At this time, Geng Zhongming, the second person among the Liao soldiers and Kong Youde, who was also called the "Shandong Three Mine Disciples", was being confined and isolated in Dengzhou City, because his younger brother participated in the second Phidao Mutiny not long ago.

Because it was the time to employ people, Sun Yuanhua asked Geng Zhongming to make meritorious contributions. But what Sun Yuanhua didn't expect was that Kong Youde had already let the Liao soldiers in Dengzhou surrender, and sneaked back to Dengzhou with Zhang Keda's defeated troops to plot against Geng Zhongming.

On the night of the Spring Festival in the fifth year of Chongzhen, the Liao army officers Geng Zhongming and Chen Guangfu opened the city gate from the inside, and the rebels swarmed in from the east gate of Dengzhou, and the city of Dengzhou fell.

There is a saying that a strong fortress is always breached from within, and it is true. After the fall of Dengzhou, the general soldier Zhang Keda committed suicide and martyrdom.

On the one hand, he was a Confucian student, and Confucian education required him to sacrifice his life for righteousness, and at the same time he was a Catholic, and Catholicism required him to cherish himself and not harm himself. So Sun Yuanhua chose to kill himself but did not die, he was rescued.

In addition, a large number of officials such as Penglai County Commander, Senate, General Soldier, and General were also captured at the same time. The army in the city also joined the rebels, and the total number of rebels reached more than 30,000 at once.

It is worth mentioning the Portuguese officer corps. After the rebels entered the city, they put up fierce resistance. Head Coach Xi Teixeira? Correa and twelve other Portuguese officers were killed in battle, and the rest were all captured.

Unfortunately, however, the vast majority of the firearms units trained by the Portuguese officer corps surrendered and joined the rebels. This greatly increased the firepower of the entire rebel army.

In Dengzhou City, which is the logistics base of the front line in Liaodong, materials are piled up. Kong Youde's rebels captured a total of 3,000 horses, more than 100,000 taels of silver, more than 20 Hongyi cannons, 300 Western cannons, and the rest of the firearms and armor battles.

And in the water city, a large number of warships fell into the hands of the rebels. In particular, not long ago, the 40 warships that the king of Joseon gave to Sun Yuanhua were also moored in the harbor at this time, and all of them happened to be laughed at by the rebels.

And next, it is the purge of the residents of Dengzhou City. All the belongings of the inhabitants were plundered by the rebels. Then, the rebels drove the inhabitants of the city outside the east gate and slaughtered tens of thousands of civilians.

Except for some scum in Dengzhou City who joined the rebels, all the residents of Dengzhou City were swept away except for a few thousand young women who were used as military prostitutes and some captives with status.

The rebellion went so smoothly that the ambitions of Kong Youde, the generals of Dongjiang Town, immediately swelled to the point of no return.

Kong Youde and other generals of Dongjiang Town were still grateful for Sun Yuanhua's acceptance and support at that time. However, it is not known how much water there is in this grateful heart.

So Kong Youde first asked Sun Yuanhua to be the eldest brother in the lead, leading them to rebel and establish his own regime. Of course, this request was sternly rejected by Sun Yuanhua. However, remembering Sun Yuanhua's previous kindness of taking him in and bringing him in, the Zuihou rebels still released Sun Yuanhua.

At this time, the largest Shili in the rebel army were Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming. In order to prevent internal contradictions and unite with the outside world, the rebels immediately began to establish a puppet regime.

At this time, they did not dare to call the king emperor, so they established a military government. They first elected the eldest, and Li Jiu, who contributed the most in this rebellion, became the marshal of the capital to sit in the top spot, Kong Youde ranked second, and Geng Zhongming ranked third. And they even used the captured seal of the governor of Denglai to order the counties of Denglai. Of course, no local state or county will do their bidding.

This Wuqiao Mutiny completely disrupted the military jihua of the Ming Dynasty court to rescue Dalinghe City. All the Ming troops who came to the rescue, as well as the Ming troops in the Beijing camp, were mobilized to eliminate this rebel army that was in the heart of the Ming Dynasty.

And in Dalinghe City, the ancestral Dashou Liao army, which was eating human flesh and burning human bones, was helplessly abandoned by the Ming Dynasty court.

And the reason for all this in the first place turned out to be because of a chicken in Wuqiao. These butterfly wings should be renamed chicken wings. This chaotic scene at the end of the Ming Dynasty is really crazy!

But the rebels who captured Dengzhou City did not stop. The rebels have begun a new military operation, marching into the counties of Den Lai. The rebels relied on the powerful offensive capabilities formed by advanced artillery to conquer Huangxian. Then, the rebels gathered their forces and marched towards Laizhou City, the gateway to the Jiaodong Peninsula.

Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing, who received the order of Yu Dacheng, the governor of Shandong, immediately prepared to march their troops and assembled in Jinan City according to the order of the governor.

But a few days ago, not only the officials of Shandong and Denglai were made to relax their vigilance by Kong Youde's fraudulent surrender. The armies of Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing were also very relieved by the good news that came.

But once this string is loosened and tightened, it will definitely not work. Just in such a hurry to march to fight, the troops are likely to mutini or flee. For this reason, Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing discussed and asked the troops to rest in Ningyang County for five days before setting off.

And Liu Zeqing also issued an order for other officers under him to lead the army to assemble. The troops that Liu Zeqing brought to rescue Qufu County this time were all generals and personal soldiers of his own lineage.

As for the other subordinate generals, most of them were arranged by the imperial court to be under Liu Zeqing's generals for the sake of size. So since there is going to be a war, we also need the armies of those side generals to be cannon fodder.

Wu Shigong also entrusted his fifth brother Wu Shiwen and asked him to make proper arrangements to send the house slaves he had accepted and the materials that he could not use to fight the war to Jining Prefecture.

Anyway, it has now passed the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and the branch of Sihai Commercial Bank in Jining Prefecture has also opened. Through the shopkeeper and his associates at that branch, it was completely possible to transport these personnel and materials back to Runing Mansion.

Wu Shigong only brought the more than 800 auxiliaries with him. In this way, Wu Shigong's men and horses also reached more than 2,000 people.

Five days later, the combined forces of Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing began to advance in the direction of the canal. We already know that to the north of Ningyang County is Liangshanbo, and if there are no ships, it will not be possible for the army to pass. Therefore, the route of the coalition army this time was still along the Grand Canal.

And according to Jihua, after the coalition forces arrived at the Grand Canal, they would rest and recuperate, and they would wait for the arrival of Liu Zeqing's subordinate troops, and then go north to Jinan City together.

Three days later, the coalition forces reached a small town on the banks of the Grand Canal. Coincidentally, Yan Dingshan, a guerrilla of the Cao soldiers, also led more than 1,300 Cao soldiers to pass north.

So the three armies joined forces again. From the messenger sent by Liu Zeqing, it was learned that his subordinate officers had also assembled an army of more than 3,000 men, and were now marching behind the coalition army for about seven days and half a month.

But just as the coalition army was waiting for the arrival of the rear army, Yu Dacheng, the governor of Shandong, sent another urgent report, asking the coalition army to immediately turn to Laizhou City to fight the rebels and relieve the siege of Laizhou City.

At a great cost of fifty taels of silver, Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing learned from the messenger that in order to keep their official positions, Yu Dacheng, the governor of Shandong, must now try to protect Laizhou City.

However, the army of Qiu Lei, the general soldier of Shandong, stationed in Jinan City, could not be used in order to defend Jinan City, and the other Ming troops in Shandong also had no combat effectiveness and were overwhelmed. And now the strong army that Yu Dacheng can think of and mobilize is the coalition army of Liu Zeqing and Wu Shigong, who has just shown their faces in the historical military novel played and cut down more than 600 heads of the rebels.

Knowing this reason, Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing almost vomited blood. It's fucking unlucky, who would have thought that just by showing his face like this, he would force himself to the point of fighting the rebels!

But Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing are not the most unlucky. The guerrilla Yan Dingshan, who joined forces for no reason, couldn't even vomit blood!

There is no way to give military orders, and there is no waiting for the rear army to converge. The coalition forces immediately turned in the direction of Laizhou City. But after two more days, a fast horse from Jinan City sent a letter to Liu Zeqing. It was a spy arranged by Liu Zeqing in Jinan City to investigate the movements of Shandong officialdom for Liu Zeqing.

Liu Zeqing, who was illiterate, gave the letter to one of his aides. When the staff member saw this, he immediately couldn't suppress his excitement and shouted, "General, the governor has been dismissed. ”

The political system of the Ming Dynasty was the rule of man, that is, people were in government, and people were in politics. So it's not like modern times, after the Shandong governor Yu Dacheng was dismissed, you can completely ignore the orders he issued.

As a result, the coalition forces immediately stopped moving forward and stationed on the spot, waiting for the arrival of the new governor of Shandong, waiting for him to issue the next order to the coalition army.

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