Chapter 114 Ambiguity

This time, not only Zhu Dadian was happy, but also Gao Qiqian, a great eunuch sent by Chongzhen to Qingzhou to supervise the army, was also very happy. After receiving Zhao Shantang's report on the confirmation of the results of the battle, Gao Qiqian also quickly sent people to report the news to the capital, which made Emperor Chongzhen, who had been worried about this matter for a long time, quickly relieved.

So Zhu Dadian wrote a letter and sent someone to the front of the Xiaotian army. In the letter, he praised Xiaotian and said a lot of loyal and patriotic bullshit, asking Yu Xiaotian to guard against arrogance and impatience. After a period of rest, he continued to lead the troops to Laizhou City to attack the rebels.

At the same time, Zhu Dadian also ordered the Shandong soldiers, horses, Zhejiang soldiers and other soldiers directly controlled at hand to be ready to cooperate with Yu Xiaotian's South Road Army at any time to attack the rebels besieging Laizhou.

At this time, Laizhou City was surrounded by rebels, which can be said to be in danger. Yu Xiaotian should be anxious. However, Yu Xiaotian is very clear about the development of the historical process. Although Laizhou City is surrounded by rebels, Zhu Wannian and other Ming Dynasty officials in the city are already bankrupt at this time. , taking the soldiers and civilians in the city and defending the city, so that the rebels have attacked Laizhou for a long time, and there is no problem in Laizhou City.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian was not nervous or anxious at all. He took the generals and rested leisurely for more than half a month in Pingdu Prefecture until July had arrived. Zhu Dadian couldn't wait any longer and sent someone to urge him to march in. Only then did Yu Xiaotian lead his troops north again and headed for Laizhou City. .

Pingdu to Laizhou is about 150 miles away, separated by a Daze Mountain. For the sake of safety, Yu Xiaotian did not lead the troops to walk between Daze Mountain, but bypassed the Jiaodong Mountains, tried to take the plain terrain, and headed for Laizhou City.

At this time, the rebel Kong Youde has led 30,000 rebels to besiege Laizhou City for more than two months. Kong Youde led the army to almost exhaust various methods, but he still attacked Laizhou City repeatedly, and the morale of the rebels has been affected.

Under the leadership of Xu Congzhi, the former governor of Shandong, Xie Lian, the new governor of Lai, and Zhu Wannian, the general of Laizhou, Yang Yubo and others, fought to the death in the city and repeatedly repelled the attacks of the rebels, making the rebels helpless against Laizhou City.

But Kong Youde can't give up attacking Laizhou. He knows very well that if he wants to continue to expand his territory, the city of Laizhou must be taken down. Otherwise, Laizhou will become a nail wedge between their confidants and may explode at any time and kill them.

Therefore, Laizhou City is a stumbling block before they continue to expand their power and territory, so Kong Youde can only continue to attack Laizhou City.

But more than half a month ago, a shocking news came from Pingdu Prefecture. An officer from Fujian arrived at Jiaozhou Bay, landed in Jiaozhou Bay, and began to advance towards Pingdu Prefecture. He once sent someone to order Li Fujie to guard Pingdu Prefecture to guard Pingdu Prefecture and block Fujian. The soldiers and horses came.

He didn't care too much about this Fujian army. In his opinion, there is nothing terrible about the southern soldiers. When they first came here, they were also a guest army. When they couldn't handle it, they would be unconvinced. Moreover, in his eyes, the southerners were greedy and afraid of death, and there was no fear at all, although the officers and soldiers from Fujian were known as soldiers. Wan, but in his eyes, it is nothing. With Li Fujie leading 3,000 rebels to guard Pingdu, at least they can be dragged to Pingdu Prefecture and not allowed to be stored.

At that time, he took down Laizhou City, turned around, and went to Pingdu to eat this group of Fujian officers and soldiers. It was not too late, but what he never expected was that in a few days, Li Fujie sent someone to ask him for help, saying that he had met Fujian officers and soldiers in Pingdu. Li Fujie's men lost the battle, and Fujian officers and soldiers have already sent troops to Pingdu City.

Kong Youde was very angry when he heard the news. He secretly scolded Li Fujie for his incompetence. He couldn't even stop this Fujian officers and soldiers and suffered a defeat. However, he considered that although Li Fujie suffered a defeat, after all, Pingdu City was still in Li Fujie's hands. With the city of Pingdu City, Li Fujie was no matter how bad he was. It can also delay them for ten days and a half months, or even two or three months, which should not be a big problem!

So he did not pay attention to Li Fujie's request for help, and still led the troops to continue to attack Laizhou City, but he didn't think about it. After a while, there was no movement in Pingdu Prefecture. At first, he thought that Li Fujie had dragged the Fujian officers and soldiers. Later, he felt something was wrong and sent someone to Pingdu to check the situation.

As a result, the people sent ran back in a few days. They were shocked and said that Pingdu City had been lost. Fujian officials and soldiers captured Pingdu City. Li Fujie's army was completely destroyed, and not even one escaped. Unexpectedly, all of them were made dumplings by Fujian officials.

Kong Youde was shocked when he heard the news and found that the Fujian officers and soldiers who came this time did not seem to be so simple, so he immediately sent someone to inquire about the news to see who led the troops this time.

Later, after inquiring, Kong Youde learned that the soldiers and horses from Fujian were led by a general named Yu Xiaotian. It is said that Yu Xiaotian was once a pirate and was later appeased by Xiong Wencan, the governor of Fujian, and became a general on the Fujian side.

Over the years, it is said that this man has done a good job in Fujian and has made a lot of achievements. This time, it was Emperor Chongzhen in the court, who appointed him to lead his troops to the north and come here to calm the chaos.

Only then did Kong Youde realize that this surname Yu was not simple. Later, he thought about it carefully and suddenly remembered that Yu Xiaotian was the leader of the sea wolf who had done business with their Dongjiang army many years ago?

When he joined the army with Mao Wenlong, the sea wolf once transported grain cloth and other things from Dongjiang Town in the south to Dongjiang Town to do business with their Dongjiang army. They exchanged some horses and Liaodong specialties such as tiger bones, ginseng, deer antler and transported them back to the south*.

I didn't expect that the pirate leader in those years had now become the general officer of Daming and was ordered to lead the troops to attack their Dongjiang rebels. This is too much! It's really impermanent. In those years, they were officers and soldiers, but now they have become traitors, but the pirates in those years have become officers and soldiers. No one thought that they would have the opportunity to meet on the battlefield before, but the world is impermanent. After so many years, they actually want to meet on the battlefield.

Thinking of this, Kong Youde felt that this matter could be discussed. After all, both of them are also old knowledge, at least old. He guarded Fujian in Xiaotian. Denglai Shandong can't fight with him. Why does he have to work hard for Daming and fight with their rebels to the end?

So Kong Youde sent someone to Pingdu secretly and asked to see Yu Xiaotian in private. He wanted Chen Ming's interests and persuaded Yu Xiaotian not to fight with them on the battlefield. Yu Xiaotian took Pingdu Prefecture. It's okay to take it. This is also possible to explain to the court. He had to come to Laizhou to meet him on the battlefield.

However, the people sent quickly returned to the rebel camp in Laizhou and replied to Kong Youde, saying that Yu Xiaotian's attitude was very ambiguous and neither yin nor yang. He never mentioned whether to come to Laizhou or not, but his mouth was full of haha, so that people could not see his true thoughts, but Yu Xiaotian did not take down several of them on the spot, but afterwards, he still Put them back.

Kong Youde was a little confused. He couldn't figure out what Yu Xiaotian wanted to do or not to come to fight them, so he had no choice but to send soldiers to set up a card on the way to Laizhou. He was ready to stop them on the spot once Yu Xiaotian led the troops. At that time, he would lead them. The soldiers went over and ate the Fujian soldiers and horses of Yu Xiaotian and pulled them down in one fell swoop.

However, after he arranged it, he did not see Yu Xiaotian lead his troops to Laizhou for more than ten days and sent people to inquire about the news, but found that after taking Pingdu Prefecture, Yu Xiaotian actually led his troops and rested in Pingdu Prefecture. As long as the rebels did not enter Pingdu Prefecture, he would not reach the territory of Laizhou. But if sporadic rebels enter Pingdu Prefecture, they will be hit by his men.

So Kong Youde felt relieved and felt clear what Yu Xiaotian was thinking and thought that his persuasion had played a role. Yu Xiaotian should have made up his mind and did not intend to continue to fight with them. Now he has taken Pingdu Prefecture for half a month, but he has been reluctant to move troops to continue to Laizhou. By the way forward, which illustrates the problem.

Kong Youde is no longer worried about the problems of Fujian officers and soldiers. Next, the most important thing for him is to take Laizhou as soon as possible. At worst, he will not equal Duzhou, but he can fight into the boundary of Qingzhou and continue to develop in the hinterland of Shandong.

After his strength becomes stronger, it is not too late to vacate his hands and go to Pingdu Prefecture to eat Yu Xiaotian's Fujian officers and soldiers.

So Kong Youde turned to focus all his energy on attacking Laizhou City. After thinking about it, he still came up with a damaging move, that is, fraudulent surrender.

During this period, Kong Youde has seen through the Ming court and the government. Daming has never made up his mind whether to suppress them or caress them. Some time ago, it seemed that the Ming's opinion on comforting them should prevail, so the Ming army has never made up its mind to fight to the death with him, and always reported it. Fortunately, he was defeated by his practice.

Moreover, he besieged Laizhou City, and no soldier was sent to reinforce Laizhou City, which strengthened the idea that the court wanted to appease them.

But recently, the wind direction seems to have changed a little. He released Sun Yuanhua and others in early February, that is, he released a smoke screen bomb, revealing to the court a surface that they were forced to rebel, which made the officials of the court feel that he wanted to accept the recruitment of these people, and then took advantage of The plane began to attack everywhere, captured many cities, looted a large number of towns, and obtained a large amount of food and property in a short period of time, greatly strengthening the strength of their rebels.