There are two throats from the south of Yanshan, one is the Gubei mouth, and the other is the Xifeng mouth (Xifeng mouth).

After the snow melted in spring this year, Yue Fei led his troops to approach the former, Wang Yan led his troops to approach the latter, and Li Bao was stationed in Yanjing to command the armies.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty built a city at Gubeikou, and later the battle line moved north, and the Han Dynasty built the Great Wall in the mountains further north.

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Great Wall was built at Gubeikou for the first time.

The Sui and Tang dynasties continued to build the Great Wall, because the north of the Great Wall is the Xi nationality settlement, so the ancient Beikou is also called "Xi Pass".

The Khitan plundered Houliang, and also repeatedly went south from Gubeikou.

Today, the Jin State controls the dilapidated Great Wall of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Those Great Walls were full of gaps, which small armies could easily pass through, but were not conducive to large marches.

The Jin soldiers were mainly stationed at the ruins of the Tang Dynasty, which were rebuilt and strengthened in the past two years, and were condescending, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Yue Fei led 5,000 troops, collected 10,000 people, and built a walled city 25 miles south of Gubeikou.

As long as this place is blocked, the Jin soldiers will not be able to move south on a large scale.

However, small forces can still bypass, and the Jin soldiers can climb over the low mountains and plunder the Miyun area in a team of several hundred people. Accumulate a lot, you can drill through thousands, but you can't carry too much food, and if you can't grab food in half a month, you will starve to death.

The people were all fugitives from the mountains, and they went out of the mountains in fear and cultivated freely for three years. The Ming government never collected taxes, nor did they force them to organize households, but there were small merchants who brought cloth and salt.

The imperial court released such sincerity that the few scholars who fled gradually thought that the Ming Dynasty was worth relying on.

Therefore, this year, the government came to compile households, and these scholars took the initiative to cooperate.

The imperial court continued to show goodwill, giving tax exemption to the fugitives who had just been registered for three years, and only half of the taxes were collected in the fourth and fifth years. However, they had to help build the walled city, take care of the food of the court during the labor period, and pay a small amount of grain as a salary.

The fugitives were sincerely afraid, and Yue Fei directly sent food in advance, finally making these people believe it completely.

They have experienced too many wars and famines, and they will run away at the slightest disturbance. You have to give enough sincerity to win the trust, and even if the golden soldiers are killed, they will help defend the city!

……

Gubeikou, the Tang Dynasty guarded the city.

The Jin general Atuhan led hundreds of horsemen south, and soon collided with the Daming Sentinel Cavalry.

The two sides did not immediately act, but each pulled away from each other to confront, after all, the two countries are now in a state of truce.

After a while, Atuhan stepped forward and shouted: "I am Atuhan, the guard general of the Dajin Gubei Gate, quickly call your lord to speak!" ”

The Daming Sentinel Cavalry had already sent out its men to report the news.

Yue Fei quickly rode over: "I am the master of the Ming Dynasty here, and the south of the Great Wall of Gubeikou is the boundary of the Ming Dynasty." Why did you lead your troops across the line? Do you want to start a war with Daming? ”

Atuhan asked, "Why are you building the city so closely?" ”

Yue Fei said: "This is the realm of the Ming Dynasty, why can't you build a city?" On the contrary, it was you who led the troops to cross the line for no reason. If you don't return quickly, it will be like a war with Daming! ”

Ah Tuhan was speechless, because Yue Fei was right.

Moreover, in order to guard against the Ming Dynasty, the Jin State took the lead in repairing and consolidating the Gubei Pass. The Jin Kingdom can build a city, and the Ming Dynasty can naturally do it.

But Da Ming built a city on the face of Jin Guo, and the walled city has been repaired to Atuhan's nose. Don't you care about anything?

Yue Fei shouted angrily: "Quickly retreat!" ”

After speaking, Yue Fei took off his bow and arrows, and the cavalry under his command also drew their bows one after another.

Ah Tuhan hesitated for a few breaths, and said aggrievedly: "Go back!" ”

After riding his horse for more than ten steps, Atuhan stopped and looked back.

In the future, if there is a war, he must capture the walled city in front of him, otherwise it will be extremely dangerous to go directly south. Youzhou doesn't have much population, and the Ming Dynasty can easily clear the wilderness, and the Jin soldiers are tantamount to fools' dreams by fighting purely by grabbing grain.

Yue Fei also returned with cavalry, and he was under great pressure from Wang Yan.

Once the war resumes, the main force of the Jin soldiers will definitely come from Gubeikou and Xifengkou. In order to open up the main road, the Jin people may be besieged by tens of thousands of people, and the temporary walled city is difficult to bear.

Don't pull any cement, in the absence of road transport, that thing can only be fired nearby.

The land here is vast and sparsely populated, how can there be more than one manpower to mine soil and burn cement?

"General Yue, there are a thousand Shenji battalions to come with the grain to help, and I heard that there will be eighteen artillery pieces later!" A light horse galloped in.

Yue Fei was overjoyed when he heard this, and rode his horse to the walled city construction site.

The Divine Machine Battalion has replaced its flintlock pistols and expanded to 12,000 men. This year, it was officially renamed the Shenji Army, and part of it was practiced in Yanjing.

Yue Fei also participated in the drill last year, mainly to familiarize himself with the new car formation.

He corresponded and discussed with Wu Jue and other generals, and through continuous deduction and drills, everyone finally created a kind of "plum blossom array".

In fact, it is a hollow car array with a combination of size and size.

With sufficient long-range firepower, you can do away with the redundant parts of the old formation.

The Chinese army set up a large hollow array, and four small hollow arrays were placed at the four corners. Each side of the hollow array is made up of chariots in series, and troops from near and far fight with the help of chariots.

Civilians and supplies can be transferred to the hollow array for protection.

The cavalry units were also in the hollow formation, ready to attack at any time.

No matter which direction the enemy is attacking, the five hollow arrays can resist it. If the enemy wants to charge the center, they will also be subjected to crossfire.

They can also support each other.

Infantry and cavalry can change formations in unison, and can also change to other attack formations. However, the command ability of the chief general and the training degree of the soldiers are required to be higher.

If it is a mediocre general, he can fight with ordinary soldiers, and honestly put out the plum blossom array.

……

The south bank of the Yalu River, Baozhou.

The inland river ship he took was built in Baozhou last year and the year before last, and the timber came from the mountainous area on the south bank of the Yalu River.

Baozhou Shipyard, established four years ago.

At present, only inland river vessels can be built to sail in the Yalu River. It will be expanded in the future, with the ultimate goal of building seagoing vessels.

The shipyard craftsmen are all from the Yangtze River and Zhejiang, and the land is distributed according to the level of craftsmen.

The most senior craftsmen can get 120 acres of fertile land in Baozhou. If you bring a family member over, you will get an extra 20 acres of land, even if you are a child.

The last time the Jin soldiers plundered Goryeo, they moved all the Bohai tribes, resulting in a vast and sparsely populated area around Baozhou. There is only a shortage of people and not land, and the real headache is the lack of tenants to cultivate after the land is allocated.

Fortunately, the Bohai people continued to flee.

These new Bohai people can also get a share of the land. However, the number of acres is limited, and there is also a tenant farming task, so it is necessary to help the soldiers and craftsmen to cultivate the land.

The fleet soon approached the city of Bosulu, and through the binoculars, Orihiko could even see the expressions of the guards at the head of the city.

The enemy general was furious, but did not dare to give the order to release the arrows.

First, the distance is too far to shoot arrows, and second, the enemy will not dare to provoke a war.

The more angry Jin Ren became, the happier Orihiko became.

The Daming fleet continued to swim upstream, and the Jin soldiers stationed in Jiangxinzhou followed along the shore of the continent, watching the Daming fleet sail further east.

After crossing the fork of Jiangxinzhou and the Danghe River, the north bank of the Yalu River suddenly has a steep mountain.

"Shoot along the river!" Orihiko ordered.

"Bang bang bang!"

Every two or three miles of the fleet, a cannon was fired.

Of course, it wasn't for Jin Bing.

Soon, I saw that between the mountains and mountains, some people came out one after another.

They are all Bohai tribes who live in the mountains and live with the Jurchens. Their ancestors could not bear the exploitation of the Liao State, and fled into the mountains to huddle with the Jurchens to keep warm, and also brought farming and textile technology to the Jurchens.

Now that the Jin country is short of food, these Bohai people have become the target of exploitation.

"Dock!"

"Be on the lookout."

Several ships sailed to the two sides of the strait to pick up the people who wanted to surrender.

Not the North Shore, but both shores.

Goryeo is only at the mouth of the Yalu River, occupying a lost territory, and it is also a charity from the Jin State. In the rest of the country, both sides of the Yalu River are all land of the Jin Kingdom.

Strictly speaking, the fleet led by Orihiko is already an armed invasion.

Because the river belongs to the Jin country, the mountains on both sides still belong to the Jin country.

Zhe Yanzhi has already received an order from the imperial court, don't care about so much, it can be tossed in the Yalu River.

It took most of the day for the Daming fleet to receive more than 400 people, and then swaggered back to Baozhou.

Landing on the shore by boat, Orihiko laughed at the city wall: "Send someone out quickly, so that the people can be resettled!" ”

A young official named Li Yu rode out of the city to greet him: "General Zhe, in the mountains to the east, more than 300 people surrendered to Ming yesterday. The Bohai Sho we sent worked and pulled a whole village out. ”

Zhi Yan said with a smile: "The land by the river is fertile, and the Ming Dynasty will return the land." The land in the mountains is barren, and it will be exploited by the Jinren. As long as their brains are not stupid, they naturally know where to go. ”

The entire Baozhou is being quickly digested by the Ming Dynasty.

This was originally the land of the Liao State, but later it became the land of the Jin State, and it was assigned to Goryeo for less than ten years.

And the population is dominated by the Bohai people, and the common language is northern Chinese, and even the Goryeo people here can speak a few words of Chinese. Now there is a large increase in Han soldiers and craftsmen, and it continues to recruit Bohai fugitives from the Jin Kingdom.

For the people of Baozhou, what is Goryeo?

They only recognize Da Ming!

Yelu Yujian was also in Baozhou, but his son was sent to Kaifeng Military Academy.

"My Daming ships have repeatedly sailed into the Jin country, and these Jin people don't know how long they can endure it." Jerod came to the port.

Oriyan smiled and said, "It doesn't matter how long they endure, the beacon towers everywhere are keeping an eye on it." Our population here is getting bigger and bigger, and it's enough to recruit people in times of war. ”

Yelu Yu said: "I heard that General Zhao Li was in Pyongyang, used military rations to buy Goryeo slaves, and then gave Goryeo slaves names and fields. His population is growing rapidly, do you want us to buy some too? Just ship it by sea. ”

Zhi Yan said: "You can buy some Korean women, there are more men and fewer women in Baozhou, and there will be chaos after a long time." ”

"Women are more expensive than men." Jeremiah said.

Ori said: "There is no shortage of food now. ”

The king of Goryeo was still under house arrest, and the magnates gave him several concubines.

The king has become a fertility machine, and when his sons reach adulthood, it doesn't matter whether he lives or dies.

The nobles who controlled the power of Goryeo were obsessed with the silk and satin, wine and food brought by the Ming Dynasty, and did not hesitate to capture the low-level civilians and sell them as slaves.

Of course, the magnates also did some things, such as begging the Ming Emperor to stop paying the military rations of the Ming garrison.

Zhu Ming has officially agreed not to ask for grain from Goryeo. In exchange for this, the Goryeo ministers shut up, and instead of demanding Pyongyang and the land north all day long, they must acquiesce to the Ming occupation of those territories.

(End of chapter)