Chapter 896

Of course, it is impossible for the Chinese army to evacuate all the people. Even if they have made favorable conditions, many people are still unable to leave their hometown and are unwilling to leave with them.

For these people, the Chinese army can't help it. The Buddha can only ferry predestined people, but can't ferry all sentient beings. He can only let them go.

In addition, because of the emergency, they only evacuated the main towns and villages. Like the people in remote mountainous areas, they are unable to evacuate and can only live according to their destiny.

Moreover, so many people themselves put great pressure on the work of the Chinese army, so there are still many people in remote mountainous areas who have not been evacuated, but for the Ming army, the fattest meat is gone, and some leftovers are meaningless.

After all, the main goal of the Ming army is to generate income, attack the Chinese army and annihilate the Chinese army. These cities are mainly deployed in the hubs and traffic points of official roads and rivers.

It's impossible for the officers and soldiers not to fight in these places, but to send soldiers to rob the mountains, right?

Even if they were a group of poor people and beggars and soon had no food, they could not disband the army. Rob in the mountains or in the remote countryside?

The officers and men of the Ming Dynasty, originally full of a box of blood, were ready to go south to wipe out the enemy on the one hand and make a fortune on the other.

However, after they captured many cities as they wished, they found that the people in the cities had been evacuated, the grain in the granary had been removed, and those who could not be removed had been burned by them. As for the silver they thought, there was no money, and even many houses that could be used for military affairs had been burned by them.

The Chinese army is carrying out the scorched earth policy of strengthening walls and clearing fields, but it has issued a slogan: one grain and one ingot of silver will not be left to the enemy.

Moreover, many people's houses have been burned. The government has signed an agreement on these burned houses. If they return one day, they will rebuild or compensate them. As for the houses of these officials and gentry, the Chinese army can't afford to pay for them and dare not sign such an agreement.

But they basically did it. Everywhere the officers and soldiers went, they were deserted and didn't have what they wanted, so they could only set their goals in big cities such as Linqing and Liaocheng.

Did the Chinese army have the ability to empty all these towns? It's all burned? You should not be able to burn Linqing, which has a population of millions, right?

Linqing is also the Longxing place of the Liu family and the hub of the canal. In the past, with the benefits of the canal, the rich Jinshan and Yinshan became one of the top commercial cities in the Ming Dynasty. However, since the war broke out, the canal was shut down, and it has plummeted. Even if the Liu family rose from here, it is his Longxing place, and the Liu family can't make it rise, But in this Shandong battle, it became the focus of the Ming army.

Moreover, Hong Chengchou and others have learned that Wang Wensheng, the governor of Dongchang, evacuated most of the towns of Dongchang, concentrated his troops in Liaocheng and Linqing. This means that these big cities have a large number of people and a large amount of property. Once they attack one, they will not be rich? Wang pangzi's government was originally in Liaocheng, because after the war broke out, he saw the opportunity and fled to Linqing, which became a super big city.

Seeing that the matter had come to this point, Hong Chengchou ordered his army to go all out to rush to Linqing and take this huge city, so that they could be rich.

However, what made him angry was that just as they were about to arrive, the Chinese Army officially announced that Xiao Ning, a senior general of the Chinese army, led 20000 troops, officially arrived in Linqing and stationed here.

In the past, Xiao Ning was an ordinary figure and an unknown general. However, in the Chinese army, his rapid rise and winning Hejian prefecture has made him a famous general in the world. His capture of Fujian has further made him a top general. This general led more than 20000 elite troops to garrison here, putting great pressure on Hong Chengchou.

At the same time, they also received news that Liu Zhongyong led 20000 troops to Jinan and officially settled in Jinan City to assist in defense.

Hong Chengchou and others are sorry. If they can capture Jinan before the arrival of the Chinese military aid army, the general trend has become. Now the enemy's reinforcements have arrived, and it is not easy to capture these cities.

In addition to these main battlefields, the Chinese troops also arrived in other battlefields. They also have an accurate situation. This is that the 50000 main Legion led by Liu Yuanqiao also moved forward by land and water to eliminate the resistance of the Cao Gang all the way. They will arrive in Jinan within half a month at the latest.

And they all strengthened their defense in Denglai. According to the official information from the imperial court, since the Liu family revolt last year, they transferred a large number of troops from Denglai and went all out to the south, resulting in the emptiness of defense in this area. However, when they stabilized the south, they quickly mobilized a large number of troops to return to the north.

This is what the high-level officials of the imperial court are worried about. The situation is still very good, but one month later, the reinforcements of the Chinese and Xia army will arrive in a steady stream, and it will become a hard bone, and it will be difficult for them to bite.

Hong Chengchou and Yang Sichang pushed forward regardless of everything. In fact, after the attack, they did push forward regardless of everything. Except that Hong Chengchou's siege of Hejian mansion was slightly unsatisfactory, other respective troops quickly attacked Dongchang mansion and completed the established goal.

In fact, their progress is better and faster than that in the plan.

For example, Yang Sichang's Department, which was dispatched first, called them the East Road army. Within one day, they attacked Cangzhou, and then went all out to the south. After Liu Feiyun's Department fled to Dezhou, they followed up and surrounded Dezhou City. If they won Dezhou, the door of the whole Shandong will open to them. Behind Dezhou is the East three houses.

Dongsanfu is their planned supply place. It is the richest place in the Ming Dynasty and also the place where Liu Longxing lived. Liu Yuanqiao managed this land very well when he was governor of Denglai. Compared with other places, it is a peaceful and prosperous era, that is, Jinshan and Yinshan.

If they do not take advantage of the emptiness of the Chinese army, it will be difficult for them to take down this place when the main force of the Chinese army is transferred to the north on a large scale.

Yang Sichang also ignored him. It was raining and the road was muddy. He ordered his troops to move forward at full speed and rush forward regardless of everything.

He Yang Sichang used his troops. Now it is an all-round attack and blooms everywhere. This is because he has enough troops, more than ten times that of his opponent. He can shoot at will.

Now they can see that on rainy days, the Chinese Army's guns and artillery can not exert their actual power. It is when they take this opportunity to suppress the enemy. If the weather clears up and the road begins to harden, it is the time for the Ming army to have bad luck.

In fact, the Ming army couldn't get any advantage in a series of battles with the Chinese army. In every war, they could defeat their opponents only when their troops were dominant, because the combination of fire guns and artillery of the Chinese army was really powerful, and the soldiers' fighting will was tenacious. If they weren't for their insufficient troops and the great difference in strength between the two sides, they might not be able to take advantage.

Therefore, Yang Sichang ordered him to rush forward and rush forward regardless of everything. Whoever occupies the territory, even whoever owns it, belongs to the army to raise food freely.

He said to the soldiers, "if you don't take this place before the main force of the Chinese thief army arrives, you will have to fight with the main force of the other party and carry their hard bones."

Since the Ming army launched the spring offensive, it was victorious and quickly attacked Shandong, which also made them feel proud and arrogant. They thought that the Chinese army was just like this, but the previous Ming army was too rubbish to fight, which made them famous.

But when they besieged Hejian Fu city and attacked Dezhou City, which was heavily guarded by the other party, they were beaten head and blood and suffered heavy casualties between the two cities. Only then did they know that the Chinese army was really hard to deal with and really powerful.

So they stepped up their pace. Originally, whether Hong Chengchou or Yang Sichang, they had a plan, that is, the army pushed away, God blocked and killed God, Buddha blocked and killed Buddha, and all cities were pushed flat. When Hejian Prefecture and Dezhou could not attack for a long time, they decided to draw more troops back to defense and prepare to kill all the enemies behind them one by one.

Because Hong Chengchou was also embarrassed to find that Hejian mansion had not been fought down since the soldiers left Baoding. One of his troops was still fighting hard under Hejian mansion, but the leading troops of his other two armies had captured Liaocheng all the way and arrived in the Qing Dynasty all the way. The front line was hundreds of miles away from the rear.

This makes them worry that if the troops in front can not attack for a long time and the rear road is cut off by the enemy, it will easily be wiped out. Therefore, it is reasonable to redeploy troops back to defense and go all out to consolidate the rear.

The same is true in the Yang Sichang Department of the East Road army. They quickly surrounded Dezhou. In addition, they also dispatched a lot of troops to attack the counties of Qingzhou Prefecture. The front of the troops pointed directly at the Zhiyi capital of Qingzhou Prefecture and opened a distance of hundreds of miles behind the front line.

If the enemy in the rear is not eradicated and this nail is nailed here, their attack in the front will be frustrated and the master will be ineffective. It is easy to be hit back and forth and make dumplings.

Therefore, the two commanders of the two armies asked for instructions from the above, ready to send some troops back and pull out the nails in the back.