The greatness of Shandong people is not only manifested in their courage and loyalty, but also in their superhuman spirit of hardship and hard work. The most impressive thing for Zhang Chu is that www.biquge.info Chinese life has just begun to get better, and it is not good enough to afford an excavator, countless Shandong people push a wheelbarrow, with a shovel to go all over the country, contracted the earthworks there, they dig with a shovel, push with a trolley to change the face of China, that kind of high-intensity manual labor is not something that ordinary people can bear, and then the world's most famous Lanxiang excavator school appeared in Shandong It is not surprising, Zhang Chu drove to Shandong with a long unicycle team this time, which is also a tribute to the Shandong people.

The officials along the road did not feel Zhang Chu's respect, except for a small group of people wearing Ming army uniforms and carrying the banner of the official army in front, a large group of people in the back did not look like the army of the official army, the governor of the three sides, Hong Chengchou, had received the official letter from the imperial court, and the security army had accepted the invitation and was about to be sent to Shandong to quell the rebellion. When he learned that the security army had only transferred 5,000 people, Hong Chengchou felt a little regretful that the rest of the security forces were not something he could afford to provoke. However, the security army nominally accepted the appeasement of the imperial court, and if he didn't provoke him, he wouldn't attack the official army again, and Hong Chengchou could attack the other rebels with all his strength now.

Zhang Chu did not entangle much with the officials and troops in Shanxi, and quickly left Shanxi with the team.

When the march speed of the security army in Hebei slowed down significantly, because the security army needed food, every time he walked to a county town, Zhang Chu would order the army to stop and station outside the city to send someone to notify the government to prepare food, and the civil officials in various places looked down on these vulgar generals, and did not put these people in their eyes, although there was an emperor's holy decree to ask the state capitals to actively provide food and salary for the counterinsurgency army, they still grinded to do things, hoping that the security army was in a hurry to leave in a hurry, but the security army did not seem to be in a hurry, Artillery positions were also built outside the city gates, and the guns were pointed at the city walls, and the soldiers lined up near the city gates, saying that they were going to study the military.

The county commander in the city suddenly became nervous, and if the enemy soldiers entered the city, the rich people in the city would suffer losses, and he, the county official, would not be able to wear the black gauze hat.

The county commander hurriedly inquired everywhere to find a relationship, hoping to find the superior of the security army, and used the official rank to suppress people to blast the security army away, but after inquiring, he found that the security army was born as a thief, and the emperor directly ordered to be sent to Shandong to quell the rebellion. No one can control this security army. The county commander had the courage to go out of the city and wanted to use the majesty of a civilian official to give the security army a dismount, and now no matter how high-ranking the military generals of the Ming Dynasty are, they will bow their heads to the civilian officials.

After leaving the city, the county commander encountered something even more depressing, and it was not the military general who led the army to receive them, but a small eunuch who was the supervisor of the army. The county magistrate secretly screamed bad luck, this Ming civil official usually thinks highly of himself and disdains to be with the eunuch, but when he saw the eunuch next to the emperor, he didn't dare to offend anything, and he didn't care about his rank and identity, so he respectfully saluted this little eunuch.

The little eunuch Wang Chengen looked very unhappy, and he didn't want to say a word with a calm face, and a whole group of black-clothed soldiers behind him glared angrily at the county order, it seemed that they were very angry that they didn't get food.

The county ordered the bachelor not to suffer the immediate loss, and immediately flattered Wang Chengen for a while, saying that there was no shortage of food and salary, and it would arrive immediately. There is really no good way for this combination of thieves and eunuchs, and the civil officials really don't know what the consequences will be, and they really don't know what the consequences will be, and they make a stumbling block behind their backs, and they impeach the generals who lead the team, and this dead eunuch seems to be much more convenient to talk to the emperor than himself, and if he gives himself maggots at a critical moment, his entire future will be ruined. There is no choice but to obediently send the salary according to the regulations. This kind of drama was staged one by one in the county towns on the way, and the more it went, the smoother it became, because the states and counties had already transmitted the information through letters, and everyone agreed that it was better to send this team of plague gods away as soon as possible.

Zhang Chu not only asked the prefecture and county for food, but also took out real money to buy a lot of grain along the way, and when he arrived in Shandong, the food of Zhang Chu's team not only did not decrease, but also increased a lot.

Wang Chengen looked at Zhang Chu constantly buying grain, and laughed, he was frightened by natural disasters, Shandong did not suffer as much of a famine as Shanxi, and grain was still easy to buy, and he was a little moved in his heart. It seems that this Zhang Chu really doesn't love money, he eats coarse tea and light rice on weekdays, and many times he eats big pot rice with soldiers during the march, and the clothes he wears are the same as those of soldiers, but with a few more special signs. Now that Wang Chengen has been able to recognize the rank mark of the security army, and knows that Zhang Chu's logo represents the generalissimo, Wang Chengen secretly thought that if he wore that black clothes, he didn't know what kind of rank he could wear. Zhang Chu frantically bought grain, and it was certain that he would lose money regardless of victory or defeat on this trip. This is also to blame Zhang Chufei for bringing so many people, if he didn't have so many mouths to eat, he wouldn't have used so much food.

Wang Chengen had nothing to do and was thinking nonsense there. At this time, Zhang Chu actually called him over and said that he was going to discuss military affairs, Wang Chengen was a little happy, this time it was finally not a pretense to scare people. Although Wang Chengen is a eunuch, he also has a heart to be a hero, and he can't go into battle to kill the enemy, and if he participates in the planned battle and wins, he will also have a great sense of achievement.

Unexpectedly, what Zhang Chu wanted to discuss with him this time was not a small battle, but the overall strategy of the security army to counterbalance the rebellion. Also participating in the discussion was Sun Yuanhua, who was dressed in black and had no military rank. Zhang Chu introduced to Wang Chengen that this was the operational staff officer of the security army, and what was the staff officer, Wang Chengen basically equated him with his master. Wang Chengen had never been out of the palace before, he didn't know Sun Yuanhua, and he didn't feel anything special about him.

Sun Yuanhua roughly talked about the current situation based on his own understanding and the information that came back recently.

Kong Youde's rebels occupied Dengzhou after the momentum, there are more Liaodong soldiers to take refuge in them, far away in the island of the Ming army guard Chen Youde because is the remnants of Mao Wenlong, and Kong Youde has always had dealings, also brought 3,000 people to take refuge in Kong Youde, Kong Youde's rebels now have 50,000 or 60,000 people, they have been trained by Sun Yuanhua, the use of firearms is very skillful, infantry and artillery cooperate with each other, the local officers and troops in Shandong have no power to fight back, can only rely on the city to defend. In this regard, Sun Yuanhua didn't know whether it was better to cry or laugh. Now the rebels are concentrating their forces to attack Laizhou, fortunately, Chongzhen finally used the right person this time, the temporarily appointed governor of Shandong, Xu Congzhi, and the governor of Denglai, Xie Lian, are all brave people, personally ascending to the head of the city to organize defense, boosting morale, the rebels have no way to take Laizhou for the time being, but they still surround Laizhou and continue to attack the city.

At this time, the officers and soldiers from all walks of life who rushed to relieve the siege of Laizhou fully showed the true colors of their pig teammates, and drove not far from the rebels to no longer advance, let alone attack.

This is not entirely to blame for the lack of reinforcements, because it is still undecided whether to exterminate or appease the rebels above the court. Many reinforcements were waiting for the imperial court to appease the rebels, and it was always good to be able to avoid fighting themselves.

Now the situation in Shandong has become a large number of officers and troops surrounding to watch the excitement, only the defenders of Laizhou are fighting hard, and the security army has only 5,000 men and horses, and it is also self-inflicted in the face of tens of thousands of rebels with firearms.

Whether to watch the excitement with other officers and soldiers, or to make a difference, there must be an overall strategy for counterinsurgency.

Sun Yuanhua was also very embarrassed after talking about the situation, the other officers and soldiers were afraid of the war, and he was not good for the security army to take risks, the situation in Kelai Prefecture was indeed very critical.

Wang Chengen has not yet figured out the southeast and northwest of Shandong, and he does not dare to make up his mind easily.

Zhang Chu saw that neither of them was silent, so he had to say to himself: "I want to take a risk." (To be continued.) )