On November 17 of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Dengzhou Biaoying came to the territory of Dezhou Mansion after more than 20 days of travel, they did not wait for the news that Zu Dashou hung up, but Dengzhou urged them to speed up the order one after another, and the cities along the way were as wary of them as ever.

Dezhou is the northwest gateway of Shandong, since ancient times is a strategic place, after the Ming Dynasty, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal also passed through here, because of the location in Chong, commerce and planting are very developed, the residents live a relatively rich and broad-minded life, not too hostile to outsiders, but they are more defensive against foreign troops, especially these Liao people with different accents.

There is not much left in the salary of the Dengzhou army, and the grain and grass with the army have long been eaten, even if Kong Youde wants to buy food with silver by himself, he can't take the cash for a while, and the official does not provide enough compensation Chapter 83 Wu Qiao to give, the Qiu Ba can only find their own way, petty theft along the way, and grab a vote when they encounter a village in a remote place, before the local reaction, they have run away, the villagers in those mountains and wilderness are relatively timid, and most of them are free from disasters when facing these Qiu Ba, but since entering Jinan Mansion, the people have become bolder, Some of the gentry even organized the landlords to confront them, and these Liao soldiers also bullied the weak and feared the hard, and generally retreated, so that the looting gains were much less, and the army was full of hunger.

Wendeng camp has been running in front of them for five days, after passing Wuding Prefecture then turned to Haifeng, at this time has passed Cangzhou, Chen Xin still sent Tangma on the road to contact them, saying that it is difficult to buy grain on the way, Wendeng Tangma repeatedly scolded the local gentry and the government, so that Kong Youde and Li Yingyuan and others are deeply sympathetic, they hesitated in Wuding Prefecture, because considering the relative poverty of Haifeng, the road from Haifeng to Cangzhou is worse, so they did not follow Wendeng Camp to Haifeng, but turned to Texas.

The Dengzhou army marched hundreds of miles in the bitter winter, and the spirit was always low, the army was already filled with a sense of anger, after arriving in Dezhou, it was getting closer and closer to Shanhaiguan, and after leaving the customs, it would have to face the powerful Jiannu, the news of the three defeats of the Guanning army He Chapter 83 Wuqiao also heard it, and there were many rumors throughout Shandong, saying that the Jiannu amounted to more than 100,000 people, even if there was a Wendeng camp in front, they did not think that they had any chance of winning, the closer they were to Shanhaiguan, their grievances became more and more intense, From the fall of Liaodong to the killing of Mao Wenlong, and then to the various injustices encountered after Dengzhou, this army was in a state of irritability, military discipline had long been gone, and the blatant disobedience of orders by subordinates was endless, and the army was on the verge of getting out of control.

Kong Youde is like walking a tightrope, with these people dragging and procrastinating, and finally came to Wuqiao County, the capital of Dezhou on the 17th, Wuqiao is between Dezhou and Cangzhou, also next to the Grand Canal, from here along the canal, after Cangzhou is Tianjin, and then after Luanzhou Yongping, it is Shanhaiguan.

The Dengzhou army camped in the east of Wuqiao, the army did not get any supply as usual, Kong Youde waited for the army to set up camp and stopped, and took Li Yingyuan and other generals and family members to the county seat, there are also many houses outside Wuqiao City, there are some spontaneous bazaars, even in winter it is quite popular, people see the army passing by, huddle on the side of the road to see the lively, and point at them, some businesses are directly closed, Shandong suffered the so-called uprising of Xu Hongru during the Apocalypse, the common people were robbed by bandits and robbed by soldiers, and now everyone still has some memories, Naturally, their impression of officers and men is not good.

Kong Youde has seen a lot of this kind of scene, and he doesn't want to be bored, so he went directly to the city gate, the gate of the county seat was closed, Kong Youde walked to the edge of the moat, dismounted and shouted to the people on the head of the city: "Xiaguan is the commander of Dengzhou, Lord Sun, the commander of the left battalion of the pacesetter, Kong Youde, who was ordered by the military department to go to the Daling River to aid Liao, please know that the county lord supplies some grain and grass, and the lower official has the documents of Dengzhou and the military department......"

Before he finished speaking, a person who looked like a master at the head of the city interrupted in a strange way: "This lower official, my family knows that the county lord is not here, and I can't do it to give you food and grass, I advise you, we have no food in the warehouse for many years, even if the county magistrate is here, it can't make up for you, we give Dengzhou a lot of true colors every year, how many years have the Liao salary paid, and Jiannu has not seen a few deaths." Come on, this lower official, there can be no delay in aiding Liao, I advise you to go on the road as soon as possible. ”

A servant next to him laughed and said, "Exactly, those Liao soldiers can wait for you, and when you arrive and go on the road together." ”

The city was full of laughter, and the people around the city who were watching the excitement were also coaxing, Kong Youde's face was blue and black, he was angry a lot along the way, and it was not surprising that he would not get food, but he had really never seen such a blatant curse, Li Yingyuan's eyes flashed with fierce light, and his chest rose and fell violently.

Kong Youde gasped for a moment, finally softened, turned around and left with a group of family members, Li Yingyuan followed him unwillingly, and said dissatisfiedly: "My lord, we should teach them a lesson, our Liao army is not at their mercy, and his subordinates are not afraid of these people when they hear that Chen Shenjun is in Wendeng." ”

Kong Youde glared at him, "General Chen is not even afraid of Lord Sun, people have silver in their hands, so naturally they don't have to be afraid of these people, how can we, the wandering Liao people, compare with him." ”

"General Chen is also a Liaomin ......"

"Stay.!" Kong Youde shouted angrily, and stared at Li Yingyuan viciously, "What do Lao Tzu do, I want you to teach a thousand lessons and return to the camp for Lao Tzu." ”

Li Yingyuan and Kong Youde looked at each other for a while, and finally retreated under Kong Youde's prestige, Kong Youde came to a grain store, the shopkeeper saw a group of soldiers stop, immediately hung up a sell-out sign, and immediately prepared to close the door, Kong Youde said to him loudly: "What door to close, Lao Tzu will not rob you, Lao Tzu will exchange with you with a horse." ”

The shopkeeper rolled his eyes and said, "Ten taels for one horse, one tael for our grain, one tael and five five stones." ”

Li Yingyuan couldn't help it again, stepped forward and scolded: "Dog things, the price of horses in Shandong is at least twenty or thirty taels." ”

The shopkeeper didn't care and said: "You don't want to change it, I'm not happy, your horse is so thin, and you have to raise it before you can resell it, ten taels is good, I can tell you, our store is the master of the book, don't want to be strong." ”

Kong Youde stopped Li Yingyuan and said to his soldiers: "Let the ten horses come out, let's get all the food for the past few days first." ”

Li Yingyuan hurriedly said: "There are already a lot of horses bought on the road, how to explain to Master Sun then?" ”

"Lao Tzu went to explain himself, the horse material is not even, they are all hungry, they have no fat at all, and they can't fight in Liaodong."

Kong Youde couldn't help but say, asked the pro-soldiers to give up the horses, the shopkeeper called the guys, took a closer look, and returned a thin one, Kong Youde had to let another pro-soldier give up the mount, and gathered ten horses, and the family members were full of helplessness.

The store gave them sixty-six stone grains, but the scale he used was out of the scale, each stone was only ninety catties, a total of less than six thousand catties of grain, for Kong Youde's more than 3,000 people, saving food was only enough for two days.

Kong Youde sighed, asked the other soldiers to also dismount, put the food on the horseback, and the others carried it back to the barracks on their shoulders, and when they arrived at the door, they saw groups of soldiers coming and going at the door, and no one stood guard at the door.

Some of the returning soldiers had chickens and ducks in their hands, and three soldiers even held a sheep, and the other soldiers around them surrounded them with greedy looks, and several soldiers in their group drew their knives and guarded the soldiers holding the sheep as they returned to their own places. When these soldiers saw Kong Youde coming back, they didn't have any intention of restraint, they just indifferently moved out of the way, and then continued to do their own thing.

Kong Youde was powerless to stop the spontaneous looting of the soldiers, he only hoped that there would be no big incident, so he immediately transferred his own family to escort the military rations into the camp, and blew the horn to summon the officers to collect them.

The officers saw that the military rations were not much, and they made a noise in the tent, Li Yingyuan added oil and vinegar to say that he sold horses, and a hundred generals smashed his helmet on the ground and scolded: "Lao Tzu ** his ancestors, Lao Tzu went all the way to Liao Town to kill Tartars, there is not enough food to eat, and he has to suffer from white eyes everywhere, ten taels and one war horses, he dares to pit our Liao people every day, and today Lao Tzu is going to smash his broken shop." ”

Other officers responded one after another, and another Qianzong said loudly: "The emperor is not short of hungry soldiers, Lord Sun urges us to hurry every day, and we have walked on the road for more than 20 days, but we have not made up for a tael of silver, and this Liaozhen Laozi will not go." ”

Kong Youde kept persuading, but at this time, the crowd was surging, and the long-suppressed feelings of the people were uncontrollable, and there was a whoosh in the tent, and the noisy officers turned their eyes to see that Kong Youde had drawn a knife in his hand, he looked around at everyone, and then threw the knife on the ground and said: "Lord Sun treats us well, if you don't want to go to the Daling River, you will cut Lao Tzu, you can run by yourself." ”

A group of officers looked at each other, most of them followed Kong Youde from Dongjiang Town, followed Kong Youde for many years to lick the blood from the knife, the Bai Zong stood for a moment, stomped out of the account and left, the others slowly dispersed, Li Yingyuan saw that everyone was gone, so he had to go back to his tent, just arrived at the door, a family member came up and whispered to him, Li Yingyuan's face changed, and he hurriedly entered the account, one stood with his back to him, the light inside was not clear, but the burly figure was enough for him to recognize who it was.

"Dad, when did you come back? The Marco you bought has been bought, just in time to replenish it for us. Li Yingyuan's face was happy.

The man turned around slowly, it was Li Jiucheng, he was a little older than at the beginning of the year, his face was still full of anger, and he was a little lonely when he spoke, "I came back alone, there are no horses, and all the money to buy horses is ...... Nope. ”

Li Yingyuan was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth, the Ministry of Industry gave 20,000 taels of silver to buy horses, and after Sun Yuanhua gave Zhou Yanru and the Ministry of Industry a commission, he got 13,000 taels and gave 10,000 taels to Li Jiucheng.

Li Jiucheng lowered his head and sighed, "Dad took more than ten people to Xuanfu together, and it was used a lot on the way, and when he arrived at the place, there were only five thousand taels left. ”

Li Yingyuan knew that Li Jiucheng was proficient in eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, and he must have squandered the money on the road, and the others saw that they couldn't pay the difference, so they simply stole the money and fled, where can they find those people. Li Yingyuan only felt that the world was spinning for a while, and all kinds of encounters on the road appeared in front of him, and he sat on the ground with his butt on the ground, and said half-loudly: "Okay, anyway, if we go to Liaozhen, it's a dead end, and it's a hundred." ”

Li Jiucheng kicked over and scolded: "It's very important to make this look, to be a soldier like this, it's not appropriate, why do you want to take your own life, with the skills of our father and son, bring some family to fall into the grass and don't worry about running out of food, many of the soldiers who escaped in Shanxi Town last year are used as big cabinets, and they are more comfortable than being a soldier in this battalion." ”

"Wouldn't that be a rebellion?"

"Rebellion can still recruit An, what can you have when you die, after recruiting An, the matter of buying a horse will be revealed."

Li Yingyuan's eyes were still a little dull, bandits were not on the stage in his heart after all, even now he was a little disdainful of being that kind of person, and the dark tent was silent for a while.

At this time, there was a commotion outside the tent, and the movement was getting louder and louder, Li Jiucheng put on a fur hat and wrapped a scarf around his face, and the two went out together to the vicinity of the camp gate, where there were already dense Dengzhou soldiers.

Kong Youde's voice could be vaguely heard in the noise, as if he was justifying something, Li Yingyuan squeezed into the crowd with his family, and saw a group of locals pushing and pulling a soldier, led by a richly dressed man, with a local accent, "Dare to steal our chicken, know whose chicken it is, you follow your own virtue, do you have the life to eat chicken?" ”

Kong Youde said respectfully: "It turned out to be the old family of Wang Ge, the people below don't know, how offended, the lower officials will compensate ......"

"Reparations? If it is known that the things at home have been robbed by you, how to raise your head in front of people, if you don't follow me today, I will definitely sue Lord Wang, have you heard of the Texas Wang family, the great-grandfather of our master should be the secretary of the military department, the first grandfather is a member of the household department, the first examination is Huaiyang military equipment, our old man is the official of the Ministry of Officials, you will wait for the imperial history to participate in it, until you go to prison. ”

Kong Youde was so anxious that he wanted to sweat, this person is Wang Xiangchun's family, the Wang family is a prominent family in Shandong, Wang Xiangchun and Qian Qianyi were Jinshi in the same year, after being deposed during the Apocalypse, they returned to Shandong, although they are not officials, but their family has been officials for many years, and the relationship is very strong.

At the moment, he said in a low voice: "That gentleman said that if the charter comes out, the lower officials will definitely follow it." ”

The man raised his head, he relied on the power of the Wang family, and he was used to it in the local area, and he had always looked down on the soldiers, at this time his face was colorful, "I see that you are still interesting, I will spare you once, just put this soldier through the arrow and tour the camp, the lord I want to watch from the side, after swimming, I will kowtow to the uncle and me three times, and return all the things that were snatched here today, and the matter will be revealed." ”

The Liao soldiers around him blew up, Kong Youde screamed, Li Yingyuan gasped, his eyes stared at the Wang family servant without blinking, and Li Jiucheng next to him had a cold light flashing in his eyes.

Kong Youde scolded the soldiers, called the soldiers, pressed the soldier to the ground, clamped his head himself, and put an arrow through the soldier's ear, and the soldier screamed in pain.

The servants of the Wang family and the entourage laughed in unison, shouting in unison, "You camp, you camp." ”

Kong Youde's family wanted to escort the soldiers to the camp, but none of the Liao soldiers around gave way, no matter how Kong Youde scolded, they just stood coldly, the servant saw that these Qiu Ba dared to disappoint the fun, and came over and pointed at them and scolded loudly: "You Qiu Ba, you dare to put up a fight with the uncle, and then he ** will not let go, Lao Tzu asks the master to go up and behead all of you, dogs, don't you just go to Daling River to die......"

With a pop, a knife flash flashed, the head of the servant flew a few steps away, and the surroundings fell silent instantly, and everyone was in a daze for a moment, until the headless corpse fell down, revealing Li Jiucheng's hideous face, and the followers who followed the servant were all so frightened that they couldn't speak, they never thought that these Qiu Ba really dared to kill.

Li Yingyuan shouted, "Dare to bully our Liao people and kill these bastards." "Slash at the henchmen first.

As soon as the surrounding Dengzhou soldiers saw the blood, they couldn't suppress the anger that had been suppressed for many years, and they frantically drew their swords and slashed at the locals in the middle together.

The scene was chaotic, Kong Youde's voice was completely drowned out by crazy shouts, he saw the blood flying in the middle, he knew that something was wrong, and his mind was a little blurred in a panic, and when he came to his senses, a waist knife was already placed on his neck, Kong Youde turned his head to look at the person with the knife, and muttered: "Li Jiucheng, what do you want to do." (To be continued!!