Niu Chenghu sat in the study restlessly, with several conscientious generals serving around, and one of them had just arrived at night from the front line of Qingzhou Prefecture. A few days ago, this man brought the Eighth Battalion troops (more than 4,000 people) to Tong Yangliang's tent in Yidu County to obey the orders. Later, he suffered heavy losses in the battle to stop the yellow-clad thieves. He only fled back with his troops from the third battalion and lost most of his weapons. He was extremely embarrassed.

The three battalions were all old camps brought by Niu Chenghu and others from Shaanxi. Except for a few newly recruited in Henan, most of the five battalions were forced to be recruited in Shandong, so the losses were also lost, which was no pity. However, the news they brought back made the people stationed in Zhangqiu County restless: the combat power of this yellow-clothed thief was really too powerful!

Tong Yangliang was an old man from Liaodong, and his military ability was not bad. Although the newly recruited soldiers accounted for nearly half of the 18,000 troops who intercepted the yellow-clad thieves in Qingzhou this time, there was no shortage of equipment, food and salary, and the city was strengthened for several months. But he only blocked the yellow-clad thieves for eleven days, which made the green camp generals who were busy in the rear who were preparing to adjust and deploy to resist the yellow-clad thieves suddenly feel a little scared.

Erlang Zhenjun has been transferred to Shanxi. Now, with their shrimp soldiers and crab generals, they are left behind in Shandong. How should they resist Sun Wukong, who has become a sperm?

"Master, after the general of the Imperial Army broke through desperately, he found many thieves in the wild. They were scattered everywhere, and sent edicts to recruit surrender and rebel, which was very rampant. Look, this is a plaque that the Imperial Army unveiled." After the general said that, he handed over a piece of white paper full of words in his hand.

Niu Chenghu was born in northern Shaanxi. He was involved in the peasant army in his early years and became the leader of the journey. He was called "Yi Li Jin". Therefore, he and many of his confidant generals were all from mud legs and could not recognize one of them. After the general handed over the plaque, he handed it to the master behind him and asked him to recite it in public.

The master cleared his throat, picked up the pass and swept it a little, and his face changed drastically: "...A benevolent and righteous army, a mighty army, a victorious army, a victorious army, no levitra, no tyrannical women, no innocent people, no plunder of wealth, no offense, no war, no disobedience when the army is at the city, no disobedience is allowed. The first gun must be sent to the seal officer, the second gun must be sent to the gentry, and the third gun must be disarmed. If the city gate is closed and the city is defended by itself, all the people will be killed on the day of the city is destroyed, and the nine tribes will be implicated; if the whole city refuses to defend, the whole city is slaughtered and no grass is left. The card is not allowed to be informed!"

Such a murderous passerby made the generals in the room sweat. Back then, in Shanxi and Henan, they had often posted similar passers-by, but when such a card spy was sent to them, it was always so frustrating.

"Let's discuss it. What kind of constitution should this situation be?" Niu Chenghu slapped the table and said to everyone.

"You can't surrender. This yellow-clothed thief-like figure is not well-known and has no name." Someone shouted at the first time, "Besides, our army is stationed in Zhangqiu and is in the periphery of Jinan. Now all the food and wages are provided by Zhang Futai, Jinan. If you throw yellow-clothed thief, you will probably be inconvenient in the emergency. I hope the general will think twice."

"The yellow-clad thief's guns and cannons are sharp and are always called elite. Now, tens of thousands of people are coming to the west, and their momentum is like Mount Tai. In the small county of Zhangqiu, our army has only 10,000 soldiers, and it is tantamount to self-destruction. How can this loss-making business be done?" Someone immediately expressed his objection. Indeed, it is easy for everyone to save some capital for so many years. If they all hit Zhangqiu all at once, even if they have to save their lives, they will have no soldiers or power in the future, and life will be difficult.

"It's not possible to surrender, but it's not possible to surrender. It's better to wait and wait for the yellow-clothed thief to come west before making a fuss." Someone stood up and muddled, but this is actually the safest way. Wait for a while and then talk about it, what if the yellow-clothed thief doesn't move west?

Niu Chenghu listened to his subordinates' discussions in his ears, and his right hand huddled in his sleeve was still rubbing a letter. This was a letter of persuasion to him by Chen Zhilong, who was now working with the yellow thief. He was originally planning to burn it and ignore it, but he didn't know what he thought at that time, but he left the letter in a strange way. At this moment, he heard his generals discussing the situation, and suddenly found that these people were not very enthusiastic about resisting the yellow thief, which made him shake a little in his heart.

He was originally a thief and later surrendered to the Ming Dynasty as the general of Lintao. In 1644, after Li Zicheng entered Beijing, Niu Chenghu was named General General because he was born in Shaanxi and stationed troops in Ningxia Prefecture. After the Battle of Yipianshi, Dong Xueli, the former deputy general of Ningxia Huamachi of Yu Huaqing surrendered to the Qing army, secretly sent a letter to Chen Zhilong, the governor of Dashun Ningxia, asking him to raise an army to surrender to the Qing Dynasty. As a result, the letter was intercepted by Niu Chenghu and ordered the execution of Dong Xueli's only son and younger brother.

In 1645, Niu Chenghu was still loyal to Dashun. When Ajige led his army into Shaanxi and sent the surrendered general Kang Yuanxun to surrender, Niu Chenghu even killed the man. Unexpectedly, the situation changed rapidly. When Li Zicheng led his troops to retreat to Henan and Hubei, Chen Zhilong grabbed a considerable number of Shun troops and threatened Niu Chenghu to surrender together. Niu Chenghu surrendered to the Qing Dynasty at the end of the month.

In other words, he himself has a grudge with Chen Zhilong and Dong Xueli! Now these two people are in a prosperous position with the yellow thief. How dare Niu Chenghu surrender! How can he surrender!

Just when Niu Chenghu and his generals were extremely confused about what to do next, on March 12, 1649, Mao Desheng rode a pure-blooded Turkmen horse and embarked on the westward road. With him, the East Coast army, which had just won the battle in Qingzhou City. Except for the Ding Mingwu army, who had suffered heavy casualties (most of the casualties in this battle were from this army, and the current number of troops was less than 10,000) who stayed in Qingzhou City to rest and transport supplies, almost all the other main troops were dispatched, advancing along the official road between Jinan and Qingzhou at a slow rate.

The messengers set out first, and they took a large number of copied plaques and distributed them to the prefectures and counties under the Qing court along the way. After Tong Yangliang failed in Qingzhou, there were defeated soldiers on the front line one after another. More than ten counties including Linzi, Le'an, Boxing, Gaoyuan, Xincheng, Changshan, Zouping, Zichuan, etc. to the west immediately fell into panic. Especially those gentry and clans fled west with gold, silver and fine soft materials, so as not to stay in the county and be subjected to the poisonous hands of the yellow-clad thief.

Some of the strong points simply asked the prefectures and county officials to start a group training together, and prepared to protect themselves. This is not the first time that the yellow-clothed thief has entered Qingzhou and Jinan prefectures. Last time, he came, he was still a soldier led by a thief head named Mo (according to the court's residence, he had been shot and killed by Meilezhangjing Laidai in Yanzhou Prefecture). At that time, the gentry in these prefectures was all subject to Dayang. Not only were they sent to donate grain, but several gentry who had some connection with the Qing court actually got killed by the yellow-clothed thief. It is really a habit of a thief and it is difficult to become a great person. Isn't that right? Whoever dares to treat the gentry with a thief? The thief is a thief and will never be on the table. We will follow the Qing court and deal with the yellow-clothed thief to the end.

Therefore, when the East Coast army advanced westward, there were a large number of gentry guarded by the fortresses in the countryside along the way, and they opened their support. These bold and arbitrary regiments actually killed all the envoys sent to urge grain on the east coast, and also slandered General Mo for being crushed by the soldiers of the "Qing Dynasty". This is really outrageous!

So, after three shots were fired, the East Coast army finally began to use force to force them to surrender. The battle process was naturally unreasonable, because the gang-training armed forces could be comparable to the soldiers who had been through battle formations, so the forts were conquered in a short while. The next was cruel revenge, and the disobedient gentry and male members were beheaded, and the female family members were either assigned to meritorious soldiers or were charged into women's teams, and their family property was also confiscated. Some of the forts that raised the villages and resisted were ordered by Mao Desheng to slaughter all the defenders in the city, and the rest were demoted to slaves and sent to Sakhalin's state-owned farm as slaves.

After using such a thunderous method, the east coast army suddenly surrendered wherever they passed. Linzi, Gaoyuan, Xincheng, Changshan and other counties surrendered immediately. Even if the local magistrates refused to surrender, the soldiers in the city would force them to surrender, otherwise everyone would be dead. Anyway, the possibility of yellow-clothed thieves sending soldiers to garrison is not high. The so-called surrender is just a form. Don’t you still make your own decisions in the city? In fact, some flexible green-skinned gangsters even extorted the city in the name of surrendering the Yellow-clothed gangsters, gathering too much, and they were so happy.

In this way, the Qing court had just been in Qingzhou Prefecture, and the Jinan Prefecture had restored its ruling order for less than half a year and was once again disintegrated. A large number of spontaneous rebels began to appear in various places under the encouragement of the army on the east coast, which further weakened the power of the Qing court and shook the confidence of Qing officials.

On March 18, after conquering Qingzhou Prefecture, seven or eight counties in Jinan Prefecture (basically they went down without fighting), the army on the east coast approached Zhangqiu County in Jinan Prefecture and directly pressed the sharp knife on the soft abdomen of the Qing court. Zhang Ruxiu, the governor of Shandong Qing, hurriedly called Beijing to an emergency, and Luke Dehun, who was responsible for Shandong's military affairs, also dispatched troops and soldiers to wait for work near Jinan, and a battle with the yellow-clad thieves to decide the ownership of Shandong - he really had no way out.

In order to prepare for this battle, Luke Dehun had completely given up the idea of ​​destroying the local thieves of the Yuyuan Army of Dongchang Prefecture and Yanzhou Prefecture, and began to gather troops to prepare for the battle. Kong Xigui, Li Rutai, Tong Yangliang, and Niu Chenghu gathered troops to Jinan to fight to the death with the yellow-clothed thieves. As for the general of Dengzhou, Tong Yangliang (remaining), the general of the Linqing Qing Dynasty, Yi Yonggui, had two more than 30,000 troops, and followed Tan Tai north to Shanxi to quell the rebellion. At this time, the troops left in Shandong and the Eight Banners of the Manchu and Mongolian were only 60,000 to 70,000. With these brave and courageous wax-breaking thieves and the strong yellow-clothed thieves, the situation of the battle would probably be very unoptimistic. Moreover, the yellow-clothed thieves can still contact the Yuyuan Army who had just escaped from the sky to act together, so that the Qing Dynasty's chance of winning will be even smaller.

On March 24, the East Coast army continued to advance westward after a short rest. The vanguard Du Chong's troops held a small-scale confrontation with the Qing Yizhou general Niu Chenghu's troops east of Zhangqiu County, regardless of the outcome.

After using such a thunderous method, the east coast army suddenly surrendered wherever they passed. Linzi, Gaoyuan, Xincheng, Changshan and other counties surrendered immediately. Even if the local magistrates refused to surrender, the soldiers in the city would force them to surrender, otherwise everyone would be dead. Anyway, the possibility of yellow-clothed thieves sending soldiers to garrison is not high. The so-called surrender is just a form. Don’t you still make your own decisions in the city? In fact, some flexible green-skinned gangsters even extorted the city in the name of surrendering the Yellow-clothed gangsters, gathering too much, and they were so happy.

In this way, the Qing court had just been in Qingzhou Prefecture, and the Jinan Prefecture had restored its ruling order for less than half a year and was once again disintegrated. A large number of spontaneous rebels began to appear in various places under the encouragement of the army on the east coast, which further weakened the power of the Qing court and shook the confidence of Qing officials.

In this way, the Qing court had just been in Qingzhou Prefecture, and the Jinan Prefecture had restored its ruling order for less than half a year and was once again disintegrated. A large number of spontaneous rebels began to appear in various places under the encouragement of the army on the east coast, which further weakened the power of the Qing court and shook the confidence of Qing officials.

In this way, the Qing court had just been in Qingzhou Prefecture, and the Jinan Prefecture had restored its ruling order for less than half a year and was once again disintegrated. A large number of spontaneous rebels began to appear in various places under the encouragement of the army on the east coast, which further weakened the power of the Qing court and shook the confidence of Qing officials.

On March 18, after conquering Qingzhou Prefecture, seven or eight counties in Jinan Prefecture (basically all went down without fighting), the army on the east coast approached Zhangqiu County in Jinan Prefecture and directly pressed the sharp knife on the soft abdomen of the Qing court. Zhang Ruxiu, the governor of Shandong Qing, hurriedly called Beijing to an emergency, and Luke Dehun, who was responsible for Shandong's military affairs, also dispatched troops and soldiers to wait for work near Jinan, and a battle to decide the ownership of Shandong with the yellow-clad thieves - he really had no way to retreat, he really had no way to retreat, he really had no way to retreat, he really had no way to retreat

In order to prepare for this battle, Luke Dehun had completely given up the idea of ​​destroying the local thieves of the Yuyuan Army of Dongchang Prefecture and Yanzhou Prefecture, and began to gather troops to prepare for the battle. Kong Xigui, Li Rutai, Tong Yangliang, and Niu Chenghu gathered troops to Jinan to fight to the death with the yellow-clothed thieves. As for the general of Dengzhou, Tong Yangliang (remaining), the general of the Linqing Qing Dynasty, Yi Yonggui, had two more than 30,000 troops, and followed Tan Tai north to Shanxi to quell the rebellion. At this time, the troops left in Shandong and the Eight Banners of the Manchu and Mongolian were only 60,000 to 70,000. With these brave and courageous wax-breaking thieves and the strong yellow-clothed thieves, the situation of the battle would probably be very unoptimistic. Moreover, the yellow-clothed thieves can still contact the Yuyuan Army who had just escaped from the sky to act together, so that the Qing Dynasty's chance of winning will be even smaller.
Chapter completed!