Qingshi Pass.

Chaganbala pulled the saber out of the shoulder of a dead Qing soldier of the green battalion, splashing a lot of blood, making his already fierce face even more hideous.

He didn't care about the blood splashed on his face, he just wiped it with his hand and looked at the Qingshi Pass battlefield where the battle had ended.

Half an hour earlier, the Mongol cavalry had raided the pass, and before engaging the battle, in order to confuse the enemy, Chaganbala ordered his subordinates to hold high the Qing army's battle flag.

This did work, the defenders of the pass did not expect that the Ming army would attack Changqing County at the same time as the raid on Qingshi Pass, which was thousands of miles away, or perhaps it was the banner of the Qing army held high by the Mongolian cavalry that confused them, anyway, the Qing army was caught off guard and was quickly defeated.

After the Mongol cavalry occupied this pass, only a small number of soldiers were left behind to meet the Su Ci Division, which was still behind, and the main force continued to advance north under the leadership of Chaganbala, rushing all the way out of the low mountains and hilly areas, appearing in the sight of the Qing army in Zichuan.

As soon as they saw a large group of cavalry appear in the south, the Qing army in Zichuan hurriedly rang the alarm bell and closed the city gate, and the poorly trained Qing soldiers ran up the city wall in a panic with their weapons, looking at the strange cavalry that rushed out of the mountains.

"That's the Mongols!"

A veteran on the city wall who had seen the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry in battle recognized them as soon as the Mongol cavalry approached, and shouted in a lost voice.

As soon as they heard that it was the Mongol cavalry, the defenders on the city wall did not feel relaxed because they were holding the Qing army's battle flag, but became even more nervous - after most of the Mongol Eight Banners betrayed the Qing court, many places in Shandong were also plundered by the Mongol cavalry, and although Zichuan escaped, they also heard about the rumors.

Although they didn't know whether Hong Chengchou's soldiers and horses in Shandong had Mongolian cavalry, out of fear and fear of the Mongolian cavalry in their hearts, they still decisively made a posture of preparing for battle.

Outside the city, Chaganbala saw that the defenders of Zichuan were not confused by the banner of the Qing army they were wearing, but instead made preparations for battle, and immediately dispelled the idea of attacking the county seat of Zichuan.

Even if they joined the Ming army, which was famous for its firearms, the Mongolian cavalry was still conducive to field warfare and neglected to attack the city, and they could only look at the tall brick and stone city wall of Zichuan County, and could only sigh with admiration, without the slightest idea of attacking the city in their hearts.

After showing off his might outside the city and setting fire to the fertile fields and dwellings outside the city, Chaganbara led his cavalry westward.

After penetrating deep into the enemy's territory, the Mongolian cavalry did not worry about the supply being cut off, they carried forward the spirit of their ancestors to fight wherever they wanted, and lived all the way by fighting grass valleys, bypassing Zhangqiu County and appearing in the east of Jinan.

The appearance of the Mongol cavalry shook the entire Jinan Mansion, and Liu Zhong, the governor of Shandong, hurriedly dispatched the cavalry out of the city, intending to annihilate this lone enemy army.

But when it comes to cavalry warfare, no one is the opponent of the Mongols, Chaganbala lured the Qing cavalry to the plain, and continued to shoot the Qing army from a long distance with Mangu tactics, and the Qing cavalry was always shot by arrows flying from all directions, and they were annoyed, but they were never able to fight back.

After the Qing army commander reacted, the Mongolian cavalry had already turned their horses' heads, brandished sharp sabers and charged the Qing army, which had suffered heavy losses under long-range shooting. After defeating the Qing cavalry, in order to deter Liu Zhong, Chaganbala ordered the heads of the corpses and prisoners of war of the Qing army to be cut off and piled up on the battlefield to build a Jingguan, and only one or two captives whose left ears were cut off were released to report the news.

After the frightened captives brought the bad news back to the city of Jinan, the whole city began to be afraid, Liu Zhong angrily cursed the barbarism of these Mongolian cavalry, he wanted to send someone to take back the head of the Jingguan, but the people who were sent out were killed by the Mongols.

Even though he knew that the Mongol cavalry did not have the ability to attack the city, Liu Zhong still transferred some troops and horses from the front line to increase the strength of Jinan's city defense under the pressure of the squires and landlords in the city.

At the same time, the news of the appearance of the Mongolian cavalry in the rear also spread among the front-line army, and the rumors were conservative at first, but with the blessing of the three of them, the rumors became more and more intense and more outrageous.

One of the most exaggerated rumors has increased from 3,000 Mongolian cavalry to 300,000 Mongolian cavalry in one fell swoop to besiege Jinan City.

In any case, the increasingly fierce rumors in the army and the fierce artillery fire of the Ming army on the front line shook the morale of the Qing army, and many officers and soldiers had no intention of fighting, and even deserted.

While the Mongolian cavalry was raging in the east of Jinan, Su Ci had already led his soldiers and horses through the Qingshi Pass and besieged Zichuan County.

After the Ming army took Zichuan County, it did not repair, and rushed to Jinan without stopping, and Zhangqiu County, which was stuck between Zichuan and Jinan, also surrendered without a fight, and the county commander and the deputy general who defended the city directly abandoned the city and fled to Jinan, and was finally beheaded by Liu Zhong who was furious.

Beheading the two can only vent the anger in his heart, Liu Zhong can't figure out the specific number of Ming troops in the east, out of prudence, he shrunk the defense line while sending someone to report to Hong Chengchou At this time, I hope Hong Chengchou can help him for the sake of the Qing Dynasty.

However, after learning that Su Ci arrived in the east of Jinan according to the original plan, Zhang Huangyan changed his previous feint and launched a fierce attack on the front-line camps of the Qing army, and won three or four camps in a row in just one day.

This can be called a disaster, a disaster from the perspective of the Qing army.

The people in the army changed their minds, their fighting spirit wavered, and they were attacked by the Ming army to change the previous situation, and the Qing army's defense line was easily torn apart, and a large number of Qing soldiers surrendered to the Ming army, or took advantage of the chaos to flee to nearby Mount Tai and the countryside to become rebellious bandits.

When Hong Chengchou heard that Liu Zhong was in a hurry and hurriedly dispatched troops to help Jinan, the Ming army had already reached the bank of the Xinglong River and was in a confrontation with the Qing army on the other side of the river.

Although many camps on the front line were uprooted by the Ming army, Liu Zhong still tried his best to gather the routed troops, organize a new defensive line along the Xinglong River, and destroy the bridges connecting the two banks.

To put it simply, the Qing army in the west relied on the river to block the pace of the Ming army to resist, while the Qing army in the east camped with its back to Fucheng to prevent the Ming army from directly attacking Fucheng.

Moreover, the Xinglong River was a long distance away from the Fucheng, and Liu Zhong also set up several more lines of defense on the road between the Xinglong River and Jinan Fu, hoping to block the Ming army and wait for Hong Chengchou's reinforcements to arrive.

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