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The powder keg lit by the gamblers shook Gyeonggi, shook the Gyeongshi, and shook the Ming Dynasty!

A mutiny broke out in such a close place to Gyeonggi, and the mutiny was still carried out by the Dongjiang Liao soldiers, who were able to resist the Dongyu, and the government and the opposition were shocked when they heard it. After receiving the report, Emperor Chongzhen urgently ordered Shandong and Denglai to quickly resolve the matter.

Most of the Liao troops in Dongjiang were outlaws, most of them were homeless and homeless, and since they rebelled, they naturally risked their lives to fight for wealth and wealth. Under the command of Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng, the rebels swept through southwest Lu, captured Lingxian, Linyi, Shanghe and other prefectures and counties all the way, and defeated the soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp from the direction of the Beijing Division, and then the troops pointed directly at their hometown - Denglai!

Sun Yuanhua, who had just solved the mutiny on Phi Island with food, received the news of Kong Youde's rebellion in Wuqiao, but he did not panic, in his opinion, the Liao army made trouble just because there was no food, so he did this foolish thing with a brain fever, as long as he knew that he was strong, and then the food and salary were sufficient, and the responsibility of the leader was not investigated, this mutiny would be solved quickly.

However, Yu Dacheng, who was the governor of Shandong at the time, did not agree with Sun Yuanhua's opinion, he believed that most of the Liao army were outlaws, and now they should be eliminated immediately, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable. To this end, he prepared to personally lead a thousand Lu army Jing Rui, and two thousand Zhejiang army Jing Rui transferred from Henan to suppress it, Yi Yu to nip this rebellion in the bud.

Yu Dacheng's proposition was supported by Zhang Keda, the commander-in-chief of Denglai. Zhang Keda knew the Liao army very well, and knew that they could be soldiers or bandits, and their combat effectiveness was far superior to that of the Hebei garrison. Therefore, he immediately reorganized his soldiers and horses, and prepared to attack Kong Youde's rebels with Yu Dacheng's soldiers and horses, and wiped them out in the Qingzhou area, so as not to make them flee to the Denglai area, so as not to echo the old Liao Town in the east and get out of control.

However, Sun Yuanhua, who was full of anger, insisted that Kong Youde's troops were all strong troops in Liaozhen, and they were inseparable from them to fight the Eastern Captives, and if they were exterminated, the loss would be the strength of the country. And Kong Youde and others returned to Denglai, they were under his command, and they were also the only soldiers and horses under his command who could take out their hands. Out of this thought, Sun Yuanhua ignored the opposition of Yu Dacheng and Zhang Keda, and strongly advocated the appeasement of Kong Youde's department.

For this reason, on the one hand, he dissuaded Yu Dacheng and asked his Lu army not to go eastward, and on the other hand, he ordered Zhang Keda not to pursue Kong Youde's rebels, and even sent a message to the Zhejiang soldiers who came from Henan to reinforce them, asking them to stay in place and not have to go to Denglai to suppress thieves

Sun Yuanhua's stupid behavior won Kong Youde a respite, so that he easily occupied Hebei Prefecture, and coerced tens of thousands of Hebei civilians along the way, numbering 100,000 people, arrogant, and more rampant than when the incident first started.

All signs show that Kong Youde, who has become a wing, can no longer be appeased by the imperial court, but Sun Yuanhua still did not give up the illusion of appeasement, and he issued an order to the Hebei garrison without authorization behind Yu Dacheng's back, asking the garrison of Wuqiao to Dengzhou and Yizhou not to send troops to block Kong Youde, and let him return east.

Kong Youde also seemed to have received Kong Yuanhua's kindness, and although he still looted all the way, he still returned in the direction of Dengzhou. Along the way, because the prefectures and counties were ordered and the garrison was weak, they did not dare to intercept it, so they could only honestly give way to the passage for Kong Youde's department to pass.

Among them, Kong Youdebu once entered the ambush circle of the local garrison, and because there was no order to attack, the garrison did not dare to move lightly, resulting in Kong Bu escaping safely, thus missing the best opportunity to annihilate the rebels after the rebellion began.

When Kong Youde led his troops all the way east to Laizhou Mansion, Zhu Wancheng, the prefect of Laizhou, who had a very close relationship with Kong Youde before, closed the city gate tightly and did not let Kong Youde enter the city, only letting Kong Bei go around the city and go to Dengzhou to be appeased.

Zhu Wancheng relied on his understanding of Kong Youde and the Liao army, and firmly believed that Kong Youde would not be sincerely appeased, and he would definitely come to Denglai to surrender by fraud.

His worries are exactly what Kong Youde thinks. However, Laizhou City is a new city that was rebuilt in the 26th year of Wanli, the city wall is nine miles around, three zhang and five feet high, and the base is two zhang and four feet thick. Moreover, it refers to the Western city construction method, has a fort, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and as a logistics base in Liaodong, the grain and grass in Laizhou City, the weapons are very sufficient, although there are fewer artillery, and there are not many soldiers who know how to make artillery, but under Zhu Wannian's strict deployment, the defense of Laizhou City is still orderly and heavily guarded.

The soldiers and civilians in the city relied on the fortified city to defend it, and for Kong Youde, who lacked siege equipment, if he forcibly attacked the city, then it would only be a nightmare.

Kong Youde is self-aware, although his subordinates claim to be 100,000 people, most of them are civilians who are coerced and cannot be used at all. The core of the main force is only the 800 Liao soldiers, and once they attack, they will inevitably suffer heavy casualties, so that the morale of the army will be lost, and they will no longer be able to succeed. Therefore, after discussing with Li Jiucheng and Li Yingyuan's father and son, Kong Youde made an order to enter Dengzhou

Dengzhou City is not easy to fight, and compared to Laizhou City, Dengzhou Shou seems to be more difficult to fight. Because this Dengzhou city began to be built from the Tianshun period, three sides are built according to the mountain cliffs by the sea, this is the heavy port of the naval division, and in the Wanli period, it is a military port for the defense of the east neighbor, and there are naval warships of the Ming Dynasty moored in the harbor.

Just last month, the king of Joseon gave the Ming 40 warships, which Sun Wonhwa received in his capacity as governor of Denglai and moored them in a military port outside the city. This means that once Kong Youde attacks Dengzhou, he will be counterattacked by both land and water.

Moreover, at this time, the defenders in Dengcheng were also much stronger than Kong Youde's rabble. There were three defenders in the city, one was 1,800 Zhejiang soldiers led by Zhang Keda, the general soldier of Dengzhou; the second is the Portuguese officer corps invited by Sun Yuanhua from Macao to teach the Ming army to make Western firearms; The third is the Dongjiang Liao soldier who was from the same background as Kong Youde's rebels. Therefore, whether it is from the city defense facilities or the quality of the soldiers, Dengzhou can be described as impregnable.

But even if Kong Youde's rebels killed all the way to Dengzhou, everyone thought that Kong Youde was coming for Dengzhou City, not to be appeased, but Sun Yuanhua, as the governor, still did not come to his senses, and he still did not give up the idea of appeasing Kong Youde.

Sun Yuanhua's stupid behavior undoubtedly restrained his own hands and feet, so that he did not dare to let go and fight resolutely against Kong Youde's rebels. After Zhang Keda's Zhejiang soldiers went out of the city to fight and tasted some victories, Sun Yuanhua ordered a truce and prepared to appease Kong Youde again.

But Kong Youde did not appreciate it, he seized the opportunity to counterattack and defeat Zhang Keda's Zhejiang soldiers, and also captured a lot of Liao soldiers in Dengzhou City, and used these Liao soldiers to send a message to the Liao army in the city, asking them to respond to the uprising, so that the Liao army in the city suddenly began to show signs of instability.

What is unexpected is that Sun Yuanhua's way to deal with the instability of the Liao army was to release Geng Zhongming, a general who was imprisoned because of his younger brother's participation in the Pidao Pi Rebellion.

After releasing Geng Zhaoming to lead the Liao army despite the opposition of the commander-in-chief Zhang Keda and the Portuguese officers, Sun Yuanhua once again ascended to the top of the city, looking at Kong Youde, who had set up a camp tent for several miles outside the city, and sighed.

However, when he saw the sudden launch of dozens of two-wheeled vehicles loaded with artillery in the rebel camp, he immediately complained bitterly, because those gunners were the new firearms army that he had personally trained and was ready to turn the tide when the Liao situation was critical!

Sun Yuanhua was the initiator of the Liao people's strategy of defending the Liao soil, and he valued the locals of Liaodong very much, so that Mao Wenlong's subordinates, who were beheaded by Yuan Chonghuan, took refuge in him one after another in a desperate situation. After recruiting tens of thousands of fierce Liao soldiers, Sun Yuanhua hired Portuguese officers and artillery experts from Macao to train them in the use of Western-style weapons.

The Liao army is actually a recruit, and the cold climate has created a brave and rough folk customs. After Manchuria invaded most of Liaodong, it implemented a barbaric national oppression policy, and almost all of the Han people became slaves and serfs, so the Han people in Liaodong had a bitter hatred for Manchuria!

Courage and hatred can make the best warriors, and the land of Liaodong is fertile and suitable for tuntian, and it can solve part of the army's supply by itself, which is why Sun Yuanhua first proposed, Yuan Chonghuan relied on, and Sun Chengzong strongly promoted the strategy of guarding the Liao land with the Liao people and raising the Liao people with the Liao land.

The conscription of Liao people to fight as soldiers, the raising of troops in the Liao region, and the use of war to support the war, turned the war that originally required the general mobilization of the whole country into a war of partial mobilization, and even if the situation is stalemate, the impact on the whole country will be greatly reduced.

Sun Yuanhua and his teacher Xu Guangqi's idea was to train a new army, like Qi Jiguang back then, although the number of people is not necessarily large, but the equipment is well-trained and can turn the tide for the empire at a critical moment.

When the teachers and students were distressed by this wonderful idea and had no soldiers, Yuan Chonghuan sent them a large number of Dongjiang Liao soldiers. Under the command of Mao Wenlong, the Dongjiang Liao soldiers fought hundreds of battles against Manchuria, which can be described as a strong force in a hundred battles, and with Manchuria a deep enmity in the sea of blood, it is undoubtedly the best source of troops to realize the ambitions of teachers and students.

Overjoyed, Sun Yuanhua and Xu Guangqi immediately took in these Liao soldiers who had escaped from the Dongjiang River and incorporated them into the Denglai army. The structure of the army has also been changed from the guard system to the battalion system, with 4,000 people in each battalion, including 2,000 combat troops, 2,000 logistics personnel (also combat troops when the battle is fierce), equipped with 120 two-wheeled vehicles, 120 artillery vehicles, and 60 grain trucks, a total of 300 vehicles.

Each battalion is also equipped with 16 Western cannons, 80 medium guns, 100 eagle guns, 1200 bird guns, and the gunners are also equipped with handguns, so that almost everyone has one firearm, it can be said that Sun Yuanhua has walked in the forefront of this era, and the Liao army he is equipped with is the most powerful firearms corps in this era only in terms of equipment!

Xu Guangqi even proudly thought that there were not many such troops, and if the fourth or fifth battalions were achieved, there would be no need to worry about the safety of the Guannei; If you achieve the Ten Battalions, you don't have to be afraid of the power outside the Guan; If you achieve the fifteenth battalion, you don't have to worry about recovering the lost land.

However, after all, Sun Yuanhua and Xu Guangqi were both literati, and they knew too little about being soldiers, and even less about the Dongjiang Liao army that had taken refuge in them.

They didn't know that many of the Liao troops under the command of Mao Wenlong were pirates and prisoners, and although they were all outlaws when they started fighting, they were morally low and full of banditry, and although they fought bravely, they were still an army of soldiers and bandits in their bones.

Every more conceit is a scholar!

Today, Sun Yuanhua is going to reap the consequences of his stupidity!

The firearms battalion that was built by him and spent a lot of money was slowly advanced step by step towards the Dengzhou city wall under the command of the rebel general Kong Youde.

Dengzhou is in a hurry!