In the final analysis, now Emperor Chongzhen actually doesn't want to put the decisive battle of the Jin State after the destruction and capture of the country in a place like Liaoxi or Liaodong.

Because it is close to the hinterland of the Later Jin Kingdom, but far away from the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty.

If it is left outside the customs, it is easy to supply Houjin, but it is difficult to supply Daming.

And if it is placed outside the edge of Jizhen or Xuanfu, even if it is outside the border of Datong, it is much better than lying in Liaodong.

When the main force of the Ming army fought a decisive battle with the main force of Jianguo outside the border of Xuanda or Jizhen, Liaodong Town, Dongjiang Town, and Lushun Town took advantage of the situation to attack the hinterland of the Jin State after the Jianyu, then even if the Houjin State was not destroyed, it would have to shed its skin.

Therefore, the importance of the strategic position of the Liaodong Peninsula, where the Lushun Town Guard Mansion is located, in the war against the Houjin can be seen.

At least in the current plan envisaged by Emperor Chongzhen for the destruction of the Jin Kingdom, Li Xin and his Lushun Town Guards will play a role comparable to that of Dongjiang Town.

In particular, opening a new front at the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula can contain the power of the two white flags on the one hand, and on the other hand, it can also restrain the power of Dongjiang Town one day.

It's not that the Chongzhen Emperor is not at ease with Andong Hou Mao Wenlong or Pyongyang Bo Liu Xingzuo and others, but what will happen to the future development of these two people, to be honest, the Chongzhen Emperor now has no bottom in his heart.

In any case, the establishment of a new Lushun town guard, putting Li Xin in Lushun, and allowing him to develop a new force completely different from Dongjiang Town at the southern end of the Liaodong Peninsula is a good thing for Emperor Chongzhen and for the Ming court.

It doesn't hurt to plan ahead and be prepared.

On the evening of 13 July, Li Xin, a former scholar of Wuyingdian and now the guard of Lushun Town and the supervisor of Denglai Town, received an official letter and a letter from his friend Niu Juming, a staff member of the Ministry of War, in a camp outside Anqiu City, Qingzhou Prefecture.

The content of the official document is very simple, it is a detailed list of various ordnance that Niu Juming asked for him from the emperor.

Emperor Chongzhen still gave him 1,000 Chongzhen 1-type flintlock muskets, 20 Chongzhen 1-type smoothbore mother cannons, 20,000 musket projectiles, 6,000 artillery projectiles, 2,500 quintals of gunpowder such as Dias gunpowder, 3,000 grenades, and 2,000 incendiary bombs.

In addition, there are 3,000 Zhangba spears, 2,000 wolf mills, 3,000 compound bows with ribs and horns, 2,000 ordinary long-handled Qi knives, 5,000 pairs of iron helmets with eaves and eaves and 5,000 pairs of rattan giant shields, as well as the golden drum banner of the Lushun Town Guard.

With this list of weapons sent by Niu Juming quickly, Li Xin and his generals were all relieved.

This list of weapons and equipment was supplied according to the army establishment set by Emperor Chongzhen for the defense of Lushun Town, that is, according to the standard of 5,000 people.

There is a big difference from the actual situation today.

But in any case, with these weapons, Li Xin, as the newly recruited 5,000 young soldiers of Lushun Town Guard, can finally temporarily become an army.

The reason why there will be discrepancies in the staffing is because when the war against thieves around Shennanyu was in full swing, Emperor Chongzhen's decree of rewarding arrived.

Except for Li Banghua, who was awarded the title of Pingyang Bo, all other meritorious soldiers were rewarded.

It was also in this reward decree that Emperor Chongzhen ordered Liu Guoneng to be a guerrilla in Jinzhou under the jurisdiction of the Lushun Town Guard, so that Liu Guoneng could select 1,500 people from his subordinates and incorporate them into the former army sequence of the Lushun Town Guard.

Not long after Emperor Chongzhen's reward decree arrived in Pingyang Mansion, Liu Guoneng selected his men and horses, followed Wu Guoan, a thousand households in Beizhen Fusi, from Beijing, and went south to Huaiqing Mansion in Henan Province to find Li Xin, the guard of Lushun Town, who was recruiting troops in Huaiqing Mansion.

There is only one Wangwu Mountain between Binh Duong and Huai Khanh Provinces, and there are several river valleys from north to south in Wangwu Mountain.

In this way, after several days of climbing mountains and mountains, trekking through mountains and rivers, one day in late June, specifically at noon on June 22, Wu Guoan and his Jinyi guards came to Hanoi County, Huaiqing Prefecture, with Liu Guoneng and the empty-handed team he selected.

At this time, Hanoi City was also the same city of the prefecture and county, and the government of Huai Khanh Fu was located in Hanoi County, which was later known as Qinyang County, and at the same time, the county government of Hanoi County was also located in Hanoi City.

Therefore, at this time, Hanoi is not only the county seat of Hanoi County, but also the capital of Huai Khanh Province, so it is much more prosperous than the general county seat.

The Li family, where Li Xin was born, is one of the local noble families in Hanoi County, Huaiqing Prefecture.

Originally, the Li family brothers were well-known in Hanoi County, but in July of the first year of Chongzhen, after the news of Li Xin's high school jinshi was transmitted back to Huai Khanh Mansion, the Li family's fame in Hanoi became even greater.

In addition, a month ago, Li Xin, a former scholar in the Wuying Palace, and the current Lushun town guard and the imperial history of the Denglai Town Supervisor, returned to his hometown with his wife Chen Shirong, and in the old mansion of the Li family in Hanoi City, he invited the elders of the three relatives, six ancestors and nine clans to re-recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors, which can be described as a sensation, making the entire Huaiqing Mansion known to everyone.

Therefore, Wu Guoan and others made a little inquiry outside Hanoi City, and they heard about Li Xin's news, and immediately someone rushed to report to the Li family.

It just so happened that when Wu Guoan led Liu Guoneng and his team to Huaiqing Mansion City, Li Xin had just led a part of the newly recruited young people to withdraw a batch of money and grain from Luoyang City on the other side of the Yellow River on the first day.

Hearing that there was an official at the north gate outside Hanoi to inquire about his news, Li Xin and Li Xin's elder brothers naturally did not dare to slack off, and soon went to the north gate to greet them.

Wu Guoan is a thousand households in Jinyi Weibei Town, except for the Forbidden City, there is really no place in the world of the Ming Dynasty that he can't enter.

As soon as he showed the waist card of Wu Guoan, the Qianhu of Fusi in Jinyi Weibei Town, the squad army, the inspector and the tax collector who guarded the door naturally led the way in front to find Li Xin.

Li Xin is not familiar with Wu Guoan, and he doesn't know him, but as a thousand households in Jinyi Weibei Town, Wu Guoan is very familiar with Li Xin, a scholar in the Wuying Palace, a popular man in front of the emperor.

Those who can serve beside the emperor, whether they are the middle scholars of the cabinet or the military attachés of the imperial chamberlain, must be strictly examined by the Jinyi Weibei Town Fu Division.

Of course, the parties themselves do not know about this review, but only by passing this review can you really become a person who serves by the emperor's side.

At that time, among the Beizhen Fusi personnel who were in charge of examining the scholars in the Wuying Palace, there happened to be Wu Guoan, the hereditary thousand-household official of the Jinyi Guard.

Therefore, if you really want to talk about it, Wu Guoan's understanding of the direct collateral relatives of the Li family in Hanoi within three generations is afraid that even Li Xin himself will have to bow down.

People on both sides met on the street not far from the gate of Li's old house, and Wu Guoan didn't hold it big after seeing Li Xin, stepped forward to salute, and then introduced himself and Liu Guoneng.

And Li Xin's eldest brother Li Lun, second brother Li Zhong, and third brother Li Jun also hurried over to greet him.

Li Xin's elder brothers, who were quite snobbish before, in addition to Li Jun's fame, the eldest brother Li Lun and the second brother Li Zhong all followed their father Li Chunmao to do business since they were young, and they did not have fame, and they belonged to typical businessmen.

In the past, let alone the thousands of household officials of Jinyi Weibei Town, even the sesame mung bean officials like Jinyi Wei General Banner and Xiaoqi who came and went to Huaiqing Mansion, they couldn't get along.

At this time, when he saw Wu Guoan, a Jinyi Weibei Town Fusi Qianhu from Beijing, he naturally nodded and greeted him all the way, and his younger brother Li Xinzhi frowned.

This time, Li Xin took his wife Chen from Kaifeng Mansion to Hanoi County, Huaiqing Prefecture, originally to visit relatives with his wife, and also used the influence of the clan to recruit troops in Huaiqing Mansion and go north to Lushun.

Although Li Xin had already passed on to his uncle Li Chunyu, after all, Hanoi County, Huaiqing Prefecture, still had his three elder brothers, as well as his parents-in-law's family, and he did not come back to visit his relatives to report the good news when he was a junior soldier.

However, after Li Xinyi returned to Hanoi, the good guys, the eldest brother Li Lun, the second brother Li Zhong, the third brother Li Jun, the prefect of Huaiqing Prefecture, the county magistrate of Hanoi County, and the elders of the three relatives, six ancestors and nine clans, all went to the old house of the Li family and persuaded him to return to the Li family's house in Hanoi, Huaiqing Prefecture.