Xu Hongru crossed the canal east with an army of 50,000, and no one dared to intercept him along the way......

Tong Zhonghua didn't stop either.

He brought a total of 500 cavalry, and there were less than 10,000 guards and villagers in Juye City, and they could be drowned by Xu Hongru's army when they went out.

Xu Hongru's move has been planned for a long time.

In order to avoid carrying the old and weak women and children to drag them down, the families of their main leaders were all sent to Liangshan, although there were no more than 800 miles of water there at this time, but it was still a vast swamp, roughly from Liangshan County to the east to Dongpingzhou City. He personally led the main force of 50,000 to cross the canal and turn south after rushing through Tong Zhonghua's symbolic interception, and the officials and troops in Jining and Yanzhou were so frightened that they all closed their doors, and this mighty army absorbed more followers along the way, and finally arrived in Zou Cheng to meet Zhang Dongbai here.

By this time they had grown to an army of 100,000.

And with Zou and Teng two county towns as control areas, Yi County was conquered, and then it was recaptured by a local Xiucai Jiji Township, but Zhang Shen and the two of them had real control over Zou Teng's two cities, mainly because they and the poor people in the city killed the Meng family in Zou County, and killed the Yansui governor Dong Guoguang's family in Teng County.

Therefore, the local people's hearts are still very stable.

And here to the west is the Nansi Lake, which has been quite rudimentary, at this time it is not called this name, but this series of lakes across Luxi has been formed, and the east is a stretch of lofty mountains, including the famous Baoqianggu, which just forms a defensive circle with Zou Teng Ercheng as the north and south fortresses.

Advance can be attacked, retreat can be defended.

It's really not a big deal to go into the mountains.

No one can help them.

Wait until there is a shortage of food and money to come out to cut off the canal, this was originally Xu Hongru's plan, in fact, the apocalypse is because they occupied Xia Town, that is, Weishan County, and then robbed the grain, so they were forced to go all out to mobilize all the troops that could be mobilized, and the former Datong commander-in-chief, Yang Zhaoji, a native of Linyi, finally used the traitor to recover Zoucheng.

At the end of the day, this position is too important.

However, all of a sudden, chickens and dogs jumped up in the Yandong area.

King Lu in Yanzhou City gritted his teeth and took out tens of thousands of taels of silver and began to reward the three armies, and Kong Shangxian, the Holy Duke of Yan, announced as quickly as possible that he would enter Beijing to worship Yue Temple, which was definitely not an escape, but he was originally ready to go, in short, he threw Qufu directly to Kong Yinzhi, Kong Yinzhi also gritted his teeth and took out the silver to recruit young people to defend the city. Tong Zhonghua, who was originally in Juye, quickly rushed to Jining, and the governor of Shandong also arrived in Yanzhou with reinforcements from Qingzhou's Shandong Capital Division to protect King Lu.

This place is full of big people!

The tragedy of Mengfu can be forgiven, after all, Yasheng's status in the Ming Dynasty is not high, and he was almost thrown out by Zhu Yuanzhang back then, but if he loses Qufu again, he can't say it, especially if Yanzhou is captured, then the military and political officials in the entire Shandong will not have good fruit to eat.

Losing a feud is a real felony.

Because the southern line had not yet waited for the canal to thaw, the Zhejiang army, which had already reached Huai'an, went north on foot, and Qi Jin waited south to Xuzhou as a lieutenant general, re-commanding this army with deep roots with him, and the Sichuan army, which had already landed at Pukou and walked north to Xuyi, also accelerated its speed. In short, the Shandong battlefield can be said to be full of troops, and even part of the Ming army in Dengzhou is going south, and Wanli also urgently appointed a deputy general of Shandong stationed in Dengzhou, and Shen Yourong, a famous coastal defense general who was originally in Zhejiang, went north......

Of course, not to deal with Xu Hongru.

Shen Yourong went north to defend against Jiannu's cross-sea attack.

However, Wanli did have enough troops at this time, because Daishan's army had just broken through Pyongyang, and the wild boar skin had gained a lot in Korea, and it changed the sluggish situation in Liaodong that was beaten by Yang Xin, so at present, there will be no major war on the battlefield in Liaodong.

As for North Korea......

Wanli just had an excuse not to save, saying that he didn't want to save at this time, unless the Ming army landed in Zhenjiang, it would not be able to solve the suffering of North Korea, but with the current combat effectiveness of the Ming army, no one really dared to provoke the wild boar skin that was in high spirits. Originally, in history, Mao Wenlong took the opportunity to attack Zhenjiang in one fell swoop because of the wild boar skin attacking Liaodong, but at this time, the Jiannu army was in this direction, and his going again was equivalent to suicide, anyway, Guanghaijun and Jiannu had been eyebrows before, and now the wild boar skin beat him but still wanted Daming to save him?

Think beautifully!

Wanli is not a good person.

When will the North Koreans get him down by themselves, and change to be obedient to Daming!

As for Yang Xin......

Anyway, where did Yang Yishi go?

Night, Yishan.

"Then the Kong family is really so rich?"

Around the flickering campfire, a Scented Cultist said with a shocked face.

This is one of the three main fortresses set up by Xu Hongru, and the other two are the second city of Zou Teng, but the main mobile combat force of the Wenxiang Sect is deployed in the Yishan battalion, so that no matter which city the official army attacks, the elite here will attack from the periphery as a countermeasure.

This man is still very military-minded.

There have been frequent battles between the two sides these days, large and small, but the result has been that the officers and soldiers have returned home without exception.

However, the Sichuan army still did not arrive.

Although the Zhejiang army in the south reached Taierzhuang, their baggage was still behind.

This army is more than half of the firearms, those chariots, artillery and the like are not transported, it is impossible for the Zhejiang army to attack, and these can only be transported by water, fortunately, the canal has been thawed, and it is estimated that it will not take long to arrive.

Before this, neither Tong Zhonghua nor Qi Jin had any offensive motivation.

What is really anxious is the governor of Shandong and the king of Lu, as well as the local tyrants and gentry of Yanzhou Mansion.

The former was afraid that Xu Hongru would continue to grow so big that he would break through Yanzhou, and a crime of losing the feudal domain would ruin the governor of Shandong, as for the latter, of course, he was frightened by the tragedy of the Meng Dong family. In particular, Guo Shiqi, the grandson of Guo Chaobin, the former secretary of the Ministry of Industry, is the most courageous, and the combat effectiveness of the recruited township warriors even exceeds that of the official army, and it can be said that he has a little bit of a shaved head.

"Is that still fake? This year, Kong Jiaguang dedicated to the dog emperor, there are enough 100,000 taels, I just stole a piece of silver when I carried the silver to them, and I was driven out, originally that Kong Yinzhi also wanted to cut me, thanks to my uncle who has been on an errand in their house for many years, kowtowing and pleading only to drive me out of Qufu. Not only is their silver piled up like a mountain, but also the grain is piled up like a mountain, all the granaries in the Confucian Mansion are full, the rice is flowing outside, their family has hundreds of thousands of acres of land, how much do you say you have to harvest every year? ”

The man next to him said.

"Brother Yang Feng, that Qufu City is not easy to fight!"

One of the cultists said.

"What's so bad about fighting? Our tens of thousands of troops pressed over, and there were only a few soldiers in Qufu City? Dig a hole in the city wall and stuff a few barrels of gunpowder, and it will explode at once, let's not fight anywhere else, just hit the Holy Gate, who is willing to fight for the people of Qufu to protect the Kong family? ”

Yang Feng......

Uh, Yang Xin said disdainfully.

Now he has joined the ranks of the glorious peasant rebels.

Now his identity is the former Confucian family handyman, who has just been driven out of Qufu and has a grudge against Nishan Yangfeng.

It was very easy for him to infiltrate the Wenxiang Sect, because the hundreds of thousands of troops under Xu Hongru were basically divided by region, and the head of a local sect led the believers of a place, as well as the local poor people took the initiative to participate, as long as Yang Xin did not go to the team with the accent of Juye, Yuncheng, and Caozhou, it was easy to learn the Qufu accent to join the team in these places with his language talent. This war is actually coming to an end, the reason why Tong Zhonghua and Qi Jin are absentmindedly fooling around is just waiting for the Sichuan army and the Zhejiang army, as for the Shandong guards and the Xiangyong, pecking each other with the rookies of Wenxiangjiao is a joke for them.

As long as the Sichuan and Zhejiang armies arrive, complete the rest and equipment, and the rest is to push from Taierzhuang to the north.

And they will certainly succeed too.

This time, Xu Hongru's hasty rebellion was much worse than the scale of the original history, and in the original history, there were only 17 troops in response to him, including Jingzhou in Hebei, and there were even those who were not originally Wenxiang Sect disciples but pulled up the team under the banner of Wenxiang Sect. But this time it was Yuncheng Juye, plus Zhang Dongbai and Shen Zhi's two teams, originally they even went on an expedition to Yizhou in history, but this time it was only limited to the territory of Yanzhou Mansion, and they didn't even arrive at Taierzhuang.

It should be said that Yang Xin's purpose has been achieved.

He picked it up before it had grown enough to seriously hurt the Empire's body, and it turned into a local problem.

However, it's not perfect enough!

"The Kong family, it's really rich!"

Half an hour later, next to another bonfire, he spoke in a Zaozhuang accent.

"I've entered Qufu City, it's really like the palace, almost half of the entire Qufu City is a mansion of their Confucian family, every day I heard that pigs alone have to eat hundreds of heads, Nayan Shenggong has a hundred dishes for each meal, what kind of delicacies and delicacies are eaten in a different way, and all that flows out of the gutter of the Confucian family is oil! Hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land, the entire Nishan is all their family, Qufu City sells vegetables, they have to pay a tax to their family, if we can live a day like theirs, it will be really Elysium! ”

Yang Xin said with infinite longing.

The incense-smelling cultists around him drooled and listened.

Then half an hour later, he slipped away to another bonfire in Tengzhou dialect.

He wandered like a ghost, using his linguistic talent and imagination that conformed to the aesthetic level of these people, around the piles of bonfires, with different identities, constantly describing the wealth and luxury of the Kong family, depicting mountains of gold and silver and grain. And his listeners then spread the content among many more, and soon the Sniffers, who were already bored, already knew that a treasure trove was within their reach, only seventy miles away from their camp.

Seventy miles!

Hurry up and it's just a day!

A treasure trove of gold and silver!

Why don't we grab it? Why keep watching here? As long as there is gold, silver, and grain, why worry about it?