When Fang Yuan was fighting in Liaoyang, Huang Taiji's reinforcements had returned to the Liaohe River and arrived in Yaozhou, south of Yingkou, and the reports of defeat in front kept coming.

"Your Majesty, Gaizhou Weihan Blue Banner Wang Ning sent defeated soldiers to report, and the Ming army slaughtered 35,000 people in Gaizhou."

"Your Majesty, Haizhou Wei Hanzheng Red Banner defeated the army to report, the Ming army slaughtered 60,000 people in Haizhou, and the whole family of Zhishun King Shang Kexi was slaughtered."

"Your Majesty, the Liaozhong Guard was lost, the Han Zheng White Banner led by the Han Zheng White Banner Gushan Ezhen Shi Tingzhu was annihilated, Shi Tingzhu fled to Liaoyang alone, and all the people who were captured and the White Flag were slaughtered."

"Your Majesty, the defenders of Liaoyang went out of the city to meet Shi Tingzhu with red flags and Hai, and were defeated, losing 2,000 elites, and the rest retreated into Liaoyang City to defend."

Huang Taiji's face was pale and he looked at the defeat report that came one after another, he received a military report of the Ming army's surprise attack across the sea under Ningyuan City 20 days ago, and thought it was a sneak attack by a small group of Ming troops, which did not attract enough attention.

Who knew that in just half a month, the Ming army that crossed the sea had already killed from Lushunkou to Liaoyang City. The Gaizhou Wei, Haizhou Wei, and even the Liao Zhongwei along the way were almost vulnerable, and the Ming army collapsed immediately. The entire south of Shengjing to Yaozhou, only the important town of Liaoyang has not been lost.

Only then did Huang Taiji realize that something was unusual, and he couldn't sit still under Ningyuan City, so he ordered 20,000 people from Mengbaqi to continue to besiege Ningyuan City, and he personally led the army back to Liaodong.

By the time the army arrived in Yaozhou, seven days had passed, and the reports of defeat kept coming.

He put down the military newspaper heavily, pacing back and forth in the military tent.

The military tent was full of the elite Manchu and Han who accompanied the expedition to Ningyuan this time, gathered together.

Dolgon, Prince Rui of the White Flag, Prince Duoduo of Heshuo with the White Flag, Prince Zheng of the Blue Banner of Zierharang, Abatai of the Blue Banner, Prince Haoge of the Yellow Banner and the Prince of Su of the Yellow Flag; There is also the first think tank, Fan Wencheng, a scholar of the Inner Academy, and Hong Chengchou.

Huang Taiji stopped and asked, "Xian Dou, the Ming army's attack is so fast, it must be Fang Yuan leading the troops to invade." ”

He glanced at Abatai, the general of the defeated army on the side, "Old Seven, you have fought with Fang Yuan, tell me, what is Fang Yuan's combat strength?" ”

Abatai was beaten by Fang Yuan in Shandong before, and after returning to Shengjing, he and Prince Rui Dolgon bit each other. Huang Taiji put the overall situation first, and did not punish Dolgon by chasing the wind and shadows, but also forgave Abatai's crime of defeating the army, and still kept him in the army to be used.

Abatai stood up tremblingly and whispered, "The elite soldiers under Fang Yuan's command, known as the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry, are good at ......."

Huang Taiji had studied Fang Yuan's Xuanjia Iron Cavalry for a long time, and interrupted his chatter impatiently, "I know all this, speaking of the important thing, is the combat power of the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry above my Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty?" ”

Abatai said truthfully, "Yes, according to my estimate, if there is a head-on battle, 40,000 Xuanjia Iron Cavalry will be enough to defeat 50,000 of my Great Qing Iron Cavalry." However, Fang Yuan's Xuanjia Iron Cavalry had very high requirements for military resources and even financial resources, and during the Shandong War, he only had 2,000 Xuanjia Iron Cavalry under his command. ”

"Smack!"

Huang Taiji slapped the military case heavily, and said with a solemn expression, "During the Shandong War, there were two thousand Xuanjia iron cavalry, and this time there are eight thousand, and if you fight two or three times, I think Fang Yuan can counterattack Liaodong!" ”

His worries were by no means unfounded, although the Manchu Iron Cavalry still had a numerical advantage in field warfare, Fang Yuan's eight thousand Xuanjia Iron Cavalry could not launch a frontal battle. However, in the long run, in a few years, the advantages of the field will gradually tilt towards the original side. If the Manchus had no advantage in money and no advantage in field warfare, their demise would have been imminent.

Fan Wencheng echoed and said, "Yes, Your Majesty, if Fang Yuan is not removed, I will never have peace in the Qing Dynasty." ”

Huang Taiji gritted his teeth with hatred for this Fang Yuan, who was like a meteor rising, and also loved and cherished talents, closed his eyes and said, "Xian Dou, do you have a way to surrender Fang Yuan?" If Fang Yuan can return to my Qing Dynasty, take the Ming Dynasty as if it were a bag and take things! ”

Fan Wencheng was silent in thought, Fang Yuan had risen too quickly, he didn't know anything about Fang Yuan's temperament, and he couldn't think of a good way to prescribe the right medicine for a while.

Huang Taiji retreated and asked, "Since it is not easy to surrender, then the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry is out of nowhere, and the mobility is still above my Great Qing Iron Cavalry, how can I annihilate Fang Yuan?" ”

Hong Chengchou, who surrendered to the Manchus last year and had not yet made an inch, suddenly stood up and said, "Your Majesty, the minister has a plan to annihilate Fang Yuan's Xuanjia Iron Cavalry." ”

Huang Taiji saw that it was Hong Chengchou's surrendered brain, and asked with great joy, "Yan Yan, come quickly!" ”

Hong Chengchou Zhengrong said, "The policy offered by the minister is the policy of Yang Sichang to encircle and suppress the Liukou back then, which is called the Four Positive Six Corners and Ten Sides Net!" ”

Huang Taiji was so excited that he walked off the military case, took his hand affectionately, and walked to the front of the military case, "Tell me quickly, how to fight this battle?!" ”

Hong Chengchou turned around and pointed to the big map hanging in the military tent and said, "Your Majesty, Fang Yuan led the sailors to land from Lushunkou, where did he return from?" ”

Huang Taiji stared at the map and said, "Isn't this the return from Lushunkou?" ”

Hong Chengchou smiled and shook his head, "As long as the emperor returns to the division, he can cut off Fang Yuan's retreat to Lushunkou, if he expects to return from Lushunkou, then he is not attacking Liaodong, but throwing himself into a net." The minister concluded that Fang Yuan's preset return point was by no means Lushunkou, but in the ....."

He pointed to the seat of Dandongkou on the map and said in a deep voice, "Dandongkou!" Fang Yuan wanted to board the ship from Dandongkou, go south to Phi Island, where Mao Wenlong was once located, and then return west to Tianjin Wei. As long as we cut off Fang Yuan's retreat route, he will be a turtle in an urn, and he will definitely be captured! ”

Huang Taiji listened to Hong Chengchou's analysis and nodded again and again.

Hong Chengchou continued, "The so-called Four Positive Banners are the Manchurian Eight Banners, the Han Eight Banners, the Mongolian Eight Banners, plus the Korean State, the four parties work together. The Han Eight Banners and the Meng Eight Banners were stationed in the city on a full-time basis, and the Manchurian Eight Banners were full-time in pursuit of field battles, while the Korean side dispatched sailors to attack all the sailor fleets that entered Phi Dao and Dandong Pass from the sea. ”

"The so-called six corners are Shengjing, Liaoyang, Hetuala, Haizhouwei, Dongningwei, and Dandongkou, and they have deployed heavy troops in these six important towns to gradually stifle the space for Fang Yuan's actions."

"The so-called ten-sided net is the four sides and six towns, and the two are at each other's angles, forming a ten-sided net of catching beasts. In this way, Ren Fang's original means can reach the sky, and he can't escape the emperor's Five Finger Mountain. ”

Hong Chengchou talked about it in public, whether it was the Manchu prince in the barracks or Fan Wencheng who was the first military division, he was also full of praise.

Huang Taiji was even more excited and applauded, "Okay! What a four-square, six-corner, ten-sided net! Yan Yan is really a genius, no less than Zhuge Kongming back then! ”

He praised Hong Chengchou vigorously, and Fan Wencheng was unwilling to be after Hong Chengchou, "The minister will offer a three-pronged plan to help the emperor capture Fang Yuan and sweep away the big trouble!" ”

Huang Taiji urged him to speak quickly, and Fan Wencheng said, "First, the emperor can ask people to go and recruit Fang Yuan, promising generous conditions, even if Fang Yuan does not surrender, it can also be used as a delaying tactic to delay his march; Second, the emperor took the opportunity to order the Manchurian Eight Banners, the Mongolian Eight Banners, and the Han Eight Banners to each garrison the six important towns mentioned by Yan Yan to complete the deployment of troops, and then ordered the Korean State to immediately dispatch naval divisions to occupy Phi Island, and then go north to Dandongkou; Third, the only thing to worry about is that the Korean National Assembly will not send troops to attack according to the agreement, and the emperor had better send another respected prince to personally go to the Korean State to supervise the war, so as to prevent the Korean National Yang from violating the Yin and delaying the fighter plane! ”

Fan Wencheng's strategy even supplemented the possible omissions in Hong Chengchou's grand strategy, Huang Taiji listened to the case and laughed and said, "Xiandou and Yanyan, both of you have the talents of Wolong and Fengxiao, and you can win the world if you have one." Now that I have both, the world will belong to the Qing Dynasty! ”

He copied the statement in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and the means of buying people's hearts is to be perfect. Fan Wencheng and Hong Chengchou bowed down in fear, and kowtowed to Huang Taiji again and again to thank him.

Huang Taiji loudly announced the battle plan, "The Han Zheng Red Flag, the Red Flag, and the White Flag will join forces of 15,000 troops, garrison Haizhou Wei, and cut off Fangyuan's road to Liaoxi; Hanzheng blue flag, inlaid blue flag, covered with blue flag, positive blue flag, a total of 25,000 troops of the four flags, eastward from Jinzhou, occupied Dandongkou overnight, cut off the road of Fangyuan return; Han inlaid with white, inlaid with yellow, inlaid with yellow, Mengzheng white flag, inlaid with white flag, a total of 25,000 flags, a total of 45,000 flags, went to occupy Dongningwei (now Benxi, Liaoning), cut off Fangyuan's southward road. ”

"Xian Dou, you sent a Han envoy to the Fang Yuan military camp to persuade him to surrender. Fang Yuan is now the commander of the Ming Dynasty, and I can also marry him as the most noble princess of the Qing Dynasty, and ask him to be the Gulun forehead of the Qing Dynasty; He is the governor of the four provinces, and after I settle the world, he can be named the governor of Nanzhili; He is not even a duke now, and I can make him a prince at once. As long as he is willing to surrender, what Chongzhen can give, I will give twice! ”

Huang Taiji has spared no expense in order to recruit Fang Yuan, not only the Manchu princes, but even Fan Wencheng and Hong Chengchou are also looking at each other, although they are favored by Huang Taiji Wolong and Feng Chick, it is impossible to enjoy this kind of treatment.

Huang Taiji looked at Abatai and said, "Old Seven, I will give you a chance to atone for your sins and send you to Korea to supervise the war." ”

"Yes! Obey! ”

Huang Taiji glanced at Dorgon and said lightly, "Prince Rui, I will give you another chance to clear up the rumors, and send your white flag and white flag to Dongningwei to snipe Fang Yuan's cavalry going south." ”

After the defeat in Shandong, Abatai returned to Shengjing and sued, bluntly accusing Dolgon of collusion with Fang Yuan. This rumor made Dolgon very passive, and the implication of Huang Taiji could not be more obvious, this time if the white flag and the white flag sniped Fang Yuan, he must not make another stubble.

Dolgon was helpless and had no choice but to give up his fate.