Upsetting the balance can be drastic or gradual. The war in Shandong had to be carried out ahead of schedule, and the stockpiling of materials was not enough to support the large-scale use of troops, so the General Staff formulated such a plan. Start by hitting a wedge to disrupt the balance, then gradually increase the stack to overturn the entire scale.

The response was extremely rapid, and the first to be dispatched were the Marine Division and the Marine Corps, which were the easiest and fastest mobile units.

On May 6 of the 17th year of Yongli (the second year of Kangxi), the first fleet departed from Chongming; On 10 May, 3,000 marines landed at Qingdaokou (now Qingdao) in Jimo County, Shandong, and opened the curtain of the battle in Shandong with a feint.

At this time, the governor and the green battalion sent by Zu Zepu, the governor of Shandong, came out of Jinan and had just arrived in the Pingdu area. In ancient times, the army had to assemble its actions, transfer grain and grass, and recruit people, and it was not slow to start from receiving the decree of the Qing court. However, the rapid response of the Ming army disrupted the Qing army's wishful thinking of exterminating Yu Qisuobu, and Zu Zepu, who received an urgent report, immediately ordered the troops to stop advancing.

If you continue to go to Qixia to exterminate Yu Qi as planned, and sit back and watch the Ming army land and plunder everywhere, the responsibility for losing land cannot be shirked. Moreover, Yu Qi has not yet raised the flag to rebel, and it seems that he can still be appeased, or he can slow down.

Zu Zepu weighed it and immediately went to the court to state his opinion. Since he had this concern, he didn't want to continue to march into the army, and forced Yu Qi to rebel. In turn, he began to mobilize forces everywhere and prepare to resist the landing attack of the Ming army in Shandong.

The purpose of the feint attack was initially achieved, and the naval division and the marines landed feints in Haiyang and Andongwei (now Rizhao), forcing the Qing army in Shandong to temporarily stop the campaign to conquer Yuqi and buy time.

On 23 May, Zhenhai Bo Yang Yandi led the Second Fleet, and Jianping Bo Zheng Zhangxu led the Third Fleet. Carrying the first division of the Shuo Army, it set sail from Jiaxing and sailed straight to Denglai, Shandong.

Zu Zepu, the current governor of Shandong, and his father is Zu Dashou. After Zu Zepu, the former governor of the left capital of the Ming Dynasty, followed his father to eat up the people of the city in Jinzhou, he surrendered to Huang Taiji without hesitation and became a banner man. In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, he followed Dolgon into the customs and fought against the army, and was appointed as a first-class imperial guard. He became a close minister of the Manchu Dynasty and had the qualifications to call himself a slave.

After the defeat in Jiangnan, in order to prevent sea disasters, Zu Zepu devoted himself to the prohibition of the sea, and the people of Dengzhou and Laizhou on the inner side of the Bohai Sea were not spared. Zu Zepu posted a notice, saying that the emperor loved the people, and in order to prevent them from being looted by thieves, he asked them to move to a safe area in the interior. A three-day deadline was set, and any officers and soldiers who overstayed the deadline would be killed. Until now. There are no living people within 20 miles of the coast of Shandong.

As the governor of a province and the godson who reassured the Taijun of Manchuria, Zu Zepu had a standard battalion of 1,000 cavalry. Most of the standard battalion officer positions are used to house his old age, Shandong is far away from the front line, there is not much military pressure, it just so happens that everyone is from Guanning Iron Cavalry, and the commander of the cavalry is also familiar with the way.

For more than 200 governors to be wiped out in Qixia, Zu Zepu was very angry. But because of his current shape, he didn't want to face two enemies at the same time. So. He forbears for the time being, but excludes the strategy of appeasement, and only waits for the Ming army's disturbance to stop, and then wields his army to exterminate Yu Qi.

The will of the imperial court had just been delivered, and he basically agreed to his proposal, one in a hurry and one in a hurry. One tightened and one loosened, and Yu Qi, who did not seem to have a firm determination to rebel, was temporarily put aside, and the Ming army's harassment of Shandong was solved first, and the Ming army must not be allowed to occupy a solid bridgehead in the coastal area.

Obviously, the Qing court was unable to send troops to reinforce Shandong in a short period of time. can only rely on Zu Zepu's supervision and Shandong Green Camp to solve the problem. After this period of preparation and arrangement, Zu Zepu made up for his own supervision and gathered more than 6,000 officers and soldiers of the green battalion from all over the country, and felt that he could launch a counterattack. However, just after he ordered his troops to move to the southeastern coastal areas of Shandong, there was relatively unexpected news.

"Is there such a thing?" Zu Zepu frowned.

The Tang newspaper in the two prefectures of Deng and Lai was already two days late, which was not big or small, and Zu Zepu was confused. In his opinion, this may be Yu Qi's ghost, and he has already set up an ambush in Qixia to eliminate one of his supervisors, and now it is estimated that he heard the news of the Ming army's attack and took the opportunity to echo.

If someone hadn't made trouble, how could the people at the post station dare to delay the news? Needless to say, two days late, even one day late, someone will fall to the ground for this head; If it is said that it is impossible for Dengzhou Mansion to forget the newspaper of Jì Fatang, not to mention that even if Dengzhou forgets something, will Laizhou also forget it together?

On the third day, the Tang newspaper still did not arrive, but there was an astonishing news that the Qingzhou Mansion reported that someone had attacked the post station, and the communication system of the Qing army spread that the 100,000 Ming troops had landed in the Laizhou Mansion, and called on the Shandong righteous soldiers to respond, and the combined troops first took Jinan, and then smashed Beijing.

When Zu Zepu was in Liaodong, he had seen ships loading and unloading in Ningyuan and Juehua, although there were port facilities, but rice and beans had to be transported ashore by guò boats, and tens of thousands of people's grain and straw for a month had to be carried for several days. In order to continue to transport to the interior, a large number of livestock and auxiliaries are also needed.

An army of 100,000, are you kidding? In less than 10 days and half a month, these 100,000 people could not reach the coast of Shandong. Moreover, in the absence of port facilities and insufficient manpower and animal power for the Ming army, even if the Ming army could carry grain ashore, it would not be able to follow the troops, unless the Ming army could bring the livestock and vehicles needed by the 100,000 army. But when all these things are shipped off the ship, the storage warehouses are built, and then the roads that can be opened for the army and vehicles to pass through are connected to the road system in Shandong, it will be fast in one or two months.

As a result, Zu Zepu quickly made a judgment and decided that it was Yu Qi's reckless recklessness that was disturbing the public and creating panic. In other words, such news must be fake, to cover the Ming army and divert the attention of the Qing army.

Of course, Zu Zepu will not report such ridiculous information, nor will he distribute it to the prefectures and counties under his rule to disturb people's hearts. He ordered the Qingzhou Prefecture to immediately dispatch the garrison Green Battalion soldiers to eliminate the thieves who attacked and destroyed the post station system, and restore the communication and communication of the post station.

Although there was no large-scale encirclement and suppression of Yu Qi, we could not sit idly by and ignore it. In order not to escalate the situation as much as possible, Zu Zepu ordered the Qingzhou Mansion not to mention Yu Qi's name, and only to attack it as a bandit or a rebel. As long as the skin is not completely torn apart, the pressure from the enemy on both sides will not be particularly huge.

Zu Zepu estimated that there are probably one or two post stations that have fallen into the hands of thieves now, and at most there are hundreds of rivers and lakes that are entrenched in them. Although there are not many green battalions stationed in the three prefectures of Qing, Lai, and Deng, it is difficult to resist the bandits and grass robbers in the battle array.

…………… (To be continued......)