Chapter 333: Out to Sea
Since Abatai went south, his men and horses have certainly dragged Lu Xiangsheng, but they have not gained much, compared to Azig, who has plundered hundreds of thousands of people and nearly a million dollars and goods. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Since Nurhachi founded the Eight Banners system, the income of soldiers and soldiers has been directly related to the income from their plunder.
In other words, the more money the Eight Banners soldiers looted, the more things they could share.
Why did they encircle Lu Xiangsheng and Wang Teng with their blue flag, not the white flag?
Why is the blue flag losing soldiers and the messenger of the white flag still yin and yang?
What the white flag can do, the blue flag can naturally do.
On the second day of the night attack of the Fire Bull, several generals under the command of Abatai met with Abatai, "Baylor, if this continues, the Zhenglan Banner will never come out."
Abatai raised his eyebrows, "Tulun, what do you mean by that?" ”
"Baylor, after a series of fierce battles, my blue flag has lost six vests, five white armors, five hundred soldiers, and nine hundred auxiliary soldiers, these are all the elites of the clan, isn't Baylor distressed?"
Abatai took a deep breath, "What about being distressed?" At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, it was the time to establish the Quartet, if I waited for this time to withdraw from the army, what would the Ming court think? ”
Tulun gritted his teeth and gurgled, "Baylor, Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Xuanda, and Wang Teng, the commander of the Guangling Army, they are all the elites of the Ming Court, instead of fighting here with them, it is better to find another way!" ”
Tulun's words are not unreasonable, rather than wasting time here, it is better to take a detour elsewhere and grab a few more cities to make up for the loss, anyway, the Guangling army has arrived in Baoding City, and there are no soldiers and horses in the huge Shanxi to stop the Qing army's iron cavalry!
Abatai is at war with heaven and man in his heart, is it to be returned or not?
Tulun saw Abatai's struggle at a glance, "Belle, Azig has taken over the Ming Dynasty's general army Chao Pichang, unless we wait to kill Lu Xiangsheng, otherwise, we will definitely be inferior to him in terms of military merits!" ”
This is undeniable, and Abatai bowed slightly.
Tulun continued to analyze, "The Zhenglan Banner and the Zhengbai Banner have been fighting openly and secretly, and right now, Azig is in the limelight, and after returning to the division, the Zhengbai Banner will definitely expand wildly, and at that time, how should we deal with it?" ”
Abatai struggled, did he just leave in such a gloomy way?
How should Huang Taiji explain?
Xu saw through Abatai's concerns, and another person said: "Belle rest assured, I will only go south for money and people, as long as I wait to rob many people for money and people, the Heavenly Mandate Khan will naturally not embarrass us."
Abatai was completely convinced, "Well, in that case, I'll leave today."
Tulun breathed a sigh of relief, "Baylor Mingjian! ”
An hour later, Wang Teng, who had not slept all night, got the exact news: Jiannu had withdrawn from the army.
Wang Teng didn't dare to slack off, he found Lu Xiangsheng for the first time, and he saw and heard it, "My lord, Jiannu has already retired from the army, I don't know where we should go?" ”
Lu Xiangsheng groaned slightly, "Jiannu has always been treacherous, and this retreat may be their trick, in my opinion, the army will not move, and rest in the city for a few days before making a decision."
"What if Jiannu really retreats?"
"Abatai has suffered a big loss, and he will never give up, if you and I divide our troops to garrison, I am afraid that they will be broken by each of them, rather than this, it is better to wait here, and the enemy will not move me!"
Wang Teng was greatly admired, Lu Xiangsheng is worthy of being a master of the art of war, this set of analysis is quite convincing, "Okay, since this is the case, the Guangling army will rest in the city for a few days."
Lu Xiangsheng bowed slightly.
Originally, Abatai also expected the Ming army to be exhausted and come to help, but unfortunately, the Guangling army and the Tianxiong army had no intention of leaving Baoding City at all.
Lu Xiangsheng was not fooled!
How good is that?
If the Zhenglan Banner goes deep into the hinterland of Xuanda, in the end, it will inevitably face the Tianxiong Army and the Guangling Army!
However, if you don't enter Xuanda, where can Zhenglanqi go to make up for the loss?
Shaanxi is poor, the Jingshu region has fallen into the hands of Azig, think about it, there is only one way to plunder Xuanda!
In the ninth year of Chongzhen, the Qing soldiers entered the customs, the price of grain soared, and the border people were poor.
In Shandong, there is a county seat called Huang County, and recently, a wealthy businessman bought a large piece of land near the sea.
In Huang County, where the fart is bigger, a little bit of news can spread for dozens of miles.
As we all know, Huang County is poor and has no other use except for salt.
A wealthy merchant of unknown origin bought such a large land, what else could he do besides drying salt?
Several nearby salt merchant families were quite nervous, and they were afraid that this wealthy merchant would rob them of their salt road.
However, what is surprising is that the wealthy merchants only cared about building ships and repairing the port, and had no intention of drying salt.
This time, everyone understands that the wealthy businessman wants to go to sea!
For a long time, most of the people who dare to go to sea are southerners, and in the north of Shandong, few people dare to risk the world's disapproval!
Many people were thinking of watching the joke, and they wanted to know how much money the wealthy merchants would lose......
After the end of the month, a port in North Korea welcomed an unfamiliar fleet.
The fat-headed and big-eared tax officer walked proudly to the cargo ship that had just docked with a few tax collectors, and before the bridge was built, he heard this guy roaring from afar: Where is it, where are you going?
Hearing this arrogant voice, the ship was half silent and silent, just when the tax officer was about to get impatient, a clear voice floated down from afar: We are merchants of the Ming Dynasty, we want to go to Dongying, the ship is loaded with some local goods, and I hope that the adults will be accommodating.
The voice greeted the tax collector with a very distinctive face, with large eyes, thick lips and prominent cheekbones...... The tax officer, who didn't have a good face, snorted even more fiercely when he saw that face, and said, "Da Ming? What's wrong with Mingguo, this is North Korea, get off the ship, get off the ship, come on, get on the boat and check! ”
If it was before, the tax officer would never be so presumptuous, but, a while ago, because the Ming Dynasty refused to send troops to help, he had just been scolded by his boss, and he was angry and angry, he naturally wanted to transfer his anger, in his mind, the Ming Dynasty was already too busy to take care of himself, and would never send troops here, in this case, then what is there to be afraid of?
Thinking of this, the fat tax officer even pulled down a fat face, scolded the tax collectors in his mouth, and asked them to get on the ship to inspect the goods.
It can be seen that the prestige of the Heavenly Empire can't scare people here at all, thinking of this, Yu Xiang, who didn't expect to be able to scare off the other party, stepped on the dock with a few big strides, stretched out his arms, stopped the tax collector who was about to board the ship for inspection, and said with a smile in his mouth: "Everyone, stay here, stay here, this Shangguan, please take a step to speak."
When he turned around, he glanced at the tax collectors, and received the signal from the fat man, and the tax collectors had to hold their minds and said in their hearts: This time the fat man can fish out a lot of oil and water.
Under the eager gaze of the tax collectors, Yu Xiang really took out a piece of something from his arms, and the tax collectors only felt that their eyes lit up, and before they could react, the tax collector scooped up the thing and quickly put it into his arms At the same time, he also patted his chest a few times uneasily, and after doing all this, the fat man cleared his throat and said in an official tone: "Forget it, the Ming Dynasty is the upper kingdom of the Celestial Empire, and the maritime merchants who come and go will naturally not do those things that endanger the security of North Korea, you guys come here, let them pass, this, Don't leave it at that", the last sentence is obviously said to Yu Xiang.
Yu Xiang responded, and took a note from the other party with both hands, only to see two words neatly embellished on it: checked.
Holding the note, Yu Xiang glanced at the fat man coldly, turned around and walked towards the boat.
Not long after, under the guidance of Yu Xiang, hundreds of sturdy men stepped off the ship in twos and threes, and the merchants and patrolmen around did not show too many stunned expressions when they saw this scene.
As if he had caught a glimpse of the ship's sturdy man, several dark-skinned women shouted enthusiastically, twisting the waist of the water snake while waving their little hands from time to time......
A similar situation occurred in every corner of the port of Busan, and suddenly there was a roar in the distance, and the flames rose into the sky, and the whole port was suddenly in chaos.
Although Busan is the territory of North Korea, the maritime merchants are thousands of miles away, and although they are bold, they generally do not cause trouble.
Get on board, get on board!
When the fire appeared, hundreds of sailors from all over the country boarded the ship under the captain's shout, but the port was congested, and for a time the people were crowded, and the ship was crowded, and not a single ship could leave the port.
Seeing that the scene was becoming more and more chaotic, Yu Xiang suddenly took the lead in shouting: "Dongying's Japanese Kou is coming, everyone run, it's the Japanese Kou!" ”
As soon as Yu Xiang's voice fell, the personnel who had already boarded the sea ship saw six hideous ships sailing quickly outside the harbor, and on the flag fluttering high, didn't it have to be something?
In front of these six sea ships, there was also a slightly smaller coast guard ship with billowing wolf smoke, and it was moving closer to the harbor one by one, but it had just run a distance of less than a few dozen zhang before it was torn to pieces by a few stones behind it!
A warship equipped with trebuchets is extremely lethal.
"Oh my"
"Damn it!" The North Korean soldiers cursed angrily that their own warships were so vulnerable, which was unimaginable to them.
The port had never been attacked before, so the North Korean defenders were completely careless about collecting money.
At this time, behind a low wall, the fat tax officer trembled, and kept muttering something, but his chatter was obviously useless, and after a chaotic sound, the fat man heard a slightly familiar voice again: My lord, it's been a long time......
"It's you! What are you doing here? Originally, he saw an "acquaintance", and the fat man was about to scold, but he suddenly looked at the hundreds of strong men behind the other party, and at this time, he suddenly thought of something extremely bad: I am afraid that this person is a thief!
That's right, Yu Xiang was the leader of this raid, and the other boats of soldiers had already dispersed, and they rushed over.
Guarding the fortress were dozens of North Koreans, whose lazy and comfortable life had completely corrupted them, and for them, Busan was a place of gold plating, gold panning, where there was no war, and where it was the best place to make a fortune.
When the flames rose into the air, several soldiers guarding the castle raised their bows and arrows in a panic, and they shot aimlessly.
Without hesitation of calibration, the archers were completely frightened.
Dozens of zhang away under the stone wall, Yu Xiang was holding a dagger with a cold light, and the tip of the dagger was the fat chin of the fat tax officer, and the fat man with his teeth chattering had already wet his pants, and he took a shortcut from the dock to treat these thieves here, in his opinion, it was already "benevolent and righteous", but he didn't expect that the other party would want to use him to defraud the level, which is obviously using Lao Tzu as cannon fodder.
But his life is his own, and he still has to enjoy the wife and concubine at home, but he can't just die in the hands of this thief, thinking of this, the fat man got up according to his words, raised his hands high, and shouted a few words loudly to the fortress, speaking in Korean, Yu Xiang couldn't understand, but this did not delay him from transferring the dagger to the back of the fat man's waist. As long as the other party dares to be careful, he can end this guy in the shortest possible time.
Sure enough, Xu heard the fat man's mournful shout, and slowly walked out of a few cautious North Korean soldiers in the dark level, one of the leaders cursed angrily, his eyes were firmly fixed on the two soldiers outside, in his opinion, if it wasn't for the guy outside who was the brother-in-law of the county order, he would not be too lazy to pay attention.
As soon as the tall Korean soldiers stepped out of the fortress on their front feet, they were reluctant to move on their hind feet, shouting in their mouths and waving in their hands.
Seeing this situation, Yu Xiang secretly shouted that there was a play, the tip of the knife pointed forward, and the fat man who was half-sitting on the ground shouted something loudly.
The fat tax collector had a very high status, and although he had no direct jurisdiction over the neighboring soldiers, he relied on his relationship with the county lieutenant to command and be arrogant.
Although the Silla soldiers were extremely disgusted, they did not dare to be easily presumptuous for many reasons.
Right now, the fat man is doing everything to survive.
"Help, quick, my leg is hurting, save me!"
Hearing the fat man's shout, the two North Korean soldiers turned dark, and after looking at each other, they muttered: "This guy actually injured his leg, and he has to find some money to drink after a while!" ”
The other person slowly bowed his head, but he seemed very hesitant: "Will the county lieutenant blame us?" ”
At the mention of the county lieutenant, the two were silent at the same time.
The reason why the fat man is arrogant and domineering is not because of his special relationship with the county lieutenant?
Otherwise, how could the North Korean soldiers be so careful?
Under the call of the fat man, two soldiers quickly came to Yu Xiang.
Yu Xiang would not let go of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and in a flash of light, he and the guards beside him rushed out and eliminated the two soldiers.
The whole process was extremely fast, and the North Korean soldiers did not even have a chance to warn.
Stripped off the clothes and armor of the North Korean soldiers, Yu Xiang dressed up in disguise and turned into a North Korean.
(To be continued.) )