Shi Kefa's Texas battle strategy is simple, it is four words - encirclement and reinforcement!

The "point" is, of course, Texas City. The current city wall of Dezhou was built in the Hongwu period of the early Ming Dynasty, the circumference of the city wall is ten miles and another hundred and eighty steps, and it is made of rammed earth and bricks, which is very strong. The area of the city is not small or small, covering an area of more than 3,700 acres. It is not a hassle to garrison, and it can put a lot of troops, families, money, food and various materials in it.

Moreover, the city wall of Dezhou was also rebuilt and strengthened after the "Five-Year Covenant of the Ming and Qing Dynasties", and the prismatic fortress was built outside the four city gates (there are five city gates in Dezhou, one of which is the Water Gate), and the prismatic platforms were built at the five corners of the city wall (the city of Texas is boot-shaped), and the outer wall of the castle was rebuilt to make it have an inclined plane that could resist shelling.

Outside the city of Dezhou, along the canal, the Yujin River and the long trench in the northeast of the city of Dezhou, there are a series of forts, relying on the danger, forming the outer defense line of Dezhou.

Because Dezhou is the gateway to Beizhili, the project of rebuilding Dezhou City was funded and assigned by the Qing Dynasty in Beijing.

The official who was sent to supervise the work was named Zhang Ruolin, who was ordered to go to the front line to supervise the battle in the Battle of Songjin and blindly urged Hong Chengchou to advance. After the fall of Beijing, he first surrendered to Dashun, and later followed Luo Yangxing, Guang Shiheng and others to join the Qing Dynasty, and is now a slave with a green flag and a dignified third minister.

After leaving the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Ruolin's official luck was not bad, starting from Shuntianfu Chenggan, rising step by step, and now he is the military department of the Qing Dynasty......

In order to repay the reuse of Shunzhi's master, in the past two years, Zhang Ruolin has come to Texas almost once a month, staying for more than ten days, not to play, but to seriously inspect the Texas fortress project.

Under the supervision of his efforts, the Texas Fort project not only progressed quickly, but also the quality was good, and even the cost was reduced to a minimum.

Moreover, Zhang Ruolin also suspected that the city defense plan formulated by the Japanese Banian military advisers was not safe, and added a long trench to the northeast of the Texas fortress. He ventured into Texas late last month when the flames of war were ignited in Shandong, just to personally supervise the construction of the trench in northeast Texas.

Under his hard work, the trench was finally completed before the arrival of the Ming army.

With the protection of this long moat, the canal and the Yujin River, the city defense of Texas can be regarded as absolutely foolproof......

However, before Zhang Ruolin had time to set up a celebration banquet and celebrate with the officials under his command, Shi Kefa's army arrived! The Qing army stronghold outside the canal, the Yujin River and the Northeast Long Trench in Northeast Texas was easily resolved. Then he began to build the fortifications of the siege along the canal, the Yujin River and the trench in the northeast of Texas.

The Qing army and Zhang Ruolin in the city of Dezhou could not get out, so they could only stare dryly at a civil structure wall and dozens of circular pillboxes used to erect artillery and deploy musketeers, which appeared at a very fast speed outside the canal, the Yujin River and the trench in the northeast of Dezhou......

Is this to encircle Texas for a long time to lure the imperial court soldiers to come?

Standing at the head of Dezhou City, looking at the Ming army and the Ming Dynasty people who were in full swing in the distance with a telescope, Zhang Ruolin suddenly had a sense of déjà vu...... This scene is really familiar!

"Lang Zhong, do you think this Shi Kefa wants to use Texas as bait?" Fan Chengmo didn't know when he appeared behind Zhang Ruolin, and he also felt that the scene in front of him was quite familiar!

He also participated in the Battle of Songjin!

That year, he had just turned 17 years old, became Huang Taiji's bodyguard, and followed Huang Taiji from Shengjing and Shenyang all the way to the front line of Songjin, witnessing the collapse of hundreds of thousands of Ming troops......

And the battle of Songjin didn't start with the siege of Jinzhou City?

"No, no......" Zhang Ruolin shook his head, "Shi Kefa is a man of false name and an official of empty talk, how can he be compared with the first emperor and Chengzong?" Besides, how wise is the imperial uncle? It is by no means comparable to Hong Chengchou. ”

Fan Chengmo frowned: "If Hong Chengchou doesn't take the enemy lightly, does he have a way to relieve the siege of Jinzhou?" ”

"This ......" Zhang Ruolin fell into deep thought.

He really thought about this question for a long time.

He was ordered by Chen Xinjia to urge Hong Chengchou to fight quickly, on the one hand, because he was short of money and food and could not support it; On the one hand, it is because of the emergency in Jinzhou - Zu Dashou reported to the imperial court in March of the 14th year of Chongzhen: "The grain and rice in Jincheng are only for more than a month, and the beans for feeding the horses cannot support the ...... for a month."

If Hong Chengchou does not save Jinzhou, then Jinzhou will inevitably fall after the food runs out.

And to save ......

Thinking of this, Zhang Ruolin sighed: "Fortunately, our food stock is enough, and we are not afraid of the Ming army." ”

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Of course, Shi Kefa knew that the Qing army in Dezhou was not afraid of a long siege, but in addition to besieging Dezhou, he also had a bigger trump card at hand, that is, Zuo Maodi, the governor of Shandong, and Zhang Huangyan, the training envoy of the Shandong Tuntian regiment.

Gao Hongtu fell ill because of old age and has gone home to recuperate. Zuo Maodi, the original Tuntian regimental training envoy, was promoted to governor and became the largest parent official in Shandong Province, while Zhang Huangyan took over Zuo Maodi's official position and became the Shandong Tuntian regimental training envoy.

According to Zhu Cihong's order, the governor of Shandong and the Tuntian regimental envoy were controlled by Shi Kefa after the end of the war began - Shi Kefa, the governor, had little power in peacetime, but once it entered the wartime, it was a real feud!

Just after Shi Kefa completed the arrangement of "encircling Dezhou, monitoring Liaocheng and Anping, and waiting for the Dongyu Brigade to come south" through the plains military conference, he invited Zuo Maodi and Zhang Huangyan to the plains and began to arrange the operation to recover the lost territory.

Due to the active contraction of the Qing army (there are also too late to shrink, most of them are now ancient), only Dezhou, Anping, and Liaocheng are still under the control of the Qing army in Shandong. Elsewhere, a small part was occupied by the Ming army, and most was in a power vacuum.

"Zhong Ji, Xuan," in Shi Kefa's Zhongjun Yuanmen in Pingyuan County, Shi Kefa, the governor of Shandong and Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty, was talking to Zuo Maodi and Zhang Huangyan in the study, "Now the Qing army on the ground in Shandong has shrunk so much that a large area of territory has been vacated...... If we can fill it, then we will be able to feed the war with war, and the Qing army will definitely not be able to withstand it. ”

Zhang Huangyan has been an official in Shandong and Liaodong in the past few years, and of course he knows that the Qing Dynasty occupied a lot of fertile land on the territory of Jibei, West Yanzhou, and Dongchang...... Many loyal ministers and good generals from Shandong are eyeing it!

Loyal ministers and good generals or something...... He is also a member of the landlord class!

How can you not love the land? If you don't like the land, what else will you do in the Northern Expedition?

Now that the Qing army has shrunk, the leveled land of Jibei, West Yanzhou, and Dongchang is also in front of the big guys......

So Zhang Huangyan didn't answer Shi Kefa's question, but turned his attention to Zuo Maodi, the Zuo family is loyal and good, and he is also the largest landlord in Shandong!

"Xianzhi," said Zuo Maodi, "the land of Jibei, West Yanzhou, and Dongchang...... Can't be rushed! The imperial court should first make it clear that it will not take a penny and return it to the public, and then it will be entrusted by the Tuntian regiment training envoy and the governor's yamen, and then distribute it after the northern border is decided. ”

Zhang Huangyan echoed: "It's still Zuo Futai Zhou Dao...... But what about the farmers on the land in Jibei, West Yanzhou, and Dongchang? They've tasted the benefits of dictation! ”

It's a big nuisance!

The basis of the dictation of land is the "public land system", which is also the basis of the land policy now implemented by the Qing Dynasty!

The basis of the land system implemented by the Ming Dynasty in the southeast of the two lakes and four rivers in Fujian and Guangdong is the "private land system", so the imperial court also holds a large amount of land, but it cannot change the foundation of private land, and the Ming court has always adopted a protective policy for private land with clear property rights.

Zuo Maodi also had a little headache, he stroked his beard, thought for a while, and said to Shi Kefa: "The land must be redivided...... But it's best not to mention this matter at the moment, first send out the parents and officials in each county, and then post a notice to the people, and there will be a three-year exemption or something. ”