The news that the Qing army collapsed in Daze Mountain and entered Liujiazhai reached Laizhou, and Li Xingzhi and the Jingbei Army were all overjoyed.

To tell the truth, Li Xingzhi's previous arrangement was just for the sake of everything, and he didn't expect that the Qing army would dare to go deep with more than 10,000 partial divisions.

But although this is unexpected, it is also a reasonable thing, this time the Dongyu entered the customs, except for the resistance in Gaoyang and Julu, it was almost invincible.

Since Sarhu, the Manchurians' victories over the Ming Dynasty have made the Eight Banners regard the Ming soldiers as nothing, making them arrogant.

In the absence of grain, he dared to spin more than 1,000 miles and break into the Jiaodong Peninsula with more than 10,000 partial divisions.

If it was elsewhere, Li Xingzhi really couldn't deal with them, but in this desolate Leiden, there was no food for the East Captives to rob, and it was impossible for them to even use two-legged sheep as rations.

Eating two-legged sheep means eating people, when the old slave Nurhachi reigned, the Ming court to the Dongjiang army, Lin Dan Khan and the Liao army to contain the Dongyu on three sides, because of the lack of materials, then a large number of slaughtered Han people, with their meat as food, so the Donglu also called the Han people two-legged sheep.

"Marshal, Yue Tuo is already the food in the mouth of our army, and he will be annihilated in one fell swoop, and it is the right time!"

After reading the battle report sent by Wang Zhong, Qian Tianxi, the prefect of Laizhou, turned red with excitement.

Sun Zhijie, who temporarily served as the secretary of the Military Marshal's Mansion, also looked at Li Xingzhi eagerly.

He was originally the grandson of Sun Chengzong, and after receiving the news that his grandfather and his family were martyred in Gaoyang, he was not depressed, and after grief, he resolutely joined the Jingbei Army.

Now that the Nu chief Yuetuo and the thousands of Manchu, Mongolian and Han troops under his command are caught in the snare of the Jingbei army, this is a great opportunity for him to take revenge.

Qian Anning also asked: "Then according to the opinion of the commander, what should our army do?" The lower officials are afraid that Dongyu will jump over the wall in a hurry and forcibly cross the Jiaolai River, which is more than 100 miles long, and my sailor may not be able to block it all. ”

Li Xingzhi said with a smile: "Dongyu fled into Liujiazhai, the courage has been lost, and my Jingbei Army is in a big victory, morale is booming, this commander intends to lead the army to Liujiazhai, coordinate the whole annihilation of the remnants of Yuetuo, this commander personally came to the battle array, or battle, or defend, can also be judged according to the battlefield situation.

"The handsome Gao Jian, the last general, the lower officials and others are obedient!"

The matter is in a hurry but not slowing down, and Li Xingzhi is also afraid that Yue Tuo will slow down, so he will use the golden cicada to escape from the Jiaolai River, or sneak into the mountains with a small group of elites.

Therefore, after discussing with everyone, he left Yang Biao's first town to guard Laizhou, and personally led 600 iron army and 700 cavalry to Liujiazhai to prepare to join Wang Zhong and break Yuetuo.

It was three o'clock in the afternoon of the sixth day of the second month of the twelfth year of Chongzhen.

Li Xing led his troops and Wang Zhong to join forces at Chashan near Liujiazhai, and the Jingbei Army gathered near Liujiazhai, counting the people who accompanied the army and the prisoners who surrendered, there were more than 10,000 people.

When Li Xingzhi arrived, Wang Zhongzheng led people to force dozens of Han gunners to fire at Liujiazhai on the mountain with long knives.

Seeing Li Xing go up the mountain, Wang Zhong greeted him with a smile, and asked as he ran: "Dashuai, Yue Tuo's Tartar chief is in the town, shall we fight or not?" ”

Li Xingzhi threw the whip to Li Bangjie behind him, and scolded with a smile: "I heard the soldiers say that there are more than 4,000 military horses on Yuetuo's side, are you sure to take Liujiazhai?" ”

Wang Zhong sneered and said: "Marshal, the last general has more than 1,000 Mongolian soldiers and Han army flags in his hands, do you think it is feasible for me to use them as pioneers?" ”

"Lang Shaozhen sold Sun Degong, and they killed the hundreds of Manchurian soldiers in the Hutuo River, and when we captured them, Sun Youguang and Abatai had already been completely defeated, so we can use them, the people you captured didn't surrender, not to mention that their masters are all in the stockade, so you are not afraid that they will fight against the water?"

In the absence of a strong heart of captivity, Li Xingzhi did not dare to use this group of bastards who had forgotten their ancestors, although they were veterans of the battlefield, but Li Xingzhi thought that as long as he gave himself enough time to complete the training of the first and second towns, he would not necessarily lose to the Han military banner.

"What does that mean?"

Wang Zhong asked tentatively.

"Hehe, you see, we are on the tea mountain, the terrain of Liujiazhai is unobstructed, there is the Ziyang River in the west, and the tea mountain in the south, this village is only a few miles away, let's mobilize the people today to dig two trenches in the northeast of the village, so Yue Tuo is not the turtle in our urn."

"What the marshal said is that I heard the captured Han army banner say that Yue Tuo's army has almost run out of food, and this time I went to Daze Mountain to buy time and escape to Pingdu."

Speaking of this, Wang Zhong understood that Li Xingzhi still had the idea of continuing the encirclement, but it was reduced from the previous big encirclement to the square inch of Liujiazhai.

Li Xingzhi bowed his head and said: "Well, don't fight here, let our Prince Cheng and his subordinates have a good rest, you go and arrange for Qingzhuang, bring those prisoners with you, and let them dig a trench with the people later, remember that the prisoners' food will be halved." ”

"Whoa!"

Wang Zhong answered the order and left.

After Wang Zhong descended the mountain, Li Xingzhi's eyes turned to Liujiazhai again.

To tell the truth, the Manchurian soldiers who were running back and forth for a day and a night, and the Manchurian soldiers who had just been defeated, Li Xingzhi did not think that they still had much combat effectiveness, so he took the opportunity of digging trenches to lure the Tartars out, and by the way, he exercised the courage of the soldiers.

As for the dead, how can there be immortals in war, and using the blood of the Eight Banners Army to strengthen their courage is something that is unattainable.

It's just over time.

Wang Zhong ordered Tang Shao and others to immediately urge Qingzhuang and the captives to go down the mountain with their equipment, and prepare to set up a defensive line on the periphery of Liujiazhai.

Of course, in order to prevent the prisoners from changing or the Qing army from attacking and harassing the village, Wang Zhong still made arrangements.

To this end, he transferred two infantry teams of mandarin duck soldiers, two infantry teams of long-range soldiers and two infantry teams of white pole soldiers to set up a formation in the northeast of Liujiazhai, and even transferred Li Xingzhi's cavalry team and iron man army over.

The large-scale mobilization of the Jingbei Army naturally could not hide the Qing army nested in the stockade.

Looking at the dense crowd outside the village, Tanaka, Tong Tulai, Alan Chai and other Manchu, Mongolian and Han army generals were in turmoil.

The purpose of the Ming thief is obvious, that is, to build a defensive line outside Liujiazhai, judging from the situation outside, so many people are acting at the same time, I am afraid that a trench can be dug before dark.

"You can't let them dig down, otherwise we'll be finished, you go quickly to reorganize the army, and I'll report to General Yangwu."

Worried, Tanaka descended the wall and ran towards the house where Yue Tuo was.

Suddenly!

"Prince Cheng, the thieves are digging a trench outside our stockade, obviously trying to trap us to death, and the minions and others will ask to go to war and kill all these hateful Nikans."

At this time, Tanaka has already abandoned the etiquette, and his life is almost gone, who cares about this.

Compared to the morning, Yue Tuo's mood seemed to be a little calmer, he would be reclining on the collapse and pretending to sleep, and after hearing the sound of Tanaka, Yue Tuo jumped up.

"You mean that the thieves have entered the plains, okay, go and reorganize the army, I am going to kill all these despicable Han dogs."