Daming pirates

Prior to this, Yu Xiaotian only learned from the news from Fushan Institute that on a certain day in early June, the northern detachment patrolling the waters around Yangma Island had defeated the rebel navy once and gained a lot.

Feng, sank many enemy ships and captured hundreds of rebels.

However, due to the difficulty in transmitting information in this era, Yu Xiaotian did not know that he had caught a big fish like Mao Chenglu before this.

So Yu Xiaotian was furious about this matter, and quickly sent someone to Xishan Village to deliver an order, ordering Liu BuTong and Wu Shengtian there, including Luo Feng, not to kill Mao Chenglu, but to treat this person kindly 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 there was no instruction from Yu Xiaotian for a long time, Liu Bubu and others did not dare to deal with Mao Chenglu without authorization, and just imprisoned him in a cell in Tuweizi on Yangma Island.

Inside, although they were rude to him, they didn't abuse him too much.

After receiving Yu Xiaotian's instructions, they quickly moved Mao Chenglu out of the Tuwozi dungeon and moved him to Xishan Village. They placed him in a slightly more comfortable place and detained him again. In addition, he also improved his condition.

The supply given to him is only equivalent to when Xiaotian will put this guy to use next.

This conflict at sea also surprised Li Jiucheng. Originally, it seemed to him that he was almost certain. He was just waiting for Mao Chenglu to send people to send back the news. He drove several large ships filled with food and women and returned to Dengzhou City. What he was waiting for was not

The news of Mao Chenglu's great victory was the news that the remaining defeated soldiers of Mao Chenglu's men fled back to Dengzhou in about twenty broken boats.

Li Jiucheng was so shocked that his hands shook and he dropped the teacup on the ground. He could not imagine that this time Mao Chenglu went over, even if he could not capture Yangma Island, but only a few more men and horses would be killed. How could he also bring the fleet with him?

The entire army was almost wiped out after being beaten, and even Mao Chenglu himself disappeared.

So he hurriedly called the defeated soldiers in front of him for questioning. After asking, he found out that there were not only some powerful rural warriors training in Yangma Island and Xishan Village, but there was also such a small but very powerful group.

The powerful navy is protecting Yangma Island.

It turns out that the large ships that have been frequenting Yangma Island recently are not only merchant ships transporting people and cargo, but some are also standard warships filled with cannons.

At this moment, Li Jiucheng regretted that his intestines were about to turn green. If he had known this, he would never have sent Mao Chenglu to attack Yangma Island and seize those big ships. This was like sending a sheep into the tiger's mouth!

It was good at once, but it also cost more than 2,000 soldiers including Mao Chenglu. It really made Li Jiuzheng regret it and wanted to vomit blood.

Only then did Li Jiucheng realize that although their rebels had been very good in the Denglai area recently, there was a force in Xishan Village that they could not provoke. This force had an ambiguous attitude and seemed to be in a semi-neutral state.

, as long as his rebels don't provoke this group of people, this group of people won't provoke them either.

But if the rebels want to provoke this group of people in Xishan Village, this group of people will be unkind to them and will deal with them with deadly force every time.

Such a force exists not far from Dengzhou, which makes him feel like there is a tiger lying on the side of the bed. Although the tiger currently has no intention of actively causing trouble for him, it will never take the initiative to trouble him.

Allow him to find trouble with this tiger.

Li Jiucheng was frightened and wanted to mobilize troops and horses to attack Xishan Village and Yangma Island from the land. However, it was already summer and the weather was hot. The main force of their rebel army was basically led by Kong Youde.

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Laizhou City, the remaining troops are enough for them to go out to collect food and guard Dengzhou. Even if he leads the troops to attack Xishan Village and can defeat Xishan Village, the other party can still give up Xishan Village.

, retreated to Yangma Island.

In that case, would it be possible for his men to swim over and attack Yangma Island? If they send a fleet there, there is a group of unidentified warships on Yangma Island, and they are so powerful. If they are attacked again,

If they were beaten up, then there probably wouldn't be much left of the warships they finally obtained.

For them, Li Jiucheng knew very well that this was their last escape route. If they did not even have warships, once the imperial court mobilized a large number of officers and soldiers to suppress them, and they could not withstand it, they would be completely blocked here.

Dengzhou city is in.

So after suffering such a big loss, Li Jiucheng not only did not dare to immediately raise troops and come to Xishan Village for revenge, but instead he came with a big turtle's neck and stretched his neck to swallow the bitter pill.

Considering that since he can't afford to offend this group of people in Xishan Village, he can't continue to have bad relations with them. Once this group of people is provoked and comes to trouble them, his life will be difficult.

After careful discussion with his advisers, Li Jiucheng decided to repair the relationship between the two parties. After all, there is still business between the two parties. He can get a lot of people at hand. Xishan Village wants people, and he wants food and money.

If there was a stalemate, the business would be cut off, and it would be of no benefit to him.

So after Li Jiucheng made up his mind, he sent someone to prepare a batch of so-called gifts, which mainly included twenty young women with good looks, and they were the kind of unbound feet that Xishan Village specifically wanted. In addition,

I prepared some other gifts and sent people to Xishan Village to ask for an audience with Liu Yuanwai there.

Although Liu BuTong received clear instructions from Yu Xiaotian on their next move, they still decided not to fall out with the rebels for the time being. After all, they still had to collect people next. If they completely broke up with the rebels, what would happen to them?

It's not good for them either.

So everyone pretended to be confused and didn't tell the truth. They thought this matter was a misunderstanding. Liu BuTong didn't mention the fact that they captured Mao Chenglu, and the rebels didn't take the initiative to inquire about it. So the two sides were very "friendly"

"Under the atmosphere, the negotiations ended.

The population business of both parties can continue, but Liu BuTong also took the opportunity to lower some prices. Now the rebellion in Denglai has reached its peak. Denglai was not too poor in the first place, but after the war, the entire Denglai was almost poor.

It became a ruin.

Under the raging rebels, the people in this area were unable to farm with peace of mind, leaving a large amount of land abandoned and more land becoming ownerless. This made the food shortage in this area even more serious. June was originally the summer harvest season.

, but here in Denglai, there is almost no land where the grain is mature. Even if there are some places where the grain is mature, the rebels will immediately rush to harvest and take away the mature grain by force.

Therefore, the famine in Denglai continues to spread. More and more people have completely stopped eating. A large number of hungry people have eaten almost everything they can eat. They eat bark, wild vegetables, and grass roots as food.

, when there was really no food to eat, some people had no choice but to sell their wives and children. After selling their wives and children, they still had nothing to eat, so they had no choice but to find a way to survive.

Some people went to join the rebels, and some fled south to the east, west, and south of Shandong to escape famine. Some people learned about Xishan Village and rushed to Xishan Village. After the time entered summer, Xishan Village collected the number of refugees.

Instead of decreasing, it has begun to increase.

So many people are of no value to the rebels, but they can be exchanged for some food from Xishan Village. Food is what the rebels need most now, and they can exchange it for whatever they can, so the rebels are still happy to go with them.

Business continues in Xishan Village.

After the victory in Laizhou, Zhu Dadian led his army to stay in Laizhou City for more than half a month. The name was to rest and reorganize and store supplies for the station. But the other purpose was to give Yu Xiaotian time to gather the more than 10,000 soldiers.

The prisoners have been dealt with.

After Yu Xiaotian had vacated the prisoner camp, Zhu Dadian mobilized his troops again and began to advance towards Dengzhou. On the way from Laizhou to Dengzhou, there were two counties, Zhaoyuan and Huangxian, controlled by the rebels.

However, after the defeat of Laizhou, the morale of the rebels began to become very low. In addition, there were bugs like Yu Xiaotian's Yu Jiajun. Yu Jiajun was responsible for suppressing the rebels in the city with firepower, beating them so that they did not dare to show their faces.

, as for the hard work of siege, naturally it has to be left to the Shandong soldiers, Zhejiang soldiers and Sichuan soldiers.

Although they were reluctant, under Zhu Dadian's order, they did not dare to disobey and disrespect the order. They could only send troops to fight, but they still cursed in their hearts. Laizhou was victorious. Although Yu Xiaotian finally spit out some spoils, but in the end

Important war horses, women, and a lot of valuables, but Yu Xiaotian refused to spit them out. They didn't have the guts to take them from Yu Xiaotian's mouth. In addition, Zhu Dadian was suppressing them, so they had no choice but to admit defeat.

However, with the strong firepower support of the Yu family army, the siege became relatively simple. Zhaoyuan County was defeated by the army after only five days. This time, the other officers and soldiers also had a long face.

Morale became high.

This time, Yu Xiaotian didn't go to snatch the spoils from them, and let the three families rush into the city and plunder them. Although they didn't say they made a lot of money, they finally made up for the imbalance in their hearts.

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Moreover, Yu Xiaotian also behaved very magnanimously, and did not ask for anything from them afterwards, leaving them with three soldiers and horses, which made them embarrassed. Look at how magnanimous they are, and then look at their performance.

A comparison of his character made them embarrassed to face Yu Xiaotian.

As for Huang County, under the strong attack of the government army, it could not hold out for a few days before it was also defeated by the government army, killing and capturing more than 2,000 rebels.

The rebels had now completely shifted from the initial offensive state to a defensive state, and gradually began to be compressed back to the Dengzhou area by the official army.

Finally, in September, the rebels gathered across the board and concentrated their forces in Dengzhou City. In mid-September, news of the recovery of all the previously lost prefectures and counties spread.

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

(As always, I will continue to thank Brother Xiao Xifeng for the reward! In addition, I will continue to ask for monthly tickets and red tickets! I have fallen down the monthly ticket list faster these days! Haha! Please ask for monthly tickets!)