Dengzhou and Laizhou in Shandong have become two very special places in Daming.

All this is because of Kong Youde's rebellion, Chongzhen five years, Dengzhou was broken by Kong Youde, almost slaughtered by Kong Youde, tens of thousands of people were killed, in order to quell the rebellion in Dengzhou and Laizhou, the imperial court sent a large number of troops to encircle and suppress Kong Youde, and the battle also achieved some victories, but unfortunately Kong Youde escaped from Dengzhou by boat.

Kong Youde's rebellion lasted for a period of time, during this time, Shandong, which had already suffered many disasters, fell into a deep disaster, the army went to Dengzhou and Laizhou to quell the rebellion, consumption is indispensable, and it is also necessary, but unfortunately the imperial court does not have so much silver and military salaries, and some expenses have to be borne by the local government, which makes it more difficult for the people, and the taxes are as much as a cow's hair, which is simply unbearable, plus the local villains and gangsters, taking advantage of the situation to make chaos, the people almost reached the situation of rebellion.

Dengzhou, Laizhou, Qingzhou, Jinan and other four prefectures under the jurisdiction of Shandong are all dependent on the sea, among which Dengzhou, Laizhou and Qingzhou are the most extensive by the sea, so the sale of illicit salt is very serious in this generation, the salt barons are very rich, rich and rich, each family has a large number of nursing homes, even the guards do not dare to provoke them easily, besides, these salt lords rely on smuggling and selling illicit salt to make a fortune, what they do is the knife edge licking blood, and they don't care about the attitude of the guard.

The salt lord earned a lot of silver, scattered a lot of silver, colluded with the government, found a protective umbrella, and became even more arrogant, Chongzhen six years, Kong Youde took refuge in Houjin, it is said that Dengzhou and Laizhou should be stable, but the situation is far from the case, and the local area is even more chaotic. Ruffians and hooligans are rampant, the government is doing nothing, and the lives of the common people are even more sad.

Dengzhou and Laizhou used to be places that the imperial court attached great importance to, especially Dengzhou, which used to be the place where the imperial court trained and manufactured artillery. It is also one of the general logistics bases of the Ming Dynasty to fight against the Houjin, from Dengzhou to Lushun, but more than 300 miles by sea, by warship, that is, more than two days, you can arrive, when Lushun was still occupied by the Ming army, it is also one of the important strongholds of the Houjin to resist the Houjin, but unfortunately Lushun was lost. After being occupied by Houjin, the role of Dengzhou and Laizhou was not so big, and naturally it was slowly ignored by the imperial court.

In the eyes of the adults in the court, the Houjin Eight Banners Army is indeed powerful, but Houjin does not have a water division, so he thinks of attacking Daming from the direction of Lushun. It is not very possible to go directly to Dengzhou or Laizhou by boat. After all, more than 300 miles on the sea cannot be compared with the land, and without rich sailing experience, I don't even think that I can attack Dengzhou and Laizhou.

It was also noted that from Lushun to Dengzhou and Laizhou, this was a very convenient route for attacking the Beijing Division. As long as you enter Dengzhou or Laizhou, you can pass through Qingzhou Mansion and Jinan Mansion and directly enter Beizhili, threatening Jingshi, but this view is not supported. The reason is simple, Houjin does not have a water master.

Shandong's guard army, can be described as a mess, the elite troops have long been gone, Chongzhen five years when Kong Youde rebelled, all the armies that can fight, basically clean, today's guard army still exists, but unfortunately these armies, basically are military cantonment households, these military cantonment households, living at the bottom, living in a situation not as good as ordinary people.

Many military households, who have been farming for generations, have never touched knives and guns at all, and they don't know what the concept of fighting on the road is. As for the series of officers who are the commanders of the guard, thousands of households, and hundreds of households, they have long become out-and-out businessmen, and the general and small flags below are equivalent to the chief and the head of the armor, and the military households cultivate the land, or boil salt, and are exploited layer by layer, both the exploitation of officers and the exploitation of salt lords, everyone thinks of making a fortune, and the war has nothing to do with them, and no one will care.

However, the commanders of the guards, as well as the officers of more than 1,000 households, still feed a part of the army, and these troops can be regarded as their personal soldiers, and can even be regarded as their private army, these sergeants, the salary is not low, and they are absolutely loyal to the officers, and their main task is to protect the property and families of the officers.

However, after Su Tiancheng took office, he did not go to Dengzhou and Laizhou to see, and he didn't know the specific situation here in Ludao, but he knew that there were still tens of thousands of sergeants in the Weisho army in Dengzhou and Laizhou, and the combat effectiveness of these sergeants was definitely not good, and it was too late to care about how bad it was.

This is also the mistake made by Su Tiancheng, Ji Liao Supervisor, while responsible for the border passes, but also responsible for the defense of many places in Shandong, no matter what, Shandong is a place that the soldiers attach importance to, here by the sea, has its own superiority.

If Su Tiancheng knew about the armament situation in Dengzhou and Laizhou, I am afraid that he would vomit blood in anger.

In the middle of July of the twelfth year of Chongzhen.

The autumn harvest began, everyone's attention began to shift, focusing on the situation of the autumn harvest, the mutual market between Anningbao and Jingbian once again entered the peak period, a steady stream of grain was transported there, sheep, war horses and other materials were transported in, and Su Tiancheng and Xu Eryi's attention also turned to this side.

The situation in the Guanning Jin defense line also made Xu Er so busy that his feet did not touch the ground, and the work of reclaiming wasteland was in full swing, and the vast majority of the Han people who came back settled down and began to be busy for the future life, the border army in the Guanning Jin defense line, the work of natural retrenchment, was almost the same, a total of 150,000 people became standard farmers, and the next step was to remove their military household status, these things ultimately need the approval of the imperial court.

There are less than 180,000 soldiers and border troops of the Jiangning battalion stationed in the Guanning Jin defense line, of which 30,000 are stationed in Dalinghe City, 50,000 are stationed in Jinzhou, 30,000 are stationed in Ningyuan, and more than 70,000 are stationed in Shanhaiguan.

In Su Tiancheng's view, Shanhaiguan does not need to garrison the soldiers of the Jiangning battalion, if the Houjin Emperor Taiji really hits the Shanhaiguan, it also means that the entire Guanning Jin defense line is basically scrapped, this situation is impossible, and Shanhaiguan does not need to garrison the soldiers of the Jiangning battalion.

For more than a month, there have been some small commotions among the officers of the border army, and the Governor's Office has ruthlessly suppressed them; all officers who are not satisfied with the abolition of the border army, or who are secretly opposed, are basically beheaded once it is verified, and there is nothing to talk about.

It is also because of this situation that the task of dismantling the border army of the Guanningjin defense line has been done unknowingly.

This is what Su Tiancheng didn't expect, but such a situation needs to be consolidated, and the real effect will come out, and it will need to be a year later, and the autumn harvest after a year will be the time for real stability.

The intelligence from Shenyang showed that the Red Flag Army and the Eight Banners Army inlaid with the Red Flag led by Dai Shan were ready, and they had just set off to Mongolia, this information, Su Tiancheng didn't care too much, but he felt a little incredible, Huang Taiji still decided to let the Eight Banners Army enter Mongolia, such an arrangement is not flattering. Originally, the plan was to arrange for 10,000 soldiers of the Jiangning battalion to rush to Anningbao and Jingbian, but this proposal was rejected by the governor of the capital, the secretary of the military department, Zhang Fengyi, the chief military officer of Datong, the governor of the military department, the right attendant of the military department, and the commander of the Yulin battalion at the same time, and Lu Xiangsheng was expanded to 50,000 soldiers, Lu Xiangsheng implemented strict training, and invited the soldiers of the Jiangning battalion to come to guide, and the combat effectiveness of the Yulin battalion was greatly improved. But Zhang Fengyi also learned a lesson, selected 20,000 elite soldiers, trained strictly, and the combat effectiveness was different from before, plus these Jiangning battalion officers and soldiers used to be the border army of Datong, and later incorporated into the Jiangning battalion, and in the process of training, they were also very hardworking.

In this way, the soldiers of the Jiangning battalion and the soldiers of the Yulin battalion stationed in Datong, Yulin, and Ningxia reached 60,000, plus the 20,000 border troops in Datong with good combat effectiveness, a total of 80,000 people, such a huge team was more than enough to deal with the rebellion of the Mongolian tribes, including the attack of the Houjin Eighth Banner Army.

What's more, the Xibe tribe and the Daurian tribe are absolutely loyal to the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, when the information came, Su Tiancheng didn't care at all, he had already decided that this was the measure taken by Huang Taiji in order to divert the contradictions that had arisen in the Great Qing Kingdom, as for whether it was a real attack, it was an inaccurate thing, maybe it would attack, maybe it was just for show, with Lu Xiangsheng, Zhang Fengyi, Bi Maokang and others guarding Datong, Yulin and Ningxia, there should be no problem, and his main energy is still focused on stabilizing the border passes.

As for the matter of dismantling the border army, according to Su Tiancheng's idea, it is first of all to be implemented from the Guanningjin defense line, as long as the reduction of the border army here has achieved obvious results, Datong, Ningxia, Tianjin, Shandong, and other places, there is no need to say more, and naturally the army of the guard station or the border army can be smoothly dismantled.

On July 20, the Ming army sailors stationed in Penglai found that there were a lot of warships in the direction of the sea, coming towards Penglai, but the warships were hung with the flag of the Ming army, these soldiers were a little strange, it is said that the Ming sailors had not been dispatched for a long time, the key was that there was no silver, some warships were in the harbor, tattered, and there was almost no combat effectiveness.

The Wei Commander stationed in Penglai has already gone to Dengzhou Mansion, and the concubine of the Commander of the Guard lives in Dengzhou Mansion, under normal circumstances, the commander is not here, and the officers such as the commander and the commander are also busy with their own affairs, anyway, there is nothing to be busy here, the supreme commander of the assassin station, is actually a hundred households.

When the sergeant ran to Penglai City to report, the hundred-household lord was ruthless because he had lost money gambling the day before, ignoring the sergeant's report, and still thinking in the room about how to earn the silver back in the future. (To be continued......)