Tan Tai has always been worried about the Wehrmacht burrowing into the hinterland of Shandong, he doesn't know if the cavalry sent to catch up, and he is also worried about whether he can eat this Wehrmacht after catching up.

The three divisions of the National Defense Army did not rush to attack Yizhou City outside Yizhou City, but set up camps, and looked at the training being organized in the National Defense Army camp in the distance on the city wall, Tan Tai was angry and anxious.

Huang Degong is really not in a hurry now, from Nanjing to Yizhou, logistics materials can be directly transported to Suzhou by water, and the logistics support is not difficult, he is ready to spend a period of time with the Qing soldiers here, and then decide on the next move when Wang Qiang has news.

Huang Degong, who seems to be leisurely, is actually paying attention to the movements of the Qing soldiers all the time, and hundreds of scouts keep reporting the movements of the Qing soldiers every day.

It has been ten days since Wang Qiang's departure, Huang Degong calculates the time, and the Qing soldiers should also make a move.

On the afternoon of the 10th day, the scouts finally reported that a large number of Qing troops had begun to maneuver towards the rear, and Huang Degong knew that Wang Qiang had succeeded there.

Tan Tai received a report from Shi Tingzhu this morning, and Shi Tingzhu led 20,000 cavalry to retreat to more than 30 miles away from Jinan City, and then stopped, and only then did Shi Tingzhu remember to send someone to report to Yizhou urgently.

It took a long time for Tan Tai to react, and he hurriedly convened his subordinates to discuss how to deal with it.

After discussing for a long time, Tan Tai decided that Wu Sangui personally led 60,000 Qing soldiers to recapture Jinan, but Tan Tai couldn't help but do not do this, Jinan was lost, and nearly 200,000 horses in Yizhou had no rear, and it could not last many days only with the current grain and grass.

Less than an hour after Wu Sangui led his troops to set off, Huang Degong ordered his troops to launch an attack on the outskirts of Yizhou.

The Hangzhou garrison division was already not far from Qingdao, standing on the main deck of the "Weiqing". Ma Yingkui said to Shi Lang beside him: "Can you hurry up?" You must know that Xiao Wang only brought 3,000 people. ”

"Master Ma. It's already the fastest speed. The steam engine on the fast ship can't stand it. I said Master Ma, you are really worrying, you don't know Master Wang's equipment, I have seen it, the Qing soldiers want to eat them, but they don't have such good teeth. ”

Shi Lang knew that Wang Qiang's regiment was all the same equipment as the guards when he went to Japan, and he had seen the power of this rifle in Japan, but he was not very worried.

"No matter how powerful the equipment is, there will be a time when the ammunition will run out. We can't afford to lose any time. I heard that there are Qing soldiers in Qingdao, so we have to prepare early, so as not to delay them. ”

Shi Lang's words did not make Ma Yingkui feel relieved, he followed Luo Jian to fight so many battles, and knew that once the rifle bullet ran out, it was better to use a big knife.

"You can rest assured, our 'Weiqing', 'Anqing' and Fengyang are not vegetarians."

Shi Lang said that he didn't care, but he had already let the flag soldiers issue an order, so that the "Anqing" and "Fengyang" were ready for battle.

Since driving away Shi Tingzhu's cavalry, Wang Qiang has been very comfortable these days. The city of Jinan had completely settled down, and the brief fighting that took place outside the city made the people of Jinan full of confidence in the national defense force.

Most of the dozens of artillery pieces on the city wall of Jinan have been moved to the south. Although Xie Kui was dismissive of these artillery, Wang Qiang still asked him to bring someone to move over.

In addition to moving these artillery, the Wehrmacht did not make major preparations to defend the city, which made the people of Jinan City a little strange.

Wang Qiang was chatting with the boss in the teahouse that served as a temporary headquarters at this time.

Boss Liu of the teahouse didn't expect that the Wehrmacht would have to pay rent for occupying his teahouse, and his dissatisfaction with the Wehrmach's occupation of his teahouse and his inability to do business had long been thrown out of the clouds.

"Are you really the Yangzhou Army?" Boss Liu is not afraid of Wang Qiang who is smiling at all now, and he dares to chat with him casually.

"I said, Boss Liu, why don't you believe it? Our division commander is also the 'angel' who came to Yangzhou at the beginning. Xie Kui looked at Boss Liu with dissatisfaction, he had already told him yesterday, he still didn't believe that the National Defense Army was the original Yangzhou Army.

"Huh?! Are you the 'angel' who came to Yangzhou? Boss Liu stood up in surprise and ran towards the backyard as he spoke.

After a while, Boss Liu led the family out of the backyard, and when he came to Wang Qiang, he was about to kneel.

"Boss Liu, what are you doing? Don't do that. Wang Qiang hurriedly stepped forward to support Boss Liu's old father and helped him to sit down on a stool.

As the news of the "angel" coming to Jinan spread, more and more Yangzhou people came to the teahouse to see Wang Qiang, and Wang Qiang was a little annoyed and severely criticized Xie Kui.

Wang Qiang, who couldn't stay in the temporary headquarters, took Xie Kui and began to inspect the Jinan city wall non-stop, more than 3,000 people spread out on the long city wall, and as long as there was a national defense army on the city wall, there were many people around.

In the past few days, the strict military discipline of the National Defense Force has made the people of Jinan City begin to trust the National Defense Army, and many people have brought food from their homes to the city wall, but they have been politely rejected by the soldiers of the National Defense Army.

The comfortable days soon came to an end, and Wang Qiang, who had just returned to the teahouse, received a report from the scouts that the Qing soldiers who had arrived from Yi were not far from Jinan City.

Maybe the Qing Naval Division in Qingdao knew that the warships of the National Defense Force were powerful, or it was possible that they did not notice at all that the fleet was not intercepted by the Qing Naval Division off the coast of Qingdao.

There is only less than a day's flight from Le'an County, Qingzhou Prefecture, and Ma Yingkui is no longer in a hurry.

Most of the soldiers of the complete division practiced loading ammunition on both sides of the ship, and the "Wei Qing" also had it.

"At your kid's speed, if you want to be in the previous division, your kid won't be able to stay at all." Ma Yingkui was very dissatisfied with the training level of the soldiers, and looked at the loading process of the soldiers in front of him, and said very dissatisfied.

"Commander, this is not slow, is it?" A junior officer said cautiously to Ma Yingkui.

"Isn't that slow? Bring the rifle over. ”

Ma Yingkui said as he took the rifle and paper medicine bag from the soldier's hand.

"Let me show you what kind of level the first division is today, or you boys are still not convinced."

Ma Yingkui quickly loaded the lead bullet into the barrel of the gun. Then bite through the bag with your teeth. Gunpowder was poured into the medicine pool. Closing the lid of the medicine pool, Ma Yingkui opened fire in front of him.

The soldiers were very envious when they looked at Ma Yingkui's extremely coherent movements, and they couldn't do such a fast movement of the division commander now.

"If you want to become the main division, you boys have to practice hard, and if you train to my level, we can become the main division." Ma Yingkui handed the rifle to the soldier and said to everyone.

"Commander, is the whole division as fast as you?" The officer asked.

"There are others who are faster than me. Do you think that the victory of a division depends on luck? Ma Yingkui also knew that the training of the troops could not catch up with the level of a division in a short time, but the next battle would be hard, and he always wanted the soldiers to train more proficiently.

The news of a large number of Qing soldiers maneuvering in the rear was also quickly reported to Nanjing, and Luo Jian also knew that Wang Qiang had done his job.

If Wang Qiang can hold Jinan and Ma Yingkui can arrive in time, Luo Jian knows that the situation in Shandong will be fundamentally improved.

Now that the battlefield situation has a lag of several days, the battlefield situation is changing rapidly, Luo Jian did not give more instructions to Huang Degong, he did not want to interfere with the command of the front-line commander.

Huang Degong's attack on the outskirts of Yizhou was a real attack this time, and the artillery of the 4th and 6th divisions was concentrated. The bombardment of the trenches and fortifications of the Qing troops began.

The Seventh Division did not participate in offensive operations, Huang Degong knew. Once the city of Yizhou is attacked fiercely, the Qing soldiers in the rear of its flanks will definitely rush forward, and the Seventh Division is to deal with them.

Originally, there were nearly 200,000 Qing soldiers in Yizhou City, but now more than 70,000 people have been transferred by Wang Qiang, and now there are only 50,000 or 60,000 people in the rear of Yizhou City, and there are more than 20,000 people on the defense line outside the city, and the rest are all concentrated in Yizhou City.

The 4th and 6th Divisions had already formed an offensive formation and were about to rush forward when the shelling was over.

"Report!"

Huang Degong, who was holding the telescope and looking intently ahead, put down the binoculars, and when he looked back, a scout was raising his hand to salute him.

"We found a large number of clear soldiers outflanking us from the front right."

When Huang Degong heard this, he raised his hand and called the combat staff officer who was following behind, the Qing soldiers coming from this direction did not surprise them, and the main defensive direction of the Seventh Division was also here.

Outflanked from the right front of the Wehrmacht were more than 30,000 Qing infantry, although Tan Tai still had more than 15,000 cavalry in his hands, but these cavalry were used to protect his escape, and Tan Tai didn't want to consume them now.

By the time Huang Degong arrived at the headquarters of the Seventh Division with his operational staff officers, the Seventh Division was ready for battle, and dozens of artillery pieces on the positions of the artillery regiment had been fully deployed.

Ma Qianjun, deputy commander of the Seventh Division, was originally the commander of a regiment of the Yangzhou Garrison Division, when the bloody battle of Guazhou was at the beginning, although the difference in strength was huge, and the regiment was almost exhausted, but it still spelled out thousands of Qing soldiers, which benefited from the effective command of Ma Qianjun, Ma Qianjun also got the full trust of Wang Qiang, and when the first division was expanded, Ma Qianjun was appointed as the deputy division commander.

"Deputy Division Commander Ma, why are you in an offensive formation? Isn't it just for you to keep it? Huang Degong looked at the offensive formation that had been launched by the Seventh Division and asked in surprise.

"Report to Minister Huang, our Seventh Division exists for the purpose of attacking, and with these clear soldiers, they can't let us stop and defend."

"Okay, I'm here today to watch how the Seventh Division attacks." Huang Degong was not angry, since they had the courage, let them let go and fight, and he also learned from Luo Jian not to specifically interfere with the command of grassroots commanders.

Ma Qianjun no longer paid attention to Huang Degong and a cadre of combat staff officers, raised his binoculars and looked at the Qing soldiers who were coming in front of him, dragging a long line of Qing soldiers.

"Why don't you attack now, attacking now will definitely defeat them directly." The voice of an operational staff officer was not small, and Ma Qianjun also heard it.

"If we fight now, it can only be a rout, and I have to wait for them to set up the formation." Ma Qianjun put down the binoculars, turned his head and said to the staff officer.

Waiting for more than 30,000 Qing soldiers to slowly set up their formation, half an hour had passed, and seeing that the Qing soldiers had been assembled, Ma Qianjun said to the herald beside him: "Order the artillery regiment to fire three salvos first, and disrupt their formation for me!" ”

A loud noise came from the side and rear of the Seventh Division, and the sound was very different from the previous artillery sound, and as the artillery sounded, dozens of shells flew towards the heads of the Qing soldiers of the brigade.

Immediately after that, a violent explosion sounded in the ranks of the Qing soldiers, and the shells loaded with the new ZHA medicine exploded into circular gaps in the Qing soldiers.

Huang Degong had seen a grenade explode before, and it was not very strange for him to see such a result, but several combat staff officers who had never seen it opened their mouths in surprise, because they did not expect that this new type of artillery shell would have such great power. (To be continued.) )