Guo Ning looked behind him and pointed: "Ma Bao!"
"The general is here!"
"Take your headquarters and occupy the fort. Arrange the entire army and inventory the supplies in the fort. Well, make a list for me as soon as possible."
Ma Bao said excitedly: "Yes!"
At this time, more and more ships were entering the port, and many people and horses were walking in and out of the tidal flats and mud. The situation was inevitably a bit chaotic.
According to the initial plan, Monk Luo's troops should be the first to land. However, Monk Luo's troops had slightly more cavalry and baggage, and were pushed back due to the previous dispatch of the fleet on the open sea, so he simply led his troops to rest high on the seawall, waiting for the subsequent baggage to arrive before setting off. .
On the contrary, Ma Bao's troops were mainly composed of lightly-armed infantry. Most of the supplies were carried by the soldiers, so they had already gathered all the personnel and were ready to go out at any time.
Aruhan was lying on the beach, squinting slightly, but he saw hundreds of soldiers acting immediately upon hearing the order.
Among them, there were hundreds of infantrymen carrying bulging leather bags behind their backs, which obviously contained a large number of arrows. As they walked, they took out their bows wrapped in oilcloth and oil paper from their waists, and helped each other to string them.
There were hundreds of infantrymen armed with swords and guns, and carrying huge wooden shields or round iron shields behind their backs. Both swords, guns and shields were of excellent quality.
Aruhan has some insight and knows that an army with such equipment is definitely not an ordinary army. If such an army goes to the fort, if the remaining men in the fort dare to resist, they will be killed immediately.
Fortunately, there were still a few companions patrolling on the other side of the reef. Aruhan secretly turned back and gestured to that side. Finally, someone was smart enough to rush back to report the news.
From the port to Tunpu, it is five or six miles, and Ma Bao's troops will arrive in a moment.
Guo Ning squinted and looked in the direction of Tunbao. Ma Bao was worthy of being an experienced officer. He detached a team of 100 men and circled the outside of the fort. Then he personally led thirty or fifty soldiers over the damaged wall and rushed straight into the fort. The archers then boarded the fort. At high points inside and outside the fort, bows and arrows were drawn to show deterrence.
It seems that there are not many people in this fort, and there is no preparation for war at all. At first there was some trembling and crying, but it soon calmed down.
After another half a moment, a soldier ran back panting from the direction of Tunbao, holding a list in his hands.
Guo Ning took it and took a look, thinking that Ma Bao was lazy. There were only a few strokes and three to five lines in the list. It didn't look like the family fortune of Meng'an Muketunbao, but it looked like a poor family who was about to sell their sons and daughters in the famine years.
Looking at the soldier again, he also had a look of dissatisfaction on his face. It turned out that Ma Bao's troops were experienced in attacking forts and mountain villages in the mountainous area north of Zhuozhou. Generally speaking, it was a good job to be among the first to enter the city. Judging from the soldier's face, there really isn't much to gain in this camp.
Guo Ning asked again: "When entering the fort, are there any casualties?"
The soldier curled his lips: "A group of local soldiers who were about to starve to death immediately knelt down and surrendered when they saw us... We knocked down a few and frightened them, but we didn't kill anyone."
Guo Ning looked at Aruhan again and couldn't help but laugh twice.
"In that case...get up, take your people, and go to the seawall to help!"
Aruhan kowtowed twice and got up with mud all over his body. He called his companions and ran towards the seawall without daring to ask Guo Ning's whereabouts.
After a while, Yi La Chucai hurried over: "Jie Shuai, that group of people..."
Guo Ning waved back, handed the list to Yila Chucai, and whispered: "Haicang Town didn't know we were coming, they didn't receive the document, and there was no food in their fort. There was no food in the fort." , is not enough to consume a thousand soldiers in one day."
"this……"
"We sent people to Shandong together under the imperial edict before, right?"
"Yes. The one who conveyed the edict on behalf of the imperial court was a foreign accountant from the Internal Affairs Bureau, named Zhao He. The person we sent to accompany him was Yang Chengzhi."
"I remember that he is from your mother's clan. He was very helpful when we were at the Xijunhe camp. He was accompanied by five capable guards."
Although Guo Ning acts violently, he also has an extremely cautious side.
Earlier when he was training troops at the Xijunhe camp, he successively sent important figures such as Du Shisheng, Li Yun, Qiu Huiluo and Wang Shixian to Zhongdu City and Baodi County to pave the way for subsequent matters. This time, Guo Ning was appointed as the naval commander, and Guo Ning also sent people to the front line.
He originally wanted Yizai Chucai or Du Shisheng to take action, but Yizai Chucai did not care about anything, and there were so many trivial matters in the army that he couldn't get away from them. Du Shisheng wanted to maintain secret connections with Xu Ding and his family in Zhongdu, and coordinate the commercial gains of Zhigu Village and other places.
As for the rest of the generals... from Monk Luo down, all of them are ferocious and rebellious. If they are released easily, not only will it be detrimental to the harmony of the place, but they will also get into a fight with the undercover of the valet's bureau on the way.
Only Jing Anmin can take charge of his own affairs, but he is a dignified deputy envoy, has a high status in the entire team, and is not allowed to go out.
Therefore, the person who finally took on this responsibility was Yang Chengzhi, the assistant who moved Chu Cai.
Guo Ning gave him a general position and asked him to accompany the people in the bureau, flatter him a little along the way, and also have a general look at the situation inside and outside Laizhou, and report the news through letters.
After pondering for a moment, Guo Ning frowned and said: "I have read the letter he sent back, and now that I think about it, there is nothing wrong with it, but why..."
According to Yang Chengzhi's letter, he arrived in Laizhou ten days ago and met with Lu Jun, the observing judge who was temporarily in charge of Laizhou affairs. Although Na Lujun is old, he is quite famous in Laizhou. His father, Lu Boda, once served as Hanlin and Taichang Qing. He once bought land to support his studies and was regarded as a good minister of the Sejong Dynasty.
Lu Jun received the edict at that time and promised to immediately notify the local magistrate of Laizhou under the Dinghai Navy and the various forces of Meng'an Muke and the town defense army, so that they could prepare to welcome the new Jiedushi, and asked all along the coast to build forts and forts. The port prepares military supplies in advance.
Now that things were going well in Laizhou, Yang Chengzhi went to Yidu to meet with Wanyan Salara, the general manager of the Shandong East Road Army and Horses Department and the commander of the Shandong Army.
Wanyan Salara was promoted from Ding Haijun Jiedushi and was Guo Ning's predecessor and superior. However, half a month ago, this king led 20,000 troops to march north to King Qin of Zhongdu. As a result, he was more than a hundred miles away from Yidu when he was attacked by Mongolian light cavalry in the Bin and Cang areas. He lost many troops and retreated to Yidu in embarrassment.
This person is also one of the Jurchen veterans in the dynasty, so it is inevitable that he will be defeated; or he may be in a bad mood after losing the battle. Zhao He from the Attendance Bureau actually saw him and handed over the paperwork. Yang Chengzhi saw him for several days but received no reply. At this moment, he was still wasting his energy.
It is not like Guo Ning has never killed famous ministers and generals with higher status. He didn't care about Wanyan Salara. What's more, according to the current changes in the situation, the Mongolian army will come to Shandong sooner or later. By then, all the methods and rules of the imperial court will be gone.
The trouble is food.
When Guo Ning left Zhongdu Road, the local amount of rice had reached more than a thousand dollars, and Xu Ding was crying and shouting everywhere to collect it for military needs. Therefore, the amount of food carried by the fleet was not sufficient. After consumption at sea, it was now only enough for the headquarters to last for five days.
I thought that after arriving in Laizhou, I could calmly arrange and replenish the supplies. Who knew that I would encounter such a situation after landing?
The Jurchens were so desperate, which was unexpected for the first point; Laizhou locality had no measures to prepare military supplies, which was unexpected for the second point; the garrison in Laizhou did not even know that the new Jiedushi was leading the army This is the third piece of upcoming news that I didn’t expect.
It shouldn't be like this. Laizhou is where the military governor of Dinghai Navy is stationed. Are the locals crazy, stupid, or just too brave to flatter the new military governor?
What is hidden in this?
In the current situation, even if the fleet transferred to Xiyou Town, another port three mountains below, it would be too late. It would take at least two more days to reorganize the troops, board the ship and then disembark. If Xiyou Town is as weird as Haicang Town, Guo Ning's troops will soon run out of food.
The army cannot go without food for a day. No matter how loyal the soldiers are, once they run out of food, they will flee and riot. If Guo Ning wanted to avoid this situation, he would have to send troops to plunder the people's grain reserves.
The newly appointed military governor of Dinghai Navy plowed grass and valleys in his territory as soon as he took office? If you really do this, it will not only cause severe disturbance to the local area, but also a blow to your own reputation. It will also add variables to your future foothold in Laizhou.
Perhaps, there are people in Laizhou who want to see such a situation?
"How does Commander-in-Chief plan to respond?"
"It's about a hundred miles from here to Ye County, where Laizhou is governed. I plan to carry two hundred Qingqi and go straight to the heart of the country to control the situation. What do you think, Qing Jin?"
"With Lang Jun's bravery, Laizhou is hard to find an opponent for. But..."
Yi La Chucai smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Lang Jun, you are now a commander-in-chief. Taking risks at every turn is not what a general should do. Besides, since there are people here plotting against us, how can we know that there is no back-up plan? This move has no back-up plan. It’s too dangerous, it’s too dangerous.”
"Hey!" Guo Ning rolled his eyes: "Then what do we do?"
When the two of them were talking about this, the gang leader who had landed earlier had already started making rice. As the smoke rises from the kitchen, the smell of burning firewood and the aroma of cooked dry food drifts away with the sea breeze, and is also blown here.
Yi La Chucai's eyes lit up: "I have an idea."
"you say."
"Mou Ke here is very embarrassed, isn't it? The original people here were also hungry and could not support themselves, so they all went to the salt farm to the west of Haicang Town, right?"
"According to what Aruhan said, it is indeed the case."
"Then let's put food out."
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