At the mouth of the Yalu River, the rice fields on both sides of the river have been harvested.

As early as the Goguryeo period, rice was cultivated here.

Zhi Yanzhi, Li Cheng, Zhao Li, and Yelu Yu saw that they gathered in the Baozhou area with their troops.

The troops under their command were either from Shandong bandits or from various ethnic groups taken across the sea, and only a very small number of them came from the local area.

There are more than 20,000 in total, and most of them belong to the garrison sequence, and the field army is only a few thousand.

The garrison even needed to bring their families to farm, so as to reduce the consumption of grain and grass in the garrison Goryeo.

But the has long been blown out, and it has always been claimed that there are 50,000 elite divisions.

This frightened the Goryeo monarchs and ministers into not daring to resist at all, and also made the Jin soldiers dare not cross the Yalu River and go south.

"The latest military order received is to bombard Posu Road City, Chen Bing on the south bank of the Yalu River, and build more empty camps to intimidate the enemy army," Zhi Yanzhi said, "But don't easily cross the river and go north, for the purpose of containing the Jin State's troops, and then send some elites into the mountains to wipe out the Jurchen tribe!" ”

Li Cheng was full of thoughts about meritorious service, and said unwillingly: "The big war is coming, we are just holding back here?" ”

Oriyan said: "When the time comes, you can cross the river and attack the city." In any case, among the armies of all stripes, we are the first to fight. ”

Zhao Li asked: "I will lead the troops to attack the mountain!" ”

"Beware of ambushes." Ori reminded him.

In the next few days, the rice fields on the south bank of the Yalu River that had just been harvested were erected one military camp after another.

Many of the camps were empty, with fresh straw tied up with straw figures, dressed in the clothes of the Ming army, and bright banners set up everywhere.

Afraid that the generals of the Jin Kingdom had a telescope, the empty camps were all set up in the back position, and the straw men only showed a drop of clothes.

According to Wanyan Zongfu's plan, he first attacked the Ming military ships with fire. Then he sent troops to the mountains on the south bank of the Yalu River, went out of the mountains to rob the Ming people, and robbed and burned the newly harvested rice of the Ming army.

For this reason, he also asked Jin Wushu to lead three thousand elites over.

"Doesn't it mean that warships go deep into the Yalu River every once in a while? I've been here for more than half a month, and I haven't seen a single Ming warship. Jin Wushu asked.

Diagonal Ali guessed: "The Ming army is going north, so it will no longer come to plunder the people." ”

Jin Wushu took a boat to patrol along the river, constantly observing with a telescope: "The enemy camp stretches for more than ten miles, and it extends several miles to the south, and I am afraid that there are 70,000 or 80,000 people. ”

"From Pyongyang to Baoju in Goryeo, they were all occupied by the Ming State, and there were many garrisons in each city. According to the information I heard, a total of 50,000 people were stationed. There are seventy or eighty thousand in front of him, and it is estimated that the Ming Kingdom has increased its troops again. ”

The Golden Vulture was silent.

He was frightened by Li Bao in Panghaidao, and he already had a psychological shadow on the combat effectiveness of the Ming army.

Today, there are about 20,000 Jin soldiers in Posu Road City, but most of them belong to the requisitioned militia, and the real elite of the Jin Kingdom is less than 5,000.

Seventy or eighty thousand Ming troops crossed the river to kill, can it really be stopped here?

"Urgent military intelligence!"

A fast boat approached from the upper reaches of the Yalu River.

The messenger came from the mountains on the south bank of the Yalu River, where the mountains stretched and inhabited only a few Jurchen and Bohai tribes. They can't even read words, and they rely on oral information to convey military information.

"A lot of enemies have entered the mountain, and Zhenmingzhai is gone!"

Zhenming Village is a newly built military village two years ago.

There were no decent garrisons, and if they were in danger, the nearby Jurchens gathered in the village to defend against the enemy.

After listening to the military intelligence report, Jin Wushu did not dare to divide his troops to rescue him.

He believed that this was the Ming army's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, and once he led the army over, the Ming army would inevitably take the opportunity to cross the river and attack the city.

After thinking about it carefully, Jin Wushu said: "Migrate all the mountain tribes on the south bank of the Yalu River here. Half of the lazy road is gone, south of the Tongmen River (Tumen River) and the Aiye Cave River (the main trunk of the upper reaches of the Tumen River), all the garrisons and people have moved here! ”

The Golden Vulture intends to fight hard.

Anyway, he couldn't divide his troops to rescue, and simply gave up all the territory south of the Yalu River and the Tumen River. All the armies and tribes there got to defend it.

As long as the Ming army is defeated, as much territory as it loses, it can be recaptured.

Of course, mountain tribes don't just want to move.

The Golden Vulture could only forcibly relocate the population of the main area, and the tribes in the deep mountains and old forests would not obey at all.

"Woo woo~~~"

The horn sounded at the head of the city, and Jin Wushu was suddenly startled, and hurriedly went ashore and rode back to the city.

I saw more than 100 river warships, which were already on the river outside the city of Po Su Road.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

Suddenly the cannon rang out.

did not directly bombard Posu Road City, but fired artillery at Jiang Xinzhou.

Where the Yalu River flows into the Yalu River, alluvial patches of Jiangxinzhou divide the Yalu River into two. The narrowest part of the northern stream is less than 200 meters, and the narrowest part of the southern stream is even only a few tens of meters.

The city of Posu Road is on the west bank of the mouth of the river, and a walled garrison was built in Jiangxinzhou.

If the Ming army wants to cross the river to attack Posulu City, it must first take Jiangxinzhou.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

There was another burst of artillery fire, but it was the Ming army that built a fort on the south bank of the Yalu River and bombarded the Jinbing city in Jiangxinzhou.

Jin Wushu ordered: "Defend everywhere." Take those warships and fireships to the mouth of the river in batches at night, and hide them all in the rear of Jiangxinzhou. If the Ming warships dare to go deeper, they will attack the enemy ships with thousands of boats! ”

As for the narrow and complex waterway at the mouth of the river, once the Ming fleet went too deep, it was really possible to be completely annihilated by fire.

Jin Wushu said to his own soldiers again: "You take my handwritten letter and go to Liaoyang to ask for 3,000 elite reinforcements." It means that the main force of the army is here, and the rice has just been harvested, and most of them will cross the river and go north to attack the city with all their might! ”

The Jin State also had detailed work in the Ming Dynasty, but troops were being deployed everywhere, and it was not clear where the main direction of the Ming army was.

In other words, they can be the main attack.

The garrison of the Ming Dynasty on the side of Goryeo is considered to be relatively "weak" in combat effectiveness, and there are only a few thousand people trained by Han Shizhong himself.

Including Song Jiang's old department, as well as Song Jiang himself, are all here.

Relatively weak, not really weak.

Li Cheng and Zhao Li are both fierce people.

The former was born as a homeless handsome and could eat and sleep with the soldiers; The latter took the initiative to join the army to serve the country, and when he started a war, he belonged to the desperate Saburo, and he was covered with injuries every time he finished the battle.

Because of their lack of qualifications and achievements, their troops were organized as garrisons, and they came to Goryeo to garrison.

Zhu Ming was afraid that they would be dissatisfied in their hearts, and he was worried that the soldiers would be resentful, so he gave these troops additional allowances, and the military salary was only a little lower than that of the field army.

There is also Yelu Yujian, who is all Khitan and Xi people. They lost their homes, and they were exploited by the Jin State, and everyone was reckless to kill them back.

When the Jin militia encountered these troops, they were only left to be crushed.

No matter how you talk about the Ming army's position on the south bank of the Yalu River, it really looks like the main force of the army. Frightened, the Golden Vulture called for reinforcements, and even abandoned a large area of territory and forcibly moved those troops and civilians to defend the city.

……

In the past two years, some of the generals of the Jin Kingdom fell ill and died.

After finishing Yan Lou's room, he died of illness at the beginning of this year.

Wan Yan's mother died of illness two years ago.

The elite troops under their command are inherited by their respective sons.

At this moment, Wanyan Zongfu came to Liaoyang and personally sat on the entire Liaodong battlefield.

The heroes of various ethnic groups were also transferred back to their hometowns and were responsible for recruiting troops to fight. These heroes take the clan soldiers as the core force, and then recruit the people in their hometowns as militias, so that they can quickly form effective combat effectiveness.

Hosu Pavilion City (Gai County).

Gao Biao has gathered more than 6,000 soldiers, but the real elite is only 2,000.

"Brother Xian, you can't beat it." Brother Gao Hu persuaded.

Gao Biao said angrily: "You and my clansmen were slaughtered by the southern thieves more than half, do you still want to surrender?" ”

Gao Hu said: "If the Ming army comes across the sea, my Chenzhou Gao clan will bear the brunt. More than half of the people have been slaughtered, do you want to drag the rest of the people to their deaths? ”

"Boom!"

Gao Biao drew his sword out, pointed at his brother and said, "If you dare to surrender again, I recognize my brother, but I don't recognize the blade in my hand!" ”

"Alas!" Gao Hu sighed and left.

As we said earlier, the Chenzhou Gao clan is one of the three major Gao clans in the Jin Kingdom.

And the Suguan Road, when it was in the Liao Kingdom, it was called Chenzhou.

A few years ago, Zhao Li, Yelu Yujian and others crossed the sea. Broke through the city of Haosu Pavilion and burned it down, and then broke through Gaojiawu Fort, and slaughtered all the Gao clan in Chenzhou.

At that time, Gao Biao took some clansmen and villagers and was relocated to Youzhou by Wanyan Zongwang.

Although Gao Biao perfectly avoided this difficulty, his parents and son all died at the hands of the Ming army. Even his wife and daughter were forcibly remarried to Ming soldiers.

Now his wife and daughter have given birth to children for the soldiers of the Ming army.

His daughter was even in Iwami Castle......

The hatred of destroying the door and taking away the wife, how can the husband endure it?

When Gao Biao inspected the barracks, he found that his soldiers were depressed. He gathered officers at all levels, counted the grudges with the Ming army, and persuaded everyone to fight to the death.

However, the morale of the officers remained low.

They all participated in the Hebei War, and some of them were even left behind as outcasts.

Of course, they hated the Ming army, because they all had relatives who died at the hands of the Ming army.

But they also hated the nobles of the Jin Kingdom, and always let them go to death at critical times.

In this battle, if the Ming army crosses the sea and comes, they are estimated to be in front again.

At present, the city was burned down a few years ago, and Gaojiawu Fort was also slaughtered. If they really have to fight to the death, even if the Jin Kingdom wins, how many of them will be left?

"The Southern Thief is coming!"

Gao Biao turned his head to look, but saw wolf smoke rising from the south.

It seems that the Ming army hit Fuzhou first this time.

In fact, from Fuzhou to here, there is also a Ningzhou in the middle. At the time of the war at the end of Liao, at the beginning of the reign of the Jin State, there were few people left in Ningzhou, and the establishment was directly revoked by the Jin State, and even the county-level administrative region was not saved.

"Quickly ignite the wolf smoke and report the news!"

Gao Biao drank the order.

There are beacon towers along the way, which are passed from the sea to Liaoyang.

After Chengzhou received the news, Gao Jingshan immediately ordered the gathering of troops.

"Uncle, Liu Cao may fall." Takamatsu said.

Gao Jingshan said: "His wife and a few brothers are either in Liaoyang or Shangjing. If Liu Cao descended, he would really be a six-parent who didn't recognize him. By the way, how do you know he's going to surrender? ”

The Liu clan and villagers were migrated to Tangchi by the Jin Kingdom.

But Tangchi is a sub-base of the Gao family in Liaoyang, and the fertile land has long been occupied by the Gao family. Liu Cao led people to migrate here and was suppressed by the Gao family everywhere, which strengthened his determination to surrender to Ming.

Takamatsu said: "I came back from Changsong Island and observed the words and deeds of various ethnic groups along the way. When passing through Tangchi County, I heard that Gao Zhen sent people to collect grain, and deliberately levied heavy taxes on the people who moved from Liu Cao, almost forcing the Liu clan to make trouble on the spot. ”

The Gao clan of Liaoyang has more than 100,000 acres of land in Tangchi County, of which 50,000 acres were rewarded by the emperor of Liao.

Although due to the shortage of serfs and tenants, much of the land was completely uncultivateable. But the Gao family would rather abandon it than take it out and distribute it to the Liu family. Moreover, he evaded taxes in various ways, and in order to collect enough taxes, he frantically exploited the outsiders who moved in recent years.

The Ming army is about to fight, and the Bohai clan is still thinking about paying less taxes.

(End of chapter)