Chapter 215: Ringing Horse Thieves Besiege the Beijing Camp

The military situation is like fire, since the twenty-four rì set out from Cangzhou, the urging order from the governor of Shandong, Zhu Dadian, has not stopped, but it is like the twelve gold medals that Yue Wumu received. \\\\\\\\

The last order actually asked the Jinzhou Army to rush to Laizhou within three rì, otherwise the military law will be engaged!

The generals all said that Shandong was too anxious and too unkind, that is, it was a night trip, and it would take at least four days to reach Laizhou.

And his Liao army is a guest soldier, how can there be such a reason to urge guest soldiers in this world, and he is also engaged in military law, is there such an unreasonable governor? Could it be that his Shandong soldiers and horses are all dead, and they all hope that their Jinzhou army will not succeed!

The dissatisfaction of the generals is not unreasonable, according to his Shandong urging method, this battle cannot be fought at all, because the people have not yet arrived, but I am afraid that they will be exhausted and die on the way.

Shi Dayong understands that the situation in Dengzhou may reach the most dangerous juncture, and it is estimated that it may be captured by the rebels at any time. Otherwise, it would be impossible for Zhu Dadian, the governor of Shandong, to be in such a hurry to urge himself.

His judgment was not wrong, Dengzhou at this time was really at the last moment, Kong Youde was only one step away from taking Dengzhou City, and the key reason for the sharp decline in the situation was still the scholarly governor Sun Yuanhua

After appointing Geng Zhongming and other Dongjiang Liao generals to lead the Liao army in the city, Sun Yuanhua once again neglected to supervise the use of people, and sent Zhang Tao, the old general of Dongjiang, to lead the Liao soldiers out of the city to meet the battle, originally thinking that he and Zhang Ke and most of the Zhejiang soldiers would jointly flank Kong Youde, in order to force Kong Youde to accept the imperial court through a victory.

Unexpectedly, this Zhang Tao and Kong Youde had a deep friendship when they knew Dongjiang in the past, and they had already had the intention of responding to Kong Youde. Suffering from the lack of soldiers under his hands, he did not dare to move. As a result, a pie fell from the sky, and Sun Yuanhua actually handed over 3,000 Liao soldiers to his own hands!

Zhang Tao, who got the opportunity, immediately relapsed with Kong Youde after leaving the city, and surrendered Kong Youde without a shot, and the 3,000 Liao soldiers he brought out of the city were immediately absorbed by Kong Youde, causing Kong Youde to be like a tiger with wings.

With the help of these 3,000 Liao soldiers who turned to the mouth, the rebels surrounded Zhang Keda's Zhejiang soldiers, and after struggling to support a pillar of incense, the Zhejiang soldiers' defense line was broken through by the rebels. In the end, under the brave fighting of the Zhejiang soldiers, Zhang Keda finally fled back to the city with the remaining more than 500 Zhejiang soldiers. At this point, no one in Dengzhou City dared to speak out of the city to fight a decisive battle with the rebels.

After this battle, Dengzhou City, which lost its mobile forces, was also completely surrounded by the rebels, and it was so encircled that not a single fly could fly.

Zhu Dadian, who was desperately rushing to Dengzhou, suddenly lost all contact with Dengzhou.

More than 23 Ming soldiers who sneaked out before the siege of the city passed the news that Dengzhou had been besieged and killed.

Zhu Dadian, who was greatly alarmed, did not immediately supervise the troops to rush to Dengzhou, but ordered the whole army to stop advancing and stand by in place.

Although Zhu Dadian is a civilian official, he had the experience of Pinghongmao in Fujian in his early years, so he is not the kind of nerd who blindly commands the military.

He knows that the current Kong Youde is no longer Wuxia Ameng, and now he has the help of 3,000 Dongjiang Liao soldiers in Dengzhou City, and his strength is not what it used to be.

With only the Qi family's army and army under his command, Zhu Dadian no longer had any confidence to go alone to break the siege.

The only thing he can count on now is the high rise and potential of Hebei and the Liao army allocated to him by the imperial court.

For this reason, on the one hand, he sent people to report the military situation in Dengzhou to Gao Qiqian, who was stationed in Shang County, and on the other hand, he constantly sent people to urge the Jinzhou army, which was still on the way, to urge them to move faster, and even ignored the fact that the Liao army had come from afar, and forced them to rush to Laizhou within three days.

So far, Zhu Dadian can't take care of it so much, he only knows that if the rebels capture Dengzhou, then he, the governor of Shandong, will be done, and the end will be the same as his predecessor Yu Dacheng, and he will be sent to Beijing to punish the crime

The current Jinzhou Army is like a firefighting team, and under the leadership of the commander Shi Dayong, it rushed to Dengzhou at the speed of a rapid march.

How did the 1,000 soldiers in the Beijing camp endure such hardships, they complained along the way, and after barely marching with the Jinzhou army for two days, they could no longer hold on. From the commander Pei Shaokuan to the horseman, they all lay in the camp like mud, no matter how the Jinzhou army whipped and scolded them, they refused to get up and set off.

Shi Dayong, who was eager to go to Dengzhou to relieve the siege, saw that the Beijing battalion soldiers were really not good, and they didn't look like an army at all. It is useless to take this kind of waste army to Dengzhou, so in a hurry, he asked Pei Shaokuan to lead the Beijing camp to act alone in the back.

Shi Dayong can't help it, now he just needs Jingying to go to Dengzhou, as for when he can arrive, just go with them. If it was because the Beijing camp dragged its feet and Dengzhou was lost, Shi Dayong's heart would be difficult to feel at ease.

offended the great eunuch Gao Qiqian, Shi Dayong has never been uneasy, but if the military situation is delayed and the city falls, Shi Dayong will feel ashamed of the Son of Heaven. His idea of loyalty to the monarch has deepened, which makes people feel incredible.

Although the Beijing battalion acted on its own, Shi Dayong gave a strict order when he left, if Pei Bu dared to do anything wrong along the way, he would march to kill people!

Pei Shaokuan now wants not to go to Dengzhou to die, so he agrees to come down. He pondered and understood the truth that \\\\\\\\ heroes don't suffer immediate losses, this Shi Dayong is not even afraid of Zhou Guozhang and Gao Gonggong, how can he be afraid of him. If you really provoke him, I'm afraid that the person surnamed Shi will really dare to cut himself.

Anyway, he was going to die, he couldn't die, and Gonggong Gao wouldn't spare him, so why should he do it with him and ask for his own hardship.

Politely sent away, "The plague god Shaokuan suddenly felt that his eyes were clear, as if heaven and earth were at my disposal, and his indescribable heart was refreshing."

However, when Shi Dayong left, he was still relieved, and deliberately left two personal soldiers to act with the Beijing camp, so as to know the movements of the Beijing camp at any time. After all, the imperial court allocated this thousand Beijing camps to his command, and if something happened in the Beijing camp, it would be difficult for him to explain to the imperial court.

When Shi Dayong led the Jinzhou army to the east and arrived in Yanshan County, Hebei, the two pro-soldiers who stayed in the Beijing camp came to report quickly, saying that the Beijing camp was surrounded by horse thieves in Qiushui Town!

The so-called "ringing horse thieves" refers to the horse households in Hebei.

In order to ensure the supply of border horses for the Ming army, since the founding of the country, the imperial court has forced farmers in Hebei and other places to act as horse breeders. The burden of forced labor on the horse households was extremely heavy, and they had to pay a great price to ensure that the horses were well raised, not only delaying agricultural production, but also having to compensate for the losses when the horses they raised died or the breeding horses did not produce enough horses. At that time, some people described it as "the most troubled grain in the south of the Yangtze River, and the most troubled horses in Hebei". During the Zhengde period, Mahu in Hebei was overwhelmed, and the uprisings of Liu Liu and Liu Qi broke out that affected Hebei and Shandong provinces.

The uprisings of Liu Liu and Liu Qi forced the imperial court to revise its policy towards Mahu, so that the situation in Mahu in Hebei improved slightly. But in the Wanli period, because of the frequent wars in Liaodong, the Ming army lost too many horses, and when today's son ascended the throne, because the Dongyu conquered the southern tribes, the Ming Dynasty could not even buy horses from Mongolia, and for a time, the Ming Dynasty fell into the predicament of no horses.

As a last resort, the imperial court had to order Hebei to continue to supply military horses, and the horse households that could not provide military horses were also treated roughly, which was already suffering from natural disasters for several years in Hebei horse households, it was undoubtedly worse for the people to rebel not uncommon, a small number of horse households in order to protect themselves, gathered in the mountains and forests, and the local government called them "horse thieves".

After Kong Youde's rebellion in Wuqiao, Hebei was even more poisoned, and under the further impetus of the rebels, the original small group of Xiangma thieves actually sent out to dozens or hundreds of people in groups, and carried out captives and plunders along the prefecture and county.

But generally the horse thieves do not meet with the official army, let alone have the audacity to attack the official army, and this time the siege of the Beijing camp in Qiushui Town is really accidental

The Jingying, which was honest all the way and slowly marched eastward, happened to encounter a Xiangma thief who flowed from Qingxian County after entering Qiushui Town, and the number was not much, only more than 100 people.

The two sides met on a narrow road outside Qiushui Town, and they were both across the avenue. When the horse thieves saw the sudden appearance of the Beijing camp, they thought that the government had sent them to encircle and suppress them, so in a panic, in order to protect themselves, they actually rushed to the Beijing camp on horseback, trying to kill a bloody road from the avenue and flee south.

The reason why he did not run back but continued to run south was because the leader of the Xiangma thieves heard that the people's army in the northwest was fighting with the official army in Henan, so he wanted to go to the people's army. Moreover, after the rebellion of the Liao army in Dongjiang, there were more and more officers and troops in Hebei, and it was really unsafe to stay here.

But who knew that these Jingying soldiers were like paper paste, and before they got close, the other party dispersed and fled in all directions. The official was even more like seeing a ghost, and slipped away into the town with a horse.

On the road, the weapons, baggage, grain and grass, and flags of the officers and soldiers were thrown everywhere.

Seeing that these officers and soldiers were so useless, the leader of the horse thieves suddenly became more heartbroken, thinking that it would be better to get rid of these officers and soldiers, and robbed them of their equipment and went south to present them to the people's army.

Just do it, and at that moment, the horse thieves no longer fled south, but returned to their horses and rushed towards Qiushui Town.

Pei Shaokuan, who fled into the town, saw the horse thief turn around and rush towards the town, knowing that the road was not good, he instinctively wanted to run again. However, one of his subordinates, Qianzong, stopped him, saying that this town was not big, and it was not conducive to cavalry, and if he organized people to resist on the spot, the horse thieves would not be able to rush in. If he had fled, most of the brothers would have perished, for he knew that no matter how fast this man could run on his legs, he would not be as fast as a four-legged horse.

Pei Shaokuan thought about it, and if he threw all his subordinates here and fled back, he would definitely not be spared. It is better to listen to the persuasion of this thousand generals, organize soldiers to resist on the spot, and send others to ask for help. As long as you hold on until the reinforcements arrive, the horse thieves will have to retreat if they don't retreat.

At this time, there were also four or five hundred Jingying soldiers who fled into the town, and after the initial panic, they were all aware of their situation. At that moment, under the command of Pei Shaokuan and several officers, the soldiers of the Beijing battalion began to occupy the commanding heights of the town, and set up anti-horses and other objects on the way into the town, and resisted on the spot with firearms.

After rushing twice and losing more than a dozen lives, the leader of the horse thieves stopped the attack and sent people to shout to the town, asking the officers and soldiers to surrender and hand over their weapons, and they let them go.

The soldiers of the Beijing camp are not stupid, if they surrender, it will undoubtedly be equivalent to sticking out their heads for the other party to cut off.

Seeing that the horse thieves could not rush in, they couldn't help but become emboldened, and released their guns far away to show that they would never surrender.

The officers and soldiers did not surrender, and the Xiangma thieves had no idea, at this time it was already dark, and Qiushui Town was more than 30 miles away from the nearest Huanghua County, and there were no officers and soldiers stationed in Huanghua City, so the Xiangma thieves were not worried that they would be made dumplings by the officers and soldiers.

He divided his subordinates into two parts, one of which passed through the woods east of the town to block the way out of the east of the town, and the other stayed here to monitor the officers and soldiers. See who can hold up whom.

Seeing that the horse thieves surrounded themselves and blackened down, the whole Beijing camp was also frightened and panicked, lest the horse thieves take advantage of the darkness to touch in. Fortunately, after waiting for a while, there was no movement from the horse thieves, so the up and down were a little calm.

They were determined to come now, but the people in the town were frightened, and they were horse thieves and officers and soldiers, and just now they were thunderbolting and killing and screaming, which scared the people like something. Before they could react, the officers and soldiers smashed the door from house to house, rushed in and dragged out the furniture and threw it on the street without saying anything, and when they saw what food the people had in their homes, they also reached out and took it, no different from bandits, but fortunately they did not hurt anyone, and there were no women's incidents

After listening to the two pro-soldiers tell him what happened, Shi Dayong smiled, he knew that Pei Shaokuan's 1,000 Beijing battalion soldiers were a waste, but he didn't expect that the 1,000 people would call more than 100 bandits to surround them.

What the fuck is this!

Jiang Wanli asked, "General, do you want to go back and save them?" ”

Before Shi Dayong could speak, Li Dashan shouted: "Save a fart, they are incompetent, they can't walk, they can't fight, why bother to delay their efforts to save, it's up to them to die or live, according to me, these people in Beijing are all dead to worry." ”

Jiang Wanli refuted: "You can't say that, don't forget, the Holy Lord assigned them to our general's command, if something happens, how can the general explain to the Holy Lord?" ”

Li Dashan was stunned for a moment, and his mouth grinned: "Then what should I do?" Do you really want to go back and save them? ”

The generals didn't know whether Shi Dayong would save or not, and they all looked at him. Shi Dayong thought for a while, raised his hand at Cao Bianjiao who was not far away, and ordered: "Xiao Cao, you lead the wolf to ride back with me." ”

Hearing the order, Li Dashan was a little dissatisfied and said, "What, we really want to save those wastes?" ”

Immediately, Shi Dayong smiled: "Who said that Ben was going to save people, Ben was going to grab things!" ”