Chapter 387: Dongjiang Military Town

Dongjiang military town can be regarded as Mao Wenlong's legacy, it was founded by Mao Wenlong from the second year of the Apocalypse, the military town's soldiers' range of activities reached Changbai Mountain in the north, Denglai in the south, Lushun in the west, and North Korea in the east. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 At its peak, the military town controlled more than 2,000 islands along the coast centered on Phi Dao, and from time to time penetrated deep into the interior to attack the Houjin people, and achieved many great victories. Mao Wenlong should be regarded as an outstanding expert in guerrilla warfare, he not only led his own troops to fight against the Later Jin, but also funded the Han people in Liaodong to rebel against the rule of the Later Jin.

After Yuan Chonghuan falsely passed the holy decree to kill Mao Wenlong, there were still 28,000 soldiers left in the Dongjiang Military Town, which were divided into four associations, which were led by Chen Jisheng, Liu Xingzhi, Mao Chengzuo, and Xu Futai. Among them, Mao Chengzuo is the son of Mao Wenlong, and the other three are the generals of the original Dongjiang Military Town, Mao Chengzuo was only seventeen years old at the time, and his prestige was not enough to command everyone, Yuan Chonghuan was tempted by increasing the military hall, and the Dongjiang Military Town was actually divided, and later Yuan Chonghuan was executed, and the soldiers of Dongjiang were even more at a loss, and when Huanglong led Dongjiang, there was a rebellion, and his ears and nose were cut off by the rebels.

This time, Lushun was lost, Huanglong was killed in battle, and the Dongjiang military town had no backbone, and it was cut off from the Ming army by Houjin, and it was left alone. If you want to return to the Ming Dynasty, you can only take the waterway, the only military commander who can be contacted in the direction of the waterway is actually Zhang Chu, the general soldier of Dengzhou in Dengzhou, after the fall of Lushun, Zhang Chu sent people to contact the Dongjiang troops in the name of the governor of Denglai and the general army of Dengzhou, but did not get any clear response.

Now the generals of the Dongjiang River have their own hearts, the Ming army has failed in many battles with the Houjin, many people have lost confidence in the victory, and some even wonder if the Houjin people can surrender to the Houjin, even if the generals who do not want to surrender do not report illusions about recovering Lushun with the strength of the Ming Dynasty, and they are also confused about where everyone can go.

What's more serious is that with the loss of Lushun, Dongjiang Town lost the channel to obtain food and salary from the imperial court, in the period of Mao Wenlong, not only the imperial court in Dongjiang received food and salary, Mao Wenlong also took advantage of the geographical advantages of Phi Island to carry out trade with North Korea and other places, and now North Korea was afraid of the Houjin people, and the contact with the Ming army became less and less, and the original ships of the Dongjiang split were damaged and unable to repair, and the trade channels were also cut off. The life of Dongjiang people is getting more and more miserable, and it seems that eating is going to become a problem.

It was during this period that Zhang Chu's fleet appeared on Phi Dao. Zhang Chu's trip was not only to see Phi Dao, but also to accumulate experience for future landing operations, so he made complete preparations according to the combat mode when he traveled, and not only brought with him two sail warships, the "Caiyun" and the "Caixia," but also five military generals and a large number of transport ships, transporting 5,000 security troops and a large number of baggage.

The appearance of Zhang Chu's fleet in Phi Dao caused a panic, the reason why Phi Dao can still survive in the Dongjiang River, is now mainly relying on geographical advantages, the Hou Jin people are not good at water warfare, and ships are scarce, and this advantage is gradually disappearing, with the strengthening of the strength of the Hou Jin people, there are more Han people who have taken refuge in the Hou Jin, and the Hou Jin have captured a lot of ships, which day the Hou Jin people have enough ships to transport troops to the island, and the end of the Phi Island has come. When a huge fleet appeared on the sea, the first thing that came to the mind of the people of Phi Dao was that the Houjin people had attacked, and they no longer had any illusions that the imperial court would send ships to meet them.

Phi Dao suddenly became tense, and all the men gathered and prepared for battle.

When Phi Island was divided into four associations, Mao Wenlong's son Mao Chengzuo was arranged to lead the first association, and everyone still gave his dead father a little face, so that Mao Chengzuo led people to be stationed on Phi Island, the main island of the Dongjiang River, and the other three associations were stationed on several larger islands not far from Phi Island.

When Mao Chengzuo heard the report, he immediately came to the shore with his whole body draped, looking at the huge fleet at sea, he couldn't help but think that this might be the last battle. He was a little relaxed in his heart, Mao Chengzuo has suffered too many blows and torments in the past few years, Mao Wenlong was only seventeen years old when he died, he was a pampered son, and a great change occurred all of a sudden, he was carried out as a chess piece to appease the Dongjiang people, which saved his life. Later, Yuan Chonghuan was convicted by the imperial court, and the imperial court rehabilitated Mao Wenlong, but the glory of the Mao family was no longer there, and the army he could mobilize was only armed with more than 6,000 people on Phi Island. After he presided over Phi Dao, he finally knew how correct the saying was that he didn't know how expensive firewood and rice were if he didn't know how true, as the supreme governor, he not only had to worry about the problem of eating thousands of people, but also had to guard against letting the Houjin people land on the island, and he had to be vigilant and worried every day.

"It's the ship of the Great Ming." One of the Phi Dao soldiers shouted with a good look, and his words caught everyone's attention, and all of them tried to open their eyes wide to look out to sea, and as the ship approached, everyone could see clearly the flag fluttering on the ship, and it was indeed the fleet of the Ming Dynasty.

The soldiers on the island became excited, and the imperial court did not forget about the Dongjiang River and sent a fleet to save everyone.

At this time, Mao Chengzuo was very calm, and ordered all the officers and soldiers not to relax, maintain a fighting state, and respond to emergencies at any time.

As the fleet approached, the Phi Dao soldiers couldn't help but marvel at the two giant ships in the fleet, the tall hull made the other ships smaller, and the black hole muzzle stretched out from the open gun window, and the small Fu ship next to it also pointed the gun muzzle at the island.

The big boat stopped a short distance from the shore, and the boat was lowered from it, and a sailor rowed the boat to the shore.

The people on the shore watched nervously, they did not know what this fleet would bring them.

The boat came ashore and brought with it the order of Xie Lian, the governor of Denglai, and the official letter of Zhang Chu, the commander of Dengzhou, who said that Zhang Chu, the commander of Dengzhou, would be sent to take over the Dongjiang Islands and incorporate the rest of the Dongjiang River.

Mao Chengzuo carefully examined the orders around Xie Lian and Zhang Chu's official documents, these official documents are in line with the rules of the Ming army, and they seem to be true, but although the governor and the general army are larger than the generals of the Dongjiang River, Zhang Chu can take over the Dongjiang River and incorporate the rest of the Dongjiang River, which is not very in line with the rules.

Mao Chengzuo hesitated in his heart, he had an extra heart, and decided to send someone to board the ship first to see what the situation was.

Mao Chengzuo sent a cronie to meet Zhang Chu on the grounds of meeting the chief soldier, Mao Chengzuo's cronies got on a small boat, very uneasy but did not forget their mission, all the way carefully observed the surrounding situation, he boarded the flagship of the fleet "Caiyun" to see Zhang Chu, and brought back Zhang Chu's verbal orders.

Mao Chengzuo's cronies saw Zhang Chu and returned to the shore to report the situation to Mao Chengzuo, according to his observations, although the military uniforms worn by the people were different from those of other Ming troops, they were indeed Han Chinese, and there was no doubt that they should be the army of the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that the chief soldier named Zhang Chu said that he was going to lead 1,000 soldiers ashore and conduct a landing exercise, and asked the Dongjiang soldiers to give up the landing ground.

Mao Chengzuo was angry when he heard this, what kind of score are you putting on as a general soldier, just say cowardly, you have to bring a thousand people to dare to go to the island, and what kind of landing exercises are you going to do, but if you don't let this general soldier go ashore, I really don't know when the Ming army will come here again.

Mao Wenlong had no choice but to order the soldiers of Phi Dao to leave the coast, he wanted to see how this general soldier named Zhang Chu would toss. (To be continued.) )