"Oh, General Wang, you are asking the right person, in the past two days, many people have come to me to ask if they want to help, I think our national defense army has no trouble fighting Tartars, so I didn't tell the general about this, I'll go and tell the big guy, it's not a problem to keep thousands of people."

After listening to what Boss Liu said, Wang Qiang laughed and felt better.

"Please go and tell the big guys, don't go to the city to kill the enemy, as long as they help us transport supplies, cook, and take care of the prisoners by the way, so that we can also draw more people to the city wall."

Wang Qiang thought for a while and said to Boss Liu. These people have no training at all, once they go to the city wall, there will definitely be large casualties, which Wang Qiang does not want to see, and today a regiment did not all go to the city wall to defend, and it still occupied hundreds of people to take prisoners and transport supplies.

"Okay, this must be fine, I'll go find someone to talk to you."

Boss Liu agreed, quickly stood up and walked towards the door.

After Boss Liu left, Wang Qiang and Xie Kui carefully discussed tomorrow's defense with everyone, and now Wang Qiang had to think about repelling every attack of the Qing soldiers with the least amount of ammunition.

The next day, Wang Qiang still got up very early, and when he walked under the city wall of the south gate, he almost startled him. The city wall of the south gate was already crowded with the people of the city, and at a cursory glance, there were thousands of people.

"Don't quarrel, everyone, General Wang is here, let him assign it to everyone, okay?" Boss Liu stood on the steps of the city wall and shouted at the crowd.

It seems that with such a common people, Wang Qiang was a little excited, and walked to Boss Liu in a few steps. Raised his hand and pressed down. The crowd fell silent.

"Folks. Thank you for coming and playing Tartar with us! In yesterday's battle, the strength of our Wehrmacht was not damaged, and I can tell you here that yesterday we killed five or six thousand Qing soldiers, and only twenty-three of our Wehrmacht suffered some wounds. ”

Wang Qiang's words caused a burst of exclamations in the crowd, and some people still didn't believe their ears.

"Is what General Wang said true?"

"Why isn't it true? Did you see the Wehrmacht carrying a corpse down? ”

"The Wehrmacht is so powerful, I think the Tartars want to recapture Jinan City, it's impossible."

Wang Qiang raised his hand again and pressed it, and the commotion of the crowd quieted down again.

"But we have to be prepared to stick to it for a long time. Reinforcements from the Wehrmacht will definitely come, maybe two days, maybe five days, and we have to hold the city of Jinan. Next, the Qing soldiers will definitely fight with us, the ammunition carried by the Wehrmacht is limited, we have to save some use, which requires the help of the villagers. ”

"General Wang, you can just say what you want us to do!" As soon as Wang Qiang finished speaking, a shout sounded below.

"The situation is not tense to that point, and we don't need the villagers to go to the city to kill the enemy now. But we have to make sure that every soldier in the Wehrmacht can fight, and that's where the villagers need to help. ”

Wang Qiang personally dispatched the people of Jinan who came to help. In a few moments, thousands of people went their separate ways.

After a while, Xie Kui also brought dozens of trebuchets with a group of people, which were all prepared to be used to throw zha medicine bags, and they were quickly arranged one by one on the city wall.

Only then did Wang Qiang come to the South Gate Tower, raised the telescope in his hand and looked at the Qing army camp five or six miles away.

There was not too much smoke in the camp of the Qing soldiers, which made Wang Qiang a little strange, according to common sense, the Qing soldiers would bury the pot and cook early this morning, and then come to attack the city after eating, could it be that the Qing soldiers were already short of food?

The corpses of the Qing soldiers under the city wall have been transported, which is Wang Qiang asked people to shout with iron horns on the city wall, promising not to call the Qing soldiers who came to collect the corpses, Wu Sangui then tentatively sent someone to clean up, and saw that there was really no shooting on the city wall, so he boldly sent someone to pull the corpse back and bury it.

The Qing soldiers really did not lack food today, and Wu Sangui's 60,000 horses carried a lot of grain and grass, which was enough for the Qing soldiers outside the city to hold out for two or three days, but Tan Tai had no plans to attack the city today.

It's not that Tan Tai doesn't want to take Jinan City as soon as possible, but he didn't make enough siege equipment last night, Wu Sangui's Guan Ning army almost grinded all night yesterday, and Tan Tai was furious in the tent at this time.

"We've done our best, so how do the soldiers make siege engines with knives and guns? The craftsmen of the army did not follow. Wu Sangui was very unconvinced by Tan Tai's anger, and said with a stalk around his neck.

Wu Sangui's words reminded Tan Tai that the artisan battalion in Yizhou had been included in the team to transport grain and grass, and suppressed the anger, Tan Tai thought about it calmly and decided not to attack the city today.

The scouts had already reported that the Wehrmacht had not been found within a hundred miles, which made Tan Tai dare to stop this day, first, to wait for the retreating infantry of Yizhou to arrive, and secondly, to use this day to make some siege equipment.

Tan Tai felt that he had time, and that was a big mistake he made, because he only sent scouts in the direction of Yizhou and ignored the direction of Binzhou, or Tan Tai did not expect that there would be a national defense force coming from this direction.

Ma Yingkui led the Hangzhou garrison division to land in Le'an County, Qingzhou the day before yesterday. Ma Yingkui knew that time was everything, and the Hangzhou garrison division that went ashore did not dare to delay at all, and after the whole division landed, Ma Yingkui only spent an hour reorganizing the team, and then directly began the rapid march to Jinan.

In the logistical preparation for the garrison division, Shi Kefa had already taken this into account, and he prepared enough dry food and canned food for the garrison division, which made Ma Yingkui dare to march quickly with a large army, leaving the logistics troops behind.

There were not a large number of Qing troops on the front line from Le'an to Jinan, but there were more than 2,000 people in Boxing, and the garrison division arrived in Boxing in the afternoon of the next day, but Ma Yingkui didn't even have time to clean up this Qing army, and only let the two battalions escorting grain and grass clean them up by the way.

More than 2,000 Qing soldiers did not dare to come out to intercept the garrison, and Ma Yingkui did not delay at all in Boxing. The garrison division's usual rigorous training finally came into play, and in the most of the days after the landing, the garrison division marched more than 60 miles, and if it weren't for the drag of the artillery, Ma Yingkui estimated that it would have been able to run down for 100 miles.

Just when Wang Qiang climbed the city tower to watch the enemy, Ma Yingkui had already passed Boxing and was entering Qingcheng County (now Gaoqing County, Shandong), which was only more than 200 miles away from Jinan.

The Seventh Division rushed towards Jinan but encountered trouble, originally bypassing the city of Yizhou was delayed for most of the night, the next day at dawn, Ma Qianjun found that the official road to Jinan had been dug by the Qing soldiers several trenches, not only that, the Qing soldiers also attracted the nearby river, a large section of the official road was flooded by the river.

The infantry could have gone through the water, but the artillery could not, and it took a lot of effort to move the artillery through this period, but it took most of the day.

Just when the Seventh Division was about to reach the vicinity of Tai'an City, more than 10,000 Qing cavalry came to intercept it, although the Seventh Division did not take more than 10,000 cavalry in its eyes, but these cavalry did not seem to really want to fight with the Seventh Division, and only roamed around the periphery, which made the Seventh Division unable to march at ease.

These cavalry were so annoying that just when the Seventh Division was about to spread out its formation and start fighting, he ran far away, and when the Seventh Division gathered its formation and was ready to march, he stuck up again.

Ma Qianjun was really angry, and ordered the artillery to spread out a battle formation on the official road, and fired five volleys all the way, killing and wounding hundreds of Qing cavalry, which made the Qing cavalry of the brigade farther away.

The Seventh Division stopped and stopped all the way, and Ma Qianjun's mouth was already in a hurry, but the speed could not be faster.

At about three or four o'clock in the afternoon, the 30,000 or 40,000 people withdrawn by the Qing soldiers from Yizhou finally arrived outside the city of Jinan, and in the evening, the grain and grass escorted had also arrived, and the artisan battalion had also arrived.

Wang Qiang, who had been idle for a day, was still standing at the head of the city to observe the camp of the Qing soldiers, and saw that a large number of Qing soldiers arrived one after another, Wang Qiang was also surprised in his heart, and it seemed that tomorrow's battle must be done with all his might.

Countless torches were lit in the Qing army camp at night, Wang Qiang clearly saw from the telescope that the Qing army camp had almost become a wood processing factory, and the tall siege vehicles had already taken shape, this thing was much more powerful than a ladder, and there were many soldiers standing on it, and they could use firepower to support the Qing soldiers to enter the city.

Wang Qiang roughly counted more than forty of these tall siege vehicles, and Wang Qiang began to worry about tomorrow's battle.

The key is that the artillery dragged down the marching speed of the troops, and after setting off for most of the day, it was only more than 30 miles away from Yizhou City, Huang Degong ordered all the artillery of the Fourth and Sixth Divisions to withdraw to Yizhou City, and he led the infantry of the two divisions to start a rapid march.

In addition to carrying ammunition, each soldier had to carry a few days' worth of food, and the dry food was no longer enough, and the Seventh Division had already taken most of it.

Huang Degong, who was angry and anxious, had not forgotten to ask the staff officer to write a report to Nanjing, demanding that another cavalry division must be formed.

The offensive and defensive battles around Jinan in the whole of Shandong have all been moved, and Luo Jian has not stopped in Nanjing, he is paying close attention to the situation in Shandong in the general staff.

Countless post stations have been built from Xinyi to Nanjing, which allows Shandong's war situation to report to Nanjing as quickly as possible.

Although several big victories have been fought, the battle to attack Shandong was not as strong as expected, which was a bit of a surprise to Luo Jian.

And the news from the direction of Xuzhou made Luo Jian even more worried, Henan has 1560,000 Qing soldiers maneuvering in the direction of Shandong, and now it has passed Shandong Heze, and it will reach the vicinity of Jinan in another ten days, if the Qing soldiers in Shandong cannot be solved as soon as possible, as soon as the 1560,000 Qing soldiers arrive, what will the battle become, Luo Jian is not sure.

"Our troops are still insufficient, and the current equipment can't form an absolute advantage over the Qing soldiers, Xinghua, is it too hasty for us to launch a full-scale attack this time?"

Shi Kefa, who was also guarding the General Staff, looked at the situation on the map and said to Luo Jian very worriedly.

"Brother Xian, we have to believe in our troops, believe in the generals on the front line, the battle has come to this point, regret is useless, let's think about it, how can we help them."

Luo Jian also regretted a little, if he waited another month or two, Xiao Liu's chemical plant was completely renovated, and the output of new zha medicine came up, maybe it would not be the current situation.

The situation in the direction of Xuzhou is not very good now, Duoduo learned that the main force of the national defense army has all gone to Shandong, and immediately sent tens of thousands of people to besiege Dangshan County, although there is no sign of being able to break through Dangshan County, but the Fifth Division has been forced to all go out to relieve the siege of Dangshan. (To be continued.) )