1o-28 Green Flat Cap

Jinan City, Xu Zengshou and a group of generals observed the Qing army camp on the city tower, the Qing army has not been out of the camp for a few days, I don't know what the hell is doing, but the war drums are beating all day long in the camp, which makes the Ming army frightened, and the grandfather of the country has also sent a few scouts to talk about the enemy camp at night, but there is no return, Hong Chengchou is like a god with soldiers, God knows what tricks he is playing, for the sake of insurance, it is better to wait and see.

The chess and card officials came up to report, Zhenwuhou had a telegram arrived, Xu Zengshou took it and looked at it, laughed and said: "Tianjin has entered my hands, the Qing army must have received the news, the starry night has returned to the division, the generals will listen to the order, beat the drum out of the city." ”

The Ming army, which had been dormant for many days, poured out of Jinan City, set up a formation, and slowly approached the Qing army camp, but did not dare to approach too closely, for fear of an ambush, until the artillery could already penetrate the enemy camp, and there was still no movement in the Qing army camp, so Xu Zengsheng ordered 300 soldiers to rush straight into the camp, and the Qing army had already gone to the camp empty.

There are many war drums in the camp of the Qing army, and the goats are hung upside down, and the two hooves of the goats are constantly fluttering, beating the war drums, and they are all night, which coaxes the Ming army, Xu Zengshou is red-faced, although he is brave, but the experience of leading the army is really lacking, and he was blinded by such a simple deception for several days, and he was angry and angry, and ordered the whole army to fight and recover Qingzhou.

Xu Zengshouman thought that the main force of the Qing army had been attracted by Liu Ziguang to rush back to Beijing, but he knew that Hong Chengchou had no intention of returning to the army at all, and Beijing did not order him to send a soldier back to Beijing, because the wise Kangxi knew that only if the front line was fought well, the pressure on the capital could be reduced.

Hong Chengchou's base camp is located in Qingzhou, after the capture of the city, he did not loot and slaughter, but posted a notice to the people, restraining the soldiers from committing no crime, there were two small soldiers who robbed the people's chickens, and was also held by Hong Dashuai to behead the public, and the head was hung at the gate of the city for three days, as for the counteroffensive that the people are most afraid of, Hong Chengchou was also unexpectedly gracious, the thousands of hectares of fertile land outside Qingzhou City were originally the property of the Manchurians, and later the Ming army came and sold them to the Han people at a discount, and the people also changed back to the Han people's type and clothing, This is a serious violation of the shaving decree that has been implemented by the Qing Dynasty so far, but Hong Chengchou has not pursued any of them, whose land belongs to whom, without braids or compulsion, and the magnanimity of the decree is unimaginable.

The Chinese people are the easiest to satisfy, as long as they don't kill their heads, don't rob their land to be grateful to Dade, Shandong is the hardest hit area of the war these years, the Ming and Qing dynasties have repeatedly fought for it, you sing and I appear, it is the people who suffer, Hong Chengchou's benevolent government has won some people's hearts, at least no one has raised his rebellion, in addition to several cities in Lunan and Jinan Qingdao, Shandong has been in the hands of Hong Chengchou, the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal has also been mastered by the Qing army, and the arms and materials transported from Beijing enrich Hong Chengchou's army, So that his strength continues to grow.

The first batch of artillery produced by the Beijing Ordnance Factory was not equipped with the defenders of the Beijing Division, but rushed to Shandong before the Ming Army Naval Division entered the waterway of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and then arrived with the casting method of the artillery and a group of craftsmen, Shandong's industrial foundation is stronger than Beijing, after all, there are many factories invested by Liu Ziguang here, and the use of existing blast furnaces and machines in the local area can make artillery and arquebuses.

Looking at the glittering copper cannons in front of him and boxes of tightly wrapped gunpowder, Hong Chengchou's eyes faintly flashed with tears, the Empress Dowager simply trusted him too much, the Mongolian elite cavalry of Shungeril was handed over to himself to lead, not to mention, now it is such a sophisticated firearm, not to equip the capital in danger first, but to give his own green battalion army, the Empress Dowager and the emperor simply put the national fortune of the Qing Dynasty in their own hands! Thinking of this, Hong Chengchou couldn't help but kneel down and kowtow to the north, shouting long live Shengming! With such a British leader, why worry about the injustice of the world.

Originally, the two armies on the battlefield in Shandong were evenly matched, each with its own merits, but Xu Zengshou's command ability was not worse than Hong Chengchou's, and the Ming army generals were arrogant, fighting separately, and it was difficult to integrate resources, so they were defeated repeatedly, on the other hand, the Qing army, although there was also the problem of Manchu and Han coordination, but Hong Chengchou grasped it very well, first convinced the Mongolian general Nashun Gerile with a clever strategic command, and then took out the Empress Dowager's decree, so that Nashun Gerile knew that he had the right to kill any general, including his Nashun, Mongolian men are all bold people, and Nashun respects Hong Chengchou as a hero, so he bows down to his ears and is willing to obey orders.

As soon as the Ming army moved, the Qing army's horse exploration came over, and now the Shandong battlefield is already a war between the Han people, just mixed with some Mongolian soldiers, there is nothing to do with the Manchus at all, the Qing army's exploration horses are dressed up by Han people, mixed among the people can not be seen at all, the Ming army lacks cavalry, although there are advanced arms such as car battalions and artillery battalions, but the action is slow, the flanks are not covered, tens of thousands of troops from Jinan drove out, like sheep eggs dragged and dragged on the land of Qilu, it was clearly a fighting posture.

Hong Chengchou didn't think about rushing to the aid of the capital, but he understood that even if the army returned to the north, it would not be able to solve the problem, and he could only turn the land of Zhili into a pot of porridge, and the results that Shandong had finally achieved would be ruined, so he must stand firm in Shandong and destroy the soldiers and logistics base of the Red Shirt Army in order to hold Liu Ziguang's hind legs. Now, in addition to Qingdao and Liugong Island, there have been several factories invested by Liu Ziguang in the hands of the Qing army, including the Shengli oil field that can produce fierce fire oil and a small boiler factory in Dengzhou, these factories and mining equipment may not be a valuable thing in the eyes of the Manchu generals, just burn it, but in the eyes of Hong Chengchou is a rare treasure, with them, the combat effectiveness of the Qing army will be greatly improved.

Exploring the Malay report, the Ming army was divided into five roads, coming to Qingzhou, Hong Chengchou laughed when he heard the words, the soldiers were divided into five roads, it seemed to be majestic, watching and caring for each other, but it was easy to be divided and surrounded, he immediately ordered to raise the account, deploy to deal with the phalanx, and the land of Shandong will usher in a bloody storm.

Tianjin City, a funeral is being held, the dead Ming soldiers are buried in the martyrs' cemetery outside the city, the purpose of the Red Shirt Army is to bury the bones of the loyal everywhere in Qingshan, why bother with the horse leather shroud, it is August again, the climate is hot, the body must be disposed of as soon as possible. A large number of the corpses of Qing soldiers who had their braids cut off were buried in mass graves, and there was not even a mark on them, only Tuhai's body was buried separately, and the head of the old general was sewn on the body after the public demonstration, and the body was washed with spirits, and twenty-eight bullets were raised from it, which can be seen in Tuhai's bravery.

Liu Ziguang personally attended the funeral, read the eulogy in the rain, four hundred sailors and one hundred martyrs of the Red Shirt Army sacrificed for the liberation of Tianjin, their heroic souls will live forever between heaven and earth, this battle also lost a general, the sailor Buyong thousands of households Yang Nanzhen, in the south gate of Tianjin ambush and died, the body is not complete, and finally take his clothes and crown to make up, although the death of 500 people is nothing compared to the Qing army 10,000 people killed, but it still makes Liu Ziguang sad and distressed, so the tactics of fighting Beijing must be heart-to-heart, It is better to surrender without a fight.

The actual combat effectiveness of the Sky City is too low, the airship is filled with rubber bags filled with hydrogen, in case it is attacked by the enemy's firearms, three million taels of silver and hundreds of crew members will become big fireworks in the sky, so Liu Ziguang has not dared to put it into actual combat, but the role of this thing as a deterrent force should be greater, in order to enhance the effectiveness of psychological warfare, Liu Ziguang decided to modify the Sky City again.

The Qing army needed to rest, and the Ming army also needed to rest, and the city of Tianjin was half burned down, and there was no food. Hundreds of thousands of people and 20,000 troops have to eat, which requires a large number of logistical supplies, fortunately the sea route has been under the control of the Beiyang Naval Division, a full ten ships of Siamese rice and a large number of canned meat, vegetables and fruits were transported by China Merchants' cargo ships, these grains are transported from the distant South Seas, and China Merchants' ocean-going delivery capacity can also be seen.

There is also a group of recruits who arrived on the same ship, this wave of people does not belong to the Ming Forbidden Army series, nor is it a member of the Red Shirts, but the Foreign Legion under the jurisdiction of China Merchants, mainly captured prisoners of war from England, Spain, and the Netherlands, all of whom are veterans of the war for many years, with high tactical literacy and tall horses, after a period of brainwashing, they were finally attracted by the strong national strength of the Ming Dynasty, and were willing to devote themselves to China Merchants as a legionnaire, of course, more importantly, when the mercenaries of China Merchants were treated more favorably than those of the East India Company, The monthly salary is paid in gold coins, and there is no arrears, and there is an additional allowance for each battle.

A group of high-nosed and yellow-headed mercenaries, dressed in the unique khaki military uniforms of China Merchants and crooked green soft hats, got off the ship with a big grin, looked at the strange city and people, swallowed the clouds and smoke with cigars in their mouths, and looked indifferent.

The soft hat was first worn by the Red Shirt Army, which was originally a kind of beanie corrugated hat worn by the family, which was transformed into a casual military hat by Liu Ziguang, which was much more convenient than the black gauze hat and iron helmet, and was deeply loved by the soldiers, and the hats of different colors can also represent different identities, such as the soldiers of the death camp all wear black soft hats, and the airborne troops wear chestnut soft hats, the ordinary red shirts are heavy red soft hats that are darker than the color of the military uniforms, the heavenly army wears blue, and the sailors wear light yellow, but there is no white and green, Because white is the exclusive color of the filial hat, and green is the exclusive color of the turtle father, both colors are assigned to the Foreign Legion.

The soldiers of the Red Shirts couldn't help but laugh when they saw a group of Western soldiers wearing green floppy hats. Drake asked angrily, "Why, do you look down on our green-hat special forces!" ”