No one thought that the chicken robbed by this soldier would poke out such a big basket, just because the chicken robbed by this soldier was actually a chicken of the servant of Wang Xiangchun of the Wang clan of Shandong Wang, and it was replaced by other ordinary people, but this servant ran to his master's son Wang Xiangchun to cry, Wang Xiangchun's son quit, thinking that these Qiu Ba actually dared to provoke his Wang family, so he came to the door and did not follow.

Kong Youde was quite tolerant, ordered the perpetrator to be caught, and sentenced him to a heavy punishment of piercing the arrow camp, but the soldier who was pierced by the arrow camp held a grudge, and ran to kill Wang Xiangchun's servant at night afterwards.

This time the matter was completely big, Wang Xiangchun's son said that he would not do anything, and he had to force Kong Youde to behead several participating officers and soldiers on the spot.

Kong Youde also has difficulties! It is not easy for him to lead these soldiers, these soldiers and ruffians are not easy to meet, this time to follow him on the expedition, he has been fed up with bird anger, this time because of a chicken, there are brothers who were pierced with arrows and camped, which is already a little angry, but now Wang Xiangchun's son is still forcing Kong Youde to kill.

Kong Youde didn't want to offend Wang Xiangchun, after all, even if he was a dignified general, but in the eyes of these wealthy families, he was just a Qiu Ba, and the military generals had a low status in the Ming Dynasty.

But if he wants him to kill his brothers, Kong Youde doesn't dare to agree even if he wants to agree, if this gang of soldiers and ruffians is provoked, they can do anything, and if they force this group of soldiers and ruffians, these guys really dare to overturn him, the main general, and slaughter him.

So Kong Youde is in a dilemma, on the one hand, his subordinates are angry and hold back the fire, on the other hand, Wang Xiangchun's family is unrelenting, and they have to force him to kill his soldiers.

At this time, Li Jiucheng was entrusted by Sun Yuanhua this time to bring silver to the horse market to buy war horses, but this guy came down this time, this guy eats, drinks, prostitutes, gambles, and is deceived, and he didn't buy a war horse, but he spent a clean amount of silver.

Li Jiu himself is also a veteran general of the Dongjiang River, and like Kong Youde and others, he was a fierce general under Mao Wenlong, and he was also a ruthless and unruly person, and he was quite prestigious in the old department of the Dongjiang Army.

Li Jiucheng spent all the money, but he didn't buy a war horse, he was losing his hair in sorrow, and he didn't know how to return to Sun Yuanhua when he went back to Dengzhou Mansion.

It happened that on the way back, he met Kong Youde and his party, and after hearing the cry of Kong Youde's brothers, Li Jiucheng rolled his eyes and came up with a bad idea.

Anyway, he couldn't go back to hand over the errand, so he simply encouraged Kong Youde's subordinates to do nothing, instead of rushing to the gate to die, it was better to simply pull it down here.

Daming should be accustomed to the mutiny now, most of them end up in appeasement, and most of the participants end up in failure.

If you do a good job, make things bigger, and then support the army to take the government and the court hostage, and in the end, everyone will be safe, and you may not have to go to the customs to die.

So Kong Youde's subordinates put together a few thousand generals, and they forced Kong Youde to take them to launch a mutiny, and simply pulled it down here, killed and returned to Dengzhou Mansion, united with the old Dongjiang Department on the side of Dengzhou Mansion, rebelled together, made things big and then found a way out.

Even if Kong Youde wanted to refuse, his subordinates were already staring at him, as long as he dared to say it or not, these people would definitely kill him immediately under Li Jiucheng's instigation.

Kong Youde really had no choice, so he had to agree to the request of his subordinates, and that night he led his troops to start a rebellion, breaking through several villages in one fell swoop, washing several villages in blood, and robbing a lot of food and goods.

Then this group of rebels did not stop for a moment, turned around and began to rush back towards Dengzhou, along the way Li Jiucheng was actually controlling the rebels, Kong Youde was not the commander, these rebels were connived at burning and looting along the way, for these Shandong people, these rebels hated to the extreme, and they were not soft to kill, and they were killed all over the field, and they were all full of money.

Along the way, if they meet people with Liaodong accents, they will let them go, but they are required to join the gang to do it together, these Liaodong people in various parts of Shandong, each of them have been fed up with the oppression of the Shandong people, this time they were encouraged by these rebels, so they joined the rebels one after another.

This made the rebels in a very short period of time, the strength of the army has increased greatly, and these old departments of the Dongjiang Army, each of them are soldiers who fight old nose battles, you must know that these people used to be in Dongjiang Town, but they fought with Jiannu's soldiers and horses every day, and sometimes they were not afraid of Jiannu's army, and now in the face of Shandong soldiers, they did not take these Shandong soldiers into their eyes at all.

Everywhere along the way, the Shandong people also resisted, but He Nai was not the opponent of these rebels at all, these rebels were led by Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde, but whenever they passed by a county town, they would lead the army to attack the county seat, and coerce the people in the local area to force them to help in the war.

But Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde also know very well that it is useless to occupy these county seats, if they want to become bigger, then only by returning to Dengzhou Mansion, taking Dengzhou Mansion and encouraging many old Dongjiang Army troops there to follow them, and taking down many grains and ordnance in Dengzhou Mansion, they have the ability to confront the Shandong Army, and force the imperial court to finally recruit them.

Therefore, along the way, they attacked the city all the way, but they did not occupy it for too long, and often after plundering and getting supplies, they immediately led the army to leave and continued to Dengzhou Mansion.

Once they encounter a difficult bone to gnaw, they do not love to fight, and immediately abandon these places and continue to rush towards the next goal, this way of fighting makes the counties along the way unable to parry, and the rebel army has more and more troops, and it has become much more fierce.

The reason why Sun Yuanhua still has illusions and wants to quell this mutiny by means of guò appeasement is not because he has no ideas, because he is the governor of Denglai, whether it is Kong Youde or Li Jiucheng, they are the old Dongjiang troops he took in, and it can be said that he has the grace of knowing these people.

What's more, he also saw very clearly, what was the idea of Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng, these rebel generals actually knew very well that rebellion would not become a big deal, and the reason why they still did this was actually just to force the government and the court to finally appease them, forgive them for their crimes, and expose this matter.

If he can do his best to quell this mutiny, there is still an excuse to shirk it, but if he moves strongly and attacks it, but if he can't win, then the entire situation in Shandong will probably be completely eroded.

Once things get to that point, it is estimated that not to mention that his official position is over, and it is not impossible to lose his head.

Now his teacher Xu Guangqi is valued by the current saint in the court, and he is the teacher of the Son of Heaven, if he can do his best to quell this mutiny, then with Xu Guangqi's mediation in Beijing, it is estimated that he still has a chance to keep his current position, even if he loses his official position, but there is still a chance to recover, at best, he will fall into a crime of negligence, and it will not be to the point of losing his head.

Therefore, Sun Yuanhua had an ambiguous attitude, and did not advocate uniting with the current governor of Shandong to send heavy troops to attack him, but swayed left and right, so that the rebels became more and more powerful.

But if you want to appease the rebels again, it's not a matter of words, after all, the rebels are rushing towards Dengzhou at this moment, if the rebels are allowed to attack all the way to the city of Dengzhou, then it is estimated that things will not be easy to clean up, even if you want to appease them, you must first defeat their arrogance.

So finally at the end of December, Sun Yuanhua still sent Zhang Tao to lead an army out of Dengzhou, and set up a camp in the west of Dengzhou to intercept Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde's rebels from entering Dengzhou.

In addition, Zhang Keda, the commander-in-chief of Denglai, was sent to lead 3,000 troops to fight, and Zhang Tao attacked Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng's rebels in the west of Dengzhou, intending to defeat them for a while, so that they would retreat in difficulty, and then appease them and make them return to their tents.

But Sun Yuanhua miscalculated this time, he seriously underestimated the combat power of the rebels led by Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde, and also miscalculated the force led by Zhang Tao, because Zhang Tao himself used to be the old department of the Dongjiang Army, and he happened to be Kong Youde's subordinate generals.

Sun Yuanhua thought that those rebels were forced to rebel and launch a mutiny, and he had been treating them well in the old Dongjiang Army, and these people should have worked hard for him and listened to his call, but he seriously underestimated the relationship between the old Dongjiang Army, as well as the contradictions between the Liaodong soldiers and the Shandong soldiers during this time.

The result was that not long after Zhang Tao led his troops to fight, although he remembered Sun Yuanhua's kindness to him, he did not throw himself into the rebels, but he did not lead the troops to fight with Kong Youde's rebels according to Sun Yuanhua's orders, but was sent by Kong Youde to lobby, but the soldiers and generals he brought out of the city directly joined the rebel sequence and became rebels, Zhang Tao only led more than 100 personal soldiers and fled back to Dengzhou City.

The remaining Zhang Ke was naturally lonely, and was defeated by the rebels led by Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde outside the Dengzhou Mansion, and returned defeated, and withdrew to the Dengzhou Mansion with a small number of remnants.

Dengzhou Mansion was immediately surrounded by rebels, and Sun Yuanhua was a little dumbfounded at this time......