The Soldier of the Ming Dynasty

Destruction is always a hundred times easier than creation.

Heidao stronghold is located at the throat of the country, and it is a rare garrison point and sea transfer station.

to build this stronghold to such a scale, it will cost at least tens of thousands of Liang silver, several years of time, countless labor and materials.

If such a fire is burned clean, according to the economic situation of Daming at this time, it can be said to be a crime against humanity.

Don't forget, Li Yuanqing's headquarters, nearly 3000 people, still live in simple wooden barracks.

And Li Yuanqing is lucky

However, if we keep it like this, we can't be sure that in a few days, Wang Jiaolong, Ma Jiaolong, these more than a thousand pirates, without a leader, may do more harm than when Li Jiaolong was here.

After pondering for a long time, Li Yuanqing looked at Guan Canghai.

At this time, Guan Canghai also understood Li Yuanqing's meaning. "My Lord, it's a pity that it's wasted here. It's better to be used by our army."

Li Yuanqing nodded, "unfortunately, Canghai, I can't give you too much support."

Guan Canghai said: "my Lord, the bandit leader has been killed. To stabilize the situation here, you can't use too many people. 30 people are enough for a humble position. "

Li Yuanqing sighed, "30 people are too few. I'll leave you 50. However, in terms of materials, you can only do it yourself. "

Guan Canghai understood Li Yuanqing's meaning and nodded. Suddenly, he remembered something. He was busy describing Li Yuanqing in a low voice

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Before, Zhang officials ignored Li Yuanqing. On the one hand, Li Yuanqing was a strong man with unknown origin. Moreover, without the deposit of real gold and silver, Zhang Daguan people naturally would not negotiate with Li Yuanqing easily.

But in the name of Li Jiaolong, everything is much simpler.

Black island is far away from the mainland, Li Yuanqing changed the world overnight, and the news is difficult to spread out.

Li Canghai became an official.

With real gold and silver in hand, Li Yuanqing asked Guan Canghai, in the name of Li Jiaolong, to purchase large quantities of grain and materials from the Liu family and Zhang Daguan people through black island.

Both of them didn't have much doubt about it. On the contrary, the price was much better than the market price.

For several days in succession, the boats of Heidao continuously brought back a large amount of materials from Dengzhou government and zhangjiaji, with a total of nearly 15000 taels of grain, cloth and various living goods, which solved the biggest problem in front of Li Yuanqing.

Originally, Li Yuanqing still wanted to buy some coal through Zhang Daguan's way. There are excellent open-pit coal mines in Laiwu, Xintai, Yanzhou and other places in Shandong Province, but the price is not expensive. Unfortunately, it is about to enter the twelfth lunar month. The sea freezing period has arrived. The sea surface has begun to form thin ice, and there are thousands of mouths waiting for dinner. Li Yuanqing does not dare to slack off Slowly, he left ten percent of the materials to the official Canghai of Heidao, and led the fleet back to Guanglu island.

Come out in mid November and return to Guanglu island. It's early December. It's about to the Laba Festival. The new year of Tianqi is coming.

Although Chen Zhong did not participate in the trip, Li Yuanqing was generous enough to leave him 10% of the materials. In addition, Chen Zhong himself purchased materials from the local land of Guanglu island to spend the new year without much trouble.

Li Yuanqing unloaded 50% of the rest from Guanglu Island, and the remaining 30% was directly transported to Changsheng island.

At this time, the sea has begun to freeze, but not completely frozen, this will be the last batch of cargo ships to Changsheng island this year.

After all this, it happened to be the Laba Festival. Li Yuanqing held a banquet at the Guanglu Island camp. The army and the people celebrated together. The food and wine were enough. The soldiers and civilians kowtowed repeatedly, and many of them shed tears.

Seeing that zhiyanmin finally had hope, Li Yuanqing's heart expanded a lot.

However, with the rule of Nuzhen in the later Jin Dynasty for a longer time and more stable, the Han people's life became more and more difficult.

On the morning of the ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, Li Yuanqing got such a message. On the other side of Guanglu Island, a Han village less than a hundred miles apart was slaughtered by Tartars because they did not pay all the pig grass at the end of the year.

This is also the characteristic of the later Jin Dynasty. Originally, the common people in the Liao Dynasty only needed to pay taxes on the land property of Daming. But now, the people not only have to pay the taxes on the land, but also help the later Jin Dynasty to cut grass.

Although the Eight Banners' iron cavalry was fierce, it was not cheap to raise horses, especially in winter.

How can Nvzhen master do these jobs?

It can only be coated slaves and Han people.

Unfortunately, the weather is extremely cold this year, and the world is often covered with frost and snow. In general, when the people finish their crop work, they can also complete the grass tax of Houjin as long as they work harder and have more strength.

However, at this time, the weather is bad and the grass is frozen to death. What can the common people do?

But these Nuzhen masters didn't care. As long as they failed to complete the tax, they thought it was the common people's provocation to the authority of the later Jin Dynasty. Under the strict orders of the old slaves, the Han people everywhere mourned.At this time, according to the news from the refugees ahead, there have been more than a dozen villages and thousands of people on the other side of the river in recent days.

Unfortunately, they don't have much choice. One choice is that they are now in Lushun, and the other is Li Yuanqing and Chen Zhong on Guanglu island on the other side. In the nearest distance, these two places are still the sphere of influence of Daming.

It's just that zhangpan is short of materials and there are many obstacles on land. The villages near Lushun are better, such as those on the opposite side of Guanglu island. I'm afraid that before they arrived at Lushun, they were killed by cavalry of the later Jin Dynasty, or they died of starvation and freezing on the road.

In the early morning of September 1 in the lunar month, before breakfast, Chen Zhong sent someone to call Li Yuanqing over and saw the refugees who had fled.

This man is Ma Wu, who is in his early 40s. He looks at a very energetic man, but he is crying like a tearful man, "my Lord, you must save our parents. We are all the people of Daming. "

Ma Wu said, while kowtow, forehead, already full of blood.

Li Yuanqing quickly helped him up, "brother, don't worry. Where are people now? How many people? Speak slowly. Don't worry

Li Yuanqing said, and asked his relatives to bandage his wound and pour him a bowl of hot water.

Ma Wu dressed up the wound on his forehead and drank some hot water. His face turned red. He said, "my Lord, we still have more than 2000 people on the other side of the sea. There is not much food left. The Tartars should be here soon. My Lord, you must help them. "

"How many Tartars are there?"

"My Lord, I don't know. There may be a thousand men, all cavalry. "

Li Yuanqing and Chen Zhong looked at each other, and Chen Zhong said, "Yuanqing, these people, we are saved."

Li Yuanqing vomited a long breath of turbid gas.

At this time, there are only 200 soldiers under the command of Li Zhengqing, who have not been trained in the battle field, but there are only two soldiers under the command of Li Zhengzhuang who have not been trained in the battlefield.

Under such circumstances, it is really too big to go against the more than 1000 elite cavalry of Houjin.

However, if Li Yuanqing is allowed to watch in Guanglu Island, across the sea, his colleagues are being slaughtered and his sisters are being raped, which is what Li Yuanqing can never do.

The guard battle in Zhenjiang was a natural defect. Li Yuanqing could not change it at all. But at this time, there was a gap between the sea, which added a lot of variables and opportunities to the rescue.

"Big brother, people must be saved. And we need to get it right away. "

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The sea has entered the freezing period, and within two or three miles of the sea, there are ice layers of varying thickness.

In fact, the sea is not fresh water. If it is an ordinary Lake in Liaoning Province, the ice layer is already very thick at this time of the year. People and livestock can walk on it, which is just like the flat land.

However, the composition of the sea water is complex, and there are tidal surges. No one can be sure whether the ice is strong or not until the coldest season.

Li Yuanqing and Chen Zhong's big ships were frozen in the simple wharf by the sea. If you want to save people, you can only rely on small boats.

At noon, almost all the boats on Guanglu Island, with a hundred or so boats, were used by Li Yuanqing and Chen Zhongzheng. Like ants, they were pushed to the offshore ice.

Li Yuanqing and Chen Zhong immediately asked people to drill ice at intervals, starting from the beach, every 10 meters or dozens of meters, to drill a hole in the ice layer to check the thickness of the ice layer and gradually move forward.

But although this method is stable, the speed is really too slow.

Li Yuanqing simply asked to pull out several rolls of cloth just bought from Dengzhou, so that the women could make cloth strips with the width of one hand. People would drill ice every hundred meters. They would connect the safety area with cloth strips, and then pull the boat directly to the deep sea beyond the ice layer.

Although this method is risky and costly, the speed is much faster.

Just at night, most of the boats have reached the deep sea.

Life matters, Li Yuanqing and Chen Zhong dare not hesitate to lead the crowd to the opposite bank.

After three hours of hard sailing, the fleet had reached the ice on the opposite bank. It was almost one o'clock in the morning. The sky was covered with goose feather like snow, and the sea wind was howling. It was freezing.

Ma Wu, a homeless man, had been in a small boat with Li Yuanqing and Chen Zhong. Seeing the land, he said in a hurry: "two adults, the villagers are on a beach not far ahead. I don't know if the Tartars have come after me. I'll go and have a look first. "

Li Yuanqing nodded and waved to several soldiers to go with him.

Soon, several figures, along the indistinguishable ice, touched the land.

In less than half an hour, several people came back, and some young refugees also came back. Ma Wu kowtowed to Li Yuanqing and Chen Zhong, "my Lord, the dog Tartars have approached the beach after night, but they have not used to attack. It is estimated that tomorrow morning will be the time for them to attack. Please help the villagers. "Li Yuanqing nodded, "how about the ice?"

Ma Wu said quickly, "my Lord, I'm not in a big way with some brothers. It's snowing heavily today, and it's estimated that there won't be any sun tomorrow morning. It should be all right. "

Chen Zhongdao: "Yuanqing, this matter can not be ignored, we go to save people now."

Li Yuanqing nodded. Even though he knew that there was a tiger's den in front of him, he could only rush to see it.

"Tell the brothers to push the boat onto the ice, leaving a young guard for each boat, and all the others to follow me to save people."

"Yes."

The order went on quickly.

At this time, Li Yuanqing and Chen Zhong, in addition to 350 soldiers under their command, also had more than 1000 young and strong people. They settled down on the boat. Facing the cold wind and snow, they quickly approached the shore like ants.