happy, especially Gao Keng, he didn't care what happened to Yang Sichang and Lu Xiangsheng, as long as he didn't have anything to do here, he would return to the capital safely in the future, and his status would skyrocket. Yang Hongzhang has no leisure for a moment, now he is the fourth rank of the cavalry lieutenant awarded by the imperial court, General Mingwei, and the general of Hejian who is the Eight Classics, and Xiang Siwen is also called a general when he sees it.

According to Yang Hongzhang's arrangement, except for those on duty every day, the rest of the 4,000 people practiced in the school field day and night, and the scouts worked day and night to collect the information around the shoulders in a timely manner. In addition, there are 2,000 people who are constantly expanding the cement pier array and strengthening the city wall, and a hot air balloon has been raised at each city gate to detect the enemy's movements. However, the people in Hejian City gradually settled down, and the fierce Qing army could not help the new general. Didn't you see the shouts of the soldiers who practiced every day on the field, it was more powerful than artillery!

It was early in the morning, and the siege of the city had ceased in the north, but there was nothing in the west, and when the scouts reported that an infantry of two or three thousand men was coming towards the river, Yang Hongzhang was surprised. When he inquired carefully and found that it might be a refugee from Gaoyang again, Xiang Siwen was also restless. If there is another human minesweeper like the North Gate, almost everyone in the riverside defenders will have a shadow. So after a simple discussion, Yang Hongzhang decided to lead all the cavalry out of the West Gate to intercept! The North Gate incident must not be allowed to repeat itself.

Soon, Yang Hongzhang and others intercepted the team a few miles away from the West Gate. At first glance, Yang Hongzhang, who was the leader, knew that he was Sun Fei, one of Sun Chengzong's family members.

When Sun Fei saw Yang Hongzhang and others, he knelt on the ground and cried! Yang Hongzhang and the others got closer and found that most of this group of people were injured, which was completely different from the appearance of Wang Lenian's group of people who came to the river with all beards and tails. After careful questioning, I learned that Sun Fei and Sun Yuan, who refused to open the city gate to Yang Hongzhang that day, were brothers.

It turned out that after Yang Hongzhang led the troops to leave that day, Gaoyang City was not very peaceful, although most of the people carried out the order of Wang Lenian, the county governor, refused to open the door to Yang Hongzhang, but there were still concerns in their hearts, when Ji Bilong led the army to Gaoyang again, the Gaoyang army and people obviously did not have the determination to defend when Sun Chengzong was there, and they did not have the ability to defend when Yang Hongzhang was there.

In fact, when Wang Lenian, the grandfather of the county, said that he would give up Gaoyang and fight in Hejian, the military and people in Gaoyang were completely divided, and a group of people led by Sun Chengzhong's personal soldiers and Jia Ding insisted on waiting for reinforcements. However, soon, the news that Wang Lenian, the county magistrate, led people to leave safely from the south gate, made everyone lose the courage to defend it. Sun Fei and his brother Sun Yuan decided to lead the remaining Minzhuang protectors to the south.

They naively thought that Wang Lenian would help them successfully attract the Qing army, but they thought that they kept encountering Gaoyang refugees fleeing from Hejian on the way, and they told everything that happened in Hejian, which made them nervous. Sure enough, on the third day after leaving Gaoyang, they finally encountered the Qing army. Thousands of Qing troops fled like tigers into a flock of sheep, and after a burst of killing, a small number of them fled, and most of them became prisoners.

The Sun brothers were able to escape because they participated in Minzhuang, but in the face of the pursuit of the Qing army, there were still some people who lost their lives in order to cover their companions, and Sun Fei's brother Sun Yuan died in the pursuit. The original team of the people also scattered and fled, and the remaining Minzhuang still had 14,500 people who decided to come to Hejian to seek refuge with Yang Hongzhang.

As a result, as soon as the two sides met, Sun Fei also knew that Wang Lenian had already brought people to the river, and it was obvious that almost everyone present, including Sun Fei, gritted their teeth when they heard Wang Lenian's name, eager to eat his flesh raw.

Although it was a false alarm, Yang Hongzhang was still very emotional, and he didn't know whether the decision Wang Lenian made at the beginning helped Yang Hongzhang or harmed the people of Gaoyang. However, these people led by Sun Fei did have a personal experience than those who made porridge, and their hatred of the Qing army made Yang Hongzhang feel that the people's hearts were of no use, and they also added vitality to the defense of the river.