Ma Shilong and the others did not delay long in Ningyuan, and on the 16th they rushed to Youtun.

The soldiers of the two battalions have been assembled, and they are drawn from the forward battalion of Lu Zhijia, the head of Li Chengxian's battalion, and the Chongwu battalion and the Dingwu battalion stationed in various parts of Ningyuan, led by the general of each thousand, and when Ma Shilong arrived, the soldiers and horses from all over the place were basically gathered and a team of less than 2,000 soldiers was formed.

Because all of them are soldiers, and they are drawn out of the elite battalions, the area from Youtun to the Daling River is dazzling, many people and refugees are excited, only a few years ago, there is only one gate left in Liaoxi and Ningyuan Lonely City, three years, under the auspices of the Sun Pavilion Department, not only Forte hundreds of miles, but also the current military appearance and military prestige, it is really exciting.

Ma Shilong began to urge the water camp in Youtun, be sure to rush to the mouth of the river on the 17th, and then build a pontoon bridge, the army is scheduled to rush to the Sancha River on the 25th, from the Daling River to Youtun is only less than 200 miles away from the Sancha River, a few days are enough to rush to the whole arrival, the water camp is scheduled to work on the 23rd, and the pontoon bridge must be completed before the 25th.

When Zhou Wenyu and Yuan Tianyi arrived at Youtun, they happened to meet the errand officer who rushed back from Erjiagou, Zhou Wenyu had a wide range of people, and stopped the errand officer for inquiry, and the errand officer only shook his head and said: "Jin Guerrilla still said that he would repair the ship, and he couldn't catch up for a while, but he didn't say whether he would definitely not be able to catch up. ”

"Hey, that's hilarious." Zhou Wenyu saw that there was no one left and right, so he explained to Yuan Tianyi: "Brother Tianyi doesn't know, Jin Guan and others are all generals in Liaoxi, and General Tsushima has never bought it, and this time the matter of Shuiying seems to be deliberate. ”

Yuan Tianyi had been a guard by Yuan Chonghuan's side for a long time, and he didn't know much about the outside world, so he said with some curiosity: "Isn't he afraid of the punishment of the cabinet lord?" ”

Zhou Wenyu smiled and said, "Doesn't my brother know about Lord Cabinet? After the so-called heavy generals, the generals have always been raised high, gently put down, and serve the generals with grace. To be honest, Lord Cabinet's prestige in Liaoxi is high, but not too many people are afraid of him, mainly because the old man is too soft-hearted. Like Mr. Zhao, the old man drove the car to him, and Mr. Zhao has been working hard to do things, but this is a minority after all, and most people point to the meat under the hands of the cabinet to eat. These people are appointed by him, and they are the important generals he has fattened, and dealing with a group of dissatisfied people is tantamount to cutting off his hands and feet. Of course, the old man wants to support Ma Shilong, but the power represented by the golden crown, Sun Gebu, he can't ignore it, this golden crown dares to delay like this, one is that the water camp must really have a ship that is not well maintained, and the other is perfunctory, anyway, he will not do anything with him, of course, he will not contribute to help Ma Shilong, a foreign general soldier, make great contributions in Liaoxi. ”

"Ahem!" Yuan Tianyi knew that Zhou Wenyu said such a big chase was to convey it to his own family, he felt Yuan Chonghuan's loyalty from Lingnan, and admired Yuan Chonghuan's courage as a civil official, so he and Yuan Tianxiang and other four people became Neiding, and even changed their surnames, all four of them are good men with strong martial arts, and if they don't go to Yuan's mansion as Neiding, they will have a good place to go, change their surnames and become domestic servants, mainly because the four of them have a passion and patriotism to serve the court, who would have expected the upper echelons to be so intrigued? Don't talk about others, even Lord Yuan also has his own plans?

"If the head of the family is on the throne, he will definitely do better than anyone else, these arrogant soldiers and fierce generals, and our head of the family can live in shock, and the head of the family has his own hardships......"

Yuan Tianyi comforted himself like this, and his face looked a lot better.

"Let's move on." Zhou Wenyu did this kind of errand for the first time, and urged Yuan Tianyi to hurry up with great interest, around them, the green trees and shrubs that grew to a height formed a large area of grass, and from time to time there were errand officials and post envoys passing by on the road, and there were also a small number of tenant farmers and farmers carrying hoes on the side of the road walking slowly, and when they met the officials and the transferred iron cavalry, they stood on the side of the road, and bowed to these cavalrymen who protected themselves.

In addition to shrubs and trees on the side of the road, there are already large acres of fields, Zhou Wenyu knows that from Youtun to Ningyuan and then to Qiantun, this large area of five or six hundred miles of land can be opened, and there are more than 200,000 refugees, of which except for a few who reclaim land by themselves, most of them are tenant farmers who are attached to generals at all levels. It's very satisfying to have a stable place to grow a bite to eat, not to mention all kinds of help.

Zhou Wenyu had never been close to such a border place, he had been watching with interest, and Yuan Tianyu was the same.

The further you go, the smaller the forts become, and to the west of a large meandering river, there seems to be a large castle several miles long from the riverbank.

"That's Dalinghe Fort." Zhou Wenyu shouted to Yuan Tianyi: "Let's go a few dozen miles southwest to the Sancha River." ”

The Ming Dynasty originally had a large number of military forts in Liaozhen, especially at several key points, the Hetao area of the Liao River, the border between Guangning and Mongolia and along the Sancha River, such as Xiping Fort and other military forts stretched all the way down the river, cutting off Liaoxi and Liaozhong.

In Liaozhong, there are big cities such as Shenyang and Liaoyang, the south is the four guards of southern Liaoning for the dense defense area, in the east of Liaodong in addition to the northern Hetao forts is to Fushun Pass as the core, the north of Kaiyuan and Tieling, the south of the Kuandian six forts to the border of the mountain pass Phoenix City, the whole defense system is quite matching, but also made the Ming firmly grasp the later Liaoning Province almost a large territory, the peripheral control area is the Jianzhou Department and the Haixi four departments to the Changbai Mountains along the mountain range of the Jurchen tribe, and then to the north of Sauron and Oroqen, It was the Songhua River and Nenjiang River basins, and the Heilongjiang River basin in the north was only set foot in the early years of the country, and then it was almost completely abandoned.

In short, the whole Liaozhen has been in the military frontline, there are Tainingwei and Fuyuwei two Mongolian departments, as well as the Jurchen tribes have been troubled, so Liaozhen has not set up a state government but has maintained the military town system, and built a large number of military facilities, Sun Chengzong began to rebuild the military fort on a large scale after the strategy, including the razed Jinzhou, Qiantun, Youtun, Zhongzuo, Dalinghe Fort, Xiaolinghe Fort and other places have been rebuilt, in these places have placed hundreds of thousands of fugitive refugees.

Zhou Wenyu didn't have time to sigh, nor did he have this kind of emotion, but Yuan Tianyi had been bored in Ningyuan City and rarely came out, and this time it was an eye-opener.

In particular, on the way, there were a large number of horseback officers and soldiers who were also rushing to the mouth of the Liuhe River in the lower reaches of the Sancha River. It's weird!

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Lu Zhijia set up his Chinese army three or four miles away from the river, after all, there were too many mosquitoes by the river.

There were tents everywhere around, soldiers who came and went eating dry food and cursing food, and some clever ghosts took off their armor and robes, and fished in the river naked.

It has been barren for too long, the original farmland has long been overgrown with weeds, and some of the declining villages are like ghost villages, the brick buildings are overgrown with weeds and green moss, and the grass houses have collapsed.

In fact, there will be white bones in every village, there are many people who still maintain the appearance of the invaders when they entered, the furniture is chaotic, some people die at the door, some people are killed in the house, and some people die on the bed, the white bones are full of arrow holes and knife marks, the original and later Jin soldiers have been fighting near Ningyuan, demolished the castle along the river in Guangning, Jinzhou, slaughtered the villages along the line, killed a large number of Han people, because they did not intend to occupy, the slaughter was quite cruel, and it was impossible to collect the bones, more than two years have passed, the corpses of the year have become white bones, This is true of the whole village, it is like this for one village, it is still like this for a hundred villages.

Lu Zhijia visited several villages, and his heart was also quite dull and angry.

Although there are many such situations, the generals from the Jiangmen family can't help but feel ashamed. Fortunately, Lu Zhijia has seen many such scenes, and he quickly suppressed his anger, and he should not be angry because of anger, let alone let anger affect his emotions and judgment.

Li Chengxian is also a deputy named Lu Zhijia who is relieved, with infinite strength and bravery, although he has some utilitarian intentions, seeing that Ma Shilong and Lu Zhijia were trusted by the cabinet and took the initiative to lean over, and he has been a general from the capital division for several years, but in general, this person is old in the army, and he is very proficient in all the doors, and he is skilled in martial arts, and his bow and horse skills are quite high. Such a person is still relieved at the current Fenglu Zhijia.

Li Chengxian was laughing loudly, and several thousand generals were kneeling down to salute him, and Li Chengxian helped up the officers from each battalion one by one, and then ordered people to provide military rations and other armaments for these new cavalrymen.

In addition to Ma Ji and Zhou Shouzhen, there were also Liu Boqiao and 230 refugees with rudimentary weapons camped by the river, and these people were also given rations by the army, separated from the serious iron cavalry car and artillery battalion.

On the other side of the river, a student surnamed Zhou led some of the Yaozhou fugitives to lurk on the other bank, and as soon as the army passed, he was responsible for leading the team, from the port of Niangniang Palace to Weizidu, and the army could attack Yaozhou City directly along the avenue of Yaozhou Station.

"Chengxian," when Li Chengxian returned to the Chinese army, Lu Zhijia greeted him and said: "In addition to our family, there are only 250 people from Ma Ji and Zhou Shouzhen, and 230 refugees?" ”