Mao Da wants to pay gold?! The generals in the tent opened their mouths wide, and they were all so frightened that no one dared to speak. Look at me, I look at you, they were all frightened by Mao Chenglu.
After a while, Kong Youde coughed slightly and broke the silence. He shook his head and said: "Many of the officers and soldiers in the army have a sworn hatred against the Donglu. Even if we are willing to surrender, I am afraid that the officers and soldiers will not follow."
"Back then, we followed Mao Shuai and fought many battles with the Jurchen soldiers and killed many of them. Both sides were feuding. The Jurchen Tatars wanted all of us to die. How could they accept us? Besides, although we
He rebelled against the imperial court, but he is still a good man. He must not do this thing of surrendering to the barbarians. If he does it, he will be infamous for thousands of years in the future." Geng Zhongming was not willing to pay the money, he was still somewhat of a son of the Han family.
bloody.
Mao Chenglu asked, "What we have done will not be remembered for thousands of years?"
Geng Zhong made it clear.[
But Geng Zhongyi sneered, stood up and shouted to Mao Chenglu rudely: "Mao, you have always been close to the Donglu. When the general was here, the Tatars sent envoys to North Korea. The general told them to intercept them, but you let them go against the order.
, which made the commander-in-chief dissatisfied with you and accused you of being a slave. Now that you want us to surrender to the Donglu, do you dare to say that you and the Donglu had no secret relationship back then? There are all brothers in the account. Mao Da, you might as well tell the truth, you
Are you connected with Donglu, and are you just waiting for us to ask our brothers to cross the sea and invest money when we have no way out?"
"Whether I had an affair with Donglu or not is my business, but now it is everyone's business. It is also for everyone's good to surrender to Donglu, why don't we just wait here to die? Tell me, if we don't surrender to Donglu, where can we find someone?
How to survive?" Mao Chenglu's face turned red with anger when Geng Zhongyi called him "Mao Da" to his face and brought up old stories from many years ago.
"There is no way to survive. At worst, we will have to fight with the army!" Geng Zhongyi is a man who is not afraid of death. Even if a real knife is placed on his neck, he will not frown. On that day, Xiaoguanzhuang fought with the Jinzhou Army, but he was not afraid to stand up in the face of danger.
Stay in position, otherwise you may be afraid that there will be fewer people in the tent.
"It's better to die than to live. You, Geng Zhongyi, want to die and no one can stop you, but you can't let us all follow you to die!" Mao Chenglu didn't want to get entangled with Geng Zhongyi and turned to look at Li Jiucheng, "Commander, it's time.
Now, surrendering to the Eastern captives is still an escape route. We have only one road at the moment. As long as there is a road to go, most of the brothers will take it. I can't guarantee it for others, but my soldiers are absolutely willing to follow the general trend.
Handsome and generous!"
"this"
Li Jiucheng hesitated, rebelling and selling himself as a traitor were two completely different things. Even though he was fond of gambling all his life, he did not dare to gamble casually on this matter. What Geng Zhongming said was unreasonable.
After so many years of real-life fighting, both sides hate each other to the core. How can they get together? Besides, most of the brothers in the army are from a family that was destroyed by the Jurchen Tatars. They will be taken to surrender.
Can they be willing to fight against the bloody feud of the Tatars? With Mao Chenglu's army, he really has no confidence. Besides, can Hong Tai trust him in his sudden and rash surrender to the Jurchens? What if he fails to surrender and is killed by the Eight Banners soldiers?
If Tu Guang is killed, where can he complain about this injustice?
"Commander, if you keep cutting off, you will suffer the consequences!"
Mao Chenglu saw Li Jiucheng's hesitation in his eyes, and he further said, "The morale of the army has long been unstable. If we don't leave before the Ming army has the guts to attack, we won't be able to leave even if we want to!" After a pause, he said thoughtfully.
He added meaningfully, "To be honest, I can surrender. With the soldiers under my command, the court will always give me a way to survive, but the commander-in-chief and deputy commander-in-chief are afraid that there will be no way to survive. Gao Qiqian said it right.
It’s obvious that the imperial court now hates you two to the core!”
"Even if we want to surrender to the Eastern captives, we must be able to go to sea!" Li Jiucheng was moved. If he was not afraid of death, he would not have instigated Kong Youde to revolt in Wuqiao that day. If those generals with double intentions really believed in Gao Qiqian
If you think of yourself and Kong Youde as a stepping stone for their surrender, that would be a great injustice.
I would rather betray the world than let the world betray me!
Be it Donglu, Beilu, or Ming Dynasty, as long as you are given a way to survive, you will be a mother with milk!
But the tens of thousands of people who surrendered to the East were not just a few people, but hundreds of people. They could just find a boat to go out to sea anywhere. There must be a port and a navy to support them. Otherwise, the tens of thousands of people would commit suicide and feed the fish and shrimps.
"Ritu, what do you say?" Li Jiucheng wanted to hear Kong Youde's opinion.
Kong Youde lowered his head and thought for a while, then raised his head and said: "Whether we surrender to the prisoners or not is another matter, but no matter whether we surrender or not, we must win Dengzhou. With Dengzhou in hand, we can be cared for when we advance, and we can protect ourselves and go to sea if we retreat."
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"Ritu means to capture Dengzhou, don't leave in a hurry, take a look before talking?" Kong Youde's words gave Li Jiucheng a backbone.
Kong Youde was noncommittal, "Now that the Ming army is powerful, we have lost our basis again, and our advance and retreat are already controlled by others."
"Qian Dagang's navy is still there, so he may not have surrendered Shi Dayong. Let me tell you, let's send someone to contact him immediately. When the army arrives in Dengzhou, he will fire artillery into the city from the sea to see if Shi Dayong is
It's not like three heads and six arms can stop us!" Li Yingyuan is a cruel person.
After hearing this, Li Zhongfu immediately echoed: "Yes, yes, the Jinzhou army came all the way from outside the pass. There must not be many soldiers. Shi Dayong's men only have a few thousand people. What about us? But there are several
Thousands of people! The rabbit bites people when it is in a hurry. I don’t believe that the Jinzhou Army is really invincible. We all work together to try to get more casualties, but we will kill him! As long as we occupy Dengzhou again, we will
You still have the capital to negotiate with the imperial court. If you can't keep it, you'll have to invest money in the worst case!" After saying that, he glanced at Mao Chenglu, and Mao Chenglu nodded to him gratefully.
Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng looked at each other and said nothing. Others in the tent shouted for a while. Finally, Li Jiucheng stood up and shouted: "Stop arguing, it's settled, let's go to Dengzhou!" [
"If you want to leave, you have to leave quickly. It's best to leave tonight." Kong Youde added.
"Okay, let's leave this hellish place tonight, but someone has to stay behind."
Li Jiucheng was about to discuss with Kong Youde who should stay behind. Outside the tent, a fast horse came straight towards him. The rider rolled off the horse. The horse's mane had been sticky with sweat. With a hoarse sound,
"Report!" The horseman staggered into the tent and fell in the door, "Commander, five thousand soldiers and horses from Shandong came from Pingdu!" "Chi!"
Li Jiucheng shook his head disdainfully and sneered: "Aren't they just Shandong soldiers? Five thousand people are just a ball! Not to mention that we have tens of thousands now. How many Shandong soldiers did we kill when we had 800 people? Kill Shandong soldiers.
Soldiers are like cutting vegetables, let alone five thousand, even fifty thousand, what can they do to us? I think Zhu Dadian saw that we lost Dengzhou and wanted to pick up persimmons!" "Not bad!" Kong Youde also said, "Every town has soldiers.
None of them are our opponents, and the Shandong soldiers are even less worth mentioning. The only thing to worry about is," he stiffened his face at this and pointed in the direction of Xiaoguanzhuang: "We can't win Laizhou, and we have lost Dengzhou. Gao
Qiqian is ready to make a move, I'm afraid it won't be that easy to withdraw this time." "Deputy Commander," Geng Zhongming reminded, "Zu Dabi, who is under Gao Qiqian, and Wu Sangui have Liaodong cavalry in their hands, leaving behind Deli.
Otherwise, if these Liaodong cavalry catch up, we will not retreat, but collapse." Zu Dabi was Zu Dashou's younger brother. He fought with his life at risk, and was nicknamed "Zu Er Madman". Wu Sangui was Zu Dashou's nephew, and they
The Guan Ning Army in his hands was successively trained by Xiong Tingbi, Sun Chengzong, and Yuan Chonghuan. These old troops of Mao Wenlong were still very afraid.
"The main force of the Guan Ning cavalry is no longer in Dalinghe. The cavalry under Zu Dabi are just the servants put together by his ancestral family. They are not the Guan Ning cavalry of the past. What is there to be afraid of? If they are really powerful, why are they so powerful?
We are like turtles here, don't be afraid of them, the only thing to worry about is Shi Dayong's Jinzhou Army. We don't have to keep our old brothers after the army is cut off. We can choose 10,000 new auxiliary troops to stay, and the main force will all return to Dengzhou." Kong Youde said.
At this point, he smiled confidently, "I'm sure you won't dare to take a single step when diving high. How dare a castrate without a bird in his crotch have such courage!"
Hearing Kong Youde speak so confidently, everyone suddenly gained confidence again and were gearing up to prepare to return to Dengzhou.
After discussing with Li Jiucheng for a while, Kong Youde found Mao Chenglu, took him to his place, and asked him in a low voice: "Does Jinwu have any contacts in the Jin Kingdom?"
Mao Chenglu glanced around and did not hide anything. He nodded and said: "When I was in Dengzhou, Ning Wan came and wrote to me. However, our army was in great strength at that time, so I ignored it. Now I can only go over there."
Come on."
"I know Ning Wan, who is the most trusted Han minister under Hong Tai. Well, if he is in charge, if nothing can be done, we will have no choice but to go to the sea." Kong Youde sighed.
, a bit of a heroic and lonely feeling.
Mao Chenglu disagreed and said: "At present, the Jin Kingdom has strong soldiers and horses, and there are many talented people in the country. On the other hand, in the Ming Dynasty, there were internal and external troubles, the court was trapped in party disputes, the people were in dire straits, and the soldiers and horses in each town were even worse. The strength was too different, and it was impossible to say that the Jin Kingdom should have
On the day when we take over the Central Plains, we will also serve as ministers of the Dragon."
"We don't know all of this yet. Let's talk about winning Dengzhou now." Kong Youde didn't want to reveal his trump card to Mao Chenglu about investing money. He still wanted to win Dengzhou and bargain with the court, otherwise he wouldn't
Find one or two small islands on the sea and become the king on the ground. After all, the incident of defecting to the Eastern captives and becoming a traitor had a huge impact, and the reaction in the army was also huge. One mistake could trigger a mutiny.
It was Kong Youdenai's plan to take one step and see another. He said this to Mao Chenglu just to give himself peace of mind. At least, he could know that in the future, the Kingdom of Jin on the east side of the sea could give him a place.