The entire coalition was stationed on the spot. What Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing didn't expect was that this coalition army immediately seemed to have walked into a dark room in the dark, as if it had immediately lost contact with the outside world.

Until the arrival of Liu Zeqing's rear army, the number of the entire coalition army reached more than 8,800 horses, this situation did not change, and it lasted for more than a month.

This situation is simply weird! In Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing's thoughts, their coalition army took advantage of the change of governor of Shandong to delay the time to go to the battlefield for a few days.

But you must know that the new governor of Shandong will always take office, and his army of nearly 9,000 people has nowhere to hide. Therefore, the new governor of Shandong will always issue new orders to his own coalition army.

But the current situation made Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing suspicious. Could it be that the new governor of Shandong has forgotten his coalition army? Or did the rebels turn the world upside down and cut off the communication between the Shandong government?

Therefore, Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing immediately sent a large number of spies to the surrounding areas of the coalition army, and also arrested the people nearby, and stepped up the construction of the coalition army's camp to prevent the rebels from stealing the camp.

After repeatedly straining through a sieve, Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing finally determined that there were no traces of rebel activity around their coalition forces.

Of course, Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing would not take the initiative to send messengers to contact the Shandong local government in the nearby city and Jinan City. In case the new governor of Shandong really forgot about his coalition army. So isn't this kind of self-inflicted boredom to come to the door, awaken the memory of the new governor of Shandong, and remind him of the move of mobilizing his own coalition army?

However, in any case, Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing still think that the possibility that the new governor of Shandong has forgotten his coalition army is the least. You must know that on the ground in Shandong now, in addition to the Ming army in Denglai, the total strength of the Ming army in Shandong is only more than 30,000 people. After deducting the strength of the defense of key cities and the Grand Canal, among the Ming troops who are mobile in the field, their own Ming army is the strongest and largest force!

Therefore, Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing, who couldn't figure out the reason, had no choice but to keep the coalition forces vigilant at all times to prevent any danger from happening. And this tension of the invisible enemy makes the whole coalition army restless. If it weren't for the strong suppression of Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing's descendants, maybe the camp of the coalition army would have been bombed.

But even so, Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing also cut down more than a dozen soldiers who spread rumors and were driven crazy by nervousness, and after showing their heads to the public, the mood of the coalition soldiers finally returned to normal temporarily.

If Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing knew the real reason for such a strange situation, they would definitely look up to the sky and scold their mother loudly. Because, the new governor of Shandong has indeed forgotten about their coalition army.

After the fall of Dengzhou City, Yu Dacheng, the governor of Shandong, knew that something was wrong, so he issued a large number of orders to the troops in the four directions of Shandong, in a vain attempt to save the chaotic situation and reduce his own responsibility. But his dying throes didn't work.

When the news of Kong Youde's surrender and capture of Dengzhou City reached the capital, the entire court was immediately in an uproar. But don't say anything, pursue responsibility first. Emperor Chongzhen immediately sent Tiqi to prison Yu Dacheng, the governor of Shandong, and Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, who was released by the rebels.

However, the local encirclement and suppression of the rebels in Shandong could not be presided over without officials, so the newly appointed governor of Shandong, Xu Congzhi, and the governor of Denglai, Xie Lian, rushed to Shandong with Tiqi, who had left Beijing, and took office immediately.

At this time, the situation in Laizhou City was already very urgent, and the rebels had mobilized a large army, and they were getting closer and closer to the direction of Laizhou City.

When the news of the fall of Dengzhou came, Zhu Wannian, the prefect of Laizhou, immediately stepped up preparations for war, and he transferred coastal defense and soldiers outside the city into the city, and transported the grain and grass outside the city to the city to the maximum extent. He also strengthened the security constraints in the city, carried out house-to-house inspections, cleared the streets and set up posts, mobilized the people to defend the city, and strengthened the city walls and added defensive facilities......

In particular, it should be pointed out that a civilian army with combat effectiveness no less than that of the regular Ming army was immediately organized in the city of Laizhou. That is the miners and blacksmiths of the Laizhou iron mine.

Laizhou is rich in coal and iron, and in modern times, this Laizhou iron mine is also famous. During the Ming Dynasty, Laizhou Iron Mine was also an important production base for the imperial court's iron monopoly.

Therefore, the mine supervisors sent from the Inner Court to Laizhou themselves had an army of miners who guaranteed the monopoly of iron materials, plus the tens of thousands of miners and blacksmiths in the mining area, so the entire people's army was easily organized.

Moreover, it can be seen from Kong Youde's title of "Shandong Three Mine Disciples" that once the miners become soldiers, their combat effectiveness is quite strong.

Because the miners are, after all, organized workers, and the quality of the soldiers is better than that of the peasants. In addition, they have a large number of blacksmiths, so there is no need to worry about building and repairing this weapon, and there are also a large number of iron materials in Laizhou City. Therefore, this army of tens of thousands of miners immediately became the main force guarding Laizhou City.

And Xu Congzhi, the governor of Shandong, and Xie Lian, the governor of Denglai, who got the news of the crisis in Luanzhou City, immediately stepped up, and they led the army of Yang Yufan, the general soldier who came from Tongzhou to help, and entered Laizhou City before the rebels arrived. Immediately, the city of Laizhou was surrounded by rebels.

But according to the original Jihua, the two governors have a division of labor. According to the division of labor, Xie Lian, the governor of Denglai, would command the battle in Laizhou City, while Xu Congzhi, the governor of Shandong, would sit in Qingzhou to be responsible for reinforcements and logistics.

It should be said that the move of Xu Congzhi, the governor of Shandong, to take the initiative to enter the besieged city of Laizhou can indeed boost the morale of the soldiers and civilians of Laizhou City to defend the city. And Xu Congzhi is also brave and extremely brave.

However, Xu Congzhi forgot that his role was no longer an ordinary local official, he was already the commander-in-chief of this encirclement and suppression of the rebels. This charge is not his turn to do it himself.

And Xu Congzhi simply ordered local officials along the way, asking reinforcements from all over the country to assemble in Qingzhou. Next, he was besieged in the city of Laizhou, completely losing contact with the outside world.

Therefore, when the leaderless reinforcements came to Qingzhou one after another, but because there was no further order from the governor of Shandong, they were half helpless and half deliberately not to move forward, and they just watched the life and death inside and outside Laizhou City.

And the coalition of Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing is even more wonderful. They did not even receive this order from Xu Congzhi, the governor of Shandong, to order reinforcements to assemble in Qingzhou. Because the official documents of the government always have to pass through the local city, and the joint forces of Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing deliberately avoided the city, which happened to allow them to be stationed in the same place.

Of course, the Yamen, the governor of Shandong, still did not forget the coalition forces. However, at this time, the governor Yamen did not know the location of the current coalition army, so when the messenger of the governor Yamen rushed to Ningyang County, and then turned back to the Grand Canal, Zuihou worked hard to find the combined army of Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing, it was the end of February of the fifth year of Chongzhen.

This backward communication is really deadly!

And at this moment, the two factions of officials in the court about whether to suppress or appease had a fierce dispute in front of Emperor Chongzhen. And after this news was transmitted to the reinforcements gathered in Qingzhou, all the reinforcements were even more indecisive. After the reinforcements watched from the wall, Laizhou City was ridiculously alone, and they would start an unprecedented and tragic battle with the rebels outside the city.

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