Tianjin Wei, on the official road. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

A long procession is marching, the military looks neat, the pace is the same, except for these, this army is completely different from other armies, everyone is wearing a green cotton coat, wearing a green steel helmet, with an armed belt around the waist, and a boxy on the back, like a tofu fast marching quilt.

This is precisely the Independent Brigade.

The Independent Brigade had received Zhang Feng's order, and the whole brigade numbered several thousand, except for a few hundred auxiliary personnel left behind to guard Tianjin, all the combatants marched towards Shanhaiguan, exited Shanhaiguan, and then went to Jinzhou.

The common people in the area of Tianjin Wei are naturally more familiar with independence, and everyone is not surprised, but after passing through Langfang and gradually moving away from Tianjin Wei, other ordinary people are surprised when they see the marching contingent of the independent brigade.

"Look, what is that!"

Next to the official road, there is a tea pavilion, and some porters, merchants, etc. are resting and drinking tea, and it just so happens that the independent brigade passes by the tea pavilion.

Almost all the people in the teahouse stopped, and looked outside the teahouse, and looked at the marching procession on the official road next to the teahouse, obviously, everyone had never seen such a procession.

Everyone had seen before, or heard of, all of them were dressed in armor and holding swords, and they had never seen a team wearing army green cotton coats, wearing steel helmets, carrying marching quilts, and carrying flintlock muskets.

"See, their ranks are so neat."

"Look, there's a big 'Zhang' on that flag!"

"What they are carrying on their backs, boxy, like a tofu block."

"They were all muskets, and almost no one had a sword."

“……”

Everyone looked curious, judging the taste, and seemed to be full of interest, and some people even worried about their toes, wanting to stand a little higher and see more clearly.

The line was so long that there was almost no end in sight, and the soldiers were lined up in three neat columns, first in a neat row of soldiers, and then, one after another, they saw large carts, but the carts were tightly covered with tarpaulins, and it was impossible to see what was on them.

Later, we saw something even stranger, this thing had two wheels, and it was pulled by a horse, and it seemed to have a long pipe, but it was also covered tightly with a tarpaulin, and it was impossible to see what it was.

"Look, that thing is so strange, I've never seen it, I don't know what it is!"

"yes, that's weird, it looks a little bit like a cannon, but not like it!"

"I counted carefully, and there were thirty-six of them."

“……”

These people saw that it was the seventy-millimeter guns of the artillery battalion of the separate brigade, each of which was tightly covered with tarpaulin, and was marching with the large contingent on horse-drawn horses.

………

Jinzhou Port, wharf.

Zhang Feng got off the boat, stood on the dock, looked at the Ming army not far away, Zhang Feng had seen very clearly, the other party was about dozens of people, the leader of several people rode high-headed horses, followed by dozens of soldiers, among the several people riding horses, one of them was still a eunuch, and Zhang Feng also recognized it, this is Zhao Guangcai.

Zhang Feng didn't move, behind Zhang Feng stood Wang Chaoyong, Zhao Weibin and several guards, these people came over and stopped in front of Zhang Feng, the distance was only two or three meters, and the eunuch in the lead was Zhao Guangcai, and these people did not dismount.

Zhao Guangcai said loudly: "You are the subordinates of Zhang Feng, the chief soldier of Songjiang, what about you Zhang Zongbing?" ”

Zhang Feng's face was cold, this Zhao Guangcai really thought he was a green onion, pretending to be here, he was obviously standing here, he actually pretended not to know, his attitude was arrogant, and he didn't get off the horse, he was a dignified three-grade general soldier.

Zhang Feng didn't speak, but Wang Chaoyong said loudly: "This is our General Soldier Zhang, who is coming, and he will not get off his horse and salute our General Soldier." ”

Zhao Guangcai didn't mean to get off the horse at all, and rode on the horse condescendingly, "You are General Zhang, just right, I came to inform you on the order of Gonggong Gao, don't enter the city first, and choose a place outside the city to camp temporarily." ”

At this moment, Zhang Feng was not happy, Lao Tzu rushed all the way over, and he was not allowed to enter the city, and asked us to camp in the wilderness, how could this be reasonable!

Zhang Feng's face turned cold, and he gave Wang Chaoyong a look, Wang Chaoyong naturally understood, and shouted loudly: "Take these people down for me, they must be impersonating." ”

Zhao Weibin is also a restless master, and immediately added fuel and vinegar and said loudly: "Yes, they must be pretending, they don't know the basic etiquette, and they also fake information, it is estimated that it is a tartar, take it for me." ”

Suddenly, the muzzles of the soldiers were aimed at these dozens of people, and several guards even pulled Zhao Guangcai off the horse, and then there was a violent beating, punching and kicking, Zhao Guangcai was instantly beaten into a pig's head, and even Wang Chaoyong went up and kicked a few times.

The dozens of soldiers were stunned, it was the first time they had encountered such a situation, and they wanted to resist, but when they saw the muzzles of black holes all around, they didn't dare to move.

The leading military general looked like a thousand generals, who originally wanted to draw his saber, but immediately stopped, turned over and dismounted, and wiped the cold sweat on his forehead.

The Qian Zong knelt on the ground and saluted, and said in horror: "Zhang....Zhang Zongbing, I... We are not spies, we are not fakes, we are subordinates of Gao Gonggong, this is my token. ”

After speaking, the Qian general hurriedly took out his token, Zhang Feng naturally knew that they were not fake, Zhang Feng didn't look at the token, as soon as his right hand was raised, several guards who were beating people immediately stopped, and Zhao Guangcai had been beaten miserably.

"Oh, I made a mistake." Zhang Feng said coldly: "Go back and tell Gao Qiqian that the dead eunuch, Lao Tzu will clean him up sooner or later, since you don't welcome us into the city, we won't enter the city, don't trouble you." ”

After speaking, Zhang Feng snorted heavily.

The Qian general only dared to nod, and then took those soldiers and took Zhao Guangcai, who was beaten into a pig's head, and walked away.

Zhang Feng saw Zhao Guangcai's pig's head appearance, and his heart was refreshed, and he thought in his heart, asking you to put on a score, asking you to pretend that you don't know Lao Tzu, haha......

When these people walked away, Wang Chaoyong said with a solemn face: "Lord Commander, we really don't want to enter the city?" It's so cold here, if you stay outside......"

Zhang Feng waved his hand to interrupt Wang Chaoyong's words, and the beam between him and Gao Qiqian was already dead, and it was impossible to enter the city.

Zhang Feng said: "Let's choose a place to camp outside, it is already the middle of the second lunar month, the weather will gradually warm, in addition, the soldiers are wearing cotton coats, bringing marching quilts, our tents are quite sufficient, and then cut some wood, make a fire, everyone can't freeze." ”

Wang Chaoyong nodded, instructed everyone to get off the boat, and personally led people to choose a place to station, a few miles northeast of Jinzhou City, an unknown hill, at the foot of the mountain, a flat, soldiers began to camp in that area, began to set up tents.

Some warriors even went up the hill to cut down some trees and used them to make fires, or to build houses, or to build fortifications on the periphery of the camp, and so on.

On the mountain, clean up, level a little, several big tents set up, here is Zhang Feng's headquarters, condescending, with a wide field of vision, not only can see the large camp at the foot of the mountain, but also can see the city of Jinzhou a few miles away.

In the afternoon.

Tents have been erected, defensive and cordon fortifications are still being built on the perimeter of the camp, and the same is true around the quay, some tents have been erected, some fortifications are being built.

There are even some circular fortifications, built with sandbags, surrounded by half a person's height, three or five meters in diameter, each ring fortification contains three or five soldiers, and further afield, there are horse rejections, trenches, and so on.

Not far away, the fleet is leaving in formation, gradually moving away, the fleet will leave the Jinzhou port dock and return to the port of Shanghai, and then bring the next batch of soldiers and supplies.

Operational command room.

In the center of the big tent, there are several guards making a sand table, according to Zhang Feng's requirements, with the location center of the headquarters, the terrain within a radius of dozens of miles is made in the form of a sand table, which is a tactical sand table.

Zhang Feng clearly realized that he had traveled thousands of miles to Liaodong, and he was basically blind to the situation in this area.

Now the first task is to reconnoitre, to find out the surrounding situation, the terrain situation, the situation of the Tartars, the deployment of the Ming army, the nearby cities, villages and towns, and so on.

But it will take time, and as soon as possible, all the cavalry scouts were sent out, in groups of three or five, to start scouting.

This time, Guan Peng also came with the army, and also brought dozens of intelligence elites, and all the intelligence team members under Guan Peng were also scattered, dressed as ordinary people, or merchants, or hunters, or hawkers and other characters from all walks of life.

After the intelligence team members scattered, it was like a drop of water in the sea, and soon disappeared, blending into the surrounding environment and blending into all walks of life.

………

Dozens of miles away from Jinzhou, there is a Tartar camp, judging from the size of the camp, the number is at least tens of thousands, and there are cavalry, heavy infantry, archers, in addition to musketeers, the Manchu firearms battalion is here.

There were several huge tents in the center of the camp, the largest of which had a flag fluttering on top of it, and if a Ming army general saw this flag, he would definitely recognize it at a glance, it was Dorgon's flag.

That's right, it's Dolgon.

Dolgon had arrived here two days earlier, and in the big tent, a Manchu general was reporting to Dolgon.

"Master, Zhang Feng has arrived outside Jinzhou City, camped a few miles northeast of Jinzhou City, and has not entered Jinzhou City."

"Oh." Dolgon said: "They are so fast, from Songjiang Mansion to Jinzhou, it is thousands of miles, and it will not take a month to reach the outside of Jinzhou City." ”

The Manchu general, who reported to the report, said: "Master, they arrived by boat, and they came on a strange kind of smoking boats, and those ships were very large, and they came with thousands of people. ”

Strange ship? Dolgon didn't bother to delve into what kind of strange ship it was, what Dolgon cared about most was how many people came from the other party, and when he heard that there were only a few thousand, he couldn't help but laugh.

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