When Chen Cheng tore off the mask of kindness and began to set off a bloody storm in the middle of North Korea, Shangyang Dance experienced many hardships and obstacles, and finally met Mao Wenlong, the commander of the Dongjiang Army. Mao Wenlong's hair has turned gray, but his waist is still straight, and he looks very martial.

He was originally a small officer in Liaozhen, and when the Liaodong Army was defeated, he took two hundred people to venture out to sea, went deep into the rear of the Jianzhou Jurchens, gathered hundreds of thousands of Liaodong people, and established Dongjiang Town from scratch. Such a character, if it is placed in the Han Dynasty, it is a character like Ban Chao.

But in the Ming Dynasty, he was just a nasty guy who was regarded as a thorn in the side of the ministers of the court and the warlords of Liaoxi. This guy doesn't understand the unspoken rules of the court at all, and every time he receives a salary, he actually has to count it carefully, and he refuses to sign and draw a pledge if the amount is wrong.

That's apolitical! What's wrong with the old man drifting three or four percent of the supplies? The old man hasn't eaten yet!

Because of the problem of food and salary, Mao Wenlong had a lot of trouble with everyone. Only Yuan Keli sees the strategic location of Dongjiang Town as important and maintains him everywhere. But Yuan Keli's behavior is simply self-defeating, if he does this, do you want to get rich?

Liaodong's annual military salary of six million taels of silver, plus countless various materials, I don't know how many corrupt officials and corrupt officials have been fattened. Mao Wenlong tells the truth from time to time, and everyone hates him tightly. Yuan Keli and Mao Wenlong were mixed together, and that was not a good thing.

Soon, someone began to stir up the relationship between the two, Mao Wenlong was born as a petty officer, and he sat in the position of opening the town, relying on bloody battles with Jiannu again and again. He already looked down on the ministers of the DPRK and China, and after being teased a few times, he clashed with Yuan Keli.

Yuan Keli also has a temper, he speaks for Mao Wenlong everywhere, but he ended up being not a human being, he was angry, and he directly picked on his son and quit. In fact, he also sees it clearly, if he continues to do it, his head will be about to be saved, so it is better to retire as soon as possible. For example, Xiong Tingbi, who defeated Jiannu in the field twice, made such a great contribution, and almost turned the situation in Liaodong over, what was the result? Haven't you been beheaded yet?

He Yuan Keli can be loyal to the country, but he doesn't want to put his life into it.

When Shang Yangwu saw Mao Wenlong, the latter was in a hurry. Liaozhen's annual military salary of 6 million taels was distributed to Dongjiang Town, and it was regarded by many people as a thorn in the side. He didn't deal with Wei Zhongxian before, and Yuan Chonghuan hugged Wei Zhongxian's thigh to embarrass him.

Now that Wei Zhongxian has fallen, Yuan Chonghuan has changed his body and began to accuse Mao Wenlong of being a eunuch. This kind of reversal of black and white and referring to the deer as a horse made Mao Wenlong dumbfounded. The existence of Dongjiang Town is to constantly pump Liao Zhen's face, that is, to pump back and forth on the faces of Sun Chengzong, Yuan Chonghuan and others.

In the summer of this year, Hongtai led his troops to attack Liaoxi, and cut the summer grain in the fields outside the city. Liaozhen is known as an army of 100,000 people, and he gets so much military pay every year, but he doesn't dare to do anything, he only dares to hide in the city, and let Jiannu arrest the people outside the city.

Dongjiang Town only received 120,000 taels of military salary this year, and at the beginning of the year, it also fought several battles with Jiannu on the Korean border, beheading thousands of people. If it weren't for the Jurchens snatching back fewer soldiers who died in battle, they would have gotten even more heads. One can have so many results with 120,000 taels, and the other can take 6 million taels, and he doesn't dare to go out at all except to defend the city, what does this call the emperor think?

So the ministers of the court and the central government attacked Mao Wenlong more first.

Shang Yangwu didn't know that Mao Wenlong was almost drowned by someone with a spittle star, he took out the letter from his arms and said, "The Black Dragon King has a letter here. ”

Mao Wenlong took the letter and looked at it, only to see that it was written, "Since ancient times, the minister of the kingdom is the lord of the current country, and the king of Joseon has submitted to Jiannu, and he has become the enemy of the Ming Dynasty." The general was ordered by the Son of Heaven to guard the Dongjiang River, and now the subject country is rebelling and is properly sending troops to fight. With 3,000 miles of rivers and mountains and a population of 4 million households, Korea can advance to pacify Jiannu, retreat to defend one side, and also threaten the rear of Jiannu. The general has no intention? ”

"It's ....... Who is the Black Dragon King? How dare you attack a vassal state of the imperial court without authorization? ”

Shang Yangwu said disappreciatively: "The Korean State is now a subject country of Jiannu!" ”

Of course, Mao Wenlong knew that the North Korean soldiers were vulnerable, but he never thought of seizing North Korea, which was absolutely impossible to be allowed by the imperial court! But at the same time, his heart was a little eager to try, he had never thought that he could do this before, but now that someone told him loudly, his mind immediately came alive.

Yes, the North Koreans can send troops to attack Donggang Town, why can't the Dongjiang Army launch a counterattack? Now the hundreds of thousands of people in Dongjiang were all rescued by him from Jiannu's butcher's knife, and he has a Mao relationship with the imperial court and Liaozhen? If it weren't for the annual military salary of hundreds of thousands of taels, why would he quarrel with those rats in the court?

But the righteous name of the imperial court is still there, if he leads his troops to attack North Korea, it is one thing to be attacked by the court, but I am afraid that there will be many people under his command who will stand on the side of the court. Didn't Yuan Chonghuan seduce Lushun to fall to Liaozhen before?

He hesitated for a few days, and Chen Cheng had already entered the city of Pyongyang. Then the letter from the Koreans asking for help also arrived, and in the recital to the imperial court, the Joseon king Yi Liang cleaned himself and the Korean court, saying that the last incident was done by the Korean rebels.

In addition to asking for help to the Ming court, Li Qi also wrote a letter to Mao Wenlong, asking him to send troops to attack those Japanese invaders.

Seeing such a shameless face, Mao Wenlong is new hatred and old hatred surged into his heart together. He doesn't dare to lead troops to attack North Korea now, but he is also absolutely unwilling to help North Koreans go to war. These incorruptible North Koreans, what a thing!

He settled the Shangyang dance, sent someone to send the Korean music to Denglai, and then continued to focus on Jiannu. By the time the concert was sent to Beijing and the imperial court ordered Mao Wenlong to send troops to rescue North Korea, it was already two or three months later. At that time, Chen Chengdu had already penetrated the Korean Peninsula and smashed the city wall of Qingyang Mansion with the main guns of the battleship "Glory with the World".

After Mao Wenlong received the holy decree, he had no intention of helping the Koreans fight at all, but began to argue with the imperial court. He enumerated all kinds of difficulties in Donggang Town, saying that they had less food and more work, and that they had only received 120,000 taels of military salaries this year, and they had cut down thousands of Jiannu, but now there was no food and military salaries, and he asked the imperial court to send down all the food and military salaries that had been in arrears over the years, so that the soldiers could have the strength to rescue the Koreans.

After the bigwigs in the court heard about it, they all snorted, Mao Wenlong was thinking about fart. Do you want to get money without giving rebates? In fact, Mao Wenlong didn't give it, but the appetite of the bigwigs was getting bigger and bigger, and they soared from a quarter to five or five points, and now they are actually thinking about sharing accounts with Mao Wenlong.

The bigwigs are divided into seventy, and Mao Wenlong takes thirty percent. Of course Mao Wenlong refused to do it, his subordinates claimed to be 100,000 troops, of course, there were not so many, and now they are only 30,000 combatable soldiers. But in addition to the soldiers, he also had hundreds of thousands of refugees who had escaped from Liaodong to support.

If he splits the account three or seven, he can only get fifty or sixty thousand military salaries every year, and he has to spend money to buy weapons and armor by himself, where is this enough? The two sides are pulling each other back and forth, and no one cares about North Korea's affairs.

After Li Liang fled to Qingyang Mansion, seeing that the Ming Dynasty had not replied, he simply asked Jiannu's father for help. Oh no, he's not Hong Tae's son, but Hong Tae's minion. It also depends on the master to beat the dog, and now that the slave has been beaten, does the master want to come out to help?

Hong Tae received a letter of help from Li Liang in Shenyang in November, and Mang Gurtai, Amin and others were reluctant to send troops to rescue the Koreans at this time. It was at this time last year that the troops were dispatched, and they were almost blocked in the mountains by the Dongjiang Army. Those refugees of the Dongjiang Army, although they are poorly equipped, have a deep blood feud with the Jurchens, and they really dare to fight with Jiannu.

But Hong Tae was very worried about this, and he tried his best to persuade his brothers, and then, despite the exhaustion of his soldiers and horses, he led more than 30,000 men to North Korea to kill. This time, it's not like last year. After Mao Wenlong reoccupied Iron Mountain, he slept with one eye open.

As soon as he heard that Jiannu had been killed again, he immediately reported to the imperial court, and when he sent troops to meet the battle, he hoped that the imperial court could send troops from Liaoxi to attack the hinterland of Jiannu. But Liaozhen reported that Jiannu had an army of 100,000 in front of them, and they were outnumbered, so they couldn't be defeated.

Anyway, we just eat and don't work, and when the enemy comes, we will hide in the city. If you want us to go out and fight Jiannu, that's absolutely impossible. Emperor Chongzhen, who had just ascended the throne for a few months, was furious and ordered Liaozhen soldiers and horses to fight.

Sun Chengzong and other bigwigs also secretly communicated with the generals of Liaozhen, saying that you take so much money and food a year, so you have to go out to fight! Liao Zhen, who was forced to be helpless, then sent an unlucky guy with an army of 20,000 to the east, just crossed the river, and met two Niu Lu's Houjin cavalry, and more than 10,000 Liao troops who crossed the ice fled in despair, threw away the artillery, carried their baggage, and ran wildly towards the road when they came.

The Houjin army covered up from behind, beheaded more than 2,000 ranks, and captured countless people. Therefore, Liaozhen wrote to the imperial court, saying that Mao Wenlong is really not a thing, and that it is all a lie to say that Liaodong is empty. Just when the Liao army was defeated, Mao Wenlong was fighting hard with Jiannu on the edge of the Yalu River.

Shang Yangwu heard that Jiannu was coming, and volunteered to go back and ask for reinforcements. Mao Wenlong still boasted of being a general of the imperial court at that time, how could he accept the assistance of pirates? But within a few days, the news of the defeat of the Liao army came. While scolding the people in Liao Town for being waste, Mao Wenlong could only agree with Shang Yangwu's opinion.

At this time, Chen Cheng had already pacified Jeolla Province, and sent people to recruit more than 600 ronins from Japan to form a Qu army. After receiving Mao Wenlong's letter asking for help, he was not ambiguous, and immediately arrested more than 3,000 two classes of nobles, and escorted weapons, armor and food to the north to support the Dongjiang army.