Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 957 Decisive Battle 10
The Ming army suddenly counterattacked aggressively, and the overwhelming artillery fire and the sharp charge made the Qing army terrified. Those counties with only a small number of Qing troops changed hands in an instant, and a large number of Ming troops surrendered. The situation was not good, and they were fooled again, cutting off the braid that had just been shaved, or unfurling the flag of Ming Dynasty to expel the Qing army, or secretly sending information to the Ming army. The role change was so fast that the Qing army Jun was dumbfounded, for the first time he knew what it meant to be the most shameless, only more shameless!
As far as the grass on the wall is concerned, it is impossible to expect them to give charcoal in a timely manner. It is their favorite to throw trouble into trouble. Now the Qing army is obviously a little bit overwhelmed, so the fool continues to work for the Qing army!In the past, these grasshoppers were in awe of the Qing army and obeyed what they said, but now, the soldiers of the Qing army are just a pile of moving money in their eyes. It is not difficult now, when will it be more?As for whether Yang Menglong will accept these fools again and let them atone for their sins, they have a mysterious self-confidence... After all, the law does not blame the masses. The Ming army who surrendered to the Qing army had 30 instead of 28. No matter how jealous Yang Menglong was, You have to be sloppy, you can't kill them all, right?In the frenzy of falling into trouble, the Qing army was besieged on all sides, and their retreat was not enough to describe their embarrassment at this time. Their defeat like a mountain is the truest portrayal of them!
This kind of situation makes people worry, especially the group of civil servants of the Ming Dynasty who have worked hard to help the Qing army seize the capital, are in a state of panic all day long.Who would have thought that the already disintegrated Ming Dynasty would still have such a powerful combat power. Under the impossible circumstances, it first settled Junggar, then killed Dorgon, and finally assembled an army of 10,000+ to move northward, and the general Qing The army is pushing back to the northeast?The Qing army was okay, they couldn't fight, and at worst, they fled back to the deep mountains and old forests in the northeast to gnaw bark, but what about these scholar-bureaucrats?They knew very well what they had done, expecting Yang Menglong to let them go, it would be better to expect the sow to climb the tree!

Those scholar-bureaucrats in Daming who were counting on changes to earn a fortune were quite devastated. This Yang Menglong was born to be their nemesis, right?Why no matter what kind of conspiracy and tricks they used, they still couldn't help him, but let him push back?what is this?
There was mourning in the city of Beijing.

Wailing is useless, the Ming army will not stop the counterattack because of their shouting.On February 25th, half a month after the start of the counter-offensive, Wu Sheng commanded 7000 Denglai new troops to approach the city and surrounded Jinan. At the same time, he dispatched [-] troops to bypass Jinan and join Sun Chuanting's troops to strengthen the defense of Cangzhou. .Coincidentally, less than a day after Denglai's new army and Sun Chuanting joined forces, the Qing army's southward reinforcement troops also arrived in Cangzhou. There is nothing to say, everyone is very busy, let's start the fight.

The Qing army that went south to support was a 160 infantry and cavalry army led by Zu Zerun. They were well-equipped and had quite fierce firepower.They did not make any unnecessary moves and launched an attack immediately after arriving in Cangzhou City. Sun Chuanting commanded the army to go out of the city to fight, hoping to give Zu Zerun some color.The results proved that although the Guan Ning Army had nothing to do with the Qing Army, the Heluo New Army, and the Tianxiong Army, Sun Chuanting could not handle it. What's more, the Qing Army was determined to go south to join Abatai. It was a bit like doing whatever it took, and Sun Chuanting, who didn't know the depth of it, suffered a big loss all of a sudden.The Qing army did not wait for the Ming army to set up their formation, and then blasted the Ming army's formation with eight [-]mm lightning cannons. The Ming army was blown up with blood and flesh, and the formation was in chaos. Then the musketeers and crossbowmen pressed on, and several A round of unusually violent volleys, corpses of the Ming army lay all over the ground, and before Sun Chuanting could recover, the cavalry of the Qing army had roared in, smashed into the square formation of the Ming army and started killing... The trump card——the [-] musket battalion composed of Heluo militiamen was released, and the [-] militiamen formed five hollow bayonet phalanxes. Like falling off a horse.The cavalry company of the Qing army launched an attack on these seemingly fragile bayonet phalanxes, and they were blasted back with muskets and grenades even after rushing several times. The casualties of the Heluo militia were not small, but it was a dream for the Qing army to destroy these phalanxes in one fell swoop. .The cavalry of the Qing army tried to circumvent the bayonet phalanx from the seashore, copying the back route of the Ming army. As a result, there was the sound of rumbling guns on the sea, and the two warships opened fire. The Qing cavalry blasted the pits and valleys full of dead bodies.Sun Chuanting took the opportunity to withdraw his troops and retreat to Cangzhou City, but could not hold out.He is a smart man, this contest has made him clearly know that it is impossible to defeat the Qing army in the field with the combat power of the motley army in his hand, and Yang Menglong did not ask him to defeat the Qing army in the field, Then spend it, anyway, he is not in a hurry, and the Qing army is in a hurry!
The Qing army was not only anxious, but also anxious!Sun Chuanting could afford it, but they couldn't afford it. Cangzhou was only more than 200 miles away from Tianjin, so it was very close. The Ming army used this as a starting point for their attack. It could pierce the Qing army's heart like a steel knife. Who could stand it?Without taking Cangzhou, they would have no way to eliminate the Ming army's most direct threat to the Beijing-Tianjin area, let alone join Abatai's command!Zu Zerun was so anxious that his lips had blisters. He ran down to Cangzhou City to scold him. He named Sun Chuanting's eighteen generations of ancestors and cursed them all over. He wanted to provoke Sun Chuanting to come out and fight him. Sun Chuanting took out two pieces of cotton and put it in his ear. Sai, you can scold me, if you can, scold me, let's see how long you can scold me!

Meeting such a faceless, hob-like meat, Zu Zerun had the urge to vomit blood.

Wu Sheng also had the urge to vomit blood.It's not that he and Zu Zerun have any basic affection, everyone has a tacit understanding, that's why there is no such thing!

He made the bureaucrats in Jinan City vomit blood.

Wu Sheng had participated in the battle to put down the Denglai rebellion, and he naturally knew how corrupt Shandong's armaments were.Shandong has no shortage of good soldiers, but it seldom has strong troops. Especially in the Ming Dynasty, I have never heard of any troops that can fight well in Shandong. Otherwise, how could Kong Youde's thousands of rebels sweep half of Shandong?According to the information he has, there are as many as 6000 Qing troops defending Jinan, but the ones who can really fight are Tong Kewang's headquarters with less than 3000 troops. Not at hand?From Wu Sheng to Yuan Zongdi, and then to Xu Meng, everyone thought this battle could be won easily.But after the fight, they realized that they were wrong, how wrong they were!

In front of Kong Youde's rebels and the Qing army, the Jinan defenders, who were as rotten as shit, broke out with unbelievable bravery after they shaved their heads and changed their flags. They fired in turns, and there was a continuous rain of arrows. After a long time, the battlements were filled with sharp arrows, like hedgehogs. Thousands of defenders were killed and injured.However, when the Denglai new army carried the ladder and crossed the moat and began to attack the city, the cannons on the city wall immediately rumbled, arrows and rocks rained down, and the Denglai new army who attacked the city was beaten to pieces.Finally, the ladders were added up, and a group of soldiers of the Denglai New Army, with horizontal knives in their mouths, climbed up with their hands and feet. A pot of boiling oil poured down on the city, and the soldiers of the new army who were soaked screamed and screamed. Strings fell from the ladder... The corpses piled up higher and higher under the city wall, including those from the Qing army and the Denglai New Army.Many ladders and toad carts were ignited by boiling oil, igniting raging fires. There were corpses strewn around the fires, blood and water flowing everywhere, and it was terrible to see.The Denglai New Army launched four consecutive attacks, and was beaten back four times. When the battle was at its most critical, the Denglai New Army once planted the battle flag on the top of the city, but Wu Sheng clearly saw that many Jinan civil servants took risks. Zhu Shishi came to the front line in person, or beat drums to cheer, or rewarded the sergeants with snowflake silver on the spot. Under their encouragement, the morale of the Qing army was greatly boosted, and they fought back desperately, suppressing the Denglai new army.

Wu Sheng was furious, and roared at the city wall that was blackened by the war: "On the day the city is broken, I will slaughter Jinan gentry and officials of all sizes!" In front of them, in front of the Qing army, they were all a bunch of soft bones. On the contrary, they became extremely tough in front of the Denglai new army, which was determined to restore the country, making it impossible for the Denglai new army to attack repeatedly!If you don't slaughter these bastards who eat people's food and don't do anything about human affairs, he will write the word "Wu" upside down!

In fact, we can’t blame the big and small officials in Jinan City. If you want to blame it, you can blame the Denglai New Army’s style of killing officials and gentry who have colluded with the Qing army. The day of destruction is when they are hung on the top of the city, even if it is just to survive, they must try their best to defend the city!A single army in one city, risking their lives to fight each other, Denglai's new army lost too many fighting backbones in last year's Northern Expedition, and their strength was greatly reduced. They couldn't chew this hard bone for a while, and the war in Jinan fell into a stalemate.The violent Wu Sheng ordered the siege to stop, and he dug trenches to besiege Jinan City. At the same time, he mobilized a large number of civilians to level the roads, and transported six 120mm cannons and [-] rounds of shells from Yantai. The bastard looks good!

Tong Kewang fought Wu Sheng in Jinan to a bloody battle, while Abatai led his army until he was out of breath.

Qi Hu, that bad old man, is too scary. After learning that the Qing army withdrew from Nanjing, they didn't even enter the city of Nanjing. He commanded the army to continue to advance by land and water, and went north along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, chasing after him!In all fairness, Qi Hu's troops are actually not strong in combat effectiveness, only the thousand Heluo new army can do it. They are all just at the middle and lower levels. It is no problem to defend the city. Fighting against the Qing army?In all likelihood, the Qing army will teach them how to behave.However, under Qi Hu's training, this army seemed to be a bit banned. In addition, the situation is very good now. The Northern Expedition army has won every victory, and the Qing army hastily fled. Everyone's morale is like a rainbow. How terrifying is the army, following Qi Hu's order to chase after him fiercely, no matter what he says, he can't let Abatai escape!

Abate can only admit that he is unlucky now.Now the situation is different. The Ming army who rushed to open the city to welcome them when they went south has turned against him now. They shut their doors and refuse to say anything. If they dare to approach these cities, the Ming army will immediately bombard them. If they can't swallow With this bad breath, he stopped to attack the city, which was playing into the Ming army's ambitions, and Qi Hu was right behind!As for the gentry and landlords who actively provided the Qing army with a large amount of food and fodder, they either ran away without even a ghost, or they huddled in their own docks and refused to come out.The Qing army began to be hungry, and they had to retreat while trying to grab food. In this way, the speed inevitably slowed down, and it was very sad to get rid of the Ming army.Unlike them, the Ming army marched along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. They had a large number of boats to transport food and fodder for them. Just concentrate on chasing the Qing army.The Qing army kept complaining, their morale began to drop, and the physical strength of men and horses was inevitably greatly consumed. The Ming army successively discovered Qing soldiers who were left behind due to injuries and exhausted war horses. All this made them firmly believe that , they are not far from victory.

When the bad news of the siege of Jinan came, the exhausted Qing army almost collapsed.They are exhausted now, hoping to escape to Jinan to stop and take a good breath. They never expected that the situation in Jinan is even worse than theirs! ?Abata looked up to the sky and sighed: "The Ming army is going to drive us out! It's over, it's over! I'm afraid we will never return to the Liaohe Plain!"

Pu Luo said angrily: "Ama, let's not retreat, stop and have a good fight with Minggou, even if we lose, let Minggou know how good we are!"

Zhongjia Laerzhen also shouted: "Yes, master, don't retreat, stop and have a good fight with Minggou! If we continue to escape like this, I'm afraid we won't even have the strength to fight them!" Some aggressive ones even yelled: "It's better to be chopped into meat paste by a Ming dog than to run all day long, and finally exhausted to death! Since I started the army in the Qing Dynasty, I have never tried such a shameful thing!" For a while, the crowd was furious, and they all demanded a decisive battle with the Ming army. They were really fed up with the uselessness of being chased away by the Ming army.

Abatai gritted his teeth and said, "Keep going, let's retreat to Donghai County, where the Ming army's defenses are weak, and there is a lot of food and fodder reserves, but we can go down in one go, and we will be there after we take Donghai County." Take a good rest for a few days, and then fight to the death with the Ming army!"

All the generals of the Qing Army shouted with blood in their eyes: "Fight to the death! Fight to the death!!!"

(End of this chapter)