"I'll grass your ancestor!" Gao Cuihuan angrily scolded the twenty or so soldiers in front of him with their heads shrunk, but he didn't dare to step forward and beat them. He couldn't get out of his anger, and he was so anxious that he calmed down a little after a long time. He did not fail to learn a lesson, and during the training in Dabo, he beat some Korean soldiers under his command several times because they were not serious about their training. Who knew that these Koreans could not be trained, but they learned to make small reports, and they directly reported the beating of the non-commissioned officers by Gao Cuihuan to the training staff of the East Coast Army.

After listening to this, the training staff officer felt that it was not a big deal-because even the East Coast Army could not prevent officers from beating and scolding soldiers, but in the end, it was written in the military regulations that soldiers could not be beaten, so he pinched his nose and punished Gao Cuihuan, and fined him a month's military salary and training subsidy: six yuan and five jiao, which made this Yan'an man from Luo Rucai's peasant army depressed.

Of course, these North Korean soldiers did not get any good ends, and they basically did all the dirty work and heavy work in the future. This is clearly bullying you, and the officers on the east coast also turn a blind eye to this. Because these North Korean soldiers made a very bad start, they dared to denounce Shangguan for the crime of beating a non-commissioned soldier, which is worth it, how will the officers manage the soldiers in the future! As a result, they quickly came to a tragic end for breaking the unspoken rules of the East Coast Army.

This time it's these North Koreans again! In the routine confrontation with the 6th Squadron, they were the first to be unable to support the spears (without spear tips), and they were beaten backwards by the spearmen from the peasant army on the opposite side in just a few shots. Their rout caused a chain reaction, and the Japanese soldiers of the 6th Squadron immediately launched a decisive pig assault from the flank, after the last resistance. The East Coast officer, who was the referee, immediately ruled that the 5th Squadron was defeated. Let Gao Cuihuan, a strong man, be so hot again.

After this joust. The 5th Squadron is at the bottom of the list and will be responsible for washing, cooking, and cleaning all 8 squadrons of the 1st Brigade, which makes Gao Cuihuan not angry. In fact, cleaning is a trivial matter, and then it is said that the Manchu army is likely to come to capture Dengzhou, so the east coast army is bound to break out a big battle with them. The standing team will definitely not be able to stay out of the matter, and at this time, the combat effectiveness of the army is still like this, how can you make Gao Cuihuan not anxious. Today is the twenty-fifth day of July, according to the speed estimated by the staff officers. The Manchu army will arrive at Yantai Fort in about half a month, and at that time, you will go into battle with this rabble in your hands, aren't you joking with your own life.

However, Gao Cuihuan's worries were soon confirmed to be slightly delayed, and Li Zicheng, who was far away in Shaanxi, helped him a lot. On the first day of July, Li Zicheng ordered Li Guo to guard Yan'an, and then sent the generals Liu Zongmin, Tian Jianxiu and others to lead the army into Shanxi, Henan, and. July 11. Guo Sheng, an old friend of the East Coast people, led his troops from Henan to Wu'an, and then divided 300 musketeers to capture Linhao Pass. Stand for the front of the big army.

In the face of the large-scale counteroffensive of more than 100,000 people organized by Dashun, Wang Jing, who was on the front line of the halal, Shun, Guang, and general soldiers, immediately complained to the Qing court: "There are 800,000 thieves, and the troops are divided into three routes, and there are 300,000 Xuanda and Juyongguan along the way; 300,000 along the way; 200,000 in Zhangde and Shunde along the way"; "I beg to send soldiers quickly, and come in the starry night to save the dangerous frontier."

Far away in Beijing, the Qing regent Dolgon attached great importance to Li Chuang's counterattack, and he understood that the only enemies of the Manchus were peasant troops, because they were the only ones who could fight, and they were the most resolute in their will to fight. As for those Nanming troops, they are also called armies? Like papier-mâché, asking for military salaries and harming places is first-class, and fighting a war is a cheat. Even better, the monarchs and ministers of the Hongguang regime of the Southern Ming Dynasty were now begging for peace with the Qing army, and they also regarded the peasant army as the number one enemy, and "suppressed thieves" as their first priority. At present, the territory that the Qing army really controls is only in the Hebei area, and Shandong, Henan, and Shanxi are only partially appeased, which is far from effective rule. Therefore, Nanming did not come to trouble the Manchu Qing at this time, but went to trouble Li Zicheng, which made Dolgon smile and crooked his mouth, and at the same time, he also completely saw the essence of Nanming's weakness.

Originally, many Manchu nobles tended to retreat outside the pass, but at this time, when they saw the ugly state of the Nanming army crumbling under the coercion of the Qing army in the south, and the monarchs and ministers were so short-sighted, they all felt that they might really be able to sit in the world. Coupled with the constant demagogy of the surrendered Han ministers - if you don't destroy Nanming, you let them behave like traitors, Dolgon gradually strengthened his determination to seize the world.

And if he wants to seize the world, in Dolgon's view, the only enemy is the nearly 300,000 soldiers and horses under Li Zicheng. Li Zicheng's old battalion soldiers can still fight, which Dolgon knows very well, although it may not be as good as the elite of Manchuria, but it is still much stronger than Wu Sangui and Gao Erren's Guan Ning army. According to various intelligence, Li Zicheng took with him 20,000 or 30,000 old battalion soldiers when he retreated from Beijing; Among the more than 100,000 troops who are quelling the chaos in Gansu and Qinghai, there are many elites who can fight, about 30,000 or 40,000; Coupled with the scattered old battalion soldiers left behind in Shaanxi, Hubei, and Shanxi, Li Zicheng has about 60,000 or 70,000 troops in his hands.

As long as these 60,000 or 70,000 most capable troops are eliminated, the remaining 200,000 people will not be a problem at all, so that the Ming army under the command of Wu Sangui, Kong Youde and others can be defeated one by one. Therefore, Dolgon immediately mobilized a large number of Eight Banners and the integrated miscellaneous Ming army to Shanxi and Henan to attack Li Zicheng's army. The Gushan Ezhen Bahana, Shi Tingzhu and other departments that had already gone south to Jinan also urgently went to Shanxi to reinforce under the order of Dolgon, so that the Qing army in Shandong was suddenly only a few thousand people in the hands of Wang Aoyong, the head of the household department, Fang Dayou, the governor of Shandong, and others, among them, there were even only 600 soldiers stationed in such an important city as Jinan, and the emptiness was extremely empty.

Of course, emptiness is not emptiness is only known to Wang Aoyong, Fang Dayou and others, and it is difficult for outsiders to know the way. Even Mo Ming and others, who are far away in Yantai, are not from history majors, how can they know such details as Lu Dao? Some of the so-called "references" given to them by the local authorities are only sketched, and more detailed information is not available. Therefore, although the Manchu Qing Dynasty only had a few thousand soldiers and horses in Shandong, Wang Aoyong, a traitor with great courage, took advantage of the prestige of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and began to swindle and deceive, appeasing one state and county after another.

Moreover, with the Qing Ming army being appeased, the Qing court also sent a traitor Ke Yongsheng, who was born in the Han military banner, to be the chief military officer of Jiaozhou Town. After Ke Yongsheng took office, he took the hundreds of officers and soldiers of the Han Army with him as the core, and wantonly incorporated the surrendered Ming army, as well as the local townspeople and even bandits, in order to rapidly expand their strength. Wang Aoyong provided Ke Yongsheng with material support, and Ke Yongsheng became a solid backing for Wang Aoyong to appease the locality.

However, the Qing army added up to only a few thousand, and now it is already very difficult to control the four provinces. Moreover, there are still many places in the control area that have not yet been properly appeased. For example, Dashun County, Tai'an Prefecture, ordered Zhou Zuoding to resolutely not surrender, Wang Aoyong appeased several times before and after, Zhou Zuoding "refused to accept in the end", so he was never able to recover this county seat close to the elbow. In addition, the countryside of Shandong was full of tens of thousands of hungry people who rebelled against the "tough things and went against the scenes" such as Ma Yingjiao and Song Eryan, and tens of thousands of rebels rebelled against the "banner and big book of thieves", and the contact between the prefectures and counties of the Qing army was often cut off, which made Wang Aoyong and others have no intention of going east to occupy Laizhou for a while, but just blindly sent people to appease them.

Li Zicheng's large-scale counterattacks in Shanxi and Hebei forced the Qing court to shrink the front and transfer the main force back to deal with the fateful battle with Li Chuang. As a result, the situation in Shandong became even more chaotic, with the remnants of the Qing army, the Ming army, the remnants of the Shun army, local bandits, and people from the east coast each taking possession, all of which were making the most reluctant preparations before the big war.

After transferring all the 8 squadrons of the Standing Force to Yantai Fort, Mo Ming reorganized some of the newly recruited Shandan people, Japanese samurai and the remnants of the Shun Army who had taken refuge in them into 4 squadrons, all of which were transferred to Dabo and Heishui in the rear, and trained while stationing.

The 2,000 people of the eight squadrons in front of them have once again increased the intensity of training, striving to increase their combat strength before the big war. Even, Mo Ming was ready to let them go out to train in battle, adding some trouble to the Qing army. However, at present, most of the ships have gone to sea to fish, and it is inconvenient to transship for a while, so this idea has been temporarily shelved.

In addition to the standing team, most of the security team under Mo Ming's command, which had been increased to 200 people, was also released to make every effort to reconnoiter the external enemy situation, so that the people on the east coast of Yantai Fortress could have a rough idea in their hearts. In this way, a few days passed, until the last day of August, Zhao Yingyuan, who was far away in Qingzhou, suddenly sent someone to Yantai Fort to hand over a letter to Mo Ming, in which he said that Ke Yongsheng, the general soldier of Jiaozhou Town of the Qing Army, repeatedly transferred Zhao Yingyuan's troops to "suppress thieves", but Zhao Yingyuan dragged it out, and the Qing army has gradually lost patience with Zhao Yingyuan, so Zhao decided to do it anyway, and invited all the former Dashun generals such as Qin Shangxing, Guo Jiangpai, Zhai Wu Monk, Song Eryan and others to gather in Qingzhou to prepare for a big event. And Mo Ming is also one of his invitees.

"Zhao Yingyuan's guy, who was originally appeased by the Qing army because of his lack of strength, now sees that the Qing army wants to use the bandits to consume his strength, and this guy doesn't agree again. Damn, what's the hell, I just want to be an independent soil emperor. But it's okay for them to make such a fuss, it just so happens that the 1st Brigade of the Bench Team has been training for so long, and it's time to pull out the Lu and go for a walk, I want to see what the idea of this fight is. Mo Ming flicked the letter in his hand lightly and said with a smile. (To be continued......)