Ming An was even more relieved when he saw that the Ming army on the mountain said this, and ordered his soldiers to go in quickly to check, and after a while, the people who went to check came out and reported that Ming An said that it was a dead valley with no way out, and it was surrounded by upright mountain walls. It is overgrown with grass, and there are hundreds of horses gnawing grass, and it is estimated that it is the horse that Liu Xingzuo and those people are riding. Ming An thought for a while and shouted to the top of the mountain: "The horses inside are all our horses, if you tell me where the horsemen are, I will be the master to give you the horses, if you refuse to say that we will give the horses." ”

The Ming army on the hill replied: "We didn't care who owned this horse before, but now these horses are ours, because the rider gave us the horse half an hour ago." Because they gave them horses, we have sent them away, and we can consider letting you go to them as long as you give away your own horses. ”

Ming An heard from Ming Jun's words that he was teasing himself, so he sneered a few times and said: "You have taken in the traitors of the Jurchens, naturally someone will come to deal with you, we will kill Ma Qin now, and we will have a period later." ”

The Ming army on the hill also shouted loudly, "Whoever wants to deal with us will be a matter for later, but if you want to get our horses, you must ask our cannons if they agree." As soon as the words fell, three tiger squat cannons were immediately placed on the hill that was not very spacious.

Although the cannon is not big or much, the pitch-black cannon body and a few bright torches have a lot of deterrent power in itself. Ming An looked at the steep mountain wall and knew that he couldn't attack it for the time being, and the damage of the three tiger squat cannons to his thousands of people could not be great, at most a hundred or so people would be killed, but it was not necessary to kill and injure hundreds of people for the sake of four hundred horses. He thought that the heroes would not suffer the immediate losses, so he said generously: "We Mongolians love to make friends the most, since you like these horses, I will leave them to you, even if you know each other, what do you think?" ”

The Ming army on the hill said: "This is very good, you will not be far away if you go slowly!" ”

But it is said that when Liu Xingzuo fled to the small valley, the Ming army on the mountain had already received Liu Xingzuo's order at the critical time of Zu Dashou, and suffered from the fact that he had done too much when choosing a defensive place at that time, and only left a way back for himself, and the defenders on the head of the other roads dug and chiseled were all cut into straight heavenly roads, and the defenders on the head thought about letting Liu Xingzuo leave the horse and wait for the opportunity to come to Qin, and now hang some people to the top with ropes to ask about the situation, and then hang down a few guides to take others from the river to go around the mountain and let the Ming army behind answer the mountain beam, Therefore, it took nearly half an hour to all go up to the mountain beam, and it happened to be seen by Ming An.

Liu Xingzuo told his men to drop their horses and walk around the mountain and go down to the river on foot, and walked in the river for a long time before going up a gentle slope and entering a mountain crevice. The Daling River is a seasonal river, the water in the Daling River in March is not wide or deep, you can trek on the sand and gravel, even if you accidentally enter the water, it doesn't matter, although the river water in March is still very cold, but it is not biting. Everyone followed the guide from the crack in the mountain to climb up the mountain beam, rested for a while, and detoured for more than a day, and after resting for one night, crossed the Xiaoling River before arriving at Zhongqian, □ Xingzuo and others took the road that Zhang Jing'an fled to last year when the Mongols captured the mouth of the two rivers, and their horses were brought back by the Ming army through the city of Lianghekou a few days later.

Liu Xingzuo saw Yuan Keli, the overseer of Liaodong, although the two had contact a few years ago, but now they really met, Liu Xingzuo saw Yuan Keli and cried loudly, Yuan Keli personally helped him up and persuaded him: "General Liu is in Cao Ying, his heart is in Han, and he has suffered a long journey in the past two days, your loyalty is admirable, according to the official's opinion, he is not inferior to Guan Yunchang, who rode alone for thousands of miles. The emperor has already known about you, and specially appointed you as the deputy general of the Jizhou Military Region, and together with Ma Shilong, the chief soldier of Jizhou, he will assist the official in reorganizing the army here, and these subordinates who follow you will have their own rewards. ”

Liu Xingzuo said with tears in his eyes: "The last general swears to follow the adults to the death, and is willing to follow the work of dogs and horses!" ”

Since Zhang Jing'an, deputy general of the Jizhou Military Region, and Zhao Shujiao, the chief of the canal of the Bohai Military Region, were sent to Guizhou, Tianqi felt that several training bases should be built in other places at the same time. Last year, the 5,000 people of Hongshanwei had been reborn under the training of Mao Wenlong and Hou Sui, and now they have been pulled to Shaanxi, because the strength of the Shaanxi defenders is too weak, which makes people feel shocked.

Between Shanhaiguan and Ningyuan City, which is relatively closed and suitable for training troops, once the Daling River or Lianghekou City is attacked, it can be supported at the first time, and several key places such as Xifengkou and Gubeikou outside Shanhaiguan and Ningyuanguan in the east can also become its backup guarantee. In addition, the western Liaoning corridor has soldiers and civilians, as well as mountainous trees and fertile land islands, whether it is logistics supply or various training for building houses and roads, the biggest advantage is that the surrounding defenders can recognize the current situation and make the most appropriate choice by comparing their own conditions.

Not to mention how Liu Xingzuo assisted Yuan Keli in rectifying the army in front of the Zhongqian, only to say that one day in early March, Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Liaodong, received a document sent by Emperor Taiji of the Jurchen Tiancong Khan, and the letter said three things, one is that the Jurchen rebel general Liu Xingzuo was protected by the Ming army, which was inappropriate in the case of the two sides agreeing on disciples, and the Ming army should immediately repatriate Liu Xingzuo; Second, the stronghold of the Ming army had been repaired to less than twenty miles from Yizhou, which was a challenge to the border and apprenticeship agreement between the Ming Dynasty and the Jurchens; Third, Dolgon and Fan Wencheng had already prepared for the next round of negotiations, but now the Ming army has no basis for negotiations.

Yuan Keli is now making preparations in the Zhongqian Institute, preparing to pull the guards in Shandong, Shanxi, Beizhili and other places to the Zhongqian Institute in batches to rectify and divide, and all the affairs of Ningyuan will be temporarily represented by Yuan Chonghuan. Yuan Chonghuan was originally a literati from a jinshi, and what he was best at was playing with his lips, and when he saw that Huang Taiji actually wanted to get an axe in front of him, he immediately wrote a letter in person for a while, refuting Huang Taiji's rude words.

Yuan Chonghuan first pointed out in the letter that Liu Xingzuo was originally a subject of the Ming Dynasty who had been deceived into acting as a tiger, and now he repented and returned to his homeland and did not count as a rebellion to the boundary that Huang Taiji said, Yuan Chonghuan even made it clear that the border between the Ming Dynasty and the Jurchens was in Mobei, and the vast land from Liaodong to Mobei was the slave Gandu Division of the Ming Dynasty, and now it belongs to the disputed area between the two sides, and Ningyuan, Yizhou and other places are only the actual control line and not the border. As for saying that Dolgon and Fan Wencheng are coming for the next round of negotiations, he welcomes them, but I don't know what it means to have no foundation, whether it means that the road is uneven.

Huang Taiji was also familiar with the books passed down from the Ming Dynasty since he was a child, and had a strong interest in refutation and counter-criticism, and immediately wrote a letter again after seeing Yuan Chonghuan's reply, in which he said that Liu Xingzuo was a lost dog, since the Ming Dynasty liked him, the Jurchen side could be generous and not pursued, and if he could clear the customs and invigorate the economy, he could consider returning Liu Xingzuo's family. Huang Taiji was extremely tough on the border, he said that the Line of Actual Control is the border, although the Jurchen did not establish a state, but the relationship between the two sides is not the relationship between superiors and subordinates but the relationship between special countries, and finally laughed at Yuan Chonghuan for not being able to understand the text.

Yuan Chonghuan saw that Huang Taiji tied the mutual market to the safety of Liu Xingzuo's family, and immediately felt very embarrassed. Although he is negotiating with the Jurchens now, if he privately agrees to the mutual market, he will definitely be scolded by the ministers of the DPRK and the central government, and if he refuses Huang Taiji's proposal for the mutual market, he will definitely hurt Liu Xingzuo's heart, everyone knows what his mother and wife and children mean to a man, even if he wants to be a wicked person and refuses Huang Taiji, he can't let himself be this wicked person. Yuan Chonghuan thought about it for a long time and decided that it would be better to explain the situation to Beijing, so he immediately presented Huang Taiji's letter to the Military Affairs Yuan.

The Military Affairs Yuan only cares about the military and does not manage government affairs, and after receiving Yuan Chonghuan's letter, he did not dare to make his own decision, so he had to report the situation to Tianqi, and Tianqi felt funny after hearing it, this is a short-term behavior and not letting people go, how can it be a long-term behavior to interact with each other, and tying the two together can only say that Huang Taiji is not considerate, and I don't know what to do about this matter, I can only say that Yuan Chonghuan and the Military Affairs Yuan and others are still angry. Tianqi instructed on the spot to immediately agree to the request of the Emperor Taiji to exchange markets, and asked the Jurchens to release them immediately, as for how to exchange markets in the future, it will be said when the time comes.

After Yuan Chonghuan received the instructions of the Apocalypse, he immediately replied to Huang Taiji, saying that the Emperor was willing to agree to Huang Taiji's mutual market request regardless of previous suspicions, but Yuan Chonghuan deeply exposed and criticized Huang Taiji's two-state theory. Yuan Chonghuan started from the relationship between Huang Taiji's father Nurhachi and the Ming Dynasty, and kept saying that Huang Taiji's grandfather Takshi and his father's grandfather Jue Chang'an were both the commanders of the Ming Dynasty's Jianzhou Guard, so as to show that the current Jurchen is the rebellion of the Ming Dynasty, and it is not a relationship between countries at all. Yuan Chonghuan was even more energetic when he said to Huang Taiji that he didn't understand the text, and he challenged Huang Taiji to write articles, write poems, and fill in the lyrics to see who couldn't understand the text.

The two of you come and go and accuse each other is just a pretense, Huang Taiji's real purpose is to do business with each other, because the Jurchens have now robbed the Mongols almost, and they don't know who to rob again, so they have to find a way to do business with the Ming Dynasty, otherwise Huang Taiji will not agree to release Liu Xingzuo's family, and anyone who trusts him will hate him if he becomes a traitor. The Ming Dynasty also had its own bottom line, that is, it did not stimulate the Jurchens at a deep level while adhering to principles, and it was in the real interests of the Ming Dynasty to let the Jurchens and the Mongols fight each other.

The struggle is temporary, and the interests are long-lasting, which is a consensus reached among the Ming monarchs and ministers, as well as between the front soldiers and the rear command and staff institutions. Just when he was talking about fighting and interests, Liu Zongzhou came up with a plan for Tianqi on behalf of the Holy Academy.