On the post road from the southeast of Bohai County to Shouguang, Zhou Pu led the soldiers of the cavalry battalion to march southeast under the moonlight. The soldiers' armor gave off a cold light under the moonlight.
In two days and two nights, more than 600 generals from the cavalry camp traveled more than 400 miles, from the south of Jinhai County to the southeast of Bohai County. They entered Qingzhou only half a day later than the main force of Jiangdong Zuoying took the sea route.
The moonlight was bright and bright on the night of the 20th, illuminating the plains in the northeastern part of Shandong Province as clear as water. The riding camp, which had taken a short rest in Bohai County, took advantage of the bright moonlight and took a side road on a moonlit night, entering the flat-topped hills and mountainous areas between Shouguang and Qingzhou.
Zhou Pu reined in the reins. He was wearing scale armor. The steel armor pieces like fish scales reflected a bright luster in the moonlight. The unkempt beard on his chin had not been repaired for several days. He grabbed the reins with one hand and habitually
Holding the saber at his waist tightly, his eyes were piercing, like sharp eagle eyes in the night, looking at the dark valley ahead, as if looking for prey hiding in the night.
Zhou Pu never thought that after ten years, he would still be leading a large group of cavalry to the airport. Every time he thought about this, he couldn't help but feel excited.
The sound of horse hooves in the distance came like rolling thunder in the valley. No need to call here, the outpost had already separated out a dozen riders to intercept and respond. After a while, the outpost with ten riders rushed back with four or five riders. They galloped to the nearest place.
, Zhou Pu saw Crow Wu Qi's thin face like an old farmer in the field, and felt quite friendly. He got off his horse and greeted him: "Why did you come here in person?"
Crow Wu Qi is the general sentinel of Jiangdong Zuoying. He usually marches with Lin Fu and is responsible for scouting the entire army and collecting military intelligence.
Wu Qi dismounted and said: "It's faster to go by sea. It has been two days since I landed from Zhulong Bay, and I am just waiting for you to lead the cavalry camp. We have analyzed on the ship that if we march into Shandong with troops, we may not be able to do it."
To make the Shandong County Secretary retreat, it is necessary to fight, but how to fight and who to fight are very important. I just landed in advance and selected the target for you..."
"How to fight and who to fight?" Zhou Pu asked.
"Direct attacks on the government or officers and soldiers will intensify conflicts. At present, almost all the main officials in Shandong County are sent by the imperial court. It can be said that they have not yet formed a close relationship with the local forces in Shandong. We cannot let these bastards fool around.
Making trouble with the accounts is related to the local forces in Shandong; disturbing the people is even more forbidden!" Wu Qi conveyed Lin Fu's message to Zhou Pu and the generals of the cavalry camp, "In addition to the officials and the people, there is no one in Qingzhou Prefecture who can do it.
It’s a target for us to attack..."
"Who is there?" Zhou Pu asked.
"After the fall of Jinan City, the Donglu troops divided their forces and marched eastward. Although they failed to capture Linzi and Yangxin in the end, many counties in the western part of Linzi Prefecture were defeated without a fight. In addition, the defeated soldiers after the fall of Jinan City and Yangxin were defeated.
The rebels outside the city were defeated, and a considerable number of them fled into the Yishan Mountains in Qingzhou." Wu Qi said, "Shandong Inspector Liu Yefei also knew the affairs of the Qingzhou Prefecture and supervised the preparations of the Qingzhou Prefecture soldiers, so he was able to gather them in a short time.
The more than 10,000 Qingzhou troops were the proceeds from the banditry obtained by recruiting An Yishan defeated soldiers. Although Liu Yefei recruited some of them, there were still quite a lot of defeated soldiers. In fact, they were the accomplices of the Donglu invaders when they invaded Shandong. The defeated soldiers in the places where they committed evil were worried about the war.
After being liquidated, he still stayed in Yishan as a bandit. This bandit not only threatened local security, but also seriously threatened the safety of the Jiao Lai River and the post roads from Qingzhou to Linzi. Liu Yefei is planning to spend a lot of money to recruit these people, we have to choose a
Let’s give these two families a hard blow…”
"Okay," Zhou Pu said with excitement in his pores when he saw that there was a good fight to be fought, "You have landed two days in advance. Have you chosen your target..."
"There is a village in Yangshan not far ahead," Wu Qi said. "It was originally a civilian village. It was initially occupied by more than a hundred Zhejiang soldiers who fled from Yangxin. The leader was a member of the Zhejiang soldiers.
The deputy battalion commander, who once served as the general officer of the newly attached Han army to the Donglu, was the kind who would be liquidated after the war. About 270 people gathered in the village at this time. Except for some pretty women, they occupied it.
Outside, most of the residents in the village have been driven out, and many people have been killed. The officers and soldiers attacked twice, but were repulsed. Now they have been replaced by appeasement, and the two sides are still negotiating. I have found the owner of the suffering.
, they didn’t want to see this group of strong thieves being coaxed into officers and soldiers. They gathered more than 60 men and were willing to march for us when we attacked the stronghold. This is a detailed map of Yangshan and Yangshan Folk Village. I
We have drafted a plan to attack the stronghold, and we will discuss it together to see if there is anything else that needs attention..."
"Okay, then beat him." Zhou Pu clenched his fists and said fiercely.
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The source of the Mi River leaves Yishan, flows north through Qingzhou, Shouguang and other places, and merges into the Bohai Sea. The total length of the Mi River is about two hundred miles. At this time, the ice and snow in Yishan are beginning to melt, and the water of the Mi River is quite strong. The green trees on both sides of the river are lush, and the water and soil are conserved.
The river is good, the water is clear, and the mouth is about 300 paces wide. It is considered a big river in Qingzhou. However, the only deep river channel that can be used by large ships such as the "Jinhai" is the more than 20 miles downstream near the mouth of the sea.
Just a paragraph.
Tang Haoxin entered Shouguang City and summoned Shandong county officials to Shouguang to question the river congestion and mutiny in Changyi. Lin Fu took a boat and stopped at Daokou Town, sixty miles north of Shouguang City.
"Jinhai", "Jiyun 1", and "Jiyun 2" anchored directly in the middle of the Mihe River outside Daokou Town, blocking the main river channel from Shouguang to the sea. Except for one sentry soldier who went down to camp on the left bank, the second
The other two sentry soldiers of the first battalion were on standby on the boat; the soldiers of the third and fifth battalions were on standby at the mouth of the Mi River, thirty miles away.
Liu Yefei, Ge Zufang, Chen Debiao and other major officials from Shandong County have entered Shouguang City to meet with Tang Haoxin, but they have no intention of bowing their heads. Not only did they accuse Xihehui and other river gangs of rebellion, but they also transferred five thousand Qingzhou
The government troops entered Shouguang City. In addition, three thousand Qingzhou government troops were stationed in the southeast of Daokou Town to monitor the "Jinhai" entering the Mihe River.
Lin Fu stood on the deck and looked at the green-black woods under the moonlight on the far bank. The three thousand Qingzhou troops monitoring them were stationed on the south side of the woods. It was a small hill and the most suitable place to set up camp within a radius of dozens of miles.
at.
"Except for some of the troops guarding Qingzhou, Liu Yefei has already deployed all the troops he can mobilize along the Mi River in the north of Shouguang." Cao Ziang raised his brows lightly and said with a smile, "He is really afraid that we will march along the Mi River and approach Shouguang.
Under the city!"
"Just by recruiting these defeated troops, what will happen?" Zhou Tong chewed a green grass leaf he found from nowhere. "If I still have the three hundred elite soldiers from the south to Yangxin, Shulin
Those three thousand surrendered troops in the back, as long as they have a chance to charge into the camp, we are sure to defeat them and kill their fucking shit!"
At that time, Zhou Tong went south with Lin Fu to guard Yangxin, with 300 elites from Jinzhong in his hands. The two battles between Jinhai and Yangxin could be said to be his most glorious moment. However, when he returned to Jinhai, he complained to Wei Zhonglong about his illness.
Resigned from the military post. Wei Zhonglong then left Jinhai, while Zhou Tong stayed in Jinhai all day long to eat and wait to die. Lin Fu escorted Tang Haoxin to Shandong with troops this time, but he got on the ship with a shameless face. Ma Yi
Gong, Yang Yihang and other senior Jinzhong generals, as well as Lin Xuwen, who actually took over the remnant troops in Jinzhong, also pretended not to see it. Zhou Tong was determined to follow the Jiangdong Left Army, and it was useless for them to stop him.
Lin Fu wanted to take care of Lin Xuwen's face, so he never assigned specific duties to Zhou Tong when he was in Jinhai. This time he asked him to go to sea with him and also let him participate in military affairs. Overtly and covertly, everyone regarded Zhou Tong as Jiangdong Zuo.
A member of the military.
"It's not difficult to defeat these three thousand surrendered troops. It took less than a month for Liu Yefei to recruit defeated troops and the bandits to form the Qingzhou Prefecture Army," Cao Zi'ang said with emotion, "But what's the benefit of defeating them?"
Lin Fu lightly scratched his nose with his fingers, shook his head slightly, and said: "There is no benefit, and we can't make Liu Yefei kneel down to save him in fear. Instead, it will give him an excuse to run back to the capital and sue us.
The imperial court still has to maintain its most basic dignity - we cannot touch this bottom line..."
"Then let me go into Yishan to clear out the bandits," Zhou Tong said. "Liu Yefei recruited defeated soldiers and the bandits expanded their power. If we go into Yishan to clear out the bandits, we will directly defeat his good plan. He will never accuse us of helping
Clean up the bandits in Shandong..."
"There is no rush for this at the moment," Lin Fu said. "At least we have to wait until Zhou Pu has found a foothold in the north of Qingzhou before he can gradually increase his troops. Don't be too hasty..."
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It had been more than a day since they entered Mihe, and they naturally understood the twists and turns behind the Changyi mutiny.
When Shandong Admiral Chen Debiao got off the bus, he had no time or resources to reorganize the defeated military system, and he had little real power. He only rushed back to Qingzhou after the Changyi mutiny.
Although Ge Zufang, the Xuanfu envoy of Shandong, also had the title of representing the governor of the Ministry of Revenue, he was so mediocre that he probably did not have the courage to label the four or five thousand members of the He Gang as rebels.
Shandong Inspector Liu Yefei became a disciple of Zhang Xie in his early years and won Zhang Xie's trust; he had a close relationship with Yue Lengqiu. When he served as chief officer, Yuanwai Lang, and Lang Zhong in the Ministry of War, he was Yue Lengqiu's direct subordinate.
In early January, Liu Yefei was appointed by the Ministry of War with the title of Imperial Censor of Youdu, and rushed to Zhongzhou, where he joined Yue Lengqiu and became an important assistant to Yue Lengqiu in commanding the Qinwang Division on the southern front. After Yue Lengqiu regained Jinan, Shandong, Liu Yefei immediately took charge of Shandong Province.
As an inspector, he is mainly responsible for the logistical supplies of the Qinwang Division on the southern line and supervising the grain relief to Jinan and Pingyuan Prefecture.
When Yue Lengqiu concealed the disaster of the Yellow River's embankment bursting, Lin Fu suspected that Liu Yefei was colluding with Yue Lengqiu at that time. Otherwise, Liu Yefei's job at the time would not have had a clear understanding of the disaster of the Yellow River's embankment bursting.
After the grain shortage crisis broke out in the capital, Liu Yefei not only failed to take responsibility, but also became aware of Qingzhou Prefecture affairs and supervised Qingzhou Prefecture military preparations, becoming the most powerful figure in Shandong County.
Not only did Liu Yefei have the motive to frame the Xihe Hui and other Jiangning He Gang, but after the Changyi mutiny, Liu Yefei directly mobilized the Qingzhou Prefecture Army to Changyi to suppress and round up the He Gang members. At this time, he also mobilized the Qingzhou Prefecture Army to put an end to them.
An uncompromising and tough stance.
Speaking of which, Liu Yifei is not an easy person.
At the beginning, the Donglu troops led a total of about 16,000 newly attached Han troops to besiege Yangxin, and were finally annihilated. The total number of prisoners captured was less than 7,000, and almost 9,000 soldiers fled. When the troops were defeated outside Yangxin City,
, Na He Xiongqi, who stayed behind to break up the rear, had only time and conditions to collect his defeated troops. Only a small number of the newly attached Han army's defeated soldiers were collected and brought out of the pass. Most of them fled to the southern mountains and occupied the area.
The mountains are king and bring disaster to the place, and they have colluded with the officials and gentry forces who had fled into the mountains earlier, and there is a tendency to form new copycat forces in the mountainous areas of central Shandong.
Due to the chaos of the Shandong county government after the war, the political, military and local forces were quite weak, and there was no strong military force to suppress these newly formed copycat forces, mainly rogue soldiers, in mountainous areas such as Yishan and Taishan.
After Liu Yefei became the inspector of Shandong and learned about the Qingzhou Prefecture, he adopted the strategy of "mainly appeasing and supplementing by suppressing" the cottage forces and defeated soldiers in Qingzhou. He unscrupulously recruited the rebel generals who fled into the mountains and surrendered.
He protected these rebel generals and surrendered generals from the post-war liquidation and punishment, and allowed him to expand the Qingzhou Army from less than 4,000 soldiers to more than 10,000 soldiers in just over a month.
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Lin Fu marched into Shandong with his troops, but Liu Yefei gathered other officials from Shandong County into a group and refused to give in easily. Lin Fu needed other actions to exert greater pressure.
Lin Fu could not directly send troops to attack the Qingzhou army, which mainly consisted of recruiting and surrendering soldiers.
In that case, the impact will be particularly bad, and the Jiangdong Left Army will lose its moral advantage. It will be difficult to predict how the court will react, making the situation more complicated and difficult to control.
Since the newly-formed copycat forces in the Qingyi Mountains, with Kuaizu as the main body, are Liu Yefei's current main targets for recruiting and expanding his power, Lin Fu chose these copycat forces as the targets of force.
In addition to showing force as a deterrent, this can also limit the continued expansion of Liu Yefei's power in Shandong. It also has the legitimate name of clearing the bandits and will not arouse the ill will of the local forces in Shandong. Moreover, the clearing bandit area is located in the heart of Qingzhou Prefecture.
land, directly attacking Liu Yefei's plan to deploy troops along the Mi River in the north of Shouguang.