Zeng Hualong left the official seal for Ren Siqi, and wrote an official letter to Ren Siqi himself, clearly authorizing Ren Siqi to act as his governor. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

It's a pity that most of Denglai has now been cleared, and he doesn't know how much the official document can play.

With mixed feelings, Zeng Hualong continued to sail south. Ren Siqi led the fleet into Jiaozhou Bay.

The situation is unclear, so naturally it is impossible to land easily, so Ren Siqi's subordinates sent people to go ashore to investigate. Most of the 1,000 Daishan infantry on board were Shandongese, of which Jiaodong locals accounted for seventy or eighty percent. It was easy to select a dozen soldiers, change into civilian clothes, quietly get into the boat, and sail to the coast.

Two hours later, sentry spies came back one after another, announcing that Ren Siqi Jiaozhou had hung up the banner of the Qing soldiers. According to the outpost, the head of Jiaozhou City is hung with a green flag, and the city is also full of green flag soldiers who were changed after the surrender of the Ming army, and the number is about 1,000 people.

According to the outpost report, combined with what he knew from Zeng Hualong, Ren Siqi had a general understanding of the situation in the Jiaodong area.

After the Manchus occupied Beijing, they were anxious to digest the results, and did not immediately send Manchu troops south to capture various places. Instead, he sent the former Ming officials who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and took a small number of people to appease all parts of Shandong and Hebei.

Sent to Shandong were Wang Aoyong, the head of the household department, as the governor of Shandong, and Fang Dayou as the governor of Shandong.

These two were both Ming officials, and after the Manchu Qing captured Beijing, they surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and immediately became the vanguard officials of the Manchus after the Qing Dynasty, and took the initiative to ask for an order to appease Shandong.

Under the transmission of these two people, Ming officials from all over Shandong surrendered one after another, including Ke Yongsheng, the general soldier of Jiaozhou.

Ke Yongsheng was originally a gentry in Jiaozhou, a few months ago when Siqi came to Jiaozhou to recruit troops, the former Qingzhou general Li Shiyuan defeated the Shun army in Jiaozhou City with the assistance of Ren Siqi, who knew that Jiaozhou City was occupied by the gentry in the city, and Ke Yongsheng was the representative of the gentry.

Jiaozhou couldn't enter, Li Shiyuan later had to take people back to Qingzhou, and Ke Yongsheng took the opportunity to recruit soldiers, increase his strength, and completely occupy Jiaozhou.

After Wang Aoyong and Fang Dayou arrived in Shandong, they first appeased Zhu Shuailian, the "King of Ji", and then entered Jinan, and issued documents to various places, ordering all places to surrender to the Qing.

After Ke Yongsheng received the documents in Jiaozhou, he decisively surrendered, in addition to sending people to Jinan to deliver the documents, he immediately changed the flag to a green flag and coerced his subordinates to shave their heads. and launched an attack on other Ming troops in Jiaozhou, occupying nearby counties. It can be said that today's Jiaozhou is Ke Yongsheng's world.

After learning about the form of Jiaozhou, Ren Siqi was furious in his heart, and he hated this kind of traitor the most. He immediately ordered the infantry to land on the shore, determined to enter the city of Jiaozhou and kill the traitor Ke Yongsheng.

Jiaozhou is more than eighty miles from the coast, and the infantry march takes at least a whole day.

Fortunately, Jiaozhou is located on the west bank of the Jiaolai River, which flows into Jiaozhou Bay. If you take a boat, you can first go upriver along the Jiaolai River to the east of Jiaozhou, and then walk ten miles after getting off the boat to resist the city of Jiaozhou.

The Jiaolai River is shallow, making it impossible to navigate large sea boats. Ren Siqi could only use sloops and more than 20 flat-bottomed sand boats to carry the 2,000 infantry of the Daishan Army and Huang Fengwu's Zhoushan Army, and left most of the sea ships in Jiaozhou Bay, under the command of Sima Nan.

Without Jiaozhou, it is impossible to safely recruit people to Daishan.

Two thousand infantrymen in more than 30 boats sailed up the Jiaolai River, which was wide enough to sail at the entrance of the Jiaolai River.

However, the river is no better than the ocean in the end, and the crew is cautious one by one, for fear that the ship will run aground at the bottom, and even the sails will not be fully raised.

Departing from Jiaozhou Bay at noon, it took half a day to come to the east of Jiaozhou, and then got off the boat.

This place is ten miles away from Jiaozhou City, and Ren Siqi immediately ordered to camp by the river.

This time I came to Shandong, because I had to take into account the march and fight, and the preparations made by the Daishan army were quite sufficient.

Cutting down trees and setting up tents, the soldiers were busy and busy, and it took two hours to build a complete camp.

Except for the river, the other three sides were walled with one-man high wooden piles inserted into the ground. On both sides of the camp gate and at the corner of the camp wall, arrow towers more than a foot high were also built, and three musketeers were on duty on each arrow tower, watching the movement in the distance.

The big tent of the Chinese army is tall and large, and the whole body is made of bamboo poles, and the outside is covered with a thick layer of cotton cloth. There is a lot of space inside, enough to accommodate dozens of people.

A man-deep trench was dug on the outskirts of the camp, and the bottom of the trench was full of sharp wooden thorns, and if anyone fell into it, they would surely be pierced through!

During this trip to Shandong, Ren Siqi completely regarded it as an opportunity to train his troops. In Ren Siqi's opinion, the daily exercises on the island are completely insufficient!

Only by pulling the army out, going through the march, setting up camp, and then really fighting a battle, can we truly train into a strong army.

Although the original Daishan army experienced many battles, most of them were naval battles, or landed on the island to fight when the pirates were exterminated. In the past, operations did not require marching, and logistical supplies did not need to be considered, because these were solved by sea vessels.

But it will be different in the future, as the Qing army is about to move south, the combat mode of the Daishan army will inevitably change. In the future, it will not only be water battles, but also infantry battles.

So now it is necessary to complete the knowledge of these marches.

The soldiers were busy in the camp, and some time ago, Ren Siqi specially trained his infantry in camping. However, to Ren Siqi's surprise, the Zhoushan Army led by Huang Fengwu turned out to be more proficient.

The camp was completely set up, and it took more than an hour to go, and it was almost dusk!

The firehead immediately opened fire to cook, and by the time the whole army had eaten dinner, it was already dark.

"We must guard against the enemy's night attack", Ren Siqi said to Huang Feng with a lot of thought. Huang Fengwu frowned, although he felt that maybe the defenders of Jiaozhou would not react so quickly. But when marching and fighting, you can't be too careful!

Moreover, the camp is only ten miles away from Jiaozhou City, and it is not impossible for the Qing soldiers in the city to make a night attack!

Ren Siqi ordered that double the sentry posts be arranged, and the sentry posts were placed three miles away from the camp. Then the whole battalion was ordered to rest and wait for tomorrow's battle.

The camp was dark, and the soldiers fell asleep one after another, but Ren Siqi was not sleepy at all, pulling Huang Fengwu to discuss tomorrow's battle.

"The best opportunity to attack has been lost, if we don't set up any camp of Lao Senzi, but go straight to Jiaozhou City, maybe we will stay in Jiaozhou City by now." Huang Fengwu said coldly.

"Didn't you want to train your team!" Ren Siqi touched his nose and said embarrassedly.

"By the way, Feng Wu, do you think the enemy army in Jiaozhou will go out of the city to attack at night?"

"Let's camp here, and we have been tinkling for a long time, and the news will definitely not be hidden. If I were a general of the Qing army, I would definitely go out of the city at night to attack, so as to catch us off guard! Huang Feng danced. (To be continued.) )