Chapter 211. Waves again
The art of war cloud, ten rules surround it, and times it is attacked! But Dengzhou City turned around, and rushed over from Weihai slowly, Mao Jue's six regiments were less than 5,000 people, and the chaotic army more than ten times his own was surrounded in the city.
The momentum was huge, almost stirring up the whole of Lu, making Shandong a piece of erosion, millions of people were displaced, and more than 100,000 people were killed in the Shandong Rebellion, which was almost at an end at this time, although there were still about 50,000 exiles in the army, and even some Liaodong veterans, but they no longer had the courage to fight against Mao Jue.
The scene of the sky cracking on Weihaiwei Beach is believed to become an indelible nightmare for many people for a lifetime, compared to the gods preached by the White Lotus Sect, the power shown by Mao Jue is closer to the gods! In just five or six minutes, two rounds of artillery bombardment not only killed tens of thousands of people on the spot, but also crushed the fighting spirit and faith of the rebels.
Not only the rebels, but even many iron rebels who came out of the trenches, looking at the stumps and broken arms all over the ground, also made a psychological shadow, and the horror of the era of thermal weapons and the insignificance of people are vividly displayed on this battlefield.
To be honest, Mao Jue felt a little uncomfortable in his heart for such a killing, but this is the most efficient and the most economical!
If the army is fighting on the flat ground, the Dongjiang Iron Righteous Army is not unable to defeat the rebels, but as the saying goes, kill 3,000 people, and lose 800 yourself, after all, the rebels have 80,000 to 100,000 people, and if you fight for a day, it will also cause considerable casualties to the Iron Righteous Army, and a dead 100 taels of silver, beheading a level of 30 taels of silver, if you behead the first five or six thousand, and then kill more than 1,000, Mao Jue has become the god of wealth again, and he is busy in vain.
Moreover, the blow to morale from the artillery fire is really unprecedented, and even if it weren't for the cavalry like Mao Jue driving sheep, the chaotic defeated soldiers have nowhere to escape, and even the rebels who fled back may not even have 10,000.
And this time Mao Jue is not welcome, there are military camps watching at the east gate and south gate, and there are cavalry patrols behind Penglai Mountain in the west, the only thing that has no defense is the sea, but in this direction, as long as the head is not caught by the door, basically no one dares to find it uncomfortable.
The rest is to achieve Mao Jue's initial strategic purpose, recruit this rebel army, and then take it to the Dongjiang River, but eighteen worshippers, and the last trembling, Mao Jue is hesitant, from Weihaiwei counterattack to the siege of Dengzhou City, this has been July, but the Dongjiang Iron Righteous Army has never had any further action, neither surrender, but also whether to fight to promote surrender.
"General! Hurry up and make a decision! The last general just got the news, in a few days, Yu Dacheng's bastard is going to come to rob the military merits, to do it, let's rush into the city today, wash all the cult things, if you surrender, let Zhang Tao hurry into the city, you should hurry up and get an idea! ”
Mao Jue issued a ban on alcohol, before the celebration banquet, it is not allowed to drink, although there is a cigarette, but it also chokes enough for drunkards like Kong Youde, just got the military news, he hurried to the Chinese army tent.
This news really made Mao Jue's brows twist into a pimple.
If other generals won a big victory in the Battle of Weihaiwei, they would definitely be eager to find a civil official to report their merits, but after Mao Jue finished the battle, let alone the messenger, he didn't even send a fly to the north.
Although he didn't block the news, it is not surprising that the fleeing rebel army brought the news of the defeat to Laizhou, but it has only been a few days, and Yu Dacheng will not react so quickly in Jinan, right?
Now it's a problem!
But things are not so simple, surrender is simple, Mao Jue believes that as long as he sends a messenger to surrender, even if Wang Hua'an bites the cake and does not change the twist flower, and does not surrender, there will be a large number of rebel generals who will rush to surrender to him, but this big cake contains a piece of poisonous bait.
White Lotus Sect!
The power of the cult to deceive people's minds is vividly and vividly seen by Mao Jue from later generations, China's Wheel Sect, the young girl in her prime of life, who destroyed herself with a fire, I don't know how many people are obsessed with not taking medicine when they are sick, and even can wield the Eastern butcher's knife to their loved ones, the Aum Shinrikyo in the Japanese country, the leader of the sect said lightly, and the fanatical believers created the Tokyo subway poison gas incident without mercy, as well as the Scientology Church in the United States, and so on.
Even in the later era, when the information was developed and the people's education level was extremely high, some people were confused into this appearance, not to mention Dongjiang Tieyi Town, which does not even have a primary school education level now.
Since the rise of the Tang Dynasty, the five dynasties of the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties have not been extinguished, and the old man Zhu, who was also born in religious rebellion, has no choice, during the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, he also set off a nationwide rebellion, what if he recruits a group of White Lotus saints, hair care, and wizards in the past, with a group of foolish people clamoring for the White Lotus Mother to make his own rebellion in his hometown, what can he do?
A stinky fish rotted a pot of soup, and along the gap at the door, Mao Jue could vaguely see the weird-looking banner of the White Lotus Sect hanging on the wall, his old face was tangled into a lump, and he really couldn't accept it, and he didn't accept it.
If you really can't do it, you can only cut it all, now there is no chaos in the Dongjiang River no matter what, it's a big deal to completely break this rebel army, and then send people to recruit the scattered Liao people to return to Liao, although slowly, it is safe and secure, grabbing a token, Mao Jue couldn't help but show a ruthlessness.
sent Kong Youde down, and in the final entanglement, the first day of July passed like this. The sun was sinking in the west, a darkness covered the earth, and the two battalions of the Iron Righteous Army became brightly lit again. Although the food here is not as good as at the end of the Fushan Institute, but there are also meat and vegetarian dishes, and bursts of fragrance wafted to the city, looking at the iron rebels who were holding their own bamboo tubes and pulling the porridge soup with minced meat, those hungry and hungry rebels couldn't stop swallowing their saliva.
After dinner, the patrol drum sounded again, as a commander, maintaining his own state is also one of his duties, nothing serious, Mao Jue fell asleep early, but when the drum was about three watches, there was a commotion outside the tent, and someone shouted hurriedly at the entrance of the tent.
"General! General! Please get up, someone is coming to Dengzhou City! ”
"Huh? Where's the man? ”
Confused for a while, Mao Jue just woke up with a spirit, and quickly put on the armor in the dark, this is really from thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift, without the help of plain clothes, for three or four minutes, Mao Juecai's armor was crooked and hurriedly walked out of the tent, Mao Jue, Kong Youde, and Zhao Tiezhu were already waiting there, looking at the solemn look, Mao Jue couldn't help but ask.
"Who's coming?"
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Not to mention, it's really an acquaintance, followed to Zhao Tiezhu's camp and looked at the person waiting in the Chinese army, Ying Mao Jue couldn't help but smile and greeted him.
"Mr. Fan, I haven't seen you for a long time, Mao is really worried!"
Afraid that Fan Wenju would be killed by artillery fire, Mao Jue has been really worried these days, and seeing that this guy is not missing a single hair, he really breathed a sigh of relief, and greeted him with a smile. But next to him, an old man with a horse's face, Wen Meng's stomach was full of disdain, and he snorted in a weird way.
"What a loyal minister who doesn't care about the second master, this is coming to my family again."
A sarcasm really made Fan Wenju, a thin-skinned scholar, blush, and bowed down with shame.
"Sinners meet General Mao!"
"Mr. Fan doesn't have to be polite, get up!"
Talents are never too short, and Mao Jue really needs a local official talent to coordinate the rear, this Fan Wenju can be so loyal to a stupid person like Wang Hua'an, if he takes refuge in himself, Mao Jue will not worry about his loyalty, glared at Wen Meng, and enthusiastically dragged him to sit next to him, Mao Jue took the initiative to provoke the topic first.
"Mr. Fan is here to represent the anti-thief Wang Hua'an? Did he think about it? Willing to surrender to the court and reform your ways? ”
The Ming Dynasty has always been a heavy punishment, Zhu Yuanzhang killed heroes when he founded the country, and more than 100,000 people were implicated before and after.
There is no way, natural disasters and man-made disasters, there are too many rebellions, if they are all killed, the government does not have the military strength, and there is no way to do this, even such as Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang, and Li Zicheng, the general of Chuang, have briefly surrendered to the official army in the carriage gorge, the more they can fight, the better the conditions for Zhao'an, Wang Hua'an has fought most of Shandong, and has not yet been called the king, if he surrenders to Zhao'an, it should be no problem to save a small life, and maybe he can also be a petty official.
Of course, whether the donkey will be unloaded and killed, Mao Jue does not dare to guarantee.
Who knew that at the mention of this, Fan Wenju's face suddenly became gloomy, and he clenched his fists again, and he actually bowed his head with a big salute.
"General Mao, the sinner is not here to ask for peace on behalf of Wang Hua'an, but to ask the general to send troops quickly to destroy this thief!"
A few days ago, he looked loyal, and in a blink of an eye, there was a 180-degree turn, not to mention Wen Meng, even Mao Jue couldn't change for a while, and looked at him in surprise.
After a while, Wen Meng was full of sarcasm, slammed the knife on the table with disdain, and asked bitterly.
"Mr. Fan is really a loyal and filial son, and he is loyal to the point of killing the master, I don't know if Mr. Fan is the ancestor surnamed Lu, and there was a three-surname slave?"
"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is very popular in this era, and it is even said that the Qing people used this book as a military textbook, and Houjin's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was passed from the Ming Dynasty.
This time he didn't scold him, Mao Jue thought of another layer, with Fan Wenju's previous loyalty, could this be a trap? Thinking about it, he also asked cautiously.
"Mr. Fan, the new defeat of the Shandong rebels is a good opportunity to persuade them to surrender and recruit peace, why do you say this? Why add more killings to the plain air? ”
Speaking of this, Fan Wenju's face turned red from excitement, and even Mao Jue felt the gnashing of teeth.
"There is a reason why the left protector of the thief army, the Mourning Star, insists on retaking Dengzhou! He was born as a deserter, and some colleagues took refuge in Jiannu in the Battle of Kaitie, and he planned to take refuge in the East with the Liaomin rebels at the beginning! Dedicate a series of land and people such as Denglai Changyu to Dongyu as a capital for advancement!"
The muscles on his head jumped, and Fan Wenju roared angrily.
"Weihaiwei is newly defeated, this guy also put things and the plate out, on July 3, the Dongyu generals pressed Lushunwei, went to sea to welcome, on July 5, the thief army also rushed out of the ship, crossed the sea to join the Dongyu, and wanted to take away Sun Yuanhua's Hongyi cannon and all the Western firearms casters!"
"Once you get these! Daming will never have peace! ”
Although I don't know what happened to the Fan family back then, every time I mentioned Jiannu, this scholar couldn't help but be angry, this hatred of the country could not be concealed, looking at his green muscles, listening to his excited words, Wen Meng was finally dumb and silent, and Mao Jue also understood.
No wonder the loyal and self-proclaimed Fan Wenju has to betray, he is one of the few people with clear grievances in this era, and it is also a matter of the Han people to rebel and fight life and death with the Ming Dynasty, if he votes for Jiannu and shaves his head to be a clothed slave, his ancestors will be disgraced, Wang Hua'an doesn't even want his ancestors, and he is not worthy of being this lord.
This is also similar to the history, after the launch of the Wuqiao Mutiny, Li Jiucheng, Kong Youde and others were defeated by Guan Waizu Dale, after the defeat of the Qinghe army, carrying Sun Yuanhua's firearms troops to take refuge in the Houjin, his joining completely reversed the comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of firearms between the Houjin and the Ming Dynasty, the Battle of Songshan, so that the Qing army can also organize an artillery battle comparable to the Ming army.
In this time and space, Mao Wenlong is not dead, and Kong Youde is also a red heart towards the sun, contributing to the construction of classical imperialism in the Ming Dynasty in the Dongjiang front, but I didn't expect that after changing a group of people, they still have to follow this old road.
However, his brows were locked for a while, and a trace of excitement suddenly appeared on Mao Jue's face, and he stood up suddenly, he hurriedly grabbed Fan Wenjue's sleeve, and asked with interest.
"50,000 troops, hundreds of thousands of family members, Wang Hua'an can't take them all, who will he take with him?"
Although I don't understand why Mao Jue is suddenly so excited, but these days, he has suffered a lot, Fan Wenju knows that this should be Mao Jue's idea, and he didn't hesitate, and he remembered it and told it out.
"The Left Protector Death Star, the White Lotus Holy Aunt, the Great Sermon Qu Zhizhi...... almost most of the main characters, but the criminals and a few generals from the Liao people are all opposed! The backbone is about six thousand. ”
(End of chapter)