Ren Siqi hid his army in the valley between the two hills east of the Jiaoshui River, and then followed the bank of the Jiaoshui River for several miles to the swamp where Huang Fengwu was located. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At the bend in the glue, hundreds of recruits are busy digging for dirt and stones. A dam has been built on the Jiao River to cut the river back.

In the swamp on the south side of the river, the water is rippling, and the reeds have been submerged by the river, turning from a swamp to a large lake. Hundreds of recruits were busy around the marshes, building dikes to prevent the river from escaping.

To the north of the embankment, the water level in the river is very shallow, and you can clearly see the fish swimming at the bottom of the river.

"You're here!" Seeing Ren Siqi, Huang Fengwu greeted him happily.

"Feng Wu, thank you for your hard work!" Looking at Huang Fengwu's dirty clothes and haggard face, Ren Siqi said with pity.

Listening to Ren Siqi's words, Huang Fengwu immediately refreshed, and waved her white and tender little hands, indicating that it was nothing.

"By the way, has the news leaked out?" Looking at the small village not far away, Ren Siqi asked worriedly.

"Nope! I sent people to surround the whole village, and the people in the village originally had more than 50 households, all of whom were tenants of the Zhang family in Jiaozhou, but most of them went to the city of Jiaozhou and wanted to move to Daishan. Among the more than 1,000 recruits you sent, there were a few people from the village, and under their persuasion, all the villagers stayed in the village honestly, and no one dared to move. ”

"That's good!" Ren Siqi nodded, "We have such a big movement, we must be careful to block the news." According to the spies, the Qing soldiers are almost high and may pass through the glue tomorrow. ”

"Do you think they're going to stay in Gaomi for a day, or are they going to get over the glue right away?" Huang Fengwu opened his eyes wide and asked.

"Not necessarily. Judging from the marching speed of the Qing soldiers, they arrived at Anqiu from Qingzhou in a few days, and there was no rest along the way. Ren Siqi thought for a while and said.

"We must hide our whereabouts now to prevent them from being discovered by the Qing soldiers, and all the people who approach the army will be detained, and we must not let the news leak out. The water level in the glue river is shallow enough, there is no need to strengthen the embankment, let the soldiers all stop, and hide in the village. ”

Huang Fengwu nodded and passed the order on. Immediately, all the recruits stopped and drove into the village one after another.

"Let your people stay here, I'm going to take part in this battle myself!" Huang Feng danced.

Looking at Huang Fengwu's belligerent appearance, Ren Siqi could only nod in agreement.

Ren Likun looked at the embankment with the recruits, waiting for the order to release the water. And Ren Siqi and Huang Fengwu returned to the army, waiting for the arrival of the Qing soldiers of the brigade.

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Wang Aoyong rode on a red war horse, walking in the middle of the army, surrounded by hundreds of knights in full armor, with banners waving and majestic.

The army of 5,000 was divided into three parts, the front, the middle and the rear, and the front and back were half a mile apart.

There were more than 10,000 people, and even if there were only 5,000 troops, there were miles of queues on the avenue.

However, except for Wang Aoyong's henchmen and knights, the other soldiers were all full of tiredness.

From Jinan to Qingzhou, until now, half a month, they have been marching for more than ten days. Except for a battle in Qingzhou and a two-day rest, they haven't had a good rest at all these days, and every day is an endless march.

The marching distance of sixty miles a day is too strong for these green battalion soldiers, and if it weren't for Wang Aoyong's strict military law, I'm afraid the soldiers would have fled half of them long ago.

In the queue, every Qing soldier was dejected, and looked at Wang Aoyong under the banner of the Chinese army from time to time.

Paralyzed, you are all one person and two horses, but Lao Tzu can only rely on a pair of feet!

At the front of the entire army, it was the newly surrendered army Li Shiyuan's department.

As a newly surrendered army, Li Shiyuan's department was naturally assigned to the most tiring work, he took more than 1,000 people, as the vanguard of the entire army, opening roads in the mountains and building bridges in the water, if there was an enemy to attack, his people were the first to be attacked.

This kind of treatment made Li Shiyuan's subordinates complain, but since they had surrendered, how could they bargain!

After surrendering, Li Shiyuan was still appointed as a general, but he was no longer a general of the Ming Dynasty, but a general of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Riding on a thin horse, Li Shiyuan lowered his head and sighed, he was unwilling to surrender in his heart, but what could he do if the situation was pressing? Looking at the ugly appearance of the money rat tail after Wang Aoyong's subordinates shaved their heads, Li Shiyuan regretted it even more, if he became like them, how would he go to see his ancestors after death?

The goal of this trip was to attack Jiaozhou, and Li Shiyuan knew that it was the troops of General Ren of Zhejiang Haiphong who were occupying Jiaozhou at this moment, and his son Li Ding was now in the Daishan army. This made Li Shiyuan even more reluctant to fight with the Daishan army, but looking at the dozen or so fierce soldiers who followed behind him, which were sent by Wang Aoyong to monitor him, Li Shiyuan could only go forward.

I have arrived at the foot of Gaomi City, looking at the Gaomi city wall, many of my subordinates are tired and sitting on the ground, even if the officers are scolding, they will not move their steps again. Li Shiyuan had no choice but to order the whole army to rest for a while, and sent cavalry to the rear to ask if they were camping in Gaomi.

The order finally came from the rear, and Wang Aoyong was still kind, ordering the army to rest outside Gaomi City and continue the march tomorrow.

Gaomi City is still flying the banner of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so naturally there is no need to worry about attacks in the city. On the contrary, Wang Kezheng, the commander of Gaomi County in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, was full of joy to welcome the Qing soldiers from Jinan.

Since Jiaozhou was captured by a Ming army from the sea, Wang Xianling was worried, for fear that Jiaozhou would send troops to attack Gaomi, Gaomi City only had 300 weak soldiers, and could not stop the Ming army's attack, Wang Xianling was ready to surrender again, anyway, whoever won the power in this year would surrender whom, it didn't matter whether he was loyal or not.

However, the Ming army in Jiaozhou never arrived, but the governor of Jinan Wang personally led the troops, which made Wang County Ling overjoyed. The Manchu Qing was strong, the Ming army was weak, and the world was full of people sooner or later, which had formed a consensus among the gentry in the north.

Wang Aoyong met with Wang County's order, admonished him, accepted the materials sent to the army, and refused to go into the city to rest. He ordered the whole army to camp outside Gaomi City and continue to march to Jiaozhou early tomorrow morning.

was entrusted with the important task of governor, so that Wang Aoyong was grateful to the Manchus, and he hated to fly to Jiaozhou immediately to destroy the Ming army entrenched in Jiaozhou, so as to make a contribution to the new master! (To be continued.) )