Tang Tong is different from Bai Guangen, who was born as a thief, he was born in a family, has deep connections in Daming, and does not have as much ambition as Bai Guangen. I don't care too much about losing the military power in my hands, because with the wealth of the Tang family, as long as Chen Yue doesn't kill him, it will not be a problem to be a rich man.

And if you continue to follow the broken ship of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, you are likely to end up with a dead and annihilated clan. This is the reason why Tang Tong is unwilling to blindly follow Bai Guangen. Chasing the rise and killing the fall, whoever is strong with whom, as long as he saves his life, Tang Tong is unwilling to gamble with his life.

Besides, with Tang Tong's understanding of Chen Yue, he is not a brutal person at all, as long as he is sure, he will not kill himself, and maybe he will be given an idle job. After leading the troops for so many years, Tang Tong is tired, if he can hand over the army and enjoy peace, there is nothing wrong with it.

Therefore, he drunk Bai Guangen, killed all the followers that Bai Guangen brought into the camp, and then immediately dispatched troops to besiege Bai Guangen's camp.

And Bai Guangen's army didn't know what was going on, Bai Guangen was not there, Tang Tong was a heavy general of the green battalion, and under his claim that Bai Guangen was seriously injured by the Ming army's attack and entrusted him to take charge of the army, many ordinary green battalion soldiers obediently obeyed Tang Tong's arrangement.

Of course, there are also Bai Guangen's descendants who don't believe it at all, and when they want to make trouble, they are besieged by several times the army of Tang Tong's department, and they are quickly wiped out.

After being convinced that he had control over all the troops, Tang Tong immediately sent someone to Dengzhou to deliver a letter, asking Dengzhou Wu Pingna to surrender.

Dengju City

At the beginning, when he received the news of surrender sent by Tang Tong, Wu Ping was skeptical.

Since coming to Shandong for more than a year, Wu Ping has been under a lot of pressure and has grown up very fast, and the weak boy has unconsciously grown into a resolute general, although he is less than twenty years old.

Of course, at the beginning, in the face of the complicated situation in Shandong, Wu Ping was quite at a loss, he has been staying in the army with Chen Yue in the past few years, and has also been reused by Chen Yue.

At the beginning, when Wu Ping attacked Jiaozhou, he had just come to Shandong from the Wa Kingdom with a fleet, and he couldn't bear to see the righteous people slaughtered by the Qing army, and then he involuntarily fell into it. At first, he was still very worried, for fear that he would make Chen Yue unhappy. However, Chen Yue did not blame him after learning of his actions, but took a fancy to Shandong's abundant manpower and Jiaodong's superior geographical location.

The Jiaodong Peninsula was barren and populous, which could bring a large number of immigrants to Chen Yue's operation at that time. Shandong is very close to Beijing and the hometown of the Manchus in Liaodong, and if they can control the Jiaodong Peninsula, they can pose a great threat to the Manchus. If the rebel army in Shandong is not resolved, the Qing army will not be able to attack the Ming Dynasty in the south safely, otherwise it will have the reputation of being attacked by the enemy.

And once the Ming Dynasty stabilized, it could send troops from Shandong, carry the army with a fleet, or go out to Dagu to attack Beijing and Tianjin, or simply go ashore on the Liaodong Peninsula to coerce the Manchu nest. Therefore, the occupation of Shandong is very important to the general trend between the Ming and Qing dynasties.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty's previous raids and looting brought great harm to the people of Shandong, and the shaving order made the gentry have the sadness of betraying their ancestors, and the destruction of the Eight Banners of the Two Roads made the myth of the invincibility of the Eight Banners completely broken, so in Chen Yue's view, the people of Shandong will no longer be willing to accept the rule of the Manchus, and more and more people will revolt and riot.

Facts have proved that Chen Yue's decision was right, after Wu Ping played the banner of Qi Guogong, he immediately made the people of Denglai and the two prefectures come to vote, and the power developed rapidly, and soon occupied all the states and counties of Denglai and Denglai, and the main army in his hands grew to as much as 80,000, and if he could unscrupulously expand the army and develop hundreds of thousands of troops, there was no problem at all, of course, he could not support so many troops with the food and salary supported by Dongfan.

Then, in accordance with Chen Yue's instructions, Wu Ping did not blindly expand his territory, but with the assistance of Li Yanzhi, he patiently managed the two prefectures of Denglai, stabilized his rule, and trained the army. and handed over the rest of Shandong to other rebels.

In half a year, with the assistance of hundreds of veterans sent from Dongfan Island, the 80,000 troops were well trained, and except for the experience of weapons, they were no different from the Pingnan Army in the past.

And the weapons that armed the 80,000-strong army could not be supplied by the financial resources close to Dongfan Island, and the Ordnance Division did not have such a large output at all. Therefore, compared with Chen Yueyan's subordinates, who are armed to the teeth, these 80,000 people have too many poor weapons, few firearms, and basically cold weapons. Therefore, when fighting with the elite of the green battalion commanded by Hong Chengchou, he did not have much advantage at all, and had no choice but to retreat into Dengzhou City as a last resort, relying on the fortress-style city wall renovated by Dengzhou to resist the strong attack of the green battalion.

After half a year of fierce fighting, the Dengzhou army suffered heavy losses, and now there are only more than 60,000 people left in the 80,000 army, but in exchange for rich combat experience.

Wu Ping naturally knew the news of Chen Yue's northern expedition, and Hong Chengchou led the main force of the Eight Banners to retreat from the city, and Wu Ping also saw it clearly, but Hong Chengchou's retreat was very tightly arranged, leaving Tang Tong and Bai Guangen with more than 100,000 troops, so that Wu Ping had no chance to sneak attack at all.

It was not impossible to defeat the two armies of Tang Tong and Bai Guangen with the current strength of Dengzhou, but Wu Ping did not lead his troops to attack without authorization, because he knew the plan of Chen Yue, the king of Qi, and there was no need to cause too many casualties to the army.

Sure enough, King Qi easily defeated Ye County, and the more than 100,000 green battalion soldiers outside the city have become turtles in the urn, and there is basically no way to escape.

Therefore, if Tang Tong and Bai Guangen surrendered directly, Wu Ping would definitely believe it, maybe there was a chance to sneak attack.

However, Tang Tong said in the letter that Bai Guangen wanted to surrender and was arrested by him, which made Wu Pinghu suspicious, afraid that these two people had some tricks, after all, Tang Tong and Bai Guangen are veterans who have led troops for many years, and some means have to be guarded against.

"General, what you think about is this," Li Yan on the side said straightly, "but now the decision is in our hands, as long as we are careful, they don't have any chance at all!" ”

Under the contact of Li Yanzhi, all the gentry of Denglai and Denglai are now cooperating with the Dengzhou army, and have made great contributions to Wu Ping's firm control of the Jiaodong Peninsula. And Li Yanzhi is quite strategic, many things in Dengzhou are from his plan, and the role of a military advisor in the Dengzhou Army is equivalent to that of a military advisor.

Hearing Li Yanzhi say this, Wu Ping nodded and agreed, if he could solve the more than 100,000 green battalion soldiers outside the city, he would not need the prince to bring the troops here, and he would be able to save time for recovering Shandong and defeating Hong Chengchou.

After consulting with Li Yanzhi, Wu Ping ordered Tang Tong to take Bai Guangen, who was captured by him, into Dengzhou, as long as these two people were in his hands, the army outside the city would not be able to make waves. If they don't dare to come, there will be a problem.

After receiving Wu Ping's order, Tang Tong decisively took a small number of entourages to escort Bai Guangen to Dengzhou City, making Wu Ping believe that he really wanted to surrender.

The next thing was much easier, Wu Ping ordered that all the weapons of the green battalion soldiers should be collected, waiting for reorganization, and then a camp was set out outside the city to separate the more than 100,000 people. If their rations are controlled, they can be slowly reorganized.

Then, leaving Li Yanzhi to lead part of the army to be responsible for guarding Jiaozhou, Wu Ping personally took the main force, and surrendered to Tang Tong's captured Bai Guangen, rushed to Ye County.