Hong Chengchou believed that the Huai Army had no sincerity and was completely provoking the bottom line of the Qing Dynasty and deliberately provoking wars, but Lu Si, as the person involved, did not think so.

He really wanted to live in peace with the Qing Dynasty.

Because he can't beat it.

It’s not that it can’t defeat three to five thousand Qing soldiers, but that it can’t defeat three to five thousand Qing soldiers.

Therefore, no one hopes to get peace more than Lu Si. Only peace can make him stronger.

Only when he is strong can he offer a higher price.

For example, the one who asked for marriage was not the princess, but the queen mother or something.

As the saying goes, "The Spring Officials entered the New Ceremony yesterday, and the great ceremony met the Empress Dowager's marriage."

Lu Si asked to marry a Manchu princess because he was sincere, not as Hong Chengchou thought he was happy.

"Grimmar" has been the embodiment of the greatest sincerity since ancient times. Manchus has had the tradition of "Grimmar" Mongolian since the Nurhaci period, and many Manchu girls married the Han army, such as Nurhaci beat his old son-in-law Li Yongfang, who was older than him, when he got drunk.

Therefore, whether to marry a Manchu girl to Shandong is actually a test for Lu Si on Dorgon.

Nowadays, Manchus are not that tall, and Manchus and Han are in marriage.

If it were his father Nurhaci and his brother Huang Taiji, they would probably have sent the person without any discussion.

Whether you can be a hero or have the grand scheme of your father and brother depends on Dorgon's ability.

Huang Taiji has a girl, but he is afraid that he will get married.

Lu Si didn't know whether Dorgon had a girl, and his brother Duoduo must have one. Shi Huashan, who was beheaded in Jinan, had married Duoduo's 12-year-old daughter. If Duoduo could swallow this and choose a son-in-law for his daughter, Lu Si might not be unacceptable.

"If the Manchus really marry the princess to the governor, my Huai Army really wants to shave her hair and pay tribute to Manchus?" Shandong Ambassador Hu was very concerned about this issue.

"When will I not keep my word? ...But they want me to send the proton over, and no matter what, I have to let me give birth to a son with his Manchu girl first."

Lu Si keeps his promises and is absolutely trustworthy. Now we can see if the Qing Dynasty has a far-sighted vision.

The Qing Dynasty agreed, and Lu Si would really marry him.

If you marry it, you will create a person if you are old and send it to your grandfather’s house as a hostage. It’s great.

However, the creation of humans is uncontrollable. It can be created in one year or two years. Who knows that in three or five years?

After looking at the city of Dezhou, which had no residents, Lu Si raised his hand and thousands of soldiers immediately started to dig up the city wall. It was not counted if the demolition of the city wall in Dezhou, but all the houses in the city were set on fire.

Lu Si returned to Jinan first. After getting on the horse, he looked at Dezhou City affectionately and said, "I left this city today, but I will definitely come back in the future!"

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When the Huaiqing sides negotiated for the first time, the Huai Army troops had already begun to carry out the task of "immigration".

This task is the top task of all the Huai Army except the second and seventh towns that entered the Jiaodong Peninsula east and the fifth town in Kaifeng, Henan.

In Dezhou, Lu Si moved all over the 8,000 residents in Dezhou City and moved about 20,000 people from all counties under Dezhou to Jinan.

Under the organization of officials such as Chen Buping, Jinan Prefecture Prefecture Zhou Zuoding and other officials, with the cooperation of the first and sixth towns and some cavalry units, about 60,000 people in the entire Dezhou, the northern border of Jinan Prefecture, Gaotang Prefecture, and Enxian County were moved to Jinan as a whole; about 40,000 people in Dongchang were moved to Tai'an Prefecture and Jining Prefecture. There were about 20,000 people in the rest.

In more than a month, about 120,000 people were moved to the rear.

For the people who have lived in this area for generations, this migration is obviously not very friendly and goes against their wishes.

The early persuasion work and the propaganda of the various tyrannical attacks of the Manchu soldiers generally only allowed about 30% of the people to move south spontaneously, and almost all the rest were relocations under the threat of swords and spears.

As soon as the people moved out of the village, the Huai Army began to set fire to houses and fill water wells. A large number of livestock and dead bodies were thrown into the rivers that had not yet been cut off to pollute them.

Completely strengthen the walls and clear the fields.

All this is based on Zhou Zuoding's issue of "small fight" or "big fight".

The "small fight" that Jinan Prefecture believes is to defend Dezhou and block the Qing army in Beizhi and prevent them from going deep into Shandong.

In this way, there is no need to strengthen the walls and clear the fields, nor do I need to immigrate. As long as the defenders have enough courage and enough troops, they can compete with the Qing army for at least half a year with Dezhou City.

The so-called "big fight" is to abandon the areas north of Dezhou and Jinan, lure the main force of the Qing army to go south, lengthen their food routes, and then concentrate all the Huai army and all the war-capable soldiers in Shandong to face them head-on.

One battle will determine the world.

The advantage of a small battle is that the battlefield is limited to Dezhou and will not cause too much damage to the other prefectures and counties in Shandong. However, although the Huai Army has Dezhou City to rely on, the Qing army also has Beizhi area to rely on. The Huai Army, which is in charge of the main defense, cannot cause most of the damage to the Qing army. Similarly, if you cannot conquer Dezhou City, the Qing army will not be able to severely damage the Huai Army.

If the war continues, there are both advantages and disadvantages for both sides.

But if you fight hard, you will be a full fight.

If the Huai Army gathers the first, second, fifth, sixth, and seventh-fifth town troops, together with the elite iron armored guards, flag-plaque soldiers and artillery teams, they can mobilize 100,000 people.

To remove the unused soldiers and horses, there are 30,000 troops that can be fought. It is certain that even if the Qing army goes south in large numbers, there will not be too many troops. After all, they are not able to fight with all their strength like the Huai army. They must always put their main force on the western front to guard against Li Zicheng's main force of the Shun Army taking advantage of their large-scale southward counterattack.

In this way, the conditions for a big fight are valid.

Zhou Zuoding suggested a big fight to completely block the Qing army's southward journey. Chen Buping also believed that a big fight could be with the Qing army, otherwise the situation in Shandong would be in recurring, which would be unfavorable to stability and operation.

After many considerations, Lu Si decided to fight.

He judged that Dorgon might send Duodor south in advance due to the repeated situation in Shandong, and that the Duodor army would not exceed 30,000 at most. If the Han army, the Eight Banners and Mongolian soldiers were removed, the real Manchus might have only about 10,000 people.

The consequence of a big fight may be that the Huai Army's northbound group will be severely damaged, or even withdraw from Shandong in a mess. However, if Duoduo can be severely damaged, the results of the Shun Army's Huaiqing Battle initiated by the Shun Army in Henan in October will be a good deal.

The plan of the big fight was quickly determined and conveyed to the generals of the Huai Army's first-level commander, and the order to strengthen the walls and clear the fields was quickly implemented. All Huai Army units in northern Shandong were fighting for the last time to immigrate, destroy, and "plunder"...

A heavy rain in northeastern Shandong at the end of July refreshed the air and made the war clouds even more dense.

Hong Chengchou never sent anyone to contact the Huai Army again, and they already knew that the Huai Army had demolished Dezhou City.

"The Huai thieves want to lure our army into the deep."

The scheming Hong Chengchou could see the Huai Army's plan at a glance, but there was no good solution, because this was actually an open plot.

If the Qing court wants to seize Shandong, it must fight with the Huai Army.

Or if the Qing court wanted to re-employ the Huai Army to the negotiating table, they had to determine their advantages through a victory, so that Lu Si could sign it obediently.

On August 1st, Lu Si suddenly ordered his nephew to be the governor of Xuzhou's three towns in Huaiyang and Xu, and ordered his nephew to fully coordinate the rear, including negotiations with the Ming Dynasty.
Chapter completed!