Smuggling Daming

After Zhou Zhong arranged the affairs of the Chamber of Commerce and the Sea Alliance, he sent Ashikaga Kazuki and other Japanese envoys back to the Japanese country on the ship. The ship was also filled with the weapons that Zhou Zhong sponsored for them. They need to spend money to buy it, and the money is temporarily deducted from the payment of the Ashikaga Chamber of Commerce.

In addition, Zhou Zhong did not forget the previous agreement with Heng Wang Zhu Youzhen. After he showed the monosodium glutamate to Sanniang and others, he immediately asked them to select a few loyal stewards to go to Qingzhou and Weihaiwei, and then recruit local people to build monosodium glutamate. The factory will be able to produce monosodium glutamate as soon as the sea sausages caught by Zhu Youzhen are in place next year.

However, just when Zhou Zhong finished arranging the affairs of Shuangyu Port and was about to take Wu Shan and other Jin Yiwei to Ningbo to take up his post, there was a bad news from Shandong, that is, Qi Yanming, who escaped in Bazhou, was not dead. , and fled all the way to the vicinity of Jinan, united with the local Yang Hu and others to raise the flag to rebel again, and the momentum was even greater than Liu Liu and Liu Qi before.

Regarding Qi Yanming's escape, Zhou Zhong was a little uneasy at first, but the news this time really verified his premonition. Although Liu Liu and Liu Qi's rebellion process was interrupted by him, Qi Yanming and Yang Hu still Come together like in history and raise the banner of rebellion, but I don't know if they will turn the country of Ming Dynasty upside down like in history?

Because of the long distance, Zhou Zhong did not receive much news. According to the news, after Qi Yanming escaped from Bazhou, he rushed to Jinan and found Yang Hu who was entrenched there as a bandit. After the discussion.Finally decided to rebel again, and occupied Zhangqiu County on the east side of Jinan Prefecture at the beginning, which made them gain momentum for a while, and soon gathered a team of thousands of people, officially began to expand to the surrounding counties, and A direct threat to the security of Jinan Fucheng.

We must know that Jinan is the political and economic center of Shandong. Important officials and yamen, such as the governor, the commander of the capital, the commissioner of Chengxuan, and the commissioner of punishment and inspection, are also located in Jinan City. There are only thirteen chief ministers in the entire Ming Dynasty. Commander, if Yang Hu and Qi Yanming are really allowed to attack Jinan.Then the world is bound to be shaken, and at the same time, the reputation of Yang Hu and others will be shaken all over the world. More people who are dissatisfied with the court will join them to rebel, and it will definitely be more troublesome to exterminate them.

The news Zhou Zhong received showed that while Yang Hu and Qi Yanming were expanding, they were also actively preparing to attack Jinan City.It seems that they are indeed as he feared, and are planning to attack Jinan City in one fell swoop. Although Jinan City is very strong and guarded by the imperial army, with the already corrupted army in Ming Dynasty, no one can guarantee that they will not be able to take it down. !

It's a pity that the news Zhou Zhong received ends here.Judging from the speed at which the news was delivered, it is very likely that he was receiving the news.Yang Hu and Qi Yanming had already started to attack Jinan City, but Zhou Zhong could only do it in a hurry and couldn't help at all.

At the same time, the city of Jinan, Shandong was raging with war. Teams of ragged rebel troops carried long and crude ladders and rushed forward against the rain of arrows from the officers and soldiers on the top of the city. Many teams had not rushed yet. under the city wall.Most of them have been shot to death, and the rest of the ladder team rushed under the city wall.But what greeted them was rolling wood, thunder, rocks and even boiling water, which caused heavy losses to the rebel army, and it was impossible to erect the ladder to the city wall.

On a dirt slope a few miles away from the city wall, Yang Hu and Qi Yanming in armor were riding on horseback, urging the army to attack the city anxiously. Unfortunately, the defense force of Jinan City is too strong. After several days of attacking, there was no progress, not even the city wall.

"Generalissimo, it seems that we were all wrong before. The strength of the guards in Jinan City has far exceeded our estimation. I am afraid that even if we continue to fight, there is no possibility of taking down Jinan City, so let's withdraw our troops!" Qi Yanming looked at. Looking at the rows of fallen insurgents in the distance, he said with a heartbroken face, these soldiers were recruited with great difficulty, and every time they die, their strength will weaken a little, so they must not continue to attack like this up.

After Yang Hu rebelled under the banner of avenging Liu Liu and Liu Qi, he quickly mobilized thousands of troops, and then he successively captured several counties under Jinan Prefecture, which made him even more powerful. It has grown to more than 1 people, so he called himself "Fengtian Conquest Generalissimo", and named Qi Yan as Deputy Marshal, but the military power has always been controlled by him, Qi Yanming can only give him some advice at most, and it depends on whether he listens or not. He's in the mood again.

After hearing this, Yang Hu thumped his thigh and said: "It's all because of that Xu Liang from Dongchang Guard. If he hadn't brought three thousand soldiers from Dongchang Guard to support Jinan, I'm afraid Jinan City would have belonged to us long ago. !"

Yang Hu's words are indeed true. He has been entrenched in Jinan for many years, and he has long been aware of the strength of the troops in Jinan City. In his opinion, the guards in Jinan City have long been corrupted. Apart from guarding the city gates to maintain order, There is no combat effectiveness at all, and the guards around Jinan are similar. It is not difficult to attack Jinan City with the strength in his hands.

In fact, this is indeed the case. When Yang Hu led the army to Jinan Fucheng, all the officials in the city were in a mess. Among them, the commander finally assembled the troops in the city to prepare to defend the city, but Yang Hu's army had just As soon as the siege began, the guards on the city wall were frightened to death, and many even dropped their weapons on the spot and were about to flee down the city wall.

Faced with this situation, the governor of Shandong was trembling with anger, and ordered the commander of the Shandong capital to guard Jinan, and the commander of the capital was also anxious, and personally led a group of officers to the city wall to supervise the battle. He would be beheaded immediately on the spot, which made the situation better, but he was still at a disadvantage in the offensive and defensive battle. Seeing that Yang Hu's rebel army was about to attack the city, Jinan City was also in danger.

However, at this anxious moment, a group of guard soldiers from the Ming Dynasty suddenly came from the north of the city. This guard soldier was different from other guard soldiers. Hundreds of cavalry, led by a young general, took responsibility for himself, charged into Yang Hu's army with cavalry as an arrow, and cut Yang Hu's attacking team in two. Duan forced Yang Hu to retreat, which saved Jinan City.The one who suddenly came out to rescue Jinan City was the soldiers of the Dongchang Guard that Yang Hu was talking about, and the brave young general was Xu Liang, the commander of the Dongchang Guard.

Dongchang Mansion is located on the west side of Jinan Mansion, and the two mansions are closely adjacent to each other. Dongchang Mansion is one of the hubs of water transportation in the Ming Dynasty, and it can be regarded as a very prosperous state capital in the Ming Dynasty. There is also a guard there, which is Dongchangwei.

Speaking of Dongchang Guard, it can be regarded as an outlier among the Daming Guards. The guard commander of Dongchang Guard is named Xu Mingliang. His status was too low, so after the birth of his second son, Xu Liang, he planned to let him study and get a good name. Anyway, Xu Liang has an older brother who can inherit the position of commander.

Xu Liang's father had a good plan, but as the saying goes, there are unforeseen circumstances. Xu Liang's elder brother died of a sudden illness just after reaching adulthood. As a result, there was only one son Xu Liang left in the family. He is a few years old, but he has already made some achievements in studying. If he takes the boy's examination, he is likely to be admitted as a scholar, but the hereditary official position in the family is not easy to come by, so Xu Liang finally gave up the imperial examination and inherited his father's guard commander Make a job.

Although Xu Liang was a scholar before, after inheriting the post of Commander of the Guards, he began to delve into the art of war. , never withholding the armor and equipment of the military households, and treating their subordinates very generously, and giving the fields of the guards to the military households for cultivation at a very low rent, so that these military households do not have to worry about living at home. Within a few years, Dongchangwei had recovered its army style, and its combat effectiveness had also been greatly improved. Although it was not as good as the experienced frontier army, it was not far behind the Beijing camp.

After Yang Hu and Qi Yanming rebelled, the county town on the east side of Jinan was besieged and plundered, and it threatened the safety of Jinan. Therefore, as early as a few days later, the command envoy of the Shandong Capital issued a mobilization order to the guards near Jinan, ordering They allocated some troops to help guard Jinan, but even the commander himself had no confidence in this order, because he knew the situation of the guards better than anyone else. God knows how many troops there are in the guards everywhere?

But what the commander of the Shandong capital did not expect was that Dongchangwei, not far from Jinan, actually mobilized [-] troops after receiving his order, and this army is still a daring army. , Rescued Jinan City at a critical moment, which made both the officials and the people in Jinan City feel inexplicably grateful to Xu Liang and his Dongchang Guards.

After Xu Liang defeated Yang Hu's army for the first time, he then entered the city to help defend. After all, he only had three thousand soldiers to fight. It's better to use the tall city wall of Jinan City to defend, so as to reduce your own casualties and consume Yang Hu's troops.

In addition, the rebels like Yang Hu are just a gang of mobs, and it's okay to fight with the wind, but if they can't attack Jinan City for a long time, it will also be a heavy blow to the prestige of Yang Hu and other rebel leaders. People don't have a fixed supply of food and grass, so they can only rely on looting everywhere, so Xu Liang firmly believes that Yang Hu won't last long at all, and when Yang Hu retreats, it will be their chance to fight back! (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.)