Yan Yingyuan's seizure of Jinxiang is a random event.

According to Fei Ruhe's original plan, he first went north along the Grand Canal and quickly took the strategic Wucheng Town.

Then, let the people build fortifications, garrison them with a small number of regular troops and peasant soldiers, and then return to the division to take Guting Town and Yutai County. While securing his rear, he will attack Jinxiang and use artillery to collapse the city wall with all his might, so that he can stabilize his flanks.

The actual situation made Fei Ruhe very embarrassed, he was halfway through the march to Yutai County, and Yutai County had already been taken by Dianshi and Xiucai. As for Guting Town, it was taken by a group of squires.

This place borders Zhao Han's territory, and officials, scholars, commoners, and squires dare to take the city as long as they are bold, and there is no need to worry about the future, and the Datong army will soon be able to take over the city.

Yutai has been defeated, so Fei Ruhe went to hit Jinxiang again.

There are still a few miles away from the county seat of Jinxiang, Fei Ruhe received the news again, and immediately cried and laughed: "Jinxiang has also been won?" There are thousands of defenders there! ”

Tanma said in detail: "It was Mr. Xu who sent a detailed work to persuade the people in the city to take the city. The history of Jinxiang is called Yan Yingyuan, who went to the city alone to kill the enemy generals, persuaded more than 2,000 enemy troops to surrender, and killed three enemy generals successively. ”

"What a warrior!" Fei Ruhe praised.

Tanma also said: "Yan Dianshi asked for more troops to garrison Jinxiang and allocate some military rations. He said that he took 2,000 troops and guaranteed to take the five cities of Shanxian, Chengwu, Caoxian, Dingtao, and Caozhou. ”

Fei Ruhe sighed: "His tone is really big. ”

One dared to boast of Haikou, and the other really dared to agree, Fei Ruhe really handed over the cities on his side to Yan Yingyuan to solve.

If there was no Yan Yingyuan, he would have sent peasant soldiers and people to deal with it.

Because as long as Jinxiang is taken, the rest of the counties are too close to Zhao Han's territory, and most of them will choose to look at the wind and return to it. Whoever does not surrender will face the attack of the Datong army!

This was the same situation on the northeastern side of the mountain, where the defenders faced the Manchu attack and surrendered to the Manchus.

Moreover, Li Zheng's troops were fighting in Guide and could cross the river at any time to reinforce Fei Ruhe's flank.

Just when Fei Ruhe returned to Nanyang Town, he suddenly received news from Xizuo: A large number of ships transporting military rations were being transferred in the direction of Yanzhou and Qufu.

Fei Ruhe hurriedly transferred the cavalry west of Nanyang Town, and threw most of them to the east of Nanyang Town.

Soon news came that a large number of enemy traces had been found in the northwest on the other side of the Jinxiang River.

There are people in both directions, so could it be that Duoduo divided his forces to attack?

Fei Ruhe convened the officers to discuss the matter and discussed it in detail for a long time, but he couldn't figure out what Duoduo wanted to do.

Division deputy Wan Sitong said: "It doesn't matter what he wants to do, he can fight how he wants, and our army will pull out Tengxian first." The clipper went to inform General Zhang and asked him to leave the peasants and soldiers and the people to garrison Yishui, Juzhou, and Zhucheng, and let Huang Fei defend Weixian, Changyi, and Anqiu. Anyway, Qingzhou Mansion can't move, so let General Zhang come back with the main force to help here. “

Fei Ruhe immediately understood: "Zhang Tieniu led his troops from Yizhou, along the Junhe River County, directly into Surabaya, Qufu, and Yanzhou, and attacked us on both sides. It's a good strategy, I don't know if it's in time. ”

"In time," said Vancetong, "the war here will not be fought for a while." ”

"Then do it!" Zhang Tieniu made a decision.

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Yanzhou Mansion, Qingzhou Mansion, and Shandong have all fought in a stalemate on these two major battlefields.

Both sides are figuring out a way, and they come up with exactly the same solution.

Duoduo asked Hong Chengchou to garrison Jining, and sent troops to surrender generals to confuse both sides of Nanyang Town. He personally led the main force and went straight to Yizhou by the Jun River, not only cutting off half of Zhang Tieniu's retreat, but also attacking Zhang Tieniu along the river.

Fei Ruhe suspended the attack on Qingzhou Mansion, and asked Zhang Tieniu to return to the division to take the Jun River, go straight to Surabaya and Qufu, and attack Duoduo's main force in Yanzhou.

Zhang Tieniu and Duoduo's troops are likely to meet love around the corner and collide along the Jun River!

But it was said that Jinxiang was over there.

After the peasant soldiers and grain transportation team sent by Fei Ruhe arrived, Yan Yingyuan immediately set off with 2,000 troops and left the county seat of Jinxiang to Dong Yongqing to manage.

Yan Yingyuan led his troops straight to Shanxian County, and when he came to the outside of the city, the county seat had actually changed its flag.

However, this place is very close to Dangshan, and when Li Zheng sent troops to Dangshan, he sent a peasant army to cross the river, and the defenders of Shanxian County directly chose to surrender.

Yan Yingyuan made a little supply in Shanxian County, and led his troops to attack the city, and the defender Zhang Xiude immediately surrendered.

Yan Yingyuan and Zhang Xiude joined forces to go to Cao County, and Li Kun, the magistrate of Cao County, responded to the uprising, killing the guards and sacrificing the city.

So the three of them joined forces, and recruited the villagers, and more than 4,000 people killed Dingtao.

Zhang Xiude pretended to be defeated and fled, opened the city gate by fraud, killed the defenders to seize the city, and more than 5,000 soldiers were killed to Caozhou (Heze).

It's like a snowball, although it is all a rabble, the size of this army is getting bigger and bigger.

There are three reasons why it went so well:

First, the middle and low-level soldiers under Zuo Liangyu were unwilling to defect to the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Second, this place is too close to Zhao Han's territory, not only is he afraid of being attacked by the Datong army, but he also has a better understanding of Datong policy. I also knew that the epidemic in the south was well controlled, and I wanted to ask Dr. Datong to come over to treat the plague quickly.

Third, at the beginning of the war, Fei Ruhe did not attack the city, but went straight along the canal to Nanyang Town. Only this one move, it seemed that there was no siege of the city, and it seemed that it did not kill the enemy army, but it instantly divided Zuo Liangyu's southern territory. The southern counties of Yanzhou were all isolated, and either the defenders easily surrendered, or the people were keen to revolt.

Fei Ruhe also grew up in the war, and regardless of his command ability, the strategic layout of the campaign was wonderful.

Even Teng County, which is strategically critical, took the initiative to change the flag without waiting for the Datong Army to fight after Fei Ruhe cut the battlefield.

The Shandong battlefield is so weird, the northern guards have defected to the Manchu Qing, and the southern guards have taken refuge in Zhao Han. The largest warlord, Zuo Liangyu, voted for the Manchus, while the second most powerful warlord Huang Fei voted for Zhao Han.

When Yan Yingyuan, Zhang Xiude, and Li Kun came to Caozhou with their troops, they found that they couldn't fight here at all.

Tang Tong, the general of the border army, has already led troops to reinforce and station, and the defenders have more than 5,000 troops.

Just as they were about to leave, a large army suddenly came from the north.

However, it was the Liangshan coalition army led by Zheng Peiran and Ma Jinzhong who abandoned Yuncheng and ran to attack Caozhou, and there were constantly righteous troops joining along the way, counting more than 100,000 family members.

"Lao Tzu is planted this time, a son of a bitch!" Tang Tong looked cold.

Outside the city, Ma Jinzhong and Yan Yingyuan joined forces, although they didn't know each other, but at this time both sides were waving the Datong military flag.

Nephew Tang Lun said to Tang Tong in private: "Uncle, why don't we descend too." ”

Tang Tong said: "You and my whole family are in Beijing, how can we descend? What's more, what benefits can you get if you invest in Nanjing? Our family occupies so much land in Jizhou, if the Qing Dynasty is defeated, our family's land will be gone. ”

Tang Lun said anxiously: "The enemy army outside the city is a few miles away, and I am afraid that there will be no less than 100,000 people. Our army is only five or six thousand, how can we hold it? ”

Tang Tong said: "There are more than 100,000 enemy troops, and only a few thousand can really fight, and the rest of the troops are even very chaotic. Although we only have more than 5,000 people, it is more than enough to defend the city, and we can find opportunities to go out of the city and rob the camp. As long as the attack is not prepared, it will be a big victory, and maybe you can even make meritorious contributions! ”

Tang Lun didn't think so, but he didn't dare to oppose his uncle, so he could only silently return to the section of the city wall he defended.

He was still very young, and he didn't want to wear braids for the rest of his life barehead.

Moreover, now that more than 100,000 enemy troops are besieging the city, the people in the city have long been panicked. Can it really be kept?

A few days later, the besieging forces had filled the moat, and the leaders of the rebels had slackened. Although Ma Jinzhong, Yan Yingyuan, Zheng Peiran and others repeatedly warned them to be vigilant against night attacks, the soldiers at the bottom did not take it seriously.

Tang Tong selected 800 elite soldiers and put his nephew Tang Lun in charge of defending the city, and even went to rob the camp outside the city in person.

This goods was very instigated by the Ming court, and now it is fighting for the Manchu Qing Dynasty but it is heroic, and 800 people dare to attack the camp of more than 100,000 people at night.

During the night, a fire suddenly broke out in Datong, a part of the rebel army.

The outer camps were in chaos, one camp after another, and began to be chaotic as if the plague was spreading.

The rabble of rebels is completely like headless flies. In the darkness, they did not know how many enemies were coming, they did not know from which side they were coming, but they knew that the friendly troops were shouting and fleeing, so they also shouted and fled.

More than 100,000 rebels, with a cup of tea, more than half of the bombing battalions collapsed.

Only the camp of two people was not bombed, one was Ma Jinzhong and the other was Yan Yingyuan.

They each gathered their troops in the noisy and chaotic, but it was too difficult to gather them at night, and in the end they only gathered more than a thousand men and rushed in the direction where the fire was at its highest.

"Why don't you send troops?" Tang Tong looked in the direction of Caozhou City suspiciously.

He agreed with his nephew that as long as the night attack was successful, his nephew would immediately lead the army out of the city to chase and kill.

But at this moment, Caozhou City is very quiet.

Caozhou City.

General Wang Chang said happily: "Major General, the night attack has been successful, let's go out of the city to chase and kill!" ”

In the dark, Tang Lun's expression was gloomy and uncertain: "General Wang, do you think Tartar can really sit firmly in the world?" ”

Wang Chang was shocked: "Young General, why do you say that? ”

Tang Lun said: "The Nanjing Imperial Court occupies all the rich land in the world. Even if the war is not as good as the Tartars, it is by no means comparable to the Ming Dynasty, and it is impossible to defeat it for a thousand miles. The Nanjing court could lose ten times, but the Tartars could only lose once or twice. The Tartars don't have much military rations at all, this time let's go south, grab grain everywhere and grab people, can the grain last for a few months? Once there is a stalemate and confrontation, the Nanjing court does not need to fight a tough battle at all, and the Tartars can be dragged to death by holding on to the city. ”

Of course, Wang Chang understood, but said anxiously: "Young General, having said that, our family members are all in Beijing!" ”

Tang Lun sighed: "I can only live with my parents, wife and children." Do you descend or not? ”

Wang Chang hesitated, his heart was entangled for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth and said: "For the sake of the righteousness of the Han family, I surrender with the young general!" ”

Tang Lun took off his helmet and cut off his braid with a knife: "General Wang, please." ”

Wang Chang did the same, and also took off his helmet and cut his braids.

Then, the two summoned the officers and forced the officers under their command to cut their braids, and hacked to death on the spot if they did not want to cut their braids.

They may really dislike the Manchu customs in their hearts, but they choose to defect for the sake of the righteousness of the Han family.

Instead, the situation on the battlefield changed, and it was thought that the Eight Banners Army would be able to advance wildly, but as a result, the two battlefields of Yanzhou Mansion and Qingzhou Mansion all fell into a confrontation situation. In order to raise more food, Duoduo forced Zuo Liangyu to send a large number of troops to the counties, forcibly snatched grain from the people, and forcibly recruited people to transport grain to the front line.

How much food do the people have? The robbers were all gentry and businessmen!

This kind of practice caused uprisings everywhere in the rear. The gentry, merchants, commoners, and scholars united to rebel, and more than a dozen counties planted the banner of Datong one after another.

Even the Qufu Kong family wanted to rebel, because they were ordered to donate 5,000 stone of rice and wheat.

The Kong family was robbed by the White Lotus Sect once, and there was not much food left. In the past few years, there has been a drought, and there is no way to get 5,000 stone of grain, so the shortage has to be made up with silver.

Many generals feel that the Tartars are going to collapse, and they are thinking about when to take the opportunity to defect.

If Duoduo and Hong Chengchou want to turn the situation around, they must have a big victory.

Otherwise, it will really collapse, and before the military rations are finished, a large number of generals will lead their troops to rebel.

The rebel army outside the city was scattered everywhere, and Ma Jinzhong, Yan Yingyuan, Zheng Peiran, Zhang Xiude and others led a small force to rush against the current. On the way, they encountered Li Qingshan, Shi Yueran and Ren Qi, who had fled, and each of these three brought dozens of volunteers to converge.

In the end, more than 3,000 volunteers collided with Tang Tong, and Tang Tong's 800 elites were so frightened that they hurriedly fled.

Fleeing to the city, Tang Tong shouted: "Open the city gate quickly!" ”

There was no answer in the city.

Tang Tong was so angry that he scolded: "Tang Lun, you are an unfilial son, I am your own uncle, how many times have I saved you on the battlefield?" You dog, open the gates quickly! ”

Tang Lun replied: "Uncle, surrender quickly, the Tartar is determined to lose this time." ”

Once upon a time, Cao Bianjiao also robbed the camp at night and defeated Dolgon's camp. Tang Tong, these generals, only watched from inside the city, forcing Cao Bianjiao to lead his troops south to join Zhao Han.

Now, the same situation happened, and Tang Tong was put on the spot by his nephew.

Seeing the pursuers coming, Tang Tong had no choice but to shout: "I am willing to surrender, I am willing to surrender!" ”

Li Qingshan led people to rush to the front, slashed Tang Tong, who was kneeling and asking for surrender, with a knife, and roared: "Lao Tzu finally saved up thousands of soldiers, and they were all scattered by your night attack!" Damn, shit! ”

This kind of battle is outrageous.

On the one hand, the army of 100,000 was defeated by 800, and on the other hand, he was killed by his own nephew.

On the bank of the Jun River, Zhang Tieniu, who attacked Yanzhou Mansion, collided with Duoduo, who attacked Qingzhou Mansion. This is the only way for both sides to outflank the enemy forces!