Hongwu Daming: Why hasn't my son rebelled?

Chapter 151 The Battle of Western Liaoning, Opening

Shizikou's defense is weaker than Zhu Qi imagined.

Let's not talk about the way here, the wind and waves along the way were calm and there were no waves.

Even the boats that went into the sea did not meet a few, that is, after approaching the lion's mouth, they saw some fishermen working at sea.

As soon as these fishermen saw Daming's boat, of course they immediately rowed back like crazy.

But how could the speed of these simple small boats be as fast as the sea boats that were advancing at full speed and riding the wind and waves?

However, the Ming army naturally didn't have any thoughts about these fishermen. Daming came to land on the beach, not to rob, so he didn't care what these fishermen did.

The fleet quickly surpassed these fishing boats at sea, and then came to the harbor of Shizikou.

Zhu Qi had never heard of Shizikou before, so he thought it was a small port.

But when the fleet came outside the port, they discovered that it was a good natural port. In addition to having a wide outlet to the sea, it also had a harbor with a deep draft.

It can not only berth large ships, but also withstand strong winds and waves, and the scale is not small. This port is also very close to the Shandong Peninsula.

With a little development, materials from the Central Plains can be directly transported to Liaodong by sea.

Whether it is war supplies or commodity trade, it is an excellent port!

However, such a good port has obviously not been developed on a large scale.

It can be seen that Shizikou is only the size of a small county.

From Zhu Qi's point of view, such a natural harbor needs to be of a city size to be justified.

Perhaps because of the small size of the town, there are not many defenders arranged by Bei Yuan here.

At least Zhu Qizhi saw some dazed common people on the port.

These ordinary people were wearing thin clothes in March, and they could be identified as porters on the dock at a glance.

A few merchant ships were loaded with goods, and a man dressed as an official was standing beside the merchant ship, talking with a man in silk clothes.

But when the two of them saw the fleet coming from the sea merchants, their eyes widened.

Then I saw the official run away.

However, Zhu Qi didn't care about the escape of these Northern Yuan officials. The goal of the Ming army this time was only to occupy more cities, and then attract Naha to return to the defense.

Abandoning the Liaoxi Corridor, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, allows Sapphire to break through faster.

As long as you break through the Liaoxi Corridor and occupy the steep pass, the entire Liaodong will be at your fingertips.

Before the ship docked, Ma Yun came over with his fists in his arms and begged for orders:
"The last general is willing to be the vanguard and take this city for His Highness!"

Zhu Qizheng was thinking about the specific steps to take over the city, and when he saw Ma Yun volunteering, of course he immediately agreed.

At the same time, it is logical to hand over the command of the army to Ma Yun, and let him take down the lion's mouth as soon as possible.

Ma Yun was also taken aback. Originally, he just wanted to call on thousands of troops, and then take down the lion's mouth, which can be regarded as a small military exploit.

But I didn't expect His Royal Highness King Liao to directly let him command the army.

Ma Yun didn't understand it at first, but he figured it out later.

I have been hearing from other generals that His Royal Highness King Liao is very kind.

As long as you have fought side by side with His Royal Highness Liao Wang, His Royal Highness Liao will help you to ask for credit, regardless of your military achievements.

As for His Royal Highness Liao Wang himself, he never mentioned his military exploits much.

When I heard about this before, I thought it was an exaggeration, but now that it happened to me, Jack Ma realized that it was not an exaggeration, but the truth.

Not to mention how touched in my heart.

He didn't say thank you for his great kindness, and Ma Yun didn't say much. After receiving the military order, he got off the boat.

However, Ma Yun did not take away too many troops, because this small county looked defenseless.

At this time, the army has been attracted to the west of Liaoning, and the rear is absolutely empty.

So Jack Ma just led 5000 people out of the city to raid, and the rest of the people first controlled the lion's mouth.

As the commander-in-chief and the prince of Ming Dynasty, Zhu Qi naturally wouldn't disembark and fight in person.

He just waited for good news from Jack Ma on the boat.

Bai Tang Yu'er, who was dressed in a military uniform, was leaning against the window of the building boat, looking out, obviously curious about the war.

It is naturally impossible for generals to take their wives with them when they go out to fight.

But Zhu Qi is different, he is a prince, not to mention Bai Tang Yu'er's kung fu is amazing, better than most men, especially in lightness kung fu.

Naturally, it was not Zhu Qi's burden.

Bringing Bai Tang Yu'er is equivalent to bringing an extra layer of insurance. In case something goes wrong, such as an assassination, Bai Tang Yu'er will run away without a fuss, right?

Those people in the port were naturally controlled immediately.

Of course, I didn't want to do anything to them. I just didn't want them to run around in this chaotic time. It would be bad if they accidentally hurt the people.

Except for the panic among the common people, no official uniform was seen in Shizikou.

On the contrary, the Ming army saw the clothes of the officials on the street.

Obviously seeing the Ming army approaching, he immediately took off his clothes and fled.

Some officials were arrested in the indoctrination yamen, but they were all small officials who stayed behind.

There was no resistance at all, the kind that immediately knelt down and surrendered.

Two hours later, when Ma Yun came back with his army, the biggest official position was just to grab a master book.

As for official officials such as county magistrates and magistrates, I haven't seen any of them!

However, a military camp less than two miles outside the city captured two or three hundred people in one go.

According to these captives.

The two or three hundred Yuan troops are all local Han Chinese in Shizikou.

As for Yuan people, they had already run away.

Even the generals, mid-level officers, etc., who ran away were gone.

Because they are all locals, and their families are all in Shizikou, they didn't think of running immediately.

The superior couldn't be contacted, only heard that the army was here, and didn't know what was going on.

When he was hesitating whether to run directly or go back and bring his family to run together, Jack Ma had already brought his people.

If they had known that the Ming army had come so quickly, they would have run away early in the morning.

Zhu Qi knew that it would not be too difficult to win the Lion's Mouth, but he never thought it would be so easy.

It was so easy that no battle took place, just seeing the ship from a distance, going up to the general magistrate, down to the deputy general, and officials, they all ran away cleanly.

Didn't it mean that after Bei Yuan was kicked out of the grassland, his combat effectiveness recovered a lot?
Why is there such waste material here?
This is really Zhu Qi's misunderstanding. In fact, many of the Yuan army in the Liao region were the elite of the Northern Yuan Dynasty who had been tempered and screened after going through the wars at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.

It's just that these elites were all taken to the west of Liaoning by Nahachu at this time, and they were fighting with Sapphire there.

Those who remained on the Liaodong Peninsula were also recruits, the local militiamen, and the leaders who led them were just troublesome generals who were inexperienced and unable to take on important responsibilities.

Capable generals have already gone to western Liaoning.

This is also the reason why Zhu Qi was able to take down Shizikou so smoothly, without even harming a single soldier.

The battle situation was unexpectedly smooth, but the result was always good.

Even Ma Yun couldn't help feeling:

"Thanks to the merits of His Highness Liao Wang, the thieves are already frightened just by hearing your name, His Highness Liao Wang.

This time the battle was fruitful, it went so smoothly, and we also went smoothly along the way, this place should be a blessed place.

Your Highness, the general thought that it would be better for His Highness to change the name of this place to Lushun. "

Zhu Qi was taken aback, Lushun?

I'm stupid, I glanced at the map, and it seems that this lion's mouth is indeed the location of Dalian Lushun Port in later generations!

I heard a classmate from Dalian mention it before, saying that the name Dalian Lushunkou was given in the early Ming Dynasty. So that’s how it came about?
Zhu Qi would naturally not refuse such things as changing the place name and asking for a good omen.

Now that Jack Ma has raised it, and the other generals have no objections, Zhu Qi nodded in agreement and said:

"Since that's the case, then this place should be renamed Lushun from now on!"

Zhu Qi said so, but he was still a little embarrassed in his heart. He never thought that he would be able to experience the addiction of naming places himself.

It is still such a famous place in Lushun.

However, occupying Lushun as a follow-up supply port is only the first step.

Next, Zhu Qi aimed at Liaoyang.

As the core city of the Liaodong Peninsula, Liaoyang's location is crucial.

Liaoyang is also the top priority of the frontline defense determined at the military planning meeting.

As long as Liaoyang is occupied, the Ming army will gain a firm foothold on the Liaodong Peninsula.

Next, no matter whether Naha goes out to defend Liaoxi, returns to attack Liaoyang, or withdraws to Shenzhou to defend.

For Zhu Qi, there was a plan.

No matter how Nahachu chooses, for the Ming army, the advantage is huge visible to the naked eye.

Of course, the prerequisite is that it must be able to stand in Liaoyang.

This Liaoyang is the supply center of Liaodong, and Zhu Qi, a general, will naturally lead his army there.

The rest of the places are handed over to the lieutenants, who can recover them in batches.

After the recovery, as long as the flag is changed, even the garrison does not need too many troops.

The main thing is to collect food and supplies around.

Of course, in addition to Liaoyang, there are two other towns to be recovered.

One is Yingkou and the other is Fushun.

These two are also strong city fortresses. If you win these two places, you can link up with Liaoyang and effectively prevent Naha from going around and attacking directly.

Who knows if this Naha will go all out and attack Daming's King Liao to death?

After taking Lushun, Zhu Qi didn't stop at all, because they didn't have enough time, they had to take Yingkou, Fushun and Liaoyang within three days.

So the 1 elite troops of Ming Dynasty were quickly divided into three groups, and the [-] people were divided into two groups to go to Yingkou and Fushun.

And Zhu Qi personally led 2 people, took Ma Yun, Liu Bowen, Zhu Di and others, and went straight to Liaoyang.

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But just when Zhu Qi took [-] elite soldiers and copied Naha out of his hometown.

When Naha came out at this time, it was naturally impossible to know this time.

He is devoting himself to the battle with the legendary "Ming Liao King Zhu Qi".

Naha Chu had never fought the Liao King of the Ming Dynasty head-on, but he still remembers the scene in the eighth year of Hongwu, when the Liao King Zhu Qi brought the declaration of war to all nations, and then encouraged those rebellious grassland tribes to continuously harass him.

Because of that time, those grassland tribes are still in a state of rebellion.

They got Da Ming's support, coupled with all kinds of chicken blood, they came and went without a trace one by one.

Some tribes have plenty of food and grass, and excellent weapons, so they don’t have to worry about food and drink, so they don’t even want tribal assets.

Just relying on robbing Naha to get by, and getting funding from Daming from time to time.

Naha said it was a headache.

But the headaches are still good.

At the beginning of January in the tenth year of Hongwu, when Nahachu got the exact information that Daming began to gather troops in the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun.

As soon as Naha came out, he knew that Daming was about to start making moves again.

He also hurriedly assembled his troops and transferred them to western Liaoning.

As expected, in the past two months or less, in March of the tenth year of Hongwu, the Ming army was overwhelmed.

Fortunately, he responded in a timely manner and mobilized the troops early. Otherwise, if the Liaoxi Corridor was captured by the Ming army, Naha didn't feel that he would be in danger.

Fighting the Ming army head-on on the Liaodong Great Plains, although Nahachu also has fighting spirit and confidence, it is still too risky after all.

If you can defend it, you will win. Why do you have to face the Ming army head-on.

Nahachu thought this way, and then he got a new piece of information.

That was the commander who led the [-] Ming army, it turned out to be Zhu Qi, King of the Liao Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty!
As soon as Naha heard the name of King Liao of the Ming Dynasty, he was shocked and gritted his teeth in hatred.

From the eighth year of Hongwu to the present, I have been living so uncomfortable, isn't it the gift of the Great Ming Liao King!

Although it has been rumored that he is a star, superhuman, self-taught, military genius, and other such messy names.

But Naha didn't believe it, Zhu Qi, king of Liao, how old is he this year?

If the calculation is correct, he should only be 19 years old, right?
How powerful can be at the age of 19!

I am in my forties, almost fifty, so I am afraid of a 19-year-old doll?

Nahachu was very confident and vowed to break the myth that the Ming and Liao kings were invincible.

On the battlefield in western Liaoning, teach this Liao king what an old general is!
Before the expedition, Naha Chu said to the left and right:

"This Liao king Zhu Qi is only a 19-year-old boy, let me capture him alive within a month!"

Ever since, the old general Naha, who was covered with flags all over his body, took the initiative to attack in the Liaoxi Corridor with full confidence!
Naha Chu is indeed an old general. Although strategically he looks down on the "Da Ming Liao King" in front of him, tactically, he still pays full attention to it.

When he came up, he was not in a hurry to fight the Ming army head-on, but to fortify the walls and clear the fields, stick to the city, and investigate the situation with a small group of troops.

Originally thought that Zhu Qi, the king of Liao on the opposite side, was young and energetic, and he would definitely attack the city forcibly if he couldn't hold his temper.

As a result, the opposite side just pulled up the cannon and blasted it a few times, and then nothing happened.

Although the cannons at this time could blast open the city walls and gates.

But even if the gap is opened, if you want to rush in forcefully, you will definitely cause heavy casualties.

On such a narrow battlefield in western Liaoning, there are so many cities in a row, if you want to work hard, you will definitely suffer heavy losses.

As for detours, it is even more impossible. Monan is under Wang Baobao's control, and Wang Baobao must be defeated before there is a possibility of detours.

Naha had a good idea, but found that the opposite party had no intention of forcibly attacking the city at all.

After blasting a gap in the city wall, there was no order to charge.

Naha felt it was rather strange, and while asking people to quickly repair the city wall with stones, he continued to scout for information.

Sure enough, he found out the latest information, saying that the Liao King Zhu Qi actually dispatched a 3000-strong detachment to go around and attack the fortress behind Naha's birth.

When Naha heard it, he immediately laughed and said:

"Isn't this the Great Ming Liao King? At this time, I am equal to him in strength, but he actually abandons me and wants to attack me from the rear.

Can this catch my eyeliner?Ready to attack, I want to eat these 3000 people! "

Naha felt that the fighter plane had arrived, so he immediately ordered his troops and prepared to set off.

In order to catch up with these 3000 people, Naha brought all the cavalry.

Of course, as he was getting old, he definitely couldn't lead the charge himself. Instead, he found a warrior under his command and set off with the cavalry.

The titan quickly took his 3000 cavalry and headed straight for the [-] men.

At this time, the three thousand Ming troops were marching cautiously against the woods. When they saw the Beiyuan cavalry coming, they immediately started to flee in a mess.

As soon as the titan saw the huge victory ahead, he was so excited that he made people chase after him.

But I didn't realize that although the retreat of the Ming army looked chaotic, there was stability in the chaos, and the formation did not disperse!
After chasing for four or five miles like this, suddenly there was a burst of arrows firing in the woods.

Then a large number of Ming army cavalry came up to cover up and kill them!

In the impression of ordinary people, the nomadic cavalry of the grassland nation is more powerful than the cavalry of the Han dynasty.

But this impression was actually brought about by the Song Dynasty.

Whether it is the Han Dynasty or the Tang Dynasty, the cavalry of the Han Dynasty can drive nomads on the grasslands.

Especially during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, in the hundreds of years of tug-of-war with the Huns.

At that time, Huo Qubing and Wei Qing went to attack the Xiongnu, but there were not many infantry at all.

Huo Qubing even simply acted like a nomad, he didn't even bring food with him, and the tens of thousands of people under his command were all cavalry, eating wherever he went.

Although the Tang Dynasty was not as fierce as the Han Dynasty, the cavalry was not weak.

There is no need to mention the hip-pull in the Song Dynasty.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the Han cavalry became fierce again.

Field battles are not inferior to Yuanren cavalry in the slightest.

Coupled with the use of firearms, especially the three major battalions designed during Zhu Di's period, it really smashed the cavalry of the Yuan people.

If it hadn't been for the emperor to send them away in a wave, the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty would have lasted at least a hundred years.

At this time, the two armies clashed, and the cavalry of the Ming army rushed out continuously, but the Yuan Dynasty warrior had not reacted yet.

Amidst the shouts of killing all over the sky, they were overwhelmed by the cavalry's cavalry.

The battle on the battlefield in western Liaoning has officially kicked off.

(End of this chapter)