After a fight, the Qing army retreated, and Yang Xiaolei led the troops to chase for a while, leaving hundreds of corpses of Qing soldiers, and then stopped the pursuit.

In a battle, the Ming army also lost three or four hundred people, killing more than a thousand Qing troops, and the most important task at the moment was not to pursue and kill, but to hold the position and escort the large force on the ship ashore.

Seeing the Qing army coming, the speed of the Ming army on the ship increased sharply, and by the evening of this day, they finally all disembarked, and most of the baggage materials loaded on the ship were also transported to the shore. Twenty thousand troops set up a large camp on the coast, and the banners were spread for miles.

At present, Chen Yue, the king of Qi, has not yet arrived, and these 20,000 people naturally can't wait here, after thinking about it, Lu Tai left 5,000 infantry and a fleet of sailors to guard the food and supplies here, and the other 15,000 people attacked the shore.

Among them, 10,000 attacked Jiaozhou, and 5,000 people were led by Yang Xiaolei to the direction of Jimo.

Guo Hu's soldiers fled back to Jiaozhou in defeat, and in the face of the Ming army's large-scale attack, he closed the city gate and defended it, and at the same time sent people to report to Ye County, asking the army besieging Dengzhou to come to support.

Nearly 10,000 Qing troops defended the city of Jiaozhou, and Lu Tai had no way to take Jiaozhou, his troops were not enough to attack Jiaozhou, so he could only come to the city of Jiaozhou, began to curse the war, and shot a letter of persuasion into the city.

A Qing soldier picked up a letter shot from outside the city and flew it to Guo Hu. Guo Hu saw that his face was extremely complicated, and then he knew that the Ming army outside the city was actually a subordinate of Chen Yue, the king of Qi.

In the face of Chen Yue, Guo Hu did not have the slightest confidence in victory, but he knew that he could not surrender, because he had defected from the Pingnan army, even if he surrendered, how could Chen Yue tolerate such a capricious person as himself? Even if you don't die, you won't have any future in the future!

"Order to go down and collect all the letters that have been shot from outside the city, and no one is allowed to look at them, not to read them!" Guo Hu roared sharply, he had just experienced a defeat, his subordinates were shaken, and the Ming army outside the city kept shooting letters of persuasion into the city, if measures were not taken, I am afraid that some subordinates would have other thoughts.

Following Guo Hu's orders, his family began to search the city for letters shot in from outside the city. Guo Hu himself was not at ease, and personally put on his guard to patrol the city to boost morale and morale, and he told his green battalion soldiers that he had sent someone to Yexian County for help, and the superintendent would send a large army south in a few days, and it would not be a problem to defeat the Ming army outside the city.

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Just when Lu Taitun soldiers were under the city of Jiaozhou, Chen Yue finally led the troops to Jiaozhou Bay, 20,000 troops were dusty, their clothes were dirty, and after nearly half a month of marching, everyone was extremely tired, and the soles of Chen Yue's feet also had several big blisters.

Fortunately, there was a large camp left by Lu Tai's army not far from the coast, although it was simple, it could barely rest and avoid the cold. The ship carried a large amount of food supplies, and finally there was no need to eat fried noodles and drink cold water.

Chen Yue ordered a three-day rest in Jiaozhou Bay to recover his strength.

Hearing that Chen Yue had arrived with his troops, Lu Tai immediately flew back to the beach from Jiaozhou.

"The last general is incompetent and failed to take Jiaozhou City." After seeing the ceremony, Lu Tai said with some shame.

Chen Yue smiled and soothed: "General Lu, you can take the fleet to Jiaozhou Bay safely and bring supplies and armor for our army, you have done a good job, not to mention that you didn't defeat Guo Hu." ”

Lu Tai was originally a general of the naval division, and leading the fleet to fight at sea was his strength, as for leading the troops to attack the city on foot, forget it, Chen Yue did not want to be strong.

Chen Yue sent dozens of small troops deep into the nearby villages, one is to publicize the news of the Northern Expedition of the imperial army to the people, at this time Chen Yue did not hesitate to play his own banner to enhance the confidence of the people. The second is to use the silver to hire the young and strong people as soldiers and civilians, and transport heavy food and materials for the army. The third is to buy all kinds of items, Chen Yue moved forward lightly, except for weapons and dry food, although the fleet brought a large amount of food, but vegetables and meat could not be carried. The army had to fight in Shandong for many days, and in order to improve its combat effectiveness and ensure food and nutrition, it was necessary to purchase these from the local people.

Although the people of Shandong are poor, although it is winter, there should be no shortage of vegetables such as cabbage and radishes.

Another purpose of Chen Yue's doing this was to improve the relationship between the army and the people, improve the bad image of the Ming army among the people, and gain the heartfelt support of the people. Now Chen Yue lacks everything, there is no shortage of silver, and the large amount of silver seized by Zhang Xianzhong has basically not been moved, and there is a special warship in the Lutai fleet to carry silver money, and the silver carried by the army is as much as one million taels, which is specially used in this place and for rewarding meritorious soldiers.

In fact, what Chen Yue didn't know was that when he heard that it was the arrival of Chen Yue, the king of Qi, the army of Jiaodong, the people of Jiaodong were extremely excited, and they didn't need him to take so many measures at all. Because the relationship between the people of Jiaodong and the King of Qi is really deep.

Since Wu Ping led the fleet to Jiaodong a year ago, a large number of Jiaodong people have immigrated to Dongfan Island, and the number of immigrants has reached more than 100,000 people several times.

Shandong is located in the north, affected by the Xiaoice River drought for many years, coupled with the Qing soldiers entering the customs several times to fight in Shandong, looting and plundering, the people are miserable, many people can not survive at all, for them can live in the south is like heaven.

Therefore, Wu Ping vigorously expanded the army under the banner of Chen Yue, the prince of Qi at that time, and only then did he have the enthusiastic support of the people of Jiaodong, coupled with the support of a steady stream of food, silver, money, weapons and materials by sea from Dongfan Island, so that Wu Ping now has an army of 70,000 or 80,000.

Therefore, knowing that it was Chen Yue, the king of Qi, personally led the troops to Jiaodong, the joy of the people can be imagined.

After a few days of hard work, young people from all over the countryside came to the seashore one after another, and in three days, five or six thousand people gathered. There is also the original Ming military household of Lingshanwei in the south of Jiaozhou Bay, under the leadership of the original guard officer, gathered an army of thousands of people to serve the king of Qi. Although they were in tattered clothes and cowered in the cold wind, they were all in high spirits.

"Lord Wang, your people's hearts are like this, big things can be done!" Gu Junen, who was with the army, sighed.

Chen Yue worked tirelessly, ordered people to settle these righteous people, personally met with the leaders of the righteous people who came to serve, and comforted them. Naturally, the matter of buying the hearts of the people cannot be faked, so although it is hard, Chen Yue is very happy.

"Lord Wang, your people's hearts are like this, big things can be done!" Gu Junen, who was with the army, sighed.

With the strong support of the people of Jiaodong, what a way to recover Shandong and eliminate more than 100,000 green battalion soldiers!