"The Qing army is not a fool. You can see it, but how could they not see it? The bright behavior is so obvious that there must be a plan."

"This is reasonable. The Qing army is afraid that it is not a trap."

"It's a big deal. I don't know if the Qing army is a fool. Anyway, I think you are just big fools. How can you not eat the fat meat you give to your mouth? How can they put it on the Qing army? Just rely on the fire sticks in their hands?"

In the military discussion, two factions hyped up a group. One faction thought it could take the opportunity to eat Mingliang's troops, while the other faction started from the safest, thinking that everything would be fine if only the troops needed to be sent to defend Tuhahe River.

Because Chen Jun has abundant material reserves, the shortage of food and grass in the Qing army is well known to everyone.

Although Qianlong was in charge of the army, more than 100,000 troops came in full force, in fact, as long as the bilateral confrontation lasted for a month or two, the Qing army would be defeated without a fight.

However, although everyone understands the truth, how many people can resist eating when they see a piece of fat meat hanging on their mouth?

Mingliang's current location is on the banks of the Tuhai River north of Yucheng. This location is really closer to Linqing.

The Qing army first went to Dezhou. Dezhou was in the northeast of Linqing, and then from Dezhou to Pingyuan. The plain was southeast of Dezhou, and then from Pingyuan to Tuhai River, which was Yucheng. This Yucheng was in the southeast of the plain, which was a half arc.

With the change of location bit by bit, Mingliang's current geographical location is already on the same parallel line as Linqing. The distance from Linqing and the distance from Linqing to Jizhou seems to be different, so the distance from Jizhou is of course farther than Linqing.

Zhao Liang looked at Mingliang's troops and was a little drooling. And he was also surprised, what medicine was sold in Qianlong's gourd?

Just like what I said before: The Qing army sets a trap, why should they set a trap?

"I have decided. I can divide my troops in Yucheng and eat brightly!"

Zhao Liang said he wanted to eat Mingliang, but his eyes were staring at Jizhou.

He wanted to see what tricks Qianlong was playing!

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On the banks of Tuhai River, after a little rest, Mingliang couldn't wait to launch an attack on the other side.

Although the big river in front of me was as wide as 100 meters, in order to prevent the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry from crossing the river, Chen army had already detained all the ships along the way to the south bank.

But this is not difficult for the Qing army.

They can definitely raid across the river.

Because the Qing army was large, Mingliang had taken a multi-way offensive from the beginning, especially with the cooperation of cavalry, real and fake, which made Chen's army on the other side of the river quite passive.

To put it bluntly, this is a matter of bullying fewer soldiers.

Mingliang's troops were several times more powerful than Chen Jun. As soon as he slammed the stall, Chen Jun could only passively deal with it.

A small number of troops were broken and scattered on the long line of defense.

Then Bright will start to make breakthroughs.

This is something that people have made a thorough open conspiracy from the beginning, but it is precisely because of the open conspiracy that Chen Jun on the south bank of the river was unable to resist.

Soon the Qing army crossed the Tuhai River. The troops and horses on the south bank of the river retreated, but Yucheng was not allowed, and they retreated to the Daqing River.

Of course, there are still a small number of troops who have too late to retreat, so they can only find a place like a town and hold it on the spot.

Mingliang also regarded Yucheng as nothing. After the army crossed the river, he immediately went straight to Qihe without stopping.

Qi River is a county town on the north bank of the Daqing River, Qi River on the north bank of the Daqing River, Changqing on the south bank of the Daqing River, and Lukou on the south bank of the Daqing River. These are the three walls blocking the north side of Jinan City.

From north to south, if you want to take down Jinan, you don’t even think about these three walls without tearing down one of them.

The Daqing River is a big river wider than the Tuhai River. After the original space-time Yellow River was diverted, the Daqing River became the main river channel of the Yellow River. Do you think its water surface will be narrow?

Moreover, there are many ships here, as a waterway that can directly enter the sea, and there are even small flat warships here. It is definitely difficult for the Qing army to kill the Daqing River.

The difficulty of crossing Tuhai River is not at all the same as that of Daqing River.

Mingliang knew this well, but he still acted like he wanted to take down Qihe, just like he didn't see the reinforcements of Chen Jun who was about to reach Gaotang Prefecture.

There was nothing wrong that night, early the next morning, Chen Jun was having breakfast, and there was already a noise in the Qing army camp outside the city.

Chen Jun clearly saw the cannons pulled out of the Qing army camp. After counting, he found that there were not many, and he was only more powerful than ten.

But this firepower is still stronger than that of the Qihe defenders.

Because the garrison troops in Qilu were originally equipped with poor artillery configuration, they had lost some of them on the Tuhai River line before, and some of the firepower was left in Jinan City. Just talking about Qihe, Chen's army was really inferior to the Qing army.

Then a large number of soldiers retreated from the city, leaving only some observation posts on the top.

The officer in charge did not think that this number of shelling could destroy his team. But he was very worried about the city walls of Qihe County. The only thing he was worried about was whether Qihe County could be blocked?

When the shells fell one by one at the top of Qihe City, the Qing army who saw this scene were all confident. They seemed to see the city wall in front becoming piles of bricks and garbage under the blow of cannons.

But the fact is that before they were completely destroyed by Qihe County, Chen Jun, who had arrived from Linqing, had already been killed behind them.

"General, you are all ready." Li Fengyao reported to Mingliang.

He was Li Shiyao's brother, but unlike Li Shiyao who took the civil service route, Li Fengyao was a corps. He served as the admiral of Jiangnan and the admiral of Fujian. Then, because of the armed battle in Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, he was transferred to the general of Malan Town.

After the death of former Zhili Admiral Li Guoliang, he was promoted to the position of Zhili Admiral.

Now Yu Mingliang is the deputy general.

"I'm finally here, so let's fight a good battle! See what progress those traitors have made in the past!?"

Although Mingliang was just a partial army, the troops he held were the elite forces of more than 100,000 Qing troops, and there were 5,000 newly formed Eight Banners New Army.

His battle with Chen Jun, although it is just the beginning of this bilateral war, is actually of great significance.

You can even regard this battle as a smaller version of Chen Qing’s decisive battle.

To some extent, the Qing army also had a considerable advantage.

Because once the troops on both sides are enlarged to the entire army, the combat qualities and morale of Qianlong's troops are far less high than those of Mingliang's teams.

The latter's average literacy is much higher than the actual level of the Qing army!
Chapter completed!