Emperor Ming Fengyunlu

Volume 2 Rampant Qilu

Chapter 1 Overcoming Hardships and Adventures to Seek a Way Home

Section 5 Haizhou Wei

At the end of April of the forty-seventh year of Wanli (the fourth year of the Later Jin Heavenly Mandate), Haizhou Wei.

After more than a day of marching, Liu Yunwei led the Hanwei battalion to the Acropolis of Haizhou. After stopping the army, Liu Yunwei sent Li Tianhao to bring people into the city to hand over the documents, so that he could lead the army into the city to rest.

While waiting for the reply from the guards in the city, Liu Yunwei looked at the tall and majestic Haizhou Acropolis City and sighed: "Although this Haizhou City is only an Acropolis, it is so strong and tall, and it is not inferior to Liaoyang City." ”

Everyone also looked at the city fortifications of Haizhou Wei, and they all thought that Haizhou Weishan could indeed be compared with Liaoyang from a military point of view.

Yuan Mingxuan had been in charge of exploring intelligence under Liu Ling, and he was very familiar with the geography and scenery of Liaodong, and at this time, seeing that everyone was amazed by the tall and majestic Haizhou Wei, he explained to Liu Yunwei and Lu Ying, Wu Xing and others: "Little generals, everyone, this Haizhou Wei was originally Haizhou, and it was placed in the old Chengzhou City at the beginning of the Hongwu period at the beginning of the dynasty. Haizhou Wei north to Liaoyang, northwest of Liaohe River, west of Guangning, southwest to Haikou, due south is Gaizhou Wei, is located in the middle of several strategic places in eastern Liaoning, strategic location is very important. Therefore, the Haizhou Acropolis is tall and well-defended, and it was originally changed to a brick city in the ninth year of Hongwu, and then expanded again in the eighteenth year of Hongwu. Up to now, after several expansions and transformations, the circumference of the Haizhou Acropolis Pool is six miles and fifty-three steps and three feet (about 3,320 meters), and the city wall is three feet high and four feet (about 11.6 meters high); there are four city gates, namely the Zhenwu Gate in the east, the Guangwei Gate in the south, the Linqing Gate in the west and the Laiyuan Gate in the north. ”

After listening, everyone was amazed.

Liu Yunwei said: "Although the battle of Liaodong was defeated, most of the cities in Liaodong were built tall and strong, as long as the defenders were ordered and defended properly, it was not impossible to resist Jiannu. ”

The crowd agreed.

After chatting for a while, Liu Yunwei saw Li Tianhao coming back from the city with people. When he got to him, Liu Yunwei asked, "What do the city guards say?" ”

Li Tianhao said: "Big brother, Zhao Shoubei of Haizhou Wei has already inspected the official documents, agreed that we will go to the city to rest, and let me tell the eldest brother to let us go directly to the school field in the city to station." ”

"Okay." Liu Yunwei said: "Lu Ying, you and Wu Xing and Kaishan will go to the school to settle down, and I will take Tianhao and Poyu to meet the garrison Lord Zhao; Lord Yuan, please contact Cheng Shiyong Baihu, and we will set off early tomorrow morning. ”

Everyone received orders one after another, Lu Ying and the three of them directly led the army into the city to the school field, and Yuan Mingxuan also took a few of his subordinates into the city to find Cheng Shiyong, leaving only Liu Yunwei, Wen Poyu, and Li Tianhao with ten personal guards to stay in place.

Li Tianhao said: "Big brother, let's go into the city." ”

Liu Yunwei looked at the sunset that dyed the sky red, and said, "It's getting dark, I don't know when I will be able to come back and enjoy the sunset in Liaodong." ”

Li Tianhao and Wen Poyu both felt a trace of sadness when they heard this, and persuaded one after another: "Big brother, we are just leaving temporarily, and sooner or later we will return to Liaodong one day!" ”

Liu Yunwei smiled bitterly and said, "Do you think I'm old?" It's okay to say this. Let's go, let's go into town. ”

After speaking, Liu Yunwei rode his horse into the city, and Li Tianhao and Wen Poyu glanced at each other and followed with their own guards.

Liu Yunwei and his entourage rode horses and walked down the street, only to see that most of the shops on both sides of the street were closed, and the pedestrians seemed to be in a hurry, as if they didn't want to stay too much on the street. Seeing Liu Yunwei and more than a dozen heavily armed generals passing by, the people on the street all avoided one after another, looking very frightened, but their expressions were a little angry and dissatisfied.

"What's going on with this Haizhou Wei? The shops in the city stopped doing business just in the evening? Li Tianhao looked around and said in wonder.

Wen Poyu said: "Also, big brother, Tianhao, look at those people, why do they all seem to have a holiday with us?" ”

Liu Yunwei was also very depressed when he saw this, and said, "Po Yu, find someone to ask." ”

Wen Poyu answered, and left with two guards. Liu Yunwei and Li Tianhao continued to walk towards the garrison yamen with the remaining personal guards.

After crossing a street corner, Wen Poyu led someone to catch up and said, "Big brother, I've asked clearly." The news of the defeat of the national dynasty has spread all over Haizhouwei, and now there is any news in the city: Jiannu went south, the official army fled, and some people even said that the official army was burned and looted everywhere. It seems that these people are afraid that they have been deceived by rumors. ”

Liu Yunwei's face turned pale, and he said: "The people in the city are in turmoil, how can the government sit idly by?" ”

"Humph!" Wen Poyu said angrily: "I just asked a magistrate who calmed his subordinates, eldest brother, you haven't seen the virtue of the magistrate, you look like you're waiting for death, but now the people in the city are in turmoil, but he doesn't care, and he also said that the civil and military officials in the city don't have time to take care of these trivial matters!" ”

"Bastard!" Liu Yunwei said: "How can the matter of people's hearts be a trivial matter! Now that people's hearts are in turmoil, if he comes to attack Rijiannu, won't this Haizhou Wei be crushed at the touch of a button! No matter how easy it is to defend and difficult to attack, what is the use of having such officials to govern! ”

Wen Poyu and Li Tianhao were also angry.

In this way, the group chatted angrily from time to time while hurrying, and it didn't take long for them to come to the gate of the garrison yamen in a rage.

Liu Yunwei took a deep breath and said, "Okay, let's not talk about it, let's meet the garrison, go back quickly when it's over, and leave Haizhou Wei early tomorrow morning." ”

That night, Haizhou Health School Field.

The soldiers of the Hanwei Battalion were eating dinner at this time, and the whole school was filled with a strong smell of rice.

At this time, in a hall on the school grounds, Liu Yunwei sat in the room snoring and panting, Yuan Mingxuan, Lu Ying, Wu Xing, Li Tianhao, Wen Poyu, Zhao Kaishan and others sat on the side, seeing that everyone's faces were the same as Liu Yunwei, very angry.

Lu Ying said: "Big brother, the brothers arrived at the school in the evening, but until now, we haven't seen anyone from Haizhou Wei to replenish our food and grass. I took someone to ask the grain supervisor for it, but the grain supervisor said that Haizhou Wei had no surplus grain, and we had to solve it ourselves! I had no choice but to use the food we brought with the army first. ”

Zhao Kaishan also said angrily: "Big brother, you haven't seen the appearance of the grain officer, I can't wait to punch it!" Imperial court system: In case of a guest army crossing the border, the city must provide the food and grass required by the guest army. The grain supervisor not only violated the regulations and refused to distribute food, but also said ugly things on the side, saying that a group of defeated soldiers like us still have the face to come here to fight the autumn wind! ”

Everyone was furious after hearing this, and Liu Yunwei was also furious, and said: "It's hateful that the soldiers killed Hu in blood, and they were humiliated by such villains!" Outrageous! ”

Yuan Mingxuan thought for a moment and said, "Little General, I think it's better to send someone to inform the garrison Lord Zhao about this matter and see what he has to say." At the same time, I told Lord Zhao about the victory of Anshan Station obtained by my Hanwei camp, maybe things will take a turn for the better. ”

Liu Yunwei nodded and said, "I only cared about business with Lord Zhao during the day, how could I have thought that such a thing would happen." Tianhao, you can take someone for a trip. ”

Li Tianhao said: "I'll go now." After speaking, Li Tianhao left.

After that, Liu Yunwei asked, "Lord Yuan, how did you talk to Cheng Baihu?" ”

"It's been negotiated, Cheng Shiyong will come to the school early tomorrow morning to find us, and then go south to Lushun with the army."

"Good!" Liu Yunwei said: "When I see Cheng Baihu tomorrow, I will definitely thank you." ”

Yuan Mingxuan said: "I don't think it's necessary to thank me, the little general might as well let Cheng Shiyong go to Sichuan with us." ”

Everyone was taken aback when they heard this, and Liu Yunwei also asked suspiciously: "Lord Yuan means that Cheng Baihu wants to take refuge in us?" ”

Yuan Mingxuan nodded and said, "This friend of mine is very depressed as an official in Haizhou. It stands to reason that whether it is ability or merit, Cheng Shiyong can be promoted to a thousand households, but because he has no money to run the relationship, he is honest and will not be an official, so he has been working in the position of a hundred households for ten years, but he has not been promoted. Therefore, as soon as I found him to talk about going to Lushun, Cheng Shiyong proposed to me that he would abandon his official position and join us. I don't know what the little general means. ”

Liu Yunwei said with a smile: "This journey is also resolute, since you look up to me Liu Yunwei so much, then go back to Sichuan with us tomorrow." ”

Lu Ying, Wen Poyu and others also congratulated Liu Yunwei on the addition of new cadres, and everyone talked casually. After a while, Li Tianhao pushed the door and entered the house, with a smile on his face.

Liu Yunwei saw that Li Tianhao was in a good mood, so he knew that he must have gained something from going to Zhao Shoubei, so he asked, "How is Tianhao?" Then Zhao Shoubei is bloody? ”

Li Tianhao said triumphantly: "Big brother, don't worry, I, Li Tianhao, will never return empty-handed!" ”

Zhao Kaishan smiled and said: "That's for sure, my brother Tianhao was born as the king of the mountain, and he was going to pluck the goose!" ”

Everyone immediately burst into laughter, Li Tianhao himself laughed, and casually punched Zhao Kaishan, and then said: "Big brother, as soon as I went, the garrison Lord Zhao also tactfully shirked the lack of food in his hands, let us think of a way by ourselves." Then I told the story of our Hanwei battalion's defeat of Zhengbaiqi Jiannu at Anshan Station, and said that the Tang newspaper of the imperial court would be sent down soon. Didn't you see it, then Zhao Shoubei's face suddenly changed after hearing this, and he said good things to me one by one, and promised to send us two hundred stones of grain early tomorrow morning. ”

Zhao Kaishan said: "It's really strange, why did the garrison immediately change their faces as soon as they heard that we had won the battle?" ”

Yuan Mingxuan explained: "This is not surprising, we have achieved this great victory in Anshan Station in the context of the defeat of the dynasty, if nothing else, the imperial court will definitely reward the reward, and the promotion of the little general is an ironclad matter." So the garrison is unwilling to offend the leading generals who are about to be promoted for a little food, this is officialdom. ”

Liu Yunwei shook his head and said, "If all the generals are proud to be proficient in such officialdom, then can he still fight?" How can such a general lead the army undefeated! ”

Everyone was silent.