In the castle in Gaizhou City, a round of gunfire has just ended, and the smoke has not yet dissipated. A white flag shaking on the castle wall, which is so eye-catching.

The door latch was pushed open under the city, followed by the sound of the creaking castle door opening.

After the Chu army shield formation more than a hundred steps away, endless cheers burst out instantly, "The rebels surrendered, the rebels opened the city gate!"

Hearing this cheering, Liu Jun, who was talking to Zu Dale from Jinzhou on the outer city of Gaizhou, couldn't help laughing. Zu Dale and Zu Dacheng were both brothers of Zu Dashou, the general of Liao's vanguard. They were once surrounded and surrendered in Daling River. Later, they returned to Jinzhou with Zu Dashou to continue to fight against the Qing army. This time they were besieged by Jinzhou. After Jinzhou rescued the siege, Zu Dashou immediately sent three brothers to Liaodong to meet Liu Jun.

The three brothers of the Zu family came on the orders of their elder brother and wanted to buy a batch of firearms from Liu Jun.

Regarding this matter, Liu Jun agreed to build a batch of firearms for Jinzhou Town, but they were not the most advanced guns and cannons. At first, the three brothers of the Zu family were very happy when they saw the samples, but when they found that the firearms used in the Chu army were more advanced, they looked down on those firearms.

They wanted these cannons in Liu Jun's army, especially those large-caliber heavy artillery directly under the Chu Army Town, but unfortunately Liu Jun did not sell them. No matter how they offered the price, Liu Jun ignored them. Selling some ordinary cannons could not only make a lot of profits, but also relieve some pressure from the court, so that Liu Jun could sell the most advanced cannons to the Jinzhou army, but Liu Jun would never do it.

Liu Jun sold a batch of cavalry guns to Wu Sangui for tens of precious war horses, which was already the bottom line.

"Has the three traitors from Shandong opened the city to surrender?"

Zu Dale looked at the shaking white flag and the slowly opened inner castle door in shock.

Zu Dale not only relied on the reputation of the Zu family to become a guerrilla general. In the first year of Chongzhen, due to long-term wages, the Ningyuan mutiny broke out. At that time, the thirteenth battalion of Ningyuan was in chaos, but the unified battalion of Zu Dale remained unmoved. In the third year of Chongzhen, he led his troops to follow Sun Chengzong to recover Zhucheng in Luanzhou.

After that, Zu Kuan led the Guanning Iron Cavalry south to suppress the Central Plains bandits, and was affiliated with Lu Xiangsheng. After Lu Xiangsheng praised it as a reinforcement after the resolution, only Zu Dale Zukuan ruled the Liao troops the most powerful and killed the most thieves.

Among the brothers and nephews of the Zu family, Zu Dale is the best at commanding troops, and has the right to control the troops. He is brave and capable of commanding.

But now, it took only half a month for the Duke of Chu to capture the Gaizhou City, which Kong Youde defended for 50,000 people. This record was amazing. What shocked him the most was not that the Chu army used 30,000 troops to capture the city guarded by 50,000 troops, but that the war has been fought until now. I heard that more than 30,000 people in the Chu army were not killed in battle, only a few were injured.

This is simply hard to believe. The city of 30,000 people broke through 50,000 people, and before a single soldier was defeated, Kong Youde went out of the city to surrender. This is not a bandit, nor the mob of the farmers in the Central Plains, but the soldiers of the three rebel generals in Shandong. When he was in Dengzhou, Kong Youde killed the officers and soldiers who were surrounded and suppressed. After he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in Liaodong, his troops became stronger. He was an elite force in the Qing army equipped with a large number of firearms and heavy artillery and elite cavalry. But now he surrendered in just half a month.

Unbelievable.

"The power of the Chu army's artillery fire is indeed unstoppable." Zu Daming also murmured. In the past two days, they have also witnessed the artillery fire of the Chu army with their own eyes.

In the case where there were only a dozen red artillery artillery pieces in a town in Jinzhou, the Chu army's artillery fire was shocking. Each association of the Chu army had an artillery battalion, with six artillery companies under its jurisdiction having 120 large and small field artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artillery artill

The field artillery under a town of the Chu army had a total of 220 artillery pieces. All of them were cannons, and the lightest four-immers field short-sleep cannons. They were far more than a thousand kilograms of red artillery.

In addition to these cannons, there were also many mountain dungeons in the Chu army. All infantry standards were equipped with a lot of equipment, even the baggage battalions and engineer battalions, which they seemed to be auxiliary soldiers, were equipped with mountain dungeons. The mountain dungeons were extremely light and powerful, but far better than the Franjets and generals equipped in Jinzhou.

The Chu army had no major artillery, tiger squat cannons, general cannons, and Folang aircraft equipped in the Jinzhou army at all. It was not that the teams did not have it, but that they looked down on these at all and were eliminated.

The three Zu Dale brothers could not understand Chu Jun or Zhu Ciye. How did he do all this?

There was no tragic battle, no ants attacking the city, no trenches to fill the trenches, no ladders, no rushing to the city, no one even died in the Chu army. After fifteen days of besieging the city, the Chu army did not use human life to fill it, but used trucks of shells to plow the Gaizhou City over and over again, and finally bombarded the thieves like Kong Youde and surrendered.

Liu Jun smiled, "I thought Kong Youde could hold on for ten days and half a month."

Zu Dale shook his head slightly and thought, "Persistence? How can you persist? This kind of passive battle that is beaten but cannot be rescued. Kong Youde is already worthy of being a powerful general. When changing to ordinary troops, he will collapse in at most three or five days. However, he also disagrees with Liu Jun's tactics. Since there are such sharp cannons, such a battle should have ended in three or five days, but Liu Jun has to delay it for half a month.

Numerous shells were wasted.

The lifespan of the cannon is depleted. Such a sharp cannon has a service life. I heard that the best cannon only has a thousand rounds, and the average iron cast cannon only has six hundred rounds. After that, the accuracy will be greatly reduced and it will be unbearable to use.

How can such a precious cannon be used randomly? After concentrating firepower to open the city, soldiers should be sent to fight for the gap and break into the city. In the eyes of the Zu Dale brothers, artillery cannons are obviously more valuable than soldiers' lives.

Besides, soldiers are very fast, and it is very important to end the battle one day earlier. It is quite dangerous and inappropriate to delay the lives of some soldiers for such a long time.

This Liu Jun can't fight at all, just relying on the benefits of artillery fire.

The inside and outside of Gaizhou City have calmed down.

It started to rain lightly in the sky, drizzling.

The weather became colder and colder, and Kong Youde felt that his heart was also very cold. He fought hard for half his life, but in the end it was like this. He remembered the time when he went to Dongjiang from southern Liaoning and ran away from Dongjiang. He raised the anti-flag in Shandong, and thought of him defeating Shandong and crossing the sea to Qing.

The past is like smoke. In the blink of an eye, I was defeated by the Ming army again and had to open the city to surrender.

Kong Youde was not willing to surrender. If possible, he would rather fight to the death than surrender. He knew that if the Ming Dynasty surrendered, he would not be lenient with him. But he also knew that no one of his soldiers was willing to fight. As long as Liu Jiye said a word, some of his generals and schoolmen were willing to cut down his head and sacrifice the city to surrender.

In this case, Kong Youde was discouraged. Especially after judging that the Qing army could not come to rescue, he was even more disheartened.

There were more than 50,000 troops in Gaizhou City. More than 4,000 people died in the siege of more than half a month, and more than 50,000 people were still there. Among them, more than 20,000 soldiers were more than 20,000 auxiliary soldiers, and more than 10,000 civilians.

Apart from them, there were no other people in Gaizhou City. The people were moved away after the Ming army first captured Gaizhou.

The rebels walked out of the inner castle in groups. They threw their weapons on the open space on both sides of the fort gate, and the weapons fell down like mountains.

They put down their weapons, removed their armor, and left only the black-clad military robe.

Kong Youde led Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi, and Shen Zhixiang led hundreds of officers above the garrison to finally walk out, holding their own flags.

Fu Zonglong was extremely excited about this result. They never thought that Liu Jun could really capture Gaizhou and capture tens of thousands of rebels.

The eunuchs Wang Kun and Lu Weining had already organized a temporary earthen platform to build a place for the surrender ceremony on the open ground outside Gaizhou City.

A large tent was temporarily set up on the earthen platform, surrounded by Chu soldiers with dazzling armor and swords. A row of tables were placed in Taichung. Liu Jun, Fu Zonglong, Fan Zhiwan, Li Chunjiang, Wang Kun, Lu Weining, Qu Shisi, Fu Shan and other generals of the governors and supervisors were sitting there, and there were also rows of tables and chairs on both sides. There were the commanders and commanders of the divisions and commanders of the Eighth Town where the Chu army broke the city.

Wang Kun and Lu Weining knew that they had not done much in this victory, so they took all the surrender ceremony on their own. They also specially transferred many famous staff members from Liu Jun's staff to give them an important task.

"Create the surrender ceremony today and present it to the emperor for a look." Lu Weining explained over and over again, "You must paint the entire scene, try to be as detailed as possible, and draw every character clearly. Their clothes look and even expressions."

Li Chunjiang sat next to Liu Jun, full of sighs. People said that the soldiers should look at each other with admiration for three days. But in fact, he and Liu Jun have not known each other for a long time. Back then, he established the Nine-Headed Bird and pulled Liu Jun to his team as his deputy. At that time, they fought side by side. He was responsible for raising funds, Liu Jun was responsible for training troops, and then suppressing bandits together.

Later, Liu Jun was inspecting Hutou Pass, and Li Chunjiang also went to Nanjing to prepare for the imperial examination. It took him more than a year to leave Jiutou. A year later, he participated in the imperial examination and became the new top scholar, selected Shujishi, and entered the Hanlin Academy. Now he has been released as the Liaodong Inspector Censor. The promotion speed can be as high as the first time.

But compared with Liu Jun, it is not worth mentioning.

The young Wushen at that time, Liu Jun, who went to Liu Qiao's house to celebrate his birthday and was despised, was already famous in the world. He was the emperor's adopted son, the admiral of Liaodong, the general of the conquering the captives, and the title of Duke of Chu and the Privy.

Li Chunjiang is still only a seventh-rank official, but Liu Jun is already an extremely powerful minister.

"Jiye, what are you going to deal with Kong Youde and others?" Li Chunjiang waved the thoughts in his mind and looked at Liu Jun and asked.

"Kong Youde took the initiative to open the door and surrender, and I can spare them to die."

Li Chunjiang whispered, "Kong Youde is an unforgivable traitor and traitor."

Liu Jun waved his hand, "Kong Youde and others are indeed traitors, but their surrender also avoided many casualties. In the future, we still have many wars with the Qing army. There are also many traitors such as Kong Youde, such as the Han army of the Four Banners of Han, such as the Mongolian Eight Banners, and even many enslaved Han people in Liaodong, and those local Han tribes in Liaodong who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. Today, we will release Kong Youde and also convey a message to these people. As long as they are willing to change their minds and turn to the light, we can give him a chance to betray them."

"If we just blindly settle the matter, it will only push those people to the Qing Dynasty and let them follow the Qing Dynasty to the end. Trying to differentiate the enemy and isolate the enemy will be of great help to us recover Liaodong and defeat the Qing Tartars."

Li Chunjiang's expression also became serious, "I naturally understand the situation, but this matter is serious, I am afraid that the officials in the court will not support it."

"No matter what they do, they just sit in the capital and point fingers. But they don't know that the state is difficult. After winning a few battles, they really think that our situation is very good and we can completely crush the Qing barbarians? No, a mistake may cause all previous efforts to be wasted. There is a priority. Now the most urgent task is to deal with the Tartars, rather than rushing to settle Kong Youde's clearance. To put it bluntly, if you really want to settle the settlement, you should endure it and wait until the situation in Liaodong is really settled."

"Then how to deal with these soldiers? Disband? Or incorporate them?"

Liu Jun shook his head, "I don't need these surrendered soldiers, but I won't release them easily. For the time being, we don't have the ability to counterattack immediately and penetrate into the heart of the Tartars' hinterland. If we let go of these people, we may turn around and be summoned by the Tartars again, and turn around to deal with us."

"That?"

Liu Jun smiled slightly, "Kong Youde, Shang Kexi and other officers above the guerrilla general will stay in Liaodong as temporary consultants. They have a good understanding of the reality of the Tartars. The officers from the 100th General to the garrison level were sent to Qiongzhou, Hainan for resettlement, and the rest of the war auxiliary soldiers were sent to Taiwan to be disbanded and placed, so that they could farm. If Liaodong is recovered in the future, their families can be moved away."

"That's it?" Liu Jun's plan to deal with it surprised Li Chunjiang. This treatment was cheaper than those rebels. If the soldiers were lenient to what they said, after all, they would only pursue the main evil without threatening them. But if Liu Jun did not kill Kong Youde and others, at least he would have to be exiled or imprisoned.

"This kind of disposal will probably lead to impeachment from Censor Kedao."

"Since you want a thousand gold coins, you must be fully stanced. Since you are all free from Kong Youde and others, will the effect be greatly reduced if you imprison or become a military officer? Besides, officers such as Kong Youde are also monitored in the camp. Moreover, they do have some value.

"I always feel that this matter should be cautious. It is best to ask Your Majesty for instructions first, and your Majesty will make the decision." As an inspector, Li Chunjiang also has the responsibility of supervising and impeaching Liu Jun.
Chapter completed!