Chapter 146 Encirclement of the State

Before this, Yu Xiaotian only learned from the news from the Fushan Institute that one day in early June, the northern detachment patrolling the sea area around Ma Island had defeated the rebel sailors once, which was quite rich, sank many enemy ships, and captured hundreds of rebels.

However, because of the difficulty of sending messages in this era, Yu Xiaotian did not know that he had caught such a big fish as Mao Chenglu before.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian was furious about this matter and quickly sent someone to Xishan Village to pass the order, so that Liu Di and Wu Shengtian, including Luo Feng, should not kill Mao Chenglu, and treat this person well for the time being. He will be of great use to this person in the future.

Fortunately, although the news was not transmitted to Yu Xiaotian in time and was not instructed by Yu Xiaotian for a long time, Liu Zhenren and others did not dare to deal with Mao Chenglu without authorization. They just imprisoned him in a cell of the Tuweizi of Yangma Island. Although they were not polite to him, they did not abuse this man too much.

Later, after receiving Yu Xiaotian's instructions, they were lucky and quickly moved Mao Chenglu out of the nest dungeon, transferred him to Xishan Village, placed him in a slightly comfortable place, and detained him again. In addition, they also improved the supply to him, which is only equal to when Xiaotian will send this guy next. It's useful.

And this conflict at sea also surprised Li Jiucheng. Originally, in his opinion, he was ten or nine times, only waiting for Mao Chenglu to send back the news. He drove several large ships full of food and women to return to Dengzhou City. What he waited for was not the news of Mao Chenglu's victory, but the defeated generals under Mao Chenglu, driving two The news that more than a dozen broken boats fled back to Dengzhou.

Li Jiucheng's hand trembled at that time and dropped all the tea bowls on the ground. He couldn't think of Mao Chenglu's trip this time. Even if he couldn't beat Yangma Island, there were only a few people killed. How could the fleet he took were almost destroyed, and even Mao Chenglu himself disappeared.

So he quickly summoned the defeated soldiers to ask. Only this question did he know that there were not only some powerful villagers on Yangma Island and Xishan Village, but also such a small but very powerful sailor protecting Yangma Island.

It turns out that those large ships that have been sailing on Yangma Island recently are not only some merchant ships carrying people and goods, but also some standard warships full of cannons.

At this time, Li Jiucheng's regretful intestines were about to be green. If he had known this, he would not have sent Mao Chenglu to attack the horse island and rob those big ships. This is simply sending the sheep into the mouth of the tiger themselves! This is good. He broke into 50 or 60 boats at once, and also damaged more than 2,000 generals, including Mao Chenglu. It really made Li Jiucheng regret that he wanted to vomit blood.

Li Jiucheng realized that their rebels have been very awesome in the Denglai area recently, but on the other side of Xishan Village, there is a force that they can't provoke. This force is very ambiguous and seems to be in a semi-neutral state. As long as his rebels do not provoke these people, these people will not provoke them.

But if their rebels want to provoke this group of people in Xishan Village, they will never be polite to them and will deal with them every time.

Such a force exists not far from Dengzhou, making him feel like a tiger lying on the side of his couch. Although this tiger has no intention of taking the initiative to trouble him at present, it is never allowed to trouble him to trouble this tiger.

Li Jiucheng was shocked and wanted to mobilise troops and then attack Xishan Village and Yangma Island from the land. However, it is now summer. Let alone the hot weather, the main force of their rebels is now basically taken by Kong Youde to attack Laizhou City. The remaining troops are enough for them to go out to fight for food. For the use of guarding Dengzhou, even if he leads troops to fight Xishan Village and can take down Xishan Village, the other party can also give up Xishan Village and withdraw to Yangma Island.

In that case, will his men have to swim there and attack the horse island? If a fleet is sent there, there is a group of unidentified warships on Yangma Island, and they are so powerful. In case they beat them again, it is estimated that there will be not much left of these warships they finally got.

For them, Li Jiucheng knew very well that this was the last retreat they left. If there was not even a warship, once the court mobilized a large number of officers and soldiers to suppress it, and they could not stand it, they would be completely blocked in this Dengzhou City.

So after suffering this big loss, Li Jiucheng did not dare to immediately rise up and come to Xishan Village to revenge. On the contrary, a turtle's big nest neck came and stretched out his neck to swallow the bitter fruit.

Considering that since he can't afford to provoke this group of people in Xishan Village, he can't continue to have a bad relationship with them. Once this group of people are provoked and take the initiative to trouble them, then his life will be difficult.

After careful discussion with his counselors, Li Jiucheng decided to repair the relationship between the two sides. After all, there is still a deal between the two sides now. He can get a lot of livelihood on hand. He wants people in Xishan Village. He wants grain and silver. If it freezes, the deal will be broken, and there is nothing for him. Benefits.

So after Li Jiucheng made up his mind, he sent someone to prepare a batch of so-called gifts, mainly including 20 good-looking young women, and the kind of unwrapped heavenly feet specially requested by Xishan Village. In addition, he prepared some other gifts and sent people to Xishan Village to see Liu there.

Although LiuDi received clear instructions from Yu Xiaotian on their next move, he still decided not to turn against the rebels for the time being. After all, they will search for the population next. If they completely tear their faces with the rebels, it will not be good for them.

So everyone pretended to be confused and didn't say anything. Quandang's incident was a misunderstanding. Liu Di also didn't mention that they captured Mao Chenglu, and the rebels did not take the initiative to inquire about it, so the two sides ended the negotiations in a very "friendly" atmosphere.

The population business of both sides can continue, but LiuDi also took the opportunity to suppress some prices. Now the Denglai Rebellion has reached its peak. Denglai was not too poor, but after the war, the whole Denglai was almost in ruins.

Under the ravages of the rebels, the people in this area can't farm at ease, leaving a large amount of land and more land becoming a no-man's land, which aggravates the food shortage in this area. June was originally the summer harvest season, but it was hardly seen on the side of Denglai. How much land has ripe food? Even if there are some places where the food is ripe, it will immediately cause the rebels to rush to harvest and forcibly take away the ripe food.

So the famine in Denglai continues to spread. More and more people have completely cut off food. A large number of hungry people have almost eaten everything they can eat. Tree bark, wild vegetables and grass roots are all eaten by them as food. After there is really nothing to eat, some people have to sell their wives, children, wives and children. After selling it, I still had nothing to eat, so I had to find a way to live.

Some people defected to the rebels, some fled to the south and fled to the southwest of Shandong. Some people learned about Xishan Village and rushed to Xishan Village, so that after the summer, the number of refugees collected in Xishan Village not only did not decrease, but also began to increase.

So many births are of no value to the rebels, but they can exchange some food from Xishan Village. Food is now the most needed by the rebels, so the rebels are still willing to continue to trade with Xishan Village.

After the victory in Laizhou, Zhu Dadian led the army to stop in Laizhou City for more than half a month in the name of rest and accumulate supplies for the station, but another purpose was to give Yu Xiaotian time to deal with the more than 10,000 prisoners.

After Xiaotian had vacated the prison camp, Zhu Dadian moved again and began to advance in the direction of Dengzhou. On the way from Laizhou to Dengzhou, Zhaoyuan and Huang County were also controlled by the rebels.

However, after the defeat in Laizhou, the morale of the rebels began to become very low. Coupled with the existence of bugs such as Yu Jiajun, Yu Jiajun was responsible for suppressing the rebels in the city and did not dare to fight them. As for the hard work of attacking the city, it was naturally handed over to Shandong soldiers, Zhejiang soldiers and Sichuan soldiers.

Although they were reluctant, under Zhu Dadian's order, they did not dare to disobey their orders and could only send troops to fight, but they still cursed in their hearts. Laizhou victory, although Yu Xiaotian finally spit out some trophies, the most important war horses and women, and a lot of wealth, Yu Xiaotian was alive. They were willing to spit it out, but they didn't have the courage to take it out of Yu Xiaotian's mouth. In addition, Zhu Dadian suppressed it, so they could only admit defeat.

However, with the strong firepower support of the family army, the matter of attacking the city became relatively simple. Zhaoyuan County was defeated by the officers and soldiers after only five days. This time, several other officers and soldiers also grew their faces and became morale high.

This time, Yu Xiaotian did not go to grab the booty with them, let the three soldiers rush into the city and plundered them. Although he did not say that he made a lot of money, he finally made up for the imbalance in his heart.

Moreover, Yu Xiaotian also showed great performance. After that, he did not ask for it from them. He left it to the three soldiers and horses of them, which embarrassed them. Let's see how generous they are, and then look at their performance. This is higher than their character, and even they themselves are embarrassed to face Yu Xiaotian.

As for Huang County, under the strong attack of the army, it could not last for a few days, but it was also broken by the army and killed and captured more than 2,000 rebels.

Since then, the rebels have completely shifted from the initial offensive state to the defensive, and gradually began to be compressed back to the Dengzhou area by the officers and soldiers.

Finally, in September, the rebels gathered their entire line and concentrated their troops in Dengzhou City. In mid-September, all the news of their demobilization came out.

The main force of the army finally arrived outside Dengzhou City at the end of September.

(As always, continue to thank the desert laughing west wind brothers for their rewards! In addition, continue to ask for monthly tickets and red tickets! The monthly ticket list has fallen relatively fast these days! Ha ha! Ask for a monthly pass!)