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After consulting with Xue Lu, Li Yuntian arranged for the military law team to go to various units in Jinan City to draw strong soldiers from various units in Jinan City, and prepare to form a vanguard force to crusade against the rebels, the Xiaowu Army. The update is the fastest and most stable

After learning the news, the military attachés of the various guards were panicked, for fear that this would expose the problem of insufficient soldiers in the army.

However, those military attachés soon found that their worries were unnecessary, because Li Yuntian was not interested in caring about the dirty things in the private affairs of the guards, and did not count the rosters of the guards, but gathered the soldiers of the guards on the school grounds to select those who were strong.

After three days of selection, more than 10,000 able-bodied people were selected from the garrison of Jinan City and placed by Li Yuntian in the camp north of the city, where the military law corps was stationed.

Like the soldiers, the officers of the Xiaowu Army were also carefully selected from the garrison of Jinan City, and they all had actual combat experience, either participating in the Yongle Emperor's northern expedition to Mongolia or following Zhang Fu to the south to quell the rebellion.

In order to ensure the nutrition of the soldiers of the Xiaowu Army, Li Yuntian specially ordered that the diet of the Xiaowu Army be consistent with that of the military law team, and every meal should be a combination of meat and vegetables.

This made the soldiers of the Xiaowu Army gobble up their meals and feast on them, and they usually had a long time to see a meat meal in the guard station.

On the day of the establishment of the Xiaowu Army, the Li family united with the gentry and merchants of Jinan City to donate a large amount of money and food to the Xiaowu Army, so that he had abundant materials in his hands.

Originally, the people of the Xiaowu Army thought that Li Yuntian had raised their diet in order to let them fight and work hard, but soon they found out that they had guessed wrong, because the people from the military law team told them that this was just a standard diet configuration of the martial arts, and there was nothing special about it. [33715671 Ruling the Ming Dynasty] 337 Ruling the Ming Dynasty 340

Not only that, the camp in the north of the city will also hold a meal every seven days to improve their lives, which makes the soldiers of the Xiaowu army feast on their mouths, in their opinion, this is simply the life of a fairy, and they are full of expectations and yearning for the life of the camp on the outskirts of Wutang.

For these military families, they are born to be soldiers anyway, and instead of living a hard life of coarse tea and light food, it is better to settle down in a place where they can eat meat every day.

In the next half a month, Li Yuntian not only urged the soldiers of the Xiaowu Army in the northern part of the city to train diligently, but also had to settle the refugees who had escaped the war and sent troops to encircle and suppress the rebels who had fled to the territory controlled by the imperial court.

At the beginning of September, Zhang Hao's crusade army fought a big battle with the rebels of the Han King in Dezhou, and the two sides were evenly matched, with casualties on each other.

The people led by Jin Rong caused great trouble to the king of Han, so that the rebels' connection with Dengzhou and Laizhou was almost cut off, and Le'an's rebels surrounded and suppressed Jin Rong twice and escaped with his army, which made the king of Han have to draw troops from Le'an to deal with Jin Rong.

Because of the need to deal with Zhang Hao and Jin Rong, King Han had no time to take care of Jinan City for a while, which made Jinan City rarely calm down and gave Li Yuntian the opportunity to govern military and government affairs.

During this period, Li Yuntian's help in Xue Lu gradually controlled the army in Jinan City, especially the Xiaowu Army in the northern camp of the city, which made the situation in Jinan City also tend to be stable.

In Li Yuntian's view, as long as the King of Han could not incite the army of Jinan City to rebel, then Jinan City would be impregnable, and it would be impossible to take Jinan City with the current strength of King Han.

In addition to the Shandong boundary, fierce clashes also broke out between Zhending Mansion and Xuanfu Town, and only Shanhaiguan in the north of the capital and the Daimyo Mansion in the south remained calm.

The battle between Zhendingfu and Xuanfu Town was far more fierce than that of Dezhou, in just more than 20 days, the Ming army and the rebels of Zhendingfu had two large-scale confrontations, and the Ming army of Xuanfu Town resisted the three crazy sieges of Shanxi Xingdusi, and both sides suffered heavy casualties.

Although the soldiers and horses of the Daning Dusi were assembled in front of Shanhaiguan, they did not act rashly, as if they were waiting to wait and see, waiting for Emperor Xuande and the King of Han to divide the victory and defeat in Shandong before making plans.

In order to relieve the pressure, the King of Han has written two letters to King Zhao of Zhangde in succession, asking King Zhao to raise troops and attack Emperor Xuande of Jingzhou City with him left and right, as long as Emperor Xuande is captured, the world of the Ming Dynasty will fall into the hands of the two.

King Zhao was miserable after receiving the letter, it was not that he didn't want to raise troops, but he had no way to raise troops.

In the famous city north of Zhangde, 50,000 troops were gathered, guarded by Niu Shihao, Marquis of Anping, and in Kaifeng City, south of Zhangde, the new commander of the capital, Wuzhenbo Liu Fang also mobilized 50,000 troops.

In this way, King Zhao was firmly sandwiched between Niu Shihao and Liu Fang, and could neither go north nor south, and before he was supported by the old department of Xing'an Hou Qin Bogui in Henan, he could gather up to 40,000 horses in Zhangde, and if there was a slight change, he would be attacked by Niu Shihao and Liu Fang. [33715671 Ruling the Ming Dynasty] 337 Ruling the Ming Dynasty 340

Originally, according to the agreement of Zhao Wanghe and Qin Bogui, as long as the Han King clashed with the Ming army in Shandong, then Qin Bogui's old department in Henan would converge on Zhangde, and the Zhao King would obtain more than 30,000 troops, and then take advantage of the situation to go south.

But since Niu Shihao went to the famous city, coupled with Liu Fang's deployment of troops in Kaifeng Mansion, Qin Bogui's old ministry did not dare to act rashly, who would have thought that the imperial court would suddenly attach so much importance to the unknown King Zhao?

This not only disrupted King Zhao's plan, but also made Qin Bogui's old subordinates dare not act rashly, so as not to attract the attack of Niu Shihao and Liu Fang.

The strange thing is that although the border between Beizhili and Shandong has been inextricably linked, and the Daning and Henan divisions are even more full of gunsmoke, and the war is about to break out, but the rest of the Ming Dynasty is calm and calm.

Not only the local government, but even the common people did not panic at all because of the battle between Emperor Xuande and the King of Han, and still lived a peaceful life, waiting for the end of the war.

In their opinion, the war between Emperor Xuande and the King of Han is a contradiction within the Ming imperial family, just like the Yongle Emperor Jingnan, no matter who wins or loses, the Ming will continue to exist, and their lives will not be affected in any way, and the owner of the dragon chair on the Jinluan Palace is still the descendant of Emperor Hongwu.

In late September, Jin Rong, who had been galloping in Qingzhou Mansion, finally suffered a big loss, and was surrounded in a small town by 20,000 rebels who had arrived from Le'an, and the two sides started a fierce battle.

Although Jin Rong commanded his men to successfully break through, half of his men and horses were lost and they had to go back to Jinan City to rest.

Although Jin Rong fought a defeated battle, his intrusion on Qingzhou Mansion successfully attracted the attention of the rebels, so that the rebels had no time to take care of Jinan City, so that Li Yuntian could calmly handle the affairs of Jinan City, so Li Yuntian personally led a group of officials in Jinan City to pick up the dust for Jin Rong.

Jin Rong was shocked by this, he didn't expect that he could be treated so courteously after losing the battle, and at the same time, he also had a good impression of Li Yuntian.

Li Yuntian told Jin Rong at the banquet that Jin Rong's attack not only "disrupted" the deployment of the rebels and disturbed the peace in the rear of the rebels, but also bought him time to deal with the affairs of Jinan City, and had achieved the predetermined strategic goal.

Therefore, although Jin Rong was ambushed by the rebels, it did not affect Jin Rong's achievements, what he wanted was the implementation of strategic goals, not counting the gains and losses of a city in a war.

Jin Rong and Xue Lu were very surprised by Li Yuntian's remarks, Li Yuntian had such a broad mind and courage in the military at a young age, which really impressed the two of them.

At the end of September, the Ming army and the rebels engaged in a fierce battle around the county seat of De'an County in Texas.

Located in the north of Dezhou City, De'an County is a protective barrier in the north of Dezhou City, guarded by Qingyi Bo Lüping, a general under the Han Dynasty, and 30,000 rebels are stationed inside.

If the Ming army does not capture De'an County, then it will not be able to march to the city of Dezhou, otherwise the rebels of De'an will threaten the rear of the Ming army.

After a day of tragic siege battles, the Ming army finally captured De'an County after paying more than 10,000 casualties, and Lü Ping led the rebels to flee back to Dezhou City.

To Zhang Hao's surprise, during this day, the King of Han did not send an army to rescue De'an County, making the ambush he arranged useless.

After the county seat of De'an County was captured, the city of Dezhou appeared in front of the Ming army at a glance, and Zhang Hao sent Zhaoyuan Bodu Sheng to lead two Ming troops to sit in the county seat of De'an County.

On the night of the same day, Lu Ping, with the cooperation of the "treacherous" in the city, led the rebels back to the county seat of De'an County, launched a massacre of the sleeping Ming army, and burned the houses in a fire, making the county seat of De'an a sea of fire, and the fire burned the whole **.

The Ming army in the county was impatient, suffered heavy casualties, Du Sheng was able to break out of the encirclement under the desperate protection of his own soldiers, only a few thousand of the 20,000 Ming troops were able to escape, and the rest were either killed or burned to death.

Zhang Hao was furious about this, put Du Sheng in prison, and then led the army to the outside of Dezhou, camped outside the city, and put on a posture of fighting to the death with the king of Han.

After learning that the Ming army had suffered a heavy loss in De'an County, Li Yuntian felt that the situation on the battlefield in Shandong was somewhat unfavorable to the Ming army, so he decided to capture Qingzhou City, completely cut off the rebels' connection with Dengzhou and Laizhou, and put pressure on the Han king.

So, after some preparations, on the fifth day of the first month of October, Li Yuntian led 20,000 people to set out from Jinan City, met with 10,000 people transferred from Jining City, and marched towards Qingzhou City in a mighty way.

The news that Li Yuntian led the army to attack Qingzhou City soon reached the ears of King Han, and King Han sneered after Wen Wen and did not take this matter to heart.

There are 20,000 defenders in Qingzhou City, plus the people who have been recruited, Li Yuntian wants to capture the city with only 30,000 people, which is simply wishful thinking.

In this expedition, Li Yuntian asked Xue Lu to guard Jinan City, and Jin Rong led 5,000 people to open the way in front of the vanguard, and did not encounter resistance from the rebels along the way.

In the face of the arrival of the Ming army, Yang Yong, the defender of Qingzhou City, closed his door, and the materials in the city were enough to support him for a year, because he was not in a hurry to fight a decisive battle with Li Yuntian outside the city, but put on a posture of defending the city, waiting for Li Yuntian to give the order to attack the city, and then inflict heavy casualties on the Ming army besieging the city