Chapter 330: The Tree Doesn't Fall, the Monkey Scatters First (Middle)
After the Wuqiao Incident, Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde were able to get to this day because of continuous victories, or in other words, continuous successes in captivity.
Beizhili, Denglai, Shandong, more than a dozen prefectures and counties, large and small, local guards, Denglai's town soldiers, and Beijing camps from the capital, together there are tens of thousands of horses before and after, but they can't take the rebels, and they dare not fight or even fight. In some places, the officers and soldiers were even more unbearable, and the rebels were still in neighboring counties, so they left the people of a county 100 miles away and fled. The successive victories made the rebel army, which originally had only 800 men, snowball, bigger and bigger, and at its peak, Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde had nearly 70,000 horses under their command.
What supports tens of thousands of rebels is morale, and once there is no morale, tens of thousands of rebels will be tens of thousands of rabble, and it is true that they are as strong as the Dongjiang Liao soldiers, and they have also calculated their future path.
The battles of Shahe and Xiaoguanzhuang certainly broke the strength of the rebels, but they did not destroy their morale, and they had no fear of the officials and the rebels, and even still had disdain. Chen's death and the defeat of Xiaoguanzhuang were, in the eyes of the rebels, nothing more than the consequences of underestimating the enemy. As for the loss of Pingdu, the generals didn't bother to pay attention to it, and their unanimous opinion was just to ask Zhu Dadian to take advantage of it.
Based on Dengzhou, take Laizhou, with the military resources of the two places, you can stabilize the hegemony of one side, enter the north to invade the Beijing division, and retreat can also be a king, the world is big, but there is nothing to be feared.
The imperial court is just a scene for the struggle of pedantic Confucian students who are greedy for money and good goods; The Son of Heaven is just a young child, very tender.
If they succeeded in deceiving Laizhou, Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng would attack the officials and troops of Xiaoguanzhuang, but unfortunately, Laizhou City turned out to be like an iron fight, and they even coaxed and deceived them to survive under the city for several months, but in the end, they fell short. Without the grain of Laizhou, even if the Ming army in Xiaoguanzhuang stinks like, Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng have no heart to sweep it away.
From the past year to now, for more than half a year, tens of thousands of people have been staring at Laizhou dry eyes around such a water splash, and the food supply has also been reduced by one-third, if it were not for the promise to attack the city after the wealth of the women to rob, the soldiers would have stopped doing this loss-making business a long time ago, let go of their hands and feet, Laizhou is a hard bone, not necessarily the same hard in other places, far from it, the soldiers in Shandong are the best to bully.
There are more than 60,000 rebels, only more than 10,000 Dongjiang Liao soldiers, and the rest are newly attached rabble, among these people there is everything, there are young and strong people who are coerced, there are stragglers after the defeat of the official army, and there are also "heroes" who come to speculate and want to make contributions and become famous all over the world, but more are bandits and horse thieves.
In the past hundred years, there have been no major events in Shandong, but the rise of the White Lotus Sect has never stopped, the local law and order is not quiet, bandits are numerous, the so-called green forest, there are many people in Shandong. I didn't do the happy thing of robbing houses and houses, and I came to eat military rations for nothing, but I didn't want to be able to grab it faster. Now that there is nothing to do happily, the rabble naturally complains, if it weren't for the ferocity of those Liao soldiers, Li Dashuai killed people without blinking, maybe something would happen to these people.
Anyway, after eating Li Dashuai's grain, Li Dashuai promised to capture Laizhou City and plunder it for three days, these hard days will be boiled first, waiting for those nerds in the official army to be the last time, and they can let go of their hands to plunder, and after a few months, those young ladies of the rich man's family in the city have to have a good life.
Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde stared at Laizhou, pointing at Laizhou, and the soldiers below were already red when they looked at Laizhou.
Kill his mother, rob his mother, play with his mother, break Laizhou, and be happy enough.
Everything was expected by the two marshals of Li Kong, and the nerds of the imperial court were really fooled, and Baba was going to give up Laizhou!
The moment the gate of Laizhou opened, tens of thousands of pairs of red eyes were scary, but it was really. He was so damn forced, but the defenders in the city were not fooled, and they actually closed the door first!
After seeing the hundreds of corpses stacked under the city gate, the rebels were suddenly disheartened, and their blood-red eyes suddenly lost their brilliance.
But it's just that it has lost its brilliance, lost its enthusiasm, and has worn down some morale, but the military spirit is still there.
If you don't rush anything else, just rush these tens of thousands of horses, what can the officials and soldiers do with them! I really can't beat it, it's a big deal to go back to Dengzhou!
The house leak happened to be raining continuously, and before the rebels could recover from the shadow of the defeat in the capture of the city, the bad news of the loss of Dengzhou came.
It's over, it's all over!
It was not the soldiers who kept reminding themselves that they were finished, but the officers—the officers whose wives and children were all in Dengzhou.
Laizhou didn't take it, but his own nest was served by the officials and soldiers, which is really fucking embarrassing. What the fuck is this official dog going to the rear!
After some officers who wanted to find out the situation inquired, they learned that Dengzhou was occupied by the Jinzhou army from Liaodong, and then someone from Pingdu reported the same news, and it was also the Jinzhou army that took Pingdu, and the leader of the troops was a general named Shi Dayong.
Shi Dayong, where is sacred? Jinzhou Army, Zu Dashou's soldiers?
The rebels have been making trouble for a few months, but because of the closed news, they don't know that as early as last year, Dalinghe City was lost, and Zu Dashou died of gold, and they didn't know that the Jinzhou army fought desperately for several days in Jinzhou and the Dongyu Eight Banners, and piled up corpses under the city wall, and made a great victory of beheading nearly 10,000!
Shi Dayong is a legend, no one has ever heard of this person before. Speaking of the military generals outside the Guan, Zu Dashou, Wu Xiang, Zu Dabi, Zu Dale, and Zhang Chengze are people who often think of them and admire them very much.
This Shi Dayong, which green onion is it?
Legendary characters, legendary stories, gradually, the rebels all knew who this Shi Dayong was - he was the general who cut off the head of the general Chen Shi in Shahe, and he was the one who was in Xiaoguanzhuang and Li Dashuai. The Ming general who fights, he is the Ming general who has the audacity to occupy his own nest, I heard, I just heard that this Ming general has eaten people.
As more and more people came to Dengzhou, the rebels' morale fell like arrows from the strings.
Now, it is not only those rabble who have begun to think about the future road, many officers have also begun to prepare for retreat in advance, and in the past few days, the messengers who secretly went to Dengzhou have been dialed one after another, and no one knows how many generals in Ludao have begun to have two hearts, and they don't want to go to the dark with Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde anymore.
However, Li Dashuai said that the Jinzhou army that occupied Dengzhou was only a few thousand people, and now he led everyone to fight back, but there were only a few thousand people, and even if he spitted on them, he could drown them.
The high-ranking generals kept cheering up, and even scattered a large amount of goods that had been looted in the past, and there were Dongjiang soldiers watching, but on the way back to the division, there was no large-scale mutiny, and those officers who wanted to surrender to Dengzhou were temporarily withstanding, and they were also watching. The lives of his wife and children are important, but if Shi Dayong can't hold Dengzhou, the Jinzhou army is not as capable as the legend, and this situation will inevitably not be brought back. If he had gone to vote early, in case Li Dashuai broke Dengzhou again, wouldn't he be looking for his own death?
After a few days of marching, except for a few hundred people who secretly ran away, most of them still cheered up and marched towards Dengzhou under the banner of Li Dashuai.
The strikers are 6,000 soldiers and horses led by two generals, Xia Yuanliang and Zheng Qigang, half of them are Dongjiang Liao soldiers, and the officers are all old brothers who started the incident with Li Dashuai in Wuqiao, and the other half are also carefully selected brave and strong men, who do not have a few lives in their hands.
Li Dashuai said that Shi Dayong had thousands of soldiers and horses, and now the soldiers and horses of the strikers alone are better than those surnamed Shi, and I am afraid that Dengzhou can really be lost and recovered.
During the interval of the march, Kong Youde also paid great attention to the improvement of the army's morale, and constantly sent people in the camp to preach the weakness of the Jinzhou army and publicize the strength of his own soldiers.
The army marched to Zhuqiao, the forward has arrived in Zhaoyuan, there are still dozens of miles away from Dengzhou, and if you work harder, you can see the city wall of Dengzhou.
Li Zhongfu, who stayed in Laizhou, also came with the news, he led 10,000 people to firmly camp outside Laizhou City, and the Ming army did not find that there were fewer soldiers and horses in the camp, not only did the Ming army in the city dare not move lightly, but the Ming army in Xiaoguanzhuang did not show signs of coming. The only thing that made Li Zhongfu a little flustered and scared was that Zu Dabi's cavalry had been dispatched more times these days, and it seemed that Gao Qiqian couldn't hold it anymore, Xie Lian and Zhu Wannian's deaths gave him a lot of pressure, and he wanted to come to the court to give him a strict order, and he dared to stand still again, afraid that the Son of Heaven would cut off his head. But judging from the current signs alone, Gao Qiqian doesn't seem to have made up his mind yet, as if he is still waiting for some reinforcements.
What reinforcements Gao Qiqian is waiting for, Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde don't care, as long as he doesn't come over now. Without Dengzhou as a basis, Li Kong and the others really have no bottom in their hearts about the Ming army's attack, but if they have Dengzhou as a basis, they don't have to be afraid of high diving.
After sending someone to tell Li Zhongfu that everything was still the same, and that he would withdraw immediately after Dengzhou was taken, Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde set up a large camp in Zhuqiao, and ordered Xia Yuanliang and Zheng Qigang not to go too quickly, and to keep the army for twenty miles at all times.
In the camp, the morale was okay, and the family members who had been released from Dengzhou were kept in solitary confinement, not prepared for them to move around the camp, lest they say something that would make their morale drop.
Everything is changing for the better, and as long as there are no accidents, the army will be able to appear outside Dengzhou the morning after tomorrow. But God made a big joke, Xia Yuanliang and Zheng Qigang's 6,000 soldiers were wiped out in less than half an hour, if they hadn't escaped a dozen, Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde wouldn't even know that the Dao strikers were finished.
In less than half an hour, the six thousand soldiers and horses were over, so fast that they didn't even have a chance to ask for help, and the combat effectiveness of the Jinzhou army made Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde re-examine it, especially when all the cavalry dispatched by the other party made them even more frightened.
Did the rebels have cavalry? Yes, there was in the past, and there is now, that is, the cavalry that Li Jiu became the expansion of his son Li Yingyuan. Originally, there were 1,000 people, but Xiaoguanzhuang was stunned to call the Jinzhou army to be disabled, and there were less than 100 people left, although it was expanded to 1,000 people, but they could never go into battle, and could only be used as sentry horses, asking them to fight with the cavalry of the Jinzhou army, but they didn't want to.
The vanguard was defeated, the Jinzhou army was in Zhaoyuan, only twenty miles away from Zhuqiao, and it would rush over at any time, Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde convened the generals to discuss how to deal with this cavalry, and when they were deliberating, Mao Chenglu and Geng Zhongming did it, but outside, it was done everywhere.
Good things don't go out, but bad things spread thousands of miles.
The news that the 6,000 people of the Zhaoyuan Advance were wiped out by the cavalry of the Jinzhou Army in half an hour spread in the battalion at an unimaginably fast speed, which can only be blamed on Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde being shocked after hearing the news of the defeat, and they didn't think of the blockade news, and by the time they thought of the blockade news, it was already too late.
Half an hour, 6,000 men, cavalry, twenty miles away, these news were like the last straw that pressed the camel, and instantly shattered the morale of the rebels who had barely been raised.
The left battalion of the original Dengzhou infantry army was the first to attack Xiang Pet, leading his 4,000 soldiers and horses to break through Mao Chenglu's Dongjiang Liao soldiers, and he did not turn back to Zhaoyuan
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