Chapter 477: Maintaining Stability in Dongjiang Town

In June of the sixth year of Chongzhen's history, he suffered a big loss from Huanglong on the way to Houjin.

A few days after Kong Youde surrendered to Jiannu, he took his headquarters and the Eight Banners cavalry to retaliate, not only seizing Lushunkou, but also killing thousands of Dongjiang Town soldiers below Huanglong.

Now this possibility should be ruled out, with the strength of Kong, Geng and other rebel generals, it should not be an opponent to fight Zhenjiang Fort where Mao Chenglu was stationed.

Besides, the sentinel ship no longer needs to keep an eye on Dengzhou Water City, and Huang Han will change the key reconnaissance location next.

Sentinel ships patrolled the coast of Zhenjiang Fort and Yiju twice a day, and if Dongjiang Town was attacked, the "Red Banner Army" water battalion would be able to rush to the battlefield within two days, and the warships would shell the enemy troops at sea to support Dongjiang Town.

Even if the Jin army only has a symbolic meaning after the artillery is fired at sea, the lethal effect may be zero.

However, the spiritual encouragement brought to the Dongjiang soldiers who held on was not trivial, and their enthusiasm for fighting when they realized that they were not alone would make their combat effectiveness soar too much, and it should not be a problem to repel the attacking enemy.

There is also a reason why Dongjiang Town did not participate in the chaos of Denglai, Emperor Chongzhen once asked Fang Zhenghua and Li Ruolian about the plan, and learned that Huang Long, the chief military officer, had a short time to go to Dongjiang Town, and Jin Sheng, a soldier who was also a newcomer.

Even if these two civil and military generals are loyal to the imperial court, they also need to guard against the fact that the other generals of Dongjiang Town have two hearts, and they must not arrange Dongjiang soldiers to fight the rebels who are also from Dongjiang Town.

Sun Yuanhua ordered Zhang Keda and Zhang Tao to lead the team to attack Li Jiucheng's rebels, which backfired, and more than eighty percent of the Liaodong soldiers defected on the spot, half of whom came from Dongjiang Town.

The result was very tragic, and Geng Zhongming and Chen Guangfu led the former Dongjiang soldiers to defect in Dengzhou City, and under the cooperation of internal and external affairs, Jiancheng and Dacheng Dengzhou were instantly captured by the rebels.

Emperor Chongzhen learned to be obedient, he decided to take precautions, and specially ordered Huang Long and Jin Sheng to pacify the islands under the jurisdiction of Dongjiang Town, and strictly ordered them to strictly guard to ensure that the generals of Dongjiang Town were prevented from leading their subordinates to defect to the rebels.

The grim situation in Denglai also made Huang Long and Jin Sheng sit on pins and needles, after all, the judges there are all from Dongjiang Town without exception, and the old generals of Dongjiang Town during the Mao Wenlong period who got the news inevitably did not want to get involved.

The Dongjiang soldiers rebelled in Wuqiao and swept half of Shandong and had nothing to do with Huanglong and Jin Sheng, and those people no longer belonged to Dongjiang Town, but belonged to the direct jurisdiction of the governor of Denglai.

But they were really worried that the incumbent generals of Dongjiang Town would follow Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde to rebel. Due to the short time he has been in charge of Dongjiang Town, he does not know much about the generals under his command, and he thinks that he has not been able to build trust.

If Dongjiang Town rebelled against anyone after the emperor issued the holy decree, the two of them would be guilty!

Therefore, they were on high alert from beginning to end, fearing chaos, and during this time they did their best to send a lot of food and military salaries to the islands, which were traded with the "Red Banner Army" with timber, medicinal herbs, mountain goods, animal skins, etc.

Originally, in history, Chen Shishi, the deputy general of Lushunkou, and Mao Chenglu, the deputy general of Guangludao, led their men and horses to participate in the Denglai rebellion, and the anxious Huanglong has spared no effort to fight the rebels.

Today's Dongjiang Town is mainly to maintain stability, Huang Long and Jin Sheng concentrated the ships of Dongjiang Town to constantly inspect the islands to show favor to the generals, and did not allow any generals to lead their subordinates to the sea without permission, the purpose was to prevent someone from taking the opportunity to defect to the rebels.

Under the melon field and plums, the old generals of Dongjiang Town also understood better, and chose to cooperate, and tried not to go out of the barracks as much as possible at this delicate moment.

In fact, the emperor and Huang Long and Jin Sheng were purely worried, Mao Wenlong was rehabilitated Zhaoxue, and the knots in Mao Chenglu's heart had already been unraveled.

The story of his wanton slaughter of Jiannu prisoners of war in front of tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians and the infamy of "beheading a hundred people" became a household name, which made the Houjin army want to capture him, and his bones were scattered.

In this case, Mao Chenglu did not have the idea of rebelling and surrendering to Jiannu at all.

The rebel activist Chen sometimes had sacrificed his life for the country as early as the year before last, and Shang Kexi did not participate in the Denglai rebellion at all in history, but surrendered to Houjin after the death of Huanglong in battle, so Dongjiang Town is actually stable and united at present.

Without the appearance of Huanglong and the water camp in Dongjiang Town, the water camp of the "Red Banner Army" ate alone, and under the search and monitoring of sentinel boats and small warships, and under the spontaneous tracking of fishermen, none of the rebel ships that ran away escaped the net, and the calculation of the Denglai rebels ended successfully.

This shot at a critical moment made Huang Han make a windfall, and also made the "Sun and Moon Shipping" 890 more merchant ships and five more three-masted gunboats that could serve in the Liaohai Sea.

The captured warships and merchant ships had to be repaired, especially the No. 2 Fufu ships that had washed on the beach and ran aground.

Fortunately, the Chinese ship has a multi-sealed cabin design that resists sinking, and some of the rebels on the No. 2 Fu ship that ran aground jumped into the sea to escape, and after some of the soldiers who raised their hands to surrender were evacuated, the Fu ship immediately emptied a lot.

Shen Xianyi arranged for sailors and prisoners to board the ship to empty the artillery and belongings, and then carry out simple emergency treatment, so that the ship that ran aground on the reef could basically sail into the Qingniwa dock not too far away for repairs.

In the future, Qingniwa will develop into a shipbuilding base, because there are unique conditions here, at least the timber transportation distance from Dongjiang Town is reduced by 90%, which will save too much cost and labor.

There is another reason that is very important, after all, Tiger's Den City is in Shanhaiguan, and it is too much noise to explain, and the imperial court is already suspicious, what if some people come up with bad ideas and the imperial court will take over the dock of Tiger's Den City?

Turn? Resistance? This means that it is a prelude to a rebellion, and Tiger's Den City will attract many Ming troops to complete the siege, just like the siege of Dengzhou.

This will certainly be an unacceptable result for the "Red Banner Army" system in the great development.

The loss is difficult to estimate, first of all, the investment in the city that never sleeps in Beijing will definitely be confiscated, followed by the coal mines, factories, and workshops in Luanzhou, followed by the more than 2 million mu of tuntian in Yongping Mansion and Funingwei......

There is also a share of Liao's salary that will develop to millions of taels after hundreds of thousands of dollars this year, although Liao's salary is not enough to support the army, but it can also reach a small and half level, and if you turn your face with the imperial court, you will lose this large amount of income at your fingertips every year.

Such a loss was too great, so if the imperial court really wanted to forcibly take over the dock of Tiger's Den City, Huang Han could only take a procrastination decision, and then secretly quickly transfer the equipment and move, and finally leave the imperial court with an ordinary dock to make a difference.

The 1,000 or 2,000 square kilometers of peninsula between Jinzhou and Lushunkou will be operated into an independent kingdom where merchants gather, Qingniwa will be built into the largest military port in the Ming Dynasty, a sailors' school will be established on the shore, and a base camp for sailors will be established.

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