After Dengzhou, the rebel's nest, was captured by bloodless soldiers, then the only base of Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde was lost, not only did it become a rootless tree and a sourceless water, but even the most basic supplies of the army could not keep up.

If Li Jiucheng knew that Dengzhou was lost, there would be two more possible outcomes.

The first is to immediately wave the army back to recapture Dengzhou, after all, there are not many defenders in Dengzhou, and it is easier to attack Dengzhou again than Laizhou.

The second result was to break the cauldron and attack Laizhou with all his might.

No matter which of these two results, Li Jiucheng must occupy it quickly if he wants to be invincible, and once Su Baiyi or Xu Congzhi can delay for a month, then Li Jiucheng's team will be defeated.

Of course, the easiest way for Su Baiyi is to capture Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde, the two bandit leaders, so that the problem can be solved once and for all.

"I'm going to leave for Laizhou Daying tonight, Yuntai, I believe that with your wisdom and means, plus the usual friendship between Li Kong and you, if there is a sudden attack, they will be caught off guard!" Su Baiyi said lightly.

Cold sweat broke out on Geng Zhongming's forehead.

Although Su Baiyi is right, if he runs to Laizhou in person, it should not be difficult to see Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng, and naturally there is a chance to start, but the Laizhou camp is not Dengzhou Mansion, it is the base of Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde, even if it is suddenly difficult to control or kill the two of them, what will happen next?

Will the soldiers mutiny?

Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng have a lot of pro-soldiers and cronies, how to deal with them?

In other words, even if he could kill Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng by surprise, he, Geng Zhongming, would not be able to completely control the situation.

Therefore, in a cold sweat, Geng Zhongming looked at Su Baiyi, his face was embarrassed, and said: "The Laizhou camp is not as good as Dengzhou, and it is easy for the adults to let the villain go and take the heads of Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng, for fear that the sergeants will mutiny." ”

"How is your relationship with Kong Youde?" Su Baiyi asked.

"Brothers, brothers!"

"Then what is the relationship between you and Li Jiucheng?"

"Li Jiucheng is an ambitious person, besides, I killed his son, which can be described as a great revenge of life and death!"

"Good!" The killing intent in Su Baiyi's eyes was slightly revealed: "Then recruit one person, and then kill one person." ”

The situation in the whole Shandong Su Baiyi is still quite clear, he knows that when the Wuqiao mutiny, Kong Youde personally didn't want to rebel, it was Li Jiucheng who provoked the soldiers to mutiny behind his back, and then Kong Youde had to be tied to the chariot. This can be seen from the fact that Kong Youde did not kill everyone after capturing Dengzhou, but let Sun Yuanhua ask for Zhao'an.

Therefore, Kong Youde can be regarded as a person who can be wooed.

"If you only kill Li Jiucheng and keep Kong Youde, can you do it."

This matter is naturally risky.

Geng Zhongming is not a roundworm in Kong Youde's stomach no matter how powerful he is, it is impossible to control Kong Youde's mental changes from moment to moment, after killing Li Jiucheng, Kong Youde surrendered fortunately, and the entire Laizhou camp can still be controlled; But if Li Jiucheng dies and Kong Youde goes all the way to the black and imperial court, then there is only one fate waiting for him Geng Zhongming: to be slaughtered!

But wealth and danger are sought, and victory is naturally the same, Geng Zhongming, who was born as a general, understands that there is no 10% victory, once the victory rate exceeds 50%, you can do it.

"The last general will try!" Geng Zhongming's eyes flashed, and after thinking for a while, he decided to take a risk to go to the Laizhou camp.

After all, he just took a vote, and he did not have a meritorious performance for Su Baiyi, and if the court held him accountable, the chips were still a little thin.

Moreover, he thought that the relationship between the two of Kong Youde and Kong Youde's attitude towards the imperial court, it should not be difficult to persuade him to surrender.

Therefore, Geng Zhongming left the city overnight and set off towards the west!

There were very few people with them, only two hundred cavalry.

Dengzhou is very close to Laizhou, and it is also a coastal city by the sea, and the straight-line distance between the two cities is only less than 100 kilometers, according to the scale of the Ming Dynasty, about 200 miles.

If the news spreads fast enough, it will be available by tomorrow afternoon at the latest.

Because Dengzhou was too close to Laizhou, Su Baiyi did not dare to delay, and immediately mobilized all the soldiers and counted the number of soldiers, in addition to the two hundred cavalry taken away by Geng Zhongming, there were about 2,000 soldiers available in the city.

1,000 guns and birds, plus 300 brought by Mao Chenglu from Dongjiang Town, a total of 1,300, 60 cannons for defending the city, 50 mobile guns, sufficient gunpowder, not many shells but not a lot.

The soldiers got real benefits, and they worked hard, and it was much more pleasing to look at him, a "big official" sent by the imperial court.

After arranging the defense of the city, there is one more thing.

He took the written song and handed it to a brocade guard: "Take a few people out of the city, take a boat to the desert island where we were in the morning first, and tell Li Suo Dengzhou that he has succeeded, and Mao Chenglu's family can take care of it, not as good as killing him." ”

"Thank you, sir!" Mao Chenglu next to him knelt on the ground, and this time he really thanked Su Baiyi.

"And!" Su Baiyi glanced at Mao Chenglu lightly, and continued to say to the Jinyi guard: "After arriving at the desert island, I went to Tianjin Wei and sent my letter to Tianjin Wei Jinyiwei, and urgently played Your Majesty eight hundred miles overnight." ”

"Yes!" The soldier took the song and went to sea overnight.

Su Baiyi is alive and the news of landing in Shandong to take Dengzhou City is basically in a state of blockade now, except for Huanglong, the commander of Jinyiwei also let Luo Yangxing know that Luo Yangxing returned to Tianjin by boat in the morning, and now he goes out to pursue, if he is lucky, maybe he can catch up early tomorrow morning.

"My lord, what can my subordinates do?" Mao Chenglu was always swaying behind Su Baiyi, he had been running for most of the night, and the generals next to him had something to do, so he Mao Chenglu seemed relatively idle.

"You don't have to do anything, just wait!" Su Baiyi glanced at him.

Actually, there is really something that Mao Chenglu needs to run, but Mao Chenglu is not a good person, and he can only die like Geng Zhongming if he accepts the name, so Su Baiyi is not at ease to use him.

This kind of dog, where both the owner and the enemy can go up and bite at any time, it is better to keep it on a temporary leash.

"Oh, yes!" Su Baiyi turned his head and looked at Mao Chenglu: "I asked Geng Zhongming to release the captured officials before, where are these people now?" ”

"My lord, in the attic at the back!" Mao Chenglu gave up.

"Okay, go and invite all the people over, and bring up two tables the meal that is going to be prepared for the evening to entertain the brothers, and the official will entertain them."

"Yes!"

"Wait!" Shi Dian stiffly put Mao Chenglu's candle away, so frightened that Mao Chenglu involuntarily took a step back: "Cut, look at that cowardice, Lao Tzu won't beat you." Shi Dian laughed twice, first looked at Su Baiyi, and found that he did not scold and object, so he swaggered and said: "Master, I'm also hungry, give Lao Tzu a table." ”

At night, when he was picking up the wind and washing the dust, he just ate two bites and started to fight, and then ran with Su Baiyi for a while, Shi Dian was naturally hungry at the moment: "That's right, just that Bao'er, get more for Lao Tzu, I'll starve Lao Tzu to death." ”

"Hey, hey!" Su Baiyi said: "The brothers of Jinyiwei haven't eaten either, let's have more, and entertain them together with those officials." ”

Ten minutes later, the food was served, more than before, and there were more than a dozen tables.

Mao Chenglu led a group of officials from the attic behind the yamen into the hall.

Su Baiyi raised his eyes and was taken aback.

Your sister, what's going on?

And foreign devils?

I saw that behind Mao Chenglu, there were first a few Ming officials with messy hair, and then more than 20 big foreigners, some with long hair and wavy hair, some with thick beards, all with high noses and blue eyes, all of them were foreigners.

What a pity!

Su Baiyi smashed it, smashed it, smashed it, it was all male animals, if we could have a blonde and blue-eyed Bommia girl to let us taste the exotic style, we wouldn't be lonely tonight.

"Meet Master Su!" Mao Chenglu shouted.

Then, everyone behind him huhula all knelt on Su Baiyi's knees, and shouted sparsely: "Meet Master Su." ”

Su Baiyi smiled and let everyone get up, and said: "You have suffered from prison, you have all suffered, eat something to cushion your stomach first, and now that the defense of Dengzhou is back in the hands of the imperial court, you will have to rely on you a lot when you go back." ”

"Yes!"

The crowd got up and sat down.

Then, a small official left by Geng Zhongming was full of smiles, and pointed to the officials present to introduce Su Baiyi one by one: "Lord Su, this is Lord Wang Zheng, the Liaohai Supervisor, who originally assisted Sun Yuanhua in Dengzhou to train his troops, but he is actually a master of 100 craftsmen, and many of the cannon-making techniques in Dengzhou City are verified by Lord Wang. ”

"Don't dare, the carving insect skill makes the adults laugh!" A short man who looked to be round in his fifties stood up and bowed his hand towards Su Baiyi.

Su Baiyi didn't dare to hold it up, and he also stood up and threw his hand at him.

"Lord Wang doesn't have to be too humble!" The little official said to Su Baiyi again: "Lord Qincha, please listen to the villain, Lord Wang is terrible, together with our cabinet chief assistant Xu Ge Lao, but he is known as the king of the south and the north, and they are all masters who are involved in hundreds of crafts." ”

Su Baiyi's gaze flashed suddenly, and he remembered.

Wang Zheng, a famous existence!

He was the first person in the Ming Dynasty to begin to study Western studies, and the first to translate Western natural science and classical mechanics.

It is not an exaggeration to say that he is a classic scientist.

His contribution to the science and technology of the Ming Dynasty is actually much greater than that of Xu Guangqi.

Not only did this guy study classical mechanics, but he was also a master of mechanics, and he did a lot of artillery designs. Su Baiyi looked at Wang Zheng, his eyes were full of smiles, and that smile concealed a trace of joy, and more greed.

Greed for talent!