Daming wolf ride

Jiang Maoran, who was rotten into a pot of meat, was not eaten as beef and mutton in the end, but was buried with the pot and meat.If it was true that there was no food for several days in a row, the soldiers who were afraid of starvation and madness would have shared the pot of human flesh, and would not be willing to throw away a single bone (it would be used to make a fire).

But the situation is not optimistic. The whole city was searched, and the food they got was only a few dozen shi. After interrogating the captives, there was no food at all in Dudao City. When the defenders fled, they burned the only food and grass. After they entered the city, they had no food.

Six days after occupying Pingdu, the rebels began to run out of food. In the following days, except for some food from Dengzhou, they lived by looting the countryside.

The rebels are also human beings, they don’t do production, they don’t have a stable logistics base, they live by looting and feed wars by war.In the past, I was able to enter Shandong to grab some food and grass, but since the end of the year, the commander-in-chief will not allow me to go to Shandong again, saying that the imperial court is coming to recruit security. Except for Laizhou, the rest of the soldiers and horses have to withdraw. Firstly, it is a precautionary measure. The imperial army came under pressure, and secondly, it was to ensure that Denglai was not lost.

As long as Denglai is in his hands, no matter whether he is beckoning or resisting, it will always be capital.If Denglai made a mistake, there would be nothing to talk about. From Li Jiuzheng and Kong Youde down to the pawns who participated in the rebellion, I am afraid that all of them will die. [

In this way, the rebels in Pingdu City could only live by robbing food from the surrounding villages and towns, and did not dare to go out to intrude in the face of Shandong. This relieved the pressure on Shandong to a certain extent, allowing Shandong governor Zhu Dadian to have a breathing space. Some soldiers were transferred from the southern governments.If the rebels did not stop and stormed the prefectures and counties in Shandong, Zhu Dadian would be trapped in Jinan, so how could he have the courage to discuss with Gao Qiqian and advance north and south.

However, most of the food transported from Dengzhou was sent to the city of Laizhou to be eaten by Li Jiuzheng's besieging army. Less and less food came.

Compared with the official army, the situation of the rebel army is even more embarrassing. After all, they do not have any external support supplies, and everything can only be obtained at hand.I am afraid it is the most appropriate to describe the rebels as sitting and eating.When all the looted food is eaten up, and Laizhou has not been captured, or the conquest has not been successful, I am afraid that Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng will have to consider how to escape from Denglai.

Now the rebels are all looking at Laizhou. Unlike Dengzhou city, which is full of ordnance, this Laizhou city is full of grain and grass that should have been sent to Jinzhou for the Liao army outside the customs. The amount is frightening, hundreds of thousands. The stones were collected from Jiangnan and other places by the imperial court, but now they are all piled up in Laizhou City because the sea route is cut off.

If the two marshals, Kong and Li, accepted the imperial court's appeasement, then the food and grass in Laizhou City would naturally be allocated to supply them; It is nothing more than more casualties.

There is no indestructible city in this world. Dengzhou is also known as impenetrable, and it did not take it down overnight.What can't be done in Laizhou City?

Therefore, no matter whether the conciliation is successful or not, the rebels have confidence from top to bottom.It wasn't their own strong combat power that gave them confidence, but their habitual understanding of the officers and soldiers gave them strong confidence.

In their eyes, whether it is the soldiers and horses of the North Zhili, or the Imperial Army from the capital who came all the way from the capital, they are the mob.

This point of view did not change slightly until the outbreak of the Battle of Xiaoguanzhuang, but the rebels under the city of Laizhou were already on the verge of riding a tiger, and they could not get down at all.Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng are not stupid, the court is willing to talk to them about appeasement, the fear is not that Laizhou will lose!

You know, if Laizhou falls, the Ming army outside the pass will have food to eat!The imperial court can no longer requisition enough grain to be shipped outside the pass in a short period of time!

In the battle of Linghe River last year, all the food stored in Gyeonggi and outside the pass had been used for the war, and now, there is also food outside the pass.

In the fifth year of Chongzhen, the severe drought was not limited to the Northwest and Central Plains, and the land of Daming outside Shanhaiguan was also severely drought-affected.

After Shi Dayong led his troops to the south, Li Jizhong, the prefect of Ningyuan, and Chen Ang, the prefect of Jinzhou, asked the court for emergency: food, food!

In the important area of ​​Dengzhou, the governor Sun Yuanhua was in charge, but he was lost. As a result, all the new firearms and Western cannons that the imperial court spent a lot of money fell into the hands of the rebels.

In the important area of ​​Laizhou, the governor of Shandong Province was in the town, but it was saved, but outside the city was the rebel army who besieged the city for several months. It is not yet known what the result will be.

Dayong didn't know whether Liu Yulie had arrived in Shahe, or how far the recruiting process was going. Neither did the prisoners.

Dozens of stones of grain and grass are only a few thousand catties, but the Jinzhou Army has nearly 4000 people, how long can they eat?one day?Two days or three days?

There are only a dozen shi of his own food and grass left, and most of them are still beans for horses. The rice and noodles have long since run out, so how can we persist.

Nearly a thousand captives made Dayong feel a headache. It is not that he has never done the killing of captives. Liushahe is still crying. [

It is not difficult to kill them all, but the difficult thing is that Dayong wants to raise them, and then become a mobile ration until Dengzhou is taken.

It's April, and the corpse can't be preserved at all, and there isn't that much salt for pickling.

Besides, living grain that can move by itself is not much better than dead grain that needs to be hauled by manpower?

There were more than 200 people in the city. These people were not innocent, and they might even have blood on their hands. It is reasonable to kill them.If it doesn't work, it can be transferred to the government for further punishment, but there is no government in Pingdu City, and the Jinzhou Army is not a local civil affairs office. His duty is only to fight.And I was also afraid that there were innocent people in the middle, and Pingdu had already been taken down, so there was no need to do more killings, so in the end Dayong ordered these people to be driven out of the city, but they were not allowed to carry a grain of grain with them, and they were not allowed to take it away. A copper plate, only allowed to leave empty-handed, and let them go after leaving the city.

It was said that they were allowed to go, but the wolf cavalry deliberately drove them to Laizhou in the northeast direction. The Beijing camp in Shahe formed a horned situation.

Da Yong intends to save Laizhou from the siege, he has decided to march the whole army to Dengzhou tomorrow, whoever wants this empty city of Pingdu, anyway, he doesn't want it.The news was passed to Li Jiuzheng's ears, just to let him know that it was impossible to stay safely under the city of Laizhou. If he withdrew his troops, Laizhou would be saved.

Dayong was not afraid that the rebels in Laizhou would rush back to Dengzhou ahead of him. Marching with thousands of people and marching with tens of thousands is not the same concept. He, Li Jiuzheng, had more things to consider than himself.The Jinzhou army only needs to rush to Dengzhou boldly, but Li Jiuzheng has to be vigilant against the officers and soldiers behind him.If you run fast, you may be defeated. If you run slowly, you will be bitten by the officers and soldiers at any time.

Maybe, Li Jiuzheng won't run away, Governor Liu came to comfort him.As long as the imperial court is still fantasizing about appeasement, Li Jiuzheng and Kong Youde, who are deeply thieves, will not give up any possibility of defrauding Laizhou.

The rebels are the rebels, expecting them to change their minds and put down their butcher knives to become Buddhas immediately can only be the wishful thinking of those court officials.

It's a pity that the princes of Donglin are still not awake when things have come to this point.Sad, deplorable.

Let them continue to immerse themselves in fantasy, Dengzhou, all I want is Dengzhou!