The Qing army entered Jiaodong lightly, and the grain and straw needed were all plundered, and in Weifang and Huangxian, the Qing army had the strategy of clearing the field because of the Jingbei army's strong wall, and did not obtain any supplements.

According to Aobei's inspection, there are only five or six days' worth of dry food and jerky per person in the army.

In fact, there is no need for Ao Bei to inspect it, and Yue Tuo also knows that the money and food in the army can't last a few days, and there are only two roads in front of him.

The first is to storm Laizhou City, and all the problems of Laizhou can be solved.

However, Yue Tuo was not at all sure that he would be able to defeat the city of Laizhou in front of him without heavy artillery.

He had to choose to take the second road, take Daze Mountain to Pingdu, and rely on looting to return to Qingzhou along the way.

"Inform Alan Chai that he immediately led the army to Laizhou, and walked Pingdu to bypass the Jiaolai River together, and we went deep alone, and it is only right to retreat to Qingzhou as soon as possible."

Yue Tuo thought about it, thought about it, and finally made up his mind to withdraw the army immediately, after all, if he stayed for one more day, it would be more dangerous, as the owner of the Red Flag of the Qing Dynasty, he didn't want to be trapped here for no reason.

"The general is high, and the minions are waiting to be obeyed!"

A group of Manchu and Han Mongolian generals have received orders, they don't want to be in the absence of food, smash the city wall of Laizhou, the current situation is the longer it drags on, the more dangerous it is, and they have received orders at the moment, and their respective overseers return to the camp to pack up.

Yue Tuo traveled thousands of miles to Laizhou to fight for two hours, and then broke the siege and withdrew, which made the generals of the Jingbei Army defending the city a little confused.

Li Xingzhi was a little clear, either Li Rui and Su Guodong attacked the Jiaolai River, or Yue Tuo's plan to lure the snake out of the hole.

But he doesn't care at all, Li Xingzhi has already made up his mind at this moment, Lao Tzu recognizes the interests of your Manmeng soldiers, let's also learn from Guan Ningjun's immobile mountain, anyway, we must be nested in Laizhou and not leave.

The next day, after Alan Chai arrived at the west gate of Lae, the Qing army set out of camp.

Since the Qing army did not have any baggage, only a few small cannons and corresponding medicines, they retreated quickly.

On the fifth day of the second month of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, the Qing army arrived in the area of Dafo Ridge in the Daze Mountains.

The original name of the Big Buddha Ridge is Zhu Mountain, because the mountain is engraved with the four big characters of the Big Sky King Buddha, also known as the Big Buddha Ridge, the mountain is about 40 zhang high, because it is the remaining vein of Daze Mountain, the mountain is not dangerous.

It's just that because the Big Buddha Ridge is stuck between the official roads of Ye County and Pingdu, the Qing army wants to go to Pingdu to bypass the Jiaolai River, and must take the Big Buddha Ridge.

According to Yue Tuo's original judgment, the Ming army retreated into Leiden in a hurry, and it was bound to be too late to reorganize the army, and there were already 8,000 Manchu and Han troops, even if the Ming army set up an ambush, the Qing army was not afraid at all.

The fact is also the same as Yue Tuo expected, after the Qing army entered the Daze Mountains, they didn't even see the ghost of the Ming army.

However, this official road is not very easy to walk, full of huge broken logs and trenches about a foot wide, and even a lot of sharp piles are inserted in the ground.

Of course, these arrangements could not stop the advance of the Qing army, and although the Manchurian soldiers, who had nearly 10,000 troops, could not fill the river and advance, there was no problem in dealing with these roadblocks, but the road was destroyed beyond recognition, which seriously delayed the advance of the Qing army.

Obviously, this path must have been destroyed by those abominable thieves.

As usual, after seeing the mess of the destruction of the official road, Yue Tuo ordered Tong Tulai to lead the Han army under his command as the front team, responsible for clearing the roadblocks and dealing with possible ambushes by the Ming army.

Although the Han army was transferred to the front team, Yue Tuo's heart was still faintly uneasy, judging from the map, the official road from Daze Mountain to Pingdu was about forty miles, and no one knew what kind of trap the Ming thieves would lay on this mountain road.

"Inform the front army, let them be on guard, they must send sentinels, and they can only enter the army when they have a clear investigation."

Yue Tuo could no longer ride a horse, and walked on the official road with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

"Wow!"

Ao Bei, who followed Yue Tuo's side, responded to the order, and hurriedly ran forward, wanting to inform the Han Army Banner that was opening the way in front.

Because of the roadblocks, the Han army flag did not go fast, a pillar of incense in less time, Ao Bei bypassed a foot of the mountain, and caught up with Tong Tulai, just as he was about to convey Yue Tuo's military order, but saw Tong Tulai's eyes were patrolling on the left and right sides of the official road and in front.

Ao Bei was shocked, and hurriedly looked, only to see that there was a small walled city in front of him, and when he looked at the mountains on both sides, there were actually three mud walls more than one person high on the mountainside, like three long snakes entrenched on the foot of the mountain.

"Don't look at Ao Beizuo, Bendutong has already sent someone to investigate, although the city in front of it is not big, but it is not so easy to break, just the wide trench has been dug three ways, inside and out, full of sharp piles, if it is attacked, those thieves on the mountainside on both sides are just throwing stones, and it is not something we can bear."

Tong Tulai's tone was gloomy, obviously not confident to break through the defense line ahead.

"Tong Dutong, General Yangwu ordered your department as the vanguard, that is, you want to open the road in the mountains and build bridges in the water, and now the thief is in front, why did you stop your troops?"

Although Ao Bei was also shocked by the strict defense line of the Jingbei Army, in the final analysis, it was absolutely impossible for Prince Cheng to use Manchurian soldiers to fight the front.

The Manchurian soldiers could not afford to spend money in front of the enemy's strong defensive line, so they had to use the Han army flag.

Looking at Ao Bei with a straight face, Tong Guolai was depressed in his heart, is Lao Tzu damned? Why is it that every time we fight, our Han army is the vanguard? But he couldn't do anything about it.

Since Hong Tai compiled the four banners of the Han army and the four banners of the Mongolian army, the battle of the Great Qing Army has been customized, with the Han army flag in the front and the Mongolian soldiers in the rear, and the Manchurian soldiers will be used in the end.

"Our army has traveled a long way and cleared so many roadblocks, and the soldiers are already tired, and the capital is just to accumulate physical strength."

Although Tong Tulai and Ao Bei have similar official positions, Ao Bei is an authentic Manchurian leader, how dare Tong Tulai offend him, so he had to reply hard.

Ao Bei glanced at Tong Tulai coldly, and snorted heavily: "Prince Cheng is behind us, if the prince comes, your Han army has not launched an offensive yet, and then Ben Zuoling is afraid that you will not be able to bear the anger of the prince, you must know that our grain is running out." ”

The situation is weaker than people, since he chose to be a traitor, he must have the consciousness of being a traitor, and under the persecution of Ao Bei, Tong Tulai had to order the whole army to attack.

Of course, the battle-hardened Tong Tulai did not blindly launch an offensive, and he was also observing the defense line of the Jingbei Army.

A frontal attack is obviously impossible, and the official road plus the wasteland on both sides is only more than ten zhang wide, and the military horses on the side cannot be deployed at all.

In the face of such a narrow terrain, if they rushed up in a swarm, the Ming troops on the mountainsides on both sides would just throw stones, and they would not be able to bear it at all.

If you can't attack the walled city of the Ming army, you have to storm the Big Buddha Ridge.

Attacking the mountain is also exquisite, because the Jingbei Army's walled city is stuck between the two peaks, and the two peaks are short from each other, then it is necessary to attack the higher mountain of the Big Buddha Ridge, as long as the Big Buddha Ridge is controlled, then the side has a condescending advantage, so that the Ming army's defense line is useless.