In the early morning of this day, the genius had just dawned. In Jinzhou City, located in the Liaodong Corridor, most people were still sleeping, except for the soldiers on night watch.
But the highest official in Jinzhou City, Yuan Keli, the governor of Liaodong, had already gotten up. After having breakfast early, he began to inspect the city.
Yuan Keli is different from ordinary civil servants. He is a practical person, which is why he can do an outstanding job in the position of governor of Denglai.
Getting up so early to inspect the city was something he had insisted on doing every day since he took up the position of governor of Liaodong.
By doing this, Yuan Keli wanted to establish his reputation as governor in Jinzhou City as soon as possible and gain military morale; secondly, he also wanted to be familiar with everything in Jinzhou City to avoid being unable to respond due to unfamiliarity when something unexpected happened.
The soldiers on duty at the top of Jinzhou City had spent the whole night and were feeling sleepy, waiting for their comrades on duty to come and take over.
But when they saw the governor approaching, they all cheered up, stood up straight and saluted Yuan Keli.
Yuan Keli nodded and continued to patrol along the city wall with a smile.
He is quite satisfied with the current situation in his heart. It has been less than two months since he came to Jinzhou City. The soldiers and civilians here already know him and respect him from the bottom of their hearts. He can feel this.
Moreover, as soon as he arrived in Jinzhou, Deputy Commander He Kegang approached him and obeyed his orders.
Yuan Keli knew that He Kegang was a chess piece arranged here by Sun Chengzong, the governor of Jiliao, and he had received secret instructions from his friends before. Therefore, he regarded He Kegang as his new confidant.
Another point, as expected before coming, the person who least welcomes him to Jinzhou City is General Bing Zu Dashou.
In fact, it is conceivable that the governor of Liaodong, who had been removed by Yuan Chonghuan, was restored and moved to Jinzhou City. This made the place where Zu Dashou had the final say added an immediate boss, who had to obey Yuan Keli's command. How many
All of which made Zu Dashou dissatisfied.
As a result, Zu Dashou often refused to cooperate or resisted during the military and civil affairs meetings held by Yuan Keli.
In any case, Zu Dashou is also an old man in the officialdom, and he knows how to do things that make Yuan Keli unhappy without leaving any excuses. Moreover, this is his territory originally, and most of the military generals in Jinzhou City are not from his family.
They were the slaves of his family. Therefore, the methods Zu Dashou used were even more complicated and diverse.
Even so, Yuan Keli has a higher official position than Zu Dashou after all, and is directly in charge of Zu Dashou. He is not an ordinary person, and he has his own means to slowly seize the right to speak in Jinzhou City.
Yuan Keli was thinking about these things as he walked, and unknowingly he had walked a long distance. At this time, he felt a little tired, so he stopped and looked outside the city.
The direction he was looking at was east of Jinzhou, the direction of Jianlu's sphere of influence.
In the past month, Jianlu's scouting horses appeared frequently, even bypassing Jinzhou City and going to Ningyuan.
Yuan Keli once asked Zu Dashou to send elites to fight with these scouts and block the information of Jianlu, but every time Zu Dashou refused on the grounds that he was afraid that Jianlu would ambush.
He Kegang was willing to go, but Yuan Keli didn't want him to go. This elite sent out to fight Jianlu's scouting horses, and the casualty ratio was very high.
He Kegang had too few men and horses. If the losses were too large, there would be one less available man and horse in Jinzhou City, which Yuan Keli did not want to see.
Later, at Yuan Keli's repeated request, Zu Dashou still sent Ye Bushouye to the direction of Jianlu to investigate the military situation. After discovering that the main force of Jianlu, namely Dorgon and Duduo's army, were stationed in the front, he no longer wanted to
Distributions will not be collected overnight.
Yuan Keli understood that the Jianlu army would be stationed here, which should be a reaction to the Ming Dynasty's military situation on the Ningjin front line. They probably did not expect that they would take up the re-established position of governor of Liaodong, let alone that they would also serve as governor.
The government was established at the forefront of Jinzhou.
However, he did not want to see such a big reaction from Jianlu. He did not expect that Jianlu would take him so seriously and sent two Heshuobele to take precautions, which was very detrimental to future plans.
Thinking of this, Yuan Keli remembered what Sun Chengzong said to him.
There is no doubt that Sun Chengzong meant to attack Jianlu.
However, because they were worried that Jianlu's field combat ability would be too strong, they planned to move step by step and use the city-building and advancement method to encroach on Jianlu's territory.
Sun Chengzong also highly praised a thing called cement, saying that this material could build cities quickly but was very strong.
Yuan Keli was surprised and even more curious about the inventor of that material, but unfortunately he didn't get to meet him for a while.
However, no matter how magical this material is, there is no way to build the city now that Jianlu is on such precautions.
The place Sun Chengzong chose to build the city was the Daling River, which is more than 30 miles east of Jinzhou City. Yuan Keli had no objection to this.
Because this is an important line of defense that shields Jinzhou, as long as the Big and Small Linghe rivers can be built like Ningyuan, it will be equivalent to adding another great pass in front of Shanhaiguan.
If the Ming army wanted to secure the Liao Dynasty, it had to build this city; and if the Jin Dynasty wanted to attack the Ming Dynasty, it had to demolish the city. From the time of Yuan Chonghuan, the two sides competed fiercely for the two cities of Linghe and Linghe, with two cities built and two demolished.
Based on past situations, it is estimated that with the magical materials for building the city, Sun Chengzong was very confident that he would build the city before the Jianlu could react.
But what he didn't expect was that the appearance of Yuan Keli would cause the Jianlu to overreact, leaving the Ming army no time to build the city.
However, the imperial court is not eager to win the war in Liaodong. According to Yuan Keli, the reason is that there are many things happening in the court, and the imperial court has no time to make this request to Liaodong. At the moment, it just wants to stabilize the situation.
That’s it.
Of course, this was also due to the fact that the slave chieftain was beheaded alive within the pass, and a Beijing battalion called the Death Battalion came out to retaliate, alleviating the pressure.
Thinking of this, Yuan Ke immediately remembered that these things were all related to the sudden rise of Zhongxing Hou. Sometimes, he really believed that the rumors were true. Otherwise, who would have such great ability to affect so many things?
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Yuan Keli looked at it for a long time, and felt his neck was a little sore, so he twisted his neck, thinking that it would be a pity to leave the death camp.
To really hurt the Mongols outside the pass, it is not an easy job to go out for a while and come back. Yuan Keli is not optimistic about this attack on the death camp. In his opinion, this military operation was carried out for political purposes.
, it’s more like meat buns beating dogs, and there is no return.
He also thought that Cao Wenzhao, the leader of the death camp, was originally from Guan Ning's army. If he was still in Guan Ning's army, he would be transferred to assist him. With Cao Wenzhao and He Kegang by his side, he would have to deal with or
It will be much easier to regain Zu Dashou.
Thinking of this, Yuan Keli sighed in his heart for the death camp, and then prepared to continue patrolling the city.
At this moment, there seemed to be faint movement in the distance outside the city. Not only Yuan Keli noticed it, but many soldiers also noticed it. Suddenly, everyone on the top of the city became nervous and looked towards the east of the city where the movement came from.
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There was no reason why the Ming army at the top of the city was not nervous. There was a large army of Jianlu stationed in that direction.
After about a while, a soldier not far from Yuan Keli, maybe because his ears were more sensitive or he had a stronger sense of smell on the battlefield, he just heard him shout: "It's the sound of a large group of cavalry, the prisoners are coming!"