After Yang Chao felt that the Eight Banners soldiers in Shandong had a fear of him, he immediately made a change, he felt very excited, feeling that this was the faint throbbing in his heart, and he felt that he would get the source of a big victory. Follow? Dream? Small? Say?

After a long period of rest, the soldiers stationed in Huaibei had a high desire to fight, while the main force of the Qing army, mainly the Eight Banners, was full of fear of Yang Chao because of the annihilation of the whole army several times in a period of time, so Yang Chao thought that Zhao Kang had the confidence to attack Jinan.

But he did not agree with Zhao Kang to attack Jinan directly, but asked him to attack the prefectures and counties near Jinan Prefecture and mobilize the main force of the Eight Banners in Jinan City, after all, Jinan is also a big city, and the number of Qing troops in the city may be more than Zhao Kang, so it will be too much of a loss to attack.

"Hit the nearby states and counties first, mobilize the Qing army in Jinan to rescue, and wait for the opportunity to stop it!"

Yang Chao immediately sent such an order to Zhao Kang.

Then came Jining Prefecture, Li Wuliu led the left wing army has arrived in Jining, but the Qing army is closed, so that his plan to fight with the enemy in the field is in vain, Wang Pu rushed to organize the siege of the city, the cannon roared, and soon opened a gap in the city wall, and at this time the Qing army fled.

Almost bloodlessly took Jining Prefecture, but whether it was Li Wuliu who failed to annihilate the enemy in the field, or Wang Pu, who bombarded the retreating enemy, both of them were a little excited, and the Qing army was too reluctant to fight, and they had not encountered such a Qing army.

In fact, Yang Chao was also a little surprised, although the Qing army was afraid of himself, but it was just a guess, thinking of the Han army of the Sanshun King who attacked Nanjing, it seemed that it was much stronger than these Eight Banner soldiers.

What Yang Chao didn't understand was that the army led by King Sanshun was not actually all Han Eight Banners, among which Kong Youde had more than 3,000 subordinates, all of whom were veterans who followed Mao Wenlong to harass the Manchu rear and later followed him to Shandong to rebel and flee to the Manchu surrender.

When Kong Youde was in Shandong, he was a general who commanded tens of thousands of troops, but after the Manchu Qing Dynasty, his troops were reduced. Although he is a prince, he has never led an army of tens of thousands, but the thousands of men and horses carefully selected by him are all elites. After fighting in the south and the north, he fought from Beijing to Xi'an, and was transferred back to Liaodong to be idle.

After Kong Youde came out of the mountain this time, with the support of Hong Chengchou, he surrendered to the Ming army from the entire north. More than 16,000 people were selected to supplement Kong Youde, and these 10,000 went to the green camp of the Ming army, each of which was the elite of the border army with archery and horse archery, and the combat effectiveness of the Ming army was not good before, that was because the whole army lacked discipline, and when they arrived at Kong Youde, they were immediately restrained by strict military discipline, and their superb skills could be fully released.

Therefore, although the army of King Sanshun is a Han army, its combat effectiveness is not weaker than that of the Qing army.

But a more important point, no matter how much Yang Chao loses twice. Or fight Azighaug, none of these people have participated.

Kong Youde's core elite was cultivating in Liaodong at that time, and the masters of the green battalion were defeated by the Qing army one by one.

Therefore, the elite under Kong Youde is because they don't know much about Yang Chao's Jiangnan soldiers and horses, and they look at it from the perspective of fighting the Ming army in the past, and those elites of the Ming army who were frightened by the Eight Banners are full of confidence in the elite of Kong Youde's subordinates, so the army under Kong Youde has no shadow on Yang Chao in terms of psychology and skills, so if it is a duel. Also slightly advantageous.

Therefore, the soldiers and horses led by Kong Youde showed a completely different state from the Qing army in Shandong.

Geng Zhongming's and Shang Kexi's situation is the same as Kong Youde's, they are all elite under his command plus the Ming army's border army, and they don't know Yang Chao's soldiers and horses, so they don't have a psychological burden. They are also full of confidence.

But these Eight Banners soldiers in Shandong are different, they are all the children of the Eight Banners who entered the customs with Dolgon early, each of them has relatives and friends buried in the hands of Yang Chao, plus every household has been allocated hundreds of acres of fertile land, and the petty officer's family has several coats, who still wants to work hard.

That's why they don't want to play with Yang Chao.

"Jinan has also been defeated?"

On the third day, Zhao Kang sent back the news. Conquered Jinan City, once again beyond Yang Chao's expectations, Yang Chao thought that he had to mobilize the Qing army, and then cut off his wings first, and finally besieged Jinan City, and even prepared to let Li Wuliu and Wang Pu support, but he didn't expect Zhao Kang to lay down Jinan City alone.

After inquiring in detail about the Tan Ma who reported the news, Yang Chao learned about the battle situation in Jinan, and Zhao Kang divided his troops to surround Tai'an Prefecture, surrounded three and missing one, surrounded but did not fight, but he could not wait for the Qing army to come for reinforcements, but the defenders of Tai'an Prefecture ran from the gap that night.

After taking Tai'an, Zhao Kang surrounded Feicheng this time, and he also surrounded but did not fight, and at the same time divided his troops and felt that Jinan was going to challenge.

The result was that Feicheng had not yet been taken, and the Qing army in Jinan City had also fled.

"It shouldn't be, Zilharang is also a general, and he is still the regent of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, second only to Dolgon in status, there is no reason to be so vulnerable."

Yang Chao couldn't figure it out, he knew that the Qing army had deployed heavy troops in Shandong, and the one who led the troops was Jierharang, needless to say, this Jierharang was a high-level member of the Eight Banners very early, much earlier than the debut of the Dorgon brothers, and the Ming army he fought in that year was not the Ming army after the complete collapse now, but the Ming army that was still quite organized during the Apocalypse and Chongzhen periods.

Therefore, Yang Chao did not believe that Zilharang would be a cowardly person.

Yang Chao is different from the general Ming army, those civil and military are either extremely contemptuous of the Qing army, calling the Tartars barbarians, or they are afraid to death, and they despise the lord in their mouths and fear in their hearts, but Yang Chao only believes in the facts, people have fought more battles than you have heard, and the accumulation of this experience is enough to prove the strength of the other party.

Therefore, Yang Chao is particularly strange.

"It doesn't seem to be the reason for the battle itself!"

Yang Chao judged that this situation could not be purely military reasons at all.

Although he defeated the Qing army many times, he even completely annihilated it four times, once in Haizhou, twice in Yangzhou, and once in Nanjing.

The defeated are all famous generals of the Qing army, and it is possible to kill tens of thousands of people at every turn, so that the Qing army is afraid, but it seems a little abnormal to let them collapse like this, the elite of the Eight Banners is still there, and the combat effectiveness is still there, so that they don't dare to fight and flee.

Zhao Kang stood on the city of Jinan, full of spirit, he didn't expect to take Jinan so easily, although he didn't win much, but he won such a big city, the political significance is still great, he couldn't help but be excited, his feet stepped on the city wall of Jinan, as if the whole city was trampled under his feet, and a pleasure of conquest filled his heart.

And in the north of Jinan, a standard of people is going away.

Zilharang was emotionally complicated, and he abandoned the city and fled without firing an arrow, which was not what he should do.

But he was forced to lose, and he lost from the moment he was transferred to Shandong by Dolgon.

None of the generals under his command wanted to play with Yang Chao, but Zilharang still had the power and prestige to force them to fight, but he didn't do that, the reason was simple: casualties!

The casualties of the Eight Banners cannot be afforded, Ding Zhuang's losses are too great, and he will lose regardless of success or failure in the fight.

If he Jilharang fought hard with Yang Chao in Shandong, even if he won the battle in the end, he would definitely be taken down by Dolgon when he returned to Beijing.

And he fled without a fight, and when he returned, he still had to be reprimanded by Dolgon, but fortunately he kept the strength of the banners, and the lords of the banners would definitely intercede with Zilharang, so that he could still get a good death, but there was no hope for his political future, and he only wanted to spend his old age in peace.

Zilharang didn't want to fight with the Ming army, he was once also the respected Baturu, a warrior.

However, the brutal power struggle made him calm early, and even showed a completely different weakness from the battlefield, but because of this attitude, he was never suspected in the Nurhachi era and the Huang Taiji era, and he had been the banner master for a long time, and he was in a high position.

Being in a high position, what you think and think is completely different from the battlefield.

"This battle is not a crime of war!"

Zilharang sighed, and finally made the decision to withdraw from Jinan, with a sad mentality of heroic twilight, and slowly marched towards Beizhili.

"Step by step, the main force of the Eight Banners, but don't fall in love, if the other party escapes and follows, they have already lost!"

After Yang Chao wanted to understand the reason for the Qing army's escape, he immediately gave orders to all troops, at this time there was no need to fight with the main force of the Eight Banners, Zilharang had already lost, and Yang Chao felt that he had once again made Dolgon's knife.

Zilharang will definitely be finished when he goes back this time, especially if he chases but doesn't fight, it will make Dolgon seize the handle, because no matter how you look at him, there is some kind of tacit understanding with Yang Chao, and he can't clear it if he wants to wash it up.

Yang Chao's forcible attack on Jierharang is more beneficial to Jierharang, but Yang Chao can't sacrifice the lives of his soldiers in order to save him, so he can only chase after him like this, preventing them from escaping, desperately destroying the local area, if the Qing army has an attitude of "I can't get you and don't want it", wantonly destroying the city, and even killing people and looting, Yang Chao still has a real headache, with the Manchu culture of "rather with friends than with domestic slaves", they can't do this kind of thing.

"Ordered Li Wuliu to advance in the direction of Linqing, and Wang Pu to the east, capturing the three capitals of Qingzhou, Laizhou and Dengzhou. To appease the surrendered green battalion, and not to kill at will! ”

Yang Chao began to divide his troops, allowing Li Wuliu to attack and advance along the canal, Zhao Kang pursued the main force of the Eight Banners reluctantly, and Wang Pu went east to capture other provinces in Shandong.

As for the surrender of the Green Battalion, it was still for political purposes, not purely military purposes.

"Hmph, if a large number of Han troops surrender in Shandong, I want to see if Dolgon dares to use the Han army on a large scale!"

Yang Chao secretly thought in his heart that when the manpower was already low and he had to use the king of Sanshun, the green battalion soldiers formed surrendered in large numbers, and at this time, Dolgon dared to use Han soldiers, and probably the magnates of the Eight Banners would also oppose it. (To be continued.) )