Breaking the balance can be dramatic or gradual. The war in Shandong has to be carried out in advance, and the material hoarding is not enough to support the large-scale use of troops, so the General Staff formulated such a plan. First drive a wedge to destroy the balance, and then
Then gradually increase the chips until the entire balance is tipped.
The response was extremely rapid, and the first to be dispatched were the Navy and Marine Corps, which are the easiest and fastest mobile forces to mobilize.
On May 6, the 17th year of Yongli (the second year of Kangxi), the First Squadron set out from Chongming; on May 10, 3,000 Marines landed at Qingdao Port (now Qingdao) in Jimo County, Shandong, and launched a feint attack.
The end of the Shandong War.
At this time, the governor Biao and the green camp sent by Zu Zepu, the governor of Shandong, left Jinan and had just arrived in the Pingdu area. In ancient times, military operations required gathering, mobilizing grain and fodder, and recruiting civilians to receive orders from the Qing court.
At first, this speed was not slow. However, the Ming army's rapid response disrupted the Qing army's wishful thinking of annihilating Yu Qi's troops. Zu Zepu, who received the emergency report, immediately ordered the troops to annihilate Yu Qi.
Stop moving forward.
If we continue to go to Qixia to annihilate Yu Qi according to the plan, but sit back and watch the Ming army land and attack and plunder everywhere, the responsibility for losing ground cannot be shied away from us. Moreover, since Yu Qi has not yet raised his flag to rebel, it seems that he can still be appeased, or he can take it easy.
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After weighing the matter, Zu Zepu immediately reported to the court and stated his opinions. Since he had this concern, he did not want to continue to advance the army and forced Yu Qi to rebel. In turn, he began to mobilize troops everywhere to prepare to resist the Ming army's landing in Shandong
attack.
The purpose of the feint attack was initially achieved. The navy and marines landed at Haiyang and Andongwei (now Rizhao) to feign attack, forcing the Shandong Qing army to temporarily stop the campaign to conquer Yuqi and buy time.
On May 23, Zhenhaibo Yang Yandi led the second squadron, and Jianpingbo Zheng Zuanxu led the third squadron, carrying the first division of the Suppression Army from Jiaxing to Denglai, Shandong.
The current governor of Shandong, Zu Zepu, is his father. Zu Zepu, the former left governor of the Ming Dynasty, followed his father in Jinzhou and ate up all the people in the city. He surrendered to Huang Taiji without hesitation and became a bannerman. Chongzhen Ten
Seven years later, he followed Dorgon into the Pass and fought against the Chuang army. He was appointed as a first-class imperial guard, became a close minister of the Manchu royal family, and had the qualification to call himself a slave.
After the defeat of Jiangnan, in order to prevent sea disasters, Zu Zepu concentrated on banning the sea. The people of Dengzhou and Laizhou Prefecture on the inner side of the Bohai Sea were not immune. Zu Zepu posted a notice saying that the emperor loved the people and in order to prevent them from being looted by thieves, Zu Zepu
Therefore, they were asked to move to a safer area inland. A three-day deadline was set, and officers and soldiers would kill anyone who exceeded the deadline. As of now, there is no one alive within twenty miles of Shandong's coast.
As the governor of a province and the godson who reassured the Manchu Taijun, Zu Zepu had a standard battalion of a thousand armored cavalry. Most of the standard battalion officer positions were used to accommodate his old friends. Shandong was far away from the front line.
There is not much military pressure. It just so happens that everyone is from Guan Ning cavalry, so the commander of the cavalry is considered familiar with the job.
Zu Zepu was very angry that more than two hundred governors were wiped out in Qixia, but due to the current situation, he did not want to face two enemies at the same time. Therefore, he temporarily tolerated it, but excluded the strategy of appeasement.
Just waiting for the Ming army's harassment to stop, they sent their troops to wipe out Yu Qi.
The imperial edict had just been delivered, and they basically agreed with his suggestions. He was anxious and slowed down, tightened and loosened, and temporarily put aside Yu Qi, who seemed to have not yet firmed up his determination to rebel. He first dealt with the Ming army's harassment of Shandong, and he must not
Let the Ming army occupy a solid bridgehead in the coastal area.
Obviously, the Qing government could not mobilize troops to reinforce Shandong in a short period of time, so it could only rely on Zu Zepu's supervision and the Shandong Green Camp to solve the problem. After this period of preparation and arrangement, Zu Zepu had completed his own supervision
Biao, gathered more than 6,000 Green Camp officers and soldiers from various places, and felt that they could launch a counterattack. But just after he ordered the troops to move towards the southeastern coastal areas of Shandong, more unexpected news came.
"Is there such a thing?" Zu Zepu frowned.
The newspaper in Laizhou Prefecture was already two days late. Whether it was a big or small matter, Zu Zepu was confused. In his opinion, this might be Yu Qi's fault.
Qixia had already set up an ambush and eliminated one of his supervisors. Now he probably heard the news of the Ming army's attack and took the opportunity to respond.
If someone hadn't made trouble, how could the people at the post station have dared to delay the news? Not to mention two days late, even one day late, someone would have been killed for this; it would be even more impossible if Dengzhou Prefecture forgot to send the newspaper, not to mention that even if something happened in Dengzhou
If I forget, will Laizhou also forget it too?
On the third day, the Tongbao still did not arrive, but a shocking news came. Qingzhou Prefecture reported that someone had attacked the inn, and a message was sent through the Qing army's communication system, saying that 100,000 Ming troops had landed in Laizhou Prefecture, calling for Shandong martyrs.
In response, we united our forces to take Jinan first, and then go straight to Beijing.
When Zu Zepu was in Liaodong, he once saw the loading and unloading of ships in Ningyuan and Juehua. Although there were port facilities, rice and beans had to be transported ashore bit by bit by small boats. Tens of thousands of people had to carry grain for several days a month. It took several days.
If you want to continue transporting to the interior, you will need a large number of livestock and auxiliary troops.
One hundred thousand troops, are you kidding me? In less than ten days and a half, these one hundred thousand people would not be able to land on the coast of Shandong. And in the absence of port facilities and insufficient manpower and animal power for the Ming army, even if the Ming army
They can move the food ashore, but they cannot follow the troops forward unless the Ming army can bring the livestock and vehicles needed for a hundred thousand troops. But after all these things are transported off the ship, the storage warehouses are built, and then a space can be opened for the army and
The road for vehicle traffic is connected to Shandong's road system, and it can be considered fast within one or two months.
Therefore, Zu Zepu quickly made a judgment and concluded that it was Yu Qi and others who were messing up the public and creating panic. In other words, such news must be false, and it was to provide cover for the Ming army and contain the Qing army.
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Of course, Zu Zepu would not report such ridiculous information, nor would he distribute it to the counties under his control to disturb people's hearts. He ordered Qingzhou Prefecture to immediately dispatch green battalion soldiers to eliminate the thieves who attacked and destroyed the post system and restore the post system.
Transportation and communications.
Although there was no large-scale encirclement and suppression of Yu Qi, we could not sit idly by and ignore him. In order to prevent the situation from escalating as much as possible, Zu Zepu ordered the Qingzhou Prefecture not to mention Yu Qi's name. He could only treat Yu Qi as a bandit or a rioter and attack him. As long as it was not thorough
Once you break your skin, the pressure of being attacked from both sides will not be particularly great.
Zu Zepu estimated that there are only one or two inns that have fallen into the hands of thieves, and the number of entrenched in them is at most a few hundred Jianghu grassland. Although there are not many green camps stationed in Qing, Lai, and Deng prefectures, they are still fighting.
In the battle formation, the bandits and grass bandits are also difficult to resist.