That night, both sides were very quiet. Almost an hour later, a messenger shaking a flag came over the camp and asked to take back the body. The bodies accumulated in front of the formation. This not only affected morale, but also was likely to become an obstacle to the second attack. Li Meng naturally had no objection.

After the piled corpses rot in such weather, there will be many problems. Water sources and epidemics are troublesome. It is just that when the other party collects the corpse, it is necessary to be strictly guarded.

This time, a large number of refugees came here, but they were all cautious and did not dare to make any moves. The cleaning was quite thorough, and even the bodies in the river were salvaged out.

After all cleaning up, some people took pickaxes and shovels to dig out some shallow ditches to allow the river to pass through. Originally, this temporarily raised land had been gradually covered by the river water. After digging the dog, the floating soil was washed away faster.

Originally, the land that was temporarily raised was almost flooded by the river after this night. If it was kept like this, it would be very likely to become a pedal for the opponent's night attack. When digging a trenches, the land would disappear faster and would form obstacles in the water.

Jiaozhou Camp looked at all this. This calm and composed attitude made Tian Jianxiu and Hao Yaoqi on the opposite side feel even more unsure. They always feel that the other party has some mystery, but they can't understand it.

All of this can only be waiting for the arrival of Li Zicheng and Hao Yaoqi's coalition forces tomorrow. At that time, we can use mountains to crush the eggs and teach each other a lesson.

Li Meng's commander was about 500 steps behind the top of the slope. The various notices from Shandong and Nanzhili were always sent to him continuously. Although he led a large army to fight, although Li Meng is now the general, he did not only this general.

His current responsibilities are almost all the responsibilities of serving as the general of Shandong, governor, governor, and salt transport envoy. His energy and attention cannot be just focused on this battle.

There are a few things that Tangbao said in various places, Li Meng was more interested in. Among them, the Ming troops who were chasing and suppressing Zhang Xianzhong's troops in Huguang and Nanyang. They were divided a few days ago, and 20,000 troops from the Beijing camp were going to rush back to the capital to guard the capital. This should be the aftermath of the Battle of Songshan. The troops in Jiliao towns were empty, so they could only be drawn from the official troops who suppressed the bandits.

The leader of the 20,000 soldiers was a eunuch. This eunuch was an acquaintance of Li Meng. Liu Yuanbin, a former eunuch in Shandong who was transferred back to the capital, unexpectedly, this eunuch had such a deep connection in the capital. After being transferred back, he actually gave such power.

Below is Zhou Yang's comment, saying that if there were no accidents, Liu Yuanbin would probably replace Cao Huachun as the eunuch of the military camp of the admiral, and Cao Huachun had lost power for a long time.

During his time in Shandong, Liu Yuanbin was unable to move by Li Meng, and I don’t know if he would be angry and cause trouble for himself because of this.

But this worry was just a small worry for Li Meng. At present, the only soldiers in the north that are worth relying on in Shandong are Jiaozhou Camp. Although the emperor and the ministers in the court were confused, they were not stupid yet. They understood the choice of interests very well.

The second thing came from Dengzhou, which was the report of Yang Si, the commander of Xinyang Water Camp. It said that since he guarded the Dengzhou waters, he blocked the sea surface according to the command of the commander, strictly monitored the Liao Town Jinzhou, and the movements in North Korea, but they were all peaceful and nothing happened.

The letter was sent with this letter, and the secret letter from the Shandong Salt Gang also mentioned that when Xinyang Water Camp first arrived in Dengzhou, it must kill people every day, and more than 300 people have been beheaded so far.

This surprised Li Meng a little. Shandong is his base, which may have caused too much complaints in the area, so why do you kill people like this?

The result is even more interesting. The one who killed people is Denglas, the current deputy commander of Xinyang Water Camp. Denglas is also an experienced mercenary. In this water camp, which is full of bandits and pirates, he is naturally promoted very quickly. When he went there, he was the captain of the Hundreds. He was promoted according to his achievements and was one of the deputy commanders.

Seeing this, Li Meng also felt that Denglas was really reckless. Relying on being his own slave, he was still so ignorant of the world in the army.

Moreover, Li Meng had other opinions, thinking that you, Denglas, are a foreigner, why should you kill the Han people? No one gave you this right, but after seeing it, Li Meng laughed.

The Shandong Salt Gang spies wrote very carefully, Dengzhou Prefecture City and several nearby small wharves. Most of the fishermen and sailors entering and leaving were bald and wrapped in headscarves. The advantage of this is that when you go to Liaodong for fishing or doing business, you can also say that you are Han people under the rule of the Tartars.

Fishermen work hard to support their families, and they don’t have the concept of Chinese barbarians. Being able to fish for a peaceful life is the highest pursuit. These fishermen are all poor people. The people in Xinyang Water Camp are subject to military discipline constraints, and secondly, they cannot get any oil and water. They never pay much attention to these fishermen and enter and exit at will.

Who would have thought that during a patrol, Dunglas discovered something strange. Some fishermen who came ashore had a large figure and had a warrior's demeanor in their actions. Although their hands were full of calluses, the thick calluses were located at the mouth of the tiger and several knuckles.

The pirates in the water camp may not be able to pay attention to these details. Even if they pay attention, they will not feel that there is anything wrong. However, Dunglas asked the fishermen to remove the headband that wrapped around their heads.

This shows that the problem is even more obvious. The area on the back of the head is obviously whiter than other areas. In the Ming Dynasty, except for monks, everyone else has their hair tied up and crowned. If they have bald heads, naturally all their hair will be shaved cleanly. The sun is exposed to the sun, and the color of the whole head is almost the same.

There is only one hair style for this white hair, which is the braids of the Qing Tartars, the so-called "money rat tail". The back of the head is slapped on the ground. There is a small braid, and the rest of the place is bald. You can guess why the color is white. It must be a spy from the Qing Dynasty.

These discovered characters saw that they showed their own signs and wanted to resist. The Xinyang Water Camp was pressed to the ground immediately after resisting the ground.

Under severe torture, some Qing Dynasty spies in Dengzhou Prefecture were soon dug out. Most of these people were from Liaodong military families, and they used their Han identities and the characteristics of Liao people in Dengzhou Prefecture, to lurk and inquire about information.

However, the results obtained by repeated inquiries are almost the same. These spies cannot penetrate into the interior of Shandong and cannot get close to the military camp. However, the Qing Dynasty's military laws were harsh. After returning, waiting for them must be punished by beheading them, and they can only fabricate some intelligence to deal with it.

But the Qing Dynasty was not stupid. These nonsense proclamations could not deceive people, so they had to send additional personnel to come here to ask for it. The maritime defense of Jiaozhou Camp is a sieve. It was originally easy for Shandong to enter, but this time a foreigner saw the flaws. Apart from being unlucky, it seemed that there was no other explanation.

The pirates around Dengzhou were all in the city, and the local yamen runners led the way, and the soldiers of the armed Yanding and the Shui Camp fought and completely turned over.

After interrogation, all the captured people wanted to punish them for hard labor. Who would have thought that under the insistence of Denggras, all the beheadings and beheadings were beheaded. The reason why the Deng foreigners were traitors was that these spies were betrayers, and the damage they caused to the Shandong Legion was greater than the damage caused in the war. Apart from beheadings, there was no reason to forgive them.

After the crime was announced, the beheading was indeed very effective. On the second day, someone came to report it on his own initiative, saying that the XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

The Han people couldn't see any of these suspicious points, because they saw each other every day, and Danglas was a foreigner, and he always had an attitude of a bystander, so he found a difference. From this point of view, this is what happened to the bystanders.

After this result was passed to Jinan and various prefectures, the civil servants of the generals, the female family members of the inner house, the heads of the farms, and the captains of the armed salt ding were all shocked.

Thanks to the Jiaozhou Camp, the Weapon Manufacturing Bureau and the Farmlands are completely closed. The barracks and the Weapon Manufacturing Bureau have a nearby prohibited entry range. It is estimated that the other party will not see anything important, but Shandong is not small, and the army will be able to move and fight, so people will inevitably see the traces.

I still don’t know how many people the Qing Tartars or other forces have penetrated, and I am not sure now.

At the end of this secret letter, Huang Ping's request, saying that the inner account had already drawn up a clause. The old man also thought it was feasible. If Li Meng agreed, the officials from all over the country would jointly conduct a large-scale investigation.

Especially those confidential and critical places such as Jiaozhou camps, warehouses, docks, and craftsmen, we must carefully check them. After the inventory, the Baojia method is adopted in the places that can be affected by Jiaozhou camps. Villages and households guarantee each other and strictly prevent outsiders from entering.

This letter is the longest letter that Li Meng has been reading. The only failure that the Qing Dynasty suffered in recent years was the time when Li Meng was beheaded 700 in Qihe County, Shandong Province. According to the news that Li Meng found out, the Qing Dynasty judged that it should be the joint force of Shandong soldiers and Nanzhi soldiers.

Because I really can't believe it. The battle record of beheading 700 was achieved by Li Meng leading more than 2,000 soldiers. After so many years of battle, it would be too incredible if the Ming Dynasty official army had such combat power.

They could only judge that the army in Nanzhili had come out in full swing near Jinan to fight this interception. In order to strengthen the morale of the Ming Dynasty, they deliberately created such a hero.

This statement is really a bit self-deceptive, but now Prince Rui Dorgon is a big shot under Huang Taiji and above ten thousand people in the Qing Dynasty. When he went to war, he naturally had to find some reasons to make up for it. No one would be bored if he dared to say anything.

But this is just an obvious explanation. In private, many people must find it strange. At present, under the leadership of Huang Taiji, the Qing Dynasty has become more and more complete in military and civil affairs. This information is naturally becoming more and more complete. A large number of spies and spies naturally have to check the weirdness clearly.

Li Meng hoped that they would continue to deceive themselves, but he also knew that this was not realistic, so he had to strengthen the confidentiality work as much as possible.

After pondering for a long time, Li Meng picked up a pen and gave it a few words to his personal soldiers, and ordered him to set off that night. He must use a quick horse to speed up and send it back to Jinan.

The personal soldiers hurriedly left, late at night. The military police were already walking around the night patrols, and the sound of the clapper made the more quiet.

Li Meng yawned. After the day, he was indeed a little tired. He arranged for his personal soldiers to put down the curtain of the military tent. He Yi was about to sleep, but he heard singing intermittently when he floated in outside. The sound was very light. Li Meng almost thought it was his own hallucination. Listening to this tune should be a folk song from Shaanxi. Although he couldn't hear any lyrics clearly, he felt that the tune was extremely sad, perhaps it was from the camp opposite him.

This sad and soft folk song and monotonous bangzi quickly made Li Meng fall asleep. Before going to bed, he repeated the words he had given in the newspaper.

"It's better to kill by mistake than let go"

No dreams all night...

At noon the next day, the land in the Wo Shui River had almost disappeared, and the river water became much clearer.

Because Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai's army had already arrived on the other side, Li Meng was awakened by the noise on the other side when he woke up in the morning. The noisy sound lasted throughout the morning, and this was an army of hundreds of thousands of people.

Standing on the hillside, Chen Liu and Tang Er were stunned at the moment of the army opposite. When had they seen such a army of hundreds of thousands of troops set up in front of them? No matter how they looked, they felt that they could not see the boundaries. The excitement that had just been cultivated by the sniper yesterday disappeared by the endless power of the opposite side.

The musket soldiers behind the wooden fence were a little anxious. Everyone thought that if so many people on the other side rushed over, could they still block the fire density of yesterday?

However, today's musketeers have made progress compared to yesterday. Everyone wears a wet cloth that is stained with water, which is used to cool the barrel and avoid the situation where the barrel of the barrel is overheated yesterday and cannot be used for a short period of time.

In fact, the fortifications on the officers and soldiers were adjusted again because of the arrival of the opponent's soldiers. First, the inverted triangle wooden fence was reduced by half, which made the movement and arrangement space of the musket soldiers between the wooden fences much larger. At the same time, on the north side of the slope, a large number of infantry and cavalry had gathered.

Jiaozhou Camp is ready to respond at any time, but although the opponent's momentum is very strong this time, he is not in a hurry to attack. A large number of horse teams have been arranged not far from the shore. If Jiaozhou Camp wants to attack, the loose-fitting large number of horse teams will be sent over, which will be a big trouble.

Hearing the report from Tian Jianxiu and Hao Yaoqi, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai in the commander's tent were as plain as water, and there was no fluctuation at all. At the moment of the battle, the two coaches were wearing armor. Li Zicheng was wearing leather armor with iron leaves, and Luo Rucai was wearing excellent round-arm iron armor.

"Nearly three thousand dead? Didn't you touch the wooden fence opposite?"

The question was asked, but the chief military general Liu Zongmin, but this question was the fourth time. Tian Jianxiu replied with a gloomy face:

"It's almost three thousand. The firearms of the officers and soldiers are powerful. They are like raining. The brothers who fill the river cannot move forward at all."

When asked, Liu Zongmin was silent. Although Luo Rucai had always been a careless man, he was not vague at all at this time and said coldly:

"Three thousand people died when they were filled in the river. Even if the old brothers went up, they would not be much better than this. Brother Li, your subordinates are good at siegeing the city, and my subordinates are careless in the field. Why don't you try again?"

Luo Rucai asked tentatively that Li Zicheng was the leader of the anti-military alliance in the world, so Luo Rucai called "Big Brother". Since the two families formed an alliance, Luo Rucai has always been "Big Brother" and "King of Chuang" and shouted together. Li Zicheng also smiled and called "Lao Luo", but the generals of the camp never dared to lack etiquette. They were respectful and respectful titles of Chuang King.

Seeing Cao Cao's frivolity, everyone was dissatisfied, but most of Luo Rucai's subordinates were from Shaanxi border soldiers. They were powerful and able to fight, which was a rare help, so they just endured it.

"You try again" means letting the soldiers of the rebel army go up and attack again. Both sides were originally coalition forces, and the spoils were evenly divided, but the losses were not borne by one side alone. Why should the rebel army go to rush again?

Liu Fangliang frowned and took a step forward, but was pulled by Gao Yigong on the side and shook his head. Li Zicheng didn't know if he saw the following movements, but turned his head to ask Liu Zongmin beside him and said:

"Zongmin, can you cut off the river water or use earthen walls to build it over?"

"King of Chuang, I've seen that river. This river is not wide at all. If we build a wall, the officers and soldiers will push the cannons out to attack. Lao Hao, the muskets on Guangou can hit a hundred steps!"

Hao Yaoqi, who was next to him, no one was moved. After a while, someone said:

"Why don't you wait for news about Li Guo and Shuangxi!"

Everyone was speechless again, but Luo Rucai was a little angry by the atmosphere, and raised his voice there and said:

"Guide Mansion and Shandong are not rich places. What are you going to beat him? There is such a momentum now. Let's go back to our hometown in Shaanxi, where the local people in the hometown can do anything, so why bother making things difficult here!"

When Li Zicheng heard this, he frowned slightly, his movements were subtle and no one saw it.

This is how the two sides confront each other, and there is no movement to each other...

"My Jiaozhou camp fortifications is like an iron barrel. No matter which direction the thief attacks, he is helpless. He is about to touch his head and is bleeding. There is no movement for a long time. I guess he can't come up with a way to attack!"

Li Meng was walking in front of the commander's case and said, suddenly he stopped and the solemn general standing in the reconciliation said firmly:
Chapter completed!