choke element

Chapter 157

Guo Ning looked behind him and pointed: "Ma Bao!"

"The end is here!"

"You take the headquarters, occupy the fortress, and arrange for the whole army to count the supplies in the fortress. Well, make a list for me as soon as possible."

Ma Bao excitedly said: "Obey!"

At this time, there were more and more ships entering the port, and many people and horses entered and exited on the tidal flats and muddy ground, and the situation was inevitably chaotic.

According to the original plan, Monk Luo's troops should be the first to go ashore.However, Monk Luo's subordinates had a little more cavalry and luggage, and because of the dispatch of the previous fleet in the open sea, they were pulled back, so he simply led his troops to rest at the high place of the seawall, and set off again after the subsequent luggage arrived. .

On the contrary, Mabao's troops are mainly light-armed infantry, and most of the supplies are carried by the soldiers, so they have already ordered all the personnel and can be dispatched at any time.

Aluhan lay on the beach, squinting slightly, but saw hundreds of soldiers heard the order and followed suit.

Among them, hundreds of infantry carried bulging leather bags on their backs, which obviously contained a large number of arrows. As they walked, they pulled out their bows wrapped in oilcloth and oilpaper from their waists, and helped each other to wind them.

There were hundreds of infantry armed with swords and guns, and huge wooden shields or round iron shields on their backs. Both swords, guns and shields were of excellent quality.

Aluhan has some knowledge and knows that those with such equipment are definitely not ordinary troops, and if such an army goes to the fort, if the remaining men in the fort dare to resist, they may die immediately.

Fortunately, on the other side of the reef, there were still a few companions wandering around, so Aruhan secretly turned his head and gestured over there.Finally, someone was clever and ran back to report the letter.

From the port to Tunbao, five or six miles away, Ma Bao's troops will be there in a short time.

Guo Ning squinted and looked in the direction of Tunpu.Ma Bao deserves to be an experienced officer. He sent out a 50-man team to circle around the fort, and then personally led three or fifty soldiers to climb over the damaged wall and rush into the fort. At high points inside and outside the fort, bows and arrows were drawn to show deterrence.

It seemed that there were really not many people in this bunker, let alone the slightest preparation for war.At first, there were some jumping around and children crying, but it soon calmed down.

After another half an hour, a soldier ran back panting from the direction of Tunpu, offering the list with both hands.

Guo Ning took a look and thought Ma Bao was being lazy.There are only a few items on the list, three to five lines of words, it doesn't look like the family property of Meng'an Mouke Tunpu, but it seems to be a poor family who is about to sell their sons and daughters in a famine year.

Looking at the soldier again, his face was full of resentment.It turned out that Ma Bao's troops were veterans who attacked forts and cottages in the mountainous area north of Zhuozhou. Generally speaking, being the first batch to enter the city is a good job.Judging by the look on this soldier's face, there is really nothing to fish in this fort.

Guo Ning asked again: "Will there be any casualties when entering the Tunpu?"

The soldier curled his lips: "A group of native soldiers who were starving to death immediately knelt down and surrendered when they saw us... We knocked over a few and threatened them, but we didn't kill anyone."

Guo Ning looked at Aluhan again and couldn't help laughing twice.

"Since that's the case... get up, take your people, and go to Haitang to help!"

Aruhan kowtowed twice, and got up covered in muddy water.He called his companions and rushed to the top of the seawall, not daring to ask Guo Ning where he came from.

After a while, Yisa Chucai hurried over: "Jie Shuai, that group of people..."

Guo Ning waved back and forth, handed the list to Yisa Chucai, and said in a low voice, "Haicang Town didn't know we were coming, and they hadn't received the text, and they didn't have any food in their fort. , not enough to consume a thousand soldiers for a day."

"This……"

"Before the imperial edict was issued, we sent people to go to Shandong together, right?"

"Yes. On behalf of the imperial court, it is a small foreign tent from the Near Servant Bureau, called Zhao He. The one we sent to accompany is Yang Chengzhi."

"I remember that he is a member of your mother clan, and he was very effective when he was in the camp of the Army River. He went with him, and there were five capable guards."

Although Guo Ning acts violently, he also has an extremely cautious side.

When he was training troops at the Feijunhe camp earlier, he sent important figures such as Du Shisheng, Li Yun, Qiu Huiluo, and Wang Shixian to Zhongdu City and Baodi County one after another to pave the way for subsequent matters.This time, he was appointed as the Jiedu Envoy of the Ding Navy, and Guo Ning also sent people to the front station.

He originally wanted Yicha Chucai or Du Shisheng to get out of the horse, but Yicha Chucai didn't care about anything, and there were so many trivial matters in the army that he couldn't get away for a while.And Du Shisheng wants to maintain a secret connection with Xu Ding's family in Zhongdu, and coordinate the commercial benefits of Zhigu Village and other places.

As for the rest of the generals... from Monk Luo, all of them are ferocious and rebellious. If they are released easily, not to mention it will not be good for Jimu, they may fight with the foreign tent of the nearby Servant Bureau on the way.

Only Jing Anmin can be alone, but he is a dignified deputy envoy, he has a very high status in the whole team, and he is not allowed to go out.

So in the end, it was Yichai Chucai's assistant Yang Chengzhi who took on this responsibility.

Guo Ning gave him a post of general affairs, and asked him to accompany the people near the Bureau of Servants to flatter them a little along the way. In addition, he also had a general look at the situation inside and outside Laizhou, and reported the news by letter.

After pondering for a moment, Guo Ning frowned and said, "I have read the letter he sent back, and it doesn't look strange now, but why..."

According to Yang Chengzhi's letter, he arrived in Laizhou ten days ago and met with Lu Jun, the temporary observer of Laizhou affairs.Although Lu Jun was old, he was well-known in Laizhou.His father, Lu Boda, used to be Hanlin and Taichang Qing, and had a history of buying land to support his studies. He could be regarded as a good minister of the Sejong Dynasty.

Lu Jun received the imperial edict at that time, and also promised to immediately inform the local officials of Laizhou under the Dinghai Navy, and all the Meng'an Muke and the town defense forces, so that they could prepare to welcome the new Jiedu envoy, and asked all the coastal areas to garrison forts, The port prepares military supplies in advance.

Since Laizhou was going well, Yang Chengzhi transferred to Yidu again, and met Wanyan Sala, the general manager of the military and horse capital of Shandong East Road, and the envoy of Shandong Commander.

Wanyan Sala was promoted from Dinghai Jiedushi, Guo Ning's predecessor and superior.However, half a month ago, this gentleman led [-] troops northward to King Qin of Zhongdu, only to leave Yidu for more than a hundred miles, and was attacked by Mongolian light cavalry in the Bin and Cang areas. He lost a lot of troops and retreated to Yidu in embarrassment.

This is also one of the Jurchen veteran generals in the dynasty, so it is inevitable that he will be defeated; or he will be in a bad mood after losing the battle.Zhao He, who was near the Servant Bureau, saw him and handed over the documents. Yang Cheng waited for a few days to see him, but he didn't hear back. He was still exhausted at the moment.

It's not that Guo Ning has never killed a famous official or general with a higher status.He didn't care about a mere Wanyan Sala.What's more, according to the current situation, the Mongolian army will come to Shandong sooner or later. At that time, all the court's style and rules will disappear.

The trouble is the food.

When Guo Ning left Zhongdu Road, the local doumi had reached more than a thousand dollars, and Xu Ding was crying everywhere to collect it for military supplies.Therefore, the amount of food and fodder carried by the fleet is not sufficient. After consumption at sea, it is only enough to feed the headquarters for five days.

I thought that after arriving in Laizhou, I would be able to dispatch supplements calmly. Who knew that I would encounter such a situation after landing?
The Jurchen's strategy is so poor, this is the first one that I didn't expect; the measure that there is no reserve military supplies in Laizhou, this is the second one that I didn't expect; This is the third piece of unexpected news.

It shouldn't be.Laizhou is the residence of the Jiedushi of the Dinghai Navy. Are the locals crazy, stupid, or do they have the guts to not flatter the new Jiedushi?

What is hidden in it?
In the current situation, even if the fleet transfers to Xiyou Town, another port at the foot of the three mountains in the north, it will be too late.It will take at least another two days for the soldiers and horses to regroup, board and disembark again.In case Xiyou Town is as weird as Haicang Town, Guo Ning's troops will be short of food.

The army must not be without food for a day, no matter how loyal soldiers are, once they have no food, they will flee and riot.If Guo Ning wanted to avoid this situation, he had to send troops to plunder the grain stored by the people.

The newly-appointed Dinghai Jiedu envoy, as soon as he arrives in office, he will fight grass in the territory under his jurisdiction?If you really want to do this, it will not only severely disturb the local area, but also deal a blow to your family's reputation, and it will add more variables to your future foothold in Laizhou.

Perhaps, someone in Laizhou wanted to see such a situation?

"How does Jie Shuai plan to deal with it?"

"It's about a hundred miles from here to Ye County, the prefecture of Laizhou. I plan to carry two hundred light cavalry to go straight to my heart and control the situation. What do you think Jin Qing?"

"With your bravery, Laizhou is hard to come by. But..."

Yira Chucai shook his head with a wry smile: "Lang Jun, you are a handsome man now, and taking risks at every turn is not what a general should do. Besides, since someone here is plotting against us, how do you know there is no back-up? This move Too risky, too risky."

"Hey!" Guo Ning rolled his eyes: "Then tell me, what should we do?"

The two of them said that at this time, the gang leader army who had landed earlier had already started cooking.As the smoke rises, the smell of burning firewood and the aroma of cooked dry food are blown here with the sea breeze.

Yisa Chucai's eyes brightened: "I have an idea."

"You said."

"Muke here is very distressed, isn't he? Qimin, the original householder here, is also hungry and poor, so they all went to the salt field west of Haicang Town, right?"

"According to what Aruhan said, it is indeed so."

"Then, let's stock up."

(End of this chapter)