At the beginning of May, at the northern foot of Lishan.

"My lord, this is Lishan, and more than 70 miles to the north is the city of Jinan."

Miao Shao rode beside Liu Yan and introduced the terrain ahead. The rest of the thousands of generals also rode around on horseback, and Xun Jingyun, the town magistrate, also looked north.

Liu Yan looked around, only to see that the front was the remnants of the northern foot of Lishan, the terrain was undulating, as if it was a hill in the south of the Yangtze River, and the trees here were very lush, and he could only see two or three hundred meters in front of him.

"The army can't go north for the time being, the terrain ahead is too complicated, and it is necessary to send more people to search and advance north without receiving, and after confirming that there is no ambush, the army will continue to march north."

Several people looked at each other, and Chen Xun asked: "My lord, the war is urgent over there in Jinan Fucheng, can we move so slowly?" ”

At this time, the army had been marching north for several days, and it had always maintained a certain marching speed, which was not too fast.

Liu Yan said: "Don't worry, if we don't go to Jinan City, the thieves will not break the city, and they will surround the city to help!" ”

Liu Yan was too familiar with the tactics of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, either to encircle the point to send reinforcements, or to use traitors to open the city gate in order to capture the city.

Therefore, Liu Yan was extremely serious when he went north this time, and the scouts of the Qing army were very effective, so he was able to successfully encircle the points and send reinforcements repeatedly, and he was able to sneak into the city and open the city gate.

Since Liu Yan had already said it, Chen Xun, Wang Bo and others didn't say anything anymore.

Xun Jingyun, the magistrate, asked, "My lord, are we going to camp on the spot?" ”

"Set up camp on the spot!"

Liu Yan pointed to the hilly area in front of him with a horsewhip and said: "Each battalion is encamped according to the direction of the front, rear, left and right, and the personal guard battalion and the cavalry battalion are camped in the center, and the middle battalion forms the large camp of the Chinese army. ”

"The battalions are separated by two or three miles to support each other. Two trenches were to be dug around the perimeter of all the camps, and a deer antler, horse repellent, and an earthen wall were set up to form a three-dimensional defensive line. ”

"In short, it is a sentence, now this is an enemy-occupied area, and the officers and men of the whole army must fight to the death, and there is no room for slackness!"

"Order!"

Liu Yan then said: "After the camps of each battalion were set up, all departments immediately sent out to stay at night, and the front battalion, rear battalion, left battalion, and right battalion were mainly on guard within ten miles around the army. The middle battalion and the personal guard battalion did not collect at night to probe northward to ensure the safety of the army's march northward. ”

"Order!"

After Liu Yan finished deploying, Chen Xun, Wang Bo and other seven thousand generals pulled their horses and left, and each returned to the army to convey orders.

At this time, Liu Yan was only left with Xun Jingyun, the town magistrate, Miao Shao, the chief of the guard battalion, and Qian Shao, the chief of the artillery battalion.

"Mr. Qian Bai, how about the eighteen artillery pieces transferred by the three generals?"

Qian Liang said: "The subordinates have already organized the eighteen Franc machine guns into a separate outpost, and the two generals and several flag commanders and captains have all been transferred from the rest of the posts, and they have been rectified in the past few days. ”

"As for the artillery, neither the rate of fire nor the power is as good as the Franc cannon made by our Lingshanwei."

Qian Liang didn't seem to look down on these eighteen cannons, and even disliked them a little, and said: "Our Lingshanwei's Franc cannon can fire about five catties of cannons, while the eighteen Franc cannons are of different sizes, the largest can only fire about three catties of cannons, and the smallest cannons can even fire small stones of less than one catty. ”

Liu Yan also sighed, this is also something that cannot be helped, he has done his best, Jinan Mansion must be rescued.

Lu Xiangsheng is here, and the Ming army of the Shandong Capital Division can still obey the order, at least they can follow the Lingshan Wei New Army to pick up cheap and fight a tailwind battle. But once Lu Xiangsheng is defeated, the Ming army in Shandong will inevitably become a plate of scattered sand, and Shandong will also become a horse farm for the Qing army.

The answer is yes, no!

Therefore, if the duel with the Qing army must be fought this time, the battlefield must be set outside Lingshanwei, and Jinan Fucheng is the most suitable battlefield.

At least Liu Yan can have his back to Jiancheng, and he has the support of Lu Xiangsheng and Yan Jizu's subordinates, and even once Liu Yan hits the main force of the Qing army, soldiers and horses from all over Shandong will also flock to Lu Xiangsheng's order and rush up to pick up the bargain.

"Rushing to the aid of Jinan Mansion is the best choice at the moment, and these artillery and money and food are also the biggest benefits I can get, so let's do it first. The rest is on the battlefield! ”

Then Liu Yan said to Qian Yan: "Since these eighteen Franc cannons are useless, then on the battlefield, these eighteen cannons will be used as supplementary firepower for the Franc cannon whistle." ”

"Yes!"

Under the guidance of Liu Yan, Qian Liang made the firepower of the artillery commander.

As the first line of fire, the Franc cannon post fired the first wave of firepower to kill and injure the Qing soldiers, followed by the rocket artillery whistle, and finally the Huzun cannon whistle, which used scattered bullets to kill and injure the Qing soldiers.

Now these eighteen Franc cannons of different sizes can only fire between the first and second fire, which can be regarded as adding some lethality.

Soon, the camps of each battalion were built one after another, and then the night of each battalion did not collect and attacked one after another, galloping out in all directions.

Liu Yan was also stationed in the camp of the Chinese army, staring at a map of the city of Jinan in the big tent of the Chinese army.

"This battle is still mainly positional warfare, backed by a fortified city, facing the enemy with strong fortifications, and killing and injuring a large number of Qing troops' living forces with firearms!"

"100,000 Qing troops!"

At this time, Liu Yan also got a lot of information from General Zhang Youxun and others, knowing that Liu Zeqing, the general soldier of Shandong, had been defeated and died, and knew the approximate strength of the Qing army, as well as the approximate composition of the troops.

"The white flag, the white flag, the red flag, the red flag, and the Mongolian white flag, the red flag, the red flag, and the big traitor Shang Kexi, this time the Tartar is bloody!"

"Pretty good ......"

Liu Yan suddenly remembered something, and a cold light flashed in his eyes.

"Shang Kexi rebelled in Dengzhou that year, took away the elite firearms army and artillery team of the Ming Dynasty, and gave the Tartars a big gift, which is equivalent to pie in the sky! This time, Dolgon brought this big traitor, most of whom were equipped with firearms in Shang Kexi's army! ”

Liu Yan sneered and said to himself: "Hmph! Firearms, not everyone can play, Lao Tzu has seen firearms, seen firearms tactics, you are still happy to be a traitor who has never seen it in eight lifetimes! If you encounter it on the battlefield this time, you must teach this dog traitor a good lesson! ”

Just when Liu Yan was looking at the map, Xu Mingde, who had been promoted to the head of the flag that did not collect the flag at night under the general command of the Zhongying Qian, was lying on the ground, surrounded by Xiao Dongzi, the captain of his command, and a team of soldiers who did not collect the flag at night. m.

At this time, more than a dozen people were nervously watching, and in the dim light of dusk, there were faint figures flickering in the woods ahead.

"Boss, it should be a Manchurian Tartar with a white flag, it seems that there are almost ten people."

Xu Mingde nodded and whispered, "Wait a minute, wait for the brother who touched the situation in the past to come back and talk about it." ”

Everyone waited for a while before a figure crawled back from the front, and then one turned over and rolled directly to the bottom of the dirt slope where Xu Mingde and the others were hiding.

"The boss can see clearly, there are a total of eleven Tartars, led by a white baya soldier, and three vests, and the remaining seven are infantry armors."

"There's a white-armored tartar!"

Xu Mingde frowned, this team of tartars are all hard bones, and they are not easy to gnaw.

However, this place is only more than twenty miles away from the camp of the Lingshan Wei New Army, which is already very close, and this team of Tartar scouts must not be let go.

So Xu Mingde whispered to Xiao Dongzi and the others: "Later, I will take ten brothers to raid head-on, Xiao Dongzi, you take the remaining four brothers to outflank from the side." ”

"Good!"

The four people brought by Xiao Dongzi all used strong crossbows, and this team did not collect them at night in order to hide their whereabouts, so they were not equipped with bird guns, but only equipped with some bows and crossbows.

Of course, the people of the Heaven-Shaking Thunder are still equipped a lot, and at least they can die with the Tartars at a critical moment.

After a while, Xu Mingde led ten Ye Bushu to take the lead, and everyone rushed out, each equipped with a strong crossbow, at this time, a rain of arrows shot at the Tartar soldiers not far away, and immediately shot down four people, including a vest soldier!

"Kill the Tartars!"

Xu Mingde burst into a shout, a spear in his hand flickered coldly, and he was the first to rush into the woods, stabbing a Tartar soldier who had no time to react with one shot.

The remaining ten night guards also took advantage of the surprise of the Qing soldiers to rush into the woods and fight with the remaining six Tartar soldiers.

"Damn Akito!"

At this time, the Bai Baya soldiers were like fierce tigers, and they directly killed two night soldiers with a knife in their hands, and then they were stopped by three night soldiers, and the four of them were scuffled together.

In addition, the other two vests came back to their senses and became more and more courageous, Xu Mingde dealt with one vest by himself, and the other two did not work together to deal with the remaining vest.

The remaining four Night-Dead soldiers fell into a bitter battle, and launched a confrontation with the remaining four Tartar infantry armor, and both sides were wounded by each other, and they could not win for a while.

At this moment, Xiao Dongzi rushed out from the side with four Ye Bushu, five of whom were good at using bows and crossbows, standing outside the battle circle at this time, aiming at the Tartar soldiers who were fighting fiercely and firing cold arrows.

"Ahh

Xiao Dongzi killed a Qing army infantry armor with an arrow, and then hurriedly stepped on the strong crossbow with both feet, and then wound it with both hands and set up an arrow.

The other four people who didn't collect at night also kept firing arrows, and shot one or two infantry armor one after another.

But at this time, the situation was still stalemate, the Bai Baya soldier had already killed one night soldier, and the other two night soldiers were also injured, and they were suppressed by the Bai Baya soldier alone.

Xu Mingde killed his opponent, but the other vest also killed the night warrior in front of him, and the two were already red-eyed at this time, and then they attacked together.

With the assistance of Xiao Dongzi and others, the remaining four night soldiers killed the remaining two infantry armor after sacrificing a night soldier.

"Surround it, leave no one behind!"

Xiao Dongzi roared excitedly, and rushed forward with four people who did not collect the night, and together with the other three people, eight people surrounded the Bai Baya soldiers.

At this moment, Xu Mingde also stabbed the horse armor soldier to death with one shot, and then walked over covered in blood, and nine people surrounded the Bai Baya soldier and looked at him murderously.

The Bai Baya Soldier who was still menacing just now was also deflated at this time, and a look of fear finally appeared on his face.

"Try to catch it alive!"

"That's easy!"

Xiao Dongzi immediately raised his crossbow and shot an arrow at the left leg of the Bai Baya Lama soldier. But to everyone's surprise, at such a close distance, the white Baya soldier actually used a knife to knock the arrow away!

"Shoot me the arrows!"

Xiao Dongzi was angry and roared loudly.

The other three soldiers who did not collect at night also drew their bows and arrows, and at the same time aimed at the Baibaya soldiers and fired arrows, so close that the three arrows could not be stopped at all, and then they shot through their legs.

"Ahh Damn Minggou, I'm going to kill you! ”

The Bai Baya soldiers shouted loudly in the ugly Manchu language, Xu Mingde and the others rushed up, disarmed, and then beat him violently, until he was beaten like a dead pig, fell to the ground and snorted, and could no longer scold before stopping.

In this fierce battle between the scouts of the two sides, eleven Tartar soldiers were killed and ten were captured.

A total of sixteen people on Xu Mingde's side did not collect at night, seven were killed in the battle, and the remaining nine were all wounded.

"Boss, what about this thing?"

Xu Mingde thought for a moment, and then said: "Pick this guy clean, tie it up on the war horse, and bring it back immediately!" ”

Then everyone hurried up and got busy, and the bodies of the seven who died in the night were all tied to the horses with ropes, and the same was true of the white Baya soldiers, anyway, everyone captured the war horses of eleven Tartar soldiers, as many as twenty-three, and the war horses were enough.

In addition, ten Tartar heads, as well as armor and weapons, were also captured and placed on the war horses, and all of them were brought back.

"Let's go, go back to the camp, this tongue must ask for news as soon as possible!"

Some people died, but not completely......