Yan Changwu went to see Yuan Chonghuan when he arrived at the beginning of the day (19 o'clock to 21 o'clock), and when he saw a quasi, Yuan Chonghuan saw him in the study, and no one disappeared that night.

Yuan Chonghuan was in the army, and he had to put up a wooden face all day long, but meeting Yan Changwu was very different, which was like a spring breeze.

He is a native of Dongguan on Guangnan East Road, and Yan Changwu is a native of Haicheng, Fujian, in fact, they are all looked down upon by Jiangnan and Beijing officials, Yuan Chonghuan is called "Yuan Manzi" behind the officialdom, and Yan Dashao is not to mention, a little pirate, although he has changed his evil and returned to the right (nominally), he is actually a little pirate, and the officialdom has never had a good eye for this kind of person.

Yes, you are rich and powerful, but we are from a good background!

Others look down on Yuan Chonghuan, and Yuan Chonghuan also looks down on them, but he and Yan Changwu are in the same disease.

Moreover, Yan Changwu was less than 20 years old, and he was under the jurisdiction of hundreds of thousands of people, with half a hundred plywood boats, tens of thousands of troops, and millions of assets.

Previously, Yan Changwu took out the three general seals of the imperial court to show the public, which was genuine, which really surprised Yuan Chonghuan.

Such a person should not be easily offended, he is too young!

The world of the future is his!

He sent a big gift again, Xie Ning Yuanjun was in a hurry, and his attitude was humble, and he kept saying that he would serve the country, a good young man!

It's better than many people in the court, duplicity, how much support did they give Ning Yuanjun?!

Spit and pull the hind legs more than support!

Therefore, Yuan Chonghuan did not offend Yan Changwu for his rudeness: he saw that Yuan Chonghuan, who was a minister of the Imperial Mission, did not kneel (he never knelt, only knelt Mazu), and traveled indiscriminately without the imperial court edict (soldiers could not leave the defense without permission), Yuan Chonghuan didn't care.

Everyone drank tea and chatted, Yan Changwu talked about anecdotes in the southeast, and Yuan Chonghuan was also invited by Yan Changwu to talk about the battle against the Qing Army.

"In the second year of the Apocalypse (1622), the governor went to the capital to meet His Majesty (Tianqi) ......" Yuan Chonghuan slowly talked about the past, he went to the capital to meet Ming Xizong Zhu Youxiao, and the imperial historian Hou Sui promoted Yuan Chonghuan to serve in the military department. Soon after, Quang Ninh was captured by the Later Jin army, so the imperial court discussed that it should send people to guard the Shanhai Pass. After Yuan Chonghuan learned about it, he immediately went to check the terrain outside the gate alone. After returning to the dynasty, Yuan Chonghuan said: "As long as I can give me enough money and food for soldiers and horses, I can guard Shanhaiguan alone." The ministers of the DPRK and China also praised Yuan Chonghuan's talent, so he made an exception to appoint Yuan Chonghuan as a military officer, supervised the foreign army, allocated 200,000 yuan, and asked him to recruit troops and horses to run Liaodong.

This is also his starting work, when people are afraid of gold, Yuan Chonghuan dares to fight, and he should rise up at the time.

"The Jurchens are also human beings, they all have one head, two legs and two arms, and they will die if they kill them, what are they afraid of!"

In the fifth year of the Apocalypse (1625), Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan made a plan to send generals to occupy Jinzhou, Songshan, Xingshan, Youtun and Da and Xiaoling He, and repair the city defense for a long time.

In October of the same year, Sun Chengzong was deposed and replaced by Gao Di. Gao Di thought that the outside of the pass would not be able to hold, and ordered all the troops to withdraw from Jinzhou and Youtun and other places, and the governor of Tuntong sentenced Jin Qiliang to write to Yuan Chonghuan and said: "Jinzhou, Youtun, and Daling are all important places to strike, if the troops are withdrawn, the people who have settled down will be relocated again, and the recovered territory will fall again. ”

Yuan Chonghuan also argued to Gao Di: "In the art of war, there is no advance and no retreat, how can the recovered territory be easily abandoned? If Jinzhou and Youtun are shaken, Ningyuan will be difficult to protect, and then the closure will lose its security. These places only need to be guarded by good generals, so they don't need to worry too much. ”

But Gao Di insisted on evacuating, and wanted to withdraw Ning Yuan's army, but Yuan Chonghuan said that he would rather die in Ningyuan than evacuate, Gao Di could not force Yuan Chonghuan, so he evacuated all the soldiers and civilians in Jinzhou and other places, discarded more than 100,000 rice millet, and many people died on the migration road.

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Speaking of this past incident, Yuan Chonghuan said with great sadness: "The "Theory of the Six Kingdoms" makes it clear that the destruction of the Six Kingdoms is not good for non-soldiers, and the war is not good, and the disadvantage is bribing Qin. ”

Yan Changwu listened quietly, and his face was also sad.

Yuan Chonghuan showed a mocking smile and said: "The Jurchen is called invincible, this governor guards the strong city, the city resists, see how many full of them can be, as long as it is less than 10,000, how can it break my Ming!" ”

"But Chang Wu, do you know how many of the Jurchens are Han?!"

He said angrily: "The enemy chieftain entered Liaoxi, a large number of Han people became slaves, cultivated fields for them to grow food and military supplies, and the Jurchens made up Han military households from it, and every 20 Han people sent out a soldier, and the Han military households were used for consumption on the battlefield, and we were Han people fighting Han people, and the Jurchens did not suffer much loss!" ”

"The Jurchens attack the city, buy more internal responses, and internal and external cooperation, if we can unite as one, the Jurchens are also human beings, and the governor will let them come and go!" Yuan Chonghuan was so angry that he slapped the table and said.

"Again, fear of war, left and right constraints!" Yan Changwu interjected.

"Exactly!" Yuan Chonghuan clapped his hands again and said on the stage.

The enemy here is bent on grabbing people and land, and his own people are making trouble behind their backs, this battle is difficult!

Speaking of the first month of the sixth year of the Apocalypse (1626), Nurhachi learned that Sun Chengzong was deposed, so he led the army to cross the Liao River west, and on the 23rd, the Houjin army arrived in Ningyuan.

After Yuan Chonghuan learned about it, he immediately wrote a blood book, and swore an oath with the generals Man Gui, the deputy generals Zuo Fu and Zhu Mei, the general Zu Dashou, and the garrison He Kegang to defend the city to the death. Yuan Chonghuan cleared the wilderness on the one hand, and on the other hand, he asked his fellow acquaintance Cheng Weiwei to investigate the spies, and sentenced Jin Qiliang to guard the grain and grass, and passed it to the former tun guard general Zhao Shujiao and the mountain and sea guard general Yang Qi, if any soldiers fled here, they could all be killed.

With the spirit of fighting to the death, in this battle, Ningyuan's army repelled Nurhachi with artillery shelling, that is, Ningyuan's great victory.

When the old wild boar skin hanged! Regardless of the true cause of his death, in order to boost morale, the Ming people said that he was killed by a cannon in Ningyuan City, and publicized it to achieve the reputation of Lao Yuan I.

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In the chatter, Yuan Chonghuan said: "Although the corruption of Liaodong is due to the instability of people's hearts, it is also because of the loss of tangible dangers, and there is nothing to use to strengthen people's hearts. The troops were not conducive to field warfare, and there was only one way to rely on strong walls and use artillery. Now the four cities of Shanhaiguan have been repaired, and the cities of Songshan should be repaired again, and the army on duty is 40,000 people, all of which are indispensable. ”

The Emperor of the Apocalypse agreed to his request.

Next there is the "Ningjin Victory", Yuan Chonghuan defeated the Jurchens in Ningyuan and Jinzhou, the big battle, Yuan Chonghuan said it so proudly, he wore nine layers of armor on the Ningyuan city wall to supervise the battle, the enemy shot him into a hedgehog, and then counted, there are as many as one hundred and twenty-seven arrows!

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Listening to his words, Yan Changwu's face was a little strange.

Because he knew that Yuan Chonghuan's brilliant achievements were produced under the leadership of the strange combination of the carpenter emperor and the eunuch Wei Zhongxian (they were scolded by the Donglin party to the blood), and the Chongzhen emperor, who was called the "holy monarch" by the Donglin party, cut Yuan Chonghuan with a thousand knives after Yuan Chonghuan broke the Jurchens outside Beiping City......

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"With Chang Wu's musket, if you can form an army, then why fear the Jurchen cavalry!" Talking about the musket, Yuan Chonghuan heard Yan Changwu's three-stage attack introduction, and knew the power of the southeast musket, which can break the armor in fifty steps, if it is equipped on such a large scale!

"No!" Yan Changwu shook his head and said: "Master Inspector should know the use of cavalry, it is helpless to attack the city, it is useless to break the strong formation, the best strategy is to use mobile power to flank behind the enemy, for example, the Jurchens do not attack Jinzhou, Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan, but enter Koulongjing Pass, Da'ankou and Hongshankou?!" ”

When he said this, his eyes burned, staring at Yuan Chonghuan!