Who are they? What are they doing when they go to the south?

This question asked Jiang Zhe to stir up his brains. He thought over and over again, but he did not come up with a specific result. He could only send someone back to Laoshan and report the news to the top. Then he put all his mind back on the battle situation - this is the current theme.

Jiang Zhe returned to Shijiu Island Village with his troops and the "trophy", and asked his ships of all sizes to run back and forth three times before sending all the surrendered gentry, officials, their relatives and families, as well as food, money, livestock, etc. back to Laoshan.

Then the material was put into the warehouse, and the people were thrown into labor reform camps for labor reform. There are too many places in Laoshan now that require manpower. Then he returned to the front of Fushan before the Qing army rushed over.

Jiang Zhe suddenly swept Rizhao, and the news spread in Qilu at a lightning speed. After hearing the news, all the officials and gentry of the prefectures and counties near the seaside tightened their chrysanthemums.

If the Zheng army can sweep Rizhao, they can sweep them.

Rizhao County’s defense is very poor, so are their defenses very awesome?

From the general trend, this move directly affected the Qing Dynasty's pleading in Denglai, especially in Dengzhou.

Whether it is Dasongwei, Haiyangwei, Jinghaiwei, Weihai, Wendeng, Haining, or the change of flags in the making or the secret hookup, they all went out for a while.

Those officials didn't say it, but only talked about the gentry from all over the country, and they were all trembling. Who would dare to welcome me from the Qing Dynasty? Isn't you afraid that the Zheng army would come to sweep the people later and take over the property?

If you don’t resist or get close to the Qing Dynasty, can the Qing Dynasty eat itself? But if you want to be close to the Qing Dynasty, Zheng Jun will turn around and swallow them in one bite.

Isn’t these people’s ultimate goal to make trouble?

But now they find that their own troubles and fanning the flames are likely to burn their own property and property together with their own lives. Who will seek death?

Li Rutai had already led his troops to Laoshan. He was no longer just a small fight like before, but instead piled up directly outside the Zhengjun bastion.

This is a 'political war'.

In the war against the "heart of the people" of Denglai, the Qing army must take practical actions and declare to the world with practical actions that they have the ability to protect them.

Therefore, this war did not only break out between Li Rutai and Jiang Zhe, even Nikan personally led the Eight Banners soldiers to Jiaozhou.

Of course, Nikan's original target would never be Jiang Zhe. It was just a coincidence that as the commander of the army, he was already dragging him down at the end. When he arrived in Qingzhou with his troops and cannons, he was going to kill him to Ye County, but the outbreak of the Rizhao incident caused him to change his target and aim at Jiang Zhe in Jiaozhou.

It is said that there are not only Tartars in the team, but also some Western barbarians, and they recruited a lot of civilian labor. The entire army is huge in scale and dust covers the sun, and the momentum is extremely amazing. Several small anti-Qing armed forces active in western Qi and Lu disappeared without a trace.

For example, Xie Qian and Ding Keze from Qingzhou, Wang Jun from Baodugu in southern Shandong, and Yuyuan Army from Caozhou in western Shandong.

The latter's reputation in the original time and space history was very famous. After all, he persisted in Qilu for twelve years, gathered millions of people, and once defeated the south of Le in the west and attacked Daming in the north, and had the momentum of advancing Beijing.

But in fact, the Yuyuan Army was originally a peasant army that opposed the Ming Dynasty. In the 13th year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, it was led by Ma to take the exam, and then it turned into the struggle against the Qing Dynasty.

After Liu Zeqing fled south, he took the opportunity to capture the four cities of Caozhou, Puzhou, Dingtao, and Chengwu, and surrendered Li Zicheng. But before they could sit in the city, the Tatars entered the pass. Then Li Shunjun lost one after another. When Guo Sheng gave up western Shandong and moved to Jinan Prefecture, the Yuyuan Army did not follow him, but continued to stay in his nest. To this day, the four cities of Caozhou have changed hands, but relying on the vast elm forest outside the city, relying on the old tactic of "Tunnel Warfare" to deal with the Ming army back then - digging crisscrossing passages underground for hundreds of miles, attacking the official army elusively, leaving the Ming army helpless and still enjoyable life.

But these people also understood the importance. When Nikan led the Eight Banners of the Qing army to fight, they all shrank their heads and hid their tails.

They knew very well that the Tartars' target was not themselves, and they did not have the strength to resist the Tartars. At most, they could reduce some pressure on Denglai on the battlefield behind enemy lines and beat the edge drums, rather than seeking death with a strong head!

How many troops Nikan brought this time and how many cannons were? Because the time was still short, it was still not time to find out. Zheng's army naturally had a judgment on this. Considering the number of troops under Bahana and the military soldiers in Kaifeng Haoge's hand, Nikan's hand should not have many troops. It is very likely that there were only three to five thousand genuine Eight Banners soldiers, but the Tartars still had coats. In addition, there were always 10,000 people in total. Moreover, there were many cannons in the army, and many powerful men with civil servants along the way. Along the way, 20,000 would never be a shortage. With Li Shutai's soldiers and Liu Zeqing's soldiers, the total strength of the Qing army was as large as 40,000 to 50,000, and the war soldiers chased 25,000, which was ten times that of Jiangzhe's troops.

This is a huge gap, which is no longer something that Zheng Jun could fill with relying on some advanced tactical ideas or weapons and equipment.

Jiang Zhe had two battalions in total, and they were all newly formed troops. If he had set his sights on fighting with the Qing army, he would have died without a burial place. Therefore, he had known that he had been a big shot and had been preparing for a defensive battle from the beginning.

Maintaining the bastion group on the west side of Laoshan is the first priority. Seizing time to build the protective chain along the coast is the second priority. Third, cutting off the infiltration of the Qing army from the Laoshan Mountains.

Although there were not many troops, Jiang Zhe felt that he was very safe, otherwise he would not have crossed the sea to attack Rizhao. This was taking the initiative to provoke the Tartars.

In addition to making contributions and promoting his reputation - everyone in the world knows that there is another general of the Zheng army of Qilu and Lu. Should we become famous as soon as possible? More because he feels that he has the spare energy to do it.

Li Tairu put too little pressure on him, so small that he felt that he could draw half of the main force to play jungler.

But what he didn't expect was that his luck was a bit unlucky and he was hitting Nikan, the leader of the Qilu Qing army who led the last part of his troops to advance eastward.

The latter had just taken over a batch of artillery, and his first goal was to seize Laizhou Prefecture City and then fight Dengzhou.

Whether it was Dorgon or Nikan himself, he never thought that he could defeat Zheng's army out of Qilu and take down Zhifu Island and other places in an instant. This is unrealistic.

So, knocking out Zeng Ying first is a good choice.

Besides, Zeng Ying was still the governor of Denglai. If he did not die, he would not surrender, which would mean that the Ming Dynasty was still standing in Denglai. This was definitely not good news for the Qing Dynasty.

Nikan looked at the Zheng army fortress group not far away, and it was indeed all of them. This was the word they heard from the mouth of the Western Yi of Longhuamin.

The German Buckhouse, who came to the army with artillery through secret channels, explained to him in detail what a bastion is. He directly made a realistic model of the bastion, allowing Nikan to clearly "see" everything.

Even in Europe, it is impossible to quickly seize a stubborn bastion with a strong will in the defenders, and this is the same in the East.

There are five small small ridges. The ridges on the west side of Laoshan Mountain can only be small ridges compared to the Rhlanz Castle. The five lines are distributed in a row, and they seem to be small, but they are extremely sturdy.

With strong firepower and narrow special terrain, unless Jiaozhou Bay is completely frozen in winter, it will be difficult for the attacking enemy to expand its forces. Such five small and powerful fortresses, with infantry mixed with hot and cold weapons stationed by a thousand men, can basically be defended as solid as a god. With the current attack ability of the Qing Dynasty, even if an army of 100,000 will come, there is no possibility of conquering Laoshan in the short term.

Laoshan, this is the current name of the area in front of Fushan, and this is the current name of Qingdao in later generations. Jiang Zhe's official title is the "Laoshan General Manager" which is very different from the Ming system.

From the perspective of military strength, it is similar to the generals stationed in the same place.

"Zheng Zhilong really knows how to choose a place." The Zheng army in Laoshan is not easy to fight. Nikan sighed and then returned to the camp without looking back.

There is no need to watch it again.

There are a series of small prisms, and the possibility of successfully unplugging them is zero. But sadly, even if it is difficult to fight here, the Qing Dynasty now has to fight.

"Where has Sun Zhixie been?"

This former eunuch party of the Ming Dynasty was one of the few people in Qilu who took the initiative to serve the Qing Dynasty. Last year, he had contacted Yanjing. If it weren't for Wang Aoyong, a Qilu man, that the job of placing Qilu would have fallen on Sun Zhixie's head.

Now Sun Zhixie has become the governor of Denglai in the Qing Dynasty.

"Sun Zhixie is still in Pingdu Prefecture, and his green flag soldiers can't count on them for the time being."

Although the Rizhao incident was hindered by the Qing Dynasty's plan to recruit pacification, the one that was most affected was Dengzhou, not Laizhou. The Laizhou incident had already ended, and those who should surrender had already surrendered. How could they change jobs now?

Sun Zhixie has been focusing on managing his green flag soldiers in Pingdu Prefecture for a while. Even though Liu Zeqing has been appointed as the general of Dengzhou, Sun Zhixie is still very enthusiastic about some landlord armed forces in the places at hand.

Today's Qing Dynasty cannot be regarded as a strait troupe, but the rules and regulations are still very unrestrained. There are many civil servants holding military power.

It is not difficult to understand that Sun Zhixie is keen on integrating the landlord armed forces in Laizhou.

Even if his camp was at its peak, there were only 3,000 people.

At this time, the total force of the Qing Dynasty invested in Qilu and Lu was 80,000.

There were no less than 30,000 Eight Banners soldiers inside, and the remaining were surrendered soldiers like Liu Zeqing, or the green flag soldiers formed by Baoyi and Ahanikan who followed him into the pass, or the landlord armed forces recruited by Fang Dayou and Sun Zhixie.

The latter has very weak combat power and very trash equipment, which can always be used to deal with the common people. And in this way, it can also make good gentry and landlords.

That is really different from Qilu in history.

In history, the Qing Dynasty invested only more than 20,000 troops in Qilu at most, and the main force was quickly transferred. After all, the main force of Nanming and Li Zicheng was not in Qilu, and there were only some bandits here who were "small fights" and made a fuss.

For example, Wang Jun, who was in Baodukou in southern Shandong, was called "Jiushan King" at his peak. It was not because he became king, but because he ruled over the mountains at his peak.

Xie Qian broke several county towns and killed several big landlords. He was called the number one giant bandit in Qilu, but he was just a "gangster".

Jiaozhou deputy general Ke Yongsheng (a man in front of the red flag of the Han army), with his four thousand green flag soldiers, almost wiped out all the thieves on the entire Qilu Ming side, which was so relaxed that it was simply outrageous.

But what about now? The Tartars invested 80,000 people in Qilu, and the nominal commander of the Southern Army, Haoge, only 10,000 Eight Banners left in Kaifeng. Nikan also brought their newly obtained Red Barbarian Cannons, the troops that were originally used to fight Li Zicheng in Tongguan. Taking advantage of Li Zicheng's two sides to fight against Li Zicheng, defeated Li Zicheng's main force, swept Guanzhong, and subdued Ganzhou, and now all the troops who have brought to Qilu...
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