On the sixth day of the first month of March, the North Sea Fleet left its home port of Dengzhou and headed for Liaodong, three days later than Zhu Youzhen's departure from Beijing.

From Dengzhou to Liaodong, take the waterway is only 300 miles, in the middle of the waterway, there is a relatively large island, called Huangcheng Island, Huangcheng Island is almost located in the middle of Dengzhou and Lushun, and the distance from both places is 150 miles.

The North Sea Fleet has long been active in the area of Huangcheng Island, and they have opened two special docks for loading and unloading some light cargo, as well as carrying people on landing.

Weixin used all the transport ships and requisitioned some civilian ships, but the North Sea Fleet could only transport 20,000 men and equipment at a time, that is, only two marine divisions at a time.

At the time of departure in the morning, the North Sea Fleet sent half of its transport ships to sea, transporting only the 2nd Marine Division and equipment.

The transports were modified to travel fifty miles per hour, and with a tailwind, the speed was even faster, and at noon, the transports, escorted by warships, arrived at Huangcheng Island.

The two piers on Huangcheng Island immediately became lively, and more than 10,000 soldiers of the Second Marine Division, with their own equipment, began to land from the two piers.

The pier was gentle, and the soldiers quickly went ashore.

The soldiers and sailors of the fleet and the transport ships also went ashore for lunch, and they did not stop and immediately returned home. When they returned to Dengzhou, although it was a headwind, the transport ships were all empty, and the speed did not drop much, and they returned to Dengzhou Pier soon after dark.

In the early morning of the next day, all the battleships and transports departed, and they loaded the personnel and equipment of the 1st and 3rd Marine Divisions.

At noon, the fleet arrived at Huangcheng Island, however, this time, the fleet did not stop at Huangcheng Island, but went straight to Liaodong.

At dusk, the fleet approached the dock of Arthur.

When the battleship and the transport ship were still half a mile from the shore, two small sentinel ships sailed out of the fleet and slowly approached the dock.

There was nothing but a mess of dead grass on the docks, and some unknown wild weeds.

"Starling...... Elder brother! Suddenly, there was a turtledove cry from the sentry boat.

"Starling...... Elder brother! The same sound could be heard in the grass on the shore.

"Quick, dock."

The two sentry boats slowly approached the shore, and more than a dozen soldiers held the flintlock pistols in their hands tightly, their eyes staring at the chaotic grass on the shore.

The soldiers rushed ashore and approached the grass.

With a "whoosh", two soldiers emerged from the grass, both wearing rings made of withered grass on their heads, "Brothers, why are you here?" We had been hungry in the grass for a day. ”

"It's hard work, the transport ship will dock in a while, you guys go and have a good meal!" The soldier at the head approached the guardian on the shore, "How is it?" Is there a Ken Nu nearby? ”

"Brother, rest assured, this whole day, there is no Jiannu at all."

"That's good," the leader of the soldiers turned his head and said to the soldiers behind him, "signal for the landing of the army." ”

The soldier returned to the sentry boat, lit two torches, and raised the flag.

The fleet picks up speed and enters the docks of Arthur.

Lushun Wharf is almost at the southernmost tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, in the direction of the east, there is a natural narrow waterway, directly connected to the sea, at the end of the waterway, is the Lushun Wharf, where there is an extremely spacious inland water, can moor a large number of ships.

The Lushun wharf has not yet been developed, Weixin only sent people to secretly investigate, the wharf has not been cleaned up, and the speed of the soldiers' landing is still very slow.

The soldiers who landed in advance immediately infiltrated the grass and protected the Arthur wharf.

But there was no Jurchen cavalry in the vicinity, judging from the large number of weeds, the Jurchen cavalry must have rarely come, their main opponent on the Liaodong Peninsula was Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang Army, but the living space of the Dongjiang Army had been squeezed by Yanzhòng, and Mao Wenlong could only operate in the vicinity of Phi Dao, Zhangzi Island, and Ludao near the mouth of the Yalu River, and occasionally sneak in to grab some food for the army.

In order to prevent the Dongjiang army from getting supplies from the land, they also implemented the policy of clearing the wilderness, and all the places of thirty miles by the sea were not allowed to live and farm, and the Jurchen cavalry took advantage of their speed to patrol in the open area of thirty miles, and as long as they encountered the Han people, whether they were Dongjiang Army or not, they were all killed.

Lushun is located in this thirty miles of no-man's land, and there were originally some Jurchen cavalry patrolling, but after the imperial court stopped providing supplies to Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang army, the Dongjiang army could not get enough food supplies in the south, so it had to move to the island outside the Yalu River, and the Jurchen cavalry gradually stopped patrolling the southern part of the Liaodong Peninsula.

The North Sea Fleet happened to take advantage of this loophole and quietly logged in here when there were no Jurchen cavalry near Lushun.

The transport ship and part of the battleship returned to Huangcheng Island overnight, preparing to transport the 2nd Marine Division from Huangcheng Island to Liaodong.

The marines who had already landed had already had dinner on the transport ship, and they immediately launched their actions: Li Changshan's division of the 1st Marine Division immediately took advantage of the night to go north and directly attacked Jinzhou, while the 3rd Marine Division, Lin Fucheng, temporarily guarded Lushun and prepared to go north, and once the 2nd Marine Division arrived in Lushun, they immediately reinforced the 1st Marine Division.

Jinzhou was held in the narrowest part of the Liaodong Peninsula, with a width of only ten miles from east to west, and after landing from Lushun, the marines had to pass through Jinzhou if they wanted to go on a northern expedition.

It turns out that in the south of Jinzhou, there is also a strategic place - Nanguan, Nanguan and Jinzhou, one south and one north, holding the narrowest end of the Liaodong Peninsula, but the main force of Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang Army is all concentrated on the first line of the Yalu River, and the Jurchens have no opponents in the south of the Liaodong Peninsula.

When Li Changshan passed through Nanguan, the nearby Han people thought that the Jurchens had come to grab grain, but they did not have war horses, and the Han people found that the clothes on their bodies and the weapons in their hands were also very different from those of the Jurchens.

Li Changshan did not give the Han people a chance to inform, and the 1st Marine Division crossed the crowd, and in this narrow place, they established a complete horizontal defensive line to confine the people to the south.

The weak Han Chinese did not resist, they were accustomed to obedience, and the muskets of the marines were not fired.

Seeing the people leaning crookedly against the haystacks, Li Changshan suddenly realized that he had already asked the people that the Jurchen soldiers in Jinzhou City should have three Niu Lu, that is, nine hundred people.

"If you grow grain for the Jurchens, you are against the Ming Dynasty, and you should be cut with a thousand knives," Li Changshan looked at the Han people who showed fearful eyes, "However, General Ben will give you a chance to make meritorious service and atone for your sins, as long as each of you gives us twenty scarecrows, I will forgive your sins." ”

"General, is this true?" A bold man asked at Li Changshan.

"Could it be that General Ben will lie to you? Besides, do you have a choice? I can cure you of your sins now. ”

"General......

"Quick, this is your only chance to atone for your sins, don't ask more, hurry up."

The common people obviously did not fully believe in Li Changshan, but under the persecution of the flintlock pistol, they showed the fine tradition of obedience.

In the afternoon, the Han people erected more than 8,000 scarecrows, and in order to show their sincerity, these scarecrows were all well-made, and if they looked like real people at night.

At the time of the third watch, Li Changshan's first marine division, with lightning speed, surrounded Jinzhou City, in order to alarm the defenders in the city, the Ming troops in the four gates all lit torches, beat gongs and drums, and looked like they were going to attack.

The defenders in the city were shocked, how could there be such a dense sound of gongs and drums in the middle of the night? Could it be that the Han people rebelled?

The Han people have always been weak, as long as they are allowed to live, they can endure a qiē, even if their wives and daughters are occupied, they only shed a few sad tears, wipe away their tears, turn around and go to work in the field, the possibility of their rebellion is extremely small, but apart from this reason, the defenders really can't think of any other reason.

Torches were also lit at the head of the city, and Jurchen soldiers were observing outside the city on all sides, and the first-hand information was quickly concentrated in the hands of their Jiala's Zhenban Ye Yue.

"Ezhen, the torches outside the southern city gate are very concentrated, the soldiers are silent, obviously well-trained, it seems that there are no less than five thousand people."

"Ezhen, outside the West City Gate, there are at least five thousand soldiers."

"Ezhen, outside the East City Gate, the torches are flickering, and it seems that an attack is about to be launched."

"Ezhen, outside the North City Gate, the area of torches is very large, but very sparse, maybe it is deliberately set up as a suspicious soldier."

"You see, whose army is it?" Ban Yeyue roared with a gloomy face, he had just gotten up from the bed, he didn't even have time to put on his small clothes, he put on a leather robe naked, and then put on a leather armor, and now he felt that the cold wind was drilling into his leather robe.

"Ezhen, it may be the Ming army, but none of them are wearing the Ming army's Mingguang armor, oh, they are playing the Sun and Moon military flag."

"The Sun and Moon Banner? That's the Ming army, is there no doubt that they came from the sea? Ban Yeyue frowned and thought for a while, and suddenly came to her senses.

"Ezhen, it's very likely that they don't have war horses, they are all infantry."

"It must have come from the sea."

The war drums of the Ming army were as tight as a burst, and each drum beat hit the hearts of the Jurchen soldiers heavily, although they were silent, but tens of thousands of Ming troops fell from the sky, and they were still full of fear.

"Ezhen, what should I do?"

"What's the panic? The Ming army is surrounded by three missing one, and the north city gate is obviously their weakness, they just want the city. Ban Yeyue roared like the Han people, gently stroked his thick beard, and looked thoughtful, "Even if there are heavy troops outside the city, it doesn't matter, we are cavalry, as long as we go out of the city, it will be like a fish swimming in the sea, wolves walking on the grassland, and the infantry of the Ming army can only follow behind and eat fart." ”

Ban Yeyue really didn't panic, his three Niu Lu, all of them were cavalry, cavalry against infantry, always won undefeated, even if the battle situation was unfavorable, he could walk away. But the Ming army of 20,000 besieged the city, and his three Niu Lu obviously couldn't hold it, and now the city had lost a connection with the outside of the city, and he had to break through at night.

"Ezhen, the Ming army has begun to attack the city from the east gate."