As one of the elders, Gao Feng knew very well that Li Mingxun opened up the Shandong battlefield in the Beiyang War Zone to support the southwest battlefield. The main purpose was to attract a certain number of Qing troops, rather than annihilate the living forces of the Qing army and turn Shandong into the main battlefield for the Qing Dynasty to the outside world. Both Gao Feng and Li Mingxun, who have returned to Taiwan, are very clear that with the tens of thousands of soldiers in the Beiyang War Zone, the probability of defeating Zhang Cunren is very high, but it requires the full support of the United Nations, which is obviously impossible.

Just as the United States will not fully support a certain army, the United States will not fully support a certain battlefield. As a maritime country, when the United States enjoys the convenient trade brought by the ocean, it also bears threats from all directions and always leaves enough resources to deal with possible threats. Moreover, the United States is in a period of rapid rise and development. Compared with the bottomless pit of war, the Senate is more willing to support the United States in using this strategic opportunity period to develop. If it were not for the opening of a battlefield in Shandong that could plunder the benefits brought by the gentry in the province, Li Mingxun would not have put such a large number of troops into this battlefield.

It can be said that what restricts Gao Feng is not the lack of military strength or combat power, but the lack of national strength. In today's Shandong battlefield, the Qing Dynasty Zhang Cunren was not sure of winning, so he dared not speak out for war easily, and the United States did not want to fight a country-loving battle, nor would he start the war easily. Therefore, for a long time in the future, the United States and the Qing Dynasty will be in a state of confrontation unless either side has the balance of strength to break.

In addition to insufficient national strength, the Beiyang War Zone also faces many difficulties on the tactical level. The insufficient number of cavalry is only one aspect. More importantly, the soldiers of the navy and army armies are not very adapted to the harsh combat environment of the Shandong Peninsula. Although there are a large number of indigenous officers and soldiers from the Yongning Administrative Region in the United States Army, they are like fish in water in the winter climate in Shandong, but it has to be admitted that the main source of the United States Army comes from the south of the Yangtze River, especially to occupy the vast majority of the soldiers.

In the history of the population expansion of the United States, the first wave of large-scale immigrants came from Shandong. The retreat of the Central Plains Yuhu and Denglai made the population of the United States exceed one million. Therefore, in various industries, Shandong people occupied a high position because of early joining and were placed in the army. A large number of officers and non-commissioned officers came from Shandong. However, the expansion of the army was a large-scale joining from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong after the fall of Jiangnan.

These southern soldiers were extremely uncomfortable in the cold weather on the Shandong battlefield. During the Western Expedition, the number of soldiers killed due to illness even exceeded the number of casualties. A large number of soldiers caught a cold and fever in the bitter and cold weather. Southern soldiers from the north, with rice as the main food, were also somewhat unsuitable for military rations mainly for pasta. The same is true for horses. Horses that crossed Indian Kati Awa horses and southern war horses also died in the cold weather in the north. The climate difference between the north and the south exceeded that of the Qing army and became the main threat.

There is no decisive battle, Gao Feng can only choose another way of combat, war of attrition!

The Beiyang War Zone is currently the only cross-arms war zone in the United States, with both the Navy and the Army participating. Gao Feng supervised the combat forces of the territorial naval and army armies as the admiral of the Army. This war zone gathered more than 70% of the field forces of the United States, and about 40% of the naval transport fleet. Of course, a large number of civilian fleets were also supplied to it.

In addition to the large number of cavalry movements in the narrow zone between the Huai River and the Jiaolai Canal, the Marine Corps also joined forces to carry out a large number of landing operations in the southeastern Shandong, especially the coastline of southern Shandong and Jiangsu. These landing wars often use brigades as the unit of action. At most, at most, no thousand soldiers landed on the landing. After they got ashore, a large number of gentry and landlords were searched and tortured, and various handicraftsmen were forcibly moved to sea, including carpenters, blacksmiths, and doctors with skills, forcibly moved out. Many poor people, especially tenant farmers who were struggling on the brink of death, also took the initiative to leave with the United States Army.

The same large-scale immigration also occurred in Shandong. According to estimates from the Beiyang War Zone, Qingdao Port would migrate about 500,000 immigrants within two years. These immigrants mainly come from the two provinces of Shandong and Jiangsu, and the main resettlement sites for the immigrants are Yongning, Luzon and Peking University Nian.

In today's north wind season, Luzon and Peking University have become the main immigration acceptance points, and they are willing to take the initiative to accept immigration. Immigration in Yongning area is first placed on Jeju Island. These immigrants will participate in the construction of Jeju Island first and then head north when the southwest monsoon rises next year.

Because the northern winter ice envelops the sea, the battlefield scope of the war of attrition is limited to the mainland and the area south of Qingdao. After the Kailien next year, the entire Bohai Bay and the coast of the Liaodong Peninsula will become battlefields. At that time, the Beiyang War Zone will put pressure on the Qing Dynasty.

In fact, the current situation on the Shandong battlefield has exceeded Li Mingxun's expectations. In his original expectation, the confrontation between the Qing army and the Beiyang War Zone would form around Qingdao Fortress, completely confined to a certain battlefield. Now, the United States has pushed the actual control line to the Jiaolai Canal, which in fact occupies the entire Dengzhou Prefecture and the Laizhou Prefecture, and has gained the advantage of entering the heart of the Qing Dynasty, the Bohai Sea. Of course, this advantage will only be truly revealed after it freezes next spring.

Since the Denglai area has become an actual controlled area, the Military Control Commission must complete its actual rule. After the arrival of the officials aided by Yongning and Taipei, the Denglai Military Control Commission was officially established. The Beiyang War Zone handed over as many as 5,000 public security troops to its command and sent Zhao Junsu as the commander to assist the Military Control Commission in completing the occupation of the Denglai area.

The first thing the Military Control Commission has to do is to completely clear and clean up the reactionary forces in the region. Some time ago, the army mainly reckoned cities and important garrisons and market towns. During this process, a large number of gentry classes and hereditary officers fled to the countryside. When the Beiyang War Zone was expeditioning the west, there was no help outside or soldiers inside. They had to tremble. They were afraid of scouting their homes and exterminate their clans all day long. However, after the Governor Zhang Cunren arrived in Shandong, the group of guys seemed to have seized the life-saving straw and suddenly became alive, connecting everywhere and planning a confrontation. Many people took the initiative to contact the Qingzhou camp, which had just been established, intending to cooperate with the Qing army inside and outside. Now, the Beiyang War Zone has withdrawn and it is time to liquidate these people.

Chengshanwei, left Qianhu House.

Like most garrisons, Zuoqianhusou City was dilapidated. The towers at four corners of the city wall collapsed, and only the one on the east side had a basic shelf. There was a huge gap of twenty feet wide on the west side. This was originally a crack and gap that had not been repaired for a long time. During the attack of the army in the second year of Yongli, hundreds of kilograms of gunpowder were blown up. Several thousand and hundreds of households living in the city were swept away, either fleeing or killing.

This Qianhou City, which should have had thousands of military households, only a few hundred households on the day the city was destroyed. The rest of the military households either fled or became tenants for local gentry. The more than 100 military households in the city were tenants of thousands of local households, planting more than 2,000 acres of military farmland around them.

Chengshan Guard has a history of more than 200 years. When the Qing army entered the pass, there were already eight hereditary commanders here. As for commanders, Qianhu and other hereditary officers, there were countless hereditary officers. In fact, local prefectures and counties have to retain a large amount of taxes every year to supply these wormworms. Of course, the United States will not do these things. Hereditary nobles are the targets of liquidation, just like gentry. The captured hereditary nobles will be hung on the gallows or have been repatriated in Qingdao fortress. Now, Zuoqianhu Office is managed by an officer from the Military Control Commission. In addition to the original 100 military households, nearly a thousand Qingzhou immigrants were placed here. After the year, the immigrants were reclaimed wasteland and repaired abandoned irrigation canals. Everything was in order until a fleeing Qianhu appeared.

Zhao Junsu led more than ten cavalry to rush into Qianhu Station. When he saw the local military control officer in charge, he asked, "When did Wang Xingguo appear?"

The lieutenant also prepared wine and meat to entertain the new general of the Beiyang War Zone, but he never thought that he didn't even get off the horse and went straight to the point. The lieutenant quickly reached: "Wang Xingguo himself has never appeared. It was his subordinate general flag who came to Qianhu to inquire about the news, and the military household report was reported by the following military households."

This was originally just a normal situation report. Wang Xingguo was just a thousand escaped households, but he never thought of attracting generals like Zhao Junsu. The lieutenant had to know everything and say everything.

"Do you know where he is?" Zhao Junsu asked.

The lieutenant ran out, pulled a military household, kowtowed to the ground, and he replied, "I heard that the guy is now in the Fortress of the Fortress. This guy was originally a subordinate of Wang Xingguo and could lead the way for the general."

Zhao Junsu shouted: "Can you ride a horse?"

The military household replied, "Yes, but..."

Zhao Junsu ordered to a Sauron lieutenant beside him: "Adar, give him a horse and let him lead the way."

Adar has been following Zhao Junsu since the Battle of Ningguta. He obviously knew the significance of Wang Xingguo to Zhao Junsui. He immediately put the blanket and felt cloth on the horse under his crotch and shouted to the military household: "Don't talk too much, ride a horse quickly, lead the way, you will definitely benefit."

The military household turned over the horse and carried the horse's neck forward, leading Zhao Junsu to go south. The so-called Weishan Fort is located in a basin between the mountains. According to the military household, it was originally a hundred-household house, but it was abandoned. There were only thousands of acres of fat fields around Weishan Fort, which were unknown to outsiders. It was occupied by Wang Xingguo. After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, some refugees were attracted to the Shan Fort for reclamation, which became one of its private property. After escaping from Zuo Qianhou, Wang Xingguo went to Weishan Fort.

According to the military households, Wang Xingguo originally had more than 40 servants under his command, but most of them were lost to Zuo Qianhu. Now he has only a dozen people under his command, who are in charge of the mountain fort and live like a native emperor. This time he sent people to find out the news, but also to buy salt.

Weishan Fort is more than 70 miles away from Zuoqianhushou. Before entering the mountain, Zhao Junsu ordered a rest. Everyone got off the horse in a valley in the back mountain, and found dry branches to light and stew a pot of dried meat. The aroma was soaking. The dry cakes were broken and soaked in it. It was a good meal. After eating most of the time, a figure appeared in the forest on one side. Zhao Junsu heard the sound, pulled out his pistol, and turned over and hid behind a big tree. At this time, he heard Adal's laughter: "General, is he a child or a disabled child."

Zhao Junsu poked his head and saw that he was indeed a child of about 11 or 2 years old. His face was yellow and his hair was messy. He was wearing a jacket full of big holes. He only had one shoe on his feet and the other foot was frozen blue. He obviously lacked one hand and was looking at them tremblingly, drooling.

"Come on, kid, put on this!" Adal took off a pair of used cotton shoes from the horse's back and threw them over. These cotton shoes were also military shoes. They were worn in the camp. They were warm and lightweight. The soles of local peasants were extremely durable.

The boy put on the oversized shoes and walked over. Zhao Junsu scooped a bowl of broth and handed it to him. The child took it and looked at the dry cake in Zhao Junsu's hand. Zhao Junsu said, "You are hungry, drink the soup first, and eat the cake later. Moreover, you have to answer my question first and then eat it."

The boy nodded and ate a big bowl of meat soup. With strength, Zhao Junsu asked: "There is a military man named Wang Xingguo, a member of Weishan Fort."

"Yes." The boy nodded timidly, his eyes full of fear.

"Then Wang Xingguo has a wife named Zhang?" Zhao Junsu asked withstood the excitement in his heart.

The boy nodded slightly, Zhao Junsu grabbed his hand and asked again: "There is a son named Zhao who is already thirteen years old."

The boy's eyes were full of horror, and he shook his head quickly and shouted, "I don't know, I don't know..."

Zhao Junsu still wanted to ask, but the boy broke free and ran away. Adar chased after him and said a few words to the boy, pointing out the way to Zuoqianhusou, and then returning. He whispered: "General, the baby really doesn't know. If you ask him what he is doing, it's better to rush into the Fortress and catch Wang Xingguo, and you will know where your son is."

"Adar, I regret it. When I left Shandong, I should have taken the mother and the two of them together." Zhao Junsu said.

It turned out that Zhao Junsu joined the army when he was in the Central Plains. With his skill in cavalry, he quickly became a cavalry officer. There were many people in Shandong military households who joined the army with him. Many people left with their families, and those who did not leave also gave An family money. Zhao Junsu originally wanted to go out for five years to fight a war with the United States and continue to live. At that time, he was afraid that he was greedy for the twenty taels of An family money, so he left his parents, his wife and children in Chengshanwei, but he never left forever. When Denglai retreated, he asked someone to inquire about the whereabouts of his family, but heard that his parents starved to death and his wife and children remarried. The remarried target was Wang Xingguo of the Zuoqianhu House of Chengshanwei.

"This is fate. Who knows that the Ming Dynasty is so impatient, and who knows that life in the United States is so good?" Adal scratched his head and said.
Chapter completed!