It turns out that Liu Zeqing's army has been the target of Jinyiweinan Town Fusi's infiltration in the past few months!
Today's Jin Yiwei is different from the previous Jin Yiwei who had too many things to do and couldn't do anything well. Today's Jin Yiwei is a highly specialized secret service agency.
Their main business is very prominent, which is espionage work. Among them, the North Town Fusi is responsible for spying on the enemy's intelligence. Internally, it is Nanzhen Fusi's job to arrest traitors and traitors, and to infiltrate and monitor warlords who support their troops and respect themselves.
And Liu Zeqing, who occupies Dongchang and Jinan Prefectures, is the focus of Nanzhen Fusi's infiltration!
Moreover, Liu Bu is particularly easy to be penetrated. This is because Liu Zeqing is different from Liu Liangzuo and Xu Dingguo. Those two are rough guys. Liu Zeqing, on the other hand, regarded himself as a romantic, especially liked to make friends with scribes, and also liked to write poems.
Therefore, there were many "Donglin Party members" who ran away from Beijing and mingled with Liu Zeqing's shogunate. Of course, these people were not the real Donglin, but the children of nobles and ministers in Beijing. All of them have a good skin, and the little ink in their belly is just right to deal with Liu Zeqing. They are also very good at building connections and building relationships. Most importantly, they have enough spy funds, so after a few months, they infiltrated Liu Zeqing's group to the point where they are closely related to each other. A sieve is almost ready.
In addition to liking to make friends with scribes, Liu Zeqing has also been working hard to run Taishan in the past few months, which is also an important reason why his group has been infiltrated.
The Taishan bandits are all from the Jianghu, and they are in the same group as Li Yan, Hong Niangzi, and Chen Yingyuan. When Zhu Cihong was in Shandong, he sent Li Yan and Hong Niangzi to win over, and distributed many official certificates to thousands of households - these were all thousands of households in the Generalissimo's Mansion!
When Zhu Cixiang left Shandong, he left Chen Yingyuan (the rogue general who was attracted by Li Yan and Hong Niangzi in Qingzhou) to serve as the commander of the Taishan Guard and stationed at Crouching Tiger Mountain in the Taishan Mountains. At the same time, Chen Yingyuan was also recruited into the Jinyi Guards and served as a Qianhu at the Taishan Institute in Nanfu.
Liu Zeqing's reckless people want to run Taishan, which means they are dealing with the Qianhu Office of Fusi Taishan in Jinyiweinan Town. Hasn't this been penetrated?
The Li Huajing mentioned by Liu Zhiqian was the Taishan guerrilla sent by Liu Zeqing to run Taishan. He swam to Zhu Cixiang...
Liu Zhiqian, who was appointed by Liu Zeqing as the general to defend Liaocheng, was also won over by Zhu Cihong's senior official Houlu. When Li Ruolian led his troops to Dongchang Mansion, he acted as an internal agent and did not demolish the ten-foot-long bridge outside the west gate of Liaocheng. ——The water surface of Dongchang Lake outside the west city of Liaocheng is very narrow. Most of the water surface is about 40 feet. The water surface outside the west gate of Liaocheng is the narrowest, only 10 feet. There is a demolishable stone bridge spanning the water. Once the deck of this stone bridge is demolished, the attacking party will have to pass through a ten-foot-wide water surface to reach the west gate of Liaocheng.
Because of Liu Zhiqian's internal support, Liu Zeqing's home base was easily occupied by Li Ruolian.
Although he knew that Liu Zhiqian was probably a traitor, Liu Zeqing did not dare to have his nephew dragged out and chopped.
Because his whole family is in Liaocheng Castle! If he beheaded his nephew, would his whole family still be alive?
In addition, he did not march alone, but acted together with Li Chengdong and Sun Degong. Li Chengdong is a strong general under Gao Jie, and Sun Degong is a strong general who Huang Degong relies on.
Although the number of these two troops is not large, their combat effectiveness is several ways ahead of Liu Zeqing's troops. If they want to break up and fight, then Liu Zeqing's strength will be gone. If his strength is gone, can the Qing Dynasty still want you? What are you coming for? Be a dressing slave?
Liu Zeqing's brows became tighter and tighter, as if he was having a fierce ideological struggle. At this moment, the voice of one of his confidants suddenly came from outside the door: "General Rong, the governor of Shandong's patrol has arrived 20 miles south of Dezhou City..."
The Shandong Patrol was Gao Hongtu's force, numbering as many as 4,000. It was led by Li Dakai, the former deputy general of Chizhou who followed Shi Kefa north to King Qin. He had been stationed in Jinan City before. What's going on now? I'm just driving to Texas!
Liu Zeqing took a deep breath, he was going to kill himself by force!
Now Li Chengdong and Sun Degong led 6,000 people in the north - these two troops went on the Northern Expedition with Liu Zeqing. Due to the defeat of the rogue bandits, they are now on their way back to the army, and they have probably received the secret order to attack Dezhou! And the 4,000 people led by Li Dakai are in the south. If there is a joint attack from the two sides, it is hard to say whether he can reach the Qing Dynasty...
Liu Zeqing thought for a long time before asking reluctantly: "The little savings I have in Liaocheng..."
"You have already loaded it on the ship!" Liu Zhiqian said with a smile, "Uncle, when will you get on the ship and go south? Master Qiantose has left you a large and luxurious garden in Nanjing!"
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"Master Chitose, the memorial for Liu Zeqing's resignation from Liaocheng, Shandong's commander-in-chief, has arrived!"
On November 28, just two days after Liu Zeqing was forced to surrender his army and leave the Dezhou Army, his resignation memorial was delivered to Zhu Cihong, the prince of the Ming Dynasty Fujun in Nanjing.
Zhu Cihong took the memorial from Bi Jiucheng and asked in a low voice: "Only Liu Zeqing's?"
"Only Liaocheng uncle." Bi Jiucheng paused, "Liu Liangzuo and Xu Dingguo did not submit the memorial..."
"It seems that he has gone to Donglu!" Zhu Cixiang breathed out.
The rebellion of Liu Liangzuo and Xu Dingguo had long been expected by Zhu Cixiang...but Liu Zeqing did not run away, which surprised Zhu Cixiang - the main blame for this incident was Gao Hongtu, who sent Li Dakai with 4,000 elite troops to rescue Liu Zeqing . And Liu Zeqing imagined a scene in which Li Chengdong and Sun Degong attacked from the north, so he was so frightened that he wanted to come to Nanjing to retire.
"Where are Li Chengdong and Sun Degong? Is there any news about them?"
"Yes," Bi Jiucheng took out Li Ruolian's memorial again and handed it to Zhu Cihong with both hands, "Shandong Dusi reported that Li Chengdong and Sun Degong's troops have also returned to Jinan Prefecture."
The vigorous Northern Expedition in Chongzhen's seventeenth year seems to have turned into a complete farce...
Zhu Cixiang thought for a moment, picked up his writing brush, took out some pieces of letter paper, and began to write letters to Gao Jie and Huang Degong - he wanted to leave the two armies of Li Chengdong and Sun Degong in Jinan and put them under the command of Gao Hongtu. So I have to explain it to Gao Jie and Huang Degong.
The area under the jurisdiction of Gao Hongtu, the nominal governor of Shandong, has always been very small. In the past few months, it was only the plain area south of the Daqing River in Jinan Prefecture. Now the situation is slightly better, because this Northern Expedition still achieved some gains, and captured Dezhou, Wuding Prefecture, Binzhou, Haifeng County, Yangxin County, Leling County, Lijin County, Shanghe County, and Linyi County in Jinan Prefecture, Daqing County, and Hebei Province. , Deping County, Ling County, Pingyuan County, Yucheng County, Qihe County and other three states and eleven counties - these states and counties were not the territory of the Qing Dynasty before, but a buffer zone that was ignored by various localities. Powerful occupation. Now it has become a state and county directly under the jurisdiction of the Shandong Governor's Office of the Ming Dynasty. Of course, it needs Ming troops to garrison it.
Gao Hongtu's 4,000 patrol bid couldn't be kept, so Gao Hongtu had announced a few days ago that he wanted to keep 6,000 people from Li Chengdong and Sun Degong in Jinan. At the same time, he appointed himself concurrently as Jinan's garrison commander, in charge of Jinan's government and military affairs, and subsidized military expenses of 30,000 taels per month...
Of course Zhu Cixiang approved Gao Hongtu's request. However, he will not transfer Huang Degong and Gao Jie's troops away in vain, but will give them a certain amount of compensation - Li Chengdong and Sun Degong each took away 3,000 people. Therefore, Zhu Cihong will give Gao Jie and Huang Degong 200,000 taels of silver and let them recruit and train 6,000 elite soldiers to make up for the shortfall.
Zhu Cixang also wanted Huang Degong to move to Shangqiu, the city of Guide Prefecture, and take over as the commander-in-chief of Henan Province, replacing Liu Liangzuo and Xu Dingguo to rule the southeast of Guide Prefecture and Kaifeng Prefecture.
The soldiers, horses, money, food, and equipment left by Liu Liangzuo and Xu Dingguo in Shangqiu and Suizhou were all given to Huang Degong as compensation for transferring Sun Degong from Huang Degong's subordinates.
In addition, the two generals Liu Zhiqian and Li Huajing who took refuge with Zhu Cihong will also receive heavy rewards.
Liu Zhiqian will serve as the commander-in-chief of Dongchang Prefecture, replacing Liu Zeqing in guarding Dongchang Prefecture.
Li Huajing will serve as the deputy general of Yanzhou Prefecture, in charge of eight counties and one prefecture including Yuncheng, Juye, Caozhou, Jiaxiang, Jinxiang, Yutai, Shanxian, Dingtao, and Chengwu west of the Yanzhou Prefecture Canal.
