Historically, Xiong Tingbi only went to Liaodong in June to take office, and as soon as he left the capital, the news of the loss of Kaiyuan came, and the news of the loss of Tieling came before he reached Shanhaiguan.

By the time he arrived in Liaodong, the entire northern Liaobei region had already fallen.

Now due to the appearance of Li Xianzhong, the entire Salhu has become a stalemate, and then Wanli accidentally activated the Donglin Party.

Due to the appearance of the Donglin Party's "-stirring stick", the efficiency of Wanli and the military department was greatly improved at once, although he was delayed for some time in the Beijing division in order to raise armaments and grain and grass in Liaodong, but he still rushed to Liaoyang at the end of April to take up his post.

I have to say that during the period when Li Rubai was in charge of Liaodong, he still did a lot of things.

For example, the general soldier He Shixian was transferred to Fushun Pass, which strengthened the strength of Tieling, and Li Xianzhong personally sat in Kaiyuan.

As a result, the defense of the previously precarious Liaobei region is now much stronger.

At least the line of Kaiyuan, Tieling, and Fushun is already very stable, and even better than the situation of the Ming army before the battle of "Salhu", and now the cavalry of Jianyu has been completely blocked out of the border wall of Liaodong.

Due to the previous retreat of the Eastern Route Army, the Ming army had actually abandoned the Kuandian Fort outside the border wall of Liaodong.

The Qinghe Road to the south is currently garrisoned by more than 10,000 people, and the 5,000 border troops from Xuanfu are stationed at Yahu Pass.

The 3,000 Guangxi wolf soldiers and the 3,000 Sichuan white pole soldiers are stationed near Qinghe Fort, because Qinghe Fort has been burned down, and can only live in tents at present, fortunately, the weather has begun to warm up, and the situation is not too bad.

The veteran Liu Wei continued to stick to Liaoyang, while Li Rubai and Li Huaizhong stuck to Shenyang. At present, the Ming army east of the Liao River has increased to 70,000, which is still a big improvement from when Yang Hao was there.

Yuan Yingtai had a headache, Qinghe Road was almost swept away by Jianyu before, and the side walls there were also damaged in many places, and a lot of silver needed to be invested.

Moreover, in the entire Liaodong region, only Kaiyuan and Tieling did not have arrears, and there were officers and soldiers begging for salaries and in need of pensions, and relief victims. made it even worse for him, who was already unfamiliar with government affairs.

Yan Mingtai reported on the situation in which he and Li Xianzhong had rectified and opened the original road.

Li Xianzhong's action was very big, which caused a lot of shock in the entire Liaodong, because he actually touched the "empty salary", a taboo in the border army.

However, in the end, it was only reported that 1,200 people's empty salaries were found, and everyone thought that he was thundering and raining.

Xiong Tingbi's thoughts are similar to others, and he thinks that Li Xianzhong is just making a show, but it is already very valuable to be able to take the initiative to squeeze out the empty salary of 1,200 people.

If all the guards could be like Li Xianzhong, the imperial court would save a lot of expenses.

Therefore, he still ordered to reward Li Xianzhong's behavior, and rectifying military affairs was something he had to do, and Li Xianzhong could be regarded as a good start for him, and he must clearly convey this signal to the generals of Liaodong.

When he heard that Kaiyuan Road had now filled all the vacancies and was currently full, he still didn't believe it.

Where is the army in Daming?

He has also been in the military for a long time, and he is still familiar with the process of generals eating empty salaries to support their families, as long as they are not too excessive, he can still turn a blind eye to ensure that more than seventy percent of the staff is in the line.

Presumably, those generals temporarily found some "actors" to deceive Li Xianzhong and Yan Mingtai.

However, there have been too many things that have happened in Kaiyuan Road recently, one time the Mongols broke through the West Pass, and the other time Li Xianzhong swept the fried flower department. Li Xianzhong handed over 3,200 Mongolian fried flower heads in two parts, which really gave the military department a headache.

for the reward owed to him was increasing.

Now that Li Xianzhong handed over his head, there is almost no one who doubts it in the military department, because he can stand the test and is a well-deserved "king of the head" of the Ming Dynasty, which is even more exaggerated than Li Chengliang and Ma Fang back then.

He always had a way to get the enemy to leave the corpse behind, and that was convincing.

Xiong Tingbi also guessed that it was probably Li Xianzhong himself who let the Mongols in and made a closed door to beat the dogs. Then the responsibility for provoking the border trouble was placed on the Mongols.

This hand is even better than Li Chengliang at the beginning, not only taking the first rank, but also avoiding being impeached by civilian officials.

Everything made him very curious about Li Xianzhong's Kaiyuan Road, but after all, he had just arrived in Liaoyang, and there were too many things in his hands, so he decided not to go to Kaiyuan for the time being, until he received the "Jianyu Spy Case" cracked this time, and he couldn't sit still anymore.

Because he also judged that Jianzhou's next step was likely to attack Kaiyuan, cut off the connection between the Ming Dynasty and Ye He, and then directly annex Ye He and completely unify the Jurchen tribes.

And this spy case confirmed his judgment even more, although Li Xianzhong made great achievements, and the Liaodong Iron Cavalry under his command was also famous. He still couldn't sit still, and decided to rush to Kaiyuan to inspect the defense in person, otherwise his heart would not be steady.

Liaoyang is 480 miles away from Kaiyuan, and they can't catch it in a day, so their original plan was to stay in Shenyang for one night and then go to Kaiyuan.

However, Xiong Tingbi changed his mind when he was about to arrive in Shenyang City, he felt that Shenyang was not far from Fushun anyway, so he simply went directly to Fushun Pass to inspect it.

Because it is the gateway of Shenyang, it was broken by Jianzhou last year, and the strategic location is more important than Shenyang.

Yan Mingtai reminded: "Xiong Jingluo, there are many side walls on the south side of Fushun Pass that have been destroyed by Jianyu, and there are often Jianyu's sentinels haunting, which is not very safe, and we don't have many cavalry with us, so do you want Shenyang to send some cavalry to escort it." ”

Xiong Tingbi waved his hand and said: "Yan Jian Jun is too careful, this is still the hinterland of Liaodong of my Ming Dynasty, even if there are Jianyu, the number of sentinels will not be much, three hundred horses are enough." ”

He still knows the temper of the "bear barbarian", and there are not many ways anyway, so there shouldn't be any big problems.

Soon they were marching all the way to Fushun along the south bank of the Hunhe River.

Fortunately, a lot of fertile fields around Shenyang have begun to sprout, but the further east you go, the more barren it becomes.

Xiong Tingbi said: "The south bank of the Hunhe River has abundant water and the land is relatively fertile, why is there so much wasteland? ”

Yan Mingtai said: "Last year, Jianyu broke through Fushun and kidnapped 300,000 people and animals. As a result, a lot of fertile land has been barren, in fact, not only here, but also a lot of land near the side wall, which is no longer cultivated. ”

At this time, Xiong Tingbi also had to sigh!

Eleven years ago, when he inspected Liaodong, he also impeached Li Chengliang for giving up the Kuandian Six Forts outside the border wall of Liaodong, but now the Ming Dynasty has even barren land within the border wall.

Now the situation in Liaodong is really not optimistic.

Yan Mingtai said: "But not all of them are like this, there is one place where tens of thousands of acres of wasteland have been reclaimed. A month and a half ago, Li Xianzhong, the general soldier of Kaiyuan, swept Jianzhou and rescued 12,000 people who were taken away, and the governor of Liaodong was unable to resettle, and finally Li Zongbing arranged them in the abandoned Baijiachong Fort in Tielingwei to open up the wasteland and Tuntian, and now that place has been renamed 'Pingyu Fort'. ”

Xiong Tingbi had only heard that Li Xianzhong was very good at fighting, but he didn't expect him to have such knowledge.

Because "raising the side by the side" has always been his own advocacy, but he did not expect that the only one who implemented this policy in Liaodong was a military general.

He said with great interest: "If I stop by the way, I would like to go to this Pingyu Fort to see." ”

At this time, on the hillside not far away, seven or eight Jianzhou sentinels were observing the marching cavalry.

After all, this is the hinterland of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty, and it is normal for troops to march, and generally in this case, they will only observe from a distance and record the number of these troops.

But Yuan Yingtai's red official uniform was too conspicuous in this cavalry.

Although these sentry riders could not understand the official uniforms of the Ming Dynasty, they also knew that the person wearing the red official uniform must be a big official.

Originally, the side walls around Fushun were damaged in many places, and these sentry horses could casually enter and exit the vicinity of Fushun in the Ming Kingdom.

But since Li Xianzhong guarded Kaiyuan and Tieling, there have been more and more Ming army patrols and sentry horses north of Fushun Pass, and several side walls were quickly repaired by them.

As a result, these sentinels could only enter the hinterland of Liaodong of the Ming Kingdom from the south of Fushun Pass.

At this time, the head of Niu Lu Ezhen Tu Hatai said: "The number of the Ming army is quite large, there are three hundred horsemen, we are not their opponents at all, and we can only let this big fish go." ”

Another sentry said: "It will definitely be useless to rely on a few of us to attack, and the Harmu team is also nearby, so we will be thirty people, and there may not be no chance." ”

At this time, Xiong Tingbi and his party were walking on a mountain road, and suddenly a feather arrow flew out and shot directly into the throat of a Ming army, only to see him holding his neck with both hands and falling off the horse in pain.

Soon, several more Ming soldiers around were shot by bows and arrows, and the accompanying generals shouted: "There is an ambush on the slope, everyone hurry up to protect the safety of Xiong Jinglu and Governor Yuan." ”

The arrows of these sneak attackers were fast and accurate, almost all of them hit the vital point, and in a short time, more than a dozen Ming soldiers were shot and killed by them.

Yan Mingtai shouted: "Sun Dusi, there shouldn't be many thieves, you take fifty people to the slope in front to destroy them; The rest of the people stood guard and did not need to panic. ”

These cavalry were originally under Yang Hao, and the equipment looked good, but in fact, they had no actual combat experience at all, and they basically belonged to embroidered pillows, which were useless.

In fact, Yan Mingtai's judgment was not wrong, the number of enemies ambushing them would definitely not be large.

In his judgment, fifty horsemen were enough, but he really overestimated the combat power of these cavalry.

Sun Dusi was directly shot by the enemy as soon as he took a shot, and then killed twenty horsemen from the slope, all of which were elite sentinels, many of whom were battle-hardened white swingers.

The Ming army was obviously not an opponent, and many people were cut off by them with just one face.

Xiong Tingbi was also a person who knew the soldiers, and knew that these Tartars were not easy to deal with, so he ordered two hundred horsemen to hurry up to support, otherwise these fifty people would soon be killed by the Tartars.

At that time, the morale of the Ming army would definitely plummet, and it was really possible to be chased and beaten by these twenty or so Tartars.

He never thought that he would be attacked here, and the Tartars were so arrogant that they dared to directly attack the Ming army ten times their size with only twenty horsemen.

However, in the face of the Ming army, which was ten times their own, these Tartars did not choose to retreat, but fought with the Ming army.

At this time, there were only more than 30 horses left on Xiong Tingbi's side, and Tuhatai saw that the opportunity was coming, and hurriedly led the nine people around him to kill Xiong Tingbi and the others.

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