About twenty miles south of Zhongzuosuo City in Jinzhou, there is a mountainous area called Laotieshan, which is right on the seaside and faces Dengzhou City across the sea. Of course, Dengzhou City cannot be seen, as it is separated by more than 200 miles of vast sea!
However, the observation deck located on Laotieshan Mountain still has a pretty good sight line. If it is used with a telescope imported from the West, the sea surface dozens of miles around can be seen. The sea south of Laotieshan and north of Huangcheng Island is an important waterway in and out of the Bohai Bay, which is called the Laotieshan Waterway.
The Ming army fleet coming from Dengzhou to the sea must also pass through the Laotieshan Waterway.
Therefore, as soon as Cao Mutan arrived at Zhongzuosuo City in Jinzhou, he immediately set up a lookout post on Laotieshan Mountain to monitor the waterway in the south at all times. He also sent his confidant and brother-in-law Dadan Zhangjing and Zhang Fengen to take charge.
Zhang Fengen and the others built a wooden fort on a relatively flat mountaintop about two miles away from the beach, using local materials available on Laoties Mountain as a lookout post.
Standing on the height of the wooden castle, Zhang Fengen was not looking at the sea at this time, but at the large area of fat and oily black land near Tieshan Town in the north... His own land was divided into Tieshan Town. A whole 400 acres! It is not completely wasteland, but land that has been cultivated by predecessors and later abandoned for various reasons. It is not difficult to reclaim it.
After Zhang Fengen received the land, he removed the miscellaneous vegetation growing there, hitched the horse to the plow, and plowed the soil several times. Now he is waiting for the wheat seeds to be sown in the next spring... .The soil in Northeast China is too cold to grow winter wheat, otherwise it would be possible to plant it now.
Unlike his brother-in-law Cao Mutan, Zhang Fengen is an honest farmer. He was originally a servant of Zhenghongqi and a "second generation slave". He has long been accustomed to being a slave and has forgotten the hatred of his ancestors. He has no abilities, except for a few kilograms of strength, and he just knows how to farm. If the Qing troops had not entered the pass, he would have been farming for the rest of his life.
However, I happened to catch the opportunity. As a coater, I followed my master into the customs, serving in front of the saddle and behind the horse, and sometimes I had to carry a knife into battle. He actually performed meritorious service and raised the flag, becoming the eldest son of the Han Army under the Zhenghong Banner.
Later, part of the Zhenghong Banner Han army was separated to join the Zhenglu Banner, and he was one of them, and he was promoted from an ordinary bannerman to Dadan Zhangjing. It wasn't much of a future, but it was better than that of ordinary flag men. He was allocated 200 acres more land and more rice. Moreover, his boss, Niu Lu Zhangjing, was his brother-in-law.
Life was pretty good when I was little...
"Ming, Ming invaders! Dadan Zhangjing, Ming invaders are coming in a big way!"
Just when Zhang Fengen was looking forward to a better future, a terrified cry suddenly sounded in his ears.
Minkou is coming!
I don’t know when the Ming army started to become bandits in the eyes of the Qing army... Shouldn’t they be fat sheep?
Anyway, here in Liaodong and Western Liaoning, the Ming army has now gone up, and they have upgraded from "fat sheep" who were killed and robbed to "bandits" who murder and set fire!
For the soldiers of the Zhenglu Banner and the servants of the Old Eight Banners who lived and worked in peace and contentment in Liaodong and Western Liaoning (there were many Zhuangzi princes of the Old Eight Banners in Liaodong and western Liaoning), these Ming bandits from the sea were extremely bad, killing, setting fire and looting. Do all kinds of evil!
And they didn't occupy any land. They just grabbed a handful and ran away. The Nine Flags team didn't even have time to arrive, so they ran away by boat.
So what if we catch up? There are more than 100 million people in the south. Can't they afford to die?
If you exchange three Ming bandits for one Nine Flags soldier, they won't lose at all!
And the exchange ratio is not that bad... The Ming invaders have fire blunderbuss, spears, and iron armor. They can't defeat the powerful troops, but they can't defeat the old, weak, women, children, and slaves who are farming at home?
If you really have to do some calculations, I'm afraid the Nine Banners of the Qing Dynasty will suffer more losses...
Zhang Fengen had heard a lot of bad reputations about Ming invaders, so he still dared to take it lightly. He quickly used a cloth-covered monocular telescope to observe the sea surface. It doesn't matter if you don't look at it. When you look at it, all the hairs on your body stand up.
I only saw twenty or thirty wooden boats with cloth sails appearing on the sea at some point, riding the wind and waves!
The Ming invaders are attacking in a big way!
Zhang Fengen hurriedly went down to the watchtower, asked his men to lead him a strong horse, and then he rode straight to the city of Zhongzuo.
"How many ships?" Cao Mutan was frightened after receiving the report, and asked with a trembling voice.
"Twenty or thirty ships, there are twenty or thirty ships, they are all quite big..." Zhang Fengen asked, "Brother Cao, what should we do?"
"What should we do?" Cao Mutan stamped his feet: "What else can we do? Just hold on...there must be five or six thousand people on the twenty or thirty ships! How much does one of us have? Only five hundred, and Not really Manchuria..."
"Can it be defended?" Zhang Fengen lowered his voice and asked, "The city in Zhongzuo is not that strong!"
The castle on the left is a castle left over from the Ming Dynasty. It is definitely in disrepair!
And it's useless even if it's strong... Lushunkou is close to the sea, and 24-pound and 36-pound heavy guns can be transported by sea. As long as the 24-pound and 36-pound heavy guns are in place, the city on the center and left will definitely not be able to hold it!
In addition, the terrain of the Jinzhou Peninsula is too special, with an isthmus more than ten miles wide and close to the sea on both sides, so it is too easy to be cut off by the Ming army. At that time, all the cities on the Jinzhou Peninsula will be like a turtle in a urn, and no one can hold it.
So Cao Hutan and the others are cannon fodder...
"You have to keep it even if you can't..." Cao Mutan reached out and took out the life-threatening "money rat tail", "What is this? It's pigtails! We all have pigtails!"
Braided head!
Cut it off and it’s silver!
If the Ming invaders don't come, this hairstyle will symbolize privilege. If the Ming invaders come, the braided head will have to be careful not to move... Why else doesn't Dorgon just let people shave their heads?
And there are traces of having money rat braids - the skin color at the root of the braids is different from the rest. Even if you cut it off to pretend to be a monk, people will notice it.
Besides, there are no temples here on the Jinzhou Peninsula, so where do the monks come from?
The braids hanging on the backs of the heads of these Nine Flags disciples are a reminder of their fate, and they are the supervising team!
"This, this, this..." Zhang Fengen was already at a loss.
"Why are you panicking?" Cao Mutan is a man who has been licking blood from his knife for many years. "Go to Xiaoheishan immediately to ask for help!"
Xiaoheishan is right next to the Jinzhou Acropolis, and was called Daheishan in later generations. There is a mountain city on the top of the mountain, which is a legacy from the Goguryeo era. Because the Jinzhou Peninsula has always been attacked by Ming invaders in the past two years, the Eight Banners garrison office on the Jinzhou Peninsula was moved to the safer Xiaohei Mountain.
After Kong Tingxun, the crown prince of King Dingnan, arrived at Jinzhou Guard with five Niulu, he placed his Jia La Zhang Jing Yamen on Xiaoheishan.
"Okay, let's go now!" Zhang Fengen turned around to leave, but was stopped by Cao Mutan.
"Wait, take your sister-in-law and her two children with you...take your wife and children with you too!" Cao Mutan said, "Remember, don't come back in a hurry!"
"Ah..." Zhang Fengen didn't understand what Cao Mutan meant.
It seems that the city of Zhongzuosuo in Jinzhou can no longer be defended!
Because he wanted their families to leave, Zhang Fengen was delayed for some time. Kong Tingxun on Xiaohei Mountain learned that the Ming invaders were coming in large numbers already in the evening of that day.
However, even if he had received the news a few hours earlier, he would not have dared to lead his troops to fight the invading Ming invaders.
His men are not the old Eight Banners, they are just the green flag men. They are so scattered that it will take some time to gather them together. If the Ming invaders really came in large numbers, he would have no choice but to gather soldiers and horses to defend Xiaoheishan.
As for the Zhenglvqi brothers in Jinzhou Zhongzuo Suo City, they really can't take care of them... I just hope they can delay for a while to buy time for him to prepare the defense of Xiaoheishan.
During the period when Cao Mutan and his men defended the city of Zhongzuo in Jinzhou until they became loyal to the Qing Dynasty, the news of the Ming invaders' large-scale invasion of Liaodong was also reported from Kuaimatang to one station at a time. The imperial palace of Zhengzhou City.
However, Dorgon didn't take this matter to heart at all, because the coastal areas of Liaodong and western Liaoning were difficult to defend and easy to lose for the Qing Dynasty.
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