Flowers on the other side [Comprehensive Red House]

Mao Wenlong hesitated for a long time, and then said to Wen: "Master Zhang married a daughter, Mrs. Qin married a daughter-in-law, and the city almost turned upside down. Now you can spend a little money, but you can send Chengdou out. The difficulty is getting from here to Shanhaiguan This section of the road. My son chatted with the imperial guards who came to announce the decree, and said that all the post stations a hundred miles south from Liaoyang were withdrawn. The people also came to Liaoyang or went to the guards nearby, and there was no one in the hundred miles.”

Wen Shi couldn't help hugging his son even tighter.

It is still difficult for an adult to drive hundreds of miles a day. She is really worried about such a young child going out in such a weather that starts to count nine.

But she was even more worried about leaving the child in Liaoyang.

"Master, it's all my fault that I can't bear it. Chengdou should have been sent to my sister long ago."

Mao Wenlong stretched out his hand and patted Wen's thin shoulders, and picked up his sleepy and wilting son.

"Don't say you are reluctant, I am still reluctant. I come back from my shift every day to see Chengdou, and I am not tired at all. Hurry up and ask the mother-in-law to bring some hot water to wipe the child's hands and face. I didn't see Chengdou was sleepy. I can’t even open my eyes.”

Wen hurriedly ordered his mother-in-law to bring water, then took off the bracelet on his wrist, twisted a hot towel and wiped his son's face and hands.

Mao Wenlong is now on defense.He was born in the fourth year of Wanli.His grandfather was originally a businessman who ran official salt in Shaanxi, but later moved to Hangzhou due to business needs.His father abandoned business and went to literature, and took donations as a prison.Relying on the wealth and extravagance of the salt merchant, he was able to marry the daughter of the Shen family, the head of the famous Hangzhou family.

The wealth of the Mao family and the talents of the Shen family are combined, and each has the best of both worlds.Mao Wenlong's father began to study with Shen Guangzuo, Shen's younger brother.However, due to unforeseen circumstances, Mao Wenlong lost his father at the age of nine, so his mother had to live with his younger brother Shen Guangzuo who was dependent on his mother's family.Shen Guangzuo also regarded these nephews as his own parent-child upbringing.However, although Mao Wenlong studied with his uncle, his favorite was military books, and he was always reluctant to deal with the Four Books and Five Classics.Shen Guangzuo knew that he was unlikely to be successful in his career, so he had to ask a famous teacher to teach him martial arts.

However, as Shen Guangzuo entered the official career in Xingbang High School in the 23rd year of Wanli (1589), Mao Wenlong was left unattended in Hangzhou.The turning point happened in the 33rd year of Wanli. Mao Wenlong was adopted by his grandfather to his uncle who was doing business in Anshan, Liaodong, as his heir.

Shen was reluctant to part with her eldest son, but the other two sons were married and had children. In comparison, she had no choice but to let go of her eldest son, who was eager to go to Liaodong to make a name for himself.

When Mao Wenlong went north, Shen Guangzuo was already in charge of the Ministry of Punishment.He knew that his nephew's idea was to become a general and make contributions, so he recommended his nephew to Li Chengliang's account.At that time, the situation in Liaodong had become tense, and Nu/Erhachi continued to expand his power. The hero Li Chengliang could only avoid Nu/Erhachi's edge in his later years.During this period, Mao Wenlong followed the brothers and generals of the Li family, traveled all over the places where Liaodong could go, and also won No.6 in the Liaodong martial arts examination, becoming a hundred households.

Afterwards, under the operation of Shen Guangzuo, he was quickly promoted to President Qian.In the 33rd year of Wanli (1608), he was promoted to the defense of Kuiyang.Then the mother decided to marry Zhang, who was born in Shanxi gentry.Unfortunately, Mrs. Zhang was infertile. A few years later, Mrs. Zhang decided to accept a concubine, Mrs. Wen, in Liaoyang, and gave birth to a son, Mao Chengdou.After the Battle of Salhu, the Zhang family wanted to take Mao Wenlong's only son to Hangzhou.But Wen Shi couldn't bear it anyway, and Mao Wenlong didn't support her, so he had to let go of this idea.

Shuoguan in Kuiyang Town, guarded by Mao Wenlong, is the first pass of the Liaodong Great Wall in the Ming Dynasty.Mao Wenlong's Kuiyang Defense is a real and powerful military officer.He has twelve castles and more than 3000 soldiers under his command.In the first lunar month, Xiong Tingbi went to Zhenshuo to watch the defense, and encountered Nurhachi attacking Kuanyang, Kuandian and other places.

Xiong Tingbi didn't have enough troops in his hands, so he could only forcefully divide his troops to strengthen the defense of various places.

In May, Ha Chi first sent Da Bei Le Daishan to attack the area under Mao Wenlong's jurisdiction. Mao Wenlong asked Xiong Tingbi for reinforcements, but Xiong Tingbi had no soldiers to send.

Mao Wenlong had no choice but to fight Daishan with limited troops.In the end, Daishan captured six fortresses, and Nu/Erhachi sent thousands of elite soldiers to attack Zhenshuoguan, losing a lot of livestock and people.

In October, Xiong Tingbi sent someone to notify Mao Wenlong to return to Shenyang with the remaining soldiers and civilians.Mao Wenlong was full of reluctance, he didn't want to evacuate Zhenshuo Pass.

The person sent by Zhou Yongchun told him: "General Mao, the merchants of Shanxi were taken over by the emperor. Jiannu will not get food and other supplies from Zhangjiakou this winter, so they will definitely send troops to Kuiyang again. In order to defend the Shenyang and Liaoyang have no troops sent to you. Do you think you can defend the large area from Kuandian to Kuandian with thousands of people? Or do you want to send food and grass to Jiannu and help them survive the winter?"

Mao Wenlong knew the result without thinking.If he doesn't allocate another [-] soldiers, he won't be able to defend Kuiyang here.As long as he didn't want to seek death, or face the Jiannu alone who were desperately looking for food in winter, he had no choice but to lead the soldiers and people back to Shenyang obediently.After a few days of delay in Shenyang, he was transferred to Liaoyang.

Liaoyang is Liaoyang.It happened that his concubine and son were sent to Liaoyang by him.

But the Liaoyang garrison always looked at the soldiers they brought with them with that kind of defensive eyes, which made Mao Wenlong very uncomfortable.When the incident between Ning Wan and Ma Guozhu happened, Mao Wenlong felt that he was in the cold weather of Laba, and was covered in white sweat from the fright.

If these two scourges succeed, Jiannu will get Liaoyang City, and he Mao Wenlong will definitely be cut alive by Nu/Erhachi.The number of Jurchens killed in his hands is not in single digits.

Mao Wenlong did not support Wen's claim, and Wen was so regretful that he couldn't sleep.She tossed and turned on the big kang, Mao Wenlong was also disturbed and couldn't sleep peacefully, so he had to say to Wen Shi: "I will ask the imperial envoy tomorrow to see if he is willing to take Chengdou to the capital."

Only then did Wenshi calm down, thinking about what gift to prepare for the imperial envoy, after a long time he fell into a deep sleep.

Mao Wenlong went to Xun'an Yushi Mansion early in the morning the next day, hoping to see Yan Jizu.He thought very carefully, first he asked Yan Jizu to bring a letter to his uncle, and because of this uncle's Shuntian Fu Yin, he didn't worry about Yan Jizu not helping.I sent two useful confidants with my son to mix with the Imperial Guard's imperial guards, and they will be safe after entering the customs.

But what he saw were the guards of the Imperial Army who were ready to go. Yan Jizu had already mounted his horse and was about to leave Liaoyang City immediately.

Zhang Quan was puzzled when he saw him coming.Regarding the soldiers brought back by Mao Wenlong, Zhang Quan felt that the discipline was too lax, and he hadn't worked hard enough to punish them severely.

After Mao Wenlong saluted first, Zhang Quan asked him what was the matter.

"My lord, the last general came here just to ask the angel when he will return to the capital, and he wants to bring some earthenware to be the uncle of Shuntian Fu Yin."

Zhang Quan still doesn't know the relationship between Mao Wenlong and Shen Guangzuo.But he had read Mao Wenlong's file. Tim's parents and relatives were all in Anshan, Liaodong, and Shen Guangzuo was from Jiangnan.

So he looked at Yan Jizu.

Yan Jizu said: "Xiantai has an order to return to the capital quickly, and we will leave Liaoyang."

Mao Wenlong had no choice but to bow his hands to Yan Jizu and Zhang Quan, put aside his thoughts, and watched Yan Jizu leave surrounded by the imperial guards.

Seeing Yan Jizu leave, Zhang Quan invited Mao Wenlong to the barracks with him.As he walked, he asked, "Is Shen Guangzuo the Shuntian governor you're talking about?"

Mao Wenlong nodded, "Yes. That's the uncle of the general. The general studied with his uncle in Hangzhou when he was young, and when his uncle was a Jinshi, he was sent to Anshan to inherit the heir. He still had to rely on his uncle's advice in everything. .”

Seeing that what Mao Wenlong said was right, Zhang Quan's doubts were relieved.It's no wonder that Mao Yunlong quickly went from a hundred households to a thousand generals, and then was promoted to a guard, and was sent to Kuiyang to be trusted.

It's no wonder that he didn't guard Kuiyang in May this year, and he didn't see any punishment.

Thinking of this, Zhang Quan blamed Mao Yunlong for not guarding Kuiyang.The defense line of hundreds of miles, even if the commander-in-chief defends it, it is inevitable that due to the dispersion of troops and the rapid movement of the slave cavalry, he will lose sight of one and lose the other.

It didn't take long for Mao Yunlong's frustration to find the censor because he was too late. More than [-] slave cavalry came to the city of Liaoyang, less than an hour after Yan Jizu who left the city.This made him feel that the opportunity to kill the enemy and make meritorious service has come, and at the same time secretly rejoice that Yan Jizu didn't ask what he wanted.If there is a slight delay, he will be blocked by the Jiannu protesting in a circle under Liaoyang City.

These more than ten thousand people were sent by Ning Wanwo to send letters to Nu/Erhachi in Shenyang.None of Chu Ba's schemes succeeded, and he and Ma Guozhu realized that Zhang Quan and Qin Liangyu had fallen for it.The two hid in the cellar of Ma's house. Knowing that they might not be able to escape this catastrophe, they sent their confidants to try their best to leave the city.The confidant walked south for a long time, and no one followed him before he dared to turn around and go around in circles to Shenyang.

Nu/Erhachi is still very concerned about Ning Wan, me and Ma Guozhu. These two people have helped him a lot in government affairs.The Ning family and the Ma family had business dealings with him in Fushun in the past, and now they are likely to be imprisoned, so he decisively mobilized [-] troops from Fengji and another [-] from Shenyang to Liaoyang.Trying to create a chance for Ning Wanwo and Ma Guozhu to escape in the chaos of the siege.

When Zhang Quan saw that the army of Jiannu was marching down the city, he chose the northwest side and took advantage of the upper wind to attack the north gate.He followed Qin Liangyu and Hou Shilu to watch the battle in the North Tower.

Qin Liangyu said casually: "These people are basically cavalry, and they are even making ladders, it doesn't look like they are preparing to attack the city."

After hearing Qin Liangyu's words, Hou Shilu immediately understood why he thought these Jiannu were strange.After thinking about it for a while, he said to Zhang Quan: "Master Zhang, I'm afraid these people didn't come here to attack the city."

Zhang Quan nodded, "Drunkards don't mean to drink. Pass down the order to break the hamstrings of Ma Guozhu and me. If anyone dares to go to the Baigan barracks to make trouble, kill those two scourges first."

Qin Liangyu smiled and said nothing, anyone who wants to enter the Baigan Barracks can enter it!She still gave Zhang Quan face and ordered her followers, "Tell the soldiers to be more careful. Be careful that someone sets fire outside the barracks."

When Zhang Quan saw that Jiannu's army had arrived at the city, no matter whether they were able to attack the city or not, martial law was strictly enforced, and no common people were allowed to leave their homes to take to the streets, otherwise they would be killed.

The tense atmosphere of the war enveloped Liaoyang in this way.

The author has something to say: Kuiyang City is a military center.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the Ming army guarded Zhenshuoguan here and fought fiercely with Hachi;

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War were the focus of contention between the two warring parties;

During the War of Liberation, the fourth column of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army wiped out a reorganized division of the Kuomintang here, reversing the situation in the Northeast battlefield.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Mao Wenlong took Kuiyang as the center, went east to Liangmadian in Kuandian, and went west to Dalu Island in Donggang, leading the army and the people to attack Nurhachi.

In the first month of 1620, the Ming Dynasty sent Xiong Tingbi to Zhenshuoguan to inspect the defense. At this time, Ha Chi sent troops to Kuiyang, Kuandian and other places. Xiong Tingbi did not have enough troops to deal with it. He sent 1100 men to reinforce Kuandian Fort, 1800 men to reinforce Kuiyang Fort, and 2100 men to reinforce Qinghe Fort.

In May, Hachi looted a large number of livestock and people.

The Ming army did not make a counterattack for a long time.

(The carpenter emperor in this article protected Xiong Tingbi, and did not hand over the memorial to impeach him to the court, nor did Xiong Tingbi return Shangfang's sword in anger. He managed Liaodong according to his own intention without interference.

History has turned a corner here with Xiong Tingbi.

Xiong Tingbi reduced the defense of the controllable area in Liaodong and cooperated with the emperor's practice of starving to death and building slaves. What happened later is far from history. )

Historically, it was not until the spring of the second year that Xiong Tingbi assembled an army of 13, centered on Fushun, and attacked Nurhachi from Kuiyang Fort, Qinghe Fort and other places at the same time.

However, the Ming army suffered another disastrous defeat, and Hachi took advantage of the victory to pursue and captured Kuiyang Fort.

In 1622, in order to regain Kuiyang Fort, Mao Wenlong fought a big battle with Nurhachi near Kuiyang Fort. After 3 days of fierce fighting, the two sides had to withdraw their troops regardless of the outcome.It wasn't until four years later that Mao Wenlong once again fought in Kuiyang with the leader Hachi, and finally took back Kuiyang Fort.