If you want food, give food; if you want money, give money.

Therefore, when North Korean grain ships appeared outside Dengzhou Port, Kong Youde did not expect that these ships were Ming navy.

After the Ming army on the grain ship took the port by surprise, the Ming navy fleet in the outer sea rushed over immediately. At that time, Kong Youde couldn't hold it back.

Dengzhou Port was an important port in the north in the late Ming Dynasty. Under normal circumstances, it would take a tough battle to seize it.

When Zhu Yihai went north this time, he did not go to Haizhou first, but went straight to Dengzhou. He did not want to alert the enemy and prepared to raid Dengzhou. Unexpectedly, he met helpers.

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Dengzhou.

Kong Youde was very emotional when he returned to his hometown.

At that time, he invested in Dongjiang Town in Liaodong and became Mao Wenlong's adopted grandson. He did a lot of damage to the Tatars in the rear of Hou Jin Dynasty. Unfortunately, the thief Yuan Chonghuan later killed Mao Wenlong, so he surrendered to the governor Sun Yuanhua and followed him to Denglai.

Here, he followed Sun Yuanhua to build a new army of Western-style firearms.

It was a pity that when he finally led his troops to Liaodong for reinforcements, supplies were insufficient, and the soldiers ate the gentry's food, which triggered a mutiny. He had no choice but to rebel against the Ming Dynasty under Li Jiucheng's persuasion.

Unfortunately, the Denglai Rebellion only lasted less than half a year, and in the end he had to cross the sea to join Houjin.

After thirteen years, Kong Youde was stationed in Dengzhou again.

This place no longer has any of the bustle and bustle of Dagang, an important northern town in the past, but is instead desolate and desolate.

The fields on the outskirts of the city are deserted, there are no merchant ships in the port, and the city's industry and commerce are even more depressed.

The people looked hungry, and there were homeless people and beggars all over the place.

This shitty Ming Dynasty should have died long ago.

"Your Majesty, when will the North Korean grain ship arrive? There is not much food in the camp." An officer came over and interrupted Kong Youde's thoughts.

"It should be here soon, let the brothers save some food."

"No matter how much you save, you won't save much. We can't let all the brothers go hungry."

Kong Youde was dissatisfied, "If the court doesn't provide food and salary, I can't do anything about it."

"Your Majesty, if this is not possible, let each battalion go to the countryside to raise food."

Kong Youde knew the meaning of going to the countryside to raise food, which meant that the soldiers would loot the food. Once the soldiers went out, they didn't know what kind of trouble would be caused.

Last year when I went south, a group of villagers burned the camp in Xuzhou with gunpowder and blew up the camp. I lost thousands of troops for nothing. I was scolded in the end, and I had to accompany Tan Tai to suffer from cold and hunger for several months in Yanzhou.

Now that we have moved to Dengzhou, we finally don't have to be angry with the Manchu soldiers, but we are still short of food.

"hold on,"
Chapter completed!