Jiannu finally retreated, and Huang Taiji took 90,000 cavalry straight to the direction of Haizhou City, never looking back.

Yuan Chonghuan received the news from the scouts, and finally breathed a sigh of relief, it was really too dangerous just now, nearly 20,000 foot soldiers, and less than 2,000 people could continue to fight, if it wasn't dark, if the Mengyuan cavalry was a little more ruthless, this nearly 20,000 foot soldiers, including himself, would be planted on the east bank of the Liao River!

Although Jiannu had retired, he could not rest, because there were still many things waiting for him to deal with, such as the twenty artillery pieces that were demolished by Hong Chengchou from the eastern wall of Da Liao River Fort, sent to Haizhou for nearly a month, and hurriedly brought back from Haizhou.

Yuan Chonghuan looked at the twenty cannons in front of him by the faint light of the torches, his brows were about to be knotted, and at this time he had no way to transport these twenty cannons back to Da Liaohe Fort, because Hong Chengchou had already sent back several Cangshan boats sent by Mao Wenlong to help, and the pontoon bridge could not bear the weight of the artillery at all.

At this time, it would be really troublesome to break the pontoon bridge, because almost all the foot soldiers who stayed after the East Case was broken, and as many as tens of thousands of people were seriously injured.

Even if they still have the strength to swim through, when they return to the West Bank, most of them will die from wound infection!

There is no way, these twenty cannons must not be left on the east bank, Huang Taiji wants to know, he will definitely try his best to grab it, if it is robbed by Huang Taiji, it will be the enemy.

Yuan Chonghuan gritted his teeth and directly ordered his guards to push all twenty artillery pieces into the Liao River!

He didn't have time to grind here at this time, since the artillery couldn't be transported, he could only push it into the river and "hide" it.

He wanted to wait until he was free, and then recruit Mao Wenlong's ship to salvage it, so as to save Huang Taiji for nothing.

However, after this news reached Hong Chengchou's ears, it deteriorated, or Hong Chengchou made this matter deteriorate.

Is Hong Chengchou really sick? Of course not, he was faking illness.

Originally, he had been trying his best to find a way, thinking about how to pit Yuan Chonghuan and lose a big loss!

After thinking about it, he thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't think of a proper way, unless he cut off the pontoon bridge and cut off Yuan Chonghuan's grain and grass, otherwise, it seemed impossible to make Yuan Chonghuan lose a big loss.

However, he will not do such a stupid thing, because then he will be finished.

Therefore, he began to play delaying tactics, grinding and dragging on time, Yuan Chonghuan, who wanted to delay, couldn't beat a few cities in a year, and when the time came, according to Chongzhen's anxious temperament, Wen Tiren cooperated with a bunch of slander, and it was not impossible to win Yuan Chonghuan.

But he never thought that after only a month of grinding, Yuan Chonghuan was already defeated!

Receiving the news that Yuan Chonghuan was defeated, he was so happy that he almost didn't jump, but soon, he couldn't be happy again, because, according to the detailed news from the cronies he planted, Yuan Chonghuan did not have much loss in this battle, the casualties of the Liaodong Army's infantry were less than one percent, and the Guanning Iron Cavalry seemed to have no news.

This is not good, if Yuan Chonghuan is allowed to return "completely", it will be difficult to pull him off the horse, after all, he has successively won the victory of Ningyuan, Ningjin and Liaohe, if you want to deal with Jiannu, he has the best way, Chongzhen is unlikely to withdraw him for a small defeat, and he must be allowed to lose a little worse!

He even thought about breaking the pontoon bridge, leaving Yuan Chonghuan and 90,000 Ming soldiers on the east bank, and letting them fight with Jiannu.

However, he thought about it and still didn't do it, because it was too obvious, the pontoon bridge was repaired by himself, and if it suddenly broke at such a critical time, he would definitely not be able to get rid of it, and he didn't want to "die together" with Yuan Chonghuan.

Therefore, he chose to pretend to be sick, firstly, in order to be passive and sabotage, delay the time for the Ming army soldiers to cross the river, in the hope that Huang Taiji could lead the army to catch up and increase Yuan Chonghuan's casualties; In addition, it is also to hide in the shadows, collect evidence of Yuan Chonghuan's crimes, and strive for a copy to participate, which directly results in Yuan Chonghuan and his own position!

At this moment, he was writing a recital, because he felt that Yuan Chonghuan's guilt was almost over.

First of all, Yuan Chonghuan deliberately delayed time, and for more than a month, he didn't even take down a small Haizhou City, I don't know what to say.

Secondly, Yuan Chonghuan was suspected of collaborating with the enemy, and even took advantage of the night to push the twenty artillery pieces of the Great Liaohe Fort into the Liaohe River, I don't know if it was to facilitate Jiannu to cross the river and capture the Daliaohe Fort.

Finally, the most important point, Yuan Chonghuan can only talk rhetorically, but he has no real skills, he seems to have made contributions to defending Ningyuan, Jinzhou, Xining Fort and Daliaohe Fort, in fact, it is all because Jiannu is all cavalry and is not good at attacking cities, not because of how powerful Yuan Chonghuan is. This time, as soon as he ran to attack the city occupied by Jiannu, his original form was revealed, and he was defeated and lost, and his troops were lost, how could such a person take on the task of recovering Liaodong!

Add so many "facts" together, Wen Tiren will operate it well, stimulate Chongzhen, and anger Chongzhen, Yuan Chonghuan should be finished.

Yuan Chonghuan didn't know that Hong Chengchou was hiding in the shadows to write a memora, ready to pull him off the horse in one fell swoop, after he ordered people to push 20 artillery pieces into the Liao River, and began to command the infantry of the Liaodong Army who had crossed the river to help the soldiers who were injured in the blocking battle to cross the river, and it took nearly two hours to "cross" the Liao River with more than 10,000 wounded soldiers and thousands of dead corpses before "crossing" the Liao River and returning to the west bank.

Immediately afterwards, he commanded the Guanning Iron Cavalry to transport the artillery on the south and north walls of the Da Liao River Fort to the east, in case Jiannu raided and crossed the river.

He didn't know that he had just laid down here, and Hong Chengchou over there ordered his cronies to hurry up for 800 miles, send him to the capital, and sue him!

In the afternoon of the next day, Yuan Chonghuan counted the battle losses, wrote the situation of the first battle of Haizhou into a fold, and sent it to the capital, and Hong Chengchou's folds had already reached the cabinet.

After Wen Tiren received Hong Chengchou's recital, he thought about it carefully, hurriedly made some arrangements, and then hurried to the Qianqing Palace with the recital and found Chongzhen to complain.

During this time, Chongzhen's mood was very bad, because Hong Chengchou would always send some twists and turns back from time to time, alluding to Yuan Chonghuan's deliberate delay in delaying the attack on Haizhou, and Yuan Chonghuan's report on the situation also "confirmed" Hong Chengchou's statement from the side.

Haizhou is only more than fifty miles away from Da Liao River Fort, which Chongzhen is quite clear, but Yuan Chonghuan has always said that he is preparing, preparing, he really doesn't understand what Yuan Chonghuan is preparing!

A few days ago, Yuan Chonghuan finally sent a note, saying that he had begun to attack the city, but one day passed, two days passed, three days passed, and four days passed, but Yuan Chonghuan has not reported it, that is, in four days, Yuan Chonghuan has not taken Haizhou City.

Is Haizhou City so difficult to fight?

In Chongzhen's opinion, a small city like Haizhou should be able to be taken down in three days at most, and a small Haizhou can't be taken in three days, how many days will it take for Liaoyang and Shenyang behind, thirty days or three hundred days!

That afternoon, just as he was frowning and pondering about the map of Liaodong, Cao Huachun suddenly spread outside: "Your Majesty, Lord Shoufu Wen asks to see you." ”

Could it be that there is news from Liaodong?

During this time, as long as there is a report from Liaodong, whether it is Yuan Chonghuan's or Hong Chengchou's, Wen Tiren will send it over as soon as possible and analyze the situation in Liaodong with him.

At this time, he was waiting anxiously, and as soon as he heard that Wen Tiren was coming, he immediately said loudly: "Spread quickly." ”

Soon, Wen Tiren hurriedly walked in with a copy of the recital, and before Chongzhen could open his mouth to ask, Wen Tiren lay on the ground and said "anxiously": "Your Majesty, it's not good, Liaodong was defeated, Yuan Chonghuan lost his troops and fled back to Da Liaohe Fort in embarrassment!" ”

"What!" When Chongzhen heard this, he jumped up directly from the chair in shock, Liaodong was defeated, how could it be!

He was stunned for a moment, and then he hurriedly roared: "Who's the twist, show me quickly." ”

Wen Tiren hurriedly got up from the ground, respectfully handed the fold to Chongzhen, and said cautiously: "This is the fold of the governor of Liaodong, Hong Chengchou, and Yuan Chonghuan did not report the situation. ”

As soon as Chongzhen heard this, he was a little angry in his heart, and he didn't hurry up to report the defeat, what does this Yuan Chonghuan mean, do you want to hide it and not report it!

He hurriedly took the fold, opened it and looked at it, his face gradually became difficult to see, is Yuan Chonghuan really such a person, does he really only talk about it?

At this time, he began to doubt again, Yuan Chonghuan's various performances appeared in his mind, in the first year of Chongzhen, Yuan Chonghuan swore that he would be in the capital for five years, and as a result, he would bring Huang Taiji to the capital in the second year!

He was frugal, picking out nearly 10 million taels of military spending every year, raising hundreds of thousands of troops in Liaodong, but it was not until the fifth year of Chongzhen that Yuan Chonghuan recovered a total of more than 200 miles of lost land, what is this not rhetoric?

He is not very clear about the specific situation of the Liaohe victory last year, judging from the twists and turns reported by Yuan Chonghuan, the Liaohe victory was indeed won by defending Xining Fort and building Liaohe Fort, is this Yuan Chonghuan really only defending the city and not attacking?

During this time, he was already a little too nervous, so that it was difficult to sleep, and when he received the news of the defeat of Liaodong, he suddenly felt dizzy, and his whole mind was messed up.

What kind of person Yuan Chonghuan is, he really can't figure it out, just right, Wen Tiren is in front of him, he can't help asking: "Changqing, what kind of person do you think Yuan Chonghuan is, can he take on the heavy task of recovering Liaodong?" ”

Wen Tiren pretended to be frightened, and said cautiously: "This, Weichen and Master Yuan are not very familiar with each other, so they don't dare to speculate." ”

Chongzhen didn't relent: "Tell me your opinion." ”

Wen Tiren is trying to get away with it, he has already prepared a bunch of bad words, what dare not speculate, he just laid the groundwork for his nonsense, he knew that Chongzhen would not easily "let him go", these words were asked, he didn't answer, Chongzhen's temperament, can you agree!

He still pretended to be frightened, and said cautiously: "Your Majesty, if you really want Weichen to say, then Weichen will tell the truth, if you are offended, please ask the emperor Haihan." According to Weichen's opinion, this Yuan Chonghuan at least doesn't want to go in, what five years of Pingliao, he is deceiving the emperor! Liaodong's annual military expenditure is nearly 10 million taels, and he has an army of more than 200,000 people, what has he done? For several years in a row, there was no inch of progress, the emperor did not urge, he did not send troops, six years, if it wasn't for the emperor's wisdom, he forced him to send troops last year, at this time he may still be sleeping in the Guanning Jin defense line! ”

Chongzhen's favorite method of hurting people with slapping horses, he couldn't help but nod and said: "Well, this Yuan Chonghuan is indeed a little unenterprising, I don't force him to send troops, he just nests there and doesn't move, how can he recover Liaodong in this way!" ”

Wen Tiren continued: "Weichen thinks that this Yuan Chonghuan has no ability, he is just lucky. It is rumored that Ning Yuan's victory was because a cannonball grazed Nurhachi, and Jiannu retreated. Ning Jin's victory was because Mao Wenlong was constantly harassing in the rear, and Huang Taiji was worried about a fire in the backyard so he hurriedly withdrew his troops. There is also the great victory of the Liaohe River, I heard that it was all the work of artillery, but at this time he pushed twenty artillery pieces into the river, and he simply didn't know what to say. This defeat in Haizhou is enough to show that once he loses his luck, he is a mediocre talent! ”

When Chongzhen heard this, his face was a little difficult to look at.

The reason why Wen Tiren has always won Chongzhen's trust is because he can speak in accordance with Chongzhen's temperament, for example, Yuan Chonghuan, if Wen Tiren directly said that Yuan Chonghuan is a useless rice bucket, Your Majesty, you quickly withdraw him, then Chongzhen will suspect that he has ulterior motives, but Wen Tiren did not say it directly, but beat around the bush, false and real, and said the situation in Liaodong after some "processing", and let Chongzhen "think" about it.

Chongzhen really began to think, if Yuan Chonghuan was really such an incompetent person, wouldn't it be a waste of time and food to hand over the heavy task of recovering Liaodong to him!

At this time, Chongzhen already wanted to remove Yuan Chonghuan from his post and investigate, but he was still a little hesitant, after all, he had not received Yuan Chonghuan's recital, and he still didn't know what the situation was in Liaodong.

He thought about it, simply waved his hand, and said dejectedly: "Okay, you go down first, once there is a Liaodong twist, send it to me immediately." ”

Wen Tiren didn't say anything more, he arched his hand as he said and retreated respectfully.

Is that the end of it, of course not.

The next day, the impeachment of Yuan Chonghuan flew like snowflakes, which roughly means that the news of the defeat of Liaodong was obtained from various channels, but Yuan Chonghuan has been concealing it and not reporting it, this is an intentional deception of the king, and it must be severely punished!

Did Yuan Chonghuan deliberately conceal it and not report it?

Of course not, he was busy all night that day, and he was really tired, so he slept until the night before getting up, and the next day, he had to count the battle losses and consider how to write the memo, so he didn't send out the recital until the afternoon.

Chongzhen didn't know these reasons, he was already so annoyed when he saw those impeachment folds, this Yuan Chonghuan, did he really want to bully the monarch, the entire court knew that he was defeated, and he hadn't even passed it over!

On the fourth day, Yuan Chonghuan's recital finally arrived, of course, his recital was polished, which probably means that Huang Taiji deliberately set a trap to lure him into the bait, but he did not take the bait, but took the opportunity to kill tens of thousands of enemy troops, and the loss on his side was not very large.

When Chongzhen saw it, he was immediately furious, defeat is defeat, and he also said that he had thwarted Huang Taiji's conspiracy, which was shameless!

Wen Tiren's foreshadowing in the past two days has made him lose patience with Yuan Chonghuan, he even really thought that Ning Yuan's great victory, Ning Jin's great victory and Liaohe's great victory Yuan Chonghuan all won by luck, such a mediocre talent, how could he take on the heavy task of recovering Liaodong, he directly ordered Yuan Chonghuan to be removed from his post and investigated, and escorted back to the capital for trial!