In February, a large number of cargo ships passed through the Bohai Sea, Sancha River, Hun River, and Taizi River to Shenyang and Liaoyang, and a large amount of grain and military supplies arrived.
The right guard of Tengxiang who was escorting the supplies also arrived in Shenyang, and the Royal Horse Supervisor Wei Zhongxian had another powerful force under his command.
Even though Wei Zhongxian's Tengxiang left guard and Tengxiang right guard only have 2,000 men each, and a total of only 4,000 men, their combat effectiveness is estimated to be comparable to the two banners of Houjin.
These four thousand troops have one thousand heavy armored cavalry. These cavalry are elites selected from the Shanxi-Shaanxi border army. They use three-eyed blunderbuss on their horses. After three shots, they hang up the three-eyed blunderbuss and then take out their long spears and halberds. Charge into battle.
If the spear and spurge cannot be pulled out after stabbing the enemy, use the three-eyed gun as a hammer.
One thousand heavy armored infantrymen, all tall and mighty, were selected from the cold mountainous areas of Shanxi and Shaanxi. They were tall men over seven and a half feet tall, which is equivalent to about 1.8 meters in later generations. In the cold mountainous areas, you can eat as much as you want to stay cool, and there is also prey meat to eat. Only then can you grow up.
These were Han generals selected by Emperor Wanli. Before these people could join the Han generals, Wanli died. Later, Wei Zhongxian rectified military affairs and discovered these people.
Zhu Youxiao specially trained these more than a thousand giants into heavy armored infantry. Their arms were divided into very detailed categories: spearmen, sword and shield soldiers, fire gunmen, three-eyed gunmen, throwing soldiers, and artillery.
The heavy infantry is mainly used to deal with the charges of Houjin cavalry and infantry groups. Whether it is offensive or defensive, they will face the enemy in a battle formation.
Materials in Liaodong have gradually become richer. In the past, Liaoning people only saw soldiers eating rice, but they have never eaten it themselves. Recently, we have been given millet. The millet is white and fat and looks like ant eggs. It is really delicious. Without Xiao Ming, there is no compensation for people's livelihood. Low.
Before Wanli, the Apocalypse was even more stable. Yan Guan, a traitor in the court, was arrested and arrested, and Li Yongfang was stable.
There were no arrests according to the order, but people were sent to follow and follow in rotation.
What to do?
"Hahaha, the key to millet is water. There are few wetlands and swamps in Liaodong in the summer, and the summer is also very cool, so it is most suitable for growing rice!"
The eight people had to change their clothes every time they saw a contact. They were not even remotely similar to anyone else, and they were arrested just before they left the city.
The public sentiment is gradually deteriorating, and there is no room for people in Liaodong to make noises like fornication and slave-building.
The little traitor Qi Zhizhi had a bad life in those two years. The Liaoyang trade route I had built with my own hands was cut off by Li Yongfang's strategy of strengthening the walls and clearing the country.
Since the victory of the Ming Dynasty at the beginning of last year, the morale of the army and the people has not been lifted. Many soldiers and people are looking forward to conquering Tieling and Fushun Pass. They really want to go back to this area during winter leisure to do some big business, and we can't help. Earn some pocket money.
Xiong Tingbi rolled his eyes and remembered that Emperor Tianqi had said that some military generals and small tribes in Liaodong were fine. On the surface, we were platoons, but in reality we wanted to intensify the conflict between the Liao people, the Liao army and the guest army.
The commander sent two slow horses with bad memories to rush back to report. The others followed the eight spies until they retreated from the city. Before retreating from the city, no replacement had arrived.
Only a few small tribes and generals still formed an internal group and had a clear distinction between the aiding Liao army and the southern army aiding the Liao. In particular, they talked more enthusiastically about the southern army aiding the Liao through words and actions, and even called us Nanbarbarians.
Qi Zhizhi was happy, as Tianqi expected, Bao Chengxian and other Liaodong generals were fine. The matter was reported to Tianqi and Qi Zhizhi, and was kept secret for the time being until further arrangements.
We were caught later, and now the opportunity may have come.
Zhang Quan, the patrol officer in Liaodong, discovered a new change outside Liaoyang City.
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There was a slight drought last year, and grain production in Qianjin was reduced. Xianglan Banner retreated to the mountains to grab grain in early winter and was ambushed by the Ming army. Although the grain was snatched, the loss was huge. As a result, Du Baoyi and his family members starved to death in the winter, and Nurhachi was so angry that he almost killed him.
The prince-in-law Wei Zhongxian.
I reported the information carelessly to Li Yongfang and Xiong Tingbi.
After the first half of last year, Li Yongfang was very passive, because I only cut off Qianjin's business route, and also cut off the financial route of Liaoyang merchants, because the downline of Liaoyang merchants involved Tongzhou merchants.
Some Gaoli refugees who were full of anger towards the enemy, hated the despicability and tenacity of the Gaoli royal court, and defected to Xiao Ming's Shandong and Liaodong, knowing that one day Xiao Ming could help us take revenge.
Before we left, we arrived at other city gate inns to stay at the hotel before dusk. At dawn, we dressed up as going to the market. When the city gates were opened, the farmers who bought goods left the city through the south gate and west gate respectively.
The eight people got out of the Qianjin blockade smoothly and climbed mountains and ridges for two days before reaching the east of Liaoyang.
In the past few years, the rations for the Liaodong Army and guest armies were mainly food for the people of Liaodong, but we ourselves were living very hard. Now the court ships a small amount of food by water and compensates the people a little.
“Before Liaodong is restored, there will be even less Xiaomi!”
Wei Zhongxian was so frightened that he even dared to leave his house, for fear that Nurhachi would think of me and kill me. If there was a problem with the trade route he was responsible for, there would be a shortage of food. If Nurhachi went out to grab food, those two things would happen.
Everything is your own fault.
Those eight people were Wei Zhongxian's cronies who had been in contact with Liaoyang for a long time, and they often came to Liaoyang in the following years.
I found a few of my confidants and asked us to make up our minds and retreat from Liaoyang. Zaiba ordered us to stagger the time when we retreated from the city and act alone. If exposed, we would swallow poison and commit suicide. I will take extra care of our family.
The soldiers were still too convinced: "Is that so? Millet is produced in the south, and Liaodong is very hot."
The offline businessmen of Tongzhou involved officials from the Tongzhou granary, court officials, court officials, Yangzhou salt merchants, and Suzhou merchants. Those people had great eyes and hands, and they had not stopped playing Li Yongfang's memorials in two years.
The military tycoon launched propaganda according to Zhu Youxiao's statement.
That time, Li Yongfang arranged for us to be placed in Jinzhou and Gaizhou areas of the Liaodong Peninsula for farming, and we were still placed at the last line. This would prevent there being no spies among them, and also prevent no one from complaining about Xiao Ming letting us die.
Xiong Tingbi and Xiong Ting interrogated eight spies separately. Lao Wei had few tricks, so it was a piece of cake for us to talk.
The military tycoon propagated that in the past, they ate delicious millet and longed for the time when they had less millet to eat and the soldiers were more motivated.
Then Xiong Tingbi sent someone to pretend to be his mother's younger brother to take the madam away to visit her relatives, while the other 18 people under surveillance first.
You revealed that the leader of Shenyang was Bao Chengxian, the deputy commander-in-chief of Liaodong, and a group of others. We are still young enough to have two boats.
There is no time when Chengma needs that kind of simple and down-to-earth publicity.
This madam is Wei Zhongxian's concubine and the leader of Liaoyang.
Emperor Wanli has always trusted Li Yongfang, and the more the Donglin Party and Yan Guan were scandalized, the more Wanli trusted Qi Zhizhi.
Eight people visited eleven people in Liaoyang City, including seven generals from thousands of households, four merchants, one innkeeper, one restaurant owner, and not even a madam.
In the past, various small tribes were very wary of the Ming troops from various provinces who came to aid the Liao Dynasty, and were only willing to communicate and trade with local generals in Liaodong. Now at least one-eighth of the small tribes have changed, and have become supportive of the Ming troops aiding the Liao Dynasty, and are willing to trade with the local Liaodong generals. The conflict between our country and our country.