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403 Duan Jiannu's Nest

Tianjin Wei, known as Zhigu in ancient times, was a famous key river and sea. Since then, the Haihe River winds into the sea and connects the Grand Canal of Beijing and Hangzhou. Therefore, since the Sui and Tang Dynasties, it has been the main terminal for the northern transportation of grain and silk in the south.

In the second year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, in order to protect the capital, Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty specially established the three guards at the left and right of Tianjin, with a total of more than 16,000 households stationed in the Tunwei. This is the name of Tianjin guards.

During the Chongzhen period, the young and brave Tunwei here was transferred to a large extent. Therefore, the name of the gateway to the Tianjin Weijing capital was already inconsistent with the name.

However, after the Yongsheng Dynasty army occupied the capital, it once again became a large military camp, with a total of 250,000 southwest troops stationed. The canal and the Haihe River were almost full of camp tents, which were dozens of miles long.

The almost abandoned port wharf was once again revitalized due to the arrival of the Yongshengchao army. Not only did the Zhigu wharf at the mouth of Sancha River have been expanded into a large wharf with a number of Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, but even the Dagu wharf at the mouth of the Haihe River has been expanded into a large wharf with a number of Linhai port wharf with a number of Ming Dynasty.

There is naturally a reason why Zhuqizhu ordered people to desperately expand the dock here, because this is the key to regaining Liaodong and transporting the army.

After nearly a month of expansion, Dagu Port has been completely renovated. The originally lonely pier has become a row of more than ten piers. The harbor, which originally had only a few fishing boats, was also filled with the Ming Navy's warships.

Zhu Qizhe stood on the newly built boat dock. Looking at the grand occasion of the port, he nodded with satisfaction and said, "Boya, thank you for your hard work. It is really not easy to build so many docks in such a short time!"

Sun Chuanting quickly said modestly: "The emperor has been too rewarded. I have a total of 250,000 troops under my command. If you can't do such a small matter well, wouldn't you betray the holy grace?"

Zhu Qizhua smiled and said, "Okay, let's not talk about this. Since the port terminal has been built, we can start to regain Liaodong. You will take the First Corps of the Southwest Army to receive the defense of the capital, and then send the Second Corps of the Southwest Army and the Third Corps to Yongping Prefecture City. It will be like preparing to attack Shanhaiguan. I have a way to take it down from Liaodong. In short, remember, don't attack Shanhaiguan. At the same time, you must always pay attention to the situation in Jizhou Town and be careful of the attacks of the Mongolian and Yuan tribes going south."

Well, hundreds of thousands of troops are here. If I can get the Mongolian Yuan tribes to attack, it would be better to find a piece of tofu to kill them.

Sun Chuanting resisted the urge to roll his eyes and urged: "Your Majesty, you are a body of ten thousand pounds. How can you be suspected in person? Just let me lead my army to recover Liaodong. If I cannot recover Liaodong, I will let the emperor deal with it."

Zhu Qi shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Don't worry, I won't go where there is a real danger. I don't want you to lead your army to recover Liaodong because I don't believe in your ability. The main reason is that Jiannu is too slippery, I'm afraid they will run away again, do you know?"

When Sun Chuanting heard this, he thought for a while and then suddenly said, "Your Majesty, what do you mean is to take down Jiannu's nest Hetuala first, and then attack Liaoyang and Shenyang?"

This guy is really amazing in strategy and tactics. I just started to guess it.

Zhu Qizhuo nodded slightly and said, "Yes, I want to take their nest first and then attack Liaoyang and Shenyang. And this time I am also planning to take the navy to explore the river there to see if I can attack from the waterway. You are not familiar with me, right?"

Well, when it comes to commanding the navy to fight, Sun Chuanting is indeed not as good as the emperor in front of him.

He could only sigh helplessly: "This, I am ashamed of myself. Oh, Master, you really don't have to be suspected personally. It's really not possible. It's just a little more time for us to attack Hetulala by land."

Zhu Qizhu patted his shoulder and said kindly: "Okay, Boya, I will be careful. Just guard this big rear for me."

Upon hearing this, Sun Chuanting could only shake his head helplessly and sigh, no longer dissuading him, because he knew that the emperor had always acted decisively and would not change easily once the decision was decided.

The next morning, Zhu Qizhi led the Imperial Army, Pingdong Army, Pingxi Army, Pingnan Army and Pingbei Army to set off on naval warships.

Their target is Zhenjiang City at the mouth of the Yalu River, which is Dandong in later generations.

This Zhenjiang City was quite famous in the Tianqi Dynasty and the Chongzhen Dynasty, because the General of Pingliao Mao Wenlong made great progress with his contribution to the sneak attack on Zhenjiang, becoming Wang Huazhen's pride and a hero praised by the eunuch party.

Unfortunately, success is the eunuch party, and failure is the eunuch party. Because of the party struggle, he did not obey Yuan Chonghuan's command and was eventually killed by Yuan Chonghuan, and Zhenjiang fell into the hands of Jiannu again.

It should be said that Jiannu still remembers the lesson. Since the recovery of Zhenjiang, they not only strengthened the city defense of Zhenjiang, but also sent thousands of elite infantrymen to garrison here. If anyone still wants to learn from Mao Wenlong and bring hundreds of men to attack Zhenjiang, it will definitely be a return.

In their opinion, the elite infantrymen of thousands of Eight Banners were enough to withstand the attack of tens of thousands of people. In other words, even if the Ming Dynasty gathered all the naval warships near Northern Zhili to transport troops, they would not have thought of taking down Zhenjiang City in one fell swoop, because the Ming Navy had less than 200 warships in Northern Zhili, and each warship could carry up to 50 people, and it would be as high as possible to transport tens of thousands of people at a time.

Once this group of tens of thousands of people cannot take Zhenjiang, the defenders stationed in Dingliao Right Guard, Liaoyang, and even Shenyang will come to support him. At that time, it will not be a sneak attack on Zhenjiang, but will be sent to the door to be beaten.

I have to say that they took it for granted. Zhu Qizhu's warships are not more than a hundred, but more than a thousand. Not to mention transporting tens of thousands of people and horses at one time, it is no problem to transport 50,000 or 60,000 people and horses.

Unfortunately, the only general of Jiannu who found these warships, Hong Chengchou, had been killed in Jinan City, so Jiannu didn't know that there were so many warships in the Yongsheng Dynasty Navy at this moment.

When more than a thousand warships were overseas in Zhenjiang, the guards of Zhenjiang City were all frightened.

These dense warships filled the entire sea surface, and there was no end to see. How many of them were there?

At least thousands of ships!

He is just a small assistant leader, with only one thousand men under his command. The number of warships is greater than that of his subordinates. How can Zhenjiang City guard this?

When the army of Crazy King surged on the shore like a tide, he ran away without thinking.

Just kidding, there are at least tens of thousands of troops, and he only has one thousand troops. Just a thousand people. Just a fart!

Thirty-six strategies, walking is the best strategy, this is the true meaning left by our ancestors.

If you can't beat others, run away, there is no problem!

You should know that there are only so many young and strong people in the Eight Banners. If they fought desperately with others in every battle, they would have been gone long ago!

So, he ran with peace of mind and righteousness.

He is not the cannon fodder of the Mongolian Eight Banners and the Han Eight Banners. There is no need for him to fight with others in this kind of battle without any chance of victory.

When Ma Qiancheng saw the person running away, he couldn't help but put down his telescope and anxiously: "Master, should we send someone to chase him?"

If people were sent to chase, they would probably be able to catch up, because the people running out of the city were infantry and there were no cavalry at all.
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