Kong Youde, who was besieging Laizhou, got the news that a total of 40,000 counterinsurgency troops from all walks of life in the imperial court had arrived at Xinhe and began to cross the river under the leadership of Zhu Dadian. Kong Youde immediately convened the generals to discuss.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Kong Youde opened his mouth and asked after announcing the news: "Ladies and gentlemen, the counterinsurgency army of the imperial court has crossed the Xinhe River and headed straight for Huangxian, what should we do?" ”

Geng Zhongming thought for a while and said, "Dengzhou is our base camp, there is no room for mistakes, we should immediately send troops to meet them and stop them!" ”

Li Jiucheng said, "This time the imperial court is obviously coming to relieve the siege of Laizhou, but Dengzhou is the back road of our army, and the enemy army will attack the place where I must save, which is really vicious, it seems that I can only give up Laizhou!" ”

Below, Mao Youshun and other generals echoed: "Yes! Handsome! Since Laizhou can't be captured, give up! Or Dengzhou is important! This time the imperial army is surging, I'm afraid it will be difficult to deal with, we still have a glimmer of hope for retreating to Dengzhou! ”

Seeing that his generals spoke one after another, they all thought that they should return to Dengzhou, Kong Youde did not delay and immediately said, "Okay! Since everyone thinks that they should go back to the teacher! Then we'll go back to Dengzhou! The generals listened to the order, immediately collected grain and grass, and rushed back to Dengzhou with me. Li Jiucheng, you take the elite of the headquarters, go to Huangxian, and intercept the officers and soldiers halfway! ”

After everyone returned, they began to instruct their subordinates to collect "grain and grass" to start looting the surrounding villages, the rebels heard the news of tens of thousands of troops from the imperial court, they did not think that such a small soldier could survive under the siege of the imperial army, so for this mission thought that it was a killing meal before death, and on the way to withdraw the army, he did not care about the friendship of his fellow villagers, robbed everything he could see, burned down the village, slaughtered and raped women, and vented his last madness, the people around Denglai and the two states suffered one after another, and the rebels burned, killed and looted all kinds of evil, The villages on the road were often almost slaughtered, and there was not one out of ten people, and the two states of Denglai were suddenly full of mourning.

On the other side, Li Jiucheng led his headquarters to Huang County, and after entering Huang County, the spies came to report that a vanguard army had arrived at the Shahe River and began to cross the river! Li Jiucheng believes that this is a rare opportunity, and it is necessary to defeat the arrogance of the officers and soldiers. So he led an army of more than 10,000 people to meet the attack. The troops who were crossing the river were Zu Kuan, and Zu Kuan and others took the lead as the vanguard and had approached the surroundings of Huang County.

Zu Kuan had just crossed the Shahe River and was gathering his army and preparing to set off, when Li Jiucheng had arrived with a large army. Seeing more than a thousand people crossing the river, he immediately ordered the troops to attack. When the two armies saw each other, their eyes immediately reddened and they slammed into each other. Zu Kuan wore iron armor, took the lead, led the troops to kill the rebels, rushed to the enemy position in a few breaths, raised his knife and slashed at a rebel, and immediately blood splashed, cutting off the enemy's head, and the subordinates who followed behind saw that the lord was so brave and morale, and they raised their knives to kill the enemy. Although Guan Ning's army was brave, its number was only less than one-tenth of that of the other party. It didn't take long for him to fall into a bitter battle, Zu Kuan was covered in blood, slashing at the enemies besieging him, killing one enemy after another, but the people besieging him around him did not decrease, listening to the terrible screams of his own soldiers before they died, his heart became anxious.

At this time, Wang Guochen, Zu Dabi, Zhang Tao and others have crossed the Shahe River, seeing Zu Kuan being besieged, Wang Guochen took the lead in roaring, holding a big knife like a rebel rushing, followed by Zu Dabi, Zu Dabi's tower-like body is black and strong like a bear, the strength is amazing, everywhere he goes, the first to take the lead in killing Zu Kuan, Zu Dabi people call "Zu Er Madman" is Zu Dashou's younger brother, shouting and shouting when fighting, extremely brave, once in Liaodong single horse chasing Huang Taiji, If it weren't for the desperate rescue of the people around Huang Taiji, Zu Dabi killed Huang Taiji, and later fought with the first warrior of Manchuria, and the two sides fought for hundreds of rounds without winning or losing, and was a rare fierce general in the Ming Dynasty. As soon as Zu Dabi came, Zu Kuan suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, his little life was finally saved! With reinforcements on board, the rebels began to lose ground. The combat effectiveness of the Guanning army as a perennial army fighting with the Tartars is indeed stronger than the general Guannai army, these rebels are just a rabble composed of surrendered troops and strong men, although the number is several times that of the Guanning army, but it is still not the opponent of the Guanning army, with the increase in casualties, the rebels began to be unstable, not who shouted "I don't want to die!" Run for your life! The first to turn around and run towards the edge of the battlefield triggered a chain reaction of the rebels, the entire rebel army collapsed like an avalanche, the soldiers scattered and fled, and even the overseers were trapped in it before they had time to react. The Guan Ning army took advantage of the situation to chase and kill, and only stopped until outside the city of Huangxian County, killing thousands of enemy troops. Li Jiucheng fled back to Huangxian in embarrassment and did not come out, not daring to fight.

The Guanning army triumphed, cleared the charge of colluding with the rebels, and immediately camped outside the city, waiting for reinforcements. The next day, Zhu Dadian arrived with reinforcements, surrounded Huangxian and began to attack the city. Huangxian is just a small county town, where can it withstand the siege of tens of thousands of troops of the imperial court, the siege battle only lasted one day, and the rebels were almost unable to resist, and Li Jiucheng had to send people out of the city to ask for help.

On the 2nd day, the official army began to attack the city as usual, Li Jiucheng personally led the supervising team to guard the city, when the battle was the most intense, the official army had already captured the city, Li Jiucheng personally went into battle, and the official army was able to repel under the heavy reward. The next day, Kong Youde sent reinforcements with artillery. The morale of the rebels was immediately boosted, and the officers and troops suffered heavy losses in the roaring cannons, and had to suspend the siege to discuss countermeasures.

In the camp of the officers and soldiers, they were helpless in the face of the rebels' powerful Atlantic artillery. frowned tightly and thought about countermeasures, Zu Dabi was a rough man, and he couldn't stand such an atmosphere the most, and shouted: "No matter what kind of bird he is, Western artillery, tomorrow Lao Tzu will personally lead people to attack the city, I don't believe that our Guanning army will not be able to defeat a small county town!" ”

Zu Kuan saw Zu Dabi's thunderous appearance, frowned and had to persuade, "Our Guanning army is good at field battles and defending cities, and we are not good at siege battles, and there will definitely be heavy casualties if we forcibly attack the city, you should stop the meeting, and see what everyone says!" ”

At this time, Liu Zeqing, the deputy commander-in-chief, had an idea: "We can try to hide gunpowder in the siege vehicle, the city gate of Huangxian is not strong, maybe it can be blown up!" Everyone couldn't think of any other good way for a while, so they could only try it according to Liu Zeqing's method.

On March 12 of the fifth year of Chongzhen, the official army began to launch a general attack on Huangxian, the official army braved the artillery of the city, began a tragic siege battle, the city head arrow rain like flying locusts The officers and soldiers who attacked the city fell to the ground with arrows, and the screams and shouts filled the entire battlefield, the officers and soldiers carried the ladder, rushed to the city head and the rebels to start a fierce hand-to-hand combat!

Under the desperate cover of the officers and soldiers, the siege vehicle finally approached the city gate, only to hear the sound of "boom" The city gate was blown open a gap, and the officers and soldiers cheered, and the officers and soldiers who did not need to order to see it went to the city gate one after another. The city gate fell, and the rebels couldn't stop it, and Huangxian County was finally breached, and the official army took advantage of the situation to attack the city, and the rebels were immediately defeated. The officers and soldiers defeated the rebels, captured 13,000 heads, took 800 prisoners, and killed about 10,000 thieves who fled and fell into the sea.

When the city gate was broken, Li Jiucheng saw that things were not good, and took the lead to lead the people of the headquarters out of the city, but the officials and troops had no time to stop it, and Liu Jiucheng led people to escape in the direction of Dengzhou!

The official army broke through Huangxian, there was no longer a slightly larger city in the direction of Dengzhou, there was only one Dengzhou city left, because the high walls of Dengzhou City were difficult to break, and there were a large number of cannons and Western cannons in the city, Zhu Dadian had to pause and wait for reinforcements to arrive.