Starting from September, the Ming army in Jiangbei continued to move towards Huaiyang. After Jieshu and the Ming army in Jiangbei formed a confrontation in early October, although there was no war between the two sides, the fierce scout war had begun. The proud charge of the Sichuan Army did not have any advantage in the scout confrontation. Both sides would encounter suddenly under various terrain, and the purpose of the battle was not to expel the other party from the battlefield, but to prevent the other party from infiltration or transmitting messages.

Therefore, the more important thing about scout war is to rely on personal experience, ability through complex terrain, ability and cavalry for individual soldiers. Deng Ming brought Mongolian books and former imperial guards to Shandong, which made the Ming army always at a disadvantage in scout confrontation. Fortunately, scouts are not the only source of intelligence. The officers and soldiers of the two rivers are just friendly forces and deployments in the nominal form of Jieshu. The heroes of Jiangbei also theoretically support the government, so even if Jieshu can gain the upper hand in scout war, he will still be defeated in the entire intelligence war.

Deng Ming believes that the basis of his success is to be able to defeat strong enemies on the battlefield. This has been the case since the battle against Tan Hong. All other means are auxiliary. What is really important is the courage to fight to the death. However, except for Deng Ming himself who believes in this, none of the others sees this way, and Deng Ming is not unaware of this. After defeating Zu Zepu in Shandong this time, when the guard congratulates Deng Ming on his victory, Deng Ming sighed: "No one will remember my courage on the battlefield today. What they relish is that I will always wear a Tartar to steal the camp."

Even Deng Ming's guards fell silent when they heard this. Several officers comforted Deng Ming dryly, saying that they always thought Deng Ming's courage played a greater role than his tricks, but when they said these words, they smiled, which didn't sound sincere.

The intelligence advantages on the battlefield of Liangjiang brought a lot of convenience to the Ming army. While enjoying this convenience, the Sichuan Army and the Kuidong Army were discussing each other, all of whom this was due to Deng Ming's various elusive plots - it had nothing to do with Deng Ming's courage, while the kind-hearted leader of the Zhejiang Army Zhang Huangyan remained silent.

At the end of October, the Fujian army sent back the news from Shandong. Deng Ming told his allies that he was making quite smooth progress in Shandong and was reorganizing troops to attack Weixian and then swept Laizhou. He asked the Ming army in Jiangbei to be cautious of arrogance and impetuousness, and wait until the Qing army could not stay still before pursuing the victory.

"Poor Zu Zepu." After seeing Deng Ming's letter, Ren Tang commented on the battle to his colleagues: "The Admiral first put on a Tartar to cut off the post road, making Zu Zepu deaf and blind; then he fully utilized his previous friendship with the Ganzhou-Shaanxi Green Camp and carried out a unilateral massacre on the battlefield selected by the Admiral. The Admiral was really unfair!"

Ren Tang expressed the voices of many people, but most of them were not as brave as Ren Tang. The first half of the letter was Deng Ming showing off his martial arts, and the second half was some orders. Deng Ming asked Sichuan merchants to elect representatives to Shandong as soon as possible and take on the arms purchase contract to support the Qing Dynasty and destroy the Ming army. In these letters, Deng Ming also described his policies and the current situation in Shandong.

"Since ancient times, fighting for dominance in the world is to sharpen a quick knife, and then take it out to the world. If you accept it, chop it with me. If you don't accept it, chop it until you stop." Mutan believes that since he followed Deng Ming, his vision and knowledge have been tremendous. Mutan believes that Deng Ming is sharpening a knife, and then showing him to others - see? I can use it to cut you. If you accept it, pay the silver so that I can buy more iron and sharpen a larger knife: "The admiral doesn't cut people easily, especially if he doesn't cut down poor people. In the past, the Ganzhou-Shaanxi Green Camp could not afford to pay the silver, so the admiral had to find a way to help others get rich, and then carry the knife. And this time, the Shandong people had no money. The admiral must think that if you have this time to make a few hard money in Shandong, it would be better to go to the southeast more."

As for Deng Ming’s strategy in Shandong, Mu Tan understood it as: Deng Ming sharpened another knife and then showed it to the gentry in Shandong: "Here, good knife? You buy it, or I will sell it to your robber neighbor next door."

Mutan's understanding became a consensus among Sichuan people on Deng Ming's trip to Shandong, and soon someone packed it up, from bankers, freighters to blacksmith agents.

The points policy currently implemented in Sichuan has led to a large number of people becoming workers in cities, and the proportion of workers and peasants is several times or even more than ten times that of other regions. In addition, Deng Ming spared no effort to collect craftsmen from all over the country, so that Sichuan could already sell old arms to foreign countries. For example, the old armor seized from Huguang and Liangjiang in the past was planned to be disposal, and the Green Camp arms purchased in Chongqing should also be sold at a good price in Shandong. After a few years, the blacksmith shop in Chengdu will produce more and better armor and bird guns, the equipment given by Zhang Changgeng will be gradually eliminated sooner or later.

"When the chaos in Shandong is completely aggravated, when Jieshu retreats, we will pursue them at the right time. At that time, a large number of weapons that we cannot use can be seized, and they can also be sold to Shandong people." Deng Mingxin also explained this sentence, instructing the merchants in western Sichuan to have the confidence and confidence to provide more weapons. Their confidence can better encourage the Qing Dynasty to destroy the Ming army and accelerate the collapse of the Qing army in Shandong. In this way, Jieshu may withdraw more urgently, resulting in his failure being even more miserable, so that the Sichuan army can seize more equipment that can be sold to Shandong.

This instruction is undoubtedly a virtuous cycle that Admiral Deng always talks about, but Deng Ming probably forgot that he had already wanted to sell some of these weapons to Zhou Peigong's Yangtze River Suppression Deng's corps, so Zhao Tianba and others had to reply to remind Deng Ming to leave room for promises, and at least to explain to the Qing Dynasty's army that they needed to compete with the Yangtze River Suppression Deng's corps.

While replying to Deng Ming, Zhao Tianba and others also followed Deng Ming's style and wrote to Zhou Gongzheng, telling him that Deng Ming had introduced a new competition mechanism. Of course, because of the friendship between Premier Deng and Deng Ming, the western Sichuan side believed that when the Yangtze River Suppression Deng Corps and the Qing Ming Army bid equally, the former would have the right to buy weapons; the same is true for instructors. Because the new patron of the Qing Ming Army appeared, the instructors sent in western Sichuan might also need more rental fees and training fees.

Now the commander of the Ming army is Li Laiheng, and Gong Yan is the military advisor and the coordinator of the Western Sichuan Army. Because of Zhang Huangyan's fierce opposition, Gong Yan was unable to serve in the Allied Army. Now the coalition forces are still under the banner of the Ming army. Although Zhang Huangyan will no longer issue any manifesto headed by "Li thieves initiate rebellion", he did not agree to let Gong Yan, who burned the God Lord card, get a position and send him.

Before Deng Ming went to Shandong, Zhao Tianba was promoted to colonel, becoming the first of the fifth rank of Sichuan 5th quarry-colonels to be promoted to this military rank. Deng Ming asked Zhou Kaihuang to discuss with Zhao Tianba more often. When it was necessary to make a decision at a critical moment, he must firmly obey Colonel Zhao's orders. If they could do this, Deng Ming promised that after he came back from Shandong, they would also promote them and Li Xinghan, who was far away in Sichuan, to colonels.

Although it is only a rank of the lieutenant in the Sichuan Army, no one in the Kuidong Army and the Zhejiang Army would regard Zhao Tianba and others as their lieutenant. After Gong Yan's coordination, Li Laiheng sent the entire army to announce that Zhao Tianba's order was second only to his own orders, and Zhou Kaihuang and others' orders were equivalent to the general seal of Li Laiheng. dozens of people under Li Laiheng were awarded the rank of general seal by the Yongli court, and there were as many as five people with the general seal. Neither Li Laiheng himself nor other generals of the Kuidong Army would think that the strength of the general seal of their lieutenant colonels under their rank of Sichuan Army could be compared with the lieutenant colonels of the Sichuan Army. The major of the Sichuan Army is now equivalent to the general seal of the Kuidong Army or the deputy general of the Zhejiang Army. In terms of strength, this equivalent relationship was actually the Sichuan Army's lieutenant who gave face to the Kuidong Army and the Zhejiang Army.

While the coalition forces confronted the Qing Central Army and were waiting for a better opportunity to fight, the Qing army to destroy the Ming army continued to advance rapidly in Shandong.

After launching the attack on the 23rd, the county town of Laizhou Prefecture was completely breached by the Qing Dynasty before the end of the month. After controlling the county town, Gao Yunxuan and other heroes received a lot of supplements, and more gentry members joined the Shandong Fuqing Council. If they did not participate in the House, the Qing Dynasty would not guarantee his safety. If Deng Ming threatened that any gentry who did not support him would call on the thieves to loot his family, they would most likely be infamous. But now it is the resolution of the Shandong Gentlemen's Council, which is completely different. The gentry who boarded the pirate ships had a sense of common hatred and hostility: everyone went into the water together and waited for peace together, and no one would have been idle around.

In the Qing Dynasty, Deng Ming tried his best to promote his "If you want to be the county magistrate of the Qing Dynasty, you must break through the county town of the Qing Dynasty; if you want to be the prefect of the Qing Dynasty, you must capture the city of the Qing Dynasty! A real man stands tall and can't take the entire Shandong to be the governor, and he still has to take all the governors of Jiaodong to play tricks."

Many gentry had to join the Qing Dynasty because they were declared "people who were not protected by the Qing Dynasty's laws" by the House of Commons, and then they also felt like they were not doing anything or going to stop. Since they had helped the Qing Dynasty to destroy the Ming Dynasty, they had to fight with the Ming army to the end and force the Qing court to deal with themselves with a knife.

Therefore, the resolution passed by the Qing Dynasty's House of Residents became increasingly fierce. On November 6, the Qing Dynasty's army surrounded the capital of Laizhou occupied by the Qing army.

The general of the green camp in the city sent people out of the city to request surrender, expressing his willingness to act as an intermediary to convey to the court their sincerity for the Qing Dynasty and the army of the Qing Dynasty to destroy the Ming Dynasty. Several people were indeed shaken, but Deng Ming immediately told them that a general was not worth enough, and that such a small position was not enough for everyone to divide. Deng Ming further pointed out that if the authentic Qing Dynasty prefect and the Green Camp of the Laizhou Court were not eliminated, the gentry of the Qing Dynasty would not have to expect the Qing Dynasty to use the prefect to destroy the Ming Dynasty to recruit them, and the one who waited for the Qing Dynasty to destroy the Ming Dynasty would be disbanded, rather than becoming the real Laizhou Green Camp.

The Qing Dynasty House and the Qing Dynasty's army felt that the view of the Ming Dynasty's Baoguo Duke was very insightful, so they passed a resolution not to negotiate peace with the local military and political institutions of the Qing Dynasty, and resolutely eliminated the prefect of the Qing Dynasty's Rai Prefecture and the Green Camp.

On the seventh day, after the army of Fuqing and Destroyed Ming Dynasty exploded, it defeated the Qing army in the city without any effort. Whether it was the heroes or the gentry, they were all supporters and sponsors of the Ming Dynasty. Compared with this alliance, the power of the prefect of the Qing Dynasty was really weak. After seeing the city wall being broken, Green Camp officers who had already had connections with the heroes or had relationships with the gentry turned against each other, and then they were reorganized into the Ming Dynasty as they wished. When the time was ripe, they could also expect to be recruited together and restore their identity as the official green camp.

After the capture of Laizhou, the situation of supporting the Qing Dynasty and destroying the Ming Dynasty was very good. The gentry found that Zu Zepu had already been strong and had no other plan after losing the supervision and upgrading the ranks. He had no other plan except to yell the court to send reinforcements. The Qing Dynasty House passed a new resolution in the city of Laizhou. Any gentry who did not participate in the Qing Dynasty House within the specified time will not only be declared "people not protected by the laws of the Qing Dynasty", but will be regarded as enemies of the great cause of "supporting the Qing Dynasty". He will dispatch the Qing Dynasty and destroying the Ming Dynasty to wipe out these suspects who Tong Deng.

At the meeting that day, the House of Gentlemen also solicited Deng Ming's opinions and asked him about the strength of the Qing army in Dengzhou. After obtaining the guarantee that the Dengzhou army could be defeated from Deng Ming, the House of Fu Qing announced that the Qing army surrounded by Qixia was a rebel and suspected of Tong Deng because they did not recognize the justice and legitimacy of the Qing army in Fu Qing, and they also called the House of Representatives a thief in their correspondence with Laizhou Prefecture. While deciding to send troops to wipe out the Qing army in Dengzhou, the House of Representatives also announced that Yu Qi was a fellow member of the Qing Dynasty framed by villains. One of the purposes of the House of Representatives for this trip was to solve Yu Qi and his more than 100,000 rebels, and welcome him to join the vigorous cause of supporting Qing.

On the 8th, Chen Qingzhang left the western gate of Laizhou City amid cheers and sent it to Jinan by fast horse. In the memorial, the Fuqing Assembly explained their last resort to Shandong Governor Zu Zepu, and revealed the false loyalty of Dengzhou Green Camp. At the same time as the memorial was sent away, the Fuqing Ming army drove out from the east gate and went to Dengzhou in a mighty way to attack civil and military officials who betrayed the court and rescued the loyal ministers of the Qing Dynasty, Yu Qi and others.
Chapter completed!