Just when the artillery of the 7th Division fired, the 4th and 6th Divisions also launched an attack on the Qing defense line outside Yizhou City.

With the combat experience of the Fourth Division outside Dayangzhuang, after more than a dozen artillery pieces approached and cleared the artillery of the Qing soldiers on the defensive line, the attacking troops alternately covered each other and rushed forward, and when they were more than 100 meters away from the trenches, the troops began to shoot, and the Qing soldiers in the trenches could not raise their heads at all due to the dense firepower.

Although the Qing troops were tenacious, the powerful firepower of the attacking troops was not something that could be resisted by stubbornness.

The 4th and 6th Divisions suffered less than 100 casualties each before breaking through the defensive line and began to attack on both flanks and depths of the Qing defensive line.

The Qing soldiers on the defensive line began to scatter and flee, but only more than 2,000 people actually escaped, most of the Qing soldiers chose to surrender on their knees, and the two divisions captured more than 10,000 prisoners.

The artillery of the Qing army on the city wall of Yizhou caused hundreds of casualties in two divisions, which made Liu Dingjun and Liu Xiongwu extremely angry, and immediately ordered the artillery to move forward and began to shell the head of Yizhou City.

Tan Tai shrank behind the stomping on the city wall of Yizhou City, and watched sadly as the Wehrmacht broke through the defensive line he had painstakingly set up outside the city in less than an hour, and when the Wehrmacht began to bombard the city, Tan Tai had the idea of giving up Yizhou.

The more than 30,000 Qing soldiers attacking the Seventh Division were completely confused after the three salvos fired by the Seventh Division's artillery regiment, and many Qing soldiers began to run to the rear, and the chaotic Qing soldiers no longer had a formation.

"Start attacking!" Although the artillery caused heavy damage to the Qing soldiers, Ma Qianjun also knew that this kind of artillery shells were extremely precious, and he was reluctant to use them up, seeing that the Qing soldiers were already in chaos. Immediately the order was given to attack.

Only the 2nd Regiment of the 7th Division moved forward. The 3rd and 4th regiments outflanked the Qing soldiers from both flanks. Huang Degong nodded secretly when he saw it, it seems that Ma Qianjun not only wants to defeat this Qing army, he wants to eat them all.

There was no suspense in the battle, and the Seventh Division completely annihilated the more than 30,000 Qing soldiers in less than two hours, and less than 1,000 Qing soldiers escaped, and the Seventh Division also captured nearly 20,000 prisoners.

"Yes, the training of the Seventh Division has caught up with the First Division." Huang Degong was not too excited, but said lightly to Ma Qianjun. If the more than 10,000 people of the Seventh Division can't even kill the 30,000 Qing soldiers without fortifications, then it is in vain that he values the Seventh Division so much.

"Order the troops to hurry up and clean up the battlefield. After cleaning up the battlefield, the troops will return to the camp to rest, and attack Yizhou City early tomorrow morning! Huang Degong said to the operational staff officer, it is getting late today, and it will be tomorrow to attack Yizhou City.

Huang Degong regretted his order for a while, he didn't know that Tan Tai in Yizhou City was ready to abandon the city and flee at this time.

When more than 30,000 Qing soldiers outside the city were bombed and chaotic, Tan Tai had already made up his mind to abandon the city and escape.

Tan Tai, who had made up his mind, did not dare to delay at all, and with Tan Tai's order, a large number of auxiliaries began to transport grain and grass from Yizhou City, and Tan Tai knew that because Jinan City was occupied. There will be no more grain and grass to come, if not brought with it. Tens of thousands of troops will soon run out of food.

A large amount of grain and grass will inevitably slow down the marching speed of the large army, Tan Taisi thought about it, and ordered Qingzhou garrison Li Shiyuan to lead more than 20,000 people to hold Yizhou City, Tan Tai has no other extravagant hopes, he only expects Li Shiyuan to block the national defense army for a day or two.

There is a reason why Tan Tai left Li Shiyuan, Li Shiyuan was originally the Qingzhou garrison of the Ming Dynasty, and the Qing soldiers took the initiative to surrender to the Qing soldiers after entering Shandong, and later booby-trapped Zhao Yingyuan and a large number of anti-Qing rebels when dealing with Zhao Yingyuan in Shandong, and had a lot of blood debts on his hands.

Without waiting for Tan Tai to lead the army to leave Yizhou City, Li Shiyuan ordered his subordinates to strengthen the defense of Yizhou City, and he also knew that if it fell into the hands of the National Defense Army, there would be absolutely no chance for him to live, he just wanted to hold it for two days and escape from Yizhou.

Wu Sangui didn't know that Tan Tai had given up Yizhou City and caught up behind him, and he was still leading more than 50,000 people with the Guanning army as the main force to rush towards Jinan unhurriedly.

When Dolgon transferred Wu Sangui from the northeast to Shandong last year, Wu Sangui was still extremely grateful to Dolgon, and he felt that the regent of the Qing Dynasty still trusted him.

Later, news came from Beijing that his transfer to Shandong was the result of Fan Wencheng's repeated persuasion of Dolgon, and Wu Sangui began to feel uncomfortable.

Since the Qing army began to expand a large number of recruits last year, his Guanning army has also been expanded, but the Guanning army is mainly cavalry, and Tan Tai did not expand his cavalry, but let him increase more than 30,000 infantry troops, Wu Sangui began to beat drums in his heart.

It seems that the Manchu court did not fully trust itself, and wanted to dedicate Shanhaiguan to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which allowed the Manchu Qing to easily occupy Beijing City, which was the first major contribution of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's entry into the customs, but the Manchu court took every precaution against itself, which made Wu Sangui a little cold.

When he was in Shanhaiguan, he had already decided to take refuge in Dashun, but later news came from the capital that his father had been killed by the Dashun army, which made Wu Sangui temporarily decide to defect to the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

The Dashun army was quickly defeated, until it was wiped out, so that Wu Sangui felt that his choice was correct, the Ming Dynasty still had a huge territory, if he fought for the Qing Dynasty, he should be able to make immortal achievements, and he would not be able to run away from glory and wealth in this life.

But the Yangzhou army was born out of thin air to shatter Wu Sangui's good dream, last year Yangzhou soldiers Linyi Prefecture City, their tens of thousands of troops did not dare to go out of the city to face thousands of Yangzhou troops, so that Tan Tai was very dissatisfied with Wu Sangui.

Although he did not publicly wear small shoes for Wu Sangui, Tan Tai no longer valued Wu Sangui as much as before, which made Wu Sangui extremely disappointed.

A few years ago, Wu Sangui also sent someone to Nanjing City quietly, he wanted to get in touch with the Southern Ming Dynasty again, if the price offered by the Southern Ming Dynasty was high enough, Wu Sangui did not mind returning to the arms of the Ming Dynasty.

Wu Sangui's condition for the Southern Ming Dynasty court was to be crowned king, which stumped Ma Shiying, who was still the first assistant at the time, Luo Jian made immortal achievements in Yangzhou, and the court only sealed a national duke, how could he Wu Sangui ask to be crowned king?

Moreover, at that time, Luo Jian was in the list of big traitors announced in Yangzhou, and Wu Sangui was also among them, and Ma Shiying did not have the courage to directly agree to Wu Sangui to be crowned king to recruit him.

When the messenger came back from Nanjing and told him the result, Wu Sangui regretted that his price had been raised a little too high, and when Wu Sangui wanted to send the messenger again, lower the bargaining chips and prepare to give up as long as the prince of the country gave up, the Southern Ming court was gone.

Wu Sangui didn't think of going to Yangzhou directly, but he had deep concerns about Yangzhou. At the beginning, Yangzhou included Wu Sangui in the ranks of big traitors, he was very uncomfortable, and later heard that after Huang Degong took refuge in Yangzhou, the military power in his hands was gone, and he dared not approach Yangzhou even more.

Wu Sangui felt that it didn't matter if the title was lower, but his strength could not be damaged, the people and horses in his hands were the foundation of his foothold in this troubled era, if he had no military power, why would he still take refuge in Yangzhou?

After that, it was more than half a year of peaceful days, and Wu Sangui certainly knew that the peaceful days were temporary, and when the Nanjing government straightened out the interior, it would be a matter of time before a full-scale attack on the Manchus was launched.

In the past half a year, Wu Sangui tried every means to expand his strength, but fortunately, Yizhou is still some distance from Tai'an, and Tan Tai can't keep an eye on it, Wu Sangui took out all his family resources and began to recruit troops and horses, and finally expanded his people to more than 60,000 people.

As a "famous general" in the former Ming army, Wu Sangui was not an incompetent person, and had his own set of methods on how to encircle his subordinates, and in more than half a year, he finally made these more than 60,000 people loyal to him, and Wu Sangui felt that he had the strength to have the right to speak between the Nanjing government and the Manchu court.

This time, thousands of troops of the National Defense Army raided Jinan, Wu Sangui did not expect it, and he did not expect that Tan Tai would send him back to recover Jinan City.

Wu Sangui was thinking about it right away, and Leng Yundeng, the deputy commander behind him, caught up with him.

"Commander, is our marching speed too slow, I'm afraid it will take more than ten days for us to rush to Jinan like this, and then Tan Tai will blame it, we can't afford to eat it."

Wu Sangui turned his head and glanced at Leng Yundeng, blaming him for not being able to see the situation clearly, whether Tan Tai could escape back from Yizhou City was still unknown, he clearly knew that more than 3,000 people of the National Defense Army dared to capture Jinan alone, how could it be easy to match him? Wu Sangui didn't want to put his family under the city of Jinan.

"With so many artillery, siege equipment, and food and grass, we can't get up quickly." Wu Sangui and Leng Yundeng played haha, but did not say what was in his heart.

Seeing that Wu Sangui didn't want to march quickly at all, Leng Yundeng also reacted and stopped urging Wu Sangui.

Wu Sangui's 60,000 troops marched towards Jinan at a speed of more than 30 miles a day, and Wang Qiang was a little impatient waiting in Jinan City.

From the morning of the third day, Wu Sangui had to order the army to march towards Jinan with all its might, because Tan Taiqin had already arrived from behind with more than 10,000 cavalry.

Although he was extremely dissatisfied with Wu Sangui's crawling at turtle speed on the road in the past two days, Tan Tai did not show it on his face, he knew that it was not possible to rely on the Qing cavalry to attack the city, and if he wanted to recapture Jinan, he had to rely on Wu Sangui's infantry army.

Hearing that Tan Tai had lost 50,000 horses under the city of Yizhou, Wu Sangui became more and more worried about the powerful attack ability of the National Defense Army, and his mind became more and more active.

But Wu Sangui did not dare to act rashly, the 15,000 cavalry led by Tan Tai were all Manchu and Mongolian elite cavalry, and there were only more than 10,000 cavalry among his 60,000 horses, although Wu Sangui was very confident in the combat effectiveness of the Guanning army, but that was compared with the Ming army before, and he did not dare to provoke the Manchu cavalry in the field.

Wu Sangui wanted to avoid Tan Tai, summoned several of his confidants to his side, and explained to them that when he arrived at the city of Jinan, he could take it easy when attacking the city, but he couldn't lose all the troops.

Although they walked all the official roads, but with dozens of red-coated cannons and a lot of siege equipment, the speed of the Qing army could not be fast in any case, and when Tan Tai and Wu Sangui arrived outside the city of Jinan, Ma Yingkui also landed in Le'an, Qingzhou.

Tan Tai was not in a hurry to order Wu Sangui to attack the city, he sent people to find Shi Tingzhu's cavalry thirty miles away from Jinan City, and learned that Tan Tai led the army back, so Shi Tingzhu led the cavalry to the outside of Jinan City.

Listening carefully to Shi Tingzhu's report on their brief battle with the Wehrmacht in Jinan City, Tan Tai panicked.

It turned out that more than 3,000 people of this national defense army dared to go deep into the hinterland of Shandong, and it turned out that their equipment was different from that of the previous national defense army, and their rifles did not need to be loaded while standing, and Tan Tai really had no confidence in capturing Jinan City. (To be continued.) )