"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!"
To be continued...