Hearing Li Dakai complain about the lack of people and land, Gao Hongtu just smiled: "How can there be no land?" Taiyi Mountain is very empty! If you cut down some of the trees on the hillside, won't you have land? ”

"However, this slope is not good for growing food, the slope is at a high place, it is easy to lack water, and the output is far less than that of flat land." Li Dakai shook his head and said, "Now there are three or four hundred thousand refugees in our Shandong governor's yamen, how much slope land do we have to reclaim?" ”

"You still know agronomy?" Gao Hongtu looked at Li Dakai with a smile and asked.

"Futai, although the lower official is a hereditary military position, his family is not very wealthy, and he is just a soldier and a farmer, so he also knows a little about farming."

Gao Hongtu smiled, "Then do you know sweet potatoes?" ”

"Vassal?" Li Dakai was stunned, "Vassal country or vassal king?" ”

"No, it is an agricultural product introduced from overseas, as big as a fist, the skin is vermilion, the heart is crisp and juicy, it can be eaten raw and cooked, the yield is high, and it is barren and barren."

"Oh, sweet potatoes!" Li Dakai remembered, "Xiaguan has eaten it, and it is very fragrant when grilled." ”

"This kind of thing can be grown anywhere, and it is drought tolerant and barren, and the yield is not low." Gao Hongtu said, "When the official was the head of the household department in Nanjing, he persuaded him to plant sweet potatoes in Nanzhi and knew its benefits. Therefore, at the end of last year, it was submitted to the Ministry of Households, wanting a batch of sweet potatoes to be seeded and widely planted on Taiyi Mountain. Now the household department is quite neat, and tens of thousands of stones have been sent...... With these sweet potatoes, we can build a military camp on Taiyi Mountain, thinking that it will last. ”

"That's great!" Li Dakai can rest assured at this time, "As long as there is food, three or four hundred thousand refugees can produce thirty or forty thousand elite soldiers...... Even if you can't fight the Tartars in the field, it won't be a problem to defend a fortress. ”

Gao Hongtu stroked his beard, and he was also triumphant, "Why not thirty or forty thousand elite soldiers?" There are also strong team exercises on the ground in Jinan, Yanzhou, and Qingzhou that can be driven! We have these tens of thousands of elite soldiers, are we afraid that they will be disobedient?

In addition, Zuo Zhong and many refugees over there were also able to farm and get tens of thousands of stone of sweet potatoes. As long as 20,000 or 30,000 Tuntian people can be raised, then the heroic group training in Denglaiqing Zhuzhou County can also be used for it. In this way, there will be no less than 100,000 available soldiers under this official and Zuo Zhong and his command! Even if the Tartars are elite soldiers, this official and Zuo Zhongji are not afraid of them!

The only thing I am worried about now is that there are nearly 200,000 soldiers and horses on the ground in Shandong, but there is no commander, so I have to fight on my own......"

This is a bit big, but at present, the defense of the Ming Dynasty in Shandong has indeed reached the most rigorous level after Yongle.

Not only has the guard system of Denglai Qingsanfu been rebuilt, but there are as many as 14 military guards (associations) under the jurisdiction of Shandong General Army and Luwangfu (Denglai Seven Guards, Qingzhou Four Guards, and Lu Wang Sanwei), which can pull out 20,000 or 30,000 elite guards at any time.

Moreover, Gao Hongtu, Zuo Maodi, and Shi Kefa also each pulled up a batch of group exercises!

In addition, on the ground in Shandong, there are two government commanders Li Shiyuan and Liu Zhiyu, and Sun Degong, Li Chengdong, and Li Huajing three "small general soldiers" -- now the general soldiers on Zhu Cihong's side are a bit indiscriminate, and in order to distinguish themselves from the top and bottom in a bunch of general soldiers, there are three levels of "provincial general soldiers", "government general soldiers" and "small general soldiers".

Among them, the provincial general soldier is the provincial general soldier, such as Li Ruolian's Shandong general soldier. The general army of the prefecture is the general army of a town guard, not every province has a general army, but a few state capitals have a general army.

And the so-called small general soldier is also known as the battalion commander, this battalion is not a battalion of the new army, but a certain battalion is hung under the provincial general soldier and the government general soldier, usually left, center, right or something. For example, the general army of the left battalion in Shandong and the general soldier of the right battalion in Jinan...... In fact, he is a miscellaneous general soldier, and some people have territory, but they can't make up enough for a house. Some of them have no land, or they are sent to the fence, or they are paid by the military department.

Sun Degong, Li Chengdong, and Li Huajing are such small commanders, each with several thousand men and horses, and they have also divided the territory of several prefectures and counties. Every month, he can also receive a contracted military fee from the Ministry of War, which is 15,000 taels of silver.

In addition, Shi Kefa and Su Guansheng (Governor of Liaodong, Governor of Denglai) have a supervision standard, and Gao Hongtu has a Fu standard, both of which are four or five thousand people.

This bits and pieces of a large number of soldiers and horses together, 200,000 people have!

Although there are a lot of people, the equipment and training are a bit out of place, and most of them are a bit of a rabble. And what is even more difficult to keep up with is that so many armies do not have a unified command!

It's not that Zhu Cihong doesn't know the importance of unified command, but that he really doesn't have a handsome talent who can take charge on his own.

If one of the three of Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting, and Lu Xiangsheng was still there, Zhu Cihong would have sent him to Shandong a long time ago.

But now he really has no one to send...... Gao Hongtu, Su Guansheng, Shi Kefa, Hou Sui, Ma Shiying, Lu Zhenfei, and He Tengjiao, who led the troops to the frontier, were actually laymen. Whoever you send there may be 200,000 troops buried in a single battle!

So Zhu Cihong simply came without a coach, but let everyone fight separately and defend their own stalls. Although this arrangement is not conducive to a decisive battle, it is conducive to delaying time, and as long as one of the four people, Gao Hongtu, Su Guansheng, Shi Kefa, and Zhu Yihai, persists in Shandong, the war situation in Shandong will not end.

Moreover, this arrangement is impossible to combine the strength of Shandong's 200,000 troops and the decisive battle of Duoduo. Duoduo wants to encircle the point and send reinforcements, and lure the Ming army on the ground in Shandong to Qufu City to eliminate it, I'm afraid he has to be a little patient.

After all, Shi Kefa, the governor of the seven provinces who seemed to be very big, could only supervise the area around Qufu County, and he was beaten to death by Duoduo, and it didn't matter what happened to Su Guansheng, Gao Hongtu, and Zuo Maodi.

However, Dolgon and Duoduo could not adapt to this situation for a while. Because they all know the Ming Dynasty too well - what a good opponent Emperor Chongzhen is, Li Zicheng wants to kill him now! Dorgon and Dorgon will surely miss him in a little while......

And Duoduo, who had just led the army to the deserted Liaocheng area, thought that unless Shi Kefa and Kong Yinzhi abandoned the Confucius tomb in Qufu and fled, as long as Qufu was besieged, I was afraid that there would be no Ming army to send him to death?

In the past, the Qing Dynasty besieged Jinzhou and fished out Hong Chengchou's hundreds of thousands of troops! What is this ancestral birthday? Can it be compared to the bones of Confucius? Those stupid scholars in the Southern Dynasty must be desperate to save them!

Thinking of this, Duoduo took his mind back and put it on the Liaocheng Castle in front of him.

"What's that?" Duoduo took a Western monocular and looked at the "city in the lake" in Liaocheng, "Why does it look like a grain bag?" ”

"Lord Wang, that's a sandbag." He Luo will know about the construction of the city on Juehua Island, "Nikan built a city with mud and sandbags on Juehua Island. ”

"With sandbags?" Duoduo laughed, "This can also be imagined, when the time comes, we will use the cannon and it will collapse immediately!" ”

"Not really!" He Luo would say, "Lord Wang, the Zhenghuang Banner Han Army under the command of the slave has cannons, do you want to let them try it?" ”

"What are you trying?" Duoduo smiled, "Even if we defeat the walls of Liaocheng, can we still swim over and attack the city?" ”

"That's what the prince said," He Luo would smile complimentarily, "but those Nikans are also stupid, thinking that they can stop my Qing Dynasty's heavenly soldiers with this little bit of water." When the weather is cool and the water freezes, we can easily break through the city. ”

Duoduo smiled, "I can't get to that then...... When we defeat the main force of the Shandong Ming Army in Qufu, Liu Zhiyu still dares to defend the city?

By the way, is Shi Kefa still in Qufu? ”

"Yes," He Luo said, "According to the spies, Shi Kefa and Kong Yinzhi are both in Qufu. And these days, Nikan in the northwest area of Yanzhou Prefecture has gone to Qufu, all pointing to Shi Kefa to save his life...... It seems that we don't need to work hard to drive people away, Qufu will be crowded with Nikan people. ”

Duoduo said with a smile: "Then send an order to Liu Liangzuo and Xu Dingguo, let them enter the army quickly, and within five days, the troops will come to Qufu City!" ”

"Wow!"