"Your Highness! Your Highness! ”

At the beginning of June, in the camp outside Shenyang, Xu Sheng, who was carrying a big fish on his back, ran into Zhu Gaoxu's camp tent.

"What? To show off your fish? ”

Zhu Gaoxu, who was writing the textbook, looked up and saw the almost three-foot-long fish behind Xu Sheng, and asked rhetorically with interest.

"Huh?" After being reminded by him, Xu Sheng reacted, and hurriedly put the fish on his back on a low table in the tent, and then said happily: "Your Highness, Liaoyang and Haizhou have surrendered successively, and the last general estimates that Gaizhou is also soon!" ”

Xu Sheng brought good news, but Zhu Gaoxu didn't think it was strange, and asked directly: "Did you see Wu Gao withdraw his troops all the way to the south and surrender without breaking the siege?" ”

"That's right! You guessed it, Wu Gao didn't stop all the way, and went directly to Jinzhou. Xu Sheng applauded, and Zhu Gaoxu was not surprised.

Once Beiping raised troops, the land lifeline of Liaodong would be cut off, and if Jinzhou, the largest maritime lifeline, would also be cut off, the sea route of Jiuliancheng would also be cut off, and only Ningyuan in Liaoxi could go.

But the problem is that many Liaodong ports in this era were located in shallows, and many excellent ports in later generations have not yet been washed out, so Ningyuan Wharf cannot accommodate a large number of ships entering and exiting.

It's okay to use it to protect Liaoxi, and it's a fool's dream to help more than 300,000 people in Liaodong.

Wu Gao would be in a hurry to go south, and the grain in Hai and Gai Erzhou had already been taken away by Wu Gao, Wu Gao thought that he could supply Erzhou when the grain from Jinzhou arrived, but he didn't want Jinzhou to be cut off by Zhu Gaoxu.

Now there is no food in the city of Haigai Erzhou, and seeing that Wu Gao has not been rescued, naturally there is only one way left to surrender.

The only thing that surprised Zhu Gaoxu was that Liaoyang, which was abundant in grain and grass, also surrendered.

"How did Liaoyang surrender?"

Zhu Gaoxu asked, and Xu Sheng also grinned: "Zhou Ding's younger brother Zhou Gui killed the commander of Liaoyang, and opened the city gate for Meng Zhang with a thousand households in the headquarters, so it is estimated that the "Fish Scale Atlas" of Haizhou and Liaoyang will be sent here soon." ”

"It was a bonus." Although Zhu Gaoxu was pleasantly surprised, he was not as excited as Xu Sheng.

After all, in his opinion, once Liaoyang is besieged, it is only a matter of time before he surrenders, because Wu Gao will never come back.

As soon as Wu Gao left, it was the best time for him to raise a large army to take Liaodong.

"Is there any change in Shenyang City?"

Zhu Gaoxu lowered his head to compile the teaching materials and asked about the situation in Shenyang, but Xu Sheng shook his head: "That Geng Zhen has been guarding the city in the city, and the brothers who patrol the sentry have often heard the sound of smashing in the city. ”

"Not strange." Zhu Gaoxu replied distractedly: "Although Wu Gao moved the people of Shenyang and Puhe in advance, there are still some people who have not had time to move away. ”

"Shenyang has plenty of grain and grass, but firewood can only be transported through Fushun in the upper reaches of the Hunhe River."

"Right now, our army has taken Fushun and patrolled Shenyang, and in less than half a year, Geng Zhen may not even have to demolish the house, I am afraid that the city gate tower will be demolished."

"Your Highness!"

Suddenly, there was a shout of joy outside the tent.

Not long after, Zhao Mu's figure appeared outside the tent.

Zhao Mu was the official of the hundred households of Zhu Gaoxu's personal guard, and later he was promoted to the commander after making meritorious service, and a few days ago he was promoted to the commander of the capital, responsible for the exchange of documents in the camp and the dispatch of soldiers and horses.

He walked in with two soldiers and a dozen thick books.

When the two soldiers put the document on Zhu Gaoxu's desk, he also introduced: "The document on the left is the cultivated land and the amount of land divided between the three 30,000 Wei, Tielingwei and Puhe after Sun Changshi re-measured in the north. ”

"On the right, there are the "Fish Scale Atlas", "Yellow Book" and "Grain Book" of Fushun, Liaoyang, and Haizhou."

"At present, there are more than 287,000 acres of land in Erwei and Sanjia in the north, more than 396,000 mu in Liaoyang, more than 207,000 mu in Haizhou, and more than 12,000 mu in Fushun."

"The number of Zhuchengkou is 31,727 households, about 170,000 people."

"But right now, Wu Gao and Geng Zhen have gathered soldiers, and it is estimated that it will be lower than expected, but it is not much lower, and Liaoyang City has moved thousands of people in Shenyang."

"Let's divide the land according to 170,000." Zhu Gaoxu stopped compiling, picked up a few copies of the "Fish Scale Atlas" and looked at them.

Except for the mistake in the 26th year of Hongwu, there was no big problem in the land measurement during the Lao Zhu period.

Judging from the measurement and documentation of the Erwei and Sanwei Institutes in northern Liaoning, it is basically about 10% more than on paper, and it should be all new reclamation land that has not been registered after reclamation in the past two years.

Zhu Gaoxu looked through the grain book and found that Liaoyang and Haizhou combined had a total of 240,000 stones, enough for their 170,000 people to eat for two months.

In two months, he should be able to solve the entire territory of Liaodong, and he will be able to build a ship and prepare to cross the sea to attack Denglai.

"More than 900,000 acres of land, regardless of the brothers?"

Xu Sheng spoke cautiously, and Zhu Gaoxu also chuckled: "Naturally, we have to share." ”

After saying that, he looked at Zhao Mu, and after thinking for a while, he said: "The Jurchen brothers who died in the previous battle were each given 50 acres of bereavement fields, and the whole family moved to Liaoyang and Haizhou to divide the fields. ”

"After they went south, their fields in Jilin were also changed to Liaoyang and Haizhou one by one."

"The brothers of the Han family who died in the war were also granted 50 acres of land and divided the land in the three Puhe places."

"As for the people who were relocated in Liaoyang, they should be moved to Changchun, and cattle were distributed to reclaim wasteland, and two catties of grain were provided every day, and they must not be harshly punished."

"In addition, the four cities of Bohai can also resume supplying two catties of grain per day."

Although it is not known how much grain there is in Jinzhou, according to the news given by Fu Rang before the war, the grain there should not be less than 500,000 stones.

The 170,000 people in Bohai, plus the 170,000 people in Liaoyang and other places, and 50,000 troops, these more than 700,000 stone grain were enough for nearly 400,000 of them to eat until winter.

Four months is enough time to build your own ship and land in Shandong.

It's really not good, as long as you solve Liaoxi, you can ask Zhu Di for food.

If Zhu Gaoxu is not mistaken, Zhu Dijing did not encounter food problems when he was martyred, there were Beiping and Tongzhou granaries in the early stage, and they all relied on junglers in the middle and later stages.

I don't have to hold out until the middle and late stages, as long as I can quickly take Liaodong, and then take advantage of the shipbuilding time to go to take Daning, move the population of Daning to fill Liaodong and Bohai, and then get food from Zhu Di, I will have no worries.

It was too wasteful for Daning's population to move into Beiping, and only by giving Liaodong and Bohai could the benefits be maximized.

Zhu Gaoxu saw that the population of that place was not a day or two, and he had been waiting for an opportunity since the beginning of the war.

After Jinzhou was taken, it was not only Liaodong that was in trouble, but also Daning, which relied on Liaodong to transport grain by sea.

In previous years, Daning had no more than three grain transportation channels, one was to go to Huailai, Shanxi, one was to Beiping, and the other was to take Liaodong shipping.

At present, Beiping is definitely not working, Jinzhou has also been cut off by itself, and the route of Huailaiwei alone cannot be supplied at all.

If Zhu Gaoxu remembers correctly, after Zhu Di raised his army, even with the supply of Liaodong, Daning began to have a food shortage in the second year of Jianwen.

It is precisely because of this that Zhu Yunwen will urge Li Jinglong to fight north in winter, because if it drags on any longer, Daning may not need Zhu Di to go, so he will go south to join Zhu Di.

Now that there is no Jinzhou sea route, Zhu Gaoxu wants to know how long the 400,000 people can be fed with Daning's grain stock.

Of course, what he is more curious about now is whether Wu Gao, who has been going all the way south, has arrived in Fuzhou, and how he is going to attack Jinzhou, which has 5,000 people to defend.

"Nineteen thousand people want to take the Golden State, which is a bit difficult......"

At the time of Zhu Gaoxu's conjecture, a huge camp was also erected outside the city of Fuzhou.

In the camp, Liu Zhen talked to Wu Gao, who came from the dust, about the current predicament.

After 28 years of reinforcement by Hongwu, Jinzhou City was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and most of the firearms of Liaodong were transferred to Shenyang, and it took at least two months for Fuzhou to cast artillery to attack the city.

But the problem at the moment is that the food in Fuzhou is only enough for their 40,000 soldiers and civilians to eat for a month and a half.

Therefore, the only way left in front of Wu Gao was to attack.

Regarding his proposal, Liu Zhen spoke out of the difficulties.

Less than 20,000 people attacked the city garrisoned by 5,000 or 6,000 people, and even if they took it, they suffered heavy casualties, and they were unable to go north to relieve the siege of Gaizhou and Shenyang, not to mention that Liaoyang and Haizhou surrendered.

"Only by taking Golden State can we take a big ship and send reinforcements to support us."

Wu Gao didn't feel pain, originally his idea was to strengthen the wall and clear the wilderness, relying on the city to consume Zhu Gaoxu.

It's just that now that the offense and defense are changing, he has to turn around and storm the city, and Zhu Gaoxu consumes his strength.

After learning about the specific situation in Jinzhou, Wu Gao did not expect to recover the lost territory by Liaodong alone, but set his sights on Shandong.

It was only after he finished saying this that Liu Zhen said with a complicated expression: "Then the Shandong soldiers and the reserve soldiers were all transferred to the north, and the imperial court appointed the Marquis of Changxing as the general to conquer Yan and go north to conquer Yan. ”

"We ...... I'm afraid there won't be any reinforcements......"

Liu Zhen's words made Wu Gao's mood sink to the bottom, but he also knew that Jinzhou must be won.

"Taking Jinzhou, we have room to attack or retreat, or wait for reinforcements from the imperial court."

"Now the post road from Liaodong to Liaoxi has been cut off by the rebels, and we only have two lonely cities in Liaodong, Jiulian City and Fuzhou, once the food is exhausted, we will either kill ourselves to serve the country or surrender to the country."

"Only by taking the Golden State can there be a way out."

After Wu Gao finished explaining, he instructed Liu Zhen: "Tomorrow I will prepare the military rations for January, and I will take Jinzhou within a month." ”

"Yes!" Liu Zhen responded with difficulty, got up and went to prepare military rations.

After he left, Wu Gao also got up and glanced at the sand table in the tent, and rubbed his slightly swollen temples: "I should have thought of it earlier." ”

"Whether he fought Xiyang Ha or Ha Ra Wu at the beginning, he was a surprise soldier to win by surprise, if I had thought about it earlier, I wouldn't have been so passive."

Wu Gao sighed, but he also knew that even if he thought about it at first, he couldn't prevent the loss of Jinzhou.

In the end, it was inertial thinking that limited him.

Throughout the ages, no one has ever rushed from such a remote place in Jilin to Jinzhou, the southernmost part of eastern Liaoning, and Zhu Gaoxu is the first case.

What didn't happen, he naturally wouldn't take it into account, and this was the reason why he was disrupted by Zhu Gaoxu's plan.

One wrong step, one wrong step, now Wu Gao has no capital for a counteroffensive, and taking Jinzhou has become his last battle to wash away his shame.

He knew very well that Liao was so corrupt that he might not be able to protect himself.

It's just that I don't know who the imperial court will send to take over the military power of Liaodong after he is gone.

"Kiln ......"

Wu Gao hadn't thought who it would be, but he saw Liu Zhen, who had left earlier, walking back with a black face.

"What's wrong?" Wu Gao frowned.

"Gaizhou has also dropped." Liu Zhen lowered his head, obviously feeling that his face was dull.

The Gaizhou guard is the one he single-handedly promoted, but he didn't want this kind of moment, and his men actually surrendered.

"Expected......"

Rubbing his eyebrows, Wu Gao only felt that he was getting closer and closer to being replaced.

His worries were not superfluous, three days later, the army marched south, and the soldiers and horses had only gone more than 20 miles, and he received an angel who took a boat to the coastal waters of Fuzhou and rowed a small boat ashore.

Not surprisingly, Wu Gao was replaced, and the person who replaced him was Geng Zhen, and the person who supervised the army before the siege of Shenyang was lifted was Liu Zhen.

"Dare to ask the angel, can the old man go south to Beijing to report on his work after conquering Jinzhou?"

After listening to the holy decree, Wu Gao in front of the incense case got up and asked the officials who came to deliver the decree, but what he got was shaking his head: "Your Majesty said, please ask the Marquis of Jiangyin to set off to the south on the same day, and the ship of the lower officials is already cruising and waiting in the Fuzhou Sea." ”

"Whether the Golden State can be recovered now is very important to the imperial court, can the angels open the net?" Liu Zhen also got up to speak for Wu Gao.

"Don't embarrass Liu Dudu......" The official smiled bitterly: "Now the temple has become a pot of porridge because of the erosion of Liao, if the lower officials delay for the Marquis of Jiangyin, I am afraid that they will be imprisoned if they go back." ”

"What's more, you just took the Golden State garrisoned by five or six thousand people, you have ten thousand troops, why can't you take it?"

This Wen Linlang didn't know how difficult it was to fight Jinzhou City, but he just thought he was strong.

After hearing this, Wu Gao didn't expect him to understand, so he could only turn around and explain to Liu Zhen: "If the Bohai Shu people personally lead the troops south to rescue, then you immediately withdraw to Jiulian City, and I will ask the imperial court to maneuver and take the Korean sea route to transport grain to you." ”

"The last general understands ......" Liu Zhen lowered his head and solemnly bowed.

Not long after, Wu Gao handed over the troop transfer token given by the imperial court to Liu Zhen, and he got on his horse under the supervision of Wen Linlang and his guards, and returned to Fuzhou.

Looking at his back as he gradually walked away, Liu Zhen only felt that the burden on his shoulders was heavy.

He was the one who had personally fought with Zhu Gaoxu, and he was well aware of Zhu Gaoxu's bravery.

In a frontal battle, even if he doubles his troops, he may not be able to draw with Zhu Gaoxu, not to mention that Zhu Gaochu still has artillery and firearms at the moment.

Although he did not confront the Bohai naval artillery and firearms that Wu Gao said about them, he could still understand the power of those firearms from the words of the soldiers.

Thinking of this, he looked at the sea in the distance and muttered, "Can I hold Liaodong......

No one answered him, and after a short struggle, he led an army of 19,000 and 10,000 people from Fuzhou to the south of Jinzhou.

On the sixth day of the sixth month of June, he led his troops to the city of Jinzhou, and at this time, Jinzhou had more equipment to defend the city than half a month ago.

The 19,000-strong army began to camp six miles north of Jinzhou, and Liu Zhen commanded Wu Gao to bring back more than 3,700 cavalry from northern Liaobei and 2,000 cavalry under his command to bypass Jinzhou and go to the south to inquire about the situation in Jinzhou's Zhongzuo and port.

"I'm afraid there are 20,000 people at this scale, right?"

"Pretty much ......"

At the head of Jinzhou City, Zheng Jun, who was promoted to commander, looked at the stretching camp outside the city, sighed and spoke, although Cui Jun on the side was not very old, he was old and recognized.

"Can we hold it?"

Although Zheng Jun has fought battles, the scale is not large, but although Cui Jun is small, he has fought many battles with Zhu Gaoxu and has rich experience.

"Although Jinzhou City is not high, the horse road is wide, and the city is small with many people, so we can rotate three shifts to defend the city."

"We don't need to hold it for too long, as long as we hold it for a month, Your Highness will lead your troops south, and the siege of Jinzhou will be lifted."

Cui Jun was not afraid that the army outside the city was four times his own, but shouted to the brothers around him:

"Brothers, you all know that Your Highness has a great reward!"

"Know!!"

The passionate voice sounded, and Cui Jun also grinned: "Okay! Just know it! ”

Cui Jun pointed to the outside of the city: "At the beginning, 30,000 people besieged Jixi Pass, we only had less than 3,000 soldiers, and less than 4,000 people guarded Jixi Pass, but now there are only 20,000 soldiers outside the city, what are you afraid of!" ”

"I promise you with my head that within a month, Your Highness will lead troops to relieve the siege for us."

"What I have to do is to defend Jinzhou City, as long as I can guard it until His Highness, I will personally ask for merit for the brothers, at least let His Highness give each of us twenty acres of land!"

"Fight! War! Battle ......"

Before going south, Zhu Gaoxu acted cheaply on Xu Cuijun, and although 20 acres of land per person was much, it was nothing compared to the more than 500,000 stone of grain in the city.

Cui Jun was young and high-spirited, and Zheng Jun on the side couldn't help but be envious when he saw it, and at the same time sighed that the Bohai Navy was generous.

It's just that the city will be defended in January, and twenty acres of land will be rewarded, not to mention the soldiers from Bohai, even they, and even the men and women in the city will probably go up to the city wall and defend the city with the Bohai Navy.

That's 20 acres of land, if it is sold according to the price of Jinzhou's previous private land, it is worth at least more than 50 yuan, and if it is used for farming, it can produce 134 stone of grain every year to feed a family of five.

You must know that when the guard system was under the system, they still needed to cultivate the army's tun fields every year before they had the strength to cultivate their surplus fields and cultivate their surplus fields.

The old military households in Jinzhou have struggled for 12 years, but they have only cultivated 145 acres of land in Jinzhou, and they have to fight against the Japanese invaders during this period.

Although the Japanese have disappeared in the past two years, the blood is still there.

It is much safer to defend the city than to go out of the city to fight the Japanese invaders.

"The arrogance of this group of rebels is really arrogant!"

In the camp outside the city, the shouts from Jinzhou City could be vaguely heard, and a commander spoke angrily, but Liu Zhen was as steady as Mount Tai.

"It's useless to fight bravely in verbal battles, so that the brothers must supervise the construction of siege equipment within three days, and the gunpowder of the accompanying army is also prepared.

"Yes!" The commander responded, turned around and went out to command the construction of the camp and the siege equipment.

At the same time, Wang Yi, who took Gaizhou and sent horse infantry south to inquire about the news of Fuzhou, also reported the news to the rear.

In just two days, Zhu Gaoxu got news from Wang Yi.

"You said that Wu Gao was replaced?"

Looking at the commander who came to report the news, Zhu Gaoxu smiled when he heard this, and Ta lost also nodded and said: "The brothers went to Fuzhou to find out the news, and they happened to meet the defenders at the head of the city changing the flag. ”

"The banners with the word 'Wu' at the head of the city have been replaced with the word 'Liu', and the news should be fine."

"Good! Good! Zhu Gaoxu, who had been confirmed, got up and couldn't help laughing.

"Wu Gao is leaving, and Liaodong will be cleaned up."

His mind was spinning quickly, and he soon had an idea, he looked at Xu Sheng, Zhao Mu and Ta Lost in the tent, and only opened his mouth for a moment to order: "Xu Sheng, you and Ta Lost will return to Gaizhou now, and separate the two guards of Changchun to garrison Haizhou and Gaizhou." ”

"In addition, you ordered someone to inform Meng Zhang of Liaoyang, and asked him to leave a battalion to defend the city, and go to Haizhou with artillery and the rest of the soldiers and horses to join you."

"When he joins you, you will take Changchunwei to cross the river with him and go to besiege Quang Ninh."

"Yes!" Xu Sheng responded, feeling ecstatic, thinking that he finally had a fight.

"Tower Lost!" Zhu Gaoxu said to Ta Shi again: "After you go south, let Wang Yi leave Xu Sheng and Changchun Sanwei, and let him lead the rest of the soldiers and horses south to besiege Fuzhou." ”

"Yes!" The tower was lost, and Zhao Mu on the side also said nervously when he heard this: "Your Highness, don't you go to save Cui Jun and them?" ”

Zhao Mu has a good relationship with Cui Jun, so he is very worried about him.

In this regard, Zhu Gaoxu said confidently: "You have to believe him, then Liu Zhen is no more than twenty or thirty thousand troops, Cui Jun only needs to hold for half a month, Wang Yi can break Fuzhou City, and drive Liu Zhen to Jiulian City in the south." ”

His arrangement is one buckle after another, and now the Bohai Navy has taken so many cities, and tens of thousands of catties of gunpowder alone have been obtained, not to mention iron.

Wang Yi has a hundred field guns in his hands, and if he can't take Fuzhou City in half a month, then he can resign and return to Bohai to retire.

"Your Highness, are we going to fight the Nine Links City at that time?"

Ta Shi did not doubt that his own department could not take Fuzhou, after all, it was as strong as Tieling, the gateway to northern Liaoning, after a few days of field artillery strikes, Wu Gaodu had no choice but to withdraw his troops and leave, not to mention that the city defense was not as good as Tieling's Fuzhou.

What Ta lost was what Zhu Gaoxu said just now, that is, after expelling Liu Zhen, whether they would march into Jiulian City.

"Don't worry about him, Jiuliancheng will fight in the future."

In the face of his inquiry, Zhu Gaoxu first responded, and then ordered: "After taking Jinzhou, you will immediately have people cut down wood and transport it to the shipyard in Jinzhou with horses." ”

"Wang Yuan, they will arrive in Shenyang in one day, and it will only take about ten days to go south to Jinzhou."

"After arriving in Jinzhou, you asked Wang Yi to cooperate with the requirements of Wang Yuan, Wang Chuangong and others, to cast the clay molds brought into artillery in the fastest time, and concoct the felled wood into warships."

"After taking Golden State, send someone to inform me as soon as possible."

As soon as Wu Gaochu left, Zhu Gaochu was about to start a full-scale attack, otherwise with him, Zhu Gaochu would always have to worry about whether he would secretly destroy his arrangement.

The gap between Liu Zhen and Wu Gao is too big, Liu Zhen can only see in front of him, while Wu Gao can see the overall situation.

The former poses no threat to himself, and only needs a soldier to contain him, but the latter cannot.

It's a pity that now the latter has also been transferred away by Zhu Yunwen, and he can use his skills to his heart's content.

Thinking about this, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but drool at Daning's soldiers and horses......

"Bohai Chronicle": "Jianwen Jun heard that Liao had lost a lot of land, and he entered Beijing with the retreat, and promoted Liu Zhen to take charge of Liao affairs, and he was overjoyed when he heard it. ”

"Ming Shizong Record": "Gao lost a lot of land, Jianwenjun suspected that he was raising the enemy and self-respecting, so he withdrew and replaced the truth, and said: 'Wu Gao is cowardly and Liu Zhenyong sighs when he encounters the enemy, so he ordered Wang Yi to send troops to the south to contain it. ”

(End of chapter)