The change in the direction of the wind in the court is, of course, to spread the "Laizhou Victory" to the world, and of course, to reward the meritorious personnel. And at this time, the ministers who were planning to reward suddenly remembered that there was still a great victory that had not yet been rewarded. That was the Jiyan (Jining Prefecture and Yanzhou) victory.

No official objected to the outcome of Jiyan's victory. Because the concerts of officials in various places and the heads handed in have formed a complete chain of evidence.

But when the officials who planned to reward them handed over the recitals about the two great victories to Emperor Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen was surprised to find that the Henan garrison named "Wu Shigong" had reappeared.

"Wang Banban, who is this Wu Shigong? Why do I hear so familiar? Emperor Chongzhen asked Wang Chengen beside him.

"The emperor's memory is really good, he is Xue Hou's son-in-law!." Wang Chengen replied with a smile: "But that kid has a bad temperament, he was also greedy for money and lustful when he was the commander of Nancheng, I heard that he later hooked up with a widow and was driven to Henan by Xue Hou." ”

"But that kid is also diligent as a general in the local area. Although he is not a good general, he is also brave and daring to fight, and the last time he was King Qin, he also followed General Qin to recover the four cities of Yongping, and made some contributions. ”

"But his nature still hasn't changed, so the old slave estimates that he is fighting in Denglai this time, and the credit is definitely there, but the bad habits of those local generals, that kid must have learned a lot. It's really dirty about his noble background! ”

Emperor Chongzhen also laughed, it is always pleasant to be able to hear other people's ugliness. So he scolded with a smile: "Xue Hou's beloved daughter is not a person! That's it. I also want to give Xue Hou a face, and I don't care about this Wu garrison. ”

Wu Shigong is carefree in Shandong, but Xue Lian, who understands the direction of the court, is worried about his son-in-law. Therefore, a few days ago, Xue Lian gave Wang Chengen another generous gift, so today Wang Chengen also did this favor.

However, Wu Shigong is also unlucky enough, it should be said that this time in Shandong to exterminate Kong Youde's rebels, that is, Wu Shigong's performance in the Runing Battalion is remarkable, but he was almost arrested in prison for some reason.

However, Seon lost his horse, and he didn't know if it was a blessing. It was also under the unintentional impetus of Wu Shigong's victories that the resignation of Shoufu Zhou Yanru has entered the countdown. In fact, this also made Wu Shigong's most worrying problem -- his transfer from Runing Mansion after the war -- a fundamental solution.

After that, the internal official who delivered the decree came to Liu Yulie's army and read out the holy decree of the reward. In addition to promising Liu Yulie that he could act cheaply and continue to appease the rebels, only three military attachés were rewarded in the holy decree.

One is the Jiang guerrilla in Henan. Of course, this is a posthumous gift. This posthumous gift is very generous, far more than the average posthumous gift. But there will be no military attache to envy and envy Jiang guerrillas.

The other is Liu Zeqing, who was promoted to the rank of deputy general of Caozhou. And this promotion is a real promotion.

Zuihou is Wu Shigong, and the official was promoted to the capital of Runing Prefecture. But this promotion is a false promotion. There has been no increase in the area under jurisdiction or in the number of troops set. To be precise, it is just to enjoy the treatment of the capital division and lead the position of the garrison of Runing Mansion.

In fact, it can be seen from here that the promotions of Liu Zeqing and Wu Shigong are all because of their meritorious service in the great victory of Jiyan. And for the great victory in Dengzhou, except for the Jiang guerrilla who was killed, all the military attaches were not rewarded.

Of course, the reason stated in the decree is that after the traitors are destroyed, they will be rewarded together. But Liu Yulie knew that Emperor Chongzhen already knew the truth about Denglai's victory.

The boss got angry and the consequences were serious. Zhou Yanru and Liu Yulie also stepped up their appeasement.

So since it is not possible for civilian officials to appease the rebels, then find someone who has a relationship with the military attache of Dongjiang Town and Liaodong Wu to appease in the future. At the end of May of the fifth year of Chongzhen, the Liao general Sun Yinglong wrote a letter to persuade Geng Zhongming to surrender because he had a very good old relationship with Geng Zhongming.

And Geng Zhongming planned to do it, and casually found a head and sent it over, saying that he had beheaded Kong Youde and asked Sun Yinglong to quickly sail to accept the surrender. So Sun Yinglong happily led the naval fleet from Tianjin to Dengzhou.

But as soon as he landed, Sun Yinglong was beheaded by Geng Zhongming, and a large number of warships he carried became trophies for the rebels. Then, with the help of the captured warships, the rebels repelled the advance of the Phi Dao commander-in-chief, Huang Long, from the sea.

In the land offensive, the rebels conquered Zhaoyuan and captured a large amount of supplies and silver taels in the area. and more than eight thousand taels of gold. The amount of gold that the rebels kept in their hands was several times that amount.

Zhaoyuan Gold Mine is also famous until modern times. However, in the Ming Dynasty, the court gave up the reason for the depletion of mineral resources because of deception. But local officials and local tyrants colluded with each other to exploit on a large scale. But now all this gold has fattened Kong Youde's rebels.

Therefore, although the attack on Laiyang is not strong, and the city of Laizhou is still under siege, the arrogance of the rebels is still becoming more and more arrogant.

But the Ming court still didn't learn the lesson. In order to attack the city of Clayzhou, the rebels repeated their old tricks and asked the governor Liu Yulie to surrender again, and proposed that as long as several civil and military officials in Laizhou City personally went out of the city to announce the edict, they would surrender.

Under the pressure of Governor Liu Yulie, Xie Lian, the governor of Denglai, who had a glimmer of hope for appeasement, decided to go out of the city to surrender, and as soon as he and Zhu Wannian, the prefect of Laizhou, left the city, Kong Youde fell to his knees crying bitterly and said that he was guilty of death. Kong Youde's realistic performance really deserves the Oscar for Best Actor.

Kong Youde also said that when the surrender ceremony was held the next day, he invited the chief soldier Yang Yufan to attend together. When Xie Lian returned to the city, Yang Yufan, the chief soldier from a military family, knew the capricious nature of the rebels and refused to leave the city. Here, we can profoundly see that in some cases, the IQ of military attachés is indeed higher than that of civilian officials.

Sure enough, on the next day, that is, during the Qixi Festival of this year, Xie Lian and Zhu Wancheng were arrested by the rebels when they went out of the city again, and the rebels took the two as hostages and ordered Yang Yufan to surrender the city. But Zhu Wancheng shouted: We are dead, you must hold on! Surrounded by the elite troops of the rebels, fire at me!

Yang Yufan also decisively ordered to fire artillery at the rebels' dense area, and the rebels suffered heavy casualties, but Zhu Wancheng also died under the fire of his own people.

This is as heroic as Wang Cheng, although it is embarrassing. But we also feel a little aesthetically tired of the rebels' repeated successes.

It's a human being, so you can't step into the same dung pit twice. However, the most elite group of scholars and doctors in the Ming Dynasty have been repeatedly played by a few inferior rebel generals who were miners, which is really speechless!

But at this time, Zhou Yanru, the main Fu faction, still insisted on appeasement. Don't say it, Zhou Yanru's eloquence is really good, and Wen Tiren is also watching Zhou Yanru's clown-like performance on the side, waiting for him to perform. So Emperor Chongzhen still hesitated whether to suppress or appease.

But some upright ministers can't stand it anymore! Liu Erzhi, a native of Laizhou, a household servant, and a great calligrapher, crashed to death on the pillar of the court when the two factions were arguing. His death finally made Emperor Chongzhen decide to send a strong army to encircle and suppress the rebels. And Liu Erzhi's death also completely ruined Zhou Yanru's dream of being the first assistant.

At this time, one of the only four remaining members of Laizhou City, the general soldier Yang Yufan alone led the Laizhou army and people to continue to stick to Laizhou City, and he adhered to Xu Congzhi's belief that he would not go, not surrender, not care, and fight to the death, and resisted the rebels. Their actions held back the rebels.

And Liu Yulie was dismissed from the post of governor by Emperor Chongzhen and returned to Beijing to report on his work. Liu Yulie was succeeded by the new governor of Shandong, Zhu Dadian. And with Zhu Dadian arrived, there were also 20,000 horses of the eunuch Gao Qi Hidden Supervision Army.

But at this time, the successive victories had already made Kong Youde and their heads dizzy. When Kong Youde learned the news, he actually said contemptuously: I think killing Shandong soldiers is as easy as cutting melons and beans, what can they do if they come with hundreds of thousands of people?

Indeed, successive victories made the rebels stronger. During the eight months of Kong Youde's rebellion, he continued to recruit rebels, and people from Mao Wenlong's old department in Liaodong continued to cross the sea to join him, and he also collected many pirates and pirates across the Yellow and Bohai Seas, as well as a large number of refugees who fled.

However, what Kong Youde didn't know was that the 20,000 horses brought by Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian this time were not all Shandong's troops, and the elite 5,000 men and horses were led by Jin Guoqi and Jin Guochen, the chief soldiers of Liaodong, Zu Dabi and Zu Kuan, who were nicknamed "Zu Er's Madmen" of the Zu family, and Wu Xiang, who had made meritorious contributions for his crimes, and his son, Wu Sangui, an officer of the Shaozhuang faction.

Since Wu Shigong built the front camp in early April, the spies he sent out had several skirmish battles with the rebel spies. But neither side had any intention of causing a major war, so after several more attempts, a de facto ceasefire line was formed at Shahe.

And in the next three months, Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing's former army will have nothing to do. In addition to Liu Zeqing becoming Deputy General Liu and Wu Shigong becoming Wu Dusi, they enjoyed Kong Youde's performance of playing with civilian officials.

But Wu Shigong didn't know that he was temporarily idle, but the three bold military attaches he left in Henan wanted to plan an independent military operation.

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