Under the city of Haifeng, Jinan Prefecture, people shouted horses and neighed, and artillery fire continued to blow in the sky.

A Qing infantry team that had rushed from Wuding Prefecture to reinforce it could not support it under the artillery bombardment, and the remaining nearly 2,000 men scattered in the distance, and about six or seven hundred cavalrymen dressed in yellow clothes and silver armor followed these scattered foot soldiers unhurriedly with sabers or spears held high. Whenever they saw some physically exhausted Qing troops fall to the bottom, they would speed up their horses and step forward to cut them down, and after the cut, they continued to maintain a loose arc-shaped encirclement, still closely following behind these Qing soldiers who were desperately fleeing.

Dong Xueli closed his eyes, this army is finished, and the whole army will be wiped out. However, it is no longer time to worry about their fate, Dong Xueli should be even more worried about his own life and the future of the three thousand brothers under his command. The horses of the yellow thieves had already pursued the remnants of the enemy, but their infantry was still standing outside the city, and the artillery team began to pull the artillery under Haifeng City, ready to shoot at close range. But his old Dong doesn't even have the courage to go out of the city to fight, so he can only stay in this small county town and don't know what to do.

"Uncle, the horse team of the yellow-clothed thief has chased the guerrillas, should we quickly retreat from the West Gate?" Dong Xueli's nephew, Dong Dalang, saw that there was no one nearby except Dong Xueli's personal soldiers, and immediately suggested carefully.

Dong Xueli's eyelids jumped, and he didn't say anything, but he could see that his heart was struggling fiercely. The Qing reinforcements had already sailed from Henan and Shanxi to Beizhili and Shandong, and Dorobelle Lekedehun had personally led 5,000 Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners Horse Brigade south to Jinan to take up the town, and quickly began to dispatch troops and deploy coastal coastal defense.

Last month, Luckedhun set up a coastal defense corps in Binzhou. This position was held by Li Shutai, who had been withdrawn from the Yantai front. And Li Shuotai's thousands of troops naturally came under the jurisdiction of the coastal defense general army. Dorgon was clearly quite unhappy with Hauge. This is evident from the fact that he stripped the subordinates of Li Shutai, Dong Xueli and others from the Haoge army.

Dong Xueli's 3,000 people were also included. He himself used to be a deputy general, but the last time he was ruthlessly involved in a book by Fang Dayou, saying that he "couldn't go on patrol and sat back and watched the city fall", which scared him enough. Later, Lao Dong finally had a big life, and it happened that the Qing court was short of people at this time, so he was only demoted by one level, "staying in his post and listening." to see the after-effects". In general, it is not a big problem, at least he still controls the army. This time, the Binzhou Coastal Defense General Army was established, Dong Xueli was appointed as the general of the Haifeng Battalion, and Li Shutai gave him an order to guard Haifeng County, and immediately report to Binzhou and Jinan as soon as there was a situation.

In addition to setting up a coastal defense army in Binzhou, Luck Dehun also strengthened the strength of Yizhou Town in the south, after all, it is also possible for the army on the east coast to sail to the south side of the Shandong Peninsula to land and attack, and it has to be guarded against. Yizhou Town originally only had a few thousand miscellaneous soldiers, which were used to defend Nanming. This time, Luck Dehun directly replaced the original general soldier of the corpse position, and appointed Xu Dingguo, the former Southern Ming gentleman of Henan Province, as the chief soldier of Yizhou Town. Xu Dingguo's headquarters plus the original miscellaneous soldiers in Yizhou Town. Its total strength has exceeded 30,000 men, and at least it seems to give people some sense of security.

If you count the more than 20,000 people of the Xinchuan Shun Army, including Bai Guangen, Niu Chenghu, and Chen Zhilong, who are rushing from Shanxi. There are thousands of miscellaneous armed forces in Henan, and the total strength under the command of Luck Dehun has swelled to seventy or eighty thousand. Together with the remaining 30,000 or 40,000 troops at hand, the total strength of the Qing court in Shandong has exceeded 110,000 and nearly 120,000, and the number of horse teams, including the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners, is close to 10,000, both in terms of the quality and quantity of troops. Shandong has properly become a magnet to attract the Qing army, firmly absorbing a large amount of vitality of the Qing army here, and effectively reducing the pressure on Nanming and Dashun.

Under the fate of the people on the east coast, history has finally made some unfavorable changes to the Qing court. For example, because the fortified city of Huaiqing Mansion was unexpectedly conquered by Guo Sheng's Shun army, the Qing army's baggage was lost, and the Duoduo army entered Tongguan half a month later than in history. And Li Zicheng also withdrew from Shaanxi 20 days later than in history, so that he did not encounter the snowstorm that froze to death tens of thousands of people in Languan again. After entering Hubei, due to the beacon fire everywhere in Shandong, Beizhili and even the coastal areas of Liaodong, Dolgon urgently ordered Duoduo and Azig to reorganize their troops and send tens of thousands of people to the east, which not only delayed their precious pursuit time for several days, but also weakened the strength of the pursuit.

As a result, Li Zicheng, who should have died in Tongshan, Hubei Province more than ten days ago, is still running around. Although he was repeatedly defeated by the Qing army's pursuers, the three concubines were forced to throw themselves into the river, and they had already temporarily lost contact with the main army, and they seemed to be very embarrassed, but they were still alive after all, right? If Li Zicheng does not die, the cohesion of his troops will still be there, and the possibility of the remaining more than 100,000 troops surrendering to the Qing army on a large scale will be greatly reduced, and the Qing army's most capable main force of 100,000 troops and a large number of miscellaneous armed forces will still not be taken lightly and will be firmly nailed to the Hubei area.

But on the whole, the Qing army still has an absolute advantage. Nanming, Dashun, and Daxi are not opponents, and the people on the east coast are just scabies, which can be seen from the fact that Duoduo still led an army of 70,000 or 80,000 through Henan to Huaisi to attack Nanming. They are still comfortable fighting on multiple fronts, which shows how huge their advantages are. The details of history have changed, but the general trend is sometimes really difficult to change.

Moreover, Li Zicheng is not dead, it may not be a good thing, because at this time, Nanming's number one enemy is still him. I remember the battle of Jingzhou in history, the Dashun army carried the Qing army to the death, but the Nanming army secretly let the Qing army pass through its own defense area, and then raided the Shun army from behind. The Shun army suffered heavy losses under the surprise, tens of thousands of people collapsed, and the people of Nanming celebrated with joy.

His own troops were surrendered by the Qing army one by one, and Nanming pretended not to see it; The envoys he sent to Beijing were slapped in the face again and again, and Nanming pretended not to see it; After the Qing army finished fighting the Shun army, it swept the army of Nanmingzhou County by the way, and Nanming continued to pretend not to see it, such a strange monarch and minister is also rare in history, and it is really meaningless to keep such a court. The most capable Han army lost the elite of the most Lu under their joint strangulation with the Manchu Qing, and they themselves were wiped out by the Manchu Qing after the most Lu, which made people laugh off their big teeth.

It can be seen that due to the hard injury in IQ, the gentry of Nanming only have the number one enemy Li Zicheng in their eyes. If Li Zicheng does not die, it will be difficult to talk about joint resistance to the Qing Dynasty, which will inevitably give the Qing army a big advantage. So, there are pros and cons to everything, and this is really a wise saying.

The Qing army had a great upper hand in the general trend, and this was the reason why Dong Xueli did not dare to make a mistake. The Qing court's decree at this time was harsh, and the general's escape without a fight was a capital crime among capital crimes, and Dong Xueli didn't dare to imagine what would happen to him after escaping from Haifeng City. Now that he has hated Dashun, if he betrays the Qing Dynasty again, although the world is big, I am afraid that there will be no hiding place for his old Dong.

But it's really hard to get through this hurdle. The 2,500 people of the Cangzhou Qingyun guerrilla Zhang Haoqian of Cangjian Prefecture, which was also under the command of the Binzhou Coastal Defense General Army, were defeated, and they were about to be wiped out, and now their Haifeng City became the next target of the yellow-clothed thieves. Haifeng County is a small border county, the city is not high or thick, and there is not even a moat, which can be described as extremely shabby. During the Longqing period, the brick-covered exterior wall has been decayed by wind and rain, and the inner layer of rammed earth has been exposed in many places.

This kind of dilapidated city wall, under the bombardment of the yellow-clothed cannons, I am afraid that it will not be able to withstand it for even two hours. When the city wall collapses, what else will be fought? Street fighting? I'm sorry, but the Yellow Thieves never fight you face-to-face in street battles, they just line up in a tight formation, shoot at close range with those light cannons, and clean up house by house. In the face of absolute firepower superiority, you can't play any tricks.

"This battle is still a fart!" Seeing that Dong Xueli was silent, Dong Dalang slapped his palm on the city wall depressedly. Unexpectedly, with his palm, the city wall shook violently, and large pieces of masonry mixed with earth chips fell. Dong Dalang was taken aback, and then quickly understood what was going on, this was the artillery team of the yellow-clothed thief firing cannons!

"The yellow-clothed thieves worked the beach for three days before they landed, and then it took another day to march to the city, and in these four days, a Qingyun guerrilla fool led the troops over. Even if Li Shuotai's old turtle is farther away in Binzhou, it should have arrived if he marched part-time, but there is not a single town army of the coastal defense army here, so we are really stupid! Uncle, this battle can't be fought! While the horse team of the yellow-clothed thieves has not yet turned, let's leave those newly collected miscellaneous cards to defend the city, and withdraw first with two thousand old brothers. Dong Dalang was still persuading Dong Xueli, but before the words fell, another cannon hit, and a large piece of rammed earth on the city wall fell, revealing a hideous gap.

The surrounding soldiers also came to persuade the two generals to go downstairs. Dong Xueli is still hesitating, this yellow-clothed thief seems to be determined to win Haifeng County, if he withdraws, this capital crime of losing the flood land will not be able to escape. That Shandong governor Fang Dayou had already looked at himself unpleasantly because he couldn't ask for bribes, and he secretly participated in his own book last time. If he grabs the handle again this time, won't he die in a warp?

That's it, it's important to preserve your strength, first retreat to the countryside, and then go to recover the city when the yellow-clothed thief withdraws himself. Of course, if the matter can't be covered up, and the boss wants to punish himself, then my old Dong is not a fat sheep to be slaughtered. It's a big deal to pull up the troops and surrender the yellow-clothed thief, what can you Fang Dayou and Li Shutai do to me?

After figuring out this section, Dong Xueli hurriedly went downstairs with his soldiers, and then arranged for escape. In particular, he sealed all the grain, gold, silver, silk and other goods in the city, and put conspicuous signs on them, so that the yellow-clothed thieves could more easily collect the spoils of war after entering the city. In this way, maybe as soon as they are happy, their subordinates will show mercy to let Lao Dong leave safely.

On June 12, 1645, the east coast army led by Mo Ming defeated the Qingyun guerrilla Zhang Hao Qianbu of 2,500 people under the jurisdiction of the Qing Binzhou Coastal Defense General Army outside the city of Haifeng. (To be continued......)