Starting in Saarhu, it is a bit difficult to make a comeback.

Chapter 85 Xiong Manzi is attacked (please subscribe for monthly tickets)
Historically, Xiong Tingbi only went to Liaodong to take office in June. As soon as he left the capital, news of the fall of Kaiyuan came, and before he reached Shanhaiguan, news of the fall of Tieling came.

By the time he arrived in Liaodong, the entire northern Liaoning region had fallen.

Now due to the appearance of Li Xianzhong, the entire Saarhu has become a stalemate, and then Wanli accidentally activated the Donglin Party.

Due to the emergence of the Donglin Party's "shit-stirring stick", the efficiency of Wanli and the Ministry of War suddenly improved a lot. Although he was delayed for some time in the capital in order to raise Liaodong's armaments and food, he still arrived at the end of April. Liaoyang took office.

I have to say that Li Rubai did a lot of things during his time in charge of Liaodong.

For example, the commander-in-chief He Shixian was transferred to Fushun Pass, which strengthened Tieling's military strength, and Li Xianzhong personally took charge of Kaiyuan.

The defense of the previously endangered Liaobei region has now been strengthened a lot.

At least the Kaiyuan, Tieling, and Fushun lines are already very stable, even better than the situation of the Ming army before the "Saarhu" war began. Now the Jianlu cavalry has been completely blocked from the Liaodong border wall.

Due to the previous retreat of the Eastern Route Army, the Ming army had actually abandoned Kuandian Fort outside the Liaodong border wall.

Qinghe Road in the south is currently garrisoned by more than 1 people, and [-] border troops from Xuanfu are stationed at Crow Falcon Pass.

Three thousand Guangxi wolf soldiers and three thousand Sichuan white pole soldiers are stationed near Qinghe Fort. Since Qinghe Fort has been burned down by the captives, they can only live in tents. Fortunately, the weather has begun to warm up, and the situation Not too bad.

Veteran Liu Wei continued to stick to Liaoyang, while Li Rubai and Li Huaizhong stayed in Shenyang.At present, the entire Ming army east of the Liao River has increased to 7 people, which is still a big improvement compared to when Yang Hao was there.

Yuan Yingtai had a headache. Qinghe Road was almost wiped out by Jianlu before, and the side walls there were also damaged in many places, so a lot of money needed to be invested.

Moreover, in the entire Liaodong region, only Kaiyuan and Tieling did not have pay arrears. There were officers and soldiers begging for pay and in need of pensions, and victims of disaster relief everywhere.This made it even worse for him, who was not familiar with government affairs.

Yan Mingtai reported on the previous situation where he and Li Xianzhong reorganized and opened the original road.

Li Xianzhong's move was very big and caused quite a shock throughout Liaodong because he actually encountered "empty pay", a taboo in the frontier army.

However, in the end, only 1200 people were found to have unpaid wages, and everyone felt that he was making more noise than rain.

Xiong Tingbi had the same idea as others. He felt that Li Xianzhong was just showing off, but it was already very commendable to be able to take the initiative to squeeze out the salary of 1200 people.

If all the guards could be like Li Xianzhong, the court would save a lot of money.

Therefore, he still ordered to commend Li Xianzhong for his behavior. Rectifying military affairs was what he had to do. This was considered a good start for Li Xianzhong. He must clearly convey this signal to the Liaodong generals.

When he heard that Kaiyuan Road had filled all the vacancies and was currently fully staffed, he still didn't quite believe it.

Where can the Ming Dynasty still have a full army?
He has also been in the military for a long time, and is familiar with the process of generals living on empty wages to support their families. As long as they don't go too far, he can still turn a blind eye to an on-staff rate of more than [-]%.

It must be that the generals temporarily hired some "actors" to deceive Li Xianzhong and Yan Mingtai.

However, too many things have happened recently on Kaiyuan Road. One moment, the Mongols captured Xiguan, and the next, Li Xianzhong raided the Huahua Department.Li Xianzhong handed over 3200 heads of the Mongolian Fried Flowers Department twice, which really caused a headache for the Ministry of War.

Because the reward money owed to him is increasing.

Nowadays, almost no one in the Ministry of War questions Li Xianzhong's surrender of his head, because he can stand the test and is the well-deserved "King of Heads" in the Ming Dynasty, even more exaggerated than Li Chengliang and Ma Fang back then.

He always has a way to make the enemy leave the body behind, which is something people have to admit.

Xiong Tingbi also guessed that it was probably Li Xianzhong himself who let the Mongols in and engaged in a closed-door and dog-fighting operation.Then the responsibility for provoking border troubles was placed on the Mongols.

This move was even better than that of Li Chengliang. He not only got his head, but also avoided being impeached by civilian officials.

Everything made him very curious about Li Xianzhong's Kaiyuan path, but after all, he had just arrived in Liaoyang and had too many things on his hands, so he decided not to go to Kaiyuan for the time being until he received the "Jianlu spy case" solved this time. , he couldn't sit still anymore.

Because he also judged that Jianzhou's next step was probably to attack Kaiyuan, cut off the connection between Ming Dynasty and Ye He, and then directly annex Ye He and completely unify the Jurchen tribes.

This espionage case further confirmed his judgment. Although Li Xianzhong had great military exploits, his Liaodong cavalry was also famous.He still couldn't sit still and decided to rush to Kaiyuan in person to inspect the defense, otherwise he would really not feel at ease.

Liaoyang is 480 miles away from Kaiyuan and cannot be reached in one day, so their original plan was to stay in Shenyang for one night before heading to Kaiyuan.

However, when he was approaching Shenyang City, Xiong Tingbi changed his mind. He felt that Shenyang was not far from Fushun anyway, so he simply went directly to Fushun Pass for inspection.

Because it is the gateway to Shenyang and was attacked by Jianzhou last year, its strategic location is more important than Shenyang.

Yan Mingtai reminded: "Xiong Jinglue, many side walls on the south side of Fushun Pass were destroyed by Jianlu. Jianlu's sentries often appeared, which is not very safe. We don't have many cavalry accompanying us. Can Shenyang send more cavalry? Give me an escort.”

Xiong Tingbi waved his hand and said: "Jiang Yan is too cautious. This is still the hinterland of Liaodong in our Ming Dynasty. Even if there are Jianlu sentry cavalry, the number will not be large. Three hundred cavalry is enough."

He still knows the temper of "Xiong Manzi". Anyway, there is not much road to go, so there shouldn't be any big problem.Soon they were heading toward Fushun along the south bank of the Hun River.

Fortunately, many fertile fields around Shenyang have begun to sprout seedlings, but the further east you go, the more barren they become.

Xiong Tingbi said: "The south bank of the Hun River has abundant water and fertile land. Why is there so much wasteland?"

Yan Mingtai said: "Last year the Jianlu invaded Fushun and took away 30 people and animals. As a result, many fertile fields were deserted. In fact, it's not just here, but many lands near the border wall are like this. No one has cultivated them."

At this time, Xiong Tingbi also had to sigh!
When he inspected Liaodong 11 years ago, he impeached Li Chengliang for abandoning Kuandian Liubao outside the Liaodong border wall. Unexpectedly, even the land within the Ming border wall was deserted.

The situation in Liaodong is really not optimistic now.

Yan Mingtai said: "But it's not all like this. There is one place where tens of thousands of acres of wasteland have been reclaimed. A month and a half ago, Kaiyuan General Li Xianzhong raided Jianzhou and rescued 12000 people who were taken away. The governor of Liaodong was unable to resettle them. In the end, General Li The soldiers arranged for them to open up wasteland and farmland in the abandoned Baijia Fort in Tielingwei, and now that place has been renamed 'Pinglu Fort'."

Xiong Tingbi had only heard that Li Xianzhong was good at fighting, but he didn't expect that he had such knowledge.

Because "supporting the border with the border" has always been his own idea, I didn't expect that the only person who implemented this policy in Liaodong was a military general.

He said with great interest: "If you are on the way, I would like to visit Pinglu Fort."

At this time, on the hillside not far away, seven or eight Jianzhou sentries were observing the advancing cavalry.

After all, this is the hinterland of Ming Dynasty in Liaodong, and it is normal for troops to march. Under normal circumstances, they will only observe from a distance and record the number of these troops.

But Yuan Yingtai's red official uniform was too conspicuous among the cavalry.

Although these sentries could not understand the official uniforms of the Ming Dynasty, they also knew that the person wearing the red official uniform must be a high official.

Originally, the border walls around Fushun were damaged in many places, and these sentinels could enter and leave the vicinity of Fushun in the Ming Dynasty at will.

But since Li Xianzhong guarded Kaiyuan and Tieling, there have been more and more Ming army patrols north of Fushun Pass, and several border walls were repaired quickly by them.

As a result, these sentries could only enter the hinterland of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty from the south of Fushun Pass.

At this time, the leader Niulu Erzhen Tuhatai said: "The Ming army has a large number, with about three hundred riders. We are no match for them at all, so we can only let this big fish go."

Another Sentinel Rider said: "With just a few of us, there is no chance of a strong attack. Harmu and his team are also nearby, so there are only 30 of us, so we may not have no chance."

At this time, Xiong Tingbi and his party were walking on a mountain road. Suddenly an arrow flew out and hit a Ming soldier directly in the throat. He held his neck with both hands and fell from his horse in pain.

Soon, several more Ming soldiers were shot by bows and arrows. The accompanying generals shouted: "There is an ambush by Jianlu on the slope. Everyone, hurry up and protect the safety of Xiong Jinglue and Governor Yuan."

The arrows of these sneak attackers were fast and accurate, and they almost always hit the vital points. In a short time, more than ten Ming soldiers were shot dead by them.

Yan Mingtai shouted: "Sun Dusi, there shouldn't be many thieves. You take 50 people to the slope in front to eliminate them; the rest are on guard, don't panic."

These cavalrymen were originally under Yang Hao. They seemed to have good equipment, but in fact they had no actual combat experience at all. They were basically embroidered pillows, of no use at all.

In fact, Yan Mingtai's judgment was correct. The number of enemies who ambushed them would definitely not be large.

According to his judgment, fifty cavalry were enough to pass by, but he really overestimated the combat power of these cavalry.

Sun Dusi was shot dead by the enemy as soon as they came face to face, and then twenty riders came out from the slope. These were the elite sentry riders of Jianlu, many of them white-toothed warriors who had experienced hundreds of battles.

The Ming army was obviously no match for them, and many people were killed by them in just one encounter.

Xiong Tingbi was also a man who knew soldiers and knew that these Tatars were difficult to deal with, so he ordered two hundred cavalry to rush up to support, otherwise all 50 people would be killed by the Tatars soon.

At that time, the morale of the Ming army will definitely plummet, and it is really possible that they will be chased and beaten by more than 20 Tatars.

He never expected that he would be attacked here, and that the Tatars were so arrogant that they dared to directly attack a Ming army that was ten times their size with just twenty riders.

However, facing the Ming army that was ten times their size, these Tatars did not choose to retreat, but fought hard with the Ming army.

At this time, there were only more than 30 riders left around Xiong Tingbi. When Tuhatai saw the opportunity, he quickly led the nine people around him to kill Xiong Tingbi and others.

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