Because the Ming army of Fuqing occupied Laizhou Prefecture, and then attacked the border of Dengzhou Prefecture non-stop, Dengzhou transferred back the Qing army surrounded around Asan regardless of the situation. If the Ming army of Fuqing destroys the nest of the Qing army in Dengzhou, then the 20,000 Qing troops on the front line of Asan will become lost dogs, and the Fujian Ming army cruising on the Bohai Sea can also directly use the port of Dengzhou to get in touch with the Ming army of Fuqing.

Until the Qing army besieging Asan withdrew, Yu Qi and the others were still kept in the dark, and they did not know what was happening outside the encirclement. Due to the depletion of food and repeated defeats, the rebels had long since stopped even breaking through the siege and asking for help, and were completely trapped in the encirclement. After learning that the Qing army had retreated, Zhang Dingnan sent his henchmen to verify it, and hurriedly reported to the leaders in the cottage.

Soon, Yu Qi and other leaders rushed to hear the inquiry, and at this time, Zhang Dingnan was still cautiously exploring the periphery of the mountainous area, for fear of being suddenly attacked by the Green Battalion troops. Other chiefs shared similar concerns. Everyone tossed and turned for a whole day, constantly trying to advance and expand the search area, but found that the blockade line of the Qing army was empty, and there was no one to defend at all intersections.

After the sun went down that day, Asan sent a death squad to sneak into the former Qing army camp in the dark, proving that there was indeed no ambush and that the Qing army had really retreated. According to the reconnaissance of the Qing camp by the death squads, they found that the stove in the camp had been useless for several days, and it seemed that the main force of the Qing army may have left three days ago. Today, when the last group of troops retreated, some soldiers of the Green Battalion set fire to some outposts, and thick smoke rose, which was only then seen by Zhang Dingnan's subordinates who patrolled the mountains.

Although they were anxious to know why the Qing army left, because the rebels did not know that the Qing army was retreating, and they did not try to go out to capture prisoners to understand the enemy's situation, everyone discussed for a long time and still did not come to any conclusion. Some people even suspect that this is the Dengzhou troops returning to the city for the New Year. Although many people think this kind of speculation is unlikely, other people's speculations are also groundless, even those who doubt the influence of the Ming army can't tell whether this is the tight war situation in Jiangnan or some kind of chaos in the surrounding areas of Shandong.

"The most important thing now is to go out and collect food." Zhang Dingnan Daxia is still worried that the Qing army will go and return, he has no confidence in fighting a regular war with the green battalion in the field, and he is about to run out of food in the cottage, so no matter what reason the Qing army withdraws, seizing this opportunity to reserve grain and grass is the top priority.

Everyone applauded Zhang Daxia's idea, and Yu Qi also made up his mind, and the whole army went out to collect food around - after a few months of siege, Yu Qi's prestige fell to a very low level. Because everyone saw that he had neither the means to defeat the Qing army, nor the plan to lead everyone to obtain pardon and recruitment, in short, now all the leaders in the Encirclement of Asan understand that if the Qing army comes back again, everyone will continue to follow Yu Qi is more likely to be a dead end.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to collect grain and grass, several leaders left without saying goodbye and escaped with their men from Asan, a base that looked good but was actually a dead place. The others also muttered in private, discussing that if the Qing army really came back, would everyone stay in the mountains and be surrounded like this, would they be able to delay time and get leniency?

However, Yu Qi has no way, it doesn't mean that others have a way, and everyone has no idea how to defeat the green camp in Shandong. These rìzi have clashed many times, not to mention the Ganshan Green Battalion and the Zhōngyāng Army, even the Shandong Green Battalion, and they have not won once. Even if you only win a battle, you can give everyone a little encouragement, but you always lose, and the bravest and strongest martial artists are also bloody on the battlefield, which makes the living people really see no hope.

"If the imperial court wants to recruit us, what should our conditions be?" While the whole army went out to carry grain, Yu Qi brought the leaders to discuss it. At the beginning of the rebellion, everyone's morale was very high, and they all said that Yu Qiye, who was the leader, said that he had to take a general soldier as a general, and other respected seniors in the rivers and lakes also scored a deputy general and a general, at least he had to be a general.

However, being surrounded in Asan Duorì, everyone has nothing to ask for. Since Prince Kang's army entered Shandong, the Qing army's war has been unusually smooth, so the Qing army does not intend to forgive any of the heroes along the way. After the siege of Asan, there were also undetermined people in the rebel army who went out to surrender, but the Qing army refused to accept it, but slaughtered them all and drove more people in. This makes everyone know that once the cottage is breached, no matter men, women and children, the heroes, bandits or people around Asan will definitely be slaughtered, so they grit their teeth and persevere.

Now that the Qing army has suddenly withdrawn, and his subordinates have also gone out to replenish the cottage with food, everyone's confidence has recovered a little, whether the Qing army wants to return to Fucheng for the New Year, or needs reinforcements to other battlefields, it shows that the Qing army cannot be consumed around Asan for a long time. Since the Qing army could not afford to consume it, the righteous army had room for negotiation again. Yu Qi thought that at least he could persuade the Qing court to pardon all the people in Yashan - after seeing that the Qing army drove more villagers into the mountain, Yu Qi realized that the Qing army intended to completely slaughter the residents around Qixia, and Yu Qi thought that this was the scourge he had brought to the villagers.

"I still have a general dispatch, and now I don't want it either." In the past, Yu Qi was able to make Shandong's political envoys jealous, not because of his status as the commander, but because of his dense friends in Shandong, cāo controlled the large amount of underworld business in the hands of the Yu clan, as well as the huge wealth accumulated by Yu Qi over the years. And now Yu Qi has lost almost all of his qiē, his business in the city can no longer be done, the heroes of the rivers and lakes have suffered heavy casualties, and the rest of the people are also disappointed in him, and Yu Qi's wealth has also been spent in this army.

Although many people feel that they can't swallow this breath, the facts are in front of them, which makes many heroes lose their fighting spirit - if they fail to fight for wealth and wealth, they will forget if their heads fall to the ground, and let the clan perish together, and send their hometown fathers and elders to die together.

Only a few heroes said that since they had raised troops, they would not share the sky with the Qing court, and they said goodbye to Yu Qi, left with their men, and returned to their respective cottages.

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When the rebels around Asan were busy collecting grain and grass to carry back to the mountain, Deng Ming had already led the army to engage the Dengzhou Green Camp several times.

After the establishment of the Fuqing Ming Army, the organizational structure was very different from the original rebel army, and the gentry sent their children and tenants, and also persuaded many green battalion officers to join the army. In addition to the green battalion in Laizhou, even Yang Qiu and some of his subordinates sent by the Qingzhou government turned into officers of the Ming army to help the Qing Dynasty.

At first, Deng Ming did not intend to interfere too much in the construction of the Ming army of the Qing Dynasty, but only planned to provide the necessary military training. However, after seeing a large number of officers from the green battalion joining, Deng Ming couldn't help but start to intervene and set up a training battalion with these people, and all the officers from Qingzhou Mansion and Laizhou Mansion were placed in this battalion to be responsible for training recruits.

Today, when the Fuqing Ming Army continued to march in the direction of Fucheng, it encountered a large force of green battalion troops with thousands of troops.

"That's a lot of people." After seeing this green battalion appear, Gao Yunxuan's face became solemn.

Under Deng Ming's suggestion, he was appointed by the Gentry Council as the chief soldier of the Ming army of the Qing Dynasty. However, this army is not so much Gao Yunxuan in command, but Deng Ming in control, from the detachment marching, arranging routes, to camping to form a corner, as well as the distribution of grain and grass transportation and personnel mobility, Deng Ming and his subordinates are basically in charge, Gao Yunxuan and others are watching from the side.

With Deng Ming's order, the Fuqing Annihilation Ming Army hurriedly set up a formation to prepare for the battle. In addition to heroes like Gao Yunxuan, there are also many talented men who are gentlemen. These officers were also accustomed to receiving orders from Deng Ming's hands, as was the case in Dengzhou, where Bao Guogong gave orders before the war and gathered everyone after the war to explain the reasons for the tactical arrangements, while Gao Zongbing, like everyone else, only listened from the sidelines.

"Guogong think about it again and supervise the military affairs of our army." While everyone was arranging the formation in a chaotic manner, Gao Yunxuan said again. There has always been a high demand in the Gentry House, that is, to let Deng Ming serve as the commander of the Ming Army to help the Qing Dynasty, but Deng Ming politely declined.

Now Deng Ming is still shaking his head, as the Baoguo Duke of the Ming Dynasty, Gong Yan is still fanning the flames everywhere and wants to confirm Deng Ming's identity as a Ming clan, if he becomes the commander of the Ming Army, it seems a little too much...... Well, in fact, Deng Ming doesn't care too much about what Zhang Huangyan will slander, anyway, they won't beat him with a stick, but Fengjie's Wen Inspector is a threshold. Deng Ming knew from Gong Yan that because he wanted Gong Yan, who burned the main card of the gods, to serve as the governor of the Ming Dynasty, Wen Anzhi was already very dissatisfied, if he knew that Deng Ming not only personally pulled out a Qing army to destroy the Ming Dynasty, but also provided them with weapons, and also went into battle shirtless to serve as the commander of the army, maybe Wen Anzhi would be angry again.

After the two armies finished arraying, they soon began to beat gongs and drums on the opposite side, and roared together at the Fuqing Ming Army, and the Fuqing Ming Army was not to be outdone, shouting and shouting at the Qing Army on the opposite side.

"These Qing troops are kind of interesting." Deng Ming looked at it for a while, and couldn't help but look at this green camp with admiration. There are more than 10,000 people on the side of the Ming army who helped the Qing Dynasty to destroy it, and there are still people arriving one after another, and there are obviously fewer people on the side of the Qing army. Based on Deng Ming's experience in attacking in Dengzhou, seeing that there were so many soldiers who helped the Qing Dynasty to destroy the Ming Dynasty, as well as armor and shields, after being shouted for a while, the Qing army would appear deserters.

The morale of the Qing army on the opposite side did not fall, and they did not see a large number of soldiers deserting from behind the formation, indicating that this was not an ordinary battalion composed of soldiers from the county town.

"Let the Three-Eyed Gun Brigade attack!" Deng Ming waved his hand vigorously, and the heralds of Gao Yunxuan beside him hurriedly issued a banner. The officers in front looked at it for a while, and most of them correctly understood Deng Ming's order, and soon, hundreds of infantry walked to the front of the formation, holding the three-eyed guns captured from Zu Zepu, and showed the muzzles of black holes in the enemy.