Under the heavy reward, there must be a brave man!
If a brave man doesn’t show up, he won’t be rewarded enough!
For a small warlord like Li Chengdong with three thousand private soldiers, money and land are nothing, and it is impossible for Gao Hongtu to give them freely. But the land at the foot of Mount Tai is a real reward.
With the territory, the warlord can go further!
And Tai'an Prefecture is considered a pretty good territory in today's Shandong. Part of the Taishan Mountains is within Tai'an, and there are many very rich valleys. Even if Tai'an Prefecture City fell, Li Chengdong could still lead his men into the valley and continue to dominate.
After getting Gao Hongtu's promise, Li Chengdong really went all out and gathered all his servants, including 450 or 400 people, all of whom were heroes who had followed Li Chengdong in life and death for many years.
Li Chengdong first gave them all the gold and silver he brought out from Jinan, and then doubled the reward given by Gao Hongtu and promised to keep it. When Li Chengdong had the territory, these four hundred people would Everyone can get a good industry.
Of course, the servants who had received a heavy reward were all brave, and they were all yelling and getting ready to go into battle. Gao Hongtu selected two thousand warriors from the more than twenty thousand Shandong regiment training and handed them over to Li Chengdong.
These two thousand warriors were equipped with swords and spears. They had no firearms or bows and arrows. The only projectile weapon was the javelin of the swordsman. Half of them were given to A, and the rest were only clothed in common clothes.
Li Chengdong organized them into ten "battalions" of 200 people each, and selected dozens of his own servants to lead the team. The remaining nearly four hundred servants were all armored and mounted, and were used as shock cavalry.
The time to break out was chosen in the early morning of the next day!
The green battalion soldiers of the Qing army who had been busy digging trenches and building forts all day seemed to be exhausted. They all returned to the camp and were sleeping soundly. However, the trenches they dug and the barriers they built were not completed. There was only a shallow trench and a barrier less than two feet high standing in the way of the Ming army's breakout. And it was still quiet, as if there was no guard.
In addition, there was no Qing army scout ranger operating in front of the two armies... At least Li Chengdong and his men, who were leading the battle, did not find a Qing army cavalry trooper operating on the front line of the confrontation between the two armies.
However, no one really believed that all the Qing troops had really gone back to their camps to sleep. These were the invincible soldiers of the Qing Dynasty who had fought all over the north! Even if he is really asleep, he still has his ears pricked up and is ready to murder at the slightest sign of trouble.
The battlefield is so quiet now, which can only mean that there is an ambush!
"Futai, there's something wrong with being so quiet... I'm afraid there's an ambush!"
"Futai, are you still tutu?"
"If you don't break out now, it will be even harder to break out in the future..."
"Yeah, the worst is to fight!"
When Gao Hongtu appeared in front of the generals in neat clothes, everyone saw that something was wrong, but they were unwilling to give up the breakthrough.
Because every day they delay, the trench barriers outside become stronger! By then, everyone will either starve to death or join the Qing Dynasty and become traitors.
But it’s hard to be a traitor these days! The green soldiers on the Qing army were bleeding and sweating, but they didn't catch anything? If you become a traitor and are escorted by the Eight Banners soldiers to fill the Qufu Fort, Yidu Fort, Laiyang Fort, Dengzhou Fort, Laizhou Fort, Crouching Mountain City... this He definitely won’t survive!
Nowadays, most of Shandong is like a construction site. In addition to farming, the farmer uncles pile soil and build sandbags!
Not only were the Shandong governor's yamen, tuanlian yamen, governor's yamen, general army yamen, Prince Lu's palace, navy yamen, command yamen, prefect's yamen, county yamen, etc., all in Shandong, they were building forts, but the larger landlords and powerful people were also building fortresses.
Some local tycoons not only surrounded the village where they lived with a mound of fortress, but also surrounded their ancestors' graves - they were all filial sons and virtuous grandchildren, and they had to protect their ancestors!
So now there are many fortresses in Shandong, even the governor Gao Hongtu can't understand... Anyway, there are thousands!
There are so many fortresses that the Tatars will definitely not attack, and the Han army is not willing to waste them like this! Isn’t this a green job?
Therefore, surrendering to the enemy and becoming a traitor is really more dangerous than fighting with the Tatars.
Now it's time to risk your life and survive, and surrender to the tenth chance of death - there are so many bastions in Shandong where people are buried, can you hide?
Even if everything is over in Shandong, there is still South Zhili!
"Breakout!" Gao Hongtu gritted his teeth, "Isn't it just 20 miles? Just run faster for an hour or two!"
His army did not have to go to Jinan, because there was a Tuhe Renzihao Fort 20 miles away, which was a mound fortress.
When Gao Hongtu's troops arrived there, they could take a deep breath.
There is another bastion 20 miles east of Renzihao Fort in Tuhe. That is to say, one stop is 20 miles away, and after a few stops, we will return to Jinan Fucheng.
In addition, these bastions are different from the earthen walls that Gao Hongtu is currently guarding. They can station elite soldiers permanently.
In other words, if Duduo followed all the way, he would have to constantly divide his troops to besiege each fortress. When he reaches Jinan Fucheng, will he still have anyone under his command?
Therefore, Gao Hongtu only needs to run two or three stops to escape and ascend to heaven...
"General Li, it's up to you!" Gao Hongtu looked at Li Chengdong with a stern look on his face, "I promise you a thousand pieces of gold, and Tai'an Prefecture will definitely give it to you!"
"Okay!" Li Chengdong nodded heavily, "I'll fight them!"
He was now neatly dressed, put on long armor, and held a wine gourd in his hand. He drank a few mouthfuls of yellow soup, and then raised his hands to the generals around him: "I'm going ahead, my head is off." , he is still a good man after 20 years!”
As he spoke, he got on his horse and headed east of "Tuweizi" without looking back.
A large hole has been dug in the wall. Ten battalions of sword and spear soldiers, one battalion next to the other, have been lined up. They have all drank some wine and are waiting to attack.
"Attack!" Li Chengdong didn't waste any time. He gave the order with a wave of his hand, and then shouted a slogan: "Kill the Tatars...divide the fields!"
"Kill the Tatars! Divide the fields...kill, kill, kill!"
More than two thousand people rushed out in groups after shouting to kill them. They were all half-mad and half-drunk. They couldn't form any formations, so they just charged with their heads covered!
It was supposed to be a sneak attack, but now the movement was so loud that the yawning and sleepy ambush soldiers on the opposite side were startled.
Of course there is an ambush!
Duduo is a great military strategist. When he asked people to dig trenches and surround them, he was sure that Gao Hong had planned to break through. The Ming army's breakout was usually very poorly organized and was the best time to eliminate them.
Therefore, the ambush had been prepared for a long time, and Duduo was also neatly dressed. Under the protection of the Bagala warriors, he was hiding in a forest southeast of "Tuweizi". Near him, there were thousands of elite Eight Banners troops dismounted and ready to fight.
Now that he heard the loud shouts, Duduo suddenly thought of something, and his expression immediately changed.
"What are they howling? Isn't it Confucius' blessing?"
The first baturu with a white flag next to him had sharp ears and could understand Chinese. He immediately replied: "Your Majesty, these Nikans are shouting 'Kill the Tatars and divide the fields'."
Duduo was stunned: "What? What? Why do we need to divide the fields... What is this?"
"Your Majesty," asked First Batulu, who was wearing a white flag, "let me lead some people to charge and show those Nikans how powerful they are."
"No need!" Duduo shook his head, "Their morale is strong, but we can't use our Eight Banners warriors to block it... Let's follow the original method, let Nikan block the front, and our people fight. butt."
"Your Majesty is wise!"
Wu Weihua, the dutiful Marquis of the Qing Dynasty, cannot express his wise words now. Because he is Nikan who was sent by Dodo to block the front!
It was not a hard blockade, but he led his 3,000 green battalion soldiers to lie in a trench parallel to the Tu River, waiting for the Ming army's vanguard team to rush out, and then suddenly broke out and attacked from the side.
But he never expected that he would wait in the trench for most of the night, waiting until he fell asleep, and what he would end up waiting for would be a group of crazy Ming troops that he had never seen before!
