The main force of the Tatars' Southern Route Army did not go to fight Li Zicheng, nor did they go to Jianghuai to beat Nanming.

Emperor Chongzhen's luck was really good.

In history, the Qing Dynasty had just entered the pass, and in the winter of the 17th year of Chongzhen, he had to send troops to the south. As a result, Li Zicheng committed a great death. He played a counterattack in Huaiqing, but saved Nan Ming and ruined himself!

Li Zicheng's situation is very different from that in history. Southern Shanxi is still firmly in his hands. The two cities of Datong and Taiyuan are still very strong. It is impossible for the Qing Dynasty to send another army to detour through Mongolia before Datong was captured and attack Yulin in northern Shaanxi from the north.

Li Zicheng didn't need to organize troops to venture into northern Henan, and acted like he wanted to attack northern Zhili in the north to save the crisis on his main battlefield - of course, it might also be to boost morale.

The result of his doing this in history was to burn himself up and attract the Duoduo army that the Tartars were preparing to go south. Not only did he act as a shield for Nanming, but he was defeated in Tongguan and lost all the northwest. He really burned himself to illuminate others. Now, he has lost the counterattack in Huaiqing and is not attacked on both sides - the Qing army has basically stabilized his aura by fighting Yulin Yan'an on the north side and Tongguan on the south side. At least before the fall of Datong or Taiyuan, he cannot do so.

If the western Jin Dynasty could not hold on and let the Tartars then break into Guanzhong, it would be a lack of strength.

But in this time and space, there was another battle between Qi and Lu that Zheng Zhilong had caused. It really made it impossible for the Qing Dynasty to go south.

Although the Qing Dynasty does not want to start a fight with the Nanming Dynasty at all.

Qilu is not yet stable, so they fuck south.

Guo Sheng, who fled into Qingzhou, won’t talk about it now. The Qingzhou camp alone cannot be easily solved by Liu Zeqing, let alone Denglai, who is even more strong behind Qingzhou.

The Qing Dynasty was not unconnected with Zeng Ying. However, after the fall of the Longwu Dynasty, in history, Zeng Ying would rather hang herself than surrender to the Qing Dynasty, not to mention the current situation.

The Qing Dynasty sent two people to Dengzhou to deliver letters to him, but he was chopped off his head.

Not only did he say that he was determined to resist the Qing Dynasty, but he also spent all his family wealth to reorganize his arms and prepare for military affairs in Denglai. His eldest son Zeng Wende, second son Zeng Wensi, younger brother Zeng Zhi and his son Zeng Wenhui, and more than ten children of the Zeng family entered the army.

Behind it, Zheng Zhilong arranged troops and built a battalion in Denglaido. What was the purpose? How could the Qing Dynasty, which had already learned two painful lessons from Juehua Island and Tianjin, still don’t know?

So at this time, the Qing Dynasty really had no intention of attacking the Nanming. The two were still in a situation where the well water did not violate the river water.

Regarding the Tartars, the first priority was to quickly defeat Li Zicheng, and to conquer Qilu and sweep the north.

In this way, it is necessary to take advantage of Zheng Zhilong's "distance" to Japan and quickly attack Denglai.

Zeng Wende looked at Zheng Zhibao with some concern. The Laizhou Prefecture was surrounded and Dengzhou was about to be soon. But the sudden outbreak of Rizhao attracted the Tartars' eyes to Laoshan. This made his father a little worried. He was afraid that the "support" he and Zheng Zhibao would change, so he sent his eldest son to meet Zheng Zhibao and inquire about it.

Zheng Zhibao smiled loudly: "Don't worry, nephew. These places outside are nails, and they must be nailed firmly to the beach. Jiang Zhe had long expected that today would be ready for this day from the first moment he settled in Laoshan."

"Now, Laoshan has many facilities, ammunition is sufficient, the army is large, and the morale is even high. It is a delusion to the Tatars to quickly conquer Laoshan. I would be happy if they really want to gather tens of thousands of troops in Laoshan." Then the pressure in other places will be reduced.

"And the Tartars used a small 100,000 troops around this time, and the supplies needed were gone. With the current situation in Qilu, they cannot be supported unless the gentry is willing to bleed heavily."

"But if they are willing to bleed heavily, why should they still defect to the Tartars?"

Zeng Ying also raised money to the gentry in the prefectures and counties below, and they were pitiful. These gentry were unwilling to bleed from the Ming Dynasty, but now they are willing to bury the Tartars?

What Zheng Zhibao wants to see most now is that the Tartars are wild and robbing the gentry. That's what it means to show.

Call them one by one, and ask them to kneel down and lick the Tartars happily! Are you satisfied now?

Zheng Zhibao waved his hand and said to Zeng Wende: "You just want your father to rest assured. I will never regret what I promised."

Jiang Zhe did not ask for help at all. It was not that there was no one in Laoshan. Jiang Zhe had already formed a new camp, although it was just a cold weapon army. He even had money, grain, and armor. At most, he wanted some artillery and ammunition.

Just when Zeng Wende breathed a sigh of relief, a person walked into the door, but the intelligence officer of the Black Ice Platform.

No one knows why Zheng Zhilong gave the intelligence department such a strange name, because no one has watched the novel and TV series "The Great Qin Empire"?

The intelligence officer walked in and reported to Zheng Zhibao softly: "The fleet heading to Juehua Island has returned. It is said that General Lin (Qingye) has gathered about a thousand Korean troops. He will probably arrive at Zhifu with the ship in early July."

Because of Shen Qiyuan, the influence of the Zheng family in North Korea has increased rapidly. With Lin Qingye’s call, it is normal to get a thousand young and strong North Koreans in a few months and form an army again, right?

Zheng Zhilong has long been aiming at Jeju Island, which is now Danluo Island. In the future, North Korea will also be one of the sources of cannon fodder for the Zheng army.

"Okay, okay. In this way, Denglai will have another battalion." Zheng Zhibao smiled and Zeng Wende was also happy. The stronger the Denglai's troops, the better?

Zheng Zhibao greeted him for a while, then got up and took Zeng Wende to the schoolyard.

The latter is having recruits in training.

Denglai was the main battlefield for the Zheng family and the Qing Dynasty in the future. It was impossible for all soldiers to be replenished from behind. He also had to have the ability to make blood!

The current Zhifu Island is bounded by the Yijing River in the north. Is it a Qishan District? Fushan County and Qishan District located south of the Yijing River, plus Zhifu, form a triangle, which is different in size and area from the Laoshan General Management Area, but its defensive situation is obviously not as good as the latter.

Zheng Zhibao and Zheng Zhipeng, who had been the first to fortress Huafushan County and Qishan Suocheng, were also arranged in between the three corners. As for the people and gentry living in this area, those who were willing to follow them were either going to the city or going to the island.

Not only Zhifu Island, but also Changshan (Miaodao) Islands in the Bohai Sea. Before Huang Fei led his soldiers and civilians to the south, he lost the remnants of Liaodong Town in Lushun, Pidao and other places, and they all shrank in Changshan Islands. Now, people are transported to the island to avoid the war, which is fine.

Zeng is a scholarly family. Zeng Wende has also been writing for twenty years. Now he suddenly changes to a knife handle. Not to mention it, he is very enthusiastic and persevering.

On the school ground, you can not only see the recruits practicing, but also hear the rumbling cannons not far away. This is the gunners practicing.

After all, artillery is crucial to the Zhifu area.

Its lethality and deterrence were the key to Zheng Jun's ability to resist the Qing Dynasty.

As the old nest of Zheng’s army in Qilu, and so far, it is also the most important base set up by Zheng Zhilong in the north, the Zhifu area has a number of cannons that make people feel numb when they hear it.

It is not those tiger squat cannons. It is said that in order to strengthen their firepower, the Qing Dynasty had already run out of the warehouse that had been squandered after the squandering. At that time, they melted all the cannons and small cannons that were intact or damaged, and smelted iron to build armor. Now they are feeling distressed.

The artillery power in the Zhifu area has been divided into two parts, part of which is field artillery mainly composed of five-jin cannons. The main force is the artillery battalion with a terrifying number of 125 artillery guns. This is a complete artillery battalion with a total force of 2,000 people. In addition, the number of artillery teams attached to each battalion is ranging from twelve to three or four, from five-jin cannons to three-jin cannons. The total number will be 1670.

Then there are fixed fortress turrets one by one.

From the early Zhifu Island Fortress to the Fushan and Qishan City after the fortification, there are also bastions at the entrance of Qishan City. To unify the number of cannons, there are definitely more than 200 cannons, and there are probably 10 kilograms of cannons, 12 kilograms of cannons, and only a few eight kilograms of cannons and five kilograms of cannons.

There are four hundred red cannons in the Zhifu area. This number is not an ordinary luxury in today's era.

Whether it was Zheng Zhilong in the early days, Zheng Zhipeng and Zheng Zhibao in the subsequent days, they were determined to build Zhifu into an indestructible bridgehead, and it was no wonder that so many cannons were gathered here.

But Zheng Zhibao didn't expect that the Zhifu area where he was located had not yet been tested by the Tartars, but Laoshan, hundreds of miles away, ate its first crab first.

Who told Jiang Zhe to take Rizhao and stab the Tartars first?

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North of Laoshan.

A group of cavalry appeared in the field. Jiang Zhe, as the supreme commander, stood on the watchtower and looked out. The eyes were filled with brigades of Tartar cavalry wearing foam nails and lightning rods.

Of course, such a sarcastic title comes from the mouth of his boss Zheng Zhilong.

Most people probably don’t understand what a lightning rod is.

Jiang Zhe knew the metal core in the mouth of the faucet at the four corners of the roof.

The other end was full of the Tartars. There were no established cavalry troops here in Laoshan to fight against the Tartars. The cavalry was still a shortcoming of the Zheng army. The large-scale cavalry were now taken to Japan by Zheng Zhilong.

Therefore, Jiang Zhe can only watch the Tartars act fiercely outside, and can only order the sniper to take the opportunity and shoot.

But the Tartars were not brainless. When they found that they entered the city, they were not a place of arrows, and even a place of two arrows still ate guns, they all avoided them.

Most of these scouts are people fighting old wars, so they will not seek death in vain.

The Germans in the army also explained to Nikan the power of the rifled rifle. Although it was difficult to load an ammunition of 100 times, it was very lethal and accurate.

Then Nikan ordered people to move around five hundred meters away. Not only were they prohibited from approaching without authorization, but they also prevented the Tartars from roaming in groups.

After all, there is still a cannon at the top of the city wall.

Nikan, who did not have much hope for taking Laoshan, was reluctant to even let go of the Eight Banners of Mongolian and Han, let alone let the Eight Banners of Manchus die.

The battle is very simple, can the Green Flag soldiers die?

As long as they can last until after autumn, when winter comes and thick ice is formed on the sea, it is the time for them to really exert their strength.

Before that, he only had to fight in Laoshan.

Anyway, the regent in the capital would not blame him, and this strategy was decided long ago.

Even the artillery under his command will be transported to Ye County (Laizhou Prefecture) after the Laoshan area is lively for a while.
Chapter completed!