In the fourth year of Chongzhen, on the evening of October 23.

Shandong Peninsula, Dengzhou Mansion, Dengzhou City North Barracks, there was a bombardment-like hustle and bustle.

"On the contrary, I am waiting for the court of this dog day!"

"The imperial court sent us to Liaodong, just to want us to die, but not to let me wait to live!"

"Mao Dashuai was acquitted of the officials of the imperial court, we are short of food and salary, we have never been looked at seriously, it is not easy to live a stable life for two years, and we have to be transferred to Liaodong, we have to die in the Dongjiang army to be willing! If you don't accept it, I won't accept it! ”

"Unconvinced, unconvinced!"

"Going to Liaodong is death, rebellion is also death, it's the opposite, I'm waiting for the opposite!"

In the general's mansion, I heard the boiling roar of tens of thousands of soldiers full of infinite anger.

Kong Youde's face changed greatly, he sat down on the chair and was extremely pale, trembling all over, and muttered: "Bad thing, bad thing!" ”

At this time, several generals with helmets and armor entered the general's mansion together in the sound of the collision of armor leaves, and they were Geng Zhongming, Li Jiucheng, Li Yingyuan, Chen Guangfu and others, who were also generals of the Dongjiang Army.

They pressed their hands on the hilt of their swords, walked up to Kong Youde, and said one after another:

"Yongshi, the soldiers don't want to go to Liaodong to die, they have all reversed, you listen to what the soldiers say, there is no turning back."

"Brother Kong, you are the most important son of the handsome, we are all willing to listen to you, take us back, this court has nothing to be loyal to except for chilling us again and again, and looking forward to my death again and again? It's better to do the opposite! You are the emperor, and I will wait for the assistance, and play a piece of Lang Lang Qingtian! ”

"Yes, the marshal is loyal to the court and takes us to kill the prisoners desperately, but what do we get in exchange? It's suspicion, it's cutting first and then playing, it's because we can't eat enough and don't have enough to wear! Who would be willing to die for him in such a court? On the contrary, now that we have knives, guns and cannons, we can fight our way out with these guys in our hands! ”

"Now if you don't fight back, you have to go back! The imperial court will soon know that it must act quickly, first take Dengzhou, and then take Shandong, and establish a country that belongs to us! If we hesitate, we will be captured by the imperial court, and we will all be cut by a thousand knives. ”

Hear the exhortations of these brothers and colleagues.

Kong Youde hesitated for a long time, but after all, he gritted his teeth, and said in a hateful voice: "The imperial court treated my Dongjiang army poorly, and forcibly sent me to Liaodong to die, but the soldiers were unwilling, and the camp mutinied, and I had no choice but to be wrapped up in rebellion. If you don't want to be appeased, you can only break the jade tiles, just to seek justice! ”

Immediately Kong Youde took Geng Zhongming, Li Jiucheng and other generals into the barracks, announced that he would go out of the imperial court, seek justice for Mao Shuai, and immediately won tens of thousands of soldiers to follow, and then immediately ordered a storming of Dengzhou City, under the combination of inside and outside, Dengzhou City was captured that night, killing officials and gentry several times, the general soldier Zhang Keda resisted and was killed, and Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, and Song Guanglan, the prefect Wu Weicheng, the same Zhizhi Jia Jie, Qin Shiying of the county and the squire Liang Zhiyuan, were detained in the governor Yamen Prison.

On the second day, the rebels attacked in all directions, besieged Laizhou City, and broke through Huangxian, Qingcheng, Shanghe, Lingxian, Linyi and other cities, conquering all of them, invincible, and soon ravaged most of the Shandong Peninsula, causing a violent shock to the imperial court.

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November 5th.

Rugao County, Harbor City, Military Staff Office.

Holding a briefing in his hand and reading the latest military information collected from all over Shandong, Xu Yuan was very emotional.

The Denglai Rebellion broke out.

And than the normal historical process, more than a month earlier broke out, there was a rebellion in Dengzhou City, there was no occurrence of Kong Youde with 3,000 soldiers, on November 27 when passing through Wuqiao Town, because the soldier stole a chicken, and the local gentry Wang Xiangchun had a conflict, the soldier was pierced through the arrow camp, angrily killed the Wang family's servants, and then caused a mutiny, and finally developed from the Wuqiao Mutiny to the Denglai Rebellion.

The rebellion of the Dongjiang Army is doomed, and it is a historical inevitability!

Even if it is not caused by a chicken, it will be caused by a duck, a goose, a pig and other animals, because the Dongjiang army does not want to go to Liaodong to fight at all, and is not willing to send it to death at all.

Therefore, in the timeline of this time and space, after Kong Youde led the sea fleet to aid Dalinghe City, and after being returned by a hurricane at the Sancha River (Liaohe estuary), after marching by land in the face of the requirements of the military department, he used delaying tactics again and again, and he was unwilling to set off because he was short of food and salary.

Helplessly, in order to mobilize this well-trained army with good combat effectiveness to go to Guanwai, Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen had to agree to send 50,000 silver dollars and 10,000 stone grain from the inner guard, and promised to send eunuchs to the Dongjiang army in exchange for taking out troops from Liaodong, and increasing the bargaining chips for the victory of the still ongoing battle of Dalinghe.

But as soon as the silver dollar grain arrived, the eunuch who announced the decree had just left, and under the instigation of someone with a heart, the Dongjiang army mutinied and declared a rebellion.

Only Xu Yuan, who is a traveler, knows that no matter how much money and food the imperial court gives, the Dongjiang army will definitely rebel, but it will be sooner or later.

One of the reasons is that after Mao Wenlong was killed by Yuan Chonghuan with Shang Fang's sword, the Dongjiang Army, which had lost its soul, was not the same as the imperial court, and the hearts of more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians in Dongjiang Town had long been cold, and the seeds of betrayal had been planted.

Secondly, the Dongjiang Army, which had fought guerrilla warfare with Jiannu for many years, knew that Jiannu was so strong that they had already been beaten and became a group of rats who were afraid of death, and sent them to fight against Jiannu outside the border, how could this be possible? A battle that is bound to be lost, a certain death, it is better to pull the flag and rebel.

In other words, such an army that has no courage and fighting spirit is okay to steal chickens and dogs and harass the people in ordinary times, and it is too difficult for them to fight Jiannu, and the court should not have pinned hope on their heads in the first place.

And it is such a fish belly army, but set off a rebellion that lasted for 18 months, eroding most of Shandong, and then Kong Youde with more than 10,000 remnants of the defeated generals, defected to Houjin Jiannu, not only greatly improved the level of firearms of Jiannu, but also brought a lot of Western instructors and artillery-making craftsmen, greatly improved the level of Jiannu's artillery, since then, Jiannu with a large number of artillery, no longer blocked by the Ming Jiancheng, so as to have the technical conditions to lay down the entire Daming country.

In addition, the soldiers and civilians of Dongjiang Town, who originally had a deep blood feud with Jiannu, actually became a concentration camp for traitors, and among the four Han kings of the Manchu Dynasty, three came from the Dongjiang military system (the remaining one was Wu Sangui), and there were countless shameless scum.

Although the soldiers and civilians of Dongjiang Town have suffered a lot and suffered a lot of grievances, and there are some places worthy of sympathy and grievances, it is too much to run away as traitors, and it has greatly improved the level of Manchu firearms, greatly accelerating the demise of the Ming Dynasty, which is completely unforgivable.

Therefore, Xu Yuan plans to intervene in this matter, and is not ready to stand by coldly.

So standing in front of the big sand table, he said to the officers and staff officers present:

"The purpose of our Xujiazhuang's intervention in the Denglai Rebellion this time is mainly two:"

"First, try every means to prevent the Dongjiang army and civilians from fleeing across the sea to the north, and bring firearms craftsmen to Jiannu, this is something that must be stopped, even if Jiannu's artillery is not good, but it will kill people when it hits our village guards, this is something that must be resolutely stopped no matter what the price is! Even if the Dongjiang soldiers and civilians are slaughtered ruthlessly, they can't cheapen the Jiannu in the north! ”

"Second, the Shandong Peninsula is in chaos, caught in the flames of war, but it is a good thing for us, Shandong has many mines, there are a large number of coal mines, iron mines and gold mines, these are what we urgently need, through merchant procurement can not meet our needs, we have to directly grasp the mineral land, now taking advantage of this chaos, I have sent a lot of commercial representatives, ready to spend money to buy a large number of mines, if the mine owner agrees, it is fine, if you do not agree, there may be rebels to harass, soon agreed, in short, to take this opportunity, take a large number of mines controlled by us."

"The next operation in Shandong mainly revolves around these two major objectives, the Dongjiang rebels want to prevent them from crossing the sea and fleeing north, and the more mines they take, the better! The means are not limited, and more than 500 elites have also been sent over, and they can be remotely commanded by radio, and how to perfectly complete these two tasks depends on your ingenuity. ”

Xu Yuan assigned homework, wanting to investigate their ability level through this actual battle, and of course, it also has the meaning of training and training.