About 20 miles south of the city of Jinzhou Zhongzuo, there is a mountain called Lao Tie Mountain, which is on the edge of the sea, and Dengzhou City faces each other across the sea. Of course, Dengzhou City is out of sight, separated by more than 200 miles of the vast sea!

However, the lookout platform set up on Lao Tie Mountain still has a pretty good line of sight, and if it is combined with a telescope imported from the West, the surrounding sea surface for dozens of miles can be caught in the bottom of the eye. In the south of Lao Tie Mountain, the sea north of Huangcheng Island is an important waterway in and out of Bohai Bay, which is called Lao Tieshan Waterway.

The Ming army fleet from Dengzhou also had to pass through the old Tieshan waterway.

Therefore, as soon as Cao Mutan arrived in the city of Zhongzuo in Jinzhou, he immediately set up a lookout post on Lao Tie Mountain, always monitoring the waterways in the south, and also sent his henchman and brother-in-law Dadan Zhangjing Zhang Fengen to be in charge.

Zhang Fengen and the others built a wooden fort on a relatively flat hilltop about two miles from the beach, using local materials and timber everywhere on Lao Tie Mountain, as the location of the lookout post.

Standing on the high ground of the wooden fort, Zhang Fengen did not look at the sea at this time, but looked at the large area of fat and oily black soil near Tieshan Town in the north...... His own land is divided into Tieshan Town, a full 400 acres! It is not a complete wasteland, but land that has been reclaimed by predecessors and later abandoned for various reasons, and it is not difficult to reclaim it.

After Zhang Feng'en was assigned to the land, he got rid of the miscellaneous plants and trees that grew there, pulled his horse and put on the plow, and ploughed the soil several times, and now waited for the wheat seeds to be sown in the spring of the next year...... Northeast land fertilizer, that is, the weather is cold, and winter wheat cannot be planted, otherwise it can be planted now.

is different from his brother-in-law Cao Charcoal, Zhang Fengen is an honest farmer, he was originally a coated slave of Zhenghongqi, and he is a "second generation of slaves", he has long been used to being a slave, and he has forgotten the hatred of his ancestors. He doesn't have any skills, except for a few catties of strength, he can just farm. If it weren't for the Qing soldiers entering the customs, he would have been farming for the rest of his life.

But just in time for the opportunity, as a coat followed the master into the customs, served before and after the saddle, and sometimes had to carry a knife into battle. actually made meritorious service to carry the flag and became the uncle of the Red Banner Han Army.

Later, part of the Zhenghongqi Han Army was divided into the Zhenglu Banner, and there was also one of him, and he was also promoted, and he changed from an ordinary bannerman to Dadan Zhangjing. It's not a future, but it's better than ordinary Qiding, with 200 acres more land, more rice, and Niu Lu Zhangjing on his head is his brother-in-law.

It's still a good day......

"Ming, Mingkou! Dadan Zhangjing, Mingkou is coming in a big way! ”

Just when Zhang Fengen was looking forward to a better future, a frightened cry suddenly sounded in his ears.

Mingkou is here!

I don't know when it started, the Ming army became a Kou in the eyes of the Qing army...... Shouldn't it be a fat sheep?

Anyway, on the side of Liaodong and Liaoxi, the Ming army has now gone up, from the "fat sheep" who was killed and robbed, to the "Kou" who killed people and set fires!

For the soldiers of the Zhenglu Banner who live and work in Liaodong, Liaoxi, and the clothed servants of the Old Eight Banners (there are many Zhuangzi of the princes of the Old Eight Banners in Liaodong and Liaoxi), these Ming Kou who came from the sea are very bad, killing people, setting fires and robbing, and doing all kinds of evil!

And they don't occupy an area, they just grab a handful and run, and the Nine Flags powerhouse didn't have time to arrive, so they ran away by boat.

Even if you catch up, what can you do? There are more than 100 million people in the south, can't they afford to die?

Three Ming Kou for you, one Nine Banners soldier, they don't lose anything!

And the exchange ratio is not so bad...... People have firearms, spears, and iron armor, but they can't beat the strong army, and they can't beat the old and weak women and children who farm at home and the clothed minions?

If you really have to calculate it carefully, I'm afraid that there are still more losses on the side of the Nine Banners of the Qing Dynasty.......

Zhang Fengen had heard a lot of Mingkou's notoriety, so he dared to take it lightly and hurriedly used a monocular wrapped in cloth to observe the sea. It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, when you look at it, the hairs all over your body stand upside down.

I only saw on the sea, I don't know when twenty or thirty wooden boats with cloth sails appeared, riding the wind and waves!

Mingkou has come to commit a crime!

Zhang Fengen hurriedly got off the watchtower, asked his subordinates to lead him a healthy horse, and rode straight to the city of Zhongzuo.

"Many, how many ships?" Cao Charcoal, who got the report, was also frightened, and asked with a trembling voice.

"Twenty or thirty ships, there are twenty or thirty ships, all of them are quite large...... "Zhang Fengen asked, "Brother Cao, what should we do?" ”

"What should I do?" Cao Charcoal stomped his feet: "What else can I do?" Hold on....... There must not be five or six thousand people on twenty or thirty boats! How many are we in a cow? It's only five hundred, and it's not really Manchurian......"

"Can you hold it?" Zhang Fengen lowered his voice and asked, "The city of the center left is not so strong!" ”

The city in the middle left is a castle left over from the Ming Dynasty, and it is certain that it has fallen into disrepair!

And even if it's sturdy, it's useless...... Lushunkou is close to the sea, and 24-pound and 36-pound heavy guns can be transported by sea. As long as the 24-pounder and 36-pounder guns are in place, the city of the center and left will definitely not be able to hold it!

In addition, the topography of the Jinzhou Peninsula is too special, with an isthmus more than ten miles wide, and the sea on both sides, which is too easy to be cut off by the Ming army. At that time, all the cities on the Golden State Peninsula were turtles in urns, and none of them could hold it.

So Cao Charcoal, they are cannon fodder......

"If you can't keep it, you have to keep it......" Cao Charcoal stretched out his hand and took out the "money rat tail" that was urging him, "What is this?" It's braids! We're all braided heads! ”

Braided head!

Cut it down and it's silver!

If Ming Kou doesn't call, this hairstyle symbolizes privilege, and when Ming Kou calls, you have to be careful not to move your braided hair....... Why don't you let people shave their heads?

And there are traces of the money rat braid - the skin color of the root of the braid is different from other places, even if it is cut and pretending to be a monk, it will be discovered.

Besides, there is no temple here on the Golden State Peninsula, where are the monks from?

The braid dragging on the back of the heads of these Nine Banners disciples is the amulet, and it is the Warlord!

"This, this, this ......" Zhang Fengen was already at a loss.

"What's the panic?" Cao Charcoal is a man who has licked blood from the knife for many years, "You go to Xiaoshan immediately to ask for help!" ”

The Little Black Mountain is on the edge of the Golden State Acropolis, and it is called the Great Black Mountain in later generations. There is a mountain fortress on the top of the mountain, which is left over from the Goguryeo period. Because the Jinzhou Peninsula has always been attacked and harassed by the Ming Invaders in the past two years, the Yamen of the Eight Banners garrison on the Jinzhou Peninsula has moved to the safer Xiaoshan Mountain.

After Kong Tingxun, the prince of Dingnan, arrived in Jinzhou Wei with five Niu Lu, he placed his Jialazhangjing Yamen on the top of Xiaoshan Mountain.

"Okay, let's go!" Zhang Fengen turned around and was about to leave, but was stopped by Cao Charcoal again.

"Wait, take your sister-in-law and her two children...... Bring your wife and children with you, too! Cao Charcoal said, "Remember, don't rush back!" ”

"Ah......" Zhang Fengen didn't understand what Cao Charcoal meant.

The city on the left side of the Golden State seems to be really unguarded!

Because he wanted the families of the two to leave, Zhang Fengen delayed for some time, and Kong Tingxun on the small black mountain learned that it was already the evening of the same day when he learned that Mingkou was coming.

However, even if he got the news a few hours earlier, he didn't dare to lead his troops to fight the invading Mingkou.

His subordinates are not the old Eight Banners powerhouse, but the men and horses of the Green Banner, and they are so scattered that it will take some time to gather together. If Ming Kou really came in a big way, he would only have to gather troops and horses to defend Little Black Mountain.

As for the Zhenglu Flag brothers in the city of Jinzhou Central Left, they really can't take care of it...... I hope they can delay a little longer to buy him time to prepare for the defense of Little Montenegro.

During the period when Cao Mutan and his men were stubbornly defending the city of Jinzhou Zhongzuo until they were loyal to the Qing Dynasty, the news that the Ming Kou had invaded Liaodong in a big way was also reported by Kuaimatang to the first stop, and it was sent to the emperor Ama Xingyuan in Zhengzhou City at the first level.

However, Dolgon didn't take this matter to heart at all, because the coasts of Liaodong and Liaoxi were difficult to defend and easy to lose for the Qing Dynasty.

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