A Journey Through the Worlds of Film and Television

The sword is used to cut the flesh.

(The protagonist uses a knife)

In early July of the 47th year of the Wanli reign, Xiong Tingbi finally left Beijing in accordance with the imperial order and went to Liaodong with the imperial sword. The companion was naturally Lu Zongqi, who was familiar with the situation in Liaodong.

Of course, at this time, Lu Cheng was no longer just a small general flag. Instead, he became a thousand households in the Ming Dynasty.

From the general flag, he directly jumped to the trial hundred households, hundred households, and deputy thousand households, and was promoted several levels to the thousand households. The speed of promotion was not slow.

The general flag of the border army was just a small official, but the thousand households were already a military officer of the fifth rank.

The reason why he was promoted so quickly was naturally due to Xiong Tingbi's personal request for Lu Cheng's title, and it was also inseparable from Lu Wenzhao's operation.

Now, the court has placed all its hopes on Xiong Tingbi, hoping that Xiong Tingbi can turn the tide. For some of Xiong Tingbi's requests, the court naturally agreed immediately.

Anyway, it's just a small thousand households, and in the eyes of those ministers in the court, it's just a small military officer. It's not about money or soldiers, what can't be agreed?

Moreover, Liaodong is now in a state of decay, and everyone is hiding too late, and no one wants to go to Liaodong. No one cares about Lu Cheng, who wants to die on his own.

Of course, Lu Cheng, a thousand households, is now a bare commander. The court only gave him an appointment document, a set of armor, a sword, a warhorse, and a waist badge.

As for soldiers and horses, Lu Cheng had to recruit them himself when he arrived in Liaodong.

Even so, Lu Cheng was already very satisfied. With the position of Qianhu, at least he can openly own a team of 1,000 people.

As for soldiers and horses, there are many defeated soldiers in Liaodong and many war horses outside the pass.

Moreover, to be honest, Lu Cheng is not completely without anything now, at least he still has two soldiers, Ding Xiu and Ding Xian.

Following Xiong Tingbi out of the capital city and heading towards Liaodong, Lu Cheng couldn't help but think of a line from a play: "When my team was just opened, there were a dozen people and seven or eight guns..."

After all, Xiong Tingbi was 50 years old and was born as a civil official, so it was naturally impossible for him to travel too fast.

Before leaving the capital, the court had received news from Liaodong that the Later Jin had captured Kaiyuan.

When Lu Cheng and Xiong Tingbi and his party just walked out of Shanhaiguan, they received a battle report from the front that the Later Jin had captured Tieling. At this point, the situation in the entire Liaodong became more critical.

In early August, Xiong Tingbi finally arrived in Haizhou and completed the handover with Yang Hao. The next day, he immediately rushed to Liaoyang.

Along the way, there were Liaodong soldiers and civilians fleeing to the west everywhere.

After seeing this scene, Xiong Tingbi immediately ordered to send all his men to dissuade the fleeing soldiers and civilians.

If the soldiers and civilians in Liaodong were allowed to flee to the interior, there would be no one available in the entire Liaodong, and it would be completely over.

As early as 10 years ago, Xiong Tingbi was ordered to pacify Liaodong, and he also had a certain prestige in the hearts of Liaodong soldiers and civilians.

Therefore, some soldiers and civilians were dissuaded from fleeing and followed Xiong Tingbi to Liaoyang.

After all, if there was still a glimmer of hope, no one would be willing to leave their homeland and flee.

During this period, Lu Cheng also collected some deserters and temporarily let Ding Xiu and Ding Xian take them.

When he arrived in Liaoyang, Lu Cheng had collected seventy or eighty deserters, and he was finally no longer a commander without troops.

Of course, these deserters were of different ages, and most of them were weak and skinny because they were not well fed, and they had little fighting power.

Fortunately, when leaving the capital, Lu Cheng specifically reminded Xiong Tingbi to buy as much food and grass as possible.

With these food and grass, the deserters were well fed, and they were willing to follow.

After the group entered Liaoyang City, they found that the entire Liaoyang City was deserted, there were not many pedestrians on the streets, and most of the shops along the street were closed.

Seeing this scene, Xiong Tingbi couldn't help but sigh: "Ten years ago, when I was pacifying Liaodong, Liaoyang City was not rich, but it was prosperous. But now this scene is really worrying."

Lu Cheng looked at the surrounding situation and advised: "My lord, now that you are here, everything will slowly get better."

After the group entered the Liaoyang Yamen, they found that the Yamen was empty. Except for the gatekeepers and a few runners, the entire Yamen was deserted.

Xiong Tingbi was furious and called a yamen runner to ask, "Where is your prefect? ​​Where are the staff in the government office?"

"My Lord, we

The prefect of the city was afraid that the Jurchens would attack, so he had taken his family and fled outside the city. "

"It's really absurd. As the chief of the local government, he didn't lose his duty to protect the people, but was the first to flee. Captain Lu, you immediately take people to the outside of the city and bring back the prefect Li Shangcun and his family."

"Yes, sir. "

Lu Cheng waved his hand, and Ding Xiu and Ding Xian immediately led dozens of soldiers and followed Lu Cheng out of the city.

These dozens of soldiers, of course, could not all be the defeated soldiers who were gathered recently. They were mainly the guards that Xiong Tingbi brought when he left Kyoto.

Not to mention their specific combat effectiveness, these guards are at least young and strong, and are equipped with weapons such as knives, guns, bows and arrows, and many of them are also wearing armor.

When they heard that they were going to capture the prefect, a yamen runner immediately ran out of the yamen to lead them.

Lu Cheng led his men to the gate of a hidden manor outside the city, and with a wave of his hand, he surrounded the manor.

The guards at the gate of the manor immediately became alert: "This is the mansion of the prefect, who are you? How dare you come here to make trouble."

"I am a thousand households under the command of the new Liaodong governor Xiong, and I have been ordered to capture Li Shangcun and his family. If there is resistance, they will be killed without mercy. Ding Xiu, take some people to investigate and block the back door. "

"Yes, sir!"

Ding Xiu immediately left with a dozen people, and Lu Cheng waved his hand, and more than 20 archers immediately squatted down, drew their bows and arrows, and aimed at the front.

The guards who were guarding the house immediately put down their weapons and did not dare to resist at all.

Lu Cheng waved his hand, and more than 20 soldiers rushed into the mansion.

"What are you doing? I am an official appointed by the court...you..."

Lu Cheng walked into the mansion with a goose-wing knife on his waist, looked at the greasy guy opposite, turned his head and asked the yamen runner who was leading the way: "Is he Li Shangcun?"

"That's him."

Lu Cheng pressed the handle of the knife: "Sir Li, do you want to go with us by yourself, or wait for us to carry you away?"

"Hmph...I will go."

"That's good, please invite Sir Li's family members as well. "

"Yes!"

Soon, Li Shangcun's wife, concubine, son, daughter, etc. were all brought out and escorted outside the mansion.

Of course, since these people were brought out, the property in the mansion must also be taken away.

Although Lu Cheng was not very familiar with the house search, he could learn it well.

As for the process of house search, leaving some benefits behind, it has long been a customary rule.

Of course, Lu Cheng would not do too much.

Now that Xiong Tingbi has just arrived in Liaodong, he is in need of money. If Lu Cheng is too greedy, it will definitely greatly reduce his impression in Xiong Tingbi's mind.

Therefore, Lu Cheng secretly collected a few antique calligraphy and paintings, and did not touch any other gold, silver, and property.

There will be plenty of opportunities to make a fortune in the future, and you must not be greedy when you shouldn't be greedy.

When Lu Cheng returned to Liaoyang City with Li Shangcun's family, all the city gates were blocked. Few people.

The governors took their families and hid outside the city, and the rich families in the city naturally hid out as well.

As long as the army of the Later Jin attacked, the rich families would definitely flee at the first time. If the enemy did not attack, they could return to the city.

At this time, Xiong Tingbi sent people to notify each household, asking them to bring their families and property placed outside the city back to the city to calm the people's hearts.

Then, Lu Cheng took Ding Xiu, Ding Xian and a team of soldiers to intercept the fleeing soldiers from the front and capture some fleeing generals.

In just two or three days, the population of Liaoyang City slowly recovered again.

On this day, Xiong Tingbi ordered the public beheading of the fleeing generals Liu Yujie, Wang Jie, Wang Wending and the greedy general Chen Lun.

These fleeing generals pleaded for mercy: "Xiong Jinglue, it's not that we don't want to fight, it's really that the front line has collapsed and all places can't be defended. It's probably the time to use people. Please let us go, Lord Jinglüe. We will definitely reform ourselves."

Xiong Tingbi waved his hand and said, "If I let the generals who escaped, how can I face those who did not escape? Behead them!"

With an order, all the escaped generals were beheaded in public, which greatly deterred the soldiers who still wanted to escape and temporarily stabilized the people and soldiers in Liaoyang City.