Chapter 269: Ke Yongsheng
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Ke Yongsheng was born in martial arts and has loved dancing and playing with guns since he was a child. The Ke family is also a big family in Jiaozhou, with thousands of acres of fertile land and more than 10 shops.
Two months ago, when the Shun army in the city went out of the city to fight with the exile army led by Li Shiyuan. Ke Yongsheng mobilized other gentry in Jiaozhou City and took the opportunity to occupy Jiaozhou.
After occupying Jiaozhou, the big families in the city were naturally reluctant to let the exiled army that defeated the Shun army outside the city enter the city. closed the door, forcing Li Shiyuan to take people back to Qingzhou.
In the past two months, the ground in Shandong has undergone earth-shaking changes, and news of the fall of the capital has come one after another. After the Shun army was defeated, it completely left the capital and was driven back to Shaanxi.
However, the Manchu Qing did not send a large army to attack Shandong, but only sent the subordinate Wang Ao Yongfang Dayou with a small number of people to appease Shandong.
Most of the gentry were wall-to-wall grass, and their loyalty to the Ming was really limited. When the Shun army gained power, the officials and gentry in Shandong surrendered one after another. As soon as the news of the defeat of the Shun army came, many people couldn't hold back, killed the officials appointed by Dashun, and returned to the Ming Dynasty. At first, they thought that it was Pingxibo Wu Sangui who borrowed troops to suppress bandits, who knew that the Manchus would not leave after entering the capital, and Wu Sangui also became the king of Pingxi of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. This made many Shandong officials and gentry not know what to do.
When Wang Ao Yongfang was appeased, many officials and gentry turned around and surrendered. Later, when the "King of Ji" Zhu Shuaiwei was also appeased in Dezhou, the officials and gentry in Shandong surrendered one after another. It was at that time that Ke Yongsheng raised troops to surrender to the Qing Dynasty and was appointed by Wang Aoyong as the chief soldier of Jiaozhou.
After becoming the commander-in-chief of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Ke Yongsheng immediately recruited soldiers on a large scale, and his subordinates quickly expanded to more than 2,000 people. And sent troops many times to attack the nearby Qingming army that refused to surrender. With a large number of people and plenty of food and grass, he also won a few battles, which made Ke Yongsheng's heart swell all of a sudden.
So when he heard that a Ming army arrived in the east of Jiaozhou by boat, Ke Yongsheng made up his mind to defeat this Ming army.
While sending people to investigate the situation of the Ming army, he gathered his men and decided to attack the enemy camp at night.
When the spies reported that there were only about 2,000 Ming troops on the Jiaolai River, he realized that the opportunity to make meritorious service had arrived. If he can defeat this Ming army and make great contributions, maybe he can be promoted from the general army to the commander. The Admiral of Shandong, the Admiral of the entire military affairs of Shandong, what a bright future it should be!
Therefore, at the time of the third watch, Ke Yongsheng ordered the whole army to assemble, and after eating the prepared dry food, he went out of the city and went straight to the Jiaolai River in the east of the city.
For this night attack, Ke Yongsheng made sufficient preparations, and carried a lot of rocket oil.
When approaching the enemy camp, Ke Yongsheng gave an order, and three hundred archers bent their bows and arrows, and fired rockets into the enemy camp. The Ming camp was immediately set on fire, and the screams of the Ming soldiers inside could be heard.
Ke Yongsheng immediately led the soldiers to rush to the gate of the Ming army's village, but he didn't expect that a trench was dug outside the temporary camp of the Ming army, and dozens of subordinates fell in, and immediately let out a miserable scream, but it was pierced by the sharp wood at the bottom of the ditch.
Ke Yongsheng didn't care about them, and immediately ordered his subordinates to hit the Ming army's walled gate with a giant log.
Scattered arrows flew out of the Ming camp, but they attracted a fierce return fire from Ke Yongsheng's archers.
The gate was finally smashed open, and the Qing soldiers swarmed into the camp of the Ming army. To their surprise, however, the resistance of the Ming army was not strong. There weren't many Ming troops scurrying around in the firelight, which was completely different from the imagined night attack.
Looking at the situation in front of him, Ke Yongsheng had doubts in his heart, what the hell is going on? The Ming army in the camp doesn't seem to be as many as expected.
"Lord Commander, the Ming army has fled in the direction of the river." One of his subordinates hurriedly came over to tell him, and Ke Yongsheng immediately led people to the river.
The camp of the Ming army leaned against the Jiaolai River, and when Ke Yongsheng led people to the river, he saw dozens of big boats in the river. In the light of the fire, several small boats could be seen rowing from the shore to the large boats in the river.
"Open your bow and release your arrows!" Ke Yongsheng immediately ordered, and the Qing archers bent their bows and shot arrows at the middle of the river.
"Bang, bang, bang" A crisp sound sounded, and the soldiers around Ke Yongsheng suddenly fell down several times.
The Ming army on the boat in the middle of the river actually had muskets, and they could even load gunpowder and shoot in the dark.
The Ming army had a lot of muskets, and there were at least hundreds of them, and the soldiers around Ke Yongsheng fell down screaming one after another, and he had to order to retreat away from the river and into the Ming camp.
He was all infantry, and he had nothing to do with the Ming army's fleet in the river.
Perhaps most of the Ming troops did not get off the ship and enter the camp to rest, Ke Yongsheng made an excuse for the small number of Ming troops in the camp.
He knew that this Ming army was the subordinate of the guerrilla general who came from the south a few months ago, and they were all sailors, and they might be used to riding boats, and they were not used to sleeping on land.
But since you don't camp on the road, why build such a large camp? Ke Yongsheng couldn't figure it out.
The sky gradually brightened, and I could already see the ships of the Ming army in the middle of the river. The flags on the ships were unfurled, and they were flying the flags of the Zhejiang coastal defense guerrillas.
The bow of the ship was filled with Ming soldiers, and the muzzles of muskets in black holes were pointed at the shore.
"Bang", "bang", "bang" muskets rang out one after another, which was the Ming army shooting at their own subordinates. The camp was right next to the riverbank, and it was completely within range of the opponent.
The archers of the Qing soldiers were not willing to be lonely, and stood on the bank of the river and began to shoot back at the ships. From time to time, soldiers on both sides fell, and no one seemed to take advantage of this kind of fire.
The loud sound of "boom" suddenly sounded, and the Qing soldiers on the shore immediately fell down.
The Ming army actually had a lot of artillery on board. Many of the guns were not filled with solid lead pellets, but with a large number of scattered bullets of iron nails and iron filings
In a round of shelling, nearly 100 Qing soldiers fell, and the rest scattered in a hurry, never daring to stand on the shore again.
The pupils of Ke Yongsheng's eyes contracted suddenly, the firepower of the Ming army was so powerful!
No ships could attack the Ming army in the river, and they could not take advantage of the counter-shooting. Ke Yongsheng could only order a retreat.
Very little was seized from the camp of the Ming army, and there was not a single grain of food. In this case, there is no way to retreat. After marching and fighting in the middle of the night, Ke Yongsheng's Qing soldiers were already hungry.
Fortunately, the Ming army in the river did not get off the boat to pursue, but only saw off the Qing soldiers with the sound of artillery.
When he came, he was full of ambition, and when he returned to the city, Ke Yongsheng was dejected, and this night attack did not take advantage, but lost hundreds of soldiers. Fortunately, the camp of the Ming army was burned, which can be comforted.
Seeing Jiaozhou City from a distance and looking at the green flag fluttering at the head of the city, the tired Qing soldiers couldn't help but speed up their pace one by one.
Hurry up and go into the city, eat a full meal, and sleep beautifully, this is the idea of most Qing soldiers.
But they don't know that Jiaozhou has changed owners now. (To be continued.) )