Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 454
Shandong.

Laizhou.

Regardless of dissuasion, the Son of Heaven personally led troops to the city of Laizhou, and sent several soldiers from Dengzhou to persuade Geng Zhongming to surrender.

"Last year, I marched north to the Central Plains and reached the city of Yanzhou. Unfortunately, I was unable to meet Geng Shuai. Now I am not afraid of hardships and come back again, just hoping to meet the general face to face.

I hope that the general can return to the Ming anyway. If the general can abandon the dark and turn to the Ming, and then serve the Ming Dynasty, I will never let me down.

If the general still stays in the court, I will not force it. I can even release the siege to the north of Laizhou and let the general and his subordinates go. I will do what I say, so don't doubt it! "

"Father, this must be a lie." Geng Zhongming's son Geng Jimao shouted. "Come here, pull these soldiers out and cut them down."

Frightened by the Dengzhou soldiers who were released to spread the word, they kowtowed repeatedly.

"Enough!" Geng Zhongming waved his hand, "These brothers also escaped from death, so take them with them and give them a table of wine and meat to treat them well, and they will return to the Wang family's Ding camp in the future."

"Father?" Geng Jimao was puzzled, "Won't this shake the morale of the army?"

The tall Geng Zhongming said coldly, "It's not your turn to teach father to do things, go out."

After Geng Jimao was scolded and ran away, Geng Zhongming waved away the rest of the idlers, and finally only the confidants Xu Degong, Lian Decheng, and Chen Shaozong remained.

These three are old brothers who have followed him for many years. General Xu Lian is his left and right wing commander, and Chen Shaozong is his deputy general of the Chinese army.

"What do you think?" Geng Zhongming asked the three of them.

The three generals followed Geng Er all the way to fight, and they were loyal.But faced with this question, he did not dare to open his mouth for a moment.

Unlike Kong Youde, Shang Kexi and the others, Geng Zhongming actually invested in the late gold very early. He was originally an officer of the Gaizhou Guard in Liaodong.

But later he led the Liao people to defect to Pidao to return to the Ming Dynasty, followed the general soldier Mao Wenlong, and was adopted as his adopted grandson, named Mao Youjie.At that time, Kong Youde was young and weak but brave, and Geng Zhongming was literate and resourceful, so Mao Wenlong asked Kong Youde to lead his family's soldiers and Geng Zhongming to take charge of logistics, money and food.

But Geng Zhongming is actually as brave and tough as Kong Youde.

After Mao Wenlong died, he and Kong Youde voted for Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, but in the end they responded to the rebellion because of the mutiny of Kong Youde's aid to the Liao halfway soldiers.

When Kong Youde, Mao Chenglu, etc. wanted to surrender to Houjin, Geng Zhongming was actually unwilling, because he surrendered first and then turned back, but later he surrendered when he had nowhere to go, and Huang Taiji was really good to him. Give him the title of king.

However, being able to rebel repeatedly is enough to show that Geng Zhongming is not a loyal person in his bones.

After he came to Denglai from Dongjiang, he had been secretly smuggling with Houjin. In the fifth year of Chongzhen, one of the two smuggling boats intercepted by Huanglong, the general soldier of Dongjiang, belonged to him.Although the other ship belonged to the eldest brother of Wang Tingchen of Fubiao Zhongjun, the cargo of both ships belonged to Geng Zhongming.

Because Huanglong seized Geng Zhongming's smuggling boat and arrested his confidant Li Mei, Geng Zhongming asked his younger brother Geng Zhongyu to encourage the soldiers to mutiny, surrounded Huanglong and beat him half to death. Later, Shang Kexi sent troops to suppress the rebels.

Even if Geng Zhongming lowered the gold later, he won Huang Taiji's reuse and even became king.

But Geng Zhongming didn't really become loyal to Hou Jin. For example, shortly after Jin surrendered, the generals of Kong Youde and Shang Kexi impeached Geng Zhongming for encroaching on their troops.

In the 15th year of Chongzhen, Geng Zhongming's own general Shi Mingxiong impeached him for secretly hiding the population of Songshan and Xingshan.Geng Zhongming even privately sheltered and hid the coated servants of the Eight Banners, and even after some fugitives were executed according to law, he even collected their corpses and sacrificed them.

In the second year, Geng Zhongming knew about Shi Mingxiong's secret impeachment of himself, so he planned to kill him secretly.After Shi Mingxiong knew about it, he conspired with several other generals Song Guofu, Pan Xiao and others to strike first and kill Geng Zhongming.

But in the end, Geng Zhongming made a better move and killed all the generals who were loyal to Hou Jin but refused to be loyal to him, and then reported to the court that they conspired to rebel against Ming.

In fact, after Geng Zhongming surrendered to the Jin Dynasty, he often did illegal things such as encroaching on other generals, even hiding his household, accepting donations in violation of regulations, and secretly smuggling to North Korea and the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, what they want is to benefit, and to strengthen their own strength.

Last year, he entered the customs with the army and followed Azigedododuo and others all the way to attack cities and lands. Geng Zhongming did not make many contributions, but he led his troops to loot the most actively, robbing many people, livestock, money and food.

After class, they were rewarded with mink fur, boa clothes, good horses, one hundred taels of gold, ten thousand taels of platinum.

And last year, he sent troops to Shandong according to the order, but Shang Kexi was defeated, but he did not want to save him, and sat and watched him being surrounded and killed himself.

But afterwards, the Qing court did not dare to punish him, but instead rewarded him, conferring the post of Ang Bangzhangjing on his son.

"Back then in Dongjiang, Mao Shuai had four generals, but now I am the only one left."

Geng Zhongming sighed with emotion.

In addition to the four generals he mentioned, in addition to King Sanshun who was later surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, there was also Mao Chenglu.Mao Chenglu is the nephew of Mao Wenlong's family, adopted as his adopted son, and ranks first among Mao Wenlong's righteous sons and grandsons, and the Jin people are called Mao Da.

After Mao Wenlong's death, Mao Chenglu stayed on and led the Pidao Army to station in Ludao, Guangxi.

When Geng Er and Kong Youde rebelled in Denglai, Mao Chenglu immediately led [-] island soldiers to respond and rushed to Dengzhou to land. He was one of the five leaders of the Dengzhou rebel army at that time.

This Mao Da was extremely fierce and brave. When Dengzhou was besieged, although he sat in a sad city, he still defeated the Ming army repeatedly. In the end, he slaughtered the people and ate people for food, and refused to surrender. Later, he went to sea to invest in gold. Shang Kexi and others were defeated, captured, offered captives, and finally executed Ling Chi.

Mao Da was the fiercest, but he was also the first to die, and even died at the hands of Shang Kexi.

Last year, it was gratifying for him to see death without saving him, and he avenged his life, and at the same time he avenged Mao Da.

But unexpectedly Kong Youde also died.

Of the four Dongjiang generals, he is now the only one left.

Geng Zhongming was obviously shocked.

In particular, he and Kong Youde have always had a very good relationship, they are like brothers, they have been brothers for more than ten years.

"The current situation reminds me of the old things when I, Lao Kong, Mao Da and others were fighting against the Ming Dynasty many years ago," he sighed, "The city of Laizhou is far inferior to Dengzhou. It took a few months, but in the end it was defeated."

"Now it looks like it's even worse than it was back then."

Back then, they were trapped in Denglai, and they could only eat people for food in the end, but they were still defeated, and they had to flee to the sea in the end.But now, the Ming army came from the sea, and they completely controlled the sea.

Now Laizhou is besieged on all sides, and it is impossible to escape by sea.

There is not much food in the city.

"We sent out many ways to ask for reinforcements, and the reinforcements should arrive soon." Xu Yougong said.

Geng Zhongming shook his head.

"There will be no reinforcements, or the reinforcements will not reach the city of Laizhou."

"Since Emperor Shaotian was able to go around like this, landed in Shandong, and raided Denglai, how could he have no arrangements at all. And how did you and I survive last year in Yanzhou City?"

"Don't you guys know what's going on with Xu Huai now? They're all waiting for the freshly ripened wheat to satisfy their hunger!"

Listening to his tone, Lian Decheng said in surprise, "Then the lord wants to do it anyway? But can the Son of Heaven really accept us?"

"I think Emperor Shaotian is a master of great talent and strategy, and he will never be inferior to Emperor Taizong of the Qing Dynasty."

Back then, Emperor Taizong of the Qing Dynasty, Huang Taiji, could accept him as a Ming general who surrendered and rebelled. Zhu Yihai should be very sincere in recruiting him now, after all, the Ming Dynasty has lost the Central Plains now.

"Keep Emperor Shao Tian is only willing to confer the title of Duke." Chen Shaozong said.

Geng Er laughed out loud.

"The princes in troubled times are not compared like this."

"The general feels that the prince is always better than the Duke."

Geng Zhongming shook his head, "The founding of the Qing Dynasty, surrendering to the Han generals is nothing more than conferring three kings, but do you think how many Han generals have been conferred by the imperial court as kings, and how many Han generals have been conferred as dukes?"

There were only three before, which seemed quite valuable, but now Beijing keeps conferring kings and dukes. There are a lot of them. Call back yourself first.

But now he, Geng Zhongming, is besieged in this Laizhou city, and he is in danger.

Even in the Qing Dynasty, the current situation is not optimistic.

If you are lucky, you may be able to maintain the division of the north and the south. If you are not lucky, you may be pushed back to your hometown outside the pass.This thing is really uncertain, just like who would have thought that Li Zicheng, the thief who was once besieged by the court, only had eighteen riders to enter Shangluo, but later he could quickly sweep the Central Plains and finally all the way to Beijing.

And who would have thought that Wu Sangui would open Shanhaiguan and lead the way into Beijing when the Qing army took the opportunity to send troops?
Da Shun Dynasty died all at once?
To be honest, Geng Zhongming can't understand the situation of this world at all now, but he knows that no matter how the general situation of this world will divide or merge in the future, he must first live.

Otherwise, nothing will be discussed.

Kong Youde and Shang Kexi would rather die than surrender, but Geng Zhongming is different.

Well why are you going to die!

It is better to live than to die, not to mention the green hills left behind, so I am not afraid of running out of firewood.

"I'm afraid that if we surrender now, it's better if we don't fall at both ends. At that time, both sides will not trust us, and there will be no people inside and out."

"It's up to people." Geng Zhongming sighed, he was the only one of the four Dongjiang generals back then, and he didn't want to fall down too.

"Send your brothers out of the city quietly to write a letter to Emperor Shaotian."

Geng Zhongming is willing to talk, but there are conditions.

"I am willing to return to the Ming Dynasty anyway, and serve for the Ming Dynasty again, but I and the soldiers under my command do not want to stay in Shandong. I hope His Majesty will allow me to lead my troops to sea, go to Phi Island, and reopen Dongjiang Town. The soldiers under my command and I are willing to serve the imperial court." Open up a new battlefield behind Liaodong!"

As soon as Geng Er's plan came out, the three generals were stunned.

Leave Shandong and go to Phi Island?

Reopen Dongjiang?

(End of this chapter)