At this time, the naval division stationed in Dengzhou received the news that the Ming army had smuggled into Fushanwei from the southern front, and the naval commander Deng Gang was ready to send the main fleet south to support.

This aroused Li Xianzhong's vigilance!

He didn't expect Hong Chengchou to dare to smuggle without the right to control the sea.

But it's clear he's already won this bet.

Because there are no ports on the southern route, there are really not many sailors left.

Li Xianzhong rejected Deng Gang's proposal to send the main fleet south.

The Ming army did not have a naval division, at best, it was nothing more than a bunch of sampans smuggling, and it made no sense to send large capital ships south.

Just send small warships of less than 1,000 tons over.

Hong Chengchou's move is quite risky, after all, he is in control of the navy and can soon cut off his retreat, the problem is that this is already the first day ago, why there is still no relevant battle report, it is very abnormal.

He remembered that Mao Wenlong had previously deployed to launch a full-scale counterattack against the Ming army near Gaomi.

Hong Chengchou chose to smuggle at this time, and Mao Wenlong's second-line troops should be relatively empty.

He had a faint sense of concern.

So he hurriedly found Wang Xifan.

He said: "Wang Tongzhi (Wang Xifan's position in the intelligence area is to command Tongzhi) There may be abnormalities in various parts of Dengzhou, how many soldiers and horses are there in Dengzhou City at present? ”

Wang Xifan said: "At present, Dengzhou City is guarded by 2,000 White Lotus Sect members and 500 members of the National Public Guard. ”

"I haven't received any news for the time being, but Laiyang County should have reported the local situation to me two hours ago, the envoy has not appeared, and his subordinates have already sent someone to investigate the situation!"

Li Xianzhong said: "It's not good, something must have happened in Laiyang, you quickly order all the White Lotus Sect members in nearby Huangxian and Qixia to assemble in Dengzhou." Lu Xiangsheng was ordered to transfer the 5,000 cavalry on the northern front to Dengzhou. ”

Fortunately, Deng Gang's main fleet was not allowed to go south before.

Otherwise, it is likely to fall for Hong Chengchou's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain.

Then Li Xianzhong ordered Deng Gang to draw a thousand musketeers from the Liaodong Naval Division's warship into Dengzhou City.

An hour later, 500 White Lotus Sect members in Huang County also withdrew to Dengzhou.

However, Qixia's men and horses never moved.

You don't have to think about it to know that Qi Xia should have had an accident.

Sure enough, Mao Wenlong's urgent report came not long after, Hong Chengchou's Yulin Battalion smuggled into Fushanwei and had captured Jimo City.

Mao Wenlong is leading his army to attack Jimo, so that he can pay attention to the defense of Dengzhou.

Of course, there is also a detailed battle report on the defeat of Yang Wenyue's troops of the Ming army in this Gaomi battle.

It can't be said that there is anything wrong with Mao Wenlong attacking Yang Wenyue in Gaomi, but Hong Chengchou skillfully seized such an opportunity.

But in the final analysis, Mao Wenlong ignored the defense of Fushanwei, and the strong maritime superiority of the Liaodong Naval Division made it easy for people to relax, and Hong Chengchou took advantage of this "dark under the lamp".

Since Hong Chengchou sent it to the door himself, Li Xianzhong was not welcome.

He went deep so alone, in fact, he also put himself in a desperate situation.

Once he can't capture Dengzhou City, then he will become a turtle in an urn.

Originally, Li Xianzhong was preparing to fight a protracted war with the imperial court in the Denglai area, consuming the war potential of the Ming Dynasty, thereby dragging down the Ming Dynasty.

But now that Hong Chengchou took the initiative to break the deadlock, how could he not eat the fat meat that was sent to the door?

Soon he sent instructions to Lu Xiangsheng and Mao Wenlong, asking them to send troops and horses back to Dengzhou and eat Hong Chengchou's main force.

And since the Ming army entered the territory of Dengzhou, it can be said that it has been smooth all the way.

There was no garrison in Dengzhou at all, but it only relied on the White Lotus Sect to defend the city, as well as the local officials to maintain local law and order!

So they went all the way north and easily occupied Laiyang and Qixia and other cities.

Because of Hou Yaozong's identity as the leader of the party, these White Lotus Sect members did not cause them too much trouble.

He Renlong said excitedly: "After taking Qixia, the passage to Dengzhou has finally been completely opened. These thieves are really bold, and there are no guards left in the hinterland of Dengzhou! ”

In fact, this is what Hong Chengchou is most worried about, it has been less than two years since Haikou occupied Denglai Second Mansion.

But here is the people's hearts and minds, even if there is no garrison, the people will not resist!

And he heard that Denglai's execution was Liaodong's decree!

Here, the gentry paid their grain in one piece, and all the land was subject to taxes.

It's just that Denglai's conscription is much lighter than in other parts of the imperial court.

This is really terrible, most of the land of the Ming Dynasty cannot be taxed, and the remaining small half, everyone is doing everything possible to evade taxes.

originally thought that Li Xianzhong, the Duke of Liao, was just a military general, but he didn't expect Liaodong's decree to be so powerful.

It seems that he is determined to rebel!

The White Lotus Sect and Haikou, it seems that these are also the masterpieces of Li Xianzhong, the Duke of Liao.

It turns out that even if he destroys Jianyu, he can still raise his own respect!

And compared to Li Chengliang, Li Xianzhong is definitely out of the blue!

Li Chengliang raised Kou in Liaodong just to brush up on his military merits; Li Xianzhong is raising Kou in the Guannei, he is going to destroy the foundation of the Ming Dynasty!

Hong Chengchou scolded angrily: "Li Xianzhong, as the Duke of Liao of the Ming Dynasty, is raising his own dignity behind his back, and he is really a national thief!" ”

He Renlong also reacted at this time, and he said: "It turns out that the White Lotus Sect and Haikou are both ghosts made by Li Xianzhong!" ”

Suddenly, he remembered some past events, and he said: "Maybe Li Xianzhong funded more than the White Lotus Sect and the Haikou, when the last general forcibly crossed the Yellow River in Shanxi to exterminate the Liukou, the fleet that crossed the river was once blown up and sunk by something floating in the water!" ”

"Now that I think about it, how can I have these things? And Li Zicheng's department is also equipped with Lu Mi Gong. It is likely that these rogues have also been funded by Li Xianzhong! ”

Hong Chengchou snorted coldly and said: "It seems that Li Xianzhong has been wanting to kill my Ming for a long time, and this governor will definitely get rid of thieves for the country!"

"Pass the order, and the whole army will quickly march to Dengzhou!"

Hong Chengchou knew that time was everything, and he must rush to Dengzhou before Li Xianzhong reacted.

At this time, he did not even leave a defensive force in Laiyang Tongqixia, which had already been occupied.

If you leave less, you can't hold the back road, and if you stay too much, you can't take Dengzhou. At this time, he was already desperate, leading his 17,000-bird forest battalion to Dengzhou.

When He Renlong led the cavalry to the outside of Dengzhou City, he found that everything was as usual here, and even the city gate was wide open.

Only a few White Lotus cultists conducted routine checks at the city gates.

In the previous Laiyang and Qixia places, they all pretended to be the Liaodong Army under Mao Wenlong and directly occupied the city.

He Renlong felt that these White Lotus Sect disciples were not familiar with the Liaodong Army at all, and Dengzhou City was nothing more than a little more White Lotus Sect disciples.

Since the method of pretending to be the Liaodong Army to open the city gate has been tried many times, he can't miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Soon 300 cavalry were led by the traitor Hou Yaozong to the gate of Dengzhou City.

This amount was also carefully calculated by Hong Chengchou, if it was thousands, those White Lotus Sect disciples would not be able to easily let them into the city, no matter how stupid they were.

Soon, the White Lotus Sect in front of the city gate blocked the way of Hou Yaozong and the others.

Hou Yaozong hurriedly took out his military talisman, which was an identity tag customized by Li Xianzhong for the generals of Liaodong, with his personal information written on it.

Hou Yaozong said: "I was ordered by Mao Wenlong's general army to lead my troops to garrison Dengzhou. ”

Then he took out Hong Chengchou's forged documents.

How could these White Lotus Sect disciples understand this, so it was easy for them to be confused before.

But this is Dengzhou after all, and the White Lotus Sect said, "Please wait for a while, and we will not let you enter the city until we report to the Duke of Liao." ”

At this time, Hou Yaozong's face turned pale, how could this forged document deceive Li Xianzhong?

So he slashed at the White Lotus Sect member and shouted, "Brothers, go into the city with me and capture Li Xianzhong alive!" ”

Soon their group rushed into the south gate of Dengzhou.

Hou Yaozong was directly stationed in Laizhou with Mao Wenlong, and he had never entered Dengzhou City at all, so he naturally didn't know that there was an urn city at the south gate of Dengzhou.

When he rode into the city gates, he noticed that something was wrong.

The urn city was empty, and the gates had been closed.

As soon as Hou Yaozong wanted to turn his horse's head around and leave the city, he heard a loud noise, and the jack pendant on the city gate was put down, and now they were completely sealed in the urn city.

Then a large number of Liaodong troops appeared in the city.

The Rumis Gun in their hands began to shoot mercilessly at the enemy troops below the city.

He Renlong, who was outside the city, saw that something was wrong, and hurriedly led the army towards the city gate.

However, at this time, I saw Wang Xifan, who was wearing a white robe inlaid with golden silk lotus patterns, and said: "The lifeless old mother has long entrusted her dream to the deity, saying that there are thieves who will come to attack Dengzhou today, and you will not die quickly!" ”

Then the White Lotus Sect members on Dengzhou City fired fire guns at the city, and He Renlong, who was one step late, had to order the troops to be withdrawn.

At this time, the urn city was already filled with a mixture of sulfur and blood, and the city was full of the corpses of the Yulin camp.

Wang Xifan said: "The Duke of Liao, the traitor Hou Yaozong and the three hundred heavy armored cavalry of the Yulin Battalion have all been killed. ”

Li Xianzhong said: "Hou Yaozong defected to the enemy, causing the enemy army to drive straight in, and ordered Liaodong to confiscate his property according to the inspection department, and his relatives and family members were punished according to the law!" ”

"It's a pity that there are only three hundred people, and they are cheaper!"

You don't have to guess to know that this must be He Renlong's own initiative, if Hong Chengchou is absolutely impossible to be so reckless.

It is still possible to deceive a small county town by this clumsy method, and he still wants to deceive Lao Tzu in Dengzhou City, he really dares to think about it!

Then he smiled evilly and said, "Wang Tongzhi, send the extra lotus-patterned white robes of the White Lotus Sect to the soldiers, so that Hong Chengchou can taste the power of your White Lotus Sect!" ”

He Renlong knew that he was in trouble this time, not only did he not take Dengzhou, but he also startled the snake.

I had to make people build siege equipment while waiting for Hong Chengchou's main force to arrive.

A few hours later, the main force led by Hong Chengchou came to the city of Dengzhou.

However, at this time, it was already dark, and they could not attack the city, so they had to order the soldiers to prepare siege equipment while guarding against the sneak attack of the thieves in the city.

He Renlong hurriedly pleaded guilty to Hong Chengchou and said: "It's all the last general who is reckless, and he wants to take Dengzhou City in one fell swoop, but he was unexpectedly discovered by these White Lotus Sect thieves!" ”

Hong Chengchou said: "Is there really only the White Lotus Sect in Dengzhou City? ”

He Renlong said: "These White Lotus Sect disciples are all dressed in lotus-patterned white clothes, and they will definitely not be wrong. ”

Although He Renlong said this, Hong Chengchou still didn't believe that only the White Lotus Sect was guarding the city in Dengzhou City.

But time is running out for them at the moment.

He was not sure how long Jimo City would be able to hold Mao Wenlong, or whether Mao Wenlong would give up attacking Jimo City and choose to go north to Dengzhou directly.

But there should still be two or three days.

Now that there is no artillery, Hong Chengchou can only adopt crowd tactics.

Originally, he wanted to besiege them on three sides, not giving these thieves any respite.

However, looking at the giant ship of the thief sailor cruising on the seashore still made him give up this crazy idea.

After all, Zuo Liangyu's men and horses were attacked by the thieves' naval artillery six or seven miles away from the coast, and suffered heavy losses.

This also makes Dengzhou a lot less stressful.

Although the current garrison of Dengzhou has increased to 4,000 people, it is still a bit stretched to defend the three city walls.

Fortunately, as long as they guard a south gate, they will be much less stressed.

Wang Xifan continued to pretend to be a ghost in the city, casting spells again, and having no mother!

It made the White Lotus cultists in the city feel like they had been beaten with chicken blood!

He Renlong shouted: "Governor Hong, the last general will make those god stick troops look good!" ”

Soon, thousands of Yulin battalions held their shields high and launched a charge towards Dengzhou City.

Since the Yulin battalion is a smuggler, it only has light tiger squat artillery.

However, there were Hongyi cannons on Dengzhou City, and one by one the flowering bombs fell into the charging crowd, and the huge air wave directly overturned the charging Yulin battalion, causing them great casualties.

But fortunately, the firing range is relatively long, and the minimum range of the Yulin battalion to rush into the artillery will be fine.

He Renlong said: "The artillery of the Liaodong Army is much stronger than ours, especially the flowering shell, which has huge lethality. Our solid bullets are simply no match for theirs. ”

"Fortunately, the combat effectiveness of this group of White Lotus Sect disciples should not be strong, and they are definitely not the opponents of the Armored Feather Forest Battalion!"

Soon the Yulin battalion rushed to within 100 paces, and the two sides began a battle of firearms.

The firing was still quite intensive, and almost all of the hundreds of feather battalions that rushed to the front row were knocked down.

Don't underestimate these hundreds of people, these heavily armed soldiers are the first to enter the camp, and they are usually the most elite existence in the whole army.

But with the change of tactics, the traditional Xiandeng may have become real cannon fodder.

In the original siege battle, although it was dangerous to ascend first, they did not have such a high death rate with their powerful armor.

But now is the age of firearms, both the Liaodong Army and the Ming Army are equipped with a large number of firearms, and this traditional heavy armor can only be gradually withdrawn.

After paying nearly 1,000 casualties, the more than 3,000 Yulin battalions that attacked finally attacked the city.

Hong Chengchou had a hunch that Li Xianzhong himself was actually in Dengzhou City, and he deliberately let these "god stick army" defend the city so that he could relax his vigilance.

He said: "General He, you will lead three thousand firecrackers to cover the fire for the brothers in the city and suppress the thieves in the city. ”

At this time, there were only the fire gunners and the White Lotus Sect transferred by the sailors in the city, and it should be said that they did not perform well before without hand-to-hand combat.

However, they were still a little nervous in the face of real hand-to-hand combat.

After all, there is a lack of real experience.

In terms of actual combat experience, the Yulin Battalion is indeed superior.

Although the White Lotus Sect members continued to use stones to attack the Yulin camp that had ascended the city, due to the interference of the opponent's firecrackers under the city, their casualties were not small.

In the end, Yu Linwei was allowed to ascend to the top of the city.

Hong Chengchou and He Renlong under the city looked extremely excited, it seems that the combat power of this group of "god sticks" is indeed not very good.

This is also the result that Li Xianzhong wants, to make Hong Chengchou feel that Dengzhou has an opportunity.

His 500-nation public guard has not been used.

With Li Xianzhong's order, they quickly joined the battle and quickly drove down the Yulinwei who had ascended the city.

He Renlong under the city also felt a pity, he had already gained the upper hand, but he actually killed a group of White Lotus Sect members with strong melee ability in the city.

However, the strength of Dengzhou City was like this, and soon they invested a new round of troops.

The two sides fought fiercely in Dengzhou City, but the defenders of the city were few after all, and with the increase in casualties, there began to be a shortage of manpower.

And although the Yulin battalion under the city suffered more casualties, they did get more and more excited the more they fought.

Even Hong Chengchou felt that Dengzhou was about to be captured.

However, he ignored that his Yu Lin Wei had already paid nearly 5,000 casualties in Dengzhou City.

At this time, the Liaodong army in the city had also lost 1,500 people.

Li Xianzhong said to Wang Xifan: "It's time for you, the White Lotus Sect Nine Rank Lotus Stage, to use spells!" ”

So Wang Xifan gave an order, and the White Lotus Sect members in the city hurriedly lit the fuse of the thunderbolt, and as more than 20 thunderbolts exploded under the city one after another, the enemy's siege ladder was blown up by more than 7 percent, and Yu Linwei under the city was directly killed by hundreds!

And the god stick king Xifan started his performance again, he jumped up and down with the magic sword, and said in his mouth: "The lifeless old mother descends to earth, and the divine thunder technique kills the demons!" ”

Yu Linwei, who was lucky enough not to die, also ran back desperately like a demon!

As he ran, he shouted, "These White Lotus Sect disciples know how to demons!" ”

He Renlong slashed the deserter to death with a knife, and scolded loudly: "Whoever dares to bewitch the people again, there will be no mercy!" ”

At this time, the sky was gradually getting dark.

Wang Xifan in the city said: "Liao Guogong look, the beacon fire has been lit on the hillside on both sides of the southwest, and our reinforcements have arrived!" ”

Li Xianzhong said: "It's almost, send a signal for Mao Wenlong and Lu Xiangsheng to attack." ”

With a ringing arrow burst out in the sky over Dengzhou.

Lu Xiangsheng and Mao Wenlong began to lead the cavalry to kill Dengzhou City from the southwest two directions!

Even Hong Chengchou was stunned by the scene in front of him. How did the Liaodong Army come so quickly? After attacking the city for a day, Yu Linwei was already exhausted.

He Renlong was not ambiguous at this time, and hurriedly led thousands of cavalry to meet him.

It's a pity that most of the heavy cavalry it relied on had already suffered casualties before attacking the city, and the remaining hundreds of people couldn't resist the Liaodong army at all.

Especially the 5,000 "assault battalion" led by Mao Wenlong, which was an elite cavalry formed by Li Xianzhong when he was the commander-in-chief of Kaiyuan.

They conquered Mongolia and built a state, and the old battalions of the border army trained on these battlefields were not comparable to the Yulin battalion killing a few rogues.

As soon as the two cavalry collided, they were immediately defeated, and soon He Renlong's formation was torn apart by Mao Wenlong.

And just as He Renlong was entangled with Mao Wenlong, Lu Xiangsheng also took the opportunity to kill him from the flank.

Don't look at Lu Xiangsheng is from Wen Jinshi, but his strength is incomparable, and his big knife weighs 136 pounds when he practices.

At this time, the weight of the big knife in his hand was not light, more than 40 catties.

With his hard work, he directly slashed He Renlong under the horse.

He Renlong is the backbone of this Yulin battalion, originally their morale was not high, and seeing that the lord was beheaded, they collapsed even more. Soon they scattered and fled.

At this time, there were cavalry of the Liaodong Army on both sides of the southwest and Dengzhou City on the north, so they could only flee to the east.

But they stopped after a short run, because there was a vast sea to the east.

The sea is not scary. What is terrible is the huge ship moored on the sea.

With the roar of artillery, dozens of shells fell directly into the dense crowd, causing hundreds of casualties in an instant.

At this time, Li Xianzhong also came here under the cover of a group of guards.

He didn't pay attention to Hong Chengchou, but said to the soldiers of the Yulin battalion: "I am Li Xianzhong, the Duke of Liao, as long as you lay down your arms and surrender, this Duke can guarantee the safety of your lives!" ”

After Li Xianzhong finished speaking, the soldiers of the Liaodong Army shouted in unison: "Disarm and don't kill!" ”

At this time, there were only 8,000 remnants left in the Yulin Battalion, and soon they made a choice for Hong Chengchou!

In fact, at this time, Jimo had not yet been conquered by the Liaodong army, and after Mao Wenlong found out that Hong Chengchou was going north, he hurriedly led the army to chase him.

Leaving Zhao Shujiao to continue to lead the army to besiege Jimo City.

Otherwise, he was much farther than Lu Xiangsheng, and it would be impossible for the two sides to reach Dengzhou at about the same time.

In fact, Li Xianzhong knew that Hong Chengchou did not surrender so easily.

Don't look at the history of his final surrender to the Tartars, but it took half a year before and after.

Literati, there are always some steps.

Li Xianzhong said: "Governor Hong, do you think it is still necessary for the Yulin Battalion in Jimo City to resist? ”

Hong Chengchou was silent!

Li Xianzhong said: "The corpse of the dragon used by this public can be used to open the city gate of Jimo like the Hongyi cannon. I'm just trying to kill less! ”

"Whether Governor Hong wants to go to Jimo to persuade you to surrender by himself, or whether this prince will tie you up to the city to persuade you to surrender, you choose!"

In desperation, Hong Chengchou had to open the gate of Jimo.

With the surrender of Jimo, half of the 30,000 Yulin battalion commanded by He Renlong were killed and half surrendered.

Even if these people surrender, it is impossible to use them immediately.

However, they already knew their identities, and it was impossible to release them back to their homeland.

Li Xianzhong still decided to escort them back to Liaodong and carry out labor reform first.

After all, they are his own compatriots, and he can't mistreat them like he did with the North Koreans, but it's not too much to let them work to earn their own rations.

Now it is difficult for these people to completely return to their hearts, and when they really understand Liaodong, they will change.

This is a ready-made army, and Li Xianzhong naturally will not give up on them.

As for Hong Chengchou, he is not in a hurry to persuade him to surrender, he can let him go to various places first to see and have a long experience.

Soon Li Xianzhong asked Zheng Zhilong to release the news that he had annihilated 30,000 Yu Lin Wei and killed Hong Chengchou and He Renlong.

When Zuo Liangyu heard the news, he quickly gave up Weixian, which he had finally captured, and withdrew to Qingzhou Mansion.

The other Ming armies also retreated on all fronts!

And Chongzhen fainted directly after hearing the news!

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