The cold wind was biting, and there was deathly silence under Dengzhou City.
Today is the second day of the first month of spring in the fifth year of Renshen (Chongzhen).
Today is the second day of the Lunar New Year, and it is a time for every household to have a new and happy time. In the peaceful years of the past, even the poorest families, as long as they are not in a position where they cannot open the pot, must post couplets, hang door gods, and set off a few firecrackers.
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However, at this moment, the outside of Dengzhou City is already a scorched earth, the village has been reduced to ruins, and the black smoke is rising from the charred wood.
In the field, among the broken bricks and tiles, stiff corpses were lying everywhere. The blood had solidified and turned black in the severe cold.
Snowflakes slowly began to drift in the dusk sky, and the gowns, armors, rags and silks were gradually buried under the snowflakes.
The people who were wandering among the corpses looking for trophies couldn't bear the cold and left one after another. The land was a vast expanse.
In this desolate and chilly snowfield, four or five people were hidden among a common local mass grave.
They were dressed very thickly and in white camouflage uniforms, and were hidden in the cleverly built snow fortifications. Even if someone walked up to them, they might not be able to find their traces. These people were the special forces under the command of Chen Sigen.
Members of the reconnaissance team.
Luanfengangzi is a forest of mixed trees. The terrain inside is complicated and it is easy to hide. And from the side of Luanfengangzi, there is a river that dries up in winter. Both sides of the river are covered with woods, so it is easy to escape.
And here, it is less than one kilometer away from the Mi Shen Mountain where Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng's rebels camped outside the city. Every move of the rebels can be seen clearly. Similarly, you can also see it from the south gate of Dengzhou to the north of Shen Mi Mountain.
Be clear.
It has been more than a month since the rebels marched straight into Dengzhou City on November 22nd, the fourth year of Chongzhen Period, and the four gates of Dengzhou were closed.
During this period, both the garrison inside Dengzhou City and the rebels outside the city remained relatively calm. In fact, the rebels did not attack Qingzhou and Laizhou. Instead, they marched straight to Dengzhou.
During this period, neither Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai nor Yu Dacheng, the governor of Shandong, intercepted or blocked the rebels. The rebels, except for the villages and towns along the road, did not touch any state or county, and they all bypassed the city.
With a strange tacit understanding, the two sides started a stalemate at the gate of Dengzhou City.
This is not surprising to the Shandong Front Committee, which is silently collecting refugees on Qimu Island in Longkou. The situation of the Dengzhou Rebellion is very complicated. The Grand Library consulted many historical books and research materials to give a detailed
report. Generally speaking, the two sides are not incompatible with each other, but have their own agendas in this incident. Sun Yuanhua has been trying to appease this rebel army and maintain his power and status in the Denglai area. And Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde have been trying to "
Walking a tightrope between being "supported" and "self-reliant" in order to gain more concessions from the Ming court and obtain maximum benefits for itself and the Liao people group.
With one trying his best to "appease" and the other trying to use "appeasement" to obtain benefits, the hostilities between the two sides have never escalated.
Although the people outside the city were unlucky, and some conflicts between the two sides broke out intermittently, from beginning to end, the two sides had not really started a real battle. The rebels also did not launch a direct attack on Dengzhou.
Although the Dengzhou battlefield fell into calm for a while, the forces of all parties were surging under the surface of calm. The Foreign Intelligence Bureau used Lu Wenyuan's relationship with the church to install "relationships" and intelligence in Dengzhou City and the governor's office.
Although the personnel had low status and had no access to any secrets, what they saw and heard was enough to prove that the two sides had been in secret contact since Kong raised the flag of rebellion in Hebei. Kong Youde "asked for care" and Sun Yuanhua "mainly care", in
There is no secret inside or outside Dengzhou City.
Sun Yuanhua had an unclear relationship with the old people in Liaodong. According to the accusations of some of his political opponents: Sun Yuanhua's ability to serve as the governor of Denglai was related to Kong Youde's use of gold, silver and jewelry to bribe officials in the court. Therefore, Sun Yuanhua became the governor of Denglai.
Kong Youde paid special attention to it. Chen, an old man from Pidao, sometimes bribed Sun Yuanhua, so that Kong Youde and other old men from Pidao could develop in Denglai.
As for Yu Dacheng, the governor of Shandong, he stopped advancing after the mutiny and also advocated for appeasement. It is said that this was the result of Kong Youde's gift of a cart of gold and silver treasures to him through Sun Yuanhua.
No matter whether these things are true or not, or whether they are political "spreading dirty water", it is a fact that Sun Yuanhua has an ambiguous attitude towards the rebels and blindly tries to appease the rebels. The Dengzhou Front Committee believes that even if political and economic entanglements are put aside, Sun Yuanhua
It has been trying to take back the old Liaodong people who were born in Pidao and retrain them into an important military force against the Hou Jin Dynasty. Therefore, they tried to recruit Kong Youde and other rebels at every turn.
But his efforts were destined to fail. Even this appeasement eventually led to his own destruction.
Both the old man from Liaodong and the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty where he lived were rotten fruits. His personal efforts and those of a few bureaucrats would not bring any more results.
Not long ago, in the east of the city, Fubiao general Zhang Tao and Denglai general Zhang Keda, who were stationed outside the city to guard the city gate, had a fierce battle with the rebels. The southern soldiers led by Zhang Keda fought
They won a victory, but Zhang Tao's troops were all Liao people from Pidao. When the battlefield situation was very smooth, they suddenly retreated from the battlefield regardless of Zhang Tao's command. The southern troops commanded by Zhang Keda were counterattacked by the rebels.
, suffered all losses. Most of Zhang Tao's men surrendered to the rebels.
Zhang Keda and Zhang Tao set up outside the city, and all the barracks used to protect the city were abandoned, and all the weapons and equipment in the camp fell into the hands of the rebels. The rebels suddenly became stronger. It turned out that Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde
There were only more than a thousand troops under Zhang Tao's command, and now they were joined by thousands of surrendered troops under Zhang Tao, and the army's power was greatly enhanced.
What's worse is that Zhang Tao's troops are all Liao people, and they have the same origin as the rebels. They all hate the people, officials and soldiers in the Denglai area, and their internal cohesion is very strong. They are all trying to break into Denglai.
The state went to "revenge".
Dengzhou looks like a fortified city. Inside, there are mountains of grain, grass, wages and silver, hundreds of artillery, and six to seven thousand old and new troops. Many of them were trained by the Portuguese, but many of the generals and soldiers among them are Liao people. Dengzhou
There were also a large number of dissatisfied Liao people living in the city, and the city was already so divided that it was as if it were made of paper.
The sergeant leading the team in the woods raised his telescope and once again observed the surrounding barren land. The snow was falling more and more densely, but the military thermal clothing on his body from another time and space completely isolated the cold. He carefully rotated the Russian in his hand
The focus knob of the telescope was observing. It was like a "special warrior" common in another time and space. In fact, the sergeant was just an out-and-out Shandong farmer two years ago.
"Everything is normal, there is nothing abnormal." The sergeant said, looking at his watch - the special reconnaissance team is one of the few naturalized civilian sergeants and officers who are uniformly issued watches, "Send a report to the headquarters!"
A radio operator turned on the 2w radio station and started another scheduled broadcast. Chen Sigen's task for the observation team was to report the situation on the Dengzhou battlefield every hour. The special investigation team members knew that the headquarters suddenly ordered to increase the daily reporting frequency.
There are signs that something major is about to happen.
At the same time, in Dengzhou City, Huang Ande was lying in a room of Sun Yuan's house with his eyes closed and resting. Two loaded 1630 revolvers were hidden under his waist, and there was a grenade hidden under the pillow.
Such vigilance is by no means unnecessary - Sun Yuan is not at home, because today Zhang Keda and Zhang Tao were defeated outside the city, and the air in the city suddenly became tense. As Sun Yuanhua's servant, Sun Yuan has been gathered to the governor's office.
At the same time as they were "waiting for danger", the Liao people in the city also began to commotion.
Since the rebels arrived at Dengzhou City in November, the more than 100,000 Dongjiang people who had migrated from Pidao, Lushun and other places in the city had become a worry for the officials in the city.
The conflict between the Liao people and the local soldiers and civilians in Dengzhou became very acute after a large number of soldiers and civilians migrated inland from Dongjiang River. Starting from the first year of Chongzhen, a large number of Liao people crossed the sea from Pidao to Dengzhou and were resettled by local officials. There are countless of them.
One hundred thousand people.
These hundreds of thousands of Liao people were exploited and abused by local bureaucrats from the very beginning when they landed in Dengzhou. Many Liao people who crossed the sea and returned home had no choice but to flee back to the Dongjiang River because they could not bear the torture and exploitation. In the first year of Chongzhen's ascension to Dengzhou,
When Lai General Yang Guodong went to Pi Island on business, the resentful Liao people gathered together and tried to kill him to vent their anger.
In addition, many Liao people who crossed the sea to Dengzhou in the early years of Chongzhen were given titles by Mao Wenlong, so that "there are countless people with yellow covers in the streets and gold waists." So after Mao Wenlong was killed in the second year of Chongzhen, Shandong
Governor Wang Congyi therefore requested to strengthen the defense and suggested: "If there are ships sailing westward by sea, we will set up artillery to attack them as a plan before the rain." This shows that the image of Mao Wenlong and the Dongjiang Liao people in the hearts of Shandong people and the tension between the two parties have reached
To what extent.
Documents describing the tense relationship between the two sides say: "Liao and Ding are always strong, and the Den people cannot be tolerated." It is also said: "The two counties of Den and Lai were lost from Liaoyang. The Liao people fled and fled with more than 100,000 people, and the natives were humiliated.
As a result, they may kill each other, and the Liao people are resentful." It is also said that "the Liao people moved inward to avoid disaster, and the natives were in trouble, and the warnings were not unreasonable." In addition, Xie Sanbin, the supervisor, once said, "The Liao people are quite unruly in the local area.
When the rebels returned to Dengzhou, they even said: "Dengren tortured the Liao people, and when the troops came to the city, they continued to kill the Liao people." For this reason, Ai Rong wrote a letter to the governor Liu Yulie
In the book, the reasons for the mutiny were summed up as follows: "Confucius, Li Xiaozhan and others were accustomed to it, which was the first rebellion; the resentment accumulated by the locals for being insulted and scorned was the second rebellion; the unwillingness to defend Ningyuan far away was the third rebellion."
In order to suppress the Liao people in the city, from the moment the rebels arrived at the city, patrols were dispatched from the governor's office, the general's office, and the military supervisory road. They held orders and arrows to patrol Dengzhou City and Shuicheng. "Gathering people to make noise" and "walking" were strictly prohibited.
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