The "grain borrowing" operation of the East Coast Army in Fushan County was even smoother than expected. In fact, the gentry who had suffered a loss once received news not long after the East Coast people entered Fushan County. Except for a few gentry with elm-headed gentry still stayed in the village to hold on, most of them immediately rolled up their fine and soft things and ran away. In fact, they didn't have much to take away, and valuables had long been transferred to the county town and even the prefecture city. In the countryside, a family of children and nephews were sent to manage the tenants. Now, when the East Coast people arrived, these children and nephews also immediately stepped on horses, mules and even donkeys, and escaped.

Therefore, when the army led by Mo Ming arrived at these farms, they often encountered such a scene: a few trembling servants hid in the woodshed, staring at the soldiers and generals on the east bank who were breaking into the door in horror; Ding Yong in the countryside threw swords and guns all over the ground, ran home to be with his family and left his fate; some rogue green skins in the village came over with wooden sticks and short swords, shouting that they wanted to surrender to King Mo and were preparing to take advantage of the troubled waters, which was shocking.

At first, everyone hadn't reacted. After "breaking" five or six farms in a row, even the slower people felt something was wrong. The food and livestock were not harvested at all, and even the people fled a lot! They spent four days breaking six farms, and they seized less than 100 tons of grain and more than thirty livestock. Compared with the past, they were completely in the sky and underground. People only captured more than 500, and even a few hundred taels of gold and silver. However, they had caught a lot of books, and there were probably thousands of books, which made people laugh and cry.

Just as Mo Ming and others were hesitating about how to act next, the cavalry who went out to inquire about the news came back to report: Guo Sheng led his troops to enter Jinan five days ago. The Ming army abandoned the city and fled. After entering Jinan, Guo Sheng arranged the Ming army and organized the treasury and established a salary urging department to recover the stolen money from the landlords and bureaucrats. At the same time, he announced that he would be exempted from the levy for three years, and allocated the landlords and vassals to the people. Shandong landlords and gentry whispered, but the power of the three thousand cavalrymen led by Guo Sheng of the Shun Army, the three thousand Baibang Zhengmin who went south to supervise the salary, and the 1,500-squad cavalry of Dong Xueli, who was restrained by him, went south to Jianghuai. Most of these people chose to endure and wait for the opportunity.

After discussing, Mo Ming, Xiao Xi and Mao Desheng, they decided to camp on the spot in a captured gentry village, and then continued to send cavalry and local wise men to inquire about the news. At the same time, they also happened to transport the seized personnel and materials to Yantai.

Within a few days, news came one after another. On May 22, Dashun Qingzhou Defense Envoy Wang Dacheng took office alone, and then the prefect Feng Dajing and the co-magistrate Xue Zhu also took office one after another. At the same time, it is said that Guo Sheng also sent Yao Yingfeng and Zhao Yingyuan to lead more than 500 troops to escort Laizhou Prefect Wang Yuqi to the east, as if he was going to capture Deng and Laizhou.

Time is not long! Mo Ming, who received this news, immediately decided to lead a large army to attack Fushan County after the last batch of supplies were transported back, and seize the nearest county before the officials who took over the local government arrived in Dashun. According to some arrested Fushan County gentry, the old parents (county magistrate) were recruited by Zeng Futai a few days ago to discuss matters. They have not returned yet, and the county is temporarily held by other assistants. Such a good opportunity. How can you miss it!

On May 24 (April 17), on the day when Li Zicheng defeated the barracks of Wu Sangui and 50,000 Guanning Army and forced him to retreat into the city to defend, more than 1,000 troops led by Mo Ming also arrived outside Fushan County. Fushan County is a small county, and at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the population of the county was only more than 40,000, so it would be good to have a few thousand residents in the city. However, due to the repeated military chaos in Shandong in recent years, Fushan County, as a region with little poisoning, has a considerable number of refugees and gentry come to hide, so the population has surged. At present, there are probably more than 10,000 people in the city.

As a small county, Fushan County has a very high proportion of civil and military officials in history, so it can be regarded as a place of personal and cultural gathering. Last year, the Qing soldiers invaded the city and besieged Fushan County, which shows that the organizational ability and combat will of the officials here are above the average level. However, no matter how strong their organizational ability is, how high their morale is? Is it even stronger than the 12-pound army cannon? The Tatars had few soldiers at that time, and they had already plundered them. In addition, they lacked siege equipment, so they only besieged this county town a little, and they found that the resistance was relatively firm, and they withdrew. However, now the people of the East Coast carried four 12-pound field cannons dragged by horses, and gathered together to bombard him for one or two days. There was no reason why Fushan County could not be defeated.

The city of Biqishansuo in Fushan County is not much bigger. People on the east coast sent cavalry to patrol the surroundings, and at the same time, they began to set up artillery positions more than 400 meters outside the north gate. Four 12-pound field cannons were lined up in line at the city gate. A battalion of the Eight Banners New Army was lined up nearby as artillery guards. They took off their armor from the pack horses and helped each other to wear them. The tall Xhosa soldiers were wearing helmets and holding bright weapons in their hands, and they were very majestic for a moment.

The army soldiers of the two companies lined up in three rows, and then slowly advanced toward the bottom of the city wall. During the advance, they also fired several rounds of gunfires and shot some Ming soldiers standing on the top of the city. These Ming army soldiers were brave, and perhaps the success of repelling the siege of the Tartars gave them confidence. These people fought back with old-fashioned bird guns and bows and arrows. Unfortunately, the range was too close, and the bows and arrows flew over seventy or eighty meters from the top of the city and arrived in front of the soldiers on the east coast, and they were weak and powerless, and they could not cause any harm to people, let alone the people on the east coast were all wearing bright bulletproof plate armor.

As a result, these brave village soldiers were killed and injured in the cruel shooting. The east coast soldiers' fire rate of two shots in one minute was not a cover. The volley of four or five hundred flintlock rifles easily destroyed any resistance on the city. At the same time, the artillery brothers also began a tense process of loading, loading, test firing and correction.

Mo Ming stood in front of the formation with a saber, surrounded by intelligence staff, marching staff, combat staff, logistics staff, contact staff and other servants, and from time to time summarize the latest situation to him.

"The west city gate quietly opened, and about two hundred people walked out. According to the patrol cavalry, they had no weapons and did not look like military personnel. Moreover, these people were dressed in gorgeous clothes and looked like scholars, merchants, gentlemen and their families living in the city. They seemed to have planned to remain neutral in this battle and withdraw from the war zone. The ministry asked whether to stop them." The contact staff reported loudly.

"I won't stop them for the time being. Of course, if someone takes away the peaceful residents in the city, they will be stopped immediately."

"Corporal Kinwo Kei of the military team reported that a team of silk merchants fled outside the East City Gate, causing traffic chaos. Corporal Arima Daze of the 4th Squadron of the military team guarding the military team went to expel the merchants, and the Ministry of Justice asked whether to requisition the silk brocade left by the merchants." The logistics consultant also hurried to report.

"I authorize you to requisition those spoils, and everything must be registered."

"Report! Sergeant Bernini's artillery is ready. Is it necessary to bombard the enemy's city gate?" The combat staff came over and stood attentively to ask for instructions.

"I order to launch a shelling attack on the north gate of Fushan County!" Mo Ming said while walking forward: "The forward team is ready for combat. Once the city gate is broken, it will start a pig attack battle."

"Boom! Boom!" The 12-pound army field cannon roared and fired hot shells. A distance of just four hundred meters did not allow the long-tube cannon shells with extremely high bore speed to lose much kinetic energy. These terrifying solid iron balls roared onto the iron-covered wooden door in front and created a huge depression on its surface.

The cannons continued to bombard, and there was no trace of human beings above the city walls on both sides of the north gate of Fushan County at this time. A strange silence appeared on the battlefield - except for the sound of cannons.

After more than ten rounds of artillery attacks intermittently, the northern city gate, which had already been decayed, fell down. Dozens of grenadiers who were carrying gunpowder barrels to come forward to blast the blast were shocked to find that these Ming people did not pile up stones, sandbags and other obstacles behind the city gate and set up a second line of defense. This was really ridiculous! Perhaps they lacked organization, perhaps they had no experience in dealing with cannon bombing the city. In short, the few soldiers guarding the gate immediately scattered and fled to the city after seeing the city gate being destroyed.

Of course, the people of the East Coast would not miss this opportunity! So, under the command of the officers, more than 200 Japanese samurai in leather armor from the 4th squadron of the Standing Team roared in unison, and then rushed over. After some of the people were assigned to occupy the city gate, most of them went to the city's official offices, treasury, prison and other facilities in units of small groups to carry out the occupation.

Fifteen minutes later, Mao Desheng led more than 200 officers and soldiers of the 104th Company and a battalion of the Eight Banners New Army, and also lined up into the city to clear out the remaining enemies, maintain order, and count the treasury.

Half an hour later, Mo Ming led the remaining 102nd Company, artillery troops and military personnel into Fushan County. At this time, the battle in the city had ended, and the soldiers suffered minimal casualties, and no one was injured in the siege battle. After entering the city, nine forward soldiers, three Eight Banners soldiers and one Army 104th Company soldier, and more than 20 people were injured, but fortunately, the injuries were not serious.

The soldiers kept in mind Mo Ming's teaching that "slaughtering peaceful residents does not allow us to gain any honor" and did not carry out large-scale killings in the city. After controlling the four gates, they did nothing except restricting the residents from going out and suppressing a group of gangsters who took advantage of the chaos to rob.

In the evening, the results of the battle were almost counted. In addition to the nearly 9,000 residents in the city, the people of the East Coast also seized about 7,000 stones (about 500 tons) of grain - this was due to the fear of being robbed by the East Coast people, and all the grain was transferred to the city; in addition, there were a number of gold, silver and jewelry worth more than 50,000 yuan, more than 1,000 calligraphy and painting books, more than 2,000 silk and satin, several herbs, more than 400 livestock (s) and more than 600 bird guns, bows, arrows, and spears. This was a great harvest. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better and faster!
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