The people in the city were full of voices, and the shouts of killing were endless, which made Wang Ao, who was hiding in the backyard, tremble.

There were more than 1,000 Qing soldiers in the city, and when they found that the Zhao army had entered the city, they would inevitably come to his rescue, but they waited left and right, but they did not see the appearance of people and horses, but the shouting of killing gradually decreased.

Zhao Jun would soon find the backyard, Wang Ao never dared to wait, so he had no choice but to hide over the wall and into the gentry's house.

As the so-called defeat is like a mountain, the Zhao army that entered the city almost did not encounter any decent resistance, Qingzhou was appeased by the Qing court for more than a month, and there was no loyalty, so the Qing army in the city learned that Wang Aoyong was missing, and many officials were captured.

After Wang Yan hastily bandaged it, he commanded the soldiers to raise the banner and post a notice to reassure the people.

At this time, the Qingzhou gentry knew that Qingzhou City had changed again, and everyone had become the people of the Ming Dynasty again.

Seeing that the Qing army in Qingzhou had gone away, those official gentry who had originally surrendered to the Qing Dynasty immediately submitted to Zhao Yingyuan, and Wang Ao hid forever in the Qingzhou Dao Han Zhaoxuan Mansion appointed by the Qing court.

At this time, facing the search of Zhao Jun, in order to save his life, Han Zhaoxuan could only "die and not die and be poor", and dedicated Wang Aoyong in front of Zhao Yingyuan.

The next day, Zhao Jun set up an altar outside the city, and killed Wang Aoyong and other people who shaved their hair and surrendered to the Qing!

For a time, Shandong was shaken, and the anti-Qing rebels swarmed again, and the leaders of the anti-Qing armed forces in Lechang, Shouguang, and other places near Qingzhou, Qin Shangxing, Guo Jiangpai and others sent to Qingzhou, expressing their willingness to obey Zhao Yingyuan's order to jointly resist the Qing.

In order to expand his influence, Zhao Yingyuan listened to Wang Yan's words, and wanted to support the Heng Domain, calling for far and near, but King Heng was a pus, and had already presented a letter of surrender to the Qing court as early as July, lest the Zhao army support him to resist the Qing Dynasty and cause the disaster of death, only to know "crying, swollen eyes like peaches".

Wang Yan was so angry when he saw this, everyone went to the soup for your old Zhu family, as a descendant of Taizu, but he behaved like this, which was really chilling, which put a layer of haze on his heart.

Zhao Yingyuan doesn't care about this, he just wants a name, whether you want to be the king of Heng or not, it's better not to take power with him.

What he has seen for many days has also made Wang Yan see Zhao Yingyuan's warlord nature more or less, but for the sake of Shandong's great cause of resisting the Qing Dynasty, and for the sake of the picture in his dream not appearing, he still has to give advice to him, and he must block the Qing army.

More than ten days have passed, and after the Zhao army captured Qingzhou, there was no new action except for bringing back the old and weak who were stranded outside.

It's not that Zhao Yingyuan doesn't want to act, but his strength is limited, he is only four or five hundred soldiers who can fight, and after collecting and surrendering the Qing soldiers in the city, there are only about one thousand and five people, and there are more new soldiers than old soldiers, and the army is unstable, so he doesn't dare to act at all.

On this day, Wang Yan was taking people to count the treasury of Qingzhou, but someone suddenly came to report that Zhao Yingyuan urgently recruited him back.

Wang Yan put down the matter in his hand, and quickly returned to the state government with the comer, but saw Zhao Yingyuan and Yang Wang Xiu sitting in front of him with a gloomy face, and he couldn't help but feel a sense of foreboding in his heart.

On August 10, Yang Wangxiu went south to find Li Huaxi to discuss the return to the Ming Dynasty and beg for reinforcements. On August 14, Zhao Yingyuan and Wang Yan defrauded Qingzhou and killed Wang Aoyong. Today is August 29, and Yang Wangxiu returned to Qingzhou after 19 days.

These days, Zhao Yingyuan has been proud, if the situation goes well, the two of them will not be like this, do the southern ministers really want to sit back and watch Shandong fall.

"Since Shi Heng has arrived, then Lord Yang will tell him about the situation!" After Wang Yan came in and sat down, Zhao Yingyuan said with a gloomy face.

"I didn't expect that things would be as General Zhao said." Yang Wang Xiu's face was also heavy, and he slowly told what happened in the south. "I met Li Huaxi on August 20, and said that I would surrender, and I begged for reinforcements, and I followed the Shidu division in Jiangbei on August 22, begging bitterly, but I was not allowed to support. The southern ministers pursued the policy of uniting with the Qing court, fearing that they would offend the Qing court, and would not support Shandong at all, and we had become outcasts. ”

"What? Lianyu Pingkou? Wang Yan was shocked, and a burst of evil fire suddenly rose in his heart. Corrupt Confucianism misleads the country! The admonition of the Song Dynasty is still in front of you, and the ministers are like this, aren't they sitting and watching the land fall! Aren't they afraid of what a thousand people will point at? ”

Since Hongguang ascended to the pole, Shi Gong supervised the teacher, and the people of Shandong all enthusiastically thought about the suburbs, looking south to the king's division, such as looking forward to the rain. However, the southern monarchs and ministers regarded Dashun as a thief, regarded the Qing side as a friend, disregarded the national righteousness, did not advance the army, gave thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, and trapped the remnants in Hu Chen, but they thought that they had a plan, they could sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, they could avoid being burned by fire, and blindly retreated, which was really foolish.

"Alas! I also didn't expect that the southern ministers would be so short-sighted and pedantic. Yang Wang Xiu let out a long sigh, and the three of them couldn't help but fall silent.

After a while, Zhao Yingyuan spoke: "The matter has come to this, the general has nothing to rely on in the future, nothing to rely on, only relying on the lone army in the camp, I am afraid it will be difficult to face the counterattack of the Qing court, the two of you may teach me?" ”

After the Zhao army occupied Qingzhou, although it expanded a lot of strength, once the Qing army went south, with more than 1,000 people and horses in their hands, there was no possibility of keeping Qingzhou in any case.

After Wang Yan was angry just now, he had slowly calmed down, it was his plan to seize Qingzhou and ask for help in the south, and now that the matter has failed, he has an unshirkable responsibility. If you don't want to come up with a remedy, with Zhao Yingyuan's person, you will definitely not believe him, and Shandong's resistance to the Qing Dynasty may be completely ruined, and Wang Yan will never allow this to happen.

But how to solve the current dilemma, Zhao Yingyuan is a very assertive person, but Wang Yan needs skills. "General! There are three strategies for late students, which can be used for reference! ”

"There are countermeasures, Shiheng can come quickly." Zhao Yingyuan couldn't help but look forward to it when he heard this, and straightened up. "It's the best way to do it!"

"The best strategy is risky, but if it succeeds, it will receive the greatest goods!" Wang Yan bowed slightly and said slowly. "The general should send a large army quickly, go straight to Jinan, take advantage of the Qing army has not yet gone south, control the entire Shandong, and then integrate the Zhulu righteous army, when there is a battle force, if you can resist the Qing army, the reward of the marquis, it should not be a problem."

"Send a large army to Jinan?" Zhao Yingyuan thought for a while, hesitated for a moment and said. "There are many heavy soldiers in our army, and they have not yet returned to their hearts, the army is unstable, and Jinan is a strong city, if you can't go down, the army will inevitably be shaken, and then Qingzhou will be lost again, and I will not become a lost dog again." This plan is not appropriate, Shiheng can make a decision! ”

Wang Yan couldn't help but sigh in his heart, now that the Qing court is empty of troops in Shandong, and after killing Wang Aoyong, the righteous army has swarmed again, Shandong is turbulent, and there are not many soldiers and horses in the hands of Jinan Dayou, it is the best time to sweep Shandong, but Zhao Yingyuan is obsessed with Qingzhou and is unwilling to give up the comfortable life that he has just arrived.

The peasant army's abandonment of mobile warfare and clinging to the city made Wang Yan think of another armed force that had appeared in his dream, which had swept through most of China, but in the end, after the capture of Nanjing, they were bewildered by the drunken life and ended up in the tragic end of being trapped in Tianjing.

"The safest strategy is to be born later." After Wang Yan adjusted his mentality, he continued. "The general can coerce the domain to cross to the south and take refuge in Gao Jie, one of the four towns, who is also from the army, and will inevitably be reused by it, and he will not lose his official position or glory."

"It's not appropriate, it's not appropriate, it's still inappropriate." Hearing this, Zhao Yingyuan thought about it slightly, so he refused. "We finally got Qingzhou, how can the great foundation be destroyed lightly, and if I don't fight with the Qing soldiers, with the body of the defeated army, fleeing south in a hurry, it will definitely be shameful and not reused, Shiheng should talk about the middle strategy."

Wang Yan's next time and the middle strategy are actually not before and after, on the contrary, it is the most helpless strategy, he wants Zhao Yingyuan to adopt the last time, followed by the next time, and finally the middle policy.

The best strategy can give him a chance to directly confront the Qing court, and the outcome is not yet known, his fate is in his own hands, and he can fight bravely.

The next strategy is to let him return to Jianghuai safely and find an official who can carry the banner of resistance to the Qing Dynasty.

On the contrary, the middle strategy is the most helpless, to hand over everything to others, whether it can succeed is not in itself, but in the evolution of the current situation, all at the mercy of destiny.

"Although the middle strategy seems to be modest, it is the easiest to turn into a dead end." Wang Yan said helplessly. "Late Sheng recently checked the Qingzhou treasury and got 450,000 taels of silver, 300,000 quintals of grain and grass. With these money and food, the general can recruit troops and horses on the spot, drill the army, if the Qing army goes south, you can also defend the city, not in the Qing army, once the Shanxi Shun army wins, or the world has changed, the general can rely on the prestige of Qingzhou alone, sweep the Qing army, and make immortal achievements! ”

"Haha~ This strategy is very much in line with me!" Zhao Yingyuan is unwilling to take risks, and he is reluctant to get the foundation, Zhao Jun is his old subordinates, and the fate of the entire Qingzhou is naturally determined by him. "Then trouble Lord Wang and Shi Heng to deal with the matter of recruiting new soldiers and improving the city defense."

"Willing to serve the general!" At that moment, Wang Yan had to say in unison with Yang Wang Xiu.

"I will definitely make Qingzhou like an iron bucket." Zhao Yingyuan was very satisfied, and then waved his hand. "Okay, you two retreat and prepare!"

"Yes!" Wang Yan and Yang Wangxiu, who had a melancholy face, exited the lobby together.

After the separation, Wang Yan immediately took action.

He asked the soldiers to erect banners at the four gates to recruit soldiers, and the horses were given four taels of silver, the mule soldiers were given three taels of silver, and the infantry were given one or two hundred cents, plus one penny. Many anti-Qing righteous people near Qingzhou came to vote, and in four or five days, Wang Yan recruited more than 500 people, which made his gloomy mood much better.

Zhao Yingyuan was very interested at first, but understood that his responsibility was not to appease Shandong, but to make the northern envoy Qing court and not to deal with it.

Wang Yan took over the responsibility of entertaining the Zuo Mao Dibei Mission, talked with him a lot, and said with tears in his eyes: "I advise you not to listen to the proposal of donating Yan, every inch of mountains and rivers is an inch of gold!" ”

When the northern mission traveled north, another bad news also came from the north, and the city of Qingzhou was suddenly like a great enemy.