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Due to the existence of 60,000 Mongolian cavalry in the Dongchang camp of the Qing army, the Xia army of the Eastern Road could not confidently and boldly besiege the spring city of Jinan, and had no choice but to make Yang Bokang, the deputy envoy of the Privy Council who was in charge of the operation on the East Road, could only set up large camps on both sides of the southeast of Jinan according to Zheng Kezang's will to monitor the movement of the green camp in Jinan City and prevent the Qing army from escaping from the city.

Among them, the Tianmazhai battalion in the southwest of the city was stationed with more than 19,000 men and horses, including the fourth division of the Guangwei Army, the siege artillery regiment directly under the Privy Council, the four regiments of the Annan Army, and a battalion of the Korean Army; The soldiers and horses of the Guodian battalion in the northeast of the city include 14 regiments of the Shence Army, the heavy artillery regiment directly under the Privy Council, four regiments of the Vietnamese Army, and a battalion of the Korean Army, with a total strength of 19,000 people - the reason why Yang Bokang arranged it this way is because although the addition of the servant army can strengthen the strength of the Xia army, if he is allowed to really participate in the war, someone will inevitably attack him in the future and slaughter his own people with foreign races.

After deducting the remaining soldiers and horses of the two large battalions, there are still four divisions left in the Xia Army on the East Road that can be maneuvered, but one division needs to be deployed along the west line of the Grand Canal to maintain the East Route Army's own grain routes, so Yang Bokang can only use the remaining three divisions to attack Qingzhou and other prefectures to the east. It's just that Yang Bokang also has the idea of winning the reward of the Duke of Wang promised by Zheng Kezang, so he considered that Qingzhou and other places had been attacked by the Xia army, and the county capital of the prefecture belonged to him was like a bird with a frightened bow, so he boldly used only two divisions to advance eastward, and the rest of the troops went north to capture Wuding, Yangxin and other places, threatening the front line of Cangzhou, Dezhou, and Tianjin.

Yang Bokang seems to have fought right, the Qing court's garrison in northeast Lu was extremely weak, as soon as the Xia army arrived, cities were sacrificed in various places, and the Xia army captured the entire Wuding Mansion almost bloodlessly.

However, relatively speaking, the Xia army that captured Qingzhou and other places on the east road was not so smooth.

This is not because the resistance of the Qing army in Qinglai Dengjiao and other places was tenacious, on the contrary, the Qing army defending the city in the above-mentioned prefecture and the counties under its rule abandoned the city as soon as the Xia army attacked, and the Xia army soon absorbed the entire Ludong and Jiaolai.

In order to prevent these bandits from plundering the counties that had become the territory of China, the Xia army could only break up into pieces and carry out dragnet sweeps on the larger dangerous bandit villages with regiments as units. However, bandits who had been converted from the local green camp soon fled into the mountains or south to the Yizhou capital, where they continued to harass the local area and threatened the Xia army's grain route. Under such circumstances, Yang Bokang could only continue to strengthen the garrisons in Xuzhou, Yizhou, Huai'an and other places to shield the security of the grain routes, and leave garrisons in the capital city of Qingdeng Jiaolai and some key passes, and send commissioners to appease the bandits, but before the Ludong bandits were eliminated or surrendered, the two divisions on the East Road would definitely not be able to move.

Seeing that the troops in his hands were rapidly diluted with the expansion of the territory, Yang Bokang also scratched his head.

The plan for now is to withdraw the Sixth Division of the Xuanwu Army in the direction of Wuding to strengthen the direction of Jinan? Or take advantage of the fact that the Qing army in Dongchang was pinned down by the main force of the Xia army, so that the Sixth Division of the Wuxuanwu Army continued to take advantage of the situation to seize Dezhou, Cangzhou and even Tianjin?

The advantages of the Sixth Division of the Xuanwu Army continuing to attack Dezhou, Cangzhou and other places are naturally self-evident, not only can it cut off the rear routes of the Qing army on the two routes of Jinan and Dongchang, threaten the safety of the Qing army's grain routes, but also create the illusion that the Xia army will directly attack Beijing, shake the military morale of the Qing army, and force the main force of the Qing army to retreat or fight a decisive battle at an early date.

However, the danger of doing this is not known, you must know that the sixth division of the Xuanwu army is always only 10,000 people, if the Qing army sends more than 30,000 Mongolian cavalry to attack, it is entirely possible to solve the sixth division of the Xuanwu army before the main force of the Xia army reacts, and it can be trapped in a certain city at worst.

If the Sixth Division of the Xuanwu Army is withdrawn from Jinan, it will naturally be conducive to strengthening the strength of the Xia Army on the periphery of Jinan, and avoid the choice of the Dongchang Qing Army to use the Xia Army on the East Road as a breakthrough, and then reverse the entire battle situation.

However, in this way, the original first move has become a waste of chess, and it is necessary to let the officers and soldiers below who ran the wrong road scold their mothers behind their backs. And for Yang Bokang himself, once he makes such a choice, it means that he and the entire Donglu Xia Army can only act as spectators in this battle, at most at the end of the day, to get some leftovers.

It's okay to eat the leftovers of other people's food, but if you miss this battle, Huaxia will dominate the world, and if you use troops again, the scale will not be enough to make yourself a deputy envoy of the Privy Council. Thinking that his colleagues could be rewarded by the prince, but he was still a mere county, Yang Bokang categorically denied the possibility of being transferred back to the Sixth Division of the Xuanwu Army.

Of course, Yang Bokang is also a veteran of a hundred battles, and he will not order the Sixth Division of the Xuanwu Army to advance alone, you must know that the Eastern Route Army is a partial division after all, even if it affects the main force of the Dongchang Qing Army, the battle that should be fought still has to be fought by the Middle Route Army. Therefore, Yang Bokang, who had a good plan, presented his strategy to Zheng Kezang's palace as soon as possible.

Zheng Kezhang was pondering how to eliminate the Mongolian cavalry in the Dongchang battalion, and he was naturally overjoyed to see Yang Bokang's strategy.

Judging from the map and the information that the front-line sentinels have obtained, the Qing army's arrangement in Zhangde and Daimyo is mainly defended, and Xitu blocks the route of the Xia army's advance like a gate, and the role of the Qing army in Jinan is similar, only the Qing army in Dongchang is the key position of the latch, if it can find another way to bypass the gate and force the latch to open by itself, then the opportunity for victory will come.

After two sets of simultaneous war games, the Privy Council came to a judgment similar to Zheng Kezang's consciousness, so Zheng Kezhang instructed the Privy Council to mobilize six divisions, including the Third Division of the Tianwu Army, four heavy artillery regiments, and one siege artillery regiment, totaling 70,000 people, to arrive in Tangyin to contain the enemy of Zhangde; With nine divisions of the Gongsheng Army, the Yulin Army, and the Yongwei Army, five heavy artillery regiments, and two siege artillery regiments, totaling 110,000 people, they entered the Nanle line north of Puyang, and made a posture of imminent attack on the Daimyo; The remaining 24 divisions, 15 heavy artillery regiments, and four siege artillery regiments of the Xia Army in the middle of the road totaled 280,000 people.

280,000 against 190,000 sounds like an absolute advantage, but Zheng Kezhang has to further mobilize the Qing army.

On July 11, the 14th year of Wucheng in Huaxia, the five divisions of the Xia Army's Hussars and Iron Cavalry Army quietly disappeared from the front of Dongchang, leaving only the Fourth Division of the Iron Cavalry Army and the four divisions of the Flying Cavalry Army to continue to confuse the Qing army on the Dongchang line.

On 15 July, the 1st Division of the Xia Hussars, which had disappeared from Dongchang, bypassed Jinan and entered Zibo to recuperate. Two days later, the 6th Division of the Xuanwu Army of the Xia Army left the territory of Wuding to kill Cangzhou. As soon as the Xuanwu Army left, the Iron Cavalry Army and other units entered Wuding, and at the same time implemented a strict blockade of the borders between Wuding and Dezhou and Jinan to ensure that the situation in the headquarters was not known to the Qing army.

Cangzhou was the gateway to Beijing and Tianjin, and although all the main forces of the Qing army were transferred to the line from Zhangde to Jinan, the Qing court still sent several important ministers, including the governor of Zhili, Marhan, to take over. With the arrival of the governor of Zhili, there were also one or two thousand Goshha and messengers in the small city of Cangzhou. It was naturally a joke to count on Goshha and the messengers to defend the city, so Marhan did not hesitate to sell the famous weapons of the Qing court at a low price, so as to recruit nearly 2,000 villagers from more than 50 regiments.

Cangzhou is known as the hometown of martial arts, and these villagers still look like that after temporary training. However, Marhan was worried that the Xiangyong regiment would not be able to face the firearms of the Xia army, so he asked for the transfer of a battalion of foreign firearms and ten Shenwei general cannons from the last strength of the Qing army garrisoning Beijing.

With the artillery battalion and the village warriors, Goshha and the messengers were barely able to go up to the city wall to fight after some urgent drills, and Marhan began to gather up the salt again. Speaking of Cangzhou, there was originally a Changlu salt farm on the coast of Cangzhou, but under the threat of the Xia army's sailors, the salt field was abolished, and the salt administration of the Qing court also became a direct collection of finished salt from the salt ding who worked alone, and the living standard of the salt was improved, so he was naturally unwilling to take the risk of becoming a soldier.

Fortunately, in any era, the smuggler salt dealer must save zài, Marhan gave an order, Zhili all over the country desperately caught the smuggled salt, and all the salt lords caught were escorted to Cangzhou, in front of the choice of either losing their heads or serving as soldiers to eat food for the Qing Dynasty, the brave and fierce smuggler salt dealers could only choose to save their lives first, so Marhan had another battalion of elite soldiers.

Perhaps thinking that it was a good idea to use death row prisoners, Marhan ordered all the prefectures to escort all the prisoners in the cells to Cangzhou for his military training, but before this plan could be realized, the Xia army killed the generals and surrounded Cangzhou. Marhan immediately sent people to highlight the encirclement of the Xia army and reported to Beijing, Tianjin, Dongchang, Jinan and other places, and at the same time personally went into battle to supervise the battle and swore to defend Cangzhou.

I don't know whether the Sixth Division of the Xuanwu Army felt that Cangzhou City was small and easy to attack and treated it lightly, or whether it was deliberately a play to draw out the Mongolian cavalry, and the Xia Army's first attack ended in a loss of more than 100 casualties. Although the morale of the Qing army was greatly boosted, the Xia army was burned. Tao Yue, the division commander of the Boy Scout Army, transferred the eleven guns of the division's artillery regiment to bombard Cangzhou, but only because the destructive power of the eleven guns was still insufficient, so that the Cangzhou city wall was not collapsed. The restless Marhan had to send out a ** army to ask for help, some of them were intercepted by the Xia army, and some were deliberately let go by the Xia army, but these letters of help sent out after "a lot of hardships" sank into the sea, and the reinforcements never appeared.

The Xia army also felt that if it dragged on, this scene would be ruined, so the chief director of the front line gave an order, and the sixth division of the Xuanwu Army immediately used the tunnel dug under the cover of artillery bombardment to blow up the eastern wall of Cangzhou City. When the surging Xia army rushed into the city of Cangzhou, where the warriors who participated in the martial arts and the salt lords who had to fight desperately, Malhan sent the last messenger with his legacy??????

Cangzhou fell, and the news that the Xia army bypassed Hejian and Tianjin and pointed directly at Bazhou to attack Beijing finally shook Kangxi, who was as stable as Mount Tai.

At the end of July of the 51st year of the reign of Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, several groups of envoys from the capital appeared in the Dongchang camp, either earnestly or in a strong tone, asking the prince Yinyu to mobilize the Mongol army to return to Beijing to intercept the lone division of the Xia army heading north. However, Yinyu always explicitly refused to transfer the Mongolian army back to the division on the grounds that the situation in the direction of Dezhou and Jinan was unclear.

At the beginning of August of the 14th year of Wucheng in Huaxia, the sixth division of the Xuanwu Army of the Xia Army conquered Ba, Xiong, Yongqing, Gu'an and other counties, and further approached Beijing.

In the edict, he denounced Yinhe for sitting idly by and watching Beijing fall, and threatened to depose Yinhe as the crown prince and change the commander on the spot.

Under the threat of Kangxi, and considering that the grain route in the rear of the Jingshi was shaken, Yinhe had no choice but to agree to mobilize the Mongolian army to return for reinforcements??????