A knife in love

Chapter 1589

When Qi Jiu heard Li Qiu say, "It's wrong, everything is wrong", his heart trembled, and seeing Li Qiufeng's face turned livid, his body seemed to be trembling a little, but he was shocked.He moved to Li Qiufeng's side, lowered his voice and said to Li Qiufeng: "Brother Li, what's wrong?"

Only then did Li Qiufeng wake up, seeing Qin Laowu and Shopkeeper Bai scolding each other loudly, his heart became more and more anxious.He turned his head and whispered to Qi Jiu: "It's too noisy here, let's go out and talk!"

At this time, Li Qiufeng couldn't care less about hiding his whereabouts, and strode out of the main hall with Qi Jiu.Before going out, Xiao Dong sneered and said: "You guys made a big fuss, and Mr. Li got out of the house in anger. We have already lost our embarrassment at home these few days, don't you think it's not bad enough?!"

After Li Qiufeng and Qi Jiu walked out of the main hall, they walked to the remote place where they were talking before, and then stopped.Li Qiufeng listened attentively, and there was no abnormal sound around him. Then he turned his head and said to Qi Jiu: "Brother Qi, just now Qin Laowu said that it only takes one day to get there by boat from here. I don't know what he said. Is it true or false?"

Qi Jiu was stunned, glanced at Li Qiufeng, and then said: "This man is right. If you go to Tianjinwei from Dongliao County by land, you have to detour Liaoyang Mansion and pass through Shanhaiguan. You have to go around in a big circle, almost It takes [-] to [-] miles. However, if you take a big ship, you can reach Tianjin Wei in only a dozen hours. Just don’t encounter violent storms at sea, otherwise, you will never be able to reach Tianjin Wei in a day.”

Li Qiufeng said in a deep voice: "In this way, if you go from Liaodong to the capital, if you take a boat by sea, first arrive at Tianjin Wei, then abandon the boat and go ashore, and go straight to the capital by land, is the shortest route?"

Qi Jiu nodded, and said, "That's right. In fact, from Liaodong to the customs, you have to go around a big circle by land, which naturally takes a lot of time. If you take a big ship, you can go to Tianjin Wei, and then go to the capital through Tianjin Wei. You can also go to Jinan Prefecture first, and then go north on a fast horse. Compared with the two, going ashore from Tianjinwei can reach the capital faster..."

When Qi Jiu said this, his heart suddenly trembled, his face changed drastically, and he said in a trembling voice: "Brother Li, you mean, that the Fusang people are going to kill Tianjin Wei from the sea, and then go straight to the capital? This, this... "

When Qi Jiu said this, she couldn't go on.He served in the Dengzhou Guards, so he naturally knew the deployment of soldiers and horses around the capital.The soldiers and horses guarding the capital are mainly composed of the three major battalions of the capital.However, if it came to the point where the enemy army was fighting against the three major battalions, the capital would definitely be in jeopardy.Therefore, since Emperor Chengzu moved his capital to Beijing, he expanded the defense circle of the capital several times.The key pass in the northeast is Shanhaiguan, and in the north and west, heavy troops are deployed in six military towns including Xuanfu and Datong.In the south, there are more than [-] soldiers along the banks of the Yellow River, guarding the pass from Luoyang Mansion in Henan Province to Kaifeng Mansion in the east.In the southeast, heavy troops were assembled in Shandong. In addition to defending against the enemy's attack from the south to the north, it also had to defend against the enemy's attack from the sea to the north and threaten the capital.

The reason why Emperor Chengzu lined up his troops in this way was because at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Liaodong outside the pass was a place of bitter cold, and there were few people except the barbarians.Although it is very close to Tianjin from the Liaodong Coastal Road, the barbarians are sparsely populated and only rely on hunting for a living.Even if one day the barbarians rise up and want to attack the Central Plains, they can only enter through Shanhaiguan Pass, or go around Mobei, go south from Xuanfu, Datong and other passes, and approach the capital.Therefore, Chengzu gathered heavy troops in Shanhaiguan, Xuanfu, and Datong. In fact, he had sealed off the throat from Liaodong to the capital.

It's just that it has been a hundred years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and the situation in the world has changed.The Japanese pirates became more and more violent, and their power continued to grow. They were no longer satisfied with only robbing and looting along the southeast coast, and they always wanted to go north.It's just that decades ago, when the Japanese pirates attacked Liaodong for the first time, they were ambushed by officers and soldiers, and their entire army was wiped out. Since then, they never dared to go north easily.The imperial court stationed heavy troops in Jinan and Dengzhou to practice naval forces.Once the Japanese pirates wanted to go northward by boat again, the Daming navy in Shandong waited for work, robbing and killing them halfway, and the Japanese pirates would definitely be defeated.Therefore, the Ministry of War and the Commander of Beiwa Capital thought that as long as Chen Bing had a few military towns in Shandong, the capital could be kept safe.There was no preparation for the Japanese pirates to attack Tianjin Wei from the coastal road in Liaodong.

The more Qi Jiuyue thought about it, the more frightened he became, thinking to himself that if Liu Sheng Zongyan really led the Japanese pirates to set off from Dongliao County by boat, they would only need to travel three or four hundred miles westward to reach Tianjin Wei.Tianjin Guard is an important pass to defend the east of the capital, but because there are Shanhaiguan in the northeast, Yanshan in the north, and Shandong in the south, there are heavy troops stationed in these places, so there are not many guards in Tianjin Guard, and they are all old and weak soldiers, lacking in training. .Once the Japanese pirates make a surprise attack, the defenders of Tianjin Wei may be wiped out immediately.At that time, the Japanese pirates marched westward from Tianjin Wei and went straight to the capital, leaving the officers and soldiers in Shanhaiguan and Shandong behind.It only takes half a day to reach the capital.With Liusheng Zongyan's resourcefulness, whether it is to capture Tianjin Wei or go straight to the capital along Tianjin, he will definitely do it without anyone noticing.Moreover, this person's martial arts is very good, and there are many strange talents under his command.The Japanese pirates quietly went outside the capital, and they could send a small team of people into the city pretending to be ordinary people.In the dead of night, Liu Sheng Zongyan led martial arts masters to perform light kung fu to cross the city wall, open the city gate, and let the Japanese army invade the city.The Japanese pirates who infiltrated the city during the day acted as internal responses and set fires everywhere, causing chaos in the capital.The Japanese pirates took the opportunity to go straight to the palace, captured or killed the emperor, empress and queen mother, and then killed the cabinet scholars, six ministers and ministers.In this way, even if soldiers and horses from all over the country go to the capital Qinwang, the people will be slaughtered by Japanese pirates.Moreover, the emperor, the cabinet, and the big bosses of the six ministries have all fallen into the hands of the Japanese pirates. Even if Daming still has elite soldiers and generals, but without the backbone, it is bound to be difficult to match the Japanese pirates.Terrible, really terrible.

Thinking of this, Qi Jiu almost jumped up from the ground.He said in a trembling voice: "Brother Li, if it's as you guessed, the capital is already wide open. Even if the imperial court has hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Shanhaiguan, Xuanda, Henan and Shandong, if they want to go back to save the capital, they have already It's too late. By then, the Japanese pirates on the southeast coast and the Tartars from the north will also kill them, and the great Ming Dynasty will definitely be overthrown."

Li Qiufeng said: "Brother Li said earlier that he couldn't figure out why Liu Sheng Zongyan stole the big ship. At that time, I always thought that the Fusang people stole the ship to snatch the gold and silver on the ship. At this moment, it seems that Brother Qi is more thoughtful. .Liu Sheng Zongyan seized the ships not just for the money. He also accumulated the ships to transport Japanese pirates from Dongliao County to Tianjinwei."

When Li Qiufeng said this, he paused for a while, and then continued: "On the day our big ship was lost, all the boats and ships on the dock disappeared mysteriously, and the people on the shore also disappeared mysteriously. Thinking about it now, those people have no It was the Fusang people who faked it. They have been spying on the shore, and when they saw our big ship arriving, they immediately reported it to Yagyu Zongyan. Then the assassins of the Yagyu clan and the Fusang people who pretended to be ordinary people jointly snatched all the ships on the pier and hid them in secret When the time comes, these ships will be used to transport troops.”

(End of this chapter)