On the 19th day of the first month of the fourth year of Daning orthodoxy, 60,000 horses and horses of the vanguard of the Ning army, under the leadership of Gan Ming, fought all the way out of Jining and went straight to the hinterland of Dongping, which was unstoppable.

Quan Hanliang never expected that Xiao Yu would dare to tear up the alliance at the moment when it was cold to the frozen river, and when Quan Hanliang received an urgent letter of 800 miles, the counties of Dongping were completely lost, and the general of Beida in Daning Town sent 110,000 troops along the way to collect the defeated army in Beiling, and incorporated them into the Toucheng camp, while remaining as local officials to continue to be officials, Dongping completely restored the people's livelihood and stabilized in less than half a month.

On February 11, it snowed heavily, and the weather that had been somewhat warmed up suddenly became cold, Teng Han personally escorted the grain and grass to the south bank of the river, because the snow was too heavy, and when he arrived at the pioneer camp, the grain and grass were lost by nearly one-third, and the soldiers in the pioneer camp were hungry and cold one by one, snuggling up to each other for warmth, but the morale was still very strong.

"General, it's hard to run for you personally, it's too difficult!" Gan Ming smiled bitterly with a scruffy beard.

Teng Han is not much better, both of them are southerners, and they know that the north is cold, but they didn't expect it to be cold like this, dripping into ice, not to mention that it's already February, Teng Han's frozen teeth are shivering.

"What do I work hard, it's just to send grain and grass, your side is the most bitter, the river has frozen, what are you waiting for?" Teng Han was a little puzzled by Gan Ming's attitude.

"I'm waiting for a signal, and Your Majesty said that I should wait for the signal on the north bank before launching a general attack after I get to the south bank." Gan Ming couldn't understand either, his vanguard camp had been camped on the south bank for four days, but there was no movement on the other side.

After finishing speaking, Teng Han looked in the direction, his face was puzzled, and he only heard Gan Ming whisper: "Two days ago, Xu Yu, the commander of the Beiya, personally came to my camp, and only asked me to give him a camp tent, and he didn't even eat my food. ”

Xu Yu's reputation was so bad that he could at least be rewarded as a county prince when His Majesty ascended the throne, but he was unanimously opposed by the ministers, and finally gave him a marquis, and he was bleeding everywhere he went.

In the two Ya of the Qilin Internal Guard, everyone would rather deal with Nan Ya Wen Jun than stick to the North Ya, but Xu Yu didn't care at all, because the people he cared about in Daning were dead people except His Majesty, he had already figured it out, what Gu family and family didn't matter, doing a good job of His Majesty's knife, a quick knife that kills people without seeing blood is the most important, and even did not hesitate to turn his face with Gu Qufeng, and the two had no personal contact after the first year of orthodoxy.

Knowing that it was Xu Yu, Teng Han couldn't help frowning, and said in a low voice: "What is the big thing that is worthy of his personal appearance, the pioneer camp is full of carefully selected loyal people, you pay more attention, your brother can't die in vain under his butcher's knife." ”

Gan Ming nodded, picked up a bowl of hot soup and drank it all, and then felt comfortable all over, and said: "General, go back, your task is heavier than mine, the five states and seventeen counties in the west of Jiuqu still need you to fight a little bit, and you can bear it here." ”

Teng Han is not a hypocritical person, in the past few years, he has been training troops in Xuzhou, and he has not had the opportunity to be displayed, look at the good things that Yu Qingwu has done in the east, not to mention his reputation, and he has also received unanimous praise from the soldiers, although he has lost some places, but he is not to blame.

"Okay, we will go back to Dongping early tomorrow morning, and after this round of snowstorms, the army will march westward, and our two armies will be divided, as if we can retreat to Dongping if we are really unable to do it, I have people in the city mobilized a large amount of grain and grass from the direction of Xuzhou, enough for the 100,000 army to spend half a year."

"Don't worry, general, how about we meet Binzhou before autumn?" Gan Ming said proudly.

"Hahaha! Brother Gan is so courageous, as you wish, see you in Binzhou before the autumn harvest! Teng Han was also full of neutrality.

On February 13, Quan Hanliang's reinforcements just entered the territory of Jiuqu, the bad news came, the governor of Licheng and the two deputy governors and the four generals were all assassinated in their respective mansions, some were killed, some were poisoned, some were covered to death, and the way of death was different, and then Gan Ming crossed the river to raid Licheng, the only remaining deputy governor of Licheng set fire to the city, the weather was already dry, the fire ignited instantly, and soon the whole Licheng was like a sea of fire.

Gan Ming, who had experienced a lot of wars, was also shocked when he saw this, and then quickly stabilized the military horses and slowly withdrew from the city, by the way, the people in the city and the trapped soldiers were rescued, and then all the grain and grass were allocated to the people and more than 10,000 troops, and then 5,000 elite soldiers were dispatched to escort the people across the river to Jinan Town for temporary settlement, and quickly reported the affairs of Licheng to Teng Han in Dongping.

On 16 February, Jinling received a war report that Licheng had been burned, and Xiao Yu did not hesitate, and immediately ordered the construction of a new city on the south bank of the river with Jinan Town as the center, and the people who escaped from Licheng participated in the construction of the city for the workers, so that the current difficulties were solved at once, and then grain and grass were requisitioned from the Songjiang grain depot and sent it.

On February 18, the heavy snow stopped suddenly, Gan Ming led the army and 20,000 cavalry to turn to Dongchang, to the 23rd, the whole territory of Dongchang fell, and then Gan Ming led the troops back to the north bank of the river, and stationed in Yucheng for repair.

On 16 March, the temperature warmed up, and taking advantage of the stalemate in the north of the fighting, he immediately marched eastward, and on 27 March, he took the entire territory of Linzi.

After that, Teng Han continued to advance eastward non-stop, and took Jiaodong at the end of April, completely cutting off the communication between Gaomi, Jiaozhou and Laizhou and Youdu, and then Teng Hantun's troops repaired on the front line of Jiaodong.

As of the beginning of May, the situation in Jiuqu was basically stable, Gaomi and Jiaozhou had written to Jinling to surrender, but only one Laizhou, with its geographical advantages, had been swaying from side to side, while accepting Teng Han's kindness, while maintaining contact with Youdu through the sailor.

Until July, Gan Ming took the lead in attacking, after the repair of the vanguard camp a total of 80,000 soldiers, quickly approached the northern part of Texas Pingyuan County, stationed in Dezhou Beiling General Cheng Ji took the initiative to meet the battle, the two armies fought outside the plain city, Gan Ming because of the poor follow-up, and finally chose to retreat to Yucheng, in order to fight again.

From the eighth day of August, Binzhou rained rain, for seven days, the sea water poured in, Binzhou City was almost an ocean, Binzhou Thorn Shi Ryazan asked for help from Dezhou Chengji, Chengji did not dare to easily divide troops to rescue because of the heavy task of defending Gan Ming, in desperation, Ryazan asked Teng Han to surrender.

Teng Han made a surprising decision, Teng Han sent 6,000 people to Binzhou to rescue, supply grain and grass, and settle the people of Binzhou, but in order to accept Ryazan's request to surrender, this move was praised by Xiao Yu, and he was given 3,000 stones, so that he opened a mansion in Jinan, which was the first general to be authorized to open a mansion since the founding of Daning.

In late August, when the sea receded, Ryazan sent an envoy to Jinan again to ask for surrender, Teng Han again rejected Ryazan's request, but ordered Linzi Shou to open up the Huantai area for commercial and trade exchanges, and Daning exchanged grain for Binzhou seafood, so that the people of Binzhou would not have no surplus grain for the winter.

After this matter reached Jinling, the court and the people had mixed opinions about Teng Han, some people thought that Teng Han was selling his reputation, and some people felt that Teng Han had the heart of loving the people and benefiting the people, which coincided with the emperor's approach, and even some conspiracy theorists thought that Teng Han was preparing to rebel, and rumors spread in Jinling for a while, until Xiao Yu personally stood up to correct Teng Han's name.

"The generals under my command often serve the government of Daning and love the people, this is no different, you Cao don't denigrate the loyal and loving generals, so that the soldiers are cold, and the more things are better in the Daning Dynasty, General Teng Han, the first general of Daning." This is what Xiao Yu said at the Great Dynasty Meeting, and these words directly established Teng Han's status and prestige in the Daning Dynasty.

The so-called golden autumn September, for the people of Binzhou this year is just barely maintained, many people in order to make a living decided to move closer to the south, for a time Huantai, Guangrao two counties are full of displaced people, Teng Han ordered the conscription of displaced people as Tuntian soldiers, and played Jinling in the hope of restoring the rule of the people of Qingzhou.

In mid-September, the imperial court decree arrived, based on Linzi, Jiaodong, and Hekou, the Qingzhou Mansion was re-established, and the Hou Sun Mu of Yujun was appointed as the Qingzhou Mu, who was in charge of the civil affairs of the three towns.

On September 17, Gan Ming sent troops again, but this time he did not choose the plain as the battlefield, but chose Gaotang as the goal, Chengji responded to all changes with the same change, in the northwest of Gaotang Xiajin Tun troops, after the two sides fought sporadically, Gan Ming felt that there was no chance, and retreated to Yucheng again, this time the withdrawal of troops basically announced that the battle of Jiuqu was coming to an end.

On September 18, after Teng Han handed over the administrative power to Sun Mu, he went straight to Gaomi to reorganize the army without any nostalgia, and marched eastward on September 20, and the army pacified the people along the way, and did not arrive at the city of Jimo until September 24.

On the second day, Teng Han ordered to attack Jimo, less than half a day's kung fu Jimo Taishou went out to offer the city, and then all the way to the east is unimpeded, on September 27, the army besieged Laiyang City, Laizhou soldiers tied up Laizhou Assassin and the governor to sacrifice the city, and there was no war on the eastern front.

On the third day of the first month of October, Binzhou Ryazan personally went to Linzi City, the garrison of Qingzhou Mansion, to ask for surrender, and Qingzhou Musun Mu formally accepted the surrender and included the entire territory of Binzhou into the jurisdiction of Qingzhou Prefecture, so that the Battle of Jiuqu ended.

"Your Majesty, Jiuqu is decided, all the people return to their hearts, please Your Majesty set the names for the Jiuqu Prefectures and Counties!" Duan Muyang, the prime minister of the political affairs hall, was the first to stand up and play.

Xiao Yu thought for a while with a smile and said: "Jiuqu already has Qingzhou Mu, Jiaozhou Mu to the east of Qingzhou, and Changyi is stationed; Jinan to the south of Lanling, Jining, Yanzhou three state pastoral, Jiuqu to Jinan as the center, placed the Shandong Province Jiedu envoy, belongs to the town of the general of the north of the province moderation. ”

Duanmuyang was about to respond, and an unknown person stood up and played the power of the General Mansion of Beida in the town is too powerful, Teng Han has the possibility of rebellion, this is looking for unhappiness, Duanmuyang sighed and was about to scold, only to hear Xiao Yu of the upper position said in a deep voice: "The matter of the Duke of Lanling County has already been decided, who let you talk nonsense here, drag it down, thirty rods, and migrate to Yanzhou Grain Road, let you take a good look at what is loyal and patriotic!" ”

Fortunately, it's okay, it's not heavy, it's just that this person was specially assigned to Teng Han's rule, I don't know what Teng Han, who is in a high position, will think.

Duan Muyang and Xiao Yu had already communicated with Xiao Yu about the selection of the Shandong Daojiedu envoy, and Xiao Yu asked tentatively: "Ladies and gentlemen, the position of the Shandong Daojiedu envoy is very important, can you choose someone to submit it?" ”

I just slapped a person's buttocks, who dared to talk nonsense, just gave Duanmuyang a chance, only to hear Duanmuyang clear his throat, and pretended to say meaningfully: "Your Majesty, there is a recommendation from the minister." ”

"Oh? Let's hear about it. Xiao Yu pretended to be very interested, and the people present in this play were a little disgusting.