Carrying AK into Ming Dynasty

Chapter 64 Iron cable Xiongguan (recommendation ticket requested)
After leaving the palace, Liu Hongjian went straight to the residence of Qianhu in Wansui Mountain. Yan Yingyuan and Zu Qiuqing were very excited when they heard the news.

Liu Hongjian immediately summoned all the soldiers of the Qianhu Station to gather in the camp. The soldiers of the Qianhu Station were still in normal training, and they were puzzled when they received the assembly order.

A quarter of an hour later, more than a thousand soldiers stood neatly in the open space outside the camp.

The frontmost phalanx of hundreds of households is the sword-shield hand. The shields of the Ming Dynasty mostly used round wrist shields. In order to increase the defense area of ​​the shooters, Liu Hongjian specially adopted the pentagonal long shield, which is rare in the Ming Dynasty. The body is made of solid wood, lined with cowhide, and covered with iron clothes. The weight is moderate, and the defense area is greatly increased, and the crossbow arrows are impenetrable.

Behind the sword and shield is the AK Hundred Household Phalanx, which is Liu Hongjian's trump card. Every soldier holds an AK in front of his chest. The military appearance is so neat that it does not look like an army that has just been established for two months.

At the end is a phalanx of ten spearmen and hundreds of households. The Beijing camp lacks horses. Now the Wansui Mountain Thousand Households are also trained as infantry.

It was the summer season, and the sun was shining brightly in the north. The teenagers who were training intensively just now were all sweating, but none of the soldiers raised their hands to wipe off the sweat. The sweat just flowed down the cheeks into the neck, dripping brown land.

Liu Hongjian stepped up to the high platform. He didn't know how to tell these teenagers what happened next. Most of them were only fifteen or sixteen years old, and according to future generations, they could only enter middle school.

Originally thought that they would have at least one year to train them to become a strong army, but now...

Liu Hongjian inspected the tanned teenagers in the sun, and took a deep breath.

"Soldiers, just an hour ago, I received a secret report that Wu Sangui, the general soldier of Shanhaiguan, colluded with the Jianren, and he opened the gate to meet the new master and slaughter our Ming people!"

After thinking about it, Liu Hongjian decided to tell these teenagers directly that they had the right to know.

"Over the past 200 years, the Mongols and Jurchens have repeatedly violated the frontier, and they were all blocked at the Shanhaiguan Pass. Now, Wu Sangui, who is blessed by the Ming Dynasty, wants to open the city gate to welcome the barbaric Tartars to slaughter our family.

Soldiers, tell me, is there such a despicable and shameless person in the world? "

Liu Hongjian's veins bulged, and he shouted at the thousand youths at the top of his lungs.

Hearing Liu Hongjian's slightly encouraging words, the originally quiet camp was instantly broken.

"Soldiers sent to Shanhaiguan, kill Wu Sangui!"

"Soldiers sent to Shanhaiguan, kill Wu Sangui!"

All the soldiers of the Thousand Households in Wansui Mountain had family members who either died in the Jian captives or in the civilian army. They were born with hatred for these Ming rebels.

Liu Hongjian waved his hands to signal the excited teenagers to be quiet.

"The imperial court is very tight with troops, and now the initial training of the Beijing camp is unsuitable for reuse. The emperor is worried and angry. There is a saying in the past.

As the Earl of Ming Dynasty, I will take over the task of calming down the border. I want to meet Wu Sangui for a while to see how he repays the country's favor.

I also want to let the wild boars in Manqing know that I am not so easy to bully, and I want them to know that anyone who offends my Ming will be punished no matter how far away! "

"Those who offend my Ming Dynasty will be punished even if they are far away!"

"Those who offend my Ming Dynasty will be punished even if they are far away!"

The soldiers were boiling. Although they had undergone harsh training, they were still young at heart, with swords, guns, horses and glaciers, making their blood surging.

"Going to the north, the mountains are high and the road is far away. It's very dangerous. Those who are timid can quit. It's not shameful! I will record the list of this trip and report it to the emperor. We will reward you for your merits in the future. Brave people, those who dare to avenge, join us War! Disband!"

After Liu Hongjian finished speaking, he directly stepped down from the high platform. Feng Dunhou and Chang Yu were in charge of counting the number of soldiers going to the border, and Yan Yingyuan and Chen Mingyu were in charge of food supplies and armaments. Instead, he was idle.

Seeing the swarthy teenagers rushing to sign up one after another, Liu Hongjian's heart became more and more heavy. After two months of getting along, the teenagers all trusted him, an official who had no official authority.

Now, he wants to lead them to complete an almost impossible task, alas!He's so stupid, why did I take this job!

That night, Liu Hongjian spent the night at his home in the capital. Liu Hongjian told his fathers Liu Delong and Sun Xiuxiu about the changes in the border town. Liu Delong scolded Wu Sangui for eating inside and outside.

But when he heard that Liu Hongjian was going to bring more than a thousand recruits to quell Wu Sangui, the old scholar's face turned green, as people always do, as long as the matter is not their own, they always hope that others will come forward.

"Son, our family has been passed down for three generations... Sigh!" The old scholar hesitated to speak, glanced at Liu Hongjian's resolute face, and sighed.

"Forget it, my son has grown up and has his own ambitions. As an honorable man in the court, he should share the worries of the emperor. It's because of his father's short-sightedness. Go, son. With me at home, everything will be at ease."

After some kind persuasion, he coaxed his father away. Liu Hongjian was afraid to look into the eyes of Sun Xiuxiu beside him. When he was talking about things just now, Sun Xiuxiu remained silent.

He knew that the saddest thing was his wife.

But Sun Xiuxiu was surprisingly gentle. When he entered the room, Sun Xiuxiu threw himself into Liu Hongjian's arms, as if he wanted to feel the last tenderness. Just as Liu Hongjian wanted to speak, Sun Xiuxiu covered his mouth with his hand.

"Your husband doesn't need to say much, Xiuxiu understands that all of Xiuxiu's family members were killed in the war, and now that my husband is leading the army, Xiuxiu also hopes that my husband can avenge my family!
Xiuxiu will not hold back her husband, just go to battle and kill the enemy, Xiuxiu will pray for her husband at home, praying for her husband to be victorious and come back triumphantly! "

After speaking, Sun Xiuxiu's shoulders trembled, and tears still fell down.

That night, Liu Hongjian and his little wife were lingering endlessly, and they hugged each other until the last night and fell asleep.

Before dawn the next day, Liu Hongjian got up secretly and went out, joined forces with Niu Dabanchui who also crept out of the house, and sneaked to the barracks.

What they didn't know was that just after closing the door, the two women opened their eyes and burst into tears...

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Shanhaiguan is adjacent to Yanshan Mountain in the north and Bohai Sea in the south. In the 14th year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty, the city was built and the customs were built. Because it is close to the mountains and the sea, it is named Shanhaiguan, also known as Yuguan.

Its terrain is dangerous, mighty and majestic, strangling the throat of the border county and the guarantee of the capital. Xiao Xian, a Jinshi in the Chenghua period, inscribed a plaque called "the first pass in the world".

"Peiqing, how far is it from Shanhaiguan?" Liu Hongjian looked tired, and turned his head to ask Deputy Qianhu Feng Houdun, whose name was Peiqing.

The capital is more than [-] miles away from Shanhaiguan. Due to the urgent military situation, the Thousand Households of Wansui Mountain traveled three houses a day (one house was [-] miles), and finally arrived near Shanhaiguan on July [-].
"My lord, this place is still forty miles away from Shanhaiguan, and there is a county not far ahead, you can rest temporarily!" Feng Dunhou checked the map of the army and replied.

Due to the scarcity of horses, the only [-] or so horses in Qianhu were used to consign food and supplies. Liu Hongjian looked back at the tired soldiers and frowned.

"After many days of hasty marching, the soldiers are exhausted. Let's set up camp here today, and let the soldiers take a good rest!"

Living in the county town is of course good, but this place is very close to Shanhaiguan. He is worried that there are Wu Sangui's secret operations in the city, and this trip is a secret operation.

Before getting the exact secret report, you must raise your spirits and go all out.

The soldiers immediately set up camp, and Liu Hongjian called Chang Yu, Yan Yingyuan, Chen Mingyu, Zu Qiuqing and others to hold a small meeting.

Throughout the ages, most of the strongest city defenses have been breached from the inside. Shanhaiguan has stood by the sea for more than two hundred years. Even the Qing cavalry can only avoid its edge and take a detour.

Zu Qiuqing was so ashamed that he couldn't bear to speak as soon as he sat down.

He was originally a Liaodong soldier, so he naturally understood the situation of the frontier army. In his opinion, he, Wang Lang, and Xing Shan went to the customs, claiming to return from the wrong way, and wanted to return to the frontier army to serve Wu Sangui.

Wu Sangui's father married Zu Dashou's younger sister, Zu Dashou should be Wu Sangui's uncle, and later Zu Dashou married Wu Sangui's aunt, so Zu Dashou became Wu Sangui's uncle again.

From a close point of view, Wu Sangui is Zu Qiuqing's cousin, he would not kill him, and when he entered the city, he made an appointment to open the city gate to lure Liu Hongjian into the city.

After thinking about it, Liu Hongjian rejected Zu Qiuqing's proposal, not to mention whether Wu Sangui would let Zu Qiuqing go, even if he opened the city gate, how could there be tens of thousands of people in the city? Army opponents.

Presumably it was to give Wu Sangui the head, Liu Hongjian rolled Zu Qiuqing's eyes, Zu Qiuqing stuck out his tongue in embarrassment and sat down again.

The meeting lasted for an hour before finalizing the action.

On the second day, Qianhusuo still did not move forward, but rushed five horses from the camp and went straight to Shanhaiguan.

Shanhaiguan is the first pass from the east of the Great Wall. For more than [-] years, relying on the strong iron pass, it has resisted the invasion of Mongols and Jurchens countless times.

From afar, Liu Hongjian saw this gate standing by the sea. The majestic city wall made people feel stunned. Taking a breath, Liu Hongjian patted his horse and led the four of them towards the gate.

"Stop coming, who are you? Why do you come to check?"

A guerrilla shouted on the city wall, seeing that there were only five cavalry under the city, the guerrilla didn't care much.

"General, my subordinate Liu Neng, who came from the northwest, is the deputy general under Liu Zongmin's account of the Dashun Army. He is here to send [-] heavenly soldiers to General Wu to help General Wu accomplish his great cause!"

Liu Hongjian declared himself his family, and arched his hands towards the city.

"Da Shun Army? Isn't Li Zicheng dead?"

Of course, the guerrilla general knew about the so-called Dashun Kingdom. He heard that Li Zicheng was killed by an unknown soldier, so that hundreds of thousands of troops collapsed and retreated to the northwest. He said with some contempt.

"General, Lord Chuang was murdered by a traitor. The current Dashun Army is led by Lord Chuang's younger brother Li Zijing.

Marshal Li has admired Zongbing Wu for a long time, and by coming here this time, I am here to surrender on behalf of Marshal Li!I hope the general will notify you on your behalf!I am very grateful! "

Liu Hongjian got off his horse and took out the document from his waist, bent over and offered it!
This is a major event, if Li Zijing came to surrender as the people in the city said, it would be of great help to Master Wu's future achievements, and the guerrillas in the city would not dare to neglect.

"Submit the documents and wait for me to report to Zongbing Wu!" After speaking, he drew down an iron frame from the city.

"Yes, General!" Liu Hongjian put the document into the box with a smile.

(End of this chapter)