The military plan of the eleventh year of Chongzhen in the original history was extended, and the Qing Dynasty army entered the Kou a year late, as always, the Qing Dynasty Belle Dolgon and the general Yue Tuobing were divided into two roads, and drove straight into the border pass of the Ming Dynasty, and they were going to kill the situation in the hinterland of Shandong.

Dolgon led a large army to enter from the Qingshan Pass, and the soldiers at the border pass along the way were caught off guard and suffered heavy losses; Yue Tuo led a partial division and entered the Kou along the wall, and the soldiers of the two armies were directed at the city of Jinan, Shandong.

Fortunately, after the initial period of the emperor, Zu Dashou and other Ming border generals rose up, and the food and military resources given by the court before were extremely well reused.

When the main force of the Qing army was laying down these cities along the way, when the two parts of Tongzhou converged, Jinan City and the surrounding cities were on guard, taking advantage of the city's deep and solid geographical advantages, and the Qing soldiers of Dolgon were dragged down.

Lu Xiangsheng, Hong Chengchou and other Ming governors, just finished the suppression of the peasant rebel army of the Ming Dynasty, and gave orders in danger, with their respective soldiers and horses thousands of miles straight to Shandong, before Dolgon and other military horses occupied Jinan City, the army approached the main force of the Qing army, and fought head-on with it.

As the commander-in-chief, in order to close the edge of the Ming army, Dolgon finally gave up the idea of a head-on battle with the Ming army, but divided it into pieces, tens of thousands of troops were divided into eight, and the cities around Jinan City were plundered, using the superior mobility of the cavalry to bypass the encirclement network of Lu Xiangsheng, Hong Chengchou and other armies, and pull back in an orderly manner.

More than ten Shandong cities were destroyed, and nearly 200,000 Ming people were looted by the Qing army and retreated to the pass.

By the time Hong Chengchou and other armies arrived in Jinan, the Qing army had already gone hundreds of miles away with the children of the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, if Hong Chengchou and the others are willing to catch up, I am afraid that they will be able to bite the pace of the Qing army's retreat, after all, the population and materials coerced by the other party have slowed down their pace.

However, Hong Chengchou and others finally gave up these plans, the Qing army's field battle is beneficial to the Ming army, like a beast, everyone talks about the color change, and even if the Ming Dynasty army catches up with the Qing army, but its chasing position is afraid that it is close to the border place, if the other party is ambushed here, I am afraid that the Ming army of tens of thousands may not be able to withstand the other party's offensive.

In comparison, the Qing Dynasty was forced to retreat in this way, and the night was not too bad for the Ming Dynasty, even if the other party plundered nearly 200,000 people in Shandong in the Ming Dynasty, but for the overall situation of the Ming Dynasty, it was not unaffordable.

A great war came to an end, Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chengzong and other pillars of the Ming Dynasty did not die in this war, and the losses caused by the Qing army to the Ming Dynasty this time were less than half of the original history.

However, it was precisely because Lu Xiangsheng, Hong Chengchou and others had to go north to support Shandong because of the impact of military operations such as the entry of the Qing army, but it brought a ray of life to the peasant rebel army that was being suppressed and almost exterminated.

First of all, anyway, Zhang Xianzhong, who was originally Zhao'an of the Ming Dynasty, re-raised his righteousness in Gucheng, and the people of the surrounding counties responded one after another, driving the army of the Ming Dynasty to stay in Shanxi and Shaanxi to strangle and extinguish; Taking advantage of this opportunity, Li Zicheng, who had been hiding and lurking in Shangluo Mountain, hurriedly dispatched troops and went south to Hubei and Sichuan, fleeing in all directions to avoid the encirclement and interception of the Ming army.

At this time, Xiong Wencan, the supervisor who took over the strangulation of the peasant army, had a discord with Yang Sichang, the center of the cabinet, and the two had a great contradiction on the issue of the strangulation of the peasant army, so they delayed the fighter plane and gave the peasant rebel army a chance to breathe.

At that time, after Li Zicheng joined He Sanjiang and other generals who came to join him, he recruited troops all the way, and the geological disasters for many years destroyed the lives of the people in the north, so that it was easy for him to recruit soldiers.

He Sanjiang was a general, who came to defect to Li Zicheng when he was in danger, and soon became a very important henchman under Li Zicheng's command.

Peng Zhihai and Zhu Dazhuang, who had served under Li Zicheng and were later separated from the army because they were surrounded and suppressed by officers and soldiers, went to join Li Zicheng's army under the orders of Li Zicheng's hometown after Li Zicheng's army entered Henan and gained a foothold in Henan.

Unconsciously, the military strength of Hongmen in the peasant army cannot be underestimated.

Li Zicheng began to plot to seize Luoyang, an important place in Henan, and actively prepared for a number of matters, but at this time, Li Tianyang's side was not only sending people to Peng Zhihai to give them passive cooperation, but he was ready to expose the Hongmen Hongtang army and personally lead the army to the battle.

In Li Tianyang's shallow historical memory, in the end, the Ming Dynasty was cornered, and the biggest reason why the Qing army entered the customs was because the peasant rebel army captured the Beijing division and forced Emperor Chongzhen to hang himself on the coal mountain.

After losing Chongzhen, the backbone of the Ming Dynasty, Wu Sangui, the general of the border army, finally surrendered to the Qing army, led the Qing army into the customs, and then occupied the dove's nest, and ruled China for hundreds of years as a minority, and also cast the darkest history of Chinese history.

Therefore, Li Tianyang could not let the peasant rebel army capture the capital division no matter what, and he had to try his best to save the lives of Emperor Chongzhen and others, and to do this, Hongmen could no longer stay out of the matter, but needed to take the initiative to stand up and rely on his own military strength to achieve this goal.

Some people may ask, since Li Tianyang is unwilling to let the peasant army grow, why does he still let his spies take the initiative to join Li Zicheng?

The reason is simple, it is the general trend.

The erosion of the peasant rebel army is not a matter of overnight, and the night is not the status quo that Li Tian can change with a small team, as strong as the Ming Dynasty, a huge empire with a vast territory, is helpless about this matter, so what can Hongmen, who lives in a corner and is not worth a lot, use to stop this general trend?

Factors such as land annexation, the Xiaoice River period, and the Jurchen foreign invasion created the sparkling peasant uprising in the northern part of the Ming Dynasty, and knowing that it could not be stopped, Li Tianyang naturally could only adapt to the situation and preemptively lay out the peasant rebel army to lay a solid foundation for the next strength reserve.

Li Tianyang wants to go out of the mountain, but this is something that Fujian Governor Xiao Yifu can't ask for, in fact, since the Ningde incident, Xiao Yifu has been angry with the audacity of the Jin merchants, and he is also worried about Hongmen.

A group that even the Ming Dynasty army dared to strangle, how loyal and patriotic it was in its heart, only God knows.

Now that he is sitting in the position of governor of Fujian, Xiao Yifu is still a little conscious of being loyal to the king.

He has been trying to find a way to see if he can weaken Hongmen's strength by one or two without causing Li Tianyang to resist, or transfer Li Tianyang out of Dayuan Island.

Now that he is really sleepy and comes to send a pillow, Xiao Yifu is still thinking about how to deal with Li Tianyang, but Li Tianyang took the initiative to stand up, and sent a letter of invitation to Xiao Yifu's desk, expressing his concern about the peasant army in Henan, hoping that Xiao Yifu could allow him to take 10,000 soldiers of the Penghu Naval Division to the north and fulfill his duties for the Ming Dynasty.

Li Tianyang and the others chose to surprise Xiao Yifu, he did not expect that Li Tianyang would stand up at this time of national crisis, completely breaking Xiao Yifu's view of Li Tianyang's generation of heroes.

However, this does not prevent Xiao Yifu from wanting to take the opportunity to transfer Li Tianyang out of Fujian, regardless of whether Li Tianyang is really loyal and patriotic, but as long as he is in Fujian, it means that he is a threat to Fujian officialdom.

"Accurate!"

In order to let Li Tianyang send troops as soon as possible, Xiao Yifu not only agreed to Li Tianyang's request on the spot, but also rarely and generously advanced several months' military pay in advance to Li Tianyang's Penghu Naval Division, as well as enough grain and grass for half a year for 10,000 soldiers of the Penghu Naval Division.

At the same time, Xiao Yifu also sent a letter to Xiong Wencan, the secretary of the Ministry of War, to make arrangements for Li Tianyang's troops and horses in advance to remove the obstacles for them to go to the north.

Xiong Wencan, who was supposed to be held accountable by the cabinet Yang Sichang because of political discord this year, benefited from the collapse of the Jin Dynasty last year, Xiong Wencan, who was in charge of military affairs in Shanxi and other places at that time, made a great contribution to this matter, fearing that the imperial court raised tens of millions of taels of military funds, but he himself was almost clean and had little to no profit from it.

Therefore, although he was at odds with Yang Sichang at this age, under Yang Sichang's slander, Emperor Chongzhen still did not arrest Xiong Wencan because of his exploits in the previous year.

Even if Zhang Xianzhong, who was originally ordered by him, finally rebelled again, and Li Zicheng's army revived, except for a sternly worded edict from the court, Xiong Wencan still stayed in the position of his prime minister Shanxi, Henan and other military affairs and other military departments, although the seat has been shaky, but it has not fallen.

It is precisely because the front-line commander Xiong Wencan did not change the commander before the back, which also made the peasant army re-emerge in Henan, Hubei and other places, but the Ming army and the government did not panic, and they were still slowly and firmly suppressing the peasant army in Qian'an.

When the Fujian governor Xiao Yifu's folds were sent to Xiong Wencan and others, it was actually tantamount to a life-saving straw, before Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou went north to rescue Shandong, taking away the main forces such as Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places, at this time, the erosion of the peasant army was actually not more due to the incompetence of the Ming army, but because there were no soldiers available in Xiong Wencan's hands at this time.

The old, weak, sick and disabled in the local guards were not effective in guarding the local order, let alone suppressing the peasant rebels who were like burning the prairie fires; And the generals of the peasant rebel army recruited on the spot and Zhao'an, with Zhang Xianzhong's experience, Xiong Wencan is also like a frightened bird, and he can't easily trust these peasant army generals.

Now it's good, the governor of Fujian actually sent his general, Li Tianyang, the commander of the Ming Navy Division and the chief soldier, to support him.

"Remember, remember to listen to your mother at home, you can't be naughty, you know?"

Seeing that the army was about to set out, Li Tianyang rarely found time to accompany Chen Yumo, Sanniang and their family to get together.

"Don't worry, father, I am here at home, and I will never let my grandmother and mother worry about it!"

Li Yun, who looks like a little adult, is now twelve years old, because his living environment has not been bad since he was a child, and he is well nourished, but he is much taller than the average Jiangnan child of the same age, just like a tall and big boy in the north.

Li Yun, who has no pampered vices and has been mingling with ordinary disciples in the school since he was a child, made a promise to his father with a resolute look in front of the fatherly Li Tianyang at this time.

"Yes, that's what we should be manly!"

Li Tianyang laughed, patted his son on the shoulder with a big thick hand, and said with relief.

"It's you, father, there is no one to take care of you when you go out, but you have to pay attention to your body!"

Li Qiong, who has been very close to Li Tianyang since she was a child, is now as beautiful as a hibiscus out of the water, inheriting her mother Chen Yumo's excellent genes, her skin is also as white as snow, and she is about to burst.

The daughter has long been married, and ordinary people say that she has to marry a woman, but Li Qiong, who is the pearl of Li Tianyang's palm, is still working in the R&D Institute with her uncle Chen Cai because of her temperament.

Li Qiong, who was sent to the school by Li Tianyang since she was a child and learned a lot of knowledge, exudes an intellectual aura that is completely different from this top ten woman, and is more like the independent woman in Li Tianyang's memory than her mother-in-law and Chen Yumo when she was young.

"Well, don't worry, your father and I have your Uncle Wu Chao and Brother Dong by my side, where is there a lack of people to take care of!"

Li Tianyang looked at his filial daughter affectionately, and said jokingly: "It's you a little girl, now you are seventeen or eighteen years old, when will you find a son-in-law for your father and me to come back?" ”

"Mother, look at Dad!!"

The big girl shyly hid in Chen Yumo's arms and coquettishly played with her mother.

"You're an old man, you're not doing anything right!!"

Chen Yumo glared at Li Tianyang, and while comforting his daughter, he asked worriedly, "Do you really want to go on the expedition this time?" Can't you let Brother Jie and them go on the expedition on your behalf? ”

"Alas, you don't understand, this is a matter of the safety of my Ming Dynasty, and it is also an important opportunity for us to live a stable life in the future, I really don't worry about others going on the expedition."

"Moreover, since the incident in Ningde last time, our Lord Futai has been looking for us and other troubles, if I don't show a little loyalty and patriotism, I'm afraid that our Lord Futai will continue to find us trouble, bringing us a lot of obstacles!"

"Anyway, now that our Hongmen is on the right track, with you sitting on Dayuan Island, with me or not, it's actually the same, so it's better to relax our hearts first, so that they don't doubt us."

Li Tianyang looked at the pair of children who had grown up, and the youngest son Li Xin behind him, who was a good baby in the arms of his mother Sanniang and wanted to come down to play, he had a few more passions and fighting spirits in his heart.

(End of chapter)