Huang Han judged according to the Ming army's deployment in Denglai that the rebels could not do it in vain to break through the 30-mile-long wall built by tens of thousands of rebel soldiers and civilians around Dengzhou.

Besides, they shouldn't choose to break through the encirclement and flee to the hinterland of Shandong, because this is unreasonable, the imperial court has come to encircle and suppress tens of thousands of horses, and at this time, can they last for a few days after killing thousands of people and horses?

Time has passed, and the situation in Shandong is no longer the time when Li Jiucheng had just rebelled, at that time the army in the interior of Shandong was small and had little combat effectiveness, and it was also because Sun Yuanhua was stupid and still fantasized about appeasement, which directly led to the Ming army not being resolute in attacking the rebels.

Now that tens of thousands of horses in the imperial court are here to kill the rebels, where will they be polite when they see the rebels who have reached the end of their rope? It is estimated that the limited number of men and horses who rushed out in a few days would be surrounded and annihilated by the imperial army with absolute superiority in troops.

Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming have to run to the sea is the only way, this is not only Huang Han's judgment, but also a story that has happened in history.

At this time, they captured more than 100 warships, merchant ships and hundreds of artillery, including more than 20 Hongyi cannons.

Since then, Jiancheng is no longer an obstacle for the children of the Eight Banners, as long as they are determined to take the city and not suffer casualties, they can spend time pulling Hongyi artillery to attack the fortification.

The sea could not block Jiannu, and the Houjin army, which had a naval division, had the ability to fight for the island, and it did not take long to destroy the town of Dongjiang that had retreated to the island.

Dengzhou originally had a water city with a water camp, and many sea merchants settled in Dengzhou, and their merchant ships naturally used the water city as their home port, but now those ships are completely cheap for the rebels.

Some time ago, there was a brainless deputy general Sun Yinglong who boasted to others that he had a friendly relationship with Geng Zhongming like a brother, and was able to persuade Geng Zhongming to arrest Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde and return to the imperial court.

Sun Yinglong, the deputy general, was an idle post, subordinate to the Tianjin governor Zheng Zongzhou, and he was really able to persuade Geng Zhongming to capture Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde to surrender.

Vice General Sun led more than 2,000 people from the Tianjin Water Battalion and dispatched all 50 or 60 warships to Dengzhou to contact Geng Zhongming.

Geng Zhongming, this kid is actually the worst of the Sanshun kings, he is completely different from Kong Youde and Shang Kexi, and he is a hardcore traitor who actively surrendered to Jiannu.

Kong Youde didn't think about rebelling against the imperial court at all, but had to rebel after Wuqiao was coerced by Li Jiucheng to break through the county seat and kill thousands of soldiers, civilians and officials.

Shang Kexi was incompatible with Shen Shikui, who succeeded Huang Long, who had died in battle, as the chief military officer of Dongjiang Town, and was forced to surrender to Jiannu.

And Geng Zhongming tried to collude with Jiannu to rebel as early as the third year of Chongzhen, and Chongzhen's fourth year was revealed due to the lack of secrets, which led to the death of his brother Geng Zhongyu.

This hardcore traitor is not an ordinary person, he dared to take a risk, and resolutely boarded Sun Yinglong's flagship on a small boat to catch up with the past, and the two of them decided on the spot how to trap Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde after drinking and talking.

The next day, Geng Zhongming's family sent two heads, and the family told Sun Yinglong that everything was going well, and Li and Kong were ambushed, and now Geng Zhongming was waiting for the imperial army to go to Shuicheng to land and take over Dengzhou.

Stupid, Sun Yinglong didn't doubt him, Le Zizi rushed into Shuicheng with the fleet, and he landed with a small 2,000 troops without exploring, he couldn't wait.

As a result, Geng Zhongming came to close the door and beat the dogs, Sun Yinglong and more than a dozen family members were killed on the spot, and the rest of the sailors knelt on the ground and begged to surrender.

Without much effort, the rebels were about equal to the entire Tianjin Naval Division, and captured dozens of large warships of the Ming army, among which there were three-masted gunboats larger than the No. 2 Fu Boat, so that the naval division formed by the rebels had the ability to transport more than 10,000 people and hundreds of cannons at one time.

The three-masted gunboat has always been the main warship of the Ming Army's naval division, and there are only a few Tianjin naval divisions in total.

This type of ship is borrowed from the multi-watertight cabin design of the Xiyi deck war ship combined with the eastern ship, and is equipped with three to five Hongyi cannons that fire ten catties of cannonballs in the Ming Dynasty, and is also equipped with a lot of small cannons.

It's just that the speed of the three-masted gunboat is not as good as that of the No. 2 Fu ship, reaching three or four knots, which is the limit.

Nowadays, in addition to the sailors of the "Red Banner Army" who deliberately hide their strength, Liaohai should be the only sailor of the Denglai rebels, and the number of ships of the Dongjiang Town Sailor is far inferior.

It was also because the rebels owned the water city and owned a large number of ships, which caused Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and other generals to feel that there was a way out, so the army was stable.

They also know that the transportation capacity is limited, Dengzhou now has 70,000 or 80,000 soldiers and civilians, and it is impossible to take them all with them when they really can't hold on and have to retreat from the sea, so they can only choose to lead the Liaodong people to escape immediately.

It's just that Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and others really don't know that the praying mantis catches cicadas and yellow finches.

Huang Han was really concerned about the Denglai rebels, knowing that there were Tianjin sailors in history who threw themselves into the net and did nothing because they wanted the rebels to have more warships and merchant ships, so that they would bring more cannons, gold and silver treasures, and men and horses to die at sea.

It's really cool to kill two birds with one stone!

Liaohai originally had the Tianjin Water Division, the Denglai Water Division, the Shanhaiguan Water Battalion of the remnants of the Longwu Water Division, the Dongjiang Town Water Battalion, and the "Red Flag Army" Water Battalion established on the basis of the remnants of the ships of the Longwu Water Division and the Left Battalion stationed on Juehua Island.

The combat effectiveness and the number of ships in the water battalion of Dongjiang Town are not large, and it is impossible for friendly forces to be enemies of the "Red Banner Army".

The method is too simple, directly call the Xiyi deck warships Oudvot and Venlo, and organize more than 20 Zhuyin ships, each equipped with six Furlong six-pounder guns, such combat effectiveness is guaranteed to be able to destroy the Dongjiang Town Water Battalion.

Huang Han even let Xiyi and the Japanese with flowery brains appear on the deck and deliberately let the sailors of Dongjiang Town see it, and in the end, this unsolved case will definitely not be resolved.

After the capture of the Udvoort and Venlo, the future is less suspicious, so it has always been very low-key, and it has never been exposed to the outside world that such deck warships belong to the "Red Banner Army", after all, the Udvoort with a displacement of 1,500 tons is too eye-catching.

If the imperial court knew that the "Red Banner Army" water battalion had the strength to defeat and capture the Xiyi deck battle ships with dozens of guns, it was guaranteed that it would find a way to weaken it, and it was very likely that it would be transferred to the South China Sea to fight pirates and balance with Zheng Zhilong.

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