Wang Ziden smiled bitterly and said, "Where can we go to sea by boat?" This world is the world of the Ming Dynasty! It's not like everyone is floating on the sea all the time, right? ”

Geng Zhongming suddenly said as if he remembered something: "Why don't we go and invest in Houjin?" ”

Geng Zhongming's words resounded in everyone's ears like a thunderbolt! Everyone suddenly cheered up again! But then everyone was discouraged. Because Mao Youshun said self-deprecatingly: "After the investment? How many Tartars did everyone kill when they followed Mao Shuai in the Dongjiang River? Didn't we hit the knife now? ”

Wang Zideng suddenly stood up out of control and shouted, "Then what should we do? Do you sit here and wait to die? ”

Kong Youde and Mao Chenglu stood up together and pressed the prince to the chair. Kong Youde said soothingly: "We always have to find a way, what's the use of yelling?" ”

Wang Ziden also quieted down at this time. Kong Youde sat back in his chair and began to seriously think about the possibility of taking refuge in Houjin. As soon as he started to think, he remembered what Liu Pei said when he and Liu Pei met a while ago: No matter what you do, we still have a little friendship. But if you cast for tartar, then there will be no friendship at all! If you meet again when the time comes, it will be your life and death!

However, Kong Youde quickly put this sentence behind him! I'm already dying in front of me, so where do I care if I don't meet in the future? The only way to save your own life is to do the right thing.

After careful thinking, Kong Youde said slowly: "Lao Geng is right, the only way out for us now is to take refuge in Houjin!" ”

Mao Chenglu opened his mouth and said, "But ......"

Kong Youde waved his hand to stop his words and said, "That's what I think. First of all, Houjin and Daming have confronted each other for many years, although they have won many battles, but they have never been cheap except for some cheap in Liaoxi, if we throw it over, Houjin will take us in for disgusting Ming court! Second, it is said that Huang Taiji attaches more importance to the Han people. He had a lot of Han officials under him. The most critical point is that Houjin will not attack the city! They only had relatively small artillery, which could not be used to siege cities. And we will cast cannons, we will use cannons! After taking refuge in the past, you may still be reused! ”

Wang Zideng said: "But these are all your own thoughts, and I don't know if those Houjin Tartars will think so?" ”

Kong Youde said: "We can send someone to ask first!" It's not difficult to send a ship out and sneak in quietly. If Houjin is willing to accept us, we will take refuge in Houjin! ”

Speaking of this, Kong Youde suddenly smiled and said, "There is one more thing I didn't expect just now!" There is no water master in Houjin, if we bring all the water masters from Dengzhou, maybe this thing will really happen! ”

Kong Youde's words made the people in the room cheer up, and they all made suggestions for this matter! After some planning by everyone, Kong Youde sent his henchmen to go to Houjin overnight with his letters.

After the New Year, under the supervision of Gao Qiqian, the earth mountain was finally successfully built! At the same time, the artillery sent from Beijing also arrived. Overjoyed, Gao Qiqian immediately set up eight cannons on top of the earth mountain.

This earth mountain is much higher than the city of Dengzhou City. Eight cannons were erected on it and bombarded Dengzhou City day and night!

The morale of the rebels in Dengzhou City itself has dropped greatly due to Li Jiucheng's death, and now the Ming army has built a dirt mountain outside the city, and kept bombarding Dengzhou City with artillery, which has made the morale of the rebels in Dengzhou City even lower!

And at Liu Pei's suggestion, the artillery on Tushan fired all arson bombs into Dengzhou City! That is, after the solid shells are burned red in advance, they are then fired with thin wooden planks.

This method successfully caused several fires in Dengzhou City! One of the fires also destroyed a granary in the city! Although the rebels later found a way to deal with the arson bombs, their morale fell even harder.

And after losing a granary, after more than half a year of siege, the food that they already couldn't make ends meet was even more insufficient! This, in turn, made the morale of the city even more demoralized.

After the Ming soldiers outside the city calculated the food in the city, they felt that the city would be destroyed within a few months. So keep morale even higher! They are all looking forward to going home after annihilating the rebels.

Liu Pei looked at everyone's performance coldly, and found that everyone didn't seem to expect Kong Youde and their hands at all

Zhongzhong also has the Dengzhou Naval Division, which can go to sea to escape, and even take refuge in Houjin.

After Liu Pei tentatively probed a few words, he understood why no one mentioned this matter. On the one hand, everyone thinks that they can wait for others to fight with the Houjin Tartars for many years, and they have long had a hatred that is difficult to eliminate, and they don't think that they will go to Houjin.

On the other hand, everyone thought that as long as the rebels in Shandong were annihilated as soon as possible, there would be no business for them. If Kong Youde escapes, it will be a matter for other feudal officials! As the saying goes, it's none of your business, hang it high!

After Liu Pei finished communicating with them, his heart was a little cold! These people didn't think about Kong Youde at all, and the serious consequences of their defection to Houjin! Liu Pei saw that Zhu Dadian was on guard and Kong Youde was far away.

But on the one hand, the imperial court did not give him clear authority, and on the other hand, the generals under him did not have the will to fight. So he can't come up with much of a solution. Moreover, Zhu Dadian himself despised Kong Youde and others, so he did not actively promote the prevention of Kong Youde going away by boat.

At the same time, when he was discussing with the generals, everyone agreed that even if Kong Youde escaped by boat, they could only flee to Liaoxi. When the time comes, Huang Long, the new chief soldier of Dongjiang Town, will go to encircle and suppress! Anyway, there were not many people under Kong Youde at that time, and he would definitely be able to easily exterminate them!

Time dragged on day by day, and more than a month passed in the blink of an eye. That night, a ship with Kong Youde's token quietly slipped into the sailor's camp.

This ship is the one that Kong Youde sent to Houjin. After the people on the boat got off the boat, they quietly asked Kong Youde directly. After Kong Youde got the letter, he didn't read the letter first, but carefully interrogated his henchmen about what happened along the way.

Knowing that he felt that there was no flaw in what his subordinates said, Kong Youde tore open the envelope. The letter was written by Huang Taiji himself, and it was not long. It reads: "General Kong sees words like faces!" General Wen will not tolerate the ...... of the Ming Dynasty."

Kong Youde quickly let out a long breath after reading the letter, which can be regarded as a relief! I feel that this fate of mine has been saved!

He waved his men away, sat in the room and thought for a long time before calling his own soldiers, and instructing them to invite the leaders to his room.