Looking at these soldiers, the closer he got to Shandong, the more Yang Chao had a strong sense that this attack would definitely achieve a huge victory, and it was a victory beyond his imagination, his heart couldn't help but tremble a little, and an irrepressible excitement fluctuated one after another like waves crashing on a reef.

Is this intuition?

In the past, Yang Chao was absolutely unwilling to believe in such irrational things, but after all these years of fighting, he began to believe that this kind of battlefield intuition from the primitive instincts of male animals was sometimes really useful.

A veteran, or even an old horse, has no reason, sometimes he can seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and has a subconscious of all kinds of dangers in the dark, which is why veterans have a greater chance of surviving on the battlefield, even if it is Yang Chao's military formation, it is clear that everyone is together, but every time there are still more recruits than veterans, and the reason may be here.

A veteran unconsciously bows his head and dodges a hidden arrow that he doesn't know where it came from, and the recruit definitely doesn't have this instinct.

But this time is different, Yang Chao feels this time is not an instinctive reaction to the crisis, but a reaction to the upcoming big victory, he doesn't know where this reaction comes from, but he is sure in his heart.

At the same time, it seems that he chose to attack Shandong this time, which seems to be a very correct choice, if he goes to fight Zhejiang or Jiangxi, he may miss an extremely brilliant victory.

Compared with Yang Chao, Wang Pu and Li Wuliu were more excited, waiting outside the city early in the warm summer breeze and scorching sun, and when they saw Yang Chao's army with an expectant face, they couldn't wait to rush over with one person and one horse.

"The last general greets the Grand Duke!"

Both saluted at the same time.

Then Wang Pu couldn't wait to say: "Metropolitan Governor, this Northern Expedition, the last general is willing to be the vanguard!" ”

Li Wuliu glared at him, hating him for taking the lead, but he didn't show weakness: "Xuzhou is the last general's defense area, and the last general is familiar with the terrain and people's conditions, so he should be the last general to be a pioneer!" ”

"Haha, what are you two arguing about? The vanguard is naturally a matter of cavalry, and you guys are all mud-legged and run, can you run over the horse? ”

Zhao Kang laughed and ridiculed the two.

"Don't fight yet! Wait for me to deploy. ”

Yang Chao waved his hand to stop the soldiers and rode his horse towards Xuzhou City.

In fact, for several generals competing with each other for the vanguard position. Yang Chao did not object, on the contrary, there was a faint feeling in his heart, that is, the intuition in his heart may be related to this, these troops in Jiangbei have not fought for a long time, and they practice hard every day. The soldiers have long been full of food and food, and most of them are veterans, obviously timid in battle, and the military spirit is available.

This kind of high morale is a powerful motivation to win, but Yang Chao faintly feels that the intuition in his heart is not only because of this.

"Pioneer let Shi Lang fight!"

Yang Chao began to deploy offensive missions.

"Why?"

"Why?"

Wang Pu and Li Wuliu were immediately dissatisfied, if it was Zhao Kang, they would have recognized that Zhao Kang was a cavalryman. And it's Yang Chao's own soldiers, and it's his cousin, so it's okay to take care of it, but what kind of thing is this Shi Lang, just a pirate from Fujian, and along the way, he is also an auxiliary soldier who sends military rations, when will it be his turn to be tied with these generals, and dare to compete for the vanguard!

With a snap, Yang Chao slammed the table.

"Why, why!"

"I don't think you've forgotten all the military discipline for a long time."

Fighting for the forward, and even fighting for merit, Yang Chao is not opposed. This internal rivalry is sometimes a motivator, but the nature of questioning his orders changes.

Wang Pu and Li Wuliu immediately bowed their heads: "The last general has lost his words." ”

It's good to admit mistakes, otherwise you should spank them. All of them are in high positions in the general army, and they can't afford to lose face.

Shi Lang had a cold face on the side, neither expressing sincerity and fear, nor expressing gratitude, and a natural look, which made Li Wuliu and the others even more unhappy. Obviously, Shi Lang's emotional intelligence is not high, otherwise he would not have fallen out with Zheng Chenggong.

Yang Chao didn't care about the character of his subordinates, and seized the time to arrange tasks: "Shi Lang is the vanguard, attack and advance along the canal, and all those who block the way of our army will be swept away, and after entering Weishan Lake, immediately control this lake, no matter what the circumstances, the Qing army and naval divisions are not allowed to enter Weishan Lake." ”

This end of Weishan Lake is thirty miles away from Xuzhou Mansion, and that end is directly connected to Jining Prefecture, a big canal city, and maintaining the right to make water on Weishan Lake can ensure the control of the first line from Xuzhou to Jining, and Yang Chao has the initiative, which is why he let Shi Lang be a big forward.

"Mark and command!"

Although Shi Lang now commands thousands of sailors and has 100 dhows, his official rank is only a thousand generals, and he is not qualified to be a general.

"I will give you 3,000 soldiers, you must not lose, otherwise our army will be in danger!"

Yang Chao emphasized.

Shi Lang said: "Don't worry, the governor of the capital will use a head to guarantee that it will be absolutely foolproof." It's not that the last general boasts, there is no enemy in the Tartar army! ”

Shi Lang's water battle Yang Chao has absolutely no doubt, he is from the Zheng Group, the Dutch who play on the sea have no temper, and the small lake can't turn up the waves, but this person is a little arrogant, no wonder no one likes it.

"Zhao Kang listens to orders!"

"Order some of your 10,000 soldiers to advance with the army, and the other 10,000 soldiers and horses will be reduced to zero, and they will march from Yixian County to the northeast and approach Jinan!"

Zhao Kang was overjoyed, I heard that he was asked to fight Jinan, which is much more valuable than Jining, and this is the capital city of Shandong.

He did not think in the slightest about how his 10,000 cavalry would attack the city.

Yang Chao had to correct him and said, "Remember, you are not here to attack the city, you are there to scare the Tartars." Divide the troops into four fields, so that the fathers and elders of Shandong know that my Ming official army has gone on a northern expedition. Shandong has not been pacified in recent years, and there are anti-Qing rebels in various places, and they have raised banners to encourage these rebels. Give them weapons when necessary. ”

It turned out that it was not a siege, but it was just an advertisement, and Zhao Kang suddenly became a little excited.

Yang Chao said again: "Remember, don't fight Jiancheng." Guerrilla attacks everywhere, harassment as the top, so that the Tartars do not know where our main force is, so that they have to divide their troops in all directions. ”

"The last will understand."

Zhao Kang replied.

"Li Wuliu listened to the order and ordered your army to be the left flank and enter Jining Prefecture to lure the enemy into a field battle."

"Wang Pu listened to the order and ordered your army to be the right flank, and march into Jining Prefecture to be responsible for the siege!"

All the tasks were issued, and Yang Chao himself sat in Xuzhou. Waiting for the arrival of Sun Changfu's army.

"Remember, Li Wuliu is good at field battles, and he lures the enemy into field battles first, if he doesn't succeed. Then Wang Pu attacked. And when I was away, Wang Pu listened to Li Wuliu moderation! ”

Yang Chao deliberately clarified the subordinate relationship, otherwise the orders on the battlefield are different, the two are of the same grade, and complementary cooperation will be bad.

Wang Pu was dissatisfied. But just now he had already let Yang Chao slap the table, he knew that he was opposing, but he hit Yang Chao's bottom line, he would inevitably serve with a military stick before the army, and he would also gather 100,000 troops to watch, seeing that he was about to go on the expedition, he didn't want to be spanked in front of 100,000 people.

On the second day, Shi Lang set off, arrived at Weishan Lake in half a day, approached Yixian (Zaozhuang) in half a day, and immediately attacked here.

In Taierzhuang, the southernmost town of Yi County, there was a fierce battle with the former Qing army. fought until late at night before Taierzhuang was taken.

I didn't expect Shi Lang to encounter such a big trouble in the first battle, and reported more than 100 casualties, 30 deaths, and more than 120 injuries.

Although Taierzhuang is a small Zhuangzi, but it is close to the canal, it is a rather prosperous small Zhuangzi, although it does not want to be as rich as the merchants of Huaiyang, and can build a large garden, but the merchants' houses here are generally tall and deep. With the heaviness of the north, especially the local abundance of granite stones, a large number of stone walls are used, so the family compound is like a fortress.

Later, Li Zongren fought a battle of Taierzhuang here. This town is famous all over the world precisely because its location is very suitable for blocking. And the reason why there was a big war here in later generations was also because the geographical location was more important, at least to control the southern end of Weishan Lake, which was the best control point, otherwise Shi Lang could directly enter Weishan Lake.

The Qing army occupied this place to protect the canal. Blocking the enemy army, Yang Chao occupies here, and he can also protect the canal and himself.

Shi Lang was unreasonable, and when he came up, he attacked and rushed violently, fought overnight, repelled the Qing army, and occupied this place.

"Is the Qing army very tenacious, could it be that my intuition is wrong."

Yang Chao knew that the Qing army had stationed heavy troops in Shandong, but he didn't expect such a strong will to fight, and suddenly had a little doubt about his intuition that he could win a big victory.

Shi Lang then invaded the area of Weishan Lake, which set up Weishan County in later generations, which is considered a tourist destination, but in ancient times, it did not pay attention to the tourism economy, and there was no county here, which means that this is not a strategic place.

Different from the Weishan Lake in later generations, there are still four different small lakes here at this time, the most difficult is Zhangzhuang Lake, to the north is Lumeng Lake, in the north is Weishan Lake, and there is a Xishan Lake to the north of Weishan Lake. It's just that these four lakes now have only one name left, in order to avoid the interference of the Yellow River, the Ming Dynasty government opened the Nanyang New River during the Jiajing period, and the four lakes were connected under the water conservancy effect after the transfer of the channel, so it was only called Weishan Lake in later generations.

Shi Lang didn't have any resistance here, not even a single Qing soldier, there were only a few fishing villages near the lake.

With Shi Lang's temper as a pirate, he naturally wouldn't let the fishing boats in this village exist, and they all requisitioned things.

But the infantry who went with the army sent silver taels one by one, Yang Chao is a righteous division, a royal division, and Zhao Rui can't do anything to loot.

After that, Shi Lang swept Weishan Lake, which was much easier than he imagined, because he knew Jining Prefecture, he didn't touch the Qing army's navy, and Jining's Qing army's navy, as he said, without his general, Shi Lang even hit Jining Prefecture.

To be honest, Shi Lang's play can be regarded as brilliant.

But compared to Zhao Kang's cavalry, it was too bleak.

What Yang Chao didn't expect was that Zhao Kang set off for only one day, and he sent the results of conquering the state and county one after another.

The first is Yi County, Zhao Kang's 10,000 cavalry attacked Yi County, and happened to meet the Qing army that fled from Taierzhuang to Yi County, and pursued them directly to Yi County, Yi County saw 10,000 cavalry, and immediately withdrew, and he took over the county empty-handed.

Then he divided his troops to attack Tengzhou and Yizhou, but it was still effortless, clamoring to ask Yang Chao for permission to attack Jinan, and to set up a military order!

This situation surprised Yang Chao a little, but then his heart jumped.

Yang Chao was taken aback: "The Qing army has lost its courage!" (To be continued.) )