1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 411 Journey to Liaodong ([-])
Qi Dajiang and his party of three ships stayed in Nanchangshan Island for four days before slowly unloading the various materials on board.During this period, five or six fishing boats from near Penglai and Dengzhou came to the island to stop and repair.In order to ensure that the fort on the island will not be discovered by outsiders before the fortress is built, all intruders are detained by Hanzhou officers and soldiers.However, the Hanzhou people didn't treat them too harshly, and spent six or seven silver dollars to buy all the fish on their boat.He also promised that as long as they help the Hanzhou people build houses and cities, they will be given two silver dollars a month, and they will have enough food.

Those Shandong fishermen who were detained were both surprised and happy. They thought that these people with knives and guns were either pirates or Tartars from Liaodong, but unexpectedly they claimed to be from the distant Hanzhou.A few years ago, he was also a pure Ming. Because he couldn't survive, he had to stay away from his hometown.And their leader, who also spoke with an authentic Jiaodong accent, also drew a little closer to them invisibly, and he was not so scared in his heart.

However, I heard those Hanzhou people say that they are not allowed to leave the island in a short period of time, and they have to be hired for a long time until a small city is built.A dozen or so fishermen who were detained immediately clamored. All the young and old were waiting for them to bring back the fish, so that they could exchange for the small amount of food to feed their families.If you stay here for a long time, wouldn't it be hard for the old and weak at home to survive?

Qi Dajiang thought for a moment, and couldn't help but sympathize with these fishermen who were temporarily detained by them.Therefore, Fang Xiquan, the captain of the township army, had to order more than ten township soldiers, led by three fishermen, to return to Penglai County on the opposite side in a large boat, and smuggle all these fishermen's families to the island in one go, pretending to be The first inhabitants of the island.

"Zhao Hongxing, Zhang Wenqi specially recommended you to me when he was leaving, saying that during the two years of construction of Hanxing Island, you have made excellent achievements in various tasks." Qi Dajiang looked at the thirty-something man in front of him, speaking earnestly Said: "It is of great significance for our Hanzhou to build a stronghold so close to Daming. However, the difficulty is not small. Your first task is to build a stronghold with initial defensive capabilities before October." A small fortress, houses that can accommodate about 200 people, and several warehouses. Do you have confidence in this?"

"Commander Qi puts it down, although this small island has been deserted for a long time, there are still many broken tiles and ruins, which can save us a lot of building materials. In the past few days, I have brought a few bricklayers around Turning around, I found that there is clay suitable for firing bricks near the east side of the island." Zhao Hongxing said confidently: "As long as I have the materials and enough manpower, I am confident that before winter comes in October, Build a small masonry and timber fort."

"That's great!" Qi Dajiang nodded with satisfaction, "I'll take the boat to Liaodong first to investigate the situation of slavery, and then I will go to Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Guangdong. Before November, I will bring enough Come here again with your food and other supplies for the winter.”

"Commander Qi, Jiannu is fierce and brutal, so be careful when you go to Liaodong, and it's best not to land lightly." Zhao Hongxing reminded.

"I'm just going to have a look, I won't meet Jiannu face to face." Qi Dajiang said with a smile.

Countless times I heard Qitian talk about how the Jiannu in Liaodong went against the sky. They killed wave after wave of Ming elites and killed one after another. In the end, Jianu would break through the pass and break into the pass. Occupy the capital, and then sweep the entire land of China.After talking too much, Qi Dajiang couldn't help but attach great importance to Jiannu in Liaodong.Now that he has arrived at the border of Shandong, only a few days away from Liaodong, he can't help but have a strange thought in his heart, go there to see what Jiannu looks like, why many people mention Jiannu, either their faces are ashen, or they are gnashing their teeth.

"Jiannu are all humanoid beasts. They don't regard us Han people as human beings at all." Ning Zhongliang's eyes were red and his face was a little distorted. "If it falls into their hands, it will be a kind of suffering to live."

Ning Zhongliang was one of the Liao people who fled to Shandong from Fuhai in Liaodong two years ago. Qi Dajiang specially brought him and a few fugitives who had been in Liaodong here, hoping to rely on their familiarity with the situation in Liaodong to explore A scene of slavery.

"Jiannu's force is really very powerful?" Qi Dajiang asked curiously.

"...If we were to face Jiannu's armored soldiers, maybe seven or eight of us would not be able to get close." Ning Zhongliang said with some shame: "Even those ordinary Jiannu old thieves, two or three of us are no match for them."

"What if we use muskets?" Qi Dajiang was a little speechless, as they said, wouldn't all those Jiannujia soldiers be able to defeat ten with one.

"I think I can pierce through their thick armor." Ning Zhongliang said hesitantly: "There are also many firecrackers in the Ming Dynasty's army, but they don't seem to have any effect on Jiannu. For decades, the army has never had one. Victory."

"How many Jiannu soldiers can we deal with with one company of the Marine Corps?"

"..." Ning Zhongliang was stunned, thought for a moment, and said carefully: "Maybe, we can hit thirty or fifty."

He said that, but there was seven points of hesitation on his face. For decades, Jiannu has hardly lost a single defeat, and the few of them have suffered inhuman torture for more than two years in Liaodong. Deep hate accident, more endless fear.

Ning Zhongliang didn't know why this big man in Hanzhou insisted on occupying a small island near Shandong, let alone why he went to Liaodong himself to investigate the situation of Jiannu.

After living on Hanxing Island for more than a year, his body has recovered, but his fear of Jiannu cannot be erased from the bottom of his heart.Since Hanzhou has fields, houses to live in, clothes to wear, and even a daughter-in-law, let’s stop worrying about establishing slaves in Liaodong, and take a boat back to Hanzhou, a place known as a paradise. Live a good life and live your own life, okay?
Hearing Ning Zhongliang's words, Qi Dajiang's heart was full of longing. Our Hanzhou is in Nanyang, and beating those weak and incompetent natives is like chasing rabbits. Let's not talk about it, but the powerful Dutch and Spaniards , Wasn't he also beaten by Hanzhou?He regretted it a little at the moment, he should have brought a company of marine soldiers here, instead of bringing these local soldiers who had a little fear in their eyes when they heard about Jiannu.

On August 8, three Hanzhou armed merchant ships approached the waters near Lushun on the Liaodong Peninsula. Along the coastline, the ships sailed slowly towards the northwest. As far as I could see, the shore was barren and there was no human habitation in sight. .

Ning Zhongliang told Qi Dajiang that Jiannu had set up several farms near Jinzhou, not far from the shore.In the past, there was a wooden village, mainly to prevent the Daming navy from landing and attacking Jiannu inland.

However, with the gradual loss of the Ming Dynasty's initiative in Liaodong, coupled with the Dengzhou military turmoil, Kong Youde and others coerced the Dengzhou navy to go to sea, and most of them became slaves.Without the threat of the Daming navy, Jiannu withdrew the troops stationed here to Gaizhou (now Yingkou City).However, there are still dozens of old and weak slaves living here, whose main duty is to prevent the Han slaves from fleeing to the sea and heading to Shandong.

"Go to the shore and have a look." Qi Dajiang ordered lightly.

"Commander Qi, Jiannu is brutal, we should not go ashore." Sun Weiqing, the first officer on board, hurriedly stopped him.

"Old Sun, are you also afraid of Jiannu?" Qi Dajiang looked at his old partner seriously, "If we don't go ashore, how can we find out about Jiannu?"

"If you want to land rashly, if you encounter a large group of Jiannu soldiers, wouldn't you give them their heads?"

"Didn't you hear what Ning Zhongliang said, there are only dozens of Jiannu here at most, and there are still some old, weak, sick and disabled."

"Even if they are old and weak, they are still Jiannu!" Sun Weiqing said: "Whether Jiannu is old or weak, women or children, all of them can ride horses and bows, and they are somewhat stronger than our Ming army."

"It's just a landing to have a look, not to fight with Jiannu." Qi Dajiang felt a little dissatisfied, "If we encounter a large group of Jiannu armored soldiers, we can retreat to the boat. They can also ride horses and jump into the sea to chase them. Us?"

Seeing Qi Dajiang's resolute attitude, Sun Weiqing knew that he could not change his mind, so he took the next best thing and said solemnly: "You don't want to log in, I will take someone to see it myself."

Qi Dajiang looked at Sun Weiqing fixedly, then nodded, and said: "If you encounter Jiannu who are alone, or Han people who are captured by Jiannu, all of them will be captured, and we will not stay on the shore for a long time."

Sun Weiqing took a deep breath and said with a smile, "I'll save it. I haven't had enough of the good life in Hanzhou, so I have to save my own life first."

The three Hanzhou armed merchant ships put down all the small boats in one go, and carrying more than a hundred local soldiers and armed sailors, they rowed carefully towards the shore.

"Dock!" Sun Weiqing put down the binoculars in his hand and ordered in a low voice.Just now, when he was still more than 30 meters away from the shore, he had carefully observed the situation on the shore, and he was sure that there were no Jiannu, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

The first batch of rural soldiers who landed on the land held their muskets nervously and looked around, very worried that Jiannu would suddenly jump out from somewhere on horseback, brandish a saber, and wantonly chop off their heads.Although many of these rural soldiers from Shandong and Huaihe Rivers had never seen Jiannu with their own eyes, following people's misinformation, they all regarded Jiannu as a devil from hell with green faces and fangs. The non-human can be defeated.

"Squad! Team!..." Although Fang Xiquan was beating drums in his heart, he still forced himself to be calm, and kicked each of the villagers with a musket to keep them in battle formation, just in case.

Seeing that more than 100 township soldiers and armed sailors had formed a battle formation, Sun Weiqing nodded to Fang Xiquan, who was leading the team, and signaled him to send a small team to search and move forward first, so as to prepare an early warning for the brigade.

The entire Hanzhou landing force, in order to guard against the possible Jiannu cavalry, all muskets were equipped with bayonets in advance, like a forest of bayonets, slowly but resolutely marched towards the inland territory of Jiannu.

"There are Jian slave cavalry!" On the barren meadow, after less than two miles of travel, they saw the village soldiers rushing to explore the road ahead, yelling in horror.

(End of this chapter)