On August 26, 1647, at the head of Ye County, the morning sun was slightly dewed. Surrounded by a group of generals with five-pointed stars shining on their shoulders, Mo Mingmo looked at the formation in the distance.

It is said that the Qing army did come fast enough, but it was mostly cavalry, about two or three thousand horsemen, and most of them were Manchurian Red Banner soldiers stationed in Jinan, occasionally mixed with some Mongols or Han troops, and the color looked more than the soldiers and horses outside Yantai and under the command.

In the battle of Yantai, the 2,500 cavalry of the Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolia were raided by about 2,400 cavalry on the east coast during the battle, and more than 700 corpses were left on the spot by surprise, and a Meler Ezhen was also killed. Later, the Hefu Department, which fled to Laizhou, continued to kill more than 200 wounded soldiers, and lost nearly 1,000 people in the whole process, which can be called a rare heavy loss since entering the customs.

Although the Eight Banners of the Shun army also suffered several losses of more than 1,000 people in the great counterattack of Henan and Shanxi, it is necessary to know that it was a battle of 100,000 people, and the combat effectiveness and fighting will of the Shun army at that time were more tenacious than now, so such losses are not so surprising. However, the Qing army fought several times with the yellow-clothed thieves, and there were two battles in which the national (Manchu) suffered a large number of losses, one was in Baipu Town, Tongzhou, and the other was Yantai, and both times were large-scale cavalry engagements, and the Qing army was defeated. These two cavalry battles combined with the total number of dead in the battle were 15,600 people, and the casualties were so great that they even alarmed Dolgon, who was far away in Beijing.

After Hauge returned to Beijing, the person in charge of the situation in Shandong was Le Ke Dehun, who led 5,000 cavalry to garrison Jinan. In the course of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's southward march in history, this person participated in many heavy battles, extinguished many anti-Qing forces, penetrated almost the entire southern China, and made great contributions to the unification of the Qing court. But in this time and space, he was obviously unlucky, and the grim shape around the Liaohai Sea made it difficult for him, a general, to move an inch, and was firmly nailed to Jinan.

No way. The yellow-clothed thief is haunted, fighting here today and there tomorrow, making the Qing army exhausted. If you gather a large number of troops to chase after you, the yellow-clothed thief will pat his ass and leave to fight somewhere else. often ordered the Qing army to press the gourd to float the scoop. Distressed.

This time, I heard that the main force of the yellow-clothed thieves went out to besiege the states and counties of Denglai Second Prefecture, and Lucked was willing to rescue but was extremely hesitant. First, the yellow-clothed thief is now after years of fighting. There are many men and horses, and the combat power is also quite strong, and it is no longer something that one or two thousand Qing troops can deal with. I heard that there were no less than 20,000 people and horses on the expedition of the yellow-clothed thieves, so the Qing army had to gather at least about 50,000 soldiers and horses to press over, and it would almost have a chance of victory. And there must also be a considerable proportion of cavalry and artillery in it.

But now the difficulty lies here, the situation in the south is entering a critical moment, and a large number of living forces of the Qing court have been transferred to Jiangxi, Fujian, Liangguang, and of course, the more important Hubei battlefield. After hundreds of thousands of troops were withdrawn, the north was suddenly empty.

Before this war, the Qing army stationed more than 70,000 people in Shandong (20,000 people went south to Yangzhou in May to help suppress the yellow-clothed thieves), and after the disastrous defeat in Yantai and Dengzhou, the Qing court's strength in Shandong suddenly decreased. There are less than 50,000 people left, and almost all of them belong to the first line of Qingzhou and Jinan. At this time, there were only a few thousand remnants of the defeated army in the Jiaodong area guarding some cities, and they were powerless to harass the people on the east coast, and the people on the east coast did not bother to pay attention to them.

With that little force, it looks like they'll be able to repel the Yellow Thief. But don't forget, in order to prevent people from going around on the east coast to fight, the Qing court set up three general troops and one deputy general in Binzhou, Yizhou, Jiaozhou, and Dengzhou, and the troops were also scattered everywhere, and it was difficult to assemble them in a short time. At this time, Dengzhou Town had just been hit hard, Jiaozhou Town also suffered a lot of losses (the chief soldier Ke Yongsheng was wounded), Yizhou Town went south to aid Yangzhou a while ago, and the Qing army in Shandong with a complete system was left with a 25,000 green battalion under the command of Li Shutai, the chief soldier of Binzhou coastal defense.

His little strength, together with the remnants of the soldiers and horses in Jiaozhou Town and Dengzhou Town, as well as the small Qing troops stationed in various places, added up to only close to 50,000 people. In addition, it is thousands of miles away from Laizhou, and there are many deficiencies in the grain and grass equipment that need to be purchased for the expedition, and how can it be mobilized for a while.

Mo Ming fought this time with this idea, he has been in Shandong for many years, although he does not know the details of the strength of the Qing army, but he probably still has a number. After wreaking havoc in Jiangbei and attracting a large number of Qing troops, he returned to rely on the fort repaired outside Yantai Fort to gradually break the wall besieging Yantai Fort, and then fought continuously with lightning speed, defeating the Qing army of Ke Yongsheng, Chen Jin and others in one fell swoop, killing and wounding many people.

After inflicting heavy losses on these two Qing armies, the army on the east coast began to swagger west along the coastline into Laizhou, and the small Qing troops along the way were simply unable to resist. And the East Coast Army, which has a navy to transport supplies, does not need any logistics transportation lines at all, which makes the remnants of the Qing army in Denglai and Denglai lose even the ability to harass the logistics on the East Coast.

It can be said that what is now in front of the small army of 20,000 on the east coast is an unusually empty open field. The only thing that can threaten the people on the east coast in the short term is the 5,000-8 banner horse team in Jinan, as for the weak local green battalion, salt ding, tax ding and the like in Laizhou, which add up to only a few thousand people, that is a dish in Mo Ming's eyes, and sending a soldier to fight with them can be on a par with them. Therefore, at this time, Mo Dashuai, who was stationed in Maye County with 20,000 soldiers and horses, was full of ambition and excitement, and he would be transferred back to China in a few months to leave the foundation he had built with his own hands, so let's end the five-year campaign career with a perfect ending.

"Commander, Qin Shangxing's 2,000 men have completed their formation at the ferry in the west of the city, they have collected a large number of ships, and at present, the military team has also built a pontoon bridge with their assistance, and the Qing cavalry has not dared to attack. In addition, 2,500 people from Zhai Cong's army had also rushed to the west of the city, but they did not dare to cross the river. Captain Mao Desheng, who was in charge of the command of the former enemy, decided to send two squadrons of the experienced First Brigade to cross the river in case of a surprise attack by the enemy. Second Lieutenant Júnior, who had been Adjutant Mo Ming again, trotted over and reported.

In the past two days, the navy's four transport ships that have completed maintenance have just sent two 45oo soldiers from Zhai Congge and Qin Shangxing on Jeju Island to the beach of Yexian County, and the Qing army, which has only two or three thousand light cavalry, did not dare to make any abnormal movements under the strict supervision of tens of thousands of soldiers on the east coast, and could only watch as the reinforcements of the people on the east coast were completed.

"The first and second battalions of the Eight Banners New Army went out of the city to escort the logistics convoy across the river. The 2nd Brigade of the Advance Team assigned a musketeer to the team, and together with the 1O2 Company of the 6th Army, it was under the unified command of Captain Xiao Xi, and also escorted the logistics convoy. Captain Zhang Xudong took the main force of the 1st Wing to prepare for it, and the rest of the troops continued to be on standby. Mo Ming quickly finished the order.

Although there were two or three thousand Qing army horses peeping outside the city, Mo Ming didn't take them to heart. Now that the work of Ye County is almost complete, the county that was looted by the East Coast for the second time actually has little oil and water. But it doesn't matter, the biggest oil and water in the county is the population. So under Mo Dashuai's order, thousands of people in the city of Yexian were forced to board the four ships of the people on the east coast whether they wanted to or not, and their destination was neither Yantai nor Jeju, but Dengzhou.

Yes, that's right, it's Dengzhou! When Marshal Mo convened a military meeting two days ago to discuss the series of cities to be conquered this time, the generals agreed that Dengzhou City should be occupied permanently. Especially Chen Zhilong, who had just surrendered, this person even knelt down and begged Mo Dashuai to occupy Dengzhou and not let him "return to the hands of the Tartars".

Although Mo Ming was not very enthusiastic about occupying Dengzhou, because it would obviously divide the forces of the people on the east coast, considering that the famous city of Denglai was high and deep, and the back was the sea (there was a water city leading directly to the sea), it was indeed a pretty good port city. And more importantly, occupying this capital city in the Denglai area is of great significance, if the Manchu Qing cannot recover Dengzhou for a long time, then the impact will be extremely bad, and many former Ming generals who have surrendered to the Manchu will inevitably have a lot of doubts in their hearts.

Besides, this battle has taken down some of the troops, and how to place them has now become a difficult problem. These green battalions of the Qing army made it naturally impossible for them to fight in the field, but if they only defended the city, they were still at ease. Thinking like this, Mo Ming quickly made up his mind to occupy Dengzhou City permanently. At the same time, he also began to order the soldiers on the east bank who remained in Dengzhou City to immediately organize the people in the city to repair the city wall that had just been destroyed by the cannons on the east bank.

The Blackwater City side will also squeeze out some ship tonnage to transport a large amount of cement and red bricks after being notified, and rebuild the Dengzhou City Wall under the guidance of the construction engineer who came with the ship, so that it has flank firepower, so as to increase the difficulty of the enemy's siege. The repaired Dengzhou City will be guarded by Chen Zhilong, who and his core subordinates not only beheaded a lot of Eight Banners and high-ranking officials of the Qing court in public, but also wrote a lot of beautiful articles about Dolgon and Shunzhi's mother, and it is difficult to turn back now.

Well, when the time comes, let this guy collect more troops, and Dengzhou City will be handed over to him, so that there is no need to thin the strength of the army on the east coast. At most, he supported some of his locally trained artillery in Yantai, which was commanded by officers on the east coast, and was responsible for killing and injuring the Qing army's vital forces during the Qing army's siege, and also to destroy the Qing army's possible artillery - without artillery, it would be difficult for the Qing army to gnaw down Dengzhou City.

As for the water village in Dengzhou City, there was originally a "small sea" in it that could moor a large number of ships, but at the end of the Ming Dynasty, no one took care of it for many years, and the silting was relatively strict. At present, the water depth is only more than one meter, and only small boats can barely get in and out, and large steam engine sailing ships cannot be driven at all, so the attraction of this port to the people on the east coast is greatly reduced, and it is better to throw it to Chen Zhilong, anyway, it is not his own descendants who died when the Qing army attacked.

On August 28, 1647, under the watchful eye of thousands of horses of the Qing army, the entire army on the east bank crossed Yeshui and continued westward, and their next destination was Changyi County.

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