Chapter Sixty-Eight: Northern Expedition! Northern Expedition (XVIII)
The troops of the Zheng family army attacked the city, attacked side by side in multiple ways, bravely interspersed, divided the Qing soldiers in the city, and surrounded and annihilated each one. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The remnants of the Qing army fled to the northwest corner of the city and were intercepted by the troops outside the city of the Second Division.
Even if the situation was so bad, Luo Shan refused to flee, and he killed more than a dozen deserters.
led the remaining remnants of the army to retreat into the Shanhaiguan City, and started a tragic street battle with the Zheng family's army.
After 7 hours of fierce fighting, Zheng Jiajun finally blocked Luo Tuo in an alley.
2,000 musketeers were in front, there were musketeers on the roofs on both sides, three or four thousand Zheng soldiers blocked the entire street, and many Zheng soldiers were coming not far behind them.
Wan Li walked through the crowd and shouted: "Luo Shan, you are already in a desperate situation, and if you resist, you will die." Why not land as soon as possible? I promise you that the general will treat you equally! ”
"Hahahaha......" Luo Shan laughed wildly, raised his long knife high, and shouted angrily back: "None of the descendants of the Immortal Heaven is a bad seed, and today's thing is only death!" Keep up! Rush out with me! ”
With Luo Shan's fierce roar, the remnants of the Qing soldiers consciously guarded Luo Shan, desperately killing out.
It's a man!
Wan Li saw that Luo Shan rejected his kindness, and he was not angry, but added respect in his heart.
Just ......, Wan Li shouted loudly, "Kill!" ”
With Wanli's drinking order, a neat thud suddenly sounded.
Thousands of bullets pierced the night sky, and in an instant, many people in the front line of the Qing army were shot and fell to the ground and died.
In a short time, the second bullet poured like raindrops, constantly harvesting lives!
"Bang!"
Luo Shan's lifeless body fell on his back on the cold bluestone pavement, and bright red blood flowed out, staining the entire bluestone.
Wan Li looked at Luo Shan's corpse, sighed, and said, "Bury them all!" ”
"Yes, General!" Dozens of soldiers immediately carried out the order, collected Luo Shan's corpses, and buried them at the foot of Changshou Mountain.
With Luo Shan's death, there was no one to resist in the entire Shanhaiguan, and the Zheng family army conquered Shanhaiguan!
After the recovery of Shanhaiguan, Lin Xishan left Wanli to lead more than 10,000 people of the first division, as well as some soldiers who had not fully recovered their bodies, to garrison Shanhaiguan.
He led the main force north, and the front of the troops pointed to Ning Yuan.
With the main force of the 3rd Division, the 5th Division, and the 6th Division and the artillery brigade, they marched at night and attacked for a long distance to encircle Ning Yuanwei.
Ning Yuanwei's garrison commander-in-chief, Tong Guowei, led his troops to surrender on July 15 under strong military pressure from the Eastern Zheng Army.
Ningyuan City was recovered, and Lin Xishan did not continue to go north, but went south according to the plan, preparing to unite the East and West Road armies to attack the capital, intending to recover Jiangshan in one fell swoop.
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When the army and navy forces attacked Shanhaiguan.
After recovering Zhengzhou with the East Route Army, the West Route Army turned around and attacked Shanxi.
Wakda was killed and Zhengzhou was lost, and the blow to Shanxi officials was almost fatal.
The morale of the civil and military officials in Shanxi was completely demoralized, and the squire landlords were completely discouraged and disillusioned with the Manchu regime.
Even before the arrival of Zheng Jiajun, many squires had already made it clear that they wanted to take refuge in Zheng Chenggong, and actively contacted other squires who were ready to echo Zheng Jiajun's recovery of Shanxi.
On July 10, Yang Zhenwei, a general of the Qing army Huguan Han, was persuaded by the Shanxi squires to surrender to the Zheng army.
Zhou Quanbin received the surrender letter sent by Yang Zhenwei, and immediately led the army from Huguan into the hinterland of Shanxi.
Meng Qiaofang, the governor of the three sides, believed that the pot was dangerous and unbreakable. There was no defense at all, and the Zheng army entered no man's land several times and conquered Pingyang Mansion on the 13th. Subsequently, Zhou Quanbin sent Guo Ting to attack Taiyuan, and he himself led a large army to Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi Province.
On July 17, Yao Guotai traveled 170 miles in a hurry, and suddenly came out from the south, Meng Qiaofang was caught off guard, and the Qing army was in chaos, and even the suspension bridge could not be closed.
Yao Guotai immediately launched a fierce attack from the south gate with a wave of troops.
Under the encouragement of Yao Guotai, the soldiers of the Zheng family army fought bravely one by one.
Two thousand cavalry cut through the Taiyuan garrison like an awl, killing from the south gate and out from the north gate. Then enter from the north gate, and kill back and forth three times.
At the cost of 400 dead and wounded, the Qing soldiers were strangled to death, and the Zheng family's army was all under the city, and they could not effectively organize the Qing troops to resist.
In the end, Meng Qiaofang, the governor of the three sides, led more than 100 horsemen to escape from the north gate and fled to Beijing.
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Ao Bai led his troops to retreat to Jinan, and Gan Hui led the East Road army to conquer Heze. Then, he conquered Zhen County.
On July 20, he broke through Liangshan County and captured Zhou Maochen of Qingzhi County alive.
On July 21, he led the Zheng army to suddenly enter the city of Jining. Liu Ming, a squire in the city, and others acted as internal responses, broke the city in the early morning of the next day, and captured Yu Yongshou, the general soldier of Jining.
The people of Dezhou, Dingtao, Chengwu, Dongming and other prefectures and counties in Shandong responded one after another.
On July 24, Gan Hui led an army of 80,000 to Jinan.
Ao Bai, Mei Lezhang Jing Lai Fu, Yizhou General Soldier Tong Yangliang, Linqing General Soldier Yi Yonggui, Shandong Governor Fang Dayou, Jinan Governor Wang Ao Yongyong bravely resisted.
Gan Hui led the artillery brigade to the front line and bombarded the city with artillery.
Hundreds of artillery pieces bombarded in unison, and the Qing army could not resist the impact of Zheng's army at all, and was killed "corpses all over the field, blood-stained grass pills".
Seeing that the situation was unfavorable, Fang Dayou, the governor of Shandong, and Yi Yonggui, the general soldier of Linqing, sent people out of the city in the middle of the night to surrender to Gan Hui.
On the 25th, Fang Dayou and Yi Yonggui tied up Mei Lezhang Jing Lai Fu and Yizhou General Soldier Tong Yangliang, hoping to save their lives.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Ao Bai abandoned the army and fled with only 2,000 personal soldiers.
Most of Shandong was recovered by Zheng's army.
Shanxi, Shandong, and Shanhaiguan all fell into the hands of the Zheng army, and the Zheng army's nearly 320,000 troops had already surrounded Zhili.
Aobai and Meng Qiaofang, who retreated to Zhending Mansion, desperately sent letter soldiers to the capital.