Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 663 Encirclement and Suppression of Shandong
From the reign of Longqing, China experienced large-scale weather anomalies, which lasted for decades, especially during the reign of Yizong. The old empire.

After Jianyi entered the customs, this abnormal weather did not change, and Shandong suffered continuous disasters.

At this time, the anti-Qing uprising led by Xie Qian and Ding Keze had lasted for two years. Han, anti-Qing and restore Ming" slogan was very powerful.

Without slogans and ideology, this group of rebels are rogues, but if they put forward a clear proposition, the influence will be quite different.

In the eyes of the Qing court, these two insurgents were naturally thieves. Xie Qian and Ding Keze were Gaoyuan thieves, and Caozhou rebels Liang Min and Ren Qi were Yuyuan thieves.

One of these two rebel armies was active in Caozhou, and the other took root at the junction of Jinan and Qingzhou. They happened to be distributed on both sides of the Grand Canal, one on the left and one on the right, posing a great threat to Jianyi's rule.

The power of the Qing court in Shandong has been unable to complete the suppression. Dorgon originally planned to send troops to eradicate the two rebellions as soon as possible, but because of the Hauge change, the time for the Qing troops to suppress them was greatly delayed.

By the time the dispute between Hauge and Dorgon came to an end, the two rebel armies had colluded with the local gentry in Shandong, and their strength had grown rapidly. Xie Qian had already gathered hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and there were thousands of elite armored soldiers. the point.

Because of Haoge's rebellion, the hearts of the people in the Qing court were unstable, especially among the Han members. For the governors of Shandong, Henan, and Beizhi provinces, Guanghui entangled the [-] green battalion to kill Xie Qian first, and then wiped out the Yuyuan bandits. member.

Soon after, Liu Zeqing, who was originally one of the four towns in the Hongguang Dynasty, colluded with the Yuyuan bandits and sent his confidants and the old department to command the bandit army.

At this time, Ma Guanghui also came up with a strategy of encirclement and suppression on all sides, intending to encircle Xie Qian in the Zichuan area.

The Qing soldiers marched from all directions. In the north, Lu Guonan, the commander-in-chief of Jinan, led 3000 soldiers; Thousands of green battalion soldiers, plus [-] people from the Heluo Society, and [-] soldiers led by Yi Yonggui, the commander-in-chief of Yi in the south.

Jianyi was approaching step by step, and Xie Qian's army, which had been active in Shandong for two years, faced a huge threat. The military adviser Zhao Shuxiang said, "In the year of Jiashen, Zhao Yingyuan took Qingzhou, Wang Xianggong said that he could take it before the barbarians arrived Jinan, or bring the feudal clan to the south, Yingyuan will not listen, and stay in Qingzhou, and finally fail. Now Jianyi is coming from all directions, aggressive, and Yingcheng is self-defense. This is a death strategy. There are two strategies in Wansheng, one is urgent and the other is slow The urgent strategy is to go east to join the Yuyuan army, combine the forces of the two families, and fight the enemy. If you win, Shandong will be returned to the general. If you lose, you will be lost forever. The slow strategy is to abandon the city. If you encounter a weak enemy, attack them, and they will be rogues, and you will not stay behind when you break through the cities, wandering between Lu, Yu, and Huaihe Rivers, waiting for the king to attack the north."

Although Xie Qian's first army gathered hundreds of thousands, but like the Shun army at the beginning, it was very watery, and most of them were dependents. The real soldiers were actually only more than 4000 people. He lacked confidence in a decisive battle with the Qing soldiers, so he chose Slow down.

In mid-November, Xie Qian's department finally abandoned Gaoyuan, Zichuan and other large base areas. Before the Qing soldiers encircled them on all sides, they led more than [-] people from Zichuan to the south, defeated the Qing Linyi general Yi Yonggui, and passed through Muling Pass. Enter Yizhou Prefecture.

As the rebel army passed by, state and county furniture were burned along the way, and all the people were coerced into it. They went all the way down Yishui, occupied Yinan, broke Heyang, and approached Linqing, the capital city, shaking Jianghuai.

In Linqing City, it has been snowing heavily for three days and three nights. The entire city and the wilderness outside have been covered with silver makeup, which is a vast expanse of whiteness. It's not a beautiful scene, but miserable.

The weather is cold and the lack of activity for a long time, as if the blood is about to coagulate.

Yi Yonggui, the general of the Qing Dynasty, was defeated all the way, and he retreated to Linyi to stabilize his position. Only a little over four thousand of the seven thousand green battalion remained.

Standing at the top of the city, he spewed out clouds of white mist, and commanded his subordinates to move the rolling wood and thunder stone to the top of the city, preparing for the attack of the thieves.

The harm that the thieves have done to the place is unimaginable. It is almost like locusts crossing the border, rolling more and more. If he can't stop the Xie Qian tribe and let them rush into the Lianghuai River, the thieves will be able to engulf nearly a hundred people in a few months. The people of Wanjianghuai.

It is not easy to build a high-rise building, but it is very simple to destroy it. For the Qing court, the land of Jianghuai is second only to Jiangnan. great difficulty.

The heavy snow kept falling, and inside and outside Linyi City, both sides were making final preparations. As long as Yi Yonggui defended Linyi and dragged Xie Qian under the city, and waited for Ma Guanghui and Heluo to come to help, this group of mobs would surely collapse.

And Xie Qian also urgently needs to lay down the immediate city for the army, get supplies, and get a place for the army to take shelter from the wind and snow.

At this time, outside the city was a stretch of rebel army camps, surrounding Linyi City on all sides, and countless simple tents stood erect in the cold wind.

The situation faced by the rebel army was much worse than that of the green battalion soldiers in the city, and many people had frozen to death.

Xie Qian coerced hundreds of thousands of people to go south in a very short period of time, and the number expanded to more than [-]. The materials consumed were unimaginable. Coupled with the freezing weather, he urgently needed to take down Linyi.

In the camp, teams of rebels wearing bloated and tattered war jackets and red scarves wrapped around their heads tremblingly lined up in several long lines holding guns. The rebels held a large Shandong porcelain bowl in their hands and walked away. When they arrived at the gate of the camp, the gang leader filled everyone with a bowl of hot porridge, warmed themselves up after drinking it, and lined up under the city.

Naturally, these were not Xie Qian's elite soldiers, but the coerced people. They were the main force to attack the city and consume the enemy.

The Qing army has the advantage of cavalry. Xie Qian doesn't have many mules and horses, so he can't run away. He can only destroy the place, let the Qing soldiers clean up the mess behind their backs, and coerce the people. Although the speed of the army is slowed down, it can be created The momentum, that is, tens of 10 people can be swept away by the waves, the elite can be selected, and the old battalion can continue to grow.

Although it is cruel, this is the way of the thieves, and it is also the destructive power of the thieves.

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