Shi Kefa's strategy for the Battle of Texas is simply four words: surround a point and mobilize reinforcements!

The "point" is of course Dezhou City. The current Dezhou City Wall was built during the Hongwu period of the early Ming Dynasty. The city wall is ten miles and one hundred and eighty steps in circumference. It is made of rammed earth and covered with bricks. It is very strong. The area of ​​the city is not large.

It is small, covering an area of ​​more than 3,700 acres. It is not troublesome to defend, and it can accommodate a lot of troops, family members, money, food and various supplies.

Moreover, the city wall of Dezhou was renovated and reinforced after the "Five Years Agreement between Ming and Qing Dynasties". Prismatic castles were built outside the four city gates (Dezhou has five city gates, one of which is the water gate), and the five gates of the city wall were also built.

A prismatic gun platform was built at the corner (Dezhou City is boot-shaped), and the outer wall of the castle was remodeled to have a slope that could withstand shelling.

Outside Dezhou City, along the canal, Yujin River and the long trench in the northeast of Dezhou City, there is also a series of forts, relying on dangerous points, forming the peripheral defense line of Dezhou.

Because Dezhou is the gateway to Northern Zhili, the project to rebuild Dezhou City was funded and staffed by the Qing court in Beijing.

The official who was sent to supervise the work was named Zhang Ruolin. He was the same Zhang Ruolin who was ordered to supervise the battle at the front line during the Battle of Songjin, and blindly urged Hong Chengchou to advance. After the fall of Beijing, he first surrendered to Dashun, and later followed Luo Yangxing.

, Guang Shiheng and others defected to the Qing Dynasty, and now they are slaves with green flags and dignified ministers.

After becoming an official in the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Ruolin's official career was pretty good. He started as a minister of Shuntian Prefecture and rose step by step. Now he is a doctor in the Ministry of War of the Qing Dynasty.

In order to repay the favor of his master Shunzhi, Zhang Ruolin came to Dezhou almost every month in the past two years and stayed there for more than ten days. He was not here to play, but to seriously inspect the Dezhou fortress project.

Under his hard work and supervision, the Texas Fortress project not only progressed quickly, but also had high quality, and even the cost was reduced to a minimum.

Moreover, Zhang Ruolin also thought that the city defense plan drawn up by the Japanese military adviser was not safe, so he added a long trench to the northeast of the Dezhou fortress. When the war in Shandong was ignited late last month, he even ventured into Dezhou, just to

Personally supervise the construction of the long trench in Northeast Texas.

Under his hard work and supervision, this long trench was finally completed before the Ming army arrived.

With the protection of this long moat, canal and Yujin River, the city defense of Dezhou can be considered absolutely foolproof.

However, before Zhang Ruolin had time to hold a celebratory banquet and celebrate with his officials, Shi Kefa's army arrived! They easily eliminated the Qing army's stronghold outside the canal, Yujin River and the long trench in the northeast of Dezhou. Then they went smoothly.

Along the canal, Yujin River and the long trench in the northeast of Dezhou, the construction of fortifications for the siege of the city began.

The Qing troops and Zhang Ruolin in Dezhou City were unable to get out. They could only stare at a civil structure wall and dozens of circular bunkers used to set up artillery and deploy musketeers, appearing on the canal at a very fast speed.

, outside the Yujin River and the long trench in the northeastern part of Dezhou

Is this a long siege of Dezhou to lure the imperial troops to come?

Standing at the top of Dezhou city, using a telescope to look at the Ming army and Ming Dynasty civil servants who were in full swing of construction in the distance, Zhang Ruolin suddenly had a feeling of déjà vu. This scene was really familiar!

"Doctor, do you think this Shi Kefa wants to use Dezhou as bait?" Fan Chengmo didn't know when he appeared behind Zhang Ruolin, and he felt that the scene in front of him was quite familiar!

He also participated in the Battle of Songjin!

He had just turned 17 that year and became Huang Taiji's bodyguard. He followed Huang Taiji from Shengjing to Shenyang all the way to the Songjin front line and witnessed the collapse of hundreds of thousands of Ming troops.

And didn’t the Battle of Songjin begin with the siege of Jinzhou City?

"No, no way." Zhang Ruolin shook his head, "Shi Kefa is a person with a false reputation and an official with empty talk. How can he be compared with the late emperor and Chengzong? Besides, how wise the emperor's uncle is? He is definitely not comparable to Hong Chengchou."

Fan Chengmo frowned: "If Hong Chengchou does not underestimate the enemy and rushes forward, is there any way he can break the siege of Jinzhou?"

"This" Zhang Ruolin fell into deep thought.

He really thought about this question for a long time.

At that time, he was ordered by Chen Xinjia to urge Hong Chengchou to fight quickly. On the one hand, it was because of the lack of money and food and he could not support it. On the other hand, it was because Jinzhou's urgent ancestor Dashou reported to the court in March of the 14th year of Chongzhen: "Jincheng's food supply Rice only lasts for more than a month, but beans fed to horses cannot last a month.”

If Hong Chengchou did not save Jinzhou, Jinzhou would inevitably fall after the food was exhausted.

But to save

Thinking of this, Zhang Ruolin sighed: "Fortunately, we have enough food reserves, so we are not afraid of the Ming army commander's encirclement."

Of course Shi Kefa knew that the Qing army in Dezhou was not afraid of a long siege, but in addition to besieging Dezhou, he also had bigger trump cards at hand, namely Shandong Governor Zuo Maodi and Shandong Tuntian Regiment Training Envoy Zhang Huangyan.

Because of old age and illness, Gao Hongtu had retired from official service and returned home to recuperate. Zuo Maodi, the original military commander of the military training regiment, was promoted to governor and became the largest official in Shandong Province. Zhang Huangyan took over Zuo Maodi's official position and became the military commander of Shandong Province. Team training envoy.

According to Zhu Cixiang's order, the governor of Shandong and the training envoys of the field regiment were controlled by Shi Kefa after the war started. Shi Kefa, the governor, did not have much power in peacetime, but once it entered war, it was a real territorial seal!

Just after Shi Kefa completed the arrangement of "encircling Dezhou, monitoring Liaocheng and Anping, and waiting for the Donglu Brigade to come south" through the Pingyuan Military Conference, he invited Zuo Maodi and Zhang Huangyan to Pingyuan and began to arrange operations to regain the lost territory.

Due to the active shrinking of the Qing army (some were too late to shrink, most of them are now dead), only Dezhou, Anping, and Liaocheng are still under the control of the Qing army in Shandong. In other places, a small part was occupied by the Ming army, and most of them were occupied by the Ming army. In a power vacuum.

"Zhongji, Xuanzhu," in the Zhongjun gate of Shi Kefa in Pingyuan County, Ming Governor Shandong and Liaodong military gate Shi Kefa were talking to Zuo Maodi and Zhang Huangyan in the study, "Now the Qing army on the ground in Shandong is shrinking. It's so powerful that if we can fill in the large tract of land that has been vacated, then we can continue to fight with war, and the Qing army will definitely not be able to bear it."

Zhang Huangyan has been an official in Shandong and Liaodong in the past few years. Of course he knows that the three prefectures of Jibei, West Yanzhou, and Dongchang occupied by the Qing Dynasty have abundant fertile land. Many loyal ministers and generals from Shandong are eyeing it!

Loyal ministers and good generals are also members of the landlord class!

How could you not like the land? If you don’t like the land, why bother with the Northern Expedition?

Now that the Qing army has shrunk, the flat land of Jibei, West Yanzhou, and Dongchang is now in front of everyone.

So Zhang Huangyan did not answer Shi Kefa's question, but turned his attention to Zuo Maodi. The Zuo family was Zhongliang and the largest landowner in Shandong!

"Xianzhi," Zuo Maodi said, "the land in the three prefectures of Jibei, West Yanzhou, and Dongchang cannot be disposed of in a hurry! The court should first make it clear that no cents will be taken and returned to the public, and then it will be trusted by the Tuntian Tuan Lian Envoy Division and the governor's Yamen to wait for the northern border

Dading, let’s allocate it again.”

Zhang Huangyan echoed: "It's still Zuo Futai and Zhou Dao, but what about the farmers on the land in Jibei, West Yanzhou, and Dongchang? They have tasted the benefits of dictating land by plan!"

This is a big trouble!

The basis for planning orally assigned land is the "public land system", which is also the basis for the land policy currently implemented by the Qing Dynasty!

The land system implemented by the Ming Dynasty in the two lakes, four rivers, Fujian and Guangdong in the southeast was based on the "private land system", so the court also held a large amount of land, but it could not change the basis of private land, and the Ming court had clear property rights.

The private land has always been protected by a policy of protection.

Zuo Maodi also had a headache. He stroked his beard, thought for a while, and said to Shi Kefa: "The land must be divided again, but it's best not to mention it now. Send out the parents' officers from each county first, and then put up notices to calm the people. Let's do something.
Chapter completed!