Dongjiang Town, which is alone in Liaodong, is also not stable at this time: Huang Long was unable to suppress Mao Wenlong's old department in Dongjiang Town, and the internal strife in Dongjiang Town, which began with the killing of Chen Jisheng, was intensifying.

Under the combined effect of internal and external factors, it was only a matter of time before the old people of Dongjiang set off a large-scale riot, and the three elders all held this inference.

The difficulty is that now that their one-way transparency no longer exists, Kong Youde's next move has become confusing.

It is imperative to speculate on the next move of the hole and prepare accordingly.

Zhu Mingxia leaned over the map, the colored pencils in his hands kept swiping on the glass plate, Lu Wenyuan and Chen Sigen looked at him nervously, as the military commander, it was their responsibility to speculate on the enemy's next specific move.

"I don't think Kong Youde's movements will be much different." Zhu Mingxia said after studying the map for a long time.

He pointed to the large-scale map on the table, cleared his throat and said:

"First of all, we all agree: Kong Youde's rebellion was the product of the collision of bad weather and irreconcilable contradictions - an inevitability, different in time and place.

"Secondly, we need to know that Kong Youde Weishenme attacked Dengzhou, which is very important and directly affects our next move. Kong knew Sun very well and knew that it was different from other Ming bureaucrats. Sun Yuanhua's attitude towards the old people of Dongjiang is friendly, whether Kong is out of paralysis of the other party, quickly expanding the results of the battle, or really having the expectation of being recruited, Sun Yuanhua is the choice of Haode. If you lead the team to Dengzhou by yourself. There is a glimmer of hope for being recruited. That's the first point. The second point is that Dengzhou has his colleagues, the old department, and a large number of Liaodong soldiers, and these Liaodong soldiers also face the same problems as Kong Youde's department, and have the same dissatisfaction. If he wanted to rebel, only in Dengzhou could he find enough reliable and warlike allies. Third, as a general with long-term combat experience, once he raises the flag of rebellion, he will inevitably need a stronghold with sufficient food and weapons, and can advance and retreat freely, looking at several surrounding cities. Dengzhou is suitable: Dengzhou is the main gathering place of Kong Youde and other old Dongjiang people, and most of the islands dotted with Bohai Bay are the old parts of the Dongjiang River in the past, which can easily echo each other. Although the mutiny was not planned by him, once it was mutinied. Kong Youde had no choice but to return to his own people and use the old Dongjiang to grow rapidly--if he was content to run around, he would be exhausted if he had been active in Shandong for too long.

Later, his nemesis Geng Zhongming and others were in Dengzhou City, as long as the inside and outside were combined, Dengzhou City was easy to take. It is precisely because of these three points that as long as Kong raises the flag of rebellion, Dengzhou is his best choice -- and it is also an inevitable choice. ”

"It makes sense, so Kong Youde will go back to Dengzhou sooner or later."

"As long as Kong Youde's ministry is not too far from Shandong, it will be his best choice after the mutiny." Zhu Mingxia is very confident. "Based on this prediction, our response is simple."

Zhu Mingxia suggested that all the reconnaissance cavalry and the local natives should be sent on foot to reconnoiter the movements of the hole, and in addition to the cavalry conducting long-range tracking and searching, the original route to Liaodong to reinforce the Daling River could not be left behind, so as to prevent it from really going to the front line.

Kong Qingyi water cavalry, with a distinct appearance, it is difficult to hide the traces for a long time, and he is not afraid of being mistaken by scouts. For the local natives, the Lipai sent people to spread the facts of their slaughter villages near Dengzhou, or these things would be processed by the mouths of the natives in a few days. It was transmitted to the ears of the soldiers of Liaodong, as well as in the mansion of Lord Sun.

The speed of word of mouth is generally relatively slow, and under normal circumstances, it takes a long time for the news of Wuqiao in Hebei Province to reach Dengzhou, and now they themselves have accelerated the speed of this diffusion.

After that, if Kong Youde really had to run to the front line of the Daling River or other factors, he couldn't go to Dengzhou. We have to plot against the Liao soldiers in Dengzhou, which is another topic. ”

"Huh. Xiao Zhu summed it up well! Chen Sigen interjected: "The report to the Senate is here!" ”

"According to the principle of organization, everything has to be discussed and decided by the three of us. Besides, now is not the time to write a report. Zhu Mingxia said.

Chen Sigen thought about it and said, "It makes sense. But I want to remind you that you just talked about the need to pay attention to this uncertainty. At present, we still can't accurately predict Kong Youde's actions. If we just passively monitor him, it will not work to make some more rumors. We must intervene proactively and let him do what we want - so that there is the necessary certainty. ”

Zhu Mingxia said: "Let us directly incite his subordinates? ”

"How can we have the ability to incite." Chen Sigen smiled: "I forgot what Lu Wenyuan said before: 'Blatantly leading troops to cut off the canal is a rebellion'." We're not sure if he's got a vote, but I'm sure we can do it for him! Let him not eat and walk around, if he doesn't go back, he has to do the opposite! ”

"Will this work?"

"Ha, what's not to do! Our special investigation team is completely killing chickens with knives to do this kind of murder and overkilling. These days, my boys are idle and hurt, so I'm afraid it won't mess up. Send more people to cooperate, absolutely foolproof. Chen Sigen said.

"The soldiers under Kong Youde are all Liaodong accents......" Lu Wenyuan still had some questions.

"Haha, it doesn't matter. Our Mandarin is originally more similar to the Liaodong Military Dialect. Even if it's not like it, it's a big deal not to speak. If you really kill it, no one can pay attention to any flaws. Besides, even if there are flaws, can there be another way except Kong Youde's back? Chen Sigen said.

"Lao Chen is right, but who will go still has to choose. Wen Yuan, didn't you get the hurdle of writing a military uniform number before? Find them all. We'll give him a mountain of ironclad evidence. But what to do, we have to discuss it now. ”

"I did get some of the Ming army's number, but not much." Because Lu Wenyuan considered the possible needs of the operation, he managed to get some Ming army from Dengzhou through Huang Ande's relationship, and there were all battalions, and some were still old. But Chen Sigen thinks it's good -- it seems real.

"Tear off the camp mark on the trumpet when you act, so it's more realistic." Lu Wenyuan said, "Let's put some shabby robes on the outside, it looks like it." ”

Everyone had no objection to Zhu Mingxia's judgment, and immediately went their separate ways. In addition to sending out all the cavalry on standby, they also selected some fine ones from the refugees who had received them to inquire about the news.

Lu Wenyuan called Huang Ande and asked him to bring a few soldiers from Shandong to Dengzhou immediately to spread all kinds of news about Kong Youde to his relatives and friends in Dengzhou City.

At the same time, Lu Wenyuan's intelligence personnel who were specially connected with the local churches in the Eastern Three Prefectures were also sent to spread the news through the church's connections.

Kong Youde led his troops out of Wuqiao County, along the direction of the Beijing-Shanghai Railway, which had not yet existed in this time and space, all the way to the north and entered Dongguang County. Dongguang is on the banks of the South Canal. Nourished by the canal, commerce flourished.

Kong Youde chose to go to Dongguang, with the idea of making a handful here - Dongguang is not the only place for him to go north to aid the Daling River, and with his quick action ability, it is not a problem in time to go around here to get some benefits for himself and his subordinates.

Before arriving at Wuqiao, the morale of his men and horses had fallen to the extreme, and there were many complaints all the way, and an undercurrent was already surging among the soldiers and officers. Kong Youde is a general, if he hadn't taken the opportunity to slaughter a village in Wuqiao that night, and got a lot of food and property to settle the hearts of his subordinates, Haode would have broken up along the road and walked to Shanhaiguan with less than half of the people; Oh no, this group of brothers who were born and died simply went on a desperate job in Wuqiao County.

Kong Youde was reluctant to rebel and start a rebellion: he joined the army as a teenager, crawled out of the pile of dead, and finally survived to the third-grade general, and did not want to abandon the future he had worked so hard to earn. But over the years, whether he was in Dongjiang or Dengzhou, his future has become more and more bleak -- although Sun Yuanhua values him very much, but the entire Ming Dynasty is terminally ill -- and there is no hope in sight.

From the Dongjiang River itself, since Mao Shuai was suddenly beheaded, to Vice General Chen being killed in the internal strife, and then Huanglong landed on the island, various departments mutinied, and Dongjiang completely killed each other, and the whole situation was as bad as a day.

If they were under Mao Wenlong back then, they could still go out to the ground of the Tartars to demonstrate and beat the Tartars by surprise. Now the will to fight is getting weaker and lower. As soon as the order to go to the Daling River to reinforce Zhang Chun was issued, from the officers to the soldiers, they were all filled with the mood of fearing the enemy like a tiger.

Kong Youde's department from top to bottom, probably no one doesn't know what results Zhang Chun will have in Dalinghe. Zhang Chun was a man he knew would definitely die to the death, but there were many more soldiers who were about to die - and he was very likely to be one of them.

When he thought about it, he felt that it was difficult to let go.

After Kong Youde led his troops to Dongguang, he temporarily settled down in a village not far from the canal. There are many villages near the South Canal that "rely on the river to eat the river", and there are quite a few big families who have made a fortune secretly. He let his men go and slaughtered another village, plundering a large amount of money and grain. The generals and officers all made a small fortune, and the soldiers were well fed and drunk, and some money was lost, and their morale was higher than before.

But when the nerve-wracking thing came, the officers and men were a little happy when they got the sweetness. Some people even secretly encouraged the officers to simply fall into the grass and become bandits, so as to make a big profit on this rich land.

Kong Youde scoffed at this: Once the army becomes a bandit, its combat effectiveness will be completely weakened, and when the time comes, he will be an unsuccessful mountain king, and sooner or later he will be destroyed by the hands of officers and soldiers and regimental training. (To be continued......)