"Brother Xingzuo, the festival is changing." Seeing that the burial was over, Chen Jisheng walked to Liu Xingzuo, who was crying silently, and said softly.

"Thank you, General Chen." Liu Xingzuo bowed down and thanked him.

Chen Jisheng stretched out his hand to help Liu Xingzuo's arm, comforted him a few words, and was about to turn around to leave, when Liu Xingzuo's Liu Xingzhi suddenly pounced, grabbed Chen Jisheng's arm with his left hand, and held a short knife in his right hand, which was heavily inserted into Chen Jisheng's chest.

Chen Jisheng's eyes widened suddenly, revealing a frightened look, and his hands grabbed Liu Xingzhi's wrist holding the knife.

"Why?" Chen Jisheng asked miserably.

Liu Xingzhi didn't answer, the knife stirred hard in Chen Jisheng's abdomen, pulled it out, and then inserted it violently.

"Ah!!h Chen Jisheng finally screamed.

The sudden change was shocking, and the generals present were stunned all of a sudden, completely unable to believe what was happening in front of them.

Chen Jisheng, the deputy chief soldier of Dongjiang, the first person in Phidao at the moment, was assassinated in front of everyone!

"Chen Jisheng colluded with Jiannu with the intention of treason, and we were ordered to eliminate the traitor and kill!" Liu Xingzuo shouted loudly.

With Liu Xingzuo's words, dozens of people took out various weapons and killed the generals of Chen Jisheng's family. For a while, the sound of killing was everywhere, and the screams continued one after another.

"Liu Xingzuo brutalized his colleagues, and he can't die well!" Someone shouted.

"Liu Xingzuo is going to rebel, everyone will kill him!" Zhang Tao shouted angrily.

The generals of Chen Jisheng's faction drew their weapons one after another to meet him.

"Chen Jisheng colluded with Jiannu to commit treason, and you won't lay down your arms?" Liu Xingzuo's subordinates shouted one after another and killed him.

"What the hell is going on? Why did your own people kill your own people? There were also people who looked confused, completely unaware of what was happening, but when they saw the fight coming to their side, they had to draw their swords to defend themselves.

For a time, the scene was chaotic, and hundreds of people killed each other.

Liu Xingzuo is one of the deputy generals of the Four Associations in Dongjiang Town, and he has a high position on Phi Island, and other generals on the island will naturally come to his mother's funeral. A fight involved all the officers and generals above the middle level on Phi Island.

Because they were attending the funeral, the generals naturally did not bring the army, and each person brought at most a few family guards, that is, Chen Jisheng and Zhang Tao, who had been guarding Liu Xingzuo, and each of them brought about 20 family members.

And Liu Xingzuo was afraid of being detected, and there were not too many of his subordinates who brought the cemetery, and the number of people on both sides was not too much. But one side has been planning for a long time, and the other side is caught off guard, and Chen Jisheng has been killed, plus Liu Xingzuo brought the cemetery to the most fierce Jurchen soldiers, and promised a heavy reward in advance. The situation soon fell one-sided, causing the generals and leading officers on Chen Jisheng's side to scream again and again, many people turned around and fled, and some knelt on the ground to ask for surrender.

A quarter of an hour later, the fighting stopped, except for a few people who fled, and most of the generals in Chen Jisheng's department led the leading officers, either dead or surrendered. Chen Jisheng's confidant general Zhang Tao was chased and killed by Liu Xingzhi from behind when he fled.

Liu Xingzuo immediately issued an order, ordering Liu Xingzhi, Liu Xingji and others to lead their armies and take over the camps of Chen Jisheng, Zhang Tao and others.

"Summoned the whole island, Chen Jisheng colluded with Jiannu to dedicate Phi Island to Jiannu, and the matter was leaked and killed by us. But you don't have to be afraid, Chen Jisheng, Zhang Tao and others are guilty, but they have nothing to do with others. But those who dare to complain about Chen Jisheng are all his comrades, and they will all be killed! Liu Xingzuo said.

"Yes!" Liu Xingzhi and others all took the order and left.

The news of Chen Jisheng's killing soon spread throughout the island, and for a time the soldiers and civilians on the island were terrified.

After Zhang Pan and other generals died in battle one after another, Chen Jisheng was the highest military rank except for Mao Wenlong, although his ability was average, and he had no victory in fighting Jiannu, but to say that he would defect to Jiannu, many people did not believe it.

If you don't believe it or not, not many people are willing to avenge Chen Jisheng, after all, for ordinary soldiers and ordinary people, this is just a battle between the upper echelons, and it has nothing to do with small soldiers and small people.

And because most of Chen Jisheng's confidant generals were killed at the funeral, no one dared to come forward to resist Liu Xingzuo. It didn't take much effort for Liu Xingzuo to control the entire army on Phi Dao.

Liu Xingzuo ordered that on charges of treason, he raided the homes of Chen Jisheng, Zhang Tao and other slain generals, and copied out a total of 780,000 taels of silver.

Liu Xingzuo didn't keep a tael of these money, but ordered to reward the army on the whole island, each soldier was rewarded with two taels of silver, and the rest of the silver was rewarded to his henchmen.

For a time, there was thunderous cheer on the island, and the soldiers and civilians were grateful to Liu Xingzuo. Chen Jisheng and others have been in Phi Dao for many years, and they have been getting along with the military and civilians of Phi Dao for many years, and they are not worth a few taels of silver issued by Liu Xingzuo, and they are really like water among the people.

Liu Xingzuo took the opportunity to begin to reorganize the army on the island, in addition to appointing his henchmen as officers at all levels, he also promoted some capable and unambitious people, and soon controlled the army on the island.

But Liu Xingzuo knows that this is just the beginning, and he will face great challenges, first, how will the imperial court react to his act of killing Chen Jisheng?

Then there are Mao Chenglu and other generals of Hiroshima Shuangdao, who are definitely not willing to let the position of the general army fall into their own hands, and will definitely want to recapture Phi Island.

Dongjiang Town, although Phi Island is its nest, half of the army is deployed on the islands of Guanglu Island and Changshan, and these troops are controlled by Mao Chenglu, Mao Yongshi and other generals.

In the waters off Kashima, several sea boats brave the wind and waves, and sail along the coast towards Phi Dao.

On the deck, Mao Chenglu looked at the lush coast in the distance and was silent.

"Uncle, if you want me to say that we don't need to listen to him Chen Jisheng, he Chen Jisheng has not yet become a chief soldier, so he wants to put on the shelf of the chief soldier, and he doesn't look at his virtues. This Dongjiang general soldier should be your uncle. Kong Youde stood beside Mao Chenglu and habitually patted his ass.

Well, at the meeting of the two islands that day, before Sun Chuanting, the governor of Liaodong, left, on behalf of the imperial court, he expressed his dissatisfaction with the surname Mao of many generals, except for a few people such as Mao Chenglu, many of Mao Wenlong's adopted sons and grandsons changed back to their original names.

"Alas, Dongjiang Town was built by the father-in-law, the father-in-law spent countless efforts, and now the court is afraid of the father-in-law, and the father-in-law is transferred to Zhejiang for the elderly, this general soldier should be the Chengzuo brothers, after all, he is the father and son of the father-in-law." Mao Chenglu sighed, indicating that he had no ambition for the position of the general soldier.

Kong Youde secretly rolled his eyes, and said in his heart, who would believe it! The position of General Pingliao and the General Army of Dongjiang, the pinnacle of military generals, who the hell doesn't want to!

"What Uncle said is true, but Uncle Chengzuo has a calm temperament, so he may not want to be this general soldier, I think the most suitable person is you, uncle." Kong Youde said with a smile.

Mao Chenglu shook his head: "And that Liu Xingzuo, although he has just returned to the Ming Dynasty, he has won hundreds of great achievements, I think most of this general army will fall on Liu Xingzuo's head, I am afraid this is the purpose of Chen Jisheng to convene the generals to go to Phi Island to discuss matters." ”

Kong Youde said: "It is impossible for Liu Xingzuo to be the chief soldier, after all, he has only returned to the Ming Dynasty not long ago, and his qualifications are still lacking, who can serve him among the generals of the Dongjiang River?" ”

Mao Chenglu said: "What if you don't accept it? Sun Chuanting has spoken, whoever has made more military achievements will be able to be the chief soldier. Liu Xingzuo has the support of the imperial court, what can I do if you and I are not convinced? ”

Kong Youde pouted: "What if he becomes the chief soldier, as long as we ignore him, he will be a bare-bones chief soldier." Uncle, if you want me to say that we can't wait, there are only more than 100 banners in Lushun Jiannu, we might as well fight Lushun, as long as we can occupy Lushun, it will be a great contribution to expanding the land, not less than his Liu Xingzuo's credit. ”

Mao Chenglu shook his head: "Although there are only more than 100 Jiannu in Lushun, there are still hundreds in Jinzhou, we fight Lushun, Jiannu in Jinzhou will definitely come to help, and I have these 7,000 troops in my hands, but I can't afford to lose them." ”

Kong Youde sighed and stopped persuading.

Liu Xingzuo dared to attack Jiannu with 2,000 soldiers, and won more than 200 heads, Mao Chenglu held 7,000 troops, a considerable part of which were Mao Wenlong's adopted grandsons, and his strength was stronger than Chen Jisheng, but he did not dare to attack Lushun, which had only more than 100 troops.

Maybe it's time for me to go out independently, should I go to Chen Jisheng or Liu Xingzuo? Kong Youde thought secretly.

"Vice Admiral Mao, there's a ship coming ahead!" The ship's lookout suddenly shouted.

"See what ship it is?" Mao Chenglu was in good spirits.

Jiannu has no sailors, in addition to the warships of the Dongjiang Army on this sea, it is the merchant ships of North Korea and the Ming Dynasty, if it is a merchant ship, you can make a small fortune!

However, to Mao Chenglu's disappointment, it was not a merchant ship that came, but a sentinel ship of the Dongjiang Army, and brought the bad news of the Phi Dao military rebellion.

"Liu Xingzuo mutinied, Chen Jisheng was killed!" Mao Chenglu gasped.

"This, this, why is this so?" Mao Chenglu muttered.

"Liu Xingzuo slandered that my general colluded with Jiannu and wanted to sacrifice Phi Island to Jiannu, and now my general and General Zhang were all killed by Liu Xingzuo, and the entire Phi Island fell into the hands of Liu Xingzuo's brothers, Vice General Mao, Liu Xingzuo's brothers are conspiracy to make trouble, please Vice General Mao to avenge my general!"

The person on the sentry boat was Chen Jisheng's confidant, and after telling the story again, he cried and pleaded.

"Uncle, this is a great opportunity!" Kong Youde said excitedly.

Mao Chenglu glanced at Kong Youde and understood what Kong Youde meant, now that Chen Jisheng has been killed and Liu Xingzuo has mutinied, if he can get rid of Liu Xingzuo, the position of the general army of this Phi Island will be his own.

However, Liu Xingzuo first defeated Jiannu, and then easily killed Chen Jisheng, and the strength he showed was too strong, which made Mao Chenglu a little frightened.

"I can't go to this Phi Island, let's go back to Hiroshima first." Mao Chenglu sighed.

"Uncle, Liu Xingzuo is good at killing Chen Jisheng, Phi Dao must be panicking now, how long has Liu Xingzuo been here in Phi Dao? How many people on the island know him, and how many henchmen do you have? And the soldiers and civilians of Phi Island were all rescued by Mao Shuai, how could they be willing to join the brutal and unkind Liu Xingzuo? As long as the uncle led the troops to Phi Island, the soldiers and civilians on the island would inevitably respond to the uncle. At that time, it will be easy to eradicate Liu Xingzuo. ”

On the way back to Guanglu Island, Kong Youde repeatedly persuaded him, and finally succeeded in stimulating Mao Chenglu's fighting spirit.

After careful calculation, Mao Chenglu found that it was indeed as Kong Youde said, after all, the Liu Xingzuo brothers had just arrived on Phi Dao, and there were few henchmen on the island, and the Phi Dao army was formed by his father-in-law Mao Wenlong, so he would naturally stand on his side, and it would not be difficult to eradicate Liu Xingzuo!

So, after returning to Guanglu Island, Mao Chenglu immediately gathered his troops and sent orders to Changshan and other islands, calling on all the generals of the Dongjiang River to gather on Guanglu Island to jointly crusade against the traitor Liu Xingzuo!

After receiving the order, the generals stationed on Changshan Island, Shicheng Island, Wangjiashan Island and other islands came to meet at Guanglu Island. There are more than 10 generals Mao Youshun, Mao Chengfu, Shen Shikui, Geng Zhongming, and Shang Kexi, each with hundreds of troops, and in just over half a month, Mao Chenglu has assembled 15,000 troops.

However, he was unable to send troops for a long time, because Mao Chenglu did not calculate one point, that is, the military food was insufficient.

It is only August now, and the money and grain for the second half of the imperial court will not be transported from Dengzhou to the Dongjiang River until September. In fact, the grain on all the islands has almost run out, and on weekdays, I can barely fill my stomach by catching some fish and picking up some shells and shrimp on the island, and if I send troops, I will not be able to last a month with the current grain stockpile. At that time, Phi Dao will not be able to fight, not to mention, the army will have to collapse.

"Uncle, if you want me to say that we don't go to Phi Island, just go directly to Dengzhou, Dengzhou is closer, it only takes a few days to arrive, and when you arrive in Dengzhou, ask the governor of Denglai for money and food." Kong Youde suggested.

"Nonsense!" Mao Chenglu reprimanded, "What is the difference between persecuting Dengzhou with a large army and rebellion? How can the imperial court tolerate us? ”

"yes, don't talk nonsense, we don't dare to do anything like that." Mao Chengfu, Shen Shikui and others also said.

In another time and space, two months later, Jiannu broke through the pass from Jibei, and the weakness of the imperial court was shown in the eyes of everyone. Because of hunger, Kong Youde and other generals took the army to Dengzhou to eat, but still did not dare to mess around, Denglai Governor Sun Yuanhua collected the army of Kong Youde and others, and placed them in Denglai and other places, and then there was the later Kong Youde Dengzhou Rebellion.

And now at this time, Jiannu has not yet entered the customs and robbed, and it has not been long since Sun Chuanting, the governor of Liaodong, has just repelled the invasion of Jiannu, and the majesty of the imperial court is still there, although the generals of Dongjiang are lawless, they still dare not mess around.

"In another month, the money and grain of the imperial court will come down, and the transfer from Dengzhou will inevitably pass through our jurisdiction, and then we only need to detain all the grain ships and not let a grain be sent to Phi Dao. Then there is no need to attack, they will starve to death if they are hungry! Shang Kexi suggested.

"At that time, it can be said that the soldiers who can surrender without a fight can be described as the best policy." Shen Shikui praised.

"Okay, just wait for another month, and wait until the money and grain of the court come down!" Mao Chenglu immediately decided.

"But we can't wait, Liu Xingzuo's rebellion and rebellion have to be reported to the court, so that we can send troops in the future to occupy the righteousness."