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Linqingzhou City.

A few days ago, the officers and soldiers of the Sixth Town garrisoned in Linqing Prefecture gathered in the prefecture city one after another. Among them were old soldiers who had been fighting with Gao Jie, some were newly recruited by the Sixth Town, and some were captives from the Qing Green Camp that a few days ago.

Although the Sixth Town has not fought with the True Manchu and Han army in the past few months, it has always undertaken the important task of protecting the flanks for the main force.

When the main force of the Huai Army was working hard to deal with Haoge and Kong Youde's group, the Sixth Town went deep into Linqing under the command of Gao Jie. The task was to annihilate the Green Camp troops under the jurisdiction of Fang Dayou, the governor of Shandong Qing Dynasty, capture Linqingzhou City, and prevent the Qing army that might come from the Henan direction to aid.

Fang Dayou, who had only a few thousand ragtags, was obviously not Gao Jie's opponent. Not only did he destroy his Green Camp soldiers, but his governor's headquarters, Linqingzhou City, was also captured by Gao Jie. At this time, he had fled to Hejian Mansion in Beizhi in a hurry.

The sixth town took the opportunity to recapture all counties under Linqing and actively deployed defenses with Linqing as the center.

Linqing is an important checkpoint in the northeast of the Canal. It has been established in the early Ming Dynasty, so it is very prosperous. The reason why Fang Dayou, the governor of Shandong appointed by the Qing court, was stationed in Linqing was also related to the fact that Linqing was able to raise money and grain.

Since Gao Jie left Li Zicheng and surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, he has been driven by the Ming court as a wolfdog and has never had his own resident. After joining the Huai Army, he not only received money and grain supply from the Huai Army, but also obtained the two states of Dongchang and Linqing to raise soldiers. Although the population of these two places is no longer as good as before, it is relatively comfortable.

Therefore, Gao Jie was preparing to renovate his troops in Linqing to rest, but he did not expect that a military order from Jinan would ask him to lead his troops to "explode the North", which surprised Gao Jie a lot.

The generals of the Sixth Town have different opinions on whether to advance north. The biggest worry is that the sixth Town's lonely army heads north and may fall into a heavy siege of the Qing army. Some even believe that the Huai Army asked them to go north to Zhili to devour them.

Gao Jie also hesitated that there were less than 6,000 soldiers in his sixth town, and although the rest of the recruits were several thousand, they were not worthy of use. The total strength of the total was only about 13,000. How could such a few soldiers attack the capital under the eyes of more than 100,000 Qing troops?

Just when the generals of the Sixth Town were hesitating, the governor's nephew Li Yanzong rushed to Linqing with two thousand elite Huai Army soldiers and clearly stated that he would accept Gao Jie's command to advance north with the Sixth Town, which made the suspicion that the Huai Army was deliberately consuming the Sixth Town disappeared.

After seeing the mission deployment of the Governor to the Sixth Town, generals such as Li Chengdong, Hu Maozhen and others summarized the characteristics of this plan, which is mobile combat.

"Our strong city does not attack, strong enemy does not fight, do not aim at plundering, and only destroying is the priority. Our army can handle it."

Li Chengdong's general Du Yonghe also called this northbound plan a guerrilla plan. Combined with the fact that the Qing court sent all its main forces on the Western Front, Du Yonghe believed that it could be implemented boldly, and even really went to attack Beijing. If there were dates or no dates, he would knock him first and then talk about it.

If you really enter Beijing, some Tartars will suffer. If you can't enter, they will be scared to death.

"The governor has given us 1,000 war horses and 3,000 mules. No one can do two legs, so he can completely turn the world upside down. If the Qing army really pulls back, we will come out of seclusion. As long as we are not surrounded by the Qing army, the north is really a place where we can go wherever we want and leave."

Hu Maozhen revealed the key point in one sentence. The timing of the governor's northward advance plan was just at the critical moment when the Manchu army was outside. In addition, the seventh town crossed the sea to attack Liaodong and attracted the Qing army in the capital. Just look at the two towns, they acted separately, but in the overall situation, the two towns jointly implemented the northward advance plan.

He just went to the north to burn, kill, loot, and retreated to the gates. The governor personally sent his nephew over. What else could Gao Jie say? He decided to lead his army north.

Little did the Governor Lu Si never doubted that Gao Jie refused to go north because Lu Si knew Gao Jie's character.

In the dilapidated situation of the four towns in Nanming, Gao Jie was also the only one in the four towns who insisted on the Northern Expedition to recover the Central Plains. What's more, the situation is now

On the city wall, looking at the soldiers lined up, Li Chengdong, Hu Maozhen, Yang Qingquan and other generals in the sixth town were all a little moved. A few months ago, a group of beggars who were desperately fleeing south, but today they raised the flag in Linqing, a major canal town, and the changes were like a change of the world, making people feel difficult to not sigh.

Going forward, the mud legs that made the Ming Dynasty rebellion have now taken on the heavy responsibility of saving China, and this change is even more unthinkable.

Li Yanzong, Qi Bao, Cao Yuan and others watched curiously as a group of soldiers under the city moved hundreds of boxes to the city wall.

The boxes were very heavy, and it was a bit difficult for the six or seven strong men to carry them.

“What is it?”

Li Yanzong asked Qi Bao next to him curiously.

Qi Bao looked at it again and again, whispering: "Silver."

Cao Yuan also said it was silver, because except for silver, it was impossible for the box to be so heavy.

Qi Bao said "hehe" and said, "Gao Jie is afraid that he will have a brave man under the heavy reward."

"oh."

Li Yanzong nodded, thinking that this method was good and could boost the morale of the officers and soldiers. Didn’t his uncle pay money every battle?

Money is a person's courage, and it is not worthy of any dynasty.

Under the city gate, after commanding soldiers to put the silver box, Li Benshen walked to his uncle Gao Jie, who was Gao Jie's nephew.

A few months ago, Li Benshen went to Huaixi to contact Fengyang Governor Ma Shiying on the order of his aunt Mrs. Xing.

When Li Benshen met Ma Shiying, he was very happy that Gao Jie's army came to join Ma Shiying and promised to choose a major town in Huaixi to resettle Gao Jie's army. Unexpectedly, when Li Benshen came back, he found that his uncle Gao Jie had already joined the Huai Army, and his troops became the sixth town of the Huai Army.

"It's almost done, ask them all to come over."

Gao Jie patted his nephew's shoulder. This action was learned from him and the young governor.

"Silver, good stuff!"

Generals such as Li Chengdong and Hu Maozhen came from the city. They were all people who were accustomed to life and death. They should have given up outside of them, but for some reason, they still had their eyes shining when they saw so much money.

"No matter how much money it costs, it will be valuable if it spends and distributes it. Otherwise, it will be a burden and you can't even carry it."

Gao Jie glanced at the generals, walked to the officers and soldiers, raised his arms and said, "Brothers probably know that our Sixth Town General and the brothers from the Old Camp went to the capital together. This battle is a battle for us to make trouble for the hearts of the Tartars! If the battle is done, he will definitely have diarrhea and stomachache!"

These words made the officers and soldiers burst into laughter.

"But war will definitely kill people. This time we are working on it in the old Tartars again, which is very dangerous. Everyone has been with me for many years, so everyone will share the money. Don't think it's too little, it's just a wish!"

After Gao Jie finished speaking, he ordered people to divide the money to the officers and soldiers.

These silvers are not rewarded by the Huai Army Governor's Office to Gao Jie's army, but the income from Gao Jie's war over the years, which is about 200,000 to 300,000 taels, which is only 200,000 taels per soldier.

It's really a heart, but this heart makes the officers and soldiers very satisfied.
Chapter completed!