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A person next to him joked: "This rain is not useless, at least the traces of our coming here are covered, and when those Tartars come out of the valley, I am afraid that we will be ambushed here." ”

Both nodded, and the three looked at each other and smiled.

At this time, at the end of the first line of heaven, the Jurchens were making their last rest, preparing to enter the first line of heaven.

And at this end of the first line of the sky, the wind blows the forest and the sea, the sun sets over the long river, and the wilderness is thousands of miles, except for the birds and beasts, there seems to be no trace of human existence at all.

But if you can look through the dense Black Forest, you can see that at this moment, in the woods, there are countless warriors hidden.

They were wearing big red fat jackets, with a black circle on their chests, and two big black characters in them - Wu Yi. They wore heavy cast-iron helmets on their heads, and they were all covered with robes, apparently to protect them from the rain and to cover them from the inside. After all, Wu Yijun's big red mandarin duck jacket is too conspicuous, so it is better to cover it up so as not to be discovered.

The rain had just stopped, but the dense canopy of the towering trees was full of rainwater, and it was still dripping down. The rain outside had stopped, and it looked like the rain in the woods was going to last a while.

The rain was dripping down, but these warriors of the Wuyi Army were standing there with their weapons in their hands, like javelins. Their expressions were similar, pursed their lips, their faces full of fortitude and strength, and the rain falling on their bodies and faces could not move them in the slightest.

In fact, they hold this position. It's been almost half an hour.

Since it is impossible to determine the specific time when the Jurchens came out of the mountain, it is for the sake of safety. Xiong Tingbi, who was early on, ordered the soldiers to maintain a combat posture, which has continued until now.

Almost an hour. Almost standing motionless, for the rest of the army, it was a disaster. The soldiers may have been tired and lay down at this time, and if the troops were scattered a little more, I am afraid that there would be a mutiny.

But for Wu Yijun, this is really a piece of cake.

From the beginning of Lian Zining's entry into the Chenzi Institute in the suburbs of Beijing, the training project of standing in military posture began, and then the Jingnan battalion was established, and the battalion of Shandong Le× Ling × County was established. Even after the establishment of Zhenyuan Mansion, this project has not been abandoned, but has been paid more and more attention, because its training is particularly uncomfortable, and spear assassination is called the two major sufferings of Wu Yijun.

How did Wu Yijun practice his standing posture - dog weather, the sun was scorching and he could burn people to death, and the soldiers were only wearing a pair of nasal calf shorts, naked and standing straight. The soldiers were soon sweating profusely. The shorts were soaked, as if they had just been fished out of the water. Officers of all ranks constantly patrolled the ranks, holding a snakeskin whip in their hands. A pair of eyes stared inside the ranks, and when they saw any soldier who was messing around, he immediately went down with a merciless whip.

How many advantages there are in standing in a military posture This has been proven countless times in the strong combat effectiveness of the armies of the Celestial Empire in previous wars. Needless to say, a small standing military posture. It can greatly improve the physical fitness and willpower of the warrior. Execution, obedience, and even teamwork, it can even be said that standing in the military posture is one of the greatest inventions in military history today.

Every morning, the military posture training, from the middle of the morning (8 o'clock in the morning) to 3 o'clock in the afternoon (11:45 o'clock), close to a full four hours of training, only allowed to rest a tea time in the middle, the rest of the time, is standing, straight, meticulous standing, as long as the slightest mistake, the fierce whip will immediately fall.

After the soldiers practiced every day, they were almost exhausted and paralyzed, and their arms had changed from soreness to numbness, and they seemed to be no longer their own, and they didn't seem to be able to feel pain when they pinched them. And the muscles on the arms are jumping suddenly, which also tells them the consequences of such high-intensity training.

Of course, after a long time, you will get used to it, and you won't take it seriously.

Wu Yijun is a veritable summer practice, winter practice, never slack off for a day.

For each of these non-commissioned officers who have been training in the big school field for at least a year, this little rain is really nothing, compared to their training in the past day, it is really average.

These Wu Yijun just stood there and did not move, and they also had a calm and cold momentum condensed.

This is the temperament of an army.

The dense forest is extremely vast, and I don't know how far it spreads to the north and south, and it seems that in every jungle, there is a hidden Wu Yi army, at a glance, the number of Wu Yi army is almost more than the big trees, dense, not to mention the number of tens of thousands.

And in the midst of them, at intervals, there was a cannon horizontally, which was not affected by the mud because of the gun carriage underneath, but was covered with a waterproof felt cloth. The number of cannons is also extremely large, and I am afraid that there are thousands of them.

It can be seen that the ground here has been organized, some have been dug down, and some have been raised. The soldiers with spears and halberds in front of them were all on lower ground, while behind them were flintlock musketeers and artillerymen, who were basically in elevated positions, and there was no obstacle in front of them.

To the north is the summit of a low hill with a great location overlooking the entire area, which is hidden from being discovered by a large pile of rocks.

Xiong Tingbi, the staff general of the First Army of the Wu Yi Army, Dong Ce, the staff general of the Third Army, Dong Hanchen, the staff general of the Ninth Army, and several senior officers at the level of commanders and envoys were surrounded by a large group of guards, and they were standing here looking down. Among them, there are also cavalry battalion artillery thousand households and thousands of households Liu Zhen, although he is only a thousand households, but in the pro-military camp sequence, he is naturally one level higher, and he belongs to the team that Lian Zining personally transferred to the first cluster, and belongs to foreign aid, so his identity is a little transcendent.

The first person to speak was Xiong Tingbi.

He is obviously a leader-like existence in this group of people, everyone is consciously half a step behind him, and his demeanor is quite respectful when he speaks.

Although Dong Ce and Dong Hanchen are both generals. At the same level, Xiong Tingbi is at the same level. But Xiong Tingbi is recognized by Wu Yijun as the first person under Lian Zining - although this position is now under certain challenges, such as MI6 Counselor Li Tie. Wang Dachun of the logistics headquarters calmed down, and even Nurhachi, who had recently begun to take charge on his own. are all considered to be enough to be on an equal footing with Xiong Tingbi.

But in any case, in the small group of the first cluster, Xiong Tingbi's authority is something that no one dares to challenge.

Xiong Tingbi let out a long breath, turned around and smiled at everyone: "This is God bless my Wu Yijun." The adult's clever calculations and plans made us wait here in ambush. I've been here for a few days, and I'm familiar with the terrain. Our army rested for three days to recuperate. And the enemy crossed the mountains and mountains, came from afar, was physically tired, and his morale was low. When the heavy rain stops, it is the opportunity for the artillery to exert its strength, and this is the time of day. The time and place are favorable, and they are all on our army's side, if this battle is still unwon. Then a few of us, it's time to wipe our necks to thank you. ”

Everyone said yes in solemnity.

At the beginning of Partridge Town, the huge army that His Royal Highness King Liang saw leaving the camp was the first group. The first cluster was organized by the First Army. The Third Army, the Ninth Army, three corps-level units, one Twelfth Army, and one Thirty-fourth Guard. Three infantry troops and one infantry guard, a total of 47,600 men. Nearly 50,000 people.

This army can be regarded as the largest of the several major combat clusters that crossed the Songhua River. It accounted for almost half of the number of people crossing the river in Wu Yi's army.

And Lian Zining assigned them only one task - an ambush.

Ambush the rest of Amin and give them a fatal blow here!

It has been five days since Xiong Tingbi led the army here. In order to prevent the Jurchen sentinels from discovering it, they not only left Partridge Town early, but also crossed the Heilongjiang River to the north, approaching the western exit of the first line of heaven from the north of the Heilongjiang River, and then crossed the river again. These two river crossings completely dispelled the possibility of the Jurchens discovering them. Needless to say, the march was difficult, but fortunately, there was still plenty of time, so Xiong Tingbi and others also made arrangements here.

They set up camp in the deepest part of the dense forest, and even dug many holes here to make it easier to hide, and in order to maximize the power of gun fire, they even changed the terrain in the mountains and forests a little.

And this heavy rain erased all traces of suspicion.

In fact, the instructions that Lian Zining gave them at the beginning were just to camp here and ambush, without further explanation or evidence. But in the Wuyi Army, there is no such problem, the whole army, from the general commander to the most ordinary soldier, all regard Lian Zining as a god, his words must be right - since the lord ordered so, then let's just do it with our hearts, yes!

And now, they are not only convinced and worshiped by Lian Zining, but in their hearts, Lian Zining is even more mythical like a god.

The adults said that the Jurchens were almost arriving today, and the Jurchens were really coming, and the heavy rain had stopped at this time.

My lord, this is with God's help!

A guard strode over and whispered a few words in Xiong Tingbi's ear, Xiong Tingbi nodded: "All the departments are ready to stop, just waiting for the tartar to enter the chime." Everyone, prepare your own preparations, and don't forget what we explained earlier, the focus is on flintlock musketeers and gunners. Okay, let's go, listen to the official's order. ”

"Yes!" Everyone answered in unison.

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Just when Amin's headquarters was passing through the first-line sky, and nearly 50,000 foot soldiers of the Wuyi army were ambushing outside the first-line Tiangukou, preparing to ambush, in the vast land of Wutun Hewei, a huge cavalry team was slowly marching.

This force is more than three miles long, and judging by the number, it is at least around 910,000.

The demeanor of the team was leisurely, and the demeanor of the soldiers was very relaxed, and it could be seen that they were marching as relaxed as a vacation, without the slightest pressure.

All this, in addition to the outposts that have been released around a distance of fifty miles, is also because of the successes in the past few days.

This team is the most well-equipped dragoon in the Wu Yi army, specializing in protecting Lian Zining's pro-military battalion. The lineage of the lineage. The most trusted and pro-troops.

After a big battle on 30 April, Wu Yijun rested for half a day and a night. Early in the morning of the first day of May, the journey began.

The size of the team has been reduced a lot. The Twelfth Wei Qin Liren's subordinate escorted tens of thousands of Jurchen and Mongol captives back to Zhenyuan Mansion to take care of them, while the rest of Dong Laohu's troops stayed in Partridge Town, responsible for guarding logistics and escorting heavy baggage. Lian Zining personally led the Guards Battalion, the Fifth Cavalry Army, and the Sixth Cavalry Army to set off, and there was a bloody battle in Partridge Town, and the total casualties of these three teams exceeded 6,000, so the total number of troops has now been reduced to about 25,000 troops.

However, now Fu Yuwei and Amin Yuyin have all suffered heavy losses, and the White Lotus Sect is shrinking around Tashanwei, so this scale. It's enough to face all strong enemies.

Lian Zining's goal is Wutun Hewei.

Wutun Hewei is 260 miles northwest of Luoshan County, close to Jiahewei, from Wutun Hewei County to the north is only more than 100 miles, is the Acropolis of Jiahewei.

Here, it is also the first administrative unit of the Zhongwei level in the Liaobei general's jurisdiction that the Jurchens took down.

Lian Zining's first purpose of this expedition to Songjiang was to occupy territory and expand his strength, and the second purpose was to expand his strength. Fang is the purpose of the imperial court - to expel or eliminate the Jurchens and the White Lotus Sect, and of course, now there is another Fu Yuwei. To be honest, if Amin sees that the momentum is not good. Immediately lead the troops to the north and escape into Lian Zining, if he can't reach thousands of miles north of Heilongjiang at this time, Lian Zining will definitely not pursue. For him. Fighting a war is a means, farming. Strengthening oneself is the goal. Anyway, the more time is pushed back, the bigger the territory of Wu Yijun's territory becomes. The greater the power, the greater the strength, the more you can surrender without a fight.

After crossing the river, before the battle, he had been doing the right thing to grab territory, and then the battle of Partridge Town tossed back and forth for so long, delayed for a lot of time, and it was time to get back on track.

On the first day of May, before noon, I came to Luoshan County (it should be Luoshan County, which was written as Luo * North * County in the previous article, sorry).

Naturally, the local officials did not dare to slack off, and came out one after another to greet and entertain them.

It's just that Zhang Maogong, the commander of Luoshan County, is missing, and after asking, I learned that this county order, who has not been in office for a long time, went to the countryside to urge the people to rush to plant corn, and he has not returned for three days, only wandering around the villages.

They wanted to inform Zhang Maogong quickly, but Lian Zining stopped him, and Lian Zining was extremely appreciative of this kind of behavior of being close to the people, and specially ordered Zhang Maogong to be rewarded with 50 taels of silver in front of the county officials.

After dinner, Lian Zining took a turn in Luoshan County and found that the economic situation was gradually recovering, and some prosperous scenes could be seen in the market. As the situation gradually stabilizes, it is natural that the people who fled everywhere will return, and it will be time for the livelihood of the people to recover. Of course, this process will be very slow, the White Lotus Sect, the Jurchens, Fu Yuwei, Wu Yijun, you sing and I appear, and the repeated melee is a great destruction of the people's livelihood, just in the area under the jurisdiction of the general of Liaobei, the degree of damage to the local area is no less than the late Qin Dynasty, Chen Sheng, Wu Guang uprising and even the subsequent princes scuffle, and the degree of destruction of the Central Plains when the Western Han Dynasty was established after the Chu and Han dynasties.

It's just that the Western Han Dynasty at that time took five emperors, almost seventy years, and went through the famous Wenjing rule through the ages, until the Han Wu Emperor Liu Che ascended the throne, before it was completely born.

It's easy to destroy, it's too hard to build. Therefore, if you want the territory under the jurisdiction of the general of Liaobei to be restored to the situation a few months ago, you don't have to think about it for decades, but Lian Zining will definitely not be able to do it for that long, since this is the case, all other means are needed to stimulate it.

In the afternoon of the same day, he left Luoshan County.

Along the way, Lian Zining scattered a lot of troops, including a hundred miles in a radius. The disadvantages of this are naturally not small, the speed of the march has been slowed down a lot, but Lian Zining naturally has his reasons for doing this - from Luoshan County to Wutun Hewei, there are a total of forty-seven towns along the way, three counties, two county-level garrisons, and hundreds of villages under the jurisdiction below.

In the three counties and the two garrisons, there are county orders to garrison, fortunately, the reserve cadres brought by Lian Zining this time are sufficient, otherwise, it is really not enough.

And before he came here, he had already redivided the scope of management of the various counties under the jurisdiction of the general of Liaobei - this division method was extremely crude and simple. Just as the European powers carved up Africa on a map, the borders of counties were almost in straight lines. These three counties are stationed in Tunpu. It includes forty-seven towns and hundreds of villages. Each county only needs to leave a general flag of troops. It was enough to stabilize the local order and establish rule - Guy Lian Zining's Wu Yi army occupied Dayi, so wherever he passed, everyone naturally obeyed it.

In the name of righteousness, a powerless literati can control the power of a place by going to office alone, not to mention the strength of the general banner to support the scene. After the local government officials and other forces are established, these troops will also be rebuilt.

The official presence of civilian officials, as well as the number of troops left behind, represented that these territories were officially brought under the rule of the Wu Yi Army.

Cadre. It's really an extremely important factor.

Despite a slight delay, the army arrived at Wutun Hewei at less than noon on the second day.

Wutun Hewei is one of the several guards occupied by Amin's army, and it is also an important town, so Amin stationed a Jurchen hundred households and more than 1,000 slave soldiers here to guard it.

The news of Amin's army being defeated in Partridge Town came because the defenders here didn't know the news at all, and it wasn't until they saw the overwhelming Wu Yi army rushing over that they woke up from a dream.

By the time he came back to his senses, Wu Yijun had already surrounded the city.

The defender was also unlucky. It's only been ten days since I took office, and the days of drunkenness and dreams have not passed enough, and I am facing the end.

As a large port under the jurisdiction of the general of Liaobei. Wutun Hewei has a population of 300,000, of which 40,000 or 50,000 live in the acropolis. These people are not the same as those of Jiahewei, and the conquest has not been long. The sense of resistance is extremely strong, and the plain is the struggle in the open and in the dark. As soon as Wu Yijun's army arrived, the external stimulus immediately reached its peak.

Under this stimulus. The crowd in Wutun Hewei suddenly rose, and the people were angry, but there was a lack of a leading figure.

At this time, a scholar who came to study stood up, climbed the heights and shouted, and the whole city was from the scene, and tens of thousands of people with kitchen knives, wooden sticks and other tools in their hands poured into the county office. There were only one hundred and ten Jurchens, and the garrison of thousands of Han slave soldiers could not resist this torrent at all, and they were beaten by falling flowers and flowing water.

Then the scholar led the men to open the city gate and let Wu Yijun in.

For this ending, Lian Zining couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

He originally thought that it would take a lot of effort to solve the Wutun River Guard, but he didn't expect such a thing to happen, all his previous battles such as siege and defense had nothing to do with the local people, but this time, it was for him to see the power of the people.

Then, naturally, they entered the city, pacified the people, appointed officials, and rectified discipline.

What Lian Zining did in Wutun Hewei was also very simple, but he repeated what he did in Luoshan County.

After appointing officials, the squires and rich people whose property in the county had crossed that line were anxious, moved to Zhenyuan Mansion, and immediately hit the road. In the face of the majesty of Wu Yijun and the imperial court officials, Lian Zining easily managed to make them submit.

Lian Zining ordered the public beheading of those Jurchens who had been doing evil for a long time, and also beheaded those Jurchen slave soldiers who helped to abuse them. Seeing such a scene, Lian Zining couldn't help but feel a beat in his heart, this is different from the sea of corpses and blood on the battlefield, there is a different kind of cruelty.

After stabilizing the situation in Wutun Hewei and leaving enough troops for the newly appointed county commander, Lian Zining led the army to leave, but this time it was not all the way.

Wu Yi's army was divided into three routes, and Azig led his cavalry Fifth Army to the northwest, which was the Liaobei general's territory extending to the northwest to a direction that spread to the northwest for 1,500 miles. There are Wudehan, Zhenhesuo, Namuhewei, Mulijiwei, Namen River ground, etc., almost seven or eight Wei and several times the county seat, hundreds of towns, and the farthest Wei, county, town, has even reached the upper reaches of the Naowen River, in the area further north of Fuyuwei. (To be continued.) )