Wang Jian immediately summoned the generals to the camp to discuss the matter. He asked Ma Mimei to be the main general, and it turned out that Gao Di, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, was the deputy general, presiding over the defense of Luanzhou City. When the assigned task was over, the generals found that Wu Sangui was left aside. Wang Jian saw that Wu Sangui seemed to be a little lost, so he comforted: "Wu Aiqing, don't go this time, no matter what, Zu Dashou is also your uncle." I know that you are loyal and courageous, but I don't want him to die at your hands, do you know my intentions? ”

Wu Sangui immediately thanked the emperor when he heard this: "Thank you for your love, although you will die, you can't repay it!" ”

In fact, Wang Jian was not so kind, he wanted Ma Mi to exercise more, make more military exploits to establish her prestige, and also took advantage of the situation to empty Wu Sangui's military power, killing two birds with one stone. It's just that he also underestimated Wu Sangui, although he looked grateful on the surface, there was a trace of ruthlessness in his eyes.

Wang Jian ordered Ma Mi to lead three thousand iron horsemen out of the city, and before leaving, he looked at Ma Mi Mi who was heroic and slightly excited on the war horse, and was very reluctant: he knew that Ma Mi was eager to lead the troops, and she would feel happy there. If you imprison her by your side, she will only be a canary in a cage, and if she loses the wings to fly, she will eventually lose her luster.

Ma Mi also looked at Wang Jian tenderly, she felt that Wang Jian was almost forced to commit suicide on the coal mountain, because there was no general who could share Wang Jian's worries and turn the tide. She loves him and is afraid that the incident of Coal Mountain will happen again, so she must fight, because only the power of the army, only victory, can have enough power to protect her love.

Wang Jian said lovingly: "Protect yourself, if you can't do it, you will come back, as your man, I should protect you." ”

Ma Mi also nodded emotionally, and Yang spurred the horse out of the city.

Finally, just after the afternoon, the first big battle after Wang Jian's crossing came!

Zu Dashou's vanguard arrived at the city of Luanzhou, but saw that the city gate was closed, and there were rows of guards standing on the city wall, he felt very strange and sensed a trace of danger. It stands to reason that the news that the Jingshi has been broken should have come over, this should be an empty city, how is it completely different from what I imagined. And the Manchu generals around him couldn't manage so much, and when they saw the defenders, they all wanted to make war exploits, so they urged Zu Dashou to attack the city quickly, but Zu Dashou was barely appeased. Looking at Gao Di in the city, he stubbornly said: "It turned out to be Brother Gao, the Ming Dynasty existed in name only, as the saying goes, those who know the times are Junjie, if you also lead your subordinates to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, you will definitely be able to be crowned an official and enter the knighthood." And you and my brother can take care of each other, wouldn't it be happy! ”

Gao Di turned around and glanced at Wang Jian behind him, and didn't seem to have the intention of standing up and speaking, so he pointed at Zu Dashou and scolded: "Who is a brother with you, Lao Tzu's surname is Gao, how can you compare with you, a three-surnamed slave who doesn't know what his surname is!" ”

"You..."Zu Dashou didn't expect to be scolded by his former colleagues, he was ashamed and angry for a while, and more because of his own unfair situation, deep down he didn't want to work for the Qing Dynasty, and he also had the heart of escapism, but the actual situation forced him to work hard for the Qing Dynasty. In fact, Dolgon didn't trust him, and the only troops he could command were more than 1,000 remnants of the Guanning Iron Cavalry, and the remaining 2,000 were just the prison troops sent by the Qing court to his side.

There were several Manchu generals around him, and if they didn't attack the city, they might be even more dissatisfied, so Zu Dashou sighed and had to order the siege.

So the Qing soldiers ignored the command of Zu Dashou and attacked the city first, in their opinion, the defenders of the city were just a group of people who died in the country, and such a big credit for picking up in vain could not let the Han soldiers these minions rob it.

Zu Dashou saw that the Qing soldiers did not listen to his orders and grabbed the merits, so he let them go, but ordered his Han soldiers to stay still.

Killing and shaking the sky for a while, the Eight Banners soldiers all moved forward bravely, for them, these Ming soldiers were lambs to be slaughtered, and they were naturally vulnerable. And Gao Di, as the chief soldier of the first level in the world, is the best at defense. The opponent has ten times the strength of the opponent, and the defense is even more leaky.

The battle lasted for more than an hour, and after the Eight Banners soldiers dropped more than 500 corpses, they realized that something was wrong, and the small city in front of them was actually a hard bone, so they slowly retreated, waiting for the arrival of the Haoge army, so as to attack the city in one fell swoop.

Just when the Eight Banners had just retreated to the camp and were noisy and chaotic, a cavalry suddenly appeared behind them, led by a young girl, I saw that she was dressed in snow-white armor, and her body was full of red true qi, she held a red tassel spear in her hand, and took the lead in the battle, rushing left and right, and no one was her enemy with a shot!

Zu Dashou saw that the troops were in chaos, and urgently ordered the rear team to turn around and become the front team to resist this cavalry.

Wang Jian personally saw that Ma Miaomei had entered the enemy formation, and immediately stood on the city wall, and the luck dragon roared with the strength of milk: "Listen to the Guan Ning army under the city, I, the son of heaven of the Ming Dynasty, is here!! Wait for me to quickly help me kill Jianyu and avenge my comrades in Ningyuan City, not only will I not be guilty of the past, but I will definitely be rewarded afterwards! ”

Wang Jian's voice roared out with all the dragon qi quickly spread to every corner of the battlefield, and for a while, both sides on the battlefield looked at the city wall, and sure enough, they saw a person wearing a dragon robe, and there was a Huang Luo umbrella behind him, and that person looked even more majestic under the scorching sun!

Zu Dashou and the remnants of Guan Ning around him were also shocked and inexplicable, most of them were summoned by Chongzhen, and naturally recognized that the people on the city wall were the real emperor, and they were all too frightened to move, and the remnants of Guan Ning saw that the generals had no reaction, and they were even more at a loss, and they were soon rushed to pieces by Ma Yumei.

Even more shocked than them were the more than 2,000 Eight Banner soldiers who had just returned to their headquarters.

"Grass, I have known for a long time that these minions are unreliable." A Qing general shouted.

"yes, we must have been betrayed!! Otherwise, how could this ruined town be so difficult to attack! Another Qing general suffered heavy losses in the siege battle just now, and he quickly echoed.

I don't know who shouted: "Brothers, kill all these treacherous dog minions!" ”

So the two thousand Eight Banner soldiers who lost their minds turned their horses and killed the remnants of Guan Ning behind them. And the remnants of Guan Ning were not willing to wait for death and rose up to resist.

Zu Dashou saw that the situation was out of control, so he stopped arguing and waited quietly for death.

In order to reduce casualties, Ma Yumei urgently ordered the entire Iron Cavalry Battalion to withdraw from the battle and wait in the rear of Zu Dashou's army.

Seeing that the situation was developing in the direction he had envisioned, Wang Jian also opened the city gate and led 30,000 defenders to rush out.

The battle soon ended, and the remaining 1,500 Eight Banners soldiers were completely annihilated under the combined attack of Zu Dashou's remnants of Guanning and Wang Jian's 30,000 defenders. Zu Dashou and his 800 remnants of Guan Ning were captured. However, the Guanning army won a great victory, and completely annihilated 3,000 Haoge vanguard troops at the cost of more than 100 casualties!

Inside the Luanzhou City Prison.

Zu Dashou has been imprisoned here since he was captured, and his nephew Wu Sangui has also come to persuade him to surrender several times but has not been moved. "A thousand troops are easy to get, but a general is hard to find" Wang Jian naturally understood, so he came to the prison in person, Zu Dashou sat facing the wall, and did not get up to salute, turned his head to look at Wang Jian and said nothing.

"This is also a hard-blooded man." Wang Jian secretly instructed that he did not blame Zu Dashou for being unreasonable, but said kindly: "Cough, Zu Aiqing is fine." ”

"Hmph, if you want to kill, you will kill, why bother talking." Zu Dashou sneered.

Wang Jian was also very helpless, and Zu Dashou had already been mentally prepared for his attitude.

According to Chongzhen's memory, he also knew that Chongzhen had done a lot of things that were sorry for Guan Ning Tieqi. One of them was that Ling Chi executed Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Guanning. It was when the Qing army first entered the pass to besiege the Beijing division, Yuan Chonghuan traveled thousands of miles from outside the pass to Qin Wang, and after repelling the Qing army, he was attacked and accused of treason. Chongzhen was afraid that he would have a rebellious heart, so he ordered someone to throw a basket from the city wall and fish him into the city, and then he was stabbed by Ling Chi for 3,600 knives! And Zu Dashou was also completely disappointed in the imperial court after that incident, and only listened to the imperial court's edict, and no longer accepted the order. The far-reaching impact of this incident is not enough, in the future, after more generals received the edict of King Qin, they were also afraid of Yuan Chonghuan's fate, and they would rather resist the decree than dare to King Qin, it is really a realistic version of the story of "the wolf is coming".

Wang Jian sighed and muttered: "A lifetime of career is empty, and half a lifetime of fame is in a dream." After death, there is no brave general, and the loyal soul still guards Liaodong! In Wang Jian's view, as a Cantonese who traveled thousands of miles to Liaodong, no matter what the merits and demerits of later generations were, this loyalty is worthy of affirmation. As a superior, use ability to do small things, and use ability to do big things, even if you use the wrong person, the superior must also bear the corresponding responsibility.

Zu Dashou was shocked when he heard the tiger's body, and finally turned around and looked at Wang Jian angrily, like a fierce tiger who loves people!

"Your Majesty, you shouldn't have killed the governor. He is a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty. O loyal ministers! Zu Dashou roared. The iron-blooded tough guy who had eaten human flesh when Ningyuan City was running out of ammunition and food, and had never cried in countless battles of life and death, heard Wang Jian reciting Yuan Chonghuan's execution poem at this moment, but left tears.

"It's me who has a negative Inspector Yuan." Wang Jian said slowly, "I promise you that after I cross to the south, I will definitely order someone to go to Inspector Yuan's hometown to build a martyr's shrine for him and rehabilitate Zhaoxue for him." ”

"Since the emperor has this heart, he will die without regrets, and he is willing to follow Yuan Dutang underground!" Zu Dashou finally got up and knelt down to say goodbye.

"General Zu, you... Don't you understand my mind? I am not guilty of your repeated things in the past, and I hope you will inherit the will of Inspector Yuan and help me to level Liaodong! Wang Jian said the intention of this time.

"Dangping Liaodong... Swing Liaodong..."Zu Dashou muttered, it was his lifelong wish, but now it is so unattainable, as if it is the longest dream he has ever had in his life. "But, it's late, it's too late..."