On the post road from the southeast of Bohai County to Shouguang, Zhou Pu led the cavalry battalion to the southeast by taking advantage of the moonlight, and the armor emitted a cold light under the moonlight.

In two days and two nights, more than 600 generals of the cavalry battalion traveled more than 400 miles, galloping south from Jinhai County to the southeast of Bohai County, only half a day later than the main force of the Jiangdong Left Battalion to enter Qingzhou by sea.

On the night of the 20th, the moonlight was bright, illuminating the plains of the northern part of Shandong, and the cavalry camp that had taken a short rest in Bohai County took advantage of the bright moonlight to gallop off the road on a moonlit night and arrived at the hilly and mountainous areas of Pingdingshan between Shouguang and Qingzhou.

Zhou Pu held the reins, he was wearing scale armor, like fish scales like steel armor in the moonlight refracted a faint luster, the chin unkempt stubble had not been repaired for several days, he grabbed the reins with one hand, habitually pressed the saber at his waist with the other, his eyes were blazing, like sharp eagle eyes in the night, looking at the dark valley ahead, as if looking for prey to hide in the night.

Zhou Pu didn't think about the airport where he would lead a large group of cavalry to gallop on the battlefield after ten years, and every time he thought of it, he couldn't help but feel excited.

In the distance, the sound of horses' hooves came from the valley like rolling thunder, and there was no need to greet here, the outpost had already divided into dozens of horsemen to intercept and respond. After a while, a dozen outposts rushed back with four or five horsemen. Galloping closer, Zhou Pu saw the crow Wu Qi's dry and thin face like an old farmer in the field, he was quite kind, turned over and dismounted, and greeted him: "Why did you come here in person?" ”

Crow Wu Qi is the chief sentinel of the Jiangdong Left Battalion, and he usually marches with the forest, and is responsible for the scouting and military intelligence collection of the whole army.

Wu Qi dismounted and said: "Go faster on the sea, I have been ashore from Zhulong Bay for two days, and I am waiting for you to lead the cavalry battalion over - we have analyzed on the ship, and the introduction of troops into Shandong may not be able to make the Shandong County Division retreat, so it is necessary to fight a dozen, but how to fight and who to fight, it is very exquisite, so I have landed in advance and selected a good target for you to strike......"

"How to fight, who to fight?" Zhou Pu asked.

"A direct attack on the government or officers and soldiers will intensify the contradictions. At present, almost all the main officials of the Shandong County Division are sent by the imperial court, and it can be said that they have not yet formed a close relationship with the local forces in Shandong. You can't do it even more if you disturb the people! Wu Qi conveyed the meaning of Lin Tie to the generals of Zhou Pu's cavalry battalion, "In addition to the officials and the people, there is no one in Qingzhou Mansion who can attack us......

"Who?" Zhou Pu asked.

"After the fall of Jinan City, the Dongyu divided the troops to the east, although in the end failed to capture Linzi and Yangxin, but the western counties of Linzi Prefecture were defeated without a fight, plus the defeat of Jinan City and the defeat of the rebels outside Yangxin City, a considerable number of people fled into the Yishan Mountains in Qingzhou," Wu Qi said, "Shandong according to the inspector Liu Yefei and the governor of Qingzhou Prefecture and the Qingzhou Prefecture soldiers, in a short period of time can gather more than 10,000 Qingzhou troops, which is the result of recruiting Anyi Mountain defeated soldiers and bandits." Although Liu Yefei was recruited partially, there were still quite a few defeated soldiers, who were actually defeated by the tiger and evil places when the Eastern Captives entered Koushan Mountain, fearing that they would be liquidated after the war, and still stayed in Yishan as bandits. This rout not only threatens local security, but also seriously threatens the safety of the Jiaolai River and the post road in and out of Linzi from Qingzhou. Liu Yefei is planning to spend a lot of money to recruit these people, we have to choose one or two to crack down......"

"Okay," Zhou Pu saw that there was a battle to fight, and his pores were full of excitement, and said, "You have gone ashore two days in advance, have you already chosen the target......

"There is a village in Yangshan not far ahead," Wu Qi said, "it was originally a people's village, which was originally occupied by more than 100 Zhejiang soldiers who fled from Yangxin, and was led by a deputy battalion commander of a member of the Zhejiang soldiers. At this time, about 270 people gathered in the stockade. Except for the slightly beautiful women who were occupied, most of the residents in the village were driven out, and many people were killed. The officers and soldiers attacked twice, but they were repulsed, and now they have been changed to appeasement, and the two sides are still negotiating. I have found the bitter master, they do not want to see this gang of robbers to be appeased and turned into officers and soldiers, they have gathered more than 60 men, and they are willing to drive us forward when attacking the village. This is a detailed map of Yangshan and Yangshan Village, I have drafted a plan to attack the village, let's discuss it together to see what else needs to be paid attention to......"

"Okay, then hit the fuck." Zhou Pu clenched his fists and said fiercely.

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The source of the Mihe River flows out of Yishan, flows north through Qingzhou, Shouguang and other places, and joins the Bohai Sea. The total length of the Mi River is about 200 miles, at this time the ice and snow of Yishan Mountain are beginning to melt, the water potential of the Mi River is quite large, the green trees on both sides are lush, the soil and water are well maintained, the river water is clear, the estuary is about 300 steps wide, it is also a big river in Qingzhou, but the deep river channel that can be used for the passage of such a large sea ship as "Jinhai" is only more than 20 miles of river section close to the mouth of the sea downstream.

Tang Haoxin entered Shouguang City and summoned the officials of the Shandong County Department to Shouguang to question the river congestion and the mutiny in Changyi, while Lin Jian took a boat and stopped at Daokou Town, about sixty miles north of Shouguang City.

"Jinhai", "Jiyun 1" and "Jiyun 2" anchored directly in the middle of the Mihe River outside Daokou Town, blocking the main river channel of Shouguang to the sea. The soldiers of the 3rd and 5th Battalions were on standby at the mouth of the Mi River, thirty miles away.

Liu Yefei, Ge Zufang, Chen Debiao and other major officials of the Shandong County Division have all entered Shouguang City to meet Tang Haoxin, but they did not bow their heads and submit to softness, not only biting to death the Xihehui and other river gang treacherous and rebellious charges, but also transferred 5,000 Qingzhou government troops into Shouguang City, in addition to stationing 3,000 Qingzhou government troops in the southeast of Daokou Town to monitor the "Jinhai" that entered the Mihe River.

Lin Jian stood on the deck and looked out at the blue-black woods under the moonlight on the far shore, and the three thousand Qingzhou troops who monitored them were stationed on the south side of the woods, which was a small hill and the most suitable place to camp within a radius of dozens of miles.

"Except for some of the troops guarding Qingzhou, Liu Yefei has already deployed all the troops he can mobilize along the Mi River on the north side of Shouguang," Cao Zi raised his eyebrows and said with a smile, "He is really afraid that we will march along the Mi River and come to Shouguang City!" ”

"Just rely on him to recruit these routs, what kind of climate can it become," Zhou Tong chewed a leaf of grass that he didn't know where to find it in his mouth, "If I still have the three hundred elites in my hand when I went south to Yangxin, and the three thousand soldiers behind the woods, as long as I have a chance to rush to the camp, I can sure that I will defeat them and kill his mother!" ”

Zhou Tong went south with Lin Tie to guard Yangxin at that time, and there were three hundred elites in Jinzhong, Jinhai and Yangxin fought twice, which can be said to be his most beautiful moment, but when he returned to Jinhai, he and Wei Zhonglong resigned from the military service. Wei Zhonglong then left Jinhai, Zhou Tong stayed in Jinhai all day long to eat and wait for death, Lin Jian escorted Tang Haoxin into Shandong this time, and he came to the ship with a salivating face. Ma Yigong, Yang Yihang and other veterans of Jinzhong, as well as Lin Xuwen, who actually took over the remnants of Jinzhong, also pretended not to see it, Zhou Tong was determined to follow the Jiangdong Left Army, and it was useless for them to stop him.

Lin Jian wanted to take care of Lin Xuwen's face, and he had not arranged a specific position for Zhou Tong when he was in Jinhai, this time he let him go to sea with him, and also let him participate in military affairs.

"It's really not difficult to defeat these 3,000 soldiers, Liu Yefei recruited the defeated soldiers, and the bandits formed the Qingzhou Mansion Army, it took less than a month," Cao Ziang said with emotion, "But what good is it to defeat them?" ”

Lin Lian's fingers gently scratched his nose, shook his head slightly, and said: "It's no good, and we can't let Liu Yefei be scared and kneel to save Rao, but instead find an excuse for him to run back to Beijing to sue us, the imperial court still has to maintain the most basic majesty - this bottom line, we can't touch ......"

"Then let me go into Yishan to clear the bandits," Zhou Tong said, "Liu Yefei recruited defeated soldiers and bandits to expand their power, and if we enter Yishan to clear the bandits, we will directly smash his good calculations." He won't accuse us of helping Shandong clear the bandits......"

"This is not in a hurry for the time being," Lin Jian said, "at least after Zhou Pu finds a foothold in the north of Qingzhou, he can increase his troops one after another, and he can't ...... in a hurry."

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It had been more than a day since they entered the Mihe River, and they naturally figured out the twists and turns behind the Changyi mutiny.

When Chen Debiao, the governor of Shandong, got off the bus, he had no time or resources to reorganize the defeated town army system, and he did not have much real power in his hands, and he rushed back to Qingzhou after the Changyi mutiny.

Although Ge Zufang, the Xuanfu envoy of Shandong, still has the name of supervising Cao on behalf of the household department, this person is extremely mediocre, and he should not have the courage to designate the four or five thousand river gang members as anti-thieves.

Liu Yefei, the envoy of Shandong, worshiped Zhang Xie in his early years and won the trust of Zhang Xie; has a close relationship with Yue Lengqiu, and when he served as the director of the military department, a foreign officer, and a middle officer, he was Yue Lengqiu's direct subordinate.

In early January, Liu Yefei was appointed by the Ministry of War to rush to Zhongzhou to join Yue Lengqiu and become an important assistant to Yue Lengqiu in commanding the Qinwang Division on the southern front. After Yue Lengqiu recovered Jinan, Shandong, Liu Yefei served as the envoy of Shandong, mainly responsible for the logistics supply of the Qinwang Division on the southern line and supervising the relief of grain to Jinan and Pingyuan Mansion.

When Yue Lengqiu concealed the disaster of the Yellow River embankment, Lin Jian suspected that Liu Yefei was in cahoots with Yue Lengqiu at that time, otherwise with Liu Yefei's ministry at that time, it would be impossible not to have a clear understanding of the disaster of the Yellow River's embankment.

After the outbreak of the Gyeonggi grain shortage crisis, Liu Yefei not only did not take responsibility, but also served as the governor of Qingzhou and the military preparation of Qingzhou government, becoming the most powerful figure in Shandong County.

Liu Yefei not only had the motive of framing the Jiangning River Gang such as the Xihe Society, but after the Changyi Mutiny, Liu Yefei directly mobilized the Qingzhou government army to Changyi to suppress and round up the River Gang members, and at this time, he mobilized the Qingzhou government army to put on a tough posture of uncompromising against them.

Speaking of which, Liu Yefei is not simple.

At the beginning, the Dongyu led a total of about 16,000 Xinfu Han troops to besiege Yangxin, and finally annihilated and captured less than 7,000 people, and almost more than 9,000 soldiers fled. When the captives were defeated outside Yangxin City, Nahe Xiongqi, who stayed behind, only had time and only the conditions to collect the rout of his own tribe, and only a small part of the rout of the new Han army was brought out of the pass, and most of them fled to the southern mountains, occupying the mountains as kings and causing trouble to the place, and colluded with the officials and squires who fled into the mountains earlier, and there was a tendency to form a new cottage force in the mountainous areas of central Shandong.

Due to the chaotic political system of Shandong County after the war, the political, military and local forces were quite weak, and there was no strong military force to suppress these newly formed cottage forces in Yishan, Taishan and other mountainous areas with the rout as the main body.

After Liu Yefei became the envoy of Shandong and the governor of Qingzhou, he adopted the strategy of "focusing on pacification and supplementing with suppression" against the cottage forces and defeated soldiers in Qingzhou, and wantonly recruited rebel generals and generals who fled into the mountains to shelter them, so that these rebel generals and generals escaped the liquidation and punishment after the war, and in just over a month, he forced him to expand the Qingzhou army, which was less than 4,000 soldiers, to more than 10,000 people.

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Lin Lian supported the troops to force Shandong, but Liu Yefei co-opted the other officials of the Shandong County Division to hug him and refused to give in easily, and Lin Jian needed other actions to exert more pressure.

Lin Jian could not directly send troops to attack the Qingzhou Mansion Army, which was mainly composed of recruited and defeated soldiers.

In that case, the impact will be particularly bad, and it will also make the Jiangdong Left Army lose its moral superiority, and it will be difficult to predict how the imperial court will react, and it will make the situation more complicated and difficult to control.

Since the newly formed cottage forces in the Qingyi Mountains with the rout as the main body are the main targets of Liu Yefei's current efforts to appease and expand his forces, Lin Jian chose these cottage forces as the targets of armed attack.

In this way, in addition to showing force for deterrence, it can also limit Liu Yefei's power in Shandong from continuing to expand, and it has the legitimate name of clearing bandits, which will not cause the bad feelings of local forces in Shandong, and the Qing bandit area is located in the hinterland of Qingzhou Prefecture, which directly hits Liu Yefei's calculation of deploying troops along the Mihe River in the north of Shouguang.