The sound of Dengzhou City shouting and killing shook up, a heavy black smoke drifted over the city, the streets and alleys were filled with the cries of the city's citizens, and groups of rebels were still entering the city from the east gate and pouring into the city.

Li Jiucheng, whose eyes were full of bloodshots, stood on the tower of Chūn Shengmen City, looking at the scene in front of him with a cruel smile, all the old guys from the Dongjiang River were standing around, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and Chen Guangfu naturally regarded Li Jiucheng as the leader at this time, this person led the rebels to break the city since he started the army from Wuqiao, and took advantage of Sun Yuanhua's eagerness to appease him, brought him back to Dengzhou safely, and used Neiying to break the city in one fell swoop, his achievement is prestige, although he was not originally considered the highest official position. But now it has become the backbone of this group of Dongjiang soldiers.

Kong Youde pointed to the south gate, Li Jiucheng looked at it in a blink of an eye, Li Yingyuan's thousand general banner was raised at the south gate, a large number of Dongjiang soldiers in the city rebelled, the main barracks had been dispersed under the attack of several times the Liao soldiers, and some of them surrendered, Sun Yuanhua and Zhang Keda had gone.

Geng Zhongming laughed and said: "Brother Li is not only invincible in battle, but even his strategy is so good, Jingran really captured Dengzhou." Our Liao people have been oppressed for a long time, and their minds have changed, and the right battalion of the pacesetter is also on the verge of surrendering, and when they turn around, they will go to the main barracks, and dealing with Zhang Keda's southern soldiers is just like chopping melons and vegetables. ”

Kong Youde is not so optimistic, among them, Geng Zhongming is full of scheming, Li Jiucheng is fierce in battle, he is relatively calm, and he generally wants to be safe, he reminded Li Jiucheng on the side: "Brother Li, the city is broken, but we don't want to be a Tartar, grab a handful and go back to our hometown, who will take care of this city in the future, how to treat Sun Da into Zhang Keda, and the water city in the north, Lu Zhi is still inside, whether we fight directly, or keep Lu Zhi to talk about Zhao'an, Brother Li still has to make an idea earlier." ”

Li Jiucheng sneered, "Shuicheng will be brought down no matter what, but for now, the city will be controlled first, Yingenmen and Zhenhaimen are not in our hands, what did Wang Bingzhong say?" ”

Geng Zhongming replied: "He was sent in to say that he agreed to join us, but he didn't send troops to fight Sun Yuanhua, he felt that he wanted to see the limelight, but he has always been like this, Lao Tzu also agreed at that time, if Li Dajin wants to take down Zhenhai Gate, he can't stop it now." ”

Li Jiucheng shook his head and said: "He should see the limelight now, they are all old brothers of Dongjiang, it is more reliable than entering outside, one more entry will be more effort, and laying down Dengzhou is just a beginning, there is still more Dacheng in Laizhou, and there is Wendeng Camp in the east, we have to quickly capture Shuicheng and send in the brothers on the contact island, and if you enter more, you will not be afraid of Chen Xin." He wants to share the silver we have worked so hard to earn, and he thinks it is quite beautiful, and now that Lao Tzu has entered the city, he doesn't have to pay attention to him. ”

Geng Zhongming had never been to Wendeng, and he was not too afraid of the Wendeng camp, so he smiled when he heard this: "The Wendeng camp is only three or four thousand in, our Dongjiang brothers come over, we can gather an army of twenty or thirty thousand, let's push Li Dajin as the king, and then extinguish Wendeng, the tobacco factory there is not in our pocket, and when there are soldiers and money, it will be easy to talk about it when we are appeased." The brothers of Dongjiang are coming, and there is no shortage of money and food, so we have to think about it. ”

Li Jiucheng nodded, a distorted sneer appeared on his face full of anger, "I still have to rely on this Dengzhou City, the first thing is to catch Sun Yuanhua, let him take out the governor of the Guanfang, and let the Denglai prefectures and counties transport money and grain to the city. Although he has rebelled now, he has little confidence in how to control such a large area, and he has been somewhat inferior to him for many years, so he continued: "You all know the brothers of Dongjiang, I am afraid that only Mao Shuai can make them all obey, and don't push Lao Tzu as the king, if Sun Dajin is willing, let him be the nominal leader, help us manage the territory near Dengzhou, we will manage all the soldiers, and we are not afraid of what he can do." ”

Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming also agreed for the time being, but Kong Youde was obviously not optimistic about the transfer of money and grain, and all the states of Denglai should know that the rebels were besieging the city, and now they suddenly wanted to transfer money and grain by relying on a big seal for customs defense, which was too whimsical. He thought about it and said: "It's these local people in the city, we can't kill them all, Sun Dajin is good to our Liaojin, or we will make him the king and use his brand to conquer Fushan, Ninghai, and Qixia." Brother Li still don't underestimate the Wendeng camp, their three thousand soldiers are all jīng soldiers, our first thing is to defend Dengzhou, Dengzhou is surrounded by mountains that are easy to defend and difficult to attack, let's defend Huangxian in the west, Qixia in the south, and Fushan in the east. ”

Li Jiucheng laughed at Kong Youde and said: "Brother Kong, this is a safe policy, we will have more ideas in the future, our brothers share the wealth of Dengzhou City, but those are still early, and the most urgent thing today is to pack up the troops in the city and quickly capture Shuicheng." ”

Geng Zhongming's eyes looked everywhere, the army that entered the city was scattering more and more, and most of the people who entered the city were bandits and bandits who had taken refuge in Li Jiucheng in Shandong, and there were also thousands of captured strong men, these originally simple people were slowly changing into ruffians, and many of them left the queue without permission as soon as they entered the city, smashed open the door of the roadside house, rushed in and began to loot.

He was a little embarrassed and said: "Li Dajin, look at the city, our white spoon is in chaos, and those old brothers in the city who came over to Chengcheng, they didn't grab anything in Shandong, and they don't let them grab some at the moment, I'm afraid they don't want to go to the water city." ”

Li Jiucheng was bored for a moment and finally said: "At most, I will give you a little time, Brother Geng, you leave some horses to guard the east gate, and the east gate will be robbed for you, and then let Chen Guangfu lay down the Ying'en Gate, and the Ying'en Gate will be robbed for him, and Wang Bingzhong will come to see Lao Tzu, and he should see the limelight clearly, where he has to say something clearly." ”

Geng Zhongming breathed a sigh of relief, if he was brought into the city today, those Liao soldiers who had just taken refuge would not listen to the order, including his own subordinates, and if they didn't do it, they would cause infighting, so that they could grab a rì or two before they could talk about the rest of the matter. He turned around and called two family members and asked them to inform Chen Guangfu and Wang Bingzhong.

After a few talks, he led a large group of family members down the city ladder, ready to enter the city to command in the center, these family members are their main force, and there is still resistance in the city at the moment, and the three people are all battle-hardened, always controlling the family members, not letting them participate in the chaotic battle in the city, and ready to put into the place where there is still resistance.

As soon as Sanjin arrived at Chūn Shengmen Street, a family member rushed to report to Sanjin loudly, "Governor Sun has been captured, and Wang Zheng of Haiphong Dao has been captured together." ”

Kong Youde hurriedly asked, "What about Zhang Keda?" ”

"I haven't found it yet, and a few of his family members said that Zhang Keda has returned to his own house, and Li Qian is bringing him in."

"Where is Sun Yuanhua?"

"It's coming from behind."

Li Jiucheng laughed, and rushed forward quickly with a few enters, at this time both sides of the road were already full of corpses, and the blood flowing out of the street extended along the cracks in the bluestone pavement, and there were constantly rushing out of the house in a panic, and then being chased and hacked to death by the rebels chasing behind, and then robbing him of his belongings, and the woman's cry filled the streets and alleys.

Li Jiucheng was so thousand all the way in Shandong, he stipulated that the soldiers should hand over half of the proceeds of looting to the officers, and he and Kong Youde quickly became rich people, looting is the only means of maintaining the morale of his army, and the Jiannu in Liaodong is similar, but the distribution mechanism of the Jiannu is slowly regularized, and the organization and military discipline are a little stronger.

When he walked to the Mifen Bridge, he saw Sun Yuanhua covered in blood, he and Wang Zheng, Zhang Tao and others were tied with their hands tied, escorted by several rebel soldiers, and some officials and more than a dozen Fran machines were escorted behind.

Kong Youde hurried a few steps over, and saw that Sun Yuanhua had a wound on his neck, and some blood was still bleeding, so he was about to untie the rope on Sun Yuanhua's body, and said angrily to the rebel soldiers who were escorting: "Who told you to treat Sun Dajin like this." ”

Sun Yuanhua struggled violently, and scolded Kong Youde: "General Kong Shen don't pretend, you keep saying that you want to beat Jiannu in front of the official, it turns out that it is such a hard blow, I only complain that the official didn't listen to Sun Shufu's reminder at the beginning, and kindly took in your wolf-hearted Dongjiang soldiers, even if you rebelled outside the city, you still kindly put in the rout soldiers you sent, so that the lives of Dengzhou were ruined, and the official deserved it." ”

Sun Yuanhua laughed three times in the end, staring at the Dongjiang officers with disdain, Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming were the most favored by Sun Yuanhua, and their faces were somewhat feverish, so they turned their heads and didn't look at Sun Yuanhua, while Li Jiucheng looked at Sun Yuanhua indifferently. Sun Yuanhua stared at Li Jiucheng and said: "Li Jiucheng, you shameless person, in order to swallow up the horse silver, you rebelled, and all the way to Jiānyín kidnapping, how different is it from Jiannu, looking at your appearance, it can be seen that you have no shame, and it is more hateful than Kong Youde." ”

Li Jiucheng said coldly: "A certain person in Liaodong has entered the whole village and the whole village, it is not easy to enter, but why should Sun Dajin say so righteously, buy two thousand taels of horse silver, only 10,000 in a certain hand, Sun Dajin is at least 3,000 in your hand, everyone in the court is full of morality, but you want to take 7,000, why do I hate it." ”

Sun Yuanhua's mouth was blocked for a while, and Li Jiucheng continued: "I know that Sun Dajin is not greedy, and he also wants to curry favor with Shangguan by leaving the silver, and we all keep Dajin's affection for Liao Jin in mind, as long as Sun Dajin is willing, we are willing to continue to serve you as the master, and ask Sun Dajin to be the king in Denglai, and if you don't listen to the court, you don't have to curry favor with those ministers in the court, isn't it more comfortable than now?" ”

Wang Zheng in the back scolded loudly: "Li Jiucheng, you are very good, and you still want to use Sun Dajin's fame at this time, the court will not let you succeed, and the army will definitely exterminate you and wipe you out." ”

Li Jiucheng ignored Wang Zheng and said to Sun Yuanhua: "There are only two fathers and sons, and there are only two lives to steal the family and destroy the clan, what is there to be afraid of, since ancient times, Sun Dajin thinks about it?" ”

Sun Yuanhua was about to continue scolding, the door of a house on the side of the road creaked, and a disheveled woman screamed and ran out, covering her chest with only a belly pocket on her upper body, revealing her white shoulders, and two chaotic soldiers chased her out and grabbed her, and when she was about to drag back, she raised her eyes and saw a large number of people here, and couldn't help but be stunned in place.

When the woman saw the officials here, she screamed and cried, "Daddy, save me." ”

Penglai Zhixian, who was holding in the back, screamed miserably, struggled to rush over, and was pressed to the ground by two family members, Li Jiucheng smiled cruelly: "It turned out to be the daughter of the county magistrate, and I also want to give it a try." ”

Penglai Zhixian cried and said: "Xiaguan Toucheng, please accept Li Dajin, the little girl has not left the boudoir yet, please Li Dajin spare her life." ”

Geng Zhongming said with a smile: "You are not arrogant when you see Lao Tzu, you never open your eyes to look at our Liao soldiers, and you also have times when you kneel for Lao Tzu." ”

Li Jiucheng said to the two rebels: "Drag the daughter of the county magistrate in and lock it up, and Lao Tzu will personally try the taste of the county magistrate in person." ”

Nazhi County kowtowed vigorously on the ground, his forehead was already dripping with blood, and the image of civil officials was completely broken, and all the Dongjiang troops laughed when they saw it, and experienced an indescribable pleasure, and their white spoon inferiority complex mentality was transforming into a sense of superiority.

Sun Yuanhua was so angry that his beard trembled slightly, and he was speechless for a while, Li Jiucheng smiled and said to Sun Yuanhua: "Sun Dajin is better to think about it more, you are good to our Liaojin, your family is not moving, but you lose the city and the army, the court will not give you a way to live, and if you fight with us, there is always a hope." ”

At this time, a family member rode over, and he said loudly: "Li Dajin, Zhang Keda killed his wife and concubine in his own house, hanged himself and set a fire, and he is already dead." The rebel generals high-fived each other and celebrated, Zhang Keda died, the main barracks were no longer to worry about, and there was no more organized force in Dengzhou City.

Li Jiucheng turned his head to Sun Yuanhua with a little excitement and said: "Zhang Dajin is a good man, but his death is useless. ”

"Needless to say." Sun Yuanhua interrupted with a firm face, "This official should have died, but he was captured by you only after unsuccessful self-killing, if you think that you can blackmail this official, you will be very wrong, the eldest husband deserves to die, this official lost the city and humiliated the country, and he deserves to be stabbed by the vegetable market, do you really think that this official will spare his life and be willing to live in the den of jackals and leopards?" ”

After he finished speaking, Wang Zheng took a step forward and said, "The old man accompanied Sun Dajin on the road together." ”

A group of rebel generals fell silent, although they subdued these civilian officials by force, Sun Yuanhua and Wang Zheng's expression had a courage that they could not understand, and pulled down the sense of superiority in their hearts. Sun Yuanhua and Wang Zheng both had the same problems as the officials of this era, but they also had their own beliefs, these Dongjiang soldiers had hatred, but they never had faith, so they could never understand these people who were willing to sacrifice their lives for their beliefs.

Kong Youde looked at the Fran machine in the back, these people have been teaching the battalions to use the Hongyi cannon, they are their white spoon teacher, last night they gave some casualties to the rebels in the city, and they also put up a heroic resistance at the south gate, thirty Fran machines were killed in the battle, and only the more than ten in front of them remained.

The leader Fran Jijin also shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, although we are mercenaries, we have the principle of mercenaries, and we will not surrender to the rebels." ”

Sun Yuanhua laughed loudly, "It's ridiculous that the imperial history of the DPRK impeached the official Xinyi and used it to invade, and now the Liaodong Tiger is in chaos, but it is razed into the enemy to the death, which is ridiculous." After laughing, he shook his head, took a few steps forward, stopped and turned his head to the officers, "Do you think that if you conquer Dengzhou, you will be able to cut the land and become the king?" Just look at what you do, you are some people who are eye-catching, although you Li Jiucheng can plot against the old man, but compared to Chen Xin, it is still too far behind, the old man has already figured it out, you will make a wedding dress for Chen Xin sooner or later, you are proud for a while, after all, it is difficult to escape defeat, and the old man is waiting for the good news of your defeat. ”

Li Jiucheng looked at Sun Yuanhua with a deep face, and walked into the county office not far away. Geng Zhongming thought he was angry, and persuaded in a low voice: "Da Jin doesn't have to be angry, these civil officials are like this, and they are just sè inward, maybe they will figure it out after two years." ”

Li Jiucheng said to Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde: "Sun Yuanhua just reminded the general that these few rì Wendeng camps are really too quiet, and quickly send more sentry horses to visit Huangxian, Qixia, and Fushan, and let Wang Bingzhong come to see the official immediately." ”

As soon as the words fell, a Bai general ran back from the north in a hurry, and said angrily to Li Jiucheng: "Wang Bingzhong's dog talent, set up a strong fortress on the grass bridge to prevent us from crossing, let's go around to Dengzhou Bridge, and he asked his younger brother to lead troops to loot around there, and Xiao Jin's soldiers went to a few, and they killed them, saying that they were given white spoons, and we were not allowed to rob them, this fucking is still not Dongjiang's brother." ”

Geng Zhongming was relieved, and he said to Li Jiucheng: "It seems that Wang Bingzhong should not have to worry. ”

Li Jiucheng interrupted him and said: "Lao Tzu always has a feeling of insecurity, this Beicheng must be held in our hands, you personally bring it to Caoqiao to negotiate, and explain to Wang Bingzhong that the north of the city can rob him, but Beimen Lao Tzu will want it today." ”