Chapter 071

Laiyang City is more than two hundred and fifty miles away from Dengzhou, and if the marching speed of the Ning Navy is followed, it will take three days to arrive.

But the problem is that Chen Guodong can't wait.

He actually took the sea route, because the current Penglai Water City and Dengzhou City are all controlled by the Ning Navy officers. Arriving at the Wharf of Penglai Water City, Li Zhixiang learned that Chen Guodong was going to Laiyang City to capture the Zhang clan as a hostage, and without saying a word, he directly hired Chen Shishi, an old acquaintance of the Dongjiang Army Naval Division, the former deputy general of Lushun.

Li Zhixiang actually can't believe Chen Shiji, but he, Li Zhixiang, belongs to the junior in front of Chen Shiji, the deputy general, and a general is not enough to see in front of the deputy general.

Chen was sometimes not happy, of course, Li Zhixiang sent troops to arrest him from his bed, and at that time, Chen was so frightened that he almost couldn't walk on the road at the critical moment when Chen was fighting with his concubine Shen.

In Li Zhixiang, he used the silver of the Yamen of the Shandong Bei Du Division, a total of 4,600 taels of silver, and hired Chen Shi and 47 wheels under his command to transport Chen Guodong and others to Laiyang.

Wheel boat is a kind of melee warfare of the Dongjiang Army, because the Dongjiang Army is poor, even if it is a gunboat of 400 materials, in fact, there are not many of them, and the ship with the most sailors of the Dongjiang Army is actually this kind of wheel ship. This is a wheel boat technology invented by Zu Chongzhi of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and the length of the ship is only 4 zhang 2 and 1 zhang 3 wide.

Another name for the wheel ship is the Senri Ship, which means that it can travel thousands of miles in a day. Of course, this is only a theoretical number, people are not machines, they will be tired, but when the wheel ship is traveling downwind, it is completely possible to travel more than 200 miles a day, especially short-distance charges, very fast.

From Penglai Sailor to Laiyang T-Bay, one day is enough to arrive.

Li Zhixiang killed two birds with one stone, not only transferred Chen Shishi, the general of the Dongjiang Army, but also knew that after the death of Mao Wenlong, Zhang Pan, and Chen Jisheng, Chen Shishi's qualifications were second only to Shen Shikui, and he belonged to the old qualifications. For this former official, Li Zhixiang can't be killed, beaten, scolded, or provoked.

When the convoy was about to arrive in Laiyang City, listening to Chen Guodong's accent, Chen sometimes stepped forward and said, "Brother, you are also from Liaodong?" ”

"Liaonan Haizhou Wei!"

"Fellow!"

Chen Guodong snorted coldly, which was counted as a response.

"Brother, what are you doing to Laiyang!"

"Kill!"

"Your Cheng Shou has a lot of appetite!"

Chen sometimes smiled and said: "Occupy Penglai Water City, occupy Dengzhou City, are you still not satisfied?" What is this going to do? ”

"No comment!"

"This is the job of making a fortune, can you let the brothers get rid of it?"

"Okay, Laiyang City belongs to you, and Laiyang Zhang's family belongs to me!"

"Good!"

On October 27, the fourth year of Chongzhen, that is, the third day of the Dengzhou Ning Navy Mutiny, Chen Guodong led more than 1,000 soldiers of the Ning Navy and more than 600 Dongjiang Army Naval Divisions under Chen Shi to successfully arrive in Laiyang City.

Chen Guodong still took the original way, they squatted outside the city for half a day, and plundered three large and small caravans, originally preparing to infiltrate Laiyang City in the form of caravans.

But the problem was that the soldiers of the Ning Navy who directly approached to reconnoiter reported the news, and he knew that Laiyang City had no preparations.

If you want to talk about the armament of Dengzhou City, it is somewhat impressive. After all, this is the residence of Dengzhou, the commander of the capital of Shandong, and the residence of the governor of Denglai, but the problem is that Laiyang County is only a county, and there are no guards.

Their defense work was undertaken by the commander of the Dengzhou Guard, and once there was an enemy situation, it was the Dengzhou Guard who was dispatched, but now the Dengzhou Guards were all prisoners of the Ning Navy, and it was strange that they could be prepared.

Although Dengzhou has been controlled by the Ning Navy for three days, Dengzhou is allowed to enter but not to leave, and the news of the Ning Navy's occupation of Dengzhou City has not come out.

More than 1,600 soldiers pushed less than 12 carts of goods to Laiyang City, which is a problem that even fools can see, but the problem is that Chen Guodong only spent one or two or four dollars of silver to successfully enter Laiyang City.

For the several soldiers of the defending army, even if Chen Guodong and the others were bandits, they were only rich people who robbed and killed, and they had no head.

After inquiry, Chen Guodong soon came to the mansion of the Zhang family in Laiyang.

The ancestral house of the Zhang family in Laiyang is not in Laiyang City at all, but in Shuangshan. This is a village in the west of Laiyang City, about 40 miles away from the county seat.

pounced, Chen Guodong directly took Ning Haijun directly to Shuangshan Zhangjia Village.

Towards evening, Chen Guodong finally arrived in Zhangjia Village, Shuangshan.

Shuangshan Zhangjia Village is said to be a village, its scale is actually larger than Laiyang City, look at it from afar, only to see an adobe wall, along the village in a circle, on the road at the entrance of the village, it is a stone road paved with stone slabs, a stone road leads directly to the north and south. On both sides of the road, there is a row of blue brick and black tile shops, the shop street is five or six hundred steps long, and behind the shops are rows of roofs, I don't know how many hidden into the courtyard.

You must know that Shuangshan is called Shuangshan, in fact, there is no mountain, but a hilly area, and near Zhangjia Village is a plain. It is a luxury to be able to pave the road with stone slabs.

At the end of the stone street, a rammed earth avenue extends out, which is the direction of Dengzhou City, and it can be said that Laiyang Zhang's Zhangjiazhuang has become a transportation hub connecting Laiyang and Dengzhou.

The scale of this village is far beyond not only Laiyang County, but also Ninghai City.

"Laiyang County is not so prosperous!"

At this moment, a woodcutter carrying dry firewood on his back, he didn't know if his eyes were bad, or he didn't see the Ning Navy soldier behind Chen Guodong, he actually took over the conversation and said: "There is a reason why Zhangjia Village is so prosperous, and that is because the Zhang family has a capable ......."

Regardless of whether Chen Guodong likes to listen to it or not, this woodcutter chattered and told the glorious history of Zhangjia Village.

It turned out that as early as when Zhang Mengli was the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, Li Shilin, who was the waiter of the Ministry of Works, was his friend, and once planned and dredged the Qingshui River to make it a ditch connecting the Dagu River water system. Originally, the Daqing River did not pass through Zhangjiazhuang, but because of Zhang Mengli's relationship, he privately changed the flow direction of the Qingshui River.

This Qingshui River not only facilitates the irrigation of the fields in Zhangjia Village, but also because the Qingshui River can transport materials, it has gradually become the only way from Laiyang to Dengzhou. The Zhang family took the opportunity to build a grass market, and with years of operation, Zhangjia Village was far more prosperous than Laiyang County.

Cheng Shi was a little puzzled: "This person is sick, right?" ”

"No, he is not sick, but he definitely has a grudge against the Zhang family, he is not blind, he sees that we are an army, a murderous army has come to Shuangshan Zhangjia Village, what can he do?"

"He's smart!"

"Yes, he told us that the wealth that the Zhang family has accumulated over the years can be enough for us to spend ten lifetimes!"

Chen Guodong looked behind him: "Did you hear that?" The Zhang family's money is enough for you to spend ten lifetimes."

"I heard you!"

"Kill!"

Chen Guodong held a knife in each hand and rushed towards Zhangjia Village.

"Bell ......"

When Chen Guodong rushed to Zhangjia Village, a team of village warriors also spotted Chen Guodong and the others, and they rang the gong and shouted: "Enemy attack." The bandits are coming. The bandits are coming. ”

A team of village warriors are not in a hurry, they are holding bows and arrows, knives and guns, the guys in their hands are much better than the equipment of the Dengzhou Weizuo Thousand Households, except that there is no armor, there are more than 200 shields alone.

If ordinary bandits come to Zhangjia Village, they really can't take advantage, their village warriors have four or five hundred people, and they are well-equipped, among which there are twenty or thirty heavily armored soldiers.

In this day and age, heavily armored soldiers are simply tanks, standing there and not moving, let you cut, you can't cut.

The Ning Navy soldiers marched forward as they formed their formation.

Ning Haijun is not an ordinary bandit, this is an army built by Cheng Shijie with a lot of money, everyone according to the value of equipment on the market, Ning Haijun soldiers are each hand a crossbow, in addition to the thunderbolt.

Five taels of silver.

Each person has a dog-leg knife, according to the broken iron knife is worth eight or nine taels of silver, this dog-leg knife is worth at least ten taels of silver, of course, the actual cost is less than two taels of silver.

Coupled with their helmets, armor, cotton clothes on their bodies, and cotton shoes on their feet, from head to toe, the equipment alone costs thirty or forty taels of silver, and if they put down the entire Ming Dynasty at this time, they are probably three points richer than the Guanning army.

"Array, shoot!"

As the Ning Navy soldiers finished arraying, the crossbow shooters who were marching began to kick on their feet.

"Shoot!"

"Oo......oo

As the metal trills fired from the crossbow machine shook everyone's heartstrings, more than two hundred one-foot-eight long crossbow arrows burst out, and the arrows of these crossbow arrows were all triangular.

Like in the past, this kind of three-edged arrow needs to be hammered out by the craftsman, and now it is not used, a version of the mold, a full one hundred and twenty-eight, pour water molten steel, after simple heat treatment, directly live, as for the crossbow arrow arrow on the flying edge and burr, so that it can increase the lethality.

Because these Xiangyong's shield players were in front, the crossbow arrows like a storm were not very effective, at least Xiangyong's more than 100 shields were immediately like overgrown weeds.

However, the village Yongke, who was not protected by the shield, was miserable, and they were shot to the ground like wheat cut by a sickle.

The blood of those villagers who were hit by the arrows was splashed and screamed again and again.

The crossbowmen of the Ning Navy in the first row didn't care about the shooting effect at all, and after they finished shooting an arrow, they immediately gave up their positions and began to equip themselves to wind up again.

Almost at the same time, the Ning Navy soldiers in the second row stepped forward and shot with their crossbows.

"Blossom ......"

Those villagers with shields, but the boats in the storm.

"Where did this bandit come from, so powerful?"

The leader of the Xiangyong should also be capable, and immediately realized that he couldn't be beaten like this, but Ning Haijun's arrows were endless, and the second row was empty, followed by the third row. When the third row finished shooting, the first row reloaded the crossbow fire.

More than 200 shots in one round, round after round.

The archers of Xiangyong wanted to fight back, first of all, the bow and arrow were not as good as the range of crossbow arrows, and secondly, they had no chance, they didn't even have time to shoot an arrow, let alone show their superior martial arts, so they were shot into hedgehogs!

"Rush up and fight them in close quarters, or we'll all be finished!"

The leader of the Xiangyong, the Xiangyong gave the order.

It's just a pity that the Xiangyong of Zhangjiazhuang are all composed of tenants of the Zhang family, although they also have a salary to get, and it is not low, one or two or five dollars of silver a month, which is higher than that of the Ning Navy officers.

However, the problem is that the officers and men of the Ning Navy know what they are fighting for, and they know that Cheng Shijie said that he would give them a pension standard of 100 acres of land, that is, 100 acres of land, and the pension is 20 taels of silver, which is 20 taels of silver, which is not a small penny.

It's okay for Xiang Yong to fight a good fight, but it's almost interesting to fight this kind of tough battle.

Finally, under the condition of whipping, shouting, punching and kicking, these villagers stepped forward timidly.

After the crossbowman of the Ning Navy finished shooting the third crossbow arrow in his hand, the thunderbolt of the support post completely turned from the marching state to the combat state.

The recoil of the Thunderbolt is very large, and when shooting, it is not fired on the stand, but like an artillery, the Thunderbolt is fixed on the ground with a hoe, so that it can shoot normally.

"Report, Thunderbolt ready!"

"Fire"

"Bang ......"

With the firing of the Thunderbolt, the Thunderbolt fire is not only moving, because it is not smokeless gunpowder, when it is fired, it should be like setting off firecrackers, and a large cloud of smoke will rise immediately in front of the Ning Navy.

Although I can't see the situation in front clearly, it doesn't matter, in fact, there is nothing to look at, and now the Thunderbolt shooters know that in front of their Thunderbolt, they are all scum.

Seeing that Xiang Yong was about to rush to the front of the Ning Navy, at this time, the shield hand holding the shield in front of him was miserable, the shield that the crossbow arrow could not shoot through, a dozen was a big hole, and some shields were even directly shattered.

Thunderbolt can ignore the shield of these villagers, just a large disk, twenty-four thunderbolts, firing 720 rounds, the villagers in front of their formation, the whole army was wiped out, and none of them were spared.

The battle began abruptly and ended hastily.

The current sword and shield hands of the Ning Navy were at a loss, and the enemy was shot by the Thunderbolt, so what else do they want them to do?

"Stunned? Rush into the Zhang family's old house, and die if you don't fall! ”

Who would have thought?

One of the most tragic battles of the Ninghai Mutiny actually took place in Zhangjia Village, west of Laiyang County. In less than a quarter of an hour after the two sides fought, more than 500 villagers of the Zhang family were actually their Zhang family's private soldiers, and all the troops were wiped out, and none of them were spared.

And the Ning Navy paid six soldiers wounded and one soldier killed, this soldier who was a recruit of the Ning Navy, the gunfire stopped, and he rushed forward without an order.

In order to cut off a few more heads in order to earn dozens of acres of land, he would take his own mother Lao Tzu from Shuanglu Island in the future, but as a result, the soldier was hit in the back of the heart by the thunderbolt that was being shot, and his entire chest was beaten to pieces.

The only death of the Ning Navy was actually a mistake.

It's no one anymore.

Of course, they didn't know that in the hundreds of years of fighting in later generations, various oolong incidents emerged one after another. For example, in World War II, Italy's top military commander in Libya, Marshal Balbo took the opportunity to inspect the battlefield, but he was shot down by the anti-aircraft guns on his own warship on the way, which also became the highest-ranking person killed by the Italian army in World War II, but unfortunately it was their own marshal. There was also an oolong incident in which the navy of the country beat the president, but unfortunately it did not succeed.

After a moment of delay, Chen Guodong finally came to the gate of the Zhang family's old mansion, and when he saw the Zhang family's old house, Chen Guodong was also dumbfounded, this fortress is bigger than Penglai Water City.

You must know that Penglai Water City is very small, covering an area of only three hundred and twenty-five acres, but the big mansion of the Zhang family is four or five hundred acres, such an area is placed in Laiyang City, it is estimated that nearly half of Laiyang City will be demolished, and it is worthy of the name of Zhang Bancheng.

This is a complex of buildings composed of blue bricks and gray tiles, the courtyard wall is more than four meters, and it is covered with arrow towers and watchtowers, at this time, the gate of Zhang's house is closed, and hundreds of archers are trembling on the ridge of the wall.

"Come out and surrender or die!"

Persuasion is actually just a routine formula.

Like greeting, Chen Guodong said: "Lao Tzu is only looking for Laiyang's surname Zhang, and no one has anything to do with it, get out of the way......"

However, what Chen Guodong didn't expect was that those Zhang family members and private soldiers actually really opened the door.

"It's ......"

Chen Guodong swaggered into the old house of the Zhang family, and the Zhang family trembled.

Just as Chen Guodong rushed to the Zhang family's old house, Cheng Shijie was also rescued from the vault by Ning Navy soldiers.

"Meet the Garrison!"

Shen Mingyu and hundreds of Ning Navy soldiers looked at Cheng Shijie excitedly.

Of course, due to this hurry, the clothes Cheng Shijie wore were still casual clothes for later generations. But at this time, no one cared about this problem, seeing that Cheng Shijie was wearing thin clothes, he immediately found a black bearskin coat.

Not to mention, the bearskin robe is indeed very warm, and this leather robe has been smoked with spices, with a faint smell of spices.

It's just that it's warm up there, but it's still cold down there.

"Garrison-sama, are you alright?"

"It's okay, it's just a little cold!"

Cheng Shijie felt a little hungry, this time it was not because of the hunger caused by carrying heavy objects, but because when he was in the next life, he drank with his grandfather Jiang Feng, but he didn't eat much just by drinking. Now I feel hungrier.

"Come on, prepare the meal!"

Soon, Cheng Shijie ate hot pot in a large house in the courtyard, there was no way, the hot pot was relatively fast. The hot pot is boiled directly, and then the frozen lamb is cut into thin slices.

This is pure mutton, not the artificial synthesis of the hot pot restaurant in later generations, and it is difficult to eat pure mutton or beef in the general hot pot restaurant or barbecue restaurant, because it is too expensive.

watched Cheng Shijie gobble up mutton.

Shen Mingyu's face changed greatly, he turned around and walked to the door, and ordered the soldiers beside him: "Come on, who is that, Zhang Shigang, yes, hang a tree for me!" ”

Zhang Shigang, who had already been beaten by the officers of the Ning Navy and had a blue nose and swollen face, screamed all the way and hung himself from a tree on the side of the road.

After a while, his screams grew lower and lower.

"Roast him on a fire, don't freeze to death. Damn it, dare to torture our garrison adults, it's tired and crooked! ”

There is a good saying, the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, Cheng Shijie locked Zhang Huairen in the firewood room in the garrison yamen, beat him three times a day, and returned to him for treatment when he was injured, just for fear that he would die.

It is rumored that this is the end of offending Cheng Shijie.

Then, they must be on par with Cheng Shijie, otherwise they are not worthy of Cheng Shijie's soldiers.

Finally full, Cheng Shijie also felt very comfortable, and his body warmed up.

"Mingyu, how did you find here?"

Cheng Shijie didn't know at this time that the officers of the Ning Navy had turned Dengzhou City upside down.

Fortunately, Cheng Shijie promulgated relatively strict military discipline for the Ning Navy, and the ordinary people were not disturbed, but the ruffians and hooligans in Dengzhou City and the shops and protégés of the Zhang family in Laiyang could have fallen for eight lifetimes. In particular, the ruffians and hooligans in Dengzhou City were cut down more than 500 people before and after, and more than 1,000 people were disposed of.

Of course, there must be something wronged in this. However, there is absolutely no innocent, just like the thugs of the Xingping pawnshop, when they came to the door of a family to force a debtor, they happened to encounter the patrol of the Ning Navy. Cheng Shijie had no news for three consecutive days, and these Ninghai soldiers cleaned up the ruffians and hooligans fiercely.

Not to mention, the current Dengzhou City has become unstoppable, never closed at night, and public security is definitely the most exemplary city in the world.

"What did you say, you staged a mutiny?"

Cheng Shijie didn't react for a long time.

God, is this a dream?

There are only 2,500 veterans in the Ning Navy, and it is said that the oldest veterans have participated for only three months.

What's more, nearly half of the Ning Navy is recruits, and they can't even tell the difference between left and right.

You group of second goods, who gave you the courage to dare to attack Dengzhou City?

Liang Jingru?

What's even more outrageous is that it actually became.

It's not fucking reality, it's definitely a dream.

Just like in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Changshan Zhao Zilong entered and exited seven times in Cao Jun, not to mention the wolf-like Cao Jun, just a group of wild boars, let Changshan Zhao Zilong go in and out seven times?

can come out completely, he has the ability.

Cheng Shijie came to the Yamen of Dengzhou Governor and saw how Song Xiance sent them troops, how to capture the city, how to surprise attack, how to capture Dengzhou City, how to and so on.

Song Xiance, Shen Mingyu, Zhang Yu and other generals knelt down on one knee in front of Cheng Shijie, and explained the entire process of the mutiny under the pretext of pleading guilty.

Cheng Shijie's gaze slowly swept over the faces of the generals.

Whether it is Song Xiance or not, including the oldest Zhou Yandong, they all have an expression of "adult, praise me quickly".

Looking at Cheng Shijie's gloomy expression, these generals finally slowly realized that something was wrong.

Soldiers are generals, this is the logic of all the generals of the Ming Dynasty.

Song Xiance reacted, he overstepped his authority once, although he originally intended to rescue Cheng Shijie, but the problem was that they moved their minds that they shouldn't have moved.

The cold wind was howling outside, and thin beads of sweat appeared on Song Xiance's forehead.

Zhou Yandong was the second to react, and it wasn't until Zhang Yu reminded Shen Mingyu that he reacted, and they quickly knelt in front of Cheng Shijie on both knees.

Being in a hurry to make decisions without authorization and exceeding one's authority is the biggest taboo for the master.

Secondly, they didn't understand the situation at all, it wasn't that Sun Yuanhua wanted to arrest Cheng Shijie in order to seize the command of Ning's navy.

The real reason for this matter is the retaliation of the Laiyang Zhang family, so that since then, they have been passive and have made great mistakes......

"Lord ......"

"Shut up!"

Cheng Shijie was really heartbroken at this time, and he had a feeling of dizziness, what kind of group of living treasures did he train......

What's that now? Kong Youde did not rebel, but he rebelled......

Kong Youde's rebellion, the most lethal thing for the Ming Dynasty was not the firearms that Kong Youde brought, but Kong Youde's rampage in Shandong, rushing to the state and the government, directly turning Shandong, a place where the Ming Dynasty was plastered, into a white land.

This is greater than the losses caused by Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong.

You must know that Shandong was the hub of the Ming Dynasty's Cao Yun, and if the Cao Yun was cut off for more than a year, how many people would starve to death in Beijing?

Although there is no record of history, there is definitely no less.

In the entire Ming Dynasty, the grain in the north could not be self-sufficient at all, the transportation was broken, and the maximum grain reserve period was only three months, so the question is, how can three months of grain be eaten for a year?

The answer is very cruel, starving the common people, people dying, naturally will not consume food.

When looking at history, don't be easily deceived by superficial words, the truth of the problem is actually found in the subtleties.

Just like the battle of the Daling River, Zu Dashou was besieged, Wu Xiang and Song Wei supported the Daling River three times, once with 2,000 reinforcements, the second with 6,000 troops, and the third time with 6,000 men.

Can 6,000 men and horses break the encirclement of more than 50,000 Jiannu?

It's simply impossible, if the Guan Ning army has the ability to kill 50,000 Jiannu with 6,000, then what's the matter with Jiannu?

Looking at the results of the problem, the Daling River was demolished, Zu Dashou was demoted to Jiannu, and Sun Chengzong was impeached and left in the wilderness......

Sun Chengzong went into the wilderness.

Sun Chengzong went into the wilderness.

Sun Chengzong went into the wilderness.

That's the real purpose.

On the Internet in later generations, many people sprayed Sun Chengzong as a sinner who died in the Ming Dynasty, and he missed any national strength.

Keep in mind that in the eleventh year of Chongzhen, Jiannu attacked Gaoyang in a big way, and at that time, Jiannu did not have the idea of entering the customs and sitting in the world, just grabbing a handful and leaving.

But the problem is that Gaoyang County is neither a strategic place nor a rich place, even if they break through Gaoyang County, what can they get?

There is only one answer, that is, Sun Chengzong's heroic sacrifice.

This is the truth, why did the Qing army kill Sun Chengzong?

Because of Sun Chengzong's strategy, Jiannu fell into a situation where there was no food to eat, and a bucket in Liaodong was sold for eight taels of silver, more than eighty taels of stone, which was more than 160 times the price of grain in the Guannai.

Who can afford to eat such high-priced food?

Jiannu ...... Hehe.

Cheng Shijie learned of Sun Yuanhua's whereabouts and found that Sun Yuanhua was still locked in the utility room, and he said to the generals: "You didn't kill the governor, you finally did the right thing!" ”

If Sun Yuanhua is killed, then Cheng Shijie can only go all the way to the dark.

"Now...... How did it end? ”

Fortunately, Song Xiance still has some conscience, and he is afraid that Sun Yuanhua's body will not be able to hold on, although it is a utility room, eating and drinking are provided as usual, and two braziers are put and given to the futon.

At this time, Sun Yuanhua was lying on the bed, his face was not washed, his teeth were not brushed, and he was extremely embarrassed.

The dignified Ming military department squire, the right servant of the imperial history, and the governor of Denglai fell to this step.

Cheng Shijie hurriedly pretended to be frightened and said: "I am rude to see the governor, the soldiers are rude, and I am worried about Lord Futai, which is really a crime that deserves death...... Lord Futai, the lowly position is also helpless, and the lowly position does not know about it......"

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