As early as more than half a month before Chen Yue set off from Nanjing, Lu Tai was ordered to take the fleet out of the Yangtze River into the sea and take the sea route to Shandong. The scale of the fleet was very large, and all the ships of the original war against the Western thieves were all brought aboard, with a total of six Western-style Galen warships, 23 ships with three masts and Daifuku, and a total of 60 ships with a total of 60 ships and sailors on board, carrying more than 25,000 soldiers along with the sailors on board, as well as supplies and baggage for the army, and more than 100,000 loads of grain on board.

From the Yangtze River into the sea, the speed of the boat was extremely fast, but when it passed Chongming to the north, the speed suddenly slowed down. Because of the northwest monsoon, the fleet is headwind, and can only take a zigzag to borrow the wind, afraid of getting lost and not daring to stay away from the coast, driving is quite difficult. Fortunately, there are few big winds and waves in winter, and the road is quite peaceful. In this era, the navigation technology was very developed, and the ships in the fleet had excellent ability to resist the wind and waves.

After drifting on the sea ship for nearly two months, only occasionally getting off the land for half a day to rest, and now that I finally arrived at the place, I naturally had to go ashore and station. Jiaozhou Bay is a good port in the north, and there are some simple wharves on the coast, which are mostly used by fishing boats to go out to sea to fish. Seeing a large fleet of boats entering the bay, the fishermen were very scared at first, until they saw that it was the flag of the Ming Dynasty, and they trembled to meet it.

Except for the army of General Wu Ping, the general soldier of Dengzhou, they are all the children of Denglai and Laizhou, and even if it is the Ming army, the people are instinctively afraid, because many times soldiers are no different from bandits.

Fishermen from a nearby fishing village were taken to Lü Tai's big boat, kneeling down and kowtowing to Lü Tai.

"What is the situation nearby, is there a Qing army?" Lu Tai didn't talk nonsense, and asked directly.

"General Hui, Jiaozhou, there is a green battalion of the Qing army in Jiaozhou." The fishermen replied.

Jiaozhou is more than thirty miles away from the sea, and the movement here will soon be noticed, Lu Tai frowned slightly, knowing that he needed to organize soldiers to camp ashore as soon as possible. If the Qing army arrives in time, I am afraid it will be difficult to go ashore safely.

Although Jiaozhou Bay is wide, there are few places suitable for big ships to dock, except for the fishing village wharf where the glue enters the sea, there is no other place, and the big ships in the fleet can only stay in the deep harbor where the water level is deep, and there is a danger of running aground in a hurry. It took too long to carry soldiers ashore in small boats, and it was difficult to transport heavy food to the shore.

Lu Tai immediately made a decision and immediately organized soldiers to go ashore through the wharf, but even so, only relying on the two simple wharves that existed, only two sea ships could dock, and only more than 3,000 people could go ashore in half a day.

Then the 3,000 men began to camp on the flat side of the river, while facing the land.

As night approached, it was inconvenient to continue ashore, and most of the soldiers remained on the ship, waiting for the next morning.

On the second day, by noon, about half of the disembarking army had gone ashore, and a large amount of baggage had been brought ashore. And at this moment, the Qing army that reacted finally arrived.

The general of the green battalion stationed in Jiaozhou was named Guo Hu, who was originally a general under Gao Jie, who surrendered to the Pingnan Army after Gao Jie's defeat, and later became a battalion leader. Last year, Lu Zhenfei's Northern Expedition failed, Li Chengdong led the troops to rebel against the Ming Dynasty and surrender to the Qing Dynasty, Guo Hu also surrendered with Li Chengdong, and was named the chief soldier by the Qing court, with more than 3,000 original troops under his command, which grew to more than 10,000 after expansion.

The generals of the green battalion were all under the command of Hong Chengchou, exterminated the Shandong rebels, most of the troops were besieged in Dengzhou, Guo Hu was previously ordered to lead troops to pacify the rebels in the Jiaozhou area of Luzhou, and was later ordered to be stationed in Jiaozhou to guard the southern part of the Jiaozhou Peninsula.

Yesterday afternoon, Guo Hu received the news that the Ming army fleet had entered Jiaozhou Bay and tried to go ashore, and knew that it would be very troublesome if the Ming army was allowed to go ashore, and the best way was to attack the Ming army when they disembarked from the ship, and perhaps they could defeat this Ming army from nowhere in one fell swoop.

Therefore, the sky was unknown on the second day, so Guo Hu led his troops out of Jiaozhou City and killed them towards the sea.

For the Qing army in Jiaozhou, Lu Tai had already prepared, and the troops who went ashore first lined up to meet them. At this time, the number of people who went ashore was 10,000, which was almost the same as that of the Qing army. The artillery on the sea ship was the first to fire, and hundreds of red-coated cannons opened fire one after another, and the rumbling sound of the cannons spread for dozens of miles, and the shells smashed in the direction of the Qing army across the space of seven or eight miles.

Seeing that there was still a distance of five or six miles from the Ming army, but it was attacked by artillery shells, the Qing army was a little panicked at that time, and even Guo Hu was shocked, he didn't expect the Ming army to have so many red-coated cannons. It seems that the Ming army attacking from the sea is by no means half of them, and it must be the main force of the Ming army! But why didn't they simply go to Dengzhou to relieve the siege, and had to land in Jiaozhou?

However, Guo Hu couldn't be puzzled, because the Ming army that came ashore had already killed the queue.

The general who led the troops to fight was Yang Xiaolei, a lieutenant from Liupin, who only joined the army in Yangzhou, and has now become a guerrilla general, with 3,000 elite soldiers under him.

After a night's rest, the army under Yang Xiaolei went to the languishing state of the ship, and one by one became vigorous. In addition, the ship has been aggrieved for nearly two months, and the tyrannical atmosphere on each of them is very heavy, and the Qing army that is attacking now is the target of their venting.

There was no more than words, and the armies of the two sides began to fight closely, and half of Yang Xiaolei's subordinates were musketeers, divided into three teams to shoot at the Qing army in turn.

Guo Hu's army was born out of the Pingnan Army, and also attached great importance to the use of firearms, and the number of firearms under his command was very large, and the characteristics of the two armies were similar, and the tactics were also similar. Therefore, at the beginning, the battle scene was very simple, that is, the two sides shot at each other at a distance of thirty or forty paces, which was quite a rudimentary form of the tactics of Western troops lining up to shoot.

However, not long after this mutual shooting, Guo Hu was shocked to find that the number of muskets of the Ming army on the opposite side was no less than his own, and he lost three or four hundred people in a cup of tea, which was difficult for him to accept, if he continued to lose, his army would have to collapse. Then he sent troops to outflank them from both flanks and kill the Ming army.

At this time, other Ming troops who came ashore also came to support, and a big battle immediately broke out between the two sides.

Guo Hu's subordinates were born in the Pingnan Army, and their combat experience was not bad, while the Ming Army was the newly formed Dongfan Army after Chen Yue passed through Dongfan Island, half of which were immigrants from Shandong, and half of them were original Fujian immigrants on Dongfan Island. The two sides are quite inseparable. However, it was only half of the army that had entered the battlefield, and half of the men on the ship were coming down one after another.

Seeing that a new force entered the battlefield from time to time, Guo Hu didn't know how many Ming troops did not get off the ship, so he didn't dare to fight anymore in fear, and led the team to flee from the battlefield to Jiaozhou.