Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 618

Between several days.

Outside the city of Jinan, a large moat has been dug around the city, and a human-high earth wall has been built.

"How did they do that?"

Standing at the top of the city, Zhang Ruxiu looked at the miraculous fortifications, full of despair.

This is the result of countless soldiers and civilians fighting side by side, but it is not the Ming army who forced the people to become husbands. Even if he stands on the top of the city, he can feel the enthusiasm and high fighting spirit below the city. There are countless people coming from all directions. coming.

They are not forced laborers, but spontaneously came to help repair the fortifications.

Not only disaster victims, but also local people.

Many people even volunteered to help with dry food, hoes and wicker baskets and carts.

He couldn't help thinking that after he took office, he recruited people and strengthened the city defense of Jinan. As a result, the people hid everywhere, and finally had to arrest the strong men, causing complaints.

This is the difference.

The defense of Jinan City has been repaired for almost a year, but it has not yet been completed. It took the Ming army a few days to dig trenches around Jinan, repair walls, erect villages, and even build forts.

Three days ago, the Ming army launched an artillery attack on Jinan City, which destroyed many battlements and enemy buildings on the already dilapidated city walls of Jinan.

If it weren't for the fact that the Ming army didn't send troops to follow Pancheng to attack, it is estimated that Jinan City has already fallen.

Three days passed in a flash.

The time the Ming army left for them to consider has come.

Several cavalry galloped to the city, shouted to the city again to persuade them to surrender, and then shot arrows.

The city guards handed over the arrow book to Zhang Ruxiu, who was patrolling the city.

Zhang Ruxiu looked at it, shook several times, and almost fainted. Recently, he always felt dizzy and fainted several times.

The staff supported him.

"The tide is over."

Zhang Ruxiu was extremely desperate. The Ming army shot arrows and books, telling the Qing army in the city that the Emperor of Heaven had sent troops to capture Dezhou and refused to defend Tai'an.

Li Huajing, Liang Min, Ding Weiyue and other regiments also surrounded Liaocheng, the prefecture of Dongchang. Only a small Qing army escaped overnight, and the rest of the Qing army surrendered.

Tan Tai of Xuzhou abandoned the city and went north, Zhang Guowei led his troops to take advantage of the situation and go north to recover Pizhou and Xuzhou.Tan Tai's troops headed north in panic, and encountered Liu Shixun and Wang Zhiren's ambushes in Xiazhen again. The Qing army was defeated and fled north, losing countless supplies and two or three thousand soldiers and horses.

After fleeing all the way to Yanzhou, the two roads going north to Jinan, Tai'an and Dongchang have been captured by the Ming army, and they were cut off from retreating, so they had to defend Yanzhou and fight against trapped beasts.

Xu Dingguo, Xu Anguo, and Li Jiyu led the Henan regiment to practice and seize Damingfu, Linqing and other places.

Now Jinan has no reinforcements to wait for.

Xu Yan's Tan Tai and other legions in the south are now besieged in Yanzhou with only more than ten thousand troops.

The green camps and regiments in other places were basically either annihilated or surrendered.

In the whole of Shandong, only Yanzhou and Jinan are left.

The two armies were separated by four or five hundred miles, but they had no chance to meet up.

Zhang Ruxiu did not suspect that this was fake news. In fact, he knew very well what the Qing army in Shandong had been trapped in for the past two years.Tan Tai was able to defend Xuzhou for so long, not because of how powerful he was, but because the Ming army never attacked Xuzhou.

Holding the arrow book, he went back to the city and met with Bei Zibo, Tuo and Admiral Tong Yangjia, the commander, Mei Lezhangjing, chief soldier, deputy general and other senior officers, as well as the chief envoy, inspector, patrol officer, etc.

"It's fake."

After reading it, Bo and Tuo tore up the arrow book and threw it into the brazier, "It's just a trick to attack the heart. If the Ming army is really capable, let him attack."

Boluo, Tulai and others defeated Zhangqiu, and the entire army was wiped out. Even if more than [-] people surrendered, the end would still be there. Went to work as a miner in the Royal Mine.

Zhu Yihai didn't intend to let Manchuria go, even if he surrendered, he wouldn't end well, so why bother begging for mercy.

Stand firm and wait for help, and there is always a glimmer of hope.

The generals were silent.

Everyone knew in their hearts that Tan Tai was probably defeated.

It is also normal for Dezhou to lose. After all, the deputy capital Tongbo and Tuoren of Dezhou Garrison Eight Banners are in Jinan, and Dezhou Garrison Eight Banners basically died in the battle of Zhangqiu.

There are some garrisoned green battalions and regiment training, how can the enemy live in the Ming army.

Although Boluo also asked Beijing for help earlier, the question is whether Beijing still has soldiers to send, and dare to send troops?

Even if troops were sent, they would not arrive so soon.

The meeting ended quickly and everyone dispersed.

The next day, the Ming army came to persuade them to surrender again, and shot arrows again.

"If you don't surrender, build a dam to block the river and store water, and flood Jinan Prefecture!"

This threat is more severe than the artillery outside the city. Zhang Ruxiu, as the governor of Shandong, of course knows that flooding Jinan is not a problem. The north of Jinan City is the Daqing River, and since the Yellow River took the Daqing River into the sea, the Daqing River has now completely become a dangerous river. However, due to the local inability to repair embankments and dredging due to wars, Jinan now suffers from several floods a year.

It is autumn now, and of course there would be no major floods, but if Zhu Yihaifei built a dam in the upper reaches of Jinan to store water, and then dug a breach, the Yellow River would rush down and Jinan would be submerged.

"What should I do?" A group of people gathered in the nursing home again.

Bo and Tuo still burned the arrow book after reading it, "Jinan is not Kaifeng, Luoyang. Although the Yellow River diverted to seize the Daqing River, the time was not long, and the river course was not too high. The Ming army really wanted to store water to flood the city. In the camp, the fortifications dug will be washed away by the water first. Besides, there is not much water in autumn, if he is asked to release water, it will at most flood Jinan City, and it will not be submerged."

He was determined to fight to the end.

Zhang Ruxiu sighed helplessly.

On the third day, the Ming army came again to persuade them to surrender, but still shot arrows into the city.

It's just that many arrows were shot this time, in all directions from southeast to northwest.

Although the Manchu officers overseeing the city immediately dispatched troops to confiscate them, some people still hid some of them privately.

"Old Wang, you can read, tell everyone what is said in the arrow book?"

In the enemy building on the city wall, a group of green battalion soldiers got together, and Liu Lao Liu gave Lao Wang an arrow book he had secretly hidden.

"You don't want to die, you dare to hide the arrow book privately."

"Let everyone take a look, what is written, is it true that the Ming army under the city shouted to let us go?"

With the situation like this, everyone is thinking about finding a way out.

No matter how strict Bo Hetuo's military orders were, not all the soldiers below would listen to them.

The ship is sinking, and no one wants to be buried with it.

Lao Wang had read some books before, and then became a clerk, and then he was captured by a strong man and became a soldier. Then the Qing army came, and he joined the Qing army with Shangguan and became a green battalion soldier. Now he is the leader of his team, with about ten men A soldier, Liu Laoliu is also his deputy. This guy used to be a horse thief, very courageous.

He took the arrow book and looked around.

"I asked the fourth child and the others to watch outside. If someone comes, they will remind them. Hurry up and watch."

Lao Wang quickly scanned it nervously, read it again and again, and then hurriedly crumpled the arrow book and returned it to Lao Liu.

"What did you say?"

"The above shows that the army has occupied Dezhou, Xuzhou, Pizhou, Dongchang, Daming, as well as Jining and Linqing. Now only Yanzhou City and Jinan City are left in the hands of the Qing Dynasty in the whole of Shandong."

"Emperor Ming said that he would send people to build a dam upstream to stop the water of the Yellow River. He also said that after three days he would withdraw the siege to the north of Jinan and open several openings in the trenches and soil enclosures to allow the Qing troops who did not want to surrender to withdraw. Guaranteed not to attack.

He also said that if he is unwilling to leave and is willing to stay, he also promises to let go of the past and guarantee the safety of his life after surrender. At that time, no matter whether he is full of Mongolian or Han, whether he is in the flag or in the coat, he will be able to obtain an amnesty. "

"And if we resist, then he will flood Jinan Mansion with water. After the city is broken, all the recalcitrants will not be slaves. They will dig mines in underground mines for a lifetime and never see the light of day."

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A group of people were silent.

"Can blocking the river really flood the city of Jinan?"

"That's for sure. How many times has Licheng been flooded this year? If we artificially block the river and build dams to store water, then Jinan City will definitely be flooded. How can you defend the city with no fire and no land to live in?"

"Have you heard that Li Zicheng flooded Kaifeng?"

"When the intruder Li Zicheng opened the seal on the third day, the king of Zhou took millions of treasuries from the palace and offered a reward to defend the city. The officers and soldiers fought against the intruders for days. Digging up the Yellow River flooded Kaifeng, and the king of Zhou and others in Kaifeng city were about to run out of food and grass, so they also wanted to dig up the Yellow River and flood the invading army.

Ever since, people from both sides dug up the Yellow River almost at the same time, the official army dug up the Zhujiazhai entrance, and the Chuang army dug up the Majiakou. "

The Yellow River near Kaifeng is a river hanging above the ground. When it rains heavily, it will flood the Seventh Army and destroy the city.

Although the situation in Jinan is good, it is not much better. The Daqing River is next to it. Now it has been taken over by the Yellow River and has become the main road of the Yellow River.

"Won't that also drown the Ming army?"

"Are you stupid? They are outside the city, so they can retreat to the mountains ahead of time. We are in the city, where else can we hide except on the roof?"

"Then what should we do?" Liu Laoliu panicked.

"Those Tartars are afraid of death, and they still want to drag us to be buried with them, damn it."

Old Wang was more cautious, "Keep your voice down, if you hear me, we will all lose our heads."

"Hurry up and think of a way, or after three days, all of them will lose their heads, or become drowned ghosts."

On this day, the Ming army kept sending archery books to the city of Jinan, and even brought many letters of persuasion into the city with kites, flying all over the city. Soldiers and civilians.

Only Jinan and Yanzhou were left in Shandong. The Ming army wanted to flood Jinan. The Ming army allowed them to surrender and promised to surrender. Not only would they not kill them, but they would not hold them accountable. It is the green battalion soldiers, regiment trainers, and strong men who are all restless.

Even after nightfall, many people including Liu Laoliu couldn't hold back and began to sneak together secretly.

And even the guerrilla generals of the green battalion were secretly and cautiously colluding and plotting.

When the disaster is imminent, they fly separately, who cares about other things!

(End of this chapter)