Chapter 80 The Prelude to the Battle of the Boundary River

Chapter 079

"Kong Er!"

Li Jiucheng naturally knew the relationship between Lou Shi and Kong Youde. Kong Youde was a person with a clear sense of grudges and grudges. He would repay his kindness to anyone who was kind to him. Lou Shitou and Lou Jian helped Kong Youde when he was in the most difficult time.

Kong Youde tried every means to repay his kindness.

"Commander, I know what you are worried about. I'm not angry."

Although Kong Youde launched the Zhaoyuan Rebellion, the leader of this army was not actually him, but Li Jiucheng. Kong Youde, who was born in the 30th year of Wanli, is only twenty-nine years old this year. He is three years younger than Cheng Shijie.

He is already a third-grade cavalry general.

It can be considered that he is young and promising.

There was no trace of sadness on Kong Youde's face. He took off his cloak and wrapped Lou Shitou's body. Kong Youde picked up the body without legs and head and said calmly: "Shitou, you are light."

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Li Jiucheng said: "Ying Yuan!"

"exist!"

"Take the cavalry and find out what this army is like!"

"yes!"

Kong Youde hugged Lou Shi's mutilated body with all his strength, as if he was holding some treasure.

"Commander, although Shitou is not good at words, he has been in battle for a long time and dares to fight hard. He can be regarded as a talented general, right?"

"That's right!"

"With officers and soldiers like Laizhou Guards and Dengzhou, can Shitou suffer a loss?"

"Probably not!"

"This is the key. I'm afraid this army is coming with bad intentions!"

Kong Youde turned around and walked towards the distance. As he walked further and further, his voice was extremely clear: "Shuai Mao often doesn't say that without diamonds or porcelain work, he can annihilate all the officers and soldiers under Shitou's command. I'm afraid that the comer is not good.

Make preparations early!”

Regardless of whether Li Jiuzheng heard it or not, Kong Youde didn't want to worry about it anymore. The most important thing for him was to bury his good brother.

In fact, Kong Youde's life was very difficult.

He himself didn't know who his father was, and his mother didn't know either.

He only knew that as long as he could remember, his mother never mentioned his father's name or his deeds. He was raised by his widowed mother.

Later, when he was six years old, his mother remarried to a man named Li Laoban. However, her mother did not let him have the same surname as Li. Instead, she gave him a surname of Kong and a first name of You.

Germany.

Old Blind Li is a very cowardly man. His name comes from the fact that he never meddles in other people's business and cares about matters that have nothing to do with him. Even if someone kills people and sets fire in front of Old Blind Li, he always turns a blind eye.

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However, Lao Xiang Li's life was not good. Just a few years later, Lao Xiang Li died of illness. Kong Youde, who was ten years old at the time, shouldered the burden of supporting his family. In order to support his mother and half-father,

With his younger brother and younger sister, he went hunting in the mountains, herded sheep for the landlord, and also went down to the river to catch fish.

Finally, when Kong Youde grew older, he finally managed to live a life of food and clothing.

Sun Chengzong served as the governor of Jiliao and implemented a fortress strategy and a three-sided blockade strategy. These three sides were the Korean side, which was blocked by the Dongjiang Army. The Guangning direction was blocked by the Guanning Army, and the Shandong side was divided into the inside and outside of the Great Wall.

, Datong Town is in charge inside, and Lin Dan Khan of Mongolia is in charge outside the Great Wall.

Since then, Jiannu has been unable to obtain any supplies from the Ming Dynasty. There happened to be a severe drought in Liaodong at that time. To make matters worse, there was a rare snowstorm in winter, and countless cattle and sheep froze to death. Even the grain smuggled into Shenyang was so high that every day

Dou Baliang silver is equivalent to eighty taels of silver per stone, and the highest record sold was more than 160 taels of silver per stone.

It was almost one tael of silver per pound of grain, which was even worse than the tragic scene recorded in the history books: "The people in Guanzhong were hungry, fighting for rice cost ten thousand yuan, and Yi Zi could eat each other." In this case, Old Boar Skin ordered a massacre of people who had no food.

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As a result, more than four million people in Liaodong were killed, and only more than one million were left. These people took advantage of the chaos and fled to Dongjiang Town to follow Mao Wenlong.

At that time, Kong Youde, who was just twenty years old, had all the food in his family robbed and his whole family was killed. He was the only one who survived. However, he was really unlucky and was caught in the mine and worked as a miner. In fact, he was a slave without wages.

Rice, and no matter how full you are, there are only two meals a day.

After four full years of darkness and a near-death experience, he was rescued only when Mao Wenlong and Zhang Pan, the then deputy general of Dongjiang Town, led the Dongjiang Army to sneak attack Tieshan Fort.

Mao Wenlong saw him as pitiful and adopted him as his adopted grandson.

The thing Kong Youde regretted the most in his life was that when Mao Wenlong was killed, he listened to the words of Chen Jisheng, the deputy commander-in-chief at the time, that the Dongjiang Army was not Mao Wenlong's private army, but the Dongjiang Army of the Ming Dynasty. Mao Wenlong was guilty.

The sin is unpardonable!

In Mao Wenlong's era, although the Dongjiang Army was poor, they were able to form a tightrope that could threaten the rear of Jiannu, forcing Jiannu to return in defeat many times. More importantly, the Dongjiang Army had goals, pursuits, and ideals.

There is hope too.

Unfortunately, all this is gone.

In order to survive with his brothers, he defected to Sun Yuanhua. However, Sun Yuanhua only used him and ignored him. He was looked down upon and ignored. He finally couldn't bear it anymore and rebelled.

The original plan was to capture Zhaoyuan City, strengthen the army, and then defect to Cheng Shijie who occupied Dengzhou City. However, as their troops increased in numbers, Li Jiucheng, the leader, changed his mind and was unwilling to follow Cheng Shijie.

Be a younger brother.

Although Li Jiucheng did not tell him, he saw that Lou Shitou's body injuries were caused by firearms. Sun Yuanhua was controlled by Cheng Shijie in Dengzhou. If Cheng Shijie was not a fool, he would definitely incorporate or dismember Sun Yuanhua's Denglai New Army.

This means that the troops in Shandong that are best at using firearms no longer exist, but Lou Shi actually died under the blow of firearms. That can only mean one problem, Cheng Shijie is here.

Whether Cheng Shijie and Sun Yuanhua reached reconciliation terms, or Cheng Shijie was trying to grab territory, it didn't matter. What mattered was that Cheng Shijie was here, at least the elite troops of Ning Haijun under his command were here.

Under such circumstances, Li Jiucheng still wanted to preserve his strength and take the opportunity to seize Laizhou City. This was too naive. If he could not defeat Cheng Shijie and his Ning Haijun and occupy Ye County City in Laizhou, he would be seeking death, let alone occupying it.

It is useless to occupy Laizhou and Jinan.

The tragic death of his former companion and brother made Kong Youde sober in the world.

Kong Youde placed Lou Jian's mutilated body on a pile of firewood, poured oil on it, and lit it.

Looking at his brother who was already burning, Kong Youde drank and recalled the past.

People in Jianghu have too many worries.

Now there is one less person that Kong Youde has to worry about.

Back then, Mao Wenlong, who had shown him kindness and kindness, was killed by Yuan Chonghuan and slandered as a rebel. He endured it. Now, another person who had saved him has died.

Kong Youde decided that he was not willing to endure it any longer.

Just as Lou Jian's body turned into ashes, Kong Youde asked someone to find a small porcelain vase. He picked up the warm ashes with his hands and put them into the porcelain vase.

After putting the ashes in the porcelain bottle, Kong Youde put a cork on the porcelain bottle, then wrapped the porcelain bottle with a piece of brocade and tied it to his chest. Kong Youde murmured to himself: "Shitou, my brother once told you that I have a child."

I will definitely not starve you. Brother made a mistake, and what he said was just a fart! Brother, I will give you one last promise. If we brothers cannot share wealth and wealth together, then we will die together."

Li Shaoan rode a horse and came to Kong Youde. Behind him was Zhao Wencai who came to inquire. Behind Zhao Wencai was Qiao Siniang, a new subordinate who was loyal to Kong Youde.

Qiao Siniang was just one step away from meeting Cheng Shijie's troops. When the news of Lou Jian's death came, the rebels she led were in Luoshan Township, fifty miles west of Linglong Town.

In fact, Liu Qingsong's troops did not wipe out all of Lou Jian's troops, but some of the rebel soldiers dispersed in a hurry. After encountering the defeat of Lou Jian's troops, Qiao Siniang knew that her mission was over.

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Qiao Siniang returned along the same route with her own song and a gift for Cheng Shijie.

"General!"

Kong Youde stood up slowly. He looked at Li Shaoan and Zhao Wencai, took out the porcelain bottle containing the ashes from his arms and said: "The stone is broken, but it's a pity that there is only this little left. I want to take revenge!"

Li Shaoan and Zhao Wencai said in unison: "We must take revenge!"

Although Kong Youde became the leader of Li Jiu and called him the commander-in-chief, the essence of their group of rebels has always been in the hands of Kong Youde. Especially the horse team of Kong Youde's headquarters. The horses and equipment captured during this period have been expanded.

, the number reached more than one thousand and one hundred people.

There is no way. Cavalry is more difficult to train than archers. If you don't have the foundation of riding, you won't be able to train it in a short time. It won't work if you have war horses.

Kong Youde walked up to Qiao Siniang, looked at Qiao Siniang and said, "You don't have to go. You have no friendship with Shitou, and he doesn't need you to take revenge on him!"

When Kong Youde faced Cheng Shijie, he was not even sure of victory.

Although Cheng Shijie's rise came at an extremely early stage, the problem is that Song Xiance used Jianghu means to promote Cheng Shijie's benevolence, righteousness and good fighting skills.

While he made Cheng Shijie famous, he also made many people fear him.

Kong Youde is one of them. What Kong Youde is afraid of Cheng Shijie is that he can control Dengzhou City without anyone noticing. Dengzhou City is different from Laizhou City. There are only four thousand-household garrison guards in Laizhou City.

In Dengzhou City, there were six thousand households plus more than 6,500 elite Denglai New Army. Only in Dengzhou City, Sun Yuanhua's Fubiao troops and Geng Zhongming's troops were added.

Until now, not a word of news has been released about Geng Zhongming, which shows that Geng Zhongming has not yet been freed.

It is really difficult to do this.

Cheng Shijie is really difficult to deal with.
To be continued...