Chapter 82 The dust has settled, painful yet happy

Chapter 081

Facing Ning Haijun, who had artillery, muskets and crossbows, Kong Youde felt a long-lost sense of powerlessness. Of course, Kong Youde had the advantage of cavalry. If he wanted to escape, Ning Haijun would definitely not be able to catch up.

However, by this time he was already feeling tired.

Lou Shitou is dead, Li Shaoan is dead, and countless former brothers and sisters are dead...

Looking at the mutilated corpses of his former brothers, he couldn't help but feel sad.

He, along with Geng Zhongming and Shang Kexi, were known as the third miner of the Dongjiang Army. Although the three of them were all miners, it was not Geng Zhongming or Shang Kexi who had the best personal relationship with him, but the dead Lou.

Shitou Lou Jian, including Li Shaoan whose head had been blown to pieces.

The difference between Lou Shitou and Lou Jian was that Li Shaoan, who was four years younger than Kong Youde and had saved Kong Youde's life, was short in stature at that time. Not only did the supervisors bully him, but his co-workers also bullied him. Once while eating, Kong Youde saw Li Shaoan.

I was crying. I found out after asking.

It turned out that several gangsters among the miners robbed the food belonging to Li Shaoan. Li Shaoan was so hungry that he couldn't bear it. He tried to take the food that belonged to him, but was beaten up by some of them. Kong Youde, who already felt that there was no hope in life, decided to fight.

For a moment, if you are beaten to death by the opponent, that would be a relief.

Living is really a kind of torture for Kong Youde.

At that time, Kong Youde went there with the intention of dying, and was beaten by a group of people from the other side. Kong Youde was beaten until he was unable to fight back. Lou Jian came after hearing the news, and the two of them were beaten again by the other side. The supervisor didn't care, so he just

Watching the excitement from the sidelines. Taking advantage of the other party's carelessness, Kong Youde bit the throat of a mining tyrant and he refused to let go.

Although the sticks fell like raindrops at that time, he bit the opponent's throat and drank the opponent's blood in large gulps. The opponent's group, including the supervisor, all looked at Kong Youde in fear. From then on, Kong Youde understood

There is a truth that people cannot stand firm if they are not ruthless.

He followed Mao Wenlong, and a total of 198 people attacked Dongjiang Town. From then on, the Dongjiang Army was established. Mao Wenlong led them to attack the Tunbao of the Jiannu, Gaizhou, Jinzhou, and Lushun, and fought fiercely with the Jiannu in Korea, and made many military exploits.

, how majestic that is, and how happy it is!

But in the blink of an eye, Mao Wenlong, who had been kind to countless Liao people, was killed. Mao Wenlong was slandered as a slave of Litong. The twelfth crime was that he had been in the town for eight years, watching and raising enemies, and lost an inch of land. This is even more

This is pure confusion of right and wrong, and now Lushun is still in the hands of the Dongjiang Army.

Zhang Pan, one of the three heroes of the Dongjiang Army, died fighting for the city of Lushun.

More importantly, now, he has also become a traitor to the imperial court.

Although the world is big, why should we call it home?

Kong Youde has no way out. With the combat power of the Ning Navy and their sharp firearms, he can use the cavalry to retreat, but the question is, where can he escape to?

"Stop fighting, stop fighting..."

Kong Youde yelled crazily at Ning Haijun: "Stop fighting, you won, we admit defeat...we admit defeat."

Kong Youde's heart had been shattered by the thunderbolt, and he could no longer think of continuing to fight.

As Kong Youde ordered to beg for surrender, the remaining rebels were a little confused.

They killed countless gentry, powerful people, landlords and wealthy households. Can the court judge them?

If you surrender now, what will happen if the imperial court settles the scores later?

However, in the hearts of these veterans of the Dongjiang Army, Kong Youde still had prestige. He ordered not to fight and to surrender to Ning Haijun. As expected, they waved the white flag to Ning Haijun and shouted: "Stop fighting, we surrender..."

Stop beating us and surrender!"

Cheng Shijie was very surprised when he heard the news.

Despite the great victory, Ning Haijun successfully eliminated the rebel artillery units through artillery battles, and also used thunderbolts and crossbows to kill more than 500 cavalry.

But the problem is that this is only equivalent to one-third of Kong Youde's troops. If Kong Youde wanted to run away, the two-legged man would not be able to catch up with the four-legged beast.

At most, Ning Haijun could annihilate more than 800 infantrymen.

Kong Youde shouted towards the Ning navy officers who had ceased fire: "I want to see you Cheng Shuai!"

In order to show his sincerity, Kong Youde began to unbutton his armor in front of the double army formation, taking off his cotton armor first, and then the clothes underneath. When Kong Youde even wanted to take off his pants.

Cheng Shijie said: "Forget it, let him come over!"

Regardless of Cheng Shijie's low strength, he doesn't have to worry. Now Cheng Shijie has an 80,000-volt and a 100,000-volt electric shock device in his hand. Let alone a person, even a cow can be easily shocked.

Soon Kong Youde, who was wearing thin clothes, came to Cheng Shijie under the escort of Ning Haijun soldiers.

Cheng Shijie didn't feel like he was fighting at all at this time, but rather like he was on a winter outing.

Originally, Cheng Shijie's desk was placed on the ground, but because it was too low, many soldiers could not see him as the commander. So, a temporary high platform was built, which was made of ten

The high platform built with several giant trees was like a rural open-air stage in later generations. Ning Haijun soldiers moved Cheng Shijie's long desk and chairs onto it.

Cheng Shijie sat on a grand master's chair, behind him were a dozen soldiers and generals such as Zhang Yu, Liu Qingsong, and Zhou Ning.

Youdao is full of energy during happy events. Cheng Shijie's appearance is not handsome. Before he lost weight, he looked like a Maitreya Buddha. Now he has lost weight and his face has darkened, and he looks somewhat heroic.

Looking at Cheng Shijie now, Kong Youde naturally thought of the past, when he worshiped Mao Chenglu as his adoptive father and changed his name to Mao Yongshi. At that time, he was deeply trusted by Mao Wenlong. With his extraordinary bravery and victory after victory, he and countless Dongjiang troops

The soldiers also believed that under the command of Mao Wenlong, they could successfully regain Liaodong and regain their homeland.

pity……

Kong Youde let out a long sigh and said: "Shuai Cheng, you are very powerful. You actually thought of using food to deal with artillery... No matter how expensive the food is, it won't kill your brothers. You are a good commander, and your brothers will follow you.

They are all very lucky."

Cheng Shijie said: "What do you want to say? I advise you not to play tricks. You can't win this battle."

"Yes, we can't win. I knew from the beginning that we couldn't win. There's not even half a hope of victory, but... do we have a choice?"

"Yes, the choice is always in your hands!"

Cheng Shijie smiled faintly and said: "Life is one choice after another. From the moment you open your eyes every day, it is a choice. You can choose to continue sleeping, or choose to get up..."

"How do we choose?"

Kong Youde glared at Cheng Shijie and said: "We are not like you, Cheng Shuai, who is deeply trusted by Master Futai. From the beginning, we have a well-equipped army that obeys you unconditionally, and a group of generals who are loyal to you. We have never had these.

When Marshal Mao led us to fight against Jiannu, let alone your sophisticated equipment, we couldn’t even get enough to eat! After conquering Jiannu’s city, we could still have enough to eat for a few days. If we couldn’t defeat it, we would starve to death.

Already..."

Kong Youde became more and more aggrieved as he spoke, with tears in his eyes: "Not only that, we also have to suffer from the imperial court's anger. As soon as the food and salary we deserved were allocated, they greedily squandered 40 to 50% of what was given to us.

It’s only 60%. Even this 50% to 60% of food and salary cannot be obtained every month. Marshal Mao fought with them and even brought the case to the late emperor, but in the end he couldn’t win against them..."

Cheng Shijie said nothing.

Zhang Yu said, "We haven't received a tael of silver from the governor's Yamen until now, when Ning Haijun formed an army!"

Of course, Chang Yu thought silently in his heart, the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver seized did not count.

"Don't have a tael of silver?"

Kong Youde pointed to the armor on the Ning navy officers and the spears and artillery in their hands and said: "Then you always have equipment, and we also have equipment..."

"The equipment is quite good, sixty fire guns, eight-door Folan machine and two hundred pairs of armor!"

"How is this possible? You must have lied to me!"

"What's the benefit of lying to you?"

Kong Youde murmured to himself: "Impossible!"

Cheng Shijie said: "Our Ning Haijun equipment is made by ourselves, as are the weapons. Let's not talk about our Ning Haijun. The Dongjiang Army has caused the current situation. You are the ones to blame. Do you know?"

"What?"

"An army can only have one commander, one leader, and one voice!"

Cheng Shijie smiled lightly and said: "Yuan Chonghuan contacted the Liu brothers seven times and lasted more than four months. Don't tell me that no one in your Dongjiang Army knew about it!"

"I……"

"Then how come you have the guts to hand over Mao Shuai's Chinese army to Liu Xingzhi, who has a close friendship with Yuan Chonghuan?"

Cheng Shijie attributed the reason why Yuan Chonghuan wanted to kill Mao Wenlong in later generations to the fact that Mao Wenlong pretended to receive his salary and wasted financial resources. If you have a little understanding of the official system of the Ming Dynasty, you should know that Dongjiang Town was established by Yuan Keli, the governor of Denglai, and Dengzhou has always been responsible.

Supplies and logistics of the Dongjiang Army.

There is no system between the two sides. In addition, Yuan Chonghuan only controls the general troops of Shanhaiguan and Ningyuan Town. This is also the origin of the Guan Ning Army.

Yuan Chonghuan actually had nothing to do with Mao Wenlong. He killed Mao Wenlong just because Yuan Chonghuan believed that Mao Wenlong was old enough and could kill chickens to scare monkeys.

"You have indulged the Liu brothers, which is the real reason for the internal division of your Dongjiang Army!"

Cheng Shijie stared at Kong Youde and said: "You have ten thousand ways to kill the Liu brothers. Even if you don't deal with them, you can completely ignore them. Why don't you do it? The reason is actually very simple. At that time

, Yuan Chonghuan is in the heart of the emperor, you are all afraid of offending Yuan Chonghuan, a wallflower in this world can never be trusted, you have defected to Mr. Futai, Mr. Futai does not trust you, a general from the Dongjiang Army, Geng Zhongming is better, Shen Shikui

, Chen sometimes, what did you and Li Jiucheng do?"

Kong Youde was slightly startled: "What?"

"You should have a cavalry battalion under your command, with 2,700 horses. Your cavalry battalion's money to buy horses was lost by Li Jiuzheng!"

Cheng Shijie said: "You were also tricked by Li Jiucheng, right?"

"You know everything?"

Cheng Shijie looked at the rebel soldiers who were collecting corpses in the distance: "What do you want to do?"

"Please give Cheng Shuai a way to survive!"

Kong Youde bowed and said: "I am willing to be loyal...

Cheng Shijie shook his head: "It's too late. Your loyal commander can't afford it. This way of survival is dead for you. Not only you, but also Li Jiucheng, Li Yingyuan, and none of the people on the governor's list can survive."

"My brothers..."

Kong Youde pointed to the more than 1,200 cavalrymen.

Cheng Shijie thought for a while and said: "Those who wantonly massacre the common people will surely die. Those who only kill the gentry and powerful men, I can make some exceptions. The death penalty can be avoided, but the living penalty will not escape!"

Kong Youde sighed and said, "Thank you very much, Cheng Shuai!"

Cheng Shijie said: "After you brothers surrender, I will take them back to Liaonan!"

"Liaonan?"

"That's right!"

Cheng Shijie said: "If it weren't for the purpose of dealing with you bastards, I would be in Jinzhou now. Because the distance is too far, I can't receive news from Jinzhou. They have been setting off for ten days!"

"Cheng Shuai has a plan to attack Liaonan?"

Kong Youde's eyes turned and he lowered his voice and said: "Cheng Shuai, thirty miles to the west from here, there is a small village. It has been burned by fire and turned into ruins. There is a ruined temple in the south of the village, and the roof is gone.

, there is a dry well in the courtyard, which is actually a cellar. There are 13,400,000 taels of silver in it, which we robbed during this period. Take them all, and don't take advantage of these bastards!"

Cheng Shijie said: "Thank you very much. Do you have any last words?"

"This is my brother. His hometown is Gaizhou Guards. If you recapture Gaizhou in the future, bury my brother. The fallen leaves will return to their roots. If there are brothers from the Dongjiang Army who cannot survive, Cheng Shuai will give them a way to survive. Kong

Even someone under Jiuquan will be grateful to Cheng Shuai!"

Cheng Shijie looked at Kong Youde again and let out a long sigh.

The path is chosen by oneself, not by others.

Kong Youde said: "Cheng Shuai, it's not that Kong is afraid of death, can you give me some time?"

"What?"

"Since Cheng Shuai wants to seize Liaonan, he should do this sooner rather than later. Li Jiuzheng is also a scourge. Kong's last resort is to help Cheng Shuai get rid of Li Jiuzheng!"

Cheng Shijie hesitated.

Kong Youde said: "Cheng Shuai doesn't believe Kong. In fact, Kong doesn't need to come forward in this matter, Zhao Wencai!"

It didn't take long before Zhao Wencai came on horseback.

"General!"

"Brother Wencai, Kong needs to ask you one last thing!"

"Please give me your orders, General!"

"Take my body to see Li Jiucheng, and kill him and Li Yingyuan when he is not prepared!"

After saying that, Kong Youde smiled at Cheng Shijie: "Cheng Shuai borrowed the sword for me!"

Cheng Shijie handed a Tang straight sword brought from later generations to Kong Youde.

Kong Youde smiled: "Isn't Cheng afraid that Kong will make an attack?"

"Just try it!"

Cheng Shijie sighed and said: "Actually, the two of us can be considered peers!"

"Come with us?"

Cheng Shijie nodded: "It can only be half counted. You are a miner and I am a steel worker!"

Kong Youde took out the Tang Dynasty straight knife, gently stroked the blade, and said with praise: "Good knife, good knife! It's sharper than the sharpest Japanese knife! It must be very enjoyable to use it to chop off the heads of Jiannu!"

"If you like it, I will bury you with this knife."

Kong Youde said: "Thank you! In this way, I can use this knife to taste the taste of chopping off the heads of slaves!" As Kong Youde laughed, he reached out to untie his clothes and held it with the tip of the knife.

With a strong force on the heart, the Tang straight knife penetrated the chest, and blood spurted out along the blood groove.

He staggered, fell to his knees, and his body began to convulse.

Cheng Shijie stretched out his hand and took a horizontal knife. Holding the knife with both hands, he stood behind Kong Youde and raised the horizontal knife to the back of his neck.

"Puch..."

Kong Youde's head rolled to the ground.

Zhao Wencai picked up Kong Youde's body, mounted his horse, and galloped away into the distance.

Not long after, there were bursts of pitiful cries for drinking water from the cavalry camp opposite.

Cheng Shijie never thought that Kong Youde's rebellion would end in this way.

That night, Zhou Ning's troops sent by Cheng Shijie arrived at the village Kong Youde mentioned. They also found the ruined temple and dug out various silver ingots in the dry well, totaling more than 1.24 million taels, including

There are more than ten thousand taels of gold and some gold and silver jewelry.

On the evening of November 7, the fourth year of Chongzhen, the rebels under Li Jiucheng, totaling more than 10,000 troops on foot and horse, surrendered to Ning Haijun led by Cheng Shijie. The bandit leaders Li Jiucheng, Li Yingyuan, and key members had more than 140 heads placed on their heads.

In front of Cheng Shijie.

After Zhao Wencai confessed that he took Kong Youde's body and more than 60 cavalry to see Li Jiucheng, Li Jiucheng was not prepared because he knew that if Kong Youde was alive, he would have to be afraid of Kong Youde.

If Kong Youde died, Li Jiucheng believed that Zhao Wencai, Kong Youde's confidant, would definitely seek refuge with him. When Li Yingyuan checked the wounds on the body, the wounds on Kong Youde's chest were layered, very obvious, and everyone who needed to know knew it.

Looking at Kong Youde's headless body, Li Jiucheng had no doubts. That night, Li Jiucheng held a big banquet for Zhao Wencai and his key members. After three rounds of wine and five dishes, Zhao Wencai suddenly launched his attack and killed a hundred people including Li Jiucheng, Li Yingyuan and others.

More than forty people, all of these rebels surrendered to Cheng Shijie after Zhao Wencai promised that no one would be killed.

While Cheng Shijie was screening the rebel prisoners, he reported the victory to Sun Yuanhua in Dengzhou City.

…

It's dark at night, in Dengzhou City, in the backyard of the governor's Yamen.

Sun Yuanhua couldn't eat well or sleep well during this period. Once he closed his eyes, he felt that a large group of Ning navy soldiers rushed into his bedroom and grabbed him from the bed...

Waking up from a nightmare again, Sun Yuanhua had dense beads of sweat on his forehead.

"Lord Futai!"

Xu Dacheng hurriedly walked in from outside.

Seeing Xu Dacheng, Sun Yuanhua breathed a sigh of relief: "Have the Ning navy soldiers in the city left?"

"Let's go, everyone has been evacuated!"

"It's good to go!"

Sun Yuanhua still has lingering fears about Ning Haijun.

At this moment, the voice of Peng Jianhong, a pro-military colonel in Fubiao, came from outside the door: "Master Futai, good news about Ning Haijun!"

Sun Yuanhua was slightly startled: "Why did Ning Haijun come over?"

"No, Master Futai is the good news sent by Ning Haijun and Cheng Shijie!"

Seeing that Sun Yuanhua's mood was extremely unstable, Xu Dacheng reached out to receive the victory report. He glanced at ten lines and hurriedly glanced: "Is this the end? Isn't there 30,000 to 40,000 rebels in Kong Youde's army? It's only been a few days?"

"What's over!"

"Kong Youde's rebel army was completely wiped out by Cheng Shijie. The rebel leaders Kong Youde, Li Jiucheng, Li Yingyuan and other leaders numbered less than 140 people. A total of more than 2,900 people were beheaded and more than 13,000 people were captured!"

Sun Yuanhua's mood finally stabilized. He looked at the good news seriously. The news he recently received about Kong Youde's rebellion was a report from Zhaoyuan County Magistrate Jia Yong. Jia Yong claimed that Kong Youde's rebels numbered 30,000 to 40,000 people.

This is a traditional behavior in the officialdom, falsely reporting the number of enemies, covering up one's own incompetence, and justifying the loss of the city and territory in advance.

Then we received a report from Zhu Wannian, the prefect of Laizhou Prefecture, claiming that Kong Youde's rebel army was powerful and numbered tens of thousands.

This is an official document signed by Cheng Shijie and written by Ma Shilin. It is also in the official document format of the Ming Dynasty. It is filled with more than 800 words of nonsense, and the final result is condensed into the bottom three or four hundred words.

"Nineteen battles and thirty-six minor battles involved tens of thousands of rebels. Ning Haijun defeated them. He beheaded more than 2,900 people and captured more than 13,000 people. The rest fled and are still being pursued!"

Sun Yuanhua felt a toothache when he saw this scene.

Cheng Shijie won a big victory, so he should be happy, but the problem is that Ning Haijun no longer belongs to him. Ning Haijun's surname is Cheng. More importantly, how will he report this victory to the court?

It was impossible not to report, but how to report made it extremely difficult for Sun Yuanhua.

Of course, Xu Dacheng didn't see it that way.

Sun Yuanhua's mouth never closed, which showed that he was in a happy mood. In the words of later generations, it was a bit Versailles.

Xu Dacheng thought for a while and said: "Master Futai, this Cheng Shijie should be treated as having nothing to do with what happened that day!"

"You took his money again?"

“Students are wronged!”

Xu Dacheng said: "The student just thinks that Mr. Futai still needs to stabilize Cheng Shijie for the time being!"

"Well!"

Sun Yuanhua's mood was quite complicated, with some pain and some happiness, but he felt pain and happiness at the same time.

As the court endured a new defeat at Dalinghe, a strong army stood out and easily entered the sight of Emperor Chongzhen, who especially liked young heroes.

There is no way. Emperor Chongzhen became the emperor by accident. He was actually an emperor with no culture. He had been a child who grew up listening to operas.

Because his knowledge was too narrow, he was deceived by all the ministers.

The ministers admonished: "Your Majesty should get rid of the eunuchs!"

Emperor Chongzhen killed Wei Zhongxian, but then he discovered that without the eunuch party in the court, the government was full of power, and the state affairs were getting worse day by day.

Now Emperor Chongzhen hated the Donglin Party deeply, so the cabinet ministers Qian Longxi and Zhou Yanru who were from the Donglin Party were kicked out one after another and replaced by Wen Tiren. But the problem was that the Donglin Party was deeply entrenched and could not be eradicated.

At this time, he actually started to use eunuchs again, and reused Cao Huachun and Gao Qiqian.

However, at this time, the political struggle in Ming Dynasty is no longer offline. If you agree, I will oppose it. We are wrangling every day, and we can't get down to business.

Report Ning Haijun's achievements to the court. What if Cheng Shijie doesn't listen?

PS: I have collected 6,000 words and updated 23,000 words in three updates. It is more than ten minutes late. There is really no more tonight. No need to wait. Let’s go to bed.
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