The Soldier of the Ming Dynasty

On the morning of September 27, the third year of Tianqi of the Ming Dynasty.

There was no farewell, no applause, and it was almost silent. A huge fleet of nearly 300 ships, large and small, set out from nanxinkou wharf, made a detour to the west, and turned all the way to the south.

On the bow.

Facing the sea breeze in late autumn, watching the most familiar Changsheng island in the distance, Li Yuanqing's tenderness gradually drifted away, and his eyes were as deep as the blue sea.

The winner is the prince and the loser is the bandit.

It is destined to be a bloody road without sleep.

Like the first Spaniards who set foot on the new world, the first long-distance conqueror of the Chinese nation, under the leadership of Li Yuanqing, has set out on his way.

At this time, in addition to guancanghai's No.2 and Wang Hai's no.4000, all the Changsheng battalion remained on the front line of Changsheng Island, Fuzhou, Jinzhou and yangguanbao. The remaining five thousand corps, including Liu Dadou's scouting camp, were all outstanding, with a total of more than 5000 soldiers.

Guancanghai's No.2 regiment is responsible for the long-distance transportation of the fleet, but when the team arrives at its destination, they will return the same way.

The reason why he chose to let Guan Canghai and Wang Hai stay behind was that Li Yuanqing also had a thorough consideration.

He could not estimate the time for his trip. Wang Haizi was young and mature, and his 4000 corps also had to undertake a large part of the fishing task. In addition, he was about to enter the freezing period, and the ice blasting work near the coast was not careless at all.

Wang Hai is the most suitable candidate.

And guancanghai's 2000 Corps has most of the warships of Changsheng camp, as well as the pirate network of black island.

Li Yuanqing's expedition, like an arrow from the bow, has been unable to take into account the safety of Changsheng island.

However, due to the barrier of the sea and the bridgehead of Lushun, and the fact that Chen Zhong's headquarters did not go out to battle, even in the most critical situation, Lushun was lost, but as long as Guan Canghai could stabilize the coastal defense situation, and with the support of Chen Zhong's Department, Changsheng island would be safe.

In fact, in Beidi, before the rise of the later Jin Dynasty, although Daming was "using foreigners to subdue foreigners", and the leaders of each Garrison and stronghold were mostly foreigners, but because of the great influence of the Daming Empire, the control over the northern region was still quite large.

The main structure of Li Yuanqing's Changsheng island is the Liao people. Many of them have had the experience of traveling to the north. In terms of guidance, Li Yuanqing is not lacking.

After years of development, the warships of Changsheng island have also made great progress.

Although there is no advanced new ship launched, the repair and improvement work has made a lot of progress. The ship looks a bit broken, but the ocean voyage, especially the ocean voyage close to the coast, is not too much of a hindrance.

It's just that the march on the sea is quite noisy and there's hardly any extra entertainment.

Thanks to Liu Qiao, Li Yuanqing is not too lonely.

In the blink of an eye, it was the end of October, and the fleet had reached the southern tip of Sakhalin Island.

After more than a month's sailing, the children also adapted to the rhythm of the sea. When they were OK, many people even put down their hooks along the sea to catch a few small sea fish.

As long as it is not too out of line and indulges in children, Li Yuanqing also turns a blind eye to them and allows them to amuse themselves.

However, the weather was much worse than Li Yuanqing had expected.

Since the end of October, with the fleet moving more and more northward, the freezing situation in the offshore area has not been optimistic.

Especially after arriving at Sakhalin Island area, there was a series of heavy snow in the sky, which was not normal snowflakes, but some bad weather similar to hail and sleet.

The children all put up their temperaments and stayed in the cabin and did not dare to appear on the deck again.

On the bow of the main ship, Li Yuanqing, dressed in a wide fur coat and a deerskin hat, observed the big island not far away.

At this time, Sakhalin Island was still quite wild, with very few residents.

After two days, Li Yuanqing's fleet had already traveled nearly 200 miles along the coast, only to see two or three small fishing villages, all of which were of the scale of more than a dozen households.

These people were all local natives, the so-called "armored people" slaves in the later Jin Dynasty.

Li Yuanqing has never let go of these "mosquito meat", and his total strength is more than enough.

All those who dare to resist will be killed.

In the villages where Han people live, Li Yuanqing's attitude will be a little bit more friendly. Those who are willing to cooperate with the army and act as guides will be paid money by Li Yuanqing as wages. However, if the attitude is not friendly, it will be in vain.

Li Yuanqing is not to blame for his ruthlessness.

These Han people have been assimilated so seriously that Li Yuanqing's army must hide its traces, so they can't have any kind of women's kindness.

At this time, in the bow, looking at the vast island, Li Yuanqing's heart is also full of emotion.

Here, including a large area extending northward to the Arctic Ocean, is the land of Daming, the land of Han people, and the land of blood and sweat of ancestors. Unfortunately, in the near future, it will be occupied by laomaozi shamelessly.Now that Li Yuanqing is here, he will never allow this to happen again.

Li Yuanqing wanted to leave some people to set up a stronghold at the southern end of Sakhalin Island, but he gave up the idea after thinking for a long time.

The strength of Li Yuanqing's fleet has not reached such a scale, mainly because the commercial routes have not been established. Moreover, the main task of this trip is Mongolia. It is just like "a black blind man breaking a stick", which is really unwise.

On the other side of the sea, on the vast continent, was the sphere of influence of hercynu Jurchen, the old slave's enemy.

Unfortunately, with the downfall of nican and other Hercynian nobles, this vast and fertile land, including the northern part of the Nuzhen tribe in Beishan, has become a vassal of the later Jin Dynasty.

"General, if the weather goes on like this, I will feel that the road ahead will not be smooth. If the river freezes, I'm afraid our fleet will... "

Guan Canghai stood by Li Yuanqing, frowning and worried.

Even though he was born as a pirate and had rich experience in navigation, he had always followed Zheng's family. He had never faced such a harsh climate in the southern waters of Daming.

Li Yuanqing nodded.

It's about to enter November. According to the local people's words, "the snow has sealed the mountain."

If at this time rashly into the primeval forest densely covered with the old forest, it is really immortal also can not come out.

For a moment, Li Yuanqing laughed, "what's the matter? I'm in a state of retreat? "

Guan Canghai shook his head with a smile, "general, I always feel that this plan is too risky. If you stay with the general, you can feel at ease. "

Li Yuanqing couldn't help laughing, "Canghai, don't worry. The road is made by people. Our children are not as vulnerable as you think

Official Canghai a Leng, instant also understand the meaning of Li Yuanqing, can not help laughing.

At this time, in Changsheng camp, everyone was glad to hear about the war.

After all, the examples of veterans have already been put in front of us. As long as we follow the general, we can fight hard, whether it's fields, beautiful houses, silver, women, but if we don't make any achievements, we can only join the auxiliary soldiers and miscellaneous workers, and if we want to get ahead, we should slowly endure.

No one is a fool.

Human beings are all rooted in bad nature.

In my bones, I want to trample others under my feet.

In addition, with such a large scale of the team at this time, Li Yuanqing came personally. What are these children afraid of?

……

After seven or eight days in the wind and snow, the fleet had reached the West Bank of the mainland.

In the evening, Liu Dadou, who was going to explore the way, came back excitedly. "General, there is a Tartar's big burger in front of me, which is no less than 100 people. The children have already found out that the river we are looking for will be ten miles from this place! "

Li Yuanqing couldn't help laughing, "pass on our military order and call on officers at or above the deputy general level to hold a meeting!"

"Yes

The order was quickly passed on.

Not long after that, dozens of officers above the rank of vice chief commander arrived in Li Yuanqing's cabin one after another.

Liu Dadou opened the map excitedly and explained to the crowd carefully: "this is the big hamburger of Tartars. According to the local people, this is the biggest hamburger in a hundred miles. The other big burgers can only be found at the mouth of the river. Now, the snow has sealed the mountain. These Tartars are hiding in the burger and can't come out. Haha... "

Liu Dadou said with an excited smile, "children want to drink and eat meat tonight, so they have to rely on this hamburger."

Duan Xiliang already some cannot help, "Lao Liu, that still waits for a ball!"! Damn it! I don't want to eat meat, but I want to drink from Tartars

Shunzi, Kong Youde and Li Sansheng were all excited.

However, Guan Canghai hesitated and whispered to Li Yuanqing: "general, this is not our scheduled landing site!"

The map that Li Yuanqing used at this time was the original old map of Dusi in Liaodong, or the product of the mid Ming Dynasty.

Although it has been improved by Li Yuanqing, the geographical location is more accurate.

At this time, with the continuous expansion and development of the later Jin forces, many of the original garrisons and strongholds set up by the Ming army were abandoned and some were renamed. It is difficult to analyze them exactly.

However, since the fleet approached the West Coast five or six days ago, hundreds of scouts came ashore. All of them had good horses. These days, they had already inquired about the details of the area.

Li Yuanqing originally planned to land from the estuary of Heilongjiang, along the Heilongjiang River, all the way to the west, and finally to the south, directly cut into the heart of Horqin.

But the plan can't keep up with the change.

The situation has changed, and Li Yuanqing will not hesitate any more.

"Wealth is only in danger. Canghai, send our military order. The whole army will get off the ship and land. After an hour and a half, the whole army will set out and the fleet will return! "

Guan Canghai understood that Li Yuanqing had made a decision. Although he wanted to persuade him again, he had to accept the order and said, "yes!"Li Yuanqing had the supreme authority in his camp of longevity, and the orders were passed down quickly.

Under the cover of the snowy night, the fleet berthed on the shore in turn, and all the soldiers got off the ship orderly.

When he came, Li Yuanqing made a detailed plan.

All the rest, 5000 men, 10 men each.

At this time, although the landing time was short, the well-trained soldiers did not disappoint Li Yuanqing. After a little more than an hour, they had all assembled.

With a big wave of Li Yuanqing's hand, the flagman passed the flag to the fleet. Guan Canghai had to follow the military order and start to return.

After a brief adjustment, Li Yuanqing has adapted himself to the icy north wind, and the flame in his chest and abdomen is like a volcanic eruption, which can not be covered.

In the past, they had to let the Tartars of later Jin Dynasty break into the land of Daming, burn, kill and plunder, and act recklessly. But at this time, Li Yuanqing wanted to "change his character with his own way"!

Not far away, children began to adapt to the bad weather.

They take the general assembly as a unit, stand upright in a row, let the wind and snow blow on their faces and bodies, but no one spoke.

Just like a statue of ice sculpture standing in the ice and snow.

In the west, the coast extends to the land for more than a mile. It is a dense forest, which has been covered with thick snow. The white and green color in the eye is just like a fairy tale world.

Li Yuanqing did not speak, and no one moved. Five thousand pairs of eyes were all gathered on Li Yuanqing in front of him.

For a moment, some scouts came quickly and whispered a few words to Li Yuanqing's ear.

Li Yuanqing sneered, waved his big hand and said in a deep voice, "let's go!"

"Yes

For a moment, the command was quickly passed on, and there was not much sound at all. The elite of 5000 people was like a huge and closely connected machine, which quickly started to work.