"This is Ning Yuan?"

The waves were gently lapping against the side of the ship. Zheng Sen stood in the mast bucket, looking at the city on the shore, the square city with a circumference of only seven miles, it was not vast in his eyes, but the golden sunlight bathed it in a layer of dazzling brilliance.

For the Ming Dynasty, which is like a candle in the wind, Ningyuan City is a glorious and dazzling name. Fifteen years ago, Yuan Chonghuan became famous in a battle here, repelled the onslaught of wild boar skins, and rumored to have injured the thief chieftain, so that Nurhachi was killed half a year later!

How did Zheng Sen not know about Ning Yuancheng. Even though Yuan Chonghuan's death was very disgraceful, the merits of "Ning Yuan's great victory" were still extremely affirmed by the Ming Dynasty, rather than erased.

Historically, it was also after this war that Ningyuan City, which was located about 100 miles north of Shanhaiguan, was firmly in the hands of the Ming Dynasty. Until Wu Sangui borrowed troops to enter the customs!

Today's Ningyuan, that is also the location where Hong Chengchou gathered the Eighth Route Army.

This was the information that Zheng Sen had learned, so he led the fleet straight towards Ning Yuan.

As a barrier in the north of Shanhaiguan and an important part of the Ming army's customs, the garrison of Ningyuan City, which is located in the western Liaoning corridor, is still very high.

Soon, a group of horse troops rushed straight in.

The first general is burly, and it is Wu Sanfu, the younger brother of Wu Sangui, the chief soldier of the Ningyuan regiment. This person looks very powerful in his image, but he is not strong at all in his heart. I am afraid that the fleet on the sea is from the Eight Banners Tartars, and I am afraid all the way.

It is now the end of mid-August, and at the end of July, Hong Chengchou has gathered the general army of the Eighth Route and has already sworn to go on the expedition. That is to say, Zheng Sen's backwardness is one thing, and there are not many defenders in Ningyuan City!

However, there seem to be thirty or twenty ships on the seaside, and all of them are big ships, that is, one ship carrying one or two hundred people, and three or five thousand Tartars suddenly killed under the city of Ningyuan, and the defenders in the city can only close the city and defend it!

But thankfully not! Although Wu Sanfu was dumbfounded by Zheng Sen's arrival!

However, Ma Shaoyu, who arrived later, smiled at the corner of his mouth, he was the head of the Ministry of War, and he was the confidant of Shangshu Chen Xinjia. and Zhang Ruoqi, the staff of the Ministry of War who arrived in the army early, are Chen Xinjia's henchmen. They are all here to urge Hong Chengchou to march quickly and achieve a quick victory.

As a civil servant, Ma Shaoyu naturally knew that the Zheng family represented by Zheng Sen had a very close relationship with Hong Chengchou. Thinking of the news in Jingshi and Jiang Dejing's proposal, it will be even clearer.

After revealing his identity, Zheng Sen heard that Hong Chengchou had sworn to go on the expedition, but he did not feel regretful, but happy. After four or five months of delay, the reinforcements finally marched in.

Of course, the money and food on the ship could not be given to Ning Yuan.

"Since the chief system is not here, this money and grain can't be cheap, Ning Yuan." Shi Lang muttered to Zheng Sen and said: "The deeds in the Ming officialdom are also clear to the son. Once this money and grain is given to Ning Yuan, hundreds of thousands of soldiers will eat and chew, and they will be able to float away if they let go. Hong Chengchou doesn't see any benefits, how can he understand the love of Zongrong? ”

The money and food must be sent to Hong Chengchou's army by hand, which can be seen and touched, and it can be regarded as consolidating the favor.

Zheng Sen is no longer the original son-in-law, Shi Lang's words are naturally clear to him, and with an order, more than 20 ships pulled anchor and set sail under the noses of a civil and military attache on the shore.

20,000 stone of grain, and tens of thousands of silver oceans......

Ma Shaoyu on the shore looked at the fleet slowly sailing away from the shore, until he saw a boiled duck flapping its wings and flying away in front of his eyes, and his heart was painful.

"What a Zheng Sen, so rude, not the right man." Ma Shaoyu said fiercely in his heart.

And then looked at the group of soldiers around him who couldn't wait to stretch out their palms in their eyes, and snorted disdainfully. At this time, I can't help it, why don't I stop it?

The fleet in front of him only has three warships, and the rest are just grain ships, how can Zheng Sen not be sent ashore obediently? Don't dare to act arrogantly, isn't it just that you are afraid of Hong Hengjiu!

"This official has long heard that Jiang Hongzheng went out of a county in Fujian Province, and he has always been suspected of forming a party for personal gain, and today he saw the result. When the official returns to Beijing, he will definitely participate in a good performance to the saint! ”

Flicking his sleeves, Ma Shao left happily.

And Zheng Sen on the sea didn't know that he had hated Ma Shaoyu, but even if he knew, he wouldn't care. The head of the military department, no matter how powerful the person in front of Chen Xinjia is, he is only a six-rank official. Unless Chen Xinjia has a hole in his brain, he will have a dirty relationship with the Zheng family because of him.

At this moment, he was talking to Shi Lang about the war ahead, and lamented the martyrdom of Yang Guozhu, the chief soldier of Xuanfu.

But on July 26, the Ming army took a blow after swearing to go on the expedition. That Hong Chengchou led the army to the south of Jinzhou Rufeng Mountain, the next day, he ordered Yang Guozhu to lead the troops to attack Xishimen, the result of the Qing army ambush, the Qing army to high-ranking officials Houlu persuaded to surrender, Yang Guozhu fought to the death until the arrow died.

Then there was talk about Hong Chengchou's marching strategy, he wanted to take it step by step, and he would be a car. And Chen Xinjia advocated a quick victory on the grounds of insufficient food and salary in the imperial court, and Emperor Chongzhen thought the same.

Zheng Sen has no combat experience, so he only thinks that Hong Chengchou is not bad at doing this, and Emperor Chongzhen is a layman leading an insider. Shi Lang disagreed: "Yang Zongrong was martyred, and although the army lost a humerus, the morale was still sharp, and the army's morale was also excited. It's time to get the drums on! Hong Hengjiu actually flinched, and did not dare to launch an army to attack, I think he is also a person who enjoys fame and is worthy of the world's popularity! ”

Shi Lang sneered at Hong Chengchou.

Zheng Sen frowned, dissatisfied with Shi Lang's contempt for Hong Chengchou, but in his heart he felt that what Shi Lang said was not unreasonable.

The imperial court is shorter than the salary, which is an indelible fact. How could Hong Chengchou, as the governor of Jiliao, not know? And knowing that he wants to slow down his troops, isn't that a contradiction? Isn't this a problem for Your Majesty?

And as Shi Lang said, as soon as the army moved, it took advantage of the high morale to send troops to attack ......, which seems to make sense.

Zheng Sen, who has not experienced the experience of war, is obviously very immature now.

"The Marquis (Shi Lang's words) is in vain. General Hong's suppression of the Pingliu Kou, everyone in the world has seen it, is it a person who does not know soldiers? Our dynasty fought several battles with the Tartars, but they were all defeated due to the division of troops. This time, the general system of adults is walking in peace, step by step, and walking with weight, which is the reason. ”

Zheng Sen still 'believes' in his predecessor Hong Chengchou in the end.

"Now that the army has arrived outside Jinzhou City, the grain and grass are stationed in Bijia Mountain. I'll go straight to Matsuyama Castle later! ”

Zheng Sen decided, turned around and ordered.

Nasongshan City is closer to the army than Bijia Mountain, and it is naturally better to send money and food to Songshan City.

Shi Lang didn't argue with Zheng Sen either, they were all talking about it now, just talking on paper. Whether the matter has happened to them or not, it is not that they are commanding the army, it is purely standing and talking without backache.

The two of them are like keyboard players on the Internet in later generations, pointing out the country, impassioned words, and dung was the marquis of ten thousand households back then. But in fact, it doesn't have any effect on the overall situation! They don't know at all that the current Hong Chengchou has completely abandoned his 'heavy strategy', and he can still bear the pressure of Chen Xinjia, but he can't resist Emperor Chongzhen's urging, and he has already made up his mind and is determined to fight quickly!

Zheng Sen led the fleet to the north, and Huang Taiji, who had arrived at the Songjin battlefield at this moment, was also thinking hard about how to break the enemy. Tens of thousands of Ming troops gathered in one place, this is not something that today's Eight Banners soldiers can devour in one bite.

What's more, there are many mountainous and hilly areas in the south of Jinzhou, and the Eight Banners can be guarded by the Defense Department, and the Ming Army can do the same.

Eating more than 100,000 Ming troops, Huang Taiji didn't even think about it!

Huang Taiji was not the only one worried, the entire Manchu high-level was worried, although they easily killed Yang Guozhu, but in the subsequent battle with the Ming army, they suffered defeats.

Huang Taiji was so anxious that he galloped five hundred miles in the starry night, went straight to Jinzhou from Shenyang, and traveled all the way, so that "epistaxis does not stop", that is, nosebleeds cannot be stopped. If the form of the Eight Banners was good, he would not catch chickens like this.

The current war is not the responsibility of Huang Taiji alone, as a 'joint-stock company', although the Manchu Qing Dynasty has not yet been listed, although the Aixin Jueluo family occupies the largest absolute shares, but the Manchu high-level one is counted as one, and they are all small shareholders.

They are both a loss and a winner. So, everyone's sullen!