The Great Liao River is another name for the downstream section of the river formed after the confluence of the Hun River and the Taizi River in the Liaohe River system in eastern Liaodong. It refers to the confluence of the Hun River with the Taizi River in the Weidi section of Haizhou, starting from the Sancha River, flowing southwest to the mouth of the Daliao River in Yongjiao, Yingkou City, and flowing into the Liaodong Bay of the Bohai Sea, with a total length of 94 kilometers.

The eastern sky was slightly white, and when a ray of morning light sprinkled on the earth, the fleet that had been waiting at sea for a long time slowly approached the beach at the mouth of the Liao River.

At this time, it is the time when there is no one. Otherwise, someone would be absolutely surprised to see more than a thousand ships at sea.

This fleet has no flag, but there are more than 500 large ships and even more small ships, and it is such a large scale, and only the Ming family can have this fleet scale in this vicinity. Whether they play the flag or not, in fact, they are all about the same.

After the big boats washed up on the beach, they quickly disembarked from the boats, yes, people and horses. People are silent, horses are also wearing horse sleeves, and basically there is no situation where people shout and neigh.

It can be seen that many people seem to be very tired after going ashore immediately. However, there were also a group of men and horses, after coming ashore, they immediately left the beach and went deeper.

This fleet, needless to say, is Gu Sanmazi's fleet, which is subordinate to the Shanhaiguan General Military Office and is under the jurisdiction of the governor of Shanyong.

The big ships were loaded with 5,000 cavalry led by Li Laiheng, and those small boats were loaded with supplies for this cavalry. By the time the Liao River estuary, the boats were already empty.

Preparing for such an expedition is still very draining on supplies.

Coming ashore, Li Laiheng's original more than 1,000 subordinates had no strength at all. In these days when they were sailing away from the coastline, most of them were Qin people, who had never been on a ship for so long.

Although it is said that people who are used to riding horses are not likely to get seasick. But this has been at sea for too long, so that the Qin people who are on the boat for the first time are really very uncomfortable.

To be honest, when many people saw the sea and boarded the boat, their hearts were beating.

However, they are also accustomed to seeing life and death, and they have fled in all directions in any harsh environment, facing the endless sea, gritting their teeth, and boarding the ship.

Compared to them, the Guanning cavalry is better, after all, they grew up by the Bohai Sea and have a certain understanding of the sea.

At this time, the army was still disembarking one after another, and on the beach, there was already a group of people standing, one of whom was Chen Mingyu, who succeeded Yan Yingyuan, Chen Mingyu, of course, at this time he was already a guerrilla under the jurisdiction of Shanhaiguan.

I saw that he was saying to a general younger than him with a serious face: "Li Guji, you really don't plan to fight Gai Zhouwei?" ”

Their combat targets have been selected before, Lushun, Jinzhouwei and Fuzhouwei. However, the distance to reach there by sea is really a bit far, and if you go through Dengju Prefecture, it is the closest. It's a pity that their starting point is at Shanhaiguan.

Therefore, the first objective of this operation was to select Gaizhouwei.

According to the news, Jianyu set up a defensive lieutenant yamen in Gaizhou, placed a defensive lieutenant, and defended the Manchu and Han dynasties. For a long time, it was not attacked by the Ming army. The defenses here have certainly been more lax over the years.

In addition, Gaizhouwei is close to the sea, and on the sea eighteen miles away, there is also Lianyun Island, which can be used as a rest for the army, which can be regarded as an ideal target.

Of course, Haizhou Wei was also selected as an alternative target, and where to fight was ultimately decided by the main general of the expedition according to the actual situation.

At this time, Chen Mingyu was very worried because Li Laiheng chose Haizhou Wei as the target of attack, so he confirmed with Li Laiheng again.

For this new partner, Li Laiheng is still patient.

After hearing Chen Mingyu's questioning, he once again emphasized his reason: "This time it is our ...... The imperial army attacked Liaodong for the first time. The incident happened suddenly, and Jian Yu definitely didn't expect it. If they want to attack again in the future, they will definitely be prepared. Therefore, this first war, either not to fight, since it is going to be fought, then it is necessary to make good use of this first opportunity to fight him. This can also meet the requirements of the national government, and it must be dealt a heavy blow to Jianlu, which hurts Jianlu, and forces Jianlu not to dare to gather heavy troops to invade the Guannei! ”

The truth is indeed this truth, but Haizhou Wei is not an ordinary town! When they were still in Shanhaiguan, they all knew this.

Haizhou Weitong Tongtong Lushun and Shandong, north to Liaoxi and Jingshi, the strategic location is quite important.

And before the rise of Jianyu, the most prosperous places in Liaodong were Liaoyang and Haicheng.

Liaoyang was the political and military center of Liaodong at that time; Because of its key transportation artery, Haicheng is a key node to go to Liaodong in the north, Korea and Shandong in the east, and Liaoxi and Jingshi in the west.

Now after the construction of the raging, the prosperity of Haicheng has faded a lot, not only the population has been greatly reduced, but also the flow of merchants and people from the south to the north has also been greatly reduced, plus the construction of Liaoyang, and the relocation of the capital to Shenyang, this Haicheng can of course not be compared with Liaoyang.

However, as one of the most prosperous towns in Liaodong, the heritage is still there. If the Ming army can take down here, the impact will definitely be extraordinary, far from being comparable to Gaizhou and Jinzhou.

And Haizhou City, the old earthen city, Hongwu nine years Jinghai Marquis (Wu Zhen) governor with the command of Liu Cheng and others to build, wrapped with bricks. The surrounding area is six miles, fifty-three steps, three feet, and three feet high. The depth of the pond is one zhang and two feet, and the width is three zhang and five feet, and the surrounding area is six miles and eighty-three steps. City gate four, the east is called Zhenwu, the south is called Guangwei, the west is said to be Linqing, and the north is said to be far away.

If you want to say that this city is definitely strong, it is not easy to fight. However, at the original time, in the face of Jianyu's attack, it did not play its due role at all.

At this time, hearing Li Laiheng's reply, Chen Mingyu was still worried, so he reminded: "Haicheng is so important, Jianyu must be heavily defended. We only have 5,000 cavalry, and we are not good at attacking the city! ”

"If you don't enter the tiger's den, you will get the tiger!" Li Laiheng listened, but said disapprovingly, "We were ordered to come to Liaodong, and we put life and death out of the way, and we can't beat it, we are cavalry, just run!" ”

This is also why he is used to fighting such wars, so he naturally said the coping strategy.

And Chen Mingyu, who had fought a war of this scale, was able to get the position of guerrilla because Yan Yingyuan needed someone who knew the roots as a helper. In addition, Zhang Mingwei also knows his loyalty from history, not his military talent.

Therefore, as soon as a veteran like Li Laiheng said it, he was a little speechless and couldn't refute it.

Although Chen Mingyu was still very worried at this time, he couldn't say that Li Laiheng was the main general this time, and he was still the person valued by Xingguo Gong, so he could only reluctantly accept it.

Li Laiheng is actually very clear about Chen Mingyu's thoughts and worries, but he doesn't care at all.

Although Guogong had said to him when he was leaving, he wanted him to take the soldiers back alive as much as possible after completing the matter, and wait until he would lead the troops to level Liaodong with him one day, but Li Laiheng did not flinch.

From a young age, he was in the army of thieves. At that time, life and death were already put out of the way. If you are constantly worried about whether you will die or not, you will probably die early.

All you have to do at this point is to increase your chances of winning as much as possible.

Therefore, although Li Laiheng was also very tired because of the long time he had been on the boat, he was persistent, while deploying it at night and scattering it on a large scale. There is only one request, to leave all the living creatures behind, and to resolutely not let the news of the army's landing leak out.

In addition, he also instructed the officers and men who disembarked to rest and recuperate immediately, and strive to recover their physical strength and spirit as soon as possible. He handed over this content to Chen Mingyu to be responsible.

While it was so busy, the sun slowly rose.

Suddenly, on the side of the mouth of the Liao River, a ship came to the side where the army was assembled. Behind this ship, there was also a smaller boat hanging.

After landing, a group of Ming soldiers came with a man in civilian clothes, but with a money rat tail on his head.

All the soldiers of the Ming army who saw this scene stared at the money rat tail with a little curiosity. Especially those Qin soldiers, they basically haven't seen Jianyu's appearance. At this time, seeing that this person's hairstyle was so strange, they knew that this was the legendary Jianyu, so they all stared at it one by one, and they were a little disapproving.

I thought that the legendary Jianyu was really some kind of freak, but it turned out to be the same as the Han people, with two eyes and one mouth, and there was no difference.

And when this money rattail saw that such a huge number of sailors had gathered here, and so many court officials and soldiers had come ashore, and they were all cavalry, the look of surprise on his face couldn't be concealed.

However, if it is an ordinary Jianlu, if he sees this scene, in addition to being shocked, he must be worried or scared or some other negative emotion. However, in addition to the shock, there was also a faint excitement on this Jianyu's face, which was a bit strange.

It didn't take long for the money rattail to be brought to Li Laiheng, and the soldiers led by him told Li Laiheng: "My lord, my subordinates pretended to be fishermen along the Liao River to explore the way, and found that this person was heading south along the river, and he should have gone down at night. So he leaned over and caught him, and he said that he had something very important to see the adults! ”

Li Laiheng listened to it, it was a little strange, it was a very dangerous thing to drive a boat at night. What is the situation of this man, who not only sails at night, but also says that he wants to see himself and that he has something very important?

He was thinking about it, and the money rat tail was also looking at him, and there was obviously more surprise on his face. He didn't expect that the commander of this Ming army would be so young, which made him hesitate a little for a while.

"Who are you, and what important things do you want to see me?" Li Laiheng had already asked at this time, with a Qindi accent.