About 3,000 people quickly traveled through the Jiaodong Plain, and after passing through the mountainous area, a horse and a flat river, which was suitable for the cavalry-based Jianlu to gallop.

At both ends of the road, there are dense cotton fields. Since Xinxiang established the base of Qingdaokou, it will go all out to buy cotton, Xinxiang's managers go deep into every village, under the protection of Denglai soldiers will transport bags of grain, and for the people of Jiaodong, as long as they plant cotton, they can go directly to the purchase point set up by Xinxiang to exchange grain for silver, and there are a lot of savings in addition to paying taxes, so that they can avoid the exploitation of ordinary businessmen, so they are also willing to plant cotton. By this time, all the cotton in the field had been plucked, and only the bare stalks remained, so that no one could be hidden.

Ma Zhan raised his eyebrows and looked around, his horsewhip swayed, and pointed to this vast land: "Come and say that if I enter the Central Plains in the Qing Dynasty, I will definitely ask the emperor to seal me here, this land is all for me to hunt, and the people on the land are all my slaves!" ”

Ma Zhan is the sixth son of Dai Shan, and he is only twenty-eight years old this year, and he has experienced many great battles since he went on the expedition with Duoduo five years ago.

It's just that among the stars of Jianyu, he is really not eye-catching.

Perhaps because of his relative weakness since childhood, he led the troops late, and he didn't have any strength in his hands, and now the few cattle he brought were all allocated by his father on behalf of the good - nominally the red flag under the command of his brother Yue Tuo.

Therefore, he also desperately needs a victory to establish his own circle of strength.

Little did he know that if it weren't for the subtle changes in history caused by someone's arrival, he would have died of a violent illness last November.

"Fuguo Gong, it's getting late, should we continue to march or find a place to camp?"

Hearing Niu Lu Ezhen's inquiry, Ma Zhan raised his head, looked at the sky that was still a little bright, and pointed to an empty village nearby, and said with a smile: "Then prepare ......"

Before he could finish speaking, a sharp sound came from beside him.

This sound is no stranger to Ma Zhan, it is the sound of muskets!

And this sound was just a signal, and immediately after, I saw rows of Ming soldiers pouring out of the village, there were not many of them, it seemed to be three or five thousand people, but they blocked the way tightly.

"If you go back, it's Qingdaokou, don't you all want to be a tiger guard, now is the opportunity!" Meng Wei, who had a big beard, gritted his teeth and said, "Hugh is going to let go of this group of garbage!" ”

Meng Wei, who was the general of Denglai's soldiers, originally followed Sun Lin to Gaoqi's diving department, and fled with more than 1,000 people in the chaos, but Meng Wei did not go to meet Gaoqiqian, but collected the remnants of the same escaped soldiers all the way, gathered more than 3,000 people, and rushed back to Denglai day and night.

In Meng Wei's view, the imperial court and Gao Qiqian are unreliable, although the chief soldier Sun Lin has the heart to serve the country, but he doesn't know how to serve the country, he is also unreliable, even the most decent Lu Xiangsheng was killed by pig-like teammates, so if he mixes with the officers and soldiers of the imperial court, sooner or later it will be a dead end. He has long wanted to join the Tiger Guard, but he has always been unaccepted because of his age, and now that he has brought more than 3,000 people, Nanhai Bo has to comfort and comfort him, let him join the Tiger Guard.

As a result, he met Ma Zhan here, he was very familiar with the nearby geography, of course he knew, if Ma Zhan was allowed to pass like this, it would be in Jimo in a blink of an eye, he didn't know if Qingdao was prepared, so on the one hand, he sent people to deliver the letter, and on the other hand, he encouraged the more than 3,000 people he brought to fight Ma Zhan's blockade.

The backbone of these more than 3,000 people is still Denglai soldiers, and although some of their equipment has been lost due to the rout, the ammunition for fighting an encounter is still enough. Moreover, the Denglai New Army, which was successively built by Huo Yan and Gu Jiaming, was not without combat effectiveness, even in the hands of Sun Lin, they fought well, and if it weren't for the high potential, it would not be defeated.

In the information obtained by Ma Zhan, only when he entered the territory of Jimo could he encounter resistance from the tiger guards - the news they got was that Gu Jiaming took almost all the tiger guards to Jin'nan Mansion under the banner of Denglai soldiers, and Qingdao was almost undefended.

They also knew that it was possible for the Tiger Guards to transfer people from Tamna to guard the Qingdao Pass, but as the people of the Dongjiang River moved to Tamna, the fine work of the Jianyu also arrived in Tamna, and they knew that there were only more than 2,000 Tiger Guards on Tamna Island, and in the opinion of Ma Zhan and others, at least 1,000 Tiger Guards had to be left to watch Tamna Island, so even if there were guards at the mouth of Qingdao, the number should not exceed 1,500 people.

The purpose of Ma Zhan with 3,000 horsemen was to prevent Qingdao Kou from having time to retreat calmly. As a robber, if you don't grab enough things at the mouth of Qingdao, you will be ridiculed when you go back.

When the two armies met, although Ma Zhan was unprepared, the combat effectiveness of Jianyu was indeed better than that of these defeated soldiers led by Meng Wei, and because Meng Wei's army was prepared, he also used branches and trenches to build improvised positions according to Huwei's instructions. Therefore, the two sides occupied the advantage of one person and the other land, and there was a temporary stalemate.

Meng Wei's idea was very simple, this place was not far from the mouth of Qingdao, and all he had to do was to rely on the village and simple fortifications to detain Ma Zhan here. As long as he waits for the tiger guard at Qingdao to come up, then he will hand over the command to the tiger guard - is there a battle that the tiger guard can't win, that is the strongest army in the world!

However, there are some discrepancies in the problems, he thinks very well, and some problems cannot be solved.

The two sides had been fighting for about five minutes, with casualties on each other, and by this time, a wave of impatience had already spread under Meng Wei's men.

"Where are the reinforcements, Mr. Meng, you said that there are reinforcements from Nanhaibo, we have been fighting fiercely for a long time, where are the reinforcements?" When Meng Wei was inspecting his own defensive line, suddenly an officer and soldier grabbed his clothes in horror and asked.

"It's coming, the Tiger Guard is coming, we sent a messenger early in the morning, and at the speed of the Tiger Guard, we can arrive before midnight at the latest."

"In the middle of the night? Midnight? The brothers are going to be overwhelmed, and you have to wait until midnight? The man shouted in despair: "Lao Tzu is fooled, he was deceived by your rhetoric, saying that he followed the tiger guard to have meat to eat and money to spend, but he came to die!" ”

When one man shouted like this, all the people were shaken. Meng Wei wanted to say something, but the person in him slammed the knife and stabbed it into the man's chest.

"Dog mongrel, if you want to shake the heart of the army, there is no mercy to kill!"

The thin black man who had done it screamed, pushed the body down, and then raised the bloody short knife.

"Zong Laohu!" Meng Wei shouted.

The black thin man known as Zong Laohu looked back at him, and the blade in his hand also pointed over: "Mother-in-law, mother-in-law, whoever stands in the way of Lao Tzu killing Tartars, whoever thinks about Lao Tzu's killing of Tartars, Lao Tzu will kill him-Meng Laowei, what the hell do you say?" ”

Meng Wei took a sip: "It's not Lao Tzu who gathers people, you don't know where to flee to gnaw the old bark, now ask Lao Tzu what to say?" It's all your own brothers, if you don't agree with each other, you ......"

Meng Wei had been in contact with the Tiger Guards, and there were arguments among the Tiger Guards, but he had never seen the arguments between the Tiger Guards rise to the point of a fierce fight, and there were even fewer of them fighting each other. The difference between the officers and soldiers in the Tiger Guard was far less obvious than in the Ming army, and Yu Guozhen even set up a special Tiger Guard Congress, that is, a meeting of soldiers' representatives, which was completely elected by the Tiger Guard to supervise the generals at all levels. Although they have no right to interfere with the general's operational orders, they have the right to criticize the military discipline and work style in peacetime, and even impeach the chief officer from their superiors up to Yu Guozhen. Although this system has only been established in the past two years, it has quickly spread to every team of the Tiger Guard.

In the eyes of an outsider like Meng Wei, this is another means for Nanhaibo to control the troops, and under this method, the commander of any unit cannot make any small moves behind Nanhaibo's back. Moreover, the style of the troops can also be preserved, so that it will not change because of the replacement of the commander-in-chief.

"As long as Lao Tzu kills Jianlu, escapes from Liaodong to Gyeonggi, escapes from Gyeonggi to Zhili, and then escapes from Zhili to Shandong, Lao Tzu has escaped enough." The black thin man known as Zong Laohu sneered: "I don't want to have anything to do with Lao Tzu's killing of Jianyu, but I think that if I break our army's heart, that is, I will surrender to the enemy, and I will be a general beast like Jianyu!" ”

Anyone who knows Zong Laohu knows that his family died in the hands of Jianlu in Liaodong, and he has been dying with Jianyu since then, and it is a miracle that he can survive until now. Meng Wei didn't say much, but he smiled bitterly in his heart, he learned from Huwei, but he still didn't have Huwei's ability to control soldiers.

Their moments of infighting gave Ma Zhan a chance to form a team, Ma Zhan's command ability was actually limited, but with a chance to breathe, there was no shortage of people around him to give him advice.

"Fu Guogong, although this group of Ming soldiers is bold, they don't have many skills, we send a team of people to bypass, they will definitely escape!"

"Bypass? Yes, yes, just bypass! Ma Zhan pointed to the Niu Lu Ezhen who made the suggestion: "You go, how many people do you want?" ”

"Just take the headquarters with four hundred horses." The Niu Lu said happily: "Thank you to the Auxiliary State Gong for giving me this opportunity to make meritorious contributions!" ”

He really felt that this was an opportunity to make meritorious contributions, although the group of Ming troops on the other side was surprisingly bold, but in his heart, they were just a group of local chickens and dogs. They have always had the prestige of "Jurchen is invincible if they are not satisfied", and they are the strongest soldiers in the world who swept through the north and fought the Mengren, Xian and Ming people all over the land looking for teeth!

No matter who the opponent is, he has the confidence to destroy it!

The four hundred horsemen began to make a detour in a big way, and the vast field was full of roads, and they were not afraid that they would not be able to go around the back of the nameless village!

"Damn...... Jianyu got this hand again! Seeing this scene, the Ming army scolded. They are by no means unfamiliar with this tactic of attacking his flank, but it is extremely difficult to deal with it.

"Kill, kill!" At the same time, Ma Zhan was not idle, and the frontal attack began again, forcing the Ming army to be unable to divide more troops forward.

In this way, there are more people who are shaken by the Ming army, that is, Zong Laohu, who cannot be suppressed.

However, at this moment, a loud horn sounded.

(To be continued)