On August 26, 1647, at the head of Ye County, the morning light was slightly dewed. Mo Ming and Damashiro were surrounded by a group of five-pointed stars on their shoulders, looking at the distant formation.

It is said that the Qing army did come quickly enough, but it was mostly cavalry, about two or three thousand cavalry. It was mostly dressed as the Manchu Red Banner soldiers stationed in Jinan, and sometimes they were mixed with some Mongolians or Han troops. Their quality seemed to be more than the soldiers and horses outside Yantai City and under his command.

In the battle of Yantai, 2,500 Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners Cavalry were attacked by about 2,400 East Coast Cavalry during the battle. Unpredictable, more than 700 bodies were left on the spot, and one Meleezhen was also killed. Later, more than 200 wounded soldiers died in the Hetuo Department who fled to Laizhou, and nearly 1,000 were lost in the whole area, which is a rare and significant loss since entering the pass.

Although the Eight Banners soldiers suffered several losses of more than 1,000 people in the large counterattacks launched by the Shun Army in Henan and Shanxi, it should be noted that it was a battle of 100,000 people, and the combat effectiveness and fighting will of the Shun Army were stronger than that of now, so such losses were not so surprising. However, the Qing army fought several times with yellow-clad thieves, and the national (Manchus) suffered heavy losses twice, one was Baipu Town, Tongzhou, and the other was Yantai. Both were large-scale cavalry battles, and the Qing army was at a disadvantage. In these two cavalry battles, the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners had already suffered 1,500 and 600 people, and the casualties were so great that Dorgon was far away in Beijing.

After Haoge returned to Beijing, the person who presided over the situation in Shandong was Luke Dehun, who led 5,000 cavalry to station in Jinan. This man had participated in many major battles during the Qing Dynasty's journey south in history, wiped out many anti-Qing forces, almost penetrated the entire Southern China, and made great contributions to the reunification of the Qing court. But in this time and space, he was obviously unlucky. The severe situation around the Liaohai Sea made him, a long-time general, and was firmly nailed to Jinan.

There is no way. The yellow-clothed thief is elusive. He will fight here today and there tomorrow, which will make the Qing army run away. If you go to chase and suppress the army, the yellow-clothed thief pats his butt and leaves to fight another place. He often asks the Qing army to press the gourd and float up. He is very distressed.

This time, when he heard that the main force of the yellow-clothed thieves had all gone to siege the prefectures and counties of the Denglai Prefectures, Lukede was determined to rescue but was extremely hesitant. First of all, the yellow-clothed thieves have now gone through years of war. There are many people and their combat power is quite strong, and they can no longer be dealt with by 10,000 or 20,000 Qing troops. He heard that the yellow-clothed thieves went on the battle this time, so the Qing army had to gather at least 50,000 troops to suppress them, so that they would have a chance of victory. Moreover, there must be a considerable proportion of cavalry and artillery.

But now the difficulty lies here. The situation in the south is entering a critical moment. A large number of vitality in the Qing court were transferred to Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi, and of course, there was a more important battlefield in Hubei. After hundreds of thousands of troops were transferred away, the north was suddenly empty.

Before this battle, the Qing army stationed about 70,000 people in Shandong (in May 20,000 people went south to Yangzhou to help suppress the yellow-clad thieves). After the two defeats in Yantai and Dengzhou, the Qing government's troops in Shandong have suddenly decreased sharply. Only less than 50,000 people were left, and almost all of them were in the Qingzhou and Jinan. At this time, there were only thousands of defeated generals left in Jiaodong area, guarding some cities. They were unable to harass the people on the east coast, and the people on the east coast were too lazy to pay attention to them.

Such a small amount of troops seemed to be able to repel the yellow-clad thieves. But don't forget that in order to prevent the East Coast people from landing in battle, the Qing court set up three generals and a deputy general in Binzhou, Yizhou, Jiaozhou and Dengzhou. The troops were also scattered everywhere, and it was difficult to gather in a short period of time. At this time, Dengzhou Town had just suffered heavy damage, and Jiaozhou Town also suffered great losses (General Ke Yongsheng was injured). Yizhou Town went south to support Yangzhou a while ago, and Shandong's complete Qing army was left with only 25,000 green camps under the command of Li Shutai, the general of Binzhou Coastal Defense.

His troop strength, plus the remaining troops of Jiaozhou Town and Dengzhou Town, as well as the small Qing army stationed in various places, was only about 50,000. Moreover, it was thousands of miles away from Laizhou, and there were many shortcomings in the food, grass and equipment that needed to be purchased on the expedition, so it was not possible to mobilize for a while.

Mo Ming made this idea this time. He has been in Shandong for many years. Although he does not know the details of the Qing army's troops, he still has some ideas. After raging in Jiangbei and attracting a large number of Qing troops, he returned to rely on the artillery tower built outside Yantai Fort to gradually break the wall that besieged Yantai Fort, and then fought continuously with lightning speed, defeating the Qing army in two towns of Ke Yongsheng, Chen Jin and others in one fell swoop, killing and injuring many people.

After the two Qing troops were severely damaged, the East Coast army began to swagger west along the coastline, and the small Qing troops along the way were unable to resist. The East Coast army, which had the navy to transport supplies, did not need any logistics transportation lines at all, which made the remaining Qing troops in Denglai even lose the ability to harass the East Coast logistics.

It can be said that the 20,000-strong army in the east coast is an extremely empty open area. The only one that can threaten the people in the east coast in the short term is the 5,000-Eight Banners Horse Team in Jinan. As for the weak local green camps, salt dings, tax dings and other miscellaneous armed forces that are only a few thousand people, Mo Ming's eyes are just a dish, and even sending military men to the battlefield can match them. Therefore, at this time, the general Mo Dashi, who was stationed in Maye County with 20,000 troops, was very ambitious and excited. He would be transferred back to China in a few months and leave the foundation he built himself. Then, he would end the five-year battle career with a perfect ending.

"Commander, Qin Shangxing has already arranged two thousand men at the ferry in the west of the city. They have collected a large number of ships. At present, the military and husband team has also built a floating bridge with their assistance. The Qing cavalry did not dare to attack. In addition, Zhai Congye's troops have also rushed to the west of the city, but they did not dare to cross the river. Captain Mao Desheng, who was responsible for the command of the front enemy, decided to send two squadrons of the first battalion of the experienced forward team to cross the river first to prevent the enemy's raid." Second Lieutenant Junior, who was the adjutant Mo Ming, trotted over and reported.

The four navy transport ships that had been maintained and maintained have just sent two 4,500 soldiers from Zhai Cong-yan and Qin Shangxing on Jeju Island to the beach in Yexian. The Qing army, with only two or three thousand light cavalry, dared not make any abnormal movements under the close surveillance of tens of thousands of east coast soldiers, and could only watch the reinforcements of the east coast people landed successfully.

"The first battalion of the Eight Banners New Army, the second battalion left the city, guarding the logistics and supplies convoy across the river. The second battalion of the forward team dispatched a musketeer squadron, and was commanded by Captain Xiao Xi together with the 102nd Company of the Army, and also escorted the logistics convoy. Captain Zhang Xudong took the main force of the first registrar to set off, and the rest of the troops continued to stand by." Mo Ming quickly issued the order.

Although there were two or three thousand Qing army teams outside the city, Mo Ming did not take them seriously. Now the work of Ye County has almost been completed, and the county that was looted by the East Coast people for the second time was actually not very good or bad. But it doesn’t matter, the largest amount of good or bad in the county is the population. So at the order of Mo Dashui, thousands of people in Ye County were forcibly forced to board the four ships of the East Coast people, and their destination was neither Yantai nor Jeju, but Dengzhou.

Yes, that's right, it's Dengzhou! When General Mo held a military meeting two days ago to discuss the series of cities that had been captured, the generals unanimously agreed that Dengzhou City should be occupied forever. Especially Chen Zhilong, who had just surrendered, even knelt down and asked General Mo to occupy Dengzhou and not let him "return to the hands of the Tartars."

Although Mo Ming was not very enthusiastic about occupying Dengzhou - because it would obviously divide the troops of the people on the east coast, considering that the walls of Denglai are high and deep, and the back of the sea (with water city directly leads to the sea), it is indeed a very good port city. What's more important is that occupying this capital city in Denglai area has great political significance. If the Qing Dynasty cannot recover Dengzhou for a long time, its impact will be extremely bad. Many former Ming generals who have surrendered to the Qing Dynasty will inevitably have many doubts in their hearts.

Besides, this time the battle took over some of the troops, and how to resettle them has become a problem now. These Qing army green camps were naturally not allowed to make them fight in the field, but if they only defended the city, they would still be at ease. Thinking of this, Mo Ming quickly decided to take over Dengzhou City forever. At the same time, he also began to order the East Coast military servants who stayed in Dengzhou City to immediately organize the people in the city to repair the city wall that had just been bombarded by cannons on the east coast.

After receiving the notice, some ships will be squeezed out tonnage and transported a large amount of cement and red bricks. Under the guidance of the construction engineers who came with the ship, the Dengzhou city wall will be rebuilt to make it have side-killing firepower to increase the difficulty of the enemy's attack. The repaired Dengzhou city will be guarded by Chen Zhilong. This guy and his core subordinates not only killed many surrendered troops from the Eight Banners and senior officials of the Qing court in public, but also wrote a lot of erotic articles about Dorgon and Shunzhi's mother. It is difficult to turn back now.

Well, let this guy collect more surrendered troops and leave Dengzhou City to him, so there is no need to divide the forces of the East Coast Army. At most, some artillery soldiers trained in Yantai were supported. These artillery soldiers were uniformly commanded by the East Coast officers, responsible for killing and injuring the Qing army's vital forces when the Qing army sieges the city. At the same time, it is also to destroy the possible artillery of the Qing army. Without artillery, the difficulty of the Qing army would be extraordinary if they wanted to snatch Dengzhou City.

As for the water camp in Dengzhou City, there was originally a "small sea" in it that could moor a large number of ships, but no one had taken care of it for many years in the late Ming Dynasty, and the silt was relatively serious. At present, the water depth was only more than one meter, so it could only barely enter and exit the small boat. Large steam engine sailboats could not enter and enter, so the attraction of this port to the east coast people was greatly reduced. It would be better to throw it to Chen Zhilong for trouble. Anyway, the Qing army did not die when it attacked.
Chapter completed!