"Dong Xueli is such a wonderful person. I really admire him a little now." Mo Ming sat in the Haifeng County government hall, with guards and staff standing on both sides. At this time, the logistics staff were reporting the seized spoils to him.

Xiao Xi, the company commander of the 102nd Company, had just returned from interrogating the prisoners outside. He immediately smiled and heard this, "Dong Xueli knew how to be a human being. He had a total of 30,000 taels of silver, 4,000 stones of corn, 500 stones of beans, 20,000 bundles of grass, silk, tea, silk, and silk, and all kinds of gold, silver and jade books. I don't know where this guy got it. He also sent troops to protect these things. As soon as we entered the city, these people handed us such a well-preserved treasury. What is the grass? What is it like to sing this?"

"Actually, it's easy to understand." Mo Ming stood up from the Grand Master's chair and paced around the lobby. "Isn't Dong Xueli a warlord? What is the most important thing to him? Army! With an army, then a silver woman is not a problem. On the contrary, if there is no army, it will be difficult to say whether women of family property can be saved in this chaotic era. Dong Xueli is also an old world who has been out of the dead. He sees these problems very clearly."

"Dong Xueli left six or seven hundred Henan soldiers in the city. I didn't have any trouble for them. After confiscating the weapons, they let them go. One person sent ten kilograms of grain and two taels of silver as severance payment. However, except for a few people who took the money and grain, most of them expressed their willingness to invest in us. I asked, these people basically had no relatives in Henan. They had no life skills except for being a soldier. I think they could be kept as military servants, at least better than those who had just caught mud legs." Xiao Xi said to the Henan soldiers who were left by Dong Xueli as abandoned sons.

After thinking for a while, Mo Ming nodded and said, "It's good, but after returning, you must disband the organization, conduct some ideological education and long-term observation before you can use it. Now, send some weapons back to them first and ask them to help us collect population and supplies in the city."

As the policy of forcibly relocating the people of Shandong coastal areas was established, the East Coast Army began to forcibly drive out the people in the city the next day (June 13), counting the number of people, and then rushing to the beach. They were quite humane. Because they did not just steal away strong women and children, some elderly people with weak old people who were old and weak and of little value would also be taken away together if their families were also in the forced migration. The small Haifeng County household registration was not large, and the East Coast people appeared on the beach on June 8, and many people who believed the Qing army's remarks to discredit the yellow-clad pirates had long fled with the elderly and the young. Therefore, the East Coast people only caught more than 3,000 people in the city.

There were only more than 3,000 people, how could this be possible? So with the order of General Mo, more than 500 cavalrymen rushed into the countryside around Haifeng County, expanding the forced migration to the countryside. The gentry who built villages and protected themselves in the countryside often did not dare to go out in a grand manner when they saw large groups of yellow-clothed thieves and cavalry roaring, and even took the initiative to send some money and food to curry favor.

As for the 150 elite scouts of the security team, they were also scattered. They often teamed up in five people, each with three horses, and cooperated with a cavalry accompanying the team to draw a map while detecting the enemy situation, in case the main force of the east coast army in Haifeng City was sneak attacked.

On June 14, two flute-shaped boats from the east coast and four medium-sized fishing boats, loaded with materials seized in Haifeng City and more than 3,000 Ming people set sail back to Yantai Port. Although the wind direction to Yantai is not good for these six sailboats, it can sail along some coastal currents, and it only takes about five or six days to arrive at Yantai Port. The return journey was much smoother, and they only need three days to return to this place.

However, the people of the East Coast were not prepared to stay here for another ten days. Isn’t this arbitrary death? It takes less than ten days, but in just three days, the Qing army cavalry of Jinan Prefecture will come. According to the information obtained from the interrogation yesterday, Luke Dehun had 5,000 Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners in Jinan, and at this time there were more than 4,000 cavalrymen from the Han army’s green camp. If they rushed over, would the East Coast want to go? Well, maybe it is not impossible to kill a bloody road and walk away. But the losses will inevitably be extremely heavy, and that would be more than worth the loss.

Therefore, on the 14th, the East Coast cavalry rampaged in the countryside, plundering two or three thousand people and a small amount of livestock and food, on the 15th, they began to board the boat on the beach and prepared to evacuate. Their next destination will be Ye County, Laizhou Prefecture, and the captains of the fleet that had already left were also told that after unloading supplies and personnel at Yantai Port, they would continue to sail westward to meet off the sea outside Ye County.

From the map, we can see that it is not far from Haifeng to Yexian, and there is only one Laizhou Bay. If the main force of the East Coast army rides a fast steamboat, it will take more than two days to go straight to the sea outside Yexian. If the Qing army team sets off near Haifeng, it will not be able to arrive in just seven or eight days. If they start to set off after getting the news, when they arrive there, the daylily will be cold. Moreover, if they are mobilized back and forth by the East Coast people, even the Mongolian horse team with super power can't stand it. Even if the people can bear it, the horse will definitely not be able to bear it.

Therefore, in the face of extreme strategic passivity, how should the Qing Dynasty face the dilemma of Shandong, Kinki (Northern Zhili), Liaoxi and even Liaodong without defense, which is indeed a test of the wisdom of the Qing Dynasty's ruling class. Although continuing to increase troops is a feasible strategy, the cost is too great. Shandong's 104 prefectures and counties, can you be prepared to transfer more than 200,000 troops to support them? Moreover, 200,000 people just to deal with the yellow-clothed pirates on the east coast with a total of only 100,000 people. Wouldn't this make people laugh? I, the Qing Dynasty, cannot afford to lose this face, and at this time, Shandong can't afford to support 200,000 troops without production.

Then, you can only move the boundary like Liaodong, gather villages and camp. However, this trick can be done in Liaodong, because there are often no people there for a hundred miles, so it is very convenient to move. Not to mention the forbidden sea, they originally did not have any navigation technology or equipment, and they couldn't help but look like birds. However, Shandong is more troublesome. With the highway of the east coast army marching, they often drive over in one day when you move the boundary for thirty or fifty miles. Moreover, with their abnormal siege ability, with the degree of disrepair of the city walls of these northern prefectures and counties nowadays, they may not be able to withstand a day. Two days of landing, one day of march, one day of war, and two days of transporting spoils and personnel, that is, they will return to the beach again within six days. At that time, the chasing Qing army would have to approach them at the risk of being bombarded by large caliber ships. If they didn't want their army to collapse, they could only let them go.

Six days! Can the Qing Dynasty mobilize a powerful enough force to arrive at the scene within six days from the moment the East Coast appears on a certain offshore? I am afraid it is difficult, unless there are a large number of troops stationed nearby, but in this way, the number of troops stationed in Hebei in the entire Shandong and Hebei will surge, and the cost will be unbearable. It is really difficult to make a choice!

Besides, the migration of the boundary and ban on the sea is a very sensitive topic. It is a 50 or even 100 miles away from the coast. It is conceivable how much resistance there will be! Countless coastal prefectures and counties will become ruins, and the fields will be left to desolate. Many ordinary people and even gentry who have lived there for generations will be displaced. Will they agree? The answer is obviously no. But if it is enforced, it will be a huge act of losing people's hearts, which will greatly shake the foundation of our Qing Dynasty rule.

On June 16, when 3,000 military men, with the help of more than 500 Henan surrendered troops from Dong Xueli's troops, used small boats to transport supplies and personnel back and forth on large ships moored in deep water, a group of cavalrymen with lightning rods on the Qing Dynasty, who were wearing lightning rods, appeared on the distant horizon. The more elite squadrons of the 3-6th Squadron of the Stand-Up Team formed a thick square formation with more than 1,500 musketeers interspersed among them, artillery was lined in front of the formation and on both sides, and the cavalry brigade had already boarded the ship in advance.

They had already learned about the arrival of the Qing army. The scouts of the security team had already fought with the Qing army scouts in advance. These fierce Shandan people even captured two prisoners, which made the Qing army cavalry team lose face. The two Qing army scouts who were captured were actually Sorens. You should know that they were also placed in the Shandan (Shan Tatars) race by the East Coast people. At this time, there were many Sorens from the mainland serving in the East Coast Security Team and the Stand Team 1. After the intelligence staff called these people, they immediately instigated the two Qing army scouts and learned a lot of key information from them.

For example, Luke Dehun has officially started to set up a network to defend against the East Coast people in Jinan Prefecture. Among them, the eastern half of Shandong is currently under the responsibility of Haoge's troops, while the western half and the Hejian Prefecture in the north of Zhili are unified and commanded by Luke Dehun. He arranged more than 30,000 troops in Yizhou Town in the south, and also established a coastal defense general in Binzhou in the north, and also had 30,000 to 40,000 troops according to the system, but most of them are still on the way and have not yet returned to the town. There are only less than 10,000 people in the jurisdiction of the Binzhou Coast Defense General.

At present, more than 2,000 people from Zhang Hao, who were from a bandit, have been wiped out, and Dong Xueli's troops have fled in panic, and only Li Rutai's 5,000 people are still wandering nearby. After receiving the news, the Qing army of Lukedehun, who was eating in Jinan, immediately transferred 2,000 Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners Horse Team and 2,000 Han Green Camp Horse Team, led by Aljin, and arrived in Binzhou City yesterday. After a night of rest, the Qing army team, which was trapped and exhausted, continued to come to Haifeng County. What the people on the east coast saw on the beach was their vanguard. However, they marched quickly for half a day and were unable to enter the battle immediately. Moreover, the spear formation of the people on the east coast was closely guarded, and the black artillery made people frightened. They did not dare to act rashly for a while.

The light cavalry troops, which were trapped in people and lacked horses, were not in the eyes of the East Coast Army, which had been through battle formations for a long time. After almost everyone and the cargo had been boarded in the evening, the East Coast Army retreated alternately under the cover of naval artillery guns, and finally successfully retreated to the ship. During this process, the Qing army only made a move to rush twice, but were all repelled by long-range shells fired from more than twenty naval artillery guns.
Chapter completed!