"Kill them all!" Chen Zhilong, who had a blister at the corner of his mouth, said in a hoarse voice. As his words fell, the wolf-like soldiers behind him pushed a group of officers dressed in general's uniforms to the ground, and then under their weeping and wailing, a dozen or so still steaming heads rolled down on the snowy ground.

"General Chen, I hope you will purge your troops more in the future, and don't let the things in front of you repeat themselves. To tell the truth, if it weren't for General Dong Xueli Dong to guarantee his military merits this time, I am afraid that you would not have passed the test so easily, I hope you will do it yourself, I will rush to the front to report to Mo Dashuai, and there will be a period later. The deputy captain of the first brigade of the standing team arched his hand to Chen Zhilong, and then rode away with his entourage.

Today is January 16th, two days after the great battle of 15,000 men besieging the Gaodi Division. On the afternoon of the 14th, after Dong Xueli's department shook the enemy's battle line for a while, Gao Di was ruthless and personally organized his family to personally press Dong Xueli's department back. However, after the battle reached midnight, Gaodi, who had suffered many casualties, knew that the general situation was gone and began to order a breakthrough.

The remaining more than 10,000 Qing troops selected the weaker Chen Zhilong as the breakthrough point. Driven by the will to survive in death, they actually broke through more than 5,000 soldiers and horses of Chen Zhilong's division deployed on the east side in a battle, and then took advantage of the dark night to swarm and break through, regardless of the formation, and fled towards Yimeng Mountain in the east like a desperate person.

Mo Ming, who learned that the enemy had broken through, immediately ordered the whole team to pursue, and the forward team and the cavalry brigade were the first to set off, followed by the South African Eight Banners New Army, and then the East Coast Army. As for Chen Zhilong, who let the Qing army break out that night. Mo Ming originally planned to be dismissed and investigated. Fortunately, Dong Xueli used his military exploits as a guarantee. At the same time, Mao Desheng also advised Mo Ming not to do this kind of thing that might cause the doubts of the generals for the time being, so Chen Zhilong was lucky to stay in office. However, the more than ten generals under his command who took the lead in escaping last night were not so lucky, Chen Zhilong, in order to show his intentions, under the supervision of the officers on the east coast, personally ordered to behead these dozen or so old brothers who had followed him for many years, which was regarded as giving Mo Dashuai an explanation.

As for the more than 10,000 soldiers and horses of the Gao Di Division who broke out of the encirclement, they continued to lose their troops and lose their troops under the rapid pursuit of the army on the east bank. In the end, they were hit by the cavalry on the east coast, and most of them were surrounded by the calf in the Yimeng Mountains. Only less than 1,000 horsemen, under the leadership of Gao Di's gang, were lucky enough to escape from the pursuit of the army on the east coast and fled south in the direction of Xuzhou. After chasing for a while, the cavalry brigade led by Yang Mingyang ran back, and his mother's Gao Di ran faster than a rabbit, and disappeared in the blink of an eye!

At this time, there were still six or seven thousand Qing troops surrounded by calves, and there were many middle and high-ranking officers. These Liao soldiers were not as "undisciplined" as the Qing army from the Shun or Ming armies, they were always more rigid, and they looked down on the Guannai army, and it was even more difficult for them to surrender to them -- especially when the Qing court liked to reuse the "old Liaodong people."

After surrounding this Qing army. Mo Ming thought about it for a while, and transferred Ding Mingwu, who was still on the way to Yizhou, back. Let him take turns with Zhai Congge, Dong Xueli and others to launch a general attack on this Qing army, while taking this rare opportunity to sharpen the troops. This Qing army was doomed, and once they were eliminated, the more than 15,000 people who crossed the river in the Gaodi Department were almost wiped out. Gaodi only had less than 1,000 cavalry left, in addition to the 5,000 weak soldiers left in Hexi, and the old man almost lost everything. After the news spreads, the rest of the Qing army commanders should take this as a warning: that is, don't be the first bird to provoke the yellow-clothed thief!

After defeating this Qing army, Mo Ming began to send scouts to contact more than 7,000 people under Li Wenchang's command, who had already moved south from Jining Prefecture, and asked them to come to the side of the Qiangu together, and then join forces to Yizhou, and finally arrive at Haizhou on the shore of the Yellow Sea, to obtain key supplies from the naval ships anchored in the sea.

While waiting for Li Wenchang's troops to arrive, Mo Dashuai finally considered the future arrangements for the Far East. He wrote down his arrangements in a letter, which he would forward to Shao Shude when the time came. He and Shao Shude have been friends for many years, and both of them are members of the same interest group, so it is better to hand over some things to him in private.

The first was the leading figure of the Far Eastern army after his departure, where he recommended Mao Desheng and asked Shao Shude to write back to his homeland to ask the Executive Committee to extend Mao Desheng's term. Mao Desheng is the company commander of the 104th Company, and he usually does not have much contact with the Standing Team system, so it should not be a big problem to appropriately extend his tenure for a few years. Anyway, the 104th Company will be rotated back to the mainland next year, and Mao Desheng, who has lost his descendants, will not be able to play too many tricks - and he doesn't need to play any tricks.

In the last few battles, Mo Ming has always let Mao Desheng serve as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy and command specific battles, so Mao Desheng can be regarded as an experienced veteran. In the future, there will be no more military and political strongmen like Mo Dashuai who can grasp everything, Shao Shude does not know soldiers, but he is old, has a big face, and can manage, so it is not a problem to preside over the overall work; Wei Boqiu, the deputy commander of the gendarmerie, can be in charge of economic and diplomatic work, and this gentleman is also versatile - maybe a little smarter, but it does not hinder the overall situation, and letting him preside over economic work should be able to relieve the Heishui region from the brink of collapse by Mo Dashuai.

In this way, Shao Shude of the Far East presided over the overall work, and Mao Desheng and Wei Boqiu were his deputies, who were respectively responsible for the military and economic aspects, and this political structure should also be quite stable for a period of time.

Before leaving, Mo Dashuai also left one last gift for perhaps the most wonderful peak career of his life: using the 780,000 taels of silver and a large amount of materials looted from Jining Prefecture and other places as guarantees, he selected capable men from the whole army (the Advance Team, the Servant Army, and the Surrendered Army) to form the Fourth Brigade of the Stand Up Team - the preparatory work for this brigade had already begun, and hundreds of Japanese samurai and savage Jurchen tribesmen had already been recruited.

After the formation of the Fourth Brigade of the Advance Team, the total strength of the Stand Up Team system will reach 9,500 people, which will be quite beneficial to stabilizing the territory occupied by the Heishui Pioneer Team in Shandong. As for the resulting additional maintenance costs of more than $150,000 a year, what does it matter to him? Anyway, he's about to pat his ass and leave.

He believed that Shao Shude would form the fourth brigade of the forward team. Because he learned from some recent letters from Yantai that Shao Shude was already sending people to repair and rebuild the city walls of Ninghai Prefecture and Weihaiwei. In addition, Dengzhou City has already been rebuilt. And a certain number of cannons were placed.

It is said to be under the construction of Wei Boqiu. Shao Shude will hand over these cities to some servant army to defend them. For example, Dengzhou City was originally going to be handed over to Chen Zhilong - of course, now that this matter is yellow, Chen Zhilong is newly defeated, and Mo Ming is ready to build yì to change his flood land to Ninghai Zhou City. And Dengzhou City, Mo Ming is willing to hand it over to Dong Xueli, this guy is afraid that he can't turn back now, and the combat effectiveness of the troops is also strong, so it is more reassuring to hand over Dengzhou City to him. Finally, there is the relatively old Weihai Acropolis, Mo Ming thought about it and decided to build it and Shao Shude handed over the city to Xie Qian. This man was at odds with the Manchus, and there was no doubt about his loyalty, and if the east coast supported them with some more weapons and armor, and sent officers to reorganize his troops, he should be able to hold the small seaside city of Weihaiwei.

The above people are all a ragtag army formed by this levy, these people have recently surrendered, and the capital under their hands is not weak, if they are rashly sent to the Heishui area or some other bitter cold place, it will inevitably make people have a bad opinion, so it is more reliable to place them in Dengzhou. Anyway, it wasn't the army of the East Coast system that was defending those walled cities. It's all a servant army, and I don't feel sorry if I die.

And Mo Mingtong guò found out after coracting with Shao Shude. It seems that he is also preparing to hand over Dengzhou to some servant generals to run - of course, all the policies, directives, and plans in the early stage must be done by the people on the east coast. For example, in the past month, Shao Shude has ordered the protection of the few remaining landlords' property in Dengzhou and Laizhou, and at the same time distributed a large amount of unclaimed land to some Ming displaced people who have poured in from war-torn places such as Qingzhou and even Jinan, so that they can level the wasteland and dig ditches there, and prepare to start sowing seeds after the spring of the following year.

As for the few remaining landlords, Shao Shude also insisted that they reduce rents and interest rates, reduce the burden on the peasants, and at the same time pay taxes on time and must not evade taxes. Under such a move, with the news of Mo Dashuai's successive victories in Jinan Mansion, the situation in Dengzhou Mansion suddenly changed greatly, and there was a hint of order.

Of course, Shao Shude dared to do this, and he also had a certain confidence. First of all, since last autumn, the people of the east coast have sent a large number of soldiers and soldiers to the four prefectures of Denglai and Qingji to harvest the grain in the fields on a large scale, and then except for some rations distributed to the local poor, the rest of the grain and many livestock have basically been transported to the vicinity of Yantai. With this food, Dengzhou will be able to feed a large number of people, and it will be possible to organize displaced people to recultivate the abandoned land.

Secondly, with the improvement of the quantity and quality of the army on the east coast, Shao Shude was not very afraid that the Qing army would drag hundreds or thousands of kilometers of supply lines to attack Dengzhou. What are you kidding, in the four provinces of Shandong, where the grain has been cut away by the people on the east coast, how can the rations of the army of more than 100,000 or 200,000 be so easy to raise? If you are transported thousands of miles from other places, I'm sorry, but if the people on the east coast, who control the sea, organize an "Inchon landing", then the army of more than 100,000 people in front will be in wax.

On January 20, Li Wenchang led some of the pioneers to Huggingu. At this time, the Qing army on the mountain has been worn out under repeated sieges, and at this time, Mo Dashuai no longer let his subordinates continue to sharpen the troops, he ordered the whole army to launch a final attack on the remaining more than 4,000 Qing troops on the calf, according to his words - rush to the calf, eliminate the Kaigui soldiers!

That night, most of the more than 4,000 Qing troops were killed and wounded, and the rest surrendered, and the main force of the ace army of Gaodi's department has been destroyed. On January 22, Mo Ming, who waited for the follow-up troops of Li Wenchang's army, led his army to Yizhou, and on January 26, the troops occupied it bloodlessly. On the 27th, the whole army continued southward, and finally reached the coast near Ganyu on February 2, and then began to load and unload supplies in preparation for the next combat operation, and Mao Desheng also began to temporarily take over the command. Mo Ming boarded one of the ships and prepared to return to Yantai with her family (Lola and two children). At this point, this man who once rose like a comet in Shandong and repeatedly slapped the face of the Qing court may leave this land forever. (To be continued......)