Chapter 330: The Hozen Scatter Before the Tree Falls (Part 2)
After the Wuqiao Uprising, Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde were able to reach today's level because of their continuous victory, or in other words, their continuous success in plundering.
North Zhili, Denglai, Shandong, more than a dozen prefectures and counties, large and small, local guard troops, town troops from Denglai, and Beijing camps from the capital, together there are tens of thousands of troops, but they only take the rebels.
They had no choice but to dare to fight or even confront each other. The officers and soldiers in some places were so unbearable that the rebels were still in neighboring counties, leaving a county a hundred miles away. The people fled in despair. Continuous victories reduced the original number to only 800 people.
The rebels snowballed, growing bigger and bigger. At their peak, Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde had nearly 70,000 troops under their command.
What supports the tens of thousands of rebels is morale. Once morale is gone, the tens of thousands of rebels are just tens of thousands of rabble. Although they are stronger than the Dongjiang Liao soldiers, they each think about the future.
Although the battles of Shahe and Xiaoguanzhuang destroyed the strength of the rebels, it did not destroy their morale. The rebels had no fear of the officers and soldiers, and even still had disdain for them. The death of Chen Youyou, Xiaoguanzhuang,
In the view of the rebels, the defeat of Guanzhuang was just the result of underestimating the enemy. As for the loss of Pingdu, the generals did not bother to pay attention to it. Their unanimous view was that Zhu Dadian took advantage of it.
Based on Dengzhou and taking Laizhou, with the military resources of the two places, we can firmly dominate one side. If we advance, we can attack the capital from the north, or if we retreat, we can become the overlord of one side. The world is huge, but there is nothing to be feared.[
The imperial court is just a stage for fighting between greedy and greedy pedantic Confucian scholars; the emperor is just a young child, very tender.
If they succeed in deceiving Laizhou, Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng will attack the officers and soldiers in Xiaoguanzhuang. Unfortunately, Laizhou City is really made of iron. They have been coaxed and deceived under the city for several months, but in the end they have failed. There is no Laizhou city.
Even if the Ming army in Xiaoguanzhuang stuns as much as food, Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng would not bother to sweep it away.
From two years ago to now, for more than half a year, tens of thousands of people have been staring at Laizhou, which is so impenetrable. The food supply has also been reduced by one-third. If it were not for the promise that after the city is invaded, the rich and silk women will be robbed.
, the soldiers have long stopped engaging in this loss-making business, and they can't go anywhere if they let go. Laizhou is a tough guy, and it may not be as tough as other places. Not to mention, the soldiers in Shandong are the easiest to bully.
There are more than 60,000 rebels, only more than 10,000 Dongjiang and Liao soldiers, and the rest are newly attached mobs. These people have everything, including young and strong people who have been coerced, stragglers after the defeat of the official army, and some speculative people who want to make contributions and become famous.
There are "heroes" in the world, but most of them are bandits and thieves.
Denglai Land, the General Army established by the previous dynasty, had been under the jurisdiction of Shandong before that. For a hundred years, major events in Shandong Province had not happened, but the White Lotus Sect had never ceased to have uprisings. The local security was not stable, and bandits
There are so many so-called green forests in Shandong Province. Instead of doing the happy business of robbing homes and houses, they just come here to eat military rations, not just to get more happiness. Now that there is no happy business to do, the mob will naturally complain. If
It’s not that those Liao soldiers were ruthless and Marshal Li killed without blinking an eye, maybe these people would cause some trouble.
Anyway, after eating Marshal Li's food, Marshal Li also promised to capture Laizhou City and plunder it for three days. I'll just endure these hard days and wait for those nerds in the army to be fooled again, so I can let go and start a big raid.
After a lot of plundering, which lasted for several months, the ladies from the wealthy families in the city had to be treated well.
Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde stared at Laizhou, pointing intently at Laizhou. The eyes of the soldiers below were already red when looking at Laizhou.
Kill his mother, rob his mother, play with his mother, destroy Laizhou, happy enough.
Everything was as expected by the two marshals Li and Kong. The idiots in the imperial court were really fooled, and they were about to give up Laizhou!
The moment the Laizhou City Gate opened, tens of thousands of pairs of red eyes stared at it, which was terrifying, but damn it, the defenders in the city were not fooled and actually closed the door first!
After seeing hundreds of corpses piled up in vain under the city gate, the rebels suddenly became disheartened, and their blood-red eyes suddenly lost their luster.
But it just lost its luster, lost its enthusiasm, and slightly improved its morale, but its military spirit was still there.
If they don't attack anything else, they just attack these tens of thousands of people. What can the officers and soldiers do to them? If they really can't defeat them, the worst they can do is return to Dengzhou!
The house was leaking and it rained continuously. Before the rebels could recover from the failure to seize the city, the bad news of the fall of Dengzhou came.
It's over, it's all over!
It was not the soldiers who kept reminding themselves that they were finished, but the officers whose wives and children were all in Dengzhou.
Laizhou was not captured, but the army was responsible for taking it away from our hometown. This is really fucking frustrating. What the hell kind of official dog got into the rear!
After some officers who wanted to find out the situation inquired, they found out that Dengzhou was captured by the Jinzhou Army from Liaodong. Immediately, someone from Pingdu reported the same news. It was also the Jinzhou Army that captured Pingdu.
The soldier was a general named Shi Dayong.
Who is Shi Dayong? Jinzhou Army, Zu Dashou’s soldiers? [
The rebels had been waging war for several months, but due to the lack of information, they did not know that Dalinghe City had been lost as early as last year, and that Zu Dashou had surrendered himself to death. They did not even know that the Jinzhou Army was fighting with Donglu in Jinzhou that day.
Tens of thousands of troops from the Eight Banners fought to the death for several days, leaving corpses piled under the city wall, and they suddenly achieved a great victory, beheading nearly ten thousand people!
Shi Dayong is a legend. No one has heard of this figure before. When talking about military generals outside the Pass, Zu Dashou, Wu Xiang, Zu Dabi, Zu Dale, and Zhang Chengze are the ones people often mention.
Yes, I admire you very much.
Which onion is this Shi Dayong?
Legendary figures, legendary stories, gradually, everyone in the rebel army knew who Shi Dayong was. He was the Ming general who beheaded General Chen Youyou in Shahe, and he was the Ming general who went shopping with Marshal Li in Xiaoguanzhuang.
General, he was the wise general who had the audacity to occupy his hometown. I heard, just heard, that this wise general had eaten people.
As more and more people came to Dengzhou, the morale of the rebels dropped rapidly like a sharp arrow shot from a string.
Now, not only those rabble-rousers have begun to plan their way forward, but many military officers have also begun to prepare their retreat in advance. In the past few days, messengers have been secretly going to Dengzhou one after another. No one knows how many generals have begun to prepare for the retreat.
Having second thoughts and no longer wanting to be with Li Jiucheng, Kong Youde walked into darkness.
However, Marshal Li said that the Jinzhou Army that occupied Dengzhou only had a few thousand troops. Now he would lead everyone to fight back. The troops only had a few thousand troops and they could be drowned even with spittle.
The senior generals kept cheering and dispersed a lot of the looted goods, and Dongjiang soldiers were watching. On the way back to the division, there was no large-scale rebellion. Even those who wanted to attack Dengzhou
The surrendered officers also held back for the time being, and they were also watching. The lives of their wives and children were important, but if Shi Dayong could not defend Dengzhou, then the Jinzhou Army was not as capable as the legend says, and this situation would be unavoidable
There was no way he could get it back. If he had surrendered early, if Marshal Li defeated Dengzhou again, wouldn't he be looking for death?
With more people and more worries, this idea became more complicated. After several days of marching, except for a few hundred people who escaped secretly, most of them still cheered up and marched to Dengzhou under the banner of Marshal Li.
The forwards were 6,000 troops led by generals Xia Yuanliang and Zheng Qigang. Half of them were Dongjiang Liao soldiers. The officers were all old brothers who had followed Marshal Li in the Wuqiao uprising. The other half were also brave and strong.
Disciple, who doesn’t have a few lives on his hands?
Marshal Li said that Shi Dayong had thousands of soldiers and horses under his command, and now the forward troops and horses alone outnumbered those named Shi. Dengzhou might really be lost and recovered.
During the break in the march, Kong Youde also paid great attention to improving the morale of the army. He constantly sent people to the camp to publicize the weak strength of the Jinzhou Army and the strength of his own soldiers and horses. In this way, the morale was finally improved a little bit. The soldiers who escaped every day
It also started to decrease.
The army marched to Zhuqiao, and the vanguard had already reached Zhaoyuan, which was still dozens of miles away from Dengzhou. If we work harder, we can see the city wall of Dengzhou.
Li Zhongfu, who stayed behind in Laizhou, also received news. He led 10,000 people to stand firmly outside Laizhou City. The Ming army did not notice that there were fewer soldiers and horses in the camp. Not only the Ming army in the city did not dare to move lightly, but also those in Xiaoguanzhuang
There was no sign of the Ming army coming over. The only thing that made Li Zhongfu a little panicked and frightened was that Zu Dabi's cavalry had been dispatched more often these days. It seemed that Gao Qiqian couldn't hold on any longer. Xie Lian and Zhu Wannian
The death of Gao Qiqian put a lot of pressure on him. It seems that the imperial court has issued a strict order. If Gao Qiqian dares to stay still, he is afraid that the emperor will chop off his head. But judging from the current signs, Gao Qiqian seems to have not made up his mind yet.
, seems to be still waiting for some reinforcements.
Gao Qiqian is waiting for reinforcements. Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde don't care, as long as he doesn't attack now. Without Dengzhou as a basis, Li and Kong really have no idea about the Ming army's attack, but if Dengzhou can do something
Based on this, you don’t need to be afraid of rising and diving at high altitudes.
After sending someone to tell Li Zhongfu that everything was still the same and that they would withdraw immediately after Dengzhou was captured, Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde set up camp at Zhuqiao and ordered Xia Yuanliang and Zheng Qigang not to go too hastily and to stay within twenty miles of the army.
In the camp, the morale was not bad. The family members released from Dengzhou were kept in separate custody and were not allowed to move around in the camp, lest they say anything that would lower morale.
Everything is changing for the better. As long as nothing happens, the army will appear outside Dengzhou City the morning after tomorrow. But God has played a big joke. Xia Yuanliang and Zheng Qigang's six thousand soldiers are not here yet.
The whole army was wiped out in half an hour. If not for a dozen of them escaping, Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde would not even know that the vanguard was finished.
In less than half an hour, the six thousand soldiers and horses were gone, so fast that there was no chance to call for help. The combat effectiveness of the Jinzhou Army made Li Jiuzheng and Kong Youde re-examine it, especially the fact that all the opponents dispatched were cavalry, which frightened them even more.
Do the rebels have cavalry? Yes, they did in the past, and they do now. They are the cavalry that Li Jiucheng's son Li Yingyuan expanded. There were originally a thousand people, but in the battle of Xiaoguanzhuang, the Jinzhou Army was crippled, and only
There were less than a hundred people, and although they later expanded to a thousand, they would never be able to go into battle and could only be used as sentry cavalry. They were asked to fight with the Jinzhou Army's cavalry, but they didn't even think about it.
The forward was defeated, and the Jinzhou Army was in Zhaoyuan, only twenty miles away from Zhuqiao, and would rush over at any time. Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde convened the generals to discuss how to deal with this cavalry. During the discussion, Mao Chenglu and Geng Zhongming got into action. Outside,
But it started happening everywhere.
Good things don’t go out, but bad things spread thousands of miles.[
The news that the 6,000 Zhaoyuan forwards were wiped out by the Jinzhou Army's cavalry within half an hour spread in the camp at an unimaginable speed. This can only be blamed on Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde who were shocked when they heard the news of the defeat.
They failed to think of blocking the news. By the time they thought of blocking the news, it was already too late.
In half an hour, six thousand men and cavalry, twenty miles away, these news were like the last straw that broke the camel's back, instantly destroying the rebel morale that had barely been raised.
Xiang Chong, the former commander of the left camp of the Dengzhou Infantry Army, was the first to attack. He led his four thousand soldiers and horses to break through Mao Chenglu's Dongjiang Liao soldiers and ran towards Zhaoyuan without looking back.
Sorry, I have been busy with the demolition of my home these days, so I haven’t updated. I apologize. The family matter has not been resolved for a day, so updates cannot guarantee stability. I can only guarantee that Langqi will never be a eunuch. Everyone can understand best, but if you can’t understand, I will curse my bones.