Chapter Twenty-Four: Invitation to War
Yang Bo's recruitment plan was very smooth, in just a few days, there were young and strong people from all over the country who enlisted, as far as Jiaozhou, Gaomi, and even Pingdu and other places came to join the army, and there were countless military households who fled from several nearby guards, but after they happily joined the Jimo camp, they were stunned to find that the Jimo camp was not as good as they imagined.
The cruelty of training can also persist through gritting teeth, although every meal is full, but there is no legendary fresh meat at all, meals and pancakes, for a while, the Jimo camp is filled with countless complaints, and the eighteenth generation of Zhou Guangbi's ancestors were greeted by these angry sergeants.
Yang Bo also can't help it, now is the time when the green and yellow are not connected, plus the life is not familiar, it is difficult to buy food with silver, those bandits in the sin camp in addition to changing the way to torture the recruits every day, they don't care about ideological things at all, Yang Bo can only give an order to transfer the teaching battalion over, and at the same time there are also the homeless people from the reserve camp, because the spring ploughing is about to begin, these people in the reserve camp can't get much land in Maojiatun, so they simply go to Jimo to stake land.
Just when Yang Bo was counting the number of fields, Zhou Guangbi sent someone to invite, Yang Bo didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly ran over.
After Yan Kunzhi heard the news that Yang Bo had sent someone to arrest Ao Shanwei and Lu Zhiliang, he dropped the cup in his hand on the spot, and when he returned to the study, he felt puzzled, and dropped two more vases......
Where would Yan Kunzhi not know that Yang Bo had a little ninety-nine in his belly? It's just that this Yang Bo is doing things too much, a little too much, a little little thing actually made a big rebellion, does he think that there are not enough things to rebel in Dengzhou? Did he treat those who were judges, like blind men? Thinking of this, Yan Kunzhi was ...... for a while
can't blame him Yan Kunzhi for his headache, it's not a good thing for anyone to have such an arrogant henchman, thinking of his henchman, Yan Kunzhi's heart moved, and after the study was cleaned up, Yan Kunzhi sat down and began to write a letter to Wen Tiren......
Of course, Yang Bo and Zhou Guangbi didn't know these things, and they were busy talking about the way to make a fortune.
"Leisurely, the old man's ears are burning from time to time these days, is there anyone scolding the old man behind his back?" Zhou Guangbi asked as soon as he saw Yang Bo
"No, absolutely not, whoever dares to slander the boss behind his back, Yang Bo will not let him go first!" Yang Bo was stunned for a moment, and quickly patted his chest to reassure.
Zhou Guangbi's eyes flashed, but he didn't mention it again, but asked, "Where are you idle, I heard that you have recruited nearly eight hundred young people?" ”
Yang Bo knew that he couldn't hide it from him, so he nodded
"Idleness!"
Zhou Guangbi was furious: "How can there be such a solid-eyed officer in this officialdom? There is no empty salary, do you know that you can marry a concubine who is like a flower and jade, and she brings a treasure chest to marry, and the old man still has a family to support that? ”
Yang Bo also had a bitter face, he knew that Zhou Guangbi couldn't get oil and water and was beating him, but what way did he make money?
"My lord, why don't you do this?"
Yang Bo rolled his eyes and said: "Boss, the amount of rice and grain consumed by my Jimo camp is not a small amount, why don't you find an account room and specialize in the rice and grain business, and you can also earn a thousand taels of income every year, how about it?" ”
"Fuck you!"
Zhou Guangbi rolled up his sleeves and scolded angrily: "The old man is also the head of the Jimo camp, but he has been reduced to relying on selling rice and grain, and he won't make people laugh to death when he says it?" ”
Seeing Yang Bo's sad face, Zhou Guangbi didn't go around in circles with him: "Jimo Camp only pays nine months of money every year, and this matter is decided!"
Yang Bo knew that since Yan Kun took office, he had never rejected the equipment and silver of the Jimo Battalion, and they were all allocated first. Bare. The naked one wanted to be greedy for nearly three thousand taels of silver for three months, Yang Bo could only pinch his nose and admit it, who posted the deficit, he could only make up for the hole with his own wronged head.
"My lord? Do you want to circle some fields in Jimo County? ”
Since Zhou Guangbi was unkind, he Yang Bo didn't have any burden in his heart, and he gave Zhou Guangbi a bad idea.
"Oh?"
Zhou Guangbi was very interested, and leaned over and asked, "I know that I can't bear to let my brother's whole family drink the northwest wind, and let's hear about it?" ”
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When Yang Bo rushed back to the camp, he received information from He Jiu.
He Jiu did a good job, since Dengzhou set up an intelligence point, the news began to come back in a steady stream, He Jiu even sorted out a list of major events after the siege of Dengzhou, and sent people to gallop and send it to Yang Bo's hands.
Yang Bo didn't care about eating, so he opened the urgent letter and read it carefully......
On the first day of September in the fifth year of Chongzhen, under the city of Dengzhou, the new governor Zhu Dadian gathered the whole division and completed the encirclement of the rebels.
Dengzhou is backed by mountains on three sides, one side faces the sea, there is a water city leading to the sea, the rebels have a water city in hand, refusing to surrender, and Dengzhou Sun Yuanhua left many firearms, Kong Youde shelled officers and soldiers, there were many casualties, and the rebels are the division of a hundred battles, defending the city and getting the law, well organized, initially, with Mao Chenglu guarding the water city, Kong Youde guarding the south city, Geng Zhongming guarding the west city, Li Jiucheng guarding the east city, Li Jiucheng after his death as a prince ascending the dynasty, the city Qulu does not allow Shandong people and southerners to come and go, in order to prevent internal changes.
The battlements were thick with earth and stones, each mouth guarded five people, each on duty, and the rebels patrolled all night, sounding arrow warnings. The battlements are lined with arrows and firearms, hanging boulders, and hitting rods to guard against cloud ladders, and often fall people to go outside the city for night sentry, and the officers and soldiers have not yet approached the city, and the city has been on guard.
On September 4, the officers and soldiers were eager to attack the city, and there were countless casualties, Li Jiucheng was fierce, and often went out of the city to invite battles, although each had its own victory or defeat, but the morale of the rebels was high......
On September 16, Zhu Dadian convened the generals to discuss the strategy of attacking the city, but failed, and finally had to be divided into pieces, Dengzhou east and west totaled 30 miles, both sides went directly to the sea, the imperial court defended with infantry, the horse army moved, divided Chen Hongfan, Liu Zeqing guarded the west city, Wu Xiang, Jin Guochen, Liu Bangyu, Wang Xian, etc. as the backup, Liu Liangzuo, Ding Zhide, Deng Xi, Fang Dengyuan in the south of the city, Jin Guoqi, Zu Dabi, Bai Yongfu and so on as the backup; Divided into Mu Wenshou, Wang Wuwei, and Wang Zhifu in Dongcheng, Zu Kuan, Zhang Tao, etc. as backups, besieged Dengzhou.
On September 23, Xie Sanbin, the inspector, built a fort outside the city, placed Hongyi cannons, and took the city directly under the high bombardment, penetrating the wall and through the house, and there was no escape, the dead in the city were not counted, the rebels were protected by the city wall, and the artillery hit most of the ordinary people in the city......
On September 26, the officers and soldiers shot a reward into the city, saying that they had captured the rebel thief regardless of life or death, and that they would be promoted to the knighthood, and that night a rebel sergeant came to vote, confessing that Kong Youde, Li Jiucheng and others wanted to abandon the city and flee, but they were stopped by their subordinates, saying that if the two did not listen and threatened to disperse, Kong Youde, Li Jiucheng and others did not dare to discuss it again......
On September 28, Kong Youde personally led 1,200 cavalry to attack from the southwest two gates, followed by infantry. The general soldiers Wu Xiang, Chen Hongfan, Yang Yufan, Liu Zeqing, and the deputy generals Jin Guochen and Qiu Lei met the enemy separately, and the killing sound shook the sky, and they were killed until the evening, Kong Youde failed to break through the siege, and retreated into the city in embarrassment, and the deputy generals Ding Sixin and Wang Zhiwang were killed, and Wu Xiang was hit by an arrow.
At the beginning of October, Kong Youde fled in disguise and was stopped by his subordinates, and the army in the city was unstable, and there were rumors that it was proposed to tie up Kong Youde to surrender out of the city.
In mid-October, under the reward of the imperial court, Zhu Dadian was promoted to deputy imperial envoy of the capital, and still patrolled Shandong; Xie Sanbin Hou Jingtang pushed; Jin Guoqi ascended to the governor of the same knowledge, and Yin Yizi was a thousand households in brocade clothes; Wu Xiang Restoration Officer; Chen Hongfan, the crown prince, Shaobao; Deng Xi, Liu Zeqing, Jin Guochen, Zhang Tao, Zu Dabi, Guohuan, and Jin Liangdong were all rewarded.
At the end of October, Nei Ying was killed, could not be attacked for a long time, everyone discussed building the city, with 30,000 or 40,000 cloth bags loaded with soil, piled under the city, the soldiers said that they did not stop all night, worked hard, first built the south of the city, rebuilt the west city, and did not succeed in half a month.
At the beginning of November, the winter clothes allocated by the imperial court were finally delivered, and the morale was boosted, but the newly promoted governor and the governor of the same city, Jin Guoqi, died in the army and was replaced by Wu Xiang
At the end of November, the Dongjiang General Army Huanglong was ordered to send 80 ships and more than 4,000 troops to Tunmiao Island, preparing to block Kong Youde's waterway and escape.
After more than three months of siege, Dengzhou ran out of food.
"The rebels said that they would take women and babies and eat them, and the women would cut off their flesh raw, and eat less mugwort, not old and ugly ......"
"Killing people for food, boiling people for candles, the day is not safe, and there is no ...... to surrender in the end"
Seeing this, Yang Bo was silent.
"Xiao Wu, send someone to send this report back to Shijiu, so that the military households in the tun can take a look and see what the people of Dengzhou are doing!"
Yang Bo thought for a while and said, "Bring the map."
Several staff officers did not know what to do, but they saw Yang Bo holding a charcoal pen, drawing a big circle along the coast of Shandong, and finally connecting Lushun to the mouth of the Yalu River into a line, and using charcoal to point these places silently.
"The Dengzhou Naval Division is finished, if the Dongjiang Battalion Naval Division is also finished, then there is no water power to balance Kong Youde in the entire Shandong coast, Kong Youde can flow wherever he wants, and he can fight wherever he wants" Wang Xiaoyu finished his thoughts in one breath
"Kong Youde can cast Tartar from wherever he wants," Yang Bo added in his heart.
"How do you expect the Imperial Court to move?" Yang Bo asked, if the Dongjiang Battalion Water Division was defeated, Kong Youde's strength would be greatly increased, and the three-in-one defense strategy formulated back then would collapse a large chunk.
"Unless Zheng Yiguan of Fujian is transferred, it is impossible to think." Wang Xiaoyu sighed and shook his head
Yang Bo paced a few steps with his hands behind his back, there was nothing to do in his heart, no matter whether Zheng Yiguan came or not, there was no good fruit for him to eat, and the channel that Chen Bilian had finally cleared was full of variables.
Dengzhou out of the sea forty miles is Changshan Island, sixty miles is Miao Island, and then go east is Huangcheng Island, Dangji Island, only from here can you enter the ocean, the current supervision army Gao Qiqian sent Laizhou General Bai Laiyu, thousands of general Mao Yingshuai Tun Huangcheng Island, and Gong Zhengxiang led the sailors to assist in the defense of the temple island area, it seems that everything is arranged very tightly......
Thinking of this, Yang Bo commanded: "Record! ”
A staff officer immediately took out a pen and paper and waited for Yang Bo to dictate
"Jimo Camp Yang Bo presents Denglai Governor Yan respectfully bows to the front ......"
Yang Bo put his hands behind his back, and said slowly while thinking: "Fortunately, Lord Meng has blue eyes, not rude with waves, and waves in the countryside are very favored. Ran Bosheng's surname is blunt and insensitive, although he has the heart of worrying about the country, but he has no wisdom to seek the country, and the person he relies on in his life is nothing more than the word brave, and now he is looking at the situation in Dengzhou, and he is worried about ......"
“…… Dengzhou has no grain, the material Kong Youde and others will abandon the city and go to the temple island, through the Yellow City, the rock into the ocean, the three islands are all to rush, once lost, the thieves are like a fish out of the hook, shaking their heads and tails can not be chased, and the top priority, do not rush to stick to the temple island, although Gong Zhengxiang has 4,000 sailors, but must divide the troops to help defend the three places, and the thieves on the water to fight, single-minded, how can the temple island be comprehensive? And Huangcheng Island is only stationed in Qianerchuan soldiers, who are lonely, and are easy to be defeated by thieves one by one, which is a taboo for guarding. ”
“…… Yes, Bo volunteered, taking advantage of this time the thieves have not arrived, willing to lead all the Jimo battalion, and rush to the temple island at night, with the city as a fence, there are sailors as horns, there are beacons to strictly lookout, there are sentinels to communicate the news, and then can be calmly arranged, self-expected to be a thief thunder blow, the wave body rushed forward, and 800 soldiers concentric, although the thief's heart to get out of trouble is very strong, how can it last? As long as you stick to it, the thief's heart will be scattered, and the adults can hope for the merit of Sangyu. ”
Hearing that Yang Bo was going to block nearly 10,000 Liaodong soldiers with a mere 800 people, the staff officer's hand shook, and a cloud of ink dripped on the letterhead......
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