From the time Shunzhi ordered the establishment of the Green Battalion, the main body of the Qing army began to become the Green Battalion, and the main enemy of the Ming Army also became the Green Battalion, but many of the Green Battalions themselves were not aware of this, and Deng Ming only realized this after the two Eastern Crusades. In the military training of the Sichuan army, the establishment of the green battalion and the strength of its combat effectiveness were very important contents of study, and the professors and lectures of the academy also popularized this military knowledge to his colleagues.

Compared with the Sichuan army, the preparation of the Shandong Righteous Army was very insufficient, most of the rebels had no understanding of the military situation in the country, and many people lacked understanding of the strength of Jinan Prefecture, and only knew the situation of one acre and three points of land around them. The few Shandong heroes in front of Deng Ming, even if they are well-informed in the righteous army, they can't figure out what the strong armies in other provinces other than Shandong are, and their understanding of the central troops of the Qing court is basically the three words "Eight Banner Soldiers".

Deng Ming introduced them at the dinner table that all the soldiers of the Green Battalion were recruited, first recruited as Ding, selected as the garrison soldiers, and then selected from them as infantry soldiers, and the more elite were horse soldiers. These horses, infantry soldiers and garrison soldiers formed the main force of the Green Battalion troops, and the battalion soldiers were handed over to the generals to be stationed in various places to suppress the Han resistance. And above these battalions, there are four kinds of pacesetters, the governor commanding the standard, the governor of the governor's standard, the commander of the command, and the general soldier's town standard. Among them, the governor's pacesetter has the most combat effectiveness, and it is also the direct force of the major governors, and the governor's standard is theoretically the most elite green battalion in a province, but this establishment is similar to the commander's promotion, because the governor is a civilian official and the commander is a military attaché, so the governor's standard battalion is actually poor, and the combat effectiveness is far below the standard, and the pro-military battalion of the town general soldier is the town standard. For example, Wang Mingde's pro-military battalion belongs to the town standard, and Hu Wenke's subordinates are ordinary battalion soldiers.

"The Manchu Qing Dynasty Ten Governors, Fourteen Promotions are mostly very combative, except for the Caoyun Governor and the Caoyun Governor and the River Governor's River Biao is a number," for the Sichuan Army, the Caoyun Governor's standard battalion is in vain, not elite at all, I heard that the main work of the Yellow River Governor's standard battalion is also to set up cards, and the equipment is not as good as the Caobiao, the Sichuan Army also put the river standard into the fish belly army, Deng Ming does not look down on the two at all: "The rest is 12 Fu Biao, 66 town standards, 1,200 battalion soldiers, and the full quota is 600,000 green battalion armor soldiers, But in fact, who knows, at least Li Guoying and Jiang Guozhu's supervision standards must have not been full for many years. ”

Although theoretically the pacesetters will have more combat effectiveness than the battalion soldiers, in practice it may not be, the battalion equipment and military salaries of the rich Jiangnan are guaranteed, while the pacesetters in the north may not be able to get the treatment they deserve. In addition to the difference in equipment, there is also the problem of the source of troops, the most elite troops of the Ming Dynasty are the Qin army, and the most combative troops of the Qing court are the Ganshan Green Battalion.

"More than 200 battalions in the northwest and 120,000 battalions in Gansu, Shaanxi, and Ninglu are the pillars of the Qing court." For the Shandong people feel very distressed about the Sichuan and Shaanxi Governor Standard Battalion, Deng Ming gave a high evaluation, although to raise the master and defeat the general is to raise himself, but Deng Ming is not for this reason but sincerely attaches importance to the Northwest Army: "However, in the twelfth year of Yongli, when Wu Sangui attacked Yungui, he took away a lot of elites, and Hong Chengchou also transferred a large number of elite soldiers from the northwest. ”

For example, the combat effectiveness of Shaanxi Governor Daniel Zhang's personal soldiers is higher than that of most battalion soldiers, but it is not necessarily much higher than the battalion soldiers under Wang Jinbao. Because the latter has rich experience in the southern and northern wars, he is very good at training, and there are also a group of officers with the same experience (Deng Ming has not been completely eliminated), plus Wang Jinbao has a good relationship with his superiors and can ask for enough funds, so although he is a battalion soldier, his combat effectiveness is not worse than that of Zhenbiao.

And the deputy general Zhao Liangdong's personal combat effectiveness is even more impressive, Commander Daniel Zhang is not a banner man, but Zhao Liangdong is a flag man to lead the green battalion soldiers, equipment and military pay can be guaranteed, and even if the strength is strong, Beijing is very relieved, knowing that this green battalion is in the hands of his godson.

Deng Ming heard that Zhao Liangdong and Wang Jinbao had trained a lot of green battalions in Hexi, but the Hexi green battalion was restrained by the Oirat Mongols, and a large number of soldiers had to be used to defend the fortress on the border line, even if there was enough food supply, they could not leave the garrison for a long time to enter Sichuan to fight, just like Zhao Liangdong and Wang Jinbao planned to set off in spring and summer and participate in the battle in the autumn during the last battle of Chongqing, and they needed to rush back to the garrison after the Mongols became strong after the autumn was strong.

Since Deng Ming talked about his achievements, the Shandong people have become more thorough listeners in the following time, and when Deng Ming asked them to go back to rest after eating, several people still had admiration and admiration on their faces.

"Zhang Shangshu does not agree to negotiate peace." After the Shandong people left, Deng Ming said to Zhou Kaihuang.

"It's not strange," Zhou Kaihuang replied quickly, "but do the others agree?" ”

"I don't agree either." Deng Ming shook his head, Zhang Huangyan was the one who opposed it the most, and Gong Yan did not agree, although some people felt that Deng Ming's negotiations had never suffered losses, but they all thought that negotiating with the local government and openly negotiating with the Qing court were two different things, and it was too ugly to say.

"I said that we can set a time for this peace agreement, such as three years, that is to say, the peace agreement will automatically expire after three years," in Deng Ming's view, it is undoubtedly more advantageous to fight the Qing court in three years than now, and he also wants to put forward some clauses that will make the local governors and the Qing court central government more alienated - some clauses do not need to be agreed to by the other party, as long as they are proposed, they will have a divisive effect: "Even if you want to start a war in advance, you can always find an excuse." ”

"But peace is peace." Zhou Kaihuang said.

"Well, that's good." However, Deng Ming's trouble is also obvious, Prince Kang has become more and more cautious because the intelligence has been cut off, of course, there is also a great role in curbing Bilong and Li Guoying, in short, the Qing army is step by step, and it is not willing to advance at all. Moreover, the green battalions in Henan, Shandong, and Zhili were still coming to the front line, and the Qing court was putting more and more chips on this gamble.

But the Qing court could keep adding chips, but Deng Ming couldn't call indefinitely, and if he was to compare the book, Deng Ming couldn't win against Beijing anyway. Now the initiative is gradually shifting from the hands of Deng Ming to Prince Kang, as long as Beijing grits its its teeth to supply materials and does not urge Prince Kang to fight quickly, then Deng Ming will only be consumed with the ground and nailed here in Jiangnan - although Beijing may not be able to afford it, but there are too many unknown factors, maybe Zhao Liangdong and Wang Jinbao in Hexi will be ready to move again, and Beijing now has the troops of the vassal king and the surrendered Mongolia to mobilize, and the family background is still much thicker than Deng Ming.

"These Shandong people came at a good time, maybe we can break this deadlock with their help." Deng Ming has always been very concerned about whether anyone is coming from Shandong, and several people present also know Deng Ming's plan, that is, to send a surprise army to cross the sea to attack Shandong. The boats were ready-made, and Deng Ming had already told Zhang Huangyan to let the defected Fujian army sail to Zhoushan, and Zhang Huangyan and Deng Ming had many Shandong fishermen in their hands, so they were not ignorant of the currents and wind directions.

However, when studying the landing operation, the biggest problem was that there was no local guide, and the Ming army had no understanding of the deployment of troops in Shandong's Green Battalion, did not know the local garrison and grain storage situation, and did not know the roads and landforms.

The bigger trouble was the post-landing action, and when the Shandong peasants saw this large group of strangers with strange accents, their first reaction was definitely to run away. Even if you want to catch the people and collect grain, you may not be able to catch the local Shandong people, and you can find the grain they hide, and it is likely that they will still be hiding with the residents around the landing site a month after landing; And if they all have to be transported from Chongming, how can the Ming army provide so many road transport vehicles and animal power? The Ming army didn't even know the basic road conditions, and there was no way to plan at all, and as long as they left the river, it was impossible to transport and provide grain from the rear, and they had to collect grain on the spot, distinguishing between the villages and towns along the way of the Qing army and the surplus grain in the hands of the residents.

The biggest possibility is that after tossing for a month or two, it has not been able to stay away from the landing area, and there is no threat at all, so it is possible that Jinan will regard the large-scale landing of the Ming army as coastal harassment, and it is naturally impossible to distract Jieshu's attention. Even if a large number of people were successfully captured and the grain hidden by the people was dug out, it would take a lot of time to open up the landing zone, and it would take a lot of troops and time to organize people to monitor the captured Shandong people not to escape and deal with the rebels against the Ming guerrillas. In the end, in the unfamiliar land of Shandong, a scuffle with an unknown number of Qing Central Army troops who did not know when they arrived, this gamble was far more risky than fighting in the canal valley.

Therefore, Deng Ming has been concentrating on how to repel the Qing army with a small standby near the canal in recent times, and perfectly end this Eastern Crusade.

"Even with Yu Qi's support," Mu Tan still expressed cautious skepticism about Deng Ming's plan, in his opinion, time is also a big trouble: "Well, we need Yu Qi to break through to meet us, at least call on the people of Shandong to welcome and support our army, provide food and grass, guides and people, so that we can quickly threaten the hinterland of Shandong through the no-man's land, so as to ambush Jieshu who has returned to his division in a hurry." ”

In this way, it is necessary for these people to return to Shandong to infiltrate the encirclement first, obtain Yu Qi's consent, and then sneak out to report to the Ming army, the plan may still need to be communicated and modified, and I don't know if it is enough for half a year, and this is not counting the unexpected time when the news leaked, someone was captured, and betrayed.