Li Jingyuan was in Qingyang, so naturally he would not know that because of his actions, the former governor of the three sides, Yang He, was killed, let alone that the strange imperial court actually canonized a thief who disturbed the society as the deputy chief military officer of the suppression. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

This is really a big joke in the world, canonizing the thieves who are making trouble to quell their own rebellion, isn't it a thief shouting to catch a thief.

But where does he have the time to take care of this now?

The beggar army is going well.

On November 25, the fourth year of Chongzhen, Tan Wu's troops entered Hanzhong, defeated Tang Tong, a general of Hanzhong in the imperial court, beheaded 200, captured 300, successfully broke through Hanyin City, and threatened Hanzhong from the east.

On November 27, the fourth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Erma led the troops to sweep Fengxiang Mansion, except for the garrison of one station, the troops entered the southern part of Gongchang Mansion.

On November 28, the fourth year of Chongzhen, Li Mao led the army to break through Ganzhou and Lanzhou, and Zhu Zhihong, the king of Su, was killed in the flight, and the king of Su was no heir.

On the third day of December in the fourth year of Chongzhen, Chen Da led a battalion of the headquarters, went north out of the Pingyu Institute, collided with a hundred headquarters of the official army, fought a big battle, beheaded more than 30 levels, killed a member of the Ming army garrison, and put a member of the general army, the frightened Zuo Dudu, and Ma Shilong, the chief officer of Linzhao, retreated for 30 miles, and did not dare to enter Pingliang Mansion again.

At this point, basically except for Yansui Town, Yulin, Ningxia and other places, the entire Shaanxi territory was basically occupied by Li Jing's begging army.

On this day, the deputy general Shi Kaixian led 600 troops to garrison Shajing, and when he heard that 3,000 iron cavalry of the Han Department were attacking, he did not dare to resist, and the general who accepted the garrison was afraid of abandoning the city and fled, resulting in the emptiness of the Lingzhou garrison.

According to historical time and space, he should have led the troops eastward to encircle and suppress the thieves in Shaanxi Town, but this year, due to the instigation of Li Jing's big butterfly, Lin Dan Khan took advantage of the invasion and he was left to resist the invasion of the Mongol Tatars.

But although the general trend of history has been changed, but the courage of some people will not change, Shi Kaixian and other shameless people, still regard the court law as nothing, still abandon the city and flee, He Huchen heard that Lingzhou was lost, and immediately did not dare to slack off, starry night with 1,200 headquarters, to reinforcements, as a result of the road encountered Mongolian iron cavalry.

In a hurry, unable to line up, called the Mongolian Tatar iron cavalry to attack halfway, heavy casualties, since the chief military officer He Huchen, his younger brother He Cheng, Zi He Zan should be killed in battle, the rest of the more than 30 generals, all have not been spared, it is a service, the field elite in the hands of the governor Hong Chengchou is forbidden, and no one dares to speak out of the city to fight in the field.

Therefore, Ningxia Zhenlingzhou was besieged, and the officials and soldiers from all walks of life did not dare to rescue, and they did not care how the Mongolian Tatars ransacked the local people, and they refused to send even a single soldier.

However, as soon as Lingzhou was broken, when Lin Dan Khan saw the fighters, he sent 30,000 troops from Hetao, gathered enough of the original more than 40,000 iron cavalry, 80,000 actual soldiers, and 200,000 people, and entered the customs from Lingzhou Shajing and other places, cutting off the retreat of the main force of Ningxia Town to flee south.

Hong Chengchou could not, so he could only gather the elite of the main forces on the three sides that stayed in Shigou City, with Yang Jiamo, the chief military officer of Gansu, as the vanguard officer on the left, Zhang Hongye, and Zhang Zongchang as the vanguard officer on the right, and a total of 25,000 people from the Chinese army went north to meet the battle.

This time, the fight was extremely fierce, although the Mongolian army was full of cavalry, but the equipment and combat ability were not stronger than the Ming army, and before Hong Chengchou sent out the troops, he was determined to fight to the death, and he had cut off his own retreat and moved forward desperately.

In this battle, thousands of Mongolian Tatars were killed, forcing them to lift the siege of Lingzhou by themselves, but the Ming army was also wounded, and what was even more fatal was that although the Ming army entered the city of Lingzhou, it was already short of soldiers and food, and the cold winter had come, and the soldiers did not have cold clothes, and could only freeze and shiver in the cold wind.

Most of the soldiers froze to death and suffered from frostbite, but Hong Chengchou did not have the slightest solution, because his support had been completely cut off by the begging army, and he could no longer get any reinforcements from Gansu Town, Shaanxi, and the road to the east was blocked by the beggar army and the Mongolian army.

Even if he had the decision to give up the three sides, he would never be able to run away.

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The turmoil on the three sides in the west, after all, is still a news blockade, and it cannot be transmitted to Beijing, so the imperial court cannot know all about it for a while, and it cannot estimate the seriousness of the matter.

But the imperial court knew about the affairs of Shandong, and it could no longer be delayed.

Tracing the source of this mutiny, it seems that the main army of Shandong discriminated against the guest army in Liaodong, and on the way to rescue Liaodong led by Kong Youde, the general of Denglai who came to aid Liaodong, he failed to buy grain through Wuqiao, and clashed with the local soldiers and civilians.

happened to meet Li Jiucheng, who had used up all the money he had bought for horses, and under his coercion, under the response of Li Yingyuan (Li Jiucheng's son), these 800 people suddenly turned back.

But in fact, it can be traced back to the general discrimination suffered by Dongjiang Town after Mao Wenlong, the former chief soldier of Dongjiang Town, was killed without authorization, after all, this rebellion spread to the whole of Shandong and Liaodong, and most of the main rebels involved in it were Liaodong people from Dongjiang Town in the past.

In August of the fourth year, Li Jiucheng proclaimed himself the marshal of the capital in Wuqiao, and after raising an army, he returned to the Shandong Peninsula, and captured the cities of Linyi, Lingxian, Shanghe, and Qingcheng, and led his troops straight to Dengzhou.

After the situation became more and more urgent, Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, hurriedly sent the chief military officer Zhang Tao to lead 1,000 Denglai cavalry and 3,000 infantry troops to resist.

He also sent Zhang Keda, who had been transferred to Nanjing as the governor of the right capital, and Zhang Keda, the chief officer of the Zhejiang army who had originally aided the Liaoke Army, to lead more than 2,000 horse infantry to cooperate in quelling the rebellion.

However, most of Zhang Tao's subordinates were Liaodong people from the original Dongjiang Town, and they had the feelings of fellow villagers and colleagues for the rebels.

Zhang Keda lost the field battle, and led the rest of the more than 1,000 people to retreat to Denglai, and never dared to go out of the city to fight in the field.

At the same time, Chen Shishi, the deputy general of Lushun in Dongjiang Town, Liaodong, and Mao Chenglu, the son of Mao Wenlong on Guangludao, responded at the same time, trying to establish a kingdom dominated by Liaodong warriors.

After Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde raised troops, the original intention was to make a fuss, but at the beginning, there was no objection, but after Wuqiao and other areas north of the Yellow River waited for a long time when the court's appeasement failed, they began to return to Denglai.

On December 22, after the rebels massacred the soldiers and civilians of Xincheng, Yu Dake, the governor of Shandong, who pretended to be a turtle with a shrunken head, sent the Chinese military to Dao, Shen Tingyu, and the general Tao Tingyan, led 3,000 Shandong soldiers to fight a decisive battle with the rebels returning to Denglai in Ruanchengdian, but due to the lax combat readiness of the Shandong soldiers and horses, they were completely defeated in the decisive battle.

As a result, the rebels swept through Shandong and were invincible.

Outside the city of Dengzhou, the main force of the rebels gathered, Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai who stood at the head of the city, and Zhang Keda, the governor of the right capital, looked no anxious, just now, Kong Youde sent three hundred military horses into the city to beg for surrender, it seems that everything has been perfectly resolved, as long as Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde enter the city and surrender, Sun Yuanhua will represent the imperial court not to blame the past, and stay in the original post.

"Are you all ready?" In the tent of the Liaodong military camp outside the city, Marshal Li Jiucheng looked at the city from afar and sneered.

Kong Youde said confidently, "But don't worry, my ambush has arrived, and there is also Geng Zhongming, who is defending the city, and Chen Guangfu is the internal response of our Liao army. ”

Li Jiucheng has been oppressed for a long time in the past, and he looks a little impatient, "That's good, the court has bullied me for a long time, and today I will settle the general account." ”

"What the marshal said is very true," Kong Youde echoed, but immediately added, "Thanks to Futai for not giving up, he waited with me for a way to live that day, and if the city is broken today, he will not be harmed, if he is kind enough to persuade him, let him lead us to do great things together, don't do harm!" ”

It is said that Kong Youde, as the actual commander of the rebel army, is grateful to Sun Yuanhua for the kindness of taking him in and surviving at the beginning, so he has repeatedly emphasized that after the city is broken, Sun Yuanhua must not be harmed.

"As it should be." Li Jiucheng didn't care, in fact, the entire Liaodong Army was aimed at the injustice of the imperial court, not the governor of Denglai.

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"Break the city, kill!" That night, the Liaodong rebels in the city should be under the response, open the city gate, a rush in, the city of Denglai local soldiers and horses, suddenly scattered in a hurry, only the chief officer Zhang Keda, suspected of Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde's surrender, then led more than 1,000 soldiers and horses to defend Shuicheng, when the rebels entered Dengzhou City, he led the remnants of the soldiers to refuse, vowing not to surrender.

"Kong Youde, you." Sun Yuanhua was invited out of his mansion, but even so, when he saw Kong Youde, who was surrounded by the rebels after entering the city, he still couldn't stop being angry.

"Don't worry about it, our brothers and I will not dare to harm Futai because of the great kindness of Futai," even if Kong Youde has a thick skin, in front of this person, he still can't stop his face from being hot, but he still pleaded, "Today, our army gathered, the momentum is huge, occupying Dengzhou, ignoring the soldiers and horses of the imperial court, saying that the king is not a problem, and please Futai come out and lead us to raise great things together." ”

When Sun Yuanhua heard this, he was immediately furious and scolded non-stop, but asked everyone around him to bow their heads and let him scold.

"Since Futai is unwilling, I won't dare to wait for a few times, so let's listen to Lord Futai rest in the mansion." Li Jiucheng saw that he had no intention of being a thief, and he didn't dare to persecute him too much, so he did a trick to trap him in the mansion and then calmly calculate.

That night, the soldiers and horses of Liaodong conquered Dengzhou, and they had six or seven thousand people who originally belonged to the old people of Liaodong, and there were 3,000 war horses, tens of thousands of silver, more than 20 red-clothed cannons, and 300 Western cannons.

Since December last year, Shandong Governor Yu Dake was imprisoned for questioning, and there were no soldiers and horses to adjust and no one could be used in Shandong.

The imperial court urgently ordered Xie Lian to be the governor of Denglai, and changed Xu Congzhi, the political envoy of Zuobu in Shandong, to the governor of Shandong, and the governor of the two places to quell the chaos. (To be continued.) )