Haizhou faces the sea to the east and Qingzhou Prefecture in Shandong Province to the back.
Chen Yue led the main force of 20,000 troops to cease their activities, and with Jin Xin as the vanguard, they crossed the Yellow River from Huai'an and headed straight north, passing through Shuyang and heading east to Haizhou.
The current Haizhou is still under the rule of the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty has local officials such as Zhizhou and more than a thousand soldiers in Haizhou.
Hearing that the army was coming, the magistrate of Haizhou hurriedly went out of the city to greet him, but Chen Yue did not see him.
Instead, a partial general met him and told him that the army was going north to Shandong via Haizhou to support the Shandong Rebels.
However, Even Chen Yue's identity was not exposed.
The secret march to raid Shandong was a pre-specified strategy.
Although it is impossible for the army to march without anyone knowing, at least the news of Chen Yue's presence in the army cannot be exposed.
Otherwise, if the Qing army learns about it, the Ming army's intentions will definitely be known.
For more than a year, people from the imperial court often came north from Haizhou, and there were even fleets traveling between Shandong and Daming via the coast of Haizhou.
Haizhou Zhizhou was already used to this, and he only cared about this large army.
The problem of food and grass supply.
After all, for an army of up to 20,000 people, if Haizhou needs to provide food and grass, he will be under great pressure.
According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, when the army passes through the territory, the food and grass should be the responsibility of the local government.
Fortunately, this army did not make things difficult for him and did not make any requests for food and fodder.
Because before departure, Chen Yue had already ordered a large amount of dry food to be carried with the army.
Flour was mixed with sesame and peanuts, fried into fried noodles, and packed in long cloth bags.
Each bag could hold fifteen kilograms of fried noodles, and was carried cross-body.
On the soldier's back.
These fried noodles alone are enough to feed the army for half a month, and the journey from Huai'an to Jiaozhou is only 700 miles.
According to the daily marching speed of 50 miles, it will take less than half a month to reach Jiaozhou.
When we reach Jiaozhou, we can meet Lu Tai by sea. , in Lu Tai's fleet, there were 100,000 dans of grain, enough for the army for a year.
The army did not even enter Haizhou City, but sent people to buy some vegetables and grain.
The whole army had a full meal and camped outside the city to rest, and continued north early the next morning.
The next morning, when it was reported that the officers and soldiers had left, Haizhou Zhizhou went out of the city gate, looked at the empty camp, and sighed secretly.
This army behaved in a well-behaved manner, sold fairly, did not disturb the people, and did not plunder.
He had not seen this army for many years.
Such an army.
After leaving Haizhou, passing through Yizhou and Luzhou, you can enter the central part of Qingzhou Prefecture, where the road is flat and densely populated.
However, Chen Yue did not choose this road, but chose the seaside area at the eastern foot of Wulian Mountain to pass through.
Wulian Mountain, which runs from northeast to southwest, is located on the east side of Qingzhou Prefecture.
There is a land of more than ten miles wide between the mountains and the sea.
However, due to the invasion of sea water, it is mostly saline-alkali terrain and is not suitable for farming, except for some kitchen households here.
Ordinary people don't have much to boil the sea and boil salt.
Chen Yue wanted to go to Jiaozhou, which was the shortest walking distance from the sea.
The eastern foot of Wulian Mountain was flat terrain, which made it easier for the army to pass quickly.
In addition, his men were all lightly armed infantry, with no carriages, horses, baggage or artillery.
The soldiers except In addition to the weapons and food that they carried with them, even the armor was installed on the sea ships, so the march was very fast.
Of course, such an army has very poor defense, no armor, no shields, and no baggage to support operations.
Once it encounters the main force of the Qing army, the consequences will be disastrous.
This is why Chen Yue did not choose to march from the densely populated area of Linyi and Lunan.
The marching speed is naturally fast without carrying baggage and armor, and of course the main force of the Qing army must be avoided.
However, long-term continuous marching, even if the distance traveled was only fifty miles in a day, was exhausting for every soldier, but everyone gritted their teeth and persisted, because their King Qi was among them.
Yes, Chen Yue also walked in the queue, walking on his own legs.
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He did not ride a horse or ride in a carriage based on his status, or let the soldiers carry him in a sedan chair.
Half of the 20,000 troops were elite soldiers from Dongfan who had been following Chen Yue.
The other half were also drawn from Yu Feng Jin Shenghuan's subordinates.
They all had backgrounds in the Pingnan Army and were direct descendants of Chen Yue.
Therefore, even if it was to win over the morale of the military, Chen Yue had to show his willingness to share the joys and sorrows.
If a general wants to win the support of soldiers and the morale of the army, he must find many ways to do it.
Chen Yue can't do something as disgusting as licking and sucking pus, and he doesn't want to deliberately ask for help, but he can still do it by practicing hard and sharing the joys and sorrows. of.
Moreover, Chen Yue was in his prime, his daily meals were excellent, and his physical fitness was far better than that of ordinary soldiers.
Walking fifty miles a day was not a big stress for him.
At most, his feet were a little tired.
However, the effect was very obvious.
Every time they saw the fluttering general's flag and the resolute face of Chen Yue under the general's flag, the soldiers felt inexplicably at ease.
Thinking of the prince walking with them, they became full of strength.
Naturally, there are horses in the army.
In addition to the main cavalry marching with Li Yi under the leadership of Yu Feng, there are also 100 cavalry among the 20,000 people.
However, these cavalry are used as sentinels, responsible for detecting the surrounding Qing troops. movement, so even Chen Yue did not want to take up precious horses to travel.
In addition to the kitchens, there are also some fortresses in the coastal areas, which were originally built by the Ming Dynasty to guard against Japanese pirates.
Of course, by the end of the Ming Dynasty, these guard stations had long been abandoned.
The military households in the guard stations either farmed, fished, or boiled the sea to make salt, and they were no different from ordinary people.
Not long after the Qing Dynasty occupied Shandong, and with the uprisings by the volunteers, there was no time to deal with these guard posts, so some guard posts still carried the banner of the Ming Dynasty.
After Wu Ping revolted in Dengzhou, his territory expanded to the entire Jiaodong within a few months.
Many military households in the guard station surrendered to Wu Ping's command.
Of course, they were trapped in Dengzhou City, but the families of the soldiers were still in the original guard station.
In the fort.
When they saw a Ming army suddenly coming from the south, the family members of these military households burst into tears with excitement, saying frankly that the court finally thought of them.
Over the past year or so, the people of Shandong have had frequent uprisings and have been subjected to massacres and suppression by the Qing Dynasty, but the imperial court was unable to support them at all.
Feng Yong, a member of Qianhu in Anton Wei, was in his fifties, but he put on his ancestral armor and kept saying that he would be the vanguard of the army.
Chen Yue saw him unsteady, smiled and refused, and only asked him to send a guide to lead the army to Jiaozhou Bay.
On November 27, the 19th year of Chongzhen, Chen Yue led an army of 20,000 to Jiaozhou.
However, Lu Tai's navy had been in Jiaozhou Bay for two days and was trying to attack Jiaozhou City and was confronting the green camp general Guo Hu
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