The Ming people made way generously. Zhu Ruofan and his army left the Nancheng of Laizhou and rushed to Guanzi City. The Nancheng was immediately lost and all fell into the hands of the Ming army. However, the Ming people did not cross the river while the iron was hot and attacked the Beicheng, but instead fell silent.

Of course, Xu Junsheng knew that this was not the Ming people's mercy, nor was their master general who was confused. On the contrary, they were patiently waiting for the best opportunity to appear. They were waiting for the fermentation of Ding's rebellion.

Ding Shengming left, that was a rebellion. Xu Junsheng actually did not think about killing Ding Shengming, nor did he think about handing him over to Chang'an like this. Ding Shengming's role in Laizhou was very clear. A person who had been a county magistrate in Laizhou for more than ten years was mixed up, and there was nothing wrong with him. If this person was gone, Xu Junsheng would not dare to imagine what Laizhou would be like next.

Ding's leak of the embankment incident did make him angry, but he just wanted to detain Ding's statement. At least in many directions, the issuance of orders needs to be completed in the name of Ding's statement.

What he never expected was that the Ming Ren actually took Ding Shengming away. He looked at the killed guards in his heavily guarded headquarters. It was obvious that the one who took action was a master-level master, and the killing methods were completely different. There was more than one master when Ming Ren came.

Xu Junsheng sighed. Why didn’t he think of things that even Ming people could think of? He should pretend to be confused and pretend not to know about the dam. Ding Shengming’s family ran away, but he had not yet run away! At least it means that this person has not really reached the point of being crazy. Since the confrontation with Ming people during this period, this person has done his best to raise and supply logistics supplies and the stability of subordinate prefectures.

It's rare to be confused!

I was confused at this time.

Since the Ming people already possessed the magic weapon Ding Shengming, they would naturally use him to the extreme.

After learning that Ding Shengming had run away, Xu Junsheng immediately sent his staff to accept a series of important departments such as the treasury and granary in Laizhou City that were originally controlled by Ding Shengming. His reaction and actions were very fast, but what he least wanted to see still happened.

After a few days that seemed calm, the two granaries that were closely guarded suddenly left water, and hundreds of thousands of kilograms of grain were burned to ashes under the gaze of countless pairs of eyes. Because of using strong tinder, there was no way to save it. Afterwards, it was found that the one who took action was an old man who had been guarding the warehouse for decades, and he had always been responsible for his duties.

This incident made the conflict between Xu Junsheng and others in Laizhou later and Ding declared that there was a conflict between the elderly. The newcomers did not trust the elderly at all, while the elderly were nervous and trembling, afraid to do things, and even less want to do things. At this time, it seemed that the more they did, the easier it would be to attract suspicion.

Although Beicheng still has tens of thousands of elite soldiers, hundreds of thousands of people, and the countless food and supplies that Xu Junsheng had saved with great effort, the people's hearts were completely dispersed. Xu Junsheng even had to use some of his strength to monitor these Ding people. He didn't want the warehouse to be burned again.

Dan Ding's announcement of the submission of the Ming Dynasty not only brought about difficulties on the North City side. There are five counties under Laizhou. In addition to Guan County, which is now considered to be Zhu Ruofan, he really doesn't know whether Zhu Ruofan can still be considered his friendly army. Zhangye and Jiuquan are the base camps of the Ming people, and Hengshan and Huaihua counties changed their flags and announced their surrender to the Ming people on the third day after Ding Ding surrendered to the enemy. Xu Junsheng, who was shocked and angry, immediately sent troops to attack Hengshan and Huaihua.

Hengshan Mountain went down in one go. After hearing the army coming to attack, the bastards there immediately scattered and fled. However, Huaihua made the troops he sent return in a defeat.

Xu Junsheng didn't care whether Hengshan could take it or not, but Huaihua had to take it. Because Huaihua stuck to his entire army's retreat and was a passage to retreat to Mizhou. Huaihua was in the hands of the Ming people, and even his subordinates could not feel at ease even if they were fighting. Now he is the turtle among the men.

"General, what matters on Huaihua have been found out." A spy dressed in a civilian sat in front of Xu Junsheng and said: "The villain connected with the ghost in the city. There are indeed Ming troops in the city, but the main one is the rebels."

"How many Ming troops are there, how many rebels are there?" Xu Junsheng asked.

"The rebels are the main ones, with about 5,000 people. The leader is Wang Shun. He used to run the underworld." The spy said: "The other Ming army was dressed in a completely different way from the Ming army opposite our Laizhou. The equipment was so well-equipped that it was shocking. Each of them was equipped with the Ming Style 1, and there were a large number of small cannons, with about 500 people. The ghost man said that it was these 500 people that made us go to attack Huaihua and suffer a great loss."

"Five thousand and five hundred people!" Xu Junsheng felt a little heartbroken. Ninety-ninety percent of them were from Qi. "How many people can Ghost Shadow organize in the city?"

The spy shook his head: "The ghost shadow only has one local spy in Huaihua, and where are there any other people? And now he has nothing to do. It is enough to provide me with this information. It is impossible for him to do more."

"So as you see, how many people are we needed to take Huaihua at least?" Xu Junsheng asked.

"General, please forgive me for saying that if we want to take Huaihua, we cannot have less than 10,000 troops and we must carry heavy weapons for siege. I have seen the power of the small cannons of the Ming army. It looks inconspicuous, but it is a large explosion, no worse than the power of the cannon!" The spy described the small cannon in his mouth, and Xu Junsheng knew that the so-called small cannon was something the Ming people called the mortar.

Why are good things made by Ming people?

"We can't take out ten thousand people to fight Huaihua." Xu Junsheng sighed: "The Ming army on the south bank has been waiting for these days. Now, they may think that the time is ripe and will inevitably launch a large-scale attack. Huaihua's rebels are entrenched in the city, but they do not have the ability or ability to attack our rear. No matter how strong the five hundred Ming army is, they only have five hundred people, and they cannot save any major issues. Now our top priority is to defend the North City to the end."

"What the general said is very much." The spy nodded.

"The Ming army thought we were at the end of our lives, but we didn't know how to put it to death. Now we have no way out. Apart from guarding the northern city and waiting for assistance, there is no other way to go. This is a good thing for us. At least we have no other fantasies and can only fight to the end. As long as we keep the situation for half a month, Lei Dong should come to support. With these tens of thousands of troops as support, there are still some fighting in this battle."

"I just hope General Lei can come faster." said the spy.

"Thank you to do it again to Guanzi City!" Xu Junsheng said.

"Go to meet Zhu Ruofan?" The spy looked at Xu Junsheng in surprise.

"The reason why Zhu Ruofan went to Guanzi City was just because he was coerced by his subordinates. He had to go. If he didn't go, he was afraid that his subordinates would surrender to Ming people. But as long as he was still there, he could still restrain his troops. You go and tell him that I don't ask him to come and save me now. I just hope that when Leidong led his troops to arrive, he could march from Guanzi City and restrain a part of the Ming army. In this way, the situation in our Daqi in Laizhou has not been completely corrupt."

The spy hesitated: "There is no problem where the villain goes, and General Zhu Ruofan has no problem, but his subordinates?"

Looking at the spy looking at his somewhat embarrassed gaze, Xu Junsheng nodded, and suddenly pulled out the knife with a flash of sword light. Amid the spy's scream, he actually cut off his tail finger. The sword face was horizontal, and the flying tail finger fell steadily on the sword face and was handed to the spy.

"General, are you?"

"Take this to tell Zhu Ruofan's subordinates. Even if I, Xu Junsheng, is sorry for them, I don't have any selfish intentions. Since they cannot forgive me, I should naturally be responsible for it. But now I can't give them my life, and I still have to fight the Ming people. This tip is considered interest for them. After this battle, if we win, Xu will let them deal with it. If it fails, haha, then Xu is already dead at the hands of the Ming army, so everything will be over."

Seeing this scene, the spy was a little excited and knelt down in front of Xu Junsheng on one knee: "General, I will do my best to convince those people. Even if they kill me to vent their anger, I will tell them the general's loyalty so that they can do their best for Daqi."

"Go!" Xu Junsheng, who stretched out his left hand and let his personal soldiers bandage his wounds, nodded: "Tell General Zhu that as a soldier in the Great Qi Dynasty, he should spare no effort for the country and be famous. As long as the result is good, Xu is not afraid of being ruined."

The spy stood up, bowed, turned around and strode away.

When it was dawn, Xu Junsheng had already appeared on the top of the city, looking down at the layers of defensive positions extending from the city wall to the surface of the Honghe River and the Laizhou Bridge that stretched over the Honghe River. As a general who had experienced many battles, he felt that the Ming army's attack was today.

Before he had finished patrolling, a familiar roar was heard in the sky. He looked up at the south bank. More than a dozen airships were rising from the south city into the air and then flew towards the north city.

Almost at the same time as the airship took off, a huge fleet also appeared from the downstream direction. His feeling was right. Mingren really wanted to launch a large-scale attack today.

The Ming people wanted to bombard the air first, and then their gunships violently bombard the fortifications on the shore. The cement ships dragged by the gunships would form pontoon bridges above the river surface for their troops to cross the river.
Chapter completed!