The henchmen who carried the artillery generously told all the rebels that the reason why they carried the artillery on board was to strengthen the firepower of the warships, and if there were Ming warships blocking them at sea, they would definitely be killed.

The vast majority of soldiers did not understand that there were regulations on the artillery ratio of warships, and they could not just carry a few guns to fire.

Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming also announced the plan to evacuate Dengzhou City in three phases, so that the generals could widely publicize it, since the three divisions must of course be in order, but the bravest and most active soldiers will undoubtedly be the first batch of candidates to evacuate.

Kong Youde publicly stated that he would live and die with all the robes, and he himself would stick to the last evacuation Dengzhou in Shuicheng.

Besides, the soldiers, rioters, and bandits who participated in the rebellion are basically stupid people with developed limbs and simple minds, since Kong Dashuai, who took over as the "Marshal of the Capital", will stick to Dengzhou until everyone gets on the boat and evacues, so what is there to worry about?

After going to sea, the rebel generals reached a consensus, Zhenjiang Fort at the mouth of the Yalu River, which is the same as history.

Kong Youde knew that Dongjiang Town was different from the past, why didn't he change his plan or go to Zhenjiang Fort to land?

That's for a reason, Zhenjiang Fort has always been the territory of Dongjiang Town, and Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, Chen Guangfu and other rebel generals are too familiar with the mountains and rivers there.

They also knew that Dongjiang Town's garrison in Zhenjiang Fort would not be too many two or three thousand men to reach the sky, and they brought more than 10,000 people, including no less than 8,000 soldiers, and hundreds of artillery.

The rebels, who were paying attention to the weather every day, finally found that the sea ice was beginning to melt in early February, and after a few days, they couldn't wait for the sea ice to melt slowly on its own, so they quickly organized people to use fire and axes to smash the ice in the water city.

Damn! "Heaven Dies" is really not a casual talk, the historical Denglai rebels really can't hold on to food for many days, and they will be one point weaker if they run one day late, otherwise they won't dig ice to get boats.

However, the middle of February in the sixth year of Chongzhen was relatively warm, and Kong Youde easily made it easy for all the big ships to sail out of Dengzhou Water City.

If it is as cold as the sixth year of the Apocalypse, as long as Kong Youde is dragged for half a month, I am afraid that the hungry rebels will not be able to defend the city.

Because the Ming army besieging the city was attacking in a hurry, seeing that the rebels could no longer withstand it.

The weather in the sixth year of the Apocalypse was so cold that the sea surface of Juehua Island and the mainland was so cold that it could run thousands of troops and horses, which directly led to the Houjin army being able to attack an island with the tactics of cavalry raids.

Throughout history, and even in the history of warfare in the entire world, has there ever been a case of an island more than ten miles from the mainland being raided by enemy cavalry?

And the last dynasty of the Han people, the Ming Dynasty, is so tragic, and such a small probability event can be used by Jiannu.

However, since the attack on Juehua Island in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, until now, nearly 400 years, there has never been an example of Juehua Island being frozen to the mainland and being able to run horses.

In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, more than 10,000 Tartars and Jiannu rushed to destroy the large supply base set up by the Ming Dynasty on Juehua Island.

A total of more than 2,000 warships, merchant ships, transport ships, and fishing boats frozen in the port were burned by the Houjin army, and more than 20,000 soldiers, civilians, and merchants on Juehua Island were slaughtered, and the direct material losses of the Ming Dynasty were no less than 10 million taels of silver.

As a result, in order to effectively cooperate with the army to recover the lost territory in eastern Liaodong, Sun Chengzong, Mao Yuanyi and others expanded the independent battalion Wulongwu Water Division on the basis of aiding the Liaohuai Yangshui Division and the Zhejiang Naval Division.

Now when Da Ming hoped to get God's help to freeze the rebel ships so that they could not cross the sea and escape, God did not open his eyes at all, and gave him the warmest spring in recent years.

The result of history was that Jiannu got for nothing a sailor, a well-equipped sailor with a full gunner, and hundreds of cannons, thousands of well-trained gunners, and a dozen Portuguese instructors.

When this pie falling from the sky hit the slave chieftain Hongyi, this kid was afraid that it was in a dream, he couldn't believe it at all, and later found out that Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming and other generals were all happy when they brought their families.

He was so stimulated by the joy that he kept muttering, "God bless the Golden Kingdom!" As a result, Kong Youde's men and horses were given the title of "Heavenly Blessing Army".

In the early morning of 13 February, when the Dengzhou rebels were still asleep, Kong Youde, who had sworn to hold on until the last brother evacuated safely, ran away overnight with Liao soldiers, sailors, and gunners.

Fang Zhenghua, the chief eunuch of the prison army, received a letter from Huang Han in the first month, and accepted rice, white flour and mutton, canned sea fish, and a series of liquor sent by Huang Han, so that he could reward the three armies in a high-profile manner.

In the letter, Huang Han talked about the "victory of Yanbei University" and also described that he would be unharmed, and finally pointed out that the rebels were like grasshoppers after autumn, and they could not reach a few days, and they should pay special attention to the weather when the weather warmed and the ice on the sea surface began to melt.

With Huang Han's conclusive assertion that the rebels would voluntarily abandon the expectation of Dengzhou escaping from the sea, Fang Zhenghua was of course unwilling to attack, and the number of counterinsurgents under his command was less than half of that in history.

If the method of strong attack is blindly adopted, the Ming army that quells the rebellion does not have such strength, and the key is that the rebel artillery fire is still stronger than that of the imperial court to encircle and suppress the army.

If you suffer huge casualties and make the brute force attack the fortified city with sharp artillery, causing heavy casualties among the besieging men and horses, demoralization, and being counterattacked, it is very likely that the siege and annihilation plan will fall short.

Moreover, under normal circumstances, under the condition that the combat effectiveness and equipment are almost the same, it is necessary to have five times the number of troops to be able to sit firmly on the Diaoyutai.

Now the total number of Ming troops who have suppressed the Kou is no more than 60,000, and the rebels are still claimed to be 50,000, how can such a battle be won? Only insisting on the siege led to the loss of food in the city, and the people of the city did not hesitate to starve to death to defeat the rebels.

The war is really cruel, no one would think of Shengdou Xiaomin, not even a hero like Fang Zhenghua, who has been proven by history.

He knew that if he adopted siege tactics, it must be the people in Dengzhou City who would starve to death first, so he did not hesitate to do it.

After receiving Huang Han's letter in the first month, Fang Zhenghua calculated the days, and felt that there should not be many days left for the sea ice to melt, so he changed his strategy and ordered the Shenji Battalion deployed on the mountain to stop the daily shelling.

Zhu Dadian, the governor of Shandong, the civilian official who commanded the army, was appointed by Fang Zhenghua, who carried the sword of the Son of Heaven to supervise the army, to manage the grain, grass and military supplies, and during this time, he had been organizing the Ming army and people besieging the city to build siege equipment such as ladders and shield carts.

Fang Zhenghua pulled Li Ruolian to lead the infantry and warrior battalions, four guard battalions, and Jinyi guards of the Shenji Battalion to conduct rehearsals for climbing the city every day, and often carried out ant-attached siege exercises at night.