Chapter 073

Sun Yuanhua has more than 6,500 Western-style firearms troops under his command, and even if Chen Guodong is mixed with iron, he can be beaten into a sieve in front of the firecracker. Sun Yuanhua has the power to mobilize tens of thousands of troops, set up a set at will, or use crowd tactics, even if Chen Guodong is fierce, then he will not be able to fly out of Dengzhou City.

I haven't heard of a governor who has to deal with a person and can run away. This in itself is the biggest vulnerability.

Song Xiance doesn't understand?

He actually understood, but he was pretending to be confused.

Some people really don't understand, such as Zhang Yu, he is young, and he has suddenly risen to his current position, he has never experienced this level of struggle.

If Sun Yuanhua is really dissatisfied with Cheng Shijie, he will beat Cheng Shijie first, kill Cheng Shijie, and then cultivate a new person, which will cost more than pulling Cheng Shijie back from the wrong path.

Shen Mingyu may not understand, but Zhou Yandong must understand.

If Cheng Shijie hadn't been sitting in the agency for many years, it would be impossible for him to immediately understand the twists and turns.

When people choose, they consider the gains and losses. When dealing with a certain matter, the first thing to consider is actually the cost and cost.

Song Xiance knelt down in front of Cheng Shijie.

"The men are guilty."

"You are guilty, and you are ...... sin"

However, Song Xiance is actually a merit, if it weren't for the mutiny, Cheng Shijie was not prepared this time, and when he touched the wrong door, he came to the end of the Ming Dynasty unexpectedly, then he really had an accident.

Compared with the trouble that Song Xiance brought to Cheng Shijie, but the credit for saving his life is greater, the world is big, what is Cheng Shijie's own life?

Cheng Shijie did not have Song Xiance, but also let him know what to do and what not to do in the future.

His sharp gaze swept through the crowd, and he found that Chen Guodong was not there, and asked suspiciously, "Where is Chen Guodong?" ”

Song Xiance said: "Back to the lord, at that time, we found out that it was the Laiyang Zhang family's hand, but we didn't find the lord, in order to prevent the Laiyang Zhang family's dog from jumping off the wall in a hurry, we sent an army to Laiyang!" ”

"How many people went?"

"Chen Guodong took Cheng Shi's former president, a total of more than 1,000 people."

"A thousand?"

Cheng Shijie felt like he was sitting on the crater of an erupting volcano right now. Ning Haijun, plus sailors and recruits, is only more than 4,800 people at full strength, and this amount of strength is not even satisfied with the city wall when it is placed in Dengzhou City.

However, they still dared to divide their troops.

"Your guts...... What a ......."

Cheng Shijie was almost speechless with anger.

Chen Guodong with a thousand recruits actually dared to go to the laiyang Zhang family's lair, this Chen Guodong is really ignorant and fearless, in Cheng Shijie's view, the heroes and gentry in the late Ming Dynasty are all local emperors.

They monopolized the land and tied the people to the land. The peasants of this period were not like the later generations, who could work even if the crops were lost.

In all fairness, in the future life, as long as you have hands and feet, you are not lazy or slippery, you can't earn one or two thousand, and you can't earn three or four thousand? Even if you serve dishes and clean in a restaurant, you can earn two or three thousand yuan a month, and it shouldn't be a problem to solve the problem of food and clothing.

However, the people of the Ming Dynasty had no way out at all, so they could only accept the exploitation of the landlords and gentry, otherwise they would not be able to survive. Therefore, the tenants are the slaves of the landlords, and they will do whatever they want, or they will starve to death if they do not rent the land to them.

Under the threat of death, many people have no choice but to compromise.

The Zhang clan of Laiyang fought locally, and Chen Guodong led more than 1,000 recruits from the Ning Navy, but he was afraid that it would be more auspicious than lucky.

Looking at Cheng Shijie's unkind face,

Shen Mingyu said cautiously: "We asked Zhou Xieshou to mobilize the military households of our Ning Navy, and came to Dengzhou City to reorganize forty hundred households, leaving more than twenty hundred households in the Ning Navy to guard their hometowns, and these military households are five buckets of grain every day." ”

"Not stupid yet!"

Cheng Shijie thought to himself, this is simply a mercenary model.

In fact, it is precisely because of this that several stinkers of the Ning Navy not only mobilized military households, but also used the seized silver and grain to hire infantry and sailors of the Dongjiang Army, and finally put Sun Yuanhua's descendants and more than 6,500 Denglai New Army to death, and these more than 6,500 soldiers of the Denglai New Army did not dare to make trouble in three days.

Shen Mingyu continued: "Even if the garrison can't be the governor, then we will occupy Dengzhou City and turn against his mother's court!" ”

"Now that we have occupied Dengzhou City, we have stabilized the situation, but ......"

Cheng Shijie's eyes looked sharply at the generals and said, "We can't do this!" ”

"Why?"

Cheng Shijie arched his hand towards the generals and said: "Cheng now knows, the brothers did not hesitate to bet all their lives for Cheng, after more than three days of hard work, bloody fighting, rescued Cheng Mou, Cheng is very grateful to the brothers for their high righteousness, and thank you for looking up to me Cheng Shijie, for Cheng Mou's willingness to risk the world's greatness." I also know what my brothers really think, and they are counting on me to stand up. ”

"Yes!"

"I can indeed take over the governor's territory and army, and control the military and political affairs of Denglaiqing Sanzhou, everyone who follows me can be promoted and make a fortune...... But not now. ”

Shen Mingyu said: "I don't understand my humble position! ”

"First of all, well!"

Cheng Shijie said: "Cheng Mou, like everyone, has no prominent background, his parents are ordinary people, when he came to Dengzhou City, he took the door of Governor Sun, bought the official of Zuo Qianhu, thanks to the blessing of the brothers, we successfully spelled out Qin Wu Qin Wu, the bandit, Cheng Mou was able to enter the eyes of Lord Futai, and he asked the court to set up the Ning Navy, Cheng Mou has become the garrison of the Ning Navy, the grace of knowing the encounter, the grace of carrying it, if Cheng occupies Dengzhou and takes the territory and army of Lord Futai, then what is Cheng? The wolf's heart and dog's lungs will take revenge...... Is that the kind of person I am? ”

"It's not!"

No one wants to follow a ruthless boss, it is said that this time there is a change, whether it is Chang Yu or Shen Mingyu, including Liu Qingsong, Zhou Ning, including Zhou Yandong, who is not selfish?

Zhou Yandong knew that this matter could not be easily concluded, and he also felt that something was wrong, but he did not dare to insist, because the emotions of the Ning Navy soldiers had been mobilized, and Zhou Yandong was afraid that if he stopped the mutiny, he would not only be labeled as disloyal to Cheng Shijie.

This shows that he did not insist on his own reasons and positions, and he also did not take responsibility.

Zhou Ning and Liu Qingsong and other young Zhuang factions all want to take the opportunity to be promoted and make a fortune, Changyu is their role model, why can Changyu be the president, but they can only be the hundred president?

"The second and most crucial point. We don't have the strength to divide one side and dominate now! ”

Cheng Shijie looked at the officers and said, "Now we are just taking advantage of the tiger's nap, and the second son gave the tiger a stick and knocked the tiger unconscious." The disappearance has not spread, and once the disappearance spreads, we will be in big trouble! ”

"It's their group of soft-footed shrimp, cowardly...... We Ning Navy will not be afraid of them! ”

Liu Qingsong said a little proudly: "The humble post took fifty people and rushed into the camp, and more than a thousand of them surrendered. Didn't even plant a cowardice......"

"If you really think like this, then you are really not far from death!"

Cheng Shijie said: "You may think that the imperial court is far away in the sky, and there is no kung fu to deal with us, but you must not forget, the imperial court occupies the name of righteousness, as long as there is a holy decree, a military order, and the world's soldiers and horses, at least more than 200,000 troops in Shandong will rush towards us, not to mention anything else, the Dongjiang Army in Dengzhou is very capable of fighting, and the Dongjiang Army has fought with Jiannu for more than ten years without food and salary, and how many Dongjiang troops are there in Dengzhou now?" Kong Youde, Li Jiucheng, Li Yingyuan...... Their two thousand cavalry rushed towards us, can we stop it? ”

The generals fell silent for a moment.

Cheng Shijie continued: "The third and most important point. Lord Futai is not sorry for me Cheng someone, nor is he sorry for all of us, we can't do this, more importantly, the imperial court is now fighting with Jiannu in Liaodong, and if we rebel now, we are becoming an accomplice of Jiannu, this matter is going to be poked in the backbone, even if it comes down in the future, it is not ashamed of the ancestors. ”

Cheng Shijie's words were very serious, and now everyone understands that their biggest mistake this time was to make a big oolong, which not only destroyed the relationship between Cheng Shijie and Sun Yuanhua, but also forced Ning Haijun into a dilemma.

Shen Mingyu bowed down and said: "Lord Garrison, I was wrong, I mistook Lord Garrison, and I also mistook my brothers, this matter is the beginning of the humble position, the humble position is willing to ask Lord Futai for the guilt, the garrison Lord beheaded the humble position, although the humble post dies without regrets......"

"What crime please?"

Cheng Shijie glared at Shen Mingyu and said: "You get up, this garrison is not dead, and it is not your turn to take responsibility, brothers used blood to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, Cheng followed suit, now that the brothers have something, how can Cheng stay out of the matter!" ”

Zhang Yu was about to kneel.

Cheng Shijie's voice raised an octave: "We still haven't understood the meaning of this garrison, you are concerned about the safety of this garrison, although you are reckless, but you are not guilty." But there's one thing, you're doing it wrong! ”

"Wrong?"

"Wrong!"

"This garrison wants to take you to get promoted and make a fortune and live a good life, just relying on some small means and tricks, it is far from enough, and striking iron also needs its own hardness, if our strength is really strong, we can live a good life."

Cheng Shijie said: "If you believe me, I will take you down, of course, this is an extremely dangerous road, but also an extremely difficult road, on this road, murderous and thorny, to walk through, it is impossible to easily go without blood or sweat...... Those brothers who want to easily seek wealth and nobility, they can't walk this road, and they can't go through, only those who have left all the delusions of glory and wealth behind can pass this road, as veterans, they should know that when they go to the battlefield and treat themselves as dead, that's right, the more they are not afraid of death, the more they will not die. ”

"I'm willing to be loyal to Lord Garrison!"

"We will be loyal to the garrison!"

"You all go back now, take care of your respective parts, whoever has a problem, this guard will clean up who!"

Cheng Shijie said: "It's almost time now, Lord Futai should calm down, I'll talk to him!" ”

Cheng Shijie walked outside the lobby, he felt a chill on his face, and he raised his head: "It's raining, it's actually raining!" ”

The climate of Jiaodong Peninsula is very stable, very mild, no scorching heat in summer, no severe cold in winter, frost-free period between 165 and 250 days a year, plus the terrain is flat, the land is fertile, and the crops can be harvested twice a year, which is simply heaven.

But the weather is abnormal this year, and in September, a heavy snow came unexpectedly, and then the snow came one after another, and now it actually rained when it should have snowed.

It doesn't rain when it should be, and it rains when it shouldn't, which is simply a way to torture the suffering people.

Of course, this rain tormented not only the people, but also the Dongjiang Army Kong Youde.

Four days ago, the day before the mutiny of the Ning Navy, on October 25, the fourth year of Chongzhen, Sun Yuanhua recovered from a serious illness and issued an order, ordering the Dongjiang Army stationed in the capital city of Laizhou Kong Youde to assemble in Dengzhou City.

Kong Youde received the order on the evening of October 26, and he was ready to lead his troops to Dengzhou, but it was very unfortunate that when Sun Yuanhua's order was sent to Laizhou, Zhu Wannian, the prefect of Laizhou, happened to be too busy.

If you want to say that Zhu Wannian is also a strange person. He is a native of Liping Mansion, Guizhou, and his wife Chang Shi, who married at the end of the year. This Chang family is not a young lady from a big family, she is from an ordinary background, tall and tall, after marrying Zhu Wannian, Zhu Wannian is studying, and Chang is responsible for farming.

Later, Zhu Wannian rose all the way to the position of the prefect of Laizhou, Shandong, but he was very harmonious with his wife. However, this Zhu Wannian is also a two-faced person, and in front of his wife Chang, he is a generous husband. is also a bold and generous official in the officialdom, and his official reputation is not bad.

He has two major hobbies in life, one is to drink, and the other is lustful. Later, he took the trouble to raise a widow who had been widowed for many years as an outer room. Chang actually knew about the widow, but pretended not to know.

As soon as he got off duty that day, he couldn't wait to go to the outer room, and it didn't take long for Zhu Wannian, who was full of food and drink, to fall asleep, and he didn't receive Sun Yuanhua's order.

The system of the Ming Dynasty was very pitiful, especially for military attachés and the military. Just like the movement of a large army, the government will indeed prepare food for them along the way. But the problem was that there was no food to take that day.

Only the next day. And there is not much to provide, only barely enough to eat two meals. This is to prevent the army from getting into trouble when they are well fed and strong......

Daming's official brain circuit, I have to say, is very strange.

Zhu Wannian only opened the order the next day, that is, on October 27th, and asked people to prepare food, and Kong Youde received the food not long before he set off.

It's just that when he just walked to the territory of Zhaoyuan County, Dengzhou Prefecture, it was already raining.

In fact, if it weren't for Zhu Wannian's delay of a day, with the marching speed of Kong Youde's troops, he would actually have arrived in Dengzhou City before the officers and soldiers of the Ning Navy did not find Cheng Shijie.

But because of the delay, when they arrived at Zhaoyuan County, Zhaoyuan County did not provide them with grain and grass, on the grounds that they should have arrived yesterday, and they deserved to starve if they arrived a day late.

Kong Youde was angry in his heart, but he couldn't attack, as long as he dared to say that it was Zhu Wannian who made things difficult for him, he didn't want to get a grain of grain in other counties and cities.

There was no choice but to grit your teeth and hurry.

Rushing on a snowy day, the impact on the cavalry is not too great, but for the rainy day, the impact is great, many war horses because of the mud road slippery, fell to the ground, many Kong Youde cavalry was rolled into mud monkeys, how embarrassed and embarrassed.

But the problem is that the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty have extremely strict requirements for military generals, and he has been delayed for more than a day, and if he continues to delay, he will not be able to arrive at Dengzhou City on time.

In desperation, Kong Youde's soldiers galloped back and forth on fast horses, brandishing leather whips to ask everyone to march, which attracted bursts of curses. This unit has not eaten for a day, its morale is low, and it can't get up quickly if it wants to.

Someone simply jumped off the war horse, sat down on the side of the road, and shouted: "Don't go, don't go, kill me and won't leave!" ”

A dead pig is not afraid of boiling water. The emperor is not short of hungry soldiers, they haven't eaten for a day, how obedient can they be?

Seeing that someone picked the head, in the hearts of the army, the entire army instantly herded sheep.

"Yes, hit grandpa, grandpa won't leave, and if you go again, you'll run away!"

"That's it, if you want the master, take the food!"

"What the fuck ......"

Seeing this scene, Kong Youde was secretly bitter in his heart, and he said loudly: "Brothers, everyone work harder, we will be able to reach Qixia soon!" When I arrived in Qixia, I had food to eat! ”

Kong Youde's empty checks have been written too much, and the soldiers no longer believe him, thinking that he is just a mouth cannon, what he says is not a word, there are too many lies, and the effect is gone.

The soldiers were lying in the mud, and they were not virtuous at all.

At this time, Kong Youde was also very helpless.

As a hard-bred man, he worked as a miner and starved. If Mao Wenlong hadn't saved him, his grave, no, there could be no grave, maybe the bones would have turned to ashes.

As a poor man, he is still quite good for his own troops, at least he only drinks 20% of the blood of soldiers, which is much more benevolent than other generals. He also wanted his troops to be well fed and drunk and march in good spirits. But firstly, they were shy in their pockets, and secondly, the Shandong merchants were very unfriendly to them, the soldiers and generals from the Dongjiang Army, and even if they had money, they could not buy food.

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves came from far and near.

This is a knight, coming head-on. He wore a strange garment that looked like a cloak, but wrapped his whole body in it, and a thick layer of waterproof mulberry oilpaper was sewn on the outside, making an absolutely practical raincoat.

"Kong Er!"

Kong Er is Kong Youde's nickname.

Two is also a kind of stunned meaning, when Mao Wenlong was under the command, Kong Youde was a fierce general, he must be the first to go in battle, he is not afraid of death, familiar people call him Kong Er, first, he is really the second, and secondly, he is the real second.

"Why are you here?"

Kong Youde saw the person who came clearly, and the person who came was also his acquaintance, Li Jiucheng of the Dongjiang Army.

Li Jiucheng is a gambler and a color blank. At that time, when Ning Haijun was attacking Dengzhou City, he was gambling with a group of gamblers, but Ning Haijun killed the ruffians and hooligans in Dengzhou, and Li Jiucheng, who was dressed in civilian clothes, was treated as a hooligan and cleaned up.

Don't look at these ruffians and hooligans who don't have any great skills, but their vitality is quite tenacious. These social rats used the secret passage to escape outside Dengzhou City.

Li Jiucheng snatched a horse from a landlord's grange outside the city and prepared to report to Kong Youde.

"Kong Er's great opportunity!"

"What?"

"Ning Haijun Cheng Shijie is reversed, Ning Haijun has now entered Dengzhou City!"

"How is it possible, there are only a few people in the Ning Navy?"

"Hey, Cheng Shijie, this guy is extremely ambitious, the Ning Navy only has two thousand five hundred soldiers, but there are eight or nine thousand people under his command, Dengzhou City is now Cheng Shijie's territory!"

Li Jiucheng looked at Kong Youde's surrounding soldiers.

Kong Youde understood, and immediately ordered: "Within thirty steps, no one is allowed to approach!" ”

Kong Youde's guards immediately scattered in all directions, forming a human wall outside.

Li Jiucheng lowered his voice and said: "Kong Er, Cheng Shijie is against you, let's go against it too!" ”

"Are you crazy?"

Li Jiucheng said ruthlessly: "One of the hundred bosses under Lao Geng's hand is called Chen Guodong, do you know him?" ”

"Acquaintance!"

"Chen Guodong followed Cheng Shijie, and now he is Cheng Shijie's henchman, and his promotion is really fast!"

Li Jiucheng said excitedly: "And our Li Zhixiang, who was born in the Dongjiang Army, is faster!" ”

"How?"

"He has gone from a small boss to a commander-in-chief!"

"Commander-in-chief!"

Li Jiucheng said: "I don't know much detail, he now has a town, a wharf, and a salt factory with more than 600 salt workers, how much oil and water is there, you should know, right?" ”

In fact, the more the news spreads, the more distorted and outrageous it becomes.

Li Zhixiang used more than 500 soldiers to see 4,500 naval prisoners, plus tens of thousands of horses and horses from the entire Shandong Bei Japanese Capital Division Yamen. He certainly couldn't see it. In order to buy and win over the old acquaintances of the Dongjiang Army, Li Zhixiang proclaimed himself the commander-in-chief of the Navy, and is now stationed in Hot Spring Town, saying that it is a town, but in fact it is a city.

The area of the city is larger than that of Penglai Water City, and there are salt factories and more than 600 salt workers, but it is rumored that everything here has become Li Zhixiang's own.

Li Zhixiang, the little boss, is only a junior in the Dongjiang Army, Kong Youde's qualifications are much older than Li Zhixiang, when the Dongjiang Army was not established, he was already a soldier under Mao Wenlong, and Li Zhixiang was still playing with urine and mud at that time.

In an instant, Kong Youde was moved.

Ning Haijun has good welfare, good food, warm clothing, and good equipment, these are all news that they can inquire.

"Let's go to Lord Cheng Shijie Cheng?"

"You're going empty-handed?"

"I mean ......"

"Let's turn around and go back and take Zhaoyuan County!"

"Let Them ......"

Kong Youde looked at the group of tired soldiers under his command, and he was also weak.

"No, Kong Er, you are also a miner, what kind of life do these miners live??"

Li Jiucheng said with a smile: "You go to the mine first, raise your arms and exhale, those young and strong people who are not yet obedient are like clouds?" You take your soldiers, plus thousands of miners, and are you afraid that you won't be able to take Zhaoyuan County? ”

Kong Youde said with a smile: "It makes sense, if you take this more than 1,000 tired soldiers to Lord Cheng, he will give me a deputy chief soldier at most, and if we have thousands of men under Lao Kong......"

"There is also Zhaoyuan City, this is the west gate of Dengzhou Mansion!"

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