What makes Kong Youde feel even more worried is that the bird guns in the hands of these Fujian soldiers, according to the observation of people with hearts, can be ignited without a fire rope, which is even more incredible, how can the bird guns be ignited without a fire rope? It's a fantasy! Could it be that these Fujian soldiers and horses will not be able to do magic tricks?

In short, the more Kong Youde thought about it, the more scared he became, and the more he felt that he didn't dare to underestimate the Fujian soldiers led by Yu Xiaotian, he completely understood why Li Fujie was destroyed by Yu Xiaotian in the first place, not to mention the stragglers led by Li Fujie, even if he was replaced with the elite of the rebels, he might not be able to defend Pingdu City.

So he no longer dared to underestimate the enemy now, so he summoned his rebel generals that night to start discussing how to deal with this group of Fujian soldiers and horses, but after discussing for most of the night, they did not find a suitable countermeasure.

In the end, they could only decide to fight against them in a serious way, relying on the superiority of troops, to crush them, until their army formation was broken, and then they could use cavalry to charge the formation and defeat them, so that it was possible to defeat this group of Fujian soldiers and horses.

At present, they do have an advantage in strength, they are only near Laizhou City, and now they have gathered nearly 40,000 rebels, among these rebels, there are more than 10,000 soldiers and horses with strong combat effectiveness, most of them are the old Dongjiang Army, some of them are refugees who fled back from Liaodong, and some of them are local Xiangma who took refuge in them, and even some captured Guanning Army.

The rest of the soldiers and horses were the officers and soldiers they captured, and they were forced to follow them in order to survive, and their combat effectiveness was relatively weak, but they did not feel distressed when they died.

Therefore, Kong Youde finally made a decision, first using those stragglers to force them to attack Yu Xiaotian's Fujian soldiers and horses by means of strong ammunition and pressure, consuming the enemy's ammunition, and finally dispatching the elite to break it in a battle.

But they are also very clear that this time to deal with this group of Fujian officers and soldiers, I am afraid that it is not as easy as the previous battles, this time their casualties are afraid that they will be quite severe, if they are not careful, they may also make those soldiers who are forced to do things with them turn against each other, but in addition to this method, they have no other better way, so they can only do this.

As for those officers and soldiers in Laizhou City, as well as Yang Yufan and other officers and generals, but they are not at all in Kong Youde's eyes, the number of officers and soldiers in Laizhou City is very limited, but there are only more than 3,000 people, although Yang Yufan is more capable of fighting, but in the end it is their defeated generals, who were once beaten by them and abandoned their armor, took hundreds of defeated soldiers, and fled into Laizhou City.

Therefore, they don't have to worry about it, those officers and soldiers in Laizhou City will suddenly kill out of the city from behind, and join forces with the Fujian officers and soldiers, so that they will be exposed to the enemy on their backs.

After making a decision, Kong Youde ordered the camp to retreat several miles the next day, away from Laizhou City, and set up the camp directly near the official road leading to Pingdu, blocking the way for Fujian officers and soldiers to Laizhou City, and widening some distance from Laizhou City.

In this way, the Fujian officers and soldiers could not rush into Laizhou City lightly, and the defenders of Laizhou City did not dare to go out of the city to attack the rebels, otherwise they would not be able to go back, and the rebels could gather their forces and go all out to deal with the Fujian army led by Yu Xiaotian.

When Kong Youde led the rebels to move the camp, Yu Xiaotian's Yu Jiajun also chose a more suitable place to camp and moved the camp, the two camps were only about seven or eight miles apart, using large-caliber long guns, almost all of them could bombard the distance of the enemy camp with one shot, and the two sides began to enter a state of confrontation.

In a few days, both sides did not send the main force to fight, but both sent a small force to test the strength of the other party, for the troops, the Yu family army was completely in a disadvantageous state, the rebel army was as high as more than 30,000 people, nearly 40,000 people, while the Yu family army, but only less than 7,000 people, the rest of the men and horses, on the way to the station, were stationed in the military stations along the way, responsible for protecting their grain routes.

However, the rebels did not have this kind of worry, they robbed a large amount of grain and grass materials during this time, and the army had a relatively sufficient reserve of grain, and a large amount of grain was stored in the city of Dengzhou, and they went to the surrounding areas to collect grain when they were short of food, and did not think much about the problem of material supply at all.

The reason why Yu Xiaotian didn't immediately start a full-scale fight with the rebels was not because he was short of troops and didn't dare to fight a decisive battle with the enemy, but because if he let him do all the battles by himself, it was really a bit too wrong, Zhu Dadian was in Qingzhou and mobilized thirty or forty thousand officers and soldiers, and there was no sign at this time, his family ran over and overturned the rebels It was not such a thing, so it made them too dazzling, I was afraid that Chongzhen would be happy and transfer him to Liaodong now to deal with Jiannu, so Yu Xiaotian was not greedy for merit in this battle, Instead, they sat back and waited for reinforcements to arrive.

He had already seen that Kong Youde was probably going to fight a war of attrition with him this time, using those peripheral weak brigades in the rebels to consume his main force, even if it couldn't consume his main force, at least it would waste a lot of his ammunition.

Although he brought a lot of ammunition and materials with him when he came here on this trip, after the first battle a few days ago, he also consumed a lot of ammunition, and the next large-scale operation will definitely consume more ammunition, so it is necessary for him to replenish more ammunition before the decisive battle.

In addition, the rebels wanted to consume him, how could he never want to consume the rebels, and he couldn't let those officers and soldiers stand on the dry land and watch the excitement! So after arriving in Laizhou, Yu Xiaotian was not in a hurry to have a decisive battle with the rebels, but sent someone to send a letter to Zhu Dadian, who was sitting in Qingzhou, stating that he had arrived outside Laizhou and had fought with the rebels, and now he urgently needed reinforcements.

In addition, while reporting the victory, he once again exaggerated, greatly exaggerating his losses dozens of times, saying that although he killed nearly 1,000 rebels and captured hundreds of rebels in the first battle, the Fujian official army also suffered heavy losses, losing hundreds of soldiers and nearly 1,000 wounded, and was unable to defeat the main force of the rebels besieging Laizhou City by himself, so he asked Zhu Dadian to send reinforcements quickly.

Soon Zhu Dadian received another report from Yu Xiaotian, looking at this document, Zhu Dadian's mouth almost grinned next to his ears, smiling because he couldn't see his teeth, and he slapped the table with his palms again and again, applauding loudly without grace, and even calling Yu Xiaotian a famous general.

Although Yu Xiaotian was in the middle of the victory, he reported that although they defeated the rebels, their own losses were also very large, but where is there such a thing as only killing the enemy army and not killing people in the war? As long as he wins the enemy's army, it is inevitable that some people will die, which does not affect Xiaotian's image in Zhu Dadian's mind.

Even the tall eunuch Gao Qiqian who was sent by the emperor to supervise the army was very happy after learning the news, and felt that Yu Xiaotian was indeed a pillar of the country, and he was really a usable talent.

There are so many road officers and soldiers, in the past six months or so, none of the rebels have won a big victory, but this Fujian soldier is under the leadership of Xiaotian, this time in Laizhou, and as soon as he fought with the rebels, he even won a success.

What made Gao Qiqian and Zhu Dadian most happy was that this time they had just urged Yu Xiaotian to march to Laizhou, and within a few days, Yu Xiaotian led his troops to arrive outside Laizhou, and won another battle, and according to the Song Jie document, this time they fought with the elite cavalry of the rebels, and defeated it, if this is not Yu Xiaotian talking nonsense, then this news, I am afraid that it is better than the days ago when they recovered Duzhou.

Because after all, the rebels guarding Pingdu Prefecture are ordinary rebels, not the main elite of the rebels, but this time the Fujian soldiers led by Yu Xiaotian are facing the most elite cavalry of the rebels, and they actually fought such a big victory, which fully shows that the Fujian soldiers led by Yu Xiaotian and his command are really not simple, and this time the rebellion is really promising.

As for what Yu Xiaotian said in his report, because the troops are not strong, the strength of the rebels is too strong, so that they can only be in a state of confrontation with the rebels for the time being, and they are unable to defeat the main force of the rebels, Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian have no doubts, after all, Yu Xiaotian only brought 8,000 men and horses from Fujian this time, these fierce battles, excluding the number of soldiers and generals who lost casualties, as well as the officers and soldiers who stayed along the way, there are 5,000 men and horses who can get to Laizhou, which is not bad.

This time there was a fierce battle with the elite cavalry of the rebels, and it is said that hundreds of officers and soldiers were killed and nearly a thousand were injured, so Yu Xiaotian really didn't have many soldiers left.

And it is rumored that the rebels in the area of Laizhou City, they have gathered nearly forty or fifty thousand rebels, including more than 10,000 elites, if they order Yu Xiaotian to take only three or four thousand officers and soldiers to fight against the rebels ten times their size, it is indeed unreasonable, no one will do this, I am afraid they will not do it, it is simply forcing people to die.

What's more, now Zhu Dadian is betting all his hopes on Yu Xiaotian, how can he let Yu Xiaotian do this kind of death, if he loses Yu Xiaotian's Fujian soldiers, then who will be expected to act as the main force to defeat the rebels in the future?

Therefore, Zhu Dadian united with Gao Qidive and immediately issued a death order to the rest of the officers and soldiers who had been stagnant, ordering them to arrive outside Laizhou within ten days, and they would attack the rebels with Fujian soldiers and horses to defeat the rebels, otherwise they would be disobedient and disrespectful, and they would be engaged in military law!

In this way, after learning that the Fujian soldiers had arrived outside Laizhou City alone, fought with the rebels, and also won a big victory, the main generals of these officers and soldiers also felt that they could not drag it any longer, and now the Fujian soldiers have repeatedly made miraculous achievements, Zhu Dadian has been impatient with them for a long time, not to mention that the emperor also sent his cronies and eunuchs Gao Qi to sneak into the prison army this time, if they refuse to lead their troops to Laizhou City to relieve the siege, then I am afraid that the next step, they should also be dismissed and arrested.

(Today, I would like to thank Xiong Z Bear for the reward of my friends, at the end of the month, I hope to rush again, ask for a few monthly passes or rewards!) Hehe! Brethren help to stand up! ）