"General, the tiger bandits' troops have appeared outside Lushun City and are setting up camp."
There were officers and soldiers scattered outside who learned about the tiger-character flag and brought the news back as soon as possible.
Chen Jisheng was sitting on the throne of the General Military Mansion, flanked by generals from Lushun City.
Except for one garrison who was on duty on the city wall, all the other generals had been summoned to the General Military Mansion for discussion by him, the commander-in-chief.
After the fall of Pidao and Tieshan, Mao Wenlong, who had no foundation in Beijing, escaped back to Lushun, but was escorted to Beijing and already imprisoned in the prison of the Ministry of Punishment.
It can be said that Mao Wenlong has offended many civil servants in Dongjiang Town over the years, and he once curried favor with Wei Zhongxian, so he naturally became a type of person that Emperor Chongzhen disliked.
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In the past, Mao Wenlong had to be relied on to garrison Dongjiang Town. However, what happened in Tieshan and Pidao gave Emperor Chongzhen an excuse to capture Mao Wenlong and return to Beijing.
After Mao Wenlong left, Chen Jisheng took over the position of chief military officer.
"General, I am willing to lead a group of soldiers and horses out of the city to kill the invading tiger thieves." Deputy General Huang Long stood up and asked for a fight.
He was also one of the beneficiaries after Mao Wenlong was captured and taken to the capital.
He used to be just a general, but now he is the deputy general of Dongjiang Town.
"No!" Guerrilla Wang Tingrui stood up to stop him.
After hearing this, Huang Long glanced at Wang Tingrui with dissatisfaction.
Chen Jisheng looked at Wang Tingrui and asked, "Does General Wang have any good strategies for defending against the enemy?"
"The general has no good strategy." Wang Tingrui leaned over and said.
And his words made Chen Jisheng's face turn ugly.
At this time, Huang Long said: "We are all called by the general to discuss how to defend against the enemy. If General Wang doesn't have any good ideas, just listen on the side."
"Although I don't have any strategies to defend against the enemy, I don't agree with Deputy General Huang's idea of going out of the city to fight against the tiger bandit." Wang Tingrui faced Huang Long directly.
Huang Long's face darkened when he heard this, and he said: "General Wang, I think you have no sins. Why do you have to make things difficult for me at every turn!"
In his opinion, Wang Tingrui's words meant that he was going against himself again.
"Yes, General Wang, since you don't support Deputy General Huang leaving the city, you must come up with an explanation." Chen Jisheng said to Wang Tingrui.
In my heart, I was dissatisfied with Wang Tingrui's unreasonable interference.
Wang Tingrui bowed to Chen Jisheng and clasped his fists, saying: "The reason why the general disapproved of Vice General Huang leading the troops out of the city was entirely because the tiger thieves were not so easy to deal with. Everyone knew the strength of Governor Mao's garrison on Pi Island at the time, but... Such a group of soldiers and horses failed to defend Pi Island in the end. It can be seen that the tiger thieves' soldiers and horses are not weak. Now that the tiger thieves are attacking, there is no need for us to give up the advantage of defending the city and choose to confront the tiger thieves outside the city. To do so is to give up your own advantages to compete with the tiger thief's strengths."
After saying this, the generals present nodded in agreement.
Even Chen Jisheng, who was sitting in the main seat, felt that what he said was very reasonable.
"Now that the tiger thieves have just arrived, it's the moment when their footing is unstable. I'm leading the troops out of the city at this time, in order to take advantage of the tiger thieves' unstable footing and hit them hard." Huang Long explained for himself.
Chen Jisheng said at this time: "Vice General Huang, let's forget about leaving the city for now. I think General Wang's words are very reasonable. There is no need for us to give up our strengths and choose to use our weaknesses to fight the tigers and thieves."
"Since the general has decided to defend to the death, he will not obey the general's orders in everything." Seeing that no one supported him, Huang Long dismounted along the slope and no longer insisted on leaving the city to fight.
After some deliberation, a group of people led by General Chen Jisheng decided to stick to Lushun City and use the advantage of defending the city to resist the invading Tiger Banner army.
However, with the arrival of the Tiger Flag army, the city of Lushun became turbulent.
There were not only officers, soldiers, civil and military officials in the city, but also many common people.
Lushun, which had been stable for just a few years, started a war here, and the people who had experienced slaves and bandits became panic-stricken. Even if the intruders were tiger-character flags instead of slave bandits, it still made the people in the city very uneasy.
The place where the Tiger-Character Banner army is stationed is not only very close to Lushun City, but also not far away from a large river called Longhe at Lushunkou.
In the two military camps brought by Xing Chaoxihe, all materials were supplied by sea ships and there were no civilians, so everything was done by heavy troops.
The baggage soldiers are the logistics soldiers of the Tiger Flag. They are responsible for escorting the baggage. They also have a certain degree of combat effectiveness, which is not even worse than the combat soldiers.
Xing Chaoxi led his soldiers and horses to set up camp next to the Long River first, while the baggage soldiers began to transport the supplies from the ship to the shore, and then transported them back to the camp through the baggage soldiers waiting on the shore.
Because baggage troops are also regular combat troops, all equipment is not much different from combat troops.
Cannon is indispensable for siege.
In order to successfully capture the city of Lushun, Xing Chaoxi brought more than 80 cannons, and in order to transport these cannons, a lot of various ships were used.
More than eighty cannons may seem like a lot, but in fact when the slave thieves attacked a city garrisoned by the Ming army, they often used dozens or hundreds of cannons at a time.
The reason why so many cannons are used is because the power of cannons is limited. It is better in field battles, but its power is slightly insufficient during siege.
In addition to Lushun City, there are also many Thousand Households and Hundred Households in the entire Jinzhou Zhongzuo Office.
There were not many officers and soldiers in these Qianhu Stations and Hundred House Stations, most of them were common people, and they had cultivated land around them.
Most of the imperial court's supplies to Liaodong went to the Ming army in Shanhaiguan and Ningjin. Although some supplies were also given to Dongjiang Town, Dongjiang Town took in a large number of Liaodong people who had escaped from the rule of slave thieves. The supplies sent from Dengzhou were simply not enough.
Therefore, the people of Dongjiang Town fished and farmed, and officials even sold Liaodong's specialties to merchants in the pass in exchange for the needs of Dongjiang Town, especially grain.
But even so, a large number of people will starve to death every year, especially when winter is extremely long and there is little food to eat. The number of people dying of cold and starvation is higher than in other seasons.
The people of Liaodong were miserable.
After being harmed by slaves and thieves, they were not taken seriously by the court. The court even ignored these Liaodong people under the rule of Dongjiang Town. Even if a large number of Liaodong people died of freezing and starvation, the court would pretend not to know.
In addition to the fact that the imperial court could no longer provide enough food to help Dongjiang Town feed these Liaodong people, another reason was that Dongjiang Town was isolated overseas. The imperial court did not dare to let Dongjiang Town feed too many people, fearing that Dongjiang Town would not be able to survive in the future and become the second largest. A slave thief.
Therefore, after the Tiger Character Banner captured Pi Island and Tieshan, there was not much resistance from the people of Liaodong living in these two places.
Many people in Liaodong were almost desperate for the Ming Dynasty. As long as they were not slaves and traitors, they would not have much resistance. In addition, in order to feed these people, the Tiger Flag shipped boatloads of food via sea ships to ensure the people's survival as much as possible. Go down.
Comparing the two sides, the Tiger Flag has gained the loyalty of many people in Liaodong.
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