Song Xiance, also known as Song Kangnian, was from Yongcheng in the late Ming Dynasty. He was once a divine, and later became the director of the Wei Gong servant's office, nicknamed "Song Shorty" or "Song Haier". He once made up prophecy: "Eight thousand female ghosts determine the Ming Dynasty", he was in charge of the military police, and successively supervised the number of numbers of inner numbers. The Liaodong generals were hit by this and were imprisoned and participated in labor reform. For the stability of Liaodong, he made great contributions to the complete elimination of the "anti-Wei group" among the old forces in Liaozhen.

Later, he followed Duke Wei to Beijing to participate in major agreements and presented red pills to Emperor Taichang. He then participated in the movement of the palace and successfully attacked the anti-Wei group led by Donglin. In the seventh year of Tianqi, Song Xianchi strongly advised Duke Wei to seize the sect, but was named Duke Song for his merits.

Duke Wei commented on Song Xiance in this way, saying: "This person is capable, but his thoughts may be a bit too extreme, but it is impossible to say that he deliberately attacks people. He is not a bad person from the end, and I know everything he does. If he does something wrong and offends people, it is my responsibility." - Excerpt from Ruan Dacheng's "Three Major Case Questions in the Capital"

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After Liu Zhaosun led his troops to Jinzhou, he received an order from the Second Army Command that the front of the "Kanto-81" exercise would not be located in Jinzhou, but in Shanhaiguan.

This is a signal, a clear signal sent by the imperial army to the court.

On the afternoon of the 16th, the vanguard of the special regiment, the fourth battalion of the Fifth Infantry Regiment of the former Emperor's Personal Guard Division, was now the first battalion of the special regiment, and arrived at Balipu, which was very close to Shanhaiguan.

The captain Kumamoto Oki was an outstanding officer of the Imperial Army who had experienced many battles. He almost participated in the battles of all sizes and big battles after the establishment of the Imperial Army. He was known together with Taidao Komatsulin as the two Japanese flowers of the Imperial Army. He was also a powerful general who came out of the personal guards of Eunuch Wei in his early years.

What's special about the Special United is not only that it is a unit with multiple armies with infringe cannons and cyclists, but also that it is actually an existence equal to the division level.

Therefore, although Kumamoto Oki only served as the captain of the brigade, he had another identity, but he was the commander of the Taiwan Commander Command. This position was Kumamoto's official position in the Ming Empire.

The officers and soldiers of the First Battalion were also composed of the most elite soldiers of the Imperial Army. Almost all of them participated in the two most dangerous battles in the Pingnu War - the Battle of Wunv Mountain and the Battle of Abudaligang.

Therefore, the base camp specially awarded the officers and soldiers of the First Brigade the banner of honor - "Pingnu Pioneer".

Shanhaiguan is an inside line in the defense system of the Ming Great Wall. Like Juyongguan near the capital, it is actually the second Great Wall. The first Great Wall is the old Great Wall that extends to the Kuandian area.

Balipu is located at the high mountain on the Great Wall of Shanhaiguan. If Balipu is lost, the enemy can directly suppress Shanhaiguan from a high place, so it has extremely strategic significance.

However, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, no enemy army has been able to cross the first Great Wall and go deep into Shanhaiguan. Therefore, after more than two hundred years of peace, Balipu gradually became less important. Now, like many towns in the pass, it is just a place for merchants to rest or buy and sell.

The appearance of Kumamoto's brigade shocked the people of Balipu. They didn't know where the soldiers, under the banner of "Pingnu Pioneer", came from and what they were doing.

Some merchants who came to buy fur and medicinal materials in the True War were even scared of Kumamoto's brigade, worried that this unknown army would rob or extort them.

But the fact is that this unknown army did not disturb the people after arriving in Balipu. Instead, he called Li from Balipu and told the emperor that his personal army would conduct exercises here soon, and the command post for the exercises was set up in Balipu. Therefore, local people try not to go out these days, especially not to enter areas that will be painted as exercise areas, so as not to be accidentally injured by the army.

After posting the list to calm the people's hearts, Kumamoto ordered the laying of a card in Bali to check pedestrians, and at the same time paid for the money to emptie several larger houses for use in the frontier command post.

Kumamoto also thoughtfully sent a small team of officers and soldiers to help the house owners help the house, and sent a squadron officers and soldiers to the surrounding mountains to chop wood to the people, so that the people would no longer have to go up the mountain to chop wood during the exercise.

However, Kumamoto then discovered that the people here did not seem to need much firewood, and they used black coal to cook.

This made Kumamoto very interested. After asking the local people, he found out that these coals were sold in the Xishan coal mine in the capital, and it was very convenient to burn them. People at Shanhaiguan may use coal balls and firewood together. When they go inside the prison, the people basically do not chop firewood.

Kumamoto then recorded this phenomenon about coal in his diary.

Because the Kumamoto brigade is extremely friendly and more approachable than the Shanhaiguan garrison that the people of Balipu often see, the people naturally changed from initial suspicion to support the Kumamoto brigade.

But soon, a conflict occurred.

The other party to the incident was Wang Huazhen, a fifth-rank official in the Guangning Right Senate.

Wang Huazhen wanted to enter the pass to report to the Governor of Jiliao Wang Keshou of the Mongols in Hexi. As early as when Jiannu rebelled, Wang Huazhen realized that the Pingnu army might be defeated, so he prepared in advance to prevent Jiannu from invading the hinterland of Liaodong.

His preparation was to write a letter to the court to send a million treasury and try his best to entertain the Mongols. With the help of the Mongols, Jiannu would not dare to go deep into Liaodong if he had any concerns. In addition, he raised food and grass as the right senator of Guangning. If things were as expected, he could recruit some refugees who escaped from Fushun, Tieling and Shenyang. Armed them, he could protect Hexi.

However, the direction of the Liao incident soon changed. When the news of the Jianzhou victory reached Wang Huazhen, the right senator was so shocked that he couldn't speak for a long time.

It's just because it's really incredible.

When the main force loses two consecutive routes, the government army can still win a great victory on the Eastern Front. No matter from any perspective, it is a bit fantasy.

Wang Huazhen was worried about whether it was a false alarm or someone lies, so he specially sent someone to Liaoyang and Shenyang to find out.

As a result, it turned out that Liaodong was indeed a great victory. Wang Huazhen was relieved, but he was a little regretful. Because when he wrote a letter to the court to ask for millions of treasurys, he had already given the hundreds of thousands of taels in hand to the Mongolians. Although this practice greatly attracted the Mongolians and won the reputation of a capable minister for his kingly senator, now he looked at it and felt like a surrender.

But after all the money is given, what else can I do?

This time when he entered the pass, Wang Huazhen was preparing to explain this matter to the Governor of Ji Liao. After all, the tens of thousands of taels of silver he used were raised by the Ministry of War to provide the salary of the three departments of Guangning.

The Mongolians will definitely not be able to get the money back, but the military pay of the three Guangning Institutes must be found to fill in the military pay of the King of Kings.

In addition, even Wang Huazhen also heard that the Liaodong Jingliya Office was going to rectify and merge the Liaozhen garrison offices, and it is said that the three Guangning garrison offices were the first to be lifted.

Senator Wang also had to confirm this matter with the Governor General of Ji Liao.
Chapter completed!