Behind him, Guan Feng, He Zhenbei, Ma Jinzhong, Xiao Yang, Li Guo, Zhou Yuji and others followed, while Liang Peijun and Sima Jian guarded Moli on the left and right.

Zu Dacheng's face changed, and the two copper bell-like tigers tightened their eyes, shooting out puzzled eyes.

Zu Dacheng is forty-five or sixteen years old, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, swallow jaws and tiger eyes, and his body is slightly higher than that of his brother Zu Dashou, and he is more powerful and strong.

Mo Li came to Zu Dacheng, reined in the horse's head, dismounted and saluted: "This must be Zu Dacheng's ancestral commander, right?" The last general, Mo Li, was ordered to come to meet with the ancestral general soldiers, and asked the ancestral general soldiers to show down! ”

Zu Dacheng returned the salute and said quietly: "General Moshen, as far as I know, the emperor just transferred your men and horses to the general army, right?" ”

"That's right, these are the last general's department, what are the instructions of the ancestor commander?" Moli said.

"You are a staff general, why do you have several lieutenant generals under you? How will it be explained? Zu Dacheng pointed to Guan Feng, Xiao Yang and others, but he didn't know Ma Jinzhong.

"General Zu's words are wrong, these people are not adjutant generals now, they are all guerrillas and capital divisions under the account of the last general." Mo Li said neither humbly nor arrogantly.

"What? Guan Feng: They're not adjutant generals now?! Zu Dacheng was taken aback, Guan Feng and Xiao Yang he both knew, after the last Da Linghe War, the imperial court rewarded meritorious deeds, although they were not promoted, but before that, one was already a deputy general, and the other was a general, but now Mo Li said that they are all guerrillas and capital divisions under his account, what is the situation?

"Yes! Why, doesn't General Zu want our team to be strong and strong, and there are a few more generals who can fight well? Mo Li smiled slightly.

It turned out that this was Guan Feng's idea, and a few of them deliberately committed a few innocuous military regulations, and then asked Cao Bianjiao to report to Qiu Hejia and demote them. In this way, he can justifiably return to Moli's tent and follow Moli on the expedition.

Originally, Cao Bianjiao also wanted to follow him to the expedition, but he was the chief officer of the Liaodong Forward, and his position was too high, so he couldn't use this method to automatically demote, so he had to watch his colleagues follow Mo Li on the expedition with envy, and he could only guard Dalinghe City depressedly on the side.

This made Mo Li very relieved and moved, after all, they gave up their official position and fame to follow them, this is a rare true feeling, it can be seen that they support themselves from the heart.

Seeing this, Qiu Hejia knew that Guan Feng and they were loyal to Moli, and they did not care about Moli's official position, so he sighed secretly at the moment and was also moved by it, so he fulfilled Guan Feng and them.

Although Zu Dacheng didn't know their inside story, judging from their outfits and armor, they were indeed guerrilla.

At that moment, he snorted heavily: "Nothing! Naturally, it couldn't be better if there were many soldiers and generals! In this way, we can quell the rebellion of the Confucian thieves as soon as possible and share the worries of the Son of Heaven! Since General Mo Shen has strong generals under him, then we wish this counterinsurgency a success! ”

After a pause, Zu Dacheng said again: "Gonggong Gao is still waiting for us in Beizhili, hurry up!" ”

Zu Dacheng and Mo Li's department immediately opened and ran in the direction of Cangzhou in the north. The 2,000 Beijing battalion soldiers led by Gao Qiqian also marched from the Beijing division to Cangzhou, and the Beijing division was close to Cangzhou, and at this time Gao Qiqian had already marched through Cangzhou City to Dezhou. At the same time, let Moli and Zu Dacheng also hurry up to Texas.

Historically, the best outcome is to keep it in a small area, and if it spreads, it will be difficult to clean up. Now Kong Youde's rebellion is vaguely a copy of the civil unrest in the northwest, except that one is spreading from the northwest to the Central Plains, and the other is spreading from Hebei to Shandong. The essence of both is the nature of the stream, if you don't do the encirclement and suppression, I'm afraid that you will lose the initiative.

Mo Li and Zu Dacheng both knew that this counterinsurgency was an opportunity for themselves, a chance to make meritorious contributions to themselves, and a chance to wash themselves away. So although the two have an old feud, they are both hurrying south in the hope of quelling the bandits as soon as possible.

At this time, in the city of Dengzhou, Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, looked at the surging Kong Youde rebels outside the city, and complained bitterly, and all this can be said to be the bitter fruit of his own creation.

At the beginning of the year, Huang Longke, the chief soldier of Dongjiang Town, withheld military salaries and led to a mutiny on Phi Dao, although the mutiny was quickly quelled because of the arrival of food and salary, but it stands to reason that this mutiny should be able to make Sun Yuanhua vigilant, although the Liao soldiers are strong, but in essence, they are actually just a team of soldiers and bandits.

Most of the Liao soldiers in Dongjiang Town were born in Haikou, most of them were outlaws, and the war was fierce, but it was a double-edged sword, and when these Liao soldiers could not be satisfied, these Liao soldiers were no longer soldiers, but bandits who would kill people at any time!

But Sun Yuanhua didn't realize these fatal problems at all, in his opinion, these Liao soldiers are the most elite under his account, although sometimes the temper is a little bigger, but how can the soldiers, especially the soldiers who can fight, not have the slightest anger? Sun Yuanhua was confident that these soldiers were still obedient to him, the governor, and did not doubt the loyalty of these Liao soldiers at all.

Therefore, when the Daling River was in an emergency in August and the imperial court ordered Denglai to send troops out of the pass to help, Sun Yuanhua did not hesitate to send Kong Youde to lead more than 1,000 elite cavalry to help.

Although Kong Youde is afraid of the Tartars, he is also afraid of military law, and he does not dare to disobey the orders of the imperial court. Besides, Sun Yuanhua has the grace to take him in, and since the old governor asked him to lead the troops to help, he can't have a second word.

Kong Youde took the trick of procrastination, grinding all the way, originally thinking that he could delay until the end of the war, and then return to Dengzhou, but who would have thought that the battle in Dalinghe would drag on for two months.

When Kong Youde led his troops to Wuqiao, the troops ran out of food, and the heavy snow this year came very early, and the troops fell into a dilemma in the ice and snow.

Hebei has been plagued by disasters for many years, and the small county town of Wuqiao is simply unable to provide food and grass for more than 1,000 soldiers of Kong Youde.

Kong Youde, who couldn't get help from the local government, had no choice but to start raising his own grain and grass, the so-called self-raising grain and grass, that is, breaking into the homes of ordinary people like bandits and snatching food, which only made Wuqiao mourn for a while.

This is not the most serious, the problem is that these bandit-like Dongjiang soldiers were so bold that they accidentally broke into the house of the old man of a local tyrant, and clashed with the old man of the local tyrant because of snatching a few chickens, and pushed the old man of the local tyrant down in the corner.

This can be a hornet's nest, the local tyrant himself does not have any fame and power, but one of his brothers is an official in Beijing, and after learning about this, he naturally refused to give up, and led people to come to the door and ask Kong Youde to give an explanation.

Kong Youde had no choice but to beat the soldiers who caused the accident with dozens of sticks and apologize to the local tyrant.

However, the soldiers under them thought that they were insulted, their Dongjiang soldiers had extremely poor military discipline, and it was not appropriate to grab some food or something at ordinary times, and at this time the military rations were exhausted, and the local state government did not provide relief, so what did they eat and drink?

Isn't it also an accident to kill someone this time, the lives of people in this troubled world are like mustard, and the death of the common people is a ball matter?

Especially the soldiers who were beaten, they felt even more angry, and under the instigation of a group of outlaws, they actually beat up the local tyrant's family and extorted a lot of gold and silver.

At this time, the forces of the Jingguan clan refused to give up, and insisted that Kong Youde hand over the soldiers who caused the accident. However, the soldiers under his subordinates were-for-tat, never compromising and admitting their mistakes, and they must make decisions for the brothers.

Kong Youde is in trouble, hand it over, but his subordinates don't agree. If you don't pay it, the Beijing officials and local tyrants don't agree, what should I do?

At this time, a key figure happened to appear. This person is Li Jiucheng, a gambler who is addicted to gambling.

Li Jiucheng was originally a thousand general managers in Dengzhou Daying, and his son Li Yingyuan was also a thousand general managers under Kong Youde, and he was also an old acquaintance with Kong Youde.

A few months earlier, Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, had sent Li Jiucheng to the northwest with silver taels to buy horses, preparing to train a cavalry like the Guanning Iron Cavalry to fight the Tartar cavalry. However, Li Jiucheng, a gambler, lost all the money he bought the horse, and was thinking about how to go back to make a difference, but he happened to meet Kong Youde, who was in a dilemma.

Li Jiu was desperate, and when he saw Kong Youde, who was also in trouble, he felt sympathy, so he began to instigate Kong Youde and his son Li Yingyuan to rebel, so that he didn't have to worry about how to explain to Sun Yuanhua about buying horses.

After thinking about it, Kong Youde finally gritted his teeth and said: "Since both horizontal and vertical are dead, why don't you do an earth-shattering career and enjoy enough before you die!" ”

Immediately, Kong Youde raised the anti-flag and plundered the army, and the local tyrant and the Jingguan family were robbed, and several people wanted to resist and were also killed.

Then, Kong Youde turned around and went to Shandong to kill, trapping several counties along the way.

Sun Yuanhua, who had just solved the mutiny on Phi Island with food, did not panic too much after receiving the news of Kong Youde's rebellion in Wuqiao at the beginning, in his opinion, the Liao army made trouble just because there was no food, so he did this foolish thing with a brain fever, as long as he knew the benefits, and then the food and salary were sufficient, and the perpetrators were not held responsible, this mutiny would be solved quickly.

However, Yu Dacheng, who was the governor of Shandong at the time, did not agree with Sun Yuanhua's opinion, he believed that most of the Liao army were outlaws, and if they were against it today, they should be eliminated immediately, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable. For this reason, he was ready to personally lead 1,000 elite Lu troops and 2,000 elite Zhejiang troops transferred from Henan to suppress them, intending to nip this rebellion in the bud.

Yu Dacheng's proposition was supported by Zhang Keda, the commander-in-chief of Denglai. Zhang Keda knew the Liao army very well, and knew that they could be both soldiers and bandits, and their combat effectiveness was far superior to that of the Beizhili garrison.

Zhang Keda reorganized his soldiers and horses, and prepared to attack Kong Youde's rebels with Yu Dacheng's soldiers and horses, and wiped them out in the Qingzhou area, so as not to let them escape to the Denglai area, so as not to echo the old Dongjiang River and get out of control......