Shandong governor Yamen is located in Jinan, after the Wu Bridge Incident of Kong Youde, Governor Yu Dacheng was burdened by Denglai Sun Yuanhua, delayed the opportunity to counter-insurgency, resulting in the rebels all the way to Dengzhou City unhindered, as a result, Dengzhou City was broken by the Son of Heaven to escort into Beijing, the end is either to kill the head or to fill the army. If you say that he is wronged, you will be wronged, and if you say no, he will not be wronged.

When Yuan Chonghuan was imprisoned, he once went to see Liang Tingdong, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and asked him: "The soldiers are under the city, and they destroy the Great Wall, how can it be calculated?" ”

Shi Yu Dacheng was only a member of the Ministry of War, but he questioned the official of the Ministry of War like this, and he had a lot of courage, and Liang Tingdong, who was a senior officer, was naturally displeased with such a subordinate, and said angrily: "This is the intention." ”

After hearing this sentence "this is the intention", Yu Dacheng, who dared to speak out, was dumbfounded, and he had nothing to say, he was afraid. This is the biggest weakness of his character - courage but not long-lasting.

After Kong Youde's rebellion, Yu Dacheng initially advocated extermination, and dispatched troops, but after being defeated by Kong Youde hundreds of people, he lost the courage to continue fighting, and instead advocated appeasement with Sun Yuanhua, and strictly forbade fighting with the rebels, and was ridiculed as the "White Lotus Governor's Yuan", and finally became a prisoner with Sun Yuanhua because of the fall of Dengcheng.

Zhu Dadian, who succeeded Yu Dacheng, was born as a jinshi, and this person was also a very courageous person. Later, he became the deputy envoy of Fujian according to the procuratorate, and made meritorious contributions to resisting the intrusion of the Dutch "red hair", and was promoted to the right political secretary of Fujian.

To a certain extent, Zhu Dadian and Yu Dacheng's experiences are very similar, both of them have been fearless of the powerful, have spoken out, and have also experienced military affairs. The difference is that Zhu Dadian has really made military merits and commanded battles, but Yu Dacheng has never really commanded troops on paper.

Therefore, after Zhu Dadian arrived in Shandong, although the situation still did not improve, and most of the eastward division of northeastern Shandong was captured by the rebels, but on the whole, it protected the gateway to Shandong. He personally led the Lu soldiers and Zhejiang soldiers to defend in Dezhou, choking the throat of the rebels' march to Shandong, so that no matter how rampant the rebels were, they could only be confined to Denglai, a palm-sized place, and did nothing.

You must know that Ludi has never been rich, although it is the hometown of saints, but Shandong Province is ranked behind in the ranking of two capitals and eighteen provinces in the country. Ludi is in the middle of the north and south, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, it has not been taken seriously. Even if there is a turmoil in Ludi, the soldiers and horses of the north and south can be calmed down in an instant. In the past, there have been several White Lotus uprisings in Shandong, but they were all extinguished without leaving Shandong. The position of the chief military officer of Shandong was also set up during the Apocalypse, and before that, the head of Shandong's military generals was only a general. Moreover, the Denglai Second Mansion in Shandong has a separate governor, and there is more room for coastal areas, and the Ming Dynasty is not heavy on the land but not on the sea, so the coastal land is not so heavy. Therefore, this Shandong governor is not a fat man, and there are not many soldiers and horses in the province, but if something happens, this Shandong governor is the first to be questioned.

Zhu Dadian didn't want to come to Shandong, but if the Son of Heaven wanted him to come, he could only come. When Zhi Lu Dao was named by the Son of Heaven as the governor of Shandong, Zhu Dadian knew that he knew that Lu Dao was provoked by Gao Qi, and the purpose of Eunuch Gao asking him to come to Shandong was nothing more than to cooperate with him Eunuch Gao to show his face well, in the inner court and the outer court, and grow a long face in front of the emperor.

After arriving in Shandong, Zhu Dadian was worthy of the post of governor, if he hadn't adjusted in time, maybe this Ludi would have fallen into the hands of the rebels because of Yu Dacheng's blind command. After Gao Qiqian supervised the Jingying and Jizhen soldiers and horses arrived, Zhu Dadian also adjusted the deployment in a timely manner, changed the previous tactics of focusing on defense, and selected elite soldiers and strong generals to prepare to cooperate with Gao Qiqian's soldiers and horses on the North Road, one to attack Laizhou and the other to Dengzhou, completely dividing the rebels, so that they could not take care of the head and tail, and then they were calmed down.

As soon as the Spring Festival passed, Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian exchanged letters, all of which were about how to enter and suppress Kong Youde, but they did not mention much about the Jinzhou army that was transferred from Jinzhou thousands of miles away and under his command. But when he learned that Liu Yulie, the squire of the military department, was already on his way south and was in contact with the rebels in Laizhou to appease him, Zhu Dadian suspended preparations for the attack and also waited and watched in Dezhou.

In fact, Zhu Dadian was opposed to making peace with Kong Youde, but now that the Donglin Party of the imperial court is in charge, as a member of Donglin, it is impossible for him to hold dissenting opinions, so he can only be consistent with the DPRK and China. Besides, the attack on the rebels must be coordinated by a large army with high potential, otherwise, it will be difficult for him to attack alone.

Speaking from his heart, how Zhu Dadian didn't want to make great contributions, but he knew that although he was the governor of Shandong and the highest official in charge of the Denglai chaos at the moment, most of the soldiers who could fight were in Gao Qiqian's hands. The imperial court not only gave the Beijing battalion soldiers to Gao Qiqian, but also transferred soldiers and horses from Jizhen for the first time, and also gave the cavalry spelled out by the ancestral family in Liaodong to Gao Eunuch, and also transferred the Sichuan soldiers from Henan to Gao Qiqian, so that Gao Qiqian's soldiers and horses have tens of thousands, plus the Jingying Shenji Battalion that is coming, in terms of strong soldiers and strong horses, who can be in the limelight with his high eunuch.

Looking at his Shandong side, in addition to 2,000 Zhejiang soldiers and 4,000 Lu soldiers who can barely fight, what other soldiers and horses are there?

There are one or two thousand people under the garrisons of each province, and all of them are transferred to Texas, and they can also get together more than 10,000 people, but they can all be transferred to Texas, and they don't want other places? If there is another wind and grass, then Shandong will be completely lost.

Zhu Dadian didn't dare to take this risk, and it was impossible to take this risk. Who are Kong Youde's rebels? Those are all outlaws who lick blood on the knife edge, and they have competed with Jiannu with Mao Wenlong back then. Compared with these outlaws, the abundant guards in Ludi can't put it up, so it is better to let them fight the rebels than to let them hide in the city and wave their flags.

On the ninth day of the first month of March, Zhu Dadian suddenly received an urgent report from Changyi - the prefect Lu Xiong and the garrison Peng Taizhong were ambushed by the rebels, and all the more than 600 defenders of Changyi Mansion were killed. Now the city gate of Changyi City has been closed, but except for dozens of officials in the city, there is not a single soldier. The situation is extremely urgent, and I ask the governor to send troops to rescue him quickly, otherwise Changyi will not be protected!

After receiving this urgent report, Zhu Dadian gasped in shock - where did the rebels in Changyi come from?!

Changyi is less than forty miles away from Dezhou, and it can be said that it is under the nose of Dezhou, and the rebels popped up at this time, and the shock to Zhu Dadian can be imagined. He couldn't figure it out when he scratched his head, why did the rebels appear in Changyi?