The next morning, Mao Wenlong came over to accompany Chu Xianzhang and Yuan Shu to have breakfast, accompanied Chu Xianzhang to Yuncong Island, Shenmi Island and other nearby islands near Phi Dao, visited the spot, and returned to Phi Dao Marshal's Mansion after lunch. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In addition to Lin Maochun, Du Gui and others who bid farewell to the Dongjiang River early in the morning and went to Liaodong Town to take up their posts, at this time, there were already many generals in the Phidao Marshal's Mansion, not only the generals stationed on Yuncong Island, Shenmi Island, and Tieshan City had arrived, but even the generals from Daludao and Shicheng Island, which were quite a long way away, also rushed over.

Before the time came, all the generals gathered in the lobby of the marshal's mansion, Chu Xianxian, Mao Wenlong sat down in the middle of the hall, veterans Shen Shikui, Qu Chengen, Yan Zhengzhong, Mao Wenlong's righteous son and grandson, Mao Shiji, Mao Chenglu, Mao Kejin, Mao Kexi, Mao Zhongming, Mao Zhongjin, etc.

Mao Wenlong said: "Today, the nearest generals are convened to discuss the matter, one is to solve the full amount of food and salary for the imperial court, and all ministries can receive it back today as a routine and distribute it one by one." Second, it was the imperial court that reported that Jiannu was dispatching troops and wanted to map my Dongjiang in September. ”

After all, the imperial court sent a great eunuch as an envoy to sail across the sea with hundreds of boats, and they heard about it a few days ago, and knew that this time the marshal convened the generals to discuss the matter, which must have something to do with it. But no one really thought that the imperial court would actually bring such news.

After Mao Wenlong finished speaking, although the generals in the hall were not in an uproar, they immediately looked at each other in shock, and began to talk in a whisper.

Mao Wenlong put the teacup in his hand on the several cases in his hand, and with a snap, the generals in the hall instantly quieted down and looked at Mao Wenlong in unison.

Mao Wenlong snorted, and then said: "The emperor's envoy Gonggong Chu is here, what kind of system do you have to deal with!" What if Jiannu comes to attack?! Am I still afraid of it in Dongjiang Town?! I have summoned you to wait here today to agree on how to respond. The soldiers are coming, the water is coming to cover the earth, what's so scary?! ”

At this time, Shen Shikui, who was at the forefront of the front, stood up and said, "Dashuai, I'm not afraid!" Our men in Dongjiang Town, when have you ever been afraid of Jiannu?!

"I'm just surprised, my Dongjiang Town is behind Jiannu, and I don't know that Jiannu sent troops to attack me, and Jingshi is far away in the pass, but how did I know about it?

"If we wait for the Xingshi to mobilize the crowd to beware of Jiannu, and Jiannu has not arrived in September, wouldn't it damage the wisdom of the marshal, the grass and trees are all soldiers, and make a joke?!"

After Shen Shikui finished speaking, he sat down by himself.

Qu Chengen, who was next to him, also stood up and said, "Shuai, what Vice General Shen said makes sense!" The lowly people were not alarmed, but worried that the information was false. ”

Mao Chenglu and others also echoed and said: "Father is angry! ”

After listening to everyone's words, Mao Wenlong continued: "Ben Shuai received the will of the imperial court yesterday, and he also had some doubts in his heart, but last night Ben Shuai thought about it for a night, but thought it was quite possible, Jiannu has always had the heart of the Dongjiang River, and in the battle of last year, Jiannu was defeated and returned, and now more than a year has passed, and there is a chance that it will make a comeback."

"Especially this afternoon, my own work in Dongjiang Town has also spread some news, and under the confirmation of the two phases, Ben Shuai concluded that at the beginning of September, at the latest at the end of September, most of the Jiannu will come to attack me, and if the generals are unprepared, the losses will be great."

After saying these words, Mao Wenlong said to Mao Shi, who was sitting below: "Sometimes tell me how the Liu brothers told you." ”

It turned out that yesterday evening, he learned the emperor's will from Chu Xianxian, saying that Jiannu might attack in September, although Mao Wenlong questioned the reliability of the situation on the surface, but he was very concerned in private, and soon sent someone to send an order to Mao Shi, the defender of Tieshan City on the other side of the sea, and asked him to send someone to Zhenjiangkou to contact the Liu brothers to inquire about the relevant news.

The Liu brothers, that is, Liu Xingzuo, Liu Xingzhi, Liu Xingpei, Liu Xingji, and Liu Xingxian are five brothers.

These brothers were originally from the Ming Dynasty's Kaiyuan Wei family, and after the fall of Tieling and Kaiyuan, they once became refugees, because these brothers were heroic and righteous, and they had always been powerful, and soon in a chaotic world, they pulled up a team of township soldiers, but this team of township soldiers who mainly followed the Ming army retreated all the way, but followed the generals of the Ming army who surrendered, and took refuge in Houjin.

Because Liu Xingzuo had a team in his hands that obeyed his brother's orders, the old slave slave Hachi adopted the usual method of surrender, that is, to pick one of his ugly daughters to marry him.

In this way, Liu Xingzuo, like traitors such as Li Yongfang, Sun Degong, and Tong Yangxing, soon became one of the sons-in-law of the old slave after surrendering.

However, when the old slave slave Hachi was alive, he treated the unarmed Han people of Liaodong very cruelly, and the slaves did not produce, but specialized in looting, and every time there was a famine and lack of food, they would rob the Han people of Liaodong in groups, killing poor ghosts for a while, and killing rich households for a while, so that the Han people of Liaodong could not continue to be slaves in peace and stability.

In order to assimilate the Han people as soon as possible and eliminate the Han culture, during this period, he also killed Xiucai several times and slaughtered a large number of the essence of the Han people in Liaodong.

And the brothers led by Liu Xingzuo, the basic strength or basic plate under them is the Liaodong Han people, when they found that they could not protect the lives and property of their subordinates, and caused their subordinates to flee in large numbers, and their own strength was gradually weakened, they immediately gave birth to the idea of breaking away from Houjin.

Of course, although these brothers surrendered to Houjin, the brothers are Han after all, which can't be changed no matter what, and it's useless to shave their hair and change their names.

Therefore, since the surrender of Houjin, the brothers who have always been unruly have naturally suffered all kinds of humiliation and bullying from their slave masters, so in the end, they simply crossed the sea and went to Daming, and from then on they tried their best to contact the generals of Dongjiang Town and Dengzhou Town.

Especially Liu Xingzuo, after becoming the son-in-law of the old slave of Jianyu, was also given the name of a Jianzhou Jurchen, called Aita, so this person in history was also called Liu Aita.

This Liu Aita sent his henchmen to Dengzhou when Yuan Keli was the governor of Denglai, and surrendered to Yuan Keli to express his intention of submission.

However, the imperial court at that time doubted Liu Aita, that is, Liu Xingzuo's sincerity, and hesitated, so Yuan Keli let Liu Xingzuo continue to stay on the Liaodong Peninsula as a buffer between Jiannu and the home of Denglai Town.

Later, because of the leakage of news, Jiannu strengthened the surveillance of Liu Xingzuo's department, which eventually led to Liu Xingzuo's unsuccessful defection.

Although he did not cross the sea in the end, Liu Xingzuo's department and the Ming army of Denglai Town, which was across the sea, also reached a tacit understanding, basically taking Jinzhou as the boundary, demarcating the battle line, and leaving Jinzhou, Lushun and other strongholds for the Ming army on the Liaodong Peninsula, and maintaining relative calm.

Later, after the death of the old slave, Huang Taiji took over the throne of the Jin Khan, and his attitude towards the Han people in Liaodong underwent a completely different change, no longer blindly harsh and looted, but adopted a policy of Huairou assimilation, Liu Xingzuo and his subordinates defected to the Ming Dynasty The mood is no longer so urgent, especially with the departure of Yuan Keli, Liu Xingzuo and the Ming court are considered to have broken contact.

However, although the Liu Xingzuo brothers broke off contact with the Ming court, they never completely broke off relations with Mao Wenlong's department in Dongjiang Town.

Although the battle lines were connected to each other, if there was no supervision of the Houjin army, Liu Xingzuo's troops would basically not take the initiative to attack the various coastal islands of Dongjiang Town, and the army of Dongjiang Town rarely took the initiative to attack the territory occupied by Liu Xingzuo.

In many cases, there is even some trade between them. And this is also an important basis for many civil servants in the imperial court to attack Mao Wenlong for collaborating with the enemy.

But the reigning Emperor Chongzhen, who knows the future, is different from the original history, he knows that Liu Xingzuo is indeed a true man who is in the Han Dynasty, and he has not forgotten his Han duty.

It was in this battle of Jiannu's attack on Dongjiang in September of the first year of Chongzhen's reign that Liu Xingzuo led more than 400 people from his henchmen to defect, ruthlessly pitted a Jiannu army, and officially surrendered to Dongjiang Town.

After Liu Xingzuo surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court gave him the position of the general soldier of Jinzhou, let him garrison Jinzhou, and died in the battle with Jianyu in the fifth year of Chongzhen.

Because Mao Wenlong was dead at that time, the dragons in Dongjiang Town were leaderless, and the successor generals such as Chen Jisheng and Shen Shikui did not find his body, so the court at that time disagreed with his death, and some people suspected that this Liu Xingzuo may have surrendered Jiannu by fraudulently dying.

Therefore, the court has never reached a conclusion on Liu Xingzuo's death, and has not given rewards and mourning like other generals who died in battle.

Liu Xingzuo's younger brother, Liu Xingzhi, who was the deputy general of Guangludao at the time, was originally dissatisfied with Chen Jisheng, the chief general of Dongjiang Town, and others after Mao Wenlong's death, and after knowing that the imperial court did not reward and compensate for his brother's death, he rebelled in anger and killed Chen Jisheng, the chief soldier of Dongjiang Town at that time, so that Dongjiang Town, which was already divided after Mao Wenlong's death, was completely in chaos, and there was no longer the power to contain and attack Houjin.

Of course, this is all an afterthought, and it is basically impossible for such a thing to happen again, after all, Mao Wenlong will not be killed by Yuan Chonghuan like he did at the beginning.

Having said that, Mao Wenlong asked Mao to speak sometimes. Mao sometimes immediately said: "I was ordered by the marshal, and sent people to Zhenjiang overnight to get in touch with Liu Xingxian.

Liu Xingxian asked people to bring a message to the humble post, saying that his brother Liu Aita had been recruited to Shenyang, and before leaving, he told him that this trip to Shenyang might be a matter of assigning troops this autumn. At the same time, he also said that the above ordered him to store grain and grass at the mouth of the Zhenjiang River for later use.

"From a humble point of view, Jianyu's move may really be aimed at our Dongjiang Town. This is a little humble opinion, please be handsome. ”

After Mao You finished speaking, Mao Wenlong pressed his hand at him, asked him to sit down, and then said: "Sometimes what you say, you can also hear it clearly." Jianyu will attack our Dongjiang River around September, and this matter is true.

"So Ben Shuai ordered, Mao sometimes rushed back to Tieshan City immediately, straightened out the soldiers and horses, stored grain and grass, and prepared more things to defend the city. If Jiannu comes to attack Iron Mountain, be sure to keep the city from losing. ”

Mao sometimes bowed down and hugged his fists in promise.

Next, Mao Wenlong arranged one by one, ordered Shen Shikui and Yan Zhengzhong to replace Lin Maochun and Du Gui respectively, guarded Shicheng Island and Changshan Island, and ordered Mao Chenglu and others to reply to each place, pay enough military salaries, boost morale, and build fortifications to prepare for the upcoming big battle.

At the same time, Mao Wenlong sent batch after batch of spies to the Zhenjiang estuary and the Jiannu area to keep abreast of the movements of the Houjin army assembling on the banks of the Yalu River.