In July of the fifth year of Ming Chongzhen, Kong Youde, the leader of the rebels in Dongjiang Town, was under the Bauhinia Pass of Qingzhou Mansion, and broke the 7,000 Ming army of Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shanxi, and then chased and killed 30 miles with elite cavalry. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Since the Cao Yun was cut off once in April, the Cao Canal section of the Shandong border has been closed again, and this time the situation is worse than the last time, because the imperial court no longer has an army that can quickly quell the chaos.

"Okay, now that I have taken Yishui County, I can threaten the grain transportation channel of the official army, I heard that the official army sent the general Huanglong to guard here, it is really God to help me, the battle of the day, it should finally be settled." Kong Youde is now high-spirited, and his gestures have the meaning of pointing at the country, after all, he has already achieved a lot of success!

Counting his own elite cavalry of more than 2,700 people and more than 1,000 cavalry gathered by various rogues, a total of 4,000 elite soldiers with more than 30,000 foot soldiers, his strength is enough to form a large strategic group, even if the Ming army stationed in Laizhou and the Ming army in Qingzhou come to fight together, he is not his opponent.

What's more, the news that came back one after another, all of them were good news, and even stationed in Anqiu, it was Shang Kexi, the former deputy general of Guangludao in Dongjiang Town, who supported an army of 1,500 cavalry and 500 foot soldiers, and was strong.

"What do you say? Generalissimo Li Jiucheng is dead? When Kong Youde heard the news of Li Jiucheng's death from Xu Erxian's mouth, he was immediately shocked, if this is true, it means that the last obstacle to his departure to Denglai has been removed, as long as the Ming army is defeated, he will definitely be able to take power alone.

"What the last general said, it is absolutely true, at the end of June, we were ordered to cross the sea from Phi Island, Guanglu Island and Liaodongwei to the south, one day Marshal Li led his troops out of the city to sweep away the threat of the imperial general's artillery, for the late Peng Youmo, the general soldier of Sichuan, personally cao artillery hit, and then died of serious injuries, and now in Dengzhou City, it is already white-clothed, the soul is displayed, and everyone is wearing white!" Xu Erxian was also a little unbearable, after all, it was all the people and horses of Dongjiang Town who fought to the death in the city, how could they bear it!

Besides, the military order to mobilize them to the south was originally to pay food and salary in full, but because the Guanning Army within the Ming army had actually taken the advantage, there were naturally fewer soldiers and horses left for Dongjiang Town, which immediately attracted the dissatisfaction of Jin Hengsheng and Shang Kexi, while Huang Long and Shen Shikui were patient and did not mention it.

"Good! This marshal now commands 100,000 soldiers and horses in the world, has captured Yanzhou Mansion, Tai'an Mansion, Yishui Mansion, and now waves troops to the east, if the Shang brothers are willing to raise troops to respond, let's first kill Huanglong to capture Qingzhou, cut off the back road of the official army, and then use the main force of soldiers and horses to attack Denglai, and annihilate the main force of the Ming army in one fell swoop, then the world can be determined! "Kong Youde has never been so excited as he is today,

One Li Jiucheng died, sooner or later Dongjiang Town would be his, because Li Jiucheng, who was once the three commanders of the Dongjiang Town rebels, Chen had sometimes died in battle, and only Kong Youde was left, and the rest were like Geng Zhongming, who were all his colleagues or subordinates in the past, and their status could not threaten him at all.

And now Jin Hengsheng, the deputy general who wants to be the internal response, is still happy, but he does not have the prestige when he raised the army, and the forty or fifty thousand soldiers and civilians in Dengzhou City will not obey their orders, so as long as Kong Youde defeats the Ming army in front of him, then the strength of the entire Dongjiang Town will be in his pocket alone.

"My general is looking forward to the marshal for a long time, as long as the marshal is willing to march into Qingzhou, my general is in the south, and he will definitely come to the aid of the Ming army, so that the marshal can successfully capture Qingzhou!" Xu Erxian's words are true, because no matter who sees the main army led by Kong Youde at this time, which is close to forty or fifty thousand, he will feel that the end of the Ming army is coming.

This is not a joke, even if Shang Kexi is still a loyal minister of the imperial court, he does not dare to say that the Ming army that has been fighting in Denglai for half a year can reflexively engage this army, and at that time, the two main forces of 40,000 or 50,000 will attack the 60,000 Ming army, and whoever commands it will be difficult to avoid collapse, and the battle has reached this point, in fact, it can be said that it is over.

"Pass the order, order the cavalry of the headquarters to be the vanguard, go straight to Qingzhou and Guangling, take the place where the official army is stored, and then march east to Denglai, and fight with them!" Kong Youde loudly ordered his generals and the leaders of the rebel army to pack up their troops and go north, and then, Xu Erxian hurried back to the Shangkexi garrison in Yishui Mansion with Shang Kexi's military talisman and handwritten documents.

"Come on, quickly send someone to secretly bring a message to Jin Hengsheng, inviting him to raise the banner of rebellion together in Laizhou, buy time for the generalissimo, and our army will be completed immediately, and lead the army north to Gaomi, Pingdu, and cut off the retreat of the Ming army!" After Shang Kexi heard the news that Kong Youde's elite army of 40,000 or 50,000 troops was heading north, he immediately followed the troops to respond.

Then with the general Xu Erxian led the men and horses to besiege Anqiu County, kill the county order, open the granary to recruit soldiers and horses, after gathering more than 3,000 people, falsely claimed tens of thousands, went north from Anqiu, and used Xu Erxian to lead the headquarters of 300 cavalry, 500 people to take the northern line to capture Shouguang, to meet Kong Youde's army, and to the general Ban Zhifu led 500 foot soldiers, 300 people, attacked Changyi, and commanded more than 1,000 cavalry to capture Pingdu Prefecture.

So the world shook, and Deng Lai's Ming Army was speechless.

"Sure enough, it's still going to come to this point, that's it, the order will go down, all the departments will pack their bags, and set up flags and troops to respond today." Jin Hengsheng has always known Shang Kexi's plan in his heart, after all, he himself has this plan.

That's because Huanglong, Zhang Tao, Shen Shikui, these three people, are no longer worthy of their lives, no matter who they are, they are all villains who only care about their own families, when Liu Xingzhi sought the post of Phi Dao General Soldier unsuccessfully, he rebelled, it was Huanglong and Shen Shikui who drove him out and killed him, during this period, Shang Kexi was to help out of maintaining the entire system of Dongjiang Town from collapsing, if there was no action from his soldiers and horses, Huanglong and Shen Shikui would not necessarily succeed.

But after the incident, Huang Long used Sun Yuanhua to withdraw the island in the name of squeezing out Zhang Tao, monopolizing Phi Island, and trying to win over Shang Kexi, but was hindered by Shen Shikui, so Shang Kexi led the troops to return to Guanglu Island in anger, and since then he has supported the army and respected himself, regardless of the war, but the grievances between him and Shen Shikui are buried, but at this time, it is not yet to the point of breaking.

Later, because Huanglong was unpopular, for Shen Shikui to empty the right from it, the two sides were in trouble, the imperial court in order to prevent chaos, sent the deputy general Mao Chenglu to reconcile, but Mao Chenglu assassinated Shen Shikui and almost died, which made these generals from the Dongjiang Department more resentful in their hearts, so whether it was Huanglong or Shen Shikui, these soldiers and horses from Dongjiang Town had no good feelings, Zhang Tao ran fast in advance, and went to Dengzhou as the chief military officer, and later Denglai rebelled, he was let go because he was not deeply involved in the world, and it was also because of here.

Therefore, this time the imperial court re-established the military order, and issued three strict orders on the 10th to order Shen Shikui to lead the army to withdraw from the island and go south to quell the chaos, and because the Dajin Jurchen took advantage of the civil strife in Dongjiang Town and the Liaodong Xingdu Si Yamen to guard against emptiness and take the opportunity to march, Shen Shikui was afraid that the imperial court would be angry afterwards, so he led 8,000 soldiers and horses across the sea to come, on the one hand, to fulfill the orders of the imperial court, and on the other hand, to avoid the Tartar soldiers, in order to protect himself.

And at the moment, the imperial court didn't want to overstimulate the remaining more than 10,000 elites in Dongjiang Town, so it divided Huanglong to garrison Qingzhou, Shang Kexi soldiers were only 2,000 stationed in Yishui Mansion, Jin Hengsheng headquarters 3,000 men and horses were stationed in Laizhou, and Shen Shikui led 3,000 men and horses to garrison Jimo, anyway, they were all asked to guard the back road, as a result, Kong Youde led the army eastward, and its four rear road elites immediately reversed the two roads, and the back road of the entire Ming army was cut off at once.

Kong Youde on the way to Qingzhou, self-led Liaodong Army Generalissimo, Feng Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi, Jin Hengsheng as deputy marshal, Mao Chenglu, Mao Yongfang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other generals, the rest of the people have their own rewards, at this time, the Liaodong Army has 100,000 elite soldiers on the three roads, and the Ming army gathered here is only 60,000, and the grain road between Laizhou and Qingzhou has been cut off, and the military food hoarded on the front line of Dengzhou is only for the army for a few days.

After Jin Hengsheng raised his troops, he should Kailai Prefecture Mansion in one day, and tens of thousands of rebels in Dongjiang Town, who had besieged the city for several months and had not been captured, were actually broken in one day, and this time, the retreat of the Ming army was completely captured.

On July 15, Shang Kexi led more than 1,000 elite cavalry to capture Pingdu Prefecture, killed the imperial court dispatch and transfer officials and hundreds of imperial court military horses, and joined Jin Hengsheng in the east of Laizhou, with more than 4,000 men and horses in the two divisions, and captured Gaomi in the south as a cover, and then led the army to the north to monitor, and defeated the attacking two official army forwards, killing and wounding 100 people.

Originally, the imperial court was on the front line of Denglai, and thought that the back road was only temporarily cut off, and after learning that Jin Hengsheng and Shang Kexi had rebelled, he was very angry, so he first transferred Shen Shikui of Jiaozhou to the west to quell the chaos, and then transferred thousands of elite troops from the besieging troops to the west, trying to open up the grain route, but Shen Shikui was already supporting the army at the moment, and Huanglong in Qingzhou was difficult to protect himself.

The generals under the command of the chief officer of the Ming army in a town that came quickly from the city of Dengzhou were easily defeated by the rebels in Dongjiang Town, so the situation changed dramatically in an instant, that is, the main force of 60,000 officers and troops, only seven days' food, if the rear passage can not be opened, then there is a danger of collapse, because no matter how much grain and grass is hoarded in Qingzhou, they can't eat it! (To be continued.) )