Wang Aoyong was the governor of Shandong, and it was naturally his duty to quell the rebellion. Fang Dayou, the governor of the pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info had no objection to Wang Aoyong's arrangement, and promised to make every effort to raise food and grass for the army.

On the third day after the news of the fall of Jiaozhou, Wang Aoyong took 3,000 soldiers out of Jinan and headed for Qingzhou.

Qingzhou is 300 miles away from Jinan, and in six days, Wang Aoyong's army will be under the city of Qingzhou.

At this time, Qingzhou had just been captured by Li Shiyuan's coalition army. However, the situation in Qingzhou City is complicated, because Qingzhou City is not Li Shiyuan's army.

In order to defeat the Qing army and capture Qingzhou, several armies in Qingzhou united. Among them, Li Shiyuan and Zhao Yingyuan are the strongest. Li Shiyuan was the original Ming army of a thousand households, and he was a self-proclaimed general in Qingzhou. After Li Zicheng was driven out of Beijing, the gentry in Shandong rebelled and overthrew the rule of the Shun Dynasty in Shandong, but there were still a considerable number of Shun troops left in Shandong.

When attacking the Qing army, the Ming army and the Shun army could barely unite, but after the capture of Qingzhou, the contradictions between the two sides became prominent.

Zhao Yingyuan's troops in Qingzhou City were relatively small, only more than 600 people, but they were all the original elite soldiers. The Ming army represented by Li Shiyuan consisted of nearly 2,000 soldiers, but there were many factions, complex composition, and extremely poor combat effectiveness.

Although Li Shiyuan wanted to drive Zhao Yingyuan out of Qingzhou, he also knew the strong combat effectiveness of the Shun army and did not dare to move. When attacking Qingzhou, the Shun army undertook most of the heavy tasks of attacking the fortifications, and the combat effectiveness it showed frightened the Ming army.

In this way, the two sides, despite their contradictions, maintain a wonderful balance. However, with the arrival of Wang Aoyong with three thousand green battalion soldiers, the situation in Qingzhou was suddenly broken.

Wang Aoyong secretly bribed the generals of the Ming army, and promised to be a high-ranking official, and several generals under Li Shiyuan were bribed by Wang Aoyong and coerced Li Yingyuan to defect to the Qing court. Although Li Shiyuan was unwilling, he still gave in in the face of the sword.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty army numbered hundreds of thousands, but in the face of the Qing soldiers, few generals could insist on resisting, and it was the norm to surrender to the wind.

Compared with the Ming army, the performance of the Shun army, which they called the thieves, was much better, although the Shun army was also defeated in successive battles, but the people had been resisting, and insisted until the destruction of the Southern Ming, and few people surrendered.

Although Zhao Yingyuan was an ordinary member of the original Shun army, the performance of him and his six hundred Shun troops was much stronger than that of the Ming army.

Due to the surrender of the Ming army, the gate of Qingzhou was opened, and 3,000 Qing soldiers under Wang Aoyong entered the city. Zhao Yingyuan knew that he was outnumbered, so he pretended to surrender, first sent someone to hand over the surrender letter, and then led a hundred cavalry to Wang Aoyong's line.

Wang Aoyong thought that Zhao Yingyuan had come to surrender, so he didn't take precautions at all, and Zhao Yingyuan's 100 cavalry drove straight in, killing Wang Aoyong's personal guard camp and fleeing.

Wang Aoyong barely escaped by hiding under the bed, but the cavalry led by Zhao Yingyuan was too few, when the rescue of three thousand green battalion soldiers came, his hundred cavalry left and fell into the encirclement, and when he desperately fought to escape from the encirclement, only five or six cavalry were left in one hundred cavalry, and Zhao Yingyuan himself was shot in the back with an arrow.

Wang Aoyong was lucky to escape and immediately deployed a siege of Zhao Yingyuan's troops. Ordered 3,000 green battalion soldiers to launch an attack on Zhao Yingyuan's 500 men with all their might.

The main general was seriously wounded, the enemy soldiers were several times their own, no matter how brave the Shun army was, they were outnumbered, under the encirclement and suppression of the green battalion soldiers, the whole army was annihilated, and the leader Zhao Yingyuan was seriously injured, fought desperately, and finally died under the sword of the Qing soldiers.

After quelling the Qingzhou Rebellion, Wang Aoyong appeased a little and immediately led the army to Jiaozhou. Sending troops to take the lead, taking their families as hostages, and ordering them to fight bravely as a sign of surrender.

As for the details of the Ming army occupying Jiaozhou, Wang Aoyong sent people to investigate, and knew that it was a coastal defense guerrilla unit from Zhejiang. He didn't understand what a coastal defense guerrilla had come to Shandong to do, and as for recruiting soldiers, Wang Aoyong thought it was a joke. There are many people in Daming, as long as there is food and salary, you can recruit as many troops as you want, and there is no need to come all the way to Shandong.

Could it be that the Hongguang Imperial Court, which ascended the throne in Nanjing, had a change and wanted to send troops to the Northern Expedition, and this coastal defense guerrilla was the front station they sent? The purpose was to establish a stirring storm in Shandong, so as to contain their advance on the frontal battlefield.

Definitely! The more Wang Aoyong thought about it, the more reasonable he felt, if that was the case, as long as he could quickly defeat the vanguard of the Ming army in Jiaozhou, he would be able to make a great contribution to the Manchu court!

Thinking of this, Wang Aoyong's mood became even more urgent, he did not wait for the situation in Qingzhou to stabilize, and couldn't wait to take all the troops to Jiaozhou.

The 3,000 green battalions he commanded, together with the newly surrendered Jiaozhou army, with an army of nearly 5,000 people, marched towards Jiaozhou.

Qingzhou to Jiaozhou more than 300 miles, his army has just left Jiaozhou, the journey is not halfway, Ren Siqi in Jiaozhou has already learned the news.

Ren Siqi was not only busy recruiting civilians and training recruits in Jiaozhou. He was also concerned about the movements of the Qing soldiers around him. Anthony drew a large number of quick-witted and agile men from among the soldiers from Shandong, formed a team of meticulous workers, and sent them around Jiaozhou. Qingzhou, Laizhou, and Dengzhou all have fine works sent by the Daishan Army.

As soon as Wang Aoyong's army set off from Qingzhou, he hurried to Jiaozhou and sent the news to Ren Siqi.

Knowing that the Qing soldiers were attacking, Ren Siqi immediately gathered his subordinates to discuss countermeasures.

"Wang Aoyong led nearly 5,000 Qing soldiers from Qingzhou six days ago to attack our Jiaozhou. Between Qingzhou and Jiaozhou, there are dense mountains and many rivers, and the speed of the army cannot be too fast. The Qing soldiers can now reach Anqiu at most, and they are still at least five days away from Jiaozhou. ”

In the Jiaozhou Prefecture, there is a huge map on the table, with twists and turns in ink lines, which is a topographic map of the whole province of Shandong, but it was captured from the Prefecture after the Daishan Army invaded Jiaozhou.

"Everyone, the Qing soldiers will soon be under the city of Jiaozhou, what should we do?" Ren Siqi pointed to the map and asked everyone.

"The enemy is outnumbered, we should abandon Jiaozhou, retreat to the beach of Jiaozhou Bay, and wait for the fleet to return to Daishan quickly." When Jin Yufei heard that there were 5,000 Qing soldiers, he immediately frowned and put forward his own suggestion.

"What? Retreat to the beach! Sha Qianli on the side immediately reluctant, and shouted: "Our Daishan army has come as an army, and it has never lost a battle, how can we flee without a fight!" ”

"yes, yes!" Chen Mingyang and others also agreed, and for more than a year, the Daishan Army has almost won consecutive battles, which makes their morale very high. (To be continued.) )