Qi Jiguang's army headed west and left a personal attraction behind him.

This is naturally the name of restoration of the Han Dynasty. From Daning City, Taining Wei, Duoyan Wei, Fuyu Wei will be rebuilt to the north, and Muliji Wei will be there in the north. The generals of the Weishou Town were temporarily led by the Zhejiang Army's meritorious generals. From the surrounding Mongolians and Jurchens, the Jurchens recruited military troops, and the imperial court dispatched military troops from the mainland. The Taining and Duoyan Weishou were also called the Route Guard Army to protect the Wulianghai Railway that came from the mainland. Fuyu and Muliji Weishou were also called the River Guard Army to protect the rivers leading to Dali Lake.

The railway will be used in the future, while the river channel will be used in Li Chengliang.

Li Chengliang's attack on the northeast was based on rivers, unlike Qi Jiguang who chased and marched on the boundless grasslands on the western front, and was not on the march. Li Chengliang's troops were quiet and less active. His troops reached a mission and stationed in nearby tribal cities, waiting for supplies, collecting food and grass, and releasing horse scouts to explore along the river, collecting more information, and determining the next target based on whether the surrounding tribes accept surrender.

Once the goal is confirmed and the preparations are achieved, the army will divide into two groups and exit the river on both sides. The river will carry infantry divisions, artillery and baggage on the river and start the camp, and the marching speed will be rapid.

The two troops on the East and West Lines were connected together, and it was still the same as last year.

The day after Qi Jiguang defeated the Tumans on Dali Lake, he saw Li Chengliang's soldiers. They drove a small boat to the mouth of Dali Lake. The abandoned boat was discovered by the Qi family army and followed his footprints to chase him. They found that these soldiers wearing military uniforms on the Liaodong border were wandering around Dali Lake, so they handed them to Qi Jiguang.

After a conversation, I realized that they were Li Chengliang's scouts. They walked along the river from the mouth of the Heilongjiang River near Kuwu Island. When they encountered a small river, they abandoned the big boat for a small boat. If they were surprised, they abandoned the small boat and made a raft by themselves. They walked along the river. Only they came here, and no one knew where others were.

They didn't know when this mission would be. Li Chengliang gave them the order to find the source of the river. No matter which river or which fork, they could go back as long as they reached the source at the end.

Maybe everyone else has gone back, but they are the only ones who walk along the river... Every time they encounter a fork in the road, they go wrong.

Qi Jiguang sympathized with them very much. These unlucky young men from Liaodong headed north along Heilongjiang and followed the winding rivers around the northeast of the empire. They took a bath in Hulun Lake and Beier Lake, which are rich in Shuise. People don’t often call these two names these days, to be precise, Kuoluan Haizi and Fisher Sea.

Hulun and Kuoluan are both homophonics of "Halu" in Mongolian, meaning Mizuse; Bell and Fisher mean the meaning of Male Otter in Mongolian, and these two lakes are rich in this, hence the name.

In the early Ming Dynasty, Lan Yu went to the Fishing Sea and annihilated the small court of the Northern Yuan Dynasty.

However, the court's understanding of the Northeast water system was almost blank after so many years, so Qi Jiguang ordered people to copy their records in the original place, keep these people by their side, let them go to Guihua City with him, and then go south from there to pass and return to Liaodong.

On land without roads, a seaworthy river is the best road. Controlling the river can control all land.

Behind Qi Jiguang, there were empty cities left behind, which were the land where the Zhejiang army once camped. On the ground barracks were built in some places, and underground barracks were built in some places. Shortly after the Ming army left, the barracks were discovered by nomads, renovated and used.

The army camps are extremely focused on the environment. Although joining the army is a chore and it is almost impossible for soldiers to go anywhere better than wild dogs during the march, their camp environment is very good.

The smart generals must be able to collect water sources on a large scale, with safe external environment and no risk in the terrain. These places are also suitable for towns or resident herds.

However, when General Qi was about to arrive in Jining, the Zhejiang army under his command became extremely cautious.

The news was sent back by Chen Dacheng, who was a pioneer officer. He was ordered to search for the disrepaired official road in the northern part of Jining on the boundless grassland. The scouts returned the news. They found traces of the marching of chariots and horses on the official road.

The ruts and hoof prints were very deep, there were pawdlings on the road, and the chewed bones and broken arrows were discarded on the ground. Chen Dacheng's analysis was that a group of Mongolian soldiers of a thousand-man population migrated northward by the threat of the Ming army's advance northward and passed here.

Then they found a suspicious camp, and the traces left in the camp also told his speculation. In addition, there was another group of people who had appeared here. The people who left these traces were not Mongolian soldiers but Ming troops. The broken wooden board left behind was punched with lead balls, and there was a hole in the ground with gunpowder leaking. Chen Dacheng believed that the guards went out to pursue the Mongolian army in front.

The food, drinking, defecation and sensation of the "two groups of people in the front and back" are clearly distinguished in the traces, and even the treatment methods of the excrement left behind are different.

The only place that Chen Dacheng doubted was that the feces buried in the soil and the feces in the open air seemed to be less than one day apart.

In such a short time, why did the Ming army choose to camp instead of catching up?

The panic continued for just two days, and Qi Jiguang's front-line troops ushered in the second batch of what Chen Dacheng called the "large number of armed personnel".

A large mixed caravan.

The Zhejiang army scout with a telescope was carefully lying on the low hill, looking into the distance at the caravan stationed in the camp. The scout's deputy was outlining the camp's cloth with pen and paper. The camp was obviously woven into three circles. The merchants used trucks to surround the connected car city. They had a hundred or even more trucks. Almost every truck had spears and arrow bags, and countless camels were circled in the camp...

There are hundreds of weapons outside the car camp. Most of them are wearing military uniforms and armor used in spring, summer and autumn. The military uniforms are red and blue iron cotton armor. Some people are still wearing breastplates outside. The breastplates are all in standard styles. Different colors can distinguish them from the mainland, border troops or Beiyang.

Some people don’t wear military uniforms and look like armed guards, some wear leather armor, some have chain mail, and more people don’t wear armor and hold various firearms besides bird guns.

The camp was erected with a large banner with the word Ming, just like a military camp. The soldiers included the Beiyang flag army and the border army.

Outside the chariot camp, there was a long banner belonging to the right-wing Mongolian of the Jin Kingdom of the Ming Dynasty. Under the banner, nearly 300 armored cavalry were noisy. The best armed cavalry was armored cavalry, and the worst was also mail and leather armored cavalry. There were not many tribes on the grassland that could produce such armed forces. Just look at it and you will know that they were Mongolian armored cavalry of King Shunyi of the Jin Kingdom of the Ming Dynasty.

Seeing this caravan, the old scouts of Zhejiang Army could not help but think of the Quanzhou merchants in the southeast and overseas. They also looked like self-recruiting ship soldiers were rampant overseas.
Chapter completed!