A few days later, Dongguang County was under the jurisdiction of Beizhili.
Outside the city, on a high ground in the south, a golden dragon banner was fluttering in the wind. A hundred white flags and soldiers gathered together, and there was a commander named Bayala Jia Lazhangjing, guarding Dorgon.
Yue Tuo, the leader of the Zhenghong Banner, Duduo, the leader of the Bordered White Flag, and Du Du, the leader of the Bordered Red Flag, were also standing aside. They were all looking at the Dongguang County City in the distance amid flames and thick smoke.
Duduo glanced at Dorgon and said: "The general was ordered to capture Dongguang County. The surrounding Ming army probably already knew the news. In order to prevent Lu Xiangsheng and Liu Yan from receiving early warning news, our army should set off immediately and continue Go south and rush directly into Shandong."
Dorgon looked at Yibai, the leader of the Mongolian Zhengbai Banner, Buyendai, the leader of the Mongolian Red Banner, and King Zhishun Shang Kexi, and said to Dodo: "Our army really wants to go south as soon as possible, and now the Mongolian Zhenghong Banner The banner leader Engetu led his troops to station in Tianjin and Pinggu area to guard our army's retreat route. The soldiers and horses of the Northern Zhili of the Ming Dynasty dare not move rashly for the time being. Our army must seize the time and capture Jinan Fucheng in one fell swoop!"
Duduo said: "According to intelligence, Lu Xiangsheng is in Jinan Fucheng, but Liu Yan is not in the city. After the Battle of Julu, Liu Yan was promoted to Lingshan Guard, which is still south of Jinan Fucheng."
Yue Tuo said: "This is not a problem. We must first surround Jinan City and not break it. Lu Xiangsheng will definitely recruit Liu Yan to help. Then we will annihilate him under Jinan City in one fell swoop."
Du Du looked at the Mongolian banner leaders, and then whispered: "After the Battle of Julu, our banners finally replenished their banners. We cannot attack by force in this battle. We have to let King Zhishun and those Mongolians go." Fight to the death.”
Several people were convinced, and Dorgon nodded slightly and said, "In this way, the army will continue to move south."
Yue Tuo glanced at the dark crowd at the foot of the hillside in the distance. They were all civilians who had been kidnapped by the Qing soldiers, and asked: "What about these Ming people? The army can't move fast with them."
Dorgon said expressionlessly: "Since we can't move fast, then kill them all. Anyway, the Ming Dynasty has a large population, so we can just catch a few more when we get to Jinan Fucheng."
Then nearly 100,000 Qing soldiers left Dongguang County in a mighty manner. Behind the 100,000 Qing troops, the originally prosperous Dongguang County had turned into a white field. Against the background of the fire that burned the city, the people in the city, together with more than 10,000 people who were captured from various places, were all massacred outside the city. The blood gathered into a river, almost dyeing the land south of the city red.
Then the Qing army took only one day to pass through Ningjin County, and then directly entered Shandong. It took another two days to arrive at Deping County, Jinan Prefecture, which was only more than 200 miles away from Jinan Prefecture.
Soon the news spread that the main force of the Qing army had invaded Shandong. Yang Sichang, Minister of the Ministry of War, was relieved after hearing the news. He immediately gave an order to Lu Xiangsheng in the name of the Ministry of War, ordering him to "mobilize the elite and fight the Dongnu in the land of Qilu. We must fight." "Victory will strengthen the country's prestige." However, Yang Sichang did not mobilize a single soldier for Lu Xiangsheng, nor did he have any money or food support. He turned around and gathered all the troops of King Qin in the capital area, together with the Mongolian Zhenghongqi Banner stationed in Tianjin and Pinggu. Confrontation with Lord Engetu.
At the same time, Lu Xiangsheng also received the news that the Superintendent Biao Camp had not been sent back overnight. He gave strict orders to Shandong Chief Military Officer Liu Zeqing and Shandong Governor Yan Jizu, who had arrived in Jinan Fucheng, to lead their troops to rectify their troops. At the same time, they mobilized Jimo Camp, Dengzhou Camp, and Three soldiers from the Wendeng Battalion immediately rushed to the aid of Jinan Fucheng.
At the same time, in order to slow down the Qing army's march south, Lu Xiangsheng ordered Shandong General Liu Zeqing to lead his troops to block the main force of the Qing army.
At this time, Liu Zeqing led more than 4,000 people in the Zhenbiao camp, as well as more than 800 servants, totaling 5,000 elites. Dusi in Shandong was considered to be the top combat force, but Liu Zeqing was terrified of the Qing soldiers. After receiving Lu Xiangsheng's order, he was very resistant and spent two days in Jinan Fucheng before he reluctantly led his troops to set off.
Fortunately, Dorgon did not go straight to Jinan Fucheng this time, but started looting in the surrounding areas, preparing to replenish civilian prisoners, money, food and equipment, and then enter Jinan Fucheng to fight a protracted battle with Lu Xiangsheng and Liu Yan.
Liu Zeqing led his troops to march all the way and arrived at Leling a day later. He was about to stop and take a look at the situation when he was attacked by Qing soldiers that night.
Duduo, the leader of the banner with a white flag, led a thousand cavalry, with fifty Baya Lajia soldiers as the vanguard, and crashed directly into the Ming army camp. Liu Zeqing's five thousand elite troops collapsed at the first touch and fled in the dark, unable to organize any resistance.
Liu Zeqing hated Lu Xiangsheng now. He could obviously hide in Jinan City and just wait until Liu Yan led the new Lingshan Guard army to arrive. Why did he have to lead his troops here to fight in the field?
"Withdraw! Return to Jinan City!"
Liu Zeqing hurriedly mounted a war horse. At this time, there were only more than a hundred servants accompanying him, and the rest of the soldiers and horses had all dispersed.
At this time, the camp was full of Qing cavalry galloping back and forth. The Qing soldiers were all wearing heavy armor and were brave and powerful. The Bajala soldiers did not even use their hands to control the horses, but only held the horses between their legs. With his belly, he can gallop freely, with both hands constantly drawing the bow and shooting arrows, raising the spear and wielding the sword. It is like being in a deserted land when the Ming army is defeated!
Soon Liu Zeqing led his troops out of the camp and abandoned all his men inside and outside the camp. However, not long after he ran out, a group of more than 20 Qing soldiers chased him.
That team of Qing soldiers were all Bajala soldiers. Everyone wore three layers of heavy armor and carried two horses. They were very fast. They followed behind and kept firing arrows. In the dark night, arrows rained continuously. After a while, Liu Zeqing Dozens of servants beside him were killed or injured!
At this time, Liu Zeqing was in a state of shock, beating the horse with all his strength, just wanting to escape as soon as possible. There were also some servants around who were desperate and fought back, drawing their bows and firing arrows behind them. However, these servants were then "taken care of" like a storm, and the soldiers' dense and cruel arrows shot several of them into pieces in an instant. Hedgehog.
At this time, no one dared to turn around to fight. Everyone was like a horse racing, running away like crazy, but they still could not escape the fate of being "named one by one" by the Qing soldiers.
This group of Baya Lajia soldiers was led by a Fende Bashiku, later known as the Xiaoqiu School. They quickly surrounded Liu Zeqing and more than a dozen servants. Everyone immediately dismounted and fought on foot. Liu Zeqing led more than a dozen servants. They resisted vigorously, but there was no match for this group of Baya Lajia soldiers.
The battle ended quickly. Only two of the Baya Lajia soldiers died in the battle, but they killed Liu Zeqing, the Shandong general, and eighteen elite servants.
"Ha ha!"
Nafende Bashiku naturally recognized Liu Zeqing's attire and knew that he was a senior general in the Ming army. He immediately took Liu Zeqing's helmet, searched the waistband and seal on the body, and cut Liu Zeqing's head with a final knife, hanging his bloody head On the war horse, he then called his subordinates to take the two companions who died in the battle. With a strange scream, the horse returned to the Ming army's camp and continued to chase the defeated Ming army.
After daybreak, Dorgon, Yue Tuo, Du Du, and Duduo rode their horses to the Ming army camp. At this time, Baoyi, Aha and other auxiliary servants of the Qing army were cleaning the battlefield and collecting seizures.
Dorgon also gave all of the more than two thousand prisoners captured in the fierce battle to Shang Kexi, ordering them to be closely guarded and prepared to be used as cannon fodder.
"What?"
Then Dorgon got the news that the raid last night actually killed Liu Zeqing, the commander-in-chief of Shandong Province of the Ming Dynasty, so he hurriedly found the Fende Bashiku.
Dorgon, Duoduo, Yue Tuo, and Du Du all laughed loudly after seeing Liu Zeqing's head, armor, belt and seal. This trip south can be said to be a good start, and they killed the Ming Dynasty right away. A general officer!
"Salt Liu Zeqing's head with lime. It will come in handy when we arrive in Jinan Fucheng."
Then Dorgon looked at Liu Zeqing's seal and thought about it, then ordered someone to find several captive Liu Zeqing's servants and said: "You go and kill a few of your companions, or you will die now!"
Among the servants, two of them would rather die than obey and were immediately beheaded. The remaining three were frightened and took the knives one after another. Then they gritted their teeth and killed one of their companions each.
Duduo and Dudu laughed loudly when they saw this, and Yue Tuo also laughed twice, and then his eyes when he looked at Dorgon also changed.
Dorgon continued: "I will prepare an order with Liu Zeqing's seal, and you will take it with you and give it to Lu Xiangsheng. If you run away halfway or surrender to Lu Xiangsheng, I will release a few more prisoners and kill your companions. If the story of surviving in vain spreads, you will also lose your head when it comes to the Ming Dynasty."
Yue Tuo said: "You listened to the general who was ordered to deliver this message and you can live. Why not do it?"
The three prisoners quickly agreed, and when the forged military information Dorgon ordered was ready, the three of them took them with them and rode fast horses to Jinan Fucheng.
Yue Tuo said to Dorgon: "The general was ordered to organize this well. He used false news to confuse Lu Xiangsheng and make him think that Liu Zeqing succeeded in blocking our army."
"Ha ha!"
Dorgon was also very proud at this time and said: "Although this move has limited effect, it can also make Lu Xiangsheng relax his vigilance."
Dorgon then sent orders to all the troops, and the entire army accelerated and attacked Jinan Fucheng.
Two days later, Lu Xiangsheng received the information sent by the three prisoners, and immediately shouted: "Take it down! Drag it out and behead it!"
The three prisoners were immediately dumbfounded. They all grabbed the ground and begged for mercy, but they were still dragged out by the soldiers of the Supervisory Biao Battalion and beheaded directly in the front yard of the Governor's Mansion.
The general Lu Huaiying on the side was very puzzled and asked: "Why is this, Governor? The identities of those three people have been checked, and they are indeed Liu Junmen's servants."
Lu Xiangsheng sighed and said: "This news says that Liu Zeqing led his troops to successfully block the main force of the Qing army in Leling. Liu Zeqing only had five thousand men, and Liu Zeqing himself was very afraid of the Qing troops. When he led his troops to King Qin in Beijing, there were many I ignored orders and refused to be deployed, but now I take the initiative to attack and successfully stop 100,000 Qing troops in Leling. Is this possible?"
Lu Huaiying suddenly realized and said: "Leling's terrain is not good, and it is impossible for five thousand troops to successfully block it. This is false information!"
Lu Xiangsheng nodded and said: "The seal in the letter is true, and the three servants are also true, but the news is false. There are only two possibilities: either Liu Zeqing lied about the military situation, or Liu Zeqing has been defeated. died."
"But Liu Zeqing doesn't have the courage to lie about such important military information, because whether the interception is successful or not will be effective within a few days, and it cannot be concealed!"
Lu Huaiying was shocked and said: "Master Governor, Liu Junmen was defeated in the first battle. Now there are only 4,000 people from the Governor Biao Battalion in Jinan City, and 2,000 Fubiao Battalion from Yan Futai. There are 6,000 people and many new ones." We have recruited new soldiers, and the city of Jinan is being rebuilt, so we can’t defend it by smashing down the door!”
Lu Xiangsheng stood up suddenly and said firmly: "We must defend even if we can't hold it! Once Jinan Fucheng is lost, the situation in Shandong will be irreversible."
"But……"
"No excuses! From today onwards, you will patrol the city day and night on my behalf. Anyone who fails to defend the city with all your heart will be killed without mercy!"
"At the same time, immediately send a quick horse to inform Jimo Camp, Dengzhou Camp, and Wendeng Camp that they must arrive in Jinan Fucheng within six days to participate in the battle, otherwise they will be punished as disobedient!"
Some people died, but not completely...
