In the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Ningyuan City was repaired, the Guanningjin defense line was completed, Shanhaiguan, Ningyuan, Jinzhou, and Guangning were already connected, and the Liaoning West Corridor had no worries.

Sun Chengzong wrote to Tianqi to ask for an additional military salary of 240,000 taels to collect the garrison and hold the Guanningjin defense line, so that he could send 100,000 troops to launch an attack and recover the entire Liaodong.

However, at this time, the party struggle between Korea and China became increasingly fierce, because Sun Chengzong was the boss of the Donglin Party, and the Ministry of War and Industry controlled by the eunuch party disregarded the interests of the country and obstructed his plan to recover Liaodong.

Sun Chengzong wrote many times, urging to no avail, so he could only continue to stick to the Guanningjin defense line.

At this time, Wei Zhongxian continued to deceive Chongzhen, wantonly purged the Donglin Party and the upright people in the DPRK, and the first assistant of the cabinet, Ye Xianggao, Han Yi, and Zhu Guozhen were successively dismissed; Cui Chengxiu, Wu Chunfu, Xu Dahua and a large number of dismissed corrupt officials and corrupt officials have been continuously promoted and stolen to high positions; Yang Lian, Zhao Nanxing, Gao Panlong, and other Donglin party members were all expelled from Beijing, and most of the upright people in the DPRK and the central government went to the government to avoid the scourge of eunuchs, and the situation in the court became more and more erosive.

Sun Chengzong wanted to return to Beijing to persuade Tianqi to pro-government, not to be bewitched by the eunuchs, but he was afraid that Wei Zhongxian would play hooligans, so he used Dongchang and Jinyi Wei to detain him, so he went straight to the capital with thousands of guards in the name of inspecting Jizhou Town.

When Wei Zhongxian heard the news, he hurriedly asked his nephew, Wei Guangwei, the first assistant of the cabinet, to run to Tianqi to slander, saying that Sun Chengzong wanted to kill him in the name of Qingjun, and personally ran to Tianqi to cry.

Tianqi believed that it was true, and hurriedly sent a fast horse to prevent Sun Chengzong from returning to Beijing, and Sun Chengzong received the will of Tianqi as soon as he arrived in Tongzhou, so he had no choice but to retreat to Liaodong.

Wei Zhongxian was really frightened by Sun Chengzong this time, because Sun Chengzong was the emperor, he didn't want to conflict with Sun Chengzong, but this time he had to clean up Sun Chengzong.

As a result, the eunuch officials of the DPRK and China continued to impeach Sun Chengzong for blindly expanding the army just to risk the army's salary, and Sun Chengzong had no choice but to dismiss the generals such as You Shilu and Li Bingcheng, the commander-in-chief, and dismiss more than 17,000 troops.

However, Wei Zhongxian's purpose was not to disarm Sun Chengzong, but to pull Sun Chengzong down, even if Sun Chengzong was disarmed and reduced his military salary, he still kept ordering his henchmen to find opportunities to impeach Sun Chengzong.

In September of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, Ma Shilong, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, mistakenly believed that Liu Boxi, the general, sent people to attack Yaozhou, but fell into the treacherous scheme of Jiannu and lost more than 400 people, Wei Zhongxian's henchmen took this opportunity to impeach Ma Shilong and Sun Chengzong, Sun Chengzong was forced to resign, and Wei Zhongxian sent his henchman Gao Di to take over as the governor of Jiliao.

After Gao Di took office, he immediately ordered all the soldiers and civilians of the Guanningjin defense line to withdraw to Shanhaiguan, and surrender the more than 400 miles of rivers and mountains that Liaodong had just recovered to Jiannu!

In recent years, because Sun Chengzong's Guanningjin defense line was too strong, so that Jiannu had no way to start, Nurhachi had to turn to the Mengyuan grassland, conquer the Mengyuan tribes, in the process, he surrendered Liaodong civilians and Mengyuan tribes into Mengbaqi and Hanbaqi, and recruited nearly 100,000 troops from it, he learned that Sun Chengzong had no scruples after resigning, and immediately led the army to attack the Guanningjin defense line.

One of the Gaodi and Nurhachi ordered a retreat, and the other attacked in a big way, as if they were cooperating, vowing to let the great rivers and mountains of the Western Liaoning Corridor change hands again.

However, at this time, Yuan Chonghuan and a group of generals of the Liaodong Army did not agree, why did the rivers and mountains recovered by the Liaodong Army pay countless blood and sweat to be surrendered to Jiannu?

They refused to carry out Gaudí's orders, and even if they died, they would not retreat!

In the first month of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, the Jin army of Nurhachi arrived in Ningyuan, and the Jiliao Governor Gao Di and the general soldier Yang Lin supported the heavy troops at Shanhaiguan, and did not go to rescue Ningyuan at all.

At this time, there were only more than 10,000 defenders in Ningyuan City, and Yuan Chonghuan immediately wrote a blood letter, summoning Man Gui, Zuo Fu, Zhu Mei, Zu Dashou, He Kegang and other generals to swear to defend the city to the death, and never give up the great rivers and mountains to Jiannu!

Yuan Chonghuan cleared the wilderness on the one hand, and on the other hand, he asked Cheng Weiyao, who knew the same knowledge, to investigate the spies, and sentenced Jin Qiliang to guard the grain and grass, and passed it to the former tun guard general Zhao Shujiao and the mountain and sea guard general Yang Qi, if someone in the defenders of Ningyuan City fled to them, they could all be killed!

After Nurhachi persuaded him to surrender to no avail, he immediately led the army to attack Ningyuan City, and let the soldiers hold shields to attack the city wall, and Yuan Chonghuan asked Luo Li and others to command the Western giant artillery to bombard the Houjin army, and the Houjin army collapsed under the attack of the giant cannon, and attacked the city for two consecutive days, with heavy losses, and Nurhachi had to order the retreat.

Legend has it that during this battle, Nurhachi fell off his horse due to a cannon shot from his mount, leaving him with a dark illness, and died in less than a few months after he returned.

Yuan Chonghuan led less than 20,000 defenders to create a miracle, they actually repelled the coalition of 60,000 Houjin elite and more than 100,000 Menghan Association soldiers, and annihilated thousands of enemies, this is the first time since the war between the Ming Dynasty and Jiannu to achieve such an amazing victory, the news spread back to the capital, the Manchu Dynasty rejoiced, the myth of Jiannu was almost undefeated was finally broken, and they seemed to see the hope of recovering Liaodong.

Wei Zhongxian was not thinking about how to recover Liaodong at this time, but how to promote his relatives and glorify his ancestors!

Ning Yuan's great victory, he came at the right time, he wrote all his relatives into the list of generals of the Liaodong Army, and even the baby who was only one or two years old and was still drinking milk was written by him as the leading general!

In this battle, Wei Zhongxian did not contribute, he even asked Gao Di to order all the soldiers and civilians in Liaodong to withdraw to the Guannei, saving trouble, Yuan Chonghuan disobeyed the order and refused to lead the soldiers and civilians to withdraw to the Guannei, it was against his order, but after Yuan Chonghuan achieved a great victory, all the credit became a tool for him to promote his relatives!

Almost all of his relatives were crowned the governors of the five armies because of Ning Yuan's military exploits, his nephew Wei Liangqing entered the title of Suning Marquis, his clan nephew Wei Liangdong entered the title of Dong'an Marquis, and his clan grandson Wei Pengyi and others all entered the title of earl because of their military exploits!

And Yuan Chonghuan, who really led the army to a big victory, only entered a small rank, he was originally from the five-grade Ningqian military preparation, but he only added a five-grade Duchayuan right to the imperial history!

Such an abuse of national weapons, snatching military merits, and sealing relatives directly chilled the soldiers of Liaodong, and Yuan Chonghuan was so angry that he almost didn't spurt blood!

In May of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Huang Taiji led more than 100,000 troops to attack again, and he led his troops to Jinzhou and surrounded it.

Jinzhou defender Zhao Shujiao and Ji Yong on the one hand closed the city and held on, on the other hand, sent people to Ning Yuan for help, Yuan Chonghuan did not have many troops in his hands, he still let You Shilu and Zu Dashou lead 4,000 elite cavalry to harass behind the Jiannu army, and sent a naval army to contain from the east, and asked Jizhen and other places to send troops to the east to protect the mountain customs.

Huang Taiji attacked Jinzhou for a long time, and divided his troops to attack Ningyuan, Yuan Chonghuan and Liu Yingkun, Bi Zisu led the soldiers to climb the city tower to defend, lined up in the ditch, and bombarded with artillery from a long distance. And Man Gui, You Shilu, and Zu Dashou also led the army to fight fiercely with Jiannu outside the city, and the deaths on both sides were quite heavy, even the general Man Gui was wounded by an arrow, and Yuan Chonghuan was even more covered in blood, and he did not retreat.

Huang Taiji saw that Ning Yuan could not go down, so he had to withdraw troops from Ningyuan to strengthen the offensive of Jinzhou, but he still could not conquer Jinzhou, he led the army to attack for nearly a month, not only did not take a single city, but also suffered heavy casualties, in desperation, he had to lead the army to retreat, Yuan Chonghuan led the army to defeat Jiannu again, and achieved a great victory.

After the victory of Ning Jin, Wei Zhongxian snatched the military merit again, he himself had never even been to Liaodong, but because of his military merits he was awarded the title of first-class duke, his nephew Wei Liangqing didn't even know where Liaodong was, and because of his military merits he was awarded the title of Taishi and Suning Gong, his nephew Wei Pengyi was still a baby, and he was also awarded the title of Prince Taibao and Marquis of Anping because of his military merits, but Yuan Chonghuan was impeached by his henchmen because he did not listen to his orders!

This time, Yuan Chonghuan was really angry, he directly submitted his resignation and quit.

Wei Zhongxian has finished all his military exploits, and all his relatives have been made marquis, this Yuan Chonghuan seems to be useless, so he did not hesitate to approve it, and directly asked Yuan Chonghuan to get out!

In this way, Yuan Chonghuan, who won two great victories in a row, did not get any benefits, and was still impeached and resentful, resigned angrily, and went home to farm!