The Wuqiao Mutiny should never have happened, at least not with serious consequences. The reason why it was out of control when I went to Zuihou was that the biggest responsibility was on the local government.

When the killings took place, it became clear that Kong Youde's control over the army was very weak. Local officials should have taken responsibility immediately and at least ordered Kong's army to speed up to prevent the situation from deteriorating.

At the same time, local officials should also report to the imperial court in a timely manner, ask the court officials who understand the affairs to preside over the situation, and contact Kong Youde's superior, Sun Yuanhua, to help Kong Youde stabilize the morale of the army, and find out the murderers again, on the one hand, to correct military law, and on the other hand, to stabilize the troops. That's the right thing to do.

Anyway, it's too late to say anything now, Kong Youde's army happened in Wuqiao...... Let's call it a mutiny for now. Of course, at this time, this army also considered itself to be just a mutiny.

Mutinies in the Ming Dynasty army are not uncommon, but most of the mutinies in other Ming armies are due to unpaid wages or unfair bosses, but this Ming army was forced to mutiny by the local gentry and people, so this reason is unique in the Ming Dynasty.

But we have to know that Kong Youde's expenditure is the characteristics of the Ming army in Dongjiang Town. They basically fought with the Houjin army for a long time, and their combat effectiveness was second to none in the Ming army.

The more important characteristic of this Ming army is that they have rich experience in fighting guerrillas in the rear of the Later Jin. In other words, they are professional sabotage armies, and if they do, they will be even more ferocious than the most ferocious bandits.

And the preparations for the mutiny of this Ming army were also very hasty, or there was no preparation at all. And Li Jiucheng and these officers did not think about how to act after the mutiny. They are just hot-headed, and now they want to kill all the local gentry and people who have bullied and mocked them these days.

So, when Li Jiucheng and the others rushed out of the camp, they immediately swept away the people who were watching the excitement around them, and then they rushed to the gentry's house where they clashed, and killed the gentry's whole family.

It should be said that by this time, Li Jiucheng should have vented the evil anger in their hearts. But the bestiality of this Ming army has already come up. There was no need for much agitation, and they immediately pointed at Wuqiao County.

The county seat of Wuqiao was defenseless, and without much effort, this Ming army broke the county seat. That night, the entire county town of Wuqiao immediately became a hell on earth. And those local officials in Wuqiao were also killed by this mutinous Ming army. Those officials just wanted to die in the underworld and ask for money, but they didn't even think that they wouldn't even be able to collect paper money in the underworld!

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No matter how Kong Youde behaves as an ostrich, he also knows that he will definitely not be able to get out of this mutiny. So in the early morning of the next day, Kong Youde, who wanted to understand, led the people who stayed in the camp, and all his own soldiers also rushed to Wuqiao County.

After arriving at the county office, Kong Youde asked his own soldiers to clean up the corpse of the county office, and then immediately sent his own soldiers to summon the officers scattered all over the county to the county office.

After a while, these officers came to the county office in high spirits. They seem to be still in the carnival of last night, greeting each other after meeting, exchanging with each other the harvest of last night's robbery and the experience of the maiden.

An officer also smiled and said to Kong Youde: "Brother Kong, I also left a few women for you!" You're ...... tonight."

Kong Youde immediately interrupted the officer's words, and he shouted, "Be quiet!" Be quiet! Don't talk about how soft and white the girls are. Ninety percent of you say, what did you do to those officials last night? ”

"Kill them all!" Li Jiucheng replied indifferently, "They have bullied the brothers so badly, what are they doing with them?" ”

"You're ......!" Kong Youde was choked to death by Li Jiucheng's bold words. Those officers under his command may not understand, but Kong Youde quite understands: if his army mutinies, if he only kills a few common people and gentry, it is not impossible to recover. But if you kill a civil official, it will not be a mutiny, and it will be a clear rebellion.

"That's it! The brethren were rejoicing. So let's talk about it, what should we do next? How can we, the 1,200 brothers, make a way out of our lives? Kong Youde didn't dwell on anything at this time, he decided to face reality!

"This!?" Kong Youde's words calmed down the officers at once. It was only after this impulse that the officers realized that the prospects for their own people were quite unpleasant.

Kong Youde and the others are only 1,200 people, and they are in the hinterland where they are not familiar with their lives, and there is no way to rush through the heavily garrisoned city and return to Dongjiang Town in Liaodong. Only then did they realize that before they knew it, they were still on a dead end.

Seeing that the officers present were silent, Li Jiucheng's mind was still spinning fast, and he said to Kong Youde: "Brother Kong." You don't have to hide and pinch it, you take the lead, what should you do in the future? We brothers listen to you. ”

"There is no need to lead or not lead. Whatever is there, we brothers have discussed and done. Kong Youde said politely, "Now that this is the case, there is only one way." ”

"If it were just us, it wouldn't end well. At least our sons can surrender to the court, but these few of us here will definitely not be able to keep their heads. ”

"If you want to live, you can only make trouble, and make trouble in the big way. Expand our strength, take a few more cities, and better defeat one or two armies of the imperial court. In this way, the court can see our strength, and we can ask Lord Sun to express his determination to be appeased to the court, then our brothers may still be saved. ”

Those officers listened to Kong Youde's words and really felt justified. Therefore, they immediately made up their minds to make this mutiny first in Dali.

You must know that Kong Youde is a cavalry general, and he only leads cavalry and light infantry teams. In addition to sending Kong Youde's army, Sun Yuanhua also sent a heavy artillery unit, which was stationed in Xincheng, dozens of miles behind Kong Youde's army.

Of course, the officers and soldiers of the heavy artillery unit were also the Ming army of Dongjiang Town, Liaodong, Kong Youde immediately sent people to contact this heavy artillery unit, and it was no surprise that the heavy artillery unit also joined the mutiny.

And what is the origin of Kong Youde, the officers of Dongjiang Town? They were all Mao Wenlong's subordinates before. Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang Town has grown from a few hundred people to tens of thousands in a few years, and this plan of expanding the army must be handy.

So Kong Youde opened the prison in Wuqiao County, collected some local outlaws and local ruffians, plus Kong Youde distributed grain, Shandong also suffered a severe drought year after year, and a large number of displaced people took refuge. Kong Youde's shili immediately inflated like a balloon.

Next, Kong Youde turned around and entered the southwest region of Lu. They successively captured many prefectures and counties in Lingxian, Linyi, and Shanghe, and plundered them in southwestern Shandong, and these soldiers officially became bandits. And Kong Youde's army also swelled to more than 5,000 people.

The southwest region of Shandong is already very close to Jinan, the capital of Shandong. In addition, the area where Kong Youde was active was near the South Canal, so it was certainly impossible for the imperial court and the Shandong government to be indifferent to Kong Youde's army.

In a hurry, Yu Dacheng, the governor of Shandong, collected more than 8,000 Ming troops and Caoyun troops near Jinan to exterminate Kong Youde's army. At this time, Yu Dacheng thought that Kong Youde only had nearly 2,000 people, and he didn't know the true strength of Kong Youde's army.

And Kong Youde's army is quite strong in combat. Not to mention that his core 2,000 people are all battle-hardened veterans, just look at the equipment given to them by firearms expert Sun Yuanhua!

There are more than 90 Western cannons and medium guns, more than 100 eagle guns, more than 1,000 bird guns, and the gunners are also equipped with handguns, so that almost one firearm per person has reached one firearm. For more melee combat, each soldier is equipped with a sharp Japanese sword.

In terms of firepower of this army, it may be a little worse than Wu Shigong's army. In terms of the number of firearms they owned, they were also far ahead of the whole Shijie army at that time.

Therefore. The outcome of this battle is beyond doubt. It didn't take much effort at all, Kong Youde defeated the Ming army.

And then there's the ripple effect. Although Kong Youde's army was still operating in the vicinity of Jinan Prefecture, the rout, the exiles, the bandits, and the instigation of the White Lotus Sect, which would never settle down in Shandong, immediately spread along the canal to the entire territory of Shandong.

And because of the defeat of the Ming army, Jinan City immediately closed the city gate to defend it strictly, and they sent messengers to the capital to report the news of Kong Youde's mutiny to the imperial court, but they also didn't care about other areas of Shandong at all.

The local government in other parts of Shandong saw the turmoil outside the city, and all kinds of rumors came out, and there was no order from the higher-level government, so the entire Shandong government was immediately in a semi-paralyzed state.

After the imperial court received the news of the mutiny of Kong Youde's army, it thought that this was not a big deal, because in the face of the mutiny of the army, the ministers of the entire Ming Dynasty court had become skilled workers.

In addition, the first assistant Zhou Yanru knew that Kong Youde was Sun Yuanhua's person, and in order to keep his henchman, he proposed to Emperor Chongzhen to appease Kong Youde's army.

Therefore, the imperial court ordered the governors of Shandong and Denglai to quickly resolve the matter, and according to the experience of the imperial court, as long as the food and wages were sufficient and the responsibility was not pursued, the mutiny should be resolved quickly.

However, this order made the Shandong Ming army, which had gathered again to exterminate Kong Youde, at a loss, so they had to hesitate to stay where they were, watching the situation in Shandong deteriorate step by step.

And our protagonist Wu Shigong didn't know this situation at this time. He was still racking his brains about how to escape from Liaodong, and he had no idea that he would encounter this war inexplicably when he went north.

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