On the seaside, Mao Wenlong, who was about to step on the boat, seemed to feel something, and he looked back in the direction of Tieshan City.

Mao Youjun's face that swore to death resurfaced in the bottom of Mao Wenlong's heart.

It is indeed a good son of the Dongjiang Army!

"Hurry up and find out who the enemy is?" Mao Wenlong's face was gloomy and he commanded.

Returning to his boat, Mao Wenlong's heart settled down, and his mind became much clearer.

How long has it been since the Dongjiang Army has been fighting a serious battle?

Such a question suddenly popped out of Mao Wenlong's mind.

The Dongjiang Army wanted to make the imperial court look at it differently, and it was not enough to harass Houjin, but it was necessary to fight a tough battle.

The main force of Houjin went to attack Yizhou, and it was only a partial division that came to attack Tieshan.

If Mao Youjun can temporarily hold Iron Mountain and frustrate the spirit of the Houjin Division, and then the main force of Houjin can't rush to Tieshan, then the main force of the Dongjiang Army will pass through from the periphery, maybe ......

Thinking of this possibility, Mao Wenlong's eyes became extremely bright.

Perhaps, maybe this is one of the best opportunities for the Dongjiang Army to prove itself.

Inspired by Mao Youjun's spirit of sacrificing himself to die, Mao Wenlong's heart rose with an idea that he had never had before.

With a decision in his heart, Mao Wenlong quickly wrote a few letters.

"Someone."

Mao Wenlong shouted: "Pass on Lao Tzu's military order, and the departments of Shang Kexi, Geng Zhongming, Kong Youde, and Mao Chengzuo must come here to gather within three days." ”

Seeing the guards take the order to leave, Mao Wenlong muttered with the last letter in his hand.

After muttering in his heart for a long time, Mao Wenlong gritted his teeth and ordered: "Come on, send this letter to General Shen of Guanglu Island, and ask him to come and help quickly." ”

After muttering this for a long time, Mao Wenlong had already figured it out in his heart. If the Dongjiang Army really wanted to make a name for himself in Tieshan, he still really needed Shen Yourong's help.

The Dongjiang Army is not too short of manpower now, and if Mao Wenlong pulls out all the main forces, there will still be 30,000 or 40,000 people.

It's just that, compared to the number of soldiers, the food, grass and ordnance of the Dongjiang Army are really not enough.

In case of a stalemate, or even an unfavorable battle situation, then Mao Wenlong really needs Shen Yourong's help.

Only Shen Yourong, who holds most of the Denglai naval army, has enough money, food, ordnance and ships to solve Mao Wenlong's worries.

Therefore, no matter how much Mao Wenlong wanted to correct the name of the Dongjiang Army, he did not dare to pin all his hopes on Mao Youjun alone.

Mao Wenlong has already decided, anyway, Houjin has no water army, so he is not in a hurry to leave first. He was on the boat to deal with Iron Mountain City, and to observe and assess the combat strength of the Tartars who came to attack them.

Sending out the letter asking for help, Mao Wenlong sat back in his chair, and his heart became extremely heavy.

In Mao Wenlong's battle plan, Mao Youjun would have to hold Iron Mountain City for at least 5 days.

In these 5 days, the first 3 days were used by Mao Wenlong to gather the main force, and the last 2 days were the time to attack the Houjin Tartars with Tieshan City as the axis.

If Iron Mountain City, which is the center of the battle, cannot be defended, then all of Mao Wenlong's ideas are just a utopian dream.

Mao Wenlong didn't know if Shen Yourong would come to help him.

To be honest, the relationship between him Mao Wenlong and Shen Yourong is really not good.

However, Mao Wenlong dared to pat his chest and say that he and Shen Yourong had no personal contradictions.

If you want to talk about the relationship between Mao Wenlong and Shen Yourong, you have to start with the boss of the two, Yuan Keli.

Yuan Keli, 64 years old, a native of Suizhou, Henan, is a Jinshi in the 37th year of Wanli.

After entering the Jinshi, Yuan Keli served as a magistrate in Suzhou, supervised the imperial history of Shanxi Province, and after entering Beijing, he served as the Shaoqing of Taifu Temple, and the secretary of the general administration left the government.

In the second year of the Apocalypse, on the recommendation of Sun Chengzong, Yuan Keli took over as the governor of Denglai.

Mao Wenlong and Shen Yourong began to accept Yuan Keli's moderation from then on.

Compared with Tao Langxian, the previous governor of Denglai, who was greedy and inactive, even if he was as unruly as Mao Wenlong, he had to admit that Yuan Keli, the current governor of Denglai, was a good official.

Since Yuan Keli took office, he has been defended by Mao Wenlong.

Mao Wenlong was able to be promoted to the governor of Zuodu and the chief military officer of Pingliao so quickly, and it would have been impossible without Yuan Keli's maintenance.

Although Yuan Keli defended Mao Wenlong in many ways, there was one thing that Mao Wenlong had always been very dissatisfied with him.

That is the food and salary of the Dongjiang Army.

In fact, Mao Wenlong also knew that since Yuan Keli took office, Denglai had not deducted the food and salary of Dongjiang Town.

Compared with the greedy and inactive Tao Lang who came first, Yuan Keli is definitely much better. It's just that good people can't let Dongjiang Town survive safely.

Since the opening of Dongjiang Town in the first year of the Apocalypse, the Dongjiang Army has faced the threat of Houjin.

In Mao Wenlong's view, in the face of Houjin, Dongjiang Town must have a certain number of people in addition to soldiers.

For this reason, Dongjiang Town accepted a large number of Han Chinese who fled from the Later Jin.

Like the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Dongjiang Town accepted nearly 100,000 refugees from Liaodong in one year.

With such a staggering influx of refugees, who will afford the money, food and materials needed by Dongjiang Town?

Yuan Keli hoped to transfer all the refugees from Liaodong to Denglai for resettlement, while Mao Wenlong advocated that the strong refugees stay on Phi Island as people's husbands.

Forced by Mao Wenlong's strong request, Yuan Keli finally had no choice but to acquiesce.

But the problem is that the food and salary allocated by the imperial court to Dongjiang Town are not counted at all.

The food and salary allocated by the imperial court, even if it is saved, can only meet one-third of the needs of Dongjiang Town. The remaining gap can only be solved by Mao Wenlong.

For this reason, Mao Wenlong was very unhappy.

In order to solve the food and salary in Dongjiang Town, Mao Wenlong adopted several methods that could not be put on the table. Like privately asking for food from North Korea; privately engaged in trade with North Korea on Phi Dao; He even added a lot of water to the report.

But Mao Wenlong didn't expect that Yuan Keli was very tolerant of everything else in Dongjiang Town, but he was very serious about reviewing the documents.

This made it even more difficult for Mao Wenlong to accept.

In Mao Wenlong's opinion, who in the Ming Dynasty has no water?

Why did you Yuan Keli grasp Dongjiang Town so carefully?

Isn't this obviously deliberately targeting him Mao Wenlong?

Like Phi Dao, a place where birds don't, if you don't rely on the report documents to make some extra money, what will he Mao Wenlong use to support a large number of soldiers and civilians in Dongjiang Town?

Relying on the little food and salary allocated by the imperial court?

Joke.

If the imperial court allocates enough food and salary to Dongjiang Town, does he Mao Wenlong still need to mix that much water?

For Yuan Keli's good news of mixing water, Mao Wenlong complained several times, and even publicly attacked Yuan Keli for being unfair.

Although Yuan Keli didn't bother with Mao Wenlong about these things, they have deeply damaged the personal relationship between the two.

Later, due to the trade between Phi Dao and North Korea, some people accused Mao Wenlong of opening a horse market on Phi Dao without permission and making personal friends with the state.

Mao Wenlong felt even more wronged.

Mao Wenlong didn't understand why it was so difficult for him to do something in Dongjiang Town.

Dongjiang Town can survive so many soldiers and civilians now, and it is not all dependent on his Mao Wenlong's trade with North Korea to survive.

When he mentioned these things, Mao Wenlong was full of resentment, and he was full of resentment towards Yuan Keli.

Mao Wenlong also heard that the imperial court was going to send Wenchen to Dongjiang Town as a supervisor.

Mao Wenlong immediately refused.

What are those Wenchens, Mao Wenlong still doesn't know?

Those Wenchen were either nerds like Yuan Yingtai or corrupt people like Tao Langxian.

The best Wenchen is a good person like Yuan Keli, but even if Yuan Keli is a good Wenchen, isn't he dissatisfied with Dongjiang Town?

If you really let those Wenchens who are not as good as Yuan Keli come to Dongjiang Town, then he Mao Wenlong will not do anything, and he will be busy fighting all day long.

Since he rejected Wenchen's supervision of the army, Mao Wenlong felt that he and Yuan Keli were becoming more and more estranged.

Shen Yourong and Mao Wenlong do not have a personal enmity, but Shen Yourong is Yuan Keli's first iron. Shen Yourong, who is sitting on Guanglu Island, can also greatly restrict Phi Dao as well as Phi Dao.

Therefore, it is strange that Shen Yourong and Mao Wenlong have a good relationship.

Now at this critical moment, whether Shen Yourong will come to help, Mao Wenlong is really not the slightest sure.

Mao Wenlong didn't know that if it weren't for Zhu Youzhen coming to this era, Yuan Keli would have left Denglai as early as the fourth year of the Apocalypse because of his Mao Wenlong's complaints and attacks.

Following Yuan Keli, Shen Yourong also resigned and returned to his hometown.

Without Yuan Keli's mediation and protection, there was no Shen Yourong's response and restraint in Guanglu Island.

Mao Wenlong, who was lonely overseas, Mao Wenlong, who dared to write to drive away the governor, and Mao Wenlong, who refused to accept the imperial court supervision, became a thorn in the heart of the imperial court.

Mao Wenlong, who had no imperial court, did not listen to the edicts, privately recruited troops, raised his own food and salary, and had a serious tendency to divide the feudal towns, in the eyes of the court's ministers, had become an enemy far more dangerous than Houjin.

At that time, Mao Wenlong successfully became a thorn in the flesh that the Ming court must get rid of.

And this time and space, under the mediation of Yuan Keli and the restraint of Shen Yourong, although Mao Wenlong still seems unruly, in the eyes of the imperial court, it is not far to the point of thorns in the flesh.

In this era with the existence of Zhu Youzhen, the maritime defense line of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty was still a whole.

In the face of Houjin's attack on Tieshan, Daming still had the strength to fight.