The person in the tent is Kong Youde, who was a miner in his early years, he is very tall, half a head taller than Li Jiucheng, but his face is quite vicissitudes, at a glance, he looks like an old farmer, if it weren't for the fine light that his eyebrows couldn't help flashing, no one would have thought that this person in front of him would be licking rice at the tip of a knife, let alone thinking that it was this person who single-handedly led the "Denglai Change" in the three provinces.

In addition to Kong Youde, there are three other people in the tent, namely Mao Chenglu, the adopted son of Mao Wenlong, the former chief military officer of Dongjiang, Geng Zhongming, who is known as one of the "three mine apprentices in Shandong" and Kong Youde, and Li Yingyuan, the son of Li Jiucheng.

Mao Chenglu had long commanded Mao Wenlong's family Ding army composed of adopted sons and grandsons and Jurchens, ranking first among Wenlong's sons, and the Jurchens called him "Mao Da". After Mao Wenlong was killed by Yuan Chonghuan, Mao Chenglu was retained by Yuan Chonghuan and still led the Phi Dao Army Association. After Yuan Chonghuan's death, Mao Chenglu wrote a letter to avenge Mao Wenlong's grievances, but Chongzhen ignored it. After Kong Youde's Wuqiao uprising, Mao Chenglu took a wait-and-see attitude, and after Kong Youde took Dengzhou, Mao Chenglu immediately responded with 7,000 island soldiers, and landed on the 7th of March in Congchao, Bingtun Dengzhou School Field. This time, Kong Youde personally led a large army to reinforce Li Jiucheng, and his 7,000 soldiers were the main force.

Geng Zhongming has the merit of internal response in Dengzhou, it can be said that if he hadn't launched the Liao army in the city, Kong Youde would not have been able to take Dengzhou at all, plus the elite of his Liao soldiers, the original Liao soldiers in Dengzhou were basically all in his hands, so in terms of strength, he could compete with Kong Youde. But for Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming has always been willing to give in, but for Li Jiucheng, a gambler, he doesn't think much of it. When the seat was set that day, Geng Zhongming advocated that Kong Youde should be appointed marshal of the capital and Li Jiu should become the deputy, but Kong Youde, out of consideration for the future, advocated that Li Jiucheng should be the marshal of the capital and himself the deputy marshal, and at the same time appointed Geng Zhongming as the chief military officer of Denglai. Therefore, the army called Geng Zhongming the leader of the five armies.

Geng Zhongming's family has many brothers in the army, and his younger brothers Geng Zhongyi, Geng Zhongquan, Geng Zhongguo and others all have their own soldiers and horses, and the total number of soldiers and horses that can be mastered is 20,000, accounting for almost one-third of the rebel army. With such a strong strength, it naturally gave Geng Zhongming full say in the rebels, whether it was Kong Youde or Li Jiucheng, they would ask Geng Zhongming's opinion before making a major decision, if Geng Zhongming did not agree, then most of the matter would be stopped.

Li Yingyuan is the son of Li Jiucheng, who served as a thousand commanders under Kong Youde before the incident, and instigated soldiers to make trouble in Wuqiao that day, and then forced Kong Youde to pull the flag, Li Yingyuan contributed a lot. After taking Dengzhou, Li Jiucheng tried his best to piece together a thousand cavalry led by him, but unfortunately the battle of Xiaoguanzhuang encountered the more elite Jinzhou army, and under the first battle, Li Yingyuan's cavalry was lost. Although Li Jiucheng added another 1,000 people for him, the cavalry that could really be used was only more than 100 people, and the rest were mostly full.

Four days ago, Kong Youde secretly arrived with a large army from Dengzhou, and Li Jiucheng asked him for 1,400 war horses and 3,000 soldiers, so that Li Yingyuan's cavalry command could be set up again, but there were less than 200 cavalry that could really fight, and the petty official Zhuang Ming's army had Liaodong cavalry, so in the past few months, Li Yingyuan's cavalry only dared to send sentry cavalry, and did not dare to fight against the Ming army, and even did not dare to harass.

Unlike Li Jiucheng, who sought self-preservation and gambled to the death, Geng Zhongming and Mao Chenglu joined the rebels with their own political demands.

Mao Chenglu often said that the court was unfair, and he wanted to seek justice for his adoptive father. The reason for Geng Zhongming's rebellion was to take revenge, and his enemy was Huang Long, the chief military officer of Phi Dao

Before Mao Wenlong's death, he had rebelled against the Liu Xingzuo brothers who surrendered to the Later Jin, Liu Xingzuo joined the Jurchen camp very early, and made great contributions in the war between the Later Jin and the Ming Dynasty, and was appreciated by Nurhachi, who handed over the four prefectures of Jin, Fu, and Hai to the Han people in Liaodong under the jurisdiction of Liu Xingzuo. However, in the context of the Jurchens' oppression of the Han people, high-ranking Han officials such as Li Yongfang and Liu Xingzuo were inevitably bullied and excluded by their Jurchen colleagues, and in this case, the Liu Xingzuo brothers had the idea of returning to the Ming Dynasty.

Under Mao Wenlong's instigation, after a series of painstaking serial designs, the Liu Xingzuo brothers finally avoided the surveillance of the Jurchens, successfully escaped back to Phi Dao, and served under Mao Wenlong. In Phi Dao, Mao Wenlong covered the sky with one hand, and his power was very great, and his huge shadow affected the Liu brothers to shine, so when Yuan Chonghuan faked the holy decree to kill Mao Wenlong, Liu Xingzuo welcomed it and wanted to replace it, he helped Yuan Chonghuan to suppress the resistance of Mao Wenlong's old department, and was appreciated by Yuan, Yuan Chonghuan divided the troops of Phi Dao into two associations, Mao Wenlong's old department Chen Jisheng and Liu Xingzuo each led an association, and later Liu Xingzuo was transferred to the mainland, and his brother Liu Xingzhi succeeded him.

Soon after, the "Jisi Incident" occurred, Yuan Chonghuan was imprisoned, and Liu Xingzuo was attacked and killed, and Liu Xingzhi, who had lost his background, was in jeopardy on the island, and Mao Wenlong's old troops headed by Chen Jisheng were full of suspicion about him. In order to reverse the situation, Liu Xingzhi staged a mutiny and attacked and killed Chen Jisheng, the leader of the ASEAN, in an attempt to dominate Phi Dao. However, his plot did not succeed by getting rid of his opponents, and the imperial court sent the general soldier Huang Long, while Mao Wenlong's old subordinates Zhang Tao and Shen Shikui launched a mutiny to kill Liu Xingzhi and the Jurchen soldiers he led.

In the struggle between Mao Wenlong's old department and Liu Xingzhi's brothers, Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming, who were also Mao Wenlong's old department, stood in Liu Xingzhi's camp. Sun Yuanhua appointed Kong Youde as the general of the left infantry battalion, and Geng Zhongming was sent to the Dengzhou fortress.

When people go to other places, they are also safe. However, Geng Zhongming's brother Geng Zhongyu, who later stayed on Phi Dao, was arrested and imprisoned by Huang Long on charges of plotting rebellion and secretly communicating with Houjin. In order to rescue Geng Zhongyu, Geng Zhongming instructed Geng Zhongyu's subordinates to besiege the Huanglong government office in the name of begging for money, and tied up Huanglong, and then Huanglong was rescued by his subordinates. Although under the protection of Sun Yuanhua, Geng Zhongming was not punished, but he has since formed a bond with Huanglong, coupled with the revenge of killing his brother, so he dreamed of slashing Huanglong, when he heard that Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng had an incident, he was the first in Dengzhou City to have bad intentions, ready to respond to Kong Youde, and then led the army to attack Phi Dao and kill Huanglong in one fell swoop!

After Li Jiucheng entered the tent, everyone in the tent stood up to greet him. Kong Youde smiled and pulled Li Jiucheng and asked him to sit in the first place, while he sat down on the first chair on the left.

Geng Zhongming, Mao Chenglu, Geng Zhongyi, Li Zhongfu, and Li Yingyuan sat down in turn. The generals of the rebels are basically in this tent.

"Ritu, didn't I say, what are you doing with those two geldings? Isn't it a pleasure to kill with a knife? Thinking of groveling to those two birdless people just now, Li Jiucheng was angry for no reason.

Kong Youde Ha Luha smiled: "These two castrations are still useful, and I can't say that I can still make a profit and make a high potential." ”

"Whatever you want." Li Jiucheng shrugged his shoulders indifferently, thought of something, and asked Kong Youde: "Jiang Maoran lost Pingdu, now we will suffer from the enemy in the back, if Zhu Dadian stabs us with his heart, I'm afraid things will not be good." ”

"It's okay, Zhu Dadian doesn't have that guts. If he can occupy the level, he will snicker, with his little people, it is really sent to our mouths, and it is not for us to chop up. "The loss of Pingdu is nothing to Kong Youde, as for Jiang Maoran and thousands of soldiers and horses, he has never taken it to heart, a group of rabble, keeping it is also a waste of food, and if it dies, it will die, but it will be saved to transport grain to Pingdu.

Geng Zhongyi proposed: "Marshal, deputy marshal, otherwise I will lead the troops to defeat Pingdu again, so that Zhu Dadian does not know what to do." ”

Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng shook their heads at the same time, and Kong Youde said: "Compared with Laizhou, ten flats are not as good as it, and what matters now is Laizhou." ”

"Zhang Guochen and Qu Yiyang have already entered the city, it stands to reason that Xie Lian should also come out, but there has been no movement in the city for a long time, can Xie Lian see that we have surrendered?" Li Jiucheng was a little worried.

Kong Youde said: "Xie Lian can see that there is fraud, does he dare to disobey?" From what I know of these civil officials, they would rather take a risk than disobey their orders, let alone be put on a hat to sabotage the situation. Well, the time is almost up, and it is estimated that it will be a matter of time, so let's wait. ”

What the deputy marshal said was that with Liu Yulie pressing, Xie Lian didn't dare to disobey. Besides, this time they thought that the big marshal was going to surrender, but the deputy marshal was not going to descend, so they were happy to start an internal strife for us, and it would be strange if they didn't take advantage of the situation to surrender. Geng Zhongming smiled, "Recruiting great achievements, anyone who looks at them will be red-eyed, I don't believe that Xie Lian is willing to give this great work to others anyway." ”

Mao Chenglu also nodded and said: "The handsome man can rest assured, if Xie Lian doesn't go out of the city again, let's send those two eunuchs to the city, they are from the palace, and what they say is probably more effective than Liu Yulie." ”

Li Zhongfu also said: "Later, I will arrange someone to put on a good show for these two eunuchs to see, and just cut off some heads for them to see, just say that they are loyal to the generals of the deputy marshal, so that these two eunuchs will decide that the marshal is going to surrender, and ask them to enter the city to threaten them, Xie Lian will not come out and come out." ”

"We have also besieged Laizhou for many days, but we have not broken the city for a long time, the morale of the army is a little dissipated, and the supply of grain and grass is almost out of supply, so we pointed to breaking Laizhou so that the brothers can eat their stomachs."

Li Yingyuan suddenly hated and said: "If it weren't for Chen's defeat, how could the Ming army dare to cross the Shahe, and now it is even more under our noses, so we don't dare to attack the city with all our might, otherwise, this city would have been fucking broken!" ”

"That's fine, it's better to take Laizhou without a single soldier than to die tens of thousands of people." Kong Youde smiled, Li Yingyuan said that Chen sometimes lost to Shahe and lost morale, but he wanted to say that Xiaoguanzhuang really destroyed morale in the first battle, but this is not easy to say.

"After taking Laizhou, we must immediately break the Ming army in Xiaoguanzhuang, otherwise, this situation still can't be opened, this Denglai land is like his mother's bird cage, if you don't open your mouth and rush out, we will always be restrained"

Kong Youde was talking, there was a commotion outside, and soon, a pro-soldier rushed into the tent with an excited face, "Report to the commander, the city gate is open, the city gate is open!" ”