"My lord, what's wrong?" Sun Chuanting has been following Li Xiao these days, and he has never seen Li Xiao's expression.

"Denglai's Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming are reversed! They captured Dengzhou and held hostage Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai. Now that the will of the imperial court has not yet come down, Sun Lao sent Man Gui to rush to Dengzhou first. The second brother's fleet is also rushing to the sea off Dengzhou to prevent these two guys from escaping by sea.

Ay......! Hurry up, something is still wrong. Damn, you can't let Lao Tzu live a year of dissipation. "It's November 20, and the New Year is in one month. Li Xiao also plans to return to Changxing Island for a few years. Now it looks like it's going to be in the soup again.

What the hell, is Lao Tzu born to work hard?

"Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming's subordinates know a little, and these two people are well-known habitual bandits and thieves in Shandong. They have been famous in Shandong for more than ten years, and they don't know how many evil things they have done.

Sun Yuanhua came to Dengzhou, and he didn't know what means he used, but he actually subdued them. The Ministry of War has also approved a regular establishment, and they can be regarded as the Dengzhou Guards.

This time, the marshal is fighting in Liaodong, and the imperial court mobilized Dengzhou Wei to help, and Sun Yuanhua will not send them. Sun Chuanting followed Sun Chengzong to Shandong and quickly became familiar with Shandong's government affairs.

Li Xiao was the governor of Shandong, and Sun Yuanhua was the governor of Denglai. But Li Xiao, the governor's official, is bigger than Sun Yuanhua, and the two are not equal, but subordinate.

In the eyes of the imperial court, Denglai's accident can also be counted on Li Xiao's head.

"Is Sun Yuanhua's brain full of? These two are bandits, not watching under his nose, can they be released without accidents? After listening to Sun Chuanting's words, Li Xiao wanted to scold his mother.

"Sun Yuanhua is also a student of Master Sun. I learned a lot of firearms knowledge with the Francophone man, and there is still some knowledge. can be talked about being an official, but the hunting side is a little ......! Hehe! ”

"Mr. Sun's surname is Sun, could it be that the people surnamed Sun in the court are all his students? You apprenticed, and even changed your surname? Hearing that Sun Yuanhua was also a student of Sun Chengzong, Li Xiao was very puzzled and asked Sun Chuanting.

"Uh......! This one......! "Sun Chuanting's heart is full of 10,000 grass and mud horses, how can the hell Lao Tzu pick it up?

It would not work to go to Jinan with the baggage, and Li Xiao could only hand over the team to Sun Chuanting. Let him properly transport these arms to Jinan no matter what!

With the spy company, he turned around and rushed to Dengzhou.

Gradually approaching Dengzhou, the more information Li Xiao learned.

The so-called Wuqiao Mutiny was fucking because of two chickens.

Li Xiao was fighting in Liaodong, and Zhu Youzhen also wanted to go down in a fight. Collecting soldiers and horses everywhere to go to Liaodong to support, Sun Yuanhua was also assigned, and Sun Yuanhua had to send 800 elites.

The best way to get from Dengzhou to Liaodong is by boat. You don't have to hurry, you can land in Jinzhou directly.

But Dengzhou does not have a big ship like Li Xiao, but there is a wind on the sea again. He had just gone to sea and had to come back, so he had no choice but to let Kong Youde take a land route.

Kong Youde, a brother, was born as a bandit, and his brothers are naturally used to robbing their families. was strictly managed by Sun Yuanhua in Dengzhou, and he didn't dare to be presumptuous. This time it came out, it was naturally revealed in its original form.

When I walked to Wuqiao, the soldiers didn't want to nibble on pickles. I ate two chickens at the house of a big family named Wang Xiangchun, and of course I didn't give money after eating. In their words, Lao Tzu doesn't cost money to eat restaurants in the city, but you still have to pay for eating your two broken chickens?

If the soldier does not give money, Wang Xiangchun naturally does not do it. After being beaten by reasoning, I thought of finding Kong Youde to sue. As a result, Mr. Kong gave full play to his sense of justice. Give his subordinates two slaps, and the matter is considered over.

Who knows, none of those guys under him are fuel-efficient lamps.

sued Lao Tzu for a black state, causing Lao Tzu to be beaten by the big handsome. This breath has to be swallowed, what kind of bird bandit is Lao Tzu. How will you come out and mix in the future?

The brothers who can't swallow this breath simply kill and set fire. In the middle of the night, he touched Wang Xiangchun's house, killed Wang Xiangchun and burned the Wang family manor.

Things are getting bigger, and Kong Youde can't help it. After all, the imperial court will hold it accountable, and a leadership responsibility cannot be escaped. In addition, this brother's ass is really unclean, so he simply doesn't do it.

In this way, the army that reinforced Liaodong instantly turned into an army rushing to Dengzhou.

Sun Yuanhua didn't care much, this brother was a good hand in civil engineering. Dengzhou is full of turrets, not to mention that you are 800 people, even if 8,000 people come, you have to be abandoned here.

Li Xiao also had a small surprise, the turret in Penglai was also fucking supervised by this brother. It was because of Penglai's sturdy defense that Li Hu was almost beaten into a sieve.

Sun Yuanhua's self-confidence is justified, and the Liao army, equipped with modern military equipment, almost vomited blood when they conquered the turret designed by Sun Yuanhua. Kong Youde only had 800 men under his command, and he still used broadswords and spears. Wanting to capture Dengzhou is a pipe dream.

It turns out that dreams still have to be there, and maybe they will come true in case.

Kong Youde really experienced a dream come true, because he has a good buddy named Geng Zhongming.

First, he sent 300 people to surrender into the city, and then in the middle of the night, he contacted Geng Zhongming's subordinates to come to a meeting and take Dengzhou City in one fell swoop.

However, Kong Youde still respected the old leader, and did not kill Sun Yuanhua, but directly locked Sun Yuanhua up. The opponent carried Song Guanglan, and Wang Mei and others were not so polite. When looking at the city wall of Dengzhou, Li Xiao saw their heads that were frozen hard, and they were constantly hitting the city wall by the wind.

The cannon tower in Dengzhou City was repaired, so it's really a fucking sturdy. There was not a single bit of reinforced concrete, it was all poured with millet and glutinous rice soup and sand.

The mortar was test-fired, blowing up a small crater. It's harder than the fucking reinforced concrete fortifications. Li Xiao felt that after Li Xiu came, it might not be okay to bombard him with heavy artillery.

Could it be that you want to send out an arsenal ship? It's too expensive to launch that thing once!

"Our guys don't use this thing at all!" Man Gui came a few days earlier than Li Xiao, and he tried all kinds of weapons in the past few days, and the effect was very bad.

However, the people in the city are very honest, and they don't have the slightest urge to go out of the city to have a with Man Gui. It is estimated that the resounding name of Man Ye still played some role.

"Glutinous rice soup, millet with sand. These things are mixed together and are a little worse than reinforced concrete though in hardness. But the victory is good toughness, and the shells are still a little difficult to deal with this thing.

The problem is that this thing is too expensive, and how much food does it have to consume for such a large Dengzhou city. I heard that Shandong's years have not been good in recent years, and there is food that is not distributed to the people to fill their stomachs, so his mother built a building here. "Looking at the yellow and clear city wall of Dengzhou from a distance, how much fucking food does this get.

Li Xiao even felt that building such a strong city was his mother's crime.

"It's no wonder that Sun Yuanhua is the governor of Dengzhou. It was his responsibility to build the city wall, and not only him, but the entire Ming Dynasty built it in a qualified place.

Dengzhou is an important town in Shandong Province, and the imperial court has allocated funds to repair the city wall, and will not excessively exploit the people of Dengzhou. Behind him was Ao Canghai, who had only arrived in the morning.

"I didn't say that he didn't build the building right, but the question is how do we get in now. There is also an urn city at the back gate of the city gate, even if the city gate is blown open with explosives, we will be hit as a target when we go in.

And look at it, Sun Yuanhua, who was raised by a son of a bitch, got so many franc cannons. I'm afraid there are more than a dozen of them, and if you use people to pile up explosives to break the city, the casualties will definitely not be small. Man Gui pointed to the Franc cannon on the city tower and scolded.

"Sun Yuanhua has a good relationship with the Franc Machine, and there are dozens of Franc Mechanic mercenaries under him. I've heard that they're all very good gunners, but it's really hard for us to break the city. Li Xiao sat on the horse and looked at Dengzhou City helplessly.

This city is like a turtle lying there, and if you are a lion, there is no place to speak.

"You're out of options, and we're out of options." Ao Canghai spread his hands helplessly, Li Xiao often did this action, and he also learned it.

"Since you can't move, let's talk!" Li Xiao quickly changed his thinking.

"Talk? How to talk about it? Rebellion is a capital crime, do you have what it takes to make the bastards in the court let them go? ”

"If a capital crime is not a capital crime, it will naturally be counted if it is long lived." Li Xiao smiled slightly, looking confident.

"What do you want to do? Do you have the ability to convince the emperor that even such a crime as rebellion has been forgiven? "Man Gui's eyes widened, you may be fine cheating with the palace maid, but I haven't heard of any emperor who would turn a blind eye to such a thing as rebellion.

"I can't convince you of the rebellion, but look at it. Dengzhou City is so strong, it must have cost the imperial court a lot of silver.

If we want to break the city, we have to use explosives to blow it up little by little, and Dengzhou is an important coastal defense town. How can the walls of the city be full of gaps, this rebuilding of the walls ......! ”

"You have to use silver, and it's a lot of money." Ao Canghai's eyes lit up.

"I've heard that the clamoring in the court right now is all about money. The emperor wanted to fight the idea of the Jiangnan tax burden, but how could Qian Qianyi and those people agree.

There have been several quarrels at the court meeting, and the emperor is still too anxious. After ascending the throne for such a short time, he attacked those people in Jiangnan. Anyway, I can learn from the first emperor and cultivate Wei Zhongxian. In this way, he goes on his own shirtless, and he doesn't even have a room to maneuver. ”

"That's not right! Qian Qianyi, those people are very unkind to you, and if you want to keep Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde, they will not agree. Once the people in the court are angry, I am afraid that the emperor will also be embarrassed. After all, he has only been on the throne for such a short time! ”

"Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, was originally protected by the Donglin Party. In order to fight with Lao Tzu in Shandong. Don't forget, our Mr. Sun was originally the boss of the Donglin Party. ”

"Mr. Sun......!"

"Mr. Sun doesn't have to doubt it, but since the Donglin Party is a person. That Sun Yuanhua is the Donglin Party, in order to keep Sun Yuanhua. Qian Qianyi will recommend Fu no matter what. The piece I handed over was just an excuse for Qian Qianyi and them. ”

"Humph! When the monkey comes into your hands, it is also the life of being tricked. Ao Canghai snorted angrily.

"This is just for the imperial court, we have to let Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming despair. We must let them know that if we want to deal with them, we can do it at our fingertips. Otherwise, how could they be willing to surrender. How can you be willing to surrender and be obedient to your mother. ”

"Obedient? What's your idea, boy? Let's say okay, I don't want people like Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde. You have to be wary all day long, the top and bottom are not suspicious of each other, how can this soldier be brought! Ao Canghai looked at Li Xiao vigilantly.

Because if these two rebels are recruited, according to Li Xiao's character, they will definitely be under the command of Ao Canghai. With such two people under him, it's not enough to worry about money.

"I said Ao Ye! There are so many bandits in Shandong, are you going to suppress them or am I going to suppress them? A few days ago, I took people up the mountain to suppress bandits, and I asked you if you were tired?

But how many have you exterminated? I'm afraid that if you come to Dengzhou with soldiers, the surrounding area of Jinan may not be peaceful. Shandong is so big, and we have so many soldiers. Crack down here today, cut there tomorrow. If you don't get killed, you have to be tired to death. ”

"You let them go to the bandits?" Ao Canghai's eyes suddenly lit up. Let these two people go to suppress the bandits, this can be regarded as great news for Ao Ye.

Both in terms of equipment and tactics. The Liao army is more suitable for attacking and killing in open areas with two armies facing each other. Instead of drilling ravines to suppress bandits, these days Ao Canghai takes people to suppress bandits. There were no fewer deaths and injuries, and no fewer crimes were suffered, but the bandits did not exterminate much.

Li Xiao is right, he is in Jinan, and there may be peace around Jinan. He left Jinan, and there may be bandits around Jinan again.

But he couldn't help it, as long as the army drove over. People will drill ravines, and as long as they go back, they will drill out.

"The best way to deal with hooligans is to fight hooligans with hooligans. Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde were bandits, and they were peers with those bandits. Only peers know their peers best, and only peers are naked hatred. Let them exterminate those bandits, that is the perfect candidate. ”

"What are you doing in a daze? Hurry up and write a concerto! "For someone to suppress bandits for himself, Ao Ye is very enthusiastic. Immediately pull Li Xiao and go back!

"Don't worry, the second child should arrive tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. We're also going to prepare for a feint, and I'm going to get the cannon that the old fisherman brought over. Bombard him with two shots, one is to test the effect. The second is also a warning to Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming.

Did you bring that thing? ”

"I did, but it was too bulky. And it's not convenient to use, do you really want to use it? Ao Canghai's face collapsed suddenly.

"Try it, you can't blind the old fisherman's mind. It's a pity that you don't use it. ”

"That's what you're talking about?" Man Gui's eyes widened, and his face was shocked.