Zamparini kicked over a hooligan who took advantage of the chaos to rob, and then two strong Xhosa men beat him up with a sheathed saber, dragging him away. The hooligan, under the banner of Dashun, was doing a robbery of people's wealth while taking advantage of the chaos and chaos. Zamparini, who thought he was still honest, couldn't bear it anymore and kicked him over and then handed over to the Xhosa men of the Eight Banners New Army to transport supplies.

The people on the East Coast successfully occupied Zhanhua County without any casualties. The county magistrates and the gentry who owed the blood debt of Dashun during the rebellion last year fled, but the monks could not leave the temple. Some of the things they left in the city, such as silk, cloth, food, livestock, etc., were difficult to take away. Now these have been confiscated by the East Coast people as enemy property.

As usual, the prisoners were released without asking for the reason; the following section chief Luo Tiansheng and his subordinates began to recruit volunteer reclamation personnel; the soldiers of the forward team began to count the treasury and collect livestock; the cavalry brigade was alert outside the city, and everyone was in order. Because it was so familiar to do all this, there was a fixed procedure.

"Take a quick time to take a break, we're going to set off again soon." Deputy Company Commander Gao Shan walked over and patted Zanpalini's shoulder, and quietly threw a Yu Guanyin whom he had touched from somewhere into his pocket: "Little Mateo is about to graduate in a few years, right? I, the uncle, have never given him a gift. Well, I heard that he is a devout Buddhist, and he will definitely like this very much." After that, he slowly walked away with a whistle.

Zamparini looked around and made sure no one saw them hiding the spoils. Then he tidied up his clothes and walked out of the city gate. Their army's duty was to clear out the possible resistance elements in the city. At the same time, it was also to supervise whether the standup team had any bad deeds that violated military discipline. Now that the matter has been handled almost, it is time to withdraw.

Since the Qing army in Shandong has basically gathered near Yantai Fort, let alone other prefectures, there are only more than a thousand Qing troops in Jinan Prefecture, and there are probably no soldiers in the rest of the place. The combat effectiveness of the landlords is not looked down upon by the people of the East Coast, but they are really too scumbag. The level is even better than the 15-18 squadron of the East Coast people in Zhanhua City, which has not been formed for a long time. At least the soldiers of the forward team are well-nutrition, normal training, and can receive wages on time. The longer the time, the greater the gap between them. Therefore, the East Coast people were struggling in Zhanhua City, and they were not worried that there would be no eye-opening Qing troops coming to harass them nearby.

At the moment, the battle situation in Shaanxi is entering a critical moment. As long as the Qing army works harder, they can almost completely destroy Li Chuang's will to resist and win the victory of the battle that determines the fate of the north. After defeating Li Chuang, the remaining troops were not afraid. Except for Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi Army, there were also some troops that could be taken advantage of. The Southern Ming army was simply unbearable to fight, and occupying Nanjing was just around the corner. Therefore, in addition to a small number of people in the northern Qing army staying in western Henan to continue to clear away the remaining Dashun armed forces, the main force of more than 200,000 people had basically gathered in northern Shaanxi and Tongguan. The vast Kinki (Hebei), Shandong, Henan, and most of Shanxi had no soldiers except Tianjin. Therefore, what an "open land" was placed in front of the people on the east coast. They only regretted that they did not have enough troops to disturb them.

Tianjin is an important center of the Qing army. It has the Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolia. It is relatively elite. Of course, there are many cannon fodder armed, which is a threat closest to the East Coast people. However, the staff unanimously judged that the Qing army would not mobilize the troops here to go anywhere, and this army was to protect Beijing. At that time, Dashun launched an offensive in Henan so fiercely. The Qing Dynasty only mobilized troops from all over the place, but never moved this army from Tianjin. The Qing army in Jinzhou was similar. Since the Qing army entered the pass, they moved many artillery casting sites and blacksmith shops (making armor) originally located in Shenyang to Jinzhou one after another, which was regarded as a rare "industrial center" in the Qing government controlled area, so the Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolia were also stationed to defend. Similarly, the soldiers here would not be easily mobilized.

After this analysis, the Qing Dynasty was really useless nearby. The mobile forces of nearly 70,000 people in this vast area were all taken to Yantai by Haoge. Except for some troops escorting food and grass in the middle of the journey and the important strongholds stationed in Qingzhou, Laizhou and Dengzhou, nearly 60,000 people were placed under Yantai City. Even after the war, there are still about 50,000 people left, but the east coast army that restrained them was only more than 4,000 people and a bastion.

At present, the Qing army outside Yantai City should have known the news that the East Coast army was divided, and they probably knew it on the morning of the 28th, but the East Coast fleet sailed more than 70 nautical miles in one night. This distance was told to the Qing infantry that it would take a week to go, and even the horse team would have to go for two or three days. It was obviously unrealistic to catch up. Therefore, the East Coast people who are currently carrying things and population in Zhanhua County are not too worried yet, even if Haoge comes from the scene.

It took Yantai to withdraw its troops, and it took about a month to reach this place, and the horse team would take about ten days, so there was no need to worry at all. Moreover, he didn't know where the East Coast people went. His first reaction must be that the East Coast people would use their same tricks again and attack those quarries. Moreover, whether they dared to withdraw troops was still a question. Mo Ming tended to think that the Qing army might transfer some of the Eight Banners or Mongolian horse teams to Jinan, but who cares? We are not going to stay here for a long time anyway.

People on the East Coast only seized more than a thousand stones of grain, more than 4,000 taels of silver, dozens of livestock, some silk, books and other things in this small county. In addition, there were more than 500 volunteer land reclamation teams. To be honest, this number still surprised Mo Ming, because at the end of last year, the East Coast only recruited more than a hundred people in Jiaozhou, which is still a big difference compared to now. It seems that even the relatively wealthy people in Jinan Prefecture are not very good now. In this season of green and yellow, I believe many people have stopped cooking.

Jinan's Dayou urged the class very quickly. The tens of thousands of Qing troops under Yantai City consumed a lot of money. In the next period of time, the lives of the people in Shandong will be even more sad. This will undoubtedly force many people who have just run back from the "thief's nest" to go up the mountain and fall into the grass again. This has never been effectively restored in Shandong's social production order. It has seriously restricted the Qing court's next action.

In fact, this is also a good thing. Haoge in Yantai area should have given up his plan to conquer Yantai Fort. Judging from his way, it is clear that he wants to dig long moats near Yantai Fort and build long encirclements to weaken the role of this precious land forward base on the east coast, and even completely abandon it. In this way, Yantai Fort is no different from those overseas islands, and its value is greatly reduced. Moreover, will the Qing army be in Deng, and the two prefectures of Lai implement the relocation of the boundary and ban on the sea to fight against the people on the east coast for a long time? No one knows this! Mo Ming only knows that it is a little bit of people to be able to catch a little, but it is not a cat or a dog. After all, the food is not sufficient. The recruited personnel first choose talents with skills, secondly, they should be young, and in the end they should be voluntary, otherwise it would be a troublesome to get them over.

On April 3, 500 soldiers were left to transport supplies to the fleet moored on the sea. After the personnel, the east coast army, which had been wandering in Zhanhua County for a day, set off again. They turned to the south and marched quickly for most of the day, and then arrived at the city of Binzhou before the sun set. There were originally some Qing generals at the head of Binzhou, but after seeing the army of the east coast pulling out several artillery pieces, the group of people immediately scattered and slipped away directly from the south gate. In this way, the east coast people occupied the city without bloodshed, as easy as an armed marching - in fact, it was almost the same.

Since today is the fifth day of the landing of the East Coast people, many well-informed gentry had already cleaned up their fines and left, so the harvest of the East Coast people in the city was also pitiful. A prefecture city only harvested more than 1,700 stones of grain, five hundred stones of black beans, a hundred mules and horses, and a small amount of silver and two silk tea. At the same time, the recruitment of personnel was also smooth. In just one night, the East Coast people recruited nearly a thousand people. These people were also suffering from taxation in the Qing court and could not survive locally, so they simply followed these pirates of unknown origin to go to sea to reclaim wasteland. No matter how bad they were, they would die, what were they afraid of!

In the next five days on April 4, the east coast army galloped across the area northeast of Jinan Prefecture, conquered Wuding Prefecture, Putai and Lijin County. Finally, on the evening of April 8, it arrived outside Lijin County and joined the fleet that had moved south. Then the action of transporting supplies, personnel and livestock on the ship lasted for two full days, and it was not officially announced to the end on the morning of the 11th.

At this time, it had been twelve days since the East Coast people landed on the coast of Zhanhua. On that morning, the fastest Qing army troops had just arrived nearby. The main trunk of Dong Xueli, the green camp, which had retreated from the Yantai Fort area, had obtained some miscellaneous armed Qing army troops. They successfully "recovered" Lijin County after the East Coast people retreated. It can be foreseen that they will continue to "recover" four prefectures and counties such as Putai, Wudingzhou, Binzhou, and Zhanhua, and their luck is really good.

In fact, Mo Ming himself was quite surprised by the speed of the Qing army coming, and was also quite surprised by their ability to gather nearly 3,000 people. Because it took two or three days for them to get the news, and then they discussed countermeasures, mobilized troops, raised supplies, and then went to the Binzhou area. The 12-day period was really very efficient. However, Mo Ming also sneered at the strength of the Qing army. There were not enough 3,000 people, and the weapons and clothing were messy. It seemed that their combat effectiveness was just that. I guess they would never dare to fight with the people on the East Coast.

After sending two steam engine sailboats and a flute-shaped transport ship to transport supplies, the East Coast army left Laizhou Bay on the remaining five ships, entered the Bohai Bay northward, and sailed to the near Dagu at the mouth of the Haihe River on April 13. At this time, the two gunboats and two armed transport ships of the East Coast Navy Fleet were powerful, sinking more than ten small Qing army ships in one fell swoop, and destroying a lot of the few naval treasures of the Qing court. Due to the important geographical location of Dagu, the Mongolian horse team of the Tianjin garrison arrived quickly, but the East Coast fleet had quietly gone away at this time.
Chapter completed!