The night was like ink, and when Zhu Wanliang was still preparing to play tricks, he didn't want Man Gui to lead people to the north by sea.

After a day's and night's march, 40,000 soldiers and horses finally arrived at the mouth of the Daling River on the evening of 17 June, and the navigation conditions at the mouth of the Daling River were even better than they had imagined.

The 3,000-material ship easily sailed into the Daling River, and sailed upstream with the method of adjusting the sails and rocking the oars.

When the sky was completely dark, the small boats walking in front of the 3,000-material ship lit the torches, shook the two torches, and used the torches as flags to pass the flag.

"General Man, we can't go up any further, we have already walked twenty-two miles of the Liao River, and if we go up, we can only use a thousand material boats."

On the deck of the dark night, a shipowner explained to Man Gui, who was wearing a stomach, and Man Gui nodded when he heard this, and then said:

"In this case, all the horses and cavalry dismounted, and the foot soldiers loaded the cannons, gunpowder, grain, and stone bullets on the ship, and then continued north on the ship of a thousand materials."

Man Gui gave an order, and immediately the Qianliu ships began to look for a point on both sides of the strait that could dock, and then first sent the things on the Qianliu ship to the shore, and all the foot soldiers went ashore, and then took people and war horses back and forth from the 3,000 large ships to the shore.

Because it was a light march, the more than 20,000 cavalry only brought 20,000 horses, achieving the standard configuration of one person and one horse.

The horses of the Daning Sanwei were then delivered by sea ships two days later, while the Xiao Cavalry Guard, Long Xiang Wei and Yu Lin Wei returned to the capital after completing the dismissal.

Going around and around, 20 large ships of thousands of materials went back and forth more than 40 times, and it was not until the time came to 4 o'clock (22 o'clock) that more than 20,000 horsemen were landed.

Man Gui went ashore and said to the lieutenant general behind him: "The army leads the horse on foot, and the horse is ready to load the marble at any time." ”

"The last general commands!" The adjutant general should be dispatched, and then arrange for people to send orders to the whole army.

When they gave the order, the soldiers of the 6th Battalion also took artillery and baggage on 20 large ships of 1,000 materials, and the 3,000 large ships were rowing oars, turning around and preparing to go down the river, return to Manshakou, and bring back the war horses.

Contrary to what many people think, most of the cavalry rode horses or marched directly on foot with military horses, except for the rush mission.

This is the case with the current Three Cavalry Guards and Daning Three Guards Cavalry, except that they don't need to carry weights, and all the grain and straw are carried on a large ship of thousands of materials.

Braving the darkness of the night, they still had to travel more than sixty miles, and all this had to be done before dawn.

The environment of Dalinghe is not as bad as imagined, but it is not much better.

The speed of the oars against the wind was not slow, and the large ships put away the soft sails, used the spinnakers, and walked in a zigzag manner, which was faster than the downwind, so gradually the cavalry began to be unable to keep up with the speed of the ships.

"Order the whole army to get on the horse, this distance is almost the same!"

Glancing at the moon hanging high above the sky, Man Gui judged the time and distance, and after finding that it was now three minutes (1:45) and the distance was only thirty-seven or eighteen miles, Man Gui decisively gave the order to mount the horse.

Immediately afterwards, more than 20,000 horsemen turned over and got on their horses, took out a handful of beans from the horse feed pocket behind their backs, fed the war horses, shook the reins, and rushed to the north with a "driving" sound.

In the middle of the night, the sound of rumbling horses' hooves woke up many people.

Quang Ninh Zhongzuo Institute, Kaizhou Tun, Weishan Fort......

Everywhere the army passed, it left behind thousands of iron horsemen, a battalion of foot soldiers, and thirty ten-pound cannons.

And they exalted the holy decree and commanded every city and fort to open its gates.

The Liaoxi generals, who were still asleep, were woken up by their own family members, and when they hurried to the city wall, they saw thousands of iron horsemen, thousands of foot soldiers, and thirty black iron cannons.

"Zhou Tao, Long Xiangwei Qianhu, came with a holy decree to check the soldiers and horses of Kaizhou Tunbao, and if the city gate is not opened within a quarter of an hour, all the soldiers and horses of Kaizhou Tunbao will be regarded as traitors and will attack the city with an army!"

"Peng Peng Peng!"

Zhou Tao rode his horse to the city, held high the holy decree and shouted, at the moment when he finished roaring, thirty artillery pieces were also loaded with artillery, and empty cannons were released, which startled Zhang Shiyan, the general of Liaozhen at the head of the city.

"Garrison, what are we going to do?"

The family on the side asked, and Zhang Shiyan, who was guarding Tunbao in Kaizhou, didn't know how to deal with it for a while.

He didn't understand, didn't he say the day before yesterday that he was waiting for news? Why is it that in the past two days, the sixteen guards of Beizhili have all been killed under the city of Tunpu in Kaizhou?

"Kaesong? No, five hundred soldiers and horses were eaten by Lao Tzu and three hundred empty quotas, this opening is a dead end! ”

"Shou?" When Zhang Shiyan thought of this method, he looked down and saw the thirty black hole Yanshan General Cannons, swallowed his saliva, and finally dispelled this idea.

When he hesitated, Zhou Tao rode his horse in front of the moat under the city, and continued to say loudly:

"Those who pass on the order of the king of Qi and accept the inventory before dawn will not be held accountable for the past vacancies!"

Under Zhou Tao's words, Zhang Shiyan's heart was immediately shaken, and then he waved his hand directly:

"Open the gates!"

"Yes!" When the family next to him heard this, even if he asked someone to open the city gate and put the suspension bridge, after all, the situation was too different, and it was not something they could deal with at all.

Zhang Shiyan's opening of the city seemed to have opened Pandora's box, not only him, but also the cities, forts, and guards on the same road in the Western Liaoning Corridor opened their gates one after another to accept the inventory.

Zhu Youzhen specially transferred Lu Longwei of Yongping Mansion to go north through Shanhaiguan.

Under the attack of Lu Longwei and Long Xiangwei, the entire Liaoxi Corridor opened its gates, and no one dared to resist.

But the reason why the Western Liaoning Corridor is so cooperative is because they eat most of the empty salary, and compared to them, in order to deal with the north of the Xiaoling River and the vast majority of the Liao River west of the Liao River, in order to deal with the Beiyu and Jianyu, the Liao generals are the ones who have many soldiers and horses.

"Put!"

Peng Peng Peng –

In the face of unclear circumstances, some people finally chose to resist stubbornly.

Huang Jin, the garrison of Dakangbao, did not open the city gate within three quarters of an hour after the arrival of the infantry led by Yulinwei, and the commander of Yulinwei immediately ordered the bombardment of Dakangbao.

"Crazy! Are they crazy?! They really dare to fight! ”

The garrison Huang Jin was escorted down the city wall by his family, and the female wall at the head of the city was constantly hit by stone bullets, interrupted, and the entire section of the city wall was shaken slightly.

"Dakang Fort garrisons the Huangjin rebellion, kill!"

Yu Linwei commanded the envoy to draw his sword and ordered, under his command, the thirty ten-pound cannons carried by the army bombarded Dakang Fort with a length and width of no more than 500 paces.

This bombardment frightened not only the garrison Huang Jin, but also the general of the Guangning Houtun guard, Zhu Wanliang, who was only a few miles away from Dakang Fort!

"! Man Gui, he really dares to fight! ”

Zhu Wanliang listened to the sound of cannons in the distance, and looked down at the city expressionlessly, leading Daning's 6,000 cavalry, Mangui, who had more than 3,000 foot soldiers, and more than 60 artillery pieces in the black hole, Zhu Wanliang's forehead oozed sweat.

"Zhu Wanliang! A quarter of an hour to go! ”

Suddenly, Man Gui shouted again, and Zhu Wanliang in the dark night was already a little weak-hearted.

The generals next to him also looked at him, with nervous expressions, as if they wanted Zhu Wanliang to be soft.

This is Liaoxi, if they are reversed, who can they turn to?

Going to Kanwai? The Karaqin and the Tuman did not dare to take them in at all, and Chahar was thousands of miles away from here, so he had no chance to take refuge.

It is also impossible to take a detour to Tieling and Kaiyuan in Houjin, and Daning Sanwei is still stuck in the middle.

Therefore, Zhu Wanliang didn't have much choice, and after being entangled, he could only sigh and say:

"Open the gates!"

"Yes!" Hearing this, all the generals breathed a sigh of relief.

There is the example of Da Kangbao in front, and they all know that Man Gui really dares to attack the city.

Soon, the gate of the Houtun Guard of Guangning was opened, and Man Gui also ordered 3,000 foot soldiers to enter the city to take over the city defense.

After taking over the city defense, Man Gui seized Zhu Wanliang's military power, put him under house arrest in the general military palace, and at the same time ordered more than 6,000 cavalry from Daning to march east along the Great Wall and continue to dismantle the soldiers and horses of western Liao.

This night in Liaoxi was filled with the sound of the city gates wide open and the sound of shelling of those who did not know the number of days and tried to resist in vain.

At the same time, in the direction of Liaoyang, who got the news half a day in advance, Qi Jin also led the seven battalions of Zhejiang soldiers to cross the Liaohe River and took over many stone forts and guards.

When the time came to noon, Xiong Tingbi knew that the dismissal had begun, and immediately ordered some of the generals he had promoted not to resist and accept the investigation.

Qi Bingzhong of Kaiyang Fort received the order and cooperated with the dismissal, Liu Qu of Zhenning Fort accepted the retrenchment, and the defenders of Zhenwu and Luyang, Luo Chengcheng, the staff general Hei Yunhe, the guerrilla Li Maochun, Zhang Mingxian and others successively opened the castle to accept the retrenchment.

When the sky was completely dark, the entire territory of western Liaoning had been completely taken over.

Under the deterrence of 70,000 troops and more than 400 artillery pieces from the north, south, east and west, more than 40,000 soldiers and horses in Liaozhen had no room for resistance......

"In the land of western Liaoning, there are 48 forts in six guards and seven stations, with more than 54,300 regular soldiers and more than 28,000 auxiliary soldiers, but in fact there are only more than 27,000 regular soldiers and 9,000 auxiliary soldiers?!"

In the Guangning Jingluo Mansion, Yuan Yingtai stood in the hall, holding a book in his hand, his beard trembling, and he couldn't believe it.

Around him, Xiong Tingbi, who sat on the main seat and drank tea calmly, and Man Gui and Qi Jin, who sat first on the left and right.

Looking at Yuan Yingtai, whose beard was trembling, Man Gui added:

"There were 37,000 horses in the original amount, but 18,000 in the future."

Okay, it was another thunderous blow, Yuan Yingtai only felt that his mouth was dry, and he turned his head to look at Xiong Tingbi, good guy, this guy is still drinking tea so comfortably?!

"Xiong Feibai! Think for yourself how to explain to Banzai with me! ”

After that, Yuan Yingtai went up to grab the teacup, but he didn't want Xiong Tingbi to move his hand holding the teacup away, and shouted:

"Didn't you transfer Li Ning, Zu Dashou, their three battalions of regular soldiers and one battalion of auxiliary soldiers, and nine thousand military horses?!"

"Even if you add the place where you were transferred, you and I can't escape the blame!" Yuan Yingtai sat down angrily, but Man Gui said at this time:

"This time the dismantling of Liaoxi soldiers and horses went so smoothly, but His Highness and I didn't expect it, I thought that Zhu Wanliang and Jiang Bi would raise troops, but I didn't want them to hold back."

"But the garrison of those three forts, and the more than 900 foot soldiers of those three forts, became pawns and died in vain."

It is impossible to dismantle it smoothly, but only three of the 48 forts of the six guards and seven institutes dare to be pawns, and this kind of courage makes Man Gui contemptible.

You must know that the middle-level officers in the three towns of Shanxi dared to besiege the Shenyang General Military Mansion, but this group of soldiers and horses in western Liaoning had three days to prepare, but they made it look like this.

Seeing the combat power of this group of guys, it is not surprising to Man Gui why the old slave is so powerful.

Especially when he thought about it, he was tired and tired, and he had been desperately fighting for more than ten years before he became a garrison, and this group of guys had no courage, but they sat in the position of general, guerrilla, and general soldier.

If he hadn't been promoted by His Royal Highness King Qi, I'm afraid he would still be eating soil in the Loess Ridge right now......

"Indeed, the abolition of Liaoxi is so smooth, it is indeed unexpected."

Xiong Tingbi also put down the teacup and sighed, but after sighing, he smiled bitterly:

"It's said that it's going well, but if there are no 70,000 soldiers and horses, and there are no Daning Sanwei stationed outside the pass, I'm afraid it will be more difficult to dismantle than to ascend to the sky."

Xiong Tingbi's words, if Zhu Youzhen heard it, he might not be able to help but agree.

God knows how many years he, Zhu Youzhen, prepared for the removal of Liaozhen's soldiers and horses.

From the beginning of Qi Jin and Qin Bangping's tenure as the commanders of Liaoyang and Shenyang respectively, it took a whole year and ten months, more than 10 million taels of money and food, and the transfer of soldiers and horses of Li Ning, Zu Dashou and others, so as to create an opportunity to dismiss Liaoxi.

If you want to talk about the entire Ming Dynasty, who knows the hard work of dismantling Liaozhen, I am afraid that Zhu Youzhen will say second, and no one will dare to say first.

But now that the soldiers and horses of Liaozhen have finally been removed, the next thing to do is to measure the fields of the guards in the whole territory of Liaodong, and then disperse the soldiers and horses of Zhu Wanliang and others to the 28th battalion of Liaodong.

Man Gui got Zhu Youzhen's order and the emperor's holy decree, so he naturally knew what to do next, so he said directly:

"The meaning of King Qi and Long Live is to transfer the soldiers and horses of the three battalions of the 28 battalions in Liaodong, including Gaizhou, Fuzhou, and Haizhou, to come to Liaoxi, plus the six battalions of Liaoxi that were originally recruited to garrison Liaoxi."

"In this way, there will be nine battalions of soldiers and horses stationed in Liaoxi."

"As for the 27,000 regular soldiers under the command of Zhu Wanliang and others, His Royal Highness the King of Qi means that it is best to dismantle and reorganize the elite, disrupt the elite, transfer the elite to the remaining twenty-five battalions in Liaodong, and transfer them from the twenty-five battalions to reorganize the three battalions of soldiers and horses in southern Liaoning, and the battalions of Shenyang and Liaoyang."

"As for those who have been dismissed, they will be included in the auxiliary army and transferred to the three cities of Kuandian."

"In addition to the chaos, the entire territory of Liaodong was dismantled, and the army was collected and the tuntian was placed under the imperial horse prison, and the fields were sent to the people of Liaodong."

Man Gui finished speaking at length, but the content was not boring, on the contrary, it was very straightforward, which was very in line with Xiong Tingbi's appetite.

In this regard, Xiong Tingbi immediately said:

"It's good that the soldiers and horses are disrupted and transferred to Liaodong, and if there are nine battalions of soldiers and horses here in Liaoxi, there will be no mistakes."

"Even if the final dismantling of Weishotian is to be dismantled, I am afraid that even if the soldiers and horses of the entire territory of Liaodong are mobilized, it will take three or four months."

"With the current number of soldiers and horses in Liaodong, it is enough to fight with the old slave!" Yuan Yingtai took Xiong Tingbi's words and continued.

This point of view was recognized by the four people present, because the current Liaodong, even if you don't add the soldiers and horses under Zhu Wanliang and their command, there are 140,000 regular soldiers.

However, without waiting for them to be happy, Man Gui poured cold water on him:

"Xiao Qi and other three guards, after the end of the cut, will be withdrawn to the capital."

"Withdraw to the capital? With so many cavalry, if they stay in Liaodong, they will be of even greater use! Yuan Yingtai was puzzled, but Qi Jin, who was taciturn, said:

"There are many internal problems in the capital, and they are not as short-sighted as they appear, and it is right for the four cavalry guards to be stationed in the capital."

"According to His Royal Highness the King of Qi, he is preparing to wait until the autumn harvest of next year to start before launching a general attack, and a lot of soldiers and horses should be transferred at that time."

"Before the autumn harvest?" When Xiong Tingbi heard this, he frowned and said:

"If we start before the autumn harvest, we will only have less than two months left."

"The autumn harvest starts in August, the snow starts in October, and at the most in late October, it will snow heavily in the mountains."

"If the snow spreads over the mountains, some mountain roads will be piled up and buried by snow, and it will be difficult for us to recover the Great Wall and Yaque Pass in the remnants of Changbai Mountain."

Facing Xiong Tingbi's words, Yuan Yingtai also bowed his head and said: "I can't recover the Great Wall in the Yaque Pass and the Changbai Mountains, even if I take back Tieling, Kaiyuan and other places, at most I will recover some vitality." ”

"This, Your Highness has already taken it into account, so we don't have to worry about it." Man Gui replied, and Qi Jin said even more straightforwardly:

"Your Highness should be prepared to take the waterway."

"Waterways?" Hearing this, Xiong Tingbi reacted: "Your Highness is going to take the Prince River and the Hunhe River? ”

Xiong Tingbi reacted quickly, also because of his understanding of the terrain of Liaodong.

The Taizi River was called Yanshui in ancient times, the Daliang River in the Han Dynasty, the Dongliang River in the Song and Liao periods, and the Taizi River in the Ming Dynasty, and its shipping history was the earliest, which was also seen in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty.

Not to mention other Mingchen records, there is also a record of Nurhachi sailing on the Taizi River in the "Manchu Old Files".

As the Taizi River, which was located in the Ming and Qing dynasties, its water transportation itself was in the service of war.

The river is thirty zhang wide, and the water in the center of the river is four meters deep, enough for 500 boats to sail.

If a ship of 500 materials is equipped with artillery and used to transport troops, then with the ship construction technology of the Ming Dynasty in the past two years, it will not be much worse.

Using the zigzag shape of the spinnaker and the rocking oars, you can reach the Yaque Pass in one day and one night at most.

The only fly in the ointment is that the riverbed is of different heights, so it may take time to dig the river in the summer.

In the same situation, the Hunhe River is the same, and the navigability of the Hunhe River is even better than that of the Taizi River.

But the problem is the same, if you go to the Hunhe River, you will have to take the land route at most to Sarhu City.

Although the waterway leads to Hetuala, the narrower and shallower the further you go, the shallower and shallower the water becomes, and you can only take ships of 200 materials to transport some baggage and artillery.

It's just that it's too far away, and what Xiong Tingbi wants to do right now is to recover the entire territory of Liaodong, so it is enough to only hit Fushun Pass.

However, Qi Jin's proposal to take the waterway gave Xiong Tingbi a different way of thinking.

However, no matter how easy the waterway is, it still needs a soldier and horse to march on land, and if you want to keep up with the speed of the ships, you can only have cavalry.

If it's a foot soldier, you need to leave early.

"It's really good to take the waterway, you can easily reach Yaque Pass, and you can also shell Qinghe Fort."

Xiong Tingbi estimated that he was touching, and Yuan Yingtai next to him also said:

"It's just that we have to wait until the autumn harvest begins next year, and the main and auxiliary soldiers in Liao Town at the moment may be a lot of expenses, and I don't know if it will be as ...... as Yang Hao back then."

Yuan Yingtai realized that he said something he shouldn't have said, so he hurriedly closed his mouth, but he was still heard by everyone.

However, the people here have something to do with Zhu Youzhen in the final analysis, and they have even been regarded as the Qi Wang Party by the Wenchen in the capital for a long time, so no one said anything, on the contrary, Man Gui Geng said straightforwardly:

"The Imperial Horse Supervisor is rich in money and food, and there is no problem at all to support the soldiers and horses in Liao Town at the moment, so there is no need to worry."

"That being said...... Alas, I still have to live long live to withstand the pressure of the courtiers......" Yuan Yingtai sighed, and everyone stopped talking.

However, Xiong Tingbi saw that everyone didn't speak, so he opened his mouth and asked Yuan Yingtai:

"What is the current grain storage in Liaodong? How much money is left? ”

"There are 2,070,000 stone and 976,400 taels of silver deposited on the paper of grain in various places, all of which are military salaries for the second half of the year."

Yuan Yingtai responded to the words, and Xiong Tingbi also said when he heard this:

"Liaodong currently has more than 5 million mu of military tun fields, and it is best to solve the matter of dismantling the guard post before the autumn harvest, distribute the fields, and then collect 30% of the rent."

"Judging from the number of Liao people, it is still unknown how much land can be sent, so simply take advantage of this time to remake the number of Liao people."

"The Almighty Soldier King of the Female President"

"That's a good idea!" Hearing Xiong Tingbi's words, Yuan Yingtai's eyes lit up.

At present, Liaodong is still using the old yellow book of the Jiajing period, copying the old every year, resulting in a paper population of only more than 400,000.

But if Liaodong really only has more than 400,000 yuan, it will not make Liaodong's grain prices so high in addition to sitting on more than 5 million mu of tuntian.

Taking advantage of the clarification of Tuntian, it is a good achievement to check the population of Liaodong.

"If Liaodong can find out more people than the "Quanliao Chronicles", then it will be much easier for Liaodong to be separated from the Shandong Chengxuan Political Envoy Division."

Qi Jin stroked his beard and said with a smile, and Xiong Tingbi also said:

"I used to recruit 30,000 troops in western Liaoning, and although there were many people fleeing north, I can also see that there are more people in Liaodong than in "Quanliaozhi" and "Yellow Book"."

"But I don't know exactly how much more, I still have to investigate and clarify to know, but I don't think it will be less than one million."

"If there are really millions of people, after the land is divided, the hearts of the people of Liaodong will return to the imperial court." The Mangui and even the Liao people did not trust the Ming Dynasty, so they pinned their hopes on the land to buy people's hearts.

"In that case, then we ......" Yuan Yingtai was just about to discuss and order the soldiers and horses of the entire territory of Liaodong to clarify the population, when suddenly the sound of hurried footsteps sounded from outside the hall.

I saw a general trotting all the way into the Jingluo Mansion, and knelt down on one knee in front of the hall and said:

"Jingluo, the governor, there is a Tang cavalry from Daning Zhongwei outside the door, saying that there is something important."

"Biography!" Hearing that it was related to his Daning Sanwei, Man Gui immediately spoke first.

Seeing this, Xiong Tingbi also nodded, and the general immediately turned around and left.

After a while, a blood-stained Tang Rider walked into the hall under the leadership of the general and two foot soldiers, and the Tang Rider immediately cried the moment he saw Man Gui:

"Commander-in-chief! Tens of thousands of soldiers and horses were captured out of Qinghe Pass, exterminated the Zai Sai Department, and attacked Daning Zhongwei! ”