After arranging the Chamber of Commerce and the Maritime Alliance, he sent Ashikaga Kazuki and these Japanese envoys to the ship back to the Japanese country, and the ship was also full of weapons sponsored by Zhouzhong, of course, these weapons were not given away for free, but they needed to spend money to buy, and the money was temporarily deducted from the payment of the Ashikaga Chamber of Commerce.

In addition, Zhou Zhong did not forget the previous agreement with Hengwang Zhu Youyi, after he showed the MSG to Sanniang and others, he immediately asked them to select a few loyal stewards to go to Qingzhou, Weihaiwei, and then recruit people to build a MSG manufacturing plant in the local area, and wait until next year as soon as the sea intestines caught by Zhu Youyi are in place, they will be able to produce MSG immediately.

However, just when Zhou Zhong finished arranging the affairs of Shuangyu Port and was about to take Wu Shan and other Jinyi guards to Ningbo to take up his post, there was a bad news from Shandong, that is, Qi Yanming, who escaped in Bazhou, did not die, but also fled all the way to the vicinity of Jinan, and united with the local Yang Hu and others to raise the flag to rebel again, and the momentum was even greater than that of Liu Liu and Liu Qi before.

For Qi Yanming's escape, Zhou Chong was a little uneasy in his heart, but the news that came this time really verified his hunch, although the process of Liu Liu and Liu Qi's rebellion was interrupted by him, but Qi Yanming and Yang Hu still came together as in history, and raised the banner of rebellion, but I don't know if they will turn the Ming Dynasty upside down like in history?

Because of the long distance, so Zhou Zhong did not receive much news, in the news sent, after Qi Yanming escaped from Bazhou, he rushed to Jinan, and found Yang Hu, who was entrenched there as a bandit, and then the two discussed, and finally decided to rebel again. And at the beginning, it occupied Zhangqiu County on the east side of Jinan Prefecture. This made them feel strong for a while. And soon gathered a team of thousands of people, officially began to expand to the surrounding counties, and directly threatened the security of Jinan Fucheng.

It is necessary to know that Jinan is the political and economic center of Shandong, and these important officials and yamen such as the governor, the commander of the envoys, the political envoys of Chengxuan, and the probationary envoys are also in the city of Jinan, and there are only thirteen political envoys in the entire Ming Dynasty. More people who are dissatisfied with the court will defect to them, and it will definitely be more troublesome to exterminate them.

The news received by Zhou Zhong shows that Yang Hu and Qi Yanming are expanding at the same time, they are also actively preparing to attack Jinan City, it seems that they are indeed the same as he is worried, ready to attack Jinan City in one fell swoop, although Jinan City is very strong, and there is an army of the imperial court to defend it, but with the army that has been corrupted in the Ming Dynasty, no one dares to guarantee that they will not be able to defeat it!

It's a pity that the news that Zhou Zhong received is shown here. Judging by the speed at which the message was delivered, it is likely that he was when he received the news. Yang Hu and Qi Yanming had already begun to attack Jinan City, but Zhou Zhong could only be in a hurry and couldn't help at all.

At the same time, under the city of Jinan, Shandong Province, there was a raging war, a team of ragged rebel troops carried a long crude ladder, against the rain of arrows of the officers and soldiers on the head of the city rushed forward desperately, many teams have not rushed to the city wall, have been shot to death, the rest of the ladder team even if they rushed to the city wall, but they were greeted by rolling wood and thunder stones and even boiling water, which made the rebel army suffer heavy losses, and it was impossible to erect the ladder to the city wall.

On a dirt slope outside the city wall, Yang Hu and Qi Yanming, who were wearing armor, were riding on horses, and were anxiously urging the army to attack the city, but unfortunately the defense of Jinan City was too strong, they had been attacking for several days, but there was no progress, and even the city wall could not be attacked.

"Generalissimo, it seems that we were all wrong before, the number of guards in Jinan City has far exceeded our estimates, I'm afraid that even if we continue to fight, there is no possibility of taking Jinan City, so let's withdraw our troops!" Qi Yanming looked at the rows of fallen rebels in the distance, and said with a heartache on his face, these soldiers were all gathered by them with great difficulty, and their strength would weaken by one point for every death, so they must not attack so strongly.

After Yang Hu rebelled under the banner of avenging Liu Liu and Liu Qi, he quickly gathered thousands of troops, and then he captured several county towns under Jinan Mansion in a row, which made him even more popular, and soon developed to more than 10,000 people, so he called himself "Fengtian Expedition Generalissimo", and named Qi Yan as the deputy marshal, but the military power has always been controlled by him, Qi Yanming can only give him some advice at most, and it depends on his mood whether he listens or not.

I saw that Yang Hu also slapped his thigh fiercely after hearing this: "It's all to blame for the Xu Liang who came from Dongchangwei, if he hadn't brought three thousand Dongchangwei soldiers to support Jinan, I'm afraid Jinan City would have been ours a long time ago!" ”

Yang Hu's words are indeed the truth, he has been entrenched in Jinan for many years, and he has long been aware of the reality of the troops in Jinan City, in his opinion, the guards in Jinan City have long been corrupted, except for the usual guarding the city gate to maintain order, there is no combat effectiveness at all, and several guards around Jinan are also similar, it is not difficult to attack Jinan City with the strength in his hands.

In fact, it is true, when Yang Hu led the army to the city of Jinan, the officials in the entire city were all in a mess, and they all commanded the troops in the city to gather the troops in the city to prepare to defend the city, but as soon as Yang Hu's army began to attack the city, the guards on the city wall were frightened, and even many people threw down their weapons on the spot and prepared to escape from the city wall.

In the face of this situation, the governor of Shandong was trembling all over, and strictly ordered the commander of Shandong to hold Jinan, and the commander of the capital was also anxious, and personally took a group of officers to the city wall to supervise the battle, anyone who dared to escape cowardly would be killed on the spot immediately, which made the situation better, but it was still at a disadvantage in the offensive and defensive battles, seeing that Yang Hu's rebel army was about to attack the city, and Jinan City was also in danger.

But at this anxious moment, suddenly from the north of the city to kill a Ming guard, this guard is different from other guards, the soldiers are not only neat, but also dare to fight, there is even a cavalry of hundreds of people, led by this guard is a young general, only to see him himself to take responsibility, with the horse as the arrow rushed into Yang Hu's army, the result of Yang Hu siege team cut into two sections, forced Yang Hu to retreat, this saved the city of Jinan. This team that suddenly rescued Jinan City was the Dongchang Wei soldiers in Yang Hu's mouth, and the brave young general was Xu Liang, the commander of Dongchang Wei.

Dongchang Mansion is located in the west side of Jinan Mansion, the two mansions are close to each other, Dongchang Mansion is one of the hubs of the Ming Dynasty, and it is also a very prosperous state capital of the Ming Dynasty, where there is also a guard, that is, Dongchang Guard.

Speaking of Dongchang Wei, it can be regarded as an outlier in the Daming Guard, the Wei commander of the Dongchang Guard is surnamed Xu Mingliang, his family is a hereditary commander, but when it came to Xu Liang's father's generation, his father felt that the status of being a military attache was too low, so after the birth of his second son Xu Liang, he planned to let him study to gain fame, anyway, Xu Liang also has an elder brother above him, who can inherit the position of commander.

Xu Liang's father planned very well, but as the so-called unforeseen circumstances, Xu Liang's brother died of a sudden illness just after he became an adult, and only Xu Liang was left in the family as a son, and although Xu Liang was only a teenager at this time, he was already a small achievement in reading.

Although Xu Liang was a scholar before, but after inheriting the position of Wei Commander, he began to study the art of war, governed the army very strictly, and even personally participated in the army's drills, in addition, Xu Liang was also different from other commanders, he did not love money, never deducted the armor and equipment of the military households, and treated his subordinates very generously, and handed over the fields of the guard to the military households for cultivation at a very low rent, so that these military households could not worry about living at home, and as a result, in just a few years, Dongchangwei restored the style of the army, The combat effectiveness has also been greatly improved, although it is not as good as the border army with rich experience in actual combat, but it is not far from the Beijing battalion.

After Yang Hu and Qi Yanming rebelled, the county seat on the east side of Jinan was attacking the city and plundering the land, and it threatened the safety of Jinan, so as early as a few days later, the Shandong commander had already issued a mobilization order to the guards near Jinan, ordering them to allocate a part of their forces to help defend Jinan, but for this order, even the commander made himself unconfident, because he knew better than anyone else about the situation of the guards, and God knew how many troops were still in the guards around the road?

But what the commander of Shandong did not expect was that Dongchangwei, who was not far from Jinan, really mobilized 3,000 troops after receiving his order, and this army was still an army that dared to fight and saved Jinan City at a critical moment, which made both officials and people in Jinan City inexplicably grateful to Xu Liang and his Dongchangwei soldiers.

After Xu Liang killed Yang Hu's army for the first time, he then entered the city to help defend, after all, he only had three thousand soldiers to fight, if he fought hard with Yang Hu, I am afraid that he would suffer the most in the end, so it is better to defend with the help of the tall city wall of Jinan City, so that he can reduce his own casualties and consume Yang Hu's troops.

In addition, Yang Hu and these anti-thieves are just a gang of rabble, and it is okay to fight a good fight, but if they can't capture Jinan City for a long time, then it will also be a heavy blow to the prestige of Yang Hu and other anti-thief leaders, plus Yang Hu and these people have no fixed supply of grain and grass, so they can only rely on looting everywhere, so Xu Liang firmly believes that Yang Hu will not last long at all, and when Yang Hu retreats, it will be their chance to fight back! (To be continued......)