On the front line of Songshan, Huang Taiji looked at the two urgent reports on the table with a gloomy face, and even the temperature in the entire camp tent had dropped a lot, and the day before yesterday he had just received the news of the loss of the Shaling Post Station, and it was only two days before there was another bad news, the entire army of the Gaizhou Navy Division was defeated, and hundreds of warships were lost.

When did the Qing Dynasty become so weak, just a Cao Bianjiao, with thousands of remnants of the defeated generals, let them suffer heavy losses in the Qing Dynasty, first lost hundreds of carts of supplies, and then the naval division was defeated, and let Cao Bianjiao lead those remnants of the army into the hinterland of the Qing Dynasty, not to mention, but also gave them such a heavy price, this is how many years have not happened, it can be said that this is something that has not been seen since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, since Nurhachi raised troops to the present decades, now the Qing Dynasty is strong and strong, and his emperor Taiji is ambitiously preparing to attack the Ming Dynasty, When he ruled the world, he was invaded into his home and made a mess, how could he not be angry.

And the sailor was robbed, hundreds of warships were looted, which made him even more angry, the Qing Dynasty only had a total of how many sailor warships, and there were only two places in Gaizhou and Yizhou, and Gaizhou was the largest one, and now it was good, and it lost one-half of the sailors at once, and the scarce materials of warships were lost two-thirds.

"Smack!" Huang Taiji threw the two pieces out, and roared with a flushed face: "Okay! Good! When did my Qing Dynasty suffer such a great humiliation, a remnant of the army, let us be so embarrassed! ”

The officials below were all silent, and even Fan Wencheng lowered his head and did not speak.

Huang Taiji looked at the civil and military officials below and scolded: "A small Cao Bianjiao led thousands of soldiers and horses to attack the hinterland of the Qing Dynasty, and more than thousands of cavalry galloped and killed wantonly in the territory of the Qing Dynasty, what are you doing to eat?" ”

Fan Wencheng saw that everyone was silent, and he also took the initiative to stand up: "Your Majesty, this battle is really a shame for our army, but the most important thing at the moment is to break through Songshan City, the main force of the Ming army is still among them, Cao Bianjiao has already run away, but the coming day is long, and there are many opportunities for revenge, please think twice!" ”

Hearing Fan Wencheng say this, Huang Taiji also coughed a few times and calmed down, but he was still panting in his mouth, and the remaining hatred was hard to dissipate, and he sighed after a long time: "It's me who is reckless, Mr. Fan is right, now at this time to take Songshan is the most appropriate strategy, pass the order, the whole army will attack the city, within ten days, Songshan must be taken." ”

Under the strong attack of the Qing army, Xia Chengde, the deputy general of Songshan, was afraid of the soldiers and sent people to surrender to the Qing Dynasty in secret, thinking that he should respond internally. On the eighth day of February, Songshan City fell, Governor Qiu Minyang, Wang Tingchen and others were killed, Hong Chengchou was defeated and captured, Zhang Ruolin fled when the war was in full swing, on February 15, Zu Dashou led his troops to surrender the city, and the Qing army occupied Jinzhou. On March 22, the Qing army destroyed the city wall of Xingshan with red-coated artillery, and the deputy general Lu Pinqi led his troops to surrender without a fight, and the three cities of Songshan, Jinzhou and Xingshan were wiped out, so the Battle of Songjin ended.

Dengzhou Mansion, Changshan Island, Cao Bianjiao and their warships are all docked here, there is only one day away from Dengzhou Mansion, after a few days of turbulence on the sea, they can finally return to the territory of Daming, everyone is relaxed, but Cao Bianjiao is in a very heavy mood, although the battle is over, but the things after the war have only just begun.

"Two generals, this time we broke through from Songshan and escaped to the east, and finally came back, but the next thing has not yet ended, this time the battle of Songjin, we are defeated after all, what kind of statement will the court be, we don't know yet, especially the three of us, if we can't keep it, we will be framed by those civil officials in the court, so we must unify the caliber to do it, if there is a little deviation, it is very likely that we will never recover!"

"General Cao, what do you mean by this?" Zu Dale was a little unsure of what he meant, and he didn't understand the meaning of Cao Bianjiao's words.

"General Cao means that those civil officials in the imperial court, they can't pass the responsibility of this battle to our soldiers on the front line, so we must unify the voice this time, so as to avoid being framed, we have all come to this point, we can't lose our lives, and we will lose all the games if we are not careful!"

"What General Zhu said is exact! In order to reverse the occupation of the battle of Songjin, we led our troops to attack Shenyang, so as to encircle Wei to save Zhao, but we suffered heavy losses in grain and grass ordnance, and when we were at the Shaling Station, we fought with the Qing army and suffered heavy losses, and finally had to turn south to Gaizhou, and we also captured a lot of military quartermasters and prisoners, this is our record, do you understand? ”

"Understood, General Cao rest assured, Zhu must be tight-lipped, these soldiers are all following us all the way back, in their hearts, the general, you are their benefactor, I will also order it, there will be absolutely no leakage, everything will be based on what the general said." Zhu Wende is very confident in this, these people have long regarded Cao Bianjiao as their reborn parents, if there is no Cao Bianjiao, they may have died in Songshan, then there is still a chance to escape, and now they can survive, they are all brought by Cao Bianjiao, they will naturally obey Cao Bianjiao, even Zu Dale and Zhu Wende have already regarded Cao Bianjiao as their boss.

"General Zhu, early tomorrow morning, you lead a small boat to Dengzhou Mansion first, and inform them of our news, if nothing happens, then you will plant three flags on the bow of the ship to show safety, if there is danger, we may have to learn from Kong Youde back then!"

When he said this, Cao Bianjiao was also murderous, he would not be willing to fall into a sacrifice, if others wanted his life, he would not sit idly by, what kind of loyal monarch thought, in his opinion, he is a foolish guy, he can be patriotic, but loyal to the monarch is exempt.

"If the imperial court really wants to deal with us, then what should we do?" Zu Dale also asked such a sentence, which was what he was most concerned about at the moment.

Cao Bianjiao looked at Zu Dale, patted him on the shoulder, and said: "If this is really the case, then I, Cao Bianjiao, will not sit still, the emperor is a saint, but I can't withstand the pampering of the corrupt Confucians in the court, the Ming Dynasty has fallen to the point where it is today, it is those rotten Confucians who are making trouble, they want us to die, do we really let them slaughter?" ”

"If that's the case, then the hell will be the opposite, General Cao, the lives of the brothers were saved by you, no matter what you do, the brothers will follow you at that time." Zu Dale was the most upright, and he shouted without words at the moment.

Zhu Wende, who was next to him, also had a solemn face when he heard this, and sighed: "If it really comes to that point, I will also listen to General Cao." But I believe that the emperor will not be so confused. ”

"I hope so! Rest, you're tired! Cao Bianjiao pressed his shoulder, also tired.