New Year's festivities. And did not wash away the clouds of war.

After the fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, in the early morning of the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, Shi Dakai led 60,000 elites to continue northward and entered Xuzhou Mansion in the north of Jiangsu. Wherever the army passed, it was invincible, crushing all the resisting Qing soldiers all the way, and approaching Shandong. Shi Dakai's troops caused panic in various counties and towns in Shandong, and also frightened the governor of Shandong. On the one hand, the governor of Shandong asked the imperial court for help, and on the other hand, he sent a letter to Li Zhen, asking for Li Zhen's support.

Jiangbei camp, the big tent of the Chinese army.

Li Zhen sat at the main seat of the conference table and looked up at the soldiers standing in the tent.

This soldier was sent by the governor of Shandong.

The soldier took out a letter from his bosom and respectfully handed it to Ye Chengxin, asking Ye Chengxin to transfer Li Zhenhou, and said: "Lord Admiral, Shi Dakai has attacked Shandong with countless bandits, the soldiers are strong and difficult to resist, my lord asks Lord Admiral to send troops to help." ”

Li Zhen bowed slightly, took the letter and browsed it, and browsed it quickly.

The contents of the letter were basically the same as what the soldier said.

However, the letter contained more Shandong Governor thanking Li Zhen for his gifts, such as money, food, and firearms.

As a man in the officialdom, the governor of Shandong knew the trend of interests, and he had to pay money to invite Li Zhen, so he listed a series of gifts. After Li Zhen read it, he laughed in his heart, handed the letter to Ye Chengxin, looked at the soldiers, and said in a deep voice: "You go back and tell the governor of Shandong, just say that this official will immediately mobilize soldiers and arrive in Shandong in the shortest possible time." However, Shi Dakai is about to enter the territory of Shandong, and this official hopes that the governor of Shandong will delay time and wait for me to relieve the danger facing Shandong. ”

"Thank you, sir! Time is urgent, and I have to go back to my life as soon as possible and say goodbye! ”

The soldier clasped his fists and saluted, turned and left.

Ye Chengxin waited for the soldiers to leave, and said puzzledly: "Marshal, a few years ago, you and the generals discussed the strategy of dealing with Shi Dakai. At that time, it was determined that it was a wall-by-side view, but why has it been changed to sending troops now? ”

Li Zhen smiled: "At that time, at this time, give an order!" The army pulled out the camp and pursued Shi Dakai. ”

Ye Chengxin looked puzzled, but Li Zhen ordered, he could only obediently leave the big tent to convey the order. In less than three hours, the Jiangbei camp had been cleaned up, and more than 8,000 people, including Huan Xiaowolf, Mu Ziqing and other doctors, all left Yangzhou and headed in the direction of Shandong in the north.

The army attacked, and Lu Shaochuan was the happiest.

This guy is extremely belligerent, and now that a big battle is about to happen, he is rushing with his troops.

Huang Shihai, Yang Banhou, and Smith came to Li Zhen's side, and Huang Shihai opened his mouth and asked: "Dashuai, we have already agreed on a strategy to deal with Shi Dakai and prepare to ......" What he said was what Ye Chengxin had asked. Now Li Zhen changed the order, but no one figured out Li Zhen's intentions, so Huang Shihai took the lead in asking.

Smith and Yang Banhou looked at Li Zhen and waited for Li Zhen's explanation.

Li Zhen said: "The governor of Shandong came to ask for help, and as a colleague, I should go to the rescue. ”

After hearing this, the three of them stared at Li Zhen with strange expressions.

These words are so unreliable!

Colleague?

They are all old men who follow Li Zhen, and they know Li Zhen well, and they know Li Zhen's methods. For people who are close to Li Zhen, or friends of Li Zhen, the treatment is quite good. However, irrelevant or hostile officials, Li Zhen will never take a look, or even deal with them. Think about the former Shanghai Daotai Yang Nengge, and the Guangdong governor appointed by Xianfeng, Qi Ling, this is a bloody lesson.

If Li Zhen really cared about his colleagues, I'm afraid these things wouldn't have happened.

The three of them were extremely disbelieving, and Huang Shihai turned his eyes and looked at Huang Qiang.

However, Huang Qiang shook his head and said that he didn't know, because he didn't get any news either.

The eyes of the three of them looked at Long Zhen again, after all, Long Xi had Li Zhen's information, and he was equivalent to Li Zhen's staff officer, and he knew a lot of things. Long Xi smiled and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, the marshal did make up his mind to lead the army to attack because he took into account the predicament faced by Shandong and the danger faced by the governor of Shandong. You don't believe in Dashuai, it's really undeserved. ”

When Huang Shihai and others heard this, they faintly felt the urge to vomit blood.

These words convinced the three of them that there was something wrong with them.

Huang Shihai saw that Li Zhen and Long Xi were silent, so he stopped asking. What can make Li Zhen and Long Xi keep it secret must be an extremely important thing. Huang Shihai led the people back to the army and continued to lead the troops on the road.

On the eighth day of January, the sky cleared.

On this day, Li Zhen finally entered the territory of Shandong.

At this moment, Shi Dakai's army has entered the territory of Shandong. When his army entered Shandong, it did not occupy the city, but swept through the towns like locusts. Shi Dakai was extremely strict with the soldiers of the army, and it was strictly forbidden for the soldiers to harass the people. However, the county government and government offices of the government were cleaned and clean, and they were worthy of three feet of melon land.

Shi Dakai's move did not affect the people, and faintly made the people excited.

Because the people are faced with harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, they are extremely poor, and they have resentment towards the government. Now Shi Dakai has solved the government, killed corrupt officials and corrupt officials, made the people's hearts happy, and vented the sullenness in their hearts. Everywhere Shi Dakai went, the people cheered and celebrated. If it weren't for Shi Dakai's strict restriction on the number of soldiers recruited, there would definitely be no less than 100,000 people now, and there might even be more soldiers.

However, Shi Dakai also knew that the further north he went, the more dangerous it became.

Fortunately, when he got the news that Li Zhen was coming, he was relieved.

Shandong, Yizhou Prefecture, Fei County.

Barracks outside the city!

Shi Dakai is dealing with things in the army, because there are too many places that have been swept recently, and there are countless things that need to be handled by Shi Dakai every day. Although he was tired, Shi Dakai looked at the news that came up, and he was extremely happy. Because of the sweep of many counties in Shandong, food, weapons, and money are available, and the army has no hidden worries.

I'm tired, but I'm happy!

"Whew!!"

The curtain of the tent door was rolled up, and Zhang Suimou walked in with a happy face.

He saluted Shi Da and said happily: "Lord Wang, Li Zhen entered Shandong with his soldiers. Next, we can turn around and head to Anhui. As long as we leave Li Zhen behind the ass, our chance has come. ”

Shi Dakai stood up and said loudly: "Pass the order, continue to feint and attack the towns in Shandong, and then transfer the army." ”

"Yes!"

Zhang Suimou was also excited, and left the camp with brisk steps.

After Zhang Sui got out of the camp, he stood in the camp, looking up at the fiery red sun hanging in the sky, and it seemed that his future was so bright and dazzling. Even, he thought that Shi Dakai would get rid of Li Zhen's pursuit and enter Sichuan to achieve great things according to the next plan. When the time comes, he will be the founder of the country, and he will be better than staying in Nanjing and following Hong Xiuquan, I don't know how many times.

ps: the second shift;