Because the Fuqing Ming army occupied Laizhou Prefecture and then continued to attack the Dengzhou Prefecture, Dengzhou transferred the Qing army surrounded by Yashan together. If the Fuqing Ming army cut off the nest of the Dengzhou Qing army, the 20,000 Qing troops on the front line of Yashan would become a loser. The Ming army in Fujian who was cruising on the Bohai Sea could also directly use the port of Dengzhou to contact the Ming army in Fuqing Ming.

Until the Qing army surrounding Yashan evacuated, Yu Qi and others were still kept in the dark. They did not know what happened outside the encirclement. Due to the exhaustion of food and repeated defeats, the rebels even had their actions to break through and seek help, and they were completely trapped in the encirclement. After learning that the Qing army had retreated, Zhang Dingnan sent his confidant children to verify, and hurriedly reported to the leaders in the mountain village.

Soon, Yu Qi and other leaders rushed over to the scene. At this time, Zhang Dingnan was still cautiously exploring the periphery of the mountainous areas, for fear of being suddenly attacked by the Green Camp troops. Other leaders also had similar concerns. Everyone struggled for a whole day, constantly tentatively advancing and expanding the search scope, but found that the Qing army's blockade line was empty and there were no one defending at all intersections.

After the sun set that day, Yashan sent suicide squads to sneak into the former Qing army camp in the dark, proving that there was no ambush. The Qing army retreated literally. According to the suicide squad's investigation of the Qing army camp, they found that the stove in the camp had been useless for several days. It seemed that the main force of the Qing army might have left three days ago. Those who were guarding the camp in the past few days were just some of the broken rear troops who had set up suspicious formations. When the last batch of broken rear troops retreated today, some green camp soldiers set fire to some outposts, and thick smoke rose, and then the flaws were seen by the subordinates of the hero Zhang Dingnan who was patrolling the mountain.

Although I was eager to know why the Qing army left, since the rebels did not know about the Qing army's retreat in advance and had not tried to catch prisoners for many days to understand the enemy situation, everyone discussed for a long time but still couldn't come to any conclusion. Some people even suspected that the Dengzhou troops had returned to Fucheng for the New Year. Although many people thought this speculation was unlikely, others' speculation was also unfounded. Even those who suspected that the Ming army had an influence could not tell whether it was the battle situation in Jiangnan or whether there was another chaos around Shandong.

"The most important thing now is to go out to collect food." Zhang Dingnan was still worried that the Qing army would return, and he had no confidence in fighting a regular battle with the Green Camp in the wild. He was about to lose food in the parcel. No matter what the reason for the Qing army withdrew, seizing this opportunity to reserve food and grass is the top priority.

Everyone applauded Zhang Daxia's idea, and Yu Qi made a decision. The entire army was dispatched to collect food around. After several months of siege, Yu Qi's prestige dropped to a very low level. Because everyone could see that he had no means to defeat the Qing army, nor did he lead everyone to obtain pardon and reunion. In short, the leaders in the Yashan encirclement now understand that if the Qing army comes back, it will be a dead end to follow Yu Qi.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to collect food and grass, several leaders left without saying goodbye and escaped from Yashan with their subordinates, which seemed very good but was actually a dead base. Others also muttered in private, discussing if the Qing army really came back and everyone stayed in the mountains and was surrounded by them, would they delay time and get leniency?

However, Yu Qi has no choice, which does not mean that others have a choice. Everyone has no idea about how to defeat Shandong's green camp. They have come to confront each other many times these days, not to mention the Ganzhou-Shaanxi Green Camp and the Central Army, even the Shandong Green Camp, they have never won once. Even if they only win one battle, they can give everyone some encouragement, but they always lose, the bravest and most powerful martial arts heroes are all on the battlefield, which makes the living really unable to see hope.

"If the court wants to recruit us, what are our conditions?" While the whole army went out to move grain, Yu Qi called the leaders to discuss matters. When the rebellion was first rebelled, everyone was very enthusiastic and said that the leader Yu Qi had to take the generals no matter what. Other respected seniors in the martial arts world also had to get a deputy general. At least they had to get a general.

However, after being surrounded in Yashan for many days, everyone had no requirements. Since Prince Kang's army entered Shandong, the Qing army's war has been unusually smooth, so the Qing army did not intend to forgive any heroes in the world. After Yashan was besieged, there were also people with unsteady will in the rebel army to surrender, but the Qing army refused to accept it, but slaughtered them all and drove more people in. This made everyone know that once the mountain village was captured, no matter men, women, young and old, the heroes, bandits or people around Yashan would definitely be slaughtered, so they gritted their teeth and persevered.

Now the Qing army suddenly withdrew its troops, and its subordinates went out to replenish food and fodder for the mountain village. Everyone's confidence has been restored. Whether the Qing army wanted to go back to the Fucheng for the New Year or needed to reinforce other battlefields, it means that the Qing army could not spend a long time around Yashan. Since the Qing army could not afford it, the rebel army had room for negotiation. Yu Qi believed that at least it could convince the Qing court to pardon everyone in Yashan. After seeing the Qing army drove more villagers into the mountain, Yu Qi realized that the Qing army planned to completely kill the residents around Qixia, and Yu Qi believed that this was a disaster he caused to the villagers.

"It turns out that I have a general's dispatch, and now I don't want it." In the past, Yu Qi was able to make Shandong governor fearful, not because of his general's identity, but because of his Jianghu friends who are densely spread in Shandong, who control the large gangsters' transactions in the hands of Yu's family and the huge wealth accumulated over the past few years. But now Yu Qi has almost lost everything he has, and he can't do business in the city anymore. The heroes in the martial arts world have suffered heavy casualties, and the rest are also disappointed with him. Yu Qi's wealth has also been spent 70% or 80% in this uprising.

Although many people feel that they can't swallow this, the facts are right in front of them, which makes many heroes lose their fighting spirit - they fail to fight for wealth and honor, and they just want to let their heads fall to the ground, but they also let the clans be destroyed and they have to send their hometown elders to die together.

Only a few heroes said that since they had rebelled, they would be irreconcilable with the Qing court. They said goodbye to Yu Qi, took their men to leave, and returned to their respective villages.

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While the rebels around Yashan were busy collecting food and transporting them back to the mountain, Deng Ming had already led his army to fight several times with the Dengzhou Green Camp.

After the establishment of the Qing Dynasty's army, the organizational structure was very different from the original rebel army. The gentry sent their children and tenants, and persuaded many Green Camp officers to join the army. In addition to the Green Camp in Laizhou, even Yang Qiu and some of his subordinates sent by Qingzhou Prefecture turned into officers of the Qing Dynasty's army.

Deng Ming did not intend to interfere too much in the construction of the Qing Dynasty and the Ming army, but only intended to provide necessary military training. However, after seeing a large number of Green Camp officers joining, Deng Ming couldn't help but intervene and pulled out these people to form a teaching battalion. All officers from Qingzhou Prefecture and Laizhou Prefecture were placed in this battalion to train new recruits.

Today, when the Qing Dynasty destroyed the Ming army continued to advance towards the direction of the city, they encountered a large number of green camp troops with thousands of troops.

"So many people." After seeing the green camp appear, Gao Yunxuan's face became solemn.

At the suggestion of Deng Ming, he was appointed as the general of the Qing Dynasty and the Destroyed Ming Army by the House of Gentlemen. However, it was better to say that this army was controlled by Deng Ming than by Gao Yunxuan. From the marching of the team, arranging routes, to the formation of a horn in camp, as well as the distribution of roads for food and grass transportation and personnel maneuvering, Deng Ming and his subordinates were basically in charge, and Gao Yunxuan and others were watching.

With Deng Ming's order, the Qing Dynasty and the Ming army quickly set up their formation to prepare for the battle. In addition to heroes like Gao Yunxuan, many of the officers leading the team are scholars from the gentry family. These officers were also used to taking orders from Deng Ming, which was like this in Dengzhou. Every time, the Duke Bao made orders before the war and gathered everyone to explain the reasons for tactical arrangements after the war. General Gao, like others, could only listen to them.

"Duke will consider it again and supervise the military affairs of our army." Gao Yunxuan said again while everyone was setting up a chaotic formation. There have always been high voices in the Gentleman House, that is, to allow Deng Ming to serve as the admiral of the Qing army to destroy the Ming army, but Deng Ming politely declined.

Deng Ming still shook his head now. As the Duke of the Ming Dynasty, Gong Yong was still fanning the flames everywhere to confirm Deng Ming's identity as the royal clan of the Ming Dynasty. If he became the admiral of the Qing Dynasty and the Ming army, it seemed a bit unreasonable... Well, Deng Ming didn't care much about how Zhang Huangyan and the others would slander him. Anyway, they wouldn't knock him with sticks, but Fengjie's Wen Governor was a barrier. Deng Ming knew from Gong Yong that because he wanted Gong Yong, who burned the God-Master Card, to serve as the governor of the Ming Dynasty, Wen Anzhi would be very dissatisfied. If he knew that Deng Ming not only pulled out a supporter of the Qing Dynasty and the Ming army, but also provided them with weapons, and also went barely to serve as the admiral of the army, maybe Wen Anzhi would be angry again.

After the two armies were finally arranged, the opposite side began to beat drums and drums, and they roared at the Fuqing Ming army. The Fuqing Ming army was not willing to be outdone and shouted at the Qing army opposite.

"These Qing troops are interesting." Deng Ming looked at it for a while and couldn't help but look at this green camp with admiration. The number of people in the Fuqing Ming army was over 10,000, and there were still people coming one after another. The Qing army obviously had fewer people. Based on Deng Ming's experience in attacking Dengzhou, seeing that there were so many soldiers in the Fuqing Ming army, as well as armor and shields, after being called for a while, the Qing army would have deserters.

The morale of the Qing army on the opposite side was not deteriorating, and there was no sight of a large number of soldiers passing away from the formation, which showed that this was not an ordinary battalion composed of county soldiers.

"Let the three-eyed gun brigade attack!" Deng Ming waved his hand vigorously, and Gao Yunxuan's messenger beside him hurriedly issued a banner. After the officers in front looked for a while, most of them understood Deng Ming's order correctly. Soon, hundreds of infantry soldiers walked to the front, holding the three-eyed gun seized from Zu Zepu, and exposing the black muzzle to the enemy.
Chapter completed!