Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1289
All these constitute an unsolved mystery.It also made the rebels always fearful of the Qimu Island forces.

Kong Youde slowly stuffed the stack of papers into his bosom, and asked, "Why did the owner of the village tell the officers and soldiers where the grain platform is?"

Chen Sigen smiled slightly: "If you think it's useful, use it, if you think it's useless, just burn it."

Kong Youde still didn't give up: "To be honest, I'm still a little confused about this...Could it be that you are inviting the king into the urn?" He wanted to provoke the other party so that he could get some words out.

Chen Sigen still smiled slightly: "Is it necessary to invite you into the urn?" His complexion changed, and he sneered, "If so, your head has been spread all over the nine sides a few months ago, is it still necessary to wait until today? !"

This is extremely rude and arrogant.Kong Youde was furious for a while, but he knew that the other party was not talking big, suppressed the anger in his heart, cupped his hands and said: "Then thank you, Master Lu. Kong is leaving." After finishing speaking, he got up and left.

After receiving this information, Li Jiuzheng discussed with Kong Youde that it might not be long before they continued to defend the city—there was an elite Guan Ning army among the officers—and among them were two thousand Yi Ding, who were known as the most skilled fighters. They were Mongolian and Houjin soldiers who had defected to Ming Dynasty. They were absolutely no opponents in the field battle. The Battle of Beima Town had already fully demonstrated that the cavalry infantry they temporarily put together by plundering livestock were not opponents of field cavalry.

In this way, a surprise attack on Liangtai to force the officers and soldiers to retreat became their only possible choice other than fleeing across the sea.

However, the area of ​​activity of the rebel army has now been compressed to Dengzhou. If they want to rob Qingzhou, they must cross the border of Laizhou.This is a very risky thing. There are now thousands of officers and soldiers led by Sun Yuanhua, Zhang Tao and others in Laizhou City-all Shandong soldiers and Nan soldiers who are jealous of them. Going or going back will cause serious losses, and the sneak attack troops may be wiped out.

The two thought over and over again, and finally decided that it was not too late. Taking advantage of the fact that the officers and soldiers had just arrived at the city and the siege had not yet been formed, and it was snowing heavily, and there were few opportunities for people to move in the wild, they dispatched cavalry to carry out a surprise attack on Qingzhou, burning the food of the officers and soldiers in one fell swoop. tower.

The calculation has been made, with Kong Youde's servants as the core, and secretly dispatched the servants of the former Dongjiang generals, a total of [-] elite cavalry, each of them had a full meal and were given warm clothes.Awarded silver.Each person is equipped with a horse and a mule.Taking six days of dry rations with him, he took advantage of the heavy snowfall to quietly open the city gate and secretly march along the coastline.

Heavy snow fell all the way, and the traces of people and horses walked by the goose-feather snow were quickly covered by heavy snow. In the cold weather, the pond horses of the officers and soldiers no longer sent out to farther places for sentry.Kong Youde's 600 troops traveled smoothly and entered the Qingzhou border without any major losses.

Although Qingzhou is the third prefecture in the east, due to the success of the Laizhou defense battle, the damage in the Denglai Rebellion was much smaller than that of Dengzhou and Laizhou. However, after that, it was relatively stable.Naturally, the state of alert of officers and soldiers is much worse.

Kong Youde led the cavalry to suddenly appear in Qingzhou, broke through a series of food storage places such as Zhuqiao and Huangshan Pavilion, and burned tens of thousands of grains and grass transported by officers and soldiers.For a while, the Shandong camp, which had planned to "receive all efforts", suddenly became chaotic.

The winter of this year was already very cold, and it was already snowing heavily in November, coupled with the harsh sea breeze, the sergeant was exposed to snow and frost, his skin was chapped, and he suffered from the cold winter.However, the officers and soldiers in the campaign did not even have enough winter clothes. Zhu Dadian and Xie Sanbin sent people to prepare cotton coats and leather jackets, and collected reed mats and liquor to reward the soldiers.

But the rumor that the food was burned suddenly appeared. Before they could find out the source of the rumor, the emergency messenger from Qingzhou had already arrived in the camp.

This was like a bolt from the blue for Zhu Dadian and others—it was freezing cold, tens of thousands of Ma Dun soldiers were under the fortified city, and they were cut off food, and they fell into a desperate situation of annihilating the entire army!
After receiving this urgent document, Zhu Dadian immediately called the civil servants and generals in the camp to discuss countermeasures.All the generals agreed: take advantage of the four days of food in the camps, move the camp and retreat to Laizhou, Qingzhou and other places in order to obtain food nearby.March again after the grain road is restored.

Zhu Dadian is still hesitating - he has worked hard for the siege of Dengzhou this time, seeing that the rebels have become fish in the bottom of the pot, but suddenly there is a food road that is cut off.According to the urgent report from Qingzhou, the rebels seem to have sent a ranger to attack grain platforms in various places in Qingzhou.

Since the enemy is just a sneak attack and has no rear support, it will not last long. There are still four days of food in the camp. If we can raise funds urgently, the siege of Dengzhou can still be maintained.At this time, he thought of the owner of the Deer Manor. He had already promised to send a thousand shi of grain, and if he wanted to ask him to send a few more thousand shi, he could do it.It is said that he recruited tens of thousands of exiles in the Zhaoyuan area, so he must have a large amount of food in reserve.Huang County is not far from here...

Therefore, he did not immediately order to retreat, but asked the generals to return to the camps temporarily, guard the camps, and wait for orders.

After the generals resigned, Zhu Dadian immediately sent people to fly to Laizhou, and asked Sun Yuanhua to send troops to raise a batch of food in Laizhou city and send them to the camp to stabilize the morale of the army.He continued to discuss with several important staff members, estimated various difficulties that might be encountered, and thought of some ways to deal with them.While discussing, they suddenly heard the sound of trumpets and cannons in Dengzhou City, and bursts of cheers came.

Zhu Dadian frowned and asked:
"Why are you making so much noise?!"
For a moment, the noise in the city seemed to spread to the camp, people shouting and neighing, and there was chaos.The commander-in-chief of the Liao army who aided the suppression of Dengzhou, the commander-in-chief Jin Guoqi suddenly entered the account and said hastily:
"My lords, please get on your horse quickly, the situation is bad!"

"Why are you so panicked? Say it!"

"I don't know why, when the battalions learned that the food road was cut off, the soldiers clamored to leave. The generals couldn't hold back the bullets, and they were fleeing under the siege of the soldiers. Now the battalions are terrified and collapsed. The situation is extremely critical, please hurry up Get on your horse, just in case."
Zhu Dian forced his composure: "Go quickly and issue a strict order that the troops of each battalion are not allowed to panic and move wildly. They must keep calm and guard their camps. Anyone who dares to abandon the stronghold and flee will be killed without mercy!"
"Yes, obey the order!" Jin Guoqi turned around and left.

While Zhu Dadian was in a hurry, Zu Dashou came with a group of soldiers on horseback, dismounted in front of Zhu Dadian's tent, hurriedly bowed his hands and saluted, and said loudly:
"My lord, please move the camp immediately! The rebels have already rushed out of the city, please leave quickly, my lord!"
"The traitor has become a fish in the bottom of the pot, don't worry." Before he finished speaking, he could only hear the rumbling of the artillery in the city—the rebels in the city seldom fired artillery these days, but at this moment they suddenly started firing intensively, and the shells roared and flew Towards the camp, the chaos in the camp increased.

Zhu Dadian was about to speak when suddenly the sound of war drums, horns and conch shells sounded from the enemy camp.Then, there was the sound of galloping thousands of troops and horses, shouting and killing.Everyone can hear that the rebels in Dengzhou City have already rushed to the camp.Zu Dashou urged: "My lord, please move the camp as soon as possible, and then make further calculations."
On the second day after Kong Youde succeeded in the sneak attack, Li Jiucheng received a message in the city from the secret envoy sent by the owner of Lu Zhuang that the sneak attack was successful.He was skeptical at first, but never took any action.However, he ordered his generals to mobilize their troops and horses, ready to go out of the city to fight at any time.

One day, it was reported that the officers and soldiers in the camp were screaming and neighing, and they knew that there must have been some accidents in the camp - most likely the news that the food road was cut off had already reached the camp.Li Jiuzheng himself is an old general in Liaodong, and he knows Guan Ning's behavior very well. He knows that this must be General Guan Ning running away in a crisis.He laughed grimly: "God helped me!" Immediately he ordered the whole city to beat drums and fire cannons, and sent many personal soldiers all over the city to shout: "The food road for officers and soldiers has been cut off!"

Then he put on his whole body, personally led a part of the elite as forwards, and led [-] infantry and cavalry to attack the camp, hoping to take advantage of the chaos to defeat the main force of the Shandong camp in one fell swoop.

At this time, the most powerful Guanning battalions in the camp had already begun to flee, and the remaining troops from the towns of Sichuan, Hebei, and Shandong also fled. He was held hostage and helped onto the horse's back, and they fled together.

It was after the snow, and the weather was freezing. Most of the troops in Guanning were cavalry, and they had fled beforehand. Most of the other towns were infantry. There was no resistance.The rout and pursuit continued into the night. Many officers and soldiers were killed and captured, and countless people were scattered in the chaos.

Zhu Dadian and others were almost overtaken by the rebels during their escape, and they thought of suicide several times. The most critical time, all the soldiers around him were dispersed. Fortunately, at this time, a cavalry under the flag of Qimu Island Appearing suddenly, a row of muskets shot past, killed the rebels, and took them down.

Zhu Dadian was still in shock. He saw only more than 100 people. The leader was only a young officer, wearing a thick felt fan Yangli, wearing a cotton robe with a cloth belt around his chest and waist.The hundred riders around him all wore the same attire as him, with blunderbuss on their backs and sabers on their waists.Although not wearing armor, he looked heroic and very brave.

"Little man Huang Ande, please greet the adults!" Hearing that the one who was rescued was the governor of Shandong, the visitor immediately rolled off the saddle and saluted Qian Qiang in front of Zhu Dadian's horse, "The adults are shocked!"

"It doesn't matter." Zhu Dadian heard the other party's Shandong accent, and immediately felt relieved, and forced himself to be calm, "Thanks to the help of the strong man!"

"Your Excellency, please rest assured, Master Sun has personally led General Zhang to meet him in front, and I will wait for the escort Master Zhu to go!"

(End of this chapter)