Before Liu Wengui followed his nephew Liu Guoneng on the road of rebellion, he was a local tyrant and inferior gentry in the countryside of Yan'an Mansion in northern Shaanxi.

It stands to reason that such a person belongs to the ruling class and should not embark on the road of rebellion.

But that's how weird things are.

At the end of the Apocalypse and the beginning of Chongzhen, the land of northern Shaanxi was dry year after year, and the countryside of northern Shaanxi, which relied on the sky for food, was a scorched earth.

Over time, these people will not be able to survive like ordinary people.

What's more, the old Liu family produced Liu Guoneng such an unruly "king of the collapsed sky", so Liu Wengui, who was originally a landlord, had no choice but to abandon his family and flee, and later, after having the whereabouts of his nephew Liu Guoneng, he simply defected to Liu Guoneng and embarked on the road of being a thief.

It's a pity that the thief is not so easy to be, and the days of fleeing everywhere and his wife being separated are miserable, but even if Liu Guoneng broke away from King Gao Yingxiang and defected to Wang Jiayin, the "King of Hengtian One Word", and then set up his own door, he followed Liu Guoneng and did not live a few days of stopping.

Therefore, for Liu Guoneng to kill people and set fires to be recruited, Liu Wengui agrees with this final decision in his heart.

Now, Liu Wengui was appointed to be a pedestrian in Lushun Town Shoufu because of his rough understanding of literature and ink, although it is an official position of sesame mung bean, but he is also very content, always thinking about when he can pick up his wife and children who are separated in his hometown in northern Shaanxi, away from the barren land of ten years and nine droughts.

This time, it was the first time that Liu Wengui was ordered to go to the General Military Mansion on the left side of Dongjiang Town to handle official business, although he knew that it was not easy to ask troops to help attack Jianyu in the north of the Liaodong Peninsula, but he was still very happy to get such an errand.

This shows that Li Xin, the envoy of Lushun Town, who was born in Jinshi, did not treat their uncle and nephew of the Liu family as outsiders.

At noon on 17 October, Liu Wengui followed Guan Weicheng of the Lushun Oral Water Division Battalion and arrived at Guanglu Island on a naval warship.

Liu Wengui and Guan Weicheng paid their respects in front of Qu Chengen, and Liu Wengui immediately handed over the letter written by Li Xin to Qu Chengen, and said at the same time:

"Lord Qiqi! A few days ago, the imperial court sent an internal official to Lushunkou and brought the emperor's will to send troops north to attack Fuzhou as soon as possible.

"My town guard asked the little one to come and deliver a letter, asking the lord to send an army from the sea to send troops to attack and harass the rear of Jianyu.

"The little one was also ordered to bring 1,000 new thunderbolts and 1,000 fierce fire oil bombs from the Armament Academy, as a thank you for sending troops to help, please sign for them together!

"This is a letter written by my family to Mr. Qu, please take a look at it!"

A thunderbolt is a grenade.

Although the grenade is the name of the emperor's own life, this name may really not fit the name of this era, the emperor thinks that the thunder is offensive to the heavens, of course it can no longer be called, but the name thunderbolt is quietly popular.

Qu Chengen had also heard of firearms such as muskets, artillery, thunderbolts, and fierce fire oil bombs in the Arsenal Academy, and when he saw Li Xin so solemn, his heart was also solemn, so he took the letter, opened it, and looked at it.

In fact, Qu Chengen already knows what Liu Wengui said.

Because just a few days ago, Zhang Guoyuan, another minister who went to Dongjiang Town to deliver the decree, hurriedly passed by from Guanglu Island, although he did not reveal the specific content of the emperor's will to Qu Chengen, but more than a month earlier, another great eunuch Chu Xianzhang from the Jingshi Imperial Palace, had arrived in Dongjiang Town.

The Marshal's Mansion of Dongjiang Town, located on Phi Island, had already summoned the General Soldiers of the Five Routes to Phi Island to convey the emperor's will to prepare for war and wait for the opportunity.

Now, after a lapse of more than a month, another minister hurriedly came, Qu Chengen, a veteran of the Ming army who personally participated in the opening of Dongjiang Town, did not need to think much to know that the time that the great eunuch Chu Charter said had come.

Qu Chengen carefully looked at the letter sent by Li Xin, and secretly praised the overall plan described by Li Xin in his heart, thinking to himself, this Li Xin is really not simple!

For the establishment of the Lushun Town Guard, Dongjiang Town is naturally very concerned, especially the adjacent Dongjiang Town Left Road General Military Mansion.

And the candidate for the Lushun town guard naturally became the object of Qu Chengen's attention.

When going through the transfer and handover procedures in Jinzhou City a few days ago, Qu Chengen and Li Xin had a hurried meeting, one was a civil official from Jinshi, and the other was a veteran from the army, and the two naturally did not have much substantive communication.

However, Li Xin's respect for Qu Chengen made Qu Chengen very satisfied with Li Xin.

It's just that for Qu Chengen, who was born in the army and has experienced a hundred battles and stepped into the position of the general soldier, it is really a bit too child's play for the imperial court to appoint a white-faced scholar who was born as a jinshi to serve as the guard of Lushun Town.

In the next few months, Qu Chengen would inquire about the situation of the Lushun Town Guard Mansion from time to time, and the two outpost forts left by the General Military Mansion on the left side of Dongjiang Town on the Liaodong Peninsula, namely Hongzui Fort and Wanghai Fort, were also constantly reporting various situations to Guanglu Island.

The news that Li Xin sent Liu Guoneng's troops to Jinzhou City and continued to build the city defense of Jinzhou City is not surprising at all.

However, the news that Li Xin dispatched a battalion of officers and soldiers with thousands of people to garrison the three mountain passes and build a Qingniwa fort on the bank of the Qingniwa River made Qu Chengen impressed.

Later, he heard that the imperial court had repeatedly transported all kinds of firearms and equipment to the mouth of Lushun, which made him feel envious and emotional, and at the same time, he further realized the status of the Lushun town guard and this Jinshi town guard in the eyes of the emperor.

Now that he has received the letter sent by Li Xin's messenger and the "gift" that came with the ship, Qu Chengen feels more and more that this Lushun town guard is not an ordinary person.

Qu Chengen thought for a while, and then said to Liu Wengui and Guan Weicheng: "Your town guard is too polite!" Jianyu is the enemy of my Ming official army, and naturally it is also the common enemy of my Dongjiang and Denglai, as well as the Lushun Town Guard!

"Now that the main force of Jianyu is moving westward, and its Liaoshen hinterland is strong and middle-class, it is a good opportunity for our officers and soldiers to recover the old land and make contributions!

Speaking of this, Qu Chengen stroked his long beard, and finally said: "Since your family is going north to attack Fuzhou, I will naturally not watch from the wall on the left side of Dongjiang Town!" ”

In his letter to Qu Chengen, Li Xin explained his plan, and at the same time promised Qu Chengen that if the attack on Fuzhou failed, the responsibility would lie entirely with the Lushun Town Guard, and if the attack on Fuzhou was successful, the credit would be equally shared between the Dongjiang Town Left Road General Military Office and the Lushun Town Guard's Office.

Qu Chengen is very satisfied with this.

The next morning, Qu Chengen sent people to the Marshal Mansion of Andong Hou Mao Wenlong in Phi Island to report the dispatch of troops, and at the same time ordered Mao Zhongyu to take part of the people of Guangludao and take a boat to Wanghai Fort to convey the battle order.

The 1,000 grenades and 1,000 incendiary bombs that Li Xin transported to Guanglu Island with the ship as a gift were also directly ordered by Qu Chengen to be sent to Wanghai Fort and Hongzui Fort near the coast dozens of miles north of Jinzhou City as a future fort.

At that time, the Liaodong Metropolitan Command Department had Jinzhou Wei, Fuzhou Wei, Gaizhou Wei and Haizhou Wei four guards in the direction of the Liaodong Peninsula.

It's just that now, except for the south of Jinzhou City, most of the other Weishobao Castle Cities have fallen into the hands of Jianyu.

In the fort city north of Jinzhou City and east of the Yellow Sea, only Wanghai Fort and Hongzui Fort are still in the hands of Dongjiang Town, and now they are under the jurisdiction of the General Military Office on the left side of Dongjiang Town.

The location of Wanghai Fort is about the end of a long and narrow peninsula that stretches into the Yellow Sea in the northeast of Jinzhou District of Dalian in the later generations, a place called Chengshantou.

As for the location of the Red Mouth Fort, it is about the area of the Pikou Port of Pulandian in the later generations.

The terrain of these two forts is extremely dangerous, not only built on a mountain range, but also surrounded by the sea on three sides.

Dolgon and Duoduo led the two white flag armies, and after suppressing the Fuzhou Rebellion, they were stationed in Gaizhou, Fuzhou and other places.

Of course, it is useless to send fewer troops, but it is still useless to send more troops.

Because the mountain roads to the west of these two forts are very narrow, there is no way to place a large army, and no matter how many troops come, they can only evolve into refueling tactics in the end.

However, because of the steep terrain of these two places, there are not many troops stationed in each fort.

Wanghai Fort is slightly smaller, with only more than 800 permanent residents.

The Red Beak Fort is slightly larger, and the permanent soldiers are only more than 1,200 people.

Therefore, the existence of these two forts can only be regarded as an outpost or stronghold of Dongjiang Town on the Liaodong Peninsula.

In fact, they did not play much role in containing or influencing the construction of Dongjiang Town on the Liaodong Peninsula.

At the beginning of the afternoon of 18 October, Mao Zhongyu led the fleet of Liu Wengui, Guan Weicheng and others, with 500 cavalry from Guanglu Island, to a bay under Wanghai Fort.

That night, Mao Zhongyu led the fleet and arrived at the open sea of Hongzui Fort.

On the morning of 19 October, the Ming army on the left side of Dongjiang Town, which had been cowering in the fort and had never dared to go out of the city for field battles, suddenly rushed out with more than 1,000 cavalry and attacked a Jurchen immigrant Zhuangtun with a white flag more than 30 miles northwest of Hongzui Fort.

This cavalry of the Ming army, which numbered as many as 1,000 people, not only killed more than 400 people in more than 30 families of old and weak women and children in Zhuangtun, but also set a fire before leaving, burning this virgin Jurchen Zhuangtun into a white ground.