As for how to arrange Qiu Lei's thousands of troops, Li Meng had a headache more than the chief soldier Qiu Lei himself, and put Qiu Lei's soldiers and horses in the north to take the lead.

These more than 6,000 straw bales like chickens and dogs, Li Meng did not expect to delay the Qing army to win time, I am afraid that it is even more likely that the wind will flee first, if it is arranged to be stationed in the rear, I am afraid that the thing that threatens the grain of friendly troops will also be done, after all, there is a precedent for seizing food and wages.

Thinking about it, Li Meng was only very "friendly" to suggest that General Qiu lead his soldiers and horses to the plains and garrison around Yucheng, after all, it is close to Jinan Fucheng and can also be nearby.

Hearing Li Meng's arrangement, Qiu Lei, the chief soldier of Shandong in the lobby of the Zhizhou Yamen, almost fell from his chair to the ground, not because he was afraid, but because he was extremely relaxed after being nervous.

Looking at Li Meng's methods outside, this Shandong chief soldier Qiu Lei thought that the other party would be above this hall and directly killed himself, but he didn't expect that there would be such a good thing, Shandong general soldier Qiu Lei's current idea is to get as far away as Li Meng, the plague god, as far away as possible, even if he is willing to let himself go to the front line.

Shandong General Soldier Qiu Lei naturally agreed, Li Meng's position in the lobby was the lowest, but after the outside move, what Li Meng said was a decision, and no one would have any objections, even the nominal decision-making governor Yan Jizu and the supervisor Liu Yuanbin also considered it in a fake way, and then made this arrangement.

At this time, it was already getting dark, and according to tradition, it was at least noon the next day to set off.

However, Qiu Lei performed impassionedly. said that military affairs should not be delayed, and he was willing to travel overnight. The other three naturally didn't want to argue with him about anything, so he went.

When this Qiu Lei walked out of the door of the Zhizhou Yamen, his back was already soaked with cold sweat, and it was really frozen to the bone when the cold wind blew outside, but Qiu Lei, the chief soldier of Shandong, was completely unaware, and ran out of the city with the only few remaining personal soldiers around him. Texas City, which was originally used as a garrison, is like Shura Hell in Qiu Lei's eyes at this moment.

When he arrived outside the city, Qiu Lei, the chief soldier of Shandong, couldn't help but rejoice in his decision, several troops and horses of the Jiaozhou battalion had been mobilized, and they made a siege posture, although they could rush in. Seeing the comparison of the combat strength of those pro-soldiers during the day, Qiu Lei didn't think that he could take advantage of such a battle.

In case the other party is difficult at night, wouldn't it be the end of the annihilation of the whole army, and then the foundation of the establishment will be gone, and how to survive in this world will not become a fish on the chopping block.

More than 6,000 soldiers and horses under the jurisdiction of Qiu Lei, the general soldier of Shandong, pulled out the camp that night and went to Yucheng and the plains to set up defenses, and pulled out the camp at night, which was quite inconvenient to prepare. Moreover, it was necessary to go all out to guard the Jiaozhou battalion on the side, and as a result, some battalions could not control the troops. There was rout and confusion.

But Qiu Lei, the chief soldier of Shandong, couldn't care about anything, pulled out the camp overnight, and after traveling 30 miles, he stopped, and checked the troops and horses early the next morning, and there were more than 500 people missing.

The system of the Ming Dynasty was that civilian officials commanded and military generals led the troops. Eunuch surveillance. Ping Suri is the commander of the governor, and the general army leads the troops. The command of the supervising army is the norm of the imperial court.

But now in Dezhou City, everything Li Meng can decide in a word, the governor and the supervisor have become an ornament, although the two are secretly slandered, but on the surface they are still polite, and they both have the intention of settling accounts after the autumn, thinking that when this battle is over, they have to find someone to impeach you from the beginning.

However, Li Meng also did everything without leakage, although he beheaded hundreds of pro-soldiers of the Shandong General Military Officer in one day, but what these pro-soldiers did was a thousand knives and beasts, and they all admitted by themselves that the killing was above board, and no one could find fault with it.

As for the transfer of Qiu Lei's troops and horses, it was Qiu Zongbing who agreed to it, and Li Meng just put forward his own opinions.

This city is already full of Li Meng's men and horses, and those heads and blood are still vividly visible during the day.

Li Meng will not do the kind of transgressive and rebellious things that these two high-ranking officials think, this time he came to Texas, Li Meng is for the national righteousness, not for the sake of killing officials and rebelling.

The purpose of these shocking and domineering moves is to give himself complete initiative in decision-making in the battle formation, and to completely eliminate those unstable factors that may arise in the battle and hide in the rear. Therefore, what Li Meng did seemed to be overstepping the norm, but as long as he investigated it carefully, Li Meng could come up with enough justified reasons.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, these powerful generals did things, as long as they could come up with a reasonable reason, the court would go down the slope and not be investigated, not to mention Li Meng's evidence, the bitter master was real.

After having the transit station of Dezhou, Li Meng began to arrange the battle completely according to his own methods, first mobilizing the people to build earth fortifications and dig trenches outside the city of Dezhou, at this time it was already a cold winter, and the earthwork was extremely hard, but Li Meng couldn't care about it.

Originally, during the war, Li Meng did not have to pay any silver at all, and all the labor was borne by the locality, but in order to improve efficiency, Li Meng himself also invested a lot of silver and grain from the Tuntian Grange.

The construction of the defense system was in full swing, and more than 400 cavalry under Li Meng's cavalry temporarily turned into reconnaissance cavalry, and began to reconnoiter and search within two days of the cavalry on a large scale.

But what made Li Meng a little strange was that Yang Sichang, a cabinet scholar and a secretary of the military department, mobilized all the soldiers and horses in Shandong that could fight in the area of Dezhou to resist, but the Manchu army never appeared in the direction of Beizhili's attack on Dezhou, but since entering the customs, it went down Zhuozhou to Baoding, all the way to the side of Beizhili. If we want to follow this trend, I am afraid that Henan will have to be on guard first.

Yang Sichang's judgment cannot be said to be unreasonable, Li Meng, including the people around him, did not have the ability to know the enemy's movements in advance, the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs and looted this time, that is, to loot the population and property, God knows where they will go next, Li Meng only then realized that the soldiers in his hands are indeed too few, along the border between Shandong and Beizhili, there are too many places that can be beaten in, and his own 10,000 soldiers and horses can not be deployed everywhere.

“…… Lu Xiangsheng's dispatch was wrong, and he was specially stripped of the title of secretary of the military department, demoted to a squire, hoping that he would make meritorious service for his crimes, expel the Dongyu Liukou, and have reported the grace of the saints......"

Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Xuanda, looked at the will of the previous few days in the military tent, and couldn't help but smile bitterly, when he was in front of the officers and soldiers during the day, Lu Xiangsheng had always been full of confidence in his attitude and expression, but in the military tent late at night, it was completely different. The military tent is a county seat in Zhending Prefecture, and the houses that can be requisitioned are all for wounded and sick soldiers to live in, Lu Xiangsheng refused the local county order to give him the suggestion of the county government or the house of a large family, and found a vacant land in the city and set up a military tent.

In addition to Lu Xiangsheng, there was only one young man sitting on the side of the military tent, saying that he was a young man, and Lu Xiangsheng was only thirty-nine years old, but at the moment, these two people, Lu Xiangsheng looked like he was fifty years old, and the young man was also thirty or forty years old.

"Inspector, today's general soldier Hu Dawei led the troops back to the camp, saying that when he arrived in Anping County, the city had been breached, and it was too late to enter the city to garrison, so he had to return to the camp."

Lu Xiangsheng's dress is a little strange, his head is wrapped in a white cloth, and his body is draped in a linen robe, this is the dress of the funeral, in May of the eleventh year of Chongzhen, Lu Xiangsheng's father died of illness, Lu Xiangsheng originally wanted to mourn at home, but was retained by Emperor Chongzhen.

But this Lu Xiangsheng is a rare sober person in the Ming court, and when he took advantage of Ding's sorrow and mourning, he inevitably did not take the opportunity to avoid such a chaotic time and leave the idea of officialdom that had become extremely dangerous because of Chongzhen's meanness. But Emperor Chongzhen did not allow him to leave, but sent him to the front line, and Lu Xiangsheng's filial piety was not removed, and he inevitably did not know that this trip was extremely dangerous, and he knew that he would die.

"Hu Dawei is also an old man who has fought in Xuanfu for many years, and when the city is broken, he will return to the camp, those Tartars are carrying people and livestock, why don't they chase after them if they are unable to move!"

"Overseer, this ...... In fact, this is not to blame the Tiger General Soldier, the East is strong, and the Tiger General Soldier must also be cautious......"

Looking at the young man's stumbling appearance, Lu Xiangsheng sighed and said:

"No wonder he, listening to the old man's order to go to Anping County, he is already a brave man, pity me Ming million military horses, in the important land of Gyeonggi, there is no ability to fight with the Tartars, Tinglin, go to Jinzhou today, can the food and salary be settled?"

Hearing this, the young man known as Tinglin stood up with a face full of shame and spoke:

"Supervisor, his subordinates are incompetent, and Jinju replied that there was no food to transport from Jingshi, saying that now the roads are blocked and the refugees are flooding, so they can't take care of these at all."

Lu Xiangsheng waved his hand and said:

"It's not your business."

The young man sat down in his chair, as if remembering something, and stood up again to report:

"Inspector, the grain and grass in the camp is more than half a month at most, even if we raise our own funds in various prefectures and counties, there will not be too much supply in this situation, otherwise, Inspector, you will write an official letter urging you."

The answer to this question was only Lu Xiangsheng's wry smile......