Ke Yongsheng ran away, and his army immediately collapsed. Hearing that the main general of the front line was defeated and retreated, the 3,000 troops surrounding Jiaozhou immediately retreated without a fight, and the siege of Jiaozhou City was lifted.

Seeing that the Qing army was fleeing, Zhao Yingyuan, the defender of Jiaozhou, immediately ordered Kaicheng to chase and kill, and personally led the troops out of the city, killing the Qing army in embarrassment and fleeing, leaving behind the corpses in one place.

When Wu Ping's overseer army arrived outside Jiaozhou City, Zhao Yingyuan personally came to meet Wu Ping, and heard that Wu Ping was a general under the Duke of Qi, and Zhao Yingyuan's attitude was extremely respectful.

Although he tried his best to persuade Wu Ping to rescue Jiaozhou, Li Yanzhi actually minded Zhao Yingyuan's identity as a thief, and had to think of relieving the siege of Jiaozhou for the sake of Shandong's anti-Qing trend.

Now that the Qing army has been defeated and retreated, Jiaozhou has been encircled, and Wu Ping, who is under the banner of Chen Yue, the Duke of Qi, Zhao Yingyuan's role is no longer so important, and the important land in Jiaozhou can no longer be occupied by Zhao Yingyuan, the remnant of the thief! Li Yanzhi then suggested to Wu Ping that Zhao Yingyuan be appointed as the commander-in-chief of Yinan and drive him to attack the southern part of Qingzhou.

The situation is stronger than people, although Zhao Yingyuan was unwilling to leave Jiaozhou, he was helpless in the face of the general trend of Huanghuang, so he could only lead his troops to the southwest.

The news of the victory in the battle of Jiaozhou quickly spread throughout the Jiaodong Peninsula, the gentry of the original Ming Dynasty in the provinces of Denglai in Qingzhou were inspired, and they raised their flags in response, and countless righteous men rose up, killed the official positions appointed by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and attacked various county seats. Only the capital city of Qingzhou, Dengzhou, Laizhou, was still under the rule of Manchu officials, but it was already in fear.

After the rebels from all over the country took action, they sent people to Jiaozhou to contact them, wanting to get the support of Qi Guogong. For the leaders of these rebel armies, Wu Ping temporarily entrusted them with military posts such as deputy generals and generals, and ordered them to lead the elite to Jiaozhou to converge.

Ten days later, the rebels from all walks of life gathered in Jiaozhou, bringing together more than 30,000 troops. However, after hearing that Wu Ping was only a general of Chen Yue, the Duke of Qi, and that he only brought seven sea ships and five or six hundred men and horses, everyone was slightly disappointed. originally thought that the imperial court was finally going to send troops to the Northern Expedition, but who knew that there were only so many people.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the imperial court will definitely not give up the northern provinces, and sooner or later it will be a northern expedition, but it was just defeated not long ago, and it will take some time to sort out the army. However, as the saying goes, those who save themselves will always save them, and those who love themselves will always love them. We can't count on the imperial court for everything, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was defeated by the Duke of Qi not long ago, and the Eight Banners lost more than 100,000 people, how many of them are the total number of Manchurians? The Manchu Qing Dynasty did not have the Eight Banners in Shandong at all, and only the green battalion like Ke Yongsheng remained in Shandong, so what was there to be afraid of? Now is the time for us to get up and down.

As long as we are united and obey the dispatch of General Wu Ping, there is no problem in defeating the Qing army and recovering the whole of Shandong! Meritorious deeds are just around the corner! ”

Li Yan raised his arms and shouted. Li Yanzhi has the identity of a lifter, and he is very famous in the Qinglai area, and his words hit the hearts of many people, making people's blood boil.

In addition to some of the leaders of these rebel armies are gentry, most of the others are local heroes, and even some ruffians and bandits, many people have no chance to get ahead in the peaceful years, but now it is different, the chaos in the world is the time for men to make meritorious contributions, and they may be able to fight for a high-ranking official and leave a foundation for their children and grandchildren!

As a result, many people made generous statements and vowed to serve the country, and they were inseparable from the Manchu Tartars.

Taking advantage of the high morale, Wu Ping began to reorganize these armies, and did not disrupt the establishment of them, and the leaders at all levels still held their original positions, but they transferred some elites from various departments to supplement their own Chinese army. He didn't draw much, and there were only dozens of people and one or two hundred people in each department, and the leaders of each department had no objections.

As a result, the army directly under Wu Ping expanded from the original 500 to 3,000 people, of course, the armor and weapons were somewhat incomplete.

Wu Ping selected veterans from his subordinates to serve as officers, and conducted drills according to the model of the Pingnan Army.

After the reorganization, several days of drills were carried out, mainly to practice the cooperation of various departments, and Wu Ping did not completely copy the training mode of the Pingnan Army for the various rebel troops, because he knew that most of these people were rabble, and they had their own affairs, and they could not be kneaded together in a short period of time. As long as everyone can do what they are told and cooperate. To fight a tough battle, you have to count on these 3,000 people directly under you.

On October 15, the eighteenth year of Chongzhen, Wu Ping led an army of 30,000, all over the banner to call 100,000 soldiers, began to attack the capital city of Laizhou, the Qing army defending the city only 5,000 green battalion soldiers, in the face of the overwhelming Ming army, there was no thought of resistance, and the city surrendered immediately.

Wu Ping sent his henchmen to occupy the treasury, and at the same time took the army seriously, sending the Zhenfu army to inspect the whole city, and strictly prohibiting burning, killing and looting.

He ordered the execution of the prefect and other officials appointed by the Qing Dynasty who surrendered, reorganized the surrendered Green Battalion army, and confiscated the property of the gentry who had defected to the Manchu Qing Dynasty to raise the army.

On October 20, the army invaded Dengzhou, there were 200 soldiers of the Eight Banners in Dengzhou City, and under the coercion of a leader, the general soldiers of the Dengzhou Green Battalion, the prefect of Dengzhou of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, led the army to fight to the death. In desperation, Wu Ping mobilized a fleet to reach the sea of Dengzhou, bombarded Dengzhou City with seven red-coated cannons on the ship, broke through the Dengzhou Water Gate, and organized the army to enter the city from the Water Gate in a small boat.

At the time of life and death, the green battalion soldiers did not want to be martyred for the Manchu Qing Dynasty anymore, and threw down their weapons and surrendered. The only remaining Eight Banners soldiers protected the Dengzhou prefect to break through, and they broke out of the encirclement under the rampage, and the rebels from all walks of life couldn't stop it.

Wu Ping was furious and ordered the Zhoushan army of his headquarters to rush up, and used grenades to blow up the array of the Eight Banners.

At the same time that Wu Ping led the army to capture the two prefectures of Denglai, Zhao Yingyuan, who was sent to the south of Qingzhou, exerted his might, and in the name of the official position granted by Wu Ping, he successively captured several prefectures and counties in the south of Qingzhou, gathered more than 20,000 troops, and then marched towards the capital of Qingzhou. Hearing that the Ming army was coming, the Manchu Qingzhou prefect abandoned the city and fled, and the Qingzhou Mansion was easily captured by Zhao Yingyuan.

At this point, the three prefectures of Qingzhou, Dengzhou, and Laizhou in eastern Shandong have returned to the Ming Dynasty, and further west is Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province!

At this moment, Fang Dayou, the governor of Shandong in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, was already in a panic.

In order to keep Jinan, Fang Dayou has mobilized most of the troops in Shandong to Jinan, but there are only more than 30,000 troops, and they are all green battalion soldiers.

Where did the Eight Banners go? The Eight Banners in Shandong had already been transferred back to Beijing by the Manchu court, so Fang Dayou was panicked. If Jinan is captured by the rebels, he will definitely not end well as a traitor!

But now that the three prefectures of Qingzhou, Laizhou, and Dengzhou in the east have fallen, I don't know when the Ming army will attack Jinan, and the already timid Fang Dayou does not dare to divide his troops to kill, he is afraid that he will not be able to keep Jinan City once the troops are sent here, because there have been several riots in Jinan Mansion. The only thing that can be done now is to ask the Manchu court in Beijing for help and ask the Eight Banners Army to come to Shandong to suppress the rebellion.

But Fang Dayou didn't know that the current Manchu court had also fallen into a crisis.