Shortly after Fu Ruige, deputy general manager of the Pou Slave Army's Yixing camp, set up camp on Imperial City Island, the Dengzhou Navy guerrilla Zhang Tianfu sent people to report that Dengzhou was trapped in the hands of the rebel Kong Youde troops. Zhang Tianfu's urgent report to Fu Ruige did not attract his attention. How Dengzhou was inconsistent with the goal of the Pou Slave Army's protection. This time, the Yixing camp was involved in the sea to Dengzhou to come to Dengzhou to fire-making craftsmen, but Zhang Tianfu attracted the attention of Fu Ruige in two points in the urgent report. Most of the families of the Dengzhou Navy officers and soldiers were in Dengzhou. The main reason was that these families felt that the Navy camp was not as safe as Dengzhou City. As a result, when the chaos army was about to attack the Denglai area, the Navy's family fled to Dengzhou to avoid military disasters.

Geng Zhongming, as the governor of the Denglai Central Army, did not think of the grace of governor Sun Yuanhua, but opened the city gate when Kong Youde was about to attack the city, and there were deeper reasons. First, the Ming Dynasty had always used civil officials to suppress military generals. Geng Zhongming, a fourth-rank general, was often insulted by the eighth-rank county magistrate, but the governor Sun Yuanhua was used to it. Second, the food and wages that the court should have paid were very little arrears for years, and Shandong soldiers were often discriminated against and more arrears than their Liao soldiers. The anger that had been suppressed for many years broke out when Kong Youde rebels was approaching, and it became inevitable that the Liao soldiers would rebel on the battlefield.

The Dengzhou Navy Guerrilla Zhang Tianfu and his family were hostages in the hands of the rebels, and Zhang Tianfu was not a person who dared to sacrifice his life for the sake of loyalty and righteousness. For Zhang Tianfu, since he was selling himself, he had to choose a wise master who could give him a high price. In Zhang Tianfu's view, the Po Nu Army was very powerful, but the Po Nu Army had no intention of taking it in its entirety. If you want to do well in this troubled times, you must have your own troops. The Po Nu Army only planned to let the Dengzhou Navy be a cargo ship, and Fu Ruige, deputy general manager of the Po Nu Army's Yixing Camp, once inadvertently revealed that ordinary sailors of the Dengzhou Navy were available, and the Dengzhou Navy was an official and simply went to Nanzhili to be a rich man.

Although he could get a lot of money for the Deslaughter Army, after Geng Zhongming confessed that they planned to return to Liaodong to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Tianfu did not express his disgust. In the Nurhaci era, the Ming people were just a slave in Liaodong, and none of the Ming people in the pass were despicable to be slaves. However, since Huang Taiji became the Khan Queen, the attitude towards the Han people in the Qing Dynasty in Liaodong had undergone tremendous changes. First of all, the Han people could become naturalized and become people under the banner. Although they could not compare with the Jurchens and Mongols in their status, they would not at least not become slaves at the slaughter of others. In addition, Huang Taiji also offered a new price for the surrendered Han people. As long as they were the Han official army who surrendered, they could not only retain their troops in the headquarters, but also give them a higher title and give them a reward.

Therefore, under the double pressure of Geng Zhongming's persuasion and family hostages, Zhang Tianfu agreed to join Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde to join Huang Taiji, the Khan of the Qing Dynasty. When Kong Youde learned that the Ponu Army was in an obscene manner, he had no intention of sticking to the decisive battle in Dengzhou. The Ponu Army had a great reputation in the land battle, and even the cavalry that was in the Qing Dynasty that was so powerful that the Ming Dynasty had to avoid the edge. How dare the rebels here in Dengzhou dare to compete? Since he had made up his mind to avoid the Ponu Army on the sea, Zhang Tianfu, who was very familiar with the intention of the Ponu Army to fight in Dengzhou, naturally had a way to keep the Ponu Army's army from the vicinity of Dengzhou.

Three days later, the entire army of the Posou Army on the Imperial City Island rushed to Zhifu Island outside the sea of ​​Fushanwei. Fu Ruige's army attacked, and received an urgent report from the Dengzhou guerrilla Zhang Tianfu, saying that it was the rebel Li Yingyuan and Li Jiucheng and his son, leading 5,000 rebels to collect the people of Dengzhou to expand their troops. After receiving the notification from Zhang Tianfu, craftsmen who made artillery fire guns near Dengzhou fled to Fushanwei and Ninghaizhou. Now, in order to stop the rebels from defeating the enemy in Liujiazhuang, Dengzhou Navy fled back to the Navy camp. Zhang Tianfu asked Fu Ruige to send troops to intercept Li Yingyuan's rebels. The Dengzhou Navy suffered too many casualties in the blocking battle and could not cooperate with the large army of the Yixing camp to fight, so he stood firm in the Navy camp waiting for the Posou Army to rescue.

Fu Ruige, who received the urgent report from Zhang Tianfu, was anxious on the spot. He ordered the entire army to launch a rescue of craftsmen who could build artillery and muskets. As for Zhang Tianfu's Dengzhou Navy, Fu Ruige planned to wait until rescue the craftsmen before rescuing them. Because the warships of the Dengzhou Navy were missing, Fu Ruige was very nervous when he wanted to transport the entire army to Zhifu Island. In desperation, Fu Ruige discussed with the Navy Commander Yang Qiantu. All the gunships and sentry ships of the Po Nu Army Navy were loaded with 8,000 troops and war horses with the army, and they must rush to block their arrest of craftsmen in front of the rebels. When the Po Nu Army set up a camp on Zhifu Island to land on Fushan Guard, he got the news again that the rebels were about to chase to Ninghaizhou.

Fu Ruige, deputy general manager of the Zhengyi Camp, was frightened when he learned the news. He immediately ordered five hundred scouts to pursue the rebels' rear immediately. The appearance of the Pou Nu cavalry shocked the looting Li Yingyuan's army. Between saving his life or wealth, the rebels chose to abandon their property and flee south into the mountains. When Fu Ruige led the army to 50 miles west of Ninghai Prefecture, he was also stunned by the tragic scene in front of him. Tens of thousands of escaped Shandong victims were all gray-faced and dressed in tatters. Many men held the baby in their hands and held older children beside them, looking for their women in the tens of thousands of people. The children cried and screamed, which made the already tired victims mess up.

Six thousand Pou Nu Army was divided into four routes to guard the victims, and two thousand scouts cavalry began to chase and suppress the rebels to the south. If the Yixing Camp wanted to transfer these people who were hard to leave from their hometown to Jeju Island, they had to use some means. Opening free meals was undoubtedly a good way to attract everyone to leave by boat. After inquiry, Fu Ruige learned that there were more than 5,000 craftsmen here, and most of them were craftsmen who made cannons and muskets gathered by the governor Sun Yuanhua. In fact, the craftsmen had a low status in the Ming Dynasty, so it was not difficult to persuade these people to leave with the Pou Nu Army. This was mainly because the Ming Dynasty craftsmen all heard a rumor that the craftsmen had a high status in the Pou Nu Army. Several elders of Pou Nu Hou Zhang Ping'an were all craftsmen. They had great power and even Pou Nu Hou had to serve them carefully.

What's more, craftsmen have no land here, and the craftsman workshops on which they rely for survival have been destroyed by war. The craftsmen who cannot farm have no source of livelihood to support their families is a problem. The Ponu Army first gathered the craftsmen and their families together. The craftsmen and their families can not only eat enough, but also eat meat for each meal. The craftsmen's meals are much better than ordinary people who escape to drink porridge. This also confirms the rumors that Ponuhou attaches importance to craftsmen from one side. Fu Ruige divided the craftsmen who did not want to migrate into a camp, and first reduced their meals to porridge. In troubled times, people often bowed to the cruel reality and saw that they were delicious and drinking porridge at home. It was because they were reflecting on whether they were stupid when doing this.

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In the second year of Chongzhen, Jiannu ravaged Zhili, mainly to harm the vicinity of Heshuntian Prefecture in the eastern part of Zhili. Baoding Prefecture and Hejian Prefecture were not robbed by Jiannu. It was precisely because of this that the two main cavalry of the Qing Dynasty, after attacking Baoding Prefecture and Hejian Prefecture, they suddenly felt that the wealth here was not inferior to Shuntian Prefecture at all. However, these two armies adopted different tactics when attacking their respective targets. After the 36,000 cavalrymen of the Zhengbai Banner led by Beile Dorgon entered Hejian Prefecture, they divided the army into three routes. They did not attack the cities and only swept away villages and towns with weak defense. Even though Dorgon divided the troops into three routes, he still left more than 3,000 cavalry scouts in the rear, one was to facilitate the transport of gold and silver, and the other was to convey information on the battlefield at any time.

Unlike Dorgon's cautious use of troops, Beile Yuetuo of the Enanguinong Red Flag adopted a completely opposite approach to Dorgon. Yuetuo commanded the Enanguinong Red Flag cavalry army as soon as it entered Baoding Prefecture, and it dispersed the troops into hundreds of squads dedicated to robbery. Beile Yuetuo only left five thousand cavalry by his side. Yuetuo's idea was also very realistic. Although there were good captures in attacking the city with a strong wall, it was too time-consuming and laborious to transport the wounded. It was the best strategy to intercept gold, silver, and grain as soon as possible. The reason why Beile's cavalry led by Beile dared to be so arrogant was that it took him more than two hours to defeat the tens of thousands of troops of the elite regiment camp of the Ming Dynasty.

If it hadn't been set to attack Baoding Prefecture, Yue Tuo would not mind completely killing all the defeated generals of the Ming regiment camp. Even if the Yinghongqi and Zhengbaiqi rear team gathered the defeated prisoners, they would have captured more than 10,000 prisoners of the regiment camp and Taiyuan border army. Looking at the teams of prisoners who were broken and had no intention of fighting, Yue Tuo's soldiers led by Yue Tuo looked forward to the decisive battle with the Ming government army in Baoding Prefecture again. As Yue Tuo expected before, the Baoding Prefecture official army hid in a solid city after learning about the attack of the Qing cavalry, and could not escape from the battle. Even a hundred cavalry could intimidate the official army of a county or even a state to not dare to go out of the city to fight.

The Ming Dynasty's official army showed cowardly to give the Qing cavalry arrogance. Baoding Prefecture went from the direction of the capital to the southeast to be full of beacons. The first to be attacked were Dingxing and Laishui. Then, Xincheng, Rongcheng, Xiongxian and Ansu were successively wiped out by cavalrymen. Especially when Yue Tuo brought the main force to approach Ansu County, Baoding Prefecture closed the city gates and was fully martial law. In order to see the great force of the bandits, the Baoding Prefecture recruited young and strong people in the city to help protect the city wall. In Gaoyang County, south of Baoding, thanks to the earlier money to rebuild the city wall, the defense of Gaoyang County wall was even higher than that of the Fucheng.

Facing the upcoming Jiannu army, the magistrate of Gaoyang County even ran to the "Five Blessings" goods warehouse and borrowed the battle flag of the Ponu army hanging on the wall of Gaoyang to deter the attacking Jiannu iron cavalry. You can't say that the battle flag of the Ponu army was very effective at this critical moment. Several scouts of the Inlaid Red Flag that ran under the city of Gaoyang County no longer stayed and ran to other places after seeing the three-foot black war flag of the Ponu army. Gaoyang's troops were weak, and almost all local people were strong on the walls. They all felt grateful for the kindness of Ponu Hou when they saw the Taurus scouts cavalry going away. Therefore, every household in Gaoyang County rushed to build the black battle flag of the Ponu army overnight, so that the black cloth of the "Five Blessings" goods warehouse was sold out. (To be continued)
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