Chapter 152: Don't even think about running
"No need, this time I measure that Kong Youde has already kowtowed under Laizhou City, otherwise how could he not be able to capture Laizhou City for so long." Yuan Chao didn't want to stop, he wanted to continue to get closer to the fighter.
Hearing Yuan Chao's statement, Zhou Weihang also relieved his heart, it was indeed time to have a decisive battle with Kong Youde.
Here, Yuan Chao has been rushing non-stop, so Kong Youde has no way to stop.
"The newspaper, the Malay newspaper, said that a large number of officers, soldiers and horses were found in the direction of Dengzhou, and the number of them was around 5,000." A sentry rushed into the lobby in a panic and told Kong Youde and the generals the bad news.
Kong Youde looked at this reckless little pawn, and the generals who were originally frightened in the hall were now even more frightened, where is there still the slightest dare to fight.
Kong Youde suppressed the idea of splitting this pawn on the spot, and waved his hand instead.
"Got it, stand down."
The pawn stepped back, and Kong Youde looked at the room full of generals, and he was also a little speechless.
"The officers and soldiers are finally here, what do you think?" Kong Youde pretended to be calm and said.
"What else is there to say, run."
"Stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood."
"The official army is menacing this time, and it is still the Yuan Dynasty who leads the team, and this time it seems that they can only run." When all the generals in the hall heard Kong Youde's inquiry, they all made remarks that they had to run away.
Kong Youde listened weakly, and he was also a little depressed.
"Dashuai." At this time, Li Jiucheng stood up and spoke.
"Ninety percent? What do you have to say" Seeing that Li Jiucheng, who had always had an idea, stood up, he hurriedly inquired.
"Marshal, this time the official army is led by the Yuan Dynasty, who is accustomed to fighting, I heard that this person has fought the Jin Army and pacified the White Lotus Sect, and this time he has captured Dengzhou, so he looks like he is difficult to mess with."
"And this time, there are a lot of officers and soldiers, nearly 5,000 people."
"Our army has been trapped in the city of Laizhou for a long time, and it has been attacked for so long, although Laizhou has also been attacked, but the losses of our army are not heavy, and now according to statistics, our brothers have more than 10,000 left."
"So after calculating this time, it's time for us to go south, otherwise we will inevitably be defeated by Yuan Chao and others, even if we can form a stalemate in the field, we will always be surrounded by other officers and troops who come over forever." Li Jiucheng, who has always appeared as an ironclad rebel, did not want to fight hard with the officials and troops this time and wanted to escape.
Hearing Li Jiucheng's words, Kong Youde's last desire to fight disappeared.
"Alas, that's it, inform the battalions, prepare to pull out the camp, this afternoon, after lunch, the army pulled out the camp and went south, and went straight to the southern provinces." Kong Youde finally made up his mind to go to the south to fight the autumn breeze.
Hearing the news of Kong Youde, the important people in the tent were also rarely relaxed.
"Oh, handsome and wise."
"Dashuai, let's withdraw in the afternoon." The other generals responded one after another.
So the next thing was that the battalions of Kong Youde's troops were all in a mess, one by one they quickly buried the pot to cook, carried rations, and were all preparing to run away.
Before noon, all the battalions had eaten one after another.
After eating, all the generals gathered in Kong Youde's tent, ready to wait for Kong Dashuai to give the order to run away.
Some of the more active little bosses simply secretly took the food and ran away in advance.
Kong Youde looked at the noisy generals, and there was no good way to stop the chaos.
The battalions could only be ordered to cover each other's retreat.
Hearing the order to retreat, the rebels in each battalion still had the slightest intention of retreating to cover each other, and they all returned to their camps and rushed to the south with their men.
The chaotic camp of Kong Youde finally alarmed the sentinels on the city walls.
"Report, Lord Xu, the thief army has been in a mess at noon today, and now the camps are pulling out one after another, and it looks like they are about to run away." The little colonel who was in charge of observing on the city wall hurriedly ran to Xu Congzhi's yamen at this time and reported to Xu Congzhi.
"Okay, Kong Youde, you still haven't been able to capture Laizhou."
"Hurry up and gather the adults." Xu Congzhi thought about it and quickly summoned everyone to discuss.
Hearing the news that Kong Youde was going to run away, Xie Lian, who was training the army in the barracks, ran towards Xu Congzhi's yamen in three steps and two steps.
"Do you hear that, Brother Wannian, this time we are going to avenge you." Xie Lian muttered to himself silently in his heart.
When they arrived at the tent, they didn't have time to be polite.
"Xie Lian, do you think it will be Kong Youde who cheats this time. This Kong is virtuous and scheming, so he has to guard against it. "Xu Congzhi, who was miserable by Kong Youde, also doubts whether it will be Kong Youde's trick again this time.
"No, not this time."
"Counting the time, the Yuan Dynasty from Dengzhou should indeed have arrived in Laizhou City."
"And more importantly, I asked a few front-line generals on the way here just now, and they all said that the decline of thieves has appeared, and it can't last long."
"This time, I heard what the soldiers and horses said just now, saying that the rebels are now fleeing and can no longer organize resistance."
"So the thief should be running away." Xie Lian said his guess this time.
The other people in the hall also nodded after hearing this, supporting Xie Lian's opinion.
Xie Lian saw that everyone had no opinion, so he said out loud, "Since Kong Youde wants to run, then we will graciously keep him, prevent him from dying, and also imprison him."
"Lord Xu, we still have more than 10,000 guards in Laizhou, but in the past few days, I have only selected a small team with relatively strong combat effectiveness."
"Now a total of 3,000 soldiers have been gathered. Always ready to go out of the city and fight the enemy. "Xie Lian has reorganized an elite squad of 3,000 people, ready to be the elite of fighting out of the city, but he didn't expect it to come in handy so soon.
"Okay, Xie Lian, please this time, please go out of the city to kill the thief and avenge the revenge for ten thousand years" Xu Congzhi heard Xie Lian's request to fight, and he also readily agreed, ready to let Xie Lian avenge Kong Youde.
After Xie Lian's consent, Xie Lian also immediately led 3,000 elite soldiers out of the city to fight Kong Youde.
Kong Youde, who was bent on retreating, didn't expect that the guards in Laizhou City would have so much energy to stop him.
Not long after leaving the city wall, leading the army forward, I heard that Laizhou Cheng had actually opened, but this time thousands of people rushed out, as if he didn't want Kong Youde to escape.
When Kong Youde heard the news, he also became even more honestly afraid.
"Quick, inform the battalions, speed up the retreat, the fastest possible jump out of this small cage," Kong Youde hysterically conveyed the panic in his heart.