The tribe where the lobster and hairtail fish are located is on the Jinshan Peninsula and is called the "Children of the Sea" tribe. It is one of the many Chumash tribes in the coastal area of "California", numbering about 900, which is considered a large tribe, of which there are about 300 warriors. Weapons, the best is obsidian knives and axes, bows and arrows have been invented, but they are all weak soft bows, arrows are made of fish and animal bones, because the bow and arrow were invented, there is also a shield, it is a leather shield made of animal fur. There were no horses and no armor.

It's basically vulnerable—if it's a big fight, of course! If there is a guerrilla war, with their familiarity with the terrain, the tribe of the Children of the Sea can still deal a heavy blow to the invaders sent by Chen Dexing.

"Less than half of us...... That's 400 people! "Elder Shark is much better at math than a lobster, knowing numbers within 1000 and knowing that half of 900 is 400. Moreover, Elder Shark had traveled to the south when he was young, and he had seen the market. He then asked, "Did the seamen let your blood?" ”

"No, they wrapped my wound in the skin of an unknown animal." The lobster gestured to the white cloth wrapped around his shoulder.

"And isn't their leader odd-looking?" The old shark asked again. "Do you have a tattoo?"

"No, the leaders of the Sea People are just as good as their common people...... But it's not quite the same as us, the nose is a little smaller, and the skin color is not quite the same. In addition, the sea people do not seem to have tattoos, at least not on their faces and hands. ”

The old shark turned to an old Indian sitting in the middle, who was almost submerged in feathers, and said, "Chief, these sea people are certainly not from the south. Because the people in the south like to bleed, the appearance of the leader is particularly strange. ”

At this time, the region of Mexico south of California was considered a very developed place in the Americas. It is mainly inhabited by Toltec, Chichimec (the Aztecs are one of them), Maya and other peoples. Among them, the Toltecs have weakened, and the Aztecs have not yet risen. The Mayans were struggling.

And these sea people who came from the sea were obviously not Toltec, Chichimec or Mayan.

"And where did they come from?" The old chief asked.

"Probably...... Probably from the sea! "The learned old shark said," probably some island in the middle of the sea...... Legend has it that there are many islands in the middle of the sea, and the people of the islands are skilled at building ships. ”

"So what should we do?"

"They should be fought!" The old shark said, "This is our home, the beasts in the mountains, the fish and shrimp in the sea, and this land are all ours!" And they ...... It's an alien invader! Moreover, there are only 400 of them! ”

"But they have a very strong stone knife ......"

"Then we should destroy them. Capture their stone knives! The old shark squinted his eyes and thought for a moment, "We should gather all the warriors of the nearby Chumash tribe so that we can have 10 400 people, and with so many people, we will definitely win!" ”

The old chief in the pile of feathers nodded, stood up, squinted his eyes as if in a daze, and said after a while, "Shark, you are quite right. I have already felt the revelation of the gods, and the gods do not want his peace to be broken by these foreign sea people! ”

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At this time, it was the late autumn when the northeast land turned from a bumper harvest to a desolate one, and the vast corridor of western Liaoning was slaughtered. Although the northwesterly wind has risen, the temperature is not too cold. Great for marching.

In order to be clearly different from the Red Jacket Army of the Eastern Tang Dynasty, the Northern Ming Shijue Army issued a brand new battle jacket before this dispatch, which was golden. From afar, it is a large area of gold. Correspondingly, the Yellow and Yellow flags of the Eight Banners Army also received new black jackets. The Eight Banners of Chen Ji have become black, black, red, red, white, white, blue, and blue. And led by two black flags.

On this piece of black soil in the Western Liaoning Corridor. A long, five-colored dragon is rolling forward. Mounted infantry, cavalry, eight-horse three-inch bronze cannons, and baggage soldiers in horse-drawn four-wheeled carts—the baggage soldiers consisted only of a small number of sergeants, soldiers, or eight banners. The main composition was the Goryeo soldiers, banner slaves and serfs.

Today's Northern Ming army has increased significantly in number, from 80,000 to 120,000. Among them, the navy accounted for 40,000, including the North and South Ocean fleets, the newly opened naval academies, and the defenders of various naval fortresses. The army was expanded to 80,000, and it was still divided into two parts, the Shijue and the Eight Banners, and the Shijue Army was divided into three armies, the upper, the middle, and the lower, and one cavalry division and one guards division, with a total of 48,000 men. The total number of soldiers in the Eight Banners was 30,000, of which the two black flags and the two red flags were relatively numerous, with 4,000 people, and the other four banners were only 3,500. Another 2,000 belong to various institutions and army academies.

Although the Sergeant Army and the Eight Banners Army belong to two systems, in combat operations, the military of a Sergeant Army is often assigned to a flag of light banner soldiers. The middle and lower armies that accompanied Chen Dexing to western Liaoning this time were accompanied by two white flags, a total of 7,000 and eight banner soldiers. In addition, the cavalry divisions of the Eight Banners Army, the two black flags and the two blue flags, formed a cavalry corps. The three armies of the middle, lower and cavalry armies totaled 55,000 soldiers. The Goryeo soldiers, banner slave soldiers, and serf soldiers who served as baggage soldiers were also 55,000 people, and together they were 110,000 troops. More than 20,000 wagons of various kinds accompanied the army, and more than 200,000 war horses and horses were mobilized!

In addition, the Beiyang Fleet of the Beiming Navy also went all out, on the one hand, to suppress the remnants of the Mongolian naval forces in the Bohai Bay; On the one hand, it is also responsible for transporting baggage supplies to western Liaoning.

As for the two red flags of the Northern Army, the Army, the Army, the Eight Banners, and the Nanyang Fleet, which were not dispatched, they also had their own tasks. or control the southeast coast to defend Taiwan; or garrison Shenyang and Liaoyang to prevent the Mongols from moving south from the north; Or Tanggu City, which was stationed on the banks of the Haihe River, was responsible for containing the Mongol army in Yanyun Province.

After nearly a year of preparation, the entire Beiming warplanes finally turned their horsepower to the maximum in this autumn!

Unlike the previous marches, this time the troops were all equipped with chariots and horses, and theoretically all the troops could ride on horseback. On the actual march, in order to save horsepower, all the mounted infantry led their horses on foot, and the supplies and armor they carried with them were carried by horses. Even so, the burden on the infantry on the march was greatly reduced, and the speed of the march was greatly accelerated. The daily march mileage reached about eighty miles.

The army set out from Mingdu on 18 August and advanced all the way to western Liaoning along the official road near Bohai Bay. The Mongols in western Liaoxi had shrunk their defensive lines after the Battle of Zhuangshui more than a year earlier and withdrew to Luanping Road, west of Yuguan. At the same time, a small number of Han Chinese who had cultivated land in the western Liaoning corridor were also removed.

Although there were no Han Chinese in Liaodong under Mongol rule, there were still some Han Chinese living in the long and narrow Liaoxi corridor, which was not suitable for grazing, and in some valleys in the mountainous areas of western Liaoning. After the Battle of Zhuangshui, the Mongol rule on the Liaodong Peninsula collapsed, and the western Liaoxi side also withdrew in a hurry, only the Han and Mongols in the Liaoxi corridor were evacuated, but the mountainous areas of western Liaoxi were omitted. The Han Chinese and wild Jurchens there lived a good life without the Mongols pressing on their heads for a year.

As for the news of "the birth of the Ming King", "Zhuangshui Great Victory" and "Daming Longxing", it is also like having wings, and the wind seems to spread all over the mountainous areas of western Liaoning. And the mountain people of Liaoxi, because they were bullied by the Mongols, were mostly inclined to the emerging Ming king.

Moreover, the land outside the Saiwai has been new and old for hundreds of thousands of years, and the Jurchens rose in the past, and with a full army of 10,000 soldiers, they destroyed the Great Khitan that dominated the grassland outside the Saiwai for more than 200 years, and also swept half of the Great Song Dynasty. Later, the rise of Mongolia also broke the Jurchen Dajin, and it is said that it swept all the way to the extreme west. Now the Ming Dynasty is rejuvenating Liaodong again, and the momentum is still above the Jurchen and Mongolia in the past!

How did the Han people and Jurchens in western Liaoning not know about the matter of Conglong Jiangong? In the past, when the Jurchens and Mongols rose, they quickly absorbed a large number of vassal tribes and grew in a short period of time. And among the tribesmen who started from the dragon earlier, which one didn't get a good reward? Now that such a good opportunity is placed in front of the mountain people of Liaoxi again, if the sons and daughters of any family miss it, it is really sorry for the ancestors, and sorry for the descendants.

Therefore, when Chen Dexing's army marched into the western Liaoning corridor. Every day, hundreds of Liaoxi warriors with swords and bows rode horses to vote, and many of them were fathers, sons and brothers.

The arrival of these local snakes in western Liaoning not only brought Chen Dexing a replenishment of troops, but also brought extremely valuable information.

While the troops were having dinner and resting, a middle-aged man named Zhang Anzhong and his four sons, Jun'an, Juntai, Junshan and Junbao, were taken to Chen Dexing's Chinese army. Zhang Anzhong claimed to be a mountain native of western Liaoning, who had been a farmer for generations, but also a trader, and often went to the territory of Hesar Ulus in the northern part of the mountainous area of western Liaoning to trade with Mongolian herders.

"Tell the king that the younger and his four sons have just returned from selling goods in the steppes to the north, and over there is the territory of the king of the Phase-shifting Brother, and there are about 100,000 Mongol Tartars. When I was a little old, I found something strange. The Mongol Tartars there have slaughtered all the cattle and sheep, and the meat has been salted......"

"What? Cattle and sheep slaughtered? Chen Dexing frowned and said left and right while eating the naan bread and meat, "What's the matter with this phase shifting brother?" Cattle and sheep are slaughtered, what will happen next year? Days are out? ”

Li Cuixian, who was with the army, snorted and said, "No, it's going south to eat our Han people!" The cattle and sheep go too slowly, and if they drive the march, they will travel more than twenty or thirty miles a day. If you only bring horses and carts, it is possible to travel hundreds of miles in a day. They only slaughtered cattle and sheep, but in the spring of the next year, they will not be able to turn into calves and lambs! (To be continued......)