1o-21 Defeated Shandong

Outside the city of Jinan, the Ming army and the Qing army lined up against each other, this is a traditional type of battle, the two sides are waving their flags, the formation is distinct, the cavalry and infantry are scattered, the left and right Chinese army echo each other, the core of the army is the big banner of the Chinese army, Xu Zengshou, the Duke of Wei, sits on a war horse in a military uniform, and observes the Qing army on the opposite side with a clairvoyant mirror.

On the opposite hill is the banner of the commander of the Qing army, Hong Chengchou, and the soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty are also in front, divided into several flat phalanxes, the first row is lightly armed sword and shield soldiers, the corners of the formation are crossbowmen, and the back is the pikemen, and the neighing of horses in the back can be faintly heard. The large array of the Qing army was very tight, although there were tens of thousands of people, but except for the occasional neighing of horses, no one spoke, and it was in a very oppressive silence.

On the other hand, on the side of the Ming army, people shouted horses and neighed very lively, the heralds with flags on their backs shuttled back and forth between the military formations, and the generals waved their horse whips and pointed at the Qing army on the opposite side to talk and laugh, it is no wonder that the two armies fought against each other, and the Qing army won less and lost more, which has long become synonymous with straw bags in the hearts of the Ming army.

The predecessor of the Shandong Forbidden Army was the Xuzhou Army, since Yuan Chonghuan was transferred to Beijing, the Xuzhou Army lost a strong leader, and gradually became a proud general, Zu Dashou, Man Gui, Zhao Shujiao, Niu Yong, these major army leaders occupied a large number of fields, houses, and mines, recruited private soldiers, opened tax items, despised civilian officials, and regarded themselves as a new generation of warlords. Thanks to Xu Zengshou, who is a hereditary prince, his martial arts are good, and he is kind, otherwise they would have rushed back to the capital.

Xu Zengshou gathered 100,000 horses from various armies in Shandong to fight against the Qing army, he knew that his responsibility was heavy, Liu Ziguang's red-shirted army was just a strange soldier, his own 100,000 people were the strength of the decisive battle, and the opposite side was the last strength of the Qing army. Before coming to Shandong, Liu Ziguang had reached an agreement with himself to divide the war merits equally and never advance to Beijing, but now that Liu Ziguang has completed his task, it is up to him.

Xu Zengshou silently read the blessing of the ancestors and the ancestors, the descendants of the unscrupulous will win glory for you, the old Xu family since Xu Da, has always been the prince of the Taiping Kingdom, only in his generation has changed, first to assist the emperor to seek power, and then led the army to smash the Yellow Dragon, meritorious deeds, eternal love, after the descendants of the Xu family talk about their ancestors, they will definitely compare his generation of Wei Guogong and the founding general Xu Da.

The wind was blowing, there was the sound of war drums on the opposite side, the Qing army was beating, Xu Zengshou shook his spirit, raised his eyes, and the infantry formation in front of the other side flashed a big gap, more than a thousand cavalry rushed out from behind, and the prancing horse waved his sword to kill the Ming army.

The Ming army did not move, and so the Qing cavalry entered the range after the arrows were released together, a round of arrow rain passed, the Qing cavalry fell off their horses, and then the Ming cavalry also attacked, the two cavalry collided together and began a crazy fight, this is a battle between the Han people, the Shandong cavalry to the northwest cavalry, the cavalry of Mangui was originally of relatively high quality, plus they are equipped with a single firecracker, saber and firecracker, natural cavalry is invincible, a hedge down, the Qing cavalry is half dead, and then a hedge, basically no one left, The Qing army did not dare to fight again, and walked on the side.

Man Gui laughed: "The Northwest Harrier is nothing more than that, chase!" With a wave of the red flag, all the cavalry of the front army under his command pressed on and rushed towards the Qing army, Xu Zengshou couldn't help frowning, before the Chinese army gave the order, Man Gui moved without permission, isn't this not taking the commander in his eyes!

However, Mangui's unauthorized action was very effective, in the face of overwhelming offensives, the Qing army sparsely released arrows for a while, the Chinese army began to retreat, the Chinese army moved, the armies were in chaos, they threw down their flags and fled, Xu Zengshou saw that the enemy army was defeated, for fear of missing the fighter, waved the order flag, the left army and the right army pushed forward, the Chinese army also followed, the whole army thundered, it seemed that victory was in sight.

Although the Qing army lost its armor and abandoned its armor, it seemed to be defeated, but it was defeated but not defeated, the formation was not scattered, the chasing cavalry of the Ming army was first, the infantry was behind, and the distance between the cavalry and the infantry was opened, and suddenly a cavalry rushed out behind the hill next to it, the degree was as fast as lightning, the knights shouted rudely, while shooting arrows quickly, shooting thirty arrows with a very fast degree on the high marching horse, and the arrows were not empty, the Qing army had never seen such a powerful force, the infantry of the Ming army was immediately divided, and these elite cavalry did not love to fight, It is to keep rushing back and forth to kill, disrupting the ranks of the Ming army, cold weapons combat, all by the command of the command flag and gongs and drums, once the command flag is lost, the soldiers will be defeated if they can't see the order, these elite soldiers are specially designed to snatch the battle flag of the Ming army, a few charges down, and the follow-up infantry of the Ming army will be in chaos.

Man Gui's cavalry was pursuing, suddenly there was a bang, and random arrows were shot in the woods next to him, and the offensive was weak, and the Qing soldiers in front who pretended to flee shouted, turned their heads and killed back, and the two armies fell into a melee.

Shandong's Ming army weapons and equipment and the Qing army are about the same, the strength of the two armies is also close, the difference is only in the commander's strategy, obviously Hong Chengchou is higher than Xu Zengshou's skills, this large-scale melee under the city of Jinan is still the Qing army won after all, the Ming army killed and wounded tens of thousands, retreated to the city, the Qing army Chen soldiers under the city, all day long to cut down trees to build a ladder, ready to repeat the old incident of the Jinan massacre.

Xu Zengshou lost the battle, thundered, and put the blame on the former army commander Man Gui who attacked without authorization, Man Gui was not convinced, he lost thousands of soldiers, and he was also angry, and couldn't help but bump a few words, Xu Zengshou drank the order to push Man Gui out and cut it off, Man Gui's personal soldiers immediately drew their swords to each other, fortunately, Zu Dashou and others reconciled, and a battle for generals and commanders subsided.

The generals are not in harmony, each fighting for itself, is the biggest problem faced by the Ming army in Shandong, not only Xu Zengshou commanded them, but these generals do not buy each other, everyone is the general soldier, no one is lower than whose rank, why listen to the shouts of others, as for the Qing army outside the city, although everyone lost a game, but not worried, Jinan has advanced city defense weapons, enough grain to eat for several years, there are springs in the city, it can be called impregnable, even if it is 100,000 Qing troops can not be attacked for ten years.

In fact, the main force has taken advantage of the dark night to turn to Qingzhou, and attack the city on a large scale, the Ming army in Qingzhou sent messengers to fight desperately out of the siege to Jinan for help, this Qingzhou city is Mangui's territory, I heard that the old nest is in danger, Mangui is anxious, but Xu Zengshou is not allowed to support, what is afraid of the plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, Mangui thinks that Xu Zengshou has a personal vendetta, and brazenly leads the troops out of the city to rescue Qingzhou, who knows that Hong Chengchou is a strategy to besiege the city and send reinforcements, On the way, the Mongol elite cavalry ambushed the Mangui cavalry.

Man Gui is also a Mongolian, riding and archery kung fu first-class, but in the past few years have enjoyed too many blessed days, waist fat is everywhere, not as brave as before, his subordinates are the same, do not ride a horse-drawn bow all the year round, muscles are relaxed, Man Gui army out of the city not long after, in Zhangqiu was caught off guard by the cavalry of that Shun Geril, this is a duel between cavalry, the Central Plains heavy cavalry against the Mongolian light cavalry, Man Gui they were surprised now, the Mongolian army's riding skills and combat effectiveness are far stronger than the northwest cavalry of Wang Fuchen's department met the day before yesterday, come and go like the wind, The arrows were not false, and after a fierce battle, more than half of the Ming army was killed and wounded, and Mangui was hit by several arrows, and only dozens of horsemen fled back to Jinan.

When he returned to Jinan, he knew that Xu Zengshou also suffered a defeat, he thought that the main force of the Qing army was advancing eastward, and the troops under the city of Jinan were empty, so he personally led the troops to rob the camp, and rushed into the Chinese army camp with the banner of Hong Chengchou before it was an empty camp, Xu Zengshou shouted that he had a plan, and he turned the horse away, and there were already murders all around, explosions and explosions, Hong Chengchou buried a lot of ** in the camp, specifically to deal with the Ming army robbing the camp, if it weren't for his small family spirit, he was reluctant to use it more, and the Ming army commander Xu Zengshou died in Jinan City.

Xu Zengshou's eyebrows were also burned, his beard was burned, he retreated into the city in a hurry, and the 5,000 men and horses he brought out had all been damaged, he had no descendant troops, and he used the men and horses of Niu Yong, the general soldier of Jinan, but Niu Yong was very distressed, and the news that the Mangui army was ambushed came again, and the morale of the Ming army was even more depressed, and people were panicked for a while.

Originally, Xu Zengshou also planned to behead Man Gui Liwei, but he was not angry, and buried 5,000 soldiers, and then he still had the face to blame others, and the generals apologized to each other, released their previous suspicions, and faced the enemy outside the city together.

Mangui's cavalry is finished, the Ming army will no longer have mobile forces, the infantry alone can not fight with the Qing army in the field, the initiative of the Shandong battlefield fell into the hands of the enemy, the news came in a few days, Qingzhou was lost, but Hong Chengchou did not massacre, but appeased the people, preferential treatment of prisoners, this hand attack tactics can be described as clever, and when the next city is captured, the Ming army will no longer resist to the death.

Originally, he wanted to make a big military achievement, but he didn't know that he had failed so badly, Xu Zengshou didn't dare to report the truth to Nanjing, so he could only send a letter to Liu Ziguang and ask him to send the Red Shirts to help in the war.

In fact, Hong Chengchou fought so fiercely, what he did was the strategy of encircling Wei to save Zhao, the battle situation on the front line of Beijing was diametrically opposed to Shandong, it was the Ming army that pressed the Qing army to fight, the Qing army's sphere of influence did not go out of the city, and the field was full of the Ming army's world, Kangxi couldn't support it, so he let Hong Chengchou storm Shandong, and the soldiers pointed directly at Qingdao, the base of the Red Shirt Army.

Zhili Yongping Mansion, Beidaihe Beach, Liu Ziguang wearing sunglasses lying on a bamboo rocking chair leisurely, on the small coffee table next to the Lu Song cigar and a cold cola with a wheat tube, and a few slices of cut watermelon, a group of red-shirted soldiers in big pants in the distance are babbling and playing with inflatable pig urine bubbles, the redshirts encourage this kind of confrontational entertainment, playing beach volleyball on the beach, playing juju and polo on the grass, which not only exercises the body, but also enhances the cooperation between comrades-in-arms, which is much stronger than the monotonous and boring stone-carrying lock and playing with the knife.

Beidaihe was opened up by Liu Ziguang as a military control area, the system of the Red Shirt Army is that you can be transferred back to the base for a vacation after three months of front-line combat, and you can go to Beidaihe for a week of vacation after one month of combat, it is August, it is indeed a very pleasant thing to vacation on the seaside, watermelons are piled up into a mountain, beer and cola can be drunk, all kinds of canned meat, fresh sea fish are open to eat, every day is to play beach volleyball and swim during the day, barbecue fish and barbecue at night and drink beer, Dashuai also gave all the brothels in Yongping Mansion, Dozens of charming little ladies started a business in the barracks, and they could sleep once with half a penny, and this little life was more comfortable than that of the gods.

The telegrams from Jinan and Qingdao reached Liu Ziguang, and he took off his sunglasses and read them at a glance, and couldn't help but be furious: "What a Hong Chengchou, dare to copy my old nest, then don't blame me for being unkind!" ”