Ning Wan has been staying in Jinzhou for almost a month, but I have not received the information sent to Denglai Xizuo for a long time, and I don't know whether Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng have held Dengzhou in the end. After waiting, Ning Wan actually had the idea of taking a sea boat to Dengzhou to investigate, but this thought only flashed for a moment and there was no follow-up. Because there was no sailor in Houjin, the sea road to and from Denglai was controlled by the Ming army's Dongjiang Town, and after the Kong Youde rebellion, the Ming army in Dongjiang Town checked the sea road tightly, and heard that the people on the passing ships had to be dragged one by one, in order to check whether they were wearing wigs on their heads. Once it is found that there are traces of the head, the Ming army would rather kill the mistake than let it go. The Jin army who died because of this added up to more than a dozen.

Ning Wan finally got the decent status of the Han Army Qizheng Red Flag in Dajin, and was favored by Hong Tai, and was appointed as a bachelor and minister of the Inner Hongwen Academy, how could I be willing to risk killing my head and go to Denglai alone. Wait, just wait, there will always be news coming, anyway, King Khan is leading an expedition against Lin Dan Khan, and he won't be able to return to Shenyang for a while, so it's not interesting for him to successfully receive Kong Youde at the moment.

Last month, Mao Da sent a letter to say that Kong Youde had led his troops to join Li Jiucheng and was expected to seize Laizhou, an important town of the Ming army, but Mao Da was still not optimistic about the situation after seizing Laizhou, thinking that Kong Youde was just caught off guard by the Ming Dynasty, and when the Ming Dynasty reacted, the rebels could not support Denglai alone, and they could only retreat to the sea, so he could persuade Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde to lead the soldiers and horses to reduce gold. But before that, he couldn't openly say that he wanted to reduce the gold in the army, because doing so would cause dissatisfaction among most of the generals, after all, they had fought with Dajin for so many years, and the soldiers all had a blood feud with Dajin.

For Mao Da's distress, Ning Wan expressed my understanding, saying that he was not in a hurry, nor was King Khan, and everything was decided by the general. He personally replied to Mao Chenglu, promising Mao Chenglu that no matter whether Dengzhou was lost or not, Dajin was the safest way for the general to retreat. The most Lu also deliberately told the past that he was sent to Korea by the order of King Khan to let Meng Mao Chenglu go, and also mentioned that Huang Taiji had said several times that Dongjiang Wenlong died unjustly. The implication is naturally that I and my Khan King know that General Mao is close to Dajin, and he is also deeply indignant at Mao Shuai's death, and he is willing to avenge General Mao's father in the future

Jinzhou City is not big, it used to belong to the Liaoyang Road of the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty Hongwu eight years to rebuild Jinzhou Wei, the governance office is located in Jinzhou City. After the Jin army captured Shenyang in the first year of the Apocalypse, it successively sent troops to the south to capture Anshan, Haizhou, Yaozhou, Gaizhou, Yongning, Jinzhou, Lushun and other places, but because the main force of the Jin army was in the direction of Shanhaiguan at that time, it did not attach importance to the area south of Liaoyang, so there were not many garrisons left, which gave the soldiers and horses of Dongjiang Town of the Ming Dynasty who were located on Phi Island an opportunity to take advantage of.

From the first year of the Apocalypse to the second year of Chongzhen, the area around Jinzhou and Lushun was basically still controlled by the Ming army, and the Jin and Luzhou were used as bases to guerrilla attacks in Yaozhou, Gaizhou and other places, and cooperated with the Ming army in Yizhou, Xuanzhou and other places on the Yalu River to cooperate with the north and south, which greatly contained the Jin army and reduced the pressure on the Ming army in the direction of Shanhaiguan (Ningyuan and Jinzhou) to a certain extent. It is a pity that after the death of Mao Wenlong, the 100,000 Ming army on the Dongjiang River fell into a state of internal strife and leaderlessness, and the generals were busy competing for the name of the general army of Phi Dao, attacking each other, and had no interest in attacking the Jin army on the shore, and even took the initiative to give up the Jin, brigade and other places on land, which made Mao Wenlong's strategy of basing on Phi Dao to contain the Houjin completely bankrupt.

The Ming army of the Dongjiang River did not dare to go ashore, the Jin army naturally couldn't ask for it, they did not have a water division, and naturally they would not go to the sea to attack the Ming army.

After Huang Taiji succeeded to the throne, the focus of the Jin State was still in the direction of Shanhaiguan, and the defense of the area south of Liaoyang was dominated by the Han military banner, with a small part of the Mengba Banner and the Manchu Eight Banners. The Jin army stationed in Jinzhou was the two Niu Lu of the Han army with red flags, with 750 soldiers, and there was also a leader with eight banners leading 80 Jurchen soldiers and 300 Mongolian soldiers to garrison, with a total strength of 1,130 people.

When Ning Wan and I set off from Shenyang, Huang Taiji was anxious to go west to conquer Lin Dan Khan, although it was very important for Dajin to know that the Ming army such as Kong Youde and others were very important, but because this matter had not been skimmed, so Huang Taiji did not send many soldiers and horses to Ning Wan, and only sent his cronies to lead 10 soldiers to escort Ning Wan and me to Jinzhou, and there were also two officials from the Ministry of War. Wait until everything is confirmed before making arrangements accordingly.

Dasu and Aobai are also called the "Baturu" warriors of the two yellow flags, except for the general Ahsan, the general of Gushan Ezhen, no one in the entire two yellow flags can beat the martial arts of the two of them, so he is deeply trusted by Hong Tai, no matter where he goes, he must always take these two people with him.

After hearing that the king of Khan was going to conquer Lin Dan Khan in person, Dasu thought that he would definitely follow him, and when the army attacked the Daling River before, Dasu was ordered to stay in Shenyang to protect Haoge, and did not have any military achievements. Later, after following Haoge to the front line, there was a Mang Gurtai "royal front blade" thing, and then during the Xiaoling River War, Mang Gurtai led his troops to escape and almost put the Khan King to death, in order to prevent Mang Gurtai from occupying Shenyang and standing on his own, Dasu returned to Shenyang urgently with Haoge, so several battles did not catch up, and no credit was obtained, this heart was naturally very aggrieved, especially when he saw that Ao Bai was awarded the Swing Tooth Lama Jia Le Zhen because of the counterattack of the Ming Army by the Da Ling River, he was still a swing Tooth Lama Zhuangda, and the heart of seeking war and merit became more and more scorching. Gearing up, full of anticipation to follow the Khan King Xizheng to catch up with Aobai, but he didn't want to get an errand to escort Ning Wan and me to Jinzhou, which made Da Su angry and wronged.

I'm a despicable Han dog, why do you want me, a Manchurian warrior, to escort him!

But after asking the King of Khan to hit a wall, Dasu could only hide his grievances and anger deep in his heart, and honestly led someone to escort Ning Wan and me to Jinzhou.

This escort, in fact, I don't know who escorted whom, along the way, Da Su was full of the spectrum of the Manchurian uncle, Ning Wan I was also trying my best to flatter the slaves, regardless of the fact that he was already a scholar of the Inner Hongwen Academy of Dajin Kingdom, and the identity of the minister of the King of Parliament, the flattery of Dasu even made the two military officials accompanying him look at it, and privately reminded him to pay attention to his identity, although Dasu was favored, after all, he was just the Khan's fangla, not the prince and important minister of the Eight Banners, he would rather finish I am the Khan's trusted minister, But to whisper so low to a tooth horn is really detrimental to the dignity of the Khan King.

For the kindness and persuasion of the two, I don't care at all, but I don't care at all, I laugh at the two of them without self-knowledge, rotten wood can not be carved, as always patted Uncle Dasu's ass, after arriving in Jinzhou, it became even worse, every day waiting for the letter to do what he did is to find out for Dasu whether there are any good-looking daughters or wives in the Han slave family, as long as there is, he immediately asked the Han military banner to tie people up and send them into Dasu's house, in addition to gambling with Dasu, changing the way to lose money to him, Happy Dasu is really happy in Jinzhou, The heart said that this happy life is stronger than the worship of Ao who went to the west to endure hardships

On September 19, the guards of the Han army flag in a fort by the sea suddenly caught three Ming army details, one of whom named Zheng Deqing kept saying that it was Ning Wan's old acquaintance, and there were 100,000 urgent things to tell him, and the other two Ming army soldiers also kept saying that they came to contact Dajin and surrender on the orders of Deputy Marshal Kong, and they were envoys, not details. The people of the Han Army Banner did not know whether what they said was true or false, and for the sake of safety, they sent the three of them into the city.

As soon as Ning Wan and I came to Jinzhou, I greeted the two Niu Lu of the Han Army Banner, and all the fine works that were caught were sent to his place of residence as soon as possible, with this order, plus Da Su also spoke, the two Niu Lu naturally did not dare to delay, and they sent people directly to Ning Wan's place where I lived.

The entourage outside came to report that it was the Han Army Banner that sent three Ming soldiers to make it, one of which called himself Zheng Deqing, and when I heard this name, I frowned: After waiting for so many days, I finally came!

"Bring people in, quick!"

After the entourage went out of the city to take people, my heart beat even harder, this Zheng Deqing is indeed his old friend, when they were still people from Liaoyang Mansion in the Ming Dynasty, they read books and poems and drank together, after he returned to Dajin, he was ordered by Hongtai to recruit a group of Han people as the Jin Army, this Zheng Deqing was the first batch of fine works he snared, and he was sent to Dongjiang Town as a businessman to investigate, and made a lot of contributions to Dajin. After the news of Kong Youde's rebellion came, Ning Wan and I sent a secret letter to Zheng Deqing asking him to go to Dengzhou to connect with Mao Chenglu, and strive to pull Kong Youde and them to Dajin's side.

Zheng Deqing is a steady person, he will never come to Jinzhou in person without something very important, Ning Wan I have already judged in my heart that what he has been waiting for for so long is afraid that he will finally have an eyebrow.

Zheng Deqing didn't shave his hair, he was dressed as a wealthy Han businessman, when he was caught by the Han military banner, he was still scared, but after seeing Ning Wan, he suddenly turned into a smile, and shouted with a smile: "Ning Wan me, don't you come out to say hello when your old friend comes?" ”

"You old thing has been gone for so long and there has been no reply, Lao Tzu was almost killed by you, Zhilu Dao?" Ning Wan scolded me with a smile, in fact, Zheng Deqing is not old, he is only in his thirties like him, but Zheng is less white-headed, so he looks older.

Zheng Deqing rolled his eyes and said angrily: "I just came back from Huangcheng Island, and I came to you as soon as I went ashore and didn't come back, so you should be content." ”

Ning Wan's heart was all on Kong Youde's side, and I was not in the mood to quarrel with Zheng Deqing again, so I pulled him over and asked with concern: "How is it, the matter is done?" ”

"Well, it's done." Zheng Deqing nodded solemnly, and his expression became solemn.

"Really?!" Ning Wan jumped up happily, the whole person became red and refreshed, and grabbed Zheng Deqing and urged him eagerly, "Tell me quickly, talk about it." ”

Zheng Deqing smiled bitterly and said, "I've been running all the way, why don't you give a bowl of water to drink first." ”

"Okay, okay, you wait." Ning Wan glared at the guard who was still standing stupidly: "Why don't you go and make tea." ”

"Make three bowls." Zheng Deqing emphasized, Ning Wan I noticed that there were two men wearing fishermen's clothes behind Zheng, but he didn't suspect anything, only that Zheng Deqing paid to hire the fishermen to send him across the sea.

Zheng Deqing said a little excitedly: "Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and Mao Chenglu led more than 10,000 soldiers and their families, with more than 100 warships and more than 300 artillery pieces to Dajin, and are now waiting on Huangcheng Island. ”

"What? You repeat. ”

Brought more than 10,000 people, more than 300 cannons, and more than 100 ships on the war schedule?! I couldn't believe my ears, it really made him ecstatic.

Zheng Deqing smiled and repeated. After confirming, Ning Wan clenched his fists, closed his eyes and looked up to the sky, and tears actually dripped from the corners of his left and right eyes.

"My lord, Dasu sent someone to ask him to bring people to him."