With Kong Youde's strategy, he will not be stupidly trapped in Dengzhou City, he understands that only by taking the initiative can he continue to expand his living space, so that the Ming Court can be afraid of his own strength, so as to be able to reach the point of competing with the Ming Court.

Kong Youde, who captured Dengzhou, did not stop, and began to work intensively again.

"Master Sun, I haven't seen you for a long time, don't come unharmed." After Kong Youde captured Dengzhou, he also successfully captured Sun Yuanhua, and on this day Kong Youde came to the prison to visit Sun Yuanhua, who had become his prisoner.

"If you are virtuous, if you don't see you for many days, you won't be harmed." Sun Yuanhua sat in the cold and damp dungeon, and when he saw that Kong Youde finally showed up to see him, he also stood up and said without being humble or arrogant.

"Lord Sun, you know, our brothers from Liaodong and from Phi Dao, what kind of hard life they live here."

"We don't want to rebel, but we have to rebel, we want to fight for all the Liao people and create a foundation that belongs to us."

"However, Lord Sun, I respect you very much, we are also a martial artist, and we have no management experience, so I want to ask Lord Sun to go out of the mountain to help me and take care of the people of one side, if Lord Sun is willing, I am willing to take Lord Sun as the king, and we are all subordinates, and he will seek a great cause in the future." Kong Youde said everything he thought, if he wants to create a territory of his own, he needs talents to support him, this Sun Yuanhua is what he admires the most, so let him come out is the most satisfactory result for him.

Sun Yuanhua didn't expect that he had been thinking about how to recruit Kong Youde in prison, but he didn't expect Kong Youde to see him and come to brainwash himself first.

"Youde, you stop quickly, your Liao people lost their land, that is the result of the Jin army's attack, if you want to count, you must also count it on the head of the Jin army, although the Ming Dynasty has some bad phenomena, so that you Liao people have been wronged, but you can't do such a painful thing for relatives and quick for enemies."

"Now you are fighting Dengzhou, but you think about it, the Ming Dynasty is all over the guards, the elite of the border army, and they have not moved, and when the emperor is really angry, he will mobilize heavenly soldiers to encircle and suppress, and when the time comes, it will be too late to regret it."

"It's better to take advantage of the present moment and surrender to the imperial court, you have also shown your strength and expressed your grievances, presumably the emperor will definitely handle the relationship well and will give you Liao people a good explanation." Sun Yuanhua also came as soon as he opened his mouth, using a scheming strategy, and appeased Kong Youde again.

To put it bluntly, Kong Youde's behavior is very repetitive, and it is theoretically possible for him to defect to the Ming Dynasty again, but if the Ming Dynasty opens enough chips to tempt him, it is obvious that Sun Yuanhua's empty mouth will not be able to impress such a shrewd person.

Kong Youde saw that Sun Yuanhua could not surrender, so he broke off the idea of surrendering.

However, Kong Youde admired Sun Yuanhua's personality, so he didn't want to harm him, and at the same time, he also wanted to leave another way for himself, maybe he would really surrender one day, and he wanted Sun Yuanhua to help him intercede, so he turned around and left after improving Sun Yuanhua's prison conditions.

After this meeting, Kong Youde also clearly felt that he had to increase his actions now, otherwise even if he surrendered, there would be no good chips to exchange, so the next target was Laizhou in the west.

The entire Kong Youde army, the main part is the previous Liao people, Liao soldiers, and then mixed with other recently incorporated armies, after the conquest of Dengzhou, the entire ordnance and military rations have been greatly replenished, now the size of the cavalry is close to 5,000 people, the infantry has as many as 20,000 people, the battle has been fighting, but the number of troops has been rising.

After reorganizing the armament, Kong Youde left the necessary 5,000 infantry to defend the city, personally led 20,000 horses, and went straight to Laizhou.

On the Laizhou side, Xu Congzhi, the new governor of Shandong, who was responsible for guarding Laizhou City, and Xie Lian, the governor of Denglai, were stationed on the front line of Laizhou, and they and Zhu Wannian, the governor of Laizhou, were also making every effort to plan the defense of Laizhou.

Zhu Wannian is also quite a capable person, after hearing that the thief army has targeted Laizhou, he is not afraid at all, and actively leads the officers and soldiers and the people to do a good job in defending the city, and uses his wisdom and wisdom to make a detailed deployment of various resources in Laizhou, and on the 23rd of the lunar month, he issued the "City Guarding Covenant" to write in detail all kinds of measures to resist the invasion of the enemy.

In terms of war preparations, everything in the entire Laizhou is under control, and all kinds of equipment are only allowed to enter and not to go out, so as to strictly guard against the enemy.

In order to prevent spies from infiltrating the city this time, special personnel were organized to carry out a strict inventory of all the people in the city, protect the armor and keep the pieces, and clear all strangers from unknown sources out of the city.

On the city wall, the cannons on the city are equipped with wheels, which can be more convenient and quick to support any dangerous area.

At each city gate, it is also clear that special troops are stationed day and night to prevent someone from secretly opening the city gate.

After both sides are ready, war is inevitable.

Kong Youde led his subordinates and others to come to Laizhou day and night.

Finally, in the fifth year of Chongzhen in Daming, in February, the siege of Laizhou City was completed.

On the city wall, Xu Congzhi, Xie Lian, and Zhu Wannian stood at the head of the city and watched the rebels under the city.

"Ten thousand years, this time the thieves are menacing, it seems that it is inevitable not to fight a few vicious battles." After Xu Congzhi saw the situation in the city, he turned around and said to Zhu Wannian.

"My lord, he is a virtuous man, although he is arrogant, but he can't understand the principles of heaven and people's hearts after all."

"I heard that he broke Dengzhou City, plundered the army, and the rich officials and merchants, and the peddlers and pawns all suffered from it, such a bad reputation, how can you not let the whole of Laizhou have the same hatred?"

"Now in the whole of Laizhou, businessmen donate money, the people contribute, the officers and soldiers serve their orders, and the officials are united."

"It's like an iron plate, he Kong Youde doesn't believe in this, if he has to kick it, then we don't mind squeezing his feet." Zhu Wannian said to Xu Congzhi. At this time, Zhu Wannian did not brag at all, and the current Laizhou is indeed as he said, ironclad.

"Okay, then we will resist the enemy together, block the enemy under the city of Laizhou, and buy time for the emperor to gather troops to encircle and suppress the traitors." When Xu Congzhi heard Zhu Wannian's words, he also had confidence in his heart. also slapped on the battlements of the city wall, and said proudly.

After speaking, Xu Congzhi was also invited by Zhu Wannian to go down the city wall, after all, Xu Congzhi, as the governor of Shandong, is not good at battlefield warfare, and he does not stay in his own mansion, and he can personally run to the front line and garrison Laizhou City, which is already very morale-inspiring.

And Xie Lian, the governor of Denglai, who was also proficient in combat, was preparing to command the battle in the city with Zhu Wannian, the governor of Laizhou.

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