In April of the fifth year of Ming Chongzhen, the governor of Shandong Ping Thief, Liu Yulie, the rank of squire of the leading army, was defeated in Shahe, and lost four cannons of the general, and countless other artillery firearms. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The drowning, the killed, and the more people who trampled on each other and died, Liu Yulie could no longer support it, but led his troops to retreat to the pass, and let the rebels attack the state capital, without sending a single soldier to rescue.

So much so that at that time, the Liaodong rebels said wildly: Killing Shandong soldiers and horses is like killing grass mustard, even if there are more, what can it do? The only thing I am worried about is the Guanning Iron Cavalry, who is also from the Liaodong Army.

At that time, on the boundary of Shandong, he had already joined more than 30,000 soldiers under the command of eight general soldiers, including Wang Hong, the general soldier of Tianjin, Liu Guozhu, the general soldier of Baoding, Yang Yufan, the general soldier of Tongzhou, Deng Xi, the general soldier of Jimen in Sichuan, Wu Anbang, the general soldier of Dengzhou, Huang Long, the general soldier of Dongjiang, Chen Hongfan, the general soldier of Changping, and Liu Zeqing, the general soldier of volunteers.

However, because Li Jiucheng, Kong Youde and other Dongjiang Liaodong rebel generals, at this moment have converged with Chen Shi, Geng Zhongming, Mao Chenglu and other Dongjiang Town generals, who already have 5,000 cavalry, 40,000 foot soldiers, 4500 artillery pieces, and countless firearms.

Everyone unanimously elected Li Jiu as the marshal of the Liaodong Army, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming as the governor, and the rest of them added official ranks, because when Kong Youde captured Dengzhou, he obtained a large amount of gold and silver in stock, so he distributed these silver taels to the army, and who doesn't like silver when the soldiers eat food?

In addition, the conquest of the prefecture and county vented the resentment of the army and the people in the Shandong territory, so they rushed to be the first in each battle, and the bravery was abnormal, so the Dongjiang rebels after winning the decisive battle of Shahe were no longer satisfied with the Denglai territory.

"The soldiers and horses sent by the imperial court are not very elite, if you want to say that we simply rush out of Laizhou Mansion and go to Qingzhou and Yanzhou, what do you think?"

Li Jiucheng has been pondering how to enter the army next these days.

Since he defeated the soldiers and horses from all walks of the court one after another, he can see that these military horses that have been scrapped in the past are not his opponents at all, but in the same way, he does not dare to have the slightest slackness, because the soldiers and horses of the imperial court are fighting more and more, while his own soldiers and horses are fighting less and less.

Although it can barely be maintained, in the long run, it will be nothing more than defeat.

Gao Chengyou, who stayed in the Dongjiang River to contain the soldiers and horses of Tianjin and Liaodong, had already led the remnants of his troops to cross the sea to Dengzhou a few days ago, which meant that the main force of the Liaodong troops stationed in the direction of Jinzhou could enter the customs at any time to quell the chaos.

Dongjiang Town is okay with the imperial court soldiers in the inland, but if he really does it with the Liaodong Iron Cavalry and Shanyong's Guanmen Iron Cavalry, he may not be their opponent, so he is also anxious from the bottom of his heart.

Chen is sometimes very optimistic, "Marshal Du, now there are more than 50,000 horsemen and infantry horses, and they are firmly besieging the Laizhou capital city, and even the governor has been killed by us, I can't see if we can defeat it, as long as we occupy Denglai, are we still afraid of the imperial court?" ”

"That's not the case, do you remember the day before yesterday? Isn't it appalling that a person from somewhere can break through our foundation and the movements of the imperial court soldiers and horses in one mouth? ”

Kong Youde remembered the events of the day before yesterday, and now that he took it out, he was a little thinking about preparing to carry it out.

It was an unknown person from Liaodong, who reported to the door and brought it up after being captured by the soldiers, but it was not very human, just looking at the face, it was a detailed body, looking like the Guanning army, but the exit was to mention the secret matter of the imperial court, that is, the emperor had been trained under the command of Yang Sichang, the governor of Zhaoshanyong, and the three thousand iron cavalry of the Guanmen Iron Cavalry Battalion were ready to enter Shandong at any time to quell the rebellion.

Moreover, the Guanning army was transferred to Wu Pin, and the five thousand iron cavalry of Zu Kuan's department had returned from the front line in Liaodong and was ready to enter Shandong.

The Guanmen Iron Cavalry Battalion under the command of Governor Shanyong is not mentioned for the time being, but Zhu Dadian, the Tianjin Soldier, led his troops and Wu Zhuo, Zu Kuan and others to attack Gao Chengyou's department, which is a clear thing, otherwise Gao Chengyou's 3,000 men and horses would not have collapsed in more than ten days, and he himself only brought 300 remnants of the army to defeat Haidu Dengzhou.

Li Jiucheng summarized this information in his mind, and suddenly felt a little uneasy, so he asked Kong Youde softly, "How are you doing?" ”

Kong Youde smiled happily, took out a map of Shandong and pointed to one of them, "The safety of the Beijing division is not more than the benefit of Caoyun, and millions of people should be fed with the grain of Henan Mansion and Caoyun, if I use an elite army to go south around Qingzhou, directly cut off Caoyun, and get the help of Caoyun troops and horses from all over the country, and fight again, what does Marshal think?" ”

"This?"

Li Jiucheng hadn't thought about it yet, but the people under him who could see the facts clearly gasped one after another.

If the Liaodong soldiers and horses are in turmoil in the territory of Denglai in Shandong, it is just ringworm, then Kong Youde is going to cut off the root of the imperial court, once the Dongjiang soldiers and horses go out of Qingzhou and go to the Bauhinia Pass, attack Liaocheng and Yanzhou, Jining Mansion, then the world will be in chaos, and once the canal goes south, as long as it can cut off the Cao Yun, the court will go crazy.

At that time, it will do whatever it takes, but also to exterminate this rebellious army that dares to cut off the lifeline of the Ming Dynasty, but although the strategy is good, it is really a dead end, and it is not necessarily safe to be alone.

"Marshal Du, the last general dares to ask, even if we take Laizhou, how long can we fight with the imperial court?"

Kong Youde doesn't know why, he has always had expectations for this thought, maybe he is below Li Jiucheng, or maybe he really thinks about the future of the soldiers and horses in Dongjiang Town, and now there is no way out for Zhaofu, so there is only the possibility of fighting to the death.

Li Jiucheng didn't suspect that he had two hearts, after all, everyone was a grasshopper tied to a rope, and once defeated, no one could escape, "You want to take someone to the tiger's den?" ”

"Exactly, if you take 3,000 iron horsemen, go out of Qingzhou Mansion, go west along the way in Jiaozhou, and only plunder the local towns and towns along the way, and only kill all of them, as long as you hide in the west, the officers and soldiers stationed in the northwest may not be able to find out, I only cut off the Cao Yun before they go south, and I can mobilize those poor military households to fight together."

Kong Youde saw that he was not very opposed to this plan, so he continued with a golden light in his eyes, "Besides, the messenger has said first, as long as Shandong can hold out for a few more months, the situation in the world will change, I see, it must be that the chaotic army in the land of Shanxi is going eastward, even if I can't stand by then, I can retreat into Henan Mansion, what can the court do to me at that time?" ”

"Brother Xian, you."

Li Jiucheng saw that he had made up his mind, and the Ming army in front of him gradually increased his troops, he also felt a little powerless, if Kong Youde said, even if he could complete half of it, he could mobilize the Ming army in front of him to follow the pursuit, to put it bluntly, this is a partial division that will definitely attract the main force of the Ming army.

"How sure are you?"

Li Jiucheng, as the leader of the rebel army, is naturally not stupid, Kong Youde divided his troops and left, hitting the key point of the official army, and it is inevitable to attract the officials and troops from all over the country to encircle and suppress, even the Ming army in front of him must divide the troops, and the follow-up Guanning army and the Guanmen Iron Cavalry will pursue this partial division to the death, he is just worried about Kong Youde's safety.

"Although there is no certainty of victory, there is only certainty, but there is a determination to die!"

Kong Youde is not a reckless person, but he has really thought about it, and feels that this may not be a way to survive in death, besides, the worst is the worst, he just ran to the mountains and hid, and the Mengshan boundary on the side of the canal is not also a good place to hide soldiers?

At present, the imperial court has millions of rogues in Shanxi and Shaanxi, and when the time comes, it is time to find an opportunity to enter Henan Mansion and Huguang, and not let him soar?

"If this is the case, order all three thousand iron cavalry, set off on Keri, and then I will attack Laizhou with elite troops to attract the main force of the official army to help, you must remember, everything is also worth and your life is important, even if you lose the soldiers and horses, brother, there is also your place!"

Li Jiucheng saw that he was so loyal, and he was not deeply moved, so he said directly and loudly in front of all the monarchs.

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So, on April 22 of the fifth year of Chongzhen, Kong Youde, who had prepared for three days, led 3,000 iron cavalry and 20 Western Buddha cannons, and walked from the starry night of Laizhou Mansion to Tianming, and gradually broke away from the realm of Laizhou and began to enter Qingzhou Mansion.

Most of the soldiers and horses of the imperial court were dragged at the junction of the northern part of Qingzhou and Laizhou, and they were attracted by the rebels' sudden intensification of the siege of the city, so by the evening of the next day, they still did not realize that the enemy in front of them had reduced most of the cavalry and lost the best opportunity to encircle.

So Kong Youde led the troops to Jiaozhou first, broke the villages and towns along the way, killed the soldiers and civilians who met on the road, and strictly blocked their own news, and then the whole army almost two horses, directly towards Liaocheng, Jining Mansion rushed straight to the county, along the way states and counties, have alarmed, bluffing the place three times a day, have asked for help.

The main force of the official army entrenched in the north of Qingzhou did not receive a report from the main cavalry of the rebel army along the border of Jiaozhou until noon on the third day.

This time, even Liu Yulie, who is the commander of the army, no longer knows much about the military affairs, and he also knows that things are out of the way, because after the defeat of Shahe, the court has a lot of implications for Liu Yulie, so these days, he has been wrestling with the court, rather than quelling the rebellion in person.

When it was learned that the Denglai rebels had advanced westward, the army gathered in Qingzhou Mansion was completely panicked, and almost all the soldiers in Shandong and neighboring provinces were mobilized to Qingzhou Mansion, and only a few military households were guarding the interior.

Therefore, Liu Yulie sent dozens of people to the prefecture and county to warn and ordered to strictly defend on the one hand, and on the other hand, he urgently mobilized troops to prepare for the pursuit, but at this time, there were not many soldiers and horses in his hand, although it looked like there were tens of thousands of elites, but in fact, most of them were made up.

In the battle ahead, the troops of Wang Hong, the general soldier of Tianjin, and Yang Yufan, the general soldier of Tongzhou, were basically disabled, and the rest of the troops, more or less in the battle of Shahe, also suffered many damages, and in desperation, Liu Yulie could only send Deng Xi, the general soldier of Jimen, and Chen Hongfan, the general soldier of Changping, to lead 6,000 troops, and enter Yanzhou Mansion in the starry night to intercept Kong Youde. (To be continued.) )