stubborn thief

May 28th.

Outside the city of Liaoyang, the dusty marshal’s army was approaching the city.

Liu Chengzong's marching speed did not seem fast, but in fact he was just pretending.

The First Brigade ran ten miles as soon as they woke up, until they were twenty miles within reach of Liaoyang. When they were sure that the outline of their army could be seen from the top of the city wall, they slowly approached the old city of Liaoyang.

Because Gao Yingdeng discovered that Liaoyang was a huge city, no smaller than the Xi'an city, and it looked like a huge monster lying along the Taizi River.

However, the larger the scale of Liaoyang City, the more stable the generals such as Liu Chengzong and Gao Yingdeng felt.

According to the information obtained from earlier interrogations, there were only 3,000 defenders in the city, which meant that once the siege began, the city walls would not be able to be defended.

Only one person can stand on each battlement, and even the heavenly soldiers and generals cannot defend it.

But the beauty of a big city is that its defenses are more complete and the preparations before attacking the city are more complicated.

Liu Chengzong intended to capture the city in a single blow within a few days, so he was not in a hurry to let Gao Yingdeng rush up to launch a tentative attack.

Although the army moves slowly, it can do more while moving.

Liu Shizi started by playing a Tutu card, releasing Zhang Xianzhong, the Minister of Rites.

"Attack the city and you need people to fill the moat and build fortifications."

He said to Zhang Xianzhong: "Brother, please take the brigade led by Li Hongsi and go around the area of ​​50 miles to get more intelligence and kill fewer people. I have other uses for you."

"The Marshal is going to take them back?"

"Ah."

Liu Chengzong nodded without saying much. This was also the information brought by Qian Shisheng. The Sanshun King came from the Dongjiang Army. The army itself was proficient in cavalry tactics and came from the navy. He also received artillery training from the new army in Shandong. He was a rare technical soldier.

It’s just that the Liao people are attached to their land and this is their hometown, so it’s somewhat difficult to bring them back to Shaanxi.

Letting Zhang Xianzhong lead the troops was to cut off the captives' escape routes, destroy their fields and demolish their villages, leaving them with nowhere to go. The only way for them to survive was to be taken away by him.

In fact, Zhang Xianzhong was somewhat confused after hearing the order.

He had even forgotten his background as a yamen runner and constable, and his experience of leading peasant soldiers in battles thousands of miles away, capturing cities and plundering land.

I am the Minister of Six Yamen in the Grand Marshal's Office, and am given the honorific title of Minister. I chat and laugh happily with the Minister of Rites of the Ming Dynasty. Although limited by the national conditions of the Marshal's Office, it is a bit of a stretch to say that I live a life of luxury, but I have achieved glory for my family.

He thought that we, Old Zhang, were not born killers, and the Marshal actually reminded us to kill less people. What kind of words did he say? It was a bit disrespectful.

However, as soon as Zhang Xianzhong led his troops away from the main force, in less than half an hour, the value of the Eight Kings of the West Camp returned.

That's a happy time.

"burn!"

On the plain, Zhang Xianzhong let go of the reins and whipped the horse, letting the warhorse run wildly: "The Marshal wants to take the people back to Shaanxi. There is no need to come back. Tell me to trample the fields, tear down the doors and windows, and block the wells. Burn those who can't be taken away!"

Li Hongsi's eyelids twitched when he saw this. Is this thing the Minister of Rites of our Grand Marshal's Office?

Being able to come out and go crazy makes every hair from head to toe cheer.

However, his army obviously did not object to this order.

Who doesn't love arson?

The efficiency was very high. Liu Chengzong had only led his troops forward five miles when he saw the first black smoke rising on the plain. Then more and more black smoke rose from the ground into the sky and spread into the distance.

Black smoke is like a signal.

On the Wangjing Tower in the southwest corner of Liaoyang City, Gongshun King Kong Youde was looking through a telescope at the Marshal's army approaching Liaoyang.

Seeing the black smoke rising from the ground, Kong Youde clenched the handguard of the telescope with his fist until it squeaked.

The Niulu near the border wall retreated towards Shenyang under the order of Emperor Chongde long before the war began.

The Dunjun troops that Liu Chengzong saw outside the border wall were all the Niulu of the Han army under his command. However, those in King Sanshun's army who needed to have their heads shaved had done so when they surrendered to the Jin Dynasty, and there was no difference between them and the Eight Banners.

Kong Youde knew that Liu Chengzong's army wanted to attack the border wall, and they broke into the border three days ago. Kong Youde also got the information.

But at that time, he didn't expect Liu Chengzong to come directly to him.

The Niulu Zhangjing who was guarding the border saw Liu Chengzong break through the border. The scholar beside him wrote a report saying that the Han soldiers broke through the wall and advanced, and tens of thousands of cavalrymen went out in a circle, with red hats and helmets with tassels, and flew eastward in the wind.

At that time, Mongolian soldiers were accustomed to wearing large fur hats with red tassels, so it is obvious that the Han soldiers were responsible for destroying the wall, while the Mongolian cavalry marched eastward.

Since the wind is blowing eastward, it must be heading towards Shenyang.

Kong Youde was planning to send troops to support Shengjing at that time, but the army in Liaoyang was reduced to only 3,000 after two withdrawals earlier. It was difficult for them to defend the city, and they had no troops to support eastward. So he sent someone to convey a message to Shang Kexi in Haizhou, suggesting that each of us send 1,000 troops to support Shengjing.

Shang Kexi ignored him.

Until last night, several night sentries patrolling outside the city were lost, and people were sent to look for them. Only in the morning did they receive the report that they had discovered a herd of horses and a camp that stretched to the ground. A large number of troops were stationed thirty miles north of the city, having crossed the Taizi River and were on the north bank of the Bingma River.

Came towards him.

Kong Youde was so frightened that he didn't dare to stay in the North City and retreated directly to the South City of Liaoyang.

Liaoyang is a huge city that is obviously larger than normal, but it was not so big from the beginning.

The city is divided into two cities, north and south. The South City was built in the early Ming Dynasty. It has a circumference of 16 li and 295 steps. The wall is 33 feet high and the moat is 5 feet wide and 15 feet deep.

Later, in order to accommodate the Jurchen barbarians who surrendered to Goryeo, the northern city was expanded outside the northern wall. To the west of the city was Zizaizhou and to the east was Dongningwei.

This forms the current Japanese character pattern.

After Nurhaci surrendered Liaoyang City, he occupied the more prosperous and wealthy South City and drove the Han people to Zizaizhou and Dongningwei in the North City. Later, when the order to shave the hair was issued, resistance and poisonings occurred one after another. Nurhaci did not dare to stay there for long, and built Dongjing City on the other side of the river. He just built a city wall and moved there without repairing it.

Later, as rebellions in various places became more intense, Nurhaci realized that the Later Jin Dynasty did not have the ability to continue expanding westwards with Liaoyang as its base. He killed the poor and the rich, almost killing all the Han people in the southern Liaoning Peninsula. He then abandoned the land and moved the capital to Shenyang, which was further east.

When Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming led the Tianyou Army to station in Liaoyang, only one tenth of the population of Liaoyang remained. However, the structure of Nurhaci's era had not changed. The northern city was Hancheng and the southern city was Manchucheng.

"Shang Laosi hasn't replied yet?"

The guard Bai Yunlong beside him shook his head. Kong Youde was not angry, but laughed and scolded: "I don't even hate him, but he still hates me."

The "Bai" in Bai Yunlong is not a Chinese surname, but is changed from Bayala.

He was not Kong Youde's guard, but the guard of Emperor Chongde. The official title was called guard.

Huang Taiji has always had the habit of arranging marriages for surrendered generals. Bringing a few guards along with the marriage can help win people's hearts and supervise the army.

Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and Shang Kexi all accepted arranged marriages after paying tribute. Kong Youde paid tribute early, and his wife Bai gave birth to a son and a daughter four years ago. Shang Kexi paid tribute late, and had a son three years ago.

Although they all had experience in the Dongjiang Army, the relationship between the three Shun kings was not harmonious.

Kong Youde was born into a miner family in Tieling. He was strong and powerful, skilled in archery and horse riding, and was very familiar with the plains and hilly terrain of Liaodong.

Tieling’s specialty is not iron. The place was formerly called Yinzhou, and its specialty is silver mines. In the early Ming Dynasty, the country failed to reach an agreement on the border issue with North Korea, so the Tieling Guard, which was originally located in Tieshan, moved inland and replaced the name of Yinzhou.

After the defeat at Sarhu and the Later Jin invasion of Liaoning and Shenyang, he was rescued by Mao Wenlong along with the refugees from southern Liaoning and taken to Pi Island. Because of his extraordinary strength and bravery, he was the first to go into battle many times and was adopted by Mao Wenlong as his grandson and named Mao Yongshi.

He was very grateful to Mao Wenlong for his generosity and support, so after Mao Wenlong's death he was unwilling to continue receiving military pay from Yuan Chonghuan and went to work under Sun Yuanhua in Shandong.

Sun Yuanhua treated him very well, and the new army treated him very well, so Kong Youde felt very comfortable there.

The Wuqiao Mutiny, which changed his life, was actually an accidental incident for him.

In Wuqiao, he had neither the desire nor the ability to rebel.

The soldiers he led were not even his own, but the 800 soldiers of Chen Youshi, the deputy general of Lushun. Chen Youshi was also the adopted grandson of Mao Wenlong, and was formerly called Mao Youhou.

The situation at that time was that after the Ji Si Rebellion, the people inside the Great Wall were full of suspicion of the Liao soldiers, and the Liao soldiers also had many resentments towards the people inside the Great Wall. Most of the new troops recruited by Sun Yuanhua in Shandong were the part of the Liao soldiers who were most suspicious of the court - the Dongjiang soldiers after the death of Mao Wenlong.

There is nothing about a chicken.

Kong Youde originally planned to cross the sea to support the Dalingh River, but encountered a typhoon in the East China Sea, so he retreated and led Chen Shiyou and 800 people to travel by land.

The people inside the Great Wall did not trust the Liao soldiers and closed their doors along the way. It rained heavily everywhere during the typhoon and the roads were muddy and difficult to travel. The soldiers suffered and wasted time. They thought that the battle outside the Great Wall might have been over, and the army was very resentful of the court.

It is not surprising to see discrimination within the Great Wall. Within the Great Wall is a peaceful area, while outside the Great Wall is a war-torn zone. Refugees from the war-torn zones pour into peaceful areas and are unable to adjust their living habits in a short period of time, which easily leads to conflicts.

When a normal person goes hungry, he or she will think of ways to earn money to buy food. However, when refugees from a war-torn area go hungry, they are not even hungry yet, but when they see that there is not much food, they will think of ways to steal it.

The resentment of the Liao soldiers outside the Great Wall is also normal. Not everyone has bad habits. Many people not only have good personal morals, but also have the public morality of fighting for the country. However, in a group, a few bad guys doing a few bad things can make the group's reputation worse.

Resettling refugees can easily lead to chaos if one is not careful, not to mention in ancient times when administrative efficiency was low.

When they reached Wuqiao, a soldier ate at Wang Xiangchun's house without paying, and was reported to Kong Youde by the family servant.

In fact, Kong Youde and the Wang family were very restrained in handling this matter at that time.

Wang Xiangchun, an official in the Ministry of Personnel, was called the leader of the Donglin Party by the eunuch party. When his house was robbed by soldiers, he did not do anything bad or retaliate, but simply asked his servants to go to the military commander to ask for an explanation.

As a military commander, Kong Youde was also very restrained. He punished when necessary, apologized when necessary, and also protected the soldiers to a certain extent.

The "Ear-piercing Parade" was to have arrows inserted into the ears and walk around the camp as a warning to all. It looked like a very severe punishment, as if the soldiers were deliberately punished for fear of power in order to show it to the king's family.

Actually not.

The Ming army used Qi Jiguang's military law, which was extremely harsh. According to the rules, stealing other people's property was as serious as raping women, and the offender must be beheaded in public.

Not only will the offending soldier be beheaded, but if fellow soldiers know about the crime and do not report it but instead cover it up, all those who know about it will be punished as well.

Therefore, Kong Youde's parade of sound was not a punishment under pressure, but also a way of making a big deal out of a small one. He reduced the crime that should have been beheaded in public to the level of speaking without permission during the march.

In order to prevent the wrong messages from being passed on during the march, soldiers were forbidden to speak casually during the march. If someone spoke something else while passing a message, he would be punished by being paraded around the camp with his ears pierced.

The matter should have been resolved at this point, but the soldier was angry. He accepted Kong Youde's punishment and took his anger out on the servant who had complained. He sneaked back at night and killed the servant.

Wang Xiangchun's son came over and the matter was resolved.

The soldier killed someone and didn't run away and returned to the barracks. It means he was not afraid of death and was accepting death.

The mental state of the refugees in southern Liaoning was not much better than that of the disaster victims in Shaanxi. They had seen everything. They had surrendered the city to Nurhaci, had their heads shaved by Tian Ji of the Jin Dynasty, and had rebelled against the Jin Dynasty when the poor and the rich were being killed. They then followed Mao Wenlong to the islands, landed there, plundered and invaded the rear.

I've lived long enough.

Run to the interior to suffer this humiliation?

What's wrong with not paying for meals? If you dare to sue me, I will kill you tonight. At worst, I will give my life to the general.

That's all.

Just at this time, the soul figure of the Wuqiao mutiny returned. His name was Li Jiuchen.

He was also a former officer of Pi Island. His status in the army was higher than Kong Youde. He was famous for his skill in using bird guns. He was brave and good at fighting, and was more powerful than Kong Youde.

He was ordered by Sun Yuanhua to buy horses. He had spent all his money but had not bought enough horses. He was worrying about how to report back when he heard Wang Xiangchun's son scolding Kong Youde. He felt that there were too many restrictions in the interior and it was not as happy as on the island.

It just so happened that many soldiers were filled with resentment and thought so.

At the instigation of Li Jiuchen, this army under Chen Shiyou, led by Kong Youde, rebelled.

The key is that Li Jiuchen is a good fighter. He contacted his old subordinates in Dongjiang who were dissatisfied with the court's killing of Mao Wenlong, and marched towards Shandong.

Geng Zhongming was still in Dengzhou at that time.

He was a Liao person born in Gaizhou Wei, but served Jianzhou in his early years and was promoted to Qianzong. After the Battle of Sarhu, Geng Zhongming became a deserter and defected to Mao Wenlong. In Mao Wenlong's opinion, he was similar to Shen Shikui and engaged in smuggling with his old friends from the Later Jin Dynasty.

In Shandong, Geng Zhongming was still smuggling and was eventually sued by Huang Long, the general of Shangpi Island. However, Sun Yuanhua was very protective of him and the matter was dropped.

Geng Zhongming's younger brother Geng Zhongyu was in the Huanglong army. He surrounded the Huanglong government office on the pretext of demanding pay and took him to the martial arts field, where he was severely humiliated.

Sun Yuanhua was very kind to the generals of the New Army. Kong Youde wanted to be recruited, while Sun Yuanhua wanted to appease the Liao army. He let Geng Zhongming be responsible for the appeasement in Dengzhou City, but the gentry and people of Dengzhou did not want to allow the Liao soldiers to enter the city, so Geng Zhongming gathered the Liao soldiers in the city and surrendered Dengzhou City.

To put it bluntly, the mental state of the old Dongjiang generals was very dangerous after Mao Wenlong's death. Even if there was no Wuqiao mutiny, there would have been a Dengzhou mutiny or a Lushun mutiny.

Originally, they were all Mao Wenlong's followers. They had been waiting for someone from the court for many years. His name was Yuan Chonghuan, but he was killed by Mao Wenlong as soon as he arrived. Everyone was uneasy.

Yuan Chonghuan settled them down, and they listened to Yuan Chonghuan. But Yuan Chonghuan was killed again.

Most of the old generals in Dongjiang Town were Mao Wenlong's adopted sons and grandsons. Although they changed their names after Mao Wenlong's death, they were afraid that the Ming Dynasty would punish them because of this relationship.

In their opinion, their grandfather and General Yuan were enemies. Now that both of them are dead, at least one of them must be right, right?

If Yuan Chonghuan was right, the emperor should not have killed him; if the emperor killed Yuan Chonghuan, does that mean Mao Wenlong died unjustly?

Mao Chenglu wrote an official document asking the emperor to redress his injustice.

The emperor ignored it. Yuan Chonghuan should be killed, and Mao Wenlong should also be killed.

Mao Chenglu had a plan in mind. As soon as Li Jiuchen's letter arrived, Mao Chenglu mobilized 7,000 Dongjiang soldiers to land in Shandong to help in the battle.

The Wuqiao mutiny evolved into a major event that shocked the Ming Dynasty. They were a rebellion by a well-trained army. The army had 15,000 people and more than 300 general cannons, but the new army had only five red cannons.

However, after defeating Yang Yufan, the number of Tongzhou soldiers decreased to eleven.

After fighting with Wang Hong's Tianjin soldiers, Liu Guozhu's Baoding soldiers, Yang Yufan's Tongzhou soldiers, Deng Qi's Jimen soldiers, Wu Anbang's Dengzhou soldiers, Chen Hongfan's Changping soldiers, Huang Long's Dongjiang soldiers and Liu Zeqing's volunteers, the number of Li Jiuchen's soldiers exceeded 90,000, and the number of red cannons increased to more than 20.

Act as if you are invincible.

Later, Li Jiucheng occupied Dengzhou. Because he was too brave, he went out of the city to fight many times and eventually died outside the city, which caused the rebels to be in chaos. Kong Geng and others fled across the sea and took the remaining troops to join the Later Jin. The rebellion was immediately suppressed by the Ming army.

Kong Geng fled across the sea. Geng Zhongming originally did not want to defect to the Later Jin Dynasty because he was a fugitive general of the Later Jin Dynasty. He also wanted to surrender to the court, so he wrote a letter to build the South Gate and recover Jinzhou for the court to atone his sins.

But he had offended Huang Long too badly in Pi Island earlier, and Huang Long only wanted to kill him and did not want to appease him. He had nowhere to go except to surrender to the Later Jin.

Because of this stance, many soldiers under Kong Youde in the Tianyou Army who were forced to surrender to the Later Jin Dynasty were more willing to follow Geng Zhongming, which led to a rift between them and Kong Youde.

Huang Taiji also did not trust Geng Zhongming, so he had to take him with him when fighting, leaving Kong Youde to guard Liaoyang.

Shang Kexi had a different background and had grudges against all members of the Tianyou Army, including Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming.

He was a hereditary soldier born in Haizhou. His father and brother were among the 197 brave warriors who followed Mao Wenlong into southern Liaoning.

A loyal and brave general with a good family background.

When Mao Wenlong led his own army into southern Liaoning, Shang Kexi also joined the Ming navy. The following year, when Pidao was established as a town, he went to Pidao to find his father. Not long after the reunion, his father and brother were killed in the battle with the Later Jin.

He came from the ranks of the Ming army and his family was full of loyal heroes, unlike the refugee leaders in southern Liaoning such as Shen Shikui and Kong Youde. Therefore, when the Ming court appointed Huang Long as the commander-in-chief, and Geng Zhongming's younger brother Geng Zhongyu tried to seize power by making trouble for Huang Long and Shen Shikui, Shang Kexi stood firmly on Huang Long's side and led his troops to rescue him.

He also became Huang Long's confidant, turned around to suppress the Shandong rebellion, and led the navy to defeat Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming at sea.

It was just bad luck, as Huang Long, who served as his backer, was killed in the battle.

Shang Kexi's father was a veteran of Dongjiang and a great hero in southern Liaoning, but after all, the great hero died early.

The history of Dongjiang Town is a circle. Starting from Mao Wenlong, its power expanded to be like a foreign vassal state, and the imperial court was out of reach and had extremely low control.

The Ming court tried to control the situation by killing Mao Wenlong and dividing the power among Chen Jisheng, Liu Xingzuo and others. The court regained its power and gained control over Dongjiang Town, allowing the Liao people to land in Shandong.

Subsequently, a war broke out in Pidao for power and profit, which spread to Li Jiuchen, Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming, and caused a huge rebellion in Shandong.

Until Huang Long's death, Shen Shikui, who was born as a refugee from southern Liaoning, became the general of Pidao. The imperial court was out of reach and its control was once again at its lowest point.

Shang Kexi was a man who firmly stood on the side of the imperial court. When he suppressed the rebellion earlier, all the generals and soldiers who fought in Dongjiang were from Dongjiang. Now that he had lost his backing, not only was no one in Dongjiang Town willing to accept him, many people wanted to get rid of him as soon as possible.

If it were someone else, given the environment in Pi Island, he would definitely lead his troops back to seize power from Shen Shikui by force.

But Shang Kexi came from a family of generals and all his family were loyal and brave. He was a loyal person and would not get involved in such internal strife. He hid on his own island and reported to the Ming court, requesting to be transferred to the Shandong Navy.

Shandong had just experienced the Liaomin Rebellion, so how could Shang Kexi be allowed to land with the Pidao troops? The imperial court would not allow it.

Loyalty is dynamic after all.

Mao Wenlong was very loyal when he led his army into southern Liaoning alone; Mao Chenglu was very loyal when he reported to the court to redress his adoptive father's grievances; Li Jiuchen was very loyal when he took silver to buy horses; Kong Youde was also very loyal when he punished the soldiers by letting them pass through his ears and parade around the camp.

How does the court know whether you are truly loyal or just pretending to be loyal?

Letting you enter Shandong is one more trouble, while pretending not to see you is one less trouble. So it is better to have less trouble than more.

Shang Kexi had no choice but to stay in Dongjiang Town, which meant death. After eating up all the food on the island, he took his navy to join Huang Taiji, who granted him the title of King Zhishun and settled him in his hometown of Haizhou, to block Guan Ning in front and guard against Kong Geng in the back.

Haizhou is only a hundred miles away from Liaoyang, much closer than the main force of the Eight Banners of Emperor Chongde who went south to suppress Shen Shikui. What's more, Shang Kexi also has the navy, which is the only army that can support Liaoyang at this time.

But Shang Kexi ignored Kong Youde's request for help, and Liu Chengzong's advance speed was much faster than Kong Youde had imagined.

Although Liaoyang is only a hundred miles away from the border wall, there are three large rivers and countless small rivers in between, so it takes at least five days to walk there.

But it took Liu Chengzong's army only two days, and on the third day they had reached the outskirts of Liaoyang. They even deliberately approached the city wall slowly, with smoke everywhere, which made Kong Youde panic.

Of course he knew who Liu Chengzong was.

Before he rebelled, as soon as he arrived in Dengzhou, Liu Chengzong had already caused a big disturbance in Shaanxi and Shanxi. Later, he was made the Grand Marshal and led his troops into Qinghai. Later, he defected to the Later Jin. Although the news from Shaanxi could not reach Liaodong, as the secret struggle in the past two years evolved into an open fight, Liu Chengzong's reputation in Qinghai became more and more shocking.

Because the three words "Liu Chengzong" were the golden signboard that the Eight Banners nobles used when they were dissatisfied with Emperor Chongde.

The Eight Banners had a lot of dissatisfaction with Huang Taiji.

The two red flags and the blue flag were dismembered from Shulhaci's black flag, but Daishan, the red flag, was beaten and excluded; Amin, the blue flag, was imprisoned.

The yellow and white flags changed colors. Today's white flag is Jianzhou during Nurhaci's time, and is ranked below the yellow flag, while the white flag originating from the Hada tribe became the yellow flag, with a more respected status.

Along with this war, more and more rumors spread in Shengjing.

Huang Taiji was able to claim the title of Emperor Chongde because of three things.

First, he was good at fighting, and he defeated the three great beiles, Daishan, Amin and Manggurtai.

Second, they were able to hold out. Although the attack on the Ming Dynasty failed to gain a foothold in western Liaoning, they did hold out.

The third was to defeat the Northern Yuan Dynasty. The Northern Yuan Dynasty led by Ligdan Khan once pushed the great alliance of the Later Jin Kingdom to the line of Guihua City. This was also Huang Taiji's greatest and only achievement.

Of course, Huang Taiji’s real achievement was not these three, but the transformation of the Later Jin Kingdom from a feudal military aristocratic alliance to a bureaucratic system and imperial framework.

But at present, this is not an achievement, but a symbol of his vanity.

With this battle, Liu Chengzong made rapid progress from Ordos, conquering Guihua City, Ulanqab, Yuanshangdu, Korchin... Not only did he make Huang Taiji's ten years of work in vain, but he even lost the wealth left by the old Khan to form an alliance with Korchin.

He boasted about his abilities every day, bullied his brothers and sisters, killed his elder brother and cut his sister into pieces, made the Han people kings, and boasted about ruling Mongolia.

Yes, we defeated Ligdan Khan’s Northern Yuan Dynasty, but Liu the barbarian came back with the Yuan Dynasty and attacked us at the gate!

What kind of emperor is this?

Kong Youde wanted to write a letter to the legendary Liu Chengzong, asking him why he led his troops to attack me when we had no grudge against each other.

However, Madam Bai was at home and Bai Yunlong was by his side, and he was constrained by many factors and had complicated thoughts. He could not even mention sending a message and could only make arrangements for defending the city.

He placed all the artillery and troops in the south city, and only recruited some militia to guard the north city, intending to defend the south city to the death.

However, he did not expect that before he could write the letter, several riders came running in from outside the city. They were wearing red armor and carrying flags on their backs. They bypassed the patrol officers outside the city and ran to the moat. They drew their bows and arrows and shot several letters on the gate tower of Suqing Gate at the west gate of the south city.

When the soldier brought the letter over, Kong Youde looked at the envelope and saw "Written by Brother Kong himself". He felt very happy and overjoyed.

However, when he opened the envelope and saw the words on it, Kong Youde's face turned green.

"I am a marshal, and my brother is also a marshal. We fought bravely in the Denglai War. It is because we are not strong enough to fight for hegemony. Why do you shave your head and surrender to the enemy? If you have any grievances, recruit your old subordinates to open the city gates and follow me into Shengjing. There is no place in the world that a real man cannot go? I will avenge you for the Ming Dynasty later."

"Half an hour, if you don't surrender, we'll have to fight. Liaoyang is big, but think about how it compares to Xi'an."

"Brother, I respectfully present this to you!" (End of this chapter)