Guo Cheng is a good comrade, loyal and patriotic, brave and ......, brave and brave!

Do it again!

Guo Cheng is a good comrade, loyal and patriotic, brave and powerful, righteous and brave! It's a pity that his IQ is a little bruised, so although Su Baiyi admires him, he can only put this guy in a cell to dry for a few days.

According to the suggestions of Wang Zheng and Wang Zhixin, the head of the goods was directly cut off and sent to Jingshi, which not only could ask for merit, but also gave an explanation to the sergeants who died in the small battle of Dengzhou.

However, Su Baiyi left him behind.

He is now the governor of Shandong, and the holy decree is clear, he alone has the final say on the appeasement and beheading of all personnel, since he has this right, Su Baiyi is not polite.

Another reason to stay with Guo Cheng is, of course, to spare!

Just kidding, a military general with such explosive force and no scheming, this is simply a treasure.

After Guo Cheng was imprisoned, the three hundred peasant army outside the door completely lost its combat effectiveness, it seems that the combat power of this fierce army all comes from the courage of the main general, and now without the main general's combat effectiveness has declined, Su Baiyi was easily subdued, and then incorporated into the Dengzhou Defense Army.

Small fight wins!

The rest of the matter is to reweave the army, and Su Baiyi is not polite to those deserters who ran away, and all the heavy punishments that are captured are heavy, and even a few are killed.

Officials of all sizes went out of the city to pacify the people and led the residents near Dengzhou to plough the fields.

But Su Baiyi couldn't be happy.

Counting the days, Geng Zhongming took 200 cavalry from Dengzhou to Li Jiucheng's Laizhou camp to rebel for ten days, ten days, and the news of the imperial court has been transmitted back and forth once, but Geng Zhongming has no news so far.

Su Baiyi couldn't help but feel anxious!

There has been no news for so long, and he wonders if Geng Zhongming has defected.

But this guy had seen Li Jiucheng's son's head with his own hands before, even if Li Jiucheng had such a big measure, Geng Zhongming should not have the courage to take refuge in Li Jiucheng again.

Therefore, the possibility of Geng Zhongming's repetition is almost zero!

Then the question arises.

Geng Zhongming will not be opposed!

You can speculate in a different direction, did he fail to rebel and then be killed by Li Jiucheng?

In either case, it's not good news for him.

In the case that there are no reinforcements in the imperial court, Dengzhou defends 2,000 military districts, no matter how much it can be fought, if Li Jiucheng's 30,000 male division turns around and counterattacks, this battle will be lost without fighting.

2,000 people hold on or can hold on!

Why stick to it?

There is no chief general in Dengzhou, and Su Baiyi really doesn't think that his prestige in the army can be enough for everyone to defend to the death. The money spent before could only buy the temporary peace and tameness of the soldiers, and definitely could not buy the soldiers' diehards.

Dengzhou is in danger!

Only now did he feel the deep inadequacy of the resources at hand!

There are no generals!

There is no army!

Not even a scout.

Otherwise, it wouldn't have been ten days, and there would have been no news of the rebels in Laizhou.

But it is certain that although he has no news of the rebels, Li Jiucheng, the leader of the rebels, must have received the news that Dengzhou was lost and Li Yingyuan's head was in a different place.

I have to think about it!

Gather a few guys who can count as "talented" in Dengzhou together for a meeting to discuss future deployments.

Not only Mao Chenglu, but even the newly appointed Jinyi Wei Baihu Li Suo attended the meeting.

In addition, the two people who were originally in the prison, Pi Kuanglong and Zheng Tang, were also removed from the shackles and invited to the meeting.

The meeting had just been held, and before we could begin to discuss how to deal with the current situation, news of the Laizhou rebels came.

Not only did the news come, Geng Zhongming also came to Dengzhou in person!

"Gimbal what the hell is going on?" Su Baiyi took Geng Zhongming to a side hall, and some military secrets were naturally not suitable to say at the defense discussion meeting at the first time.

"The subordinates are guilty!" Geng Zhongming bowed his head and arched his hand, his face slightly darkened: "My subordinates are guilty of capital crimes, and I failed to complete the tasks assigned by the Governor." ”

Su Baiyi's face sank: "Let's not talk about the crime first, sit down and talk about the military situation in detail." ”

"Yes!" Geng Zhongming hugged his hands but didn't really dare to sit down, lowered his head and looked at Su Baiyi sitting on the chair, and whispered: "In accordance with the instructions of the Governor, in order not to leak the news of Dengzhou City, the last general hurried to the Laizhou camp that night and arrived the next night. ”

After a pause, seeing that Su Baiyi's face was quite calm, he continued: "Because I don't know the depth, plus Li Jiucheng is in the army, and there are many cronies in the Laizhou camp, my subordinates did not approach Li Jiucheng for the first time, but went to find Kong Youde. ”

Su Baiyi nodded!

He remembered that this was also a strategy that had been discussed with Geng Zhongming.

"The subordinates persuaded him left and right, and he was almost beheaded by Kong Youde, but in the end, he lived up to expectations, and after Kong Youde thought about it for a day, he agreed to surrender to the Governor of Cheng!"

Su Baiyi's face softened slightly.

As far as he knows, although the leader of the rebels this time is Li Jiucheng, Kong Youde's influence in it is not trivial, if Kong Youde is willing to submit to the imperial court, at least Li Jiucheng will not be able to turn around and come to Dengzhou immediately: "Yuntai said that it was funny, whether it was you or Kong Youde, it was the imperial court that surrendered, not me Su Baiyi." ”

"Yes, sir!" Geng Zhongming saw that Su Baiyi's face softened, and he also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart: "The subordinates and Ruitu (Kong Youde) can survive in a desperate way, all thanks to the adults, no matter when and where the two of us will be in the future, only the adults will look forward!" ”

"I'll talk about that later, and then let's talk about the situation in Laizhou."

"Yes!" Geng Zhongming continued: "After his subordinates persuaded Ritu, they wanted to conspire with Ritu Li Jiucheng, but Ruitu and Li Jiucheng were divided into troops to fight, and they were also stationed outside Laizhou City, but they couldn't get close for a while. At that time, it had been three or four days since his subordinates left Dengzhou City, and they were afraid that Li Jiucheng would get the news, so they no longer dared to venture to his tent. ”

Su Baiyi nodded!

At that time, after all, several days had passed, and although the soldiers were not allowed to go out in Dengzhou City, the news in the city must have already reached Li Jiucheng's ears, even if it was him, he would not dare to risk going to Li Jiucheng's big tent so much.

If you want to blame Geng Zhongming, the process of persuading Kong Youde is a bit long, if you make a decision immediately, there is still a chance, once Kong Youde hesitates, he will inevitably miss the opportunity.

And!

Su Baiyi's eyes narrowed slightly!

This Kong Youde is notorious in history, and later surrendered to the Manchu Dynasty and became a complete traitor, but Su Baiyi knew that if he dug deep into that period of history, Kong Youde was actually very innocent.

The Wuqiao Mutiny was forced, and the mastermind behind the scenes was Li Jiucheng.

Even if Kong Youde was greedy for life and afraid of death and later voted for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, in fact, this guy is a very righteous person.

Geng Zhongming persuaded him repeatedly, and it was possible to defect to the imperial court again.

Let him hack his former comrade-in-arms Li Jiucheng?

Difficult!

Therefore, Geng Zhongming said it well, saying that Kong Youde did not surrender at the first time, and later did not dare to risk going to Li Jiucheng's camp, which is very doubtful.

I'm afraid the real reason is that although Kong Youde immediately surrendered to the imperial court, he was unwilling to kill Li Jiucheng!

Then the two spent time in Laizhou, and blocked the news from returning to Dengzhou.

Deliberately!

Everyone has their own little abacus, especially in this situation, these Su Baiyi can understand. When the water is clear, there are no fish, he still understands this truth.

"And then?" Su Baiyi's eyes lifted.

"Later!" At this time, Geng Zhongming was much more cautious, took a deep breath to suppress the fear in his heart, and after glancing at Su Baiyi, he said in a low voice: "Subordinates and Ruitu control about 10,000 people, and Li Jiucheng controls 20,000 people, but at this time, I am afraid that Li Jiucheng already knows about Dengzhou, so the two armies will be stationed separately."

The subordinates meant to ask the governor first how to deal with it and whether to attack Li Jiucheng's troops, but they sent two groups of people back to Dengzhou to ask for instructions, but they failed to receive instructions from the adults. ”

"What?" Su Baiyi raised his head: "You sent a scout back to Dengzhou?" But the official didn't receive it! ”

"Your Excellency!" Geng Zhongming said: "I'm afraid it was intercepted by Li Jiucheng's people, so after that, my subordinates planned to come to Dengzhou in person to ask whether to attack Li Jiucheng's troops, but, but at this time, Li Jiucheng ran away!" ”

"Ran away?" Su Baiyi stood up from the chair, his face was gloomy!

"Genus, subordinates are incompetent!" Geng Zhongming fell to his knees with a puff, looking sincerely frightened: "Li Jiucheng took advantage of the night to flee with the army, although his subordinates controlled 10,000 horses, they also knew that the pursuit was inappropriate!" ”

Su Baiyi's eyes narrowed slightly!

Geng Zhongming said it right, at that time, both sides were nominally rebels to the outside world, Kong Youde surrendered only to him Su Baiyi, and did not surrender to other officials in Shandong, if he led a group of people to rush up and fight Li Jiucheng, eighty percent would be thought to be infighting by Xu Congzhi, the governor of Laizhou, and then take advantage of the chaos to send troops, then it would be really chaotic.

Therefore, Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde were right not to send troops to pursue.

However, when Li Jiucheng knew that Kong Youde had surrendered, the two armies were able to hold each other for several days, what were they doing these days?

Discussing?

In compromise?

Or is it an exchange of benefits?

Obviously, although Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde have said a lot of truths, there is one thing that cannot be denied: Li Jiucheng was let go by Kong Youde.

Geng Zhongming came over today to argue with Su Baiyi on the one hand, and to test his attitude on the other hand.

In that case, it is necessary to take a stand!

Li Jiucheng was the coach before, and Geng Zhongming killed Li Jiucheng's son Su Baiyi without worrying that he would repeat, but now it is different, now that the rebels are divided into two camps, Geng Zhongming's chips seem to be heavier.

He has a way out, if Su Baiyi has to be held accountable today, then he may be stuck with Kong Youde, and it is difficult to say what he will do.

A bunch of turtle bastards!

Although Su Baiyi scolded in his heart, the anger on his face disappeared little by little, and he didn't say until the end: "What you did is right, I, Su Baiyi, oppose the use of violence to counter violence, and it is the innocent people who are implicated in that way." When Sun Yuanhua sent Zhang Tao and Zhang Keda to pacify Kong Youde, Zhang Tao's soldiers spontaneously moved closer to Kong Youde's soldiers.

Therefore, if you block Li Jiucheng when he escapes, it is very likely that a similar situation will happen. General Geng, you can add 10,000 troops to my Dengzhou with your three-inch tongue, you have merit, no fault! ”