Zhu Chunchen saw that Kong Yinzhi had softened, so he was not welcome!

He said with a smile: "The matter of Yan Shenggong's funding of thieves has already spread in the army, even if Marquis Ning Yuan has the heart to suppress this matter, I am afraid that it will require a large amount of sealed silver." ”

"There are a total of 6,000 Liaodong soldiers who followed Ning Yuanhou to the south this time, and the sealing silver of 100 taels per person is not too much, right?"

As soon as Zhu Chunchen said this, the faces of the Kong people present were quite embarrassed, and Li Xianzhong asked for 600,000 taels of silver when he opened his mouth.

But when I thought about it, I had to open my mouth for 1 million taels before, although these pieces of silver were painful, but the Qufu Kong family could still get these pieces of silver with hundreds of years of accumulation.

Although Kong Yinzhi has only served as Yansheng Gong for 2 years, he has also had a lot of dealings with those rogues and officials and soldiers.

Before he sent 100,000 taels, Li Xianzhong didn't even want to open it, he made such a big move, it was not just 600,000 taels that could be sent away.

Kong Yinzhi said: "Since it is to seal the mouth for the Kong family, this silver is naturally from my Kong family, I don't know when Ning Yuanhou will be able to send troops south?" ”

Zhu Chunchen said: "As long as the sealing silver is in place, no one will mention this matter again, as for Kong Yintao, he himself is no longer willing to return to Qufu, Ning Yuanhou will arrange him in a safe place, and will definitely not let him come out to talk nonsense again, this Yan Shenggong can rest assured." ”

"Regarding the issue of exterminating the Liukou, Marquis Ning Yuan still needs the help of the Holy Duke of Yan?"

"The reason why a large number of people will follow the White Lotus Sect to rebel is because their lives are unsustainable."

"There is a way to get rid of thieves in the mountains, but it is difficult to get rid of thieves in the heart. If we don't find a way to settle them, I'm afraid these thieves will not be able to completely exterminate them! ”

"Marquis Ningyuan, you need the Kong family to provide 200,000 mu of fertile land in Yanzhou, with these fields, the rogue will collapse without a fight!"

Kong Yinzhi knew that Li Xianzhong would never let go of the Kong family easily, but with 200,000 mu, his appetite was too great.

He hadn't replied yet, and Kong Shangyu on the side said: "To appease the people, that's a matter for the imperial court." 200,000 acres of land costs almost 3.5 million taels of silver, where can my Kong family afford it? ”

Kong Yinzhi also said: "Although my Kong family is willing to share the worries of the imperial court, the amount of these 200,000 mu of land is huge, and we can't afford it!" ”

Zhu Chunchen said with a smile: "3.5 million taels, this is the purchase price of the field in a normal year." In the past two years of drought in Shandong, 200,000 mu of land can be exchanged for more than 300,000 stone of grain. ”

"Everyone knows who has the most grain in Yanzhou and who takes the opportunity to annex the most land at a low price. Everything pays attention to a cause and effect, and if it were not for the excessive annexation of this land, why would it lead to today's disaster? ”

"How much food did the Kong family subsidize to Liukou, you know in your hearts, these things are not enough for the Kong family to have 2 months of peace money, right?"

"Once Marquis Ning Yuan sends troops, you don't have to spend money and food on the White Lotus Sect anymore, so that you can really protect the Kong family."

Kong Yinzhi said: "This matter is very important, Kong still needs to discuss with the elders in the clan before he can reply to Cheng Guogong, and please take a break for the time being!" ”

Zhu Chuncheng said: "It is rare for my father to come to Qufu, so naturally I want to go to the 'Sankong Holy Land' to pay respects!" ”

In today's situation, Zhu Chunchen is not worried that the Kong family will not obey at all.

Kong Yinzhi's move is nothing more than who will share the 200,000 mu.

Sure enough, only 2 hours later, Kong Yinzhi handed over the relevant field deed to Zhu Chunchen.

Yanzhou is located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, and the fertile land here is naturally valuable, but it is a pity that these are not his share in becoming a prince.

This time he came forward to beat the Kong family for Li Xianzhong, and Zhu Chunchen still took a lot of risks.

The weight of the Confucian family in the world is not light, but Li Xianzhong promised to take out 300,000 taels of silver, of which Zhu Chunchen received 200,000 taels and Zhang Weixian also had 100,000 taels.

Zhu Chunchen's Shenji Battalion was defeated, and this time it can be regarded as a blessing in disguise!

After getting rid of the Kong family, the next thing is naturally how to purge the remnants of the White Lotus Sect.

At present, the territory controlled by the thieves is still relatively large, and in addition to the northern area with Dongpingzhou as the core recovered by Li Xianzhong, only Yanzhou, Jining, and Qufu have not been lost, and the rest of the vast areas have almost all fallen.

Li Xianzhong still decided to start from the periphery first, slowly compress the territory of the Liukou, and finally annihilate them in one fell swoop.

After Xu Hongru learned that Kong Yinzhi refused to continue to provide him with money and food, he decided to "drive the expedition in person".

However, in the face of Mao Wenlong's 3,000 Liaodong iron cavalry, Xu Hongru's 100,000 army could not help them at all.

After several battles, his White Lotus Sect lost five or six thousand casualties, and the Ming army almost did not suffer any casualties.

That is, Li Xianzhong ordered the Liaodong Iron Cavalry not to take the initiative to attack and pursue the bandits, otherwise his 100,000 people would have been scattered as birds and beasts!

Xu Hongru saw that this could not be done, so he urgently ordered the White Lotus Sect members stationed in various places to move closer to Qufu.

If the combat strength of the sect members under him is not good, then they can only rely on the number of people to strengthen their courage.

His move can be said to be in the hands of Li Xianzhong.

Taking advantage of the absence of the main force of the White Lotus Sect, the British Duke Zhang Weixian led the remaining 25,000 Beijing battalions to set off from Puyang, which can be described as a success.

In less than ten days, it recovered Yuncheng, Juye, Caozhou, Dingtao, Jinxiang, Chengwu, Shanxian and other places all the way, and directly liberated the vast areas of southwest Shandong.

This record made Zhang Weixian himself can't believe it, these rogues are so vulnerable? actually made the cowardly Jingying on weekdays show self-confidence.

Liu Zhaoji, the general soldier of Shandong, set out from Linyi and successively recovered Feixian and Tancheng.

After three days and nights of fierce fighting, he conquered Teng County, which was heavily defended by thieves, and annihilated 20,000 thieves.

Xu Hongru saw that the official army had surrounded him from all directions, so he had to give up the siege of Yanzhou City and lead the main force to retreat to his old nest Zou County.

Previously, Li Xianzhong attracted the main force of the Liukou in the Qufu area, so he did not let Mao Wenlong chase and kill.

At this moment, the Liukou belong to the Great Retreat, and the Ming Army will naturally not let go of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

In the face of the few poor rogue cavalry, they rushed forward and slashed.

How could a group of rogues on horseback be a match for heavily armed hoplites?

The Ming army didn't even need to turn their horses' heads for a second charge, and they defeated more than 1,000 rogues who intercepted them in just one shot.

Then it was a burst of slashing and slashing at the fleeing rogues.

I saw that the Ming army kept waving their swords, and these rogues were cut off their horses in an instant.

The combat power of the two sides was already very different, and the Ming army had easily defeated these rogues in the previous encounters.

The Ming army inevitably became contemptuous.

Soon they pursued to Beacon Hill south of Qufu.

On the hillside, the right prime minister Chen Canyu said: "Your Majesty, the Ming army has entered our ambush. ”

Xu Hongru said: "The officials and soldiers are arrogant and slaughter countless of my sect members, and this time they will definitely have no return." ”

With Chen Canyu's order, the White Lotus Sect members who were ambushed on the mountains on both sides immediately pulled out the wooden bars that were stuck in the boulder.

Soon huge stones rolled down the mountain, sealing the narrow mountain path.

Mao Wenlong knew that he had been ambushed by the thieves, and just ordered the army to turn around, and the mountain road behind was also blocked by the falling boulders.

Although all the Liaodong Iron Cavalry were wearing armor, and the Liukou bows and arrows could not help them, the rocks and logs that rolled down from the mountains still caused them some casualties.

Many soldiers were hit by these things that rolled down, and they were instantly knocked down by the tremendous impact and pain, and their bodies were like a ripe fruit, limp to the ground, blood oozing from the wounds, staining their clothes red.

Although they were all veterans of many battles, they still felt a little panicked and helpless when they saw their comrades die tragically beside them.

On the battlefield, time seemed to have stopped, and the air was filled with a strong smell of blood. The shouts, gasps, and groans of pain of the soldiers mingled with the neighing of the horses to form a tragic movement.

At this time, the Liaodong iron cavalry dismounted one after another to find cover and avoid the falling rocks and rolling logs under the mountain.

And the war horses that get along with them day and night have suffered greater losses, the war horses themselves are relatively large, and now they are in a state of fright, and the losses of the war horses are several times higher than the losses of personnel.

At this time, Mao Wenlong also regretted it very much, he really underestimated the enemy.

Two thousand of the three thousand men were besieged in the valley, and although there were still a thousand cavalry who did not enter the ambush circle, they could not do anything in the face of the boulders blocking the valley.

Although the falling rocks and logs on the mountain caused huge casualties to the Liaodong Iron Cavalry, this was not what Mao Wenlong was most worried about.

Sure enough, after throwing away all the rocks and logs they had prepared, the thieves began to light a fire down the mountain.

Fireballs were pushed down the hill by the rogues.

But fortunately, this group of rogues is not very professional, and many fireballs have completely fallen apart before they have rolled down a few times.

And they didn't pile up dry wood and fire oil in the valley in advance.

Although they set fire to some of the trees on the mountain, the fire did not spread quickly into the canyon below.

Soon, the news that the Liaodong Iron Cavalry was besieged by thieves in Bijia Mountain reached Li Xianzhong.

So he hurriedly dispatched the Ping Yu Guard.

Before, he also complained about the low efficiency of Pingyuwei's killing, but now he thinks about it fortunately, this time he carried a 6-pound field Franc machine gun, otherwise he could only watch the enemy attack the Liaodong Iron Cavalry in the face of this situation.

Fortunately, not far from Beacon Mountain, with the sound of cannons, the boulder blocking the valley mouth was finally blown open.

The Ming army in the valley hurriedly broke out.

After that, the artillery of the Ming army was directly aimed at the White Lotus Sect on the mountain, and after a while, the rogue on the mountain was beaten and fled.

Mao Wenlong knelt directly on the ground and pleaded guilty, saying: "The last general was reckless, he mistakenly fell into the ambush of the thieves, and lost more than 300 brothers and half of the war horses, and asked Ning Yuanhou to punish him." ”

Li Xianzhong was also afraid for a while at this time, fortunately, the ambush of these White Lotus Sect members was prepared in a hurry, otherwise the Liaodong Iron Cavalry would have folded here.

Mao Wenlong made such a serious mistake, it is not okay not to punish it, otherwise how can he explain to these dead brothers?

So he said: "Mao Wenlong, the deputy general of Liaoyang, rushed forward with light troops, causing heavy losses, and was demoted to Liaoyang general, fined for half a year and heavily punished 40 military sticks. I hope you will take this as a warning, and then wear the sin and make meritorious service! ”

Mao Wenlong said: "Thank you Lord Hou for your extrajudicial kindness, the last general will definitely wear a crime and make meritorious contributions!" ”

This attack also gave the whole army a severe wake-up call.

Every opponent must be respected, and underestimating the enemy is always a taboo.

Think about it from another perspective, if you lead the army to attack this time, I am afraid that nine times out of ten you will also fall into the ambush of the other party.

After all, he only sent 6,000 people, in fact, he had already begun to underestimate the enemy from the time he sent his troops.

This group of White Lotus Cultists is not an ordinary peasant rebel army, but a group of cultists.

That is, there are no conditions for suicide attacks at this time, otherwise their losses will be greater.

Although Xu Hongru claimed that he had no biological mother, he went down to help him and inflicted heavy losses on the official army in Beacon Mountain.

However, he had to face the situation of being surrounded by the Ming army.

Because the county town controlled by the White Lotus Sect has been captured by the Ming army.

Many cultists were also exterminated or scattered by the Ming army.

At present, there are only 150,000 or 60,000 White Lotus Sect members entrenched in Zou County.

That's half of its peak.

But the officers and troops from all walks of life have already surrounded them.

Xu Hongru is also a brainless fool, and he rebelled and called himself a king.

If you are only the king, there is still the possibility of being recruited, and if you have to be called the emperor, how can the court tolerate you?

At this time, the British official Zhang Weixian, the Shandong general Liu Zhaoji, and the Shandong governor Zhao Yan also led their troops to Fu County.

Coupled with the villagers who helped in the war, the Ming army currently has 60,000 horses.

Liu Zhaoji, the commander-in-chief of Shandong, said: "Thanks to the previous attraction of the main force of the Liukou by the Marquis of Ning Yuan to Qufu, our army was able to easily capture their stronghold on the periphery and encircle the main force of the Liukou in Zou County. ”

"Now that our army is strong and strong, we can break the city in one fell swoop and completely exterminate the thieves!"

Li Xianzhong said with a smile: "Now that the thieves are already frightened birds, why do you have to do it yourself to eliminate them?" ”

Although Xu Hongru, a divine stick, was still boasting of the boundless mana of the "lifeless old mother", those White Lotus Sect members who were blessed by his divine power were still blown up by the artillery of the Ming army.

Li Xianzhong also asked people to hold some thorns made of iron sheets and shouted: "Anyone who voluntarily surrenders to the official army, as long as they are not the core backbone of the White Lotus Sect, will be exempted from death and will be punished lightly." ”

"No matter who can arrest Xu Hongru and dedicate it to the official army, he will be pardoned for the crime of rebellion, awarded the hereditary brocade clothes and thousands of households, and given a flying fish suit, and a reward of 10,000 taels of silver!"

At this time, the Qufu Kong family had already cut off the food supply, and the grain reserves in Zou County were getting smaller and smaller!

It was obvious that the White Lotus Sect was no match for the official army at all.

They rebelled but their entire families were killed, so more and more White Lotus Sect members fled to the Ming army and surrendered.

In just a few days, more than 20,000 people had already surrendered to the official army.

At this time, the rebel army could be described as disheartened.

The leaders of the White Lotus Sect, Shen Zhi, Xia Zhongjin, and Hou Wu all found the resourceful right prime minister Chen Canyu.

Hou Wu said: "Prime Minister Chen, now our subordinates continue to run to the official army every day to surrender, if it goes on like this, it won't take a few days, and the brothers will run away without waiting for the official army to attack the city?" ”

Xia Zhongjin also asked: "Is it true that His Majesty said that the main force of the Ming army was completely annihilated at Beacon Mountain?" ”

Chen Canyu looked at these people, smiled slightly, and said: "The ambush on Beacon Mountain is naturally true, and it did surround the main force of the Ming army in the valley, but they used artillery to blast the boulders that blocked the road, and did not completely annihilate the Ming army. ”

Xia Zhongjin said: "That is, the main cavalry of the Ming army is still there, what can we do to resist it?" ”

Chen Canyu sighed: "Judging from the current situation, we have been surrounded by the Ming army in Zou County, and we can't break through at all. ”

"If Your Majesty does not claim the title of emperor, we still have the opportunity to be recruited by the official army; But now that His Majesty has been proclaimed emperor, the officials and soldiers will not let go of us, the backbone of the White Lotus Sect. ”

Xia Zhongjin, who had not spoken at this time, said: "Actually, the official army still left us a way, we can not only be innocent, but also be promoted and rewarded with silver!" ”

After Xia Zhongjin finished speaking, several people's eyes immediately lit up.

Chen Canyu said: "I will let His Majesty inspect Beicheng tomorrow, and a few of you are ready to take down the two brothers Xu Hongru, at least our lives will definitely be saved." ”

At this time, it must be a dead friend who is not a poor man, and soon several people approved Chen Canyu's plan.

On the morning of the next day, Chen Canyu and others escorted Xu Hongru, the Emperor of Zhongxing, Xu Heyu, the king of martyrs, and some of Xu Hongru's backbones to the Ming army camp to ask for surrender.

At this time, after all, there are more than 100,000 rogues, although they have surrendered, but it is also a troublesome matter.

Li Xianzhong beheaded more than 3,000 Xu Hongru's backbones to deter these rogues.

On the other hand, he rewarded Chen Canyu and the other four with 10,000 taels of silver in public, and said that the imperial court would soon grant them the corresponding official positions.

In this way, the betrayal of Xu Hongru by Chen Canyu and others will soon become known to everyone, even if there are remnants of Xu Hongru who want to take revenge, they are also wronged and have debts.

This White Lotus Sect uprising, which lasted for more than two months, was put down in this way!

However, some accidents occurred when escorting Xu Hongru to Beijing.

Wang Xifan and other remnants of the White Lotus Sect actually came to rob the camp at night, and successfully robbed Xu Hongru's younger brother, the martyr King Xu Heyu.

At this time, Xu Hongru had been escorted to the capital, Wang Xifan had been named the king of Hejian by Xu Hongru before, and there were heroic deeds of robbing and rescuing the savior, and the White Lotus Sect members scattered everywhere came to take refuge.

Soon, Wang Xifan, as the king of Jiupin Lotus and Hejian, gathered thousands of White Lotus Sect members in the Yanzhou area and fought guerrilla warfare with the official army.

Li Xianzhong saw that Wang Xifan's nail had been buried, so he led the army back north.

Although this trip to Yanzhou has lost hundreds of elite Liaodong iron cavalry, it has obtained 200,000 mu of fertile land from the Kong family, as well as more than 400,000 taels of silver and more than 800,000 stone grains, which is also worth the trip.

In addition, the nearly 200,000 people captured in various places are also a considerable wealth, and if these people are enriched to Liaodong, then the border people of Hetuala, who were originally established as states, and Kuandian Liubao will also be there.

On the eighth day of September in the second year of the Apocalypse, Xu Hongru, the Emperor of Zhongxing Fulie, was sentenced to Ling Chi in Beijing.

After all, this punishment of a thousand cuts is rare, and many people will never see it once in their lives!

Originally, the executioner was going to cut more than 3,000 knives, maybe his skills were relatively rusty, but Xu Hongru couldn't help but be frightened, and he was scared to death after only taking more than 100 knives.

In the end, the executioner continued to complete the rest of the process, cutting him 3,600 times.

Maybe Wei Zhongxian received 200,000 mu of land from Li Xianzhong before, but he didn't get things done, which made him feel a little embarrassed and wanted to compensate him.

This time, Wei Zhongxian and the Holy Lady Hakka asked the Emperor of the Apocalypse Zhu Youxiao to crown Li Xianzhong as the Duke of Liao, which was actually approved by His Majesty.

On the same day, Li Xianzhong was canonized as the Guanglu Doctor, the Zhuguo, the former general of the conquest, the Liaodong Economic Envoy, the Governor of the Korean Town, the Crown Prince Taibao, the Governor of the Zuodu of the Central Military Governor's Office, and the Duke of Liaoguo.

However, the Emperor of the Apocalypse chose to canonize Li Xianzhong as the Duke of Liao on the same day as Ling Chi Xu Hongru, which is still quite intriguing!

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