Wang Aoyong's death, not only made Jinan Mansion surrender without a fight, originally the focus of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was Dashun in the northwest, not the Ming Dynasty in the south, in their eyes, the Ming Dynasty has already been vulnerable, even if it is a new monarch in the south, it is not a problem, so in the land of Shandong, there are less than 20,000 soldiers and horses left, Wang Aoyong died, and Denglai was cut off.

Denglai Governor Chen Jin, the Han Army is a blue banner person, originally from Jinzhou, originally a Ming Dynasty Linghe Division, Chongde descended the Manchu Qing, this time was named by Hong Chengchou as the governor of Denglai, Shandong's soldiers and horses are basically in his hands, there are 7,500 people, of which 7,000 are Han troops, 508 banners full of soldiers.

When the news of Wang Aoyong's death came, Chen Jin was still suppressing thieves in Laizhou, after Chen Jin took office, rebellions continued in various places, and the local bandit Zhang Guang burned and plundered and Weizhu County, he had to lead the army to personally pacify the Kou, if you want to stabilize the situation in Shandong, you must have an elite army, but at present, the soldiers and horses of the Qing Dynasty are on the battlefield in Shanxi, and he can only pursue everywhere.

After learning that Jinan Mansion fell, Wang Aoyong also died, Chen Jin immediately shrank his troops and horses, stationed in Ye County, and no longer took care of those bandits, the Ming army occupied Qingzhou and Jinan, and the next step was to commit his Denglai land.

Chen Jin expected that after Cao Bianjiao occupied Jinan, he did not delay for long, only rested in Licheng for a day, left some soldiers and horses, and randomly attacked Denglai to the east.

After the soldiers arrived in Qingzhou, Qingzhou Haoqiang Yang Wei and Qin Shangxing each led more than 1,000 townships to take refuge, before the Ming army marched into Shandong, they had already raised things here, two people were born in Zhusheng, when Li Zicheng's soldiers and horses occupied Shandong, they led the township Yong to fight guerrillas in the Lushan area, and later Li Zicheng's soldiers and horses were defeated and retreated, and the Manchu Qing occupied Shandong, and Huang Degong had not come to recover the lost territory, so they continued to fight with the Manchu Qing, Huang Degong recovered only the land south of Yishan, when Yidu was occupied by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, taking advantage of the Manchu Qing to the north, When the army was weak, they led their army to break through Yidu and responded to Cao Bianjiao.

"You are all my Ming scholars, when the court is in trouble, the cavalry to serve the country, it is commendable, if my Ming civil and military officials can be like you, why worry about the great cause, I Cao Bianjiao is here to thank you!"

Seeing that Cao Bianjiao actually thanked them, several people stood up and returned the salute, and Yang Wei, who was the leader, also hurriedly said: "The general's words are serious, we and others are all people who know the sages and sages, Kong said that Chengren and Meng said that they took righteousness, and when they saw that the court was in trouble, how could they not sacrifice themselves to serve the country!" ”

"Good! Well said, I will recommend you to the imperial court, Yang Wei, you temporarily represent Linzi as a garrison, Qin Shangxing, you temporarily represent Le'an as a garrison, and when the documents of the imperial court arrive, this temporary generation can be removed, from now on, continue to serve the imperial court, I will not treat you badly, and the court will not treat you badly. ”

As soon as he made a move, Cao Bianjiao was not pretending to be generous, but in order to win people's hearts, the current situation is the world's disputes, and all forces are watching, especially those gentry and heroes, they hold most of the resources, and many times can influence the development of the situation, although Cao Bianjiao does not like them, but at this moment, they must take the means of winning them over in order to pull them back to the side of the Ming Dynasty.

"Thank you, General!" Both of them hurriedly thanked Cao Bianjiao.

"You have been in Shandong for a long time, and you have been fighting in various counties for half a year, you must know some about the situation in Denglai Erzhou in Shandong, let's talk about it, Denglai Erzhou is bound to win, the battle of Songjin that year, I fought out of the siege, that is, I crossed the sea from Haizhou to Dengzhou, in order to survive, this is the place where Cao Bianjiao was reborn, and controlling Denglai is equivalent to threatening the Manchu Qing from the flank, so it is reasonable, I need to take Denglai Erzhou as soon as possible."

"The general's affairs, we and the other two also know something, and we and the other two are also very respectful. At present, Denglai Erzhou is the Manchu Denglai governor Chen Jin is in charge, this person was originally my Ming general, and later took refuge in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, now he has eight or nine thousand men and horses in his hands, most of them are soldiers, these days, he is also busy pacifying the uprising in Denglai, Laizhou Zhang Guang organized a team of 1,000 people in the territory, and attacked the counties of Dengzhou...... "At the moment, Yang Wei also told Cao Bianjiao.

"It seems that we need to take a lot of trouble to capture Denglai, I only have 15,000 men and horses in my hands, and the rest of the armies are capturing Dongchang and Daimyo, but no matter what, our troops are all superior, and these soldiers and horses are all trained by me, and the combat effectiveness is needless to say!" Cao Bianjiao still has confidence in the soldiers under his command, after all, they are all veterans trained by him personally, and there should not be much problem in dealing with the mixed Manchu and Han people.

"But if they can't hold out, then what should be done, Denglai Erzhou originally had sufficient armaments, after being occupied by Chen Jin, although Zhang Guang attacked and disturbed, it didn't hurt him, and there are hundreds of warships, which can sail out to sea at any time, if he is allowed to escape, I am afraid that he will ......"

Cheng Tianyi also stood up and said: "According to our careful investigation, Chen Jin is stationed in Laizhou, and also mobilized ships, it seems that he does have the intention of retreating immediately if the war is unfavorable, he can sail out to sea at any time, retreat to Tianjin and other places, we will not be able to help him at that time, although the purpose of recovering the homeland, but killing the enemy is also our goal, only by constantly weakening the Manchu Qing forces, so that their troops are difficult to support the vast land, they will retreat outside the pass." ”

"Then fight his sailors first, now I should thank Liu Zeqing, when he withdrew from Shandong, he took almost all the soldiers and horses in Shandong, although Denglai was empty and occupied by the enemy, but he did not leave a single soldier for them, although there were warships, but they could not compete with me in water warfare, and they could only be used as a way back to retreat, so many warships, they were all made of my Ming silver, didn't Chen Zilong think that the warships were not enough, then give these to him, Let's make a noise and teach traitors like Chen Jin a lesson! "Cao Bianjiao already has a belly case, he knows how to deal with Chen Jin, use his strengths and avoid weaknesses, bluff, and give him a good show.

"General Fang, you lead 3,000 soldiers and horses to stay in Yidu, monitor the movements in Hebei, if there is any movement, report to me at any time, and the rest of the soldiers and horses will go to Laizhou with me, and I will meet this Chen Jin for a while."

Cao Bianjiao hates two kinds of people the most in his life, one is a boastful person, who can only sing high-pitched, will not know anything, the nest is the most capable, and when he encounters serious things, he is a waste, and the second is a traitor, without any shame, as long as it is beneficial, whether it is betrayed by his father or mother or betrayed the country, it doesn't matter, these two kinds of people, Cao Bianjiao hates them to the bone, more hated than those who are corrupt and pervert the law, and some corrupt officials also know that there must be a bottom line, these two kinds of people have always had no bottom line.

After staying in Yidu for a day, after spreading the counties to the imperial court, Cao Bianjiao immediately led the army to continue eastward, leaving Fang Maogong to garrison Yidu, and the rest approached Denglai, preparing to clean up Chen Jin.