On the mountainside, Zhang Huangyan and Zhang Tianlu, who came back, witnessed the entire process of the Qing army's infighting at the foot of the mountain.

He had no intention of interfering, Zhang Tianlu thought that this was the best opportunity to defeat the Qing army, and wanted to persuade him several times, but seeing Zhang Huangyan's unwavering appearance, he still didn't open his mouth.

When the Qing army suppressed the infighting and slowly retreated, he finally couldn't help it and asked, "Inspector, why don't you take advantage of the infighting and go out of the mountain to attack and kill?"

"This is not the best time to send troops." Zhang Huangyan said lightly: "Although there is infighting in the army, there are still many soldiers and horses who have not participated, and they are on guard nearby, if our army sends troops at this time, it will definitely be counterattacked by the Qing army."

"And." He paused and continued: "If our army sends troops at this time, it is very likely that the Manchu and Han soldiers and horses who are fighting in internal strife will temporarily stop their troops and make peace and concentrate on attacking our army, won't this be self-defeating and promote the unity of the Qing army?"

When Zhang Tianlu heard this, he also thought that what he said made sense, scratched his head, and was glad that fortunately he did not take the initiative to go down the mountain to attack and kill the Qing army.

On the other hand, the infighting between the Manchus and the Han made Hong Chengchou realize that the ethnic problem in the army had fermented to an irreconcilable point, and if the Manchurian soldiers continued to ride on the Han people, similar infighting was very likely to occur again.

It is not even impossible for each other to fire cold arrows on the battlefield.

Although he realized this, he had to admit that he was powerless to change all this at the moment, although he was named the commander of the army and the governor of the five provinces personally appointed by the imperial court, but his identities were not even a fart in the eyes of the Manmeng Eight Banners, they would only obey his command for the sake of the imperial court, and if there was no imperial court, they would not even bird him.

As for the Han people, although the army formed by the Han people obeyed him, they also hated the Manchu and Mongolian banner army, if he mishandled such a sensitive matter...... The Han army, which was still under his orders, was very likely to be separated from him.

After some weighing, Hong Chengchou still made what he thought was a wise choice.

After withdrawing to the temporary camp outside Wuli Mountain, Hong Chengchou ordered the Manchurian soldiers who took the lead in making trouble to be arrested.

Subsequently, in front of all the soldiers of the army, Hong Chengchou announced the guilt of these Manchurian soldiers and ordered them to be severely punished according to military regulations - beheaded in public!

After Hong Chengchou announced this decision, the whole army was boiling, and those Manchurian soldiers were full of astonishment, as if they didn't dare to confirm what they heard, they were not convinced and wanted to gather people to make trouble, but looking at those Han troops who were boiling, thinking of the infighting not long ago, they still coaxed down.

Hong Chengchou's decision was chosen by him after careful consideration, since no matter how much he favored the Manchurians, they would only take it for granted, and still disdain him, so why did he use his old face to put down his body to stick to the other party's cold ass?

Moreover, most of the army is composed of Han people, and only by firmly grasping these Han soldiers can he completely control this army, and take the weight of the two, Hong Chengchou still decided to favor the Han people and grasp the hearts of the Han soldiers in his hands.

As it turned out, he succeeded.

Because the Han soldiers who had participated in the internal strife thought that Hong Chengchou would favor the Manchurian soldiers and punish them all according to military regulations, they lowered their heads one by one and were very depressed, but after hearing Hong Chengchou's words, they raised their heads sharply and looked ahead in disbelief, never thinking that Hong Chengchou would actually choose them.

As a result, they began to have the idea of supporting Hong Chengchou, and how dissatisfied they were in their hearts, how convinced they were of Hong Chengchou.

However, this also had a side effect - that night, several Manchurian soldiers who were disgruntled with Hong Chengchou picked up weapons and rushed to Hong Chengchou's camp at night with the intention of assassinating Hong Chengchou, but fortunately, Hong Chengchou's personal soldiers found it in time and called the nearby patrol team to kill these bold Manchurian soldiers on the spot.

One of the Manchurian soldiers pulled out the spear in his body before he died, and threw the spear at Hong Chengchou, who was guarded by his own soldiers

The governor was left with a lot of horror in his heart.

Then, the next day, Hong Chengchou fell ill.

There was a lot of talk in the army, some said that he was frightened by the night attack last night, so he was caught in the cold and fell ill in bed, while others said that the Assassins had successfully wounded him, and that he was just lying in the tent under the pretext of being sick.

No matter what the soldiers discussed, their anger at the Manchurian soldiers swelled even more, and those Manchurian generals noticed this, and in order to avoid being attacked by the Han army, they decided to leave here first, and directly led all the Manchurian soldiers to flee and leave the camp and retreat into Jinanfu.

Seeing that the Manchus actually abandoned the army and fled into Jinan, the Han army was even more furious, and several impulsive Han generals wanted to lead the army to pursue these "deserters", but they were stopped by Hong Chengchou in time, he knew very well that if a fierce battle broke out between the pursuing soldiers and horses and the Manchurian soldiers, those Manchus would definitely beat him back and accuse him of supporting the army and rebelling.

At that time, it was really yellow mud and it was not in the crotch of his pants, and the court would definitely not let him go, and in order to protect himself, he could only rebel regardless of the name behind him.

The internal strife that broke out within the Qing army gave the Ming army a chance to breathe, and on Wuli Mountain, Zhang Huangyan recaptured the position at the foot of the mountain, and took advantage of the Qing army's self-care, cut down many trees, erected more arrow boards on the position, and dug trenches at the front of the position, preparing to set traps to block the enemy's attack.

Zhang Huangyan seized the time to set up a trap to work, even if Hong Chengchou fell ill in bed, he still urged the army to attack Wuli Mountain, he did not believe that without the help of those arrogant Manchurian soldiers, they would not be able to defeat the Ming army in Wuli Mountain.

On March 23, the Qing army launched another fierce attack on Wuli Mountain, this time the Ming army relied on the emergency to make out the arrow board to shoot at the Qing army, although the Qing army repeated the old tricks, once again advanced with shield vehicles as cover.

But after the charge, they were again subjected to a round of shotgun fire from the Tiger Squatting Cannon, and then stepped on the trench at the front of the position, and before they could even react, the soldier who ran in front screamed and fell into the trench, and was pierced by the wooden thorns covered underneath, and died on the spot without even struggling.

After a short period of stunned, the Qing army crossed the trench, rushed into the Ming army position again, and fought with the Ming army, the two sides fell into bloody hand-to-hand combat, fierce battle for several hours, and finally the Qing army failed to attack, or chose to retreat.

At the same time, after a day and night of rapid marching, Su Yan finally led the soldiers and horses of the third town into the territory of Jinan Mansion, he rode his horse and stood in front of the army, looking at the towering Mount Tai in the distance, with infinite majesty and pride in his chest.