The military situation was raging. Since setting off from Cangzhou on the 24th, the troop urging orders from Shandong Governor Zhu Dadian had not stopped for a day, just like the twelve gold medals Yue Wumu received.
The last order actually required the Jinzhou Army to arrive in Laizhou within three days, otherwise military law would be imposed!
All the generals said that Shandong was pushing too hard and being too unkind. They had to travel day and night, and it would take at least four days to reach Laizhou.
Moreover, the Liao army is a guest soldier. How can there be any reason in this world to urge the guest soldiers so much, and to engage in military law? Is there such an unreasonable governor? Could it be that all his Shandong soldiers and horses are dead, and he is counting on their Jinzhou army to fail!
The dissatisfaction of the generals is not unreasonable. According to his urging method in Shandong, this battle cannot be fought at all, because the people have not arrived yet, and they may die of exhaustion on the way.[
However, Shi Dayong understood that the situation in Dengzhou may have reached the most dangerous point, and it was estimated that it could be captured by the rebels at any time. Otherwise, Shandong Governor Zhu Dadian would not have been so anxious to get angry and urge him.
His judgment was correct. At this time, Dengzhou was really at the last moment. Kong Youde was only one step away from taking over the city of Dengzhou. The key reason for the sudden turn of events was still the bookish governor Sun Yuanhua.
After appointing Geng Zhongming and other Dongjiang and Liao generals to command the Liao army in the city, Sun Yuanhua once again misplaced his personnel and sent Zhang Tao, an old Dongjiang general, to lead the Liao troops out of the city to fight. The original intention was that he and Zhang Ke's Zhejiang troops would jointly attack Kong Youde in order to achieve a victory.
Forcing Kong Youde to accept the imperial court's appeasement.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Tao and Kong Youde were old acquaintances. They had a close relationship when they were in Dongjiang in the past, and they had long wanted to respond to Kong Youde. Because of the soldiers under his command, he did not dare to act arbitrarily. As a result, a pie fell from the sky, and Sun Yuanhua
He actually handed over three thousand Liao soldiers into his own hands!
After getting the opportunity, Zhang Tao immediately rekindled his old relationship with Kong Youde after leaving the city. He surrendered to Kong Youde without firing a shot. The three thousand Liao soldiers he brought out of the city were immediately recruited by Kong Youde, making Kong Youde even more powerful.
With the help of these three thousand Liao soldiers who turned their guns, the rebels surrounded Zhang Keda's Zhejiang soldiers. After barely holding on for a stick of incense, the Zhejiang soldiers' defense line was broken through by the rebels. Finally, with the bravery of the Zhejiang soldiers,
After fighting, Zhang Keda finally fled back to the city in embarrassment with more than 500 remaining Zhejiang soldiers. At this point, no one in Dengzhou City dared to leave the city to fight the decisive battle with the rebels.
After this battle, Dengzhou City, which had lost its mobile troops, was completely surrounded by the rebels, so much so that not even a fly could fly out.
Zhu Dadian, who was rushing to Dengzhou, suddenly lost all contact with Dengzhou on the 22nd.
On the 23rd, several Ming army dead soldiers who had sneaked out before the siege spread the news that General Dengzhou had been besieged.
The frightened Zhu Dadian did not immediately supervise the troops and rush to Dengzhou. Instead, he ordered the entire army to stop advancing and stand by where they were.
Although Zhu Dadian was a civil servant, he had the experience of being a rank-and-file officer in Fujian in his early years, so he was not a nerd who could command with a blind eye when it came to the military.
He knew that the current Kong Youde was no longer Wuxia Amen. Now that he had three thousand Dongjiang and Liao soldiers in Dengzhou City to help him, his strength was no longer what it was before.
With only the 1,800 Qi Jiajun and 3,000 Lu troops under his command, Zhu Dadian no longer had any confidence to go out alone to relieve the siege.
The only thing he can count on now is Gao Qiqian from Hebei and the powerful Liao army assigned to him by the imperial court.
For this reason, he sent people to Gao Qiqian stationed in Shang County to report the military situation in Dengzhou, and at the same time he kept sending people to urge the Jinzhou Army who were still on the way, asking them to move faster, even regardless of the Liao Army's arrival from afar.
In fact, they were forced to rush to Laizhou within three days.
At this point, Zhu Dadian couldn't care so much anymore. He only knew that if the rebels captured Dengzhou, then he, the governor of Shandong, would be done with it, and he would end up like his predecessor Yu Dacheng, sent to the capital to be punished.
The current Jinzhou Army is like a team member putting out a fire. Under the leadership of commander Shi Dayong, it rushes towards Dengzhou at a rapid march.[
How could the thousand soldiers in the Beijing camp have suffered so much? They complained all the way. After barely marching with the Jinzhou Army for two days, they could no longer hold on. From the commander Pei Shaokuan to the horsemen, they were all in trouble.
They lay still in the camp and refused to get up and set off no matter how hard the Jinzhou army beat them and scolded them.
Shi Dayong, who was eager to go to Dengzhou to relieve the siege, saw that the soldiers in the Beijing camp were really in disgrace and did not look like an army at all. Such useless troops could be brought to Dengzhou. In anger, he simply asked Pei Shaokuan to lead the Beijing camp.
Act alone in the back.
Shi Dayong has no choice. Now he only needs the Jingying camp to rush to Dengzhou. As for when they can arrive, just let them go. If Dengzhou falls because the Jingying camp drags its feet, Shi Dayong will
It's hard to feel at ease.
Shi Dayong had never felt uneasy about offending the eunuch Gao Qiqian, but if he delayed the military situation and caused the city to fall, Shi Dayong would feel unworthy of the emperor. His loyalty to the emperor has deepened day by day, which is incredible.
Although the Beijing camp was allowed to act on its own, Shi Dayong issued strict orders when he left. If the Pei tribe dared to act recklessly again along the way, he would issue marching orders to kill people!
What Pei Shaokuan wanted now was not to go to Dengzhou to die, so he had no choice but to agree. He understood clearly that a good man would not suffer the consequences of his immediate losses. Shi Dayong was not even afraid of Zhou Guozhang and Eunuch Gao, so how could he be afraid of him? What if he really provoked him?
He, I'm afraid Shi really dared to chop himself.
Anyway, he was going to die. If he could not die, Eunuch Gao would not spare him. Why should he go against him and ask for trouble?
After politely sending the "God of Plague" away, Pei Shaokuan suddenly felt his eyes clear, as if the world was letting me roam freely, and he felt indescribably refreshed.
However, when Shi Dayong left, he was still worried. He deliberately left two soldiers to go with the Beijing camp so that he could know the movements of the Beijing camp at any time. After all, the imperial court allocated these thousand Beijing camps to his command. If the Beijing camp was
If something happened, it would be difficult for him to explain to the court.
Who would have known that people were so unlucky that their teeth were blocked even after drinking cold water. When Shi Dayong led the Jinzhou Army to rush eastward and arrived at Yanshan County, Hebei Province, the two soldiers who stayed in the Beijing camp came to report that the Beijing camp was there.
Qiushui Town is surrounded by horse thieves!
The so-called "horse thieves" refer to horse households in Hebei.
In order to ensure the supply of horses for the army, since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the imperial court has forced farmers in Hebei and other places to serve as horse farmers. The burden of corvee work on horse farmers is extremely heavy. To ensure that horses are raised well, they have to pay a high price, which not only delays agricultural production, but also
Moreover, when the horses they raised died or the breeding of stallions failed to meet the quota, they had to compensate for the losses. The impoverished farmers had to "sell their land and sell their men and women to make up for the loss, which was unspeakable suffering." At that time, some people described it as "the food shortage in Jiangnan is...
"The most troublesome people in Hebei are horses." During the Zhengde period, the horse households in Hebei were overwhelmed, and the Liu Liu and Liu Qi uprisings spread to Hebei and Shandong provinces.
The uprisings of Liu Liu and Liu Qi forced the imperial court to revise its policy towards Mahu. As a result, the situation in Mahu, Hebei Province improved slightly. However, during the Wanli period, due to frequent wars in Liaodong, the Ming Dynasty suffered too many military and horse losses.
After ascending the throne, because the Donglu conquered the various tribes in Monan, Ming Dynasty could not even buy horses from Mongolia. For a time, Ming Dynasty was trapped in horse trouble.
As a last resort, the imperial court had no choice but to order Hebei to continue to supply military horses, and treated horse households that could not provide military horses roughly. This undoubtedly made things worse for horse households in Hebei that had suffered from natural disasters for several years. It was not uncommon for the government to force people to rebel, and a small number of horses were already
In order to protect themselves, households gathered in the mountains and forests, and the local officials called them "thieves."
After Kong Youde rebelled in Wuqiao, Hebei Province was devastated. Under the further attack of the rebels, the originally small group of thieves turned out to be dozens or hundreds of people, carrying out robberies along the government and county lines.
If the officers and soldiers were small in number, they would not dare to talk about suppression.
However, generally, thieves do not meet the government troops, let alone attack them boldly. This time they surrounded the Beijing Camp in Qiushui Town, it was an accident.
The Jingying camp, which had been marching slowly eastward in a fairly honest way, encountered a group of bandits who had fled from Qing County after entering Qiushui Town. Their number was not large, only more than a hundred.
The two sides met on a narrow road outside Qiushui Town, and they were both crossing the main road. When the thieves saw the sudden appearance of the Beijing camp, they thought they were sent by the government to encircle and suppress them, so in panic, in order to protect themselves, they even rode towards the enemy.
Jingying rushed forward, trying to carve a bloody path through the avenue and escape south.
The reason why he did not run back but continued to run south was because the leader of the thieves heard that the civilian army in the northwest was fighting against the official army in Henan, so he wanted to go and join the civilian army. Moreover, after the Liao army rebelled in Dongjiang, this
There are more and more officers and soldiers in Hebei, and it is really unsafe to stay here any longer.
But who would have thought that these Beijing soldiers were just like paper. Before they even got close, they dispersed and ran away. The official acted as if he had seen a ghost, and slunk away into the town.
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On the road, the weapons, baggage, food and flags of the officers and soldiers were scattered everywhere.
The persimmons were soft to the touch. Seeing how these officers and soldiers were used, the leader of the thieves became very worried. He thought it would be better to get rid of these officers and soldiers, snatch their equipment and go south to donate it to the people's army. In this way, he could submit a certificate of surrender.
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Just do what you said, and the horse thieves no longer fled south, but returned to their horses and rushed towards Qiushui Town.
Pei Shaokuan, who had fled into the town, suddenly saw the thieves turning around and rushing towards the town. Knowing that something was wrong, he instinctively wanted to run away again. However, one of his subordinates, Mr. Qian, grabbed him and said that the town was not big and was not conducive to the cavalry. If the organization
With people on the spot to resist, the thieves couldn't rush in. If they just escaped, most of the brothers would probably die. No matter how fast this man's legs ran, they couldn't run as fast as a four-legged horse.
Pei Shaokuan thought the same thing, and if he left all his men behind and fled back, the higher-ups would definitely not spare him. It would be better to listen to President Qian's advice and organize soldiers to resist on the spot and send others for reinforcements. As long as he persists until the reinforcements arrive,
, the thieves and thieves have to retreat even if they don’t retreat.
At this time, there were four to five hundred soldiers from the Beijing camp who had fled into the town. After the initial panic, they all understood their situation. At that moment, under the command of Pei Shaokuan and several officers, the soldiers from the Beijing camp began to occupy the town.
They set up the commanding heights, set up anti-horse and other objects on the way into the town, and resisted on the spot with firecrackers.
The thieves did not expect that these officers and soldiers who had just fled all over the mountains and plains would have the courage to fight back. After charging twice and losing more than a dozen lives, the leader of the thieves stopped the attack and sent people to shout to the town, asking the officers and soldiers to surrender and surrender their weapons.
Hand it over and they let them go.
The soldiers in the Beijing camp were not stupid. If they surrendered now, it would be equivalent to sticking their heads out for the enemy to chop.
Seeing that the thieves could not rush in, they became more courageous and fired their guns from a distance to show that they would never surrender.
The officers and soldiers refused to surrender, and the thieves had no idea. It was already dark, and Qiushui Town was more than thirty miles away from the nearest Huanghua County. There were no officers and soldiers stationed in Huanghua City, so the thieves were not worried about being captured.
The officers and soldiers made dumplings.
As soon as he was worried, he simply divided his men into two. One went through the woods to the east of the town to block the way out to the east of the town, and the other stayed here to monitor the officers and soldiers to see who could outlast the other.
Seeing the thieves surrounding themselves and the sky getting dark again, everyone in the capital camp was frightened and worried, lest the thieves come in in the dark. Fortunately, after waiting for a while, there was no movement from the thieves. So,
It took a moment to calm down.
They settled down, but the people in the town were frightened. There were horse thieves and officers and soldiers. Just now they were firing guns with thunder and banging, killing and shouting indiscriminately, scaring the people as if nothing. Nothing.
When they came to their senses, the officers and soldiers went from house to house, smashed the doors, rushed in, dragged out furniture and other things without explanation, and threw them on the street. When they saw what food was in the people's homes, they just reached out and grabbed it, just like bandits. Fortunately, they didn't
There was no harm to anyone, and there was no plotting to seduce women. I imagine these officers and soldiers were eager to save their lives and didn't have the inclination to act recklessly.
After listening to the two soldiers telling what happened, Shi Dayong smiled. He knew that Pei Shaokuan's thousand soldiers from the Beijing camp were useless, but he didn't expect that the number one thousand soldiers were actually called the number one hundred.
The bandits surrounded him.
What the hell is this?
Jiang Wanli asked: "General, do you want to go back and rescue them?"
Before Shi Dayong opened his mouth, Li Dashan shouted: "Save it, they can do it on their own, they can't walk, they can't be beaten, why waste time to save them, it's up to them whether they live or die, as I say,
It would be easier if all these losers from the Beijing camp are dead."
Jiang Wanli retorted: "You can't say that. Don't forget that the Holy One assigned them to the command of our general. If something happens, how will the general explain to the Holy One?"
Li Dashan was stunned and grinned: "What should we do? Do we really want to go back to rescue them?"
The generals didn't know whether Shi Dayong would save him or not, so they all looked at him. Shi Dayong thought for a moment, raised his hand towards Cao Bianjiao, who was not far away, and ordered: "Xiao Cao, lead the wolf cavalry and follow me back.
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After hearing the order, Li Dashan was a little dissatisfied and said: "Why, are we really going to rescue those losers?"
Immediately, Shi Dayong chuckled: "Who said I was going to save people? I was going to grab things!"