At this time, Qin Qiong remembered Zhu Hao's entrustment to him before he left, and immediately ordered:

"Stop destroying the artillery!"

"Retreat now!"

After Guan Yu followed Qin Qiong's order, he immediately ordered:

"Stop shooting, retreat!"

With the order of the two generals, all the Ming troops turned over and left, and as soon as the men and horses of the two sides retreated, the soldiers of Houjin had already begun to land.

Nurhachi watched, and after the Jin soldiers landed, the anger in his heart could not suppress him, so he wanted to order the pursuit.

But he looked at it, these Houjin soldiers who had just landed, all of them were untidy, as a veteran of the perennial battle, Nurhachi had to swallow this evil breath and give up the pursuit.

Because Nurhachi knew that if he ordered the pursuit now, these soldiers would inevitably be defeated, and Nurhachi was not sure whether Zhu Hao had other ambushes.

Nurhachi didn't dare to take this risk, because at the moment, these soldiers were already his old base, and he couldn't let them be easily injured.

After all the Houjin soldiers landed, Nurhachi set up a village with his back to the Liao River, preparing to rest for a while, and then looking for Zhu Hao for a decisive battle.

Just after Nurhachi set up camp, Qin Qiong and Guan Yu also took people back to Guangning City and returned to Zhu Hao.

After Zhu Hao saw the two of them, he didn't ask about the results of the battle, and asked first:

"In this battle, what are the casualties of our army?"

Qin Qiong and Guan Yu listened to Zhu Hao's words, their faces were gloomy, and they hung their heads silently, and Zhu Hao estimated that the casualties in this battle were not small.

Thinking like this, Zhu Hao shouted again and asked:

"Two generals, answer the king's words!"

"What are the casualties of our army in this battle?"

Listening to Zhu Hao's stern tone, Qin Qiong took the lead in stepping forward and bowing and saluting:

"Back to Your Highness, the artillerymen brought by the last general have killed two, seriously injured two, and lightly injured eight!"

After Qin Qiong's words were finished, Guan Yu immediately stepped forward to report:

"Back to Your Highness, the last general will bring the Apocalypse Riflemen, ten dead, five seriously injured, and three hundred lightly injured!"

Zhu Hao listened to the two of them's answers, frowning slightly, according to Zhu Hao's psychological guess, the number of casualties was much less than he had just thought.

But before these two men brought people out to fight, he guessed that there were many more casualties.

Therefore, Zhu Hao immediately shook his eyebrows and shouted:

"How can there be so many casualties?"

"Didn't this king say that once Houjin lands, he will retreat immediately?"

"This king needs you to give this king an explanation!"

As soon as Zhu Hao's words were finished, Qin Qiong stepped forward and replied:

"Back to Your Highness, this matter is all to blame on the last general, it is the last general who has taken too long to destroy the cannon!"

"General Guan is to cover the last general, so many casualties have been generated!"

"In the end, there will be a failure of the prince's entrustment, please punish the prince!"

Zhu Hao listened to Qin Qiong's words, and just wanted to reprimand Qin Qiong, but he didn't want Guan Yu to step forward and say:

"No matter what the reason, the end will be entrusted by the king, and the end will be willing to be punished!"

"Please condemn the prince!"

Zhu Hao looked at the two of them, both of them pleaded here, frowned slightly, and sighed after a while:

"You know how to cooperate, you know how to cover each other, and you have not abandoned your comrades, which is gratifying to this king!"

"But after all, you have violated military law, and this king will not spare you two!"

"Otherwise, I'm sorry, brothers who are dead and wounded!"

"The two of you go to the Judge Advocate General's Office, each receive twenty military sticks, and you will be fined for half a year!"

Zhu Hao said and took a deep breath, waved his hand and said:

"Let's go down!"

In fact, according to Zhu Hao's own thoughts, he was not ready to punish the two.

However, because it was an extraordinary period, he had to punish the two of them and show them to the generals in Liaoxi, so that these people could do the order and prohibit them when the war came.

After the two went out, Wei Xiaobao, who was behind Zhu Hao, stepped forward and said:

"Your Highness, are your requirements for the two generals too high!"

"Two generals, killing Jianyu is not to mention nearly 10,000 people, and only injuring this soldier is really not enough to worry about!"

"Why did Your Highness punish the two generals!"

Zhu Hao listened to Wei Xiaobao's words, shook his head and said:

"Xiaobao, you don't know!"

"The king's order to them is that as soon as they are about to land, they will evacuate immediately, no matter what the circumstances!"

"When the two of them just replied to this king, it was obvious that they had violated the original king's order, and how could this king not be punished!"

Wei Xiaobao listened to Zhu Hao's words and spoke again:

"Your Highness has a point, but General Qin, after all, it is for the cannon not to fall into the hands of Jianyu, and for Jianyu to use!"

"It's against His Highness's original intention!"

"But Your Highness, if these cannons fall intact into the hands of Jianyu,

It will inevitably make more soldiers dead and wounded and under the artillery! ”

"General Qin's move is also for our army to suffer less damage in the future, so how can His Highness blame General Qin?"

Zhu Hao listened to Wei Xiaobao's words, shook his head again and said:

"Xiaobao, this king admits that what you said has some truth!"

"But disobedience on the battlefield and unauthorized change of the general's order is a big taboo, and now that the war is imminent, how can this king condone such a thing?"

"That's it!"

"This matter is not discussed!"

"Xiaobao, this king has something he wants you to do!"

Wei Xiaobao listened to Zhu Hao's instructions, and immediately stopped talking about Qin Qiong and Guan Yu, and hurriedly said:

"Your Highness, please!"

Zhu Hao looked at Wei Xiaobao and nodded slightly:

"You can let those intelligence officers in the army spread the news of today's Wang punishing the two generals today!"

"At the same time, the military exploits of the two generals will be conveyed together!"

"This king wants to let all the soldiers of Liaoxi know that no matter how great their feats are,

Once you disobey the king's order, the king will definitely punish you! ”

Wei Xiaobao listened to Zhu Hao's words, at this moment he probably knew Zhu Hao's intentions, and immediately agreed to leave.

For a period of time after that, in the various military camps of the Ming army in western Liaoxi, it was talking about the punishment of the two generals, as well as Zhu Hao's strict attitude of military law.

Just when Zhu Hao took advantage of the affairs of Qin Qiong and Guan Yu to rectify the military style and military discipline in Liaoxi, Nurhachi had already led the army to occupy the three forts of Xiping Fort, Zhenwu Fort, and Zhenning Fort.

Since the Jin army was already less than 100 miles away from Guangning, Zhu Hao was very nervous when he heard the news, and couldn't help but secretly say in his heart:

"Why didn't Nurhachi take the bait?"

"Could it be that he didn't find out about the king's grain transport?"

"That's not right!"

"It's been transported with such fanfare for so long, he shouldn't have found out!"

"What's going on?"

Just when Zhu Hao was puzzled, Nurhachi's envoy came to Guangning City to ask to see Zhu Hao.

When Zhu Hao heard the news, he was very surprised, he didn't know what Nurhachi's intention was, and after thinking about it carefully, Zhu Hao, who was still puzzled, decided to meet the envoy of Houjin.