Ming Dynasty: Starting from Liaodong Jiangmen

Chapter 58
"The little girl's parents died when she was young and she lived on the street. Hong Lianshan, the leader of the Hong family class, adopted her as an adopted daughter so she could survive. Hong Lianshan died in the battle while guarding Luanzhou City, and the Hong family class dispersed."

"My little girl called the general, and she just wanted to ask him to help bury Hong Lianshan and my brothers and sisters in the Hong family. They also died defending the city."

The army has just entered the city. According to the strategic policy agreed with He Kegang last month, the next step is to set up an ambush around Luanzhou City to encircle the possible arrival of Houjin reinforcements.

At this time, every soldier is the key to victory or defeat.

Li Shunzu would not use these precious soldiers to help the refugee people find the bones of their family members.

But at the same time, Li Shunzu was too lazy to explain anything to them.

It's useless to explain to these people, they don't understand.

"No."

Li Shunzu's answer was simple, and he never stopped.

Unexpectedly, after taking a few steps, the woman in red stopped him.

"General!"

"Hong Lianshan's kindness to me is as great as a mountain, as much as the kindness of rebuilding. Without him, I would not be where I am today. He died in battle, but I couldn't even erect a tombstone for him. This is unfilial."

"My little girl knows that the general is not willing to send out soldiers to find the bones of my family members, so please ask the general to send someone to dig a big hole and let the literate military officers in the army write tombstones, so that they can be buried in peace."

"Is it possible for the General to accept this?"

Li Shunzu looked at the woman in red with a sincere face, lowered his head and looked at the blood stains in his hands, feeling a little pain, then clenched his fists, thinking of his parents who were still in the future, and smiled to himself.

"Ha ha."

Be filial. In this life, I am afraid that there is no hope of being able to be filial to the parents who will raise you in future generations.

Li Shunzu did not express his thoughts to his predecessors, but he felt the filial piety of the woman in red and paused in his footsteps.

Send Buddha to the West. Since people have been saved, let’s help to the end!

Li Shunzu raised his head, stared and said: "Xu Dong, I order you to send a small team from the supply camp to help these rescued women and children search for their relatives in the city. The dead will be buried with monuments, and the surviving ones will be given packaged dry food according to their distance and sent back." Township."

Xu Dong, the newly appointed logistics officer, did not dare to neglect and quickly raised his fists.

"Thank you, General!"

The woman in red had a happy face. In these troubled times, there were not many imperial generals who could be so kind to ordinary people.

Looking at the armor on Li Shunzu and the names these soldiers called each other just now, it is not difficult to know that they are from the Shenshu Camp among the three major camps in the capital.

Although the woman in red came from a lowly background, she also knew that the leading soldiers and generals of the Shenshu Camp were all noble children. These people were all children of the powerful in the capital, and now there were actually people who could empathize with the common people.

Looking at Li Shunzu's back, a little curiosity appeared on her face.

She was thoughtful and noticed the flash of disappointment in Li Shunzu's eyes just now. She thought that Li Shunzu's parents and relatives had suffered the same thing in Liaodong, and the fire danced in her eyes.

It seems that he has made up his mind.

"The Governor's Constitutional Order!"

"Where is Governor Li in the capital camp!"

Suddenly, there was a sound of iron hooves, approaching like a gust of wind.

Li Shunzu immediately pushed away the crowd and stepped out of the queue: "Here you bid!"

The soldier from Supervisor Biao Camp relaxed when he heard this and produced a document.

"Governor Xian issued an order. More than a thousand Yongping Dongnu cavalry have arrived outside the Luan River in the east of the city. He ordered Governor Li to lead his headquarters and cooperate with the Ningyuan Chinese Army He Kegang's mountain camp to set up defenses behind the Luan River and wait for the slave cavalry to cross the river. Strike halfway across!"

"This military order is extremely urgent. We will set out immediately upon receipt of the order. There will be no delay for a moment. Anyone who disobeys the order will be executed!"

Li Shunzu was refreshed and quickly agreed.

"Follow your orders!" Without enough time to rest in the city, Li Shunzu ordered the remaining 3000 soldiers from Qi Shenshu Camp and marched out from the north gate in order.

Li Shunzu shook his head, gently kneaded his temples, and then put on the blood-stained Xuanwu helmet.

He cheered up his tired spirit a little, then got on his horse and flicked his whip.

As soon as I walked out of the north gate, I heard loud shouts from the direction of the east gate, people shouting and horses neighing.

"Gather all the battalions and run forward!"

Looking up, Li Shunzu saw the Ningyuan Chinese Army He Kegang's high-waving flag with the word "he" in the air, making a hunting sound.

He Kegang and Li Shunzu were far away from each other. They were riding horses on a high slope, whipping up and down in their hands, and constantly issuing military orders to the various departments of the Tuanshan Camp.

As if he felt something, he suddenly turned his head, looked towards the north gate of Luanzhou City, and met Li Shunzu's eyes. Then he smiled slightly, clenched his right hand into a fist, and slapped the armor on his chest heavily.

This was a military salute in the Liao army. Li Shunzu responded by punching his chest when he saw it.

When He Kegang saw it, he turned his horse around and rushed to the battlefield.

Li Shunzu's headquarters, the Shenshu Camp, had 8000 soldiers, and He Kegang's Ningyuan Regiment Mountain Camp had more than [-] soldiers. The combined number was more than [-]. After receiving the order from Ma Shilong, the governor of Jiliao, they immediately assembled in the city and divided them from the north gate and the east gate. He galloped out and rushed to set up defenses near the Luanhe River without stopping.

If the intelligence is correct, more than 1000 brave and capable Jurchen slaves are coming from that direction to support them.

Li Shunzu stood up on his horse and looked around.

Li Shunzu remembered this battle in history, in which the Liao army won a complete victory. After more than 1000 Jin cavalry were almost annihilated.

The historical records of these Dongnu cavalry are the same as Ma Shilong's intelligence. They only have a size of about a thousand people. The Houjin guard general in Yongping sent them here more as a formality than to rescue Luanzhou.

Although this was the first time that Li Shunzu actually led troops to fight against Dong Nu, Li Shunzu didn't feel any nervousness in his heart.

After ascending a high slope, Li Shunzu stood on horseback and looked around.

They invaded Luanzhou before dawn, and by the time they arrived near the Luanhe River, it was already noon.

The midday sun was so dazzling that Li Shunzu had to raise his hand to block it. After a while, he continued to observe through the gaps between his fingers.

The flow of the Luan River is rapid, but near Luanzhou there are two places in the south and one in the north, about twenty miles apart, where the water is slightly slower and you can cross the river on horseback.

These are the two ambush points specified by Ma Shilong.

No matter where Nuqi chooses to cross the river, he will be violently attacked by the Liao army.

Under the leadership of the guide, the Shenshu camp began to be arranged in an orderly manner. The scene was solemn. Although some soldiers were lowering their heads and whispering, there was no noisy sound.

The actions of the entire Shenshu Camp were efficient and fast.

The actions of Shenshu Camp filled the entire Luanhe River Basin with a sense of tranquility. Everything was following the same trajectory as in history, retaking Luanzhou, setting up ambushes and reinforcements, and then besieging Yongping step by step.

But when Li Shunzu looked at the calm scenery on the other side of the Luanhe River, he always felt uneasy in his heart.

"Is it because it's the first time you lead an army alone in a battle?"

Li Shunzu shook his head and suppressed this uneasy feeling.

At this time, the dispatched sentry horse galloped back.

"General, there are traces of Dongnu cavalry five miles away from the other side!"

"It's less than two miles away!"

Li Shunzu cheered up, drew his sword, and shouted to the soldiers of the Shenshu Camp in front of him.

"Prepare for battle!"

(End of this chapter)