Xie Qian's troops were crisscrossing Huaibei, and the news that Duoduo led the Mongolian Eight Banners to the south naturally passed through the Heaven and Earth Society and entered the rebel army.

Xie Qian, believing that he was not the opponent of the Eight Banners, immediately moved closer to the direction of the Huai River, broke the city of Andong, and crossed the Yellow River into Huainan.

The rebels did not attack Huai'an City, which was heavily guarded by the Qing soldiers, nor did they dare to touch Yangzhou City, but plunged headlong into the hilly areas and lakes in the Guangling area, and brought the characteristics of the thieves to the extreme if they could not beat them and run away and drill the mountains if they could not run.

Duoduo led more than 30,000 cavalry, entered the Lianghuai and Ma Guanghui convergence, without saying a word, first beat the board, treat him for the crime of suppressing bandits, and then urge all the soldiers and horses to encircle and suppress, wanting to quickly pacify the Gaoyuan bandits, but he soon faced the same embarrassment as Ma Guanghui.

At this time, the encirclement and suppression army was close to 70,000 people, and in the dilapidated Huaibei, the Qing army could not collect a mouthful of grain and grass, and Huainan had to support more than 40,000 troops along the river to defend against the Ming army's naval division, and there was no surplus supply of grain and grass.

Cao Yun was not working, the only place where the Manchu Qing had enough food, but it was separated by the Ming army, and Duoduo's military rations soon fell into a crisis, and the righteous army drilled into the ancient Han region with many rivers and lakes in the hills, which limited the play of the cavalry, and made Duoduo, who originally wanted to quickly exterminate the Liukou, also fell into a stalemate.

The hilly terrain was not conducive to the cavalry's performance, and Duoduo had no way, so in the end he licked his face and let Ma Guanghui, who had been beaten by him, continue to preside over the encirclement and suppression.

Liang County, Shandong, in the Ming Dynasty's "Water Margin", the birthplace of the heroes of Liangshan, he is located in the territory of Yunzhou Mansion in Shandong, east of the Grand Canal, west of Caozhou, where the Yuyuan Army was active.

Unlike Xie Qian's mobile warfare, the Yuyuan army rarely crossed the Caozhou border to plunder nearby state capitals, so the threat was much smaller in the eyes of the Qing court than Xie Qian.

The key to the difference between the two rebel armies is the difference in leadership.

Qian Qianyi secretly organized a group of gentry to participate in the Restoration of Sight Movement, and formulated a grand strategy of meeting the Yangtze River, of which the Shandong Righteous Army was an important part, but Xie Qian's first department had been active for two years and had already formed a fixed team, and it was difficult for the gentry to insert into it, so they only cooperated a little and provided them with some resources.

The Yuyuan Army was different, the original leaders of the exiles, Zhang Qi and Ren Qi, had limited ability after all, and soon the entire team was mastered by the restored gentry.

With Liu Zeqing, one of the four towns in Jiangbei, killed by the Qing court, Liu Zeqing's old department, which was originally hidden in the Yuyuan Army, also completely revealed his identity and took over the command of the righteous army.

In military affairs, the Yuyuan Army was basically led by Liu Zeqing's nephew Liu Zhigan and his lieutenants Zheng Longfang, Yao Wenchang, Li Huajing and others, and in terms of civil affairs and strategy, Yan Ermei, a literati from the south of the Yangtze River, was in charge.

Most of these people were from the government, and their supporters were gentry, so they did not go to the road of plundering like Xie Qian, but used the secret support of the gentry to intensively cultivate in Caozhou.

At this time, the sun is shining, everything is waiting for spring, and there is no movement in Liangxian County near the reeds of the Grand Canal, and there is no change, and it is quiet.

Suddenly, a big ship appeared in the distance, with a yellow dragon flag on the bow, hunting in the river breeze, on both sides of the deck were green battalion soldiers wrapped in bloated jackets, standing on both sides of the ship's strings with spears, and seemed to be a little listless, on the east bank of the canal, the slender man of the brigade lowered his head and silently dragged the boat to the south step by step, and the atmosphere was silent.

Behind the ship, a long line of ships appeared, all of which were flanked by soldiers, and the cargo in the middle was covered with tarpaulins.

At this time, the ship in front had reached the reeds, but the ships behind still had no end in sight, and although the soldiers on the ship were listless, the officers at the bow of the ship looked around vigilantly from time to time, as if they would encounter some danger.

In the reeds, the dry reeds shook for a while, and suddenly a few people came out of it, all of them with bows and knives on their backs, and the eyes of the first person leaked excitement, and they beckoned: "This must be a grain ship for the Qing army, we must immediately inform the general, and prepare quickly!" Zhou Ze, you continue to monitor. ”

Several of the people around him responded in unison, and the person who led the leader disappeared across the river in the blink of an eye.

On the official road thirty miles west of Liang County, a group of men and horses were marching briskly, these people were wearing cotton armor, wrapped in turbans, and waving various flags, it was the Yuyuan Army active in Caozhou Prefecture.

The flag is not only an important tool to show identity, but also an important tool for operational command, just from the appearance, we know that the Yuyuan Army is much more regular than ordinary thieves, and it is not a wild way.

Xie Qian made such a big move in Lianghuai, Shandong, and the Yuyuan Army naturally knew about it, and the generals were also ready to move, but Yan Ermei, the military advisor of the Yuyuan Army, said: "At the end of Qin, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang ascended to the top and called first, and then the Han Gaozu who died in Qin was also." At the end of the Sui Dynasty, Wagang, Dou Jiande, and Du Fuwei took the lead, and Li Tang, who won the world, was also. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Liu Futong first raised righteousness, and then chased the Yuan Kou Taizu. In every chaos in the world, although the first to rise can gain great prestige, they will also face the most brutal counterattack and become the main target of repression, and it is very rare to succeed. Now that Xie Qian is famous, the Qing court will inevitably encircle and suppress it with heavy troops, and what we have to do is to take advantage of Xie Qian to drag the Qing soldiers, accumulate strength, and train people. ”

Ordinary thieves won't understand this, these names may not have been heard, but the upper echelons of the Yuyuan Army somewhat understand, don't say so far, just say that Gao Yingxiang, who rose first in this dynasty, was not killed by the imperial court first?

Although they were both anti-Qing rebels, they also had their own interests, at least as an armed force supported by the gentry, the Yuyuan Army did not like Xie Qian's collusion with the White Lotus Sect to break the city and seize the property of the gentry and landlords.

Of course, although there are contradictions, these contradictions have been temporarily suppressed by the greater contradictions between the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Duoduo encircled and suppressed Xie Qian in Lianghuai, Xie Qian was forced into the hills and lakes, and the situation was not easy, and the Yuyuan army did not want to see Xie Qian's premature defeat, so when he learned that Duoduo was short of grain and grass and wanted to transfer grain from the north, the Yuyuan army decided to rob this batch of grain and grass and pull Xie Qian.

It should be said that the lack of grain in the north of the Qing court was worse than that in the south, but the Manchu nobles were in Beijing, so they naturally had to ensure the food supply in Beijing first. Therefore, the Qing court built a large number of granaries in Beijing to store grain, but after the transportation was broken, it was also empty, and this time it was a batch of military rations that Dolgon had managed to squeeze out.

When the Yuyuan Army received information that the Qing court would have a batch of military rations to be transported to Lianghuai through the Grand Canal, Li Huajing was ordered to lead 4,000 men and horses into Liang County and rob the grain ships of the Qing soldiers.

Before Li Huajing set off, he had already sent more than a dozen scouts to enter the Liangxian boundary first, and he led the men and horses to arrive later, but he was already close to the canal, but there was still no scout return, he was a little worried in his heart, whether it was because the intelligence was slow, and the grain ship had already crossed the Liangxian boundary.

At this moment, in front of the road where the army was marching, several scouts galloped over with one person, it was the little leader who found the grain ship, he galloped to him, immediately turned over and dismounted, his movements were neat, and he clenched his fist on one knee and reported: "General Qiyu, find the grain ship of the Qing army!" ”

Li Huajing was overjoyed, he bent down on his horse, and asked urgently, "Where is the ship?" How many are there? ”

"The ship has just passed Ansanji, there are 100 ships, and each ship is about 20 green battalion guards, estimated to be about 2,000 people, and the subordinates of the lowly position are still watching."

Li Huajing, a native of Shandong, was very familiar with the direction of the Grand Canal, and he immediately made a decision when he heard it, and shouted: "The whole army will go south and rush to Kaiheyi to set up an ambush." ”

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