However, it was said that Li Jiucheng, Zhang Tao and others led more than 10,000 remnants of the army to flee in a hurry, and along the way, many rebel soldiers who were coerced saw the officers and soldiers coming to suppress them in a big way, and they were so frightened that they took advantage of the chaos to escape halfway at night.

Li Jiucheng and others were afraid of the pursuit of the official army, so they didn't dare to rest in one breath, and ran all night, and they couldn't tell the direction in the dark, until dawn they found that they had fled to the city of Laiyang.

Laiyang City had just been conquered by Kong Youde's southward rebels, and was currently guarded by Huang Wei, the deputy general under Kong Youde's account, while Kong Youde continued to lead the army south and advanced into Shandong.

After Pan Yanfei lost the battle in Putai, he fled back to Dengzhou in a hurry, was severely reprimanded by Kong Youde, demoted to a general, and was also stationed in Laiyang City.

Li Jiucheng was overjoyed when he saw that Laiyang City had the banner of his own team, and immediately ordered the soldiers defending the city to open the city gate and let him enter Laiyang City to rest.

At the same time, Li Jiucheng could not hide the loss in his heart. He and Kong Youde went out at the same time, all the way to the west, all the way to the south, Kong Youde's department is Lianke City, outstanding achievements, but the West Route Army led by himself fought a big defeat under the city of Laizhou, not only lost more than 10,000 soldiers, and even discarded many firearms such as weapons, grain and grass and Hongyi cannons.

After entering Laiyang City, excluding the soldiers who fled last night, Li Jiucheng's subordinates only had more than 8,700 people left. Coupled with the team of more than 3,000 people raised by Huang Wei and Pan Yanfei after attacking Kleyang City, the rebel forces in Laiyang City totaled more than 10,000 people, and it should not be a problem to hold Laiyang City.

Li Jiucheng planned to rest in Laiyang City first, reorganize his troops, and then decide whether to continue to attack Laizhou City or bypass Laizhou City, capture Changyi, Weixian and other places between Qingzhou Mansion and Laizhou City, first cut off the connection between Laizhou City and the imperial court, and slowly attack Laizhou.

After discussing with the generals, Mo Li proposed that the current situation could not raise an army to rebel, because the lack of strength would lead to the doom of destruction. But you can act alone in the name of suppressing bandits and counterinsurgency, and stay away from Gao Qiqian and Zu Dacheng, so as not to plot for them when you get it.

Only by not acting together with Gao Qiqian can safety be ensured, and this has been the consensus of the new Liao army.

However, if you want to ensure that there are no worries, the best way is to let Gao Qiqian never be able to speak, not to mention that Gao Qiqian also killed the brother he sent to buy food! Whoever moves my brother, die!

Mo Li secretly moved to kill in his heart, but at present, Gao Qi is the commander of the army, and it is difficult to kill him, so it seems that he has to slowly look for opportunities in the future.

As for the next grain and grass problem, you can only rely on yourself to find a way, and the most reliable way at present is - grab!

This robbery, of course, does not mean looting around like a rebel, but snatching food from the hands of the rebels!

From this, Mo Li thought of the famous guerrilla warfare in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in later generations, why didn't he follow the example of the Eighth Route Army and harass the rebels! Anyway, the new Liao army is now almost full cavalry, with strong mobility, and is not afraid of being entangled by the other party. As for the main force of the rebels, then hand it over to Gao Qiqian and Zu Dacheng to have a headache.

The plan has been decided, and all the generals are relieved, and they have gone to rest, and after a bloody battle for a long time, they have long been too tired to work.

The next day, when it was almost noon, he received an order from Gao Qiqian's dispatch to send troops to recruit the remnants of Li Jiucheng who were entrenched in Laiyang City, and march to Laixi with the new Liao army of the Moli Department as the vanguard.

Mo Li didn't say anything, and immediately agreed to send troops. Although the New Liao Army had too many wounded and its combat effectiveness was seriously reduced, Mo Li still felt that even if he used wounded soldiers to kill the rebels, it was better than being on guard against high dives at all times.

The army then set up camp and headed for Laiyang.

A few hours later, before dark, the New Liao army appeared in Xingupuzi, thirty miles north of Laixi County, and set up camp.

Nothing happened overnight.

The county town of Laixi is also currently occupied by the rebels, and it is garrisoned by Kong Youde's subordinate Yang Shouli and his 4,000 men.

The arrival of the new Liao army led by Mo Li made Yang Shouli feel that Yali Mountain was big. After the fierce battle with the rebel marshal Li Jiucheng under the city of Laizhou the day before yesterday, the names of Moli and the New Liao Army had already spread among the rebels, and they all said that the New Liao Army was all murderous demons.

For this reason, Yang Shouli closed the city gate and sent soldiers to patrol the city wall day and night to strictly prevent the New Liao Army from attacking the city, and on the other hand, he sent people to Laiyang to report to the capital Marshal Li Jiucheng, asking for reinforcements to attack the New Liao Army.

At the same time, Yang Shouli also wantonly captured the people in Laixi City and strengthened the army, and organized the people of the whole city to help defend the city.

Under the persecution of the rebels, the people of Laixi City had to go to the head of the city one after another to help the rebels carry the equipment to defend the city and assist in defending the city.

In a short period of time, Yang Shouli pulled up a team of two or three thousand people, although most of them were reluctant.

Lacey, like Pingdu, was only a small county town, and the walls were not tall and strong, and it was generally difficult to hold under heavy siege, unless the defenders had outstanding commanders and advanced weapons.

However, Mo Li does not plan to attack, although the chance of winning a strong attack is not small, but the danger is also very great. Because the new Liao army is now less than 3,000 people, and almost all of them are wounded, and the combat effectiveness is greatly reduced, if the strong attack fails, I am afraid that my subordinates will be damaged by more than half, and the casualties will be large, and there will be no way to deal with the next danger.

Moreover, it was an unwise choice to attack the city with cavalry, which was tantamount to attacking the enemy's strengths with one's own shortcomings.

Moli decided to use another method to capture Lacey City.

After breakfast, the new Liao army continued to march under the city of Laixi.

At noon, the new Liao army arrived at the city of Laixi, and Mo Li ordered his generals to swing around the gate of Laixi, showing signs that they were about to attack the city.

Later, Mo Li ordered Guan Feng to pick up a horn made of iron sheet and shout to the rebels at the head of the city: "Brothers in the city! Listen up, everyone! We are the new Liao army! The imperial court learned that Kong Youde, a thief, was in trouble with Denglai, and sent several large armies to encircle and suppress, in addition to our new Liao army, there were tens of thousands of Liaodong soldiers, thousands of Jimen soldiers and horses, and thousands of Shandong Lu soldiers! He is a grasshopper after autumn, and he won't be able to jump for a few days!

I know that many of you have been coerced by the thieves, and that you are good people who do not want to rebel, and I promise that if you can get lost and surrender to the army in time, you will not be held accountable, and you will continue to live in peace! ”

As he spoke, Guan Feng asked people to carry out a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry seized in Putai, stacked them in front of the formation, and said loudly: "Have you seen it?" As long as you are willing to change your ways, not only will you not be held accountable, but if you can capture the leader of the rebels or open the city gates to lead the army, these gold, silver and jewels will be yours! ”

The rebels at the head of the city immediately rioted. The temptation of cannon deterrence and gold and silver is really not something that everyone can withstand, not to mention that there are many people in the rebels who are unwilling to be thieves, but they are forced to be helpless. Now seeing that the officers and soldiers not only promised not to be held accountable, but also had a large amount of gold and silver rewards, some people suddenly began to move, after all, the officials and soldiers took out too much gold and silver.

After Yang Shouli learned that the new Liao army was approaching the city, he hurriedly went to the head of the city in person to command his subordinates to defend the city and stabilize the situation. At this time, seeing that the officers and soldiers carried out so much gold and silver to buy his subordinates in front of the battle, he couldn't help but be very anxious, he naturally understood that his subordinates were all rabble, and they had no combat effectiveness, let alone how much loyalty they had to Marshal Li Jiucheng, Deputy Marshal Kong Youde, and to themselves as a commander.

Yang Shouli ordered his own soldiers and the backbone of the rebel army, and the more than 1,000 old brothers who set out from Dengzhou to suppress the riots of those rabble, and at the same time scolded loudly outside the city: "Less *** nonsense! If you have the ability, you can attack the city! Look at Lao Tzu if he doesn't bombard you! ”

Turning his head and shouting viciously at the soldiers, "You all listen to Lao Tzu!" That's just a trick by the officials and soldiers to lure the enemy, they want to divide us! Hum! Don't look at how many people they have, they dare to come to our Laixi City to call for battle, what kind of imperial army, I'm bah! If it weren't for the deputy marshal's repeated telling the general to keep Laixi, it was important not to go out of the city to fight easily, so as not to fall into an ambush, and Lao Tzu would not have killed them!

Lao Tzu told you, don't think that the official army will really forgive you, the last time you were in Putai, General Pan's subordinates couldn't run away and surrendered to them, and as a result, more than 400 people were killed! Do you think they are really that kind? It's just a lie! ”

The rebels were a little skeptical and hesitant for a while. No matter how much silver there is, it has to be a life flower.

Guan Feng was about to shout again, but Mo Li turned the tin horn and said loudly: "This brother in the city, hasn't you asked for the name of Gao?" ”

Yang Shouli was stunned for a moment, and replied with a sneer: "What? Do you still want to make friends with General Ben? Hahaha...... It's a laughing person......"

Yang Shouli laughed for a while, the laughter stopped abruptly, and then said: "But it doesn't hurt to tell you, this general will not change his surname or change his name, Yang Shouli is also!" I can teach you that little fart baby knows who is defeated! ”

Yang Shouli is Chinese New Year's Eve four years old today, and his appearance is quite rough, with a full beard, dark and strong, but he is not particularly tall. Yang Shouli was originally a garrison under Kong Youde's account, and after following Kong Youde to rebel, he was named the deputy general of the infantry army by Kong Youde.

After Yang Shouli finished speaking, he pretended to be arrogant and laughed again. After laughing for a while, maybe he felt a little embarrassed, so he slowly suppressed his laughter.

Mo Li waited quietly for him to finish laughing, and then said, "General Yang, right?" My name is Mo Li, and I want to ask General Yang, do you think that with this small Laixi City, can you really block the full attack of the thousands of troops of my New Liao Army? If you look at our artillery, I can say without exaggeration that I can raze this city of Lacey to the ground if I want to! ”

Yang Shouli sweated on his forehead, although the tone of what he said just now was very arrogant, but he knew that it was just a bluff to calm the morale of his subordinates.

Mo Li continued: "If my expectations are correct, General Yang should also be an official soldier!" I know that many of you didn't want to rebel, but you were forced to walk this way when you ran out of food when you were in Wuqiao. But what did you toil to pin your heads to your trousers and rebel? Isn't it just to be able to have a full meal? Isn't it just to be able to be an upright person? ”

"Talk for a long time, don't you just want me to surrender to the army? You don't dream anymore! Yang Shouli said angrily.

Mo Li smiled and said, "Definitely! I just want to make a deal with General Yang! ”