Ziren saw that Sun Shoulian was quite good at dispatching troops, and felt that this person could make friends at that time, and then suddenly remembered the Mongolian Tatars he encountered yesterday, and asked: "Brother Sun, I had a vicious battle with hundreds of Mongolian Tatars in Jiadun yesterday, it seems that there must be this gentle place on the Pu River for the Tatars to cross the river, and we should be on guard in advance." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Sun Shoulian looked at Ziren and said, "Brother Ding, I won't tell you that the Pu River is nearly a hundred miles long, and it is inevitable that there will be a few places where the water is gentle, but it cannot be used by the brigade of people and horses. Now my Shenyang guard is too strong to hold on everywhere, as long as you stick to Pingyu Fort and don't enlarge the Mengnu to cross the river. A small number of enemy horses crossed the river, and they couldn't make any waves when they wanted to. ”

Knowing that Sun Shoulian's move was really helpless, Ziren stopped saying nothing after hearing it. After consulting Ziren's opinion, Sun Shoulian took his third brother Sun Shoujing as the main general of the city, and Ziren and Jin Guan as deputies.

Due to the hard work of his soldiers in the past few days, Ziren decided to make a little repair in Shenyang City today, and then send troops to help Sun Shoujing early tomorrow morning. At the same time, take this opportunity to seize the time to repair the blades and armor damaged in the previous battle.

Fortunately, Shenyang Wei is rich in coal and iron, and there are many military craftsmen in the city. During the Jiajing period, Shenyang Zhongwei could produce an annual output of 160 pieces of military helmets, armor, waist knives, a cannon of the two generals, more than 20 pieces of Franc machine guns, nearly 100 pieces of magic machine guns, bronze guns, and spears. Let the craftsmen in the city help Ding Shoutie and others, and it didn't take much effort to repair the armor and blades.

In order to show the sincerity of the two families to fight together, Sun Shoulian also sent people to send a lot of grain, grass, and blades, and Ziren naturally accepted them all.

After repairing in Shenyang City overnight, the army began to send out reinforcements after burying the pot and cooking early the next morning.

Sun Shoulian knew that this battle must be a vicious battle, so before leaving, he gave his third brother Sun Shoujing a good admonition, and sent 100 military households as laborers to help transport ordnance and baggage. Ziren and Sun Shoujing each had 1,000 soldiers and horses, plus the Jinguan Department and the newly transferred military households, a total of 2,500 soldiers and horses, and claimed to have sent 10,000 troops to Pingyu Fort to block the enemy.

On this road, Sun Shoujing led the troops to open the way, and Ziren and Jin Guan led the troops to follow in turn. Sun Shoujing is good at fighting on weekdays, and yesterday he heard that Neng Ziren had beheaded nearly sixty enemy heads, and he was somewhat unconvinced.

However, after this march, Sun Shoujing couldn't help but glance at this junior a few times. The soldiers under Ziren were all strong and full of spirit, and the queue was orderly along the way, and no one exchanged heads during the march. Looking at the blades and armor on the soldiers, they are all good products, and they are not inferior to the one hundred and ten families under him. Judging from the appearance and discipline of the army alone, I can't find a single fault. Sun Shoujing has been in the army for many years, so he naturally knows what this means.

Looking at the men and horses under his command, although they are almost the same as Ziren's subordinates in terms of body shape and physique, most of the soldiers are veterans who have been in the army for many years. But this military discipline is sloppy, and it drags along the way. Although Sun Shoujing and his family repeatedly urged him, there was no improvement at all.

And after Ziren saw the military appearance of Sun Shoujing's subordinates, he couldn't help but shake his head, and turned to observe the guns equipped by Jin Guan's men. Jin Guan is now the chief of firearms under the official bureau Sun Shoulian, and in addition to carrying a second general's cannon, there are also four small sample Furlong machines of about 100 catties, which are also suitable for guarding the city. However, most of the guns are armed with old-fashioned single-barreled guns such as machine guns, fast guns, and copper guns, and their accuracy and rate of fire are slightly insufficient.

The army traveled for almost two hours and finally came to the south bank of the Pu River. In order to prevent the invasion of Mongols, there were no bridges over the Pu River, and if soldiers and civilians wanted to cross the river, they either ferries from various places or walked from the sluices. Knowing that the Tartar army was coming, Sun Shoulian had already concentrated all the ferries and concealed them, and the artillery in the army was heavy, so he had to pass through the sluice.

While waiting in line to pass through the sluice, Ziren listened to Jin Guan's introduction to the sluice.

The gate here is the 44th year of Jiajing, when Li Fu, the governor of Liaodong, ordered it to be rebuilt when he came to Shenyang to inspect. It was expanded on the basis of the old gate, which faced west. Because the river surface is five zhang and two feet wide, a wharf is built on both sides of the Pu River, each goes deep into the river body two zhang, the wharf is three zhang and five feet long, and the gate in the center of the river is one zhang and two feet wide. When the new gate was built, more than 900 large stone strips were used, and the gate plate was made of ten pine fangs. The gate is very strong, and artillery under 1,000 catties can pass through safely.

Ziren saw that less than a mile on the north bank of the gate was Pingyu Fort, and the enemy platform on the gate and the small black forest platform on both sides of the river bank were also quite strong, and he felt a little more confident in this battle. At this time, Sun Shoujing came over and said: "Brother Ding, Pingyu Fort is the barrier of my Shenyang defense, and the Mongolian Tartars are menacing, I don't know what your plan is for this battle." ”

Jin Guan also turned his gaze, and Ziren clenched his fists at this time and said: "General Sun is polite, a certain general is a guest soldier this time, and he has just arrived in your place, so it is still up to you to lead the overall situation." ”

Seeing that Ziren understood things so well, Sun Shoujing said with a smile: "The walls of this Pingyu Fort are not big, and it is inevitable that our army will not be able to use their fists and kicks when they are all stationed there. Why don't I divide some soldiers and horses to guard the surrounding enemy platforms and turn each other into horns, I don't know what you think? ”

Ziren had this intention, and said with a smile, "General Sun's plan is very clever." Later, after discussing with Sun Shouli and the others, it was decided that Sun Shouli would send a general named Sun Guangzu to lead more than 200 soldiers, plus 20 family members, to garrison the enemy platform next to the gate.

Out of trust in the old department, Ziren sent the men and horses of the general Zhou Daqi, plus a banner of charioteers equipped with Lei Tiedan, and five exterminating cannons, to garrison the Wangtai on the north bank of the Pu River. This time, Mengnu attacked from the northwest to the south, because of the Pu River blocking, so the Heilintai located on the south bank of the Pu River did not send troops to guard it for the time being.

After the division of troops, the number of men and horses stationed in Pingyu Fort was around 2,000. At this time, Feng Wensheng, the general of the garrison of Pingyu Fort, had already mobilized the men in the fort to participate in the battle, and together with the defenders in the fort, there were more than 500 men who could fight.

Because when Pingyu Fort was built, it was a rectangular castle with long north and south walls and narrow east and west walls, and there was only a city gate on the riverside in the south of the city. Sun Shouli was the main general, and he was responsible for defending the south gate. At the same time, 100 military households were transferred to Jin Guan to help him defend the east, and Feng Wensheng, the chief of the fort, guarded the west of the city, and Ziren was responsible for guarding the north of the city.

After dividing the defensive area, several people took command of their subordinates to boil gold juice, set up artillery, and carry arrows, and prepared for the attack on the Mongol Tartars. As soon as everyone was preparing to set up a pot to make rice, they saw the sound of cannons coming from the direction of Shangyulin Fort in the north of the city, and then they saw the wolf smoke of the five peaks rushing into the sky.

(The next chapter will be updated by 9 p.m. tomorrow night.) ）