The 1st Guards Brigade, together with 9,000 militiamen, 4,000 people, plus 2,000 cavalry sent by the 28th Field Brigade, completely annihilated 70,000 soldiers and horses in half a month, and directly wiped out Ma Bao's cold weapon troops, cannon fodder troops, and 4,000 new army troops, Ma Bao was dumbfounded.

Kong Youxing was glad that he escaped quickly, otherwise, the 7,000 new troops in his hands would have been completely annihilated by the Huaxia army.

Kong Youxing trembled with fear when he thought about it, he participated in the Southern Ming Kingdom, the Huaxia Army fought against the Taixi Coalition Army, and also participated in the Southern Ming Kingdom, Yongli Daming besieged Kong Youde's Qing army in the Guilin Mansion Campaign, seeing Kong Youde's destruction, Mang Gurtai was killed, Jierharang committed suicide, Gao Zhixiang surrendered to the Southern Ming Kingdom and a series of events, he felt that no one in this world could shake the Huaxia Army.

Kong Youxing was pacing in the county office, restless, did he have to go to which step?

Either killed, captured, killed, etc., it's too miserable.

But he is the younger brother of a big traitor, and the Han people must spit on him, is there any other way out?

Wait, wasn't his brother's daughter accepted as the concubine of the Grand Governor?

Why don't you think about it from this aspect?

He called a henchman to come over, gave him a careful advice, and then asked the henchman to change into the clothes of an ordinary domestic servant, and went out of the city with a waist card, and soon the servant escaped smoothly, as for the whereabouts, only the henchman and Kong Youxing knew.

People are like this, they will look at the situation, they will take advantage of all the opportunities to create advantages for themselves, or avoid disasters, Kong Youxing's personality is undoubtedly similar to Kong Youde, he already knows to take refuge in a backer, a powerful backer.

And although Ma Bao also wanted to do such a thing, he didn't think about the situation in Lu State, but he escaped from the Huaxia Army and repeatedly caused harm to the Huaxia Army, which was no longer up to him, the previous time he almost died, many times the Huaxia Army thought that he was wiped out by the Huaxia Army, and even arrested, and put him into the prisoner camp, but he still helped Shang Kexi escape, and then he himself fled, which was hated by the Huaxia Army, and sent the intelligence team of the Military Intelligence Department to attack him many times, but he was not slippery, and he was not fooled at all, is more cunning than Hong Chengchou, an old thief, it is easy to defeat his soldiers and horses, but it is difficult to find him and kill him.

Ma Degong is getting older and more timid, it is really he in Guangxi Prefecture by the Huaxia Army's fierce offensive to be frightened, hearing that his younger brother Ma Deli was besieged, he was worried about his younger brother on the one hand, while stepping up his grasp of military power, and constantly went down to the various camps below to conspire with those generals, and soon recovered the general henchmen, and gradually controlled the real power of a part of the army, originally these troops were in the hands of Hong Chengchou's henchmen and generals, with his actions, many soldiers and horses were mastered by him, These actions were reported to Hong Chengchou by several of Hong Chengchou's henchmen, but at this time, Hong Chengchou could not withdraw to punish him, nor did he dare to move him, but symbolically transferred 8,000 soldiers and horses from him to reinforce the battlefield on the Eastern Front.

Because he was really aggrieved on the battlefield of the Eastern Front, more than 100,000 troops fought the Fifth Field Brigade, the 24th Field Brigade, the Fourth Cavalry Brigade, a complete Class A Field Brigade, and two incomplete Class B Field Brigade units, but they did not fight for half a month! This made him very angry.

In the past half a month, the early stage was like a bamboo, sweeping the defense area of more than 100 miles occupied by the Huaxia Army in one go, annihilating nearly 10,000 militia troops of the Huaxia Army, 4,000 soldiers and horses of the cavalry troops, and almost crippled the Fourth Cavalry Brigade, and later the Fourth Cavalry Brigade merged with the 24th Field Brigade, and the cavalry of the Fifth Field Brigade recovered most of its vitality, and later Zhang Qiang gave them some cavalry of the 28th Field Brigade to supplement him, and then gave up Laiwu County, and ordered the infantry of the 27th Field Brigade to retreat to Jinan Mansion for garrison, The cavalry of the 27th Field Brigade was dismantled and supplemented to the 4th Cavalry Brigade so that the cavalry of the 4th Cavalry Brigade exceeded the normal establishment of 6,000 troops, reaching 7,500 troops, and later the 4th Cavalry Brigade withdrew to a county town 30 miles behind Weifang Mansion to garrison, and at the same time accepted 1,500 cavalry from the 23rd Field Brigade, so that their cavalry brigade instantly reached the largest source of troops, 9,000 soldiers and horses.

The 9,000 soldiers and horses were constantly divided into three super-formed regiments to attack, leaving 1,000 soldiers and horses to garrison the county seat, so as to curb the harassment of the Lu cavalry sent by Hong Chengchou, and repelled the attack of his cavalry brigade, covering the battlefield of 30 miles around the city of Weifang Prefecture, so that the battlefield on the eastern front of Shandong Prefecture tended to be stable.

Hong Chengchou could not know the situation and troop movement of the Huaxia Army in the east, west and north of Weifang Mansion, and he did not dare to take risks easily, so he could only attack the city of Weifang Mansion in the south.

The 24th Field Brigade stationed in the west relied on the cavalry of the Fourth Cavalry Brigade to fight against the Lu army sent by Hong Chengchou, and contained Hong Chengchou's attack on Weifang Mansion, at least 8,000 Han army flags, 2,000 cavalry, 20,000 regimental training and Xiangyong troops were contained, and at the same time, the Lu army also had to guard against the Fifth Field Brigade in the east, and placed three new army town troops, 20,000 green battalion troops, 3,000 Han army flag troops, 10,000 Mongolian cavalry troops, 2,000 Manchu troops, and the remaining five new army town troops all attacked the Fifth Field Brigade.

Nearly 100 artillery pieces of the Fifth Field Brigade were deployed in the county seat, plus the original Qing army's 8,000-pound three red-coated cannons and four general cannons at the head of the county town, and Hong Chengchou's five new army town troops mobilized more than 500 cannons, and even dragged a lot of old Ming and Qing cannons in the rear, a total of 700 cannons, bombarding the defense area of the Fifth Field Brigade day and night.

It seems that this is the main battlefield, but Weifang Fucheng has become a secondary battlefield to accompany the foil, the fifth field brigade with many defensive experience has experienced many offensive and defensive battles in Raozhou Fucheng, Nanchang and other places, it can be said that the defensive essence of the Huaxia Army has been learned, 11,000 troops, plus the 3,000 young men collected in the city, three lines of defense were placed outside the county, and the defensive experience of Raozhou Fucheng was copied.

Hong Chengchou fought in the battle of Raozhou Fucheng, and in the face of such a situation, he did not spare his life, and sent nearly 50,000 cold weapon troops of the Lu army to send them to death, and used cannon fodder to kill 3,000 young men and 2,000 soldiers of the Huaxia Army.

Then two new army town troops were dispatched to attack in waves, and the Jingai 1 arquebus continued to make rows of sounds, firelight, and clouds of white smoke came out, approaching the last line of defense of the Huaxia Army, and the third line of defense close to the city wall.

Geng Quanli's whole person was as dark as a miner who had gone down to the coal kiln, and the military uniforms on his body were also hung on his body one by one, and the other generals were also very embarrassed, but he still did not lose confidence, he sent a regiment of 3,000 troops, and recruited 2,000 people in the city to deliver ammunition and supplies for the first line of defense, and 3,000 people withstood the solid bullets of more than 700 artillery pieces of the enemy, and repelled the attacks of the Lu army again and again.

It's been a week of fighting, three battlefields, each battlefield is a weak force to deal with the enemy's strong forces, those who can survive are all wounded, the militia is constantly running in the city, patrolling and attacking the remnants of the Qing army who want to riot and the people who want to rebel.

Seeing that the Qing army launched an attack again, the soldiers of the first regiment raised their guns one after another, lit the arquebuses in their hands, and concentrated on paying attention to the solid bullets that kept falling around them, the iron lumps weighing dozens of catties, and the screams and cries of their comrades who were hit.

At 300 meters, the soldiers of the first regiment had already lost 500 people in the artillery fire, and even the civilians who transported the wounded and shells and bullets had died by several hundred, but the soldiers of the regiment stood still and watched the enemy approach to a distance of 200 meters.

"Ready, the first row is ready," the war-hardened veteran of the Fifth Brigade, a hundred households in their fifties with a gray beard shouted, this kind of scene continues to appear in other trenches, the Fifth Brigade is the veteran brigade of the Huaxia Army, and many of the soldiers who joined the army at the age of 20 have not retired after more than ten years, and they are extremely firm in both combat experience and combat confidence.

Many of them have now reached middle age, and even at that time, many people joined the army in their thirties, and now they are in their fifties, and they still have not retired from active service, and the retirement system of the Huaxia Army is only for those old and weak soldiers who are not suitable to stay in the army, as well as many disloyal and undetermined personnel, for those experienced veterans, they are all promoted to officers, and these people account for 80 percent of the Fifth Field Brigade, because of their knowledge level and vision, and other aspects could not meet the standards of middle-level officers, but the Huaxia Army still had to appoint them to lead the recruits.

In particular, this time, when the Huaxia Army was overstretched, it only supplemented the Fifth Field Brigade with many recruits trained by the battalion with no combat experience, and did not send young recruits with combat experience from other armies to supplement them, so many veterans had to shoulder the heavy burden and continue to stay at the grassroots level to command those recruits.

One hundred and seventy meters, one hundred and fifty meters, the veteran resolutely waved his arm and shouted, "Fire." ”

At this time, in order not to hit their own people, many of the artillery of the Lu army had stopped firing, and only some heavy artillery was extending to the rear, blocking the reinforcements from coming out of the city to reinforce the third line of defense.

At this time, the nine-pounder and six-pounder guns at the head of the city joined the ranks of the attack and began to counterattack the enemy, the Lu army suffered the most fierce artillery fire, many of the artillery of the Huaxia Army were solid shells used, and there were also flowering shells, but the Fifth Field Brigade had to show that this kind of artillery shells were not enough, and they should be placed at important nodes to use the illusion, so there were not many flowering shells into the enemy ranks.

This is because the Fifth Field Brigade has to keep some killer weapons in the face of ten times the enemy's strength, otherwise it will be restrained by the enemy, and it can only cause the end of the annihilation of the whole army, the battle on the Western Front is not over, Geng Quanli does not know when he will get reinforcements, his biggest reinforcement is the Fourth Cavalry Brigade, but now is not the time to use the Fourth Cavalry Brigade, the main role of the Fourth Cavalry Brigade is to cover the battlefield, fight the enemy's cavalry, provide support for the Weifang Fucheng, or for the 27th Field Brigade, Support was provided by the 24th Field Brigade.

(End of chapter)