The county-by-county division has been carried out, the mobilized officials have already taken up their posts, and many of the administrative affairs involved have also begun. Raoping became the hinterland, and Chen Kai moved Guo Tai's troops to Sanheba in preparation for Hao Shangjiu's attack.

From the analysis of personality, Hao Shangjiu is not too ambitious; The number of troops in his department is limited, and according to the detailed description, the scale of the recent expansion is not very large; And the two counties of Zhenping and Pingyuan, which are still following the orders of the Ming army, are still in the hands of local tyrants, and they have all heard of Chen Kai's prestige, and this time they will solve Su Li in a devastating way, and it is also a shot in the arm for them; Coupled with the geographical barrier of the Lotus Mountain Range, Chen Kai's worries about the battlefield on the northern front are not huge. On the contrary, it was on the southern front, to be precise, on the line of the Luohe River, which was heavily armed, and it really required him to put in more effort.

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month has just passed, and the festive atmosphere of the New Year in the sixth year of Yongli has not yet dissipated, even if it is the most festive atmosphere in those days, Chen Kai, who is still busy, will not stop.

The discussion of the county began to fade, and Chen Kai rushed to the Jieshi Acropolis as soon as possible. A month's repair work seemed a little pitiful for the damage caused by the Ming army. Fortunately, the captives seemed to have begun to get used to the hard work, and the officials from the counties also used this time to complete the identification of the vast majority of the captives, clear out a small number of the coerced civilians, and let them go home, and roughly sentence the rest of the labor time.

"Back to the general system, the lowly officials and their colleagues have already broken up those prisoners into groups, and each battalion will have prisoners from different camps of the Tartars with different punishment periods, so as to ensure that it is difficult for them to form a cohesive ......"

Ding Youyi, a Panyu warden, is responsible for the copywriting work of these labor reform camps, no more than officials, Chen Kai transferred officials and officials, these people have ancestral experience in administrative affairs, and they are more experienced in management and control of people's hearts. In contrast, what they lack is nothing more than the results of the imperial examinations, in other words, academic qualifications.

While explaining, Ding Youyi respectfully handed over the relevant reports and documents. For Chen Kai, he is sincerely grateful and admired, and this kind of mentality is the case for almost all the people in Guangzhou. At this moment, while watching Chen Kai flip through the report and give targeted explanations, Ding Youyi's chest couldn't help but feel a sense of pride, a sense of pride that he contributed to the process of the Ming army's recovery of Guangzhou.

After the report, Chen Kai thought about it for a while, and then ordered: "It's generally good, but the intensity needs to be increased." ”

"What do you mean?"

Ding Youyi asked, and Chen Kai's mouth spit out those frost and snow rain: "One person fled, and the whole team sat together; There is a reward for reporting, which can exempt the penalty of sitting together and reduce the working time; Those who plotted rebellion and escaped, their wives and daughters were not enslaved in the official palace, and their bodies were hung in front of the camp gate and exposed to the sun, thinking that the whole camp was a coolie. ”

"Obedience to orders, this is to convey the meaning of the general system."

With the arrival of Chen Kai, the Ming army quickly built several pontoon bridges on the Luo River that could be used for a long time. Immediately, the army crossed the Luo River and camped in Xi'an, south of the Luo River.

To the east of the Lotus Mountains, the Qing army only has two key points, Haifeng County and Shengjiesuo, the Ming army was originally deployed on the first line of the Luohe River, and it can rely on the strongholds such as the sea and the Jieshi Acropolis to quickly replenish, and the main force of the Qing army is still in Huilai County, where there are only 1,000 soldiers and horses of the Huizhou Green Battalion, and about 1,000 people of Su Li's old troops, led by Su Li's old general Chen Wanquan.

The gap between the strength of the enemy and us on both sides is too large, and the Qing army is naturally paying attention to the movements of the Ming army on the front line of Luohe all the time. This is just after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, who knows that the Ming army has quickly crossed the Luo River, Chen Wanquan even sent an urgent document to the direction of Huizhou Fucheng, just hoping that Huang Yingjie, who had just rushed back to Huizhou Fucheng for the New Year, could rush back as soon as possible.

Chen Wanquan was anxious, and soon, Huang Yingjie, who received the news, was also furious. The Ming army was simply stationed on the front line of Luohe, but the families of his main force were still in the city of Huizhou. In November last year, Baba forced him to run away, and then left a county town and a thousand households to him, so there was no movement, and he transferred the cavalry town back, making it clear that he didn't want to fight. But how long has it been, has there been a month, and it jumped out again, making it clear that he would not let him live with peace of mind.

Seeing this, Huang Yingjie hurriedly reported to Shang Kexi in Guangzhou, and the reply he received was that Zhang Daocheng, the general soldier of Dongguan, was dispatched to cooperate with him to encircle and suppress the Ming army in Chaozhou.

Zhang Daocheng, like him, is Li Chengdong's old department. He was first the Ming army, then the Qing army, with Li Chengdong anyway, and then descended to Shang Kexi, Rao is just after the fifteenth day of the first month, Zhang Daocheng also had to take the troops to Huizhou Fucheng, and Huang Yingjie converged. It's just that when the two meet, complaining is naturally indispensable.

"The old prince is determined to use us, the old subordinates of the king of Ningxia, to consume the power of Haikou."

"What can be done under the fence. You, me, and Brother Hao, aren't they all the same? ”

"Hey, it's just to let the court see our loyalty."

“……”

Shang Kexi is the prince of the Han people who is fully responsible for the military and political affairs of Guangdong, and his status is so high, where can they be compared with the generals of the green battalion who have just jumped back again. Now it is clear that they are to use them to avoid the loss of the feudal soldiers, and nine times out of ten they will wait until they and the Ming army have become tired soldiers, and then dispatch the feudal soldiers to make a move, just like when he calculated Su Li not long ago, it was nothing more than a reversal of the roles of cicadas, praying mantises and yellow sparrows.

However, as Zhang Daocheng said, they had to obey the order. Zhang Daocheng left part of the troops guarding Dongguan County and launched an eastward march with the main force, and Huang Yingjie did the same. In this way, even if it was Su Li's old department, the Qing army quickly assembled no less than 5,000 green battalions on the front line of Haifeng, of which more than eighty percent were veterans brought out by Li Chengdong, and the combat effectiveness can be imagined.

The Qing army quickly assembled and marched in the direction of Haifeng County. The news of Haifeng was naturally what they were most concerned about, but according to Chen Wanquan's follow-up report, after crossing the Luo River, the Ming army did not continue to march in the direction of Haifeng County, but only sent cavalry to harass them.

Huang Yingjie and Zhang Daocheng knew very well that the Ming army on the front line of Luohe was headed by Du Hui, who was the chief military officer of Zhongchong Town, but it was Chen Kai who was really responsible for controlling the Chaozhou government.

What Chen Kai wanted to do, they really couldn't figure it out, so they had to continue to march into the army. Since he couldn't understand it, Huang Yingjie simply took the cavalry of the two divisions to take a step forward and rushed to Haifeng County. When he arrived in Haifeng County, Huang Yingjie began to command the cavalry to expel the surrounding Ming army rangers.

This work is not difficult, after all, even according to the regulations of the Qing court, the ratio of their green battalion infantry in Guangdong is four to one, and there are thousands of cavalry in the two units together. On the side of the Ming army, the banner of Iron Cavalry Town has not yet appeared, and the total strength of the Ming army does not have any advantage, let alone cavalry, which is even more pitiful.

However, as Huang Yingjie's expulsion work gradually unfolded, when the main force led by Zhang Daocheng arrived in Haifeng County, his Tanma had already touched the actual actions of the Ming army on the front line of Luohe. At this time, they finally figured out what Chen Kai was doing.

"It's a decoy!"