The night wind was cool, rustling the grass and trees along the Mun River. There were a few weak lights on the shore, and they were deliberately covered with a lampshade to prevent light from passing through to the south bank as much as possible. Thousands of people were boarding double-decker rafts on the river bank. These rafts were all pulled by thick ropes to increase the load and stability while minimizing the number of operators.
After the failure of the Mangurtai light cavalry's raid on Fushun failed, they harassed Fushun City several times. When they found that their forces were too few and there was no opportunity to take advantage of, they retreated through Fushun Pass and stationed themselves in several deserted strongholds on the south bank of the Mun River. They stayed there for more than half a month and did not move out easily, but they were like a nail that did not leave. From time to time, they would send some people to spy on the situation in Fushun.
With such a group of enemies watching, it was not convenient for Zhou Qingfeng to do anything. He moved his raft-making workshop to the north of the city, and the rafts could only be transported by carriage to the Mun River in the south of the city at night for transportation.
In order to improve the efficiency of transportation, the method of connecting multiple rafts was used to the extreme. At first, there were five or six connected rafts, but soon there were fifty or sixty. It was difficult to start and stop the connected rafts, but once they were moved, it was much easier.
Zhou Qingfeng was now standing on the bank of the Mun River, watching the last group of people who stayed behind tonight withdraw. Most of the people here were the staff of the transmigrator team, as well as the Imperial Guard soldiers who were responsible for maintaining order. Before this, a large amount of food, horses, cloth, tools, and even various pots and pans had been packed into boxes and transported through the Mun River and the Liao River to the sea.
In the past half a month, reinforcements from all over Liaodong had arrived in Fushun, and the generals often asked to see Zhou Qingfeng. Most of the things were blocked by Mu Sinian, and Zhou Qingfeng took out a large amount of wine, food, and even silver to temporarily fool them. If he really couldn't fool them, he would come out and beat them up. But now, he couldn't fool them no matter what.
"What about the people in the city?" Xu Bing stood beside Zhou Qingfeng and looked back at Fushun City.
Zhou Qingfeng also turned his head, but he couldn't see anything in the dark night. But he knew that not far away, there was an important border town of Daming Liaodong, which was his first foothold after arriving in this world.
When Mangurtai first arrived, Zhou Qingfeng put up a lockdown in order to stabilize the situation. But in the past half a month, he had tried his best to trick the people in the city into leaving. Those who could be taken away were taken away as much as possible, and those who could be scared away were also scared away as much as possible. However, there were still more than thirty thousand people in the city, and most of them were old and weak.
Zhou Qingfeng couldn't open his mouth. He wanted to say 'I tried my best', but he only sighed and silently walked onto a wooden raft. He had to leave. If he didn't leave now, he wouldn't be able to.
The commander-in-chief of Liaodong, Zhang Chengyin, finally arrived at Fushun with ten thousand men and horses. His vanguard had almost reached the west of the city. On the other hand, Guo Jiao also discovered through the triplane that a large army was coming from Hetuala's direction. The two armies would probably meet in Fushun tomorrow afternoon.
In history, the Nurhachi army divided into two groups to attack Fushun and the surrounding fortresses. It was said that more than five hundred strongholds were looted by them. Zhou Qingfeng had basically moved away most of the supplies in Fushun, and the people who stayed in the city would soon find that they wouldn't even have food to eat. But this disaster would not be small, and it might even expand.
"To some extent, the disaster that is about to happen in Fushun is also because of me." Zhou Qingfeng stood on the raft. With the strength of the punter, he was pushed south along the Hun River.
In order to escape from Fushun, Zhou Qingfeng tried his best to deceive almost everyone. Even many people in his system only thought that he really wanted to transport goods to make money and then curry favor with the various officials in Liaodong. In fact, he used various means such as water and land to transfer people and wealth, but he also tricked a large number of officials and troops to Fushun to take the blame for him.
The water flowed slowly, and each raft had a lit lantern. The winding river formed a line, which was very beautiful. Zhou Qingfeng sat there quietly. He was not interested in talking. But not long after floating with the river, he suddenly heard someone shouting on the shore, "Who is on the river? Stop and talk, my Tan Baihu is here. "
There were thousands of people on the connected rafts, and the soldiers of the Imperial Guard were vigilantly holding their weapons. Zhou Qingfeng asked everyone to calm down, and he lightly jumped more than ten meters and landed on the shore. He saw many people gathered on the shore, but he didn't know their origins.
"Where are you from? Why are you sailing in the middle of the night?" The sky was dark, and a person wearing the armor of the Ming Army was holding a knife at his waist. He saw someone jump from the raft and walked over with a lantern.
"Who are you?" Zhou Qingfeng slowly walked over and asked in a low voice. He could vaguely see the other person's Ming Army attire, but he could roughly guess the other person's identity.
The person carrying the lantern also had a personal guard with him, and the latter took the initiative to shout, "My lord is Tan Baihu, under the command of Liaodong Commander Zhang. This time, he was ordered to be the vanguard and lead the troops to open the way. He is going to Fushun. I see that your fleet came from the upper reaches of the Hun River, so you must be coming down from Fushun. "
"Tan Baihu?" Zhou Qingfeng sneered, "I'm also a baihu. But you can't take my title seriously. I'm just probationary, not an official. "
Hearing Zhou Qingfeng say that he was also a baihu, the person carrying the lantern became more polite, "You are also a baihu? You must be a colleague in the army. My surname is Tan Feng, and my name is Fengying. I wonder if you can tell me your name? Perhaps we can become friends. Ah … it's you? "
"Hahaha …" Zhou Qingfeng laughed. The lantern finally shone in front of him, and the young military officer Daming finally recognized him. He said cheerfully, "I was just saying that I know a friend with the surname Tan, but I didn't expect to meet Brother Tan in the middle of the night. It looks like Brother Tan is really a talent. I haven't seen you for a few months, and you've actually been promoted and climbed up a big tree. "
When Tan Feng recognized Zhou Qingfeng, he was shocked. He hurriedly took a few steps back and even pulled out his saber. When his subordinates saw that the situation was not good, they also pulled out their weapons. But Tan Feng was stunned for a moment, and then he became dispirited, "Zhou Baihu, I can't beat you. I'll pretend that I didn't see you. You can go. "
After seeing how fierce Zhou Qingfeng was when he drove the "road robber," Tan Feng didn't think that he could fight this guy to the death. But when he wanted to let Zhou Qingfeng go, Zhou Qingfeng asked, "Why did you pull out your saber as soon as you saw me?"
Tan Feng looked around, and after confirming that they were all his people, he said helplessly, "There's no harm in telling you. I got a job under Commander Zhang Chengyin. This time, I rushed to Fushun to keep an eye on you. Commander Zhang probably sensed that something was wrong with you in Fushun, so he wanted me to capture you if I had the chance. I couldn't say that I couldn't capture you, so I had to come. "
Zhou Qingfeng just smiled, "It looks like a lot of people have realized that they're coming to make trouble for me."
"Recently, a lot of people from Liaodong's officialdom have gathered in Shenyang, saying that they're some kind of money-making treasure. They came with the army, but they all said that they wanted to keep you under control, worried that you would suddenly run away. "
"Hahaha, I really want to run away." Zhou Qingfeng laughed heartily. While the 'money making treasure' was confusing people, a bunch of people were crazily throwing money at Zhou Qingfeng. But when the flames of war were ignited at the border, everyone was worried that they would lose money. In the past half a month, countless people ran to Fushun to ask Zhou Qingfeng to return their capital, and these people were now locked up in Fushun's prison.
Apart from the first issue of the money-making treasure, the second issue raised 500,000 taels, and the third issue raised more than 200,000 taels. This money was used by Zhou Qingfeng to buy a large number of supplies to be transported to Yingkou, and the rest of the money was also sent away by river. It could be said that Zhou Qingfeng's first bucket of gold was really full of oil and water.
"Since Old Brother Tan is so easy to talk to, I'll give you a message. When you go to Fushun, don't stay in the city. Try to wander around as much as possible and find an opportunity to chop off a few Jurchen barbarians' heads before running away immediately. It'll be good for you. "With that said, Zhou Qingfeng waved his hand and jumped back to the slowly drifting raft. After a while, he disappeared with the current and disappeared without a sound.
Tan Feng was still in a daze on the shore when suddenly a gust of wind blew and a figure suddenly appeared and asked, "What did that kid say? You seem to care about it. "
Tan Feng did not answer and asked, "It was a good opportunity just now, why didn't Brother Gui Ci make a move?"
The gust of wind like Gui Ci did not answer the question, "This kid has already left Fushun, and you still want to run to Fushun?"
Tan Feng could only smile bitterly. He had a headache with this assassin who he could not afford to offend and could not get rid of. He could not explain to Gui Ci what it meant to be involuntary, so he could only look in the direction of Fushun, not knowing what was waiting for him there. The chaos in Liaodong was completely incomprehensible, and the only one who could see through it was probably the youth who had just left on the raft.
Zhou Qingfeng returned to the raft, and the rest of the waterway was smooth. The sky was bright and dark again, and after two or three trips, he finally arrived at the seaside. Along the way, the fleet of rafts was very quiet, and it was difficult to receive information from the outside world. Normally, during this period of time, the two armies with Fushun as their target should have met, and even the result should have been out. But he knew nothing.
However, when he arrived at the seaside, the vast sea finally made Zhou Qingfeng feel comfortable and in a good mood. After nearly a month of construction, more than a dozen docking piers had been built on the beach west of Yingkou, and dozens of wooden pulley cranes were installed next to the pier of the piers. Thousands of houses were being built on the beach, and the building materials were from the rafts floating down from upstream.
At the mouth of the sea, the river became more gentle, and the series of rafts docked one by one. When Zhou Qingfeng jumped onto the piers, he saw Guo Jiao flying the 'triplane' from the north. The young lady was like a bird that had escaped from its cage, and when she saw Zhou Qingfeng, she shouted, "They're fighting, they're fighting."
"Who won?" After Zhou Qingfeng spoke, he felt that he had asked a stupid question.
"Nurhachi won." After saying that, Guo Jiao also sighed, "Zhang Chengyin brought more than 10,000 people to Fushun, and on the day he arrived, he searched the entire city for you. They searched your businesses and arrested people who knew you, only to find that you were already gone. Therefore, those who invested in the 'money making treasure' exploded on the spot, but they did not expect that afternoon, Nurhachi would bring 20,000 people.
That day, the two sides confronted each other, and the next day, the battle began. I flew the 'triplane' from the sky and watched. Our Daming's soldiers were too weak, and almost immediately fled the moment the battle began. Lord Zhang did not expect that he would become a scapegoat, and was caught unprepared. I moved away the Spirit Gathering Formation, and you also did not stay in the city to manage it. Li Yongfang lost her soul. The city's defenses collapsed with one blow.
The soldiers defending the city suffered heavy casualties, and after fighting for less than two hours, most of them surrendered. Commander Zhang died in the chaos, and a large number of his deputy generals, generals, and guerrillas died. When I left, those Jurchen barbarians were killing, burning, and looting everywhere. Now you don't have to worry about people coming to collect debts from you.
However, almost all the good things in Fushun have been taken away by you, and Nurhachi actually did not get too many benefits. I am worried that he is not satisfied with taking Fushun, and I am afraid that he will attack Shenyang in one breath. Hey, hey, I am talking to you, but you are in a daze, what are you thinking about? "
Guo Jiao stretched out her hand and waved it in front of Zhou Qingfeng, but Zhou Qingfeng looked in the direction of the sea and said, "I am now a few hundred miles away from Fushun. Whether I live or die, it has nothing to do with me. From now on, the sea is wide, the fish can jump, the sky is high, the birds can fly. It is time for me to create my own territory. "
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