Once again, the gambler won the bet, and Dengzhou was empty.

On the ninth day of June in the fifth year of Ming Chongzhen, Cao Bianjiao, the vanguard of the Jinzhou army, stormed Dengzhou Shuicheng, and the rebel general Wang Bingzhong's 3,000 soldiers guarded Shuicheng.

On the 10th day of the first month, the left battalion of the Jinzhou Army Infantry Army blew up the water city with explosives, the battalion officer Song Qing took the lead and led the dead 60 people to break into the city, and then the left and right two battalions of the infantry army rushed in, the sound of the water city was loud, and until sunset, seeing that the general trend had gone, Wang Bingzhong committed suicide by taking poison, and the deputy general Geng Zhongwen was deceived into slaughtering 1200 people under the water city.

On the 11th, Song Guanglan of the original Dengzhou Dao, Wang Zheng of the Prison Army, Wu Weicheng, the prefect of Dengzhou, Jia Mingjie, Song Cheng of Penglai Zhixian and others killed Li Guolu, the defender of Dengzhou, and dedicated the Jinzhou army to the city. On the same day, the Jinzhou army entered the city, and Shi Dayong issued the "three no-military orders" - no one should be killed, no one should be robbed, and no house should be burned.

Under this strict order, after the Jinzhou army entered the city, the autumn did not commit any crimes, and the people in the city were settled, and half of the more than 1,000 rebels in the original city were dismissed, and half of them were incorporated into the Jinzhou army.

On the 12th, Song Guanglan was entrusted by Shi Dayong to persuade Qian Dagang, the chief officer of the Dengzhou Naval Division, to surrender, and after receiving a promise that he would not be held accountable for past crimes, Qian Dagang led the Dengzhou Naval Division and 148 warships to surrender.

After the rebels occupied Dengzhou City, they carried out a brutal massacre, drove the residents of the city out of the east gate and slaughtered them on a large scale, the corpses were all over the place, and even the moats were filled, and now there are only more than 15,000 women in the city, and more than 6,000 rebel families.

The Jinzhou army gained a huge harvest in this city, capturing 1,200 war horses, 1.2 million taels of silver, 26 Hongyi cannons, 360 Western light and heavy artillery, 14,000 new firearms, and countless other firearms. With this capture, the Jinzhou army can be expanded tenfold or more.

Touring the city, Dayong was extremely proud and excited about his accomplishment. He didn't know that there was no history of him, and it was not until the first day of the ninth month that the Ming soldiers and horses arrived in Laizhou one after another, and the Liaodong cavalry beheaded Li Jiucheng under the leadership of Jin Guochen. Kong Youde saw that the situation was not good, and retreated to Dengzhou in a hurry. In view of the fact that the city of Dengzhou was strong and easy to defend and difficult to attack, Zhu Dadian, the governor of Shandong, Lin Jiantai, the commander of the Beijing camp, Gao Qiqian, the supervisor of the army, and Xie Sanbin, the governor of Dengzhou, decided on the battle plan of dividing the land and defending, building fortifications, besieging for a long time, attacking and defending in parts, blockading the sea lane, and rewarding the thieves.

In October, the Ming army began to attack the city in a big way, and the rebels held it tightly, forming a stalemate. When the winter was severe, the weather was freezing and the city was short of food, so the rebels captured the women and killed them to eat meat, and lit their fat for lighting, killing tens of thousands of people and destroying their lives. After the city was broken, there were only about 100 survivors, and most of the rest went into the belly of the rebels.

On February 12, he concentrated 3,000 horses and formed a cavalry team to lead the attack, and 5,000 infantry followed, and the troops were divided into three routes, and he and Geng Zhongming and Li Yingyuan each took one road to forcibly break out of the siege from the west gate. Kong Youde envisioned that after breaking through the siege, he would join forces with the Central Plains Liukou, and also be a rogue army to storm the prefecture and seize the state. Unexpectedly, a junior officer in the rebel army took advantage of the night to cross the city and report this important military situation, and Zhu Dadian and others hurriedly deployed a three-way ambush. When the rebels entered the ambush circle, the officers and soldiers rushed to kill, trying to conquer Dengzhou in one fell swoop, but after the rebels were ambushed, they quickly retreated, and the remaining rebels in Dengzhou City also responded with artillery, so that the Ming officers and soldiers could not get close to the city wall. At the same time, the Ming army also stepped up its offensive at the east gate of Dengzhou, and had captured the outer protective walls of Shuicheng, Kong Youde understood that if he did not make a decision as soon as possible, Shuicheng would be occupied by the Ming army, and they would become turtles in the urn, and they could only be captured.

That night, Kong Youde ordered that in addition to leaving more than 1,000 people in Dengzhou City to cover, the remaining more than 12,000 rebels and their families (including 3,600 combat troops) took more than 100 large ships, together with weapons, guns and other other belongings, from the north gate of Shuicheng, braved the artillery fire intercepted by the Ming army, and broke through by sea from the north gate of Shuicheng.

The Ming army soon invaded Dengzhou City, the rebels' remaining troops were still relying on the water city to resist stubbornly, the Ming army guerrilla Liu Liangzuo secretly led people to sneak into the Yongfu Temple near the water city wall, dug a tunnel to the city, filled in, collapsed a section of the city wall, and conquered the water city. Another part of the rebels retreated to Danya Mountain by the sea of Dengzhou City, preparing to fight the trapped beasts, Zhu Dadian did not kill the rebel team after the most Lu, persuaded them to surrender, most of the rebels surrendered down the mountain, and some of them committed suicide by throwing themselves into the sea. Kong Youde, who fled to the sea, initially planned to occupy an island or a piece of land off the coast of Liaodong and divide one side by force. However, Huang Long, the commander-in-chief of the Ming army stationed in Phidao and Lushun, led the navy to intercept and kill them, Li Jiucheng's son Li Yingyuan was beheaded, and Mao Chenglu and Chen Guangfu were captured, completely shattering his dream. He and Geng Zhongming led the remaining ships and personnel to drift at sea for several months, and they also spent the New Year at sea. Desperate, Kong Youde made the most difficult decision to surrender to the enemy state of the Ming Dynasty, Houjin. After contacting the Houjin, they landed at the designated location, and Huang Taiji sent the generals of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty to repel the pursuit of the Ming army and receive the rebels of Kong Youde into the territory of the Houjin. After confirming that Kong Youde had indeed come to surrender, Huang Taiji was overjoyed and personally greeted Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming outside Shenyang.

Since then, the Kong Youde rebellion has ended in eighteen months, but this counterinsurgency war, both warring sides have not won, although the Ming Dynasty quelled the rebellion, and held a grand ceremony to sacrifice prisoners in the Taimiao, Li Yingyuan, Mao Chenglu two bandit chieftains Ling Chi to death, which is considered to be a shot in the arm for the empire that has been defeated in successive battles. However, the two prefectures of Denglai in the Ming Dynasty, the logistics training base of the Liaodong front, were smashed by the rebels, and also brought more than 100,000 kills and 300 miles of destruction to the Shandong region near Gyeonggi, and several imperial officials and a large number of local officials were killed. At the same time, neither of the two first perpetrators of the rebellion was caught. Although Kong Youde once captured many prefectures and counties in Dengzhou, he did not realize his idea of establishing himself as the king and fighting against the Ming Dynasty, and he eventually became a traitor and became a dog of the Manchus. The biggest winner was Manchuria, Huang Taiji finally got the coveted sophisticated Western artillery, Kong Youde brought at least twenty original Hongyi cannons from the Portuguese Macao Artillery Bureau, and no longer feared the Ming Dynasty's fortified cities, and they also got Kong Youde and other military technical talents who were directly taught by Portuguese military advisers, ammunition manufacturing techniques, aiming knowledge and instrument operation. Under the supplement of Kong Youde's rebels, the Han army flag of Tong Yang began to live up to its name, and Kong Youde's gold reduction led a group of people, and since then, more and more Ming generals have begun to reduce gold, while the national strength of the Ming Dynasty has been weakening

The history that should have happened did not happen, and it all benefited from Shi Dayong's gambler character. If it weren't for his desperate bet, Dengzhou wouldn't have won it so easily. Of course, it was not himself who succeeded Shi Dayong, but luck - when danger came, Kong Youde rushed to Laizhou with the main rebel force of Dengzhou.

Wang Bingzhong's would rather die than surrender brought some trouble to the Jinzhou army, but it was trouble, digging the way to use gunpowder to blow up the city wall was not Shi Dayong's idea, but the army's Pingdu rebel Wang Tieshi offered, and patted his chest to promise that it would be successful, because the rebels used this trick to blow up the city wall that day. After taking Shuicheng, Shi Dayong summoned Wang Tieshi, appointed him with the title of general, temporarily led a team of soldiers, and rewarded him with one hundred taels of silver.

The feeling of successfully taking Dengzhou is really wonderful, especially seeing the more than 1,000 war horses and the silver that can definitely dazzle people's eyes, as well as the coveted cannons and firearms, Dayong's heart is ecstatic or ecstatic.

If the goods and ordnance seized from Shahe and Pingdu made Dayong feel rich overnight, then the seizure in Dengzhou City made him the richest man in the Ming Dynasty.

Piles of gold and silver, piles of ordnance, and the ambition of the high-class war horse Dayong began to swell, and he was no longer satisfied with just a general who commanded thousands of men and horses, and he began to have the desire to defend one side and take charge alone.

The general soldier, the town of General Pei's seal, this is what Dayong wants!

Dayong believes that the great merit of capturing Dengzhou is enough to wash away his sins, but if he wants the Great Seal of the General Army, just one Dengzhou is not enough, if he can take the heads of Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng into Beijing, plus the merits of the great victory in Jinzhou, no matter how much the Son of Heaven blames himself, I am afraid that he will always reward the Great Seal of the General Army.

Cao Bianjiao suggested that the rebels in Laizhou should be attacked immediately, but Jiang Wanli and Song Qing disagreed, believing that Dengzhou had just been taken, and it was better to defend it first. There are still tens of thousands of rebel soldiers and horses outside Laizhou City, and the Jinzhou army is cutting-edge, but there are only more than 3,000 soldiers who can fight, and more than half of them are lucky to take Dengzhou. It is better to hold Dengzhou steadily, digest the spoils of war first, expand strength, rectify the city defense, and wait for the rebels to come and die.

The Jinzhou army is not those Dongjiang Liao soldiers, and Shi Dayong is not Sun Yuanhua, with those hundreds of cannons, Kong Youde just broke all his teeth, and he didn't want to enter the city.

Shi Dayong chose the suggestion of holding Dengzhou steadily, and the credit for killing Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng is tempting, but the comparison of strength should also be considered.

"Release hundreds of rebel family members to report to Kong Youde, and we will wait for him here in Dengzhou City."

After Dayong gave the order, he added another sentence: "Tell those Liao soldiers that if they want their families not to die, they will come to the general immediately within half a month, and as soon as the deadline expires, the general will kill people." ”

"On the Holy Shrine, news came from Laizhou, saying that Xie Lian was dead." In the Dongnuan Palace, after Wang Chengen cautiously reported the report, he glanced at the Shoufu Wen Tiren who was standing there.

When the young Son of Heaven heard the news, he was a little surprised, he looked up at this pet eunuch who had wanted to die with a rod of life, and asked in a low voice, "How did you die?" ”

"Suicide by hunger strike." Wang Chengen gritted his teeth.

Chongzhen was stunned, gritted his teeth, bit out two dimples on his cheeks, sighed, and said, "It's Zhang Chun again." Wen Tiren also sighed, and then said: "Your Majesty, Xie Lian and Zhu Wannian died for the country because Liu Yulie couldn't stay and Laizhou lost his aid. The minister thought that Liu Yulie was ordered to supervise the army, but he was sluggish, and there must be an article in it. ”

Hearing this, Chongzhen held back for a long time and said coldly: "He wants to caress him." His face changed, "Arrest Liu Yulie and go to prison!" Then he said, "Who can do it?" ”

Wen Tiren was happy in his heart, his face remained unchanged, and he said: "The minister thinks that Zhu Dadian, the governor of Shandong, can be replaced." ”

Chongzhen thought about it, after Zhu Dadian patrolled Shandong, the situation in Ludi was changed, Zhu Dadian was indeed a capable minister, so he nodded and said: "Okay, let Zhu Dadian act as Liu Yulie, be fully responsible, raise the salary of the hidden guardian, and tell them that I am already impatient, if they don't move again, do you want to tell me the good news of the loss of Laizhou, and let me surprise again!"

Chongzhen was angry, there was a report from the outside and inside the hall, and Xu Guangqi came. Chongzhen called Guangqi in, and after Guangqi entered the temple, he knocked on Sheng'an.

Chongzhen looked at him and said: "Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, and Li Zicheng broke into Henan from the south of Jincheng to conquer Xiuwu. Who can Lao Aiqing send? ”

Xu Guangqi thought for a while and said, "The minister recommends Zuo Liangyu." ”

"Zuo Liangyu?" Chongzhen pondered, this person first aided the Daling River, and then defended Jinzhou, all of which were meritorious, and Liaodong came to report that the first contributor to the Battle of Jinzhou should be Zuo Liangyu, whether this is true or not, it is not clear. But one thing can be understood, this Zuo Liangyu is indeed a capable person, and if he wants to save Henan, he will not make a mistake. Thinking of this, he nodded and said, "I want the military department to transfer Zuo Liangyu to Henan." ”