"Goo... Mutter... Goo ......"

At night, the sound of the waves can be heard from afar, and there are unknown bird calls in the woods.

In the distance, a city with torches was in sight, and some wild beast seemed to have come to the woods outside the city, and many cooing birds flew away.

Under the cover of night, everything here was not discovered, and a group of wild people who emitted a "sour smell" from their bodies finally arrived here.

"It's finally here, are you sure the message is correct?"

In the forest, looking at the sparkling Jinzhou City, Cui Jun looked back at another soldier.

Compared with the Bohai Navy, this soldier's dress can be described as shabby, with only a mandarin duck jacket and cuirass on his body, and no other skirt armor and arm armor.

"Zheng Baihu said that after the change of defense, we will open the city gate, and I only hope that His Royal Highness and the general can abide by the promise of the Fu Du Governor, exchange the civil registration for the army in the city, and distribute the land."

"Don't worry, our Highness has nothing to say, and you should know it too."

The conversation between the soldiers and Cui Jun made the surrounding Bohai Navy hold the hilt of the sword excitedly, and even Cui Jun himself was very excited.

It was now May 20, and it had been more than 20 days since Cui Jun set off, two days slower than he expected.

Originally, he thought that he would need a hard battle to take Jinzhou, but he didn't want to meet an acquaintance when he was in Luangu Horse Station.

The brothers who went out of the city side by side with him and fought with Zhu Gaoxu against the enemy camp in Haragu.

Cui Jun also thought that the brothers related to his family had been transferred to the south, but he didn't want the imperial court to only transfer Bohai-born officials with official positions of more than 1,000 households, but Li Meng and others, who were only promoted to the chief flag officer, were not transferred.

Li Meng was in charge of the Luangu Horse Station, so when he saw the banner of the Bohai Navy, he immediately explained the situation in southern Liaoning.

Five days ago, the Tangqi of Liaobei had just passed through the Luangu Horse Station, and their military order was to pass Liu Zhen, who was stationed in Jiulian City, to garrison Jinzhou.

The Jinzhou guard army is only 1,600 people, and the number of 100 household officials is 16, and one of them is a person who was promoted by Fu Rang from the small banner officer of the Tun army to the 100 household officer of the war soldiers, and his name is Zheng Jun.

Since Fu Rang was transferred, Zheng Jun has not been promoted, so Li Meng thought that Zheng Jun should be willing to take refuge in Bohai.

Li Meng took the Bohai Navy and falsely claimed that it was the soldiers and horses of Liaoxi who went south to garrison Jinzhou, so he helped Cui Jun Polan Horse Post and Shihe Horse Station.

At present, these three post stations are all the people of the Bohai Navy, which also means that the connection between Jinzhouwei and the other three guards in southern Liaoning has been cut off.

After daytime testing, Zheng Jun sent a soldier out of the city, saying that he was willing to open the city gate for Bohai, but he needed the Bohai Navy to agree to the policy of dividing the tuntian equally.

Cui Jun naturally had no reason to refuse, after all, his Royal Highness had explained everything before going south.

Seeing that time passed little by little, when the time came, Cui Jun, who was holding a telescope, really saw the change of figures in the firelight.

After a short time, the gate of Jinzhou City slowly opened, and a torch was thrown to the city gate.

"Let's go!"

Seeing that the city gate was illuminated, Cui Jun decisively ordered the whole army to enter the city.

He was not worried that Zheng Jun would ambush him, because according to the information he obtained from Li Meng, there was no urn city in Jinzhou City, so as long as he entered Jinzhou City, even if the defenders of Jinzhou City deceived him, he could lead his troops to take down the city gate tower, open the city gate and let all the brothers enter the city.

With a nervous mood, Cui Jun led people through the city gate corridor, and kept paying attention to the jack gate above the city gate corridor.

100, 200, 300......

As the number of people passing through the city gradually increased, Cui Jun's heart finally let go, and he met Zheng Jun, who had defected to the Bohai Navy.

"Zheng Jun, the official of one hundred households, see Cui Qianhu!"

Zheng Jun is a man in his early thirties, but his appearance looks like he is in his forties because he has been cultivating tuntian all year round.

"Brother Zheng, rest assured, you will take the first credit for winning Jinzhou City, and the Juntian policy will be implemented as promised in advance!"

"Thank you, Choi Qianhu."

Cui Jun grabbed Zheng Jun's hand and eagerly said all the good things, Zheng Jun also relieved his heart when he heard the words, and explained: "The granary is in the east, Shandong has transported a lot of grain in the past few days, no less than 500,000 stones, and thousands of households can send people to take the granary first, and then appease the defenders in the city." ”

"Good!!" Cui Jun was excited, he didn't expect that there would be an unexpected joy.

If you want to say what the Bohai Navy lacks the most at the moment, it is needless to say, it is naturally food.

500,000 stone of grain, which is enough for the Bohai Navy to eat until winter.

"Let's go!"

Cui Jun led the team to the granary, and soon someone lit a torch and held a knife vigilantly: "Who! ”

The hundred soldiers stationed in the granary were vigilant, but Zheng Jun walked out of the crowd and said: "This is the brother sent by Liu Dudu to take over the granary, don't be rude!" ”

"Zheng Baihu ......"

Seeing that it was Zheng Jun, many soldiers relaxed, and Cui Jun also followed Zheng Jun forward when he saw this.

There was no time to notify the officials of the hundred households, so the chief flag officer let Cui Jun and others go, and Cui Jun also pretended to be majestic when he saw this: "Call out all the people who are stationed in the granary, and then look for the officials of the thousand households and the officials of the hundred households." ”

"Yes!" The chief flag officer had no time to take care of anything else, so after he got down, he asked people to find the officials of the thousand households and the officials of the hundred households.

"Do you want to ......" Zheng Jun saw Cui Jun's intentions, he didn't expect Cui Jun to be so young and plan so carefully.

Cui Jun did not reply, but waited for the thousands of household officials in the city and the remaining fifteen hundred household officials to arrive at the door of the granary, and then spoke:

"This city has been taken over by my Bohai Sea, you are waiting for ......"

"Traitor!!"

When the Bohai Sea was exported for the second time, the thousand household officials and several hundred household officials took the lead in reacting, intending to kill Cui Jun.

But before they could come forward, several soldiers stepped forward and knocked them to the ground and put knives on their necks.

The surrounding soldiers finally reacted, and drew their swords and pointed at Cui Jun and the others.

It's just that they looked at the number of Cui Jun and the others, and swallowed nervously.

"My Royal Highness is for the Qing Jun, not for anything else."

"This time to take Jinzhouwei, all military households are cut to the people, willing to join the army every year eight yuan, twenty stone of food, their families can get ten acres of land to join the army, in addition, the whole guard military households divide the land equally, according to the average per capita, the first year is not taxed."

"Traitor Bohai ......"

"Palm!"

"Smack-"

The captured Qianhu was still scolding, Cui Jun opened his mouth with a cold face, and the soldiers on the left and right immediately stepped forward and gave him two blows with their scabbards, and his cheeks were visibly red and swollen.

Seeing that thousands of officials ended up like this, the remaining hundred officials and soldiers put away their weapons one after another.

Soon, Cui Jun took over the city of Jinzhou and ordered Zheng Jun to command 500 brothers to take over the city at the Zhongzuo Institute in the south and bring the soldiers there back to the city.

Cui Jun sent someone to inform Li Meng to go south, so that three post stations leading from Fuzhou to Jiulian City evaporated out of thin air.

Doing so will certainly make the Jinzhou incident break out, but Cui Jun has 5,000 people in his hands, and he wants to hold more than 600,000 stone grains, and the city is two feet high, and the circumference is only three miles.

Cui Jun believes in his Royal Highness, and he doesn't think that the Liaodong Metropolitan Division will be his Royal Highness's opponent.

Anyway, Liu Zhen is already going to lead troops to take over Jinzhou, and the exposure of Jinzhou is only in the past two days, since this is the case, it is better to be earlier, at least it can attract the attention of the Liao soldiers in southern Liaoning.

As Cui Jun had predicted, on the second day they saw 2,000 cavalry galloping from the north.

The flag of the word 'Liu' fluttered, but when they came to the city, they were closed.

"I'm the governor Liu Zhen, open the city gate quickly, this is the troop transfer card!"

Liu Zhen didn't know what was happening in Jinzhou, he hurried along the way, and didn't even rest when he passed the post station, in order to settle in Jinzhou City early.

It's just a pity that in the face of his voice, a young voice came from the city.

"Liu Dudu, I'm sorry, you're late!"

A banner appeared at the head of the city with this sound, and as soon as the Bohai Vermilion Bird Flag with a red background and black borders appeared, Liu Zhen hurriedly turned his horse's head and left the city.

From afar, he looked at Jinzhou City, which was taken by the Bohai Navy, and his face was very ugly.

"What's going on? Could it be that the Marquis of Jiangyin was defeated? ”

"It won't be so fast if they are defeated, they were still in Tieling eight days ago, how could it be that they went down more than ten cities in a row on the eighth day and arrived in Jinzhou?"

"What do we do now?"

"Only by withdrawing to Jiulian City......"

"Don't panic!" Listening to the noise behind him, Liu Zhen shook the reins and said unwillingly: "Withdraw to the Shihe Horse Station, send a boat to Shandong to report the news, He Qi, you send someone to Fuzhou to see the situation!" ”

"Yes!"

Liu Zhen, who galloped for four days, had no choice but to turn his horse's head and leave, because from the number of defenders at the head of the city, he knew that the Bohai Navy soldiers in Jinzhou definitely exceeded the number of soldiers and horses under his command.

The combat power of the Bohai Navy, Liu Zhen saw it with his own eyes in the Battle of the Northern Tour, so he naturally didn't want to fight more with less.

Retreat to Jiulian City first and figure out the situation in Liaodong is what he should do.

Soon, Liu Zhen withdrew the Stone Hippohorse Post that was vacated by Cui Jun, and after camping here, he went to Fuzhou to inquire about the situation.

The next day, news came from Fuzhou that Fuzhou was unharmed.

"They came from the mountains!"

Liu Zhen had learned how powerful the Bohai Navy was at crossing the Uliangha ground, and naturally he would not doubt whether they would be able to pass through the Changbai Mountains.

"Governor, the defenders in Jinzhou City looked at it yesterday, there are no less than thousands of people, plus there are hundreds of thousands of stone grain in the city, if we can't take Jinzhou, our army is in danger!"

The commander under his command reminded Liu Zhen, and Liu Zhen naturally knew it, so he hurriedly spoke: "Send Tang to inform Governor Wu Gaodu and ask him to transfer troops south to recover Jinzhou." ”

"Yes!"

The commander hurriedly responded, turned around and walked out of the camp tent, and sent Tang Qi to Shenyang.

"Fixed firing loading, target Shenyang City, ten rounds of test firing, self-scheduling!"

"Ready...... Put! ”

"Boom, boom—"

The dull sound of artillery sounded outside the city of Shenyang, and this was already the third day of shelling of the Shenyang defenders.

On 19 May, Zhu Gaoxu led his troops south and successfully besieged the city of Shenyang.

He did not rush to storm the city, as if waiting for something, but simply ordered the shelling of the city of Shenyang.

Thanks to Feng Sheng's large-scale construction of cities when he was stationed in Liaodong, the cities in Liaoshen and Shenyang were solid, and they were all made of blue bricks.

In the face of such a city, it is the field artillery of the Bohai Navy, and it will not be able to take it down for a while.

However, everyone also knows that no matter how strong Shenyang City is, it is not made of steel, and sooner or later it will be breached, so their only hope is reinforcements from Shandong, Beiping and Daning.

"On the third day, bricks have fallen on the city wall, and if it continues like this, it is estimated that it will be breached in ten days."

In the yamen of the Shenyang Wei commander, Geng Xuan, who had just returned from a tour of the city wall, hurriedly explained the city defense matters to Wu Gao.

Just listening to his words, Wu Gao was absent-minded, but he was puzzled: "He blindly shells and does not attack the city, this is not like a lack of food." ”

"Could it be that the Bohai Navy is not short of food?" Wu Gao muttered, but shook his head and vetoed: "Impossible, it is impossible for them not to lack food, all the grain trucks of 30,000 Wei have been recorded when they leave the customs, and their food should only be enough to support about a month." ”

He was wondering why Zhu Gaoxu was not in a hurry, but at this time, the commander Wang Xian anxiously ran into the yamen again with a note.

As soon as he came in, Wu Gao and Geng Zhen became nervous.

"Oh no! The city of Golden State has been taken by the rebels! ”

"What did you say?!" Hearing Wang Xian's words, Wu Gao and Geng Xuan stood up at the same time, incredulous.

"It's true!" Wang Xian took two breaths: "When Liu Dudu led his troops to Jinzhou City, he saw that Jinzhou City had been hung with the banner of the rebels, and the soldiers at the head of the city were several times the original defenders, and there were probably no less than five or six thousand people. ”

"Liu Dudu was indecided, thinking that we had lost, so he retreated to Shihe Horse Station, and only after finding out the news in Fuzhou did he determine that the rebels were going over the mountains and mountains from Jilin to Jinzhou."

"Master Hou, now there is no less than 500,000 stones of grain in Jinzhou, if Zhu Gaoxu learns the news, he can completely bypass Shenyang and go south, but we will fall into the dilemma of food shortage!"

For a time, the offense and defense changed shape, and Zhu Gaoxu became the one who was rich in food, while Wu Gaoxu and the others encountered food problems.

"How long will we have enough food to eat?" Wu Gao subconsciously looked at Geng Xuan, and Geng Xuan's face was very ugly.

"Excluding the grain in Jinzhou, our grain is only 520,000 stone at most, but we will last until the end of August at most, and if we count the families of the brothers, I am afraid that we will not even be able to last ...... July."

Liaodong has a great business, but the Ming Dynasty has not developed the local area, so that the whole Liaotuntian is only 20,000 hectares, that is, 2 million mu.

At present, after the loss of 30,000 Wei, Tielingwei and Puhe, the number of tuntian fields has plummeted to more than 1.5 million mu, and the seed grain that can be handed over is only more than 700,000 stones.

With more than 700,000 stones, it is simply a fool's dream to raise more than 300,000 soldiers and civilians except for Liaobei and Jinzhou.

If there were no grain transportation from Shandong, the 300,000 people in Liaodong would only be able to survive until the end of June at most.

The month that Wu Gaoxin was thinking about was not restricting Zhu Gaoxu's time at the moment, but instead limiting their time.

"Pull out the camp ......"

Wu Gao quickly made a decision, if he couldn't recover Jinzhou, which had the best port, in time, then Liaodong would not resist the rebels, and it would be an eye-opener not to surrender to the rebels.

"We still have two shallow ports in Jiulian City and Ningyuan, so we won't abandon Shenyang."

Geng Rong grabbed Wu Gao, but Wu Gao shook his head with a solemn face: "Shandong to Jiuliancheng (Dandong), you must pass through Jinzhou, and the rebels have sharp artillery, if they also cast cannons in Jinzhou, then there will be no ships to pass through Jinzhou." ”

"As for Quang Ninh, the Yanshu people have rebelled, and there is a need to supply Daning Dusi with food."

"Shenyang City can't hold it, and Liaoyang City is the same, we have to go south."

"Why don't you ask the Shandong Metropolitan Division to transfer troops to take Jinzhou?" Geng Xuan still didn't want to give up Liaoshen, because if they lost Liaoshen, the situation they faced would be even more severe.

The Liaoshen Plain is completely the back garden of the horse infantry of the Bohai Navy, and once the two cities of Liaoyang and Shenyang are not contained, God knows what will happen to them.

"Shandong Dusi should still have 20,000 reserve soldiers, transfer them to Liu Zhen's control, maybe they can take Jinzhou City."

"If it really doesn't work, you can also prepare in advance and let the Beiping Dusi transport the grain to Guangning first."

"Governor! Governor ......"

Before Geng Xuan's words were finished, someone ran into the yamen loudly, and he came to the middle hall to hand over the military information.

Wu Gao hurriedly grabbed it, and after opening the military situation, his face turned pale.

"What's wrong?" Geng Zhen and Wang Xian asked anxiously, but Wu Gao closed the military situation and did not come back to his senses: "The Yanshu people defeated 30,000 soldiers and horses under the command of Fang Zhao, pulled out the Yongguan Pass, and won the arms. ”

"Juyongguan commanded Yu to die in battle, Kaipingwei commanded Song Zhong to be captured alive, Huailaiwei commanded Liu Zhen to surrender, Kaiping Wuweicheng surrendered, only Fang Zhao fled to Datong in time to ......"

"How can this be ......" Hearing this news, Geng Zhen and Wang Xian's eyes also widened.

If Juyong Pass is broken and Huailai is also taken by Zhu Di, then only Daning in the north around Beiping can compete with it.

Not surprisingly, the imperial court will definitely transfer the soldiers and horses of the Shaanxi capital into Shanxi, and the soldiers and horses of Henan and Shandong will go north to quell the rebellion.

If so, then the reinforcements Geng said earlier would be in vain.

Now Daning and Liaodong have completely become isolated islands......

"You leave 10,000 soldiers, and I will defend Shenyang!"

Geng Xuan made up his mind, Wu Gao clenched his fists when he saw this, but nodded helplessly after a while: "I will leave you 15,000 people, and I will take another 17,000 people south, plus Liaoyang, Liaonan, and Liu Zhen's soldiers and horses, enough to make up 30,000 people." ”

Although Wu Gao said this, everyone knew that more than seventy percent of the soldiers in Liao were here, and Shanhaiguan and Guangning could not move, so the 30,000 people in Wu Gao's mouth were actually only he and Liu Zhen's less than 20,000 soldiers who could be counted as combat soldiers.

20,000 people went to storm Jinzhou, which was garrisoned by 5 or 6,000 people, can they take it?

Geng Rong didn't have time to think about it, so he got the troop transfer card handed to him by Wu Gao.

After a while, the south gate of Shenyang City opened, and the pikemen formed a formation and headed south.

This news was also reported to Zhu Gaoxu by the Bohai Navy Tangqi Station, and Zhu Gaoxu, who was sitting in the camp tent and eating brown rice with the generals, also laughed after learning the news.

"It seems that Cui Jun has already taken Jinzhou, and it is not us who is short of food at the moment, but Wu Gao!"

Zhu Gaoxu smiled heartily, and at the same time explained the matter of his arrangement for Cui Jun to go south to attack Jinzhou.

After hearing this, the generals reacted, so they all had bitter faces: "Your Highness, you have been hiding from us for a long time......

"Haha...... I'm also on the safe side. Zhu Gaoxu got up happily, and Wang Yi also said as he walked back and forth: "Your Highness, then should we go to encircle and suppress the soldiers and horses that went out of the city." ”

"No, you don't! Jinzhou City suffered from the Japanese in the early years, Emperor Taizu Gao specially let people strengthen Jinzhou and Jinzhou Zhongzuo, with 5,000 people in his hands, Cui Jun is enough to guard until our arrival. ”

"At present, the number of soldiers in Shenyang City is no longer enough to fight with us, pass on my fatwa......"

Zhu Gaoxu saw that the time was up, so he immediately ordered: "Promote Wang Yi to be the commander of Liaodong, Chen Chang and Meng Zhang are the commanders of Tongzhi, and Xu Sheng, Cui Jun, Sun Cheng, and Zhao Mu are all in command." ”

"Wait for the order!" Wang Yi and others responded one after another, and their hearts were ecstatic.

"Wang Yi led the Jurchen Eight Guards all the way south and took Haizhou, Gaizhou, and Fuzhou, and Meng Zhang led the three battalions of Shenji to Liaoyang City and took Liaoyang."

"Chen Chang, you lead the headquarters Andongwei to take Fushun, Xu Sheng, you stay with me to continue to surround Shenyang."

"Wait for the order!!"

Zhu Gaoxu gave the order in an orderly manner, as if he had a situation of taking the east of the Liao River in one fell swoop.

The generals excitedly took the tiger talisman given by Zhu Gaoxu, and the tiger talisman was made of Jilin City gold mine, and the weight was heavy.

After taking the tiger talisman, the more than 36,000 Bohai troops were divided into four and attacked and plundered southern Liaoning, Liaoyang, and Fushun respectively.

This scene was seen by Geng Zhen at the head of the city, and also by Wu Liang, who was preparing to cross the river to the south, but they couldn't do anything.

If they don't recover Jinzhou, their 300,000 soldiers and civilians will all starve to death.

"Governor, the Bohai Shu people stayed."

On the tower of the city gate of Fusheng Gate (North Gate), Wang Xian and Geng Zhen talked, and Geng Zhen naturally saw that there were no traces of Daxu in the soldiers and horses out of the city.

This shows that Zhu Gaoxu is still in the camp, but Geng Xuan is helpless about it.

The Bohai Navy showed absolute strength at this moment, and 30,000 horse infantry left the camp, and even the Shenji battalion had enough horses and horses to ride and pull artillery.

Although there were only more than 6,000 people around Zhu Gaoxu, most of them were cavalry.

Geng Zhong did not have the confidence to defeat 6,000 cavalry with 15,000 foot soldiers, so he could only defend Shenyang City, making this place the last nail of the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong.

"How many days will there be enough food in the city?"

Geng asked Wang Xian, and Wang Xian was a little more relaxed when he heard this: "Half of the soldiers and horses are gone, and there are still 170,000 stone grain in the city, which is enough for 15,000 soldiers in the city to eat for a year and a half." ”

"That's good......"

Geng Zhen looked at the Bohai camp and muttered these words, and in the same camp, Xu Sheng also looked at the brothers who kept coming out, and his heart was itching.

He looked at Zhu Gaoxu, who was observing Shenyang City with a telescope: "Your Highness, aren't we going to do it?" ”

"Do it?" Zhu Gaoxu looked at Xu Sheng suspiciously, and quickly guessed his thoughts, so he smiled:

"With 6,000 people to contain more than 10,000 troops in Shenyang City, isn't this credit high?"

"That's true, but ......" Xu Sheng couldn't say anything, Zhu Gaoxu smiled and patted him: "Don't worry, there will be a place for you later, but before that, you will first take someone to build a ship, go to the Hunhe River to fish for me, and subsidize the military." ”

"Huh?" Xu Sheng had a bitter face: "Everyone else has gone to attack the city and plunder the land, why do we still have to fish?" ”

"They took the grain away, we don't fish and eat anything, and it will take at least some time for us to eat the grain in Golden State." Zhu Gaoxu patted Xu Sheng on the back: "Don't talk too much, go to the shipbuilding." ”

"Oh......" Xu Sheng, who responded with a bitter face, could only lead people to build ships and fish aggrieved......

"Bohai Chronicle": "In May, they all led 5,000 troops across the mountains for more than 1,600 miles, pulled out the city of Jinzhou, and were very happy, and they commanded the affairs. ”

"Ming Shizong Record": "They all led 5,000 horses and infantry officers and soldiers to the south, and the savages who heard the soldiers and horses on the top were all attached to them and guided the way. The soldiers went to Jinzhou, Zheng Jun heard that he was wise and raised the city to surrender. ”

(End of chapter)