Otherwise, what's the use of knocking down the whole world? It's not that the soup is not changed.

If the pace is too big, it can only adopt a crude colonial model, and it is not yet feudal management.

In this way, at the insistence of President Wei, this time, the treasure army will bring two president-style infantry guns.

That night, Wei Bao lived in the Shanhaiguan camp, and had a meal with Fan Xiaolin, Luo Sanzi, Deng Erxian and others, and had a brief chat, Wei Bao will not interfere too much in all the development of the Tiandihui, as long as there is no chaos, Wei Bao is basically happy to see it in a sheep-herding development state.

Because Wei Bao himself does not have much management experience, he has never been an official in modern times, and secondly, he has no talent and talent, and many things, Wei Bao is not even as good as Fan Xiaolin and Luo San.

Since this is the case, Wei Bao simply did not talk nonsense.

There is another reason why he insisted on bringing two president-type infantry guns, Wei Bao felt that in the original history, if Yuan Chonghuan really injured Nurhachi with a cannon, this time he would definitely have a chance to replicate history.

Wei Bao has now grasped a historical law, history is difficult to change, but it can be changed in a small range, just don't mess around in the general direction.

Of course, there is no specific operation, and Wei Bao doesn't know if it will be realized.

Moreover, whether Yuan Chonghuan injured Nurhachi with a cannon or not is very controversial.

You can't drink alcohol in the barracks, Wei Bao didn't drink it himself, and he didn't restrain Luo San and others, they didn't belong to the army, but everyone saw that the president didn't drink, so naturally they wouldn't drink, and Wei Bao didn't persuade him to drink.

After chatting until about eleven o'clock, Wei Bao let them disperse and told them that they didn't have to go to Shanhaiguan tomorrow to see them off.

Wei Bao originally wanted to summon Fan Xiaolin or let Sister Fang come from Shanhaiguan to sleep tonight, but after thinking about it, the interest was not very high.

When there are a lot of things on your mind, it affects the need for those things.

Wei Bao is not very keen on this kind of work as a big man, but he found that he has been pulled by work, and he can't stop whether he is enthusiastic or not.

In the past, when I was poor, I always thought about where and how to play after I became rich and powerful, but now Wei Bao has no such ideas at all.

It seems that work occupies most of Wei Bao's energy.

In the evening, President Wei was served by Wang Qiuya, Princess Zhenming and a group of Korean maids, and after washing, he was about to rest, and Cong Gulen Gege asked to see him.

Wei Bao always took Cong Gulen Gege with him, but did not let Cong Gulun be with his family, nor did he give Cong Gulun a chance to contact the military plane, and let a female secretary accompany him.

Wei Bao saw Cong Gulun: "It's so late, why don't you rest?" ”

"I heard the sound of gunfire today, are you going to take a lot of troops out this time?" Cong Gulun asked straight to the point.

Wei Bao said: "I won't bring a lot of people, a few thousand, what's wrong?" ”

"Are you here to deal with the Liaodong Army, or are you here to deal with our Dajin Kingdom? Didn't you say that you really wanted to reconcile with the Dajin Kingdom? Cong Gulen Gege looked at Wei Bao and asked.

Wei Bao secretly praised Cong Gulen Gege as very smart, a girl who was just thirteen years old, and had such a keen political sense.

"Isn't it normal that I have some guards around me? I didn't want to deal with the Liaodong Army, nor did I want to deal with you Jinren, I have always been a person who doesn't offend me, I don't offend anyone. Wei Bao laughed.

Cong Gulun sighed, with a sad expression on his face: "It's okay, I'm sorry to disturb your rest, I'm leaving." ”

Wei Bao sighed slightly: "Don't think too much, many things are beyond personal control." ”

"You are a lord, why do you have to lead the troops yourself? I'm going to panic when I see you out of the country, if you want to contact anyone, you can contact by messenger, right? "Cong Gulen Ge said.

"Hehe, you're still too young, you don't understand a lot of things, and many times, you can't do anything without showing your fists. We show our fists, not necessarily to hit anyone, just to let people know that we have big fists. Wei Bao smiled: "If it weren't for my big fist, your father Khan wouldn't want to make peace with my Baojun, he would be even more arrogant and intensify his invasion of Liaodong." ”

Cong Gulen Gege felt that what Wei Bao said made sense, but he was neither willing to admit it nor discuss the issue, so he pursed his lips and turned to leave.

"What a barbarian, I don't know any politeness." Wang Qiuya's impression of Cong Gulen Gege is very ordinary.

"Cong Gulen Gege is very polite and familiar with the living habits of the Han people." Wei Bao explained to Cong Gulengege: "She is a little mindful of me, but when I used to interact with Cong Gulenge in the controlled area of Jiannu as a young man of the Tiandihui business, Cong Gulenge was very polite and took good care of me. ”

Wei Bao couldn't help but think of the past when he first met Cong Gulun last year.

Wang Qiuya nodded: "Well, now that your position has changed, maybe she feels too weak in front of the president and needs the president to care about her." ”

Princess Zhenming can best understand this psychological change of Cong Gulen Gege, and rarely participated in the conversation between Wei Bao and Wang Qiuya, "This change has hurt Cong Gulen Gege's self-esteem, and Cong Gulen Gege is a very kind girl, the more kind she is, the more painful she will be if she is sandwiched between the Bao Army and the Houjin Army." ”

"Yes, she's still very smart, if she was a little stupid, she wouldn't be so painful, you have time to care more and enlighten her." Wei Bao Road.

Princess Zhenming nodded and said: "I will, as long as the president can let Cong Gulen Gege know that the president will not persecute the Jin people, it is for a wide range of peace, Cong Guren Gege should be able to figure it out, and he will be happy." ”

Wei Bao smiled: "Are you happy like you are now?" ”

"Sometimes I'm happy, sometimes I'm confused, because I don't know if the president treats the Koreans as slaves or as the same as the Han Chinese." Princess Zhenming said: "If the president sees the Koreans as the same as the people from Liaonan and Weijiazhuang, they can also receive a good education, they can also be officials, and they can join the army, I will be even happier." ”

"Yes, our resources are not enough for the time being, it is difficult to supply the development of Weijiazhuang, and even Liaonan is only compulsory in primary school, so there is no way to allocate resources to North Korea for the time being." Wei Bao explained: "There will be a day, not more than ten years at most!" ”

"Ten years." Princess Zhenming repeated the figures given by President Wei, "The President had better remember today's words, I will see it as a promise, and by 1636, I hope to fulfill it." ”

Although it was in ancient times, the areas under the rule of the Heaven and Earth Society had already used both the lunar calendar and the Gregorian calendar.

"I remember." Wei Bao smiled: "If the princess had invested more affection in me, maybe it would have been earlier." ”

When Princess Zhenming heard this, her face turned red, she and President Wei had already touched physically, and President Wei sometimes touched her hands or waist, but the two of them didn't have a good time.

has been by President Wei's side for so long, and North Korea has been actually controlled by President Wei.

At this time, Princess Zhenming actually didn't care much about her reputation, Princess Zhenming knew very well that whether she admitted it or not, the outside world must have regarded her as one of Lord Wei's women.

"I hope to behave well when the president marries me." Princess Zhenming blushed and said.

"Hehe, I'm afraid we'll have to wait a long time." Wei Bao Road.

"Well, I know, I'm not in a hurry." Princess Zhenming also smiled, "The president has to marry the Golden Phoenix girl first, as well as Director Xiaolin, Qiu Ya, and maybe there are any girls I don't know." ”

Wang Qiuya said angrily when she heard this: "Princess, what do you say I do?" The president wants you to accompany us, this is our blessing as a woman, what do you care about whether to marry or not, the president will definitely give you a name. Besides, being a concubine is nothing more than a meal for the family and registering it with the administrative office. ”

Wei Bao interrupted Wang Qiuya: "It's okay, princess, she wants to wait for me to officially marry her, and she can understand." ”

When Wei Bao said this, he made Princess Zhenming embarrassed, and he was also a little sorry, so he lowered his head and didn't speak.

Wei Bao secretly thought in his heart, I'm not in a hurry, I have to let you take the initiative to find me by yourself, don't worry!

The next day, the army set off with Lord Wei to Shanhaiguan.

The Shanhaiguan camp is actually the original Funingwei, just on the edge of Weijiazhuang, and Wei Bao didn't even have time to go back to see his father.

Even when he arrived at Shanhaiguan, which was greeted by a sea of people, Wei Bao didn't have time to stay.

Wei Bao originally wanted to take the time to meet Zhao Jinfeng's mother and Zhao Jinfeng yesterday, but he really didn't have time.

Together with the army today, although Wei Bao wanted to take the time to go to Zhao Jinfeng's house, he still restrained this thought.

Compared with women, in the end, it is more important to have a career.

Looking at the majestic Shanhaiguan Pass, looking at the two worlds inside and outside the pass, they are both snowy, but there is more of a layer of killing outside the pass.

Exiting the customs means iron blood and killing.

If it weren't for Wei Bao's diversion of the people outside the Guan, there would be almost no Han people outside the Guanxi now, and this atmosphere would be even stronger.

The army set out early in the morning and arrived at Gaotai Fort before sunset.

The defending generals of Gaotai Fort were the same as the defending generals of Qiantunbao, but after a slight hesitation, they opened the gate and greeted Lord Wei.

Because the army of Liaodong is basically stationed in Ningyuan and the area west of Ningyuan, fortresses like Gaotai Fort and Qiantun Fort are only stationed with one or two thousand people, the number is small, and they are also close to Liaoxi, so they naturally dare not offend or confront the powerful Lord Wei.

For most of the people in the Liaodong Army and the Jizhou Army, even if Lord Wei wants to lay them off, they have no choice, unless they don't want to stay in this area anymore, Lord Wei is now an authentic snake in the Northeast.

Lord Wei arrived in person, and most of the people in the Liaodong Army and the Jizhou Army didn't even have the idea of resisting.

Because Lord Wei controlled Liaoxi and Shanhaiguan, he could easily choke their throats and leave them without food.

These people dare to use Jiannu to blackmail the court, but they definitely don't dare to use this article to blackmail Lord Wei.

But they won't be so obedient either.

Although Wei Bao had repeatedly sent orders to Ningyuan and the people in the area west of Ningyuan to assemble at Gaotai Fort and Qiantun Fort, no one came, and those Liaodong troops were originally stationed in which castle they were stationed in, and they were still stationed in the same place, and no one moved their nests at all.

No, it's not that no one has moved their nests, it should be said that everyone has gathered in Ningyuan City and Juehua Island.

Ningyuan City has now become a place for the entire Liaodong Army to huddle together for warmth.

Yuan Chonghuan was supposed to belong to the establishment of the Jiliao Governor's Mansion, but after Sun Chengzong left, he fought with the Liaodong family.

After resting in Gaotai Fort for one night, the next morning, Lord Wei led a large army to Ningyuan City.

Originally, this journey also had to walk for more than half a day, and under normal circumstances, it would arrive in the afternoon.

But Wei Bao fears that Jiannu may attack at any time.

So the hasty march was urged, and the army arrived at three o'clock in the afternoon.

Yuan Chonghuan, who was having lunch, couldn't help but be shocked when he heard that Wei Bao had arrived.

Yuan Chonghuan had already received the news and knew that Wei Bao would come and would appease the Jizhou Army and the Liaodong Army on behalf of the imperial court, but he didn't expect Wei Bao to come so soon.

Ningyuan City is located about 100 kilometers outside Shanhaiguan, and Ningyuan Town only set up "Wei" in 1428 (three years of Xuande).

The whole city is square in shape, with a total of four gates; The circumference is six miles and eight steps, and the height is two feet and five feet; The pond is one zhang deep, two zhang wide, and has a circumference of seven miles and eight steps, but it is only slightly larger than the "place".

Such a small city, in any case, cannot be compared with Shenyang, Liaoyang and other important towns outside the Guan, which are guarded by elite Ming troops.

When Western cannons were transported to Ningyuan, they were also placed outside the moats outside the city.

However, Yuan Chonghuan gave up the formation of a fortress outside the city and a horn with the city, and withdrew all the soldiers and horses under the jurisdiction of Ningyuan, such as the left and right tun, together with the Western cannons, various city defense equipment and people outside the city, and the houses outside the city were burned.

There is a square enemy platform at each of the four corners of the rebuilt city wall of Ningyuan City, which extends out of the city on three sides and is connected to the city on one side, and the most advanced red-coated cannon at that time is placed on the special gun carriage of the enemy platform.

The artillery is rotated, and the fire can cover a range of 270 degrees outside the city walls; The cannons between the enemy platforms at the corners of the adjacent city walls can also shoot at the enemy troops under the city, which to a certain extent fills the dead end of the artillery that the Jin army used to dig the city after the past.

The original history was that Gaudi was cowardly and incompetent, and cowardly as a mouse. As soon as he took office, he had to remove the defensive equipment in Jinzhou, Youtun and other places, and drive all the defenders into the pass.

Yuan Chonghuan resolutely opposed, and Gao Di not only did not listen to Yuan Chonghuan's advice, but also planned to further abandon the two castles of Ningyuan and Qiantun.

Yuan Chonghuan resolutely said: "My official position is Ning Yuandao, if I want to die, I will die here, and I will never leave Ning Yuan!" ”

Gao Di had no choice but to let him lead a small part of the Ming army to stay.

Then Gao Di hurriedly ordered the withdrawal of the Ming army and city defense equipment in Jinzhou, Youtun, Da, Xiaolinghe, Songshan, Xingshan and other places, and retreated into the pass.

This retreat order came very suddenly, and there was a lack of careful organization work in advance, so on the way to retreat, the men and horses scrambled to be the first and became a mess, and even the more than 100,000 stone military rations that were piled up in various places on weekdays were discarded.

Ordinary people suffered the pain of fleeing and exile for no reason, many died on the way, and miserable cries were heard everywhere.

The people were resentful, and the army was even less motivated.

Castles in Jinzhou, Youtun and Da and Xiao Linghe were all abandoned.

Only Yuan Chonghuan affirmed the interests and swore to defend Ningyuan.

Until now, it has been replaced by Wei Bao, and Wei Bao is actually the same as Gao Di, who is also urging all the border troops in eastern Liaodong to retreat, there is no difference.

It's just that Wei Bao brought people up by himself.

Before Wei Bao came to Ningyuan, he was very clear about the troop layout of the Liaodong Border Army.

In addition to the three or four thousand defenders in Qiantunbao and Gaotai Fort that he had just passed, there are now about 20,000 defenders in Ningyuan City, and Yuan Chonghuan led the general soldier Man Gui, the deputy general Zuo Fu, the staff general Zu Dashou, and the deputy general Zhu Mei. Tong knows Cheng Weiao, as well as Lord Wei's old acquaintances, who used to be an official in Shanhaiguan, and now runs to Yuan Chonghuan to serve as Jin Qiliang, who is a general judge.

According to the intelligence of the Statistics Bureau, there are about 100,000 stones of grain in Ningyuan City, which is also Yuan Chonghuan's confidence to defend Ningyuan.

And Juehua Island, next to Ningyuan City, has 8,000 officers and soldiers, as well as all the families of the Liaodong Army, about 50,000 people, in addition to more than 200,000 stone grain.

Juehua Island was led by Dusi Wang Xiaxe, Ji Shideng, Wu Guoxun, Yao Youxian, General Gong Dynasty Ministers, Zhang Shiqi, Wu Weijin, and a total of 50 or 60 generals in the front, left, and rear camps.

Both Ningyuan City and Juehua Island have sufficient food for the winter, and there are a large number of troops, which are fighting each other, which is also the confidence of both sides to dare not retreat according to Wei Bao's orders.

"Open the gates quickly! Minister Qincha, ordered to appease Lord Jiliao Wei has arrived! Wei Bao's men shouted at the gate of Ningyuan City.

The guards in the city said that their position was low, and they had already sent someone to inform Lord Yuan Chonghuan of Ning Yuandao that he was coming.

Yuan Chonghuan soon arrived with the general soldier Man Gui, the deputy general Zuo Fu, the staff general Zu Dashou, the deputy general Zhu Mei, the same acquaintance Cheng Weihao, and the general judge Jin Qiliang.

Of these people, almost none of them were not hostile to Wei Bao.

Needless to say, Yuan Chonghuan was jealous of Wei Bao, although they were all disciples of Sun Chengzong, they had no feelings at all, and Yuan Chonghuan secretly even wanted to kill Wei Bao.

Man Gui was beaten by Wei Bao.

Zuo Fu is a man of Mangui.

Although Zu Dashou said that he was Wu Xuexia's uncle, the hatred between Zu Dashou and Wei Bao was also to the point of murder, and he lost millions of taels of silver and hundreds of thousands of taels of gold in Wei Bao's hands, and lost all his family wealth to Wei Bao.

Zhu Mei is the person of Zu Dashou.

Tongzhi Cheng Weiwei is the same as Jin Qiliang, who is Yuan Chonghuan's person.

Jin Qiliang once helped Wei Bao when he was in Shanhaiguan, and that was when Wei Bao first started doing business, but when Wei Bao's business improved a little, Jin Qiliang wanted to knock Wei Bao's bamboo pole again, wanted to exploit Wei Bao, and was ruthlessly treated by Wei Bao.

How could such a group of people open the city gates!

Yuan Chonghuan said at the head of the city: "Let Lord Wei speak." ”

The one who shouted under the city was a regiment commander under Madman Tan, and the regiment commander was on fire at that time: "Malegobi!" Damn, what are you, let the lord talk to you!? The lord is the minister of the Qincha, the dignified and second-class governor! Do you deserve to say a word to the lord after burning high incense for eight lifetimes? ”

Yuan Chonghuan didn't answer, and no longer paid attention to the scolding below.

Man Gui, Zuo Fu, Zu Dashou, Zhu Mei, Cheng Weihao, Jin Qiliang and others did not dare to speak up.

Yuan Chonghuan made a gesture to everyone and went to the city tower to talk.

"What now?" Yuan Chonghuan asked.

"What else can I do, just ignore them, I have the ability to get in!" Zu Dashou said angrily.

"What then? Wei Bao came with the Holy Decree, shouldn't we be the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty? Man Gui frowned: "Why don't you open the city gate and let Wei Bao in, see what they can do!?" Anyway, we just don't enter the customs. ”

"He didn't let us enter the customs either, Wei Bao said that we should all go to Qiantunbao and Gaotaibao to assemble and let Ningyuan City go." Yuan Chonghuan said.

"I don't know what Wei Bao's intentions are. If it was just to appease, our soldiers would have not continued to mutiny, and Wei Bao would not have to go out at all. In the bitter cold land outside the gate, what is there to come. Zuo Fu said.

Cheng Weiao said: "It is estimated that we want to dismiss my Liaodong people again, maybe not all of them, 20,000 will be cut, and 10,000 will be left, so that we have no power to speak at all." ”

Jin Qiliang nodded: "It is very likely, if you don't obey the retrenchment, you will be killed, Wei Bao is in Beizhili, in Shandong, one kill is four or five hundred thousand, and killing us twenty or thirty thousand people will not blink at all." ”

Everyone thinks that Cheng Weiao's analysis is the most reasonable.

"The gates must not be opened!" Zu Dashou said: "No matter what he Wei Bao does, let's just spend it with him, it's really not good, let's take people to the desert to be herdsmen!" Wei Bao is favored, it is the red man around His Majesty, and there are so many soldiers and horses in his hands that can fight, whether it is black or red, we will definitely not be able to fight Wei Bao! ”

"To the desert?" Man Gui glanced at Zu Dashou, and secretly wondered if you want to take refuge in Jiannu? But at this time, Man Gui did not say such a thing.

"Yes, go to the desert, we have so many people, and we are also the most powerful force in the desert, 20,000 troops, where can we not live, why should we be killed by him Wei Bao." Zu Dashou said.

The crowd was discussing.

The commander of the Bao Legion outside the city took a megaphone and began to shout again, "Brothers in the border army in the city, listen, we all belong to the Jiliao army, and we are all Jiliao people, all of whom are our own people!" If you don't open the city, sooner or later you will be sold by these people, and the officials will eat people and don't spit out bones! We don't want to dismiss you, Your Majesty has already ordered that the Jiliao military horses will not be abolished! We are not here to arrest the mutinous people, Lord Wei is here to appease everyone. When you arrive at Qiantunbao and Gaotai Fort, there are delicious food and drink, countless mutton and dog meat, and countless fine wines, and everyone can take care of it. If you are with them again and fight against Lord Wei, that is against the Ming court, against Your Majesty, that is to commit rebellion, to be a traitor, and to become the enemy of the Ming Dynasty. ”

The regiment commander was tired of shouting, so he asked the adjutant and liaison soldiers below to shout and take turns shouting.

Among the 20,000 defenders, there were already many agents of the Statistics Bureau, who had just mutinied, and now was the time when the morale of the army was unstable.

An army of 20,000 was discussed at the head of the city.

Yuan Chonghuan, Man Gui, Zuo Fu, Zu Dashou, Zhu Mei, Cheng Weiao, Jin Qiliang and others were furious, and they all knew that if they were shouted like this by the Bao army, within a day, without them opening the city gate, the Bao army would be able to break the willpower of the defenders.

Yuan Chonghuan was sure to use 20,000 men and a city of Ningyuan to fight against Jiannu, but he was never sure to use these forces to fight against the treasure army.