Entering the pass, seeing the wolf-like Shandong soldiers along the way, Wu Dai and them were like a few lambs that had entered the wolf's den, cowering along the way, just trying not to attract attention.

The history of Qingliu Pass can be traced back to the early days of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang sent troops from Fengyang to break through the Qingliu Pass, and conquered Chuzhou in an instant.

In the ninth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, led the thieves and Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of the four provinces and the secretary of the military department, had a fierce battle in Guangwuwei and Zhulong Bridge in the area of Qingliuguan, and the battle was tragic.

Some people say that the mountains were full of corpses at that time, and the so-called "filling the ditches and ravines, and the river water was red" is to describe this battle, that battle, Li Zicheng was defeated by Lu Xiangsheng without suspense.

Throughout the ages, although Qingliuguan is not a famous fortress, there are also countless fierce and unknown tragic battles that took place here, which is a prerequisite for the rapid control of Chuzhou in the south, and it is also an important passage from south to north.

In July of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Anton Hou Wang Zheng led the Shandong army and various officers and soldiers to gather under the Qingliu Pass, repaired and perfected the broken city wall, and trained the soldiers day and night.

"The Marquis of Qiqi, a person who claims to be the Qianzong under Li Jingguang, the garrison of Chuzhou, named Wu Dai, came with a letter, and he is outside the tent at the moment."

In the tent, Huang Degong, Dong Youyin, Gao Liang, Deng Heizi, Weng Zhiqi, and Lu Jiude and others were deliberating, and when they heard Huang Yang's words, they all looked at each other and discussed a few times.

Wang Zheng sat on the top and nodded slightly.

may be afraid that the people of the Shandong Army will not believe in their identity, so Wu Dai had already respectfully held up the codex to prove his identity before he came in, thinking that he would face Anton.

However, the people of the Shandong army were very vigilant, and before he could take a few steps forward, Dong Youyin stood up and stopped in the middle, staring at him for a while, and then personally sent the codex to Wang Zheng's military case.

Wang Zheng just glanced slightly, and didn't say anything at that time, Lu Jiude's eyes rolled, he broke his mouth and scolded, stood up and pointed at Wu Dai and shouted:

"Good for you, bold Wu Dai! Why don't you call that Li Jingguang to greet him in person, what is the matter with sending a little Qian, could it be that he looks down on Hou Ye? ”

Wu Dai had thought about this stubble before he came, but he didn't expect to be afraid of something, he was sweating at the moment, knelt on the ground with a "poof", and said in a loud voice:

"Hou Ye is angry, Lord Admiral and all the generals and marshals are angry, last night we found the fine work of the Lu Mansion in the city, and there was a shortage of manpower, so it was very laborious to clean up the law and order in the city, and Li Shoubei chased out of the city for more than ten miles in order to catch this fine work."

Speaking of this, Wu Dai was a little weak-hearted, and he didn't dare to look into the eyes of everyone around him, but lowered his head and bent and said:

"Right now, the garrison has just returned to the city, and they are setting up a banquet to catch the wind and wash the dust for the Hou Ye, and I really can't leave."

Wang Zheng squinted, picked up the knife on the military case, pretended to be angry, and walked in front of Wu Dai step by step.

Everyone didn't know what Wang Zheng was going to do, and the generals of the imperial court basically only sought self-preservation, and did not have any idea of dissuasion.

Lu Jiude subconsciously covered his eyes, and said in his heart that this Hou Ye was really killed in the sea of corpses and blood, not only was he thoughtful, but he never even blinked his eyes when he killed.

When Wu Dai heard the footsteps, he was frightened, knelt there and kowtowed, he couldn't take care of the slightest face, and there was a burst of seven up and eight in his chest, and his heart said that the sky is going to kill me.

However, after waiting for a long time, Wang Zheng passed by him casually and said lightly:

"Everyone, since Chuzhou Li Garrison has been warmly invited, we can't be lazy, so let's leave the customs and enter Chuzhou!"

"Obey the orders of the marquis!"

Everyone didn't dare to have any slackness, and immediately answered the order in unison, Wu Dai exhaled even more, and said in his heart, God has eyes, and when he came back to his senses, he found that he didn't know when, and his armor was already sticky and wet.

More than half of the more than 100,000 troops were soldiers of the Shandong Army, and not long after Wang Zheng's military order was issued, they had already assembled and were ready to go in the pass.

After the Shandong Army simply dismissed the old and weak, the other officers and soldiers were a little less numerous, but their actions and opinions were unified, and although they were much slower, they were already good compared with other officers and soldiers.

Wang Zheng asked the Fenwei battalion to be responsible for the defense of Qingliu Pass, and this burden naturally fell on the head of the Zhenwei battalion general Gao Liang.

In advance, the military discussion within the Shandong Army had already made it very clear that although Qingliu Pass was important, it was before the army entered Chuzhou, and once Chuzhou was occupied, Qingliu Pass immediately became a chicken rib.

Because this checkpoint can only prevent the soldiers and horses from going south from the Dingyuan area of Fengyang Mansion from entering the territory of Chuzhou, the defense of the surrounding Luzhou Mansion and Lai'an area is very limited, and even if you return to the north in Chuzhou, you don't have to pass through.

Zhu Yuanzhang at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and now Wang Zheng, all wanted to quickly go south to attack Nanjing and take the lead, so they used the method of occupying Qingliu Pass.

In fact, there are many ways to bypass Qingliu Pass and reach Chuzhou.

There were many locals among the staff officers of the Shandong Army, and they knew that there was no need to spend additional resources here, so Gao Liang went back to discuss with the generals of the Fenwei battalion after receiving the military order.

In the end, it was decided that the Fenwei battalion would send a sentry officer with no low military merits to garrison Qingliu Pass with a whole number of sentry soldiers, and the shortage would be temporarily replenished from the auxiliaries, and soon the Shandong side would give this sentry the title of garrison.

In addition, Huang Degong's department and Lu Jiude's department each have to elect two hundred presidents to cooperate, and these two hundred presidents will also be promoted to thousands of presidents, but other things will not change for the time being.

In this way, counting the logistics auxiliaries, the Shandong army left a total of about 1,000 soldiers and horses stationed at Qingliu Pass.

This is similar to the history of the end of the Yuan Dynasty, after Zhu Yuanzhang captured Chuzhou, he also transferred eighty percent of the men and horses and baggage that remained in Qingliu Pass.

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"Humble Chuzhou garrison Li Jingguang, welcome Anton Hou to lead the Shandong Wang Division into the city!"

At noon that day, more than 100,000 troops of the Shandong Army, under the leadership of Anton Hou Wang Zheng, marched into Chuzhou City, and after entering the city, they took over the defense of the officers and soldiers of Yuanzhou City.

Chuzhou is still the same Chuzhou, but the army that entered the city is different from that year.

After the Shandong Army took over the defense, Wang Zheng did not have a moment to spare, and the first thing he did was to transfer out the accounts to replenish some materials and military supplies, and then carried out a drastic reduction and rectification.

Chuzhou is an important place, and it is also a buffer zone into Nanjing, which must be held firmly in your hands.

At this point, Wang Zheng didn't care whether the news of the Shandong army's southward movement leaked or not, and the only important thing at the moment was to make all preparations before crossing the river as soon as possible.

Therefore, after the Shandong army entered the city, it did not leave any hands, and took this opportunity to completely rectify the officers and soldiers of the various departments who would come over.

At the beginning, the rectification in the Fengyang area was just to stabilize people's hearts, so Wang Zhengzhi abolished the old and weak in various departments, in fact, there are many chaotic soldiers and ruffians in these officers and soldiers, and this kind of person cannot be left.

Almost all the soldiers of the Shandong Army were dispatched, and the generals came to the barracks with the military books in their hands and checked all the people one by one.

In the afternoon of the next day, the rectification work was successfully completed, and under Wang Zheng's previous iron-fisted suppression, although the officers and soldiers were a little restless, no one was willing to be the first bird.

After some rectification, counting those in Chuzhou City, half of the officers and soldiers with a total of about 60,000 were dismissed, and only more than 30,000 remained in the outer department.

Huang Degong's department was the least, but even so, more than 2,000 people were laid off, and only about 8,000 remained.

It's a little ridiculous to say, the Nandu Jingying, which has been vigorously rectified by the dignified Nanjing Shishangshu, is the most surprising one, and more than 10,000 of the 20,000 people have been evacuated.

For those who were not convinced, the Shandong army implemented a policy of warning and killing heads, and after a night, more than 300 heads still dripping with blood suddenly appeared on the head of Chuzhou.

Stimulated by the smell of blood, those Xiaoxiao who were about to move understood what the soldiers and horses that came to them were.

On the third day after the Shandong army entered Chuzhou, it controlled the entire territory of Chuzhou, and vigorously completed all the work of dismantling and reorganizing the local officers and soldiers.