This time, not only Zhu Dadian was happy, but even the great eunuch Gao Qiqian, who was sent by Chongzhen to Qingzhou to supervise the army, was also very happy, after receiving Zhao Shantang's report confirming the results of the battle, Gao Qiqian also hurriedly sent someone to report the news to the Beijing Division, so that Emperor Chongzhen, who had been worried about this matter for a long time, also quickly relaxed.

So Zhu Dadian wrote a letter and sent it to Yu Xiaotianjun, in which he praised Xiaotian and said a bunch of loyal and patriotic nonsense, asking Yu Xiaotian to guard against arrogance and rashness, and after resting for a while, he continued to lead the troops to Laizhou City to attack the rebels.

At the same time, Zhu Dadian also ordered the Shandong soldiers and horses and Zhejiang soldiers who directly controlled the zhì at hand to be ready to set off at any time to cooperate with the Southern Route Army of Xiaotian and attack the rebels besieging Laizhou.

It stands to reason that at this time, Laizhou City was surrounded by rebels, which can be said to be in danger, Yu Xiaotian should be in a hurry, but Yu Xiaotian is very clear about the development of the historical process, although Laizhou City is surrounded by rebels, but Zhu Wannian and other Ming Dynasty officials in the city, at this time, are already in ruins, fighting against the water, with the soldiers and civilians in the city, according to the city, so that the rebels have attacked Laizhou for a long time and do not resist, Laizhou City has no problem at all.

So Yu Xiaotian was not nervous at all, nor in a hurry, with the generals, in the territory of Pingdu Prefecture, you rested for more than half a month, until seeing that July had arrived, Zhu Dadian couldn't wait any longer, and sent someone to urge him to enter the army, Yu Xiaotian then led the troops north again, heading towards Laizhou City.

Pingdu to Laizhou, the distance is about one hundred and fifty miles, there is a Daze Mountain in the middle, for the sake of safety, Yu Xiaotian did not lead his troops to walk between Daze Mountain, but bypassed the Jiaodong Mountain Range, tried to take the plain terrain, and marched towards Laizhou City.

At this time, the rebel general Kong Youde has led 30,000 rebels to besiege Laizhou City for more than two months.

This Laizhou City, under the leadership of Xu Congzhi, the former governor of Shandong, Xie Lian, the new governor of Denglai, Zhu Wannian, the prefect of Laizhou, and Yang Yufan, the chief soldier, fought to the death in the cage city, and repeatedly repelled the attacks of the rebels, making the rebels helpless against Laizhou City.

But Kong Youde couldn't give up attacking Laizhou, he knew very well that if he wanted to continue to expand his territory, this Laizhou city must be taken, otherwise Laizhou would become a nail wedged between their henchmen, and it could erupt at any time and kill them.

Therefore, Laizhou City is a stumbling block before they continue to expand their power and territory, and they have to kick it out, so Kong Youde can only continue to storm Laizhou City.

But more than half a month ago, there was a shocking news from Pingdu Prefecture, an official army from Fujian arrived at Jiaozhou Bay by sea, landed in Jiaozhou Bay, and began to advance towards Pingdu Prefecture.

For this Fujian army, he didn't care too much, in his opinion, the southern soldiers are not anything to be afraid of, they have just arrived, they are also guest troops, and they will not adapt to the soil and water when they get here, and the southerners in his eyes, greedy for life and afraid of death, there is nothing to fear, although the official army from Fujian, known as more than 10,000 troops, but in his eyes, it is nothing, there are Li Fujie led 3,000 rebels to guard Pingdu, the worst can at least drag them in Pingdu Prefecture and not save it.

When the time came, he defeated Laizhou City, turned around, and then went to Pingdu to eat this group of Fujian officers and soldiers, it was not too late, but what he never expected was that in a few days, Li Fujie sent people to ask him for help, saying that he had met with Fujian officers and soldiers in Pingdu, Li Fujie's men had lost the battle, and the Fujian officers and soldiers had already arrived at Pingdu City.

When Kong Youde heard the news, he was very angry, and secretly scolded Li Fujie in his heart for being incompetent, he couldn't even stop this Fujian officer and soldier, and he also suffered a defeat, but he thought that although Li Fujie suffered a defeat, but after all, Pingdu City is still in Li Fujie's hands, and there is the city of Pingdu City, no matter how bad Li Fujie is, how can he drag them for ten days and half a month, or even two or three months, there should not be much of a problem!

So he didn't pay attention to Li Fujie's request for help, and still led the troops to continue to attack Laizhou City, but he didn't think about it, after a while, there was no movement on the Pingdu Prefecture side, and at first he thought that Li Fujie was dragging the Fujian officers and soldiers, and then he felt that something was wrong, and sent someone to Pingdu to see the situation.

As a result, the people sent out ran back a few days later, and said in a shocked manner that Pingdu City had been lost, and the Fujian official army had conquered Pingdu City, and Li Fujie's entire army was wiped out, and not even a single person escaped, and all of them were dumpled by the Fujian official army.

Kong Youde was taken aback when he heard the news, and found that the Fujian officers and soldiers who came this time did not seem to be so simple, so he immediately sent someone to inquire about the news to see who the main general who led the troops over this time was.

Later, after some inquiry, Kong Youde learned that the troops and horses from Fujian were led by a general soldier named Yu Xiaotian, who was rumored to have been a pirate, and was later appeased by Xiong Wencan, the governor of Fujian, and became a general on the Fujian side.

Over the years, it is said that this person has done a good job in Fujian, and has made a lot of achievements, this time it is Emperor Chongzhen in the imperial court, and he has been hand-picked by the imperial pen, so that he can lead the troops to the north and come here to quell the chaos.

Kong Youde realized that this surname Yu was not simple, and then after thinking about it carefully, he suddenly remembered, isn't this Yu Xiaotian the leader of the sea wolf who had done business with their Dongjiang Army many years ago?

When he followed Mao Wenlong as a soldier, the people of this sea wolf once transported grain, cloth and other goods from the south to Dongjiang Town, came to Dongjiang Town to do business with their Dongjiang army, and exchanged some horses and tiger bones, ginseng, deer antler velvet and other goods from Liaodong specialties from them, and transported them back to the south to sell.

I didn't expect that the pirate leader of the year has now become the chief military officer of the Ming Dynasty, and he was ordered to lead the troops to come and suppress their Dongjiang rebels, what is this Mrs. It's really impermanent, they were officers and soldiers back then, but now they have become traitors, and the pirates back then have become officers and soldiers, no one ever thought that they would have the opportunity to meet on the battlefield, but the world is impermanent, after so many years, they actually have to meet on the battlefield.

Thinking of this, Kong Youde felt that this matter could probably be discussed, after all, both of them are old acquaintances, at least they are old, he is guarding Fujian in Xiaotian, this Denglai Shandong can't fight with him, why does he bother to give Daming his life, and he has to fight to the end with their rebels?

So Kong Youde sent someone to Pingdu secretly, and privately asked to see Yu Xiaotian, wanting to state the interests and convince Yu Xiaotian not to fight with them on the battlefield, Yu Xiaotian took Pingdu Prefecture, just take it, this can be regarded as being able to explain to the imperial court, and he has no choice but to come to Laizhou to meet him on the battlefield.

But the people sent quickly returned to the Laizhou rebel camp and replied to Kong Youde, saying that Yu Xiaotian's attitude was very ambiguous, neither yin nor yang, and he never mentioned that he would not come to Laizhou, but he was full of haha, so that people could not see his true thoughts, but Yu Xiaotian did not take them down on the spot, but he still let them back afterwards.

Kong Youde was a little confused, he couldn't figure out what Yu Xiaotian wanted to do, whether he would come to Laizhou to fight them, so he had no choice but to send troops to Pingdu to set up a card on the way to Laizhou, preparing to stop them on the spot once Yu Xiaotian led the troops to come, and when the time came, he led the troops over and ate the Fujian soldiers and horses of Yu Xiaotian in one fell swoop.

But after he arranged it, he didn't see Yu Xiaotian lead his troops to Laizhou for more than ten days, and sent people to inquire about the news, but found that after Yu Xiaotian took Pingdu Prefecture, he actually led his soldiers and horses, and stopped troops in Pingdu Prefecture on the spot, as long as the rebels did not enter Pingdu Prefecture, he would not stretch his hand to the boundary of Laizhou, but if the sporadic rebels entered Pingdu Prefecture, they would be attacked by his men.

So Kong Youde felt relieved at this time, and felt that he could see clearly what Yu Xiaotian was thinking, and thought that his persuasion had worked, which Yu Xiaotian should have made up his mind and did not plan to continue to fight with them, and now he has taken Pingdu Prefecture for half a month, but he has been reluctant to move troops to continue to march towards Laizhou, which is very revealing.

Kong Youde is no longer worried about the problems of Fujian officers and soldiers, and the most important thing for him next is to take Laizhou as much as possible, and it is a big deal not to fight Pingdu Prefecture again, but he can wave his army into the boundary of Qingzhou and continue to develop in the hinterland of Shandong.

After his strength becomes stronger, when the time comes, he will free up his hands and go to Pingdu Prefecture again, and it will not be too late to eat Yu Xiaotian's Fujian officials and soldiers.

So Kong Youde turned to put all his energy on the attack on Laizhou City, pondered, pondered, and came up with a bad move, that is, to surrender.

During this time, Kong Youde has seen through the Ming court and the government, and the Ming Dynasty has never made up his mind, whether to suppress or appease them, some time ago, it seems that the Ming Dynasty should have the upper hand in appeasing them, so the Ming army has never made up its mind to fight to the death with him, and always takes chances, and is defeated by his practice.

Moreover, he besieged Laizhou City, and never sent a single soldier to reinforce Laizhou City, which strengthened the imperial court's idea of appeasing them.

But in the near future, it seems that the wind direction has changed a little, and he released Sun Yuanhua and others in early February, which is to put a smokescreen, ostensibly revealing to the court an appearance that they were forced to rebel in desperation, so that the officials of the court felt that he released these people because he wanted to accept the idea of recruiting An, and then took the opportunity to start attacking everywhere, capturing many cities, looting a large number of towns and villages, and obtaining a large amount of food and property in a short period of time, which greatly increased the strength of their rebels.