Chapter 236 Daydream

The thousands of soldiers brought out of Dengzhou were all military households of the Dengzhou Zuowei, so they were naturally managed by thousands of households in the headquarters. They were born and raised. They were naturally reluctant to go to Jizhen to fight the Mongolian Tartars.

Now that the imperial court has come to meet the documents from his hometown, the officers of all levels passed on the news, the officers and soldiers did not care about any ban on banning noise in the military camp, and they all cheered spontaneously. The officers did not have any management intentions.

They were also shouting happily there. Jiang Feng, with more than 100 people, arranged these soldiers to be taken home by Qianhu, the Thousand Houses of Dengzhou's Left Guard. He took his subordinates back to Yantai Mountain with his fast horses. Liu Shier was escorted by more than a dozen people in a carriage because of inconvenience in legs and feet.

The two thousand Jiangfeng "housekeepers" stationed in the military camp at the foot of Qianhushou Mountain in Yantai Mountain were asked to be prepared for the departing ten days ago. Many people thought they were going back to Tianjin. As a result, when Jiangfeng took away the soldiers of the Two Thousand Guards, these people were very surprised. There were still about two hundred people left in the private port to take over the scene.

What they were worried about was not the reactionary reactions of the scoundrels on the mountain. Now these people eat well every day and are willing to work, so there will be no hidden dangers. However, the private ports in Yantai Mountain dare not say that they are completely safe. The captain of the Rooster, Agaya and his crew were ordered to not leave the prescribed range before Jiang Feng came back. Of course, the diet and other things were still the same.

The large and small cannons on the Spanish brig were removed. Except for Jiang Feng taking away three Franco aircraft, the rest were placed on the dock. Monk Li's men were also mobilized by more than 100 people. Except for Monk Li and Jiang Feng's ships, the rest of the ships were not allowed to enter the private port in January and March this year.

The Jining Canal is open, and not only grain ships and cargoes from north to south, but also soldiers from the capital and southern Zhili can be sent here at any time. Moreover, the retreating troops in Yanzhou and Dongchang are basically gathered around the Jining city, with about 15,000 people.

Because he leaned against the canal, he didn't have to worry about supplies and slowly recovered from failure. This was a hard bone and could not be gnawed. The wealthy families, gentry and even officials in more than 20 counties in Yanzhou Prefecture gathered in Jining as long as they could escape. Since it was a hard bone, no one was willing to gnawed, although Jining is now known as the richest place in Shandong, but it is also the most difficult place to touch.

However, if you truly understand the art of military affairs, you should concentrate your troops to attack Jining City first. To capture this place, you can obtain rich money and grain, because there are quite a lot of transit warehouses there, and secondly, according to the situation there, except for the troops guarding Linyi, all the soldiers who can fight in Yanzhou gathered in Jining and relied on the supplies there to slowly recover. Although there would be relatively large damage to Jining, you could control the canal hub after the battle, which was a huge bloodline that ran through the north and south of the Ming Dynasty.

The situation at that time was different again, but the bandits were not troops, so naturally there was no long-term and clear plan. Under the persuasion of Wen Dao and others, Jining now has too many troops and horses to fight. If they were beaten, they would lose their dominant position in southern Shandong.

There is a vassal king in Linyi. Although the two vassal troops dare not come out, they guarded the city tightly and were killed by their own vassals. This is a serious crime. Moreover, if Linyi is besieged, the troops from various provinces will soon be overwhelmed, so now there is no time for the foundation to be stable, which is not appropriate.

The other four prefectures in Shandong are all ready for battle, so it is better to consolidate the territory of southern Shandong now. Chen Shizi, who thought he understood the general trend, led his 1,500 horse team to drive away more than 6,000 young and strong men, preparing to besiege Yuyang City.

Chen Shizi was quite a bit of a pattern. Although his subordinates were doing nothing in the counties occupied by them, they maintained the basic order. The stored grains collected by the wealthy families and their looting income could maintain the expenses of nearly 10,000 soldiers. They also had a certain combat power. At least the core of the past, the more than 500 knights were still brave enough to fight and rush.

There are still some small crowds of horses in this thousand,500 horse team, which is much stronger than those teams that are forced to go to the battlefield.

It is naturally what everyone has to do to pick cheap things. Not only Chen Shizi's men gathered under the city of Yuyang, but also the White Lotus Sect, the white-clothed magic weapon that is not true or false. There are also large and small groups of people surrounded by Yuyang. A rough calculation shows that there are nearly 40,000 people.

However, it is really good to be able to fight for four or five thousand. Everyone knows that the rich people in Yanzhou not only fled to Jining, but also many people fled to Yuyang because of the journey and the pursuit of the rioters.

Most of the peasant uprisings in China in history were mostly just at the beginning. There was no big problem with this, but after the power of destruction was formed, the disorderly chaotic people often formed a torrent of destruction. To put it more belittled, it was better to say that it was a locust plague that transited the border.

After the farmers engaged in production became mobs, they only engaged in plunder, and they would only live in vain. A month ago, there were fierce wars everywhere, and various forces emerged one after another. At the beginning, because the wealthy families and governments stored a lot of money and grain, they also supported for a period of time.

Now, there are many forces and gangs that have no food to eat, and the rest are already organized or deeply rooted. For example, Chen Shizi had a team of hundreds of people under his command back then, and he also had the experience of a big village. The remaining White Lotus Sect is almost a professional rebel.

There are also some local tyrants in the countryside who gathered people, and these have all existed. However, these lucky forces still face the dilemma of supply being exhausted and their subordinates being dispersed. They were as tyrannical as the Qin Zongquan tribe under Huang Chao in the late Tang Dynasty. The famine is not yet at that extreme. Rather than saying that the farmers cannot survive, they rebel and make a fortune, it is better to say that it is because someone pushed it at a certain critical line.

Secondly, these people don’t have the courage to do so.

Yanzhou is the largest prefecture in Shandong, and there are thirty-four counties under its jurisdiction at its highest peak. Although it has been changed several times, it still has more than twenty management below, as well as wealthy places like Jining, and large cities like Linyi where vassal kings live. Since it is the place where the prefecture is located, it is naturally very tall and wide. Moreover, there are also soldiers stationed here.

The location of Yuyang is the central hinterland of southern Shandong. If it is in peacetime, it is naturally a land transportation hub, and it is accessible to all places and is rare plains in the mountainous southern Shandong region. However, these are real shortcomings now, and more and more people are fleeing here from all over the country.

But the surrounding soldiers quickly surrounded this place, and it turned into a dead end. Or if you were to catch turtles in a jar, the soldiers and civilians in the city were those turtles.

Cui Chenxing, the prefect of Yanzhou, accompanied by several generals and schoolmen, went up to the city wall to observe the enemy situation. Looking at the dark rebels under the city, he felt a little dizzy.

However, Cui Chenxing knew that he had no choice but to retreat. If the city of Yuyang was broken and he could run out, it would be a serious crime to lose the city. If he couldn't run out, after the city was broken, the wife and daughter in the city would definitely be treated terrible. At that time, I'm afraid he would not mention anything.

Thinking of this, the Yanzhou magistrate Cui Chenxing turned around and gave a big gift to the officers around him. Although it was an emergency moment, Cui Chenxing's actions still scared the officers around him who were only a thousand households, and they all dodged away. Cui Chenxing spoke solemnly:

"The Ming Zimin of the whole city and the Cui family will all be entrusted to the generals. If the city is broken, you and I will all fall into a place of doom."

Several officers answered in unison:

"Our family is a child living in the city. We naturally have to defend the city to the death. Don't worry, sir!"

The chaotic troops besieging the city kept dispersing, and they kept catching people from the surrounding villages to replenish them, demolished various houses, cut down relatively few trees around, and tied them into siege equipment. Then, a month or two ago, the farmers who were still holding hoes and sickles were forced to start siege by various chaotic troops with great names.

Those villages without strong protection and the houses of wealthy families have no resistance to locust-like mobs and chaotic troops. There are many people and people who flock to it, and they will be easily opened.

But Yuyang City is the prefecture of Yanzhou. It has not been affected by military disasters for a century. Although the city walls and various defense measures are outdated, they do not affect the use. There were originally more than 3,000 soldiers in the city, and the strong men from the wealthy families who fled into the city spontaneously went up to the city to guard the city under the organization of the prefect's yamen.

How could those door panels be defensive measures and those ladders tied with tree trunks capture such a big city? Although the people under the city rushed towards the top, they were still knocked down by the rolling wooden stones on the city, and the two sides were in a stalemate. Compared with the increasing deaths of the rioters under the city, most of the casualties in the city were on the first day of the siege. Chen Shizi's men shot the bows and arrows in their hands desperately.

I don’t know where they got the good bows and arrows. Many officers and soldiers from Yuyang City were caught off guard, killing and injured hundreds of people. They were suddenly in chaos and almost collapsed. However, the bows and arrows in Chen Shizi’s hands were not endless. This time, they used up a small amount of inventory, which allowed Yuyang, Yanzhou City, to stabilize the situation.

The White Lotus Sect is known as the direct inheritance of Tang Sai'er. It ate all the plundered food. It naturally had no result when I went to other fellow disciples to borrow food. Among the forces under the city, Chen Shizi's power was the largest, and the food and grass in his hands were also the most abundant.

God knows whether these White Lotus Sects were so confused that they wanted to steal Chen Shizi's food and grass. As a result, they were discovered by the heavily guarded horse team. Wen Dao didn't care about the situation of everyone working together to attack the city, and directly commanded his subordinates to come over. The difference in combat power between the two sides was not a problem, so they could resist it.

The so-called "Divine Army blessed by the Buddha's mother" immediately collapsed everywhere. Although these people ate all their food, there was still a lot of gold and silver left behind. These naturally fell into the pockets of Chen Shizi's "Pingtian Army".

There is no shortage of food in Yanzhou City, Yuyang. The soldiers on the city knew that if they retreated at this time, the mobs who had fought with them for so many days would not have any mercy or wish to forgive the prisoners. Therefore, they showed a fighting will that was quite different from the average level of the Ming army, and they would not retreat in the city.

The prefect Cui Chenxing also led the yamen runners to fight in the city. The families of these people were all in the city. In order to protect their families, they naturally became more tenacious and tenacious.

It was the first month of the lunar month. If it were on weekdays, it would have been a joyful celebration of the Spring Festival, and it was a joyful scene, but now there are bloody killings all over the city of Yuyang, which is extremely tragic.

Chen Shizi couldn't hold on anymore. Although his subordinates were able to maintain their food and grass, they watched their food and grass go down day by day, and the young and strong people who were held hostage continued to disperse, not counting as casualties. They were also a little unable to hold on. On the night of the fifth day of the first lunar month, Chen Shizi called over to the knife.

"If this continues, I'm afraid that Yuyang has not yet been defeated, and our own capital will be compensated. Now we have made a lot of money. If it really doesn't work, let's go back to the mountain to get weeds. Why bother to die at this city?"

"General, Yuyang City is the center of southern Shandong. There are people in it with food. If we defeat this, you can be the king."

When Chen Shizi heard the name of this king, he was stunned and was still a little sober. He spoke from the hesitant words:

"But our supplies are not enough, what should we do?"

"Don't worry about this. Now these are all scammers around you. It's better to waste food than waste..."

That night, the soldiers guarding the city who had been tired for a day suddenly heard the noise of the people and horses under the city. They thought it was the thieves who were preparing to attack the city at night. The Minzhuang and the soldiers under the city were nervously prepared, but no one came to attack the city all night. Instead, the city was filled with people and horses.

Regarding what happened under the city that night, the people in the city guessed the next day. Chen Shizi, who had an absolute advantage, suddenly launched an attack in the middle of the night, clearing all the forces of all sizes and big siege together, and taking all the gold, silver and grain they plundered into their own hands.

Now more than 10,000 people under the city were controlled by Chen Shizi. The next day, all of them were repaired for a day, and Chen Shizi's personal guards were patrolling nervously. If anyone escaped, they would be killed mercilessly. Everyone knew that there would definitely be a more tragic siege tomorrow.

Shandong South is not the world, it is just a corner of the world. When Chen Shizi was blinded by the emperor's dream here, all the troops of the Ming Dynasty were already nervously mobilized.
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