For Wu Jie in Phoenix, they are still waiting for the arrival of their other army.

The battle scene outside the pass has spread to the two major forces of Dashun and Daming in the pass, the Dashun Dynasty has just suffered the loss of the Qing Dynasty's garrison general Aobai, and it seems that he has no courage to make small moves in a short time, but the Ming Dynasty has been occupied for hundreds of years and other shames, so that Emperor Chongzhen cannot swallow this breath.

No matter how much the Ming court argued about the exposure of Hongmen, no one could deny that it was, because Hongtang made such a big move outside the pass by the army, which did give the Ming army a godsend opportunity to recapture the royal capital and northern land belonging to their Ming Dynasty.

It has been almost a year since the capital was moved to Nanjing, and the finances of the Chongzhen Dynasty have not only not been reduced because of the loss of the northern land, but have the big burden of the Liaodong border army, and the land of natural disasters and man-made disasters in the north has been occupied by the Qing barbarians, so that the household department has too little burden, and then the Ming Dynasty's finances have gradually become rich.

What's more, with the relocation of the royal capital to the south, it is inevitable that the imperial court's rule over the south will be more stable, and the north's contest with the local forces in the south, the struggle for power, etc., has invisibly given Emperor Chongzhen a lot of opportunities to install his cronies in the land south of the Yangtze River.

Originally, Jiangnan was the key object of today's Ming Dynasty's financial revenue, and after the loss of hundreds of thousands of troops in Liaodong, although the strength of the Ming Dynasty's army was greatly damaged, but soon I also had to admit that the Ming Dynasty's largest mouth for food and silver also disappeared.

The surplus of finances, as well as the advantageous geographical situation of not having to fight on two fronts, allowed Emperor Chongzhen to concentrate on investing limited funds and materials into the Ming Dynasty army on the front line in Shandong.

Sun Chuanting, as the governor of Gongwei Jinyu and other places, was invincible in several battles, and according to the character of Emperor Chongzhen, he should have been imprisoned a long time ago. However, after leading the army across the Yellow River, the army was handed over to the local governor Wang Gongbi and returned to the court to receive the crime, not thinking that Sun Chuanting had not yet left the boundary of Shandong, and there was a danger of a mutiny in Wanggongbi of Jinan Prefecture, and Sun Zhiqi of Shandong and the local garrison went north in a vain attempt to serve the Qing people, and bought the hearts of the soldiers of the Ming army in the north, and almost captured Jinan Mansion and dedicated it to the Qing people on the north bank of the Yellow River.

In the case of an emergency in the imperial court, Sun Chuanting, who had a very high reputation and prestige in the Ming army in Shandong, was reactivated, and let him return to Jinan Mansion to quell the rebellion.

After this battle, Emperor Chongzhen of Nanjing also understood that at this time, the feudal officials in the north were not dead or wounded, and there were not many left.

The group of literati around him are intriguing, fighting for power or profit, but it is a little difficult to let them assist him to fight back to the north and regain the ancestral inheritance.

Therefore, Chongzhen reversed his previous cold temperament, continued to let Sun Chuanting sit in northern Shandong, and handed over the only money and grain of the household to the north in the hands of Sun Chuanting, opening the door for his convenience, and only giving the other party one task, that is, to take advantage of the turmoil outside the northern pass and the Qing people had no time to look south, and then return to their Ming king's capital.

This is probably Emperor Chongzhen's appointment, one of the wisest appointments, in the case of Lu Xiangsheng's death in battle, Sun Chengzong's death, Hong Chengchou's nowhere to be found, etc., even Emperor Chongzhen himself can not find a few Ming ministers who can stand alone.

Sun Chuanting's night is to live up to expectations, Shandong has also been a natural disaster over the years, displaced atrocities are countless, the court was unable to recruit and absorb too many strong people, because the court is financially difficult, more than enough and not enough.

However, after Wang Shi went south, the income of the imperial court gradually increased, so that the money and materials available to Sun Chuanting were much richer, enough to recruit and absorb the available population in Shandong and several surrounding provinces.

For more than half a year, Sun Chuanting re-established tens of thousands of troops in Jinan, Shandong, and with all their original troops, the number of troops in his hands had swelled to more than 200,000, and compared with the troops garrisoned by the Qing Dynasty on the north bank of the Yellow River, they also had the ability to regain lost territory.

In the eighteenth year of Chongzhen, when the month was the most severe, Sun Chuanting ordered the generals under his command Liu Zeqing, Liu Liangzuo and other generals to break through the division to the north, taking advantage of the time when the Qing Dynasty garrisoned the northern border of the Yellow River and the general Ao Bai and others suppressed the northern rebels, first occupied Puyang and other prefectures and counties, and then entered the Daimyo's mansion, and forced the Qing Dynasty to occupy the capital Shuntianfu not long ago.

Once, Sun Chuanting was at a disadvantage many times in battles with the rebel peasant armies of Dashun and Daxi Dynasties, because he had insufficient troops in his hands, and he needed to protect too many territories, but it was not that he did not have real talent and hard work. Now he has the trust of Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, as well as a steady stream of material supplies and strong troops, but he also let the Qing people see the demeanor of a famous minister of the Ming Dynasty.

Along the way, Sun Chuanting's troops were invincible, and occasionally the main force of the Qing Dynasty led the surrendered Han army to defend the city along the way, but in the face of the Han Ming army that was familiar with the terrain and was good at attacking the city, these Qing troops only brought some trouble.

This should also be a logical thing, the army left by Prince Rui of the Great Qing to occupy the huge territory of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the 30,000 Jurchen and Mongol troops led by Aobai, Suo Etu and other generals, most of the remaining more than 100,000 Han troops were received when they attacked the city and plundered the land.

Originally, Jurchen generals such as Ao Bai and Suo Etu looked down on the combat effectiveness of the Han army, and in addition to some tasks that needed manpower to fill these days, the Han army of the Qing Dynasty had not yet been reorganized and managed, and its army strength could be imagined.

Especially when he fought with the Ming army, everyone used to be colleagues, under the unfair treatment of generals such as Aobai and Suo Etu in the Qing Dynasty, many Han generals can be said to be in the Han in Cao Yuan's heart.

After Ao Bai and Suo Etu tried unsuccessfully to stop the Ming army from going north, they quickly understood their situation, and it was a little late to regain the hearts of the people, so they contracted the line of troops and pulled the main force back to the line of Shuntianfu in Beijing, and the rest of the territory was temporarily abandoned, or handed over to the generals of the Han army to guard, and waited for the arrival of Sun Chuanting's first division in the Beijing division.

It was precisely because of the confrontation between the Qing Dynasty and the Ming army in the north of Guannei that the Hongtang defenders on the Ningjin line, who originally needed to guard against the Qing army in the south, had the possibility of further mobilizing troops to reinforce the war in the north.

Immediately, the Hongtang army boldly mobilized 20,000 elites among the 30,000 garrisons of the Ningjin defense line, and waved their troops north to reinforce Wu Jie in Phoenix City.

(End of chapter)