The cold wind was blowing, and the city of Dengzhou was silent.

Today is the second day of the first lunar month in the fifth year of Renshen (Chongzhen).

Today is the second day of the Lunar New Year, and it is the time for every household to have a new mood. In the peaceful years of previous years, the poorest families must paste couplets, hang door gods, and set off a few firecrackers.

However, at this moment, there was already a scorched earth outside Dengzhou City, and the village turned into broken walls and ruins, and the charred wood was filled with blue smoke.

In the wilderness, among the broken bricks and tiles, there were already stiff corpses lying everywhere. The blood had frozen and turned black in the cold.

Snowflakes, jackets, armor, rags and silk silks slowly floated up in the sky, and gradually they were buried by snowflakes.

The people who were originally circling in the middle of the corpse could not resist the cold and left one after another. The earth was vast.

On this deserted and slaughtered snow field, there are four or five people hidden in the middle of a common local grave.

They were dressed very thickly, wearing white camouflage clothes, and were hidden in the clever snow fortifications built. Even if someone walked to them, they might not be able to find their traces. These people were the members of the special investigation team under Chen Sigen's command.

The Lungekou is a mixed wood forest with a complex terrain inside and it is easy to hide. And when you go out from the Lungekou, it is a river that is dry in winter. There are mixed wood forests on both sides of the river, which makes it easy to get out.

Here, it is less than a kilometer away from Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng's rebels in Mishen Mountain outside the city. The rebels can see every move clearly. Similarly, they can also see clearly at the southern gate of Dengzhou to the north of Shenmi Mountain.

Since November 22, the fourth year of Chongzhen, the rebels rushed straight into the city of Dengzhou, and the four gates of Dengzhou have been closed for more than a month.

During this period, both the garrisons in Dengzhou City and the rebels outside the city maintained relatively calm. In fact, the rebels did not attack Qingzhou and Laizhou, but drove straight to Dengzhou.

During this period, neither Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, nor Yu Dacheng, nor the governor of Shandong, intercepted or blocked the rebels. The rebels did not touch on all prefectures and counties except for villages and towns along the road, and all passed by the city.

The two sides started a stalemate under the city of Dengzhou with a strange tacit understanding.

This is not surprising to the Shandong Front Committee, which is silently collecting refugees on Longkou Jinmu Island. The situation of the Dengzhou Rebellion is very complicated. The large library has given a detailed report based on historical records and research materials from many parties. In general, the two sides are not incompatible, but have their own thoughts in this chaos. Sun Yuanhua has always tried to recruit this rebel army and maintain his power and status in the Denglai area. Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde have always tried to walk a tightrope between "responsible" and "independence", in order to gain more concessions from the Ming court and gain the greatest benefit for himself and the Liao people group.

In a state where one is trying hard to "pity" and the other is trying to use "pity" to gain benefits, the hostilities between the two sides have not been upgraded.

Although the people outside the city were in trouble and some conflicts between the two sides broke out intermittently, from the beginning to the end, the two sides had not really started a big battle. The rebels did not launch a direct attack on Dengzhou.

Although the battlefield in Dengzhou fell into peace for a while, the forces of all parties were surging under the appearance of calmness. The Foreign Intelligence Bureau inserted the "relationship" in Dengzhou City and the governor's yamen through the relationship between Lu Wenyuan and the church, and the intelligence personnel were not in contact with any secrets despite their low identities. However, what they saw and heard was enough to prove that since Kong raised the flag of rebellion in Hebei, the two sides had been in secret. Kong Youde's "seeking comfort" and Sun Yuanhua's "main comfort" were not a secret inside and outside Dengzhou City.

Sun Yuanhua had an indescribable relationship with the old people in Liaodong. According to the accusations of some of his political enemies, Sun Yuanhua was able to serve as the governor of Denglai, which was related to Kong Youde bribing officials with gold, silver and jewelry in the court. Therefore, after Sun Yuanhua became the governor of Denglai, he attached great importance to Kong Youde. Chen, an old man from Pidao, sometimes bribed Sun Yuanhua, allowing Kong Youde and other old people in Pidao to develop in Denglai.

As for Shandong Governor Yu Dacheng, he stopped fighting after the mutiny and insisted on recruiting pacification. It is said that Kong Youde gave him a truck of gold, silver and treasures through Sun Yuanhua.

Regardless of whether these things are true or not, they are true. Or the political "dirty water" is ambiguous in treating the rebels and blindly attempting to recruit rebels. Dengzhou Front Committee believes that even if we put aside political and economic entanglements, Sun Yuanhua has always tried to take over the old Liaodong people from Pidao and retrain them into an important military force for the Later Jin Dynasty, so he tried to recruit rebels such as Kong Youde everywhere.

But his efforts were destined to be successful. Even this appeasement eventually led him to destruction.

Whether it is an old man from Liaodong or the Ming Dynasty officialdom he lives in, they are already rotten fruits. The efforts of his personal and a few bureaucrats will not bring more results.

Not long ago, in the east of the city, Zhang Tao, the general of Fu Biaobiao who was stationed outside the city to guard the city gate, and Zhang Keda, the general of Denglai, fought fiercely with the rebels. The southern troops led by Zhang Keda won a victory, but Zhang Tao's troops were all Liao people from Pi Island. When the battlefield was very smooth, the situation suddenly ignored Zhang Tao's command and suddenly retreated from the battlefield. The southern troops commanded by Zhang Keda were counterattacked by the rebels and were almost completely lost. Most of Zhang Tao's subordinates surrendered to the rebels.

Zhang Keda and Zhang Tao were set up outside the city, and all the barracks used to protect the city were abandoned, and all the weapons and supplies in the camp fell into the hands of the rebels. The momentum of the rebels suddenly became stronger. Originally, Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde's troops had only more than one thousand people, and now they have joined thousands of surrendered troops under Zhang Tao's troops, and their army has greatly boosted its power.

What's worse is that Zhang Tao's troops were all from Liao and had the same origin as the rebels. They all hated the people, officials and soldiers in the Denglai area to the core, and had a strong internal cohesion. They all held their energy to enter Dengzhou to "take revenge."

Dengzhou seems to be a strong city, with food, grass, money and silver piles piled up like mountains, hundreds of artillery, and six or seven thousand new and old troops. Many of them were trained by the Portuguese, but many of them were Liao people. Dengzhou city was also home to a large number of dissatisfied Liao people. The interior was already disinterested, and it was as if it were paper.

The sergeant led a team in the woods raised his telescope and observed the deserted land around him again. The snow became denser and denser, but the military warm clothing from another time and space completely isolated the cold. He carefully rotated the focal knob of the Russian telescope in his hand and observed it. Just like the common "special warrior" in another time and space, in fact, the sergeant was just a genuine Shandong farmer two years ago.

"Everything is normal, there is no abnormality." The sergeant said as he looked at his watch. The Special Reconnaissance Team is one of the few naturalized civilian soldiers and officers who distributed watches uniformly, "Send a report to the headquarters!"

A radio operator turned on the 2W radio station and started another timed broadcast. Chen Sigen's task to the observation team was to report the situation on the Dengzhou battlefield every hour. The special detective team members knew that the sudden order of the headquarters to increase the frequency of daily reporting is often a precursor to the occurrence of major events.

At the same time, in Dengzhou City, Huang Ande was lying in a room at Sun Yuan's house, closing his eyes and resting. Two 1630 revolvers filled with bullets were hidden under his waist, and a grenade was hidden under the pillow.

Such alertness is by no means unnecessary - Sun Yuan is not at home, because today Zhang Keda and Zhang Tao were defeated outside the city, and the air in the city suddenly became tense. As Sun Yuanhua's servant, he had already been gathered in the governor's office to "wait for the game". At the same time, the Liao people in the city also began to stir up.

From November when the rebels arrived at the city of Dengzhou, more than 100,000 people in the city moved from Pidao, Lushun and other places to Dongjiang, and became a heart-wrenching problem for officials in the city.

The conflict between the Liao people and the local military and civilians in Dengzhou became very sharp after a large number of military and civilians in Dongjiang. Since the first year of Chongzhen, a large number of Liao people crossed the sea from Pidao to Dengzhou and were resettled by local officials. There were no less than hundreds of thousands of people.

From the beginning of the land in Dengzhou, these hundreds of thousands of Liao people were exploited and abused by local bureaucrats. Many Liao people who returned from the country had to flee back to Dongjiang because they could not bear the torture and exploitation. So in the first year of Chongzhen, Yang Guodong, the general of Denglai, went to Pidao to work, and the grudges of Liao people gathered together to kill him to vent their anger.

In addition, in the early years of Chongzhen, the Liao people who crossed the sea to Dengzhou were given a title by Mao Wenlong, so that "there are countless people with yellow gauze in the street market and gold waists." So after Mao Wenlong was killed in the second year of Chongzhen, Shandong Governor Wang Congyi asked for strengthening his defense and suggested: "But there are boat sails going west from the sea, and then cannon attacks, thinking that it is a plan to rain before rain." It can be seen how nervous the image of Mao Wenlong and the Liao people in the Dongjiang River in the hearts of Shandong people and the relationship between the two sides is.

The literature describes the tense relationship between the two sides and says: "Liao Ding Su is strong, but the people cannot bear it." Some say: "During the two counties in Denglai, there are more than 100,000 people who escape from the chaos. Most of the locals humiliate them, and some kill each other, and the Liao people are resentful." Some say: "The Liao people avoid disasters and move inside, and the locals are interfering with each other every day, and the precepts are not rude." In addition, the supervisor Xie Sanbin once said that "the Liao people are in the local area and are not at peace." When the rebels returned to Dengzhou, they even said: "The people who abused the Liao people, but when the troops approached the city, they still killed the Liao people." Therefore, in his letter to the supervisor Liu Yulie, Ai Rong once summarized the reasons for the mutiny as: "Kong and Li Xiao were the only one who turned against him; for the sake of the locals, they were also rebellious, and the second one turned against him; they did not want to stay away from Ningyuan, and the third one turned against him."

In order to overthrow the Liao people in the city, starting from the rebels' arrival at the city, patrolmen's yamen, general's yamen, and military supervisors all sent patrolmen to inspect Dengzhou City and Shui City with arrows. It is strictly forbidden to "gather and make noise" or "stroll around". Every few days, unlucky guys are beheaded and displayed. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) vote for recommendations, monthly votes, and your support is my greatest motivation.)

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