Hong Chengchou was in a very bad mood during this time, to be precise, he was in a mood, because the last time the court promoted the secretary of the military department, Wen Tiren did not let people recommend him.

He also hung up the position of the right attendant of the military department, and he was also the supervisor of Jiliao, Wen Tiren actually recommended Zhang Fengyi but not him, such a great opportunity was missed in vain, it is strange that he can be in a good mood.

In fact, Wen Tiren just wanted him to master the military power of Liaodong, as for the military department Shangshu, he didn't have to think about it for the time being, unless Wen Tiren found a suitable candidate to replace him, otherwise, he would have to stay up in Liaodong.

This winter in Liaodong is said to be difficult and difficult, and it is not difficult to endure if it is not difficult, the winter here is extremely cold, and people who are frozen can't stand it, but there is no need to worry about the problem of war in this weather, because there is ice and snow everywhere, not to mention attacking other people's cities, even if you walk outside, you have to be careful of falling and frostbite, which Chongzhen is quite clear, so he did not urge Hong Chengchou to attack Jiannu when the weather is cold, and at this time, Jiannu cannot attack the place controlled by the Liaodong Army, so, Hong Chengchou sleeps all day long, dreams, and dreams of being promoted and making a fortune, but in the end it is empty, and he can be described as extremely depressed.

He was lying in bed dreaming of being promoted and making a fortune, he didn't do anything, but Huang Taiji was not idle, he was busy almost for a winter, expanding the army, casting cannons, producing weapons, and manufacturing armor, and he was very busy.

At this time, the situation is very different from history, Mao Wenlong is not dead, the Liaodong army has not been beaten by him to shrink in the Guanning Jin defense line, Liaodong is not calm, he still needs more people and horses, this time, more than 200,000 slaves were taken from Datong Town, so that the Zhushen of the Eight Banners were idle a lot, with slaves, they don't have to plant their fields, they don't have to do the work, just organize up to practice.

Huang Taiji recruited 60,000 recruits at one time, but these people did not intend to train into elite cavalry, nor did they intend to equip them with heavy infantry, he recruited these people purely to deal with Mao Wenlong, Mao Wenlong has been eyeing behind him, and he is worried every time he goes out, for fear that the old nest will be ended, so he simply recruited 60,000 recruits, and spread them in Jinzhou, Zhenjiang, and Dingliao Right Guard, and was led by the big Beile Daishan, Beile Yuetuo and his eldest son Haoge, specifically to deal with Mao Wenlong.

In addition, he did not accept the more than two million taels of silver that he snatched from Datong Town, but exchanged all the copper and iron through the Ming profiteers, and worked hard to cast cannons and produce weapons and equipment.

The tiger squat cannon he cast was naturally different from the tiger squat cannon developed by Zhang Bin and them, because they did not have a machine tool and could not make the child and mother gun tightly, so he simply ordered someone to cast the tiger squat cannon into the style of the Hongyi cannon, that is, the back was closed, there was no sub-gun, and the shells and gunpowder were loaded from the front, just like the original tiger squat cannon used by the Qi family.

He didn't let people make sports cars, but he just equipped each tiger squat cannon with a simple wooden shelf, so that the tiger squat cannon could be tied to the horse's back, which was very convenient to transport and fast to move.

The combat power of the Eight Banners Army with the Tiger Squat Cannon is terrifying, even if the Liaodong Army is equipped with the flintlock pistol given by Zhang Bin, it is not their opponent in the field, because the range of the Tiger Squat Cannon is longer than the flintlock gun, and when fighting a positional battle, he can completely set up a position and use the Tiger Squat Cannon to bombard slowly, and the musketeers of the Liaodong Army have been killed by them, and they will not lose a single hair!

When Hong Chengchou was still dreaming of the Great Liaohe Fort, Huang Taiji had quietly set off with the Eight Banners army, taking advantage of the fact that the ice on the river had not yet begun to melt, he led the 120,000 Manchurian Eight Banners army from Liaoyang, across the Liaohe Loop, and traveled more than 300 miles to the east, and secretly came to the junction of the Santaizi River and the Great Wall outside the Guanwai, and the cavalry and foot of the Mengyuan tribes also rushed over from the north one after another, and soon, he gathered more than 200,000 troops.

In May, as soon as the mountains and rivers of Liaodong thawed, he led more than 200,000 troops to cross the unguarded Great Wall outside the Guanwai and rushed straight to Pingjin Bridge Fort in the northwest of the Santaizi River!

Pingjin Bridge Fort is less than 30 miles away from the Great Wall outside the Guanwai, and in less than an hour, the entire Pingjin Bridge Fort was surrounded by more than 200,000 Manchurian and Mongolian regiments, and at this time, the Ming army stationed in Pingjin Bridge Fort was only 1,000 people!

The result can be imagined, four hundred tiger squatting cannons bombarded in turn, the defenders in the city were bombarded and couldn't even lift their heads, Huang Taiji didn't even build a cloud ladder, directly let people carry a log more than a foot thick, three times and two times to knock the east gate of Pingjin Bridge Fort open, less than two hours, Pingjin Bridge Fort 1,000 Ming soldiers and soldiers were wiped out, and the grain road of 100,000 Ming soldiers on the bank of the Da Liao River was cut off, and the situation was precarious.

At this time, Hong Chengchou hadn't even received the news, because Huang Taiji had specially scattered tens of thousands of elite cavalry, none of the scouts and heralds of the Ming army had crossed his blockade, and the news of the capture of Pingjin Bridge Fort didn't even know the nearby defenders of Xiping Fort and Zhenwu Fort.

Immediately afterwards, Huang Taiji used the same method to take Xiping Fort, Zhenwu Fort, East Lianzi Fort and Wujia Fort, and all the fortresses in the northwest of the entire Santaizi River were captured by him, and the 5,000 Liaodong Army soldiers stationed on the west bank of the Santaizi River did not survive!

At this time, Hong Chengchou knew that the west bank of the Santaizi River was occupied, because the fast horse he sent to the Guanningjin defense line to urge grain was intercepted, and he couldn't get along with him.

He didn't even know how many Jiannu troops there were on the west bank of the Santaizi River, so he sent Zu Dashou to lead 50,000 Guanning iron cavalry to rush over, but there was no way, because the Liaodong army on the front line of the Great Liao River had not replenished grain and grass all winter, and they were almost exhausted of food at this time, and if there was no food, nearly 100,000 Liaodong troops would starve to death!

Historically, Hong Chengchou led the total army of the eight towns to lead the last 130,000 elite border troops of the Ming Dynasty to fight a decisive battle with the Manchu Qing Dynasty Songjin was also cut off by the grain road, the 130,000 army collapsed without doing anything, and Huang Taiji almost effortlessly annihilated the main force of the Ming army.

He, the coach, doesn't even pay attention to such an important thing as food and grass, and it is only a matter of time before he suffers a big defeat.

Zu Dashou was urged by him to lead Guan Ning Iron Horse to Pingjin Bridge Fort, as a result, before crossing the Santaizi River, it was surrounded by more than 100,000 Manmeng iron horses on the east bank, which can not blame him for being careless, mainly here is a mountainous area, there are valleys and rivers everywhere, he is useless to scout and ride scattered left and right for more than ten miles, people just find a valley river nest, hide a little farther, no matter how much you scout the cavalry faction is useless, and when you pass, people will surround it again, more than ten or twenty miles is a quarter or two of an hour's thing, in this kind of terrain, Huang Taiji wants to lead the cavalry to surround him, He couldn't prevent it at all.

However, his Ningyuan ancestral family is not so easy to bully, in Liaodong, when it comes to his background, his Ningyuan ancestral family even surpassed Aixinjue Luo, because Aixinjue Luo's family is only a hereditary commander of Jianzhouwei, and Ningyuan's ancestral family has repeatedly served as the chief military officer of Liaodong since the generation of Zu Ren, the grandfather of the ancestor's great life, and when it comes to fighting, Ningyuan's ancestral family is much stronger than his love for Xinjue Luo, but Aixinjue Luo's family is the opposite, and Ning Yuan's ancestral family has not been reversed.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this reason that in history, Huang Taiji has always been obsessed with Ning Yuan's ancestral family and wants to bring it under his command, even if Zu Dashou repeatedly tricks him, he doesn't care, no matter what, he only wants to subdue Ning Yuan's ancestral family.

At this time, Zu Dashou let him see the horror of Ning Yuan's ancestral family, in the face of more than 100,000 Manchurian cavalry surrounded from behind, Zu Dashou did not panic, he immediately made a decision, and shouted: "Da Bi, open the road ahead, kill back." ”

A long black and strong man responded to the voice, shouted excitedly, and then one person and one horse rushed to the boundless Manchurian cavalry behind, this person is his second brother Zu Dabi, people give the nickname Zu Er Madman, and the battle is like a madman, and the martial arts are strong, no one in the Aixinjue Luo clan is its opponent at all, and even Aobai, known as the first warrior of the Manchu Dynasty, has been defeated by it, and the Manchu Baturu who was defeated in his hands is countless, in the historical records, The famous Baturu Muktan of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was killed by him in the Battle of Songjin, and he slashed the ground violently.

Zu Dabi rushed like this, Zu Dashou immediately waved his army to follow, and the 50,000 Guanning iron cavalry suddenly rushed towards more than 100,000 Manchurian cavalry like a torrent.

Huang Taiji saw such a black iron tower taking the lead and rushed over, and suddenly had a great headache, he naturally knew that the name of the second madman of the ancestor naturally knew that this guy would simply die when he started a battle, and more importantly, no one in the Manchurian and Mongolian coalition army could ask for his life, in short, this guy is an unstoppable existence, not to mention that there are 50,000 Guanning iron cavalry behind this guy, even if there is only this madman, more than 100,000 Manchu and Mongolian cavalry may not be able to surround him!

At this time, he already regretted it, he knew that this madman would come with the army, and it would be good to let people pull hundreds of tiger squat cannons over in advance, this guy even wore iron armor with men and horses, and bows and arrows couldn't hurt him at all, only artillery could knock him down, ambushing the Ming army on the front line of the Liaohe River was a strategy he had already set, but he didn't expect that the Guanning Iron Cavalry would come so quickly, so the attack was relatively hasty, and he didn't have time to bring the tiger squat cannon at all, which was really troublesome.

He frowned, and then said loudly: "Dolgon, you lead the Mengyuan cavalry to meet it head-on, Qierharang, you lead the four banners on the right flank to copy from the right bread, and the four banners on the left flank with me from the left bread." “

When Dolgon heard this, his face was immediately full of grievances, I am your own brother, okay, Qilharang is a child of his uncle's family, do you understand?

However, he didn't dare to disobey Huang Taiji's order, he could only wave his hand and lead nearly 40,000 Mengyuan cavalry to meet him, he knew that Huang Taiji's meaning was to use human life to entangle the Guanning Iron Cavalry, surround it, and then slowly encroach, Mengyuan Iron Cavalry is cannon fodder anyway, he doesn't care, he directly deflected the horse's head, let Guo Zu Dabi, and greeted him from the flank, and he didn't fight with this madman at all, anyway, there were 40,000 people behind, how much could this madman kill even if he had cramps in his hands and feet!

A big battle unfolded like this, 50,000 Guanning iron cavalry was surrounded by more than 100,000 Manchurian cavalry, the ancestral brothers led the army to fight a bloody battle for nearly an hour, and finally broke out of the encirclement, and at this time the Guanning iron cavalry that could keep up with it was less than 30,000, and more than 20,000 people stayed on the east bank of the Santaizi River forever.

Zu Dashou was covered in blood, and led the army back to Da Liaohe Fort, but he couldn't take a break, and immediately ran to the governor's mansion to see Hong Chengchou.

Hong Chengchou was so frightened that he almost fainted when he saw Zu Dashou, who was covered in blood and had several arrows stuck in his body, and he couldn't help but ask in a trembling voice: "General Zu, what's wrong with you?" ”

What's the matter, do you still need to ask, I was ambushed, Zu Dashou was helpless, he arched his hand, and gasped: "Dugong, the last general is incompetent, he couldn't rush to Pingjin Bridge Fort at all, and he was ambushed by more than 100,000 Manchu Mongolian cavalry before crossing the Santaizi River, and the last general led the army to fight a bloody battle for nearly an hour before rushing out of the encirclement." “

"Ahh , more than 100,000 Manchurian cavalry!

When Hong Chengchou heard this, his face changed in fright, even if he led everyone to rush up, he would not be anyone's opponent, what should I do, what should I do?

Why did the imperial court send such a useless thing over, isn't this nonsense, Zu Dashou secretly rolled his eyes, and helplessly gave up his hand and suggested: "Duke, Pingjin Bridge Fort has choked the throat of the Liaoxi Corridor, it seems that we can't rush through, let's hurry up and find a way on the waterway, otherwise our tens of thousands of troops will run out of food!" ”

Waterway, yes, there are also waterways, Hong Chengchou has been dreaming of getting promoted and making a fortune all day and night, and he didn't care much about the military situation in Liaodong at all, at this time, he remembered that the Liaodong Army seems to have a water division, if grain is transported from the waterway, the tens of thousands of troops along the Liaohe River will not run out of food.

He hurriedly nodded and said, "Well, Ben Shuai will send a fast boat to the front line of Guan Ningjin to inform them to transport grain from the waterway, General Zu, you should hurry up and heal your wounds." ”

Zu Dashou could only sigh secretly, and retreated, under the hands of this kind of commander, he didn't know how to die even if he died one day!

Hong Chengchou listened to Zu Dashou's suggestion, and then ordered someone to find a clipper to inform the Ming army on the Guanningjin defense line, so that they could transport grain and grass from the sea.

However, this time he was blindfolded again, because Liaodong Bay was also frozen in winter, and the warships of the Liaodong Naval Division were basically assembled near Shanhaiguan, and he sleepwalked all day long, and even the more than 100,000 Ming troops along the Liaohe River did not care much, and where did he manage the Liaodong Naval Division, and suddenly he wanted to find the fast boat and where to find it, and finally, it was Zu Dashou who sent a fast horse to find a fishing boat near the mouth of the Liaohe River, and then sent someone to spread the news to the Guanning Jin defense line.

Fortunately, Liaodong Bay is not too wide, from the mouth of the Liao River to Guangning is more than two hundred miles, within a few days, the Guanning Jin defense line sent warships to send grain, but at the same time, they also brought a bad news, Huang Taiji is waving his army westward, approaching the Guanning Jin defense line!

At this time, the defenders of the entire Guanningjin defense line were less than 20,000, how could they withstand the attack of more than 200,000 Manchurian and Mongolian coalition troops, Hong Chengchou panicked, and had to send people to the capital for help.

Jiannu raided Pingjin Bridge Fort on the west bank of the Santaizi River, Xiping Fort, Zhenwu Fort, East Lianzi Fort and Wujia Fort, cutting off the connection between the first line of the Liaohe River and the Guanningjin defense line, the situation in Liaodong is precarious, the emperor helps, Lord Wen helps!