Jiang Maoran, who was rotten into a pot of meat, was not eaten like beef and mutton, and even the pot with meat was buried, which is also the fact that the Jinzhou army has not really reached the point of exhaustion - like the ancestor Dashou guarding the Daling River. If there was really no food for several days, the soldiers who were afraid of hunger and madness would have already eaten this pot of human flesh, and they were reluctant to throw away a single bone (and use it to make a fire).

But the situation is not optimistic, the whole city was searched, the food obtained was only a few dozen stones, and the prisoners were interrogated, and there was no food in the city, and the defenders burned the only grain and grass when they fled, so that they had no food after entering the city.

Six days after the occupation of Pingdu, the rebels began to run out of food, and in the days that followed, except for some grain sent from Dengzhou, they all made a living by plundering the countryside.

The rebels are also human beings, they do not produce, they do not have a stable logistics base, everything depends on robbery for a living, and they feed the war by war. Previously, he could enter Shandong to grab some grain and grass, but from the end of the year, the Shuai Mansion did not let him go to Shandong, saying that the imperial court was coming to Zhao'an, except for Laizhou, the rest of the soldiers and horses had to retreat, one was to prevent the imperial army from pressing, and the other was to ensure that Denglai was not lost.

As long as Denglai is in his hands, whether it is appeasement or resistance, it is always the capital. If Denglai loses, then there is nothing to talk about, from Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde, to the pawns who participated in the rebellion, I am afraid that they will all die without a place to be buried.

In this way, the rebels in Pingdu City could only live by stealing grain from the surrounding villages and towns, and did not dare to go out to invade Shandong in front of them, which relieved the pressure on Shandong to a certain extent, so that Zhu Dadian, the governor of Shandong, could have a chance to breathe and transfer some troops from the southern provinces. If the rebels don't stay and storm Zhufu County in Shandong, Zhu Dadian will be afraid that he will only be trapped in Jinan, how can he still have the courage to discuss with Gao Qiqian about advancing north and south.

However, most of the grain transported from Dengzhou was sent to Laizhou City for Li Jiucheng's besieging army to eat, and the thousands of men and horses in Pingdu could only get a small part, and as time went by, the food sent from Dengzhou became less and less.

Compared with the official army, the situation of the rebels is even more embarrassing, after all, they do not have any external support supplies, and everything can only be obtained at hand. It is most appropriate to describe the rebels as sitting on a mountain and eating empty. When all the food stolen is eaten, Laizhou has not been taken, or the appeasement has not succeeded, I am afraid that Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng will have to consider how to get out of Denglai.

Now the rebels are staring at Laizhou, and Dengzhou City is full of ordnance, but this Laizhou City is full of grain - the grain and grass that should have been sent to Jinzhou for the Liao army outside the Guanxi are frighteningly large, enough to hundreds of thousands of stones, which were requisitioned from Jiangnan and other places by the imperial court with great effort, but now they are all piled up in Laizhou City because the sea route is cut off.

If the two marshals of Kong and Li accepted the appeasement of the imperial court, then the grain and grass in Laizhou City could naturally be divided into some to supply them; If the appeasement fails, with the instigation of the officials and soldiers, the rebels also believe that it will be a matter of time before they enter Laizhou, but it will only be more casualties.

There is no impregnable city in this world, and Dengzhou is also known as impregnable, and it was not taken overnight. What can't be taken from this Laizhou City?

Therefore, regardless of whether the appeasement succeeds or not, the rebels are confident. It is not their own strong combat effectiveness that gives them confidence, but their habitual understanding of the officers and soldiers gives them strong self-confidence.

In their eyes, whether it is the soldiers and horses of Beizhili or the Beijing Forbidden Army from Beijing, they are the rabble.

This point of view did not change until after the outbreak of the Battle of Xiaoguanzhuang, but the rebels under the city of Laizhou were already like tigers and could not come down at all, so they could only carry them under the city of Laizhou. Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng are not stupid, the court is willing to talk to them about appeasement, but what they are afraid of is not that Laizhou will lose!

You must know that if Laizhou falls, the Ming army outside the pass will have no food to eat! The imperial court can no longer requisition enough grain to transport to Guanwai in a short period of time!

In last year's Battle of the Great and Small Ling Rivers, all the grain stored in Gyeonggi and Guanwai was used for the war, and now, there is no grain outside Guanwai.

In the five years of Chongzhen, the world's great drought is not only in the northwest and the Central Plains, but also in the Ming land outside Shanhaiguan.

After Shi Dayong led his troops south, Li Jizhong, the prefect of Ningyuan, and Chen Ang, the prefect of Jinzhou, respectively complained to the imperial court: grain, grain!

In the important land of Dengzhou, there was Governor Sun Yuanhua in charge, but it was lost, so that the new firearms and Western cannons built by the imperial court at a great cost fell into the hands of the rebels.

In the important land of Laizhou, there was a political envoy from Shandong, but it was saved, but outside the city were rebels besieging the city for months, and the result is not yet known.

Whether Liu Yulie arrived in Shahe or not, and how far the matter of appeasement went, Dayong didn't know what to do, and those captives didn't know what to do.

Dozens of stones of grain and grass are only a few thousand catties, but the Jinzhou army has nearly 4,000 people, how long can they eat? One day? Two days or three days?

There are only a dozen stones of grain and grass left, and most of them are still beans for horses, and the rice and noodles have long been gone, where can they still hold on.

Nearly 1,000 captives gave Dayong a headache, he hadn't done anything to kill prisoners, and the quicksand river was still crying.

It's not difficult to kill them all, but the difficult thing is that Dayong wants to raise them and then become mobile military rations until Dengzhou is taken.

It was April, and the corpses could not be preserved at all, and there was not so much salt to pickle.

Besides, isn't it better to have living food that can move itself than dead food that can be hauled by manpower?

There are still more than 200 people in the city, and these people are not innocent, and they may even have blood on their hands, so it is not an exaggeration to kill them. If it really doesn't work, it can be transferred to the government for detailed punishment, but there is no government in Pingdu City, and the Jinzhou Army is not a local civil affairs yamen, and his duty is only to fight. And I was afraid that there were innocents inside, and Pingdu had already been taken, and there was no need to do more senseless killings, so the most powerful order to drive these people out of the city, but they were not allowed to carry a grain of grain with them, nor were they allowed to take a copper plate with them, and they were only allowed to leave empty-handed, and let them go after leaving the city.

said that they would let them go, but the wolf rider deliberately drove them to Laizhou in the northeast, the purpose was to let Li Jiucheng under the city of Laizhou know that the Pingdu of the road had been lost, and the soldiers and horses of Shandong would attack the city of Laizhou from the direction of Pingdu at any time, and form a horn with the Beijing camp in Shahe.

Dayong has no intention of relieving the siege of Laizhou, he has decided to march to Dengzhou with the whole army tomorrow, and Pingdu is an empty city that whoever loves it, anyway, he doesn't want it. The news reached Li Jiucheng's ears, just to let him know the truth, and then it was impossible to stay in Laizhou City safely, if he withdrew the army, Laizhou could be saved.

Dayong is not afraid that the rebels in Laizhou will rush back to Dengzhou before him, a march of thousands of people and a march of tens of thousands of people is not a concept, and he Li Jiucheng has to think about more things than himself. As long as the Jinzhou army boldly rushes to Dengzhou, Li Jiucheng must be vigilant against the officers and troops behind him. If you run fast, if you don't do it, you will be defeated, and if you run slowly, you will be bitten by the officers and soldiers at any time.

Perhaps, Li Jiucheng won't run, didn't Governor Liu come to appease him personally. As long as the imperial court is still fantasizing about appeasement, Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde, who are thieves, will not give up any possibility of defrauding Laizhou.

Rebels are rebels, and expecting them to change their minds, put down their butcher knives and become Buddhas on the spot can only be the delusion of those court officials.

It's a pity that things have come to this point, and the princes of Donglin are still not awake. Pathetic, lamentable.

Just let them continue to indulge in fantasy, Dengzhou, all I want is Dengzhou!