After the two armies were dispatched, there were only 50,000 Qing troops in Linqing City, but Dolgon was not afraid, but brazenly led his troops out of the city to meet the battle.

"Lord Wang, let's wait for Bolo and Luckdehun to come back with troops and fight again." Gushan Ezhen Shi Tingzhu persuaded.

Dorgon shook his head: "The battle is not fought by the number of troops, although the sheep can beat the wolf?" The Ming army attacked with all its might, which seemed to be menacing, but it was not terrible. We just need to avoid its edge and attack its weak point. Linqing is a city where they want to give it to them, and what we have to do is to destroy its living force. ”

"Lord, do you mean?"

"Yes, let it attack in three ways, I will only attack it all the way, regardless of Linqing, regardless of the other two armies, catch it and fight it all the way. As long as one of its armies can be eliminated, the Ming army's offensive will be thwarted, and then launch a fierce attack when it retreats, and it will not be a problem to annihilate these three Ming armies! ”

Shi Tingzhu praised: "The prince is wise! ”

The Ming army of the three roads, Chen Yue brought all the way to the Chinese army, and launched an attack on Linqing along the canal line, Li Yi led the army to the west road, and attacked Linqing in the territory of Guantao, and Jin Xin led the army of Jinan to attack Linqing through Qihe Qingping.

The three-way army, Chen Yue and Li Yi, gathered less than twenty miles together, and they could support each other, and they were also the closest to Linqing. Jin Xin led the army from Jinan, and the distance was much farther.

On March 28, the sentinel came to report that the Qing army had abandoned Linqing, and Dolgon led the army to the east.

"Lord Wang, the Qing army must be going to attack Jin Xin, and the last general is willing to lead the army to reinforcements!" Yu Feng immediately asked for an order.

"What reinforcements? If the Qing army likes to fight, let them go! Chen Yue sneered. The army continued to march towards Linqing, and captured Linqing City the next day.

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Jin Xin set out from Jinan with 30,000 troops, and the marching speed was very fast at the beginning, but it slowed down slowly, and it was only 20 miles a day.

On March 29, after the army had breakfast, Jin Xin suddenly ordered to return to Jinan.

"General Jin, shouldn't we go to Linqing to meet the prince? Why do you want to return to Jinan? A subordinate asked puzzled.

"Let you go back, what so much nonsense!" Jin Xin scolded angrily.

"What? The Ming army actually went back? "Fifty miles south of Qingping, a large army was walking along the road, and Dolgon was shocked to hear the report from the sentinel.

"Lord Wang, shall we continue to move forward?" Shi Tingzhu asked.

"It's a fart to go forward, and I fell for the trick of the Ming army!" Dolgon's way of hatred. Originally, he wanted to annihilate the Ming army on the east road first, and then calmly deal with the other two roads. Who would have thought that the Ming army on the East Road would shrink back again, would they want to attack Jinan Jiancheng by themselves?

"Back to Linqing!" Dolgon's face grimaced.

The army turned back, and morale inevitably dropped. After coming out for a few days, the strategic goal was not achieved, not to mention, even Linqing was lost, but it was really a shame to be thrown to grandma's house.

However, Chen Yue rashly led his troops out of Liaocheng and gave up the painstaking defense line, and it is not certain who will win and who will lose!

In the city of Linqing, it has almost become an empty city, and the people in the city have long been driven away by the Qing army, and when the Qing army left the city, they took away part of the food, and the things that could not be taken were also burned.

"Lord Wang, what should we do next?" Li Yi asked.

What kind of three-way march, it is all a disguise, Jinan is too far away from Linqing, and there are few defenders, Chen Yue has no intention of letting Jin Xin participate in the battle at all. His plan was that Li Yi and his two armies would attack, and the Qing army should choose one of them to attack, regardless of which way the Qing army attacked, and the other way immediately went to the rescue, and the two armies combined were as many as 120,000, which was enough to defeat the Qing army in Linqing.

But who would have thought that Dolgon chose to attack Jin Xin, so he gave Linqing to himself. Chen Yue was not worried about Jin Xinbu, he had already explained that Jin Xinbu sent troops from Jinan to create pressure on the Qing army in Linqing and force them to have a decisive battle, otherwise the Ming army of the three routes would be encircled, and the number of Qing troops would be too small to support it.

"What to do? Just stay in Linqing. The Qing army lost Linqing, and we cut off the connection with Beijing, how many days can their grain and grass last? How difficult it is to feed tens of thousands of troops by looting alone.

Wu Ping has already captured Ningyuan, and now it is not us who wants to fight a decisive battle, but Dolgon! Chen Yue sneered.

Sure enough, information came that day that Dolgon had led his army back to Linqing.

Linqing City, leaving thousands of troops to defend the city, most of the army is camped outside the city, the camp of the Ming army stretches for several miles along the canal, and the ships in the canal are like shuttles.

It has arrived at the beginning of April, the canal has long been thawed, Linqing and Liaocheng are connected by canals, the Ming army has a large number of boats in their hands, and they can easily transport grain from Liaocheng to Linqing, which is also an important reason why Chen Yue is not afraid to send troops to fight with the Qing army.

In February, Dolgon led his troops to capture Linqing, when the canal froze, Dolgon naturally did not think of using the canal, he drove most of the people in Linqing City. You must know that the Linqing Canal is an important town, and it is prosperous by Cao Yun, there are hundreds of Cao boats in Linqing, and tens of thousands of people live by Cao Yun.

After the people were driven away, most of them scattered to the countryside, and a considerable part went to Liaocheng.

The Qing army didn't pay attention to the Cao Gang, and Chen Yue naturally didn't. After capturing Linqing, Chen Yue immediately ordered the Cao boat to gather the Cao gang members.

"Meet the prince!" Cheng Jiu, the leader of the Linqingcao Gang, knelt on the ground and kowtowed respectfully to Chen Yue.

"Cheng Jiu, this Linqing is your territory, I heard that I can't hide anything from you. Now I need you to serve the court and help me defeat the Qing army, would you like to? Chen Yue asked lightly.

"The Qing army slaughtered my people, seized my property, and lewd my wife and daughter, the people of my Cao Gang have long been unable to see it, and they have long sworn to stand with it, although you can rest assured, as long as you give an order, my Cao Gang brothers are willing to go to the soup for the prince!" Cheng Jiu waved his chest and promised.

Chen Yue nodded: "I need you to gather the Cao Gang brothers as soon as possible, collect all the Cao boats in the Linqing area, and ensure that not a single boat can be obtained by the Qing soldiers."

Your people and ships are temporarily placed under the management of the army, and they are responsible for the two cities of Liaocheng and Linqing. As for you, since you serve the imperial court, this king will not treat you badly, and will first give you a position as a guerrilla general, and if you can make meritorious contributions in the annihilation of the Qing army, you will be promoted and rewarded. ”

suddenly became a guerrilla general from a civilian, which made Cheng Jiu overjoyed, and immediately knelt down and kowtowed again and again to thank him.

Looking at the back of Cheng Jiu who went out, Chen Yue smiled. Dolgon, Dolgon, you think you are wise, and now your army is cut off by a canal, I want to see how much of a wave you can make!