In Jinzhou City, in the Zu Dashou Mansion, Liaodong will gather all the gates, and the people sitting here are basically the people in the ancestral family, such as Zu Dashou's cousin Zu Dale, the eldest son Zu Zerun brothers, nephew Wu Sangui, etc.

Just before nightfall, the scouts who came from Songshan to report the news passed through the encirclement line of the Jiannu army and came to the city of Jinzhou, where they were pulled into the city by the guards of the city with hanging baskets, and sent a handwritten letter from Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao in Songshan City, to Zu Dashou.

Hong Chengchou mentioned in the letter that the Jiannu chieftains Azig and Abatai, who were besieging Songshan City, had been captured alive by the Son of Heaven's guards who had come out of the pass to help, and were escorted back to the capital. Azig's 20,000 elite soldiers with white flags, the other eight Mongolian banners, and the 20,000 elite soldiers of the Han army banner have all been wiped out, or killed or captured, and none of them escaped to report to the Huang Taiji outside Jinzhou City.

Three days ago, Songshan City raised an army of 50,000 troops, joined forces with the Guards of the Son of Heaven of the Beijing Division, and attacked Xingshan and Tashan, and on the evening of the same day, defeated the 30,000 army of Jiannu besieging Tashan and Xingshan. Jiannu's siege of Songjinda for a year to besiege the city for reinforcements, except for the Huang Taiji Department who is still besieging Jinzhou City, it can already be announced that Jiannu's strategy this time has completely failed.

Hong Chengchou said in the letter that the Guards Army and the Songshan Army had finished recuperating and were marching towards Jinzhou. I hope that when the time comes, when the battle report of the Guards and the Songshan Army attacking Jiannu is received, the defenders in Jinzhou City will be able to join forces with the Songshan Army and the Guards Army to gather and annihilate this most important combat force for Jiannu.

In particular, if the slave chieftains such as Huang Taiji, Dolgon, and Duoduo could not be captured alive, they had to find an opportunity to kill them. There are also Huang Taiji's Han think-tanks Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan I, these two Han people who were called traitors by Jianwen Ancestor, were specified by Lao Zu to be executed in the capital Lingchi, and they could not be allowed to escape.

Hong Chengchou's letter was read by all the Liaodong generals present, but the content of the letter was too shocking to be believed.

If the army of the Ming Dynasty had such and such combat power, how could it be distorted? The army of the Ming Dynasty, not to mention the field war with Jiannu, is to defend the city, and the army has no fighting spirit and no combat power at all.

"Uncle, in my opinion, this letter should be written by Inspector Hong himself. However, is the content of this letter too exaggerated? I believe that Inspector Hong may have achieved some victories against Jiannu, but the results and decisions are not as great. In my opinion, we should still send a few more ways to find out the encirclement of Jiannu at night, and go to Songshan and Xingshan to carefully investigate, and with the exact news, we can make a final decision on how to respond to Inspector Hong. ”

Wu Sangui, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, saw that everyone was silent, and said to Zu Dashou. Zu Dale nodded slightly, and agreed: "Big brother, General Wu's words are reasonable, we can't just rely on a letter that we don't know whether it's true or false, and send troops to fight against Jiannu. Although my Guanning iron cavalry is brave, there is still a gap between it and the Jiannu cavalry.

Now that Jiannu has been besieging Jinzhou for a long time, the Jiannu cavalry has a high fighting spirit, and when my Guanning Iron Cavalry has been besieged by Jiannu for so long, the fighting spirit has been depressed for a long time, and I am afraid that I will not be able to withstand the field battle with Jiannu. We should send out a few roads at night, and only with an accurate situation can we decide whether to go out of the city to fight Jiannu.

Otherwise, give up the advantage of defending the city, if one is not careful, Jinzhou is lost, not to mention what will happen to our lives, it is the fault of losing the city, and the emperor will condemn it, and it is not something we can afford. Big brother, please think again. ”

Zu Dashou nodded and said, "Well, I don't need to worry about this matter." After all, Hong Chengchou did not say in the letter of Governor Hong, asking me to go out of the city immediately to fight with Jiannu. Uncle, you are responsible for the things that don't take care of the night. Others, reorganize their armaments, and strictly prevent Jiannu from attacking the city.

Alas, this official really hopes that what Inspector Hong said is true, I have been in the Ming Dynasty for many years, the Liukou in the Guan, and the Jiannu outside the Guanxi are not at ease, coupled with the natural disasters for many years, the Liao Shu sent to us by the DPRK and the Central Government has also shown a situation of being unable to support it. If what Inspector Hong said is true, the slave chief Emperor Taiji will have to consider withdrawing from the army, and Jinzhou City will be safe. ”

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Wu Sangui, who returned to the mansion, had just summoned his own soldiers to pass down the order, preparing to send several elites to find out the encirclement of Jiannu and find out the battle situation in Songshan and Xingshan and other places. I saw the housekeeper in the house hurriedly walked in, saw Wu Sangui sitting in the hall, and hurriedly approached and whispered: "Young master, the master has sent someone from Beijing, and he is resting in the side room, is it coming in?" ”

Wu Sangui was shocked in his heart, and then he was overjoyed, and stood up and said, "Come in." ”

Jinzhou has been besieged for a long time, and the news outside has basically been cut off by the encirclement of Jiannu, and it is rarely possible to get in. And Wu Sangui himself has not received news from the capital for a long time, and he doesn't know what the situation outside is now.

A moment later, two men with blood stains on their bodies walked in, and when they saw Wu Sangui, they immediately knelt down and saluted: "Wuqiao Wu Shi has seen the young master." ”

Wu Sangui was taken aback when he saw the appearance of the two and said, "You are injured? Met Jiannu? ”

Wu Qiao choked up and said, "Yes, young master, at the end of last month, the master sent a total of ten brothers including me to deliver a letter to the young master outside the gate." It was safe along the way, but when I arrived outside Jinzhou City, I met a team of elite soldiers from Jiannu, and broke eight people, and finally only the two of us fled to Jinzhou City, and were pulled into the city by the defenders of the city, and escaped with my life, without losing the letter written by the master to the young master. ”

As he spoke, Wu Qiao reached into his arms, took out a bloodstained letter, and presented it to Wu Sangui with both hands. Wu Sangui sighed and said: "There is an army of Jiannu outside Jinzhou City, you can break in, but you are also loyal and brave, and the brothers who went, I will build a tomb for them to enter the Wu family tree and treat their families well."

As for the two of you, go and receive a reward of fifty taels of silver first, and then when you return to Beijing, you will stay in the mansion and serve as the head of the family. Butler, take the two brothers down to rest first. ”

The housekeeper walked out with Wu Qiao Wu Shi, who was very grateful, Wu Sangui looked outside the hall, quickly folded the envelope and took out the letter inside, and first looked at the signature and secret note, it was indeed his father Wu Xiang's own handwriting, and then read the content of the letter.

In the letter, Wu Xiang first talked about the trivial matters of the safety of the family, and then mentioned some things that happened in the capital, mentioning that the prince went out of the palace to control the military power and reorganize the three battalions of the Beijing Division. mentioned that Jianwen Ancestor became an immortal and returned to the Ming Dynasty.

It is mentioned that the emperor formed the Son of Heaven Guards and sent the guards to quietly go out to rescue Songjin. It is mentioned that the ancestor of Jianwen instructed the emperor to pass on the edict and order the vassal kings from all over the country to enter Beijing. It is mentioned that the emperor's close attendant Wang Chengen left the palace and built several royal businesses and factories.

What surprised Wu Sangui the most was that Wu Xiang mentioned in his letter that the Son of Heaven's Guards defeated the 40,000-strong army of Azig besieging Songshan, and captured Azig and Abatai alive. Now these two slave chiefs were imprisoned in the Taiji Hall by Jianwen Ancestor and became the slaves of Jianwen Ancestor.

In the letter, Wu Xiang also mentioned the matter of Azig's 40,000-strong army, and it is said that 20,000 Jiannu were killed, and the rest of the Jiannu were taken prisoner and escorted to build a cement road from the capital to Shanhaiguan.

A letter, just a few hundred words, Wu Sangui read it for half an hour. The content of the letter is a hundred times more absurd than the letter written by Inspector Hong Chengchou to his uncle Zu Dashou. But Wu Sangui was convinced that it was written by his father after all, and it was impossible to deceive himself.

Wu Sangui took a long breath, just a few hundred words, but he explained the sudden changes in the capital. Emperor Jianwen, who should have been dead for two or three hundred years, actually appeared in the Ming Dynasty again, and was personally admitted by the emperor.

What's even more incredible is that this Jianwen Ancestor not only interfered in the prince's reorganization of the Beijing camp, but also interfered in the Son of Heaven's Guard. Almost all the actions of the emperor have the figure of this Jianwen ancestor. Wu Xiang even hinted at the end of the letter that if Wu Sangui had the opportunity to see Jianwen Ancestor, he must hug Jianwen Ancestor's thigh.

Don't say this kind of thing about becoming an immortal, just by the emperor's Chrysostom's recognition and infinite trust, this Jianwen ancestor is a thigh that can't be thicker, and if you have a chance, you have to hug it, and if you don't have a chance, you have to create an opportunity to hug this thickest and thickest thigh of the Ming Dynasty.

Wu Sangui inhaled the cool air and couldn't help but pace in the hall, looking at the letter in his hand for a while, and then lowering his head and pacing for a while. To be honest, some of what my father said in his letter still don't quite understand, there is no need to think about Jianwen Ancestor, no matter if he has really become an immortal, as long as he knows that this is a thigh, it is beneficial to Wumen to hug it.

And the Son of Heaven Guards, only a few 3,000 guards composed of the feminine eunuchs in the original palace, dared to go out of the customs to fight with Jiannu, and also defeated the slave chief Azig's inlaid white flag and Manmeng Eight Banners, which made Guanning Iron Cavalry, who had the strongest army of the Ming Dynasty, embarrassed?

And what is the cement road from Beijing to Shanhaiguan, and what is the road? A road of water and mud? Can you still go? Is the water and mud not muddy together, so how can we go?

And the emperor asked his close attendant Wang Chengen to go out of the palace to build a business and build a factory, didn't those Donglin Party people in the capital stop it? Aren't they the best at telling the emperor that they can't compete with the people for profit?

Alas, it seems that Wu Sangui can't sleep tonight.