After Xu Lang finished visiting Yang Sichang and returned to the officer training corps, he didn't say a word, and he smoked five or six cigarettes in a row.

Zhang Hai finally couldn't help but ask: "Don't smoke it yet, didn't Yang Sichang agree to our plan, and also promised that he would propose it to Chongzhen, why do you seem to have something on your mind." ”

"I don't have anything on my mind." Xu Lang lit another cigarette, "This battle plan is too big, I have to think about it a few more times, don't miss anything." ”

Zhang Hai was relieved when he heard Xu Lang say this: "You just tend to think too much, it's useless to think too much now, wait for the news from the imperial court." ”

"We can't wait now." Xu Lang extinguished the cigarette in his hand, "I'll write a few letters, you send someone to send them out immediately, and at the same time inform the person who sent the letter to bring back the letter, and we must step up contact with all places." ”

"Okay, I'll send it out as soon as you write it."

"How many people did Bei Ming bring to Wu Sangui?"

"A cavalry company."

"Who is in charge of the Second General Affairs Department here in Beijing?" Xu Lang already knew about Qin Songwang.

"Ning Yan is in charge now."

"How long has it been since you received information about Cobra?"

"It's been a few months, and there hasn't been any news since the last time I received Tao Gong preparing to attack Phi Dao." After Zhang Hai finished speaking, he explained, "But this is also normal, Cobra's intelligence has always been like this, and we don't have a fixed contact time." ”

"Tell Ning Yan and let him contact Cobra as much as possible to learn about the latest developments in Nanpu. In addition, if I receive information from Cobra again and tell me as soon as possible, don't believe anything if I don't make a decision. ”

"Why?" Zhang Hai didn't understand Xu Lang's words, "Do you suspect that something is wrong with the cobra?" ”

"Intuitively, Tao Gong has not attacked Phi Dao so far, and it is very likely that Cobra's last information is fake. I can't say what went wrong, but anything is possible. ”

Ardahan was tied to a pillar at the gate of the Nanpu Barracks, and an eight-banner Ezhen took a whip and whipped it fiercely: "Let you run again, let you run again, you can't run anymore." ”

Ardahan glared angrily at the Eight Banners and didn't say a word.

Tao Gong stood in the distance and watched silently.

"Lord Belle." Ji Tonghai stood behind Tao Gong and said, "The slave has a lot of mouths, and if he continues to fight like this, he will kill people." ”

Tao Gong turned his head: "He is a slave of the prince's family, not a member of our fast gun team, and Ben Beile can't speak." ”

"But Lord Belle, Ardahan is also full of people no matter what he says." Ji Tonghai lowered his voice, "There are also a lot of Yehe clans in our fast gun team, so I am afraid of such a fighting slave。。。。。。 ”

Tao Gong thought about it, turned around and walked to the door of the barracks: "Stop, don't fight anymore." ”

Baqi Ezhen stopped the whip in his hand: "Lord Belle, this is our prince's family matter, and I ask Lord Belle not to interfere." ”

Tao Gong stared at this Ezhen: "Ben Baylor knows that this is your family matter, and Ben Baylor doesn't want to take care of the prince's family affairs. But this is the barracks of our fast rifle team, if you kill him here, I'm afraid you won't be able to explain it in front of the prince. ”

Baqi really saw that Tao Gong's tone was quite tough, and he reluctantly slapped Tao Gong: "The slave knows." ”

Tao Gong saw that this Ezhen led people away, and he didn't care about Ardahan, who had passed out, and waved his hand to call Ji Tonghai over: "Find a few people to relieve him and hurt him, don't send him back first, stay in the fast gun team first." ”

"Lord Belle, this is not appropriate."

"There's nothing wrong with it, if the prince wants to ask, he will say that I stayed, and I can't really kill people."

Ji Tonghai called a few people, untied Ardahan from the pillar, and carried him into a hut.

In the evening, Ardahan awoke from his slumber and opened his eyes without knowing where he was.

"You're awake." Ji Tonghai sat in front of the bed, "Don't move yet, you're too seriously injured." Our Lord Belle has already told your prince, you can just rest assured that you can recuperate here in the next few days, and no one will come to you. ”

Ardahan struggled to get up and kowtowed to Ji Tonghai a few times: "Thank you Mr. He for saving your life." ”

Ji Tonghai helped Ardahan to lie down again, and asked casually: "How did you provoke them, why did you fight so hard." ”

"The minions really couldn't stand it, so the minions ran away secretly, but they didn't run out, and let them catch them back."

Ji Tonghai patted Ardahan gently: "Although the world is big, there are emperors everywhere, where can you go?" ”

"Wherever you can go, you can run anywhere." Ardahan said indignantly, "The minions of Marfa and Amma both died at the hands of Nurhachi, and the minions have been humiliated by them since they were born, and the minions are always thinking about running and leaving here. ”

Ji Tonghai stretched out his hand to cover Ardahan's mouth: "The name of Taizu should not be called indiscriminately. ”

Ardahan looked at Ji Tonghai and didn't speak, Ji Tonghai took his hand away: "You sleep again, I'll bring you some food later." ”

Jiang Beiming and his cavalry company received Xu Lang's letter in Ningyuan City. After reading the letter, Jiang Beiming smiled bitterly in his heart: "Okay, Xu Lang, your pen is big enough, and I, the major general and division commander, still have to listen to the arrangement of your brigadier general and chief of staff." ”

Although Jiang Beiming was joking with Xu Lang in his heart, he agreed with Xu Lang's analysis very much, and Tao Min was likely to attack Ming in five ways. It seems that he really wants to stay in Ningyuan to assist Wu Sangui.

Jiang Beiming has been accompanied by Wu Sangui in the past few days, and he has visited Ningyuan City again. Jiang Beiming didn't want to publicly tell Wu Sangui that he wanted to take a look at Ningyuan's defense system, but he also saw a lot of problems in private, and he was thinking about how to negotiate with Wu Sangui in the past two days. After receiving Xu Lang's letter, Jiang Beiming thought about it for a whole day and decided to have a showdown with Wu Sangui. If he didn't tell him the real situation, Ning Yuan would probably be in danger.

Wu Sangui invited Jiang Beiming to a banquet again, although Jiang Beiming had told him about the possibility of the Manchu Qing Dynasty breaking through again in the past few days, but Wu Sangui did not take it to heart. Because the Manchu Qing's several breakthroughs were not fought from Ning Yuan's side, Huang Taiji knew that Ning Yuan City's defense was tight. Wu Sangui thought about how to increase the trade volume between the two parties with Jiang Beiming, since he started the tobacco and cloth business with Yulin Bay, the Wu family's silver has made a lot of money. Wu Sangui didn't dare to sell the firearms, and he didn't want to sell them, but the rest of the supplies had been sold north of the Yellow River, and even his own Guanning Iron Cavalry could now be regarded as a shotgun.

"General Chiang is invited." Wu Sangui picked up the wine bowl and shouted boldly.

"General Wu, please." Jiang Beiming also dried up.

"In the bitter cold land of Liaodong, coarse tea and light rice made General Jiang smile."

The two pushed the cup and drank a few bowls, and Wu Sangui picked up the wine bowl again: "This bowl of Sangui expresses my gratitude to the general." Since the general cooperated with us, our Liaodong soldiers have benefited deeply, not to mention anything else, just cotton clothes for the winter and food for each family. ”

"Thank you, General Chiang, thank you, General." Several officers around him also raised their wine bowls.

"General Wu is out of sight." Jiang Beiming said with a smile, "This is all the credit of the general and yourself." As I said a long time ago, if you have silver, why worry about not having an army, and why worry about Tartars coming to attack. ”

"The general said well, with silver there is everything." Wu Sangui put down the wine bowl and said, "General Jiang, the silver is not enough. Now thanks to the general's Hongfu, thanks to your Hongfu in Yulin Bay, Sangui also has some silver in his hand. For the sake of the Holy Entrustment, for the stability of the Ming Dynasty, Sangui recently recruited a group of soldiers, this silver, a little nervous. I don't know if General Jiang can sell us more goods, the price is easy to say. ”

"Hahahaha." Jiang Beiming laughed at Wu Sangui and said, "General Wu is not only brave and good at fighting on the battlefield, but also a good hand in business. What else does the general need, although he said in the following, as long as we can provide Yulin Bay, we will try our best to provide. ”

"General Chiang is happy." Wu Sangui didn't expect Jiang Beiming to agree so happily, and he was overjoyed, "Sangui will pay tribute to the general again." ”

Jiang Beiming put down the wine bowl after drinking: "But General Wu still needs to be careful, the Tartars outside the gate will not let us make money and do business in peace." ”

"General Chiang is too worried." Wu Sangui said with a smile, "My Ningyuan City was originally impregnable, and now that I have your firearms, how can the Tartars take a step beyond the Thunder Pool." ”

"General Wu, don't be careless." After Jiang Beiming finished speaking, he looked left and right.

Wu Sangui saw that Jiang Beiming had something to say, and waved his hand: "You all go out first." ”

There were only two people left in the room, Wu Sangui and Jiang Beiming, and Jiang Beiming took out a letter written by Xu Lang: "I just received news from Beijing that within a month or two, the Tartars will attack the Ming Dynasty in five ways, and the general's Ningyuan City is the main direction of attack of the Tartars. ”

Wu Sangui's expression became heavy, and his eyeliner in the northeast also sent back news a few days ago that Huang Taiji had signs of transferring troops. But Wu Sangui didn't know what the purpose of Huang Taiji's transfer of troops was, and now when he heard Jiang Beiming say this, he was also a little secretly worried in his heart.

The letter that Jiang Beiming took out was the second letter written by Xu Lang specifically for Wu Sangui to see, and Xu Lang did not say in the letter that Huang Taiji attacked Ning Yuan just to drag down Guan Ning Tieqi, but exaggerated Huang Taiji's strength, and made it clear that Ning Yuan would be Huang Taiji's main target.

Wu Sangui finished reading Jiang Beiming's letter to him: "General Jiang, is your news accurate?" ”

"Absolutely." Jiang Beiming replied, "We have already reported this news to the imperial court, and General Wu should also be able to receive the imperial court's will in the near future." ”

Wu Sangui was silent for a while: "General Jiang, the Tartars are divided into five routes, how many people can come to Ningyuan City?" ”

"It's not very clear below. However, according to the following speculation, there may be two situations, either not much, only 10,000; Either a lot, fifty or sixty thousand. ”

Wu Sangui was a little confused, pointed to the letter and asked, "Why did General Jiang say that, didn't your intelligence say that Ningyuan would be the main place for the Tartars to attack?" ”

"Not bad, General Wu." Jiang Beiming explained, "According to the current information, this is indeed the case, so it is said that the strength of the Tartars may be fifty or sixty thousand. But there may also be another situation, this information is not accurate, and the Tartars may also feint to attack Ningyuan and attack Beijing. So we have to be prepared for both. ”

"I don't know what General Chiang's high opinion is, how to prepare for both?"

Jiang Beiming didn't answer, but asked: "I take the liberty of Xia, I don't know if General Wu's troops and firearms in Ningyuan can be informed." ”