The fourth volume of the sharp blade out of the sheath Shenzhou moves

With the progress of the war situation in Liaodong, this war has increasingly restricted the attention of everyone in the Ming Dynasty.

In particular, Emperor Chongzhen's edict to the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty to fully cooperate, and the governor of Jiliao, Hong Chengchou, temporarily belonged to Qin Haoming's moderation, which pushed the matter to the peak.

As a party concerned, when Hong Chengchou received this holy decree, he also felt incredible.

However, after all, he is an actor-level figure, so he quickly adjusted his mentality, patted his chest on the chest of the palace eunuch who came to deliver the decree, and promised that he would fully cooperate with Qin Du Yunyun.

In fact, if you put aside Hong Chengchou's shameful traitorous behavior of later defecting to Jiannu, to be fair, he is one of the capable ministers in the late Ming Dynasty.

Hong Chengchou was born in Nan'an County, Quanzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province, and unlike many Ming Dynasty scholars, his family background was not prominent, and he was even quite poor, and he was forced to drop out of school when he was a child who needed to sell dried tofu to supplement his family.

Later, he was able to continue his studies because he was supported by someone who recognized his talent.

At the age of 23, Hong Chengchou was promoted to the rank of senator, and at the age of 35, he was promoted to the senator of the grain road.

As of the second year of Chongzhen, Hong Chengchou's officialdom career was generally stable, although he was promoted, but it was not fast.

According to the general law, he should be able to return to his hometown as a small and small official. But at this point, the opportunity came.

With the rebellion of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, the Ming Dynasty had to deal with the emerging threat of Jiannu on the one hand, and various peasant uprisings on the other side were surging, which made the imperial court anxious.

As for how to deal with the rebels, the imperial court has always advocated pacification and extermination, and Hong Chengchou is a resolute main suppression faction.

Hong Chengchou is almost unmatched in his resoluteness and decisiveness in suppressing bandits.

Two years after Chongzhen, he has been traveling to Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and other places, and has taken measures to completely annihilate the peasant rebels, and even killed and surrendered, with outstanding results.

In the ninth year of Chongzhen, after capturing and killing Gao Yingxiang and defeating Li Zicheng, Hong Chengchou was awarded the military secretary of the military department and the right deputy governor of the imperial history Ji Liao military affairs by Emperor Chongzhen, reaching his peak in the Ming officialdom.

But such a person surrendered to Jiannu after the Battle of Songjin, which made the world scold.

Not to mention his later life, after Hong Chengchou received the holy decree, although he felt very uncomfortable, he still took action.

The next day, he went out to check the combat readiness, and when he reached the border, all the horse teams stopped.

Hong Chengchou also rode a horse in Jiliao, which was completely different from the gentle and elegant when he was in Beijing.

When he was in Jingshi, he was a lecturer, a Hanlin, and a well-known member of the Donglin Party, and it was necessary to maintain proper pomp and show, and he himself would not resist.

In Jiliao, Hong Chengchou has to travel hundreds of miles at every turn, and the military situation is urgent, how can he have time to walk slowly in a sedan chair.

The nostrils of the war horse were puffing, and the horse was dripping with sweat.

However, no one noticed the situation of the war horse, and people's eyes were attracted by something else.

Lianshan Post was burned down during the last Jianyu invasion, and Jiliao's post station was often uninhabited for hundreds of miles because it was almost barren in the entire eastern part of Liaodong.

In the era of the Mengyuan Dynasty, the Han people in Liaodong were either killed or went to Korea, and after the success of the Ming Dynasty's restoration, there were no Han people in Liaodong, and of course there were no Mongols.

The post stations and military forts built in a barren state were very large, and each post station had to ensure basic defense capabilities and a large number of military horses.

There are more people and horses, and the post station is almost a small military fortress, at least in military terms, the post station of Jiliao is much more important than some chimneys.

On the basis of a blank space there was a small barracks, garrisoned by a garrison of about four hundred men, including more than a hundred cavalry.

The head of the post station did not want to put the soldiers here to die, but the front-line garrison, which can be regarded as a kind of early warning and delay.

There are a large number of materials piled up in the small barracks of Lianshanyi, and it has not rained for more than half a month recently, and the most important military food has not been placed in the house, but is piled up on the school yard, and it is simply covered with some tarpaulins.

In addition, there are all kinds of military supplies, bows, lacquer, tendons, arrows, tail feathers, knives, cards, forks, sticks, guns, all placed all over the ground.

A few auxiliaries were packing up their bows and arrows, taking off the tendons of the bows and relaxing, drying them and then putting them on and polishing their weapons.

Although the barracks looked chaotic, the least thing that should be done was still being done, and the guards and the others all glanced at the pale guard......

Hong Chengchou suddenly attacked and came to inspect without prior notice, which scared this guy terribly.

After all, the storage of military supplies and food, including the reconnaissance of the traveling sentinels, and the defense of the camp, these things were not done well.

There were a large number of supplies and soldiers stationed in the dozens of military forts built in Jiliao, but Hong Chengchou's wishes were all in vain.

A few years later, when Huang Taiji's troops came to attack, almost none of the military forts put up the resistance they deserved.

The soldiers and generals gave up the vast amount of military supplies in the fort, although this was conjured up by the imperial court by snatching food from the vast number of peasants through several additional endowments, and they fled, leaving behind their responsibilities and territories, and giving the vast amount of supplies to the enemy in vain.

At this time, Hong Chengchou's focus was not on the military assets that were placed at random, his eyes were on the opposite side of Lianshan Station.

I don't know when a wooden city rose on the other side.

It is still a slight exaggeration to say that it is a "city", but it is definitely much larger than the military camp on the destroyed Lianshan Station.

The point is that this wooden city is all made of large logs, like a tall wooden wall.

There was a sharpened giant wood at the base of the wall, a trench had been dug around the perimeter, and horses had been put away, and there was a black light flickering on the ground, apparently sprinkled with a lot of thistles.

Of course, such a defense is still worse than a regular military fort, but it is not far off.

The wooden fort built on the side of the road actually has a temporary passage, there are several large cars in and out, a gate is opened to the side of the official road, and there are two arrow towers.

Several blue-robed soldiers stood guard on the arrow tower with firearms, and a small group of people stood at the door, obviously guarding the wooden gate.

Hong Chengchou didn't say anything just now, turned his head to the garrison and said, "Look at it, how can other people's soldiers be more tightly organized than your barracks?" ”

The garrison was sweating profusely, so he had to kneel down and plead guilty.

Hong Chengchou frowned and said, "When was this wooden camp built?" ”

"Back to the Overseer," replied the guard, kneeling on the ground and tilting his face, "I just got it yesterday." ”

"What?"

"I took it yesterday." The guard said solemnly: "The last general is also very admired."

They passed by in the morning and sent some sappers to repair a few sections of the road. Later, it was said that a military station should be built here, to stock up on some supplies and to serve as a simple defense of the retreat route.

At that time, three or four hundred people came, all kinds of tools were available, and the carriages of the big cars were dismantled to pull wood, and it was enough for dozens of cars to pull a few times.

The last general sent people to see them, and their saws were good, and there were machetes, knives, and axes, and they were cut quickly and well.

When I got here, I started to build the camp, and when the plan was outdated, the camp was repaired in two hours, and I built more than a dozen large rooms to put things in it......"

After Hong Chengchou heard this, the expression on his face could only be stunned.

No one would have imagined that such a serious wooden city in front of them would be built in less than a day.

And it's just an ordinary military station for transshipment and storage of materials, and it's also a simple defense facility to prevent the pursuit of Jiannu or a sneak attack.