Chapter 52: Crisis

But when Li Xin and others arrived at Funingwei, Lu Xiangsheng was already waiting for their arrival here, and Funingwei had already taken refuge in the Dazhong Army at this time, and now it has become a material transfer base for the Dazhong Army.

The reason why Li Lingfeng, an important general, was left in Xuanda was not to let him guard against the counterattack of the official army, but to let him be responsible for sitting in the area of Xuanda to prevent the Jiannu army from breaking through the pass in the Xuanfu area again.

Therefore, although Yan Chongxi led the troops into Juyong Pass and rushed to Shanhaiguan, they did not forget the importance of Xuanda, so they left Li Lingfeng, a general who can be in charge alone, to sit in the area of Xuanfu Town, and let him watch the border passes around Xuanfu, and at the same time, what Li Lingfeng had to do was to continuously transport all kinds of material resources from Shanxi to the front line to ensure the combat needs of Yan Chongxi's Left Route Army.

Since Yan Chongxi led his troops into Shanhaiguan, Li Lingfeng began to organize 3,000 soldiers and a large number of carts in Xuanfu Town, and began to transfer all kinds of grain, ammunition and weapons from Shanxi to Xuanda by helping the people to fight and strengthen them, and began to transfer them to the front line of Shanhaiguan.

Although the soldiers of the Dazhong Army belong to the logistics troops, but the combat effectiveness should not be underestimated, they are not only responsible for transporting supplies of auxiliary soldiers, but also basically are firecrackers, with the army equipped with a very high proportion of self-generated firearms, and to a certain extent imitated the Ming Dynasty's chariot battalion, and also retained the light Furlong cannon on the chariot, so although they are soldiers, but the combat effectiveness is not weak.

The reason why Li Lingfeng used so many troops to transfer materials for Shanhaiguan was mainly because of the distance of hundreds of miles from Juyong Pass to Shanhaiguan, the large Chinese army had not yet fully controlled, and along the way only collected and surrendered some of the Ming army's cantonment forts, leaving a small number of soldiers of the Dazhong army, accompanied by a part of the Ming army's troops to guard these tunbao, as a temporary military station, most of the area on this road is basically still under the control of the Ming army, and the remnants of the Beijing camp around the capital still have considerable strength, This group of Ming troops is seriously lacking in food and salary at the moment, so military discipline has been extremely corrupt, they are now soldiers in the open, in fact, they are basically doing bandit things in secret, so they don't care what the materials sent by the big Chinese army are going to do, in order to eat a full stomach, they don't care about what national righteousness, once they have the opportunity, they will definitely rob these big Chinese army materials.

Some time ago, the Beijing camp even robbed the grain and straw that the Dazhong Army gave to the Guanning Army under Hong Chengchou's command, so in order to ensure the safety of transportation, Li Lingfeng also had to organize a large number of barracks and act collectively to replenish supplies for Shanhaiguan, not to mention that now they are responsible for supplying not only the men and horses of the Left Route Army, but also the Ming Army under Wu Xiang of Shanhaiguan, they are also responsible for supplying grain and ammunition, and it is impossible for the Ming Dynasty to send troops to Wu Xiang to transport supplements.

Therefore, under Wu Xiang's order, Funingwei was returned to the Dazhong Army, as a material hoarding place behind a Shanhaiguan, Wu Xiang and the remnants of the five guards in the front and rear of Funingwei, left and right, and handed them over to Yan Chongxi, asking Yan Chongxi to take them in, and send generals to lead them to protect the logistics base of Funingwei.

When Li Xin, Diao Zheng, and Luo Li led their troops to Funingwei, there happened to be a batch of materials from the direction of Xuanda, which had just been transported here, and Lu Xiangsheng was also here to supervise the transfer of materials on the one hand, and wait for Li Xin and their middle route army to arrive here.

When they learned that Lu Xiangsheng was personally waiting for them here, Li Xin, Diao Zheng, Luo Li and others did not dare to hold them up, so they immediately hurried to Lu Xiangsheng, who was waiting for them on the road, and saluted Lu Xiangsheng.

"Humble to the Governor! Please forgive me for not being able to pay my full salute while I am in armor! As soon as Li Xin, Luo Li and the others saw Lu Xiangsheng, they immediately smiled and saluted Lu Xiangsheng.

Lu Xiangsheng is now the chief inspector of the Supervision Yuan, although the grade is not too high, but it is independent of the six departments, mainly responsible for supervising hundreds of officials in the open and secret, and the status is very transcendent, to some extent, it is a bit like the combination of the Jinyi Wei of the Ming Dynasty and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the power is very great, but Xiao Tianjian did not give them the power to directly arrest and interrogate, so as not to cause them to develop abnormally in the future, so that they have become a perverted spy organization like the East Factory and the West Factory, which to some extent gives them enough power, However, it also limited their power to keep it within the controllable range and avoid causing too many unjust, false and wrongful cases, but Lu Xiangsheng's status cannot be ignored by anyone, and his identity is enough to make everyone except Xiao Tianjian respect him.

"The generals have worked hard! Don't be so polite! It is very hard for you to come thousands of miles away, how dare Lu accept your gifts! Now that the war situation is urgent, let's not be bound by customs! Although it is time to wash the dust for you, but at the moment, Lu may not have time to do this! Let's talk about the war in this area first! Lu Xiangsheng also hurriedly hugged his fists and saluted Li Xin and several other generals, and then said to them in a hurry.

Li Xin and the others saw that Lu Xiangsheng was so anxious, so they saw that the battle situation in Shanhaiguan was probably not very good, so they immediately became nervous, and even didn't have time to find a tent to sit down and talk, so a few people ordered the soldiers and horses to continue to march under a big tree on the side of the road, and camped outside Funing County, and immediately asked Lu Xiangsheng about the current situation of the war here.

Lu Xiangsheng briefly told them about the fact that Wu Xiang had already thrown himself on the side of the Dazhong Army, and concisely told them about the cooperation between the two armies and the deployment of the Shanhaiguan line.

"You don't have to worry about the war situation here in Shanhaiguan, our army and the old Ming army under Wu Xiang have a total of more than 30,000 troops, plus the surrounding people who came to help the war during this time, there is no problem in holding Shanhaiguan.

Moreover, these days, General Yan led his troops to join forces with Wu Junmen in this area, and has repeatedly repelled the repeated attacks of Jiannu, and has repeatedly recreated the army of Jiannu, especially the soldiers of the Han Eight Banners and the Mongolian Eight Banners of Jiannu have suffered heavy losses. Otherwise, those soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Army and the Eight Banners of Mongolia will be unstable!

Therefore, the war situation on this side of Shanhaiguan is still relatively optimistic, these days, although in the face of the onslaught of the Jiannu army that is twice as large as our army, our side has also suffered a lot of losses, but before the Holy Lord leads the troops to arrive, there is still no big problem in holding here! Lu Xiangsheng said to Li Xin and others.

Li Xin, Luo Li, Diao Zheng and other generals listened to it, they often breathed a sigh of relief, they rushed here day and night, just for fear of coming a little slower, Yan Chongxi's left army could not hold the Shanhaiguan, so that the Jiannu army was like a flood that broke the embankment, and rushed into the Guannei, in that case, with their troops, it was not enough to stop the Jiannu so many soldiers and horses, for the Guannei, it would undoubtedly be another catastrophe, for this Li Xin, the chief of the general staff, on the way here, with a group of staff officers, Along the way, several sets of battle plans have been formulated to deal with various possible situations, and they are even ready to collide head-on with the Jiannu who will rush into the pass like a breakthrough.

Therefore, during this time, although they were speeding towards this side, they also constantly sent scouts on the road to quickly whip back and forth to inquire about the news, so they also learned some about the situation in Shanhaiguan.

Now I heard Lu Xiangsheng say that after Yan Chongxi and they arrived here, they had forced down more than 20,000 defenders of Wu Xiang and Shanhaiguan, and united with the old Ming army under Wu Xiang to successfully block the Jiannu army outside Shanhaiguan, and everyone finally breathed a long sigh of relief.

"It turns out that Lord Lu and General Yan have done such a beautiful job, and I would like to congratulate you on your first achievement! After he came forward, he expected to be happy, and this reward must be indispensable! Li Xin then smiled at Lu Xiangsheng.

Lu Xiangsheng shook his head and said: "We are not doing these things to grab merit or to get some reward, the saint has said many times that the current Jiannu is the biggest enemy of my Han nation!" If he is allowed to enter the customs, it will be a disaster for our Han nation, Lu Mou deeply sympathizes with this remark, so he does not dare to live up to the expectations of the saints, even if he is broken, he vows to keep Jiannu out of the customs! ”

After Li Xin and the others heard this, they all immediately stood up in awe of Lu Xiangsheng, and immediately stood up and said loudly: "Holy Wisdom! Lord Lu is high-spirited, and we are full of admiration! ”

"Since Lord Lu and President Yan have blocked Jiannu from the pass, then I don't know why President Yan and Lord Yan have sent people to urge us to come again and again, it seems that there is something else, Lord Lu didn't say it!" Li Xin then asked Lu Xiangsheng.

Lu Xiangsheng asked the generals to sit on the pony sent by the soldiers again, and then said worriedly: "That's true! General Lee's question is extremely yes! Although we have temporarily blocked the army of Jiannu under the command of Dolgon, so that it cannot be saved! But a few days ago, the slave chieftain Taiji led tens of thousands of follow-up Jiannu troops, and the troops had arrived in the Qiantunwei area outside Shanhaiguan, and we found that after the Nu chieftain Taiji arrived at the Qiantunwei, he stopped advancing, and the Jiannu army attacking Shanhaiguan was still headed by Dolgon, and the actual increase was not very much, so we suspected that the Nu chieftain Taiji might have another conspiracy, and it was very likely that another general would be sent to lead a Jiannu army and break through the pass from somewhere in the west!

Once this is the case, then we have limited troops, and we are dragged to the Shanhaiguan side and cannot divide our troops, and another army of Jiannu can easily sweep the land of Jinggi in the Ming Dynasty, and may even attack the Beijing Division, if that is the case, our efforts here will be in vain! Moreover, if Jiannu breaks through the pass somewhere in the west, it will immediately cut off our supply routes, leaving us vulnerable to the enemy in the Shanhaiguan area, and the situation will be dangerous!

And in the past few days, we have sent a lot of scouts, risking death out of the customs to sneak to the area of the former Tunwei to inquire about the news, the scouts who came back reported to us, although Jiannu has a large army in the Qiantunwei, but it is not as much as imagined, they tried to catch two Jiannu tortured and interrogated and learned that Jiannu has indeed divided the army, Huang Taiji divided 40,000 troops under the leadership of the slave chief Abatai and Haoge, has gone west into the mountain, to find another way into the pass! Therefore, I am afraid that the situation will be very dangerous, which is also the reason why Lu and President Yan are in charge, and they have sent people to urge you to come here again and again! ”