I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 82
Chapter 081

Facing Ning Haijun, who possessed artillery, firecrackers, and crossbows, Kong Youde felt a long-lost sense of powerlessness.Of course, if Kong Youde, who has the advantage of cavalry, wants to escape, Ning Haijun will definitely not be able to catch up.

However, by this time he was already feeling tired.

Lou Shitou is dead, Li Shaoan is also dead, and countless former brothers and sisters are dead...

Looking at the mutilated corpses of his former brothers, he couldn't help feeling sad.

As Geng Zhongming and Shang Kexi, he was known as the three mine apprentices of the Dongjiang Army. Although the three of them were all miners, the best relationship with him was not Geng Zhongming or Shang Kexi, but the dead Lou. Stone Lou Jian, including Li Shaoan whose head had been blown to pieces.

The difference is that Lou Shitou and Lou Jian saved Kong Youde's life, and Li Shaoan, who was four years younger than Kong Youde, was short in stature at that time. Not only the supervisor bullied him, but also the workers bullied him. Once, during a meal, Kong Youde saw Li Shaoan Weeping, I found out after asking.

It turned out that some bastards among the miners robbed Li Shaoan of the food that belonged to him. Li Shaoan was so hungry that he wanted to take his own food, but was beaten up again by the other party.Kong Youde, who already felt that there was no hope in life, decided to give it a try. If he was beaten to death by the opponent, it would be a relief.

Living, for Kong Youde, is really a kind of torture.

At that time, Kong Youde went there with the intention of dying, and was beaten by a group of opponents. Kong Youde was beaten helplessly. Watch the fun from the sidelines.Taking advantage of the other party's carelessness, Kong Youde bit the throat of a miner, and he would not let go.

Even though the stick fell like raindrops at that time, he directly bit off the opponent's throat and drank the opponent's blood in big gulps. The opponent's group, including the supervisor, all looked at Kong Youde in fear.From then on, Kong Youde understood a truth, people cannot stand firm if they are not ruthless.

He followed Mao Wenlong, and a total of 190 and eight people made a surprise attack on Dongjiang Town. Since then, the Dongjiang Army was established. Mao Wenlong led them to attack the fortress of Jiannu, attack Gaizhou, Jinzhou, and Lushun, and fought fiercely with Jiannu in North Korea. What a prestige, what a pleasure that is!
But in a blink of an eye, the head of Mao Wenlong, who had been kind to countless Liao people in rebuilding, fell to the ground. Mao Wenlong was slandered as a Litong Jian slave. Among them, the No. 12 major crimes. It is purely confusing black and white, and now Lushun is still in the hands of the Dongjiang Army.

For the city of Lushun, Zhang Pan, one of the three heroes of the Dongjiang Army, died in battle.

More importantly, now, he has also become a traitor to the court.

Although the world is big, why should a family be?
Kong Youde had no way out. With the fighting power of Ning's navy and their sharp firearms, he could use the cavalry to retreat, but the question is, where can he escape?
"Don't fight, stop fighting..."

Kong Youde yelled at Ning Haijun frantically: "Stop fighting, you won, we surrendered...we surrendered."

Kong Youde's heart had been shattered by the bombardment of the Thunderbolt, and he couldn't bring himself to continue fighting anymore.

Following Kong Youde's order to surrender, the remaining rebels were at a loss.

They killed countless gentry and tyrants, landlords and wealthy households, can the imperial court court them?
Surrender now, what if the court settles accounts after autumn?
However, in the hearts of these veterans of the Dongjiang Army, Kong Youde still has prestige. He ordered to stop fighting and surrender to Ning Haijun. They waved the white flag to Ning Haijun and shouted: "Stop fighting, we surrender... Stop hitting us and surrender!"

Cheng Shijie was very surprised when he heard the news.

Regardless of the great victory, Ning Haijun successfully wiped out the artillery units of the rebels through artillery battles, and killed more than [-] cavalry with Thunderbolts and crossbows.

But the problem is that this is only equivalent to one-third of Kong Youde's troops. If Kong Youde wanted to run, a two-legged man would not be able to catch up to a four-legged beast no matter what.

The Daning Navy then wiped out the more than [-] infantrymen.

Kong Youde yelled at the officers and men of Ning Haijun who had ceased fire: "I want to see you Cheng Shuai!"

In order to show his sincerity, Kong Youde began to untie his armor before the formation of the two armies. He took off the cotton armor first, and then the clothes inside, when Kong Youde was about to take off his trousers.

Cheng Shijie said: "Forget it, let him come over!"

Although Cheng Shijie's force value is not high, then he doesn't have to worry. Now Cheng Shijie has an [-]-volt and a [-]-volt electric shock device in his hand, let alone a person, even a cow can be easily knocked down.

Soon Kong Youde, who was dressed thinly, came to Cheng Shijie under the escort of Ning Haijun soldiers.

At this moment, Cheng Shijie didn't look like he was fighting a war at all, but he looked like he was out in winter.

Originally, Cheng Shijie's desk was placed on the ground at the beginning, but because it was too low, many soldiers could not see him as the coach.Thus, a temporary high platform was built, which is a high platform built with more than a dozen giant trees, just like the rural open-air stage of later generations.Ning Haijun soldiers moved Cheng Shijie's long case and chair up.

Cheng Shijie sat on a grand teacher's chair, behind him were a dozen soldiers and generals such as Zhang Yu, Liu Qingsong, and Zhou Ning.

Youdao means that you are refreshed on happy occasions. Cheng Shijie's appearance is not handsome. When he is not losing weight, he looks like a Maitreya Buddha.Now he has lost weight and his face has turned dark, but he looks a bit heroic.

Looking at the current Cheng Shijie, Kong Youde naturally thought of the past. He worshiped Mao Chenglu as his adoptive father and changed his name to Mao Yongshi. At that time, he was deeply trusted by Mao Wenlong. The soldiers also believed that under the command of Mao Wenlong, they could successfully recover Liaodong and regain their homeland.

pity……

Kong Youde sighed and said: "Cheng Shuai, you are so powerful that you actually thought of using food to deal with artillery... No matter how expensive the food is, there is no brother's life. You are a good commander. Your brothers follow you, Everyone is lucky.”

Cheng Shijie said: "What do you want to say? This commander advises you, it's best not to play tricks. You can't win this battle."

"Yeah, I can't win, I knew from the beginning that I couldn't win, and I didn't even have half a chance of winning, but... do we have a choice?"

"Yes, the right to choose has always been in your hands!"

Cheng Shijie said with a faint smile: "Life is one choice after another. From the moment you open your eyes every day, it is a choice. You can choose to continue sleeping, or choose to get up..."

"How do we choose?"

Kong Youde glared at Cheng Shijie and said, "We are not like you, Cheng Shuai, who are deeply trusted by Lord Futai. From the very beginning, we have a well-equipped army that obeys you unconditionally, and a group of generals who are loyal to you. We have never had these before. When Mao Shuai led us to fight against Jiannu, let alone such sophisticated equipment as yours, we couldn’t even have enough food! After defeating Jiannu’s city, we can still eat for a few days. If we can’t defeat it, people will starve to death It's..."

The more Kong Youde said, the more aggrieved he became, and there were tears in his eyes: "Not only that, but we also have to be angry with the imperial court. As soon as the food and salary we deserved were allotted, they took [-]% to [-]% of it and sent it to us. It's only [-]%, and even the [-]% or [-]% of the salary is not available every month. Mao Shuai fought with them, and even brought the lawsuit before the late emperor, but in the end he still couldn't compete with them..."

Cheng Shijie didn't speak.

But Zhang Yu said: "We Ning Haijun has formed an army, and we have never received a tael of silver from the governor's office!"

Of course, Zhang Yu thought silently in his heart that the 10,000+ taels of silver seized did not count.

"Don't have a tael of silver?"

Kong Youde pointed to the armor of Ning Haijun and the spears and cannons in his hands and said: "Then you always have equipment, and we also have equipment..."

"I've provided some equipment, sixty firecrackers, eight-door Frang machine, and two hundred sets of armor!"

"How is this possible, you must have lied to me!"

"What's the good of lying to you?"

Kong Youde muttered to himself: "Impossible!"

Cheng Shijie said: "We Ning Haijun built our own equipment, as well as our weapons. Let's not talk about our Ning Haijun. The Dongjiang Army caused the current situation. You have to blame yourself, do you know?"

"what?"

"An army can only have one commander, one leader, and one voice!"

Cheng Shijie said with a faint smile: "Yuan Chonghuan contacted the Liu brothers seven times, which lasted for more than four months. Don't say that no one in your Dongjiang Army knew about it!"

"I……"

"Then how dare you hand over Shuai Mao's Chinese army to Liu Xingzhi who flirts with Yuan Chonghuan?"

Cheng Shijie attributed the reason why Yuan Chonghuan wanted to kill Mao Wenlong on the Internet in later generations to the fact that Mao Wenlong falsely received food and wasted financial resources. As long as you have a little understanding of the official system of the Ming Dynasty, you should know that Dongjiang Township was requested by Yuan Keli, the governor of Denglai, and Dengzhou has always been in charge. Supplies and logistics of the Dongjiang Army.

There is no system between the two sides. In addition, Yuan Chonghuan only controls the generals of Shanhaiguan and Ningyuan Towns, which is also the origin of the Guanning Army.

In fact, Yuan Chonghuan had no control over Mao Wenlong. Killing Mao Wenlong was just because Yuan Chonghuan thought that Mao Wenlong was old enough to kill chickens and monkeys.

"You have indulged the Liu brothers, which is the real reason for the internal division of your Dongjiang army!"

Cheng Shijie stared at Kong Youde and said: "You have ten thousand ways to kill the Liu brothers. Even if you don't deal with them, you can completely empty them of the Liu brothers. Why don't you do it? The reason is actually very simple. At that time , Yuan Chonghuan is in the heart of the emperor, you are all afraid of offending Yuan Chonghuan, in this world, you can never be trusted, you have defected to Futai Lord, Futai Lord does not trust your generals from the Dongjiang Army, Geng Zhongming is better, Shen Shikui , Chen Shi, including you and Li Jiucheng, what did you do?"

Kong Youde was slightly taken aback: "What?"

"You should have a cavalry battalion under your command, with [-] cavalry. Li Jiuzheng lost all the money your cavalry battalion bought horses!"

Cheng Shijie said: "You were cheated by Li Jiuzhen too, right?"

"You know it all?"

Cheng Shijie looked at the rebel soldiers collecting corpses in the distance: "What do you want to do?"

"I beg Cheng Shuai to give me a way out!"

Kong Youde bowed and said, "I am willing to pledge my allegiance to...

Cheng Shijie shook his head: "It's too late, you can't afford to enjoy your allegiance to the commander-in-chief. This way of life, you have gone out of your own way. Not only you, but also Li Jiuzheng, Li Yingyuan, and the people on the governor's list will not be able to survive."

"My brothers..."

Kong Youde pointed to the more than [-] cavalrymen.

Cheng Shijie thought for a while and said: "Whoever slaughters the common people wantonly will die. Only the gentry and the powerful will be killed. This commander can forgive me. Capital crimes can be avoided, and living crimes cannot be escaped!"

Kong Youde sighed and said, "Thank you Cheng Shuai!"

Cheng Shijie said: "You brothers, after surrendering, I will take them back to southern Liaoning!"

"Liaonan?"

"That's right!"

Cheng Shijie said: "If it wasn't for getting rid of you bastards, I would already be in Jinzhou. Because the distance is too far, I can't hear from Jinzhou. They have already set off for ten days!"

"Cheng Shuai has a plan to attack southern Liaoning?"

Kong Youde rolled his eyes and said in a low voice: "Cheng Shuai, thirty miles to the west from here, there is a small Zhuangzi, which has been burned and turned into ruins. There is a dilapidated 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, and there are 40 taels of silver in it, all of which we robbed during this period, you take them all, 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 Weiren. If you recapture Gaizhou in the future, you will bury my brother, and the fallen leaves will return to their roots. If the brothers from the Dongjiang Army can't survive, Cheng Shuai will give them a way to survive. Kong Under the Nine Springs, I will also be grateful to Cheng Shuai!"

Cheng Shijie looked at Kong Youde again, and heaved a long sigh.

The road is chosen by oneself, and no one else is willing.

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, it's not too late to do this matter. Li Jiuzheng is also a scourge. Kong's last plan 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, Zhao Wencai!"

It wasn't long before Zhao Wencai came on horseback.

"General!"

"Brother Wencai, Kong, I beg you one last thing!"

"Please command the general!"

"Take my dead body and go to see Li Jiuzheng, take advantage of his unpreparedness, kill him, and Li Yingyuan!"

After finishing speaking, Kong Youde smiled at Cheng Shijie: "Cheng Shuai borrowed a knife!"

Cheng Shijie handed Kong Youde a Tang Zhidao brought from later generations.

Kong Youde smiled: "Cheng is not afraid that Kong will get into trouble?"

"Just try!"

Cheng Shijie sighed and said, "Actually, the two of us are traveling together!"

"Coming together?"

Cheng Shijie nodded: "It's only a half count. You are a miner, and I am a steel worker!"

Kong Youde drew out the Tang Zhidao, stroked the blade lightly, and praised full of praise: "A good knife, a good knife! It's a bit sharper than the sharpest Japanese knife! It must be very enjoyable to use it to chop off Jiannu's head!"

"If you like it, I will use this knife to bury you with you."

Kong Youde said: "Thank you! In this way, I can use this knife below to taste the taste of chopping off the head of a slave!" Amid Kong Youde's big laugh, he stretched out his hand to untie his skirt, and held the tip of the knife against it. With a sudden force on the heart, Tang Zhi stabbed in with the hilt, pierced through the chest, and blood spurted straight out along the blood groove.

He staggered and fell to his knees, his body convulsing.

Cheng Shijie reached out, took a horizontal knife, held the knife in both hands, stood behind Kong Youde, and raised the horizontal knife to the back of Kong Youde's neck.

"Puchi..."

Kong Youde's head rolled to the ground.

Zhao Wencai picked up Kong Youde's body, mounted his horse, and galloped away.

Not long after, there were bursts of mournful cries for drinking water from the cavalry battalion on the opposite side.

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 mentioned by Kong Youde, and also found the ruined temple. They dug out various silver ingots totaling more than 120 taels in the dry well, including [-] taels of gold. The remaining two, some gold and silver jewelry.

On the evening of November 140th in the fourth year of Chongzhen, Li Jiucheng's rebel army, with a total of more than [-] troops on foot, surrendered to the Ning Navy led by Cheng Shijie.Bandit leaders Li Jiucheng, Li Yingyuan, and more than [-] heads of key members were placed in front of Cheng Shijie.

In Zhao Wencai's confession, he took Kong Youde's body and more than [-] cavalrymen to see Li Jiuzheng. Li Jiuzheng 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 Jiuzheng believed that Zhao Wencai, Kong Youde's confidant, would definitely take refuge in him. When Li Yingyuan checked the wounds on the corpse, the wounds on Kong Youde's chest were layer upon layer, very obvious, and everyone who should know knew it.

Looking at Kong Youde's headless body, Li Jiuzheng had no doubts. That night, Li Jiuzheng hosted a big banquet for Zhao Wencai and his key members. After three rounds of wine and delicious food, Zhao Wencai suddenly mobilized and killed more than 140 people including Li Jiuzheng and Li Yingyuan. After Zhao Wencai assured everyone that no one would be killed, all the rebels surrendered to Cheng Shijie.

While screening the rebel prisoners, Cheng Shijie reported victory to Sun Yuanhua in Dengzhou City.

……

In the deep night, Dengzhou City, the backyard of the governor's yamen.

Sun Yuanhua didn't eat well or sleep well during this period. Once he closed his eyes, he felt a large group of Ning Haijun soldiers rushing into his bedroom and grabbed him from the bed...

After waking up from the nightmare again, beads of sweat appeared on Sun Yuanhua's forehead.

"Master Futai!"

Xu Dacheng hurried in from the outside.

Seeing Xu Dacheng, Sun Yuanhua breathed a sigh of relief: "Have the Ning Navy soldiers in the city left?"

"Let's go, all have been withdrawn!"

"Let's go!"

Sun Yuanhua still has lingering fears about Ning Haijun.

At this moment, Peng Jianhong's voice came from outside the door: "Master Futai, Ning Haijun has a good news!"

Sun Yuanhua was slightly taken aback: "Why is Ning Haijun calling?"

"No, Mr. Futai is the good news from Cheng Shijie, Ning Haijun!"

Seeing that Sun Yuanhua's mood was extremely unstable, Xu Dacheng stretched out his hand to receive the news. He glanced at ten lines, and hurriedly glanced: "This is the end? Isn't Kong Youde's department [-] to [-] rebels? It's only been a few days?"

"What's over!"

"Kong Youde's rebel army was completely annihilated by Cheng Shijie. The bandit leader Kong Youde, Li Jiucheng, Li Yingyuan and other leaders, less than 140 people, totaled more than [-] people and captured more than [-] people!"

Sun Yuanhua's mood finally stabilized. He watched the news seriously. The news he recently received about Kong Youde's rebellion came from Jia Yong, the magistrate of Zhaoyuan County.

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 he received a report from Zhu Wannian, the magistrate of Laizhou Prefecture, claiming that Kong Youde's rebel army was powerful and had tens of thousands.

This is an official document signed by Cheng Shijie and written by Ma Shilin himself. It is also in the official document format of the Ming Dynasty. It is more than [-] characters of nonsense, and the final result is condensed in the bottom three to four hundred characters.

"Nineteen battles, thirty-six small battles, tens of thousands of rebels, Ning Haijun shot and defeated them. More than 36 people were beheaded, and more than [-] people were captured. The rest fled and are still in pursuit!"

Seeing this scene, Sun Yuanhua felt a little toothache.

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 does he report this victory to the court?
It is impossible not to report, but how to report made Sun Yuanhua very difficult.

Of course, Xu Dacheng didn't see it that way.

Sun Yuanhua's mouth never closed, it seemed that he was in a happy mood. In the words of later generations, he was a bit like Versailles.

Xu Dacheng thought for a while and said, "Lord Futai, this Cheng Shijie should have nothing to do with what happened that day!"

"You took his money again?"

"Students are wronged!"

Xu Dacheng said: "The student just thinks that Lord Futai still needs to keep Cheng Shijie safe for the time being!"

"Uh!"

Sun Yuanhua's mood was quite complicated, some pain, some happiness, just pain and happiness.

When the imperial court endured the new defeat of Dalinghe, a strong army stood out and easily entered the sight of Emperor Chongzhen, who especially liked young heroes.

There is no way, it was purely an accident that Emperor Chongzhen became emperor, he was actually an emperor with no culture, a child who grew up listening to operas.

Because his knowledge was too narrow, he was fooled by all the ministers.

All the ministers remonstrated: "Your Majesty should get rid of the eunuchs!"

Emperor Chongzhen killed Wei Zhongxian, but then he discovered that without the eunuch's court, the court was full of power, and the state affairs were getting worse day by day.

Now Emperor Chongzhen hated the Donglin Party deeply, so the cabinet ministers Qian Longxi and Zhou Yanru who were from the Donglin Party were driven out one after another and replaced by Wen Tiren, but the problem was that the Donglin Party was deeply entrenched and could not be eradicated.

At this time, he actually started to use eunuchs again, emphasizing Cao Huachun and Gao Qiqian.

However, at this time, the political struggle of Ming Dynasty has not been offline. If you agree, I will oppose it. Every day, you can't do business.

Report the achievements of the Ning Navy to the court, what if Cheng Shijie doesn't listen to the greeting?
PS: I made up [-] words and changed to [-] words. I was more than ten minutes late. I really don’t have any more tonight. Don’t wait any longer. Let’s wash up and sleep.

(End of this chapter)