On December 20, the 15th year of Chongzhen, Dengzhou schoolyard.

The cold wind swept through the gray north, freezing everything I saw. The weak sunlight shot out from behind the clouds, and could only reflect a faint light on the snow on the ground. The cold wind blew through the woods and made a clattering sound, and the soldiers did not move at all in the school ground.

Li Mingxun rode a horse in a bearskin hat. The audience was tied up with horses, but no matter whether the horse was a governor or a general, no one could compare to Li Mingxun's Andalusian horse. In front of it, the Ming Dynasty's war horses were like donkeys.

Walking up to the stone platform, Zeng Ying nodded slightly and asked, "Mr. Li, has the immigration boat been sent away?"

Li Mingxun nodded slightly, and Huang Fei said, "I really envy those refugees. With you, Lord Li, you went to the warm place in Dongfan."

"Haha, I'm sorry," said Li Mingxun. This time, the Governor Denglai agreed and Lin Qian helped. The first batch of refugees had already boarded the ship, but their destination was not Taiwan. After a short pause in Chongming, they went directly to Yuling Island and then assigned to various strongholds in the Yongning Chief Executive District.

The reason for this arrangement is that the ships transporting refugees this time are owned by the Navy and the Shipping Department of the Society, including the sailing frigate, the fast transport ship and the Blue Whale. The Blue Whale alone transported away five hundred people. The main purpose of this large fleet is not only to transport refugees. During the return period, they will bring back the 1,000 cavalry and horse equipment from the new military camp of Yongning, as well as the cured meat produced in Dongfang Port, along with the fleet anchored on Yuling Island.

"Governor, how about me soldiers?" Li Mingxun was unwilling to talk about immigration, pointed to the soldiers in the school ground and asked with a smile.

Zeng Ying said: "The armor and machinery are excellent and the morale is like a rainbow. They are rare elite soldiers."

Li Mingxun nodded slightly. There were four battalions in the community, the main force was two new military camps, each with three infantry brigades organized by 500 people, and one mixed cavalry, artillery, and auxiliary soldiers. The other two battalions were the baggage battalions and the other was the artillery battalion. The four battalions had more than 5,000 soldiers, and the horse, mule and animal power exceeded 2,000. The only thing that was not beautiful was that the guards were included, and there were only more than 400 cavalry, and even a brigade could not be gathered together.

The community camp was strengthened after arriving in Dengzhou. It was mainly because Li Mingxun purchased a large number of mules and horses for the artillery battalion, mixed formation and logistics battalion through various means. When he went north, he only transported the cavalry's war horses. In addition, with the support of Zeng Ying, Li Mingxun recruited two thousand civilians from the refugees as cowards and was incorporated into the logistics battalion.

At this time, in the schoolyard, in addition to the organization's troops, the other ones were the Ming Dynasty's King's Army that went to fight for the imperial guards. Although Zeng Ying still had 15,000 men under her command, the navy troops and the guards were only more than 6,000 soldiers and horses who could go to the battle. Among them, the governor Biao Battalion occupied the main force, with three thousand infantry and cavalry. The reason was very simple. The birdsling soldiers who were originally the governor of Shandong and the former general of Shandong were all incorporated into the Biao Battalion, and the other three thousand soldiers were Jimo and Wendeng Second Battalion, with poor equipment and insufficient training. Fortunately, some elite soldiers were recruited from the Weihai Guard and other garrisons to join. Before sending troops, they issued a family fee and a silver medal to defend their hometown, and their morale was not good.

This time, the expedition to the imperial guards had two purposes. The first was to recover Laizhou Prefecture. After all, this was the direct jurisdiction of the governor of Denglai. If it was not recovered, Zeng Ying would not be guaranteed. The second was to find an opportunity to start a war with the Donglu, and to defeat the Donglu, so that he would not dare to occupy the Jiaodong Peninsula. If there were other gains, it would be better.

With Zeng Ying's order, the school ground began to beat drums and generals. Li Mingxun watched quietly. After hearing the name of the general on the expedition, Li Mingxun couldn't help but look at Zeng Ying more. This time, the expedition was naturally led by the governor Zeng Ying. Li Mingxun's Eastern Bandits held half of the elite troops, and naturally they were deputy. The other generals were few senior generals with the highest official title, and the deputy generals were a general, but they were also from Zeng Ying's camp. Obviously, Zeng Ying did not want too many senior generals to come out, and it was a constraint on Li Mingxun.

Laizhou Prefecture.

Turge came out from behind the door curtain and saw a group of generals and officials sitting in the lobby, including Manchu, Mongolian and Han tribes. After a brief count, he found that all the people above Jiala had arrived. Then he nodded and sat in his seat.

Although Turge's team is a partial division, its combat power cannot be underestimated. Turge himself commanded more than 3,000 armored soldiers of the two white flags. The remaining troops were mainly composed of King Kong Youde, Gongsun and Zerun, the master of Gushan, the emperor of the Han army's Zhenghuang Banner. In addition, the mixed Mongolian cavalry, there were about 13,000 people.

Unlike the main force that went south, Turge was mainly infantry, especially Kong Youde's troops, which were drawn from the three kings and one duke of the Han people, carrying a large number of artillery. The main force of this army was the former Dongjiang Army, many of which were natives of Denglai, and Zu Zerun was also mainly infantry. The soldiers were from the Eight Banners Han Army. This Zu Zerun was the eldest son of Zu Dashou, who was newly surrendered in Jinzhou. In the battle of Daling River, Zu Dashou killed He Kegang and surrendered to the emperor.

Tai Chi lied that she could persuade her to surrender to Jinzhou, escaped back to Jinzhou City alone, and rebelled again. The eldest son Zu Zerun stayed in the Donglu. Huang Tai Chi always wanted to surrender Zu Dashou, so he gave him a lot of money to the inner court and treated Zu Zerun with preferential treatment. He also secretly contacted the generals of Guanning Army. Later, when Songjin fought, Zu Dashou surrendered, and Zu Zerun was truly trusted and became Gushan Ezhen. The two divisions combined were more than 8,000. It can be said that the former Guanning Army and the former Dongjiang Army were the main forces invading Denglai.

It was just because of the Battle of Laizhou Bay that the navy, which was originally Shang Kexi, lost a lot of people in vain. However, it was King Gongsun. In the Qing Dynasty, his status was second only to the Manchu kings and was still above Beller. Therefore, even if he was defeated before the battle, Kong Youde was still the first person to Turge.

Turge looked around for a week and said, "You have lived a pretty good life recently."

"Mengzhu's care, life is extremely comfortable." A Mongolian Zhang Jing said with a laugh.

Turge also laughed. After landing in Laizhou Bay, he took down four or five prefectures, counties, including Laizhou Prefecture in just half a month. Each department plundered it, which can be said to be very happy.

"Even the Ming Dynasty's Nikante is not worry-free. If you have New Year's Day, you have to fight again." Zu Zerun's deputy Zu Hongji said with a laugh.

Turge smiled, clicked on the map, and said, "Originally, Laizhou Bay was defeated, and no one was taking care of our back road. I thought that Dengzhou would not be able to fight, so I rushed to the fast horse, captured Weixian, and went south to join the generals under the order. I never thought that those Nikans would dare to go out of the city to fight and take the initiative to attack. Haha, now it's great. Without the turtle shell in Dengzhou City, they fought in an open field, and they directly packed up their hands."

All the generals laughed, and they were also surprised that the Ming army, who had never won the field battle, dared to take the initiative to attack. Speaking of which, if the Ming army was particularly unbearable this time, except for the troops who happened to enter the pass, they did not resist much. The second governor, the sixth governor and the eighth general established by the Ming Dynasty in the capital were all timid and did not dare to fight. The Eastern Barbarians attacked Zhili Hejian Prefecture, the Ming army fled far away to Shanxi and attacked Linqing. The Ming army moved to Weixian and attacked Yanzhou. The Ming army stationed thousands of miles away from Liangxiang, and the Eight Banners were as if they were in their own country in Liaodong.

Kong Youde saw the laughter of everyone and said, "The arrogant soldiers will be defeated. Lord Turg should not be so arrogant. I heard that there was an additional Dongfanyi brigade in the Ming army this time, which was the island barbarian who opposed the Qing Dynasty in the East China Sea. The defeat of Laizhou Bay was the gunboats of these island barbarians."

"Island barbarians, island barbarians, can still be scattered on the sea. How to rush to land to show off? King Gongsun is too cautious. The Qing Dynasty's several defeats in the East China Sea were not the ones who were the barbarian tribes." Zu Zerun said with a laugh. In fact, from the bottom of his heart, Zu Zerun just looked down on Kong Youde. In his opinion, Kong Youde was just lucky. He was just a adopted son of Mao Wenlong and was from a mine disciple. Now he is a vassal king of the Han army. If his father had not insisted on surrendering, how could it be his turn?

Turge was so happy to see the infighting between the Han generals, but this was not the time. He waved his hand and said, "Forget it, no matter what, this is an opportunity. As long as this Ming army is annihilated, Denglai will be ours. How many troops can each unit produce now?"

Everyone looked at each other but they were unwilling to say that although this partial master was large in number, he wanted to occupy the county town and take care of the spoils, and wanted to rob more. He kept the silver and animals everywhere and did not rob them, and to touch Denglai's hard bones, no one was willing to volunteer.

"The Han military flag can produce three thousand people, with mixed horses and stances." Zu Zerun was the first to express his opinion. He wanted military merits.

Kong Youde glanced at Zu Zerun: "I have also produced three thousand horses."

Turge laughed and said, "Laizhou Prefecture is in my hands. All the two white flags are out, and the rest are out 70% of them, just enough to get 10,000 people. Everyone has more cavalry to try to get the Denglai soldiers in one fell swoop. If they can kill the island barbarians in the East, I will come to the emperor and the general who was ordered to ask for me."

When Zeng Ying and Li Mingxun's coalition arrived in Laizhou Prefecture, it was already three days later. The army advanced along the seaside and received supplies from ships outside the sea, so they advanced relatively quickly. When they arrived in Laizhou, it was snowing again. The fine snowflakes fell on the hilly terrain of Laizhou area, and thin white meandered out. There were ruins everywhere around. Along the official road, wreckage corpses could be seen everywhere.

"Mr. Li, the scout just now met with the Donglu again. Suddenly there were casualties on both sides. I got the news that the Donglu gathered outside Laizhou City. Lord Zeng asked you to go over and discuss the military." A flag officer ran to Li Mingxun and said loudly.

Li Mingxun rushed to the central army position. Zeng Ying was sitting in a big car. The old man was over 60 years old and was unable to withstand the pain of running around. His face looked bad. Li Mingxun entered the carriage. Zeng Ying angrily said, "It is really abominable that the general of Denglai repeatedly proposed the strategy of persistence and had no enterprising spirit."

Li Mingxun also smiled helplessly. The officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty had long been afraid of being beaten by the Donglu. They lost repeatedly in the wild and wave battles, especially the cavalry, which was completely incomparable to the elite Eight Banners cavalry. Small-scale scout wars were no match for them. In this scout, Li Mingxun joined his guard team and was not considered to be controlled by the Donglu. The Ming army had extremely poor ability to control the battlefield. Not to mention the army of Denglai, who had few battle formations, even if the elite Ming army under Hong Chengchou during the Songjin Battle, what if the main force of the Donglu Eight Banners was approaching a day before they found out that they could only form a car camp to defend and had no initiative at all.

"Sir, it's no wonder that the generals are all the generals. The enemy is waiting for their hard work. Our army has more infantry and fewer cavalry, so it's not beautiful to take the initiative to attack." Li Mingxun said lightly.

"Then you think, how should you recover Laizhou?" Zeng Ying asked.

Li Mingxun smiled, "Sir, how rampant the Eastern Barbarians are? How can our army attack the city? I think they want to take the initiative to attack and destroy the last resistance force in Denglai. Why not choose a battlefield to defend, first defeat the enemy's sharp edge, and then find an opportunity to attack?"

As he said that, Li Mingxun lifted the cotton curtain and pointed to the terrain in the distance. Most areas of Laizhou belong to the hilly terrain in Jiaodong, and only the Fucheng area and the north are relatively flat. If a large army enters the hills, it will be difficult to supply, and the war in the wilderness will begin, and all the generals are unsure.

Li Mingxun pointed to a hill protruding from the ground in the distance and said, "Sir, the mountain is called Duji Mountain, which is like a dustpan tied to the ground. It is steep to the Laizhou side and flat to the Dengzhou side. However, it is the only commanding height of nearly ten miles. If our army occupy this place, it can control the surrounding battlefield, give full play to the advantages of artillery, and also place the central army. How about it?"

"I also saw that this Duji Mountain is a key point, but all the generals have objections." Zeng Ying said.

Li Mingxun laughed: "It's just that I see that the Duji Mountain is too close to Laizhou City, and I'm afraid I will have no way out."

"Our army came from afar, and the veterans were tired. If they no longer gained territorial advantage, wouldn't they give the advantage to the Donglu? I will send the generals to occupy this place first, and you and I will lead the army to continue to advance and succeed the vanguard."

Zeng Ying looked at the dim sky and said, "Now, it's already dark!"

Li Mingxun laughed: "Such an important place, there are many generals in the Donglu camp. How can we not occupy it? We have to take advantage of the night to have the opportunity."

Zeng Ying thought for a moment and said, "It's just Lord Li. Please select some people from the Governor's Biao Camp. Many of them are natives in Laizhou, so I want to be familiar with the terrain."

Li Mingxun nodded, called Wu Mu, and said, "I will give you two hundred people, and then select some guides from the camp. Before dark, you must occupy the Duji Mountain."
Chapter completed!