From Changsheng Island to Lushun in winter, Li Huaixuan and his entourage stepped on the ice and stepped on the sea, crossed the middle island, Chahe Island, Jinzhou Bay first arrived in Jinzhou, and then went to Lushun through Nanguan, all the way to the frost, snow and rain, lasted three days, after several tribulations, and finally arrived at the city of Lushun.

When crossing the Nanguan, Li Huaixuan, who received Yang Wenli's special advice, had an extra heart, he did not report his name, but turned into an ordinary messenger and crossed the city.

On the afternoon of the third day, Li Huaixuan and his entourage, who had traveled a long distance, took a big mouthful of white mist from their mouths, and looked at the high head of Lushun City in front of them, but they didn't even see the shadow of a soldier, like a ghost town, only the Ming army flag was hunting in the cold north wind.

Since knowing that Nanguan is already the territory of the Black Armor Army, there is no pressure to defend the city, and the Lushun Ming Army has relaxed its defense.

"Help me call the door," Li Huaixuan ordered the soldiers beside him.

"Yes" A clever private answered, then opened his throat and shouted: "Listen to the people in the city, we are the messengers of the Black Armor Army, if you have something to find you, General Zhang, please open the door and let me go in." ”

On this empty afternoon, the soldier's voice was so loud that in a few moments someone came up to inspect the wall.

When he saw that there were only five people, and they were not in Tartar attire, he replied casually: "You wait, I will pass it on to my superiors." ”

The Black Armor Army may not be clear to other Ming armies, but the Lushun Ming Army can be clear, it is considered a friendly army, but it is not a Ming army, and it needs the approval of the superior to let it go.

The news has been reported to the deputy general's mansion, naturally there is no problem, Zhang Pan also sent a staff member to respond, and the courtesy is very thoughtful.

Lushun City is not big, compared to the two acropolis of Jinfu, in the Ming Dynasty Liaodu Weidu commanded Ye Wang, Ma Yun two generals led the army to land in the lion's mouth, changed the lion's mouth to Lushunkou, immediately ordered the sergeant "trees for the fence", built a wooden gate city, after the Yongle year ten years before changing to the brick city, at the beginning only the north city, and later added the south city, after the five years of the Apocalypse Tartars broke through the Lushun, and destroyed the north city, now only the south city remains.

Lushun is now a thorough military city, there are no civilians, although Zhang Pan said that he is a deputy general, but he actually only led more than 3,000 soldiers, which is equivalent to the post of a guerrilla general, so the small Nancheng is enough.

Under the leadership of Mr. Li, Zhang Pan's staff, several people walked through the streets and alleys, turned around, and came to a somewhat dilapidated official office, with a plaque on the door, written in three large characters in gold script "Deputy General's Mansion".

Several guards were politely invited to the side hall to drink tea, and Mr. Li only took Li Huaixuan, the main master, into the lobby, Li Huaixuan saw that there was already a high-ranking military attache wearing a black gauze hat, wearing a crimson official robe, and a jade belt around his waist, sitting on the Taishi chair in the middle of the hall, and he expected that this must be Zhang Pan. So he folded his hands and bowed down and said: "General Zhang, Li Huaixuan, the head of the logistics department of the Black Armor Army, is now on the order of my commander, and has come to negotiate and request to use the military port to dock and unload goods......

"What? Borrowing a military port? What do you mean? Zhang Pan was very unhappy with this unreasonable request from the military port, and he hurriedly interrupted and asked questions one after another.

"Our army has five merchant ships that go to Dongying to trade, but they can't go to Changsheng Island due to the freezing of the sea, and my commander wants to use Port Arthur, an ice-free port, to unload their goods, I wonder if the general can agree?" Li Huaixuan explained in detail.

"Huh! What is My Word? It turned out that several merchant ships wanted to unload their cargo, which is no problem, our two armies are friendly forces, so we should help each other. ”

Hearing that there were only five merchant ships, Zhang Pan was greatly relieved, and he agreed with a smile. If it were other armies, he would definitely suspect bad intentions, but the Black Armor Army would not, because they had the strength to defeat Lushun, and they didn't need to use intrigue at all.

"So, thank you General Zhang." Li Huaixuan happily bowed again and thanked him. Then he begged: "General Zhang, the five merchant ships of our army are still anchored in the sea off Arthur, I don't know the situation, please borrow the boats, and send soldiers to inform them." ”

"It's a small thing, but it's just a gesture." Zhang Pan smiled indifferently, waved his hand and said, he immediately ordered the generals of the army: "General Wang, take the warrant of the general, and bring a member of General Li's entourage to handle this matter, there must be no mistake." ”

"Yes," the king commanded, kneeling down on one knee.

Since he has sold face, he might as well be more considerate, anyway, he is just a matter of mouth, Zhang Pan knows that he has to ask for help from the Black Armor Army a lot, so he is so enthusiastic and generous.

"Mr. Li, please be seated!"

"Someone, serve tea to the guests."

After the matter was done, Zhang Pan greeted politely. He wants to talk to him well and inquire about the current situation of the Black Armor Army.

"Thank you, General Zhang! In the future, we will send soldiers back to Changsheng Island and send people to help transport the goods, General Zhang can rest assured that we will transport the goods outside the city first, and will not cause trouble to General Zhang. ”

"Please," Zhang Pan said understandingly.

After a while, Li Huaixuan turned back to the lobby and sat down to drink tea with peace of mind, and only then did he kindly want to wake up Zhang Pan and said: "General Zhang, our army will abandon Jinfu Erzhou in a few days, and the whole army will withdraw to Changsheng Island, and I ask General Zhang to prepare early." ”

Why is that? Good territory, your army doesn't want it? Zhang Pan asked in surprise.

"Just because a few days ago, a part of our army had laid down Yongning, unfortunately leaked the news, our army expected that after the Jiannu army returned from Monan, it would come to attack our army, and now Jinfu Erzhou is uninhabited, and there is nothing to defend, it is better to withdraw to Changsheng Island and hold on." Li Huaixuan simply explained the reason.

"What? Dongyu has made an expedition to Monan? Why didn't your army tell Zhang earlier? Alas! It's a big deal. Li Huaixuan's news was like a bolt from the blue to Zhang Pan, and he sighed and blamed in vain.

"General Zhang, our commander also knows the importance of it, and he wanted to inform General Zhang, but now that Jiannu is in a difficult position, and he pretends to make peace with the imperial court, I am afraid that with the respect of General Zhang, it will be difficult to influence the national policy of the court.

It was not too late for General Zhang to inform the court at this time, it was nothing more than to let the court recognize the wolf ambition of Jiannu, so that the peace-seeking faction would no longer be boiling with the court. Li Huaixuan explained lightly.

"Alas! Manager Li, do you know, the slave chief Huang Taiji is probably in the next big game of chess, suspected of swallowing the world, and the Tartars are strong, waiting for it to unify Mongolia, I am in danger! Zhang Pan sighed with a sad face.

"Huh! General Zhang was too worried, although the Tartars are strong, my Black Armor Army has also seen it, but it is not Erer, the slave chief Huang Taiji wants to steal the artifact, and he has to ask me if the Black Armor Army agrees. Li Huaixuan coaxed back to Zhang Pandao.

“……”

Zhang Pan was speechless for a while, although this Chief Manager Li spoke in a tone greater than the sky, but it was also the truth, from their easy capture of Jinfu Erzhou, and they could convince Ming An Tuba Yan Chengcheng, its strength was naturally only stronger than the Tartars, and the only thing that the Black Armor Army lacked was probably the scale, otherwise they would definitely not retreat to Changsheng Island and make a retreat.

Alas! If you have your own little arms and legs, don't worry about it, let's wait until he fights with each other! Zhang Pan sighed secretly in his heart.

…… To be continued