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Chapter 490 The Qing army is going to attack Jinan

In fact, from Emperor Chongzhen's words, Li Guodong found that Emperor Chongzhen was still thinking about peace talks. Although it was impossible to negotiate peace talks because of the destruction of the Confucius Temple, Chongzhen was dissatisfied with Emperor Chongzhen's makeup, so Emperor Chongzhen let Lu Xiangsheng go deeper, which was equivalent to going to die.

Yang Sichang was a strategist, but not a tactician. He finally pursued the thief with illness. However, in terms of tactics, he was no match for Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong. He led to the breaking of Luoyang City and Xiangyang, Zhu Changxun and Zhu Yiming were killed, and Yang Sichang died of illness.

Li Guodong replied carefully: "The Jiannu invaded the enemy and plundered the main focus. If he could strengthen the walls and clear the fields, remove the people, strengthen the city, and let the thief slaves have nowhere to plunder, he would naturally retreat."

Emperor Chongzhen shook his head: "It's too late to talk about strengthening the walls and clearing the country."

Li Guodong replied: "Your Majesty, I have a secret spy in Jiannu. According to the spy, the thief slave will attack Jinan!"

"Is there any such incident?" Chongzhen was shocked, "Now our army is defending Dezhou, but Jiannu has gone to Jinan?"

Yang Sichang comforted Chongzhen and said, "Your Majesty, Jinan's city is strong and Jiannu cannot conquer it for the time being, so you don't have to worry."

"But there were too few soldiers and horses in Jinan. If Jiannu attacked the city with red barbarian cannons, Jinan might not be able to defend it." Li Guodong said. He knew that according to the real historical process, when Yue Tuo's 20,000 troops arrived in Jinan, there were only 500 local guards and 700 reinforcements from Laizhou in the city, as well as hundreds of guards from Prince De's Mansion.

The Ming army had been transferred to Dezhou, and even the Shandong Governor Yan Jizu took his Fubiao camp to Dezhou. Jinan was like an empty city. With such a disadvantaged force, Jinan had been defending for about ten days. Yue Tuo arrived in Jinan on the 23rd of the 1st lunar month, and the city was broken on the second day of the first lunar month. However, history has already undergone major changes. Li Guodong could no longer judge whether the Qing army's siege would be the same as in history.

As for whether the Qing army would attack Jinan, Li Guodong was confirmed. His undercover agent sent information to confirm that Yue Tuo's troops would surround Jinan. If it weren't for the military information sent by the undercover agent, Li Guodong would not dare to speak nonsense in front of Chongzhen with his historical knowledge. After all, because of the butterfly effect, history has changed. If it is speculated according to the original history, if a mistake occurs, it is the crime of deceiving the emperor.

Chongzhen said anxiously: "You can ask Liu Zeqing and others to lead their troops to Jinan."

Yang Sichang smiled bitterly: "Liu Zeqing is afraid of the enemy like a tiger, and he only dares to defend the city. How dare he go out of the city to rush to Jinan? If Jinan wants to defend, he must be asked to strengthen his defense."

"If the Guanning army is ordered to go to Jinan to defend against the Jiannu partial army, how will Dorgon's army deal with it?" Emperor Chongzhen asked worriedly.

Li Guodong stood up and knelt on the ground to bow to Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, if you ask me to take people to Jinan to garrison the city, you will definitely let Yue Tuo die under the city!"

"Li Aiqing, are you sure to kill Yue Tuo's head?"

"I am willing to issue a military order!"

Emperor Chongzhen nodded: "There is no need to issue a military order. I send you to Jinan. Be sure to defend Jinan and ensure the safety of Jinan City and King De!"

"I obey the order!"

Emperor Chongzhen immediately wrote an edict and handed it to Li Guodong: "The people of Jinan and Prince De's Mansion will ask Li Aiqing."

"Thank you for your kindness. If Jinan loses something, you will definitely commit suicide and die in your country!"

Li Guodong ordered the imperial edict and left the Xihunting Pavilion with Yang Sichang. Wang Chengen personally sent him out of the palace. Just as Li Guodong left the Xihunting Pavilion, a cute little luoli walked into the Hunting Pavilion.

"Son, please see your father." The little luoli bowed to Emperor Chongzhen.

"Yu'er, why have you come here? Don't you accompany your mother?"

"The father is worried about national affairs. Every time I see my father, I am frowning when I see him, and I feel sorry for my father. I heard that General Li has made great contributions again, and my father is happy, and my son is happy." Seeing that Chongzhen had white hair on his head, Zhu Moe burst into tears.

Emperor Chongzhen sighed: "If all the generals in the court are like Li Aiqing, why worry about the immortality of Jiannu and the unfairness of the bandits? Don't worry, everything will be fine."

After Li Guodong left the palace, he said goodbye to Yang Sichang, immediately raised his troops and went to Changping, summoning 3,000 camel firearm soldiers and 500 god warriors, together with 2,700 elite heavy cavalry in the headquarters, a total of more than 6,200 troops, left the capital and headed south.

"Master, aren't we heading to Jinan? We should be heading southeast, why are we going to Zhending?" Zhang Wei asked when he saw that the marching route was wrong.

Li Guodong replied: "Let's go to Julu first, arrange some arrangements, and then rush to Jinan!"

In Shandong, thousands of miles away, the Qing army was still plundering everywhere in Shandong. Yue Tuo's 20,000 partial troops had not yet attacked Jinan. More than 100,000 troops led by Liu Zeqing were stationed in Dezhou City, allowing 20,000 Qing troops to burn, kill and loot in Shandong. No Ming army dared to go out of the city to expel the Qing army.

Li Guodong's undercover agent, Li Hong, who is now Tumot Khan, took his Mongolian cavalry and attacked some gentry in Shandong based on the information provided by the intelligence department of the pro-guard army in advance.

"We bypass the city of Jinan and head to Zibo." In the Tumot Mongol camp, Li Hong explained the combat plan to Tao Yushi and others.

"Zichuan? Are you going to find Sun Zhixie from Dazhuang Village?" Tao Yushi asked.

"Yes, it's just looking for this person." Li Hong replied affirmatively.

"I'm afraid that this person is hiding in the city at this time, and we only have 3,000 people, so it's probably not easy to attack the city." Tao Yushi, who received information in advance, felt that it was difficult to attack the city.

The Tumot Mongolian soldiers headed by Li Hong also looted many villages and towns in Shandong, and a large number of gentry suffered. The Mongolian soldiers broke through some gentry's manors, rushed into the manors, killed many gentry's families, and finally looted the houses of these gentry, took away all the children, women and slaves, and filled them into Baoyi Aha.

The Tumot Mongols invaded and plundered Shandong this time, and the battle was brilliant. They robbed more than 20 million taels of silver, more than one million stones of food, and robbed a large number of animals and robbed more than 30,000 people as Aha. However, Li Hong did not attack any ordinary people, and all the families who were killed and robbed him could be deserved. In fact, this time, under the leadership of Li Hong, the Tumots did everything Li Zicheng did. And what Li Hong did was better than what the thieves did. At least he did not rob all the people, and then burned the people's houses, and then took over the people.

Li Hong only robbed the homes of gentry and profiteering merchants, and only captured their families as slaves. Wherever they passed, he was almost completely unfair to ordinary people.

As for the matter of breaking through Qufu and killing Yan Shenggong's family, Yue Tuo was a little surprised and a little amused. According to Huang Taiji's plan, he planned to gain the support of the gentry in the world. However, Manzhu Xili and Subude did this, which was like pushing the gentry in the world to the opposite side of the Qing Dynasty. However, Manzhu Xili took all the responsibilities, and he also robbed the most, so Yue Tuo could not do Manzhu Xili.

Yue Tuo did not pursue the matter for the time being. He planned to report to Huang Taiji after returning to Liaodong, and Huang Taiji would decide. In order to stabilize the morale of the Mongols, Yue Tuo did not send messengers to tell Huang Taiji about this matter for the time being. However, Li Guodong would never let Yue Tuo return to Liaodong alive.

Three thousand Tumot Mongolian soldiers rushed to Zibo.

"Master, Master! It's not good! Jiannu is here!" Sun Zhixie was awakened by a slave.

Sun Zhixie, who was lying on the bed of the concubine, rubbed his sleepy eyes, slapped him, and said angrily: "Dog slave! How dare you disturb my good dream!"

"Master!" The slave covered his face that was beaten, "Jiannu is here! Run away!"
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