"Guobin, Liu Pojun, Li Donghua, you are all from Liaodong, if Houjin wants to break through Jizhen, when will it be?"

In Chen Xin's official room, Song Wenxian, Dai Zhenggang, Lu Chuanzong, and a few people just now were all there, standing in front of the sketchy map that Chen Xin hung up.

As soon as the three Liaodong came to hear Chen Xin say that Houjin was going to break through Jizhen, his eyes lit up, Li Donghua took a step forward excitedly, and was about to speak, when he remembered that Zhu Guobin was the chief official, and his rank was much higher than him, so he hurriedly retreated.

Chen Xin smiled: "When you come out, you will talk first." ”

Li Donghua looked at Zhu Guobin, Zhu Guobin also smiled and nodded, and then he said: "My lord, if Jiannu really wants to come, it should be the end of September, Liaodong does not plant winter wheat, and after harvesting autumn wheat, there is only hoeing and fertilizing, and it can be done in September." ”

Lu Chuanzong didn't know anything about Liaodong, he didn't have anything to fear about the Tartars or bandits anyway, and asked with a big grin: "Will the Tartars come in July or August?" ”

Zhu Guobin shook his head and said: "These days, the people from Dongjiang have come, and we have also collected some information about Houjin, they are short of labor, and there is a drought every year, many Han people are starving to death, and the price of grain this year is more than ten taels of silver per stone. ”

Chen Xin looked at the long line between Wendeng and Jingshi, and had a headache about how to transport the army so far. The time when Houjin arrived, he remembered that it was also the end of the year, if Houjin set off at the end of September and early October, he would probably be able to start knocking at the end of October, and arrive at the Jingshi City in November, which was roughly the same time as he knew.

Dai Zhenggang questioned slightly, "My lord, if it is far from the entrance of Jizhen, so many people and horses are moving, there is no pass on the Mongolian side, and there is always someone who can come out to report the news, as long as the Guan Ning army sends some exploration horses, they will definitely receive the news." He is not afraid of being surrounded by my Daming? ”

Li Donghua said: "In the past, when Jiannu went out, we Dongjiang went to Liaodong to attack, turned around, grabbed things and left, Jiannu also couldn't take us, if Jiannu wanted to rob, I'm afraid it would be about the same." ”

Liu Pojun pointed to a large area north of Sancha on the map, "If they go to the Liaohe Loop, it will be sparsely populated and easier to hide." The Guanning army didn't even go to Hedong, let alone Liaohetao, and it was possible to be kept in the dark. The last summary of the news said that Karaqin also had a great drought this year, and more and more leaned towards Jiannu, and when the Shubu outside the mouth of Jizhen sold grain in Ningyuan in April, there were more than 400 Jiannu people mixed in it, and this matter was discovered by a Beijing official, and many gentry near Ningyuan knew that they were rumored to buy grain for Jiannu. ”

Liu Pojun is now serving as a staff officer, but Chen Xin did not know what kind of staff officer he was, and he had to do everything anyway.

Dai Zhenggang scolded: "Then don't stop quickly, your mother's seventy or eighty thousand Guan Ning troops let more than four hundred Jiannu buy things under their noses." Otherwise, the adults will take us and kill them. ”

Chen Xin shook his hand and said: "I can't trespass into Guanning's letter land, besides, Lao Tzu didn't take Liao's salary, and he didn't care about the people who took the silver, I don't care about him." Needless to say, let's take a look at the route where Houjin may enter the Kou. Although he knew that Houjin was going to Zunhua, he still wanted these people to think more and find some talents from it.

Liu Pojun said: "My lord said that Jiannu broke from Jizhen, and his subordinates felt that it was very likely to be from the vicinity of the side wall of Miyun Huairou, that is, the first line of Gubeikou or near the wall of the wall, where it was closest to the Jingshi, and after breaking the side wall, he could go to the city of Jingshi in two days." ”

Zhu Guobin thought about it and said: "I think it is more likely that Lengkou will go to Xifengkou, Gubei is close to Chahar, although Hudun Rabbit has never won, but Jiannu will not run to a place that is vulnerable to attacks from both sides." Chen Xin nodded approvingly.

Lu Chuanzong said strangely: "They have gone so far, aren't they afraid that Guan Ningjun will raid his lair?" Anyway, there are tens of thousands of people in the Guanning army, by the way, how many soldiers are there in Jiannu? ”

Chen Xin also looked at Liu Pojun and a few other people from Liaodong, they had collected a few times, but the number was different each time, and after the Dongjiang people came, they collected intelligence again.

Liu Pojun flipped through the notebook in his hand and said: "After the people from Dongjiang came this time, we asked one by one, and checked the enemy army by region, about 240 Niu Lu, the number of people per Niu Lu varied, some were called Half Niu Lu, the least Half Niu Lu only had more than ten households, dozens of people, and the average armor of the normal Niu Lu was about 100 people. In addition, there were the left and right wings of the Mongols and some Mongol tribes who took refuge. ”

Lu Chuanzong's eyes widened: "In other words, there are only more than 20,000 people with armor and can fight?" ”

Li Donghua said: "No, their armor is a kind of identity name, other people in Niulu may also have armor, they can send troops, similar to the military households in our guard, also called Yu Ding, both more than ten years old, and more than fifty, when Jiannu went out, some Yu Ding spontaneously followed to grab things, so when they went out, it was like ......" Li Donghua raised his hands and gestured a few times, but he didn't think of how to describe it.

Chen Xin added with a smile: "It's like neighbors ganging up to rob another street." ”

Li Donghua smiled rarely, "Exactly." ”

Chen Xin despised Jiannu in his heart, and it was indeed an organized horse bandit. Lu Chuanzong laughed and said, "What the adults said is interesting, and it doesn't sound like a big deal." ”

Several people from Liaodong shook their heads at the same time, and Zhu Guobin said: "Brother Lu doesn't know, most of these Jiannu were originally hunters in the deep mountains and old forests, and the conditions were harsh, coupled with the bitter cold of Liaodong, these people were very tenacious, and they could persist in fighting even if they ate a little food every day, and the old slaves were ferocious and cruel, and the military discipline was very strict, and they were really fierce when they fought." ”

Lu Chuanzong said disdainfully: "No matter how fierce a person is, he will still die with a shot, we still don't believe that he can block the musket, even if he does, Lao Tzu will use the tiger squat cannon to give him a shot, so that he can't find a piece of good meat on his body." ”

Li Donghua agreed this time: "Lord Lu said it well, when his subordinates were in Dongjiang Town, they only had a broken knife, and they still killed a Jiannu, in the final analysis, they are just a slightly more powerful person, and now they have iron armor and a sharp blade, and they are not afraid of him." If he wants to kill me, I will definitely take him to the funeral, and if I can kill the Tartars with the adults, it will be worth dying. ”

Song Wenxian smiled, listening to these generals, he was originally very disgusted with martial arts, but now these people are his backing, he went to Wendeng on behalf of Chen Xin to visit Zhixian twice, because of the relationship between Wendeng camp, Nazhixian was very polite to him, so he now looks at Wufu a lot more pleasing to the eye.

Song Wenxian heard this and interjected: "In this way, Jiannu can fight no more than fifty or sixty thousand people, and if tens of thousands of people come out to rob, there will be at most twenty or thirty thousand people left, and these may not all be armored people." Guan Ningjun can't beat it like this? ”

Everyone couldn't answer this question, Chen Xin smiled bitterly in his heart, the legendary 9,000 broke 100,000, if there really was such a cavalry, as long as it was released to Jinzhou, it would be a powerful strategic deterrent, not to mention the breach in Jiannu, not even the Sancha River, not to mention that all the men in Jiannu may not have 100,000.

Li Donghua said indifferently: "Guan Ningjun went to Hedong once, lost his troops and lost his generals, and even the involved Lord Sun also went to work, we Dongjiang went many times a year, anyway, Dongjiang people's lives are cheap, and everyone doesn't think there is anything." It's a pity that Mao Shuai ......"

Speaking of Mao Wenlong, the military attachés in the house were a little silent, because this showed that the civil officials could lightly kill the military attachés he was not used to, and then arbitrarily insert a crime that is, according to Mao Wenlong's twelve beheadings, it is okay to put it on anyone's head, and it is a big deal to modify it slightly. If he kills a sentinel like Chen Xin, he won't even need to play it.

Song Wenxian whispered in Chen Xin's ear: "Do you want to go to Shanhaiguan?" This Lord Yuan really doesn't know what else to do in the future, in case one day the matter of you buying Dongjiang soldiers is known to him, and he will also give you a knife, it is better to send some silver. ”

Chen Xin sneered, "Don't send it, he has a big territory, he shouldn't think of me, as long as Jiannu enters, he will be the end of the official, but in a few months, if I am a civil official, I must impeach him in September and October." ”

Song Wenxian was very strange: "My lord, are you really so sure that Jiannu is coming?" ”

Chen Xin said in a low voice: "I will definitely come, you will go to Jingshi first in a few days, there is something very important." We can't just kill people stupidly, we also need added value. ”

At this time, Zhu Guobin pointed to the map and said: "My lord, if it is the entrance of Jiannu, the Jingshi will send an order to Tianjin, at least two days to Tianjin, Tianjin to Dengzhou is another five days, Dengzhou to Wendeng three or four days, this is more than ten days, even if we are fully prepared, we will set off immediately, and we will arrive in Dengzhou on the fifth day, and we will also load the Dengzhou Naval Division." It takes at least one day to board the ship, one day to get off the ship in Tianjin, at least more than 20 days to get to Tianjin, and at least six or seven days to go to Beijing by land. In this way, a month has passed, and if you add the time to prepare for the baggage in Tianjin, it will only be longer. ”

Chen Xin looked at the map above the long distance to Jingshi, it was also a little bottomless, after landing on the shore, he had already sent Qin Lufang to prepare, this journey was the most uncontrollable for him was the transportation from Dengzhou to Tianjin, he was not in a hurry to rush to the front of the Tartars, but the earlier he arrived in Tianjin, the sooner he could get more timely information.

His own ships were far from being able to transport 2,000 troops, and he had to rely on Dengzhou's sailors, and if there was a reason to pull the army to Dengzhou first, he would be able to save nearly ten days, even if the army could rest in Tianjin.

Chen Xin touched his chin, "What kind of reason are you looking for?" Thinking of this, he walked back to the table, and the Laiyang bandit suppression report sent back by Wang Changfu was placed there, and the last few words on the first page attracted him, "White Lotus Sect".

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A few days later, more than a dozen captives were escorted to Chen Xin and stood in a row, all with their hands tied behind their backs. Wang Changfu went to Chen Xin's side and whispered: "It's these people, their mouths are very hard, don't say who is the leader." ”

Chen Xin nodded to Zhou Shifa and motioned for him to preside over the trial. Zhou Shifa asked a group of people, "Which of you is the shopkeeper?" ”

No one spoke, and Zhou Shifa waved his hand to a calmer behind him, who took a handful of guns and went directly to a prisoner on the far right, and shot him without saying a word. The bandit in front of him was shot in the abdomen and fell to the ground screaming.

The faces of the captives changed, and the steward slowly loaded his ammunition in front of them, and without saying a word, he reloaded his ammunition after a while, and clamped the arquebus to the dragon's head.

Zhou Shifa asked again: "Who is the shopkeeper?" ”

This time, several captives no longer dared to remain indifferent, and they all looked at the middle position, and Zhou Shifa and Chen Xin also followed their gaze to the middle.

A young man with a pale face in the middle suddenly kicked at a person next to him, and scolded while kicking: "You bastard, you have deceived me, I will no longer keep it a secret, my lord, he is the shopkeeper!" ”

The man next to him was kicked to the ground, and the young man continued to kick him, and the other captives were silent and turned their faces to the side. Zhou Shifa and Chen Xin both looked at the young man with interest and did not dissuade him.

When the young man stopped, Zhou Shifa asked Zhenfu to take the others away, but left the young man behind. said to the man: "You don't have to pretend, you are the big shopkeeper of the Red Sun Sect, right?" ”

Seeing that he hadn't concealed it, the young man's legs trembled, and he knelt directly on the ground, and said in a trembling voice: "Grandpa Guan, the villain is just inheriting the position of the treasurer of his brother, and he has never done evil." From today on, the villain is willing to change his evil and return to his family to farm......"

Zhou Shifa picked up a booklet in his hand and said coldly: "You wrote this?" Do you think you'll still be able to go? Do you know what happened to Xu Hongru back then. ”

The young man burst into tears: "That's all written by the villain's brother, and the villain is just coercing, coercing." ”

"Where's your brother?"

"I've been dead for a few years, and the villain has never thought of rebelling, let alone killing anyone, but I cheated some stupid men and fools out of the incense money, and begged the adults to spare their lives. The villain has a grievance to sue, Laiyang's incense sect wants to rebel, and the villain denounces. ”

As soon as Chen Xinyi heard that the Xiangjiao rebellion, his eyes lit up, and Zhou Shifa next to him slapped the table and scolded: "Xu Hongru is also deceiving some stupid men and fools. Since it was made up by your brother, does he have an heir? If you want to live, hand them over to your sin. ”

The young man lowered his head and grinned for a long time, but still kept his mouth shut.

Zhou Shifa sneered: "If you don't say it, I will have a way for others to say it." ”

The man finally said, "It's the two who are wearing red clothes outside." ”

Chen Xin scolded in his heart: "Rotten people." But the rotten man is just as useful, and he kindly asked the young man, "Such a young child is also innocent, and I listen to you, it is your brother who is evil, and you are forced to do so." Since you know about the rebellion of the Laiyang Wenxiang Sect, you can tell me in detail, maybe you and your two nephews don't need to be convicted, and I will give you silver so that you can settle down. If you will speak, start with yourself. ”

The young man's face showed surprise, and he hurriedly said: "The villain's name is Zhao Xuan, his father is a salt merchant in Huizhou, and he followed his brother to live everywhere, and his brother has some talent, and he went to Shandong to learn some White Lotus scriptures, and he got a red yang sect by himself, and he died of illness a few years ago, and the villain succeeded to the position of the shopkeeper, and he has always been in the mountains for a lot of time, that is, to deceive some people in the nearby mountains, but the villain is really timid, and he is afraid of being exposed every day, and he has long wanted to live a peaceful life, but unfortunately there is no way to make a living, so he has to keep doing it. In May and June of this year, after the people of the Wenxiang Sect in Laiyang learned about it, they sent someone over to let me raise things together, where did the villain dare to rebel, but because of the strength of the Wenxiang Sect, he also went to see him twice, so he learned about it. ”

"What's the name of the shopkeeper of the Smelling Fragrance Sect? When to do something? ”

"Dong Dacheng, he was originally from Liujiazhuang, and he didn't do anything bad, and then a person named Li Shengming came, this person is very familiar with the scriptures of the Wenxiang Sect and the White Lotus Sect, and he can speak well, and he deceived Dong Dacheng into believing him, and now Dong Dacheng also made an appointment with Xu Tang, the shopkeeper of the Wenxiang Sect in Zhaoyuan, and the incident will start in March next year."

Chen Xin looked at the two children outside the window and said to Zhao Xuan: "If you want to have a peaceful birthday and save the lives of your nephews and sisters-in-law, do something for me." ”

"If the adult commands, the villain will do it."

"You go and find a way to let Dong Dacheng advance the incident to mid-October, or late October at the latest, otherwise your nephews and sisters-in-law will all die."

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Note: Laiyang smells the incense and teaches chaos, which can be seen in "Laiyang County Chronicles": Dong Dacheng, the people of Liujiazhuang in Yi, the demon thief Li Shengming's party, why is Shengming ominous...... About Zhaoyuan thief Xu Tang to Chongzhen three years of New Year's Day for chaos, suitable for Tang murder is forced, early and Chongzhen two years in November according to the waist mountain to rebel.

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