Unfortunately, Li Dingguo's words finally came true, when Sun Chuanting met Wu Sangui, Bai Guangen and Ma Ke's three general soldiers in Shunde Mansion, Bai Guangen led his troops to stay in Shunde and Guangping, and he sent Ma Ke to lead about 15,000 soldiers and horses to rush to Jining Prefecture first, while he himself supervised Wu Sangui's troops and Jingfu and tens of thousands of troops under his command to transfer to Yanggu, and went south along the canal to Jining Prefecture.

Xiao Tianjian sighed after getting the scout's report, and said in his heart that Li Dingguo's mouth was really poisonous, and he was right at once, Sun Chuanting, an old and cunning guy, did not put his eggs in one basket, and led a heavy army directly from the Daimyo's Mansion and entered Jining Prefecture.

As a result, there was a big deviation from the plan set by him and Li Xin and other staff departments, and the originally planned ambush battle now had to be divided into troops, and the open pocket was equivalent to only netting Ma Ke's people, but Sun Chuanting and Wu Sangui, the two big fish, were about to slip out of this net by grazing the edge of the net.

So Xiao Tianjian immediately discussed countermeasures with Li Xin and other staff officers, Xiao Tianjian's original intention was to divide the troops, leaving a part of the troops in Nanle County, waiting for the arrival of Ma Ke, and the rest was led by him to go straight to Yanggu County, blocking Sun Chuanting and Wu Sangui's men and horses in Yanggu County, and striving to defeat these two forces of officers and troops at the same time.

However, Xiao Tianjian's proposal was opposed by Li Xin, who stood in front of the map and pointed to the map and said, "Has the marshal ever considered that if we divide our troops to attack, with our current strength, how many men and horses should be left here to deal with Ma Ke?"

If you leave less, you may only be able to fight a defeat battle for Mako, but you can't annihilate it, with the style of the official army, if the war goes a little badly, it will be withdrawn immediately, so if you leave a small number of troops, you can't annihilate Mako, if you leave more, then the troops that the marshal can bring to Yanggu will not be enough to deal with Sun Chuanting.

Therefore, the general will think that we must choose one line of officers and troops, concentrate our forces to annihilate them, and not be greedy, and deal with two lines of officers and troops at the same time, so that our forces will be much diluted, and eventually we may not be able to eat the two lines of officers and troops! ”

After listening to this, Xiao Tianjian pondered a little and felt that Li Xin's words were very reasonable, and now the troops he gathered in Nanle County were not as many as the official army, although in terms of strength, the combat effectiveness of these soldiers and horses under his command may far exceed that of the official army by a lot, but he designed here to annihilate Sun Chuanting and Wu Sangui, but the premise is to catch the other party by surprise, and it is possible to eat them.

Now because Sun Chuanting was not fooled, but divided his troops to rush to Jining Prefecture, and did not get into the net he set up, the situation has changed a lot, with his troops, now there is no problem to eat Ma Ke, if the troops are divided, he will lead a team of men and horses to Yanggu, and Sun Chuanting and Wu Sangui's soldiers and horses to confront each other, if the number of men and horses left is large, the number of men and horses he takes to deal with Sun Chuanting and Wu Sangui may be insufficient, and if there are few people left, he may not be able to eat Ma Ke's department, Even on Sun Chuanting and Wu Sangui's side, he may not be able to eat it.

However, Li Xin's opinion took this into account, since the current situation has changed, then it is not the best policy for them to divide the troops, the best strategy should be to concentrate the troops, solve the officers and troops of one road, so that it is safer, and then after solving the officers and troops of the first road, and then seek to pursue the officers and troops of the other road.

After Xiao Tianjian figured this out, he immediately nodded and said, "Li Xin, you gave me a wake-up call this time, if it weren't for you, I'm afraid I would really be greedy and chew more this time!" Since this is the case, then listen to you, we will concentrate our forces to fight all the way, and talk about it after the rest of the road! ”

Li Xin was very pleased after listening to Xiao Tianjian's words, at this point, he admired Xiao Tianjian's style very much, that is, he was good at listening to the opinions of his subordinates, and had the courage to admit his own mistakes, which was also the reason why these generals admired Xiao Tianjian and were willing to serve him.

"So as the marshal can see, should we concentrate our forces to eat the Ma Ke Department first, or should we concentrate our forces and rush to Yanggu to block Sun Chuanting's department?" Li Xin immediately asked Xiao Tianjian, in this regard, he had to listen to Xiao Tianjian's opinion, and Xiao Tianjian had the right to decide who to hit first and then who to beat.

"Don't think about this, fight Sun Chuanting and Wu Sangui all the way, and Ma Ke will talk about it later!" Xiao Tianjian did not hesitate at all in this matter, and even said.

In Xiao Tianjian's heart, Ma Ke is just a supporting role in this battle, and Sun Chuanting and Wu Sangui are the real targets he has to deal with, first of all, in the imperial court, the best at using soldiers in addition to Hong Chengchou, I am afraid that even Sun Chuanting, Sun Chuanting's ability is not small, and it will be an important obstacle for him to complete the unification of the world in the future, and Wu Sangui needless to say, outside the Guan, now in addition to Zu Dashou, the official army under Wu Sangui is the strongest, if he can't solve him this time, So who knows if this guy will take refuge in the Tartars and become the lackeys of the Tartars once he escapes back to Shanhaiguan, so these two people are the objects of his attention, as for Mako! It's not too late to clean him up later!

Immediately, the General Staff began to revise the combat plan in accordance with Xiao Tianjian's request, and after receiving Xiao Tianjian's affirmation, the order was conveyed.

The original main force in Nanle County, at this time, all the camps were raised, as for the remaining men and horses who helped the people and part of the reserve camp, they were immediately assigned to the city of Nanle County, and some of them were ordered to rush to the Daimyo Mansion in the starry night to strengthen the defensive force in the city of the Daimyo's Mansion, in case after the main force was withdrawn, the Daimyo's Mansion would be taken by Ma Ke because of the emptiness of the army.

So the army immediately began to move according to the order, and the men and horses immediately pulled out the camp and set up the village, and the teams began to leave Nanle County, and rushed towards Yanggu County at the speed of a rapid march.

At the same time that Xiao Tianjian urgently mobilized troops and horses to rush to Yanggu County, Sun Chuanting also led tens of thousands of troops and was already marching in the direction of Yanggu County.

For this time the court and Jiannu negotiated peace, Sun Chuanting can be said to be dissatisfied, feeling that the court and Jiannu negotiated peace, although there are reasons forced by the situation, but peace with Jiannu is still the shame of the Ming Dynasty, the huge Liaodong was ceded to Jiannu, and even in order to achieve the purpose of peace, even Jinzhou City is not wanted, so when Sun Chuanting learned the news, he immediately wrote a note, playing the court, Li Chen can not negotiate peace with Jiannu, and impeaching Chen Xinjia is a traitorous act to do so, and ask the saint to severely punish Chen Xinjia.

Chen Xinjia is actually very wronged, although he is the main member of the peace meeting, but after all, the matter of peace is the meaning of the saint, he is just doing things according to Chongzhen's will, but after this matter is done, he has become the target of the public, the ministers dare not point the finger at Chongzhen, but they all pointed the finger at him, so that now he has become a street rat in the Beijing Division, everyone scolds him, and there are many people who throw dung in his yard in the middle of the night, and the bullet seal of the government and the opposition is like a snowflake flying into the Beijing Division. made Chen Xinjia's reputation plummet.

Although there are a lot of bullets against Chen Xinjia, Chongzhen also knows that this black cauldron is Chen Xinjia's back, so he didn't really listen to the opinions of the ministers and arrested Chen Xinjia, but because Chen Xinjia did this, he trusted Chen Xinjia a little more, which somewhat relieved Chen Xinjia.

But Sun Chuanting was extremely angry about this, and almost wanted to resign and go home to pull down, so in November, he also wrote a resignation letter and asked to resign, but Chongzhen is now the time to employ people, and he also knows that Sun Chuanting is a capable minister, although he was not able to defeat the Xingtian Army in Funan, and also lost the Daimyo Mansion and Zhangde Mansion, but after all, he also knew that Sun Chuanting's soldiers and horses were not many, and they were all newly recruited soldiers and horses, and their combat effectiveness was very poor, and it was understandable that they could not defeat the fierce Xingtian Army. Therefore, he denied Sun Chuanting's resignation, and ordered Sun Chuanting to appease him, and ordered Sun Chuanting to continue to supervise the attack on the Xingtian Army.

Sun Chuanting had no choice but to stay and continue to do it, but after the border army in the north went south, he found that he couldn't immediately subdue these arrogant generals outside the pass, on the one hand, he wanted to use the sword of Shang Fang to suppress them, but he didn't dare to be too strict with them, after all, generals like Wu Sangui and Ma Ke, even the emperor of the imperial court didn't dare to take them lightly, once they were forced too quickly, these arrogant soldiers and fierce generals would make a big fuss about him, and the court would eventually ask a civil official like him for questioning. I can't help these generals with heavy troops.

So after joining Wu Sangui and them, Sun Chuanting used both soft and hard methods, and took out all the means to deal with them, and finally let these people obey his orders and followed him to Jining Prefecture.

After going south, along the way, under the pretext of taking food as an excuse, they often plundered the place, robbed property and even women for their enjoyment, and the military discipline was very corrupt, and the local people suffered another disaster for this, all of them scolded the officers and soldiers, avoiding like snakes and scorpions, although Sun Chuanting also got the news many times, but he could only meet with Wu Sangui and other generals a few times, so that they should restrain their subordinates and not do it again, otherwise, they will lose the hearts of the people. Forcing more people to fall to the side of the thieves.

However, for Sun Chuanting's admonition, the generals can be said to be yang and yin, on the surface they said that they would restrain their subordinates, but in essence, they should do what they should do, which made Sun Chuanting angry, but he was helpless, and he didn't dare to really ask Shang Fang's sword to chop up these arrogant generals, so he could only turn a blind eye and wait for the future to find a way to clean them up.