Since being besieged by Li Jiucheng, Laizhou City has become a lonely city by the sea, and the soldiers and civilians in the city have not been in contact with the outside world for nearly half a year.

Several collapses on the city wall that were blasted open by the rebels have been reinforced, but the tall city wall has been blasted into cracks, which makes people worry about it, and I don't know if this unbreakable fortress built by Wanli 26 and the city can really hold on to the last moment.

After a few years, the movement of the rebels was much quieter, and there was no other movement except for a few routine shots every few days. The ants are attached to the siege of the city, and the crazy act of taking human lives to fill it is no longer used. There are rumors that this is because the rebels want to accept the court's appeasement, but others say that this is because the imperial court's army is in Xiaoguanzhuang, a dozen miles away, so the rebels do not dare to attack the city with all their might.

What was the reason for the rebels' siege of the city to stop, the soldiers and civilians in Laizhou City ignored it, they only knew that they must not let those murderous rebels outside the city enter the city, otherwise the whole city would be in trouble.

With the siege for a long time, now in the city, even pedantic nerds know that they can't count on the imperial court, and those so-called reinforcements from Xiaoguanzhuang ten miles away are probably not here to rescue Laizhou, but to wait for Laizhou to fall! In this way, they can swagger back without dead people, and then tell the court that the city has been lost and cannot be saved.

The lonely city is dangerous, it is a person who does not want to stay here, there are still the warships of the sailors in Laizhou, when Lord Xu (Congzhi) was there, he planned to row the warships of the sailors to withdraw the soldiers and civilians in the city to Jinzhou on the other side of the sea, but unfortunately what Liu Shilang of the imperial court listened to the tricks of the rebels, sent the Tianjin sailors to surrender, and urged the Laizhou sailors to cooperate, but the original Dengzhou sailors, the current rebel sailors buried the buns, and the ships were all destroyed, so that the only sea passage between Laizhou and the outside world to keep the network was completely cut off. Now tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Laizhou can only resign themselves to fate, fortunately, there are grains and grass in the Liaodong military town piled up in the city, and they are not afraid of hunger, but no one can count how long they can hold it, but God blesses it, and the imperial court can really recruit the rebels

"Don't fall, don't cares, don't go, only fight to the death! The one who said to appease him, first asked the general if he would agree to the sword in his hand! ”

In the Yamen of the Laizhou Prefect, an angry young military general glared angrily at the two civil officials, one of his hands had already drawn half of the sword from his waist, and judging from that angry face, it seemed that he was really going to draw his sword and kill someone.

The two civil officials were not others, one was Zhang Guochen, the head of the Ministry of War, and the other was Qu Yiyang, the official of Shuntianfu, and this young military general was Yang Yufan, the general of Tongzhou who was ordered to reinforce Laizhou a few years ago.

Da Ming Wengui and Wu are cheap, Zhang Qu and both of them are Beijing officials, and they come to talk about the matter of appeasement on behalf of the governor Liu Yulie, and Liu Yulie is a messenger, so the two of them are also half angels, and this identity is that Xie Lian, the governor of Denglai, and Zhu Wannian, the prefect of Laizhou, dare not hold a little big in front of them.

Although Yang Yufan is the chief soldier, he is called Zhentai in the army, Qu Yiyang may not withdraw him, but Zhang Guochen's identity as the head of the military department can overwhelm him, even if he learns from Yuan Chonghuan to kill people like Yuan Chonghuan back then, I am afraid that he can also do it.

However, now that the two of them were threatened by Yang Yufan with a sword, they didn't dare to move at all, not even squeak, let alone jump up and shout, "Are you a scholar!" It can be known that this official can also kill! ”

The reason why the two of them are so aggrieved is very simple, because they really can't afford to offend this chief military officer who has only been established for a long time, to be precise, they can't afford to offend the dead Lao Tzu behind Yang Yufan - Yang Zhaoji!

Who is Yeung Siu-kee?

When today's son personally awarded the five flowers seal, the official brocade clothes and thousands of households, the governor of the five armies, the general, and the first product, after his death, he was posthumously awarded the Taifu Taishi, and the Son of Heaven personally proposed to call Yang Wuxiang "Wu Xiang"!

Before the Song Dynasty Yuqing fought in the south and the north, he made great contributions to the Great Song Dynasty, and was called "Wu Xiang" after his death, which shows that this "Wu Xiang" is not a military general who can be sealed, and Yang Zhaoji can be called "Wu Xiang", which shows the weight of his contributions during his lifetime.

Although Yang Zhaoji is dead now, his legacy is still there, and it still has weight in the mind of the Son of Heaven, otherwise Yang Yufan would not have become the chief soldier of a town at a young age, and he would still be in charge of the town in Gyeonggi. Of course, this Yang Yufan is not a gentleman who embroiders his legs, he purely relies on the merits of his father and ancestors to come to this chief military officer, he does have real skills, and he followed his father to rebel against the White Lotus, and he was also brave in front of the killing. Coupled with the Son of Heaven's recitation of Yang Zhaoji's merits, under the exceptional reuse, Yang Yufan became the youngest chief military officer in the Ming Dynasty.

Yang Yufan led his 6,000 Tongzhou soldiers to Laizhou in October last year, and it took him only half a month from receiving the order to arriving in Laizhou.

The reason why Yang Yufan worked so hard to reinforce Laizhou was actually related to his father, because this Denglai Second Land was the town guard with the title of Shandong Commander-in-Chief and Right Governor after Yang Zhaoji pacified the Shandong Rebellion, and Yang Yufan also served as the garrison of Laizhou. With this layer of incense, it is not surprising that Yang Yufan works so hard, under his command, Laizhou has been able to hold out until now, and it is also a resolute main battle faction, and he is sneering at the so-called appeasement. After Xu Congzhi died in battle, Xie Lian and Zhu Wannian knew that they did not know anything about military affairs, so they handed over the defense of Laizhou to Yang Yufan.

Xie Lian and Zhu Wannian are also the main battle rejection faction, before Xu Congzhi died, Xie Lian and he each had a note, explaining to the court that the rebels were not credible and the harm of appeasement, but these two notes were sunk into the sea, and no news came. And the long-awaited reinforcements were shucked back in the small official tun more than ten miles away, and the last thing to come was the two "angels" in front of them, who could be said to be escorted into the city by the rebels, and they were also very sad about this, but they didn't dare to have the same seizure as Yang Yufan.

Yang Yufan's "Don't surrender, don't care, don't go, only fight to the death" is also the voice of Xie Zhu and the others, they must not surrender to the rebels, nor appease them, let alone leave the city, the only way for the army and people in the city is to fight to the death!

Only in the fight to the death can there be a glimmer of life in Laizhou!

Zhang Guochen and Qu Yiyang were shocked by Yang Yufan's ferocity for a while, and the former cast a plea of help at Xie Lian. Xie Lian pretended not to see him, Zhang Guochen coughed, and he ignored it.

Zhu Wannian also lowered his head, and he didn't mean to persuade at all. Seeing this, Zhang Guochen and Qu Yiyang could only secretly scold the Laizhou officials for not knowing about things, and when they returned, they would definitely tell the governor and Gao Gonggong to know, so that they could be treated. However, now, the two of them can only swallow this breath, Yang Yufan is young and vigorous, he is a stunned young man, and there is a dead man who follows him, but he can't help it.

"Lord Futai died for this Laizhou City, can't we die for this Laizhou! The advocates regard the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians as child's play, and Yang categorically refuses! If you know each other, go back quickly, otherwise, don't blame Yang for being rude."

Yang Yufan hated and hated, the more he looked at Zhang Qu and the others, the more angry they became, and he couldn't wait to step forward and kick the two out of the yamen now. The Lord Futai in his mouth refers to Xu Congzhi, the governor of Shandong, who was shot and killed by rebel artillery at the head of the city.

Being bullied in public by a military general, and still a young general, Zhang Guochen finally couldn't help it, slapped the table and got up and shouted: "Yang Yufan, this official is here on behalf of Governor Liu, and the matter of appeasement is the order of the governor himself, do you want to disobey the order!" ”

Yang Yufan snorted, and shouted-for-tat: "What Governor Liu, Yang only has the Son of Heaven in his eyes!" If the Son of Heaven wants to caress him, please take out the holy decree, as long as there is a holy decree, Yang will definitely obey his fate, if not, then Yang will not talk nonsense! ”

"You!"

Zhang Guochen was stunned, Yang Yufan's words hit his weak ribs, this matter of appeasement is indeed not agreed by the Son of Heaven, where did he get the holy decree.

Xie Lian and Zhu Wannian also looked moved, one looked at Zhang Guochen with deep meaning, and the other looked out as if nothing happened.

I came to this dangerous place to climb Lai, just to get rich and rich, seeing that this wealth was about to arrive, but a martial artist appeared out of the sky to block it, seeing that Xie Lian and Zhu Wannian were no longer willing to cooperate, how willing Qu Yiyang was. However, when Yang Yufan said that he wanted to kill people, Qu Yiyang didn't dare to say more to him, but got up and said to Xie Lian and Zhu Wannian: "Two adults, Li Jiucheng has sent a letter to the Shudu Hall, as long as the two adults go out of the city to surrender in person, he will immediately lead his troops to surrender, this great achievement, don't you want the two?" ”

Without waiting for Xie Lian and Zhu Wannian to speak, Yang Yufan sneered and scolded: "What goes out of the city and surrenders, it is clearly a thief's trick, can't you see it!" Once the two adults go out of the city, they will not return, you are going to trap the two adults to death, and you want to give Laizhou to the rebels, hum, what a courtier did! ”

Qu Yiyang was about to refute in a hurry, but Zhang Guochen was in front of him, and shouted angrily to Yang Yufan: "Li Jiucheng has already surrendered, and the court naturally wants to be appeased, is it the courtiers who sit and watch them poison the place and harm the people?" After speaking, he took out a letter and handed it directly to Xie Lian, "Lord Xie, this is a letter from the governor, and I also ask your lord to surrender for the people of Denglai to go out of the city." ”

Xie Lian took the letter, glanced at it, sighed, handed the letter to Zhu Wannian, and after he read it, he asked directly: "Henan, what do you think?" ”

After Zhu Wannian saw it, he was stunned, and said with a wry smile: "What does the lower official think, Lord Futai has decided that the lower official is the official of Laizhou's parents, and the protection of the territory and the people is a matter of oneself, as long as the people can be protected, the lower official will never complain even if he goes to the sword mountain and the sea of fire." After a pause, he said very generously: "Born as a strange man, died as a fierce husband, my generation should not be like this!" ”