In the inner harbor of Dengzhou Shuicheng, a bird boat is slowly entering the port, and there is a big banner hanging on it from the Shangshu of the Border Military Department, which is none other than Xiong Mingyu, the Jiliao Governor of Ren. : Reading the novel, this old man is only in his fifties, he is a young man like Zhou Yanru, a twenty-one-year-old junior sergeant, from the magistrate of the county, when he was transferred to the Nanjing Criminal Department Shangshu, and the officialdom said that it was Menqing.

His current position as the Jiliao Supervisor is the same as Yuan Chonghuan's official position back then, with the actual position of the right deputy capital Yushi, and the addition of the Shangshu Supervisor of the Border Military Department Jiliao Denglai Yaojin. It was also the practice of the late Ming Dynasty, the governor added the rank of squire of the military department, and the governor did not add the title, and on one side was the imperial envoy of the Imperial Inspectorate.

Originally, because of the impact of the Battle of the Great Ling River, Sun Chengzong proposed Jian Yì when he left his post, and this position should have been cancelled in the fifth year of Chongzhen, but the tripartite strategy of Wang Tingqian and Chen Poundeng allowed this position to be retained. At present, the Wen faction has the upper hand in the imperial court, and the more important officials and soldiers are Wen Tiren's entry, Liang Tingdong and Min Hongxue operated at that time, hoping to use one of their own, but after the emperor balanced, this position naturally fell to Xiong Mingyu's head.

However, Xiong Mingyu has a few governors below who are responsible for their respective defense areas, unlike Yuan Chonghuan, who has a monopoly on power, and there are many civil officials waiting on the dock to enter the royal court, Chen as the red entry of the imperial court, standing in the first echelon, and Zhu Wannian, the prefect of Laizhou Prefecture, is also inside, he is about to leave for Beijing, and then go to Yanghe Bingbeidao to take office, which is also the residence of the governor of Xuanda, he should have set off ten years ago, and he has been staying until Xiong Mingyu came to inspect.

A group of military attachés from Dengzhou Town stood behind, and Geng Zhongming and Liu Zeqing and other standard battalion generals were separated from them a little, showing that in addition to their respective circles. However, Geng Zhongming did not speak to Liu Zeqing, he was now nominally in charge of the taxes of various roads, as well as the tooth shops in Dengzhou City, and Chen also gave him a thousand taels of silver for the shares of the trading company, which was divided into five hundred taels at the end of last year. Usually, Wang Tingtry doesn't control him too much, and Lu Zhi mainly buys him. The power of Dengzhou Town is getting bigger and bigger, and most of the middle-level generals in Dongjiang Town are also inclined to Chen, Geng Zhongming does not have other ideas, and secretly follows Chen and helps buy Dongjiang Town's heart. For this Liu Zeqing, Geng Zhongming didn't look at it, and only maintained his politeness on face.

Liu Zeqing is now a general of the standard battalion, and when he attacked Fuzhou last time, he did not go with Dengzhou Town, and afterwards Wang Ting tried to ask for fifty heads, all of which were given to Liu Zeqing. It is said that this time he went to fight the Liukou, and Wang Tingtry was ready to let him follow.

The bird boat slowly docked, and the drums and trumpets on the dock sounded in unison, even if Wang Tingqian and Lu Zhi were not afraid of this Jiliao Governor, they still had to do enough work on face.

Xiong Mingyu was a little chubby, with a gray beard on his chin, and walked off the gangplank with the support of his own soldiers, Wang Tingyu took a step forward to support Xiong Mingyu's left hand, and after Xiong Mingyu stepped on the ground, he met with the officials on the dock with a smile.

When he arrived at Chen, Wang Tingqian specially introduced: "Xiong Dajin, this is the young master of the crown prince, and the general of Pingliao, Chen of Yindenzhou Town." ”

Chen was about to kneel, Xiong Mingyu grabbed his hands and said: "It turns out that this is the general soldier Chen who swept through Jiannu, and this official has long heard the name of the general's loyalty and courage in Nanzhi. ”

"If you praise it badly, you will be ashamed. There is a little bit of work in the past ri, all of which are the work of your big entry strategy, and the end will only act according to your big strategy, and after ri, please ask the supervisor to give advice. ”

Chen still knelt down, and waited until Xiong Mingyu lifted up vigorously before standing up.

Then there is the prefect of Denglai, the county level, Zhu Wannian is not arrogant or humble to Xiong Mingyu, Xiong Mingyu listened to Wang Ting's introduction, helped Zhu Wannian and said: "Zhu Daotai will defend Laizhou as solid, as vicious as Li Jiucheng, and he has to look at the city and sigh." This is going to Xuanda to prepare for the army, and it should also be jingyi jing. Now Hudun Rabbit is far away, Xuanda outside the mouth of Tumut has been owned by Jiannu, the border everywhere needs to be cautious, Xuanda is the right arm of the Beijing Division, and I Jizhen responds to each other. ”

Wang Tingqian hurriedly helped, "Whenever Zhu Daotai has a big enemy, he likes to experience the front of the battle, and he needs to be cautious when he goes to Yanghe." ”

Zhu Wannian bowed to the two and replied calmly: "Born as a strange man, died as a martyr husband, and killed slaves for the country, my generation should not be like this." ”

Xiong Mingyu stroked his palms and admired, pulling Zhu Wannian to praise again and again, in the place where Xiong Mingyu was in charge, it was bordered by Xuanda, although there was still the Inner Great Wall as the line of defense, but the importance of Xuanda was self-evident, especially in the context of Chahar's Western Escape, Xuanda's own defense has a vital impact on Beijing.

Zhu Wannian originally planned to sue Chen, but Xiong Mingyu didn't give him a chance to speak again, and after meeting with the civil officials in a hurry, he took Chen's hand and walked towards Zhenyang Gate together, and asked about the details of the battle of Chen Fuzhou all the way, when he heard the blue flag suddenly appear, he frowned and said: "General Chen should be precautionary, how can you let the Jiannu of a banner suddenly appear on the side of the army, if you hurt General Chen, it is the loss of my Daming, Jiannu is cunning, and you should be careful after ri." ”

"Subordinates remember." Chen took the opportunity to kneel down and agree, and got rid of Xiong Mingyu's clutches.

Who knew that Xiong Mingyu waited for him to get up, or dragged him all the way, Wang Tingyu could only follow behind, all the way to introduce the defense of Shuicheng, Xiong Mingyu was the first time to come to Dengzhou, listened very carefully, and made some commanding instructions from time to time.

The party arrived at the governor's yamen first, and Wang Tingqian introduced Denglai's shape this year in the lobby, saying that he was ready to carry out the next round of Fuzhou raids in the sowing season of the chun season to contain the Jiannu army.

Xiong Mingyu listened to Wang Tingqiu's report all the time, and only after Lü Zhiye finished speaking, did he put forward his own strategy, he asked to strengthen the direction of the Dongjiang River, and said that he would contact the Li Dynasty when Korea paid tribute from Ningyuan, so that Korea could invest more resources and material resources to restore the defense in the direction of Tieshan.

After putting forward his request, Wang Tingqian also put forward the need for Denglai's military salary this year, hoping to get more military salaries from Jiliao Governor, Xiong Mingyu hummed and played a Tai Chi, and finally did not say a clear, and then asked to see the cāo practice in Dengzhou Town, Chen had already prepared, and led Xiong Da into Mishen Mountain, where the fifth battalion was a regimental training camp with a formal establishment.

When Xiong Mingyu walked into the camp of Mishen Mountain, there was a red queue on the school field, and more than 2,000 soldiers stood in a clear formation in armor, Xiong Mingyu first inspected in front of the array, only to feel that this horse was standing very neatly, they were all wearing short armor-style military uniforms with sleeves, and the big lapels and copper buckles in front looked very jing. He didn't feel anything else.

When he got on the general's platform, Lu Zhicai said to Xiong Mingyu: "Report to Supervisor Xiong, my barracks suffered heavy losses in the battle of Fuzhou, and there is still one left in Jinzhou at the moment, and the Left Association coerced Fuzhou, and here are all recruited regimental training battalion soldiers and horses." ”

Xiong Mingyu opened his mouth slightly, then nodded, looking suddenly realized, and then asked Wang Ting, "Is the chief soldier of this regiment training battalion?" ”

Wang Tingqian hurriedly recruited from the back, Liu Minyou was wearing a mountain armor, and he was mixed in with the generals, and when he saw Wang Tingqian beckoning, he had to go over hard, and after hesitating, he still knelt down.

Wang Tingyu said to Xiong Mingyu: "Xiong Dajin, this is Liu Minyou, the chief soldier of the regimental training in Dengzhou Town, who was originally in the military household of the Wendeng Cāo training guard, and has the talent of training. Due to the urgency of the war in Henan, even the entry into the Beijing Palace was postponed, and only the regiment was trained to enter the horse first. ”

Xiong Mingyu was well-informed, so he naturally knew that this regimental training battalion was going to fight the Liukou, and it had little to do with dealing with Jiannu, and in his heart he was far from being able to compare with the Dengzhou soldiers. politely asked Liu Min to get up, and asked Chen to demonstrate the formation instead.

The two phalanxes demonstrated the advance of the attack, the eight companies opened a wide front, and the musketeers on the two flanks of the spearmen took turns to cast musket cover, maintaining the line and advancing continuously.

Xiong Mingyu's eyes widened as he watched, once it was unfolded, the training of these regiments showed a difference from ordinary battalion soldiers, their formation was tight, and there was a strange flute sound in the drums.

This kind of strictness is something Xiong Mingyu has never seen, which makes him have a very strange feeling, and after reading it, he is very interested in the general soldier Liu who is training soldiers.

However, he didn't dig in face, he just called Liu Minyou to ask carefully, Liu Minyou didn't know, this is not him pretending to be garlic, Liu Minyou only participated in military training in Weihai, and then he didn't go to see the cāodian and actual training, Xiong Mingyu suddenly asked about the formation and tactics, where could he answer, plus he was not used to talking nonsense, so the field was quite embarrassing.

Xiong Mingyu only thought that Liu Minyou didn't want to say more, and he didn't blame him with a smile, thinking about how to get in touch with the general soldier of this regiment.

After watching the cāo practice, Xiong Mingyu stood up from his seat, and below him were the two thousand battalion soldiers who were still neat, and he was still waiting for the usual kneeling during the review, but he didn't know that Liu Min didn't know it, and didn't let the soldiers kneel at all.

The soldiers who had just finished practicing were majestic and standing, all in the same posture, Xiong Mingyu only realized the difference between this branch and the horse, and they looked slightly upturned when they stood up, looking very high-spirited. But this perception is not very good for him, because it seems to be a contempt for him.

Chen respectfully accompanied him without any expression, according to the military system of the imperial court, this regimental training battalion has no affiliation with him, the training and management of Pingri are handled by the regimental training general soldier, only when the expedition will listen to the order of the general soldier, in fact, by the end of the Ming Dynasty, even if the general soldier is on the expedition, he can't control the other battalion heads, and the people who give orders are the civilian officials who lead the troops, and the influence of the general soldiers is limited to the size of a battalion.

Chen also didn't want the soldiers to kneel down to the civilian officials, and in normal times, when the royal court tried to inspect it, most of them shirked on the grounds that they had armor, but now since it was a regimental joint venture, he pretended to be outside.

Wang Tingqian and Lu Zhi knew Liu Min's background, and their interests were entangled with each other, and they couldn't say anything at this time, Xiong Mingyu stood up for a while, and Lu Zhi leaned over and said in a low voice: "Da Jin, do you want to go to the West Gate to see the standard camp?" ”

Xiong Mingyu was given a cold reception, and said by stepping down: "Naturally, this official has this intention." ”

At this time, a family member came from outside the camp gate and handed Wang Tingyu an urgent report, Wang Tingqian hurriedly looked at it, and as soon as his face changed, he gave it to Xiong Mingyu.

Xiong Mingyu had no expression after reading it, looked up and glanced around, and finally looked at Chen and Liu Minyou, "Generals, the thieves have entered Wu'an, the Changping soldiers are gone, the deputy general Rui Qi and the garrison Wang Ji have not been in the formation, Zuo Liangyu is only spared, the Jingjing Pass garrison Li Ding, the kingdom is not in the heavy formation, the soldiers and horses in Jingjing Pass have been lost, Jinan is empty, and the Liukou has the intention of driving Baoding for a long time." ”

A group of generals looked at each other, but they didn't expect the Liukou to be so fierce now, Xiong Mingyu said majestically: "The military department strictly ordered, each battalion under the governor of Denglai, more than 5,000 Jing soldiers will be dispatched, and they will arrive in Baoding before May, and the deadline will come." ”

Wang Tingqian and Chen and the others knelt down in unison, "Obey the generals!" ”……

Zhong Laosi in the audience stood in the first row, beside Zhou Shao'er, who was transferred from the Guards Battalion, and he is now a hundred generals of the fifth battalion, in charge of the entry of a company.

Zhou Shao'er didn't squint, and whispered to Zhong Laosi: "Chen Dajin said that he knelt in the army, and the army has honor, why does he still kneel to that supervisor." ”

"Inspector Dabai." Zhong Laosi said angrily, "Lao Tzu can't get used to these officials, they know a ball, why let Chen Dajin and Mr. Liu kneel him." ”

"Chen Dajin is a first-class general, how many grades does this superintendent have?"

Zhong Laosi took a sip, "Lao Tzu cares about how many products he has, that is, the prince is here, take care of Lao Tzu's ball affairs, Chen Dajin knelt down on him only because of his affection, looked at the grievances, and went to drink a few bowls after the proofreading." ”