In Liaodong Town, a falcon flew into the deputy general's mansion.
Jiubian Town is located on the northern border of Dakang. There are nine military towns in total. Each town is equipped with a garrison general, deputy chief military officer, staff general, guerrilla general, garrison, thousand general, general general, etc. A rank-and-file general officer.
Why is it gradeless?
It turned out that Emperor Gaozu, the founding emperor of Dakang, set up these official positions with no rank or rank in order to prevent the Nine Sides forces from growing bigger and becoming more powerful.
However, as these years passed, few civil servants were willing to come to such a bitter and cold place, and they were gradually controlled by nobles with military backgrounds.
In their words, that means that if you come and you don't come, we are here. If you have any objections, wouldn't you become a scoundrel at both ends?
Regarding this situation, several emperors also had some headaches. Those civil servants were weak and if they were really dealt with, it was hard to say whether they could survive for two years. So they simply stopped sending civil servants permanently, but sent confidants to the front every year. Come patrol the border.
Later, Wang Ziteng was promoted from the governor of the Beijing Camp to the governor of nine provinces. This was what he was talking about when he was ordered to patrol the border.
In addition, all the food and salary are allocated from the imperial court, which can be regarded as controlling the lifeblood of Jiubian. Over the years, the imperial court and Jiubian have been relatively safe.
The deputy chief military officer Zhu Qiyun is the second-in-command in Liaodong Zhenming, and he has a lot of power. His backer is Ma Changlong, the reigning Qi Muhou. I think he was the one who recommended Ma Changlong to the dandy. Come here.
As for the origin of Guo Yingjing, it is a bit mysterious. Most of the officers and soldiers in Jiubian are stationed every three years. Guo Yingjing was directly parachuted here. They don't know whose path he took.
Looking at the secret letter in his hand, Zhu Qiyun's face was full of surprise. He frowned and said in extreme shock: "What on earth is going on? Are these people like Qi Piangu crazy? Didn't they agree to fight every year? Are you going back as soon as the autumn wind hits? How come they all came out?? And what happened to the cavalry?? And that thing, isn't this a joke again??"
However, Zhu Qiyun actually had contact with the Jianzhou Jurchens through Ma Changlong's relationship. In these years, Zhu Qiyun often did business with the leaders of several tribes and revealed some information about the military deployment of Liaodong Town, so they have been together for many years. Only under Guo Yingjing's strategy of purging Biye did he kidnap nearly 5,500 well-off people.
Of course, in this process, Zhu Qiyun made a lot of profits, not to mention being full of words. Now that he saw the secret message sent from the Jurchens questioning the cavalry, he was a little at a loss.
Looking at the numbers in the secret message, he felt that the Jurchens were joking with him. A thousand cavalry raided Jianzhou and killed hundreds of thousands of Jurchens, forcing them to desperation. Recently, Aha was sent out of the army. Seventy thousand people were massacred overnight.
His first feeling was, is this crazy? ? Otherwise, he would never write these things. He knows the combat effectiveness of the Jurchen cavalry. For example, if the individual combat capability of the cavalry in Liaodong Town is ten, the combat capability of the Tatar and Uliangha cavalry is twelve. Then the Jurchen cavalry has a combat capability of 10. The cavalry must have twenty individual combat capabilities.
With such a huge gap, one person can defeat two people. With so many of them, they can't catch a team of a thousand people? ? This is not a joke, what are you doing?
As for the last thing, it was even more bizarre. Seventy thousand people in Aha were killed overnight. How many people had to be mobilized to do it? fifty thousand? One hundred thousand? Or two hundred thousand? ? But the problem is that Liaodong Town has not dispatched troops on a large scale recently!
Everything was a bit strange, and Master Zhu, the deputy chief military officer who had been doing Jurchen business, noticed something was wrong.
"No, we can't rush this matter, I have to find out first!!"
"Come here!! Prepare your horses, I'm going to see General Guo!!"
On the other side, Ma Changqing received a report from his subordinates, saying that the cavalry was back. Hearing the news, he was overjoyed, mounted his horse, and angrily went to find Guo Yingjing. He wanted to hear about the commander-in-chief. What on earth would the adults say?
Capital, Daming Palace.
Emperor Mingkang looked at the memorial in his hand, and the anger that couldn't be hidden burst out in his eyes.
There has been bad news for several days in a row. The war on the nine sides can be said to affect the whole body. If the north cannot be guarded, Dakang will probably be rushed into the Central Plains by those Tatars again. It will be a disaster for Dakang. .
What's even more irritating is that over in Datong, that bastard Chai Ri'an seems to have taken the wrong medicine. He sacrificed 20,000 troops to save Chen Zifeng, but handed over the bastard's application for credit. How shameless is this? If it wasn't out of reach, he would have wished to chop that bastard alive. He really wanted to ask, why is his life so valuable? ? Is it worth exchanging 20,000 soldiers for you?
Now there are only three places left that have not received letters yet, one is Jizhou Town, one is Xuanfu Town, and the last one is Liaodong Town. Niu Tiande of Jizhou Town went there in person. He had been active on the battlefield before, and he took over the title of Duke from his father Niu Qing based on his military merits. Xuanfu Town The person who went over there was Li Guogong Liu Quande, who was the same as Niu Tiande. He had very good military talents, and his descendants were all outstanding people. He was the leader of this generation of nobles.
In the last Liaodong Town, he didn't worry about anything. After all, nothing big happened there in the past years. Guo Yingjing was well-known in Jiubian, and those who came back from patrolling the border every year could hardly say that. He is just a bastard, even if the capital city is lost, nothing will happen there.
However, Emperor Mingkang probably did not expect that things in Liaodong would give him a huge surprise this year!
By the way, there was something happening in the court recently, and that was the Second Prince Chu Qian. Several arms around him were chopped off and broken by Emperor Mingkang. They finally calmed down. At this time, he knew why. My father, who had little military power, was able to compete with his imperial grandfather. Not only did he do things flawlessly, but he also stood on the moral high ground, crippled a person, and left people unable to express a single opinion.
After being punished by Emperor Mingkang, he finally remembered Lin Ruhai. The previous plan turned out to be empty talk in the end. He was a twenty-year-old man, and if he went to beg for a ten-year-old girl, it would probably be considered his own. Even the mother and concubine would not agree. This is not a marriage, but a stigma, and it is still one's own reputation that is stained.
As for Daiyu, after living in Lin's house for about seven days, Jia Mu took her back because of her upbringing and old age. Lin Ruhai was also helpless about this. In this era, the nobles would pay special attention to it. Reputation and filial piety are an insurmountable mountain. It was also because of this word that Emperor Mingkang was so overwhelmed by his father that he couldn't breathe.
But this time, Lin Ruhai didn't let Daiyu go back alone. The little girl Jia Qi asked him to take care of was brought by his daughter. After all, it was too difficult for him as a man to deal with this, so he simply left it to him. daughter.
When Daiyu heard that Xiangling was rescued by Jia Qi, she recounted a bitter past. In the end, Lin Ruhai only picked out some less important things and said two things, but Daiyu understood that her father could be safe. When he came to the capital, the brother he had never met may have put in a lot of effort, and he was particularly concerned about Xiangling.
Of course, Lin Ruhai didn't mention anything about Jia Qi's mystery. Daiyu was very smart. Her father didn't say anything, so she didn't ask, and the matter just passed by.
In Liaodong Town, the General Military Office and the generals gathered together. Everyone's faces were uncertain. Guo Yingjing received another piece of bad news.
Wu Liangha dispatched 30,000 people and pointed their swords at Guangning. A fierce battle was probably inevitable~
