"Second brother, it's really you!"
"Sambo...how did you come to Liaodong?"
At the same moment when Wu Yingqi and Burni were arguing, in a simple fortress piled with earth bags in Jinzhou Pass at the foot of Dahei Mountain, Ma Bao, the general under Wu Yingqi, was talking to the "Nanchang Yuanru" from Zhu Heji's side. Ma Weixing, one of the Seven Sons, is holding his head and crying.
It turns out that Ma Bao and Ma Weixing were once brothers. Ma Bao, Ma Weixing and Ma Jinzhong were all born as rogues and later defected to the Ming Dynasty. During the Yongli period of the Southern Ming Dynasty, the three of them got together by chance. Because they were all fellow Shaanxi fellows, both had the same surname: Ma, had been bandits, and were loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty, they kowtowed to Baozi and became "brothers with the same surname Bao", and they were collectively known as the "Three Horses of the Southern Ming Dynasty".
Ma Jinzhong, one of the three horses, died of illness early and became the "only loyal minister" of the Ming Dynasty - he was a big bandit with no boss, and was later recruited by Zuo Liangyu. However, when Zuo Menggeng surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he did not follow him. Instead, he led his troops to escape and fell into the hands of He Tengjiao. After that, he continued to fight for Nanming until he died of illness.
Ma Weixing and Ma Bao followed Li Dingguo to fight against the Qing Dynasty. It was not until Yongli left the country that they surrendered to Wu Sangui. Wu Sangui originally planned to keep both of them under his account, but the Qing court was worried that Wu Sangui's unconvinced Nanming soldiers would surrender too many generals, so they transferred Ma Weixing to Fujian.
Unexpectedly, the two of them actually got together again in Liaodong!
After shedding tears for a while, Ma Bao told his sworn brother Ma Weixing about his, Wu Yingqi and Burni's intentions.
"Second brother, Er, Wu Yingqi and that Burney were all tricked by Wu Yingxiong. They had no choice but to come to the Ming Dynasty... But it wasn't in vain for us to vote. We brought the meeting gifts... Er and Wu Yingqi brought 5,000 cavalry and more than 10,000 good horses. Burni brought 8,000 Mongolians, no less than 3,000 of whom were capable of fighting, and more than 20,000 horses! How about it? Can it be given to Wu Yingqi, Wu Shicong, and Burney? Can one of them be replaced by a rich man?"
Ma Weixing was a little stupid after hearing what Ma Bao said. Thirty to forty thousand horses, eight thousand cavalry... This is simply a windfall!
Earlier, the Ming Dynasty opened two large-scale military horse farms in Dengzhou and Laoshan in Jiangbei, Yingtianfu. They specialized in using imported large stallions and large mares that could be found to lead the hooves. After several years of busy work, the number of horses was only Three or four thousand horses.
The number of cavalry in the Ming Army has not exceeded 10,000 so far. Most of the cavalry battalions under the Ming Army have just a deceptive name - only soldiers, no horses, and they are actually ordinary infantry.
The biggest difficulty for the Ming army in opening a second battlefield in Liaodong was actually not Kangxi's scorched-earth tactics, let alone the few mountain cities, but the fact that there were no horses. Without horses, there was no way to form light cavalry that could cover the army's advance into the Liaodong plains, let alone ensure the safety of the long logistics line.
"Yes, that's great..." Ma Weixing was almost crazy with joy after realizing the reaction. He took his brother's hand and said, "Three treasures, to be honest, I can give you these tens of thousands of horses alone." Together with Wu Yingxiong and Burni, they have been knighted! As for money, it is no longer a problem... Ming Dynasty is not short of money now!"
These words are really arrogant!
When Ma Bao saw Ma Weixing's reaction, he knew that he and Wu Yingqi were in the right place.
As soon as Ma Bao mentioned the money, he remembered something again, so he asked with a smile: "Second brother, I want to ask you something...is the Penglai bank account not down?"
"What are you talking about?" Ma Weixing smiled, "How could the Penglai Bank fail?"
"Didn't I hear that the outer city of Dengzhou was destroyed by Qing soldiers?"
Ma Weixing laughed loudly: "Do you think the outer city of Dengzhou was broken by Qingyao and the money in the Penglai Bank was robbed?"
Ma Bao asked: "Weren't you robbed?"
"How could it be robbed?" Ma Weixing said, "The Penglai Bank's large vault is in the main office in the inner city of Dengzhou! There are only some small coins in the outer city's branch for daily payment, and most of them were transported away when the incident happened. Oh... Sanbao, have you deposited a lot of money in Penglai Bank?"
Ma Bao shook his head repeatedly, "No, no, how can I have money? Burney saved the money."
Ma Weixing laughed and said: "Sambo, you will be rich soon... You voted for our Grand Duke and Emperor, are you afraid that you will have no money?
Come on, come with me to Tianwang City in Huangniwa, where the Liaodong Governor’s Office and the Liaodong branch of the Penglai Bank are located!
Let's go see Liu Zhijun first, then take you to Penglai Bank to open an account, and then go together to invite Wu Yingqi and Burni to enter the customs! "
The Tianwang City in Huangniwa is the 2.0 of Dengzhou Free City. Most of those who ran away from Dengzhou Free City, including the "new Dengzhou people" and refugees from Dengzhou Prefecture, were transported to Liaodong and resettled. On the Jinzhou Peninsula to the west of Nanguanling.
Those who are willing to farm will be given seeds and farm tools, and allocated land to cultivate on the Golden State Peninsula. Those who were willing to go to the city to work and do business gathered near Huangniwa and began to build a new free city-Tianwang City!
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Tianwang City is still a very simple city, and it can't even be regarded as a city. There are a few rammed earth roads inside the wall of a large circle of mounds, and some houses built with logs. In addition, many felt tents were built - the kind of yurts that are very good at keeping warm. The Ming army also prepared tens of thousands of them for this Liaodong battle.
Now half of these tents are used to house refugees from Dengzhou.
However, senior officials such as Liu Jinzhong, the governor of Liaodong, and Wang Shiyuan, the prefect of Jinzhou, still had wooden houses to live in.
After learning that Wu Yingqi and Burni were defeated and surrendered, Liu Jinzhong and Wang Shiyuan were also very happy. While ordering martial law in several towns that were busy with construction in Jinzhou, he personally went out to welcome them, opened and closed the doors, and invited Wu Yingqi, Burni and others into the Jinzhou Peninsula.
After settling Wu Yingqi, Burni and others, Liu Jinzhong and Wang Shiyuan immediately sent a memorial to Nanjing to report the good news to the Supreme Heavenly King and the Grand Duke Emperor!
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The news that Wu Yingqi and Burni, a group of "horse bandits", had fled to Jinzhou, Liaodong, was rushed to Xi'an by Bahai for 600 miles. By this time, it was already late June.
Why send to Xi'an?
Because Emperor Kangxi is in Xi'an now, he entered Xi'an in the name of the southern expedition to Huguang - Xi'an is only 1,400 miles away from Wuchang, while Beijing is 2,000 miles away from Wuchang, a full 600 miles difference!
In addition, Kangxi's army also rescued a group of "old Beijingers", all women and children, from the old camp of the Chahar tribe at the foot of the Yin Mountain. Kangxi did not send them back to Beijing, but settled them "nearby" in Xi'an.
Due to the relocation of Wu Yingqi's troops, a large amount of land was vacated in Xi'an. Seeing a rare opportunity, Kangxi rushed from Shanxi to Shaanxi to occupy the land.
Moreover, Kangxi also tried his best to change the name of Xi'an to Jingzhao Mansion, making it the Xijing of the Qing Dynasty, with the same status as Shengjing.
Of course, he did not forget to "aid Wu" during this period, and sent Fei Yanggu to lead a new Eight Banners army into Fancheng. He also ordered Yue Le, who had previously led his troops to besiege Dengzhou, to lead two Gushan troops to move to Xiangyang.
As for sending out large-scale troops, it is not yet time.
While Kangxi was waiting for the opportunity to start the war in Huguang, something like this happened in Liaodong.
This gave Kangxi a headache.
The Ming army in Liaodong was already very strong, and now it has teamed up with this group of "horse bandits", and the problem of capturing horses will be greatly alleviated.
It seems that we have to guard against it.
But how to prevent this?
"Long live my lord, with Ba Hai here in Shengjing, there should be no serious problems." In the south study room, Tu Hai was giving advice to Emperor Kangxi again, "But the defenses in Ningyuan and Jinzhou are still a bit empty... in case of false revelations. If the rebels take advantage of the main force of our army to move south and raid Ningjin or even Shanhaiguan, that will be troublesome!"
"The Pseudo-Ming invaded the Qing Dynasty to attack me?" Kangxi's brows suddenly tightened, "Then let Wang Fuchen guard Ningyuan, Jinzhou, and Shanhaiguan!"
