But Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng didn't think about it, Sun Yuanhua, who was let go, disappeared inexplicably halfway, and he couldn't see anyone alive or dead, and he didn't see the corpse, which suddenly made the world boil over this matter, and it was rumored that Sun Yuanhua absconded in fear of crime and hid incognito.

This incident seems to have aroused the wrath of the current Ming Emperor Chongzhen, and the attitude of the imperial court towards their rebels began to change, in the past two months, first ordered Xie Lian to replace Sun Yuanhua, and immediately took office as the governor of Denglai, and then after Xu Congzhi was injured, he sent Zhu Dadian to replace Xu Congzhi as the governor of Shandong, and suppressed their rebels, and even sent the palace eunuch Gao Qiqian to Shandong, and supervised the army in Qingzhou.

This is thousands of miles away, from Fujian to transfer Yu Xiaotian and more than 10,000 Fujian officers and soldiers to Shandong to suppress them, these circumstances, it can be clearly seen that the imperial court in the dispute of suppression, the main suppression side has completely gained the upper hand, so the possibility of appeasing them next is getting lower and lower.

This also made Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng quite worried, and even a little scared, they have been making all kinds of preparations for accepting Zhao'an for so long, preparing to bargain with the imperial court to save their lives and future status, but in this way, their plan to force the imperial court to recruit an seems to be getting farther and farther away from them.

Now the situation began to become unfavorable for them, after Zhu Dadian arrived in Qingzhou to sit in the town to supervise and suppress, he immediately strengthened the defense force in the border area between Qingzhou Mansion and Laizhou Prefecture, he sent people to the front line of Qingzhou Mansion many times to investigate and probe, and found that all counties along the line have sent additional officers and troops, and the strength of officers and troops is gradually increasing.

Now it seems that the official army has not yet reached the strength to immediately wave its troops to counterattack him, but with the dispatch of the imperial court, the strength of the official army will become stronger and stronger, and the number of troops will increase, and if this continues, things will not be good.

Although their rebels have fought very well in the past few months, they will win every battle, and their strength has grown very quickly, but after all, they only occupy a small Jiaodong area, and now they have not completely controlled the entire Denglai area, even if it is Dongjiang Town, Mao Chenglu and others raised troops to respond to them, trying to echo them across the sea, but the situation over there is not necessarily much better than him.

Now Huang Long, the general soldier of Dongjiang Town, is leading the remaining Dongjiang Army and the rebels of Mao Chenglu and others to engage in repeated battles, and the two sides are in a tug-of-war.

No matter how powerful their rebels are, they have limited resources after all, and they are fighting in different places, this is the territory of Shandong, and the people in the Denglai area do not support them.

They want to use this to call the court, obviously no matter what, they can't fight the court, although the current situation of the Ming Dynasty is not optimistic, but the starving camel is bigger than the horse, if the court is really driven crazy, transfer an army of more than 100,000, the court is currently estimated to be able to do it!

So now that things have come to this point, they must do their best to continue to expand their territory and strength, and have the ability to compete with the imperial court, so that they can't be suppressed, and finally force the emperor to recruit them.

But if they want to expand their territory and strength as much as possible, Laizhou City is a roadblock that they can't move, as long as Laizhou doesn't take it, they can't continue to expand towards the hinterland of Shandong, which is like a nail, nailed to their throats, making it difficult for them to sleep.

These days, Li Jiucheng has been sending people to urge him to attack Clay City as much as possible, but now Zhu Wannian, Xie Lian, Yang Yufan and others in the city are fighting to the death in the cage city, and the defense is tight, so that he has repeatedly attacked, although he has transferred more than ten Hongyi cannons, as well as dozens of various artillery, and repeatedly bombarded Laizhou City, but still could not capture Laizhou City.

Therefore, Kong Youde looked at the city wall of Laizhou City, and felt powerless, and finally thought about it again and again, and still came up with a plan, that is, to surrender by fraud.

After thinking of this, Kong Youde asked his subordinates to write a letter to Xie Lian in the city in his tone, telling his so-called various hardships, as well as his various helplessness, as well as his loyalty to the Ming Dynasty, and he has now realized his mistakes, expressing his willingness to put down the butcher's knife and surrender to the court, hoping that Xie Lian and Zhu Wannian can accept his surrender.

This letter was soon sent into the city of Laizhou, presented to Xie Lian and Zhu Wannian and others, these people saw Kong Youde's letter, and immediately in an uproar, most of them thought that Kong Youde was not credible, this person is a capricious villain, not trustworthy, this time he said that he wanted to surrender, nine times out of ten it may be a fraudulent surrender.

Moreover, Yang Yufan, the chief soldier, was even more resolute in his belief that Kong Youde's guy was absolutely not good-hearted, and he couldn't believe his words when he said anything, and he didn't want to deceive the gate of Laizhou City and capture Laizhou City this time.

Now because of the encirclement of the rebels, Laizhou City's external contact has been completely interrupted, they are not clear about the situation of the imperial court, let alone what attitude the imperial court has towards the rebels now, the imperial court seems to have a very ambiguous attitude some time ago, and has always refused to send reinforcements, it seems that the opinion of the main fu has the upper hand.

If the opinion of the imperial court still prevails at the moment, then the arrival date of this reinforcement is far away, so they can't grasp it at all now, why Kong Youde suddenly put forward the idea of surrendering and accepting the appeasement at this time.

This also caused Xie Lian, Zhu Wannian and others to be unable to effectively judge Kong Youde's ultimate goal, and there were disagreements among them about whether they should accept Kong Youde's surrender.

Although Yang Yufan and others insisted that Kong Youde could never be trusted, he could not be fooled, and he must not go out of the city to accept his so-called surrender.

However, Xie Lian and Zhu Wannian thought that it might be inappropriate to do this, because if Kong Youde really wanted to surrender this time, then if they didn't go out and surrender, wouldn't it be tantamount to ruining a God-given opportunity to force Kong Youde to continue to make trouble?

In addition, Xie Lian also believes that Kong Youde will suddenly propose to surrender at this time, and it is because he can't attack Laizhou City for a long time, and he has the intention of retreating, knowing that if he continues to fight, he will not be able to capture Laizhou City, and if he can't capture Laizhou City, then they will have no way out, so they may be afraid and want to rein in the precipice, and choose to surrender to reduce their guilt for rebellion.

Therefore, Xie Lian and Zhu Wannian both think that they can't sit back and watch Kong Youde want to surrender this time, but ignore it, as long as there is a little chance, they must try, in case they dare not go out to surrender this time, Kong Youde is afraid that he will take this opportunity to publicize that he has the intention to surrender, but these officials do not dare to surrender, he continues to rebel, he is forced by them.

I'm afraid that this will be enough for them at that time, so no matter what, they must try it to see if Kong Youde really wants to surrender this time.

Yang Yufan, as the chief military officer, can't be the master of this kind of thing, and Yang Yufan is also relatively young, although the combat ability of leading the troops is not weak, but in many things, he can't influence Xie Lian and Zhu Wannian's thoughts.

And Xie Lian and Zhu Wannian do have their difficulties in this matter, even if they know that Kong Youde is deceitful, they can't help but surrender, because if they don't go, they will give the truth, so they discussed and decided that Xie Lian would stay in the city and sit in the town, and Zhu Wannian would go out of the city and surrender outside the city.

According to the agreed day, at three o'clock in the morning of the Qixi Festival, Kong Youde led a large number of rebels and began to assemble outside the south gate of the city, the rebels did not seem to make a siege this time, the cavalry all walked on foot, did not ride horses, swords were not unsheathed, and the flags were also rolled up, including the generals in the army, they also gathered in front of the formation, and began to gather outside the south gate of the city on foot. Waiting for Xie Lian and Zhu Wannian to go out of the city and be surrendered.

At the head of the city, Xie Lian and Zhu Wannian had already led their troops to observe the movements of the rebels on the gatehouse of the south gate of the city, and when they saw that the rebels began to gather, and they were different from the posture of attacking the city in the past, showing a look of deference and dejection, it was indeed a bit like they were going to surrender.

However, Yang Yufan still insisted on his opinion, the rebels' move was fraudulent, purely fraudulent, and wanted to control Xie Lian, Zhu Wannian and others when they went out of the city to surrender, and coerced the defenders in the city to open the city gate.

Zhu Wannian still agreed with Yang Yufan's worries at this time, but Xie Lian's attitude was more vacillating, and he hesitated again and again, but he still wanted Zhu Wannian to go out of the city and surrender.

Zhu Wannian gritted his teeth and instructed Yang Yufan: "This time the official went out of the city to surrender, if the rebels really surrendered, but if the rebels are deceitful and I am held by them, you must focus on the overall situation, don't be embarrassed by my control, hold Laizhou City as the most important, just fire immediately!" General Yang, you personally supervise the battle, load the cannon, lead the troops to prepare, and once things change, you will immediately fire the cannon! Hugh has to worry about me! ”

Yang Yufan listened to Zhu Wannian's instructions, although he was reluctant in his heart, but he also knew that he couldn't stop Zhu Wannian, Zhu Wannian went out of the city this time, in fact, he was ready to die, and he had already put his personal safety out of the way, this kind of discipline made him very moved, and nodded tearfully in agreement, saying that he would live up to Zhu Wannian's trust, and asked Zhu Wannian to take care of himself after leaving the city.

As the gates slowly opened, the drawbridge creaked and began to creak and slowly lower, until it thumped and landed heavily on the wide moat.

Zhu Wannian took more than ten personal soldiers, rode on horseback, and slowly walked out of the city gate, and many people shouted: "Zhu Futai...... Take care, adults! ……”

Zhu Wannian had a solemn expression on his face, and he repeatedly returned the salute with fists to the people who saw him off, then gritted his teeth, and walked towards the outside of the city with more than a dozen personal soldiers without hesitation.

(Wow!) Today, I saw the heavy reward of the shrimp and shrimp pervert brothers, and I also saw the rewards of the long-lost Xinli brothers, and of course, the rewards of the spearfish brothers, the manm brothers and the desert laughing Zephyr brothers! Let my little heart beat a few times, hehe! Thank you so much! Thank you for your strong support! ）