Mao Desheng's request was finally approved by Shao Shude. [But Shao Shude asked Mao Desheng to report his previous military operations regularly and agreed with him that he would not engage in large-scale battles with the main force of the Qing army. As for what the main force of the Qing army was, Mao Desheng had to judge it himself. In short, Mao Desheng's freedom was actually very large.

On March 2, Mao Desheng led his army back to Teng County, defeating more than a thousand green camp soldiers who were left by Hebei General Kong Xigui, and then stationed here again, waiting for the logistics troops and reconnaissance of the enemy situation. As for the artillery captain Li Wenchang who came to reinforce, he had led some troops and spoils to retreat from land to Dengzhou.

At this time, Mao Desheng had three companies under his command of the East Coast Army, which had strengthened artillery companies (16 artillery pieces), three infantry battalions of the Eight Banners New Army, security teams and cavalry brigades. The above were all relatively elite troops, with a total of more than 6,000 soldiers; in addition, there were more than 6,000 soldiers in the first registrar (7,500 people in full), and the scrambled members of the minions, Zhai Congyan, Qin Shangxing, Xie Qian, Dong Xueli, Chen Zhilong, Du Chong, Ding Mingwu and other troops, a total of more than 24,000 people. If the East Coast Army with nearly 15,000 people were added, the total number of the East Coast Army had exceeded 50,000.

Although more than half of the troops had a worrying combat effectiveness and might even be difficult to fight against the Shangqing Army's green camp, this number sounded scary enough. At least some of the troops of Kong Xigui, who had already pursued the Yuyuan Army and entered the canal, were immediately scared and shrank back, and even called it "turning in to remove the siege of Cao County."

After Li Huajing launched a large uprising army to encircle Caozhou, the southwest of Yanzhou Prefecture fell into chaos. Local thieves surged up, including Caoxian, Dingtao, Chengwu, Shanxian and other places, either fell or were surrounded. In short, there was no place of peace. Luke Dehun, who was in Jinan, saw that Yanzhou Prefecture had almost fallen, was also anxious at this time and began to urge Tong Yangliang, Niu Chenghu and other troops to go south to recover Yanzhou, and repeatedly ordered several troops to keep a distance and advance together, so as not to greed for merit and advance recklessly, so as not to defeat them by others.

At the same time, the General of Baoding, Lu Guonan, was ordered to turn around and head straight to Dongchang Prefecture. They would join the General of Linqing, Yi Yonggui, to pacify the local bandits of the Yuyuan Army there first. Unexpectedly, the Yuyuan Army there was extremely slippery. They used the local elm forests, caves, and tunnels to deal with the Qing army. The Qing army had no choice but to set fire to the forest, dig tunnels to fill water and smoke. Then, as Haoge did back then, blocked many caves. Only then could he barely limit the gods and ghosts.

The Yuyuan Army was gone. But in this way, the precious time had passed. The situation in Yanzhou Prefecture in the south was getting more and more chaotic. The three generals sent by the Qing court were almost exhausted. There were tens of thousands of yellow-clothed thieves on the front line of Zou County and Jining Prefecture, and even the Qing army suppressed bandits very quickly. They always had to use the main force to defend against the yellow-clothed thieves. However, the remaining troops were more difficult to deal with the anti-Qing armed forces, and the situation was stalemate for a while.

More than 100,000 generals of the seven major commanders were unable to quickly settle the situation in Shandong, which made Lukede in Jinan so anxious, and also shocked the Qing people far away in Beijing. There are still such difficult bandits in the world? Is Lukede still OK?

However, no matter what the Qing people think, the situation in Shandong is indeed deadlocked. While Mao Desheng was closely investigating the movements of the Qing army in the north of Jinan, he maintained uninterrupted harassing attacks at Kong Xigui and other troops along the canal, preventing him from concentrating on dealing with forces such as Yuyuan Army, Qingshan bandits, Mule Army, Li Huajing Rebel Army, and at the same time, he also allowed the mobs under his command to gain some valuable battlefield experience to improve their combat effectiveness.

In this way, it was not until mid-to-late March that Li Huajing's troops finally conquered Caozhou City. Huang Dengxiao, the garrison of Caozhou who had promoted Li Huajing, forced to cut off his braids and surrender. The large amount of supplies, food and money in Caozhou City were obtained by Li Huajing's troops. At the same time, Niu Chenghu and Tong Yangliang's troops who went south finally broke through the heavy interception of the army on the east coast and entered Juye County in the western part of Yanzhou Prefecture, but the situation was already out of control at this time.

The combined anti-Qing forces such as Li Huajing, Yuyuan Army and other branches still stayed in Yanzhou Prefecture had almost reached 200,000. In addition, there was more than 50,000 yellow-clothed thieves who had been threatening them next to them. In order to avoid repeating Gao Di's mistake, these three Qing troops simply began to shrink their forces and lean on each other and set up camp on the line of Juye and Yuncheng. This would not only contact the two men of Yi Yonggui and Lu who were suppressing bandits in Dongchang Prefecture, but also ensure that the food route from Jinan to Yanzhou would not be cut off.

However, in this way, Yanzhou Prefecture would definitely be completely abandoned by them. Not surprisingly, at the end of March, as the pressure of the Qing army was reduced, the Eastern Ming Turkish bandits, who had formed a slump with Li Huajing, began to return to the Daming Prefecture, Beizhili, and other strong mobility anti-Qing rebels, which had strong mobility, began to enter the empty Guide Prefecture, Henan. The remaining Guide Turkish troops, who had just been suppressed by Kong Xigui, immediately responded. The various prefectures and counties of Guide Prefecture were in a panic and all the plants and trees were in war.

You should know that in order to completely solve the situation in Shandong, the Qing court drew all the field mobile forces in Shandong, Zhili and Henan provinces. But these more than 100,000 field troops failed to completely solve the problem, but instead spread the "bandits' feelings" to neighboring provinces. What's the point! At that time, all the cultural relics officials in the court advised Dorgon to quickly destroy the riots in Shandong, otherwise it would change later. After analysis, Dorgon also believed that if the Shandong issue was solved, the national problem would be half solved. Therefore, he drew a large number of mobile forces from the north, changed to a comprehensive attack as a key attack, and tried to solve the Shandong issue in one battle.

But many times the direction of things is not based on personal will. The bandit leader of the yellow thief named Mo Ming dared not to retreat in front of more than 100,000 Qing troops. Not only that, he even seized the opportunity to encircle and annihilate the ace army in the battle of Baodugu. The more than 15,000 elite soldiers of Henan General Gao Di made Kong Xigui completely frightened. At the same time, Niu Chenghu and Tong Yangliang who went south were full of doubts. The Qing army on the southern route seemed to lose the momentum of bravery and diligence in an instant.

After seeing that the green camp could no longer completely solve the problem, Dorgon, who was far away in Beijing, had begun to consider whether to let Wu Sangui, who had just arrived in Shaanxi lead his troops back. Wu Sangui, a guy, had been suspicious of the Qing court in recent years. He had just been transferred from outside the pass to Shaanxi. Although the rebel army there had been extinguished, the sporadic resistance of the remaining troops had not stopped, and a general was urgently needed to lead a war-capable army to guard the guard. However, after thinking about it, Dorgon decided not to recruit Wu Sangui back. He was preparing to mobilize the elite Manchu and Mongolia Eight Banners to move south, and use the power of a lion to fight the rabbit to attack with all his might, in order to completely solve the Shandong issue.

Dorgon even thought about the commander-in-chief, that is his party member Tan Tai. At that time, Tan Tai will lead the Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolia, with a population of less than 20,000, and take over Shandong's military affairs in full. Although Luke Dehun is capable, he still lacks experience. He is completely passive when facing the cunning yellow-clothed thief Mo Ming, who is in a cunning way, and he must change people at this time. As for Luke Dehun's arrangement after returning to Beijing, Dorgon means to refrigerate for a while, and then find an opportunity to send him to the south to plaster, and then use it to great use.

In April, the Qing court formally ordered Tan Tai as the general of Pingdong to lead more than 25,000 people from the Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolia to go south to Shandong to strive to completely resolve the Shandong issue. At this point, the total number of Eight Banners sent to Jiangnan, Sichuan, Shaanxi and Shandong had reached about 70,000. At this time, Cheng Ding, who was over 14 years old and under 60 years old, had only more than 140,000 people. In order to quickly pacify the world, the Qing court was indeed very hard-working.

Tan Tai's army wanted to raise food, weapons and money, and would not reach Shandong for a while. Therefore, the situation of the three Shandong and East Governments was still in a stalemate. The war was fired all over the sky, while the three East Governments were indeed a peaceful and peaceful scene.

After the spring start in April, Shao Shude ordered the military farming to start outside the cities of Yantai, Dengzhou, Ninghaizhou and Weihaiwei to carry out vigorous spring sowing operations. At the same time, the walls of Dengzhou City have changed a lot after half a year of reconstruction and renovation. Not only have a large number of broken line areas added to the walls (to reduce the bomb area), but several protruding parts have also been added, and artillery was placed - artillery artillery soldiers were trained by the East Coast people.

Although the Weihaiwei wall has no time to be rebuilt, the city in the sea can effectively obtain support from naval guns from the sea, so the scope is actually not large. Moreover, the wall was originally damaged, and the gaps were repaired and reinforced. If a few more small cannons were installed, it would be quite easy to defend.

As for Ninghaizhou City, this is quite painful. You should know that the city was demolished by the East Coast people, leaving only one foundation. Later, when Haoge besieged Yantai, he once rebuilt the city, but the project volume was huge. The Qing army that blocked Yantai before it was completed was broken and fled. After the East Coast people then took over Ninghaizhou City, although they continued to build the city wall, they had no time and manpower. The Ninghaizhou City Wall had not been repaired so far. It seemed that it would take at least several months to complete the construction.

In addition to these construction work, Shao Shude also had a sudden idea to set up an anti-Qing Military and Political Academy on Zhifu Island in Yantai, which was responsible for training officers and management talents at all levels of the vassal army. He was even considering that officers from all departments of the vassal army must take turns to attend the lectures in the Anti-Qing Military and Political Academy, and the people of the East Coast taught them some extremely simple and extremely basic skills in governing the local area.
Chapter completed!