"The last general, Ji Feng, see the emperor!" When the Northern Expedition arrived in Xuzhou, Ji Feng's First Army of Yinglong Army was immediately incorporated into the Northern Expedition, with a total of 280,000 troops, but before the expedition, Zhu Ci claimed that there were 300,000 troops, and 20,000 people of the Fourth Army were still waiting for an opportunity in Quanzhou and the two fleets of the navy.

To the north of Xuzhou is Shandong, and the first step of the Northern Expedition of the Great Army is to take Shandong first.

"What's going on in Shandong?" Zhu Ci asked.

"Back to the emperor, Dolgon sent Hong Chengchou as the governor of Shandong, and built the Shandong defense line with 500,000 Han banner troops, all under the overall planning of Hong Chengchou!" Ji Feng said.

Due to Xuzhou's close proximity to Shandong, first-hand information was first transmitted to Xuzhou.

"Hong Chengchou!" Zhu Ci's face was gloomy, and he gritted his teeth and said hatefully: "I will kill such a traitor who sells his clan for glory!" ”

Zhu Ci couldn't help but hate.

Hong Chengchou is Wanli forty-four years of civil officials Jinshi was born, Chongzhen two years in Yang He under the hands of Yang to participate in the encirclement and suppression of the Liukou, since then a blockbuster, Chongzhen four years of official worship of the trilateral governor, full power to encircle and suppress Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng and other rogues, has repeatedly defeated Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others.

Hong Chengchou became bigger and bigger, and by the time of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, Hong Chengchou was like the pillar of the Ming Dynasty, commanding more than seventy percent of the most elite soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty.

However, it is such a Optimus Pillar that finally led most of the elites and Manchus of the Ming Dynasty to launch a Songjin Battle in Liaodong, but it was defeated, which was due to the blind command of Emperor Chongzhen, and there were also some other reasons, in short, Hong Chengchou was defeated.

However, if Hong Chengchou died in battle, it would be nothing, but it is a pity that he became a prisoner of the Manchus, which is also nothing, but he finally surrendered to the Manchus, and also helped the Manchus to make plans to deal with the Ming Dynasty in turn, which is the most hateful place.

It's not good to help anyone, but to help other races, even if he rebels himself, he won't make Zhu Cicheng hate him so much, like Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and Zuo Liangyu and the like, although hateful, Zhu Cicheng never regarded them as traitors, but Hong Chengchou, a traitor who beat them with iron.

Hong Chengchou's surrender to the Qing Dynasty was undoubtedly a severe blow to the already stormy Ming Dynasty back then, causing the Ming army to be demoralized and defeated repeatedly, and finally attacked Beijing by Li Zicheng.

Jinan City, the capital of Shandong Province.

Hong Chengchou, Kong Youde and Shang Kexi stood on the wall of Jinan City.

"The Ming army is about to enter Shandong, this governor is entrusted by the regent, and he came to the governor of Shandong to block the Ming army, which is a great matter, and I hope that the two princes will cooperate more!" Hong Chengchou said.

Although he is the governor, and has some titles such as the crown prince and the Taibao, but in the end he is not as good as Kong Youde and Shang Kexi's princes, in terms of identity, Hong Chengchou is not as good as Kong Youde and Shang Kexi, in order to prevent the two of them from relying on their identities to disobey the order, Hong Chengchou explained in advance, indicating that he was ordered by Dolgon to be the governor of Shandong Military, and everyone should listen to him.

"Whatever the governor says, since there is an order from the regent, we will naturally listen to the governor." Although Kong Youde and Shang Kexi were not very comfortable in their hearts, they did not dare to disobey Dorgon's order.

Hong Chengchou nodded and ignored the two of them.

In fact, Hong Chengchou is very disdainful of Kong Youde and Shang Kexi, thinking that the two of them are just taking refuge in the Manchurians before they were crowned kings early, in fact, the ability of the two is not worthy of the prince sealed on them, this time to defend Shandong, he has to show his hand in front of these two, let the two see what is called talent.

You must know that for the sake of the Qing Dynasty, he promised in front of the regent that he would stop the Ming army in Shandong for at least two months and kill and wound at least 50,000 Ming troops.

Since the Qing Dynasty, Hong Chengchou has completely given up his original identity as a Hanchen, and has been thinking about the Manchus wholeheartedly.

To say that relying on Shandong's 500,000 army to block the 300,000 Ming army for two months, Hong Chengchou has absolute confidence.

It's not that Hong Chengchou is arrogant, when he was still in Daming, only tens of thousands of soldiers and horses under his command killed the hundreds of thousands of troops of Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng and others were defeated and fled.

The current Ming army may be strong in combat, but after all, the number is less than 300,000, and he commands an army of 500,000 to defend Shandong, and it is impossible to hold it for two months.

Hong Chengchou is too confident in his talents, thinking that he is a talented learner, no one can be out of his way, and his long-standing wish is to be famous all over the world, relying on his talents to benefit the people of the world, so as to leave a name in history.

When he was captured by the Manchus, he thought about committing suicide, and there may be many reasons for the final surrender of the Manchus, but one of them is very important, that is, he doesn't want his majesty to be buried without a place to show it, undoubtedly, the emperor Taiji gave him a chance to be reborn, abandon the previous suspicions, and grant him important positions, the Manchus believe in him so much, he naturally wants to be the Manchurians.

The idea of traitors is so unpredictable that it seems that in their hearts, it is not a shameful thing to help a foreign race enslave their own people.

In order to achieve his strategic goal and intercept the Northern Expedition Ming Army in Shandong for at least two months, Hong Chengchou quickly arranged three tight defense lines with an army of 500,000, namely the Jining Yanzhou Defense Line, the Tai'an Laicheng Defense Line, and the Jinan Dezhou Defense Line, each defense line was defended by more than 100,000 troops, Hong Chengchou was confident that the Ming army would fight down one defense line after another, not to mention two months, even if he could defend it in three or five months.

Although he knew that Hong Chengchou was commanding 500,000 Qing troops to defend Shandong, Zhu Cicheng didn't care about this, what he cared about was how to catch Hong Chengchou, a traitor, and divide him into five horses.

Xuzhou.

After the army rested for a day, Zhu Ci stumbled out of Xuzhou and went north to attack Shandong.

Zhu Ciji did not let all the armies gather together to attack, but divided his troops into four routes, intending to sweep away the leaves with the autumn wind and level Shandong.

The Fourth Route Army, led by the five armies of the Ying Long Army, attacked fiercely.

In just one day, the main force of the Chinese army where Zhu Cijiao was located attacked the city of Jining, and the other three route armies also marched for hundreds of miles and continued to advance.

"Fire!"

"Boom, boom, boom," more than 100 new 90-millimeter cannons and more than 200 old-style Shenwu field cannons roared together.

The city wall of Jining was shrouded in a sea of fire, and the entire city of Jining was shaken by this dense artillery fire, like an earthquake.

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