Although Li Rubai said that any amount can be withdrawn from Steward Li, Li Xianzhong also understands that the Li family is just eating Li Chengliang's old book now, and there will always be a day when it will be finished.

Except for the expenses of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry, he did not plan to use the Li family's silver to support Pingyu Fort.

Nominally, he is just a righteous son of the Li family, and he doesn't want to bring unnecessary trouble to Li Rubai, who is the head of the family.

So this time, when asked Steward Li for the food, tents and other utensils, Li Xianzhong exchanged some fur ginseng seized from Gule Village.

He had 15,000 taels of silver extorted from He Yiming before, as well as a large bag of Dongzhu from Gule Village, which was estimated to be worth more than 30,000 taels, and these were all the capital in his hand.

Now Pingyu Fort has just started, and it has not yet generated income, and it has to paste more than 10,000 stone of grain every month.

The reward of the imperial court didn't know that it would have to wait until the Year of the Monkey and the month of the horse, and the extra war horses in his hands couldn't find a buyer, so after thinking about it, he aimed at Ye He.

Although Ye He may not have much silver taels in his hand, things like ginseng, fur, and Dongzhu are worth a lot of money.

Some of the knives, guns, shields, heavy armor, and even the Three-Eyed Gun that had been seized earlier could be used to trade with Yehe.

Arming Yeh can also increase his own income at the same time, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

So Li Xianzhong rushed directly to Yehe City with 1,500 Liaodong iron horses.

Yehecheng was close to the Kaiyuan Road of the Ming Dynasty, but Li Xianzhong did not plan to go north from Kaiyuan, but decided to borrow Mongolia from Tieling.

On the one hand, he led troops out of the customs without permission, which was easy to arouse Ma Lin's vigilance, although Li Xianzhong is now in full swing in Liaodong, but people are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being strong.

In case Marin is behind the scenes, it will be an unnecessary trouble after all.

On the other hand, it's time for him, the Tieling general, to inspect the soldiers and horses directly under him.

Tielingwei now has a garrison of 3,000 people, each led by the guerrilla Yu Chengming and Li Sanshun.

In fact, it was Zha Zhongwen who served as a guerrilla in Tieling before, but Zha Zhongwen is now in charge of training the new Liaodong Iron Cavalry in Fu'an Fort, and Li Sanshun was born and died as his henchman, so it is time to be promoted.

So he let Li Sanshun serve as a guerrilla in Tieling, in charge of 1,500 people.

Tielingwei is a military city.

The brick surface of the city wall is the soil core, the circumference is more than 2,000 meters, and the wall is two zhang high.

There are four city gates, and the names of the east, west, north and south gates are: Fuyi, Cheng'en, Qingyun, and Weiyuan. There are also four corner towers. Outside the city walls, there is a moat, and the river is nearly ten meters wide.

However, the Acropolis itself is not large, so there are people's residences and towering trees within a radius of more than ten miles outside the city, and the city outline cannot be seen from a distance.

Of course, the most famous thing in Tieling is the flower building built by Li Chengliang outside the east gate, which is connected to the Li family's mansion, and the castle integrating collection, defense and entertainment is the landmark building of Tieling.

At the peak of its prosperity, there were as many as 2,000 prostitutes in Tieling City alone, and there were many merchants here, a group of drunken gold fans, not like Biansai, as if they were in the south of the Yangtze River.

Of course, with the invasion of Jianyu and the loss of power of the Li family, Tielingwei has also lost its former prosperity, but at this time he is still an important border town.

Because he didn't want to disturb the people, Li Xianzhong's Liaodong Iron Cavalry did not enter Tieling City, but chose to meet the two guerrillas outside Tieling City.

At this time, Yu Chengming and Li Sanshun had been waiting outside the city for a long time.

Yu Chengming is about forty years old, his tall and rough appearance looks like a typical Liaodong man, and the one who can guard Tieling must be the confidant general of the Li family.

So Li Xianzhong was not polite, and asked directly: "Yu Guerrilla, what is the situation in Tieling now?" ”

Yu Chengming's face was worried, and he said: "Major General Qiyu, due to the previous invasion of Hetuala, the main force of my Tieling Guard has been deployed, and now there are only 3,000 men and horses to defend the Tieling Acropolis and several thousand households, and the strength is really clumsy. ”

"Fortunately, the major general's Liaodong Iron Cavalry has been stationed in several forts in the east, and Tieling will not be threatened by Jianyu for the time being, but now the Mongols on the grassland are also ready to move."

The border troubles of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty are not only Jianzhou, but also the Mongols. In this battle, the Ming Dynasty defeated Jianzhou, and it is estimated that those Mongols will be much more honest; On the contrary, if the Ming Dynasty is defeated or weakened, I am afraid that they will definitely not give up this good opportunity to fight the autumn wind.

At present, the Mongolian steppe is mainly divided into three major forces, Lindan Khan of Chahar Mongolia in the south, Khalkha Mongolia in the west, and Horqin Mongolia in the northeast.

Although Lin Dan Khan has always expanded externally and occasionally invaded the Ming Dynasty, Li Xianzhong knew that he and the Ming Dynasty were still allies in the common fight against the Later Jin.

Among the five Khalkha Mongolian departments, only the fried flower department has been ready to move, but it was just taught a lesson by the Ming army last year, and it can't make any big waves for the time being.

However, this Horqin tribe has already had many marriages with Nurhachi and Huang Taiji and others, although they have not formally formed an alliance with Jianzhou at this time.

But it is clear that they have abandoned their traditional ally, Yehe, and turned to Jianzhou.

Li Xianzhong said: "Our army returned victoriously in Shenyang, and the news of the killing of several important people in Houjin must have reached the grassland, and the Mongols did not dare to make a big move, if they dared to commit a border, they would be killed directly, and there was no need to show mercy." ”

"Just be careful not to pursue, just drive them out of the side wall."

At this time, he realized that Yang Hao and others made such a big move in Shenyang was not completely self-deception, but also had the intention of deterring the Mongolian tribes.

Yu Chengming and Li Sanshun said: "The last general will obey the order!" ”

The armorers of the 3,000 men and horses of Tielingwei were only more than thirty percent, so Li Xianzhong took out the two thousand pieces of heavy cloth armor that he had captured and dressed them up.

After that, he led 1,500 Liaodong iron horses out of the Liaodong border wall and went straight to Yehe City.

From Tieling out of the pass, to Yehecheng (now Siping, Jilin) is only more than 200 miles of road, although there is some detour through Mongolia, but the Mongolian steppe is far more convenient than the Chongshan march in Jianzhou, in fact, there is no delay in time.

By this time, the snow had melted, and the grassland had been covered with a vibrant green.

The Liaodong Iron Cavalry passed through the grassland like a torrent of steel, raising up the dust in the sky.

Such a large-scale cavalry dispatch of the Ming army quickly attracted the attention of the Mongols.

However, fortunately, this area is located on the border between the Chahar Mongols and the Horqin Mongols, and there is no main Mongol force. The Mongol sentinels were only observing from a distance, not daring to get too close.

In fact, they were far more nervous than the Ming army, for fear that the heavy cavalry of the Ming army would go straight to their camp.

However, they soon discovered that the Ming army's target this time should not be themselves, but Yehe City.

This road was not harassed by the Mongols, Li Xianzhong and the others made rapid progress, and they had reached the border of Yehe in only half a day, and there were still thirty or forty miles away from Yehe City.

Just when they felt that the road was too smooth, suddenly some familiar figures appeared in the mountain road ahead, and it was actually Jianyu!

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