In the middle of June of the second year of Chongzhen, due to the spy report showing that the Houjin side moved, Yuan Chonghuan left some cronies to continue to pacify the islands and forts, and he hurriedly left Dongjiang Town and returned to the base camp in western Liaoning, and then the edict of Emperor Chongzhen arrived in Ningyuan, acquiesced to the fact that Mao Wenlong was killed, and praised Yuan Chonghuan, crowned him as the crown prince, and gave him a silver coin in python clothes. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

When Yuan Chonghuan left Shuangdao by boat and returned to Juehua Island, Han Yue, who had almost recovered physically, came to Lushun, an important town in southern Liaoning, with two guards sent by Xu Zumin at the instigation of Wang Erkui.

Lushun City is located in the southernmost part of the Liaodong Peninsula, east of the Yellow Sea, west of the Bohai Sea, one hundred and twenty miles south of Jinzhou City, since ancient times, Lushun has been known as the first fortress in the Far East, has always been regarded as a place of battle.

In July of the fourth year of Hongwu (1371) of Ming Taizu, Dingliao Duwei commanded Ye Wang and Ma Yun to lead the army to land in the lion's mouth, changed the lion's mouth to Lushun's mouth, and immediately ordered the sergeants to "take the trees as the fence" to build a wooden gate city, and stay in Lushun, which is the north city of Lushun. In the twentieth year of Hongwu (1387), in order to prevent the Japanese from invading the coastal area of Jinzhou, the Ming court decided to strengthen the coastal defense in Lushun, that is, the Jinzhou Weizhong Zuo Qianhu was transferred to Lushun to garrison, and Yongle ten years (1412) was presided over by Xu Gang, the commander of Jinzhou Wei, and the Muzha City was rebuilt into a brick city. The newly built Lushun North City, the circumference is one mile and one hundred and eighty steps, the moat is one foot and two feet deep, and there is a city gate in the north and south of the brick city: the south is called "Jinghai", and the north is called "mighty".

Standing a few hundred meters away looking at the Jinghai Gate at the south gate of Lushun, and looking at the three-zhang city wall from afar, Han Yue was still quite shocked in his heart. In the 21st century, it is rare to see an ancient castle that has been preserved in its entirety, and if there is, it is the last section of the castle wall that has been preserved in the wars of the past dynasties or that has been restored according to historical records.

It's a complete city!

Han Yue didn't have a reason to think of a joke in later generations, there was a person who traveled to the Badaling Great Wall for the first time, looked at the winding and circling city walls and battlements, and shouted: Ah, the Great Wall, you are so long!

Han Yue also wanted to shout loudly: Ah, Lushun, you are so tall! Of course, it's just a sigh in my heart, and if I really want to shout out, I'm going to be embarrassed. In fact, Lushun is just a small city in the Ming Dynasty, with less than 2,000 households and no more than 10,000 mouths during the Wanli period. According to the research of later generations of scholars, in the Ming Dynasty, there were five or six cities with a population of more than one million in the country, such as the extra-large cities of Jingshi and Nanjing, with a population of more than 1.5 million, a circumference of 40 or 50 li, a height of more than 5 or 6 zhang, and a population of several hundred thousand There are 20 or 30 cities, and the scale of Lushun is the size of a small county town in the Central Plains and Jiangnan region.

Of course, the current population of Lushun City has long exceeded 50,000 people, most of them are the Liao people who returned from the Houjin Occupation Area during the Apocalypse during the Apocalypse by Zhang Pan, the general of Dongjiang Town, Lushun received help from the Houjin Fall Area, and the Dongjiang Town at that time was under the leadership of Mao Wenlong, and the entire southern Liaoning region was returned to the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of miles, but because Jinzhou was easy to attack and difficult to defend, it was quickly taken by the Houjin, and as the Houjin became stronger and stronger, the strategic activity area of Dongjiang Town became smaller and smaller. In the early years of Chongzhen, the actual occupation area of Dongjiang Town was only some coastal strongholds and islands, and Lushun was one of the important strongholds.

What made Han Yue a little disappointed was that Lushun was far from being as prosperous as he imagined, because all the way to the south gate, all he saw along the way were people with tattered clothes and skinny bones due to lack of food and salary, and even the corpses that fell on the side of the road every few tens of meters could be seen, and these living refugees were like walking corpses, and there was no life in their eyes, only confusion and numbness. Looking at these scenes, Han Yue's initial excitement slowly disappeared, and was replaced by an inexplicable heaviness.

This is the end of the Ming Dynasty, this is the troubled times!

Looking at Lushun City from a few hundred meters, I felt the tall and majestic city wall, but after getting closer, Han Yue found that in fact, the city wall of Lushun had already been mottled, and the huge city gate had already peeled off the vermilion paint, revealing rotten logs, and the copper rivet was not left, the holes on the city wall were dotted with numbness, and the bricks in some places fell, revealing the loess embryo inside.

The people who went in and out of the city gate were crowded together, and more than a dozen city gate guards wearing tattered mandarin duck battle jackets like Wang Erkui cursed loudly while waving whips with leather whips, and those refugees seemed to be accustomed to this, and in the face of the fierce and vicious guards, they just dodged numbly, without any resistance, which made the city gate a mess.

'Bang~~~' A few shrill whips rang out, followed by a cry of pain and the cry of a child.

"Master, spare us, we are really not Tartar spies, let's go into the city" A woman with unkempt clothes and a dirty face threw herself on the ground, her body was whipped out of a few obvious scars, and two skinny children knelt on the ground and grabbed the corners of the woman's clothes and sobbed in horror.

"Hehe, not a Tartar spy? Could it be that the Tartar spies will admit it by themselves, and you want to sneak into the city without even identity documents" A city gate guard fiercely stepped on the face of the woman who fell to the ground, and from time to time she crushed it vigorously, and the woman whimpered and begged for mercy while holding Shouding's leg in pain, and her mouth was covered with mud and blood.

Another emaciated Shouding on the side shook off a shabby package, rummaged carefully, and made a mess of some clothes in the package, and suddenly seemed to touch something, the Shouding showed a trace of joy on his face, and quickly took it out to see, it turned out to be a few coins and broken silver, and the greed was overflowing.

"Chief, there are only three coins of broken silver" Shouding bit the broken silver with his thin yellow teeth, and after confirming that it was true, he shouted to the leader of Shouding who was holding a leather whip.

The woman who fell to the ground saw that the contents of her package were scattered all over the ground, and the only three coins of silver had been taken away by Shouding, and immediately struggled and cried out.

"Master, those three coins of silver are our mother's life-saving money, we are really military households who fled from Fuzhou Wei, let us go, give us a way to live"

The woman's mournful cry made the surrounding people look sideways, but everyone's eyes were indifferent and numb, no one was shocked, no one sympathized, no one was angry, as if this was a normal thing.

"Look at anything, let Lao Tzu line up one by one to check obediently, if Lao Tzu finds out that it is a Tartar spy, the end will be the same as this stinky girl" Several other guards brandished whips and guns and beat the crowded crowd viciously.

"Military? If you don't have an identity card, what proof do you have, even if it is a military household, you can't keep it and have already taken refuge in the Tartars."

"Master, we are really the military household of Fuzhou Wei, my man was killed a few days ago in order to lead away the Tartar, and the identity and waist cards are all on him" The woman took the opportunity of the leader of the Shouding to loosen her feet, got up, and knelt on the ground to kowtow to the Shouding.