The 27th Field Brigade has been resisting Hong Chengchou's Qing army for more than 10 days in Tai'an Province, and because of the cooperation of a militia brigade, Hong Chengchou's Qing army has only come with some cold weapon troops, relying on the superiority of troops to attack the 27th Field Brigade, so the 27th Field Brigade can still hold on, not to hold but to be at ease, and a firearms unit to fight an all-cold weapon unit has always been invincible in the past 10 years or so.

Hong Chengchou's Qing army initially knew that when the Qing army mobilized troops to counterattack, it retreated, and later in order to meet Tian Bin's rebels, only tens of thousands of troops from the township Yongjia Green Battalion were sent to think that they could sweep away the rebel troops of the Qing army, however, they miscalculated, Hong Chengchou previously mobilized here The two new army town troops were rebelled by the Qing army, in front of the court and the rebels, in the face of righteousness and rebellion, these two forces were quickly disintegrated by the shrewd Han officials loyal to the Qing Dynasty, and smoothly took over the troops with the Manchu Qing soldiers.

So Hong Chengchou Qing army made wedding dresses for others, which is also the reason why Hong Chengchou did not dare to send people to go when he heard that Tian Bin was besieged, and waited for several days, after that, Hong Chengchou sent Feng Quan to lead the troops to go, but it was too late, the Qing army not only captured Jining Mansion, but also captured Weifang Mansion and Qingdao Mansion, leaving Hong Chengchou Qing Army with little territory in Shandong Prefecture.

Hong Chengchou personally led his elite new army town 100,000 troops, five new army town old troops, five Han army banners and green battalion troops, with a total strength of 150,000 troops to recapture Jining Mansion, Qingdao Mansion, Laiwu County, Linyi Mansion, and other places, and captured half of Shandong Prefecture, but Weifang Mansion repelled his attack of 50,000 troops because of a Manchu army of nearly 10,000 and his 13,000 troops of the rebellious new army town, plus 10,000 Xiangyong and 30,000 troops organized by Han officials and Manchu officials in the city. As a result, his troops had to retreat to Qingdao Prefecture.

After that, Tian Bin switched to the Huaxia Army, the angry Hong Chengchou couldn't speak for a few days, Feng Quan was also depressed for a few days, and then Feng Quan went to manage the transferred arsenal of Linyi Mansion, Hong Chengchou reorganized the troops to attack Weifang, and after the other way took Jining Mansion, he rested for a period of time to attack the Huaxia Army in Tai'an Mansion, but under the block of the cavalry brigade, they couldn't attack for a while, and later the cavalry brigade got reinforcements from the 27th Field Brigade, and stabilized the defensive line, and took the opportunity to capture Laiwu County, where the Qing army formed an encirclement situation.

After the 26th Field Brigade repelled Duolong's attack under the planning of Lu Bao, the Huaxia Army returned to surround Jinan Mansion and wiped out 30,000 Manchu garrisons in only one day and night.

The 27th Field Brigade moved to Laiwu County, the 4th Cavalry Brigade followed the 5th Field Brigade to attack Weifang Province, Jinan Mansion left the Guards Regiment to take over the defense of Jinan Province, and the 1st Guards Brigade took over the defense of Tai'an Province.

Soon after, the 24th Field Brigade also withdrew to assist the 5th Field Brigade in garrisoning the localities, and at the same time assigned troops to garrison Liaocheng and Jinan Prefecture.

With them, the entire third strategic goal is achieved.

The Fifth Field Brigade successfully hit the seaside, at this time Zhang Ying also recovered from the state of dormancy for two years, led the First Fleet of the First Naval Division to land in Laizhou, Dengzhou Coast, and the Fifth Field Brigade to reconcile, and sent supplies to Jinling Mansion, and at the same time at sea with Huang Wu, Shi Lang's Qing Army Naval Division fought several naval battles, and successfully defeated the Hong Chengchou Naval Division, which had not many ships, at this time also caused a large number of officers and soldiers of the Qing Army Naval Division led by Shi Lang to turn north to defect to the Qing Imperial Court, and the angry Hong Chengchou vomited blood.

Hong Chengchou had to withdraw his army and go back to rectify the sailor, and when he settled in the backyard, he replaced the generals of the sailor division with his own people, a guy with Huang Zhongbing, before he turned around and stormed Weifang, because where is the arsenal set up by Feng Quan in Weifang, and he can get back a large number of his craftsmen, raw materials, and various machinery, lathes and other items purchased from the foreign Taixi people who have partnered, so that he can continue to manufacture the Jingai 2 arquebus that they have imitated, and the arsenal he has tossed back in Linyi is still too small, It will not be able to meet the future research and development and supply of weapons.

In one go, he transferred nine new army town troops, a large part of which were equipped with the Jingai-2 arquebuses that he had kept from the warehouse, some of them were equipped with the new-style Jingai-1 arquebuses, some of them were equipped with the old-style Jingai-1 arquebuses, and there were also 60,000 Han army flags and green battalion troops, which were also equipped with the shotguns of the former Qing army and some pre-Jingai-1 tenths of versions of arquebuses captured and purchased from the Huaxia Army. It can be said that his unit is the unit with the highest degree of firearms equipment in China, except for the Huaxia Army.

In addition, 40,000 young and strong and rural brave troops were dispatched to take charge of logistics.

As for Jining Prefecture, he set up three new military towns that had been newly formed for one or two years, as well as a Mongolian cavalry that had been rebelled, a green battalion unit, a rebel Han army banner unit, and a small number of Manchu soldiers who were willing to follow him, with a total strength of more than 60,000.

It can be said that in order to regain the territory of more than half of Shandong Prefecture, he almost went out, but don't think that he has no troops on the Yangtze River defense line, his Yangtze River defense line has been impregnable after more than ten years of construction, and only a small number of troops can contain a large number of troops of the Huaxia Army, if the Huaxia Army wants to be strong, with the advanced weapons and ships that are only two levels higher than them now, it may not be possible to take it at the cost of a small number of casualties, so Jin Qi did not move, but kept harassing, The garrison water division of the Huaxia Army on the Yangtze River was used to shell and harass the troops on the other side's riverbank.

To this end, Hong Chengchou also left behind more than 100,000 green battalion troops equipped with the old arquebus of Jin Gai 1 and hundreds of cannons weighing thousands of pounds during the Qing and Ming army periods, in addition to the inspection of the Han cavalry troops established by Hong Chengchou, as well as seven old new army town troops, and two new army town troops composed of township Yong who were newly formed for less than three months.

Jin Qi, who did not receive Zhang Qiang's actions, did not dare to take the opportunity to attack, Jin Qi was a person who fought guerrilla warfare, dealt with the enemy on the grassland, and was a good hand at intelligence work, if he was allowed to attack, manage more than 100,000 elite troops of the Huaxia Army, and at the same time have to coordinate more than 100,000 militias, tens of thousands of garrison troops, and elite field brigade troops, he would not have so much courage and ability.

This has to be Wei Wuji, of course, Wei Wuji did not receive Zhang Qiang's attack order, he did not dare to move, Zhou Congee was busy with civil affairs, and he did not have time to deal with this set, he obeyed his duties and duties, since he has become a civilian official, he will not interfere in military politics, serve as his prime minister well, and develop the internal affairs of the Huaxia Army is what he does.

Of course, Zhang Qiang, who was in Jinan Prefecture, did not want civilian officials to interfere in military politics, which was his territory, and he did not want his troops to risk huge risks and casualties to attack the enemy's impregnable defensive line.

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