Five thousand officers and men of Phi Dao landed near the mouth of the Yalu River and got into the gap in the deployment of the Jurchen army, unaware of it.

The stronghold of the Jurchen people, after being bombed and destroyed by the Hongtang Navy fleet again and again, has long been fragmented, and there are loopholes everywhere, so that the soldiers of Hongtang can easily go deep.

"My lord, what is our goal this time?"

Geng Zhongming's subordinate general, relying on his closeness as Geng Zhongming's confidant, asked with his face on his face.

"Hmph, won't you know then?"

Geng Zhongming, as the commander of this battle, was also tight-mouthed, and directly rolled his eyes and scolded the generals back when they were close to the generals.

"Oh!"

He turned his head with a grin, and continued to gag with his brothers without a heart, without the slightest hint of the tension before the battle.

This seems to be the norm for Hongtang soldiers, because of their confidence in their fighting strength, they never have any psychological fluctuations because of the nervousness and excitement before the battle.

"It's to the ground!!"

Geng Zhongming took out the exquisite map in his hand, which is a battlefield map that belongs to the Hongtang army at a glance on this map, which has been wandering in the mountains and forests since these days, combined with the original official map, and many terrains and terrain can be seen at a glance on this map.

"Let the brethren all hide and rest, and don't make a noise!"

After looking around, Geng Zhongming was sure that he had reached his destination, a forest with a rudimentary mountain path, surrounded by dense forests, a tributary of the Yalu River on the left, and a steep cliff on the right.

It is an extremely suitable place for yin people, but it is also an extremely hidden smuggling channel in the border of eastern Liaodong.

The information passed on from my hometown last time was actually the information of the merchants who purchased a large number of arms from Dayuan Island some time ago, and the leaders behind these merchants were all the Qing Kingdom in the icy land of Liaodong.

Huang Taiji is not a stubborn king, after suffering countless times of firearms, their attention to firearms is gradually increasing, but because of the unstable foundation of their own firearms, there is no expert in this area, and there is a lack of important materials such as iron tools, they can only buy arms for them through the Jin merchants and other merchants who have taken refuge in them.

It's just that although they have been extremely secretive, the movement of their arms purchase has long been in the eyes and ears of the Hongmen internal and external guard intelligence system.

As an open port, Hongmen did not make too much trouble for the merchants who were actually behind the Qing Dynasty in terms of procurement, except for delaying some time, but there was no other action.

If you think that Hongmen is really good and can be deceived because of this, then I am afraid that the simplest people in this era may have thoughts, even Li Tianyang himself will not believe that he will be such an upright person.

After collecting resources and intelligence such as the other party's caravan, it is obviously not Li Tianyang and Hongmen's style to do something, even if Hongmen himself does not make a move, but with the chess pieces they have laid out in the north and south of the river, as long as they take it out with a word, there will naturally be someone who can sell it against their target.

Just like the object of Hongmen's attention now, the caravan that has just purchased more than ten artillery pieces and thousands of muskets in Keelung Town, Dayuan Island, more than a month ago.

Today, Geng Zhongming's target is this caravan that has been smuggled along the smuggling route hidden in the mountains and forests of the eastern Liaodong border pass, and transports the firearms that were finally purchased from Dayuan Island in the south to Liaodong.

In order to ensure the safety of this caravan, after purchasing this batch of firearms from Dayuan Island, the caravan not only transported the materials to the inland of Fujian and used sea ships to transport them, even if they knew that the north was in turmoil at this time, they did not dare to use sea transportation to transport these materials to the north.

At this time, Hongmen's strength at sea was too strong, and the principals of this caravan, as well as the real masters behind them, the Qing Kingdom, did not dare to risk the arms they had managed to raise funds to procure, so they could only use camel caravans and other methods to transport them to the north.

Along the way, this caravan has experienced countless difficulties, but fortunately, the residual power and connections of several major families of the Jin merchants are still alive, and the materials needed by the Qing Dynasty in recent years have basically been sent through these secret channels.

The Hongmen guards have been paying attention to the movements of the Qing people in the north, and they will naturally not be less likely to explore their various channels in the Ming Dynasty, and they have known a lot of hidden smuggling channels of the other party in the past few years.

For Li Tianyang and Hongmen, the battle between the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty made him more profitable, so even though the Hongmen guards had collected a lot of smuggling channels in the Qing Dynasty, in the end, except for Hongmen's own people, they never handed it over to the Ming Dynasty government and asked it to send troops to destroy it.

Until now, Hongmen informed Shang Kexi of the intelligence system of one of the caravans, and asked him to pick up this bargain, first, to make the Qing Dynasty lose a large amount of materials and silver, and secondly, to fill the materials of Shang Kexi in Dongjiang Town, enhance their own strength, kill two birds with one stone, why not do it!

"General, someone's coming!!"

After Geng Zhongming and the others lay in ambush in this well-selected mountain forest for three days, this group of long-overdue targets finally appeared in the eyes of the scouts and reported to Geng Zhongming.

"Cheer Up the Brethren!!"

Geng Zhongming's spirit was shocked when he heard this, he was bitten by mosquitoes and flies in this mountain forest for several days, and finally waited for the target in the sun and rain, how not to make him excited: "What is the number of people on the other side?" What is the cargo of horses? ”

"There are more than 1,000 people and more than 500 horses!!"

The scout reported the information he had obtained to Geng Zhongming, who compared it with the information he had obtained, then slapped his thigh and said, "That's right, it's them!! ”

While speaking, the southern part of the mountain forest has begun to appear sparsely neighing and neighing, and the five thousand soldiers of Hongtang have lurked on the high places of the mountains, quietly and silently, waiting for the other party to enter the urn.

"Kill !!"

Seeing that the other party was approaching the encirclement step by step, Geng Zhongming seized the opportunity and shouted, and the five thousand soldiers hiding left and right suddenly jumped up and rushed towards the target under his feet.

(End of chapter)