Chapter 901

Zhang shunshi didn't become one of the six famous generals because he didn't excel. However, he was a veteran of the Chinese army. He was quite old. When Liu Bu was a thousand families of Fushan, he was already a hundred officials of Fushan.

Since the large-scale military training of the Liu family, he has also learned from it and benefited a lot. He has changed from a small officer to a big general. Because he has only trained locally in Shandong, he rarely participated in the war abroad, and he has not made achievements on the battlefield and become a famous general, but his ability to train and lead troops is really very strong.

Although they gathered their troops, evacuated the main counties and concentrated their troops in Yidu, Qingzhou Prefecture, he deployed an army and cavalry team outside. They ambushed the Ming army that invaded Qingzhou Prefecture for many times and killed many people of the other party, so that the other party dared not divide their troops. Only when they gathered into heavy troops did they dare to send out, which greatly restricted the freedom of the other party.

Many people think that as long as they enter Qingzhou mansion, they can have fun to fight in autumn Valley and rob as much as they like. However, when they enter here, they find that although the Chinese army has abandoned a large number of places, the imperial court will occupy them immediately. Because you occupy these places, you can report to the above and obtain the territory.

But the embarrassment and dissatisfaction is that these places have been cleared, the site is still there, most of the houses are burned, and the people have fled, which is not good.

Moreover, they must divide their troops to guard. If you don't guard these cities and are captured by the Chinese army, you will have no territory and will be asked by the imperial court about the crime of losing land. Therefore, the more places they occupy, the more scattered their troops are. When they first entered Qingzhou Prefecture, they can fight as they want, but now, they have to think twice about how to use troops, Think twice.

After conquering Qingzhou Prefecture and recovering so many sites, Yang Sichang's army still searched a lot of things, but they did not occupy the city they wanted to occupy. For example, they knew that the wealth and people of Qingzhou prefecture were mainly concentrated in Yidu city. As long as Yidu was conquered, they could make a lot of money.

Hong Chengchou of Dongchang mansion was the same. When he took Linqing, they made a lot of money. However, the people in the city knew that they were facing a critical moment of life and death. It was not the officers and soldiers who attacked them, but the cruel wolves who ate people and did not spit bones. Not only the Chinese army fought hard to defend the city, but also the people of the whole city helped the Chinese Army defend the city. Men, women, old and young went up the wall, To help the Chinese army fight and transport materials, the elderly and children began to help take care of the wounded, maintain order and inform the public.

Yang Sichang was outside the city. He looked at the people in the city through a telescope. He was a little depressed by the unity of the army and the people. These were rebels, but they were so united and resisted the imperial division. They wanted to take this place, but it was not easy.

Although the Chinese army has built strong walls and cleared the wilderness, although it has evacuated the people, it is impossible to evacuate all the people. There are still many left. Most of these left behind have been harmed by the officers and soldiers, their money has been robbed, many people have been arrested as strong civilian men, and even many women have been kidnapped by the officers and soldiers, Many unspeakable things have happened. It can be said that the land of Shandong is full of war smoke and hell on earth.

These tragedies were spread to the city, and the officers and soldiers were cruel in order to win the war and win Yidu. Yang Sichang ordered these civilian men or people captured by them to move forward or let them attack the city as a meat shield. In short, they were regarded as consumables.

Driving the people to attack the city is a very cruel means, which can also attack the enemy's morale, because these captured and driven people are often the local people, the villagers of the city guarding officers and soldiers. They may not be able to do it. They dare not do it. This can make the officers and soldiers who attack the city on a large scale outside the city take advantage of it.

However, the magistrate Fang Shifan gave an order to General Zhang shunshi and said, "whoever comes to attack the city, you will treat him as an enemy and kill him."

Zhang shunshi hesitated. He said, "governor, these are the people of Qingzhou!"

Fang Shifan said coldly, "I am the prefect of Qingzhou. I am ordered to guard Qingzhou City. People live in the city and die in the city. Just follow my orders. I am responsible for what happens."

Since Fang Shifan had taken all the responsibility and Zhang shunshi did not hesitate, he ordered his soldiers to go all out to defend the city. No matter who came to attack the city, whether it was a civil Army soldier, a negative earth advance or a local people as a meat shield, they were all killed. Their artillery and fire guns, without any hesitation, fired and fired directly, The enemy was killed with blood and flesh, with heavy casualties and beacon smoke everywhere.

Fang Shifan had to do this. Since he joined the Chinese army, his father and son had thought about doing something as a good official to let the Fang family continue to inherit. But at this moment, it's a critical moment. If he doesn't dare to kill these people, he's afraid they will be killed by the enemy. Now that he has reached the point where either you or I die, There can be no benevolence of women.

Fang Shifan knows that he must defend here. The imperial court will send troops to rescue him. All he has to do is protect Qingzhou mansion at all costs until the day when the Imperial Army arrives, otherwise his family will be killed.

Fang Shifan has done many things to encourage the morale of the army. Since the day of siege, he has scattered all his family wealth and distributed all his property and food to the soldiers guarding the city. At the same time, he also ordered the rich and officials and gentry in the city to donate at least half of their money, food and property to the officers and soldiers guarding the city and to help the refugees and people living in the city, If these people disagree, let the officers and men's knives talk to them.

Therefore, Fang Shifan did raise a large amount of food in a short time. These food and military salaries were also distributed to the soldiers and the officers and soldiers guarding the city. The refugees and people living in the streets were also resettled. The morale of the army was very stable. Basically, they all worked together against the enemy.

In particular, the imperial court's officers and soldiers, wherever they go, are like locusts crossing the border. They rob and kill whenever they can, which brings great harm to the place. What's more heinous is that they basically catch the people and farmers as civilian husbands, catch them to work, and have to go all out to attack the city for them. Such a practice has aroused the public anger of all the local people.

Even the rich and officials and gentry in the city know that once the city is broken, no one can survive. If they are not killed by the enemy, they will become slaves. Only by guarding the city, can they be qualified to be a man. Therefore, the people and officials and gentry in the whole city are determined to cooperate with the officials and troops and jointly defend the city.

In a short time, they mobilized so many people and food to defend Qingzhou City like an iron wall. Although there were hundreds of thousands of enemies responsible for attacking the city outside, the camp stretched for miles and boundless, and the Ming army also brought heavy weapons such as artillery and stone catapults to attack the city, they attacked day and night, but there was no way to take Qingzhou City, Although they conquered the city wall, they were beaten down by the other party. The two sides saw each other repeatedly and fought very miserably.

Every time Yang Sichang launched an attack, he would go to the front line to watch the war. Originally, he thought that the morale of the Chinese army was not high, because so many things had happened to the Chinese army. It should be a time of great military turmoil. Who knows that the Chinese army now shared a common hatred of the enemy and worked together to defend the city, which surprised him very much.

He has heard of the reputation of Fang's father and son. He was not a good man in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty. Before the siege, Yang Sichang once recruited their father and son, hoping that they could offer the city to take refuge in the imperial court, which could protect their lives and wealth. Who knows that their father and son are very tough, saying that they would rather fight until the last soldier, that is, they would not surrender to the imperial army.

Such a style made Yang Sichang very angry, so Yang Sichang ordered to attack Qingzhou mansion day and night. When the city was broken, chickens and dogs would not stay.

Qingzhou Prefecture was a war that lasted day and night. It was extremely tragic. Both sides fought for their own survival.

The rain of the 11th year of Chongzhen came very early. The rain came early, which brought some shelter to the officials and soldiers of the imperial court. This was their idea at the beginning. On a rainy day, the enemy's artillery and firearms could not exert their power, which was the time for them to raise their prestige.

However, when the imperial court officers and soldiers attacked in the rain, they knew how tragic it was and how hard the soldiers were. The wind cold powder and typhoid spirit in their army were not enough. Before they made such a plan, they prepared a large number of wind cold powder, ginger, liquor and other things, but these things were quickly consumed, and the soldiers went to war in the rain, Very dangerous, non combat attrition is very much.

In war, soldiers are often killed by the enemy's artillery or by bows, arrows and muskets. Now, it's good that some people are caught in the rain and get cold and die directly. Many lightly injured soldiers die because they can't get timely assistance. The wounded barracks are full of people. Even in many barracks, many soldiers are injured and scream and wail constantly.

On the contrary, they think that the Chinese Army bullied by them can set up some rainsheds to protect them from rain because they are stationed in the city, and they have timely treated their artillery and gunpowder against moisture. They can't go out for field combat, but when they are stationed in the camp, the impact is really small. The Ming army gathered heavily to attack these cities, As a result, one suffered heavy casualties and many people died.