Beiyang new warlord

Maybe we can release one or two of the dozens of red-haired devils locked up under the Iron Mountain Mine to talk about it?

Mao Jue was wandering there with a milk cup in his hand, thinking over and over the advantages and disadvantages of doing business with the West, as well as the possibility. At this moment, the door was knocked open suddenly, and the fat and fat Su Changmei looked like a 200-plus man. Jin's child trotted in like that.

"General! The first batch is ready!"

He was also very happy, and reached out to take the roster handed over by Fatty Suo. On the first page, a topographic map drawn with a fine brush appeared in front of his eyes, and a sinister smile became more and more intense on his face. rich.

"Then send someone to prepare Tieshan Cement and Shuangshan's reinforced beams, and let's sing him a good song Occupy the Dove's Nest!"

Throwing the field book on the table with ease, with both feet resting on the table and hands resting on the pillow, Mao Jue said lightly and joyfully, it's really enjoyable to do bad things, and Su Changmei also clasped his fists with a smirk.

"People have already prepared, just look after the general, this autumn, I'm sure he won't even have time to cry!"

The gloomy laughter spread far away. In the Yinjiu's laughter, a large group of farmers were gearing up for their bullocks and loads of farm tools at Qingteng Fort on the border of Yizhou, but surprisingly, the leader of the team was not General, but a Korean

Chapter 158. The Refugee Group

It seems that Mao Jue is quite powerful, sitting on two counties, with five or six thousand soldiers under his command, but in the period of warlord scuffle, he can be regarded as a local warlord at most, although he is the most capable local warlord.

Not to mention North Korea's gossip, he didn't even get one-third of Ping'an North Road, sandwiched between the three behemoths of Li Dynasty, Houjin, and Daming, Tieyi was as insignificant as a sesame seed, but he couldn't mess with any of them. rise.

Then I have no choice but to pick the soft ones and play a little sideways.

Next to Yizhou is Li Chaoshuo Prefecture, which is not a peaceful land, but also close to the front line of the Yalu River. The last time Dingmao rebelled, he was also attacked by Amin by the way, but only destroyed the city, so he retreated to Yizhou Shuozhou, firstly, it is mountainous and the land is not fertile, and secondly, Houjin is also sparsely populated, occupying a large area of ​​fertile land in Liaodong. No one wants to come to this poor place where birds don’t shit. Houjin officially gave up Shuozhou.

Later, the Li Dynasty did not have the national power to restore Shuozhou, so it had to be left there in a barren state. Hundreds of unlucky squadrons brought some prisoners sent here, which can be regarded as maintaining the rule of the Li Dynasty.

The ruggedness of the mountains here also provides a paradise for bandits to settle down.

However, in June of the fifth year of Chongzhen, Shuozhou City, which is not shitting, is quite lively.

The city wall collapsed into mounds on all sides after 200 small hammers and [-] strokes from Houjin University. The people of Li Chao did not fight well, but they were fooled. They only rammed less than two meters on the mound, even if the repairs were completed, they said It's a state, but the dilapidated wooden houses inside are similar to a larger town. Before Mao Jue thought that the Ming army was rotten, he didn't come here. Most of the more than [-] government soldiers don't even have a weapon, lazy Yangyang cultivated hundreds of fields outside the city.

Having said that, the geographical location here is really good, with Banmu Ridge in the southwest and Sanqi River, a tributary of the Yalu River in the northwest, at the end of the Sanqi River, the Xiaofangqiang Ridge cuts off the terrain, and behind it is Mt. Myohyang, one of the Eight Scenic Spots of Korea. The entire terrain is like a pocket array, and Shuozhou is located at the mouth of this pocket. If you defend Shuozhou, the mountains, rivers and valleys hundreds of miles behind you will form a closed kingdom.

However, there is still a hole in this pocket. There is an ancient valley road next to Banmu Ridge in the middle of Yizhou. The last time Houjin broke through Shuozhou and retreated, he used this ancient road. There used to be a Banmu Pass here, but it is a pity It was abandoned more than 100 years ago.

This can be regarded as a gate of North Pingan Road, connecting Shuozhou in the north and Yizhou in the south. The nearest road of Houjin’s attack on the peninsula was stuck, and if the attack could not be made, even Huang Taiji could only go further north on Hamgyong Road. , if the battlefield gets there, Mao Jue will be happy to death, the rugged terrain is like a maze, and the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry has no room to use force, let alone him, Li Chao can play them to death with a better commander.

But such an important city, Li Chao used such a group of weak soldiers to guard it. He followed in the team and looked around. A boy dressed as a scholar wrapped in a blue scarf shook his head.

Not to mention, the soldiers are not very good, and their voices are not low. Entering from the Banmuling Ancient Road, I walked for more than ten miles and did not meet a defender. When I arrived at the gate of the city, I was shocked. His countenance changed, so frightened that the North Korean old man of the Lee family jumped off the bull's back in a hurry, and kept waving his hands at dozens of young and old men, big and small, in the team.

"Don't be impulsive, I'll go! I'll negotiate with them!"

A firecracker was quietly put back into the waist by the green scarf scholar, but the hand was still on the handle.

"What are you doing? Where is this place? No, you untouchables are going to get along? Come here, take them all!"

The shouting stopped at the door, and a Korean soldier with a big arm and a round waist led three or five men like Er Liuzi swaggeringly out of the gate of Shuozhou, which didn't even have a broken city gate. With a swipe of a few long forks, the old man Li Chao, who was the leader, almost went limp in fright, and hurriedly waved his hands.

"Mr. Jun, I misunderstood you! Let the young one have ten guts, but the young one doesn't dare to talk nonsense! Besides, what are you going to do in the west? Barbarians eat human flesh, tear apart human bones and set fire to the fire. Bones, I want to toss for two more years!"

The old man's babbling in Korean this time amused the pawn, but he waved his hand to take the long fork back, and immediately folded his arms again and asked carelessly.

"Then you are No. 40, what are you doing here?"

But when it came to the point, the old man rummaged through the dirty bag behind him, finally found a crumpled official document, and handed it to the Korean officer with both hands.

"Return, return to the army, the younger ones are refugees from the Yellow Sea Road. This is not the last year. The small village was burned. When they escaped, the household registration had been cancelled, and the land was also occupied by the Wenchuan Pu family. The master approved a note for us, letting our village flee northward, and when encountering wasteland, we will settle down and take root and register on the spot."

"No, you guys go to Yizhou. Yizhou is the territory of the Celestial Dynasty. If you don't accept us, you can only go to Banmu Ridge to try your luck!"

Not to mention, what the old man said is well-founded, even the official documents are true. Mao Jue got this thing from Xiongjin, Huanghai Road. Li Chao couldn't help the victims, so he simply sent people to him , I don’t know how many pieces of this white note have been approved, and it comes in handy here.

The officer looked at Guan Wen, and then at a group of dusty men carrying hoes and farm tools. He couldn't help but feel troubled for a while. After thinking about it for a while, this guy just slapped his head: "Wait here! I'm going to inform the defense envoy My lord! Please be honest with me!"

As he spoke, twisting his chubby buttocks, the dwarves walked into the city, not to mention destroying the city, but the pace of the fifth-rank defensive envoy was slow enough, making the group wait for more than ten minutes , a middle-aged Korean official in his 40s, wearing a black sand official robe and a gauze cap, with a face as thin as an old radish, staggered out.

"Oh, my lord!"

The old man was polite enough, he knelt down straight away from a long distance, groped in his sleeves for a long time with trembling hands, and managed to find a piece of silver.

"This is for the whole village to honor their parents, please accept it!"

Hey, the silver is really eye-catching. Seeing the color of the precious metal, the little official moved forward a lot, but he didn't catch it with his hands. This pair of mustaches just smiled and turned away.

"I've considered your situation, but I'm very embarrassed! All the registered land in Shuozhou has been distributed, and there is really no place for you to wait!"

"Ah! Please forgive me, my lord! There are more than 120 people in our village. When we come here, those who starve to death, and those who flee, there are only three No. 40 left. If we go any further, we will die, please. Thank you for your kindness!"

The old man immediately stomped his feet and his chest, his head was not like his own head, and he hit the ground with a bang, he was so pitiful, the turnip-faced defenseman pinched his beard and hissed, contemplating for a long time , pretending to be the master, and then reluctantly agreed to nod like that.

"Well, whoever made me kind-hearted, I have a piece of wasteland between Xiaofangqiang Ridge and Banmu Ridge, you can go there to open up wasteland!"

"What? If we open up wasteland and don't register for household registration, don't we become tenant pariahs? My lord, we are good citizens!"

"Why, don't you want to?"

The voice suddenly became high, and the carrot-faced defenseman stared down with a very gloomy face, who looked like someone who owed him 10 taels of silver.

"No! Yes, yes, thank you sir for giving me a way to survive!"

"That scholar! Hurry up! Master Liu is willing to rent the land to us for defense, so hurry up and make a document!"

Hearing the old man's hasty words, the green scarf scholar hurriedly walked two steps. Hearing the old man's muttering, he began to write hastily. A lot of words, but the eyes of the carrot face can't help but straighten.

This is actually a bunch of Chinese!

Indeed, the Goryeo language has been popularized for hundreds of years, but Chinese is still the common language used by literati, bureaucrats and Confucians, and it is valid in the Li Dynasty. , The extent to which Liu's defense is so downcast, one can imagine that he can't understand Chinese.

Just as he was hesitating, the old man hurriedly bowed: "Master, our village is full of rough men. If we don't make an official document, I'm afraid I won't be able to control them! Look."

"can't read?"

The last sentence of the green scarf scholar became the last straw that broke the camel's back. Immediately, he became angry from embarrassment, and Liu Fangshi blushed and yelled.

"Who said that! Pu Zong, go and get my master's official seal!"

The man with the big arms and round waist just now is like a pug at the moment, running back and forth again. In less than 3 minutes, the brass official seal was picked up by him. When he exerted force on the ink pad, one side of Shuozhou was flushed. The government seal was firmly stamped on the contract that had just been written.

He also signed on it with a brush, and suddenly a regretful smile appeared on the face of the green scarf scholar. He hurriedly packed up the contract, and then retreated. The old man next to him was still trembling and bowing. with.

"Thank you, Master Qingtian!"

"Master! Behind our village, there are still a few villages fleeing from Huanghai Road. I wonder if the master can take them in together?"

Suddenly a little annoyed, the surname Liu waved his sleeves impatiently: "It's all done according to you! Get back, get back!"