Liu Zeqing, who is eight years old Chinese New Year's Eve this year, is quite tall, but lean and withered, and outsiders will not guess at first glance that he is a military general who guards one side. is selfish and arrogant, and ruthless, often mentioning to his confidants, "Twenty-one-year-old pen, thirty-one-year-old altar, forty-one-year-old can be crowned!" ”

In the sixth year of Chongzhen, Liu Zeqing was worshiped as the chief soldier of Shandong and led the party. He has been in charge of Shandong for seven years, and the people privately call him "wolf handsome". It means that Liu Zeqing is a wolf, and if he can't feed it, he wants to eat people, which shows his greed, cruelty and selfishness.

On 28 May, in the name of suppressing bandits, Liu Zeqing mobilized troops from Jinan, Dongchang, and Qingzhou to approach the Laizhou line. Just after the early morning of the second day of the sixth month, he and his eldest son Liu Zhicun, nephews Liu Zhibing, Liu Zhigan, and the commanders of the three prefectures, Zheng Longfang, Yao Wenchang, Guo Pinliang and other generals, led 20,000 main forces to break into Laizhou, falsely claiming that they had received news that Haikou had invaded Dengzhou in a big way, and he was ordered by the superintendent to reinforce the army.

On the other hand, 10,000 soldiers and horses were led by his deputy general Tong Wenhuan, taking the trade route provided by the Lu Palace, sneaking up on Dasongwei and Jinghaiwei, forming a flanking attack on Dengzhou.

Peng Weizuo, the prefect of Laizhou, commanded Tang Qianrong to be shocked. Laizhou and Dengzhou are dependent on each other, in the early years, the whole of Shandong was under the occupation of Liu Zeqing, and the two dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, and finally came to a Zhu Ping'an, and forcibly carved up Dengzhou from Liu Zeqing's mouth. Peng Weizuo and Tang Qianrong are also people with roots in the center, know. Behind Zhu Ping'an was Zhou Yanru, the first assistant of the cabinet, and even the forces of the inner court were supporting, so he decisively changed the direction of the wind and threw himself into Zhu Ping'an's arms. This year. Dengzhou is becoming more and more prosperous, and the neighboring Laizhou has also taken a lot of advantage.

Two days earlier, they got the news that Liu Zeqing had urgently summoned the army, and the two of them quickly sent people to Dengzhou to deliver the letter, and on the other hand, they sent soldiers and horses to guard the various transportation arteries into Laizhou. But in less than a day, Liu Zeqing suppressed the backlash of soldiers and horses in Laizhou with the seal of the Shandong General Army and the edict of the superintendent, and directly surrounded Ye County, the seat of Laizhou Prefecture. Faced with the coercive situation of Liu Zeqing's army and the warrant of the superintendent in their hands, Peng and Tang could only choose to open the city gate to welcome Liu Zeqing's army to cross.

This made Liu Zeqing find an excuse to casually frame Peng and Tang for colluding with the bandits and blocking the rebellion of the imperial army, so they were directly put into prison. Just wait until you return to the teacher to deal with it.

Liu Zeqing was triumphant. Within a day, the entire territory of Laizhou was controlled, and the next thing was to approach Dengzhou. Tong Wenhuan has also sent someone to deliver the letter, and his forward has now arrived at Wulonghe, which is waiting for Da Songwei. Along the way, the defenders of the fort fled in despair. According to Tong Wenhuan's estimate. Within three days, Da Songwei and Jinghaiwei can be cleared, and seven days later, he will join Liu Zeqing under the city of Dengzhou.

There is no news from the Zheng Junshui Division at present. Presumably still in the midst of a fierce battle, although Liu Zeqing has been in Shandong for a long time, he has a clear understanding of Zheng Jun's strength. Zheng Jun's naval division is the best in the world, but the ability to fight on land is really not flattering. As early as the ninth year of Chongzhen, because of the quelling of the rebellion of the indigenous people of Liangguang, the Shandong army had fought together with the Fujian and Guangdong departments. Pirates are pirates after all, and it's not their turn to call the shots when they get to land.

There is no big problem for Zheng Jun's naval division to take Weihai Weijun Port, the key is the subsequent landing operation, once it falls into a stormy battle, he still needs to make a final decision in the end.

And there is good news from Laiyang, fires have broken out everywhere in Laiyang City, and the official warehouse has been burned to the ground. This is still the news collected by the Tanma along the road, but Liu Mao and the others did not see anyone turn around and report, which made Liu Zeqing a little annoyed. Liu Zeqing didn't have any worries about the safety of these guards, these people were all outlaws recruited by Liu Zeqing for many years, and all of them had no skills, Liu Zeqing was also confident that in Shandong, no soldiers and horses could compare to his own guards and horse soldiers.

However, brave and brave, these people have never been able to change the temper of the green forest that kills people and goods, these days, repeatedly attacked Dengzhou businessmen, these people have benefited a lot from it, I heard that many people have settled in Jinan, bought women to go home to raise. The sneak attack on Laiyang was successful, these people are proud of their achievements, and they must have taken the opportunity to loot everywhere, how can they get it if it goes on like this for a long time.

After the war is over, everything is to purge these proud soldiers.

After taking Ye County, Liu Zeqing refused the request of his generals to rest for a day, and urged the army to speed up the attack in the direction of Dengzhou.

On the fifth day of the first month of June, Liu Zeqing's army crossed the squatting dog mountain, and the forts along the way did not organize corresponding resistance, and the news also came from Tanma, starting from the early morning of the second day of the first month of June, the direction of Weihaiwei was rumbling with cannons, and it did not stop until the fourth day of the first month of June. Zhu Ping'an has mobilized 20,000 new troops to reinforce Weihaiwei. But there was no news of Tong Wenhuan's attack on Da Songwei and Jing Haiwei, although Liu Zeqing was a little worried, but when he thought of those troops in Dengzhou, all his worries immediately came to naught.

Full of calculations, Zhu Ping'an's arrival in Dengzhou for a year, the four guards plus the new army, a total of only 40,000 troops, Zheng Jun's naval division was involved in half, what else is there to fear about these troops on land, he Zhu Ping'an is not a god to descend to earth, will he still scatter beans into a soldier?

Beyond the Squatting Dog Mountain, Huang County was close at hand, but when it was only sixty miles away from Huang County, the spies in front sent back the news. The Dengzhou Army had arrived at the intersection of Laishan and Squaodog Mountain to the west of Huangxian, a place called Ximayuan.

There are two original forts in West Malaysia, namely Haidai Fort and Qijia Fort, the mountain of the two mountains has gradually flattened here, the east and the seat are almost all open slopes, the terrain is high in the east and low in the west, but the slope is not large, the Dengzhou army is relying on these two forts, occupies a slightly higher terrain in the east, digs trenches, builds fortifications, and blocks the road of Liu Zeqing's army to the east.

Liu Zeqing has been running Shandong for many years, and he is also familiar with the topography of this generation, and he can't help laughing when he hears it, "Ping An Xiaoer is in a desperate situation!" "When I just reported to Tanma, I had already estimated that Zhu Ping'an's military strength was no more than 10,000 people, and it seemed that my three-sided attack strategy had successfully mobilized Zhu Ping'an's troops. On this plain, where there is no danger to defend, how can there be any chance of victory if you want to resist the attack of 20,000 troops with 10,000 newly built troops? What's more, in the other two battlefields, his own strength is also completely superior, and Zhu Ping'an has to face a sudden surprise attack from behind and south at any time, so wouldn't it be self-defeating!

Liu Zeqing gave an order, and the army moved slowly, and the soldiers pointed directly at Ximayuan.

Zhu Ping'an arrived in Ximayuan yesterday evening, and after setting up camp, he began to dig fortifications. In the Ming Dynasty, the marching army settled the camp, and there were always some horse-repellent wooden thorns on the periphery to prevent the enemy from sneaking up. However, the purpose of this fortification was to reduce the number of casualties that were about to occur.

Zhu Ping'an has not seen the combat strength of the Shandong army with his own eyes, but he has seen the situation of the four guards of Dengzhou and the military horses of Laizhou Mansion before. It can be said that compared with the elite soldiers of Xuanda, the Jin army, and the Qin army at the same time, the trump card in Liu Zeqing's hand is just a 3,000 troops with armor, and the horse team of 600 people is even more known as the elite of the elite, but now most of them have become dead corpses, and their combat power makes Zhang Dingbian, who participated in the war, that is, Zhang Dagou after the renaming, simply not worth a penny, these horse teams are just well-trained and well-armored horse thieves.

Excavation of fortifications has now become an indispensable subject in the training of the new army. The "Soldier's Code of Conduct" also records in detail the number and requirements of various fortifications, and when the non-commissioned officers are excavated, the officers will personally inspect them, and those who fail to pass will be punished by the corresponding military law. Because fortifications, when they are in a defensive posture, they are a life-saving weapon that can definitely reduce the casualties of soldiers on a large scale, and they must not be sloppy.

And today's battle, Zhu Ping'an did not plan to fight Liu Zeqing to the death, Goethe's artillery unit has been formed for half a year, and finally came out of scale, and today it is just right to show its skills, and there are two hundred improved Dengzhou rocket vehicles with the army, this kind of rocket car is imitated from the Daming God machine arrow car used in Julu before, but the ammunition is a new high-purity black powder, and the original special feather arrows have also been replaced with iron rockets.

A thousand musketeers were placed in the fortifications, behind them were pikemen, and on the flanks of the formation, that is, in the two forts, Zhang Dingbian's cavalry team was arranged, ready to attack Liu Zeqing's army from the flank. As for the grenadiers, Zhu Ping'an thought about it, and still excluded them from the sequence of participating in today's battle, because, according to Zhu Ping'an's calculations, in today's battle, Liu Zeqing's army definitely did not have the ability to advance within the attack range of the grenadiers.

Yiqiē's self-confidence comes from absolute strength, and Zhu Ping'an has some absolute confidence in the new army he has carefully built.

From a distance, I saw Liu Zeqing's army slowly coming to the west of Ximayuan, the army waved its flags, swords and guns were like a forest, and it had a compelling momentum.

Zhu Ping'an did not ride a horse, but he and Qiu Ze led more than a hundred students of the first phase of the martial arts hall to stand at the highest point of the fortification. The clairvoyant mirror has been popularized in the army, and in general, officers with more than 100 households have one. Now that he treats the students of the martial arts hall, Zhu Ping'an has no stinginess at all, and several people share a fight, and they can already see the army of Liu Zeqing on the opposite side clearly.

Seeing that the soldiers and horses on the opposite side stopped at a distance of two thousand steps from their own formation, and began to set up the formation in a mess, the students of the martial arts hall suddenly burst into disdainful disdain.

"What are you booing?" Zhu Ping'an asked with a smile.

The students looked at each other and immediately laughed, and a tall student with a square face and big ears saluted and walked out of the queue, "Hello handsome, Liu Zeqing's headquarters on the opposite side stopped two thousand steps away from our army, obviously fearful." According to the students' estimates, it will take at least three quarters of an hour for them to assemble the formation, so efficient, even my Dengzhou auxiliaries can't catch up, how can they fight with our new army? Besides, now is a good time to attack, our army is waiting for work, attacking it unprepared, it will definitely be able to win a big victory, students build yì, now you can order the cavalry to attack boldly! (To be continued......) R1292