It turned out that Liu Zeqing's army had been the target of Jinyi Weinan's infiltration in the past few months!

The current Jinyiwei is different from the previous Jinyiwei who was too miscellaneous and couldn't do anything, but today's Jinyiwei is a highly specialized spy agency.

Their main business is very prominent, which is spy work. Among them, the North Town Fusi is responsible for spying on enemy intelligence. Internally, arresting traitors and traitors, infiltrating and monitoring warlords who support their troops and respect themselves, are all the work of Nanzhen Fusi.

And Liu Zeqing, who is entrenched in Dongchang and Jinan, is the focus of Nanzhen Fusi's infiltration!

And Liu is also particularly easy to penetrate. This is because Liu Zeqing is different from Liu Liangzuo and Xu Dingguo, those two are rough people. However, Liu Zeqing is pretentious, especially likes to make friends with scribes, and also likes to write poems.

Therefore, there are many "Donglin Party members" who ran out of Beijing and are mixed in Liu Zeqing's shogunate, of course, these people are not really Donglin, but the children of Beijing's nobles and ministers. Everyone has a good skin, and the bit of ink in their stomachs is just right to deal with Liu Zeqing, and they are very good at going through the door and pulling relationships, and the most important thing is that they have enough spy funds, so after a few months, they infiltrated Liu Zeqing's group like a sieve.

In addition to liking to make friends with scribes, Liu Zeqing has been working hard to run Taishan in recent months, which is also an important reason why his group has been infiltrated.

Taishan Qunkou are all people in the rivers and lakes, and Li Yan, Red Lady, and Chen Yingyuan are all the way. When Zhu Cihong was in Shandong, he sent Li Yan and the Red Lady to win over and distribute many official certificates of thousands of households - these are all thousands of households in the Generalissimo's Mansion!

When Zhu Cihong left Shandong, he left Chen Yingyuan (the general who was co-opted by Li Yan and the Red Lady in Qingzhou) as the commander of Taishan Guard, stationed in Wohu Mountain in the Taishan Mountains. At the same time, Chen Yingyuan was also pulled into Jinyiwei and served as a thousand households in Nanfu Taishan.

If Liu Zeqing's reckless characters want to run Mount Tai, they are dealing with the thousands of households in Taishan, Fusi in Jinyi Weinan Town, and this is not infiltrated?

The Li Hua whale mentioned by Liu Zhiyu was the Taishan guerrilla who was sent by Liu Zeqing to run Mount Tai......

Liu Zhiyu, who was appointed by Liu Zeqing as the general of Liaocheng to defend the city, was also co-opted by Zhu Cihong's high-ranking official Houlu, and when Li Ruolian arrived at Dongchang Mansion with his troops, he became an internal response, and did not demolish the ten-zhang long bridge outside the west gate of Liaocheng - Dongchang Lake is very narrow on the water surface outside the west gate of Liaocheng, most of the water surface is about 40 zhang, and the water surface outside the west gate of Liaocheng is the narrowest, only ten zhang, and there is a stone slab bridge that can be demolished across the water. Once the deck of this stone bridge was demolished, the attacking side had to pass through the water surface ten zhang wide to reach the west gate of Liaocheng.

Because of Liu Zhiyu's internal response, Liu Zeqing's nest was easily occupied by Li Ruolian.

Although he knew that this Liu Zhiyu was likely to be a traitor who ate inside and out, the current Liu Zeqing didn't dare to let people drag his nephew out and cut him.

Because his family is all in Liaocheng Castle! If he cuts off his nephew, will his family still be alive?

In addition, he did not enter the army alone, but acted together with the two armies of Li Chengdong and Sun Degong. Li Chengdong is a fierce general under Gao Jie, and Sun Degong is a fierce general that Huang Degong relies on.

Although the number of these two troops is not large, their combat effectiveness has left Liu Zeqing's soldiers and horses on several streets. If you want to tear your face and merge with fire, then Liu Zeqing's strength will be gone, and your strength will be gone, can the Qing Dynasty still want you? What are you coming for? As a coated minion?

Liu Zeqing's brows tightened more and more, as if he was engaged in a fierce ideological struggle. At this moment, the voice of one of his confidants suddenly came from outside the door: "General Rong, the patrol of the governor of Shandong has opened 20 miles south of Dezhou City......"

The Shandong Patrol was Gao Hongtu's troops, numbering as many as 4,000, led by Li Dakai, the former deputy general of Chizhou, who followed Shi Kefa to the north to King Qin, and had been stationed in Jinan City before. Now it's not going to be much, it's going to Texas!

Liu Zeqing took a breath of cool air, this is to solve himself by force!

Now the 6,000 people led by Li Chengdong and Sun Deli are in the north - these two are on the northern expedition with Liu Zeqing, because of the defeat of the Liukou, and now they are also on their way back to the army, and most of them have already obtained the secret order to attack Texas! And the 4,000 people led by Li Dakai are in the south, and if the two sides come to a joint attack, it is difficult to say whether they can run to the side of the Great Qing Kingdom......

Liu Zeqing thought about it for a long time, and then asked a little unwillingly: "The little savings that the old man has in Liaocheng ......?"

"It's all for you!" Liu Zhiyu smiled and said, "Uncle, when did you get on the boat and go south?" Chitose Ye left you a big and luxurious garden in Nanjing! ”

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"Master Chitose, the resignation of Liu Zeqing, the chief soldier of Shandong, has arrived!"

On November 28, just two days after Liu Zeqing was forced to surrender his army and leave the Dezhou army, his resignation was sent to Zhu Cihong, the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty in Nanjing.

Zhu Cihong took the notebook from Bi Jiucheng's hand, and asked in a low voice: "Only Liu Zeqing's?" ”

"Only Liaochengbo's." Bi Jiucheng paused, "Liu Liangzuo and Xu Dingguo did not play this ......"

"It seems that he has taken refuge in the East!" Zhu Cihong let out a sigh.

The rebellion of Liu Liangzuo and Xu Dingguo had long been expected by Zhu Cihong...... However, Liu Zeqing did not run away, which made Zhu Cihong a little surprised - this matter was mainly blamed on Gao Hongtu, and he sent Li Dakai with 4,000 elite soldiers to meet Liu Zeqing. And Liu Zeqing made up a scene where Li Chengdong and Sun Degong attacked from the north, so he was so scared that he had to come to Nanjing to retire.

"What about Li Chengdong and Sun Degong? Is there any news of them? ”

"Yes," Bi Jiucheng took out Li Ruolian's recital again, and handed it to Zhu Cihong with both hands, "Shandong Dusi reported that Li Chengdong and Sun Degong's two troops and horses have also returned to Jinan Mansion. ”

The vigorous battle of Chongzhen's seventeen-year Northern Expedition seems to have turned into a complete farce......

Zhu Cihong thought for a while, picked up the brush, took a few pieces of letterhead, and began to write letters to Gao Jie and Huang Degong - he wanted to leave the two armies of Li Chengdong and Sun Degong in Jinan under the command of Gao Hongtu. So I have to explain it to Gao Jie and Huang Degong.

Gao Hongtu, the titular governor of Shandong, has always had very little territory, and for the past few months it has been limited to the plains south of the Daqing River in Jinan Prefecture. Now the situation has improved slightly, because this Northern Expedition still gained a little, and won Dezhou, Wuding Prefecture, Binzhou, Haifeng County, Yangxin County, Leling County, Lijin County, Shanghe County, Linyi County, Deping County, Ling County, Pingyuan County, Yucheng County, Qihe County and other three states and eleven counties in Daqing Hebei of Jinan Prefecture - these states and counties were not the territory of the Qing Dynasty before, but a buffer zone that was occupied by local tyrants from all walks of life. Now it has become a state and county directly under the Yamen of the Eastern Governor of the Ming Dynasty, and of course there needs to be a Ming army to garrison it.

Relying on Gao Hongtu's 4000 patrol bid can not be kept, so Gao Hongtu played as early as a few days ago, wanting to leave a total of 6,000 people in Jinan from Li Chengdong and Sun Degong. At the same time, he appointed himself as the chief soldier of Jinan Town, in charge of Jinan's government and military affairs, and subsidized 30,000 taels of military expenses every month......

As for Gao Hongtu's request, Zhu Cihong naturally approved it. However, he will not transfer Huang Degong and Gao Jie's troops in vain, but will give them a certain amount of compensation - Li Chengdong and Sun Degong each took 3,000 people. Therefore, Zhu Cihong will give Gao Jie and Huang Degong 200,000 taels of silver, and let them recruit and train 6,000 elite soldiers to make up for the shortfall.

Zhu Cihong also wanted Huang Degong to move to Shangqiu, the city of Defu, and take over as the commander-in-chief of Henan, replacing Liu Liangzuo and Xu Dingguo to rule the southeast of Defu and Kaifeng.

The soldiers, horses, money, grain, and equipment left by Liu Liangzuo and Xu Dingguo in Shangqiu and Suizhou were all handed over to Huang Degong as compensation for the transfer of Sun Degong from Huang Degong's subordinates.

In addition, Liu Zhiyu and Li Huajing, who took refuge in Zhu Cihong, will also be rewarded.

Liu Zhiyu will serve as the chief guard of Dongchang Mansion, replacing Liu Zeqing to guard Dongchang Mansion.

Li Huajing will serve as the deputy general of Yanzhou Mansion, in charge of eight counties and one prefecture, including Yuncheng, Juye, Caozhou, Jiaxiang, Jinxiang, Yutai, Shanxian, Dingtao, and Chengwu, west of the Yanzhou Canal.