As the saying goes, the sun must be burned, the knife must be cut, the body is armed with a sharp weapon, and the murderous intention arises.

Since the end of July of the second year of Chongzhen, Li Xin, the envoy of Lushun Town, led a group of energetic young generals to cross the sea from Dengzhou to Lushunkou, and three or four months have passed.

In the past four months, Li Xin, the town guard envoy who was bent on opening up the battlefield affairs at the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, did not have a day of idleness.

First of all, he divided the men and horses of the town guard mansion all the way to Lushunkou into five battalion heads, front and back, left and right, and let the former army of the town guard house guerrilla Liu Guoneng 2,000 people, and quickly took over the Jinzhou City hanging in the north from the hands of the general army office on the left side of Dongjiang Town, and held the narrowest throat between the north and south of the Liaodong Peninsula.

Then, let the 2,000 people of Ma Yang Yuchun and Wang Yiming, the newly organized Zuoying of the town guard mansion, be stationed in Sanjian Fort on the side of Liaodong Bay (Bohai Sea), forty miles northwest of Lushunkou.

At the same time, 1,500 people from the new right battalion of the town guard government, including Xu Zhizhong and Chen De, led more than 1,400 homeless families who followed them all the way from Hanoi to the banks of the Qingniwa River at Sanshankou to build a city to guard the right road.

On the Yellow Sea outside the Sanshan Pass, there is a Sanshan Island, from which the name of the Sanshan Pass comes from.

From ancient times to the present, this place has been another sea entrance to the sea off the Liaodong Peninsula in addition to the Port of Arthur.

And this so-called Sanshan Pass is also called Qingni Valley.

Because there is a green mud river here, which flows into the Yellow Sea from west to east.

This place is also the place where the central city of Dalian was located in the later generations.

However, in later generations, the Russians and Japanese, who occupied this place one after another, filled in the entire course of the Qingniwa River in order to expand the urban construction area of Dalian.

Therefore, in the later generations, the urban area of Dalian only left the place names such as Qingniwa and Qingniwa Bridge, and as for the Qingniwa River, it has long been gone.

In addition, Li Xin left Liu Guoneng's uncle Liu Wengui and his younger brother Li Yu to serve as the Chinese army, and followed him to guide the recruitment of people to build cities, reclamation and military training in Lushun.

The 1,700 men under the command of the Chinese army were organized into a musket team of four 300 men and an artillery corps of 500 men, which were the reserve of the entire Lushun town guard.

Li Weiluan, the general of Lushunkou, who was originally subordinate to Denglai Town, and more than 2,000 sailors and soldiers of the sailor battalion under his command became the rear battalion of the Lushun Town Guard, and continued to be responsible for the defense of the forts in Jinjinshan, Jiguan Mountain, Baiyu Mountain, Chengshan and other places around Lushunkou.

The imperial court set up the Lushun Town Guard Mansion at the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, and sent Li Xin, a civil official from Jinshi, as the town guard, which made the original Lushun Mouth General Li Weiluan feel very uncomfortable.

But firstly, Li Xin is a royal celebrity who was born in the middle of the military aircraft department, and secondly, Li Xin is not only the town guard of the newly established Lushun Town Guard, but also the supervisor of Denglai Town.

These two circumstances together made Li Weiluan have no choice but to follow the imperial court's arrangement for Li Xin.

Fortunately, Li Xin himself is not only a civil official from Jinshi, but also skilled in archery and horseback, and has outstanding riding and archery skills, and also has Xu Zhizhong, Yang Yuchun, Wang Yiming, Li Yu, Chen De, and a group of juniors who also graduated from the lecture martial arts hall to follow, Li Weiluan really can't say anything.

At the end of August, Li Weiluan saw that Li Xin had properly assigned the five roads in the front and rear of the Lushun Town Guard's Mansion, and his original Lushunkou Counselor's Mansion was intact, still guarding the various forts and forts around Lushunkou, and the doubts in his heart were quickly dispelled.

At the same time, Wang Zegu, the envoy of Changlu Salt Transport, personally visited Lushunkou to open up salt farms in the area of Shuangdao, Tieshan Island and Golden Mountain, and explicitly ordered that sixty percent of the income of these salt farms should be directly controlled by the Lushun Town Guard, so that the garrison of Lushunkou had fixed military expenditures.

This point made Li Weiluan, who was worried about running out of pay and food from time to time, relieved, and since then he has admired this town guard who is more than ten years younger than himself.

And Li Xin, who had just arrived, was also very conscious, and if he had to, he would never easily touch the interests of the original Lushunkou garrison generals and non-commissioned officers.

The displaced people brought from Hanoi and Shandong were not resettled on the land that had been cultivated around Lushunkou, but were distributed to the left camp and the right camp, and were taken to Sanjian Fort, Muchengyi, Sanshankou and other areas behind Jinzhou to settle for reclamation.

The original local people had already been slaughtered by Jianlu in the last years of Wanli and the Apocalypse in the successive battles, and those who were lucky not to be killed also retreated to various islands on the Yellow Sea with the team of Dongjiang Town.

Although these places are not large, and most of the area is still a shallow hilly area, with only some small plains scattered along the coast, along the river, and in the mountain valleys, it is more than enough to accommodate the displaced people who followed Li Xin to guard the southern half of the Liaodong Peninsula.

By the middle of September, Li Xin, who was in charge for the first time, finally made proper arrangements for the military, government, and civil affairs of the Lushun Town Guard, and the fortifications of Jinzhou City and Sanjian Fort were renovated and restored, and Xu Zhizhong led the right battalion and a large number of people to reclaim the newly built Qingniwa Fort, and also preliminarily completed the construction of the outer city wall.

Although the newly built Qingniwa Fort was still an undulating wasteland, once the Jianyu came to attack, the immigrants scattered outside the fort finally had a reliable place to stay.

By the time these immigrants who had followed the Liaodong Peninsula arrived at the various resettlement sites at the southern tip of the peninsula, they had already passed the final cultivation season, so they could only rely on the food distributed by the Lushun Town Guard.

Li Xin relied on the food, farm tools, clothing and other materials that should have been distributed to the migrants free of charge, and adopted the method of cash-for-work to motivate these migrants who followed them to work hard.

The fortifications of Jinzhou City and Sanjian Fort, as well as the construction of the outer city wall of Qingniwa Fort, which is three miles in circumference, relied on the immigrant people recruited through the form of work-for-relief.

At the end of September, when the outer city wall of Qingniwa Fort was completed, a large number of muskets, artillery, and various weapons and ammunition allocated by the Military Department and the Armed Forces Institute to the Lushun Town Guard for the third time were transported by the Tianjin Navy fleet led by Huang Long to Lushunkou across the sea.

With 3,000 flintlock muskets, 60 Chongzhen 1-type rear-loading smoothbore mother cannons, 10 Shenwei invincible general cannons, and tens of thousands of loads of gunpowder, tens of thousands of grenades, and fierce fire oil bombs, the battalion officers of the Lushun Town Guard Mansion were suddenly full of confidence and immediately became restless.

Yang Yuchun, Xu Zhizhong, Wang Yiming, Chen De, Li Yu, these battalion officers who graduated from the Emperor's Ming Zhongyi Lecture Martial Arts Hall, and the commanders of the battalion, asked Li Xin, the guard of Lushun Town, to fight.

Including Li Xin himself has become eager to try, ready to try his edge north of Jinzhou City.

On October 12, at noon on the day when Huang Taiji led the Jianyu army to sweep through the Mongolian tribes in the northern steppe and was about to occupy Kuku and Tun, Han Zanzhou, a minister from the Beijing Division, came to Lushunkou with the secret decree of Emperor Chongzhen and a large amount of military pay and grain, accompanied by Zhang Keda, on the huge fleet of the Denglai Naval Division.

The day after Han Zanzhou, the minister, arrived at Lushunkou with Emperor Chongzhen's secret decree, the entire Lushunkou immediately entered the atmosphere of arming and fighting.

On the morning of 16 October, the same morning that Lin Dan Khan gave up Kuku and Tun and led his people to the west, Li Xin, while asking Han Zanzhou and his staff general Li Weiluan to lead the naval division battalion of the Houjun Army to stay at Lushunkou, sent Liu Wengui to take the boat of the sailor battalion under the command of Li Weiluan, accompanied by Guan Weicheng, a guerrilla of the Lushun Shui Division, to carry 2,000 grenades as gifts, and went to the General Military Office on the left road of Dongjiang Town, which had been stationed in Guangludao, to contact Qu Chengen and ask Qu Chengen to send troops to attack the east coast of the Liaodong Peninsula.

At the same time, Li Xin, as the supervisor of Denglai Town, also left behind two sailor battalions in the Denglai Naval Division's fleet, totaling sixty large and small warships.

When Zhang Keda, the chief officer of Denglai, led the main force of the naval division to return to Dengzhou, he asked his younger brother, Zhang Kedu, who succeeded Li Xingzhong as the deputy general of the Denglai naval division, to take Chen Liangmo and Yao Shiliang, the garrisons of the two naval divisions, to stay and obey the dispatch of Li Xin, the imperial history of the Denglai supervising army.

In the past few months since his arrival, Li Xin, who has been traveling back and forth to various places at the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, is already familiar with the topography of this peninsula.

Others may not know the vastness of the ocean, and the huge role of sailors on the sea, but Li Xin, who once traveled back and forth between Tianjin and North Korea, and between Yingzhou Zhenshoufu and Dengzhou, has a deep understanding of this.

Therefore, after leaving behind the two battalions of the Denglai Naval Division and 60 large and small warships, on the same 16 October, he ordered his adjutant general Zhang Kedu to lead 60 warships, carrying 30 Chongzhen type 1 rear-loading smoothbore mother cannons, as well as 500 officers and men of the artillery team, with enough ammunition and food, to leave the Lushun Pass, go west through the Laotieshan Water Road, and go north along the Liaodong Bay on the west side of the Liaodong Peninsula.

On the morning of the next day, he himself led 1,200 people from the four musket teams of the Chinese army guarding the Lushun Town to Sanjian Fort and joined Yang Yuchun and Wang Yiming's 2,000 troops from the left battalion of the Lushun Town Guard.

Sanjian Fort is not far from Chengshan Fort in Lushunkou, and 1,200 people can walk for half a day even if they wear helmets and armor and carry guns and ammunition.

On the afternoon of the second day after Li Xin led his army to Sanjian Fort, a fleet of 60 large and small ships led by Zhang Kedu and others arrived at the sea of Heishitan, a few miles away from Sanjian Fort.

In the evening of the same day, Li Xin again sent people from Sanjian Fort to Jinzhou City and Qingniwa Fort, and ordered Liu Guoneng, Xu Zhizhong, and Chen De to wait for an opportunity to go north to attack and harass the Jianyu districts east and south of Fuzhou City, and then take his own Chinese army musket team and 2,000 troops garrison of Sanjian Fort, and board the fleet of sailors under Zhang Kedu in small boats one after another.

That night, the flotilla of the Denglai Naval Division, which was loaded with 2,200 musketeers, 500 gunners, and 1,000 wolf-milling spearmen of the Lushun Battalion and the Left Battalion, sailed north in the night.