572.The Battle of the Qing Dynasty (11)

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Yinzhi received a warning from Yinzhi on the afternoon of August 13, when he was so frightened that his limbs were weak and he almost fainted, and he just wanted to leave the dead city of Jinan immediately, but Yinzhi was also the most well-read of several elder brothers, of course, he knew Jia Xu's famous sentence of "abandoning the crowd and going alone, that is, a pavilion chief can restrain the king", so he forced down the fear in his heart, and sent someone to give the military department the title of Shandong Henan Governor Poerpen, Shandong Governor Tietu, Shandong Political Envoy Dong Guoli, Shandong Inspector Ba Hund, Shandong Governor Jueluo Liu Liba, With the general army of the governor of the army, Laduhun, the general soldier of Yanzhou, Ensai and other senior officials invited to discuss the matter.

As a result, everyone at the meeting realized that Jinan could not be defended, and they had to retreat immediately to have a chance of survival. So he immediately decided to leave behind the local villagers in Shandong and the regimental training, and only led the Shandong Green Battalion to flee from the north of the city while the Xia army had not yet closed the four sides of Jinan.

In order to delay the pursuit of the Xia army, the Qing army set fire to Jinan before withdrawing.

For a time, thick smoke billowed in Jinan City, and the prosperous Spring City may have turned into a sea of fire and hell.

The Eastern Front troops of the Xia Army, which also received a report from the Dongchang Front, were actually ready to pursue the Qing army's escape, but Yang Bokang did not expect that the Qing army would burn the city before retreating, and finally had to change the plan, only using the Shence Army, the Korean Army, the Annam Army and the Vietnamese Army to pretend to be the main force of the Xia Army behind the Qing Army, and the rest immediately entered the city to fight the fire, and exterminated the remnants of the Qing Army who took advantage of the fire to loot on the spot, and at the same time evacuated, contained, screened, and rescued a group of refugees.

It was precisely because the Xia army temporarily changed the pursuit plan that Yinzhi and others fled from Jinan smoothly.

But Yinzhi was not complacent, this is because he fled to Yucheng, the Shandong Green Battalion led by him has shrunk to the point of less than 10,000 people, and the commanders at all levels of the Manchu Eight Banners and the Han Army Banner are simply unable to prevent the local green battalion soldiers from Shandong from fleeing with their ordnance, so they have to comfort themselves with the rhetoric that they can make trouble for the pursuing troops of the Xia Army, and the only consolation is that due to the stricter guards, there is no problem with the convoy transporting military rations, otherwise the Qing army in Jinan that retreats north will completely collapse.

After a short rest outside Yucheng, Yinzhi decided to march overnight - although Yinzhi, who was shown in front of everyone, liked to mingle with the literati, but his own riding skills were still good - but there were too many Manchus in the group, and the civil officials of the Han army banner would even fall apart in the carriage, and Yinzhi, who could not leave them to fend for himself, finally had to agree to stay in the city for one night.

That night, the Qing army in Yucheng City and part of the Qing army entering the city were dreaming, all the way to trace the pursuit of the Xia army Shence army several regiments into the camp of the Qing army outside the city, speaking of which, Yang Bokang did not let them fight with the Qing army of the idea, how could the subordinate military attachés have their own ideas, no one to give up the low-hanging fruit military merits.

When the Japanese mercenaries with combed buns came murderously with iron cannons and swords in the moonlight, the memories of the Japanese invaders came out of the minds of some people. The Green Battalion, who had no intention of resisting, immediately dispersed, but they didn't know what a terrible decision it was to leave their backs to the enemy.

The Qing army in Yucheng closed their doors in fear, allowing the Xia army, which had limited troops, to wantonly kill their comrades.

waited until dawn to dare to go up to the city to look out, but only to see the corpses of a place exposed in front of the crows, rats, insects and ants.

The Qing army was pleasantly surprised that except for the Shence army that was cleaning the battlefield, the rest of the Xia army did not seem to catch up, and they suddenly became bolder. Of course, this so-called boldness does not mean that the Qing army deliberately went out of the city to invite the regiments of the Shence Army that had been fighting all night, but that they could boldly escape again.

Yinzhi was pardoned, and immediately escaped from the city, and when the uncles who had been plagued all night escaped, the county magistrate who was born in Jinshi stripped off his coat, tied his arms upside down, and took a cadre of errands to open the door outside the city to ask for surrender, but he was told by several regiments of the Shence Army that the matter of surrender was discussed by the rear team, and he was already very tired after fighting all night, and he had no time to pay attention to this matter. The magistrate was depressed, and a regimental commander told him that the battlefield outside the city had been cleaned, but there were one or two thousand corpses, and the Shence army had no time to bury them??????

Although Yinzhi escaped from Yucheng, this does not mean that he is safe. Because of a night's delay in Yucheng, the follow-up troops of the Xia army have caught up, although the combat power of the servant army is questionable, but how dare the Qing army of the frightened bird stop to meet the battle, so they can only continue to flee north regardless of it.

Fleeing to the plains, there were only 5,000 people left in the Shandong Green Battalion, and Tietu and Bahund were also missing in the chaos.

Yinzhi didn't have time to mourn what happened to the two people, and he couldn't even complain about the way the plain magistrate closed the city gate and avoided it, but he hurriedly ate something outside the city, relieved his horsepower, and then continued to flee to Texas. It's just that at this time, the four divisions of the Xia Army's flying cavalry army have rushed to the south of Texas, and Yinzhi, who has no idea, is walking towards the end of the escape step by step.

In the middle of the afternoon of 14 August, the Qing army, which had been running wildly, finally saw the Mache River, and as long as the Mache River was crossed, Texas was close at hand. The overjoyed Yinzhi immediately urged the troops to cross the river, and the Qing army also had some kind of love for the rest of their lives, regardless of the waist-deep river water would soak their clothes and pants, and rushed to wade across the river.

The Qing army, which was less than 5,000, was trudging through a not very wide river, when suddenly dust flew in the distance, and then the eerie sound of horses' hooves suddenly came to mind. Some ignorant Qing troops were still at a loss, and some of them had already turned around and fled.

It's a pity that it was too late, and the Xia army's horse team, which suddenly appeared, did not rush straight in, but rushed straight into the river and used the horse to reach the south bank of the Mache River before the Qing army, thus realizing the encirclement of the Qing army.

Looking at the Xia army who dismounted and raised the platoon, the Qing army, whose lower body was wet, had no fighting spirit at all. Only a few military attachés of the Green Battalion, full of eight banners, tried to pounce on the neat queue of the Xia army like wounded hungry wolves, and fell to the ground under the merciless fire of the Xia army.

These Manchurian military attachés who died in battle seemed to have taken away the last bit of courage of the Qing army in Jinan, and without Xia Jun opening his mouth, everyone threw down their weapons, held their heads in their hands, and just stood in the water waiting for their fate. However, there were several civil officials of the Han Army Banner under Dong Guoli, the political envoy of Shandong, who knew that there would be no way out, so they gritted their teeth and jumped from the car into the Mache River, struggled for a long time, choked half to death, but were finally dragged up like dead dogs.

"You are Brother Yinzhi?" Looking at Yinzhi, who was pale, He Shuzhi showed a satisfied smile. "Okay, great, I want to thank you for fulfilling the fame of the soldiers present." Yinzhi almost wanted to vomit blood, but He Shuzhi twisted his head and ordered to the person next to him. "Look at it, don't let him die, it's only worth living to sacrifice to the saint??????"

After temporarily screening a Manchu and Han officers, He Shuzhi took the flying cavalry and escorted the Qing army prisoners to appear under the city of Dezhou.

According to the guards of Dezhou, it is the white flag guarding Dao Lufu, the red flag prefect Jiuling and the chief soldier of Dezhou Town, but the soldiers and horses of Dezhou Town are all in the Xia army prisoner camp under the city, so they can only rely on a cadre of township warriors and regiments to practice defending the city. However, most of the townspeople and group training were only ordinary people before, and he had seen tens of thousands of people appear in front of him, and he immediately panicked, and he didn't need to be greeted by his companions, and ran faster than anyone else one by one.

The soldiers defending the city all fled, and Lufu, Jiuling, and Daofu had to find a rope to solve by themselves, and Texas was recovered.

Won Yinzhi and Texas City without damage, and He Shuzhi thought about it. He didn't know if the Iron Cavalry had pinned down the Yinhe Division, and he didn't know if the main force in the middle had caught up with the Qing Army, so he felt that he couldn't stay in Dezhou City idly and wait for the results of all parties, and he had to take the initiative to attack and cooperate with the main force to strike at the Yinhe Division.

But the question soon came, as soon as the Flying Cavalry left, what would happen to Texas City? If the city of Texas can be easily recaptured after it is lost, what about the more than 4,000 and nearly 5,000 Qing prisoners? The Flying Cavalry is a mounted infantry, and it is not necessarily necessary to drag down the overall degree in order to escort these captives.

Uncle He suddenly became murderous, they were all traitors anyway, and they had just harmed Jinan City and Yucheng, so it was not a pity to die.

Just as he was preparing to act, his subordinates reported that the Shence army and other servant troops chasing from the direction of Jinan were not far away.

He Shuzhi was overjoyed and breathed a sigh of relief, now he doesn't have to take the risk of killing and surrendering.

He Shuzhi quickly calculated, of course, Texas would not let the servant army enter, but it would not be a problem to guard these prisoners on the spot outside the city. So, He Shuzhi used his status as a fellow of the Privy Council to give orders to several ministries, so that they could immediately move closer to Texas.

Of course, guarding less than 5,000 captives did not need more than 20,000 or nearly 30,000 mercenaries and servants. Therefore, He Shuzhi ordered that the first division of the Flying Cavalry Army leave one regiment to maintain order in the city of Dezhou, the Shence Army left two regiments and four regiments of the Annan Army to guard the prisoners of the Qing army outside the city of Dezhou, and the rest of the troops followed him to the west. Among them, the flying cavalry army went first, and the Shence army, the Korean army, and the Vietnamese army then escorted the grain to follow up and maintain contact with Dezhou and Jinan to ensure the safety of their own grain routes.

There is no problem with the servant army, they have already been intimidated by the powerful power of the Xia army, and if they want to let them go east and let them go west, not to mention that they are all serving the Xia army, naturally there is no objection. But the Shence army is in trouble, they don't agree to play the role of a baggage soldier, and hope to have a bigger swing.

He Shuzhi thought that his authority would have no problem subduing several regimental commanders of the Shence Army, but who knew that these regimental commanders were all horned in their heads, and they were used to doing their own thing overseas on weekdays, so they did not accept He Shuzhi's dispatch at all, and kept claiming that he was a member of the Eastern Route Army, and only Yang Bokang, the deputy envoy of the Privy Council and the commander of the Eastern Route Army, could dispatch him.

He Shuzhi was simply angry, but he had no choice but to discuss with the other party, and as a result, more than a dozen regiments of the Shence Army muttered and decided that two regiments could be left to cooperate with the Annan Army to guard the prisoners of the Qing army, but the other twelve regiments did not follow He Shuzhi to the west, and they had to go north alone to contact the Sixth Division of the Xuanwu Army.

He Shuzhi thought about it, it was indeed a bit dangerous for the Sixth Division of the Xuanwu Army to hang alone on the North Road, and it was enough to escort the grain wagons to maintain the grain route with more than 10,000 Korean troops and 3,000 Vietnamese troops, and there was no need to borrow the strength of the Shence Army, so he agreed.

Early in the morning of 15 August, the Xia army in Texas divided into two routes and killed their respective targets??????