"Where is An's garrison after Anqing?"

After hearing what Li Lu said, Yang Zhen quickly thought that Queen Anqing was a good candidate. Since he followed Jin Guofeng to defend the city and was appreciated by Jin Guofeng, there must be something special about the defense.

Coupled with the fact that he and his men have the experience of the Grenadier Corps, the combination of the two may be able to play an unexpected role at Rufeng Post.

Therefore, Yang Zhen immediately named Queen Anqing.

"The humble position is here!"

"After Anqing, I would like to transfer you and your troops to move to Rufenggang and guard Rufenggang together with Lieutenant General Zu and General Xu. Are you willing?"

"Well, the humble function is what it is today, all thanks to the governor's guidance and cultivation. All actions of the humble function follow the command and completely obey the commander's dispatch!"

"Very good! Your men and horses have become a sentry and are still part of the grenadiers of the advance battalion for the Eastern March. However, after being stationed at Rufenggang, they will be temporarily under the control of Deputy General Zuke Yongzu!"

"I humbly obey my orders!"

How could Anqing Hou not agree? Even though he was unwilling to leave the safer and more stable Songshan City, Yang Zhen had already said so. In front of everyone, he had no choice but to obey orders.

After Yang Zhen rearranged the deployment of troops on the front road of Songshan with Rufenggang as the center, the rest of the matter became easier to handle.

The garrison in Songshan City, including Xia Chengde's Department, Lu Pinqi's Department, and the Eastern Expedition Advance Battalion, were unified into the Central Route Army. Naturally, they were still under the unified command of the General Military Mansion. Their original defense areas also remained unchanged, so there was no need to do anything major.

adjustment.

The only adjustment is to ask Li Lu and Zu Keyong to take over the garrison around the Empress Palace.

As for the Songshan rear route army mentioned by Yang Zhen, there have been no major changes.

Yang Zhen still ordered Qiu Zhenhai, his newlywed wife's biological uncle, to be the commander of the fleets behind Songshan.

This retreat is not only the retreat in terms of position, but also the real retreat for Songshan's troops.

In addition to publicly appointing Qiu Zhenhai as the leader of Songshan's rear route, Yang Zhen also asked him to send people and ships as soon as possible along the coastline of western Liaoning, all the way south to find better anchorages or uninhabited islands.

In particular, he was asked to look for an unmanned desert island on the sea or coast north of Bijiashan Island off Tashan, or an unmanned coast suitable for berthing ships.

Yang Zhen asked Qiu Zhenhai to send someone to do this as soon as possible. Of course, he had many plans in mind, but it was just not convenient to say them out for the time being.

Yang Zhenben wanted to take advantage of his wedding, so he invited Xingshan Commander Zu Zeyuan and Tashan Commander Liu Zhouzhi to Songshan City to have a glass of wine and talk about the coastal defense on the west coast of the Liaohai Sea, especially the coastal defense on the west coast of the Liaohai Sea.

I would like to talk to Liu Zhouzhi, the commander-in-chief of Tashan, about the issue of Beacon Mountain.

Judging from the second post of Commander-in-Chief of the Army granted to Yang Zhen by Emperor Chongzhen, his current jurisdiction is no longer limited to Songshan. All coastal islands in Liaodong Bay can be said to be under his jurisdiction.

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For example, the navy on Juehua Island, while obeying the imperial governor's salary promotion, began to be controlled by Yang Zhen, a former general who conquered the east.

Then Bijiashan Island, which is located outside the east coast of Tashan City and is vaguely connected to the coast, can also be handled in the same way, that is, it will be controlled by Yang Zhen.

Moreover, compared to the Juehua Island Navy who was not under his control, Yang Zhen wanted to take Bijia Mountain into his hands.

However, this Bijiashan Island was previously a transit place for Liaodong officers and soldiers from Jinzhou, Songshan, Xingshan, Tashan and other places, and it was already under the control of the Liaodong Army under Zu Dashou.

Now, Yang Zhen, an outlier, has taken over Songshan City and has transferred his grain route directly to Shuiyuanzi Shazhou Island at the mouth of the Xiaoling River. For Songshan City, Bijia Mountain Island is no longer that important.

But for Jinzhou City, Xingshan City, Tashan City, and even Lianshanbao a little further south, Bijiashan Island in Jinzhou Bay is still a very important maritime grain route.

Liu Zhouzhi refused to come to Songshan to meet Yang Zhen, perhaps because he looked down on Yang Zhen, an outlier and a rising star, but it was also possible that he was aware of the intentions of Yang Zhen, the imperial envoy to guard the Liaodong coastal areas of Songshan and other places.

If Bijiashan Island, a place where food and wages are transferred on the sea, is interfered with or even taken away by Yang Zhen, then the Liaodong Army in Jinzhou City, Xingshan City, Tashan City and other places will really be controlled by Yang Zhen.

Vibrated.

However, although Liu Zhouzhi was not invited to Songshan, Marshal Zu from Jinzhou City did come. Even though he did not enter the city, and even though he had other things to talk to Yang Zhen, Yang Zhen still waited until he left.

Before, I discussed the issue of Beacon Hill with him at every opportunity.

At that time, Zu Dashou's reaction was as if someone had betrayed his dragon scales. He rejected Yang Zhen's proposal to send troops to station on the spot, and did not allow Yang Zhen to continue discussing this issue with him.

But what gave Yang Zhen some comfort was that before returning to Jinzhou, Zu Dashulin told him that Yang Zhen could station people on the unmanned desert islands and peninsulas along the western Liaoning coast, if Yang Zhen had so many troops.

At the same time, Zu Dashou also told him that if he was really worried about the safety of Tunliang City on Bijiashan Island, he could send someone to an uninhabited desert island five or six miles northeast of Bijiashan Island to take a look.

Let's see if we can garrison troops on that small island.

Zu Dashou meaningfully told Yang Zhen that if the island could be stationed with troops, it would also be a support for Bijiashan, and he did not mind Yang Zhen sending people to garrison there.

What Zu Dashou said when he returned to Jinzhou suddenly reminded Yang Zhen of the scene when he traveled to the Bijia Mountain Scenic Area in his previous life.

The Bijia Mountain Scenic Area is called Big Bijia Mountain, and there is an uninhabited island on the sea to the north of Big Bijia Mountain Island, also called Little Bijia Mountain.

Is the uninhabited island that Zu Dashou mentioned the Xiaobijiashan Island that people would call hundreds of years later?

Yang Zhen had never been to this so-called Little Bijiashan Island in his previous life and had no intuitive impression of it, but no matter what, he wanted to send someone to have a look.

Therefore, after the day's discussion was over, Yang Zhen left alone the fleet generals whom he regarded as his fallback options, and arranged special tasks for them.

One is to ask Yu Liangtai to send someone to cross the sea by boat to Tu'er Island on the east coast of the Liaohai Sea to convey the imperial court's reward to Hu Dabao, as well as his deployment of Hu Dabao's troops, the appointments of his three generals, and

Some of the food, wages and ammunition sent from Juehua Island were sent to Tuer Island together.

The other is to ask Qiu Zhenhai to send people south along the coast as soon as possible to find the unmanned island that Zu Dashou mentioned and see if it is suitable for sending people to garrison.

Of course, he didn't hold out much hope for this.

If that small island is really the so-called Little Bijiashan Island in later generations, no one from the Tashan and Xingshan garrisons is on the island now, and it will still be an uninhabited and deserted island in a few hundred years. Is it strange that it can be suitable for troops to be stationed for a long time?

There is only one. If there is no fresh water or water source on it, it would be useless to stay there for a long time.

That place is no better than the Shuiyingzi Sandbank at the mouth of the Xiaoling River. Although there is no drinkable fresh water on this sandbank island, to the north is the mouth of the Xiaoling River, which is fresh water, and to the west is endless reed swamps.

The Baigu River in the reed marsh is also fresh water.

Except that fetching water is a little harder, there is no problem of lack of drinking water.

But the situation is different for small islands far away in the sea. There is no fresh water source on the island, so there is no way to station people on it.

The deployment was completed on August 16. In the early morning of August 17, Qiu Zhenhai sent Qiu Guangyi, his subordinate Qian Zong, to lead a fleet south along the coast.

They have been fishing in this area these days and have a clear understanding of the coastal terrain in this area.

Although they did not go near the coast of Beacon Hill, as they knew it was someone else's territory, they seemed to have seen the uninhabited desert island that Yang Zhen mentioned to Qiu Zhenhai from a distance.

At about 4 o'clock in the morning on August 18, Yang Zheng had just returned from seeing off Zu Keyong's troops from outside the north gate, and saw Qiu Zhenhai and Qiu Guangyi in the General Military Mansion who had come to pay their respects.

Qiu Guangyi had already found out the location and situation of the island, and rushed back to report to Yang Zhen.

"Captain, we have found the deserted island you mentioned, and I went to find out for myself. There are indeed no soldiers stationed on the island, and no one lives there. There are only some shacks where fishermen settled down.

"That island - it's not big, but it's in a good location. It's about two or three miles away from the coast to the west, and about five or six miles away from Bijia Mountain to the south. When the weather is fine, you can see Bijia Mountain on the sea to the south in the distance."

Yang Zhen was very happy to see Qiu Zhenhai and Qiu Guangyi, and immediately led them into the second courtyard and to his official room.

As soon as a few people sat down, Qiu Guangyi couldn't restrain his excitement and reported to Yang Zhen the preliminary results of their trip.

Yang Zhen became the son-in-law of the Qiu family, which was a great encouragement to the Qiu family members who followed Qiu Zhenhai out of the Qing Dynasty and crossed the sea all the way to Songshan.

They originally felt that they had no one to rely on in the Ming Dynasty, so they suddenly had a strong backer. At least in their minds, Yang Zhen, the commander-in-chief, was already a strong backer.

Now that they came to the General Military Mansion, their feelings were different from the past. After all, the hostess of the General Military Mansion was still the eldest daughter of the Qiu family that they had watched since childhood.

"The bad thing is that the island is too small. The island is flat, but there are only a few hundred steps from beginning to end. It is covered with grass and thorns, but there are no trees, so it is impossible to cut down wood to build houses.

"The worst thing is that there is no water on the island. I stayed on the island for one night and sent people to dig in low-lying areas, but no water could be dug on the island. Where water could be dug around the island, it was all bitter and salty.
Chapter completed!