Blood from Daming

Chapter 166
Three days later, Xue Liu's 200 cavalry escorted about [-] million taels of gold, silver, jewelry, and jade treasures into the city from the north gate, and the team went directly to Xue Yun's Vice President's Mansion.

On the same day, the imperial convoy and a large number of business groups also arrived in Datong. The Datong army received a full set of weapons and armor and other supplies for [-] soldiers, as well as gunpowder, firearms, and a large number of Ming army uniforms bribed by Xue Yun. Some material guarantees have been added to the war of the Tartars.

The 200 million goods of the Beijing business group range from all kinds of rare wares, refined salt, ironware, brick tea, silk, cloth, Jingdezhen ceramics, etc., to rock sugar, Mongolian boots, wooden bowls, needles and thread brains. They are still in the trade between Datong and Beijing. Already on the road, the merchants on both sides immediately traded with each other, basically achieving public buying and selling.

It took less than two days for the 200 million goods to be processed, and the average profit of merchants in the capital was close to [-]%. In addition to eating their own goods, Xue Yun also bought hundreds of thousands of goods from other merchants through other people's names. In fact, Xue Yun ate I ordered half of the goods from South China this time.

Due to the tense situation between the imperial court and Mongolia in the Datong area, merchants in the capital are also willing to move in and out quickly, buying cattle, sheep, livestock, ordinary mules and horses, and even frozen mutton. Wolf skin, squirrel skin and other animal skins, as well as general sheepskin, wool, and cowhide are also needed. Everyone should load the car as soon as possible and try to return to Beijing earlier to make some money. A trip to buy and sell.

During this period, the shopkeepers Wang and Cheng of "Xuji Silk Village" came to the Deputy Commander's Mansion and sent the scholar Yuan Zhensheng to Xue Yun. The shopkeepers Wang and Cheng offered to cash in Xue Yun's [-]% bonus, but Xue Yun refused. Shopkeeper Wang and Shopkeeper Cheng's good intentions, in the end, just hope that Shopkeeper Wang and Shopkeeper Cheng will do their best when the people of Ming Dynasty encounter natural disasters and man-made disasters in the future.

Shopkeeper Wang and Shopkeeper Cheng, the members of the caravan, are grateful to Xue Yun. Shopkeeper Wang and Shopkeeper Cheng have cooperated perfectly with Patriarch Jiang, the next family in Datong. Both sides have made a lot of money and saved a lot of trouble. Other merchants are still there While haggling over prices to do business, shopkeeper Wang and the others were ready to go home with the northern goods.

The caravan "Xue Ji Silk Cloth" of the Xue family came this time with Yang Dong, the second shopkeeper. As long as the goods of "Xue Ji Silk Cloth" arrive in Datong, it doesn't matter. The horses are going back to the capital. To be honest, the Xue family caravan is actually a transportation team. Dongdai sent a letter to Yan Sanniang to handle the money at her sole discretion, which made the second shopkeeper Yang Dong feel that he was being reused.

On February 1th of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, the second day after the capital’s supply battalion and the capital’s caravan left Datong City, Xue Yun, a second-rank military officer with the rank of deputy general of Dingguo in Datong Prefecture, was in charge of the army eunuch Zhang Gonggong, the governor of Shanxi Mr. Zhao, Datong Acting Prefect Li Daren, Deputy General Yu, Commander Wei Luo of Datong, General Zhang Can, General Tu Qian, and General Liang Cang were sent off by Datong military and political dignitaries, along with President You Qian, President Li Xiaoyong Qian, President Yu Siqian, A total of [-] people from Ji Tianenqian's other ministries, as well as the army, horse and infantry in the general's mansion, left Ying'en Gate and marched northward. They would join Xue Liubu to appease and suppress the Mongolian tribes in the northern part of Datong Mansion and Xuanfu.

Xue Yun obtained 1000 jin of gunpowder from the Beijing Gunpowder Bureau this time, and immediately sent it to the side courtyard of the Deputy Commander's Mansion for storage.Yang Zhenlei left [-] people in the Chinese Army, and the infantry led by Lian Xiong Wei held the battle in Datong City, and focused on protecting the safety of the Deputy Commander's Mansion.

Ms. Yu Yu Wanqin brought more than a thousand cavalry to the northern economic and trade zone of Datong Prefecture to assist in the defense, shocking the fires and robberies of small and medium-sized Mongolian tribes that have become more and more rampant near the side wall recently, and maintaining the normalcy of merchants between Ming Dynasty and Mongolia Economic and trade exchanges.

The 1000 troops led by Xue Yun consisted of 1000 elite cavalry from the Central Army of the Deputy Commander-in-Chief's Mansion, and 1000 new and old mixed-and-matched firearms battalion soldiers trained by Li Xiaoyong, Yu Siqian, and Ji Tianenqian. 1000 soldiers, General You Qian ordered 3000 soldiers under General Liang Can, [-] under General Zhang Can, Commander Datong Wei Luo led [-] soldiers from the guard, and another [-] civilians brought a large amount of food and various goods accompanying.

On February [-]th of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, in Xuejiazhai, Cangzhou, General Xue Erqian led [-] soldiers and [-] civilian husbands swore to go north.Later generations have been arguing that the two generals Xue Yun and Xue Er set off on the same day. Many historians believe that the two armies set off at the same time as agreed in advance. Status is not free to decide the itinerary of the army, so it should be a coincidence.

After the founding of the state, Jin Nurhachi split up and went out. In the first month, the Jin army attacked Lvshun. Nurhachi led troops to attack Ningyuan, Jinzhou and other cities. The situation in Liaodong was critical. Songshan, Xingshan, Shitun and the cities of Linghe and Linghe.Advance two hundred miles from Ningyuan, thus forming the Ningjin defense line with Ningyuan as the center.And the step-by-step fortress system of Guan, Ning, and Jin copper walls and iron walls for in-depth defense slowly reduced the living space of Jin after the founding of the state.

Emperor Zhu Youxiao of Tianqi, with the support of the cabinet and most of the main combat factions in the imperial court, issued an edict to mobilize the military throughout the country. 10 people supported Sun Chengzong's Ping Liao plan.

Xue Aoren's unit became one of the first batch of [-] officers and soldiers to leave Liaodong. The Liaodong battlefield is known as the tomb of a Ming general. As long as you leave Shanhaiguan, sorry, you are almost dead. You go to Beijing, or you will be killed by those bearded generals of the Ming Dynasty outside the pass. It seems that until now, no generals in the pass have made achievements in the battlefield outside the pass.

Relying on Xue Yun's connections, Xue Aoren was very generous to those martyrs who were preparing for the war. Before the expedition, they secretly negotiated with the Xue family to appoint Xue Aoren as a general, and Xue Er as a trial general and notified the headquarters to leave the customs immediately.

The one who stayed behind in Xuejiazhai was Mr. Xue Wuqian. Xue Wu had only 1000 cavalry and [-] newly recruited soldiers, as well as about [-] old, weak and remnant soldiers left by Xue Qingyi's various divisions of the Chinese army.

At noon on February [-]th, Xue Er led [-] soldiers and [-] civilians to set up camp in an open space five miles away from Xue Zhuang. Xue's army will change equipment here and rest for three days, waiting for Master Xue Aoren to come and continue to march towards Shanhaiguan.

Xue Si tried his best to serve the soldiers of the Xue family who served in the battlefield, provided them with good wine and good meat, and invited more than 100 middle-aged and good-looking young people from the suburbs near the capital at high prices to give them to this expedition The [-] officers and soldiers enjoyed it to their heart's content.

There is always a banquet in the world, and all the joy will come to an end. On the morning of February 24th, Xue Aoren came to the army to have a round with Xue Er and Lu Yaojin.

Xue Aoren killed a rooster to sacrifice the flag outside Xue Zhuang, and five thousand soldiers swore to set off for Shanhaiguan.Xue Aoren and Xue Er rode together, Xue Aoren asked: "I heard that you recruited more than 2000 civilian husbands in Shandong and Cangzhou. The price Zhao Yuner offered was probably 10,000+ taels of silver."

Xue Er: "Yes"

Xue Aoren: "The imperial court has appointed you as a trial general. From now on, this team will depend entirely on you."

Xue Er: "Second Master, don't worry, the villain will definitely lead this team well, and will never disappoint the Xue family's cultivation of me for so many years."

Xue Aoren: "Is everything ready?"

Xue Er: "The third young master has already arranged that the second master will be seriously ill when he arrives at Shanhaiguan and then go home."

Xue Aoren felt embarrassed: "Just make arrangements."

Xue Aoren and Xue Er led their troops to the vicinity of Shanhaiguan. The general Xue Aoren suddenly fell ill with a high fever. The soldiers of the three armies stopped at a place more than 50 miles away from Shanhaiguan.

Sun Chengzong, the Liaodong economic strategist stationed in Shanhaiguan, received a report that day that Xue Aoren, a general of the Beijing camp, was seriously ill on the way to the expedition, and the medicine and stones were ineffective. The soldiers of the three armies stopped.Sun Chengzong's first reaction when he got Xue Aoren's serious illness was that someone pretended to be sick again, and a wave of anger rose in his heart.

Sun Chengzong spoke after discussing the economic affairs with the officials: "Yesterday, Xue Aoren, a general of the Beijing camp, wrote to my Liaodong economic strategy, claiming that he was sick, and he pushed Xue Er, his deputy, as the chief general to continue the expedition to Liaodong. All the officials want to change their generals to everyone. own opinion."

The officials below didn't answer for a while, and Sun Chengzong was impatient. At this time, Yu Anxing, the governor of Shanhaiguan, said: "Xue Aoren's troops are the first guest troops in the pass to arrive at Shanhaiguan. Should we go and visit Xue Shen first?" Let’s make a conclusion about his illness.”

Sun Chengzong looked at the officials below and saw that no one spoke, so he said to Yu Anxing: "Then please trouble Master Yu to go."

Yu Anxing: "Thank you, my lord. I will take a few colleagues to check on General Xue's condition and the people he recommended."

Sun Chengzong nodded his head slightly: "Master Yu is sympathetic, and everything is up to you."

Governor of Shanhaiguan Yu Anxing ordered supervisor Xing Shenyan in front of Liaodong Economic Strategy Sun Chengzong, Ning Qiandao's deputy Zhang Yingwu testified, and brought several medical officers to Xue Aoren's camp outside Shanhaiguan
(End of this chapter)