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After one night, Li Jiucheng attacked again, and the offensive was extremely fierce, and the sound of killing shook the sky under the city of Laiyang.

Gao Qiqian and Zu Dacheng looked at the surging rebels under the city and cried bitterly. Originally, I wanted to beat Li Jiucheng, a water dog, and make meritorious contributions, but who knows, Mao Chenglu, the deputy chief soldier of Dongjiang Town, actually led 7,000 Dongjiang soldiers to respond to Kong Youde's rebellion, which made Li Jiucheng's strength rise sharply for a while, forcing himself to shrink into the city and unable to get out.

Fortunately, he reacted quickly and had already sent people to ask for help, hoping that the new Liao army of Cao Bianjiao and Mo Li and others could arrive as soon as possible to relieve the siege of Laiyang City.

Now Gao Qiqian and Zu Dacheng have no other way to think of it, and they can only stick to the city and wait for reinforcements.

Mo Li, Cao Bianjiao, He Zhendong and others commanded the army to chase and kill the fleeing rebels, because Bai Zhicheng ordered his subordinates to spread rumors among the rebels, shaking the morale of the rebels, resulting in a large-scale rout among the rebel soldiers, and at the same time, many rebels who fled slowly saw that they could not escape, and began to surrender to the new Liao army.

A rabble is a rabble, and as soon as it shows defeat, it will immediately become panicked, and the previous morale will begin to evaporate.

Seeing that more and more of his subordinate soldiers were surrendering to the official army, Kong Youde couldn't think about it, so he had to try his best to gather his subordinates and flee north in a hurry.

Mo Li, Cao Bianjiao and others led the army to chase down to the city, and Zhu Dadian and other defenders were converging with Du Geng, He Zhendong and other troops to capture the rebels.

Zhu Dadian had already learned from He Zhendong that these soldiers and horses were all the new Liao army under Moli's subordinates, who came to Shandong to quell the rebellion by order, and happened to come here and encountered Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming's army besieging the city, so they divided their troops into two ways to attack Kong Youde's rebels.

Zhu Dadian was both surprised and puzzled, isn't there the embroidered Cao character on the flag? Why do they all call themselves Moli's subordinates?

But no matter what, after all, it was the people who saved themselves and relieved the siege of Zhucheng, and this love is very serious. Seeing Mo Li, Cao Bianjiao and others arriving, Zhu Dadian didn't put on any governor's shelf, and greeted Mo Li and the others and said, "Shandong Governor Zhu Dadian, thank you generals for coming to the rescue!" ”

With that, Zhu Dadian was about to dismount. Seeing this, Mo Li hurriedly said: "Lord Futai, don't be polite! Now is not the time to speak, the last general thinks that he should pursue the rebels with all his might, and when he catches Kong Youde's thief, the last general will come to see Lord Futai again! ”

Zhu Dadian also knew that now was not the time to be polite, so he nodded at the moment and said loudly: "Okay!" Then let's talk about the thieves after exterminating the thieves! ”

At that moment, tens of thousands of horses and horses chased Kong Youde all the way, while collecting many rebel soldiers who knelt on the ground and surrendered. On the official road leading from Zhucheng to Jiaozhou, there were rebels running wolf-rushing everywhere, and those who did not run fast knelt on the ground and surrendered to the official army.

After chasing for a day, until dusk, he chased to Jiaozhou, but now Kong Youde simply didn't stay in Jiaozhou, and continued to run in the direction of Dengzhou in the northeast. It turned out that more than 3,000 soldiers and horses who stayed in Jiaozhou also fled with Kong Youde.

Seeing that it was getting late, and Kong Youde was running too fast, he couldn't catch up for a while, and the soldiers chased after a day, and they were already hungry and tired, and after discussing with Zhu Dadian and others, Moli and Cao Bianjiao decided to rest in Jiaozhou tonight and chase tomorrow.

After that, it is time to set up camp and rest and count the results of the battle.

After dinner, Mo Lizheng and Zhu Dadian and others narrated in the big tent, and Du Geng came over to report the results.

In this battle, including the two battlefields of Fallen Soul Valley and Gu'an, the official army killed a total of 8,163 rebels in the first battle of Zhucheng, captured 39,048 people, Kong Youde's 670,000 army, and only less than 20,000 people escaped, and many of them took the opportunity to escape.

In addition, there are countless weapons and armor such as Hongyi cannons, Western cannons, and various earthen cannons left by Kong Youde, among which the Hongyi cannons are too bulky and heavy, and none of them have been taken away, and a lot of food, war horses and other materials have also been seized.

In terms of the officers and troops, except for Zhu Dadian, who paid relatively large casualties when defending the city, not many officers and soldiers died in the later battles with the New Liao Army to attack the rebels, with a total of 3,857 killed, of which Zhu Dadian's troops reached more than 2,900. In addition, the total number of wounded officers and soldiers was **1,000.

In any case, this battle of Zhucheng can be said to have been a perfect victory, not only defending Zhucheng, but also severely damaging the Kong Youde rebels, almost eradicating their elite forces in one fell swoop, leaving only more than 10,000 remnants to flee, and their own casualties are not large, it is really a big victory.

The whole army was immersed in the joy of winning the battle. Zhu Dadian also had a lot of emotion, saying that if it wasn't for the timely arrival of the New Liao Army, he Zhu Dadian probably didn't know how long he could hold out. Yan Xia is deeply grateful to Mo Li and Cao Bianjiao, this time the great victory of Zhucheng is up, and the emperor will definitely be happy.

When the battle is fought, it is time to judge the reward for meritorious deeds. Although Kong Youde is still fleeing, the imperial army has already formed a siege of the rebels in Denglai, and he will not be able to jump for a few days.

What Zhu Dadian means is that since this time it is all dependent on the timely assistance of the New Liao Army to have this great victory, then this merit naturally belongs to Cao Bianjiao, the chief officer of the New Liao Army, among the generals present, Cao Bianjiao has the largest official position, leading tens of thousands of troops, and severely inflicting heavy losses on the rebels, this great merit should of course be recorded on Cao Bianjiao.

But Cao Bianjiao shook his head again and again, saying that this counterinsurgency battle was actually commanded by General Mo Li, and all of them here were General Mo's old subordinates, and the great merit should be credited to General Mo. Later, Cao Bianjiao told him about what happened in Daling River before, saying that Mo Li was demoted because he offended the powerful people of the dynasty after offending and killing Zu Dashou, but in the minds of their old subordinates, Mo Li has always been their general.

Zhu Dadian also heard about Moli's affairs, but he didn't know that there was such an inside story, and he was quite sympathetic to Moli's situation at the moment, and discussed with Lu Hanzhang and other eunuchs to give Moli the merits of the great victory in Zhucheng.

Lu Hanzhang and Wang Chengen are both Cao Huachun's protégés, and they are not used to Gao Qiqian's cunning and insidiousness, but because Gao Qiqian is extremely favored by Chongzhen, Lu Hanzhang can't compete with Gao Qiqian, but secretly he doesn't make friends with Gao Qiqian.

Lu Hanzhang hadn't seen Mo Li before, but Mo Li killed Zu Dashou and Wu Xiang in Daling River, he also knew, but he didn't think that killing Zu Dashou and Wu Xiang was wrong, in his opinion, Zu Dashou and Wu Xiang bent their knees and defected to Jiannu to be killed, but it should not be killed by Mo Li, a general soldier at the same level, but Zu Dashou and Wu Xiang should be handed over to the three divisions for trial, and then dealt with according to the law.

But Mo Li killed Zu Dashou and Wu Xiang in a moment of anger, and it can't explain how Mo Li is domineering and arbitrary, it can only be said that Mo Li is also a person in temperament, but he was unlucky, and he met Gao Qiqian who added oil and vinegar to give him eye medicine, and the emperor Long Yan was furious, and he was taken down and demoted to a general.

However, these are just Lu Hanzhang's inner thoughts, and the emperor does not dare to have any dissenting opinions on his disposal.

This time, he went south with Cao Bianjiao to quell the rebellion, and after seeing Mo Li, Lu Hanzhang also behaved neither salty nor light, neither deliberately showing favor nor deliberately making things difficult, everything seemed indifferent.

However, Mo Li's demeanor and command talent Lu Hanzhang also has some insight, in his heart, he feels that a group of experienced generals such as Cao Bianjiao, Du Geng, He Zhendong, etc., are all respectful to Mo Li, and sincerely love him, it is conceivable that Mo Li will not be worse than this person at least in terms of personality, otherwise how could those arrogant generals obediently obey his command.

Now that Zhu Dadian proposed to give the great merit to Mo Li, Lu Hanzhang naturally had no opinion, but simply said: "Zhu Futai saw it with his own eyes, and he is the commander in command of the Shandong counterinsurgency army. ”

"Thank you father-in-law for your great support! I can't thank you enough! In this way, the great victory of the cities is due to General Mo. Zhu Dadian said with his fists clenched.

Although Zhu Dadian was born as a literati and a scholar, his personality is quite bold. Besides, the New Liao Army is so brave and good at fighting, and in the future, if you want to exterminate Kong Youde, you will have to rely on the New Liao Army to support the overall situation, so Cao Bianjiao and other manpower owners asked for rewards for Mo Li, and Zhu Dadian naturally voted for it.

Mo Li was not modest, and clasped his fists at Zhu Dadian, Lu Hanzhang and others and said, "Thank you Lord Futai and my father-in-law for your love!" Mo Li is grateful! Thank you for your love! ”

He is not greedy for military achievements and fame, but after some twists and turns, he deeply feels that he has no soldiers and no power in his hands to show his ambitions in this troubled era, which is tantamount to a fool's dream. Therefore, he must grasp more power and more resources, so that he can train an elite army as soon as possible to defeat the Tartars and revitalize China.

There are no soldiers and no power, and it is in vain to say anything, and the so-called Qiao woman is difficult to cook without rice, which is the case.

And after the great victory of Zhucheng this time, Chongzhen has to reward himself with some military power no matter what, not to mention the general army, the deputy general should not be able to run away, otherwise he will not be rewarded for his merits, how will he appease the hearts of the soldiers in the world.

After the meritorious deeds were rewarded, everyone discussed the next actions. Zhucheng and Jiaozhou have been recovered, and they can't help but send troops to garrison, Zhucheng is still garrisoned by the original Zhucheng garrison general Ding Kui, as for Jiaozhou, after the original defenders were defeated by the rebels, most of them surrendered to the rebels, and after the rebels were defeated by the official army today, these Jiaozhou defenders soon threw themselves into the official army, and there are currently about 500 people.

After Zhu Dadian reprimanded these Ming troops who came and went, he didn't blame them too much, and still let them still garrison Jiaozhou, but the original guard Tang Tong was dead, so Zhu Dadian appointed Song Qingyu as the general of Jiaozhou, and allocated 500 troops to him to garrison Jiaozhou, restoring the order of Jiaozhou and the official yamen.

And Zhu Dadian and the soldiers of the New Liao Army, after a night's rest, are about to embark on the journey of exterminating Kong Youde......