And I heard from those sent by Liu Yu that the court had already assembled 60,000 troops in Qingzhou Prefecture, and was also assembling more troops to deal with Kong Youde.

In their opinion, even if Kong Youde's brothers Li Jiucheng and Geng Zhongming stared at them in the west, their numbers were far inferior to those of the imperial army. They did not believe that Kong Youde would spend a lot of effort to deal with their horses regardless of the attacks from the imperial court.

However, the fact was beyond their expectations. The actions of the Tiance Army showed that Kong Youde planned to kill them quickly. However, it was too late to surrender now. He could avoid death before surrendering, but it is not certain that he surrendered now. They are unwilling to give their destiny to others.

Soon, except for the extermination of the horses in Dasongwei, Wendeng County, Ninghaizhou and other places, the others began to concentrate on the Kunyu Mountain and Yashan areas, trying to continue to resist to the end with the help of the complex mountain environment.

Their purpose is very simple, that is, to drag the army to suppress the rebellion from the court. At that time, Kong Youde had drawn most of the troops to deal with the attacks of the court's army, and they could get safe.

Moreover, many of them had confessions issued by Liu Yu. They are now officers of the prestigious Ming army. As long as they lasted until then, they would be serious officials who ate imperial food in the future.

However, Kong Youde did not intend to give them a chance. Kong Youde planned to completely wipe out them within ten days.

To this end, the troops from all over the country first completely eliminated the remaining local horses and completely destroyed their hamlets. Only the leaked fish fled back, and they could not continue to use the hamlets to resist stubbornly, and then sent some troops to set up checkpoints at the main intersections.

As a result, most of the troops were liberated. Like these horses, various troops began to gather towards Kunyu Mountain and Yashan, preparing to completely wipe out these horses in these two places.

On May 1st, after two days of encirclement and suppression, except for Qixia, Laiyang, and the area on Kunyu Mountain, the area where the horses were basically eliminated. The number of horses killed and captured was about 700, and the rest also fled to Kunyu Mountain and Yashan.

This number seems to be very inefficient, but it is actually quite good. After all, this is not a head-on battle between two armies, but a game of crocodiles and cats catching mice.

These loud horses are like rats, and can escape at any time. Many of them have horses, and the speed of escape is not slow. There are mountains everywhere, making it more convenient to escape. The territory of Dengzhou Prefecture is so large that there are many soldiers and horses, but once they are scattered, there are not many people in each place.

However, the more than 700 people won, including the sound horse thieves who surrendered before, almost two thousand people have already reached two thousand, four or five thousand, and now the remaining one is less than three thousand, and the pressure has dropped sharply.

According to the planned plan, the nine thousand army encircled the Qixia, Laiyang and Kunyushan areas along different routes. Each army has its own goals. There will be no loopholes, just like a large, airtight. Shanwu Novel Network

At the same time, the lancers, who were highly anticipated by Kong Youde, also arrived at the battlefield. This group of new lancers had been trained for more than ten days. Now all they lacked is actual combat, and this place will become the battlefield for lancers.

Originally, Mao Chengfu's cavalry battalion was equipped with only 400 flintlock rifles, but in order to ensure the need of this clearance operation and to better train the lances, Kong Youde ordered that all the 300 flintlock rifles produced by the Pingshan Arsenal be equipped with Mao Chengfu in the past ten days.

No matter how much training is, it is better to have a real battle. These lancers are veterans. Even without flintlock rifles, they will definitely crush the sounding horse thieves in melee battles, so there is no need to worry about their safety.

"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"

On the low mountains and fields of Qixia and Laiyang, you can hear some gunfire from time to time, which startled a bird.

The Lancers are all highly skilled riders. Relying on the high mobility of war horses, they can quickly wander in low mountains and hills, and generally operate in a team of twenty people. Once they encounter large numbers of horses, they can withdraw.

If you find something suspicious, you don’t have to risk going to explore the grass. Just shoot a row of flintlock guns in a row. If there is really an ambush, you will definitely find it as soon as possible.

At this time, in a valley, there was a team of horses squatting. Their numbers were not large, only more than 40 people. Their boss Zhang San had already defected to Liu Yu and got an official from the 100th General Office.

In short, they should be a regular Ming army now, not a regular army, but they do not look like a regular army at all. They are all sloppy and their weapons are all varied, including machetes, hatchets, sickles, axes, maces, etc. The team of more than 40 people can have more than ten weapons.

Since they surrendered to the court, they will be dispatched by Liu Yu now. The task assigned to them is not too difficult. They are ambushing behind this valley, waiting for the arrival of the rebels who are encircling outside, and then ambushing them.

Their location is part of Yashan. The road ahead was mainly brought out by the people who chopped wood. It was not wide and could not accommodate a large number of soldiers and horses. Only small groups of people could come in, so they were arranged to ambush here.

Originally they were not happy, but Liu Yu promised that as long as ordinary soldiers could kill a rebel, they would be rewarded with ten taels of silver and promoted one level. This was a great temptation for them, so they chose it for a while and finally chose this place as an ambush place.

However, after waiting for almost three hours, no rebels entered the ambush circle. Although I could occasionally hear the sound of muskets recalling among the mountains, I felt that they were very far away from them.

"Boss, someone is here!" A minion came back from the front and said to Zhang San.

"What a great master? You have to call Master Bai Zong! Next time, I won't let you get rid of your skin!"

Zhang San seemed to be quite satisfied with the position of the 100th General Manager and did not want people to call him the leader of the bandits. After all, the official is much more powerful than the thief.

"Yes! Master Bai! I know I am wrong!"

"After saying that, how many rebels have come?"

"Around twenty people, and they all rode on horses!"

Zhang San suddenly became interested. They had more than 40 people, but there were only twenty rebels. Moreover, they were ambushing and gaining the advantage of the geographical advantage. This was to give them credit!

"Young people, it's time to make achievements for the court! Kill this rebel army, everyone will have wealth and promotion!"

The righteous words of Zhang San were like loyal ministers and generals of the court, but the minions below didn't care about these things. They only cared about the promotion and wealth in the second half of the sentence, so they cheered up and prepared to fight.

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