Li Zhi sent soldiers to the countryside to recruit people, and the peasants signed up very enthusiastically. Li Zhi, www.biquge.info of the pen "Fun" Pavilion, asked the soldiers to select those strong and tall peasants for recruitment, and recruited more than 60,000 people in five days. Basically, each of Shandong's six prefectures can be equipped with more than 10,000 people.

In fact, the siege ability of an army using cold weapons is very limited. For example, in the eleventh year of Chongzhen, the Manchu Qing Dynasty attacked Jinan, and nearly 100,000 Qing soldiers besieged the city of Jinan, but there were only 500 old and weak villagers in the city and 700 soldiers reinforced by Laizhou. In this way, Jinan has been guarding for more than two months.

The local army that the gentry were able to mobilize was far less effective than the Qing army, and their ability to attack fortified positions was even worse. Li Zhi sent 600 officers to six prefectures in Shandong to direct battles and training, and arranged for more than 10,000 people to defend the city in each city, and Li Zhi believed that he could hold the city for three months.

With the militia to defend the city, Li Zhi can put some of the personnel and various archival documents in the six prefectures, and there is no need to transport them all to Tianjin.

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On 25 August, Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao, led 70,000 Guanning troops through Shanhaiguan, the first pass in the world, and attacked Tianjin.

This time, the bigwigs of the Donglin Party personally ordered Hong Chengchou to lead the army to crusade against Li Zhi, and Hong Chengchou had no way to hide, so he could only go into battle to fight against Li Zhi.

In Hong Chengchou's heart, he is one hundred people who are unwilling to be enemies of Li Zhi.

This time it was all the idea of the Donglin Party to send troops, and the Son of Heaven was very reluctant, and even simply refused to go to court due to illness. Hong Chengchou felt that even if he killed Li Zhi, the Son of Heaven would not give him any reward.

What's more, the opponent is Li Zhi, who is a more terrible opponent than Tartar. At the beginning of the Battle of Jinzhou, Li Zhi was undefeated with 15,000 soldiers and horses and 50,000 Tatar cavalry. The combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the Tiger Division is still fresh in Hong Chengchou's memory. And now Li Zhi has at least more than 20,000 people, it is said that there are 30,000 people, Hong Chengchou secretly said that the 76,000 people he brought into the customs may not be able to defeat Li Zhi!

The banner set by the Son of Heaven for this crusade was to rectify the local order in Tianjin, which was very vague. If this battle is won, of course, Li Zhi's power in Tianjin can be uprooted and the authority of the governor and magistrate of Tianjin can be restored. But if he loses the war, will the Son of Heaven say that he used his power to start a civil war?

If you lose this battle, are you going to lose your head?

Hong Chengchou was full of worries, led the army to stop and go, and it took fifteen days to walk from Ningyuan to Shanhaiguan, and finally entered the customs.

Behind Hong Chengchou was not only 76,000 troops, but also hundreds of thousands of people from western Liaoning.

Over the years, the people of Liaoxi and the Guanning army have been guarding the Ningjin defense line together, and they don't know how many times they have hid in the city to defend the fortified city, and they are mortal enemies with the Tartars. Now that the Guan Ning army suddenly rose from the ground and entered the pass to crusade against Li Zhi, there was no one to protect these people in western Liaoning.

When the Tartars occupy Liaoxi, will they give these people a good life? It was miserable to be captured by the Tartars and to be a slave of the Tartars. To be tortured for ten years without dying is a big fate. There are so many Han people in Liaodong, and all of them have been killed by the Tartars for more than 20 years, so that the Tartars have to enter the fortress to plunder manpower.

The people of western Liaoning carried soft furniture on their backs, dragged their children and daughters, and cried while following the Guan Ning army to the Guannei. Guan Ningjun dragged hundreds of thousands of sad and painful people behind him, and the entire army was extremely depressed.

Passing through the Shanhaiguan, Hong Chengchou suddenly heard the sound of rolling hooves from behind, he turned around to take a look, and saw three fast horses chasing after him from behind. Those three fast horses were the scouts of the pioneer chief soldier Zu Dashou. The scout rushed to Zu Dashou, dismounted and knelt on one knee, his face already full of tears.

"Dashuai, the Tartars have entered Jinzhou City."

"Handsome! The Jinzhou we have guarded for seventeen years is no longer ours! ”

Zu Dashou suddenly turned his head to look north, and his face became hideous. He has been stationed in Jinzhou since the first year of Chongzhen, and it has been seventeen years since then. This city is his entire business, a nest he has carefully constructed. Unexpectedly, he lost this nest and became a homeless man.

However, he had taken refuge in the Donglin Party's Guanning Army, and he had no choice but to obey the orders of the Donglin Party -- it was the Donglin Party's repeated emphasis on the importance of the Ningjin defense line over the years that kept the Guanning Army's food and salary. Without the Donglin Party, I am afraid that the Guanning Army would have been abolished by the Son of Heaven long ago. Therefore, the Donglin Party let the Guanning army enter the pass to fight, and even though the Guanning army was unwilling, it could only make it.

Otherwise, Guan Ningjun will definitely not be able to escape the fate of being dismissed.

In the past, the Guanning army still had the option of surrendering to the Manchus. But after the Jinzhou War, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was greatly decayed, and it would not be able to enter the Central Plains because of the surrender of the Guanning army. If the Guanning army defected to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it would become a slave army under the command of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and they might not have enough to eat.

This feeling is like you have taken refuge in an underworld boss and have risen to prominence, but all your handles are in the hands of the black boss, and suddenly one day your boss will let you die.

Wu Sangui rode to Zu Dashou's side and said loudly: "Uncle, don't be anxious, when we defeat Li Zhi and occupy the rich Tianjin and Shandong, there will naturally be good days waiting for us!" ”

Zu Dashou looked up at his nephew and sighed, for a while he didn't have the heroism of the past.

Hong Chengchou looked at Zu Dashou and Wu Sangui, and was silent, but he saw the three horse scouts galloping from the southwest.

"Doge! Li Zhi's 30,000 soldiers and horses marched out of Tianjin and attacked us. ”

Li Zhi came out, and 30,000 people came?

Anyway, it's a big battle to decide the winner.

Hong Chengchou suddenly felt that it was enough for him to enjoy fame and fortune for so many years.

"Attack the whole army!"

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Twenty miles north of Luanzhou City, 30,000 tiger troops and 70,000 Guanning troops encountered. The two sides put on their own positions, and both sides were waving flags.

This time, the Tiger Ben Master put out six small paper formations. Lei San, the company commander of the Broken Regiment, was the newly promoted company commander, and the third company he was in was arranged in front of the army this time, to the east of the third formation from the left, facing the 70,000 Guanning army.

In front of Lei San, Guan Ningjun's team spread more than ten miles. The Ming army was still red, and Lei San raised his eyes to see only the red Ming army uniform and red flag, like a sea of red.

However, Lei San is not afraid at all, Lei San is a veteran, and he knows the combat effectiveness of the Tiger Army. The rest of the Ming army was in front of the Tiger Army, and they were just chickens and dogs.

Lei San walked to the front of his company and glanced at the soldiers' faces. Lei San's soldiers knew that Lei San was going to give a lecture, and stood up straight.

Lei San shouted loudly: "In the past, when there was no Jinguo Gong in Tianjin, were you well fed and warmly dressed? ”

The one hundred and twenty soldiers of Lei San replied with a roar:

"Can't get enough!"

"It's not warm!"

"Who gave you a good life, so that you could have meat to eat, a house to live in, and a rich wife?"

"It's Jin Guogong!"

Lei San shouted loudly: "Now the gentry and lords have sent troops to crusade against the Duke of Jinguo in order to continue to evade taxes and continue to drink the blood of the people!" They would rather give 400 miles of Liaoxi land to the Tartars, and they would rather stop the Duke of Jinguo from Pingtian Fu! They preferred to allow foreigners to dominate the land of the Han Chinese rather than give up the right to evade taxes. ”

"What do you say?"

One hundred and twenty Tiger Army soldiers shouted loudly: "Kill! ”