One of the northeast passes of the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty in Shanhaiguan, it is regarded as the starting point of the eastern end of the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty and is known as "the first pass in the world". Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

It echoes with Jiayuguan, which is thousands of miles away, and is famous all over the world.

The circumference of Shanhaiguan City is about 4 kilometers, it is connected with the Great Wall, with the city as the pass, the city is 14 meters high, 7 meters thick, there are four main city gates, a variety of defense buildings.

Crossing the Shanhaiguan is outside the pass, that is, Liaodong is also the northeast boundary of later generations, the so-called Guandong, Shanhaiguan is the starting point, as long as it passes through the pass, it begins to break through.

Guannai is endless, the vast Central Plains land, here is the last guarantee of the Ming Dynasty's Liaodong border, as long as you pass through the Shanhaiguan, the entire rich Central Plains land is in front of you, and you can drive straight into the Ming capital in one day.

Therefore, Shanhaiguan had the reputation of "the throat of the border county and the guarantee of the Beijing division" in the Ming Dynasty.

The importance of Shanhaiguan to the Ming Dynasty is related to the survival of the country.

In September, Shanhaiguan has been cold and windy, and the cold wind blowing from time to time pours into the erection collar, which makes people can't help but shrink their necks and look up at the sky.

Usually lively out of the city gate, today is unusually deserted, there is no caravan at the city gate, the horse team queues up to get out of the customs, and there are few people on the street, showing a withered scene.

It's no wonder that this is the case.

The officials who can be named in the entire Liaodong territory, I don't know what kind of wind they smoked today, and under the leadership of Sun Chengzong, the Liaodong Economic Strategy, they arrived at the Shanhaiguan in a neat manner, and put on a welcoming look.

For the sake of safety, the surrounding streets are full of Liaodong border troops, one by one, they are staring at each other, and at a glance, they know that they are all soldiers who have been on the battlefield and stained with blood, which invisibly gives people a great pressure.

In this kind of situation, whoever has a problem with his head will rashly walk on the street, even if those businessmen are rich, they don't dare to risk going out now, it's okay not to check, if you check the hat of a Litong girl, it will really outweigh the loss.

A year ago, the seizure of eight Jin merchants, Shanhaiguan is also an important place to arrest, and the scene at that time made these businesses in Liaodong still vivid.

Some businesses still relied on the case of raiding the eight Jin merchants, and Jinyiwei wiped out the eight Jin merchants, resulting in a large part of the vacancy in Liaodong commerce, so that other businesses had the opportunity to grow.

Until now, the Ming merchants who have caravans going through Liaodong have kept one thing in mind, that is, the imperial court strictly forbade the military supplies that were forbidden to go out of the customs could not be brought privately, even if the Jurchens outside the customs offered more profit temptations, they could only endure the heartache and shake their heads and refuse.

As everyone knows, after the investigation of the eight Jin merchants, the number of Jinyiwei in Liaodong did not decrease at all, but showed signs of increasing.

It can be seen that the imperial court attached great importance to the illegal collection of prohibited materials by the caravans leaving the customs, and these merchants did not want to cause the family relatives in the Central Plains to be wiped out for the sake of temporary high profits.

That's a headless business, you can't do it.

For the businessmen of the Ming Dynasty, only the long-term business is the best.

.....

Xu is a long time, these generals guarding the border defense of Liaodong are a little impatient, glanced at Sun Chengzong who was standing in the first place, and began to chat in a whisper.

"You say, what is this court thinking? The Queen Mother is really, what is she doing when she sends the bullshit Jinyi Weiti to Liaodong? It's okay for them to bully and bully the people of the Ming Dynasty, and fight with the Jurchens? Isn't it a nonsense? Net to add chaos to our Liaodong border defense, isn't this a problem for our economic masters? After speaking, the military general stretched out his fingers, buckled the nostrils that exposed his nose hair, and looked at the intersection where there was still no one in front of him.

Another military general glanced at Sun Chengzong in front of him, and then said to this open-mouthed colleague: "Shut your stinky mouth, do you want to cause trouble for our master Jinglu?" Don't you know that Jinyiwei has a lot of spies in Liaodong? ”

"Just those brocade guards? They rushed to the barracks to get people? After eating the bear's heart and leopard's gall, I just took the opportunity to get the batch of grain transported by Jinyiwei to relieve the difficulties of all our soldiers in Liaodong. ”

...

Sun Chengzong stood in front of him to close the closing, and heard all the whispers in the back, no way, if you don't want to listen to this voice, you have to listen to it, no matter how much the generals talk in a whisper, the voice is not lower than normal talking.

If you are really like a literati, with a voice like a whisper, you are really not a military general.

However, he also wondered why the imperial court would send Jinyi Weiti to the Liaodong Frontier, it was out of anxiety that he sent such a team of Jinyi Weiti to elbow him, in that case, why did he remove the prison army earlier?

Maybe something happened in the court? It's something he doesn't know.

Since he served as the Liaodong Economic Strategy, several major changes have occurred in the Ming court, and he can get less and less news in the court.

It is difficult for him, a protégé who is all over the world, to know some news about the decisions of the imperial court in advance, so he can only passively sit on the eastern Liaodong frontier and act according to orders.

The good thing is that several major changes in the imperial court made him, a loyal minister with the Ming dynasty in his heart, feel comforted, as if he saw the signs of the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty.

In particular, the imperial court reacted so quickly to the drought in Shaanxi, and in a very short period of time, it was able to raise relief food for disaster relief, extinguishing the potential danger at the end of the day.

Regarding the imperial court's series of measures to deal with the drought in Shaanxi, Sun Chengzong would nod his head and praise every time he thought of it, and he kept a doubt in his heart, that is, where did so much disaster relief food come from.

There are so many that one million stones of grain can be transferred to Liaodong, so he once used the identity of Liaodong Jingluo to go to the place where Jinyiwei stores grain to check it, and saw that every stone of grain is a fine grain.

This made him very puzzled, when did the imperial court have a surplus enough to use fine grain for disaster relief?

With all kinds of questions in his heart, Sun Chengzong felt that the imperial court had changed, and he became more and more unfamiliar with it.

While thinking, he heard the sound of a war horse running, and then looked up to see a cavalry galloping, which was the night he sent out in the direction of the capital early in the morning. (Night does not collect: that is, the name of the horse and sentinel during the Ming Dynasty.) ）

Seeing that the night was not collected at a gallop, Sun Chengzong spoke: "It's here." ”

When the words fell, the earth seemed to be hit hard, and then the drums of the war sounded like a torrential rain, and the sound was dull and orderly, as if these Liaodong generals who came to greet them were in the midst of the Jin Ge Iron Horse.

This rhythmic sound penetrates the air through the earth, and after many years of military service, the Liaodong generals present only heard the sound, and knew that this sound was caused by a large number of cavalry rushing, and it was also a group of well-trained cavalry.

Suddenly, the generals were a little confused and scolded.

"Grandma's, when did the Jurchen cavalry enter the Central Plains?"

"It's impossible, if the Jurchens enter the Central Plains, it is impossible for Shanhaiguan not to know."

"Quick, Master Jinglu is still ahead."

......

The sudden situation made these Liaodong generals panic for a while, thinking that the Jurchens didn't know from which horn they ran into the Central Plains.

Fortunately, when Sun Chengzong saw the riot behind him, he scolded loudly: "What chaos? As a Liaodong military general, it should be the norm to fight with the Jurchens, and can't even tell whether this is the voice of the Jurchen cavalry? ”

When Sun Chengzong said this, these generals reacted, and after listening carefully, their old faces turned red, and some blurted out: "Grandma's claws, scare Lao Tzu, when did we have cavalry in the Ming Dynasty to be so fake?" Listening to the voice, even the Guanning Iron Horse is not as good as ,........。 ”

Although the general was cursing, his curiosity betrayed the envy in his heart.

"No, this voice is not up to the Jurchens at first hearing, listen carefully, it will be slightly higher, at least if the front is really a large group of cavalry, the sound of this rush is too neat, like..." The general, who listened to his voice, couldn't find the words to describe it.

Hearing this, another general said: "A person, this is like a person riding a horse. ”

"No, it's two people, please listen carefully, this sound is slightly different in the landing point, one of them is the sound of horses' hooves, falling faster, just like the general commanding, controlling the speed of the horse's hooves falling behind." A bearded, imposing-looking man corrected himself.

Sun Chengzong glanced approvingly at the mighty man who had just spoken, and then opened his mouth to stop the argument of his subordinates: "Okay, listen to the voice is coming, everyone is ready, when you see it in a while, you will know how it is." ”

Hearing this, these Liaodong generals who were arguing about the sound of horses' hooves returned to their original positions one after another, waiting for the battle, looking at the two big flags that were gradually revealed not far ahead, at this time they were curious about the brocade-clothed guards sent by the imperial court.

In just a suck, the cavalry team under the banner of two poles revealed its full lineup, and it was the wolf cavalry guard led by Li Mu who finally arrived at Shanhaiguan after a day of regular running.

At first, when Li Mu saw the shadow of Shanhaiguan, he ordered the wolf cavalry guards to rush quickly and march towards Shanhaiguan.

This is also why the Liaodong generals led by Sun Chengzong to greet him, after hearing the voice, would mistakenly think that they were Jurchens entering the customs and had an enemy attack.

Dressed in red, it approached the crowd of people who greeted them at the foot of Shanhaiguan like a rolling red stream, and it was not until Li Mu, the only one in bright yellow armor, reined in the reins of his horse not far from Sun Chengzong, and let the red torrent stop.

Otherwise, these generals who came to greet them would definitely think that these cavalry would really rush over.

However, when they saw the red torrent stop, they were relieved, but they were also shocked by the mastery of these cavalrymen's horse control techniques, as they discussed before, like a person running on horseback, these cavalrymen in red armor, after seeing Li Mu stop, did not have any confusion, and all of them made the war horses under their crotch stand still for the first time, not at all like they were doing a fast run just now.

Li Mu grabbed the reins of the horse, and when he saw the team in front of him, he recognized Sun Chengzong of Liaodong Jingluo first, and in the face of this loyal minister in the history of the late Ming Dynasty, he still resisted the invasion of the Jurchens at the age of seventy-six, and finally died in the country.

Treating this kind of pureest person in history, Li Mu didn't dare to hold it up, so he abandoned the reins in his hand as soon as possible, turned over and dismounted, and walked two steps quickly to salute.

"Commander Li Mu of Jinyiwei has seen Master Sun."

Li Mu's enthusiasm made Sun Chengzong stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile: "Lord Li, I didn't expect the imperial court to send the commander of Jinyiwei to lead a team to the Liaodong Frontier, I really didn't expect it." ”

"Where, the Queen Mother and the court have orders, and those who are current officials do not listen to the dispatch." Li Mucai won't say that he did it all by himself.

Sun Chengzong said with a smile: "As a courtier, you must act according to orders. ”

.....

After greeting for a while at Shanhaiguan, Sun Chengzong proposed: "Lord Li, why don't you move to the Liaodong military camp and talk in detail?" ”

"Okay, it's all up to Lord Sun." Li Mu nodded, quite casually.

Not long after, Li Mu and Sun Chengzong entered a Liaodong military camp near Shanhaiguan together, and of course, the wolf cavalry guard also followed him into the military camp.

In the military camp and school field, on the platform, Li Mu and Sun Chengzong sat in the middle of the main seat, flanked by the Liaodong military generals.

Sitting down, Sun Chengzong took a sip of tea, looked at the neat wolf cavalry guards below and said: "Lord Li, these brocade-clothed guards are extraordinary, and the posture is comparable to that of Guan Ning's iron cavalry." ”

"Lord Sun has good eyesight." Li Mu was not modest, and pointed to the wolf cavalry guards under the stage and said: "The wolf cavalry guards under the command of this seat can be said to be unsurpassed by the Ming Dynasty in terms of cavalry. ”

"As for the Guanning Iron Horse? It's not bad to be able to confront the Jurchen cavalry. ”

There was a hint of contempt in his tone, and the implication was that the Guanning Iron Cavalry was not as good as the wolf cavalry, and could only be comparable to the Jurchen Iron Cavalry.

It is true that, as Li Mu said, in history, the Guanning Iron Cavalry was able to resist the Jurchen cavalry, and it was already a good strong army, of course, there was one of them that could not be relied on, that is, the firearm three-eyed shovel on the hand of the Guanning Iron Cavalry, this weapon was thorny all over the body, which could be used in distant combat or as a mace in close combat, which was the most advanced cavalry weapon at that time.

However, when Li Mu said this, it obviously smelled of provocation.

Sun Chengzong, who was sitting on the throne, was nothing after hearing this, all Li Mu had no experience in leading troops, and the officials from the court liked to see no one in their eyes, and planned to laugh over.

But one of the reckless generals next to him couldn't sit still.

The reckless general stood up and shouted, "What? This lord from the capital, why do you say that our Liaodong Guanning Iron Cavalry is not as good as your silver spear wax heads? Except for the bright armor, I don't think it's anything remarkable. ”

Sun Chengzong, who was on the side, saw that Ai Jiang was so reckless, and hurriedly scolded: "What are you doing with Man Gui, don't you apologize to Lord Li, step down!" ”

"Oh, slow down Lord Sun, let him finish." As soon as Li Mu heard the name of this reckless general, he immediately became interested, picked up the teacup and looked at Man Gui with interest to defend Guan Ning Tieqi.

"Just say it." Man Gui, who stood up, was also single, looked at Li Mu and said: "I don't know any big truth, but if I have something to say, it is a mule or a horse that comes out to slip away." ”

Li Mu asked, "How to slip away?" ”

Man Gui said with great confidence in Guan Ning's iron cavalry: "The two armies are facing each other, as long as the adult's wolf cavalry guard can win, even if Man Gui loses." ”

"Okay, this seat agrees, and let the wolf cavalry guard meet for a while, the first iron horse in Liaodong, Guanning Iron Cavalry." After speaking, Li Mu changed his words and said: "However, if this seat wins, your head will belong to this seat." ”

"Okay." Man Gui asked, "What if the adults lost?" ”

"Honza lost?" Li Mu smiled, but still said: "If the wolf cavalry guard loses, the queen mother will be on this seat, how about appointing you Mangui as the commander of the Guanning Iron Cavalry?" ”

After speaking, Li Mu looked at Man Gui, this reward was also something he thought of temporarily, for Zu Dashou, he said that he didn't like it, but it was impossible for the wolf rider to lose, this reward was the same whether to say it or not, it was purely an attitude. (To be continued.) )