Chapter Eighty-Seven: Rescue Sanniang
Li Qingyuan still understands Fukangan's eagerness to make meritorious contributions, but Li Qingyuan really doesn't think that doing so will have any effect.
The first Wu Duyan has thousands of people in his hands, and the second pass is easy to defend and difficult to attack, Wu Duyan only needs to send a thousand people to defend it steadily, you Fukangan can rely on many people to attack in turn, and he Wu Duyan can also take turns to defend!
From Li Qingyuan's point of view, Wu Duyan would have no problem even if he faced this kind of non-stop attack for two or three months.
However, Shandong really needs to be straightened out, Li Qingyuan must hurry back, and the team from Taihang needs to be sent out as soon as possible, otherwise it will really affect the development.
The biggest problem on the Shandong side is the 30,000 Qing army, leaving it to Fan Wei for fear that Fan Wei will not be able to hold on, if he pulls it over and fights by himself, he is afraid that Shandong will not have to do anything, and he will just keep fighting there.
Li Qingyuan waited for another ten days, and the weapons were all produced, and the soldiers began to practice shooting in formation. These soldiers have always been trained with guns in turn, so they can get started quickly.
As for the recruits of the 10 battalions, Li Qingyuan accepted Fanwei's suggestion and adjusted the training plan.
While practicing the queue, while practicing the musket, it is also boring for the recruits to keep going around.
The recruits are now barely able to come and walk in unison, but Li Qingyuan is not in a hurry, the new battalion has been trained by 10 more, and the total force of the Shandong Theater will first exceed 10,000.
However, after this wave of outbreaks, there will be no such large-scale defection to the DPRK in the future, but after entering and stabilizing, it is still certain that one student will recruit two or three thousand recruits.
Just when Li Qingyuan thought that after Fan Wei was released, Shandong would be able to let go, but he didn't expect that news suddenly came that Wu Sanniang was surrounded.
The reason is very simple, Wu Sanniang, who took the Qing army to the mountains, was originally smooth sailing, and relied on eliminating landlords and bullies everywhere to get supplies along the way.
In Liujia Village, more than fifty miles southeast of Qufu, Wu Sanniang eliminated a landlord surnamed Kong, originally she thought that this was just one of the many landlords who were eliminated, but she didn't expect that this time this landlord surnamed Kong turned out to be a side line of the Confucian family in Qufu.
She eliminated the landlords according to the custom and distributed grain to the people, but less than half of the villagers received the grain, and she was bitten by the Qing army in Qufu while resting outside the village.
After running for three days, they were inexplicably surrounded, and after being surrounded, Wu Sanniang knew that it was all the villagers near Qufu who had told the Kong family, so the Qing army knew their actions well.
In the end, Sanniang led the troops to retreat behind a cliff, and after Li Qingyuan heard it, he stood in place for a long time, and finally made up his mind and said: "Gather the troops, except for the first battalion, the twelfth battalion, and the thirty-first to forty battalions left behind, the rest of the battalions are ready to go!" ”
The herald asked, "Does it include the boot barracks?" ”
Li Qingyuan nodded: "Including!" Until the 30th battalion has to prepare, recently let all the recruits practice loading, and practice the formation while walking! ”
This side began to prepare for the attack, Li Qingyuan hurriedly went to find Fan Wei, and how to go next depends on how big Fan Wei can make trouble.
After arriving at Fan Wei's side, Li Qingyuan saw that the soldiers on his side had been trained decently, and Fan Wei saw Li Qingyuan coming over and asked proudly, "How is it?" I'm doing well, aren't you? ”
Li Qingyuan nodded: "Well, it's a little better than I imagined, now you gather your subordinates to prepare to attack, Sanniang is surrounded by the Qing army, we have to save Sanniang this time, and we have to send you out, this time it's more dangerous, everyone must go all out?" ”
Fan Wei was stunned for a moment and asked, "What's the matter?" ”
Li Qingyuan sighed and said: "Sanniang provoked the Kong family this time, the Kong family and the Qing army united, the people were on their side, and Sanniang was betrayed......"
Fan Wei nodded with affection: "I know that these turtle sons who are studying don't have any good things, and I was also eaten to death by the Kong family there, this time I will accompany you, when will we leave?" ”
Li Qingyuan thought for a while and said, "In five days, my troops will pass through here, and then we will join forces and set off!" ”
It takes four days for Li Qingyuan to go back and forth, and when he returns to the nest, he will announce that he will send troops early the next morning, hoping that Sanniang can hold on a little longer, if it really doesn't work, at most the sharpshooter battalion will bring her out, Li Qingyuan specially explained to the sharpshooter battalion before Sanniang went.
There are 9,000 troops on Li Qingyuan's side this time, plus the total strength of Fan Wei's three and a half battalions exceeds 10,000, Li Qingyuan plans to find an opportunity to give the Qing army a ruthless time, and buy a month or two for Shandong and Fan Wei, with this time, Fan Wei will be able to make some movements, and it is best for him to lead away the main force of the Qing army at that time, if not, there are more than 10,000 skilled soldiers on the Shandong side, and he will not be afraid of the Qing army's encirclement and suppression.
The Qing army dispatched 100,000 people, and if they came all the way, they would temporarily avoid the edge, go to the outer line to lay a few cities, and after the Qing army retreated, they also retreated.
If the Qing army attacked in several ways, then concentrate all efforts to defeat one road, so that the encirclement of the Qing army would not be useless immediately.
Not to mention that there are so many examples of anti-encirclement and suppression that can be used for reference, just the rise of the Qing Dynasty and the Jurchens during the Jin Kingdom have used the time difference to break through the encirclement and suppression.
Before Sanniang was surrounded, Li Qingyuan had not made up his mind to work hard with the Qing army and clean up the 30,000 people, but now that Sanniang was surrounded, Li Qingyuan resolutely couldn't bear it, not only made up his mind to fight with the Qing army, but also did it in advance!
This time, in addition to the first battalion left behind, and the third battalion taken away by Sanniang, there are nine battalions of veterans and nineteen new battalions of the troops, and the veteran battalions have begun to be equipped with tiger squat guns, and only more than ten have been produced at present, and all of them have been brought out this time.
When converging with Fan Wei, Fan Wei was stunned when he looked at the endless troops, originally he thought that Li Qingyuan could only survive three or five thousand people, but he didn't expect that there would be so many.
When Li Qingyuan told him that those behind him were all newly recruited, Fan Wei was in a better mood, but he was still very envious when he saw that Li Qingyuan had so many muskets in his hands.
Li Qingyuan also asked the firearms workshop to work day and night in order to complete the musket this time, but fortunately, there have been many lively blacksmiths recently, otherwise I am afraid that there will be seven or eight battalions to use broadswords and spears in this expedition!
The two sides converged, and Fan Wei finally couldn't help but ask: "Qingyuan Zhenren, do you still have extra muskets?" ”
Li Qingyuan looked at him and asked, "What's wrong?" ”
Fan Wei said with a smile: "Look, if I go to Weishan Lake, I must have weapons when I recruit people there, and I plan to buy more muskets that will be easy to use when the time comes." ”
Li Qingyuan looked at him and asked, "Then how much do you want to buy?" ”
Fan Wei hesitated for a long time, looked at Li Qingyuan's team, and said with a painful determination: "I want to buy 3,000 strokes!" That's right, 3,000 strokes! ”