Zamparini kicked over a thug who had taken advantage of the robbery, and then two able-bodied Xhosa men struck him with sheathed sabers and dragged him away. This hooligan was under the banner of Dashun, but he was doing the trick of taking advantage of the troubled waters to fish and rob the people's property, and Zamparini, who thought he was quite upright, suddenly couldn't bear it, kicked it over, and then handed it over to the Xhosa people of the Eight Banners New Army to supervise the transportation of supplies.

The people on the east bank did not suffer any casualties, and they occupied the county seat of Zhanhua along the way. The county magistrate and the gentry who owed the blood debt of Dashun in the rebellion last year have fled, but the monks can not walk the temple, and some of the belongings they left in the city, such as silk, cloth, grain, livestock, etc., are difficult to take away, and now these have been confiscated by the people on the east coast as enemy property.

As usual, all prisoners in prison were released without asking for reasons; Luo Tiansheng, who followed, led a group of subordinates and began to work hard to recruit volunteer reclamation personnel; The soldiers who stood up began to count the treasury and collect livestock; The cavalry brigade was on guard outside the city, and everyone was in good order. Because doing this qiē is so familiar, there is a fixed program.

"Hurry up and get some rest, we're going to leave again." Deputy Company Commander Gao Shan walked over and patted Zamparini's shoulder, and quietly threw a Jade Guanyin who he didn't know where to touch it into his pocket: "Little Matteo is about to graduate in a few years, right?" My uncle hasn't given him a gift yet, well, I heard that he's a devout Buddhist, and he's going to love it. With that, he slowly paced away whistling.

Zamparini sighed after looking left and right to make sure no one saw their loot, and then straightened his clothes. Walk towards the city gates. The duty of their army was to clear the city of any resistance elements that might be in place. At the same time, it is also to supervise whether the standing team has any bad deeds of violating military discipline. Now that the matter has been dealt with more or less completely, it is time to withdraw.

Since the Qing army in Shandong has basically gathered near Yantai Fort, now let alone other prefectures, even Jinan Mansion only has more than 1,000 Qing troops in Jinan City, and the rest of the places are afraid that there are no half soldiers, mainly relying on the gentry and landlords to support the scene. And the combat effectiveness of those landlords' armed forces is not looked down upon by the people on the east coast, but they themselves are too scum. The level is not even comparable to the 15-18 squadron of the East Coast people in Zhanhua City, which has not been formed for a long time. At the very least, the soldiers in the Stand Up Team are well-nourished, well-trained, and able to receive their salaries on time, and the longer the gap between them, the greater the gap between them. Therefore, the people on the east coast swaggered around in Zhanhua City, not worrying at all about the nearby Qing army coming to harass them.

At present, the war situation in Shaanxi is entering a critical moment, and as long as the Qing army makes more efforts, it can almost completely destroy Li Chuang's will to resist and reap the victory in the first battle that will determine the fate of the north. After defeating Li Chuang, the rest of the people were not afraid, except for Zhang Xianzhong's Great Western Army, which also had a little bit of troops that could pull out. Nanming's army was simply unbearable, and the occupation of Nanjing was just around the corner. Therefore. At this time, the main force of the Qing army in the north, except for a small part of the main force that remained in western Henan to continue to clear the local remnants of the Dashun army, the main force of more than 200,000 people had basically gathered in northern Shaanxi and Tongguan, and the vast (Hebei), Shandong, most of Henan, and most of Shanxi had few troops except Tianjin.

Tianjin is an important town of the Qing army, stationed in the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners troops, relatively elite, of course, there are many cannon fodder armies, which is the closest threat to the people on the east coast. However, the staff officers unanimously judged that the Qing army would not transfer the troops here to any place, and this force was to defend Beijing. At the beginning, Dashun launched an offensive in Henan, and the Manchu Qing only transferred troops from everywhere, but never moved this army in Tianjin. The Qing army in Jinzhou is the same, since the Qing army entered the customs, they have moved many artillery foundries and blacksmith shops (making zuò armor) originally located in Shenyang to Jinzhou one after another, which can be regarded as a rare "industrial town" in the area controlled by the Qing court, so they are also stationed in the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners for defense. In the same way, the soldiers here will not be lightly moved.

After such an analysis, the Manchu Qing Dynasty really had no usable soldiers in this vicinity. The mobile force of nearly 70,000 men in this vast area was all taken to Yantai by Haoge, and nearly 60,000 troops were placed under the city of Yantai, except for some troops who escorted grain and grass on the way and were stationed in important strongholds in Qingzhou, Laizhou, and Dengzhou. Even after the current battle, there are still about 50,000 people left, and the army on the east bank that pinned them down is only a few more than 4,000 people and a fortress.

At present, the Qing army outside Yantai City should have known the news of the division of troops in the east coast army, and most of them knew about it on the morning of the 28th, but the east coast fleet sailed out more than 70 nautical miles in one night, and this distance said to the Qing army that it would take a week to walk, even if it was a horse team, it was obviously unrealistic to catch up. Therefore, the people on the east coast who are currently transporting things and people in Zhanhua County do not need to worry too much for the time being, even if Haoge withdraws his troops from Yantai on the spot, it will take more than a month for the infantry team to come here, and it will take more than ten days for the horse team, so there is no need to worry at all. What's more, he didn't know where the East Coasters had gone, and his first reaction was definitely that the East Coasters were going to do it again, attacking those quarries. Moreover, it is still a question whether they dare to withdraw their troops, Mo Ming is inclined to think that the Qing army may transfer some of the Eight Banners or Mongolian horse teams to Jinan, but who cares? We're not going to stay here long anyway.

In this small county town, the people of the east coast only seized a pitiful amount of more than 1,000 stone of grain, more than 4,000 taels of silver, dozens of livestock, and some silk, books, and other things. In addition, there are more than 500 volunteer reclamation teams. To be honest, this number still surprised Mo Ming, because at the end of last year, the East Coast people only recruited more than 100 people in Jiaozhou, and the gap is still very big compared with now. It seems that even the people of the relatively wealthy Jinan Mansion are not living well, and in this green and yellow season, I believe that many people have run out of cooking.

The Jinan Dayou is urging the class very urgently, and the tens of thousands of Qing troops under the city of Yantai have consumed a huge amount, and in the next few days, the life of the ordinary people in Shandong will be even more difficult. This will undoubtedly force many people who have just escaped from the "thieves' nest" to go up the mountains and fall into the grass again. As a result, Shandong's social production order has never been effectively restored. Yan zhòng restrained the Qing court's next move.

In fact, this is also a good thing, Haoge in the Yantai area should have given up his plan to conquer Yantai Fort. Looking at the number of his roads, it is clear that he wants to dig a long trench and build a long siege near Yantai Fort, weaken the role of this valuable land advance base on the east bank, and even completely abandon it. In this way, Yantai Fort is no different from those overseas islands, and its value is greatly reduced. Moreover, will the Qing army implement the relocation and sea ban in Deng, Lai, and Erfu in the future. What about a long-term confrontation with the East Coasters? No one knows about this! Mo Ming only knows that it is a little bit to be able to catch a little people now, but it is not a cat or a dog, after all, the food is not abundant. The first person to recruit is a skilled person, followed by a young person, and finally it is best to be voluntary, otherwise it will be a troublesome thing to get over.

On April 3, after leaving 500 soldiers to transport supplies and personnel to the flotilla moored in the sea, the army on the east coast, which had been entrenched in Zhanhua County for a day, set off again. They turned south and marched quickly for most of the day, and then arrived at the foot of Binzhou just before the sun set. There were originally some Qing army generals at the head of Binzhou City, but after seeing the east bank army pull out a few cannons. The gang immediately dispersed and slipped away directly through the south gate. That's it. Once again, the East Coasters took possession of the state city without bloodshed, as easily as an armed march - in fact, it was about the same.

Since today is the fifth day of the landing of the East Coasters, many well-informed gentlemen have already packed up and left, so the harvest of the East Coast people in the city is also pitiful. In a state city, only more than 1,700 stone of grain, 500 stone of black beans, more than 100 mules and horses, and a small amount of silver and silk tea were harvested. At the same time, the recruitment of personnel was also carried out relatively smoothly, and in just one night, nearly 1,000 people were recruited from the east coast. These people were also suffering from the taxes imposed by the Qing court, and they couldn't survive in the local area, so they simply followed these unknown Haikou to the sea to reclaim the wasteland. No matter how bad it is, it's just a death, what are you afraid of!

In the next five days from April 4, the East Coast Army galloped across the area northeast of Jinan Province, conquering Wudingzhou, Potai, and Lijin counties in succession, and finally arrived off the coast of Lijin County on the evening of April 8, where it joined the fleet that had moved south. The subsequent transfer of supplies, personnel, and livestock to the ship continued for another two full days, and was not officially concluded until the morning of the 11th.

At this time, it had been twelve days since the people on the east coast landed in the Zhanhua open sea, and on this morning, the fastest Qing army had just arrived nearby. This Qing army, which was the backbone of the Dong Xueli part of the green battalion that had been withdrawn from the Yantaibao area, mixed with some miscellaneous armed forces, picked up a bargain, and they "recovered" the county seat of Lijin after the retreat of the people on the east bank. It is foreseeable that they will continue to "recover" Potai, Wudingzhou, Binzhou, Zhanhua and other four counties in the future, and their luck is really good.

In fact, Mo Ming himself was quite surprised by the speed of the Qing army, and he was also surprised that they could make up nearly 3,000 people. Because it took them two or three days to get the news, and then they discussed countermeasures, mobilized troops, raised supplies, and then went to Binzhou, and 12 days was really efficient. However, Mo Ming also scoffed at the strength of this Qing army, there were not enough 3,000 people, and the ordnance and clothing were also messy, it seemed that its combat effectiveness was just like that, and it was estimated that they would never dare to touch the people on the east coast.

After sending two steam engine sailing ships and a flute-type transport ship to deliver supplies, the East Coast Army left Laizhou Bay with the remaining five ships, headed north into Bohai Bay, and sailed to the vicinity of Dagu at the mouth of the Haihe River on April 13. At this time, the two gunboats and two armed transport ships of the East Coast Navy Fleet were in full swing, sinking more than a dozen small ships of the Qing army in one fell swoop, and damaging a lot of the few naval baby bumps of the Qing court. Due to the important geographical location of Dagu, the Mongolian horse team of the Tianjin garrison soon arrived, but by this time the east coast fleet had quietly left.

On April 15, the East Coast Fleet appeared off the coast of Leting County, Luanzhou, Yongping Province. After sending a small force to successfully land in a day and a half, led by a local guide, the troops on the east bank hurried overnight with torches, and advanced to the city of Leting County at noon on the 17th. The morale of the slightly tired soldiers on the east bank was still high, and they opened their cannons and spent half a day directly blasting through the city walls. The rest of the day was a logical one, and after the soldiers on the east bank plundered the county seat and executed a number of captured Qing officials, they rested for the night. Then early the next morning, he left the county town with the booty and some volunteers, and walked towards the sea. At this time, the main force of the Qing army, which is closest to Leting County, has just finished its whole team, preparing to march from Qian'an to Leting, and it is believed that by the time they arrive here, the people on the east coast have already been far away for a long time. (To be continued......)