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The new Liao army soon poured into the county seat of Putai, and some rebel soldiers who had no time to escape were caught, about 1,500 people, and these people saw that there was no way out, so they put down their weapons and hugged their heads and begged for mercy.

Mo Li knew that most of these rebels were coerced people, and they did not want to rebel in essence, so he ordered all the soldiers to not kill indiscriminately if they encountered rebels who surrendered and begged for mercy, and all of them were imprisoned and dealt with after the battle was over.

However, his subordinates are only about 2,000 people, while Pan Yanfei's rebel army is as many as seven or eight thousand, and many people are scattering and fleeing.

I had to see that I was going one step at a time, and if I had to do it, I would have to use special means when I couldn't say it.

After learning that the main general Pan Yanfei fled eastward with his people, Moli ordered Guan Feng, Xiao Yang, Zhou Yuji, and Li Guo to lead the troops to continue the pursuit, while he and Ma Jinzhong and others were responsible for controlling Putai County and taking over the supplies.

Mo Li and Ma Jinzhong led 500 soldiers to drive the city's captives to a wide open field, intending to find a few sturdy and empty houses to hold them in.

Due to the large number of prisoners, and the soldiers of the new Liao army had to search for the rebels in the city one by one and distinguish them from the original people, the forces were inevitably too scattered.

Among the captives was a leader named Xia Yong, one of Pan Yanfei's several capable subordinates, who was a thousand generals under Pan Yanfei, and saw that the new Liao army divided its troops to pursue his companions, and there were not many soldiers left in the city, so he started to think about it, and quietly discussed with his subordinates around him to escape from the opportunity.

When a group of New Liao Army soldiers came over with nearly 100 rebel prisoners, Xia Yong and dozens of his subordinates took advantage of the opportunity that the sight and attention of the New Liao Army soldiers were blocked and attracted by the new prisoners, and suddenly burst into trouble and stepped forward to snatch the weapons of the New Liao Army soldiers.

Due to the suddenness of the incident, the soldiers of the New Liao Army were caught off guard and killed seven or eight people by these riotous rebel captives, and then Xia Yong shouted: "Brothers, the officers and soldiers have been killed!" Run, everybody! ”

The mob then swarmed towards the east side of the clearing. Dozens of steps to the east is a dense area of dwellings.

The new Liao army soldiers numbered only twenty in total, and seven or eight were killed by the mob at once, and before the rest could react, the prisoners who had been planning for a long time had already begun to rush to the eastern residential area like crazy.

The general Jiao Yuan, who led this group of soldiers, was angry and anxious, raised his gun and shouted: "Don't move!" Fuck, don't run! Come back! Give me all back! ”

But none of the captives paid any attention to him, not only did Xia Yong's group flee first, but the rest of the captives in the open space also took the opportunity to take advantage of the chaos and rush towards the east.

"Stop! Fucking stop! ”

Jiao Yuan shouted angrily, and the flint gun in his hand fired three shots into the air, but the captives still showed no signs of being frightened by him, and continued to run lifelessly.

The gunfire and commotion alarmed Mo Li, who was leading people to search for the hidden rebels, and when he saw this, he couldn't help but be furious, and with a wave of his hand, nearly a hundred soldiers under his command rushed forward, stood in a line, and raised their guns at the fleeing captives.

"Fire!" Mo Li shouted angrily. Damn, Lao Tzu really wants to spare you from dying, but it's good that you want to take the opportunity to escape! Then it's no wonder that Lao Tzu is ruthless!

"Bang bang ......"

A burst of gunfire rang out, and clouds of gunpowder smoke filled the air, carrying a choking smell.

The dozens of captives who were running at the front suddenly fell down like straw blown down by a strong wind, and the screams were endless, and Yin Hong's blood flowed all over the ground.

"Keep killing!" Mo Li waved his hand, and after a burst of gunfire, nearly a hundred more captives fell in a pool of blood.

At this moment, the captives were so frightened that no one dared to run forward, and they all turned and retreated, retreated to the clearing, and knelt down in unison, shouting for mercy.

Mo Li looked at the prisoners who knelt down and begged for mercy, his eyes were cold, and he said coldly: "General Ben originally wanted to spare your lives, but now it seems, hehe! You don't deserve it! ”

"The general spares his life! The general spares his life! The little ones don't dare to run anymore! ”

"You remember, those who dare to disobey the orders of this general will have only one end, and that is death!" Mo Li's tone was like ice.

The captives were silent one by one, and they didn't even dare to catch their breath.

Mo Li kicked Jiao Yuan, who came over again, and scolded: "Jiao Yuan, are you pig brains? What kind of empty guns are you shooting in this situation! If you don't let them know that you know it's awesome, are you still waiting for them to run out before you shoot! ”

Jiao Yuan knelt down with a thud and said in annoyance: "General, I know that I am wrong!" ”

"Remember! Twenty military sticks! ”

"General Xie!"

In the blink of an eye, nearly 200 fleeing rebels were killed, and this bloody and cruel scene made all the captives completely stunned and shocked, and no one dared to move again.

It wasn't until late afternoon that Guan Feng, Zhou Yuji and others came back and captured more than 2,000 rebel prisoners. It's a pity that Pan Yanfei escaped.

At the same time, there was also very bad news brought back: Dengzhou has fallen!

Sun Yuanhua and his teacher Xu Guangqi's idea was to train a new army, like Qi Jiguang did back then, and although it was not necessarily a large number, it was well-equipped and well-trained, and could turn the tide for the empire at a critical moment.

After Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong, many of his subordinates turned to Sun Yuanhua in desperation, these Liao soldiers are all natives of Liaodong, and the Tartars have a deep blood feud, and they are very brave in battle, plus under the command of Mao Wenlong, they have fought a lot of battles with the Tartars, and the combat power is not high.

Sun Yuanhua also spent a lot of money to invite the Portuguese officer corps from Macao to teach these Liao soldiers how to use new Western firearms.

The new firearms battalion has two battalions, each with 4,000 men, including 2,000 combat troops, 2,000 logistical personnel, 120 two-wheeled vehicles, 100 artillery vehicles, and 60 grain trucks, a total of 280 vehicles.

In addition, each battalion is also equipped with 16 Western cannons, 80 medium guns, 100 eagle guns, 1,200 bird guns, and the gunners are also equipped with handguns, so that almost everyone has one firearm, it can be said that Sun Yuanhua has walked in the forefront of this era, and the Liao army he is equipped with is the most powerful firearms corps in this era only in terms of equipment!

However, it is never the weapons and equipment that account for the decisive factor in war, but the people who use the weapons and equipment, and those soldiers and generals are the ultimate factor in determining the direction of the war. After all, Sun Yuanhua and Xu Guangqi were both literati, and they knew too little about being soldiers, and even less about the Dongjiang Liao army that had taken refuge in them.

They didn't know that many of the Liao troops under Mao Wenlong's command were pirates and prisoners, and although they were all outlaws when they started fighting, they were morally low and full of banditry, and although they fought bravely, they were still an army of soldiers and bandits in their bones.

In the middle of the night of the fourteenth day of the defense of Dengzhou, Geng Zhongming, Chen Guangfu, Xie Tingjun, An Sen and other Dongjiang Liao generals opened the city gate from the inside, and the rebels swarmed in from the east gate of Dengzhou - Dengzhou fell!

The general soldier Zhang Ke fought to the death, but finally committed suicide due to defeat and martyrdom because he was outnumbered.

And Sun Yuanhua also chose to kill himself, but was rescued by his subordinates. Kong Youde first asked Sun Yuanhua to be the leader, and led them and the court to continue.

Sun Yuanhua sternly refused, and repeatedly persuaded Kong Youde to return to the embrace of the imperial court.

Kong Youde did have some intentions, so he planned to send someone to the imperial court to ask for recruitment.

But Li Jiucheng believes that since the matter has been done to this extent, it is impossible to reconcile with the imperial court. Besides, Sun Yuanhua is now captured by himself, and whether the court still admits his words or not. In short, Li Jiucheng did not agree with Zhao'an.

Sun Yuanhua also said that he could go to the imperial court to explain the matter, ask the imperial court for leniency, and recruit An Kong Youde and others. Thinking of Sun Yuanhua's previous kindness of taking him in and bringing him in, Kong Youde released Sun Yuanhua.

At the same time, a large number of officials such as the Penglai County Commander, Senate, General Soldier, and General were captured, and 12 Portuguese officers including the Portuguese chief priest Xi Teixeira Correa were killed in the battle.

The fall of Dengzhou made Kong Youde's strength swell rapidly, he not only got nearly 7,000 Liao soldiers, but also got 4,000 war horses, 1.1 million taels of silver, more than 20 Hongyi cannons, 300 Western cannons, and the rest of the firearms and armor battles, innumerable, it can be said that the military supplies of the entire Liao Town have all become Kong Youde's bag.

In this way, Kong Youde's subordinates had more than 10,000 elite Liao troops from the old Dongjiang River, as well as the exiled people from all over the country, the bandits and bandits who came over, and other forces, totaling more than 85,000 people, and their prestige was great.

The snake has no head, and after the strength swelled, Kong Youde and others began to establish a puppet regime, and they first elected the eldest Li Jiu to become the marshal of the capital to sit in the top spot, Kong Youde ranked second, and Geng Zhongming ranked third.

Just yesterday, the rebels relied on the powerful offensive ability formed by advanced artillery to conquer Huangxian, and for a while, their arrogance was very arrogant.

The news came from the soldiers who escaped from Dengzhou, and the people in Dengzhou are now panicked and the people are terrified.

Mo Li was stunned for a moment. Originally, the combat order they received was to rush to Dengzhou and join forces with the defenders in Dengzhou City to exterminate Kong Youde's rebels in one fell swoop, but now that Dengzhou has fallen, what should they do?

Can his two thousand or so people alone defeat Kong Youde's nearly 100,000 army, which has already grown in strength?

The high-diving Jingying is completely a bunch of waste, can he be treated as if he doesn't exist, as for Zu Dacheng's thousands of people, the two departments together are less than 10,000 horses, are you really confident that you can defeat the rebels with 100,000 horses?