On November 23, 1644, in Qingzhou Prefecture, Shandong, the northwest wind was level 6, sunny.

As the weather gets colder, tens of thousands of Qing troops gathered near Qingzhou have to start logging for warmth. At the same time, the surrender of Zhao Yingyuan's troops in Qingzhou City has gradually stopped recently. After the initial period of psychological fear, these careless armed leaders of various armed forces slightly alleviated their fear of the Qing army. Anyway, there are a lot of food they stolen in the city, which is enough for them to build for a while, so just use it. It seems that the Qing army in the wilderness is difficult to bear, or the ones in the city are difficult to bear!

However, the Qing army obviously would not blow cold winds in the wild indefinitely. Because they walked quickly when they set out, they could be considered light-armed. Many siege equipment were not brought by their side, so they could only temporarily fight under Qingzhou City. The Eight Banners soldiers took whips and drove groups of coats to the woods outside the city to log wood and create siege equipment. However, this could not be done in a short while. Therefore, these Eight Banners men were destined to blow cold winds in the fields outside Qingzhou City for a while.

Looking at the dilemma of the soldiers of "I, the Qing Dynasty" outside the city, Zhang Wenheng in Qingzhou City was worried. After persuading several times to surrender to the Qing army, this guy had already aroused the disgust and vigilance of many people. If Zhao Yingyuan hadn't known what he was thinking about, Zhang Wenheng, who was lying in the inside and outside, would have been killed by those rough men.

The situation in Shandong was chaotic, and at this time, the Qing Shun army, which had been in battle for three or four months on the battlefield in Shanxi and Henan, began to gradually enter the mid-square-plate decisive stage. After losing the important town of Taiyuan on the third day of October, Li Zicheng sent another army out of Tongguan to enter Henan, conquering Jiyuan, Mengxian, Wuzhi, Wenxian and other counties, and then besieged Huaiqing Prefecture. The Qing army defended the city with artillery fire and killed a large number of Shun army. In order to deal with the Qing army with strong firepower in Huaiqing Prefecture, the general commander of the Shun army, Tian Jianxiu, urgently transferred Guo Sheng, who was still in Hebei, to lead the army to use yellow cannons to deal with the red cannons of the Qing army.

In order to understand the encirclement of Huaiqing Prefecture, the Qing army organized several offensives, but were all repelled. Among them, the most powerful Qing army Dong Xueli Army (formerly Shun Army, who had surrendered to the Qing Dynasty), was defeated and surrounded, the retreat of the Qing army Ye Chen army who entered Taiyuan was cut off. For this reason, Luo Jinxiu, the governor of Henan, of Qing Dynasty, began to inquire with the Qing court.

In order to completely solve the problems in Henan and Shanxi, the Qing court began to form a large number of reinforcements. On October 19, the Qing court appointed King Ajige as the General of Jingyuan, leading more than 30,000 troops, preparing to enter northern Shaanxi after defeating the heavy army group of Shun Army in northern Shanxi. The troops of Wu Sangui and Shang Kexi were accompanied by Ajige. After recruiting the troops of Xuanfu and Datong, the Qing army had more than 80,000 troops. If tens of thousands of Qing troops near Daizhou were added, they would have a crushing advantage over the Shun Army in northern Shaanxi, both in quantity and in quality.

When he saw the Shun Army and hundreds of thousands of people strangled into a group of Qing troops, Shi Kefa, the commander of the Southern Ming Dynasty, was ecstatic and began to strictly order the four towns in Jiangbei. Henan landlords loyal to the Southern Ming Dynasty attacked the local Shun Army. Objectively, they greatly supported the Qing army's offensive, causing the Dashun troops to be dispersed and the situation became increasingly tense. In Sichuan, Zhang Xianzhong's troops also began to march into Hanzhong, preparing to seize Hanzhong while Li Zicheng's main force was attracted by the Hui people and Mongols in Qinghai and Xining, so as to complete his first step in his "conquering the world" hegemony.

At this time, on the already rugged and muddy road between Qingzhou City and Anqiu, a large "braid army" was moving "fastly". This speed was obviously corresponding to the previous turtle speed. Li Ruitai's troops only marched five to ten miles a day, and the speed was so slow that it made people laugh. After the bad weather gradually came and Hetuo from Qingzhou repeatedly sent people to urge him, Li Ruitai finally sighed and ordered the marching to accelerate. Now if Hetuo had not ordered him to advance behind his back, he would have wanted to lead the army to retreat. He was becoming increasingly unsure of this battle, and the scouts were captured and killed in large numbers, resulting in one-way transparency of the battlefield to the enemy. He could not even figure out how many people there were in the enemy.

Scattered and unfortunately, the scouts who did not meet the enemy reported to him that the group of yellow-clad pirates are still in Anqiu City. Two days ago, it seemed that they had sent people to the countryside to collect some food from the old people, and at the same time, they also brought a few "rogues" who had no land to go with them. However, it was difficult to see them jumping around in the countryside in the past two days, and most of them seemed to have retreated back to the city. This is understandable. It is cold outside, and the fools are wandering in the wild.

While Li Lutai was marching with a complex mood, the people on the east coast of Anqiu County were also waiting for the arrival of the Qing army in a tangled manner. When he learned that Li Lutai led tens of thousands of troops to march at a speed of five to ten miles a day, Mo Ming even wondered if the scouts killed too hard in the battle, which scared Li Lutai, the old fox, was afraid to come to Anqiu. Fortunately, the news came later was quite comforting. Li Lutai might not want to delay more in the bad weather, so he greatly increased the speed of the march. Then, in the afternoon of today (November 23), he finally arrived three miles outside Anqiu County. The short journey of a hundred miles made him walk for six days, which was really weird.

The people on the east bank on the top of the city used a telescope to roughly observe the Qing army brigade camping outside the city. Due to the distance, they did not see clearly. They only knew that they seemed to have cut some wood from a distance (all the nearby ones were cleaned up) to camp. Although the entire camp was noisy, it was still orderly, and it was obvious that they had certain military qualities. The Jiaozhou army that the people on the east bank met a while ago, the Qingzhou army of Li Shiyuan's troops could not be compared with it.

"After that's the Han army flag. It's old battles with the Eight Banners outside the pass, and they're still quite lawful. Li Rutai has fought for so many years, so it's probably not easy to fight tomorrow." Mao Desheng took off the telescope on his chest, shook his head and asked, "Would you like to do it tonight? In ancient times, there were plots of stealing the camp when the enemy first came to gain a foothold. I think their camp could not be finished until midnight today, and it seemed that he could steal it."

"Steal a fart!" Mo Ming also put down his telescope, wrapped his cotton coat wrapped around him, and said, "Let the Korean military men ride out to harass him at night. It is dark and dark outside. The newly arrived braided troops are mostly unchanging and will not attack. Without war, they will bring some military horns to the other camp not far from the camp, steal a few bombs and listen to the sound, fire a few shots, and then change places. Let the soldiers of the military men start shifting from the second half of the night. The first half of the night these people will probably build the camp and try to make them sleep poorly. They will give them a fatal blow when the final battle tomorrow."

Mo Ming was unable to understand the combat effectiveness of the Qing army outside the city at this time. According to the information sent back by many scouts a few days ago, the number of Qing soldiers was about 10,000, of which there were about 4,000 soldiers with well-equipped and high morale. The troops with no combat effectiveness of the Baoyi and the military personnel accounted for about 4,000. In addition, there was a unit with more than 2,000 people who had not even had time to shave their hair and were wearing tattered Ming army uniforms. After collective discussion, the officers of the East Coast in Anqiu City felt that they might be able to advance outside the city and fight against the city to try the quality of these people, just like the Qing army and Tuo wanted to try the quality of the East Coast people.

Early in the morning of November 24, the Qing army, who had been tossed by the East Coast for half a night last night, began to line up outside the camp gate. The auxiliary soldiers who had not slept all night had to cheer up and put on armor and feed their horses to prepare for the battle that might break out. They were already familiar with doing these things, but today it was a little different. The camp no longer had the relaxed atmosphere of the past. According to the rumors circulated by some officers, these yellow-clothed pirates seemed to be harder to fight than the elites of the Shun Army's old camp. Fortunately, they were not the ones who led the front line, they were the former Ming army of Zhang Ruxing's troops who had just surrendered.

The Han army flag officers and soldiers under Li Rutai looked at the officers and soldiers of Zhang Ruxing who had not yet shaved their hair with complicated eyes, and a strange pleasure surged in their hearts. They made you not shaved your hair! They made you not shaved your hair! They made you not shaved your hair as a horse for the Qing masters! Let you look at the braids on our heads with strange eyes! Humph, let you take the lead today, I did this too!

Zhang Ruxing frowned and looked at the open gate of Anqiu County in front. Looking at the soldiers in yellow clothes coming out of the city gate, these people were going to go out of the city to fight! Zhang Ruxing suddenly felt that today might be a little bad. What does Li Rutai mean to let his troops take the lead? He knew very well. Isn’t it just that he wanted to try out the weight of those yellow clothes thieves by himself? These people are new subordinates, and it is normal to be driven to be cannon fodder, but if the opponent is a pirate on the East Coast, it would be bad.

As a former Ming general who once surrendered to Dashun, Zhang Ruxing, who served as a general in Shandong for two or three months, understood that the East Coast people were "sharp guns and cannons" and "resolute and daring to fight" was definitely not a good deal. Now that he led his troops to take the lead with the East Coast people, the two thousand people he had on hand were likely to be consumed.

As a small army leader who has initially awakened the consciousness of warlords, Zhang Ruxing deeply understands that the army is his capital in this troubled times. The warlords who lost the army are nothing. Li Shiyuan, who was beaten by the East Coast people a while ago, was a role model. But Zhang Ruxing was even more confused when he thought of this. Li Shiyuan and two or three thousand people could not defend the city. How strong is the East Coast people!

However, there was no time for him to think further. The East Coast people on the opposite side had already formed a formation and were slowly moving forward. The side that came out earlier than the East Coast people was still in a noisy array. Why is this big gap? Behind his formation was Li Lutai's central army formation, where he led about 2,000 elite cavalry to supervise the battle, and there were thousands of war soldiers on the left and right wings and about 2,000 auxiliary soldiers, forming two large horizontal formations.

It can be clearly judged from the formation that Li Lutai wanted to test the East Coast people. If the battle situation was good, then invest the left and right two insurgent formations to join the battle group; if the situation was not good, then analyze it in detail, either Li personally led the main cavalry to rescue, or simply pressed forward together to save the defeat; or simply left Zhang Ruxing's troops on the battlefield, and Li Rutai led the army back to the camp to defend. The more Zhang Ruxing thought about it, the more he felt that the last option might be what Li Lutai would do.

The Han army flag officers and soldiers under Li Rutai looked at the officers and soldiers of Zhang Ruxing who had not yet shaved their hair with complicated eyes, and a strange pleasure surged in their hearts. They made you not shaved your hair! They made you not shaved your hair! They made you not shaved your hair as a horse for the Qing masters! Let you look at the braids on our heads with strange eyes! Humph, let you take the lead today, I did this too!

Zhang Ruxing frowned and looked at the open gate of Anqiu County in front. Looking at the soldiers in yellow clothes coming out of the city gate, these people were going to go out of the city to fight! Zhang Ruxing suddenly felt that today might be a little bad. What does Li Rutai mean to let his troops take the lead? He knew very well. Isn’t it just that he wanted to try out the weight of those yellow clothes thieves by himself? These people are new subordinates, and it is normal to be driven to be cannon fodder, but if the opponent is a pirate on the East Coast, it would be bad.

As a former Ming general who once surrendered to Dashun, Zhang Ruxing, who served as a general in Shandong for two or three months, understood that the East Coast people were "sharp guns and cannons" and "resolute and daring to fight" was definitely not a good deal. Now that he led his troops to take the lead with the East Coast people, the two thousand people he had on hand were likely to be consumed.

As a small army leader who has initially awakened the consciousness of warlords, Zhang Ruxing deeply understands that the army is his capital in this troubled times. The warlords who lost the army are nothing. Li Shiyuan, who was beaten by the East Coast people a while ago, was a role model. But Zhang Ruxing was even more confused when he thought of this. Li Shiyuan and two or three thousand people could not defend the city. How strong is the East Coast people!

However, there was no time for him to think further. The East Coast people on the opposite side had already formed a formation and were slowly moving forward. The side that came out earlier than the East Coast people was still in a noisy array. Why is this big gap? Behind his formation was Li Lutai's central army formation, where he led about 2,000 elite cavalry to supervise the battle, and there were thousands of war soldiers on the left and right wings and about 2,000 auxiliary soldiers, forming two large horizontal formations.
Chapter completed!