Daming pirates

No one thought that the chicken that the soldier snatched would lead to such a big mess, just because the chicken that the soldier snatched turned out to be a chicken belonging to the servant of Wang Xiangchun, a prominent family in Shandong, and replaced it with that of other ordinary people.

That's fine, but the servant went to his master Wang Xiangchun's son to complain. Wang Xiangchun's son quit his job, thinking that these Qiu Ba actually dared to provoke his Wang family, so he came to the door and refused to comply.

Kong Youde was quite tolerant and ordered the person who caused the trouble to be caught and punished severely. However, the soldier who was sent to the Chuanjian Camp held a grudge and went to kill Wang Xiangchun's servant in two at night.

Killed.

Now the matter was completely serious. Wang Xiangchun's son refused to do anything and insisted on forcing Kong Youde to behead several participating officers and soldiers on the spot.

Kong Youde also has difficulties! It is not easy for him to lead these soldiers. These gangsters are not easy to meet. During this period of time, I followed him on the expedition. I have suffered enough from the bird. This time, because of a chicken, a brother was pierced by an arrow.

The camp has already aroused public outrage, but now Wang Xiangchun's son is forcing Kong Youde to kill someone.

Kong Youde didn't want to offend Wang Xiangchun. After all, even if he was a dignified general, in the eyes of these wealthy and noble families, he was just a bastard. Military generals had a low status in the Ming Dynasty. These wealthy and noble families would do anything wrong if they wanted to.

If someone gets killed, at the very least he will be dismissed from office.

But if he was asked to kill his brothers, Kong Youde didn't dare to agree even if he wanted to. If these gangsters were provoked, they would do anything. If they were forced to do anything, these gangsters would

This guy really dares to overthrow his general and kill him.

Therefore, Kong Youde was in a dilemma. On the one hand, his subordinates were full of resentment and simmering with anger. On the other hand, Wang Xiangchun's family refused to let him go and forced him to kill his soldiers.

At this time, I happened to run into Li Jiuzheng and his party who had returned from the horse market. Li Jiuzheng was entrusted by Sun Yuanhua to bring money to the horse market to buy war horses. However, after this guy came down, he was eating, drinking, whoring and gambling.

, plus being deceived, he didn’t buy a single war horse, but he spent all his money.

Li Jiuben himself was also a former general of the Dongjiang Army. Like Kong Youde and others, he was a strong general under Mao Wenlong. He was also a ruthless and rebellious person, and he was quite prestigious among the old Dongjiang Army.

Li Jiucheng spent all his money but failed to buy a war horse. He was worried about losing his hair. He didn't know how to go back to Dengzhou Mansion to report to Sun Yuanhua. If he went back empty-handed, Sun Yuanhua would definitely punish him.

It happened that he met Kong Youde and his party on the way back. After hearing the cries of Kong Youde's brothers, Li Jiucheng rolled his eyes and came up with a bad idea.

Anyway, he couldn't go back to deliver the mission, so he simply encouraged Kong Youde's men to do anything without stopping. Instead of rushing to die outside the customs, it would be better to counterattack here.

The Ming Dynasty should have become accustomed to mutinies now. Most of them ended in appeasement, and most of the participants ended up letting it go.

If you do it well, make things big, and then support the government and the court with your own strength, in the end everyone will be safe, and you may not have to go to the customs to die.

So Kong Youde's men, several thousand in total, forced Kong Youde to lead them to launch a mutiny. They simply rebelled here and fought back to Dengzhou Prefecture, joining forces with those in Dengzhou Prefecture.

Dongjiang's old troops rebelled together, making things worse and then looking for a way out.

Even if Kong Youde had the intention not to agree, his subordinates were already watching him. As long as he dared to say no, these people would definitely kill him immediately under Li Jiuzheng's instigation.

Kong Youde really had no choice, so he had to agree to his subordinates' request. That night he led his troops to start a rebellion, conquering several villages in one fell swoop, bloodbathed several villages, and robbed a lot of food and property.

Then this group of rebels didn't stop for a moment, turned around and started to rush back towards Dengzhou. Li Jiuzheng was actually controlling the rebels along the way. Kong Youde was not the leader. These rebels were allowed to burn, kill and loot along the way. For these Shandong soldiers

Man, these rebels were so hateful that they showed no mercy when they killed. They killed corpses all over the field and plundered everyone with bucketfuls of cash.

They would only let go of anyone with a Liaodong accent who they met along the way, but asked them to join the gang. These Liaodong people with branches in various parts of Shandong had all been fed up with the oppression of the Shandong people. This time they were attacked by these people.

As soon as the rebels were stirred up, they joined the rebels one after another.

This allowed the rebels to greatly increase their strength in a very short period of time, and these old Dongjiang Army troops were all veterans of old wars. You must know that this group of people used to be in Dongjiang Town, but they followed Jian Tian every day.

Sometimes they were not afraid of Jiannu's army when they fought against each other's soldiers and horses. Now facing the Shandong soldiers, they did not take these Shandong soldiers seriously at all.

Wherever they passed along the way, the Shandong people also resisted, but they were no match for these rebels. These rebels, led by Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde, would lead their troops to attack the county whenever they passed by.

He coerced the people into helping them fight, but he succeeded every time, even conquering several cities.

But Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde also knew very well that occupying these counties was of no use. If they wanted to become big, they had to return to Dengzhou Prefecture, capture Dengzhou Prefecture, and encourage many former Dongjiang Army troops there to follow them.

, and captured a large amount of food, wages, and ordnance in Dengzhou Prefecture, they would be able to confront the Shandong Army and force the court to finally recruit them.

Therefore, they captured cities and territories along the way, but they did not occupy them for too long. After a large raid to obtain supplies, they would immediately leave with their troops and continue to Dengzhou Prefecture.

Once they encountered a tough nut to crack, they would not hesitate to fight. They immediately abandoned these places and continued on their way to the next target. Such a fighting method made it impossible for the counties along the way to parry. In addition, with the increasing number of rebel troops, it became even more difficult.

He has become much more ferocious.

The reason why Sun Yuanhua still clings to illusions and wants to quell the mutiny through appeasement is not without his ideas, because he is the governor of Denglai, and both Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng are his former Dongjiang troops.

, it can be said that he was kind to these people.

What's more, he also saw clearly what Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng were planning. These rebel generals actually knew very well that rebellion would not be a big deal. The reason why they continued to do this was actually just to force the government and the court to finally recruit them.

They, forgive the crime they committed and put this matter to rest.

This time Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng caused such a big mess, and he, the governor of Denglai, was definitely involved. If he could put down the mutiny as soon as possible, he would have an excuse to evade it, but if the force were to use force, he would definitely be involved.

If they carry out an offensive but fail to win, then the entire situation in Shandong may be completely corrupted.

Once things get to that point, not to mention the end of his official career, it is not impossible that he will lose his head.

Now his teacher Xu Guangqi is highly regarded by the current emperor in the court as the teacher of the emperor. If he can quell this mutiny as soon as possible, then with Xu Guangqi mediating for him in the capital, he may still have a chance to maintain his current status, even if it is

If you lose your official position, but you still have a chance to regain your position, at best you will be guilty of a crime of negligence, which will not lead to losing your head.

That's why Sun Yuanhua had an ambiguous attitude and did not advocate joining forces with the current Shandong governor to send heavy troops to suppress them. Instead, he wavered left and right, so that the rebels grew in power.

But if you want to recruit the rebels again, it is not a matter of words. After all, the rebels are rushing towards Dengzhou with great momentum. If the rebels are allowed to attack all the way to the city of Dengzhou, then things will probably not be good.

After all, even if you want to appease them, you must first defeat their arrogance.

So finally at the end of December, Sun Yuanhua sent Zhang Tao to lead an army out of Dengzhou and set up a camp in the west of Dengzhou to intercept Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde's rebels from advancing on Dengzhou.

In addition, Denglai General Zhang Keda was sent to lead 3,000 troops to fight, and he and Zhang Tao attacked Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng's rebels in the west of Dengzhou, intending to defeat them for a while and make them retreat in the face of difficulties, and then appease them and order

Return it to the account and listen to it.

But Sun Yuanhua made a wrong calculation this time. He seriously underestimated the combat power of the rebels led by Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde. He also miscalculated the troops led by Zhang Tao, because Zhang Tao himself was an old member of the Dongjiang Army, and he happened to

He was also one of Kong Youde's generals, so letting Zhang Tao lead the old Dongjiang Army to attack Kong Youde was a really bad move. Sun Yuanhua overestimated his personal charm.

Sun Yuanhua believed that the rebels had no choice but to rebel and launch a mutiny. He had always treated these old Dongjiang Army troops well. They should be willing to work hard for him and obey his orders, but he seriously underestimated the relationship between the old Dongjiang Army troops.

Friendship, as well as the conflict between Liaodong soldiers and Shandong soldiers during this period.

As a result, not long after Zhang Tao led his troops into the battle, although he remembered Sun Yuanhua's kindness to him and did not defect to the rebels, he did not follow Sun Yuanhua's order to lead his troops to fight the rebels under Kong Youde. Instead, Kong Youde sent people to

After going to Yitong to lobby, the soldiers and generals he brought out of the city directly joined the rebel army and became rebels. Zhang Tao only led more than a hundred soldiers and fled back to Dengzhou City.

The remaining Zhang Ke was naturally helpless. He was defeated by the rebels led by Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde outside the Dengzhou Mansion. He returned in defeat and withdrew the defeated generals to the Dengzhou Mansion with a small number of remaining troops.

Dengzhou Mansion was immediately surrounded by rebels, and Sun Yuanhua was a little dumbfounded...