Chapter 209: The End

"All the village elders must help Caozhou Zhizhou to stabilize the situation, and in the future, there will be other generals in Caozhou City to come and garrison."

"Listen to your lordship."

Those squires lying on the ground, on weekdays in Caozhou City, even if they saw Lord Zhizhou, they were just pretentious, but now they are really frightened, the domineering Caozhou general soldier Liu Zeqing has been beheaded, and all the officers and soldiers of Liu who were killed in the inner city and the outer city have been cut off their heads.

The soldiers directly built the "Jingguan" on the suspension bridge, the so-called "Jingguan" is to pile up human heads into the shape of a pyramid, as for the spire, it is Liu Zeqing's fat head.

Although it was cold, the bloody smell had already spread in this clearing, wafting into the noses of these squires, and many people wanted to vomit, so they could only endure it, kneeling on the ground, and could not see anything except the horse's hooves.

"Fellow villagers, remember one thing, we are the rebels under King Chuang, and here, we will come back."

After the Jiaozhou battalion drove the captives out of the city for fifteen miles, they were allowed to disperse and not pursued, and a large part of the rout wanted to return to Caozhou City, but the Caozhou governor and the gentry mobilized the people to strengthen the people, and they had already closed the city gate and defended tightly, and most of the officers of the rout were killed.

The reinforcements stationed around arrived almost a little later, but after seeing Liu Zeqing and the heads of military academies at all levels left in the city, they also had no intention of staying for a long time, and after collecting the stragglers, they also hurriedly returned to their own station.

There is still a short distance between Caozhou and Surabaya near Yanzhou Mansion, and Liu Zetao, who is commanding 5,000 soldiers to besiege Surabaya City, does not know the news of Caozhou City, there are 1,500 Ma Gang troops in the city, and there are almost 300 firecrackers, but these 300 firecrackers have made 5,000 people cry bitterly.

After Liu Zetao's previous sieges were beaten by firecrackers, they were driven away regardless of the officers behind, and the soldiers desperately retreated to the back.

Moreover, Yanzhou Mansion, which has always been submissive to them, has also sent people several times to ask why Surabaya City is a place to ask for help, why Liu Zeqing's troops are besieging with such fanfare, Liu Zetao knows that something is wrong, so he can only grit his teeth and claim that the bandit army has entered the city and is resisting stubbornly.

Ma Gang was actually very easy to defend the city, and the first day was relatively difficult. After the first day, all the gentry and civilians in Surabaya County spontaneously helped, and everyone understood one thing, the officers and soldiers in the city were strictly disciplined and did not disturb the people, which everyone saw, and no one knew why the officials and soldiers outside were besieging them.

But the people of Yanzhou Mansion all know what kind of troops Liu Zeqing's troops are outside, and they poison the villagers and ordinary people on weekdays, which can be called a great harm in the local area.

This siege, if the city is broken, maybe the soldiers and horses outside the city will use the reason of suppressing bandits to do whatever they want in the city, at that time, but everyone has suffered, for the sake of now, is to help the soldiers and horses from Qingzhou Mansion to hold the city, so as not to suffer disasters.

Originally, the troops led by Ma Gang had already built a corresponding complete fortification in Surabaya City, and their weapons were also excellent, and with the help of the soldiers and people in the city, there would be no difference in defending the city.

Liu Zetao sent an envoy to Caozhou asking for help, asking for additional manpower to take Surabaya City, but the envoy did not reply for a long time, so he could only continue to send people over. However, on the ninth day of the siege, most of the people in the entire camp were half-asleep in the morning.

Thousands of cavalry suddenly appeared in the rear of the camp, and after slashing and killing the panicked guards outside, they rushed directly into Liu Zetao's camp.

After being raided, Liu Zetao and the officers below couldn't gather the team at all, all of them were scattered, and the soldiers who were not killed had no intention of resisting, and they ran desperately outside, and the sound of killing and crying even shook the nearby Surabaya City, many gentry and civilians, as well as the officials of Surabaya County, all went up to the city to watch, only to see the smoke of gunpowder, the sound of killing shook the sky, and the soldiers who cried and ran for their lives.

Of course, there is also the clear slogan of "Chuang Wang Yijun", the Surabaya magistrate and his subordinate officials immediately solemnly saluted the garrison Ma Gang who stood at the head of the city and watched together, and said gratefully:

"If it weren't for the horse garrison to come to the rescue, I'm afraid Surabaya would have fallen into the hands of thieves."

Ma Gang was humble again and again there, saying that protecting the territory and the people is our duty, but he was quite red in his heart, thinking that Wang Hai and Tang Er, the two boys, were really blessed, and they were killed below, and they felt happy when they thought about it, this is the duty of a soldier.

Before lunchtime, Liu Zetao, who had been stationed under Surabaya City for a long time, and his 5,000 soldiers and horses had been completely killed, and Liu Zetao also died in the chaos, but fortunately, the "thief" cavalry who wrote the fierce spirit did not have the idea of attacking Surabaya City, and directly galloped away and disappeared from the sight of those people at the head of the city.

In Layue, from Surabaya County to Cao County, from east to west on this line, there were people in Yanzhou Mansion who saw the cavalry of the brigade galloping towards Henan, and Liu Zeqing's troops and horses in Cao County also wanted to go out of the city to pursue, but the other party's speed was very fast, and they couldn't catch up.

On the Caozhou side, it sent an urgent report to the Yanzhou Mansion and the governor of Shandong, and the political envoy Si Yamen, saying that Caozhou City was invaded by thieves, and the general soldier Liu Zeqing swore to resist to the death, but he still died at the hands of the thieves.

Originally, after Zuo Liangyu repelled Zhang Xianzhong's troops near Nanyang Mansion, Henan Prefecture and County thought that it could almost be peaceful, and during November and Layue, Henan Mansion, Kaifeng Mansion and Guide Mansion all had large and small forces of Chuang Wang's army activities, which caused the government and the official army to panic.

All kinds of actions and signs of intrusion activities can indicate that this army made a long-distance attack on Liu Zeqing's troops, and then withdrew from Shandong to Henan, or returned to Shaanxi.

The thieves have never entered the territory of Shandong, why is this long-distance raid, a few days ago, Zuo Liangyu's cavalry found the letterhead in Henan, and finally contacted it, although there is no too sure of it, from the minister of the court to the magistrate of Shandong, everyone has a vague concept in their hearts, but this is really embarrassing for the court, so everyone is silent.

On the other hand, Yan Jizu, the new governor of Shandong, was praised by the imperial court, because he had foreseen that the soldiers and horses guarding the Laizhou Mansion would be transferred to the border of Yanzhou Mansion, which was obviously a wise move to anticipate the enemy's opportunity.

Moreover, there is a general army in Yanzhou Mansion to guard it, but it is surrounded by thieves as if it is in a no-man's land, which shows that there are great loopholes in the defense, even if the chief soldier Liu Zeqing is martyred, this crime of dereliction of duty cannot escape, and the situation is so unstable, it is better to send someone to guard it as soon as possible.

At this time, the Surabaya County Order, the Ningyang County Order, the Yanzhou Prefect and other officials jointly played, all saying that the garrison Ma Gang governed the army in a disciplined manner, and during the period of garrisoning Surabaya, the military discipline was strict, and there was no action to disturb the people, and in the face of foreign thieves' harassment, there was a way to guard the palace and ensure the safety of one party.

The matter of the official army attacking each other must not be said clearly, anyway, Liu Zetao's troops have been killed and dispersed, so they are simply said to be thieves. For the sake of safety, Li Meng, the general of Laizhou, led the troops in a good way, and was loyal and available, so that he could add the town of Yanzhou and Dongchang.

The order of this appointment was only issued in March of the eleventh year of Chongzhen, during which Liu Fulai, the eunuch of Nanjing, had some clerical exchanges with the military department and the celebrant of the Beijing Division, and Li Meng also sent out nearly 15,000 taels of silver, which was the only way to obtain this position.

The battles that took place in Caozhou and Yanzhou were full of doubts of one kind or another, but Xiong Wencan recruited most of Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai in Huguang, Henan, and after Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou defeated the Chuang army in Shaanxi, Hong Chengchou led the army to pursue into Sichuan, these are the major events that have attracted attention.

After all, the so-called "Chuang Wang Yijun" shouted, and the people in the whole city almost heard it clearly, and these people shouting slogans were seen and heard everywhere in Yanzhou, and there was a saying that although it was ridiculous, it was very convincing, and the thieves did not disturb the people when they entered the city, and there was no looting along the road.

These reasons were put out, even those who were suspicious, they all calmed their suspicions, thinking that if the court officials and arms merged, there was a possibility that the rich families in Caozhou City would exist, and they were afraid that they would have been plundered a long time ago, but so far no one said that they had been violated.

Liu Zeqing was also friendly with a few officials from the western part of Yanzhou Mansion in the central government, but the trees were scattered, everyone died, and who would do anything useless, and the matter quickly calmed down.

After Li Meng's cavalry defeated most of Liu Zetao, they began to station in the manor provided by Kong Sande outside Qufu and evacuated in batches.