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Lu Zeyang found that he had also ignored the problem of food difficulties. [No pop-up novel website] The food in Laizhou City can only supply the entire city's military and civilians for about six or seven months. According to the speed at which the imperial court dispatches troops and generals, there won't be a large group of troops coming to suppress it within three or four months. And it is still unknown whether they can win in one battle and save the siege.
Both Sun Yuanhua and Xu Congzhi are very aware of the current actual operational capabilities of the court and are ready for a protracted war. As for local officials such as Zhu Wannian and Magistrate Hong, they had to keep enough grain in order to keep the ground calm, so they were not willing to allocate grain to Lu Zeyang to feed the refugees.
"Fortunately, we only took in more than 500 people. Otherwise, it would be a joke!" Lu Zeyang thought, now that the rebels are in a hurry to attack the city, they would really have to take in thousands of refugees in the four gates, or he would have to fight to the death to protect the refugees. , or just watch the refugees being tortured by the rebels, and the useless efforts of sheltering them are in vain.
Lu Zeyang painfully realized that if he wanted to use Laizhou as a local refugee reception center, the prerequisite was that the rebels rescued the siege, otherwise the refugees would never come to the place where the two sides were fighting. Besides, the fighting in Laizhou was so fierce now, even if there were people here, It’s useless to face the mountain with mist.
But he was unwilling to do so and had decided to kidnap Fan Twelve's young men and their families when the time came. Fan Twelve is good at making local Jiaodong dishes, which satisfies his Laizhou stomach better than the food cooked in the canteen of Lingao Senate. Lu Zeyang was already preparing to take Fan Twelve back as his personal chef - he had to ask him to sign a special contract...
While they were thinking wildly, Fan Twelve and others thought he was strategizing, and none of them dared to say anything.
At this time, a messenger suddenly came to report that Zhang Tao asked to see him.
"Please!" Lu Zeyang said, stood up and went out to greet him. Although Zhang Tao was a retired lieutenant general, he was the South Gate guard general and a direct descendant of Sun Yuanhua. Whether it is from the small situation of the Laizhou Defense War or the overall situation in the entire Jiaodong area, this person needs to deal with it.
Although Zhang Tao has been dismissed as deputy general, the official position of military general is not very valuable in the first place. Since he can stay in office, as long as he wins the battle, there is a possibility of recovery - wars were frequent in the late Ming Dynasty, and military commanders rose up quickly: Zuo Liangyu was just a small and unpopular military academy in the early years of Chongzhen, but within ten years he became a military commander. A vassal town with more than 100,000 people. So Zhang Tao is not worried about his future.
He learned from Sun Yuanhua that this time he had received strong support from the owner of the Deer Village on Qimu Island. Including that he and Sun Yuanhua were able to stay in Jiaodong and "retained by Dai Zui" were due to Mr. Lu's secret operations. Therefore, he was very polite to the "Mr. Lu Tuanzong" who was the owner of Luzhuang.
As soon as Fan Twelve saw such a high official, he was so frightened that he hid away. Zhang Tao and Lu Tuanzong were polite and complimented him on his "good command of the army". Lu Zeyang also followed suit with a few words of humility. Seeing that Vice General Zhang spoke politely, knowing that he was taboo about having people around him, he immediately asked everyone else to leave.
Only then did Zhang Tao speak. First, he expressed his gratitude to the "Deer Village Owner" on behalf of Sun Yuanhua, and then expressed his own gratitude.
"...If Mr. Lu hadn't tried his best this time, not to mention that the imperial court would have allowed us to perform meritorious service, I'm afraid even our heads would not have been saved," Zhang Tao said in a low voice, "I can't thank you enough for my kindness. From now on, if I can use it to get my general, I will do my best to serve you!"
Lu Zeyang said quickly: "Words are serious! Words are serious!" He thought to himself that such good words usually do not start with good things. The ability of Sun Yuanhua and Zhang Tao to stay in Jiaodong will certainly be of great benefit to future work, but from another perspective. Our own side will also become more and more involved in Shandong's officialdom struggles, which in a sense is not necessarily a good thing.
Sure enough, Zhang Tao's next step was to convey Sun Yuanhua's intention. He hoped that Lu Zeyang could go to the owner of Luzhuang. Try to get a batch of "Australian" guns.
Lu Zeyang was stunned, thinking that this Sun Yuanhua was really a Westernizer of the Ming Dynasty. He was still guilty, and the new army he had trained had been wiped out, and he was thinking about making foreign guns and cannons again.
Although exporting weapons to all parties is the next trade goal that has been decided, the export of Fubo Army's own equipment is absolutely prohibited. No matter how Sun Yuanhua was supported by the Senate, it would be impossible to sell him Minie rifles and Napoleon cannons.
Weapons that can be sold are already under development, so I guess this isn't a big problem. Especially the Nanyang-style rifle is definitely a subversive weapon compared to the Ming Dynasty's currently deceptive bird guns and three-eyed guns, but the "transportation captain" of the Ming Dynasty is too powerful. The Planning Institute was very worried that selling weapons to the Ming Dynasty would eventually affect the arms export sales to the Qing Dynasty.
However, now that Sun Yuanhua is Dai Zui and remains in office, there is still doubt whether he can continue to governor Denglai. Without the army, he would lose the annual military salary of 800,000 taels. As the governor, he had no local administrative power. Where would he raise this money?
In an instant, countless thoughts had gone through Lu Zeyang's mind. Zhang Tao had been in official circles for a long time. You could tell from Lu Zeyang's face what he was probably thinking - this was originally expected. Then he said softly: "Don't worry, Tuan Lu. Please tell Master Luzhuang that Sun Junmen has sent people to Beijing. Things in Jiaodong can still be done in the future."
Lu Zeyang nodded, but didn't quite believe it. In his opinion, Sun Yuanhua had lost all his capital. If it hadn't been for the operation of the Senate, he would have been dead long ago. Now I am actually thinking about making a comeback.
However, this matter is not for him to consider, let the executive committee consider it. He nodded immediately and said: "I will definitely tell you!"
The two chatted again, and when talking about the future battle situation, Zhang Tao was quite worried, because the rebels had been besieging the city for more than ten days since they set up camp under the city on the third day of February. Although the south gate was victorious, the other gates were still under attack. The defense was very tight. Yang Yufan was a veteran general and had personal soldiers as the backbone. The command and guard gate was still able to support it. In contrast, Wang Daochun and Xu Congzhi led mostly local guardsmen and strong men in the city. Although the battle was quite difficult. Brave, after all, lacked combat experience, and suffered heavy casualties in the battle. It was only because Wang Daochun and Xu Congzhi personally took the target and took command in the city that they maintained their morale.
As for the south gate, if Lu Zeyang hadn't won the battle and wiped out the vigor of the rebels, the Laizhou defense troops under Zhang Tao would have been vulnerable.
"If Laizhou City doesn't have reinforcements, it's probably going to be a disaster." Zhang Tao said, "I don't know when Governor Huang's reinforcements will arrive!"
"Zuobu will definitely arrive in these days." Lu Zeyang knew that according to history, Huanglong's reinforcements should arrive in Laizhou by sea in these days. A sudden thought occurred in his heart. Since the reinforcements came by sea, it meant that the freeze in Haimiao Port and other places had ended in the past few days. Otherwise it would be impossible for reinforcements to land.
In this way, the time has come for Laizhou to set up a dock at Hutou Cliff. Once a fort is set up in Hutou Cliff, it can attract nearby refugees who dare not go to Laizhou to seek refuge.
But this will inevitably lead to another division of troops. It is impossible to divide the few people in Lu Zeyang's hands into two places. He can only send people from Qimu Island - Lu Wenyuan and Zhu Mingxia to pull the team there, and they have already formed a large number of people. It should not be difficult for the Xiangyong team to use a small number of regular troops to cooperate with the Xiangyong to set up a village in Hutou Cliff as a refugee transfer point.
However, based on the current situation, it is impossible to build a refugee camp in Hutouya. The only way is to wait for people by boat, allowing refugees to get on the boat directly, and take one boat at a time, similar to the operation of minibuses.
After the rebels defeated Qimu Island and suffered a solid defeat at the south gate of Laizhou, the task of the northbound detachment became temporarily simpler, turning the area around Qiuda Island into an indestructible fortress to ensure that Sun Yuanhua could hold Laizhou Enough.
Zhu Mingxia doesn't want to give too much protection to surrounding areas, so that Qida Island will no longer be the only choice for refugees. In accordance with the intention of the Executive Committee, he produced a map in the Ming Dynasty style. This was a map of the Jiaodong Peninsula that marked where to attack and where to bypass.
When releasing the 400 prisoners of war under Mao Chenglu, he called several leaders and ordered them to deliver the message to Kong Youde. He also gave them this map.
The content of the message was very simple: We are all people with family backgrounds. You go about your rebellion and I will defend my Qigao Island. It is best not to take action against each other. It is best for everyone to keep a distance. The letter also specifically reminded that Kong Youde was required to follow the requirements on the map and not attack areas where attacks were prohibited. Otherwise, the county seat of Huangxian County would be captured immediately and the transportation line to Laizhou would be cut off.
Zhu Mingxia was very sure that Kong Youde would conscientiously comply with the requirements in the letter and bypass the prohibited attack areas. This has little impact on Kong Youde himself. Mao Chenglu's remnants must never forget Fubo's military firepower. The artillery fire killed batches of rebels in an instant, and they didn't even have a chance to fire off the artillery. As long as Kong Youde's head is not caught in the door, he will consider accepting the contents of the letter. This letter also revealed another important piece of information to Kong Youde - it was negotiable with the Australians and was not incompatible.
Lu Wenyuan expressed doubts about whether Kong Youde would accept the suggestion and asked what he should do if he ignored the threat in the letter. Zhu Mingxia waved his hand and said, "Then crush his balls."
There was no news for a long time after the captured Liao soldiers were returned to Dengzhou City. It was not until Lu Zeyang's Nanguan victory that there was any reply from Dengzhou. They brought a letter from Kong Youde. After reading the letter, Zhu Mingxia smiled and said He threw the letter to Lu Wenyuan and asked him to read the content. Lu Wenyuan was shocked after reading it.
"Kong Youde wants to form an alliance with us?"
"Yes, from Kong Youde's point of view, we have fewer people and better firearms, while their weapons are inferior, but we are better with more people. If the two combine, they can become the overlord of one side."
"Should we agree to him or reject it?" Lu Wenyuan quickly assessed the potential benefits and disadvantages of this suggestion.
"Of course I refused." Zhu Mingxia said. rq
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