In the outer city of Shengjing, several cavalry from outside Songshan City on the front line rushed into the city and entered the palace of the Khan, not caring about anything, just kneeling down on the main hall.

Panting shouted:

"Your Majesty, the front line is urgent, the Ming man Hong Chengchou led more than 130,000 horses to assemble in Songshan, Jinzhou Zu Dashou broke through five times in one day, Prince Rui couldn't attack for a long time, and asked for reinforcements!"

As soon as the bannerman finished speaking, there was another rush of footsteps from outside, and another Qing soldier ran in and knelt beside the previous bannerman.

"Report ——, that the people are heavy, and Prince Rui is seriously injured, so I ask for reinforcements!"

Although Huang Taiji was already the emperor at this time, this hall was still called the Khan's Palace, in order to highlight the immortal exploits established by the Jurchen ancestor Nurhachi.

Although the emperor Taiji on the first seat looked tired and had a slightly pale look on his face, he was still tall and majestic on the whole, and he was a little anxious when he heard several urgent reports in a row.

As far as he knows, Dolgon has always been meticulous and resolute, ruthless and decisive, and this time he replaced the old and stable Jilharang in order to open up the situation in Jinzhou and Songshan as soon as possible.

Unexpectedly, at the moment, even Dolgon was so eager to run out in a row, if it weren't for the fact that the matter was already urgent, he would not have sent emergency reports to Shengjing so indiscriminately.

In the ensuing discussion, Huang Taiji thought that it was now at the critical juncture of the Qing Dynasty, so he decided to go to Songshan in person.

But Huang Taiji also knew that the existing number of soldiers of the Eight Banners was still insufficient, so he issued several edicts in a row before leaving.

The first is to send the bannermen to the deep mountains and old forests to find and arrest those wild and uncivilized savage Jurchens, give them armor, swords and guns, and directly integrate into the Eight Banners army.

Secondly, as the emperor of the Mandate of Heaven of the Qing Dynasty, he issued an edict to Korea and Mongolia, asking them to send people to the Songshan area in the starry night to meet with the army of Dolgon, the prince of Rui, and resist the advance of the Ming army.

Although the order was issued in an orderly manner, Huang Taiji had not thought about it since he received the urgent report from the front line, and he was worried about the battle outside Songshan City day and night

Later, under the comfort and suggestion of Aifei Hai Lanzhu, it was decided not to wait for the accompanying troops sent by the Mongolian tribes and the Korean state, and first led 3,000 elite cavalry to Songshan, followed by the Eight Banners strong army.

Huang Taiji's health was not good, the Xingjing fiasco a few years ago was to hurt the Qing army, Huang Taiji saw the hanging Dongguo princess's headless body on the city beam, and was angry on the spot to vomit blood, and fainted in the palace for a few days before waking up.

Many years have passed, this matter is still lingering in his heart, on the way to Songshan Huang Taiji only hopes that the Ming army that attacked Xingjing can also come, and then he will be able to be ashamed and kill to comfort the Manchurian warriors in the spirit of the sky.

Unexpectedly, Huang Taiji was too anxious to hurry, so that the old disease recurred on the way, and the nosebleed was as turbulent as the river that broke the embankment, and he couldn't suppress it, and finally simply took a big bowl in one hand to pick it up, and used the other hand to control the horses.

At the same time, thousands of miles away in Licheng, Shandong, tens of thousands of soldiers wearing red iron armor gathered in the school field outside the city, and countless steel guns were slowly like a forest, and everyone did not squint.

The sound of rumbling steps is getting farther and farther, and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of the Shandong army, under the order of Wang Zheng, the chief military officer, marched towards Songshan Fort with indomitable momentum to participate in this big battle that determines the fortune of the world.

"Shandong Army! Kill! ”

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

......

On the wall of Songshan Fort, Wu Sangui coughed dryly, listened to the shouting and killing sound on the side of Xishimen, and clenched his fists and said:

"Lord Governor, the last general has been dealing with it in Liaodong for a long time, knowing that the Tartars are brave and invincible, and one person can block several of my Ming soldiers, and now it has been storming for several days, and the West Stone Gate is still not loosened, or temporarily retreat, if the army has any mistakes, isn't it the wish of the thieves?"

Hearing this, Yutian Chief Soldier Cao Bianjiao nodded and said:

"General Wu is reasonable, according to the last general, there are still tens of thousands of imperial army who have not come to Songshan Fort in the future, and the Di newspaper also said that the Shandong army set off in Licheng a few days ago, why not wait until the time when the front and rear troops are combined, and attack in several ways to attack the Dongyu!"

Hearing this, Hong Chengchou smiled, but there was no superfluous reaction, Cao Bianjiao may be sincere, but Wu Sangui He can see it clearly, and his high-sounding words are actually just to preserve his own strength.

Hong Chengchou glanced at a eunuch in a python robe behind him, and said leisurely:

"General Wu Bing, back then, you dared to rush into the battle with hundreds of families to fight tens of thousands of Tartars, but now you have tens of thousands of people and defend one side, why are you afraid of becoming like this?"

Hearing Governor Jiliao say this, Wu Sangui just smiled slightly, as if he hadn't heard it at all, and neither replied positively nor said another word.

This was already quite rude, but the general soldiers around him and many generals on the periphery did not react, and Hong Chengchou seemed to ask the air.

The generals of the military households in Liaodong and the border towns are different from the rest of the places, most of them have been stationed for many years, and they have long formed their own faction, and they have firmly sat on one side, although nominally Hong Chengchou belongs to the superintendent and has command authority over them.

But Hong Chengchou has asked himself more than once, these arrogant and domineering generals who don't care about anyone are really still in command, and Wu Sangui is so ignorant that he is a little helpless.

At this time, he couldn't say anything more on his face, so as not to make the scene more embarrassing, but the anger in Hong Chengchou's heart could not dissipate in a while, and he said in a cold voice:

"Before the governor left the customs, he also planned to use the method of General Wu's soldiers, step by step, to concentrate the greatest forces to fight a decisive battle with the Tartars, but someone was poking the backbone of the governor behind his back, saying that he was deliberately delaying."

A few days ago, Hong Chengchou gathered troops and horses in the pass, and originally wanted to use step by step as a battalion and concentrate superior forces to fight with the Qing army to achieve victory, but Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the military department, did not agree with it, and he was negligent in the court discussion.

It is said that it is difficult to pay a lot of soldiers, and the court will have to take out the food and salary of hundreds of thousands of troops if it is delayed for a day, and advocate a quick victory, which can be said to be said to Emperor Chongzhen's heart, what the court lacks most at the moment, isn't it silver and food.

Emperor Chongzhen not only adopted Chen Xinjia's opinion, but also sent a prison army to the front line with a holy decree to urge the battle.

In fact, Hong Chengchou said that this was really the drunkard's intention not to drink, but to vent evil anger, and after hearing these words, a scribe standing behind him was full of red faces, and a little angry.

This person is wearing a five-grade official uniform, and it is Zhang Ruoqi, the military department official who is in charge of the army.

Whenever he thinks about this, Hong Chengchou is angry.

Although the prison army is no longer those arrogant and arrogant eunuchs, these literati in Donglin are not as good as the Zhongguan prison army, at least those eunuchs can send away some silver, but this scribe is completely soft and hard, and he can't understand bullshit.

This Ruoqi is the most typical one, with a proud face all day long, completely opposing himself in the name of righteousness.

Hong Chengchou ordered the whole army, Zhang Ruoqi will definitely come to stir up the peace, and don't let you go smoothly to reorganize the army, Hong Chengchou just ordered to wait for the follow-up soldiers and horses, this Zhang Ruoqi will immediately come to take the emperor's holy decree, and urge the army to fight a decisive battle.

Although Hong Chengchou was also born as a scribe, after so many years, the south suppressed the thieves and the north and the east, and the thoughts in his heart were almost the same as those generals, and it can already be said that he hated Zhang Ruoqi to the core, and he almost chopped him alive with a knife.

This kind of disagreement between the governors and the governor is nothing new in Liaodong recently, but it is another thing when it comes to himself.

Hong Chengchou is the superintendent of the emperor's order, and he is responsible for rescuing Jinzhou with soldiers and horses, but Zhang Ruoqi is also a supervisor of the army, and he also holds a holy decree, each of them has an order, I will retreat if you advance, and I will advance if you retreat, which makes the generals below confused.

I don't understand at all whether I should listen to the orders of the superintendent or the orders of the imperial superintendents.

This matter gradually spread among the Ming army, and the sharp spirit gradually dissipated, and even the pace of attacking Xishimen stopped, and all day long I listened to these two people arguing in the council hall, and there was no unified order.