Chapter 18: The Stick

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How can you reassure your father-in-law, then naturally what your father-in-law says, you will listen to what your father-in-law wants to do, you must obey unconditionally, even if you have opinions.

This is the Basic Law.

Who is for and who is against?

After democratic consultation, everyone unanimously did not object, so the father-in-law made a decision and went to Changdian Fort to take a walk first.

But Changdian Fort is in the hands of Jianzhou, and there are Jurchen soldiers stationed there, how to go?

This issue is not something that father-in-law should consider.

He only sets goals, and how to implement them is something that his old man will not care.

Changdian Fort is located in the southernmost part of the six forts of Kuandian, just on the Yalu Bianjiang River, and is only less than 50 miles away from the nearest Yiju. A few years ago, after the Jianzhou people occupied Changdian Fort, they renamed this place "Liudaotun".

The original meaning of the word tun is "wrap up" and "enclose up", that is, a stockade with a defensive wall is built to prevent the enemy's attack, and the defenders hide in the tunzi to protect themselves.

It was the habit of the Ming army to name it after the tun, but the governor of Jianzhou, Nurhachi, was born in the Ming army, so this naming habit also affected the whole of Jianzhou. The Changdian Fort was renamed Liudaotun, but the Jianzhou side wanted to show that this place had nothing to do with the Ming army.

However, it is said that it is six tun, in fact, there are only three lines of defense in this tunzi, the first is a stone wall built by using the terrain, the second is a stream a few zhang wide in the tun, and the third is the main building in the tun more than 100 houses all made of stone, the house is strong and abnormal, connected to each other in a circle, all are equipped with sentry posts and arrow stacks, hiding in the house and guarding, no matter how many the enemy army is, it can not be attacked in a short time.

The fortifications were built by the Ming army stationed in that year, except for these three direct lines of defense, there are no other fortifications in Liudaotun, if there is one, it is the Yalu River on the side.

After Jianzhou occupied Changdian Fort, one of its four banners, the Zhenglan Banner, set up a Niu Lu Zhangjing here, which is the meaning of Zuo Ling. The defenders numbered more than 200 Jurchen soldiers, and about 400 Han people who defected and were taken captive.

Because Liudaotun was only less than fifty miles away from Yizhou in the Ming Dynasty, the Jianzhou side only regarded Changdian as a military outpost, so they did not settle too many people here. Most of the Hermes-Epitek were resettled in Kuandian and Dadian further aar, while the rest were relocated to Hetuala.

Liudaotun's leader named Ma Dali is in his forties, and his body is called a fat, fat, and a Maitreya Buddha who is alive and well. But a few years ago, Ma Dali was not like this, at that time, Ma Dali was strong, his clothes were taken off, and his body was full of horizontal flesh, so that he was also a tiger and a tiger when he raised a big knife, and he was a good man, and he screamed when he started a battle.

Now this appearance is purely implicated by Shulhazy. Otherwise, with Ma Dali's qualifications and bravery, or at least as a co-leader, how could he be sent to the southeast end of this Jianzhou map to see the gate.

It's not all without benefits, because of the proximity of Liudaotun and the Korean State, Ma Dali privately does business with the merchants on the Korean side, and he has gained a lot of benefits. And don't look at the fact that he doesn't have many soldiers and horses, and his combat effectiveness is much worse than the main force that often goes out with the Khan King, but he dares to cross the river from time to time to grab a grab on the territory of the Koreans. The reason is that the North Korean army is even more unbearable than them.

The North Korean Ma Dali dared to rob it, but he didn't dare to rob it in Yiju. How to say, the king of his family is also an official of the Ming Dynasty, and he Ma Dali is also wearing the military uniform of the Ming Dynasty.

When he first came over, Ma Dali was worried that the Ming army in Yizhou would come back, but later found out that the Ming army really withdrew and ignored the Jurchens, so he completely let go. He is used to being rough, and he doesn't care much about specific things, he either eats wine or meat every day, or pulls a group of people to learn the methods of the Han people to gamble money, and his life is really happy, which also makes him become a big fat man in just a few years.

It was June, and it was the most comfortable time in Liaodong.

When the last rays of sunlight disappeared into the western horizon, the Jurchen soldiers in the tunzi lit the pine resin oil lamps. There was silence on the Yalu River not far away, and there was no sound of waves crashing on the shore, nor could you see the shadow of a ship.

Ma Dali went to the river to swim and came back, and after eating, he called a helper to gamble with him. It is strictly forbidden for Jurchen soldiers to gamble money, but Liudaotun is far away from the emperor of the sky, and everything is Ma Dali's final say, so how can he be afraid of any ban.

The status of the Jurchen soldiers was much higher than that of the Han Chinese, and most of the affairs in the tunzi were done by the Han people. In addition to serving the Jurchen soldiers, the Han people also took over the cultivation of land outside Tunzi.

These people are also obedient, even if the Jurchen soldiers often beat and scold them, no one dares to run. for most of their wives and children were in Kuandian, which was in the rear. The reason why they did not withdraw to Guannai was also because they were nostalgic for the land of Liubao, so as long as the Jurchens allowed them to live here, most people would not have the idea of running away at all.

As usual, the people in the tunzi were still busy, and the Jurchen soldiers gathered in groups to eat and drink, and from time to time they scolded the Han people passing by.

Although these Han people are under the banner, they all have a common identity "Aha".

The Jurchen soldiers are called Bao Yi Haha, and the women are called Bao Yi Hehe. Whether it was a voluntary defector a captive Han Chinese, they were all assigned to the banner soldiers as Aha at the beginning.

These Han Aha and their wives and daughters are all under a certain banner soldier, and these Han people in Liudaotun are brought by their respective masters, serving as auxiliaries and rotating regularly. If you have made military merits, it is possible to be officially incorporated into the flag, in which case, although the wife and children are still the identity of the coat, the family can be reunited. If you are lucky, you will be assigned to the big grain village to be the head of the village, and the gardener will be really bitter.

Niu Zhu is a Han Aha, he refused to leave back then, and saw the officers and soldiers killing people indiscriminately, so he took his wife and daughter to Jianzhou in a fit of anger, and was assigned to a Darhan Jurchen soldier to be Aha.

It is also a blessing that his wife gave birth to a son to Darhan, and his daughter has a big belly, so Darha is very good to him, and he asked for an errand for him with Zuo Ling, and he took care of him very much.

Darhan drank a little too much wine, so Niu Zhu carried a bucket and prepared to fetch water for Darhan, but as soon as he came out of the tunzi, he was stunned.

On the river in his sight, dozens of boats appeared somehow, and four of them were particularly large, which he had never seen before.

Just as he was wondering where these boats came from, he suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves, and he subconsciously looked south, and vaguely saw a large group of horseback riders running towards Tunzi.

"The stick is coming across the river, the stick is coming across the river!"

The barrel of the bull pillar fell to the ground and ran back with a shout. Ma Dali, who was gambling with his subordinates, listened to the shouts outside, and couldn't help but get angry from his heart, and scolded with a grin: "Which mouse is blind!" ”

Before the words fell, I saw that the door of the house was pushed open with a "bang", and a Jurchen soldier rushed in with a panicked face: "Zuoling, the North Koreans have crossed the river!" ”