707 raids, Xiangyang broken

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The time has entered October, and the northern land has begun to cool.

After Li Zixiao received Qin Zhen's information and learned that the Tartars had divided his troops, he knew in his heart that it was time for him to lead the army to leave Jinan.

Li Zixiao asked Zhang Dashan, the governor of Shandong, to mobilize the officials and Ming troops of the Shandong Political Envoy Department, and it took a few days to relocate the people of many county towns in the west and north.

Since the Tartars entered the territory of Shandong, they have taken empty cities.

In this way, it is equivalent to freeing up a lot of strategic space, leaving Li Zixiao to fight with the Tartar army.

"Governor Zhang, how is the relocation of the people completed?"

"Sir, we are already trying our best to do it, and at present, we have only completely relocated the people of a dozen county towns in the north and west.

There are still more people in Dongchang and Jinan provinces, and we need more time if the migration is not completed.

Moreover, we do have food now, and the Qingzhou prefect has continuously sent people to cry to the official, saying that they are in short supply of food. ”

Zhang Dashan was very embarrassed and said.

"Well, Benjue knows. The relocation of the people must continue to be carried out quickly, as for the grain, don't worry, Benjue has already been transferred from Jiangbei, and if you hold on for a few more days, the grain will arrive. ”

These problems, in Li Zixiao's view, are not big problems.

"By the way, hasn't Liu Zeqing's general army arrived from Qingzhou yet?"

Speaking of Liu Zeqing, Li Zixiao's face became gloomy and asked Zhang Dashan.

"Back to the lord, not yet."

"Hmph, since Mr. Liu doesn't want to come, then he simply don't come, without him, Benjue will be like a tartar."

Li Zixiao snorted coldly.

For Liu Zeqing, the chief soldier of Shandong, Li Zixiao was also very dissatisfied.

I don't know why, maybe Liu Zeqing is afraid of the Tartars.

Perhaps it is also because Liu Zeqing is jealous of Li Zixiao, who is the deputy commander who resisted the Tartar army this time, and is Liu Zeqing's superior.

This made Liu Zeqing very unhappy, which made him reluctant to lead the army to leave Qingzhou and march west to defend against the Tartars.

At this time, it has been a month since the Tatars entered the customs, and Liu Zeqing's tens of thousands of troops are still in Qingzhou Mansion, and they have not even arrived in Jinan.

Originally, Liu Zeqing had tens of thousands of Ming troops in his hands, and it was also a help, which could help Li Zixiao to resist the Tartars together.

However, now that Li Zixiao has given up this plan, Liu Zeqing is obviously unwilling to listen to Li Zixiao's command.

This time, Li Zixiao faced not only god-like opponents, but also pig-like teammates, and there was no one.

At this time, a large number of people north and west of Jinan were relocated, leaving them with such a large territory, which was the battlefield selected by Li Zixiao.

Li Zixiao just wants to wait for the rabbit in Jinan and wait for the Tartars to attack.

After all, Li Zixiao knows better than anyone how powerful the Tartar cavalry is in the field, even if he has a flintlock pistol in his hand, it is still the Tatar cavalry who takes the initiative in the field.

Tartar has already suffered many big losses from Li Zixiao's flintlock pistol now, and Li Zixiao knows from the performance of Tartar after entering the customs this time.

As in the past, the situation of the Tartar cavalry attacking the musket formation of the White Dragon Army is basically impossible to occur again, and the Tartars are not fools.

In this way, Li Zixiao's thoughts on this battle against the Tartars are very clear, and they can be summed up in four words: 'defense and counterattack'.

In the early stage, Li Zixiao would rely on Jinan City and its surrounding towns to set up a defensive line to block the Tartars to the west and north of Jinan.

Li Zixiao believed that in addition to Shandong, the Tatars would not dare to continue to go deeper further south, otherwise the Tatar cavalry would be brave no matter how brave they were, and the long battle line would be enough to drag them down

In the final analysis, the Ming Dynasty at this time had not yet fallen.

No matter how weak the surrounding Ming army is, as long as the capital is not destroyed, the imperial flag of the Ming Dynasty will not fall, and there will still be a steady stream of Ming troops coming.

Therefore, the army of Tartar Dolgon, the only target they can plunder is Shandong.

As long as Li Zixiao can hold the Jinan defense line, the Tartars will not be able to enter Qingzhou, Laizhou and other prefectures in the east, and they will not dare to detour through those Yanzhou mansions.

If Dolgon really dared to ignore Li Zixiao's 50,000 troops in Jinan and make a detour to Yanzhou to plunder, Li Zixiao would definitely be able to lead the army to cut off Dolgon's retreat.

At that time, Dolgon was in danger of being trapped alive in Daming, and Li Zixiao believed that with Dolgon's cleverness, it was impossible to make such a mistake.

Therefore, the key to this battle depends on whether Li Zixiao can hold the offensive of Tartar in the early stage.

In the past few days, Li Zixiao has also sent out his men and horses one after another.

They were stationed in Yantou Town and Jiyang in the northeast of Jinan City, and Qihe County and Changqing County in the southeast to build an inclined defense line.

At the same time, Li Zixiao also sent an order to Liu Zeqing, who was still in Qingzhou, asking him to lead his army, not to Jinan, to take the Gaofan and Qingcheng lines in the northeast of the mountain, and to Wuding Prefecture to resist the Tartars on the northern line.

According to the latest news that Li Zixiao had just received from the Intelligence Bureau, among the three routes of soldiers and horses that Tatars had separated from Cangzhou, the middle lane Dolgon was the strongest.

Going west towards Zhending Mansion was a Tartar army led by Duoduo, numbering more than 30,000 people, second only to Dolgon in strength.

At this time, wreaking havoc in the Yangxin area in the northeast of the mountain was the blue banner led by Zierharang, and there were only 15,000 people, and the strength was the weakest.

Li Zixiao also knew a lot about the situation inside the Tartars, and knew that Ji'er Harang was the person of Huang Taiji.

Therefore, this time Dolgon's division of troops in Cangzhou is by no means so simple in Li Zixiao's opinion, and Li Zixiao even thinks that this is Dolgon's deliberate removal of Zilharang.

Even Dolgon didn't let Zilharan take too many men and horses, and sent them directly to the northeast side of the mountain, where he tossed away.

At this time, Dolgon also led his army of more than 30,000 people, directly bypassing Dezhou City and rushing towards Ling County.

However, when Dolgon led a large army to take Lingxian and the plains in a row, they basically had no effort, and they basically did not gain much.

For the people were moved away before they came.

"Lord Wang, something is wrong, Minggou is in the clear wilderness of the wall!

Since how to enter the territory of Shandong, the people in the city have basically run out, and they have not received much food.

If it goes on like this, it's not good for us! Now there is not much food in the army. ”

A Tartar general came to Dolgon's side and reported.

At this time, the role of Li Zixiao in clearing the wilderness has been initially reflected.

For these Tartars, who feed on war, they have not been able to grab more food, which has a great impact on them.

Before, Dolgon had already sent two batches of people and money and grain out of the north, and they didn't have much food to use.

Originally, according to the Tartars' idea, they continued to plunder all the way south, to feed the war with war, and quickly replenish the military rations given to them.

But the current situation is something they never expected.

When Dolgon led a large army to Linyi County, he once again found that the people in the county town had already been empty and they had found nothing, Dolgon's face was ugly, and he knew that the situation was grim.

In fact, what Li Zixiao didn't know was that Zhang Dashan did not fully implement his plan and moved all the people from more than a dozen prefectures and counties in the west and north of Jinan.

Because the task is too heavy, Zhang Dashan really has no confidence to complete it.

Therefore, Zhang Dashan's staff thought of an idea for him.

Let Zhang Dashan only move the people in the county seat, and as for the people in other towns and villages, inform them and let them hide in the surrounding mountains and forests for the time being, as long as they avoid the search of the Tartars.

Zhang Dashan immediately agreed to this method, which greatly reduced their workload.

This is also the real reason why Zhang Dashan was able to let all the people in the west and north of Jinan go to the empty building in such a short time.

At this time, more people are dragging their families and taking refuge in the mountains and forests not far from their townships.

These people had long heard of the cruelty of the Tartars, but they were all very cooperative.

And the Tartars are alone, and they don't know much about the situation here, these people are hiding in the mountains and forests, and Dolgon really doesn't have much to do, and it's not easy to find.

"Immediately send out a small contingent of cavalry and advance along the main roads to see if the people of the other cities in front of them are all gone."

Dolgon's face darkened, and he gave the order.

Half a day later, some of the Tartar cavalry sentries returned, half as many as they had gone, and many were wounded.

"What's going on?" Dorgon asked coldly.

As a result, the Tartar sentinels told Dorgon that while they were exploring, they encountered the cavalry of the White Dragons, and the two sides were engaged.

At this time, the scout camp of the White Dragon Army roamed around this area, responsible for monitoring the situation of the Tartar army, and they were not close to the Tartar army.

As soon as the Tartar army was raised, they retreated, and if a small group of Tartar scouts went out, they took the opportunity to harass and fight them.

The scouts of the White Dragon Army can't deal with the large Tartar cavalry, but they can still deal with the Tartar scouts.

"Lord Wang, we found that many villages and towns around us have not seen the people, not even the livestock."

A Tartar scout reported to Dolgon.

"Damn, Minggou is really in the strong wall Qingye, if you want to come up with such a big stroke, I'm afraid it was that Lord Li who came up with it!

It is impossible for them to move away so many people from towns and cities so quickly, and those people should hide in the surrounding mountains and forests and send people to search for them. ”

Dolgon was very clever, and he quickly thought of this, and sent his soldiers to search everywhere, and soon found many people hiding in the mountains and forests.

Immediately, the Tartar tribes attacked one after another, entering the mountains and forests to arrest the people.

"Lord Wang, are we delaying time too much.

It's better for us to kill Jinan City directly, the minions don't believe it, Li Zixiao has the ability to move all the people in Jinan City. ”

Someone suggested to Dorgon.

"You know a fart, of course Li Zixiao will not give up Jinan City, but do you really think that you made it.

This king only has 30,000 people in his hands now, do you think he can take Jinan?

Wait, when there is good news from Prince Yu's side, we can do something to Jinan.

This king can see that Li Zixiao is taking advantage of the momentum of my army, and he doesn't plan to go out of the city to fight us, but wants to defend the city.

This is also in line with the king's wishes, and he sent an order to Prince Zhuang to speed up the progress in the north.

If this king entangles Li Zixiao's elite in Jinan City, he can take the opportunity to enter Qingzhou, the hinterland of Shandong, from the northern route. ”

With these orders from Dolgon, many people in Linyi and Pingyuan counties were found by the Tartars.

At the same time, Dorgon sent back a force of 10,000 men, and turned around and prepared to pound Texas City, not daring to let it continue to stand behind his back.

This time, the 10,000 horses that Dorgon sent to Texas were no longer comparable to before.

The men and horses who rushed there this time not only carried a large number of siege equipment, but also more musketeers and artillery and other firearms, and the main force was the white flag of the Han army.

At this moment, Li Zixiao, who was in Jinan, suddenly received urgent information from Xu Wei from the Xiangyang area.

"What? Li Zicheng conquered Xiangyang! ”

When Li Zixiao opened the urgent letter and saw Xu Wei's report, he also screamed and stood up directly from his seat.

This mansion was assigned to Li Zixiao to live temporarily, and at this time, the people sitting in the hall of the mansion were all the generals of the White Dragon Army, and when they heard Li Zixiao's shout, they looked over.

"Sir, is it the news from General Xu? Xiangyang was attacked by Li Zicheng? ”

Li Yan walked up to Li Zixiao and asked.

At this time, Li Zixiao also quickly read the entire letter sent by Xu Wei, and there was a lot of content.

It generally describes the battle between Li Zicheng and them in the Xiangyang area during this period, as well as the Ming army led by Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi.

But in the end, three days ago, Li Zicheng made a feint to attack Xiangyang, but secretly mobilized the main force, set up an ambush in a valley, and attacked Sun Chuanting's elite main force.

Xu Wei said in the letter that three days ago, Li Zicheng ambushed Sun Chuanting's main force, and then mobilized heavy troops to storm Xiangyang for three days, and finally blew up the city gate and broke the city of Xiangyang.

Sun Chuanting led the remnants and fled back to Yunyang. ”

"What happened to Old General Xu?" Han Tong asked with concern.

Although Xu Wei and the others also lost a lot of men and horses, fortunately, they were not ambushed by Li Zicheng, nor did they participate in the battle of Xiangyang City, and the main force was preserved.

At this time, General Xu had already led his army to withdraw from Huguang and return to Nanyang to recuperate.

In the war in Huguang, Li Zicheng's army won, and at this time the army was attacking the city in Huguang.

Presumably, after taking Xiangyang, Li Zicheng's strength will inevitably skyrocket again, which is a bit tricky. ”

Li Zixiao said, frowning, the situation in Huguang has changed so suddenly, it has indeed disrupted Li Zixiao's plan.

Li Zixiao didn't expect Sun Chuanting to leave Xiangyang so quickly and lose, Li Zixiao originally thought that Sun Chuanting could delay it until at least next year, and Xiangyang might be lost.

Li Zixiao can't remember when Li Zicheng conquered Xiangyang in history, but it was definitely not so early.

You know, at this time, it has not yet entered the sixteenth year of Chongzhen (1643)!

"Fortunately, Sun Chuanting is not dead, so in this way, I may be able to leash Li Zicheng, a mad dog, for a while, but it won't be too long."

Although Li Zixiao was very helpless, he finally sighed and said.

After all, at this time, he was even too far away from Xiangyang, and he was powerless about the situation there.

(End of chapter)