"Dong Xueli is such a wonderful person, I really appreciate him a little bit now." Mo Ming sat in the Haifeng County Yagong Hall, with guards and staff officers standing on both sides, and the logistics staff was reporting to him on the captured loot.

Xiao Xi, the commander of the 102nd Company, had just returned from interrogating the prisoners outside, and immediately smiled when he heard this: "Dong Xueli is a good man, with 30,000 taels of silver, 4,000 stone corn, 500 stone bean feed, 20,000 bundles of forage, a number of silk tea silk, and a single book of gold, silver and jade. They also sent troops to take care of these things, and as soon as we entered the city, these people handed over the treasury that was so well kept to us directly. Grass, what kind of song is this! ”

"Actually, it's easy to understand." Mo Ming stood up from the Taishi chair and paced around the hall, "Isn't Dong Xueli a warlord!" What is most important to him? O army! With an army, then the silver women are not a problem. On the contrary, if there is no army, in this troubled era, it is difficult to say whether the family property and women can be kept. Dong Xueli is also an old man who rolled out of the pile of dead people, and he sees these problems very clearly. ”

"Dong Xueli left six or seven hundred Henan soldiers in the city, I didn't have any trouble for them, and after collecting the weapons, I let them go. One person was given ten catties of grain and two taels of silver as severance pay, but except for a few people who took the money and food and left, most of them expressed their willingness to vote for us. I asked, these people basically have no relatives in Henan, they really don't have any life skills except for serving as soldiers and eating food, I think I can keep them as military husbands, at least better than those newly captured mud legs. Xiao Xi spoke again for the Henan soldiers who were left behind by Dong Xueli as an outcast.

Mo Ming nodded after thinking for a while, and said, "It's okay." However, when I go back, I have to break up the formation. It can only be used after some ideological education and long-term observation. Now. Give them some of their weapons back first, and let them help us collect people and supplies in the city. ”

As a result of the policy of forcibly evicting the people along the coast of Shandong, the army on the east coast began to forcibly drive the people out of the city the next day (June 13), counted the number of people, and then rushed to the sea. They are a bit humane, because they don't just snatch away the able-bodied, women and children, and some old people who are old and weak and of little value, if they have family members who are also among the forced relocation. They were all taken with them. The small Haifeng County household registration is not abundant, and the people on the east coast appeared on the beach on June 8, many people who listened to the Qing army's remarks about smearing the yellow-clothed Haikou have already helped the old and the young to flee, so the people on the east coast only caught more than 3,000 people in the city.

There are only more than 3,000 people, how can this be! So Mo Dashuai gave an order, and more than 500 cavalry roared into the countryside around Haifeng County, extending the forced relocation operation to the countryside. The gentry who formed a village in the countryside to protect themselves often did not dare to come out when they saw a large number of yellow-clothed thief cavalry roaring in, and even took the initiative to send some money and food to stutter.

As for the 150 elite scouts of the security team, they were also scattered. They tend to work in groups of five. Three horses each, accompanied by an accompanying cavalry on the east coast. While drawing a map, he also reconnoitred the enemy's situation in case the main force of the army on the east bank of Haifeng City was attacked by a sneak attack.

On June 14, two flute-type boats and four medium-sized fishing boats of the East Coast set sail for Yantai Port loaded with supplies seized in Haifeng City and more than 3,000 Ming people. Although the wind direction is unfavorable to these six sailboats, they can sail along some coastal currents, and it only takes about five or six days to reach Yantai Port. The return journey was much smoother, and it only took them three days to get back there.

But the people on the East Coast weren't prepared to stay here for another ten days. Isn't this death? It won't take ten days, but I'm afraid that the Qing army horse team from Jinan Mansion will come over in three days. According to the information obtained from yesterday's interrogation, Luck Dehun has 5,000 Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banner Horse Corps in Jinan, and at this time there are more than 4,000 cavalry from the Han Army's Green Battalion. Well, maybe it's not impossible to break a bloody road, but the losses will inevitably be extremely heavy, and then the gains will outweigh the losses.

Therefore, on the 14th, after the cavalry on the east coast wreaked havoc in the countryside, plundering two or three thousand people and a small amount of livestock and grain, on the 15th they began to board the ships on the seashore and prepared to withdraw. Their next destination would be Ye County, the capital of Laizhou, and the captains of the departing fleet had been told that they would continue to sail west to meet off the coast of Ye County after unloading supplies and personnel at the port of Yantai.

As you can see from the map, it is not far from Haifeng to Ye County, only separated by a Laizhou Bay. If the main force of the army on the east coast took the faster steam engine sailing ship, it would only take more than two days to go straight to the sea off Ye County, while if the Qing army's horse team set off from the vicinity of Haifeng, it would not be able to reach it in seven or eight days. If they start to set off after getting the news, they will be afraid that the daylilies will be cold by the time they get there. And being transferred back and forth on a large scale by the people on the east coast like this, even the Mongolian horse team with super mobility can't stand it, and even if people can stand it, the horses will definitely not be able to stand it.

Therefore, in the face of extreme strategic passivity, how the Manchus should face the dilemma of Shandong, (Northern Zhili), Western Liaoning, and even Eastern Liaodong having no sea and no defense is indeed a matter that tests the wisdom of the Manchu ruling class. Although it is a feasible strategy to continue to increase the number of troops, the cost is really too great, and one hundred and four prefectures and counties in Shandong, is it possible that you are ready to transfer more than 200,000 troops over and can afford to raise them? And 200,000 people are just to deal with the yellow-clothed pirates on the east coast with a total number of less than 10,000 people, doesn't this make people laugh out of their big teeth? I can't afford to lose this face in the Qing Dynasty, and Shandong at this time can't afford to raise 200,000 non-productive troops.

Then, there is only one way to move the border and merge the villages like Liaodong. However, this trick can be done in Liaodong, because there are often no people for hundreds of miles, and it is very convenient to relocate. Not to mention the forbidden sea, they originally didn't have any navigation skills and equipment, and they couldn't help but look like birds. However, Shandong is more troublesome, with the high speed of the army marching on the east coast, they often drive over in one day when you move thirty or fifty miles. And with their perverted siege ability, with the degree of disrepair of the city walls of these states and counties in the north today, I am afraid that they will not be able to withstand it for a day. Two days of landing, one day of marching, one day of fighting, two days of transporting booty and men, that is, in six days they will be back to the sea. At that time, the pursuing Qing army had to approach them at the risk of being bombarded into slag by large-caliber naval artillery, and if they didn't want their army to collapse, they could only obediently let them go.

Six days! Can I, the Qing Dynasty, mobilize a sufficiently powerful force to arrive at the scene within six days from the moment the people on the east coast appear somewhere off the coast? I'm afraid it will be difficult, unless there happens to be a large number of troops stationed nearby, but then the number of garrisons throughout Shandong and Hebei will surge, and the cost will be unbearable. It's really hard to choose!

Moreover, moving the border and forbidding the sea is a very sensitive topic, and if you give up 50 or even 100 miles along the coast, you can imagine how much resistance there will be! Countless coastal states and counties will be in ruins, the fields will be left to ruins, and many ordinary people and even gentry who have lived there for generations will be displaced. The answer is clearly no. But if it is enforced, it will be a very unpopular move, and it will greatly shake the foundation of our Qing rule.

On June 16, when 3,000 soldiers, with the help of more than 500 Dong Xueli's Henan troops, used small boats to transport supplies and personnel back and forth to the big ships anchored in the deep water area, a group of our Qing Dynasty "unparalleled" cavalry wearing lightning rods appeared on the horizon in the distance. The 1,000 spearmen of the 3rd-6th Squadrons of the more elite Advance Brigade formed a thick phalanx with more than 1,500 men of the Eight Banners New Army, interspersed with 400 musketeers, artillery lined up in front of and on both sides, and the cavalry brigade had already boarded the ship in advance.

They had long been informed of the arrival of the Qing army's horse team. The scouts of the security team had already fought with the Qing scouts in advance, and these fierce Shandan people even captured two prisoners and returned, which made the Qing army horse team suddenly lose face. The two Qing scouts who were captured turned out to be Saurons, and it is important to know that they were also classified by the East Coast people in the Shandan (Mountain Tartar) race, and at this time, there were many Saurons from the mainland serving in the East Coast Security Team and the 1st Brigade of the Stand Up Team. After the intelligence staff called these people, he immediately rebelled against the two Qing scouts and learned a lot of key information from them.

For example, Luck Dehun has officially begun to form a network to guard against people on the east coast in Jinan Prefecture. Among them, the eastern half of Shandong is currently under the responsibility of Hauge's troops, while the western half and the Hejian Province in the north are under the unified command of Luckedhun. He deployed more than 30,000 troops in Yizhou Town in the south, and at the same time set up a coastal defense army in Binzhou in the north, and also had 30,000 or 40,000 troops according to the system, but most of them were still on the way and had not yet returned to the town, and there were now only less than 10,000 people in the Binzhou coastal defense army.

At present, most of the more than 2,000 people who were born from Zhang Haoqian's bandits have been wiped out, and Dong Xueli's department has also fled, and only Li Shutai's 5,000 people are still wandering around. After receiving the news, the Qing army of Luckdehun, which was eating in Jinan this time, immediately dispatched 2,000 horses from the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners and 2,000 horses from the Han Army's Green Battalion. After resting for a night, the tired Qing army continued to come to Haifeng County, and the people on the east coast saw their vanguard on the seaside. It's just that they have been marching rapidly for half a day, and they can't immediately enter the battle at present, and the spear formation of the people on the east coast is tightly guarded, and the artillery of the black hole hole is also terrifying, and they don't dare to make a mistake for a while.

The light cavalry troops, which had only 4,000 men and horses, were not yet in the eyes of the battle-hardened army on the east coast. After waiting for the evening when almost everyone and cargo had boarded the ship, the East Coast Army retreated alternately under the cover of naval guns, and finally succeeded in withdrawing to the ship. In the process, the Qing cavalry only rushed twice, but they were repelled by long-range shells fired by more than 20 naval guns.

After successfully embarking on the ship, the ships on the east coast lifted their sails in turn and left the offshore sea and headed southeast. (To be continued......)