Who the hell are they? What are they doing in the South?

This question made Jiang Zhe stir his brain, and he thought about it over and over again, but he did not come up with a specific result. He could only send someone back to Laoshan and report the news to the boss. And then put all your mind back on the battle – that's the theme of the moment.

Jiang Zhe returned to Shijiu Island with his troops and 'booty', and let his large and small ships run back and forth three times before sending the gentry, officials and officials and their relatives and dependents, as well as grain, money, and livestock, back to Laoshan in Rizhao.

Then the material went into storage, and the people were left in the labor camp for labor reform, and now there are too many places in Laoshan that need manpower. Then he returned to the Fushan front before the Qing army rushed in.

Jiang Zhe led his troops to sweep Rizhao, and the news spread in Qilu at a lightning speed. When all the state and county officials and gentry near the sea heard the news, they were all furious.

If Zheng Jun can sweep the sunshine, he can also sweep them.

Rizhao County's defense is very poor, so their defense is very good?

Judging from the general trend, this move directly affected the Manchu Qing's appeasement in Denglai. Especially in the appeasement of Dengzhou.

Whether it is Da Songwei, Haiyangwei, Jinghaiwei, or Weihai, Wendeng, Haining, it is either a change of banner in the making, or a hookup in secret, all of them went out for a while.

Those officials didn't say anything, they only said that the gentry from all over the country trembled in their hearts, who would dare to welcome me to the Qing Dynasty. I'm not afraid that Zheng Jun will come to sweep up later and take the property in one pot.

If you don't resist or get close to the Manchus, can the Manchus still eat themselves? But if you want to be close to the Manchus, Zheng Jun will be able to turn around and swallow them in one gulp.

These people want to make waves, and the ultimate goal is not to return their own family property?

But now that they find that their stirring up and fanning the flames are very likely to drown their belongings and their own lives, who will go to death?

Li Shuotai had already led his troops to Laoshan, no longer just a small fight like before, but the army piled up directly outside the Zheng army's fortress.

This is a 'political war'.

In this war for the 'hearts of the people' in Denglai, the Qing army must take practical actions and use practical actions to declare to the world that they are capable of protecting them.

Therefore, this war did not only break out between Li Shutai and Jiang Zhe, even Nikan personally led the Eight Banners to kill Jiaozhou.

Of course, Nikan's original goal would definitely not be Jiang Zhe's. It's just a coincidence, as the commander of the army, he was dragging his feet at the end, and when he rushed to Qingzhou with soldiers, horses and artillery, he was going to kill Ye County, but the outbreak of the Rizhao incident made him change his goal and aim at Jiang Zhe in Jiaozhou.

It is said that there are not only a lot of Tartars in the ranks, but also some Xiyi, and a lot of civilian labor, the whole army is huge, the smoke and dust cover the sun, the momentum is extremely amazing, and several small anti-Qing forces active in the west of Qilu have disappeared without a trace.

For example, Xie Qian and Ding Keze in Qingzhou, Wang Jun in Lunan holding calves, and Yuyuan Army in Caozhou, Luxi.

The latter's name in the history of the original time and space is very loud, after all, it has persisted in the land of Qilu for twelve years, gathered millions of people, and once broke through Nanle in the west, attacked the Daimyo in the north, and had the tendency to advance Beijing.

But in fact, the Yuyuan Army was originally an anti-Ming peasant army. Ming Chongzhen's thirteen-year uprising, led by Ma Yingjiao, later turned to the struggle against the Qing Dynasty.

After Liu Zeqing fled south, he took the opportunity to break through the four cities of Caozhou, Puzhou, Dingtao, and Chengwu, and surrendered Li Zicheng. But before they could sit hot in the city, the Tartars entered the gate. Then Li Shunjun lost one battle after another, and when Guo Sheng abandoned Luxi and transferred to Jinan Mansion, Yuyuan's army did not follow, but continued to stay in the lair. Today, the four cities of Caozhou have all changed hands, but relying on the vast elm forest outside the city, relying on the old tactics of 'tunnel warfare' against the Ming army - digging criss-crossing passages underground, hundreds of miles, and attacking the official army out of nowhere, the Ming army is helpless and still alive.

But these people also understood the severity, and when Nikan led the Qing army to kill the Eight Banners, they all shrank their heads and hid their tails.

They knew very well that the Tartars' goal was not themselves, and they didn't have the strength to resist the Tartars, and the most they could do was to relieve some pressure on Denglai on the battlefield behind enemy lines and beat the side drums. Instead of looking for death!

The number of troops brought by Nikan this time, and the number of cannons, have not yet had time to find out due to the short time. Zheng Jun naturally has a judgment on this, considering the number of soldiers and horses under Bahana, as well as the soldiers in the hands of Haoge in Kaifeng, there should not be many soldiers and horses in Nikan's hands. It is likely that there are only three to five thousand genuine Eight Banner soldiers, but the Tartars still have a coat in their hands, plus the Han slaves who have followed from outside the customs, adding up to 10,000 people. Moreover, there are a lot of cannons in the army, and there are a lot of strong men and men with the army, so along the way, 20,000 will never be less. With the addition of Li Shutai's soldiers and Liu Zeqing's soldiers, the total strength of the Qing army was as many as 40,000 or 50,000 people, and the soldiers were even more than 25,000 people, which were ten times that of Jiang Zhe's troops.

This is a huge gap, which Zheng Jun can no longer fill by relying on some advanced tactical ideas or weapons and equipment.

Jiang Zhe's subordinates had a total of two battalions, all of which were newly formed troops, and if they opened up a position to engage in field battles with the Qing army, they would inevitably die without a place to be buried. Therefore, he knew for a long time that he was going to fight a defensive battle from the beginning.

Defending the fortress group on the west side of Laoshan Mountain is the first priority, seizing the time to build a protective chain along the coast is the second priority, and the third is to cut off the penetration of the Qing army from the Laoshan Mountain Range.

Although there were not many troops, Jiang Zhe felt that he was very safe, otherwise he would not have crossed the sea to attack Rizhao. This is actively provoking the Tartars.

In addition to making meritorious contributions and publicizing his own name - let everyone in the world know that there is also a person in the Qilu Zheng army who will be 'Jiang Zhe', should he become famous as soon as possible. It's more because he feels he has the power to do it.

The pressure on Li Tai was so small that he felt that he could completely transfer half of the main force to the jungler.

It's just that what he didn't expect was that his luck was a little back, and he was bumping into Nikan, the chief general of the Qilu Qing Army, who was leading the last part of the troops and horses eastward.

The latter had just taken over a batch of artillery, and his first purpose was to capture the capital city of Laizhou, and then fight a dozen Dengzhou.

Whether it was Dolgon or Nikan himself, he never thought that he would be able to beat Zheng Jun out of Qilu and take Zhifu Island and other places at once. It's not realistic.

Therefore, it is a good choice to knock out Zeng Ying first.

What's more, this Zeng Ying is still the governor of Denglai, he will not die or surrender, which means that the Ming Dynasty is still standing in Denglai, which is by no means good news for the Manchu Dynasty.

Nikan looked at the Zheng Jun fortress group not far away, and sure enough, they were all fortresses. This is still the word they heard from Long Huamin's Xiyi mouth.

Buckhouse, a German who came to the army with the artillery through secret channels, explained to him in detail what a fortress was, and he directly made a realistic model of the fortress, so that Nikan could clearly 'see' everything.

Even in Europe, it is impossible to quickly capture a strong-willed fortress, and this is no different in the East.

Five small fortresses, these fortresses on the west side of Laoshan Mountain can only be small fortresses compared to the castle of Geranza, five lines are distributed, seemingly not large, but extremely strong.

With strong firepower and narrow special terrain, unless Jiaozhou Bay is completely frozen in winter, it will be difficult for the attacking enemy to deploy troops. With such five small but strong fortresses and castles, and a thousand foot soldiers with a mixture of hot and cold weapons, they can basically be fortified. With the Manchu Qing's current siege ability, even if there is an army of 100,000, there is no possibility that Laoshan will be captured in the short term.

Laoshan Mountain, this is the current name of the area in front of Fushan, and this is the current name of Qingdao in later generations. Jiang Zhe's official title is 'Laoshan Governor', which is very different from the Ming system.

In terms of troops, it is similar to the generals stationed in one place.

"Zheng Zhilong is really good at choosing places." The current Laoshan Zheng Jun is not easy to fight. Nikan said with emotion, and then returned to the camp without looking back.

There's no need to look any further.

A series of small bastions, and the chances of unplugging them smoothly are nil. But the sad thing is that even if it is difficult to fight here, the current Qing Dynasty must fight a dozen.

"Where is Sun Zhiqi?"

This eunuch of the former Ming Dynasty is one of the few people in Qilu who took the initiative to serve the Qing Dynasty. I had a connection with Yanjing when I was a year old, and if it weren't for Wang Aoyong, a Qilu person, in my hands, I wouldn't have been able to guarantee that this errand to appease Qilu would have fallen on Sun Zhiji's head.

And now Sun Zhiqi has become the governor of Denglai in the Qing Dynasty.

"Sun Zhiqi is still in Pingdu Prefecture, and the Green Flag soldiers under him can't be counted on for the time being."

Although the Rizhao incident hindered the Manchu Qing's appeasement plan, it was Dengzhou, not Laizhou, that was most affected. The matter in Laizhou has long been over, and those who should have surrendered have surrendered early, so how can they change jobs now?

Sun Zhiqi has been concentrating on the management of his Green Flag soldiers in Pingdu Prefecture for a while, even if Liu Zeqing has been appointed as the chief military officer of Dengzhou, Sun Zhiqi is still very keen on the armed forces of some landlords in the local areas at hand.

Today's Manchu can't be regarded as a grass platform, but the rules and regulations are still very ridiculous. Civilian officials wielding military power abound.

It is not difficult to understand that Sun Zhiqi was keen to integrate the landlord forces in Laizhou.

Even if his standard camp reaches the sky, there are only 3,000 people.

At this time, the Manchu Qing Dynasty invested in Qilu without dividing the Manchu and Han forces, and the total number of troops had reached 80,000.

There are no less than 30,000 Eight Banner soldiers in it, and the rest are either soldiers like Liu Zeqing, or the Green Flag soldiers formed with Baoyi and Ahanikan who followed the entry into the customs as the backbone, or the landlord armed forces recruited by Fang Dayou and Sun Zhiqi.

The latter's combat effectiveness is very weak, and the equipment is also very rubbish, but it is always possible to deal with ordinary people. And in this way, you can also marry the gentry and landlords.

That's really different from Qilu in history.

Historically, the Manchu Qing Dynasty invested more than 20,000 troops in Qilu at most, and the main force was soon transferred, after all, the main forces of Nanming and Li Zicheng were not in Qilu, and there were only some bandits who were 'fighting and making trouble'.

For example, Wang Jun, who held the calf in Lunan, was called the 'King of Nine Mountains' in his heyday, not because he was the king, but because he ruled over the mountains at his peak.

Xie Qian broke several county towns and killed several big landlords, so he was called the first giant in Qilu, but he was only 'Kou'.

Ke Yongsheng, the deputy general of Jiaozhou (the Han army with the red flag), with the four thousand green flag soldiers under his command, almost swept away all the anti-thieves on the face of Qi Luming, and it was so easy that it was almost unusual.

But what about now? The Tartars invested 80,000 people in Qilu, and only 10,000 and 8,000 banners were left in the hands of Haoge, the nominal commander of the Southern Route Army, in Kaifeng. Nikan also brought their newly obtained Hongyi cannon, which was originally used to fight with Li Zicheng in Tongguan, taking advantage of Li Zicheng's two sides to fight, defeating Li Zicheng's main force, sweeping Guanzhong, and subduing the army of Ganshan, and now they are all pulled to Qilu......

That is, Zheng Zhilong does not have a deep understanding of history, otherwise he would definitely say: Lao Tzu saved Lao Li again.