On November 4, 1644, the sixth day of the tenth lunar month. On the seventh day after Wang Aoyong's death, Zhao Yingyuan, who was far away in Qingzhou, had successfully invited a large number of anti-Qing armed forces to gather, and the momentum was shocked. In order to increase his appeal, he began to think about preparing to support King Heng in Qingzhou City, and planned to let King Heng Zhu Youqi officially ascend the throne on the eighth day of the 10th lunar month. However, what he didn't know was that as early as last month, because of the incoming surrender to Dengzhou, Wang Aoyong had already submitted a memorial to Beijing to send reinforcements. The Qing court agreed to his request, and then ordered Melezhang Jing and Tuo, Li led Tai and the others to lead their troops into Shandong. Today, the Qing army had quietly arrived in Jinan.

It would take only two days to march from Jinan to Qingzhou. Everything that happened in Qingzhou City had long been spread to Fang Dayou, the governor of Shandong in Jinan. He had only 600 soldiers on hand, but in panic, he felt relieved when he saw more than 10,000 reinforcements coming. What's more, there were more than 2,000 "true Manchu officers and soldiers" among the more than 10,000 people, which gave him the confidence to retake Qingzhou again.

At this time, the people of the East Coast were also making the final preparations before departure. Last night, the people of the East Coast "collected" some big trucks, mules and horses in the city. The grain shops opened by local gentry were the focus of the care. They gathered the owners of these grain shops and announced that they would collect food ranging from ten to one hundred stones according to the different grain storage. Although these people were unwilling, the current situation was stronger than people, and the people who were reluctant to give up the money would be hung up by these yellow-clad thieves on the east coast. Therefore, the logistics consultant successfully collected about four hundred stones of grain.

After collecting food, the logistics consultant was ordered to distribute the remaining old grains and beans in the warehouse to the people who had no surplus food in the city, and then gave the prison about 300 prisoners to freedom. These prisoners were thieves, ordinary people who were framed, and remnants of the captured Shun Army. Most of these people expressed their willingness to go with the people on the East Coast. Finally, the people on the East Coast recruited refugees who reclaimed land in the city as usual. However, only a few hundred people were willing to go to unknown places with these "thieves". Now, due to insufficient food, the people on the East Coast no longer used forced means to migrate the people of the Ming people. Therefore, they only got more than 300 people in Jiaozhou City this time. But this is enough. These people are basically young and strong and good at working. If there are too many people, they may not be able to support them.

In addition, they captured more than 400 prisoners in the battle yesterday afternoon, and nearly 500 Qing troops were killed in battle, including about 600 Han flag officers and soldiers. The casualties of the East Coast people were unusually minor. Except for 6 riders and 9 were slightly injured, only 15 people were killed in battle and 31 were injured. A total of 61 casualties were almost nothing compared to the Qing army. However, after the war, after seeing the battle process dictated by the squadron leader of the various squadrons participating in the war, the training staff and the combat staff agreed that the forward team also needed to strengthen targeted training to improve combat power, otherwise they might suffer losses when encountering tough problems such as Manchus in the future.

Mo Ming quickly made up his mind about the handling of these prisoners and took them all away to work and reform the Heishui coal mine. If they performed well during the transformation period, they would still have the chance to become "normal people", otherwise they would work in the coal mine until they died. These shaved Qing soldiers were tied together by the soldiers of the military team with ropes, and then threw them next to the big trucks, preparing to let them act with the big trucks containing grain. The people on the east coast seized more than 70 big trucks from Ke Yongsheng in Jiaozhou City, and some collected by the people, about 100; plus the more than 400 Korean pack horses brought on this trip. They could also transport dozens of tons of goods at a time.

"Did the navy's ship reach the mouth of the Dagu River?" Mo Ming spread out the map and began to ask the intelligence staff. According to the plan, the navy's two armed transport ships, two transport ships and two gunboats will sail along the Shandong coast and maintain close contact with the army on the land. According to the plan formulated before departure, these ships will be stationed near the mouth of the Dagu River in Jiaozhou Bay, waiting for the army to send people to contact them.

"It has arrived." The intelligence consultant nodded with certainty, "I sent the scouts of the security team to Dagu River Estuary to investigate yesterday afternoon. They found the navy's ships, all six ships there. In the morning, I also sent a small convoy to send them supplies."

"That's good." Mo Ming nodded. The seized food, supplies and livestock must be transported onto the ship as soon as possible. The recruited more than 300 people and the captured more than 400 Qing army prisoners must also be shipped away as soon as possible. It is already November, and this year it looks like it will be a cold winter again. Yantai Port may freeze again in the coldest moment, so the ships will not be able to rely on the port, so what can be transported now should be transported quickly. Moreover, some pioneer immigrants from Heishui Port and Dabo Port also have to be transported to the winter camp of Lishi Island from the Hei Shui Port. Otherwise, there will be no way to go after the port is frozen.

So, under Mo Ming's order, the military and husbands of the East Coast took action quickly. They loaded the supplies onto a truck and a pack horse, and then escorted the two squadrons of the forward officers and soldiers toward the beach just over ten kilometers. After leaving a forward squadron to guard the warehouse in Jiaozhou City, Mo Ming took the army that had just finished breakfast and embarked on the journey again.

Their target this time is Gaomi, located in the northwest of Jiaozhou. Gaomi County is currently in the hands of the landlords. The leader is Li Shiyuan, the former garrison of Qingzhou in Ming Dynasty. Of course, he is now the Qingzhou garrison of the Qing Dynasty. This county was still in the hands of Dashun in mid-May, but later the gentry of the county launched a rebellion and forced Dashun County Magistrate Sun Shuyu and his entourage (this person was killed in the official history). However, as the squadron leader of the 7th Squadron of the Stand Up Team, Sun Shuyu came back with great swagger, which made people feel that thirty years of Hedong and thirty years of Hexi. Mo Ming and others joked that they would organize the Dashun Return Group in the future, but they did not expect that the first person to achieve was Sun.

Li Shiyuan was at hand at this time and had a poor combat quality. He was basically the Niluzi Township Warriors who had just joined the army and had not long been consuming food. He basically didn't have to spend too much effort to deal with them. Gaomi County was only more than 20 kilometers away from Jiaozhou. The marching speed of the people on the east coast was extremely fast. The cavalry arrived outside Gaomi City at noon, and the brigade of infantry arrived here until the sun set.

Although Gaomi County is low and dilapidated, the people on the east coast are not in a hurry to attack. The soldiers of the army team have begun to set up camps, fetch water and cook, and the people on the east coast are preparing to rest for one night and attack tomorrow. The camp with a large number of sentries and military dogs is accompanied by Li Shiyuan, who did not dare to send anyone to attack the camp at night. However, the bigger possibility is that the soldiers under his command are suffering from night blindness and have no ability to fight at night.

On November 5, with the sound of a crisp trumpet, the army of people from the east coast slowly formed a formation outside Gaomi County. First, they stood up to a team of four squadrons and one thousand people, then more than 1,500 people from two battalions of the Eight Banners New Army, and then artillery and musketeers. As for the 500 cavalry, they were dispersed to the two wings of the troops for warning early.

If the enemy dares not go out of the city to fight, then things will be much easier.

The battle was still the same as the third. After using howitzers to clean the city wall, Sergeant Bernini, the deputy commander of the artillery company, pulled all eight long-barrel cannons not far from the city wall. The enemy at the city wall could not attack, but their shells could easily hit the city wall. After seeing the cannons pulled out by the people on the east coast, the Qing army at the city wall was obviously very turbulent, but they quickly calmed down under the rebuke of the officers.

The people on the East Coast ignored them and just focused on eight light and heavy artillery toward a certain section of the city wall that seemed to have been repaired. The battle process seemed a bit boring to the people on the East Coast, but it was definitely not a fun thing for the Qing army of Li Shiyuan's troops in the city.

In the temporary mobile room, I had a leisurely meal of steak cooked by a special chef. After lunch with caviar, Mo Ming even opened a bottle of Xiangshan Dried Red with interest. At this time, the staff contacted the staff hurriedly walked in and reported to him that the city wall had collapsed about six or seven meters. At present, the grenadiers were carrying the powder barrel under the cover of the artillery and were about to blast forward.

After handing over the red wine to his orderly soldiers, Mo Ming grabbed the command knife and then walked to the front line slowly. At this time, the artillery had already pulled several howitzers into the front. The 8-pound howitzers fired a lot of explosive bombs and grape bombs into the gap, sweeping the Qing army that was holding there to block the gap. Especially the dozens of grape bombs, the Qing army that stepped forward to repair the gap under the force of the officers turned the Qing army into incomplete corpses. These Qing troops, who were already low in morale, could not withstand this scene and immediately dispersed, and it would be useless for the officers to beat and scold them.

The brave grenadiers approached the gap in the city wall under the cover of artillery and several platoons of musketeers, and then quickly dug tunnels, buried gunpowder barrels, and laid leads. The whole process was in order. More than 500 cavalrymen and about a hundred scouts of the public security team were wandering outside the range of the Qing army at the top of the city, ready to attack the Qing army that was fleeing from the city at any time.

Finally, after everything was ready, there was a loud "boom" sound, and the city wall that had been shakingly bombarded by cannons collapsed on a large scale. The large east coast infantry formation lined up next to the artillery position made a shocking cheer. Soon, the combat staff issued an assault order, stood up to take the lead, and the artillery was also moving forward under the protection of two companies of East Coast musketeers, followed by the command system and the Eight Banners New Army.
Chapter completed!