During the Meng Zhong period of the 18th year of Chongzhen reign in the Ming Dynasty, Jinan, a spring city that had once declined due to massacres by the Qing army and successive wars, once again showed some prosperity.

The revival of Jinan seems to have something to do with the Heavenly Soldiers of the Qing Dynasty. This time, the Heavenly Soldiers of the Qing Dynasty marched along the canal. In addition to Dezhou, which is located along the canal, and the three prefectures of Leling and Haifeng, which are intertwined with North Zhili,

The county was occupied by the Qing army. The rest of the area was still under the control of the regiment training army of Gao Hongtu, Gao Futai, the governor of Shandong and the chief military officer of Jinan garrison!

And Licheng, the prefecture of Jinan, has become a paradise far away from the war. People who escaped from the northern states and counties of Jinan Prefecture, Dongchang Prefecture, several counties in the northern Yanzhou Prefecture, and even the Northern Zhili territory of the Qing Dynasty

Wealthy households gradually gathered in Jinan Fucheng to settle down.

After all, Jinan Fucheng is a big city, with high walls, deep ditches, and a large internal area. Due to the massacre by the Qing army, there were enough open spaces and empty houses for people to live in. In the more than a year after Gao Hongtu took office, he spared no effort to strengthen the city defense.

, hoarding food and grass, and organizing team training. They looked like they were determined to stick to Jinan to the end. This also gave the refugees and wealthy households gathered from various places a little more confidence. They began to settle down in Jinan, which is relatively close to their homes... and

Not all people are willing to stay away from their hometowns, especially those who still have some properties in their hometowns and have no destination in the distance. They always want to escape the war somewhere closer to home so that they can return immediately after the war and start over.

life.

On the streets of Jinan in the summer, in addition to the vendors who come from all over the country to work hard in a relatively stable place in this troubled world, the regiment training soldiers wearing gray cloth jackets are walking around and watching the fun with their mouths open. These soldiers are all

They were poor lower-middle peasants who came from a poor background. They rarely went to the county town on weekdays, that is, to wander around nearby towns. Now that they were in Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province, a prosperous place like heaven and earth, how could they not be amazed?

There are too many officials here, wearing scarlet, cyan, and green official uniforms with various patches on their chests, riding horses or riding sedans, swaggering through the streets, and some of them are quite particular about pomp and circumstance.

, shouting in front and surrounded by a large group of long-term followers and guards, it is so majestic.

A group of chariots and horses meandered into the Luoyuan Gate in the west of Jinan City. This group of chariots and horses attracted the attention of many people. The group leading the way was a tough cavalry, and many of them still had wounds from the battlefield on their faces.

, there is a murderous look in their eyes. Different from the Tuan Lianjun wandering around in Jinan City, these cavalrymen all wear well-made cloth-covered armor, and carry iron-made battle hats, carbines, sabers, and Kaiyuan bows.

Everything is complete. At first glance, you can tell that it is a regular Ming army cavalry!

The carriage they were guarding was also very special. It was a "chariot". The carriage and wheels were reinforced, with thick wooden boards installed on the carriage and a lot of iron sheets on the wheels.

The wooden windows of the car were open, and from time to time the head of a dark-faced scholar popped out, looking at the prosperous and lively city of Jinan.

This black-faced scholar is the Yanzhou Bingbei Qianshi, Jinyi Weinan Town Fusi Yanzhou Shi Kecheng.

Of course, Shi Kocheng's position as a member of the Imperial Guard Qianhu is kept secret - as a spy, how can his identity be made public? How can he be so secretly monitored after it is made public? Therefore, only a few people know that Shi Kocheng is a spy.

His official trip to Jinan this time had nothing to do with espionage activities. It was Shi Kefa who sent him as a soldier to discuss with Gao Hongtu, Zuo Maodi, Zhu Yihai, and Li Ruolian how to surround and annihilate Duduo, a Tatar.

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That's right, after the great victory in Qufu, Shi Kefa, the governor of the military gates of the seven provinces, became more energetic and prepared to continue his efforts and join forces with Gao Hongtu, Zuo Maodi, Zhu Yihai, Li Ruolian, Li Huajing, Huang Degong, Gao Jie and other troops to work with the Qing Dynasty to find gold.

Prince Duduo comes to a big battle!

However, as the governor of the military gate of the seven provinces, he was in name only, and his orders could not even go out of Yanzhou Prefecture, which meant that they were effective around Qufu City.

Therefore, Shi Kefa had no choice but to send his cousin Shi Kecheng to go out and run to Jinan to contact Gao Hongtu, Zuo Maodi, Zhu Yihai, Li Ruolian and others at the risk of being chased by the Qing army's cavalry in Qufu Camp.

The process of protruding out of Qufu was very smooth, without any surprises - because the Qufu camp of the Qing army was just a stronghold to confront Qufu City, it was not directly adjacent to Qufu City, and it did not have the ability to surround Qufu City. The most they could do was send some cavalry.

Wander around the city of Qufu and clean up the Ming army's Ye Bu Shu.

Shi Kecheng, who was protected by a large group of cavalry, could not hurt a single hair. He could only watch him go away safely.

On the way from Qufu to Jinan, Shi Kecheng saw a lot of hope for victory.

Because after leaving Qufu County and entering Taiyi Mountain, he found that the people here had been organized. Organized by the big bosses of the Shandong landlord class like Gao Hongtu, Zuo Maodi, and Zhu Yihai!

Don’t think that there is no way to organize the wealthy landlords and the poor and lower-middle peasants because they are in class opposition. In fact, before the rise of the imperial examination system, the gentry and landlord class could still organize rural soldiers, build forts, and dominate one side. Even in the

In the Song Dynasty after the rise of the imperial examination, wealthy families with big surnames would still stick together to keep warm - because the Song Dynasty did not have two levels of honors, the imperial examination and the scholar, and the number of Jinshi was too small, and there was no system like the North and South Ranking to ensure that there could be a few Jinshi in each place, so

In many prefectures and counties where culture and education are not very prosperous, there are basically no civil servants. The wealthy families with large surnames rely on the development of large numbers of people and grouping together to survive. Therefore, there have been many "righteous families" where people of more than ten generations have not separated their families.

In the Ming Dynasty, due to the emergence of the title of scholar and scholar, the cohesion of powerful surnames declined. For example, the "Nine Floors and Eighteen Mao" like the Zuo family of Laiyang, all of them had fame and fame, and no one obeyed anyone, so the family

The cohesion has dropped significantly.

However, the measures implemented by Zhu Cixiang a year ago to repatriate people and support Gao Hongtu, Zuo Maodi, Zhu Yihai and other three Shandong local leaders have greatly enhanced the strength of Shandong landlords. At least in Tai'an and Feicheng in the Taiyi Mountains,

In prefectures and counties such as Changqing and Licheng (Jinan Fucheng), there are organized training regiments and forts built in dangerous places everywhere.

This has just begun! If Shandong's resistance to the Qing Dynasty can continue for ten or eight years, and Shandong's regiment training and army have been fully experienced, then Gao Hongtu will become "Gao Guofan" and Zuo Maodi will become Zuo Zongtang!

It's time for the Qing Dynasty to cry. But Shi Kecheng's cousin Shi Kefa couldn't wait ten or eight years...

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"Gaofutai, my brother thought that the Tartars had invaded Jin Prince Duduo's army and had formed a lone army to penetrate deep. Tens of thousands of troops marched along the canal and stopped at the foot of Qufu City. Along the way, they only occupied Wuqiao Town, Dezhou, and Wucheng.

Counties, Linqing Prefecture, Tangyi County, Zhangqiu Town, Dongping Prefecture, Jining Prefecture, Ziyang County and other cities are like a thin line, maintaining the retreat route of Duduo's troops.

To the east of the thin line, there are Gao Futai, Zuo Tuanlian, King Lu and Li Zongrong, with a strength of no less than 100,000! To the west of the thin line, there are Li Zongrong (Li Huajing) and Huang Zongrong.

Rong, Lu Futai's troops and horses also numbered one hundred thousand.

To the south of the Tartars, there are my brother's Qufu Army, Xuzhou's Gao Family Army, and Huai'an Road Futai Army. The combined number of all the tribes is not less than one hundred thousand!

Duduo is only a few tens of thousands tired, and being attacked by 300,000 of us, he is clearly in danger... As long as all parties can work together, we will definitely be able to annihilate this beast!"

In Jinan City, in the lobby of the governor's office, Shi Kecheng was talking eloquently, and he was talking about what Shi Kefa had said.

Of course, Shi Kefa's analysis makes sense...at least judging from the map, Duduo is really going deep alone, and it seems like he is going to be surrounded and annihilated.
Chapter completed!