Chapter 464: Calculating Kong Youde
Therefore, with the Udwater as the flagship, dozens of armed Zhuyin ships appeared as the main warships, and the faces on the ships were either Xiyi or the Japanese Invaders, and the civil officials and military generals of the imperial court would 100% believe that the Japanese Invaders, who had been stopped for decades, would make a comeback again.
No one would be able to think that such a fleet belonged entirely to the "Red Banner Army", and those Xiyi and Japanese Kou all worked for the "Red Banner Army" for free during the labor reform period.
Due to the sixth year of the Apocalypse, the Longwu Sailor lost thousands of ships on Juehua Island, and the imperial court has no financial resources to recover so far.
Therefore, the number of warships and transport ships in the Shanhaiguan Water Camp is not as good as that of Dongjiang Town.
Moreover, after Hanzi became the chief officer of Shangshan Customs, this water battalion would inevitably be embezzled by Huang Han and transformed into a "Red Banner Army" water battalion.
The Denglai rebellion directly led to the Denglai Navy Division becoming owned by the rebels, and only the Tianjin Navy Division with thousands of men and dozens of large war ships remained in Liaohai, which was still subordinate to the imperial court.
If it weren't for the fact that the governor of Tianjin had a bad brain, and I believe that the stupid Vice General Sun buried the sailors in vain, Huang Han really couldn't think of a way to annex those sailors and warships.
After calculating the rebels, the Liaohai Sea will become the inland sea of the "Red Banner Army", and there is basically no sea power of the imperial court here.
From now on, all the smuggling and entrainment of civilian and military generals will depend on Huang Han's face, and they will have to pay tolls to the "Red Banner Army".
The sea transportation lines in the north of the Ming Dynasty will also be firmly controlled by Huang Han, and the transportation of grain by sea will be completely controlled by Huang Han, which means that the imperial court is detained.
I don't know when Kong Youde will go to sea to escape, so Huang Han began to sit in Lushunkou on the tenth day of the first month, and the warships also returned one after another and concentrated in Lushunkou and Qingniwa Port to prepare for departure.
The coast of the Lushunkou area is tortuous and there are many natural harbors, which can fully meet the needs of the "Red Banner Army" water camp warships, and it is still a wartime order to carry out the entry and exit here.
Since June of the fifth year of Chongzhen, in addition to the fishing boats in the system, the fishing boats of Tianjin Wei and Shandong will be detained if they come here, and they will need to wait until next spring when the flowers bloom.
The detained fishing boats will not let them be idle, they can go to Liaodong Bay to fish on the side of Juehua Island, and the "Red Flag Army" will buy all the harvest at a fair price.
During this period, too many fishermen received more than double their previous income, resulting in too many fishermen taking the initiative to settle down in Lushunkou and concentrate on fishing for the "Red Flag Army" from now on.
Many of the fishermen's homes are on the islands off the coast of Shandong, which are so poor that many of them are not full of pants and have few belongings worth bringing with them when they move.
Huang Han's purpose in doing this was not to let history derail, lest Kong Youde's gang give up using the sea route to escape because there was a powerful "Red Banner Army" sailor in Liaohai.
Knowing that the Denglai rebels who had plundered half of Shandong were very fat, Huang Han was forced to rush to Dengzhou to share the fat because the imperial court did not have an order, so he had to wait for the sea to satisfy his desires.
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, in February, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, Chen Guangfu, Li Yingyuan and other rebel generals sit in the city and live like a year.
It's not that they don't want to run from the sea, since Li Jiucheng accidentally killed the attack team and lost a big defeat, the rebels have long lost their fighting spirit and have long thought about leaving.
However, the ghost weather in Chongzhen's year was so cold that even the coast of Denglai was frozen three feet, causing the rebels' warships and merchant ships to be frozen in the water city at the beginning of November.
The rebel generals learned about the recent situation of Dongjiang Town from the captured Ming army, and knew that because the imperial court rehabilitated Mao Shuai, the people of Dongjiang Town were now stable, and the rebel generals knew that if they encountered their former colleagues at sea, they would inevitably meet each other.
Originally, Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde and others were preparing to use Dengzhou as a base to establish a country ruled by warriors, so they did not wantonly slaughter the residents of Dengzhou, but now these butchers have bared their fangs.
The reason, of course, was that the grain stock in Dengzhou was exhausted, and the rebels began to starve and no longer care about military discipline, and began to burn, kill, and loot, and the crying in Dengzhou City shook the sky.
It is a pity that Dengzhou City was besieged for more than three months after Li Jiucheng was killed, and there was no food in the homes of the common people, and finally many children and women were captured by the frenzied rebels and killed as two-legged sheep to eat meat.
It's not a problem to go on like this! Kong Youde, Li Yingyuan, Geng Zhongming, Chen Guangfu, and others all know that the situation is grim and that tens of thousands of people must consider what to do next.
Going to sea is a unanimously recognized way to escape, and no one objects, but it is difficult for everyone to decide how to live in the future.
Will you seize the islands and become pirates from now on, or will you coerce North Korea to give up territory, or will you take refuge in Jiannu?
Under Geng Zhongming's best efforts, the results of the discussion were self-evident, and the rebel generals realized that the Ming Dynasty had nowhere to stay, and there was only a glimmer of life if they crossed the sea and defected to Jiannu.
Kong Youde was full of confidence in this, and he also wanted to bargain with the slave chieftain, which was true in history, and he was still quite arrogant in writing the surrender of the red gangster, because he knew that Jiannu, who was good at riding and archery, was eager to get a sailor and a cannon.
He had more than 100 warships and merchant ships capable of crossing the sea, and he had five or six hundred artillery pieces captured in previous battles, including more than 20 cannons of three or four thousand catties.
He knew that if he took these belongings to Jiannu, even if he fought with them in the past, it would not hurt, and they would definitely be able to be courteous, and they would be able to get land and official positions.
Kong Youde and the others didn't care if they were generously gifted by Jiannu, because they were about to bring gold and silver treasures, no less than three million taels in silver, as long as they had land, they would definitely be able to ensure that the family would eat oil and wear silk in this life.
It's just that Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming and other generals born in Dongjiang Town are a little entangled, because the Dengzhou rebels are close to 30,000, but the capacity of the sea ship is limited, and it has reached the limit of only being able to transport 10,000 people at a time, which means that half of the people must be left behind.
Who to bring and who to leave Kong Youde knows in his heart, first consider bringing Denglai's henchmen from Dongjiang Town, and then all the gunners, sailors need to drive warships, of course merchant ships will be brought, and then who to bring?
The settlement is gone, and then, because it is no longer realistic to bring the old department of Dongjiang Town, gunners, sailors, and family members to load as many Hongyi cannons as possible to the ship, and then consider bringing other people.
At the end of the first month, although the ship was still frozen in Shuicheng, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and others had already begun to ship gold and silver treasures, Hongyi cannons, and Fulong machine guns.
They were so bad that they spread the word in the city of Dengzhou, demanding that all the rebels obey orders and obey commands, and that the soldiers who behaved well would be given priority to leave Dengzhou by boat.
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