When the Tianjin Navy Division arrived at the Ningyuan Zhongyou Station, which was responsible for transporting the Tuanshan Army south to Shandong to quell the rebellion, Zhang Zhang used only one trick and took it for himself -- all the officers and men of the Navy Division were paid a year's salary in full.

Sometimes, it's that simple, and there's no need to get it too complicated.

Of course, on the side of the imperial court, Zhang Zhang claimed that the ships of the sailors were responsible for transporting soldiers, grain and grass, and that they needed to "support" for a period of time - as for how long this period was, the princes of the imperial court did not dare to ask, as long as the Tuanshan army could get Zhang Xianzhong in Shandong, everything would be fine......

Because in their eyes, Tianjin Wei's tattered hundred and ten ships are useless. It can't stop the army of house slaves, nor can it prevent thieves, and it also reaches out to ask for silver every year, which is really a chicken-like existence!

Zhang Li did not dislike it, so the Tuanshan Army, escorted by the sailors, went south to Shandong, with few troops, only 10,000 - after all, the main object of Zhang Li's defense is still Jiannu in the northeast.

Tianjin Water Division, ah, no, the Tuanshan Water Division currently has a task in addition to supporting the Tuanshan Army to fight south in Shandong, which is to recover the islands of Liaodong.

There are some stragglers of the Tartar Han army flag, who surrendered to the Houjin State before, but they also don't love their grandmother and uncle, and their combat effectiveness is basically equal to five, commonly known as the five scum of war. Let Chen Zheng practice his hands, can't he go face to face with Zheng Zhilonggang, right?

This time he went south to Shandong, and Zhang Li was a personal expedition, because in the first year he crossed over, he formed an indissoluble bond with this place.

There was no suspense, after the Tuanshan Army landed from Penglai County, the capital of Dengzhou, the base camp was set up in Penglai.

The Dengzhou Mansion is now the command post of Zhang Li. Everything here is so familiar, it's just that things are different. The prefect of Dengzhou back then had been beheaded because of Kong Youde. The successor prefect surnamed Liu entered the Laizhou Mansion in Zhang Xianzhong's army. When approaching Dengzhou, he hung up the seal and absconded, and disappeared.

The whole of Shandong has now fallen into a panic, but everyone who has some conditions has fled to the south with their families for refuge, and those who remain in the city are nothing more than some poor people. With the strong entry of the Tuanshan Army, at least in Penglai County, people's hearts gradually stabilized.

In the second hall of Dengzhou Mansion, Zhang Zhang and Lu Xiangsheng were deliberating. Because Liaodong is the fundamental place of the Tuanshan Army, Gao Yuanliang is located in Jinzhou City. Responsible for left-behind matters. And this time, it was Lu Xiangsheng who landed in Shandong with Zhang Li.

This is also the proper meaning, after all, the Tuanshan Army has fought against the Jurchens, Mongols, and traitors since the beginning of the army, and has never fought against the peasant army. And Lu Xiangsheng can just make up for this weakness, he has fought against thieves for many years before, and the results are fierce, and he can be described as a hundred victories.

On the wall in the hall hangs a map of Shandong, the level of detail can only be said to be "hehe", which is too far worse than the map of Liaodong of the Tuanshan Army.

Zhang Zhang shook his head slightly. But it can only be used. Zhang Li suddenly remembered something about this military map. I still remember that before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese devils sent a large number of spies to survey and map our country, and waited until the outbreak of the war. The maps in the hands of the Japanese were far more detailed than those used by the national military. At the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese invaders made great progress, and in addition to the advantage of all the equipment and soldiers, they did not have a contribution to this map.

Zhang Zhang secretly made up his mind. In the future, this military map must be ahead of the war, and it must not be overturned......

Tension converges thoughts. said to Lu Xiangsheng: "Xiangsheng, now our regimental mountain army has completed the assembly in Penglai County. What are your thoughts on what to do next? ”

Lu Xiangsheng bowed slightly, pondered for a moment, and said: "My lord, the way the thieves fight is different from our previous enemies, I'm afraid it will be even more difficult to fight than Jiannu......"

Zhang Li was slightly stunned, what did Lu Xiangsheng mean by this? Could it be that the combat effectiveness of Zhang Xianzhong's peasant army is stronger than that of Jiannu? It's absolutely impossible!

Lu Xiangsheng saw the puzzled look on Zhang Li's face, knew what he was thinking, and said slowly: "My lord, if you say that the thieves will be beaten away, then the Tuanshan army can beat more than twenty times the thieves. But if you want to annihilate the main force of the thieves, it will be too difficult......"

It turns out that there is a characteristic of the thief battle, that is, the momentum is scary, but there are not many main forces. For example, Zhang Xianzhong, a rogue who went south to Shandong, has more than 500,000 people -- of course, the vast majority of them are ordinary people, and there are only 20,000 or 30,000 old thieves and bandits in the core.

This is the terrible thing about the peasant rebel army, they can coerce a large number of people to be used as cannon fodder for a period of time, as long as the core strength is not lost, what is the use of killing hundreds of thousands of people?

On the contrary, these old thieves and bandits are all horse soldiers, commonly known as "old battalions", needless to say how to fight, once the wind is not right, it will be like a gust of wind.

Zhang Li thought about it for a long time, but he didn't come up with any good way, and Chaolu's cavalry did not follow him south-after all, it was very troublesome and inefficient to transport cavalry by sea. If there is no cavalry, Zhang Xianzhong can't stop him if he wants to run!

After a long time, Zhang Li sighed slightly and said, "Xiangsheng, if you can't stop it, you can't stop it!" There was no cavalry out of the battle this time, which was also helpless. Let's not want to eat Zhang Xianzhong first, let's fight a battle first and play majestic! ”

Lu Xiangsheng nodded and said in a deep voice: "That's right! Be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years, we must not underestimate the enemy! ”

Zhang Zhang and Lu Xiangsheng carefully deliberated again, and set some of the next offensive routes of the Tuanshan Army.

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Just when Zhang Zhang and Lu Xiangsheng had a headache and couldn't completely annihilate Zhang Xianzhong, Zhang Xianzhong in Jinan City didn't take the Tuanshan Army in his eyes at all.

The "Eight Kings" plundered Shandong this time, and the harvest was too rich. In fact, whether it is Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, or even Li Zicheng later, their methods of maintaining the army are similar. For example, Li Zicheng later used the slogan of "King Chuang comes and doesn't pay for food", and gathered millions of people in a short period of time.

Of course, if no one pays for food, wouldn't Li Chuang's army have to drink the northwest wind? Therefore, the peasant army did not plunder the poor people, but the landlords, officials and gentry and the well-to-do people.

This is very deceptive, and it "seems" that the common people are very supportive of the peasant army. But those who are familiar with history know that Li Chuang or Zhang Xianzhong and others do not have a high consciousness, they don't rob the people, just because the people can't rob them.

In the feudal era, the landlord and gentry class was the basis of the country's rule, and the method of "reforming" by these people with tension was far more effective than the method of "destruction" by the peasant army.

Zhang Xianzhong has done a more thorough job in "destroying" the gentry class, for example, in the current Jinan City, the landlords and gentry have been slaughtered, not to mention, and even the ordinary people who have surplus food at home have died in their families...... (To be continued.) )