What Wu Shigong received this time was a family letter. <. 800> It was sent to Wu Shigong by his father-in-law Xue Lian.
In the letter, following the consistent style of his father-in-law Xue Lian, he scolded Wu Shigong. Xue Lian wrote more than a dozen pieces of letter paper eloquently. The anger level was so high that it washed over Wu Shigong like a flood.
It's floating around in mid-air.
After reading the letter, Wu Shigong realized that he had already caused so many troubles, and his father-in-law Xue Lian had also cleaned up so many messes for him and had taken so much care. Therefore, although Yue Fei and Xue Lian had harsh words,
Wu Shigong still feels warm in his heart.
However, Wu Shigong did not expect that the men he left behind were so bold that they dared to seize the Nanyang iron mine. That was an official mine! That was the emperor's small treasury! That was the eunuch's small treasury! Wu Shigong himself could not even think about it.
Those daring subordinates actually dared to do things that they didn't dare to think about.
However, when Wu Shigong learned that he was almost going to go to prison, he couldn't help but shed cold sweat on his back. This unreasonable disaster was too incomprehensible. He had done nothing wrong.
Why, just because of other people's actions, they were almost punished together. The officialdom of the Ming Dynasty was a little too dangerous.
So Wu Shigong immediately called Chen Zhongzhi and Jiang Cheng over. When he told them the content of "almost going to jail", the two parties involved, Chen Zhongzhi and Jiang Cheng, immediately broke into cold sweats. There was no need for them.
Enough said, let’s leave Zhaoyuan County as soon as possible. At this stage, we should keep our tail between our legs and be a good person.
And when Wu Shigong led the Henan Army and left Zhaoyuan County, he remembered the two small letters included in the letter home. One was written by his wife Xue Yufei. Of course, the children also talked a lot. But the point is
She said that after Wu Shigong put down the rebellion, she would return to Runing with her sons Xue Chenglin and Wu Shigong to reunite the whole family.
The other letter did not contain a few words, but it was written by his son Xue Chenglin himself. From his wife Xue Yufei's letter, Wu Shigong already knew: his father-in-law Xue Lian had hired a teacher for his son Xue Chenglin to start literacy lessons.
However, Wu Shigong thought that Xue Chenglin's actual age was only five years old and his virtual age was only six years old. He could only lament that the education level of the Ming Dynasty was already comparable to the perverted preschool education of modern times.
However, Wu Shigong had some doubts. He had already been on the war for eight or nine months. Why hadn't there been any letters from Runing's family? Didn't he know whether those pregnant concubines had given birth?
What Wu Shigong didn't know was that Deng Qifan had sent more than a dozen groups of messengers to deliver letters to Wu Shigong. However, due to the chaos of the war, coupled with the arrests and obstruction by local officials, and because Wu Shigong's Runing Battalion was always at the forefront of the enemy, so
There was no way those messengers could deliver the letter to Wu Shigong.
As for the family letter from his father-in-law Xue Lian this time, it would have been difficult for the letter to be delivered to Wu Shigong if it hadn't been for the fact that the title of Marquis Yangwu had given the local governments the green light.
After two days of being on the run, the Henan Army has regained its vigor and vitality. Needless to say, it is good to be young, and its ability to recover is really fast.
At this time, the Henan Army led by Wu Shigong encountered a Shandong local army. It was a military team of more than 700 people led by a Qianhu named Kou Fenghai. They also received the governor's order from Zhu Dadian.
From now on, I will go to Dengzhou City to help fight together.
At that time, after Kong Youde rebelled, he did not bother to clean up the guard posts along the Denglai coast. Anyway, those guard posts had little combat effectiveness and posed no threat to Kong Youde's rebels.
Besides, unlike modern times, most coastal areas in the Ming Dynasty were poor, and the rebels were not interested in grabbing these places. Therefore, the guard posts where Kou Fenghai was located were preserved during the Denglai rebellion.
Of course, those guards didn't have the guts to take the initiative to attack the powerful rebels. But now, after the Ming army has won successive victories, those guards don't mind going to Dengzhou City to beat up the fallen dogs.
Wu Shigong did not hesitate to produce Zhu Dadian's order and incorporated this local guard army into his own army. You know, although the Henan army has many large vehicles, there are always some shortages of mules and horses, so until now, it is still
There were some two-wheeled vehicles pushed and pulled by the auxiliary soldiers of the Runing Battalion.
With these guard soldiers, those auxiliary soldiers can be liberated. To be honest, those guard soldiers were used by Wu Shigong as cattle and horses. You know, the auxiliary soldiers in Runing Camp were spent a lot of time by Wu Shigong.
Wu Shigong felt a little sad for the blacksmiths and miners hired with membership fees to be used in such a cheap way.
However, Wu Shigong did not treat those guards badly. It was certain that they would be well fed and drunk, and Wu Shigong also promised Kou Fenghai that in the future battle to siege Dengzhou City, those guards soldiers would not be used as cannon fodder.
Let them do some auxiliary work in the rear.
So Kou Fenghai soon became familiar with Wu Shigong. Wu Shigong also kindly asked Kou Fenghai about the local situation, and Kou Fenghai also answered all questions without hiding anything.
However, when Kou Fenghai said that his Qianhu household was located by the sea, and the military fields were mostly saline-alkali land, and the yield was not high, so many military households needed to boil salt to supplement their household income, Wu Shigong immediately felt excited.
Don’t I just need salt? Isn’t this place close to the sea? It is true that my small salt farm in Yangzhou does not produce much salt, and with the Yangzhou salt transport envoy and the big salt merchant Qi Jia working behind my back, there is always some instability. Yes.
Shouldn't we just open a salt farm here?
However, there was no need to express his thoughts to Qianhu Kou Fenghai right away, and there was no need to have a brief exchange of words. However, it was necessary to find some experts for consultation. So Wu Shigong immediately asked Yang Rusong to arrange a messenger to the Lu family in Yangzhou
Send a message to the Guo family and ask them to immediately arrange for someone to go to Denglai to discuss the possibility of opening a salt farm with Wu Shigong.
Wu Shigong just got into trouble for money, but now he is thinking of opening a salt farm to challenge the court's salt and iron monopoly. Is this a true manifestation of the scars being healed and forgetting the pain? But after all, Wu Shigong's scars
It probably got better too quickly.
Zhu Dadian's order was indeed easy to use, and it was very convenient to requisition the grain and grass in the area. However, the areas Wu Shigong's march passed through were indeed too poor, so the requisitioned grain and grass were not much left after the Henan army had eaten them.
They did not encounter any other guardsmen. It is estimated that those guardsmen had already arrived at Dengzhou City because of the short distance. After a leisurely march, the Henan Army finally arrived at Dengzhou on September 21st.
South of the city.
What made Wu Shigong a little strange was that until this time, the Ming army had not captured Dengzhou City. When Wu Shigong went to the Ming army camp to resume his duties, he happened to encounter a Ming army military meeting, and Wu Shigong happened to attend it together.
During the military meeting, both Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian looked sad. After arranging for the Ming army to recruit civilians from all over the country and build fortifications to besiege Dengzhou City for a long time, Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian ended the military meeting hastily.
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After leaving the Chinese army tent, Wu Shigong immediately asked Liu Zeqing about the combat situation of the Ming army. But Liu Zeqing frowned and did not introduce the situation to Wu Shigong here. He just invited Wu Shigong to drink in his camp. And before going to Liu Zeqing's camp
Along the way, Wu Shigong heard Liu Zeqing sighing continuously. Wu Shigong's heart sank. It seemed that the battle was not going well!
As expected, after Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing had a glass of wine, Liu Zeqing told Wu Shigong the bad news: "Brother Chang Jing, Yuan Heng and Yuan Shouwei were killed. He was hit in the head by an iron bullet, and he was alone."
His body was identified only by his clothes. Alas—! How miserable!"
When Wu Shigong heard this, he was so surprised that he almost let go and dropped the wine glass to the ground. After all, they had been in the same boat through thick and thin, and there was always some affection between the military attachés of the coalition. But the storms and waves had passed, and Yuan Heng did not expect that Yuan Heng would be in the final battle.
However, he lost his life. This made Wu Shigong feel extremely sad.
After calming down for a while, Wu Shigong began to ask for details.
Liu Zeqing did not hide anything. He told Wu Shigong that on September 1, the main force of the Ming army approached Dengzhou City. However, the rebels did not huddle in the city. Instead, they occupied the city and fought three battles with the Ming army.
In those three battles, the intensity was even worse than that of the Battle of Huangxian. Not only did both sides use guns on a large scale, but also artillery. In the second battle,
, Yuan Heng's guard died unfortunately.
In the first two battles, the rebels who were in desperate situation broke out with astonishing combat effectiveness. In terms of results, the Ming army should be at a disadvantage. However, due to the tenacious blocking of the Ming army and the blocking of leaks everywhere by the Liaodong army,
, in the end, relying on their numerical advantage, the Ming army successfully pushed the rebels back into the city, and the rebels completely lost their ability to fight in the field with the Ming army.
In the third battle, the Ming army began to try to attack Dengzhou City. The initial battle went smoothly. The instigator of the Denglai rebellion, Marshal Li Jiucheng of the Puppet Capital, went into battle to challenge him, but was defeated by Zu Kuan of the Liaodong Army.
Killed with one arrow.
So the Ming army, with great morale, took advantage of the situation to attack the city. But at this time, the Western artillery built and purchased by Sun Yuanhua on Dengzhou City became powerful. The Ming army lay dead for miles.
When the Ming army's artillery fired, Dengzhou City, which was designed by Sun Yuanhua and was completely fortified to withstand Western artillery, remained motionless. This siege also completely defeated the Ming army's attack on Dengzhou.
The city’s capabilities.
In desperation, Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian could only formulate a long-term siege method in the military discussion just now, hoping to completely eliminate the rebel army by depriving them of food.
However, judging from the information we gathered, all the people in Dengzhou City, except those young women who were kept as military prostitutes, were killed by the rebels. After the rebellion, most of the grain and grass collected by the rebels were transported to Dengzhou City.
Stored in Dengzhou City. Coupled with the large amount of food and grass owned by Dengzhou City itself, the siege will last until the Year of the Monkey and the Horse. (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster! ·
