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Yan Yingyuan said: "If you can draw a stone bow, will the general be tested?"

Lu Guangzu smiled and said, "Let's shoot outside the city and see how far you can shoot. If you can shoot long distances, I will promote you to be a general."

"A word is settled!"

Yan Yingyuan originally planned to get close and kill violently, but now he can shoot with a bow and arrow.

He pretended to be struggling, gritted his teeth and pulled the bowstring hard.When the bow reaches [-]% full, then suddenly turn around, no need to aim at all, just rely on memory to find the target position.

Whoosh!

An arrow shot out and hit Lu Guangzu's throat.

Lu Guangzu's eyes were wide open, with a resigned expression on his face.He was ready to join the Datong army at any time, why was he killed in a daze?

There were four soldiers beside Lu Guangzu, two of them were stunned on the spot, one retreated in horror, and one drew his sword and advanced.

Yan Yingyuan threw away his bow and arrow, drew his knife and rushed out, hacking the soldier to death with one blow.

Then there was another knife, hacking to death the guard who was still in a daze.The third soldier was so frightened that he turned around and wanted to run away, but Yan Yingyuan chased him and killed him.

"Forgive me, good man, spare me!"

The fourth soldier knelt on the ground and kowtowed, trembling all over.

Yan Yingyuan said: "The Datong Army is not far outside the city. Do you want to be a slave to the Tartars? If you are still a man, you can kill the Tartars with me!"

The soldier said: "I wish...I wish, I also escaped from Liaodong."

"Stand up!" Yan Yingyuan shouted.

The soldiers stood up when they heard the sound, but they didn't dare to stand next to Yan Yingyuan, because the nearby soldiers had already discovered the situation and surrounded them.

Yan Yingyuan stood there alone, and said to hundreds of soldiers with a smile: "Zuo Liangyu took refuge in the Tartars, and he was enshrined as a king to enjoy wealth. Why do you take refuge in the Tartars? Are you sending them to the Tartar officials' bridal chambers in order to marry their children in the future?" ? Or do you think the little braid looks good, and you will be a girl with braids in the future?"

Although these soldiers surrounded Yan Yingyuan, no one did anything, because Yan Yingyuan spoke to their hearts.

Xi Zuo had posted big-character posters in the city long ago, with half-truths and half-false contents.After the scholars read it, they all believed it, so it spread more and more widely, so that the whole city knew that a girl had to give it to the Tazi official to spend the night before getting married.

The soldiers also heard about it, and they were very resistant to it.

Yan Yingyuan said: "The cavalry of the Datong Army arrived in Jinxiang three days ago. The infantry of the Datong Army will also come after two days. Zhao Tianwang swept across the southern provinces. Can you really stop Zhao Tianwang's heavenly soldiers and generals? If you are an egg, follow me to seize the city!"

The soldiers looked at each other in blank dismay, they were indeed afraid that the Datong Army would kill them.

Yan Yingyuan didn't speak anymore, and walked forward with his knife in hand. These soldiers stepped aside one after another.

When he reached the edge of the city wall, Yan Yingyuan waved towards the city.

Not long after, Dong Yongqing brought scholars, merchants and gentry, as well as their domestic slaves, and came to take over the city wall with sticks.

Soldiers from other city walls also came one after another. Yan Yingyuan cut off Lu Guangzu's head, held it high in his hand and shouted: "Lu Guangzu is dead, and the Heavenly Soldiers of Datong will arrive tomorrow. If you don't want to die, take the city with me!"

"Kill the Tartars!" shouted a soldier from Liaodong.

Lu Guangzu was from Liaodong. He liked to use his fellow countrymen, and when he saw those fleeing from Liaodong, he accepted them as soldiers.

These Liaodong soldiers were the first to respond to Yan Yingyuan. They really didn't want to join the Qing Dynasty, after all, each of them had a deep blood feud.

In a blink of an eye, hundreds of people followed.

Someone even reminded: "Lu Guangzu's clan brother is guarding Beicheng, he must be killed!"

Yan Yingyuan held the knife and shouted: "Follow me to kill!"

Chapter 408 [The more you fight, the more outrageous it is]

Yan Yingyuan's seizure of Jinxiang was a random event.

According to Fei Ruhe's original plan, he first went north along the Grand Canal and quickly captured the strategically important Wucheng Town.

Then, let the civilians build fortifications, garrison with a small number of regular troops and peasant soldiers, and then return to the division to take Guting Town and Yutai County.While ensuring your rear, attack Jinxiang again, and use artillery to smash down the city wall with all your strength, so that you can stabilize your flanks.

The actual situation made Fei Ruhe very embarrassed. He was halfway into Yutai County, and Yutai County had already been captured by Dian Shi and Xiucai.As for Guting Town, it was seized by a group of gentry.

This place borders on Zhao Han's territory. Officials, scholars, civilians and squires dare to seize the city as long as they are brave enough, and they have no worries. The Datong Army will soon take over the city.

Yutai has been conquered, so Fei Ruhe went to fight Jinxiang again.

A few miles away from Jinxiang County, Fei Ruhe was dumbfounded when he received the news again: "Jinxiang has also been captured? There are thousands of defenders there!"

Tan Ma said in detail: "It was Mr. Xu who sent another spy to persuade the people in the city to seize the city. The Jinxiang Dianshi named Yan Yingyuan went to the city alone to kill the enemy generals, persuaded more than 2000 enemy troops to surrender, and beheaded three enemy generals one after another."

"What a warrior!" Fei Ruhe praised.

Tan Ma said again: "Yan Dianshi asked for more troops to garrison Jinxiang, and to allocate some military rations. He said that he would bring two thousand surrendered troops and promise to take down the five cities of Shanxian, Chengwu, Caoxian, Dingtao, and Caozhou."

Fei Ruhe sighed, "He's really loud."

One dared to boast to Haikou, and the other dared to agree. Fei Ruhe really handed over the cities on his side to Yan Yingyuan to deal with.

If there is no Yan Yingyuan, he will send farmers, soldiers and civilian husbands to get it done.

Because as long as Jinxiang is won, the rest of the counties are too close to Zhao Han's territory, and most of them will choose to look forward to it.Whoever does not surrender will face the attack of the Datong Army!

This is the same situation in the north of Shandong. The defenders faced the Manchu attack directly, so they surrendered to the Manchus one after another.

Moreover, Li Zheng's troops were fighting in Guide Mansion, and could cross the river to reinforce Fei Ruhe's flank at any time.

When Fei Ruhe returned to Nanyang Town, he suddenly received a message from Xizuo: a large number of ships transporting troops and rations were being mobilized in the direction of Yanzhou and Qufu.

Fei Ruhe hastily dispatched the cavalry from the west of Nanyang Town, scattered most of them to the east of Nanyang Town.

Soon there was news that a large number of enemy traces had been found in the northwest across the Jinxiang River.

There are people in both east and west directions. Could it be that Duoduo divides his troops to attack?

Fei Ruhe convened the officers to discuss the matter, and discussed in detail for a long time, but he couldn't figure out what Duoduo wanted to do.

Division deputy Wan Sitong said: "It doesn't matter what he wants to do, how to fight, how to fight, our army will pull out Teng County first. The Clippers went to inform General Zhang and asked him to leave farmers, soldiers and civilian husbands to garrison Yishui , Juzhou, and Zhucheng, let Huang Fei stick to Weixian, Changyi, and Anqiu. Anyway, the Qingzhou government can't be moved, let General Zhang come back with the main force to help here."

Fei Ruhe immediately understood: "Zhang Tieniu led his troops from Yizhou, along the Junhe River to Fei County, straight into Sishui, Qufu, and Yanzhou, and joined us in a two-sided attack. This is indeed a good strategy. I don't know if it will be in time."

"In time," Wan Sitong said, "the battle here won't end in a while."

"Then do it like this!" Zhang Tieniu made a decision.

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Yanzhou Prefecture, Qingzhou Prefecture, and Shandong are the two major battlefields, and they have all been deadlocked until now.

Both sides are trying to find a way, and they come up with exactly the same way.

Duoduo asked Hong Chengchou to garrison Jining, dispatched soldiers and generals to confuse both sides of Nanyang Town.He personally led the main force, took the Junhe River and went straight into Yizhou, not only cutting off half of Zhang Tieniu's retreat, but also going up the river to pinch Zhang Tieniu.

Fei Ruhe suspended the attack on Qingzhou Prefecture, let Zhang Tieniu go back to Junhe, go straight to Surabaya and Qufu, and attack Duoduo in Yanzhou.

Zhang Tieniu and Duoduo's troops are likely to meet Ai around the corner and run into each other along the banks of the Jun River!

But it said Jinxiang.

After the peasant soldiers and food transport team sent by Fei Ruhe arrived, Yan Yingyuan immediately set off with [-] surrendered troops, leaving Jinxiang County to be managed by Dong Yongqing.

Yan Yingyuan led his troops straight to Shan County, and when he came outside the city, the county had changed its banner.

However, this place is very close to Dangshan Mountain. When Li Zheng sent troops to Dangshan Mountain, he sent a peasant army to cross the river, and the Shanxian defenders directly chose to surrender.

Yan Yingyuan made some supplies in Shan County, and led his troops to attack Chengwu. Zhang Xiude, the guard, surrendered immediately.

Yan Yingyuan and Zhang Xiude joined forces and went to Cao County. Li Kun, the magistrate of Cao County, responded in an uprising and killed the guards and sacrificed the city.

So the three of them joined forces and recruited brave men from the village, and more than 4000 people were killed in Dingtao.

Zhang Xiude pretended to be defeated and fled, opened the gate of the city, killed the guard and seized the city. More than 5000 soldiers gathered and went to Caozhou (Heze).

Just like a snowball, although they are all mobs, the scale of this army is getting bigger and bigger.

It worked so well for three reasons:

First, the middle and low-level soldiers under Zuo Liangyu's command were unwilling to join the Qing Dynasty.

Second, this place is too close to Zhao Han's territory. Not only is he afraid of being attacked by the Datong army, but he also has a better understanding of Datong policies.I also know that the epidemic situation in the south is well controlled, and I want to ask Datong doctor to come over and treat the plague as soon as possible.

Thirdly, at the beginning of the war, Fei Ruhe did not attack the city, but took Nanyang Town along the canal.Just this one move, it seems that it didn't capture the city, it didn't seem like it killed the enemy, but it split Zuo Liangyu's southern territory in an instant.The counties in the south of Yanzhou Prefecture were all isolated and helpless. Either the defenders surrendered easily, or the people were keen to revolt.

Fei Ruhe also grew up during the war, and regardless of his command ability, the strategic layout of the campaign was excellent.

Even Teng County, whose strategic position is extremely critical, took the initiative to change the flag after Fei Ruhe cut the battlefield without waiting for the Datong Army to fight.

The Shandong battlefield is so weird, the guards from the north have turned to Man Qing, and the guards from the south have turned to Zhao Han.Zuo Liangyu, the largest warlord, voted for the Manchus, while Huang Fei, the second most powerful warlord, voted for Zhao Han.

When Yan Yingyuan, Zhang Xiude, and Li Kun led troops to Caozhou, they found that it was impossible to fight here.

Tang Tong, the surrendered general of the frontier army, has led reinforcements and stationed there, with more than [-] defenders.

Just when they were about to leave, a large army suddenly came from the north.

It was the Liangshan Allied Forces led by Zheng Peiran and Ma Jinzhong who abandoned Yuncheng and came to attack Caozhou. Rebels continued to join along the way, including more than 10 family members.

"I'm stumped this time, son of a bitch, Duoduo!" Tang Tong looked at him coldly.

Outside the city, Ma Jinzhong and Yan Yingyuan joined forces. Although they did not know each other, both sides were flying the flag of Datong.

Nephew Tang Lun said privately to Tang Tong: "Uncle, why don't we surrender too."

Tang Tong said: "Your family and I are all in Beijing, how can we surrender? What's more, what benefits can we get from voting in Nanjing? Our family occupies so much land in Jizhou circle. If the Qing Dynasty is defeated, our family's land will be lost." gone."

Tang Lun anxiously said: "The enemy's coalition battalion outside the city is several miles away, and there are no fewer than one hundred thousand people. Our army is only five or six thousand, how can we hold it?"

Tang Tong said: "There are more than [-] enemy troops, and only a few thousand can really fight. The rest of the troops even have messed up their flags. Although we only have more than [-] people, it is more than enough to defend the city, and we can look for opportunities to go out of the city to rob. Battalion. As long as the attack is unprepared, it will be a big victory, and maybe you will be able to make meritorious deeds!"

Tang Lun didn't think so, but he didn't dare to object to his uncle, so he could only silently go back to the section of the city wall he was defending.

He was still very young, and he didn't want to wear braids on his forehead for the rest of his life.

Moreover, more than [-] enemy troops are currently besieging the city, and people in the city have long been panicked.Can you really keep it?

A few days later, the siege troops had filled up the moat, and the leaders of the various rebels also relaxed.Although Ma Jinzhong, Yan Yingyuan, Zheng Peiran and others repeatedly warned against night raids, the soldiers at the bottom didn't take it seriously.

Tang Tong selected [-] elite soldiers and put his nephew Tang Lun in charge of guarding the city, but he even ran outside the city to rob the camp himself.

This guy was very timid for the Ming court, but now he is brave when he fights for the Manchus. 800 people dare to attack a camp of more than [-] people at night.

At night, a fire broke out in Datong of the rebel army.

The outlying camps fell into chaos, and one camp after another started to be in chaos as if the plague was spreading.

The rebel army composed of mobs ran around like headless chickens.In the darkness, they didn't know how many enemies were coming, or where the enemies were coming from. They only knew that the friendly troops were shouting and fleeing, so they followed the shouts and fled.

With more than [-] rebels, more than half of the bombing camp collapsed with a cup of tea.

Only two camps were not bombed, one was Ma Jinzhong and the other was Yan Yingyuan.

They each gathered their troops in the noise and chaos, but it was too difficult to gather troops at night, and in the end they each only gathered more than a thousand people, and rushed towards the direction where the flames were most intense.

"Why don't you send troops?" Tang Tong looked in the direction of Caozhou City in doubt.

He made an agreement with his nephew that as long as the night attack is successful, his nephew will immediately lead an army out of the city to pursue him.

But at this moment, Caozhou City is very quiet.

Caozhou City.

General Wang Chang said happily: "Young General, the night attack has succeeded, let's go out of the city to chase after him!"

In the darkness, Tang Lun's expression was gloomy and uncertain: "General Wang, do you think the Tartars can really hold the world firmly?"

Wang Chang was startled and said, "Young General, why do you say that?"

Tang Lun said: "The Nanjing court occupies all the wealth and wealth in the world. Even if it is not as good as the Tartars in fighting, it is by no means comparable to the Ming Dynasty. It is impossible to be defeated for thousands of miles. The Nanjing court can lose ten times, but the Tartars can only lose once or twice. The Tatars don’t have much military rations at all. This time we go south and grab food everywhere to grab civilians. The food can last for a few months? Once there is a stalemate, the Nanjing court doesn’t need to fight tough battles at all. Holding the city can drag the Tartars to death.”

Of course Wang Chang understood, but he said anxiously: "Young General, even though you say that, our family members are all in Beijing!"

Tang Lun sighed, "I can only feel sorry for my parents, wife and children. Will you surrender?"

Wang Chang hesitated and struggled for a long time, finally gritted his teeth and said, "For the righteousness of the Han family, I will surrender with the major general!"

Tang Lun took off his helmet and cut off his braid with a knife: "Please, General Wang."

Wang Chang imitated the example, and also took off his helmet and cut his braids.

Then, the two summoned the officers and forced the officers under their command to cut their braids, and those who refused to cut their braids were hacked to death on the spot.

They may really hate the Manchu customs in their hearts, but they choose to defect, but it is definitely not for the righteousness of the Han family.

Instead, the situation on the battlefield changed. I thought that the Eight Banners Army would be able to rush forward. As a result, the two battlefields of Yanzhou Prefecture and Qingzhou Prefecture fell into a confrontation.In order to raise more food, Duoduo forced Zuo Liangyu to send a large number of troops to the counties to grab food from the people by force, and forced the people to transport the food to the front line.