Early in the morning of 3 March, Cao Wenzhao personally led 30,000 soldiers of a division into Shandong in one fell swoop.

Cross the Wu Bridge, Zhipo Prefecture City.

Dezhou is the northern gateway of Shandong and a big city.

It's a pity that the successive German kings here are afraid of things and extremely greedy for money.

Compared with the princes of Jinan Mansion and Qingzhou Mansion, King De is indeed far behind.

Shandong is also the province with the largest distribution of Zhujia princes, and it is not worse than Shanxi.

For his easy defeat and occupation of Texas City, Cao Wenzhao is confident that there is still no problem.

After all, this was a surprise operation, and the enemy was defenseless.

The family of King De, who was extremely scared, couldn't run, and he wouldn't give them a chance to run away.

Once it occupied Langzhou, it obtained an extremely important bridgehead, which laid a good foundation for the army to smoothly attack and occupy and control the entire Shandong Peninsula.

Cao Wenzhao and Wang Qinian, the two legions were divided into five routes, lined up in a line, from north to south, all the way to the Shandong Peninsula.

In fact, the two of them don't have any pressure now, the only thing they are worried about is that the speed of their five divisions is not fast enough, and they will be fled from the Shandong Peninsula by those high-ranking officials, wealthy businessmen and wealthy people with a large amount of family property.

In that case, this large-scale raid and attack battle will be greatly discounted.

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Shandong people, like the people of Northeast China, are bold and atmospheric, and are an excellent source of soldiers, and they are famous in all dynasties.

The most famous are, of course, the Qingzhou soldiers of the Three Kingdoms era, and the green forest heroes of all dynasties.

At this time in Shandong, most of the troops were distributed in the coastal areas.

The Ming Empire set up the Dengzhou Naval Division Battalion in Dengzhou Mansion to manage Dengzhou, Qingzhou Zuowei, Laizhou Sanwei, as well as Fushan, Qishan and other thousands of households.

The three battalions of the Shandong Peninsula, together with the four guards of the Liaodong Peninsula, formed the defense system of the Ming Empire east of the Bohai Strait.

In other words, the Liaodong Peninsula and the Shandong Peninsula are the two iron gates of Beizhili, and once the iron gate is passed, the foreign army, whether it is the army or navy, can not enter.

Therefore, the Liaodong Peninsula and the Shandong Peninsula, these two places are the most important places in the Ming Empire.

Zhu Youxiao wanted to take the Shandong Peninsula, and his biggest goal was to establish a large dock and naval base in Jiaozhou Bay.

The second is to knock on the mountain and shock the tiger to deter the Jiangnan puppet dynasty and give them a blow to the head.

The Jiangnan puppet dynasty that seems to be huge, but is actually strong outside and capable in the middle, to be honest, Zhu Youxiao doesn't look at it.

However, Zhu Youxiao must be cautious about those Western countries that are expanding frantically and have swept the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans.

Most of these Western countries, which are frantically rising and expanding towards the sea, have achieved initial firearms.

The firearms army has been able to pose a huge threat to the new army of the Ming Empire.

Even if it is a superman like Zhu Youxiao, if he is bombarded by the red-clothed cannon, he will not die

Of course, with his current keen six senses and reflexes, as long as he is mentally prepared, it will be difficult to hit him.

He is not wood, he can hide, his spiritual attributes, and physical attributes are ten times more than ordinary people.

As long as you are mentally prepared, don't be a primary musket and cannon now, even if it is a musket and cannon in the future, if you don't fight you head-on, you may not be able to easily hit him.

And it is estimated that even the troops of later generations will have an extreme headache for the three mutated golden eagles, and it is still unknown who will win and who will lose when the two sides go to war.

After all, the fastest speed of those three mutated golden eagles had surpassed the fastest fighter in Zhu Youxiao's previous life, and they could easily destroy the enemy's army formation.

If they launch a surprise attack and engage in guerrilla warfare, you will not be able to hit them at all, and you can only be beaten passively.

What Zhu Youxiao is worried about now is that if the Jiangnan puppet dynasty, which jumped over the wall in a hurry, colludes with foreigners from all over the world who have crossed the ocean to form a firearms unit on a large scale, he will definitely jump to his feet.

In that case, it will be too difficult to unify the whole country in the future, and the sacrifices of the soldiers will not be.

The worst situation is not what Zhu Youxiao wants to see.

He must completely control all the sea areas of the Ming Empire before the Jiangnan puppet dynasty realizes the power of the firearms army, and block the channels for contact and trade between the Jiangnan puppet dynasty and those Western countries!

There is no way, those big families in the south of the Yangtze River, wealthy businessmen and huge wealth, are really rich.

And now Westerners, as long as you have money and are willing to spend a lot of money, everything will be sold to you!

Those Western countries, although they talk about God, in fact, money is their God.

Their life principle: money is everything.

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"Hahaha!"

On the bow of a milky white warship that broke the waves, the "bandit" Zhong Jixiang blew the cool sea breeze blowing in his face, raised his head, stretched out his arms, and laughed.

It's March 3rd, and he's so happy that the long-awaited time has finally arrived.

Even the officers and men of the Royal North Sea Fleet in Port Arthur thought that they were in charge of the newly formed Royal East Sea Fleet, and they were still conducting large-scale training at the Dagu Mouth Water Division Base!

In fact, except for His Majesty the Emperor, no one could have imagined that in this attack on Shandong, the 90,000 Royal Navy officers and men of his East China Sea Fleet would be the biggest secret son arranged by His Majesty the Emperor, and they would be killed with one blow at a time!

In the past half a month, he led six Leopard cruisers to act as an official pirate in the waters of Bohai Bay, intercepting and confiscating all the big ships he encountered at sea!

Today's East China Sea Fleet has more than 600 large transport ships of various kinds!

The purpose behind all this was to forcibly relocate the East China Sea Fleet, which was originally at the mouth of Tianjin Dagukou, to Jiaozhou Bay on the Shandong Peninsula.

Jiaozhou Bay is an ice-free port that is not worse than Port Arthur, the area is also a little larger than Port Arthur, and the climate and environment are a little better.

Therefore, Jiaozhou Bay is more suitable for use as a military base for the Royal Navy than Port Arthur, and more suitable for building a huge dockyard.

Before March 3, no one knew about this major operation of the East China Sea Fleet, except for himself and His Majesty the Emperor.

Last evening, Prime Minister Zhong ordered the sailor camp at the mouth of Tianjin Dagu to be closed.

90,000 soldiers, 30,000 logistics troops, 30,000 shipwrights and auxiliary workers all quietly emptied the huge sailors' camps and boarded the large ships.

The huge fleet of ships began to set off southward early this morning, slowly but firmly heading towards Jiaozhou Bay, the final destination this time.

Of course, during the voyage, it is still necessary to cuddle the grass and beat the rabbit.

The task of the East China Sea Fleet is to attack the Dengzhou Naval Division base on the way south, and occupy and control Dengzhou City and the Dengzhou area.

Then, the large fleet continued southward and entered Jiaozhou Bay.

Abolishing the coastal guards under the jurisdiction of the Dengzhou Navy Division in one fell swoop is a task that must be completed as soon as possible this time.

Only in this way can we control the coastal areas of the Shandong Peninsula and cut off the escape routes of those wealthy families, wealthy businessmen, and civil and military officials on the Shandong Peninsula and wipe them out.

Six Leopard cruisers, two of which led the way with three clippers, and the remaining four Leopard cruisers protected the two wings of the large fleet.

Although the number of warships here is extremely small, it is not something that ordinary pirates and other miscellaneous soldiers can shake.

The huge fleet went all the way south, and still captured all the big ships it encountered along the way, whether it was a pirate ship or a merchant ship of various countries, and did not let go of a single one.

With the absolute strength and speed superiority of the Leopard cruisers, no big ship would want to run away.

Naturally, those captured armed men were screened and interrogated on the spot, and those who committed the most heinous crimes were immediately beheaded and thrown into the sea to feed the sharks.

The common pirates, the ordinary merchants, the men, the boatmen and the sailors, who were not guilty of their crimes, were all kept in separate custody by the soldiers.

As a result, it is just after noon, and it has not yet arrived in the waters of Laizhou Bay, and the size of the fleet has expanded by half!

It can be imagined that in this year, how rampant piracy was along the coast of the Ming Empire, and how prosperous the commercial trade of various maritime merchants was!

The harvest was so large, and with the large fleet of ships that had been driving along the coastline, there was no risk.

After all, this is not the time for storms, typhoons, and tsunamis.

The only thing to worry about is the fleets of the Western countries and unforeseen circumstances.

But it is not yet the year when the fleets of Western countries have entered the waters of the Ming Empire in a big way, and even the pirate groups along the coast of Fujian are still a few big cats.

Historically, it will take another ten or eight years for those pirates and Westerners to run rampant in the waters of the Ming Empire.

And this golden period of development is a huge opportunity for the Ming Empire.

After a year or two, the two royal fleets will officially become an army, and the waters near the Ming Empire will be free of those pirate groups and the fleets of Western countries.

Yes, Zhu Youxiao is extremely fortunate to read.

He seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for development in time, and when he had just gained a place to settle down, he immediately did not hesitate to vigorously form the two major fleets of the Royal Navy and seize the opportunity.