Liaozhen is different from Guannei, the generals are the landlords, and the soldiers are the tenants, that is to say, these Liao soldiers can barely rely on their own production to meet their needs, and the military salary of the imperial court is just a subsidy.

After the Battle of Songshan, the generals of Liaozhen and Jizhen suffered heavy losses in their soldiers and horses, and they became a two-person military group from the original multi-sided forest. Gao Di, who guarded the Yushan Customs, and Wu Sangui, who guarded the line from the Yushan Customs to Ningyuan.

Gao Di, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, and Wu Sangui, the chief soldier of Ningyuan regiment, these two people are equal in official positions, but Wu Sangui has 80,000 soldiers, and there are many tenant farmers, and the soldiers and horses under Gao Di are less than one-eighth of Wu Sangui's hands, so this superiority is naturally separated.

The combat effectiveness of the Liao soldiers was somewhat stronger than that of the soldiers and horses stationed in Beizhili, because they had been outside the pass for a long time and had more or less combat experience.

All kinds of factors combined made Wu Sangui the strongest warlord in the Ming Dynasty except for Li Meng, and if he was carefully compared with the rabble like Zuo Liangyu, he could even be said to be the strongest warlord in the Ming Dynasty.

This is also the humiliating defeat of Wu Sangui's father Wu Xiang several times, the crime is enough to kill the head and rob the family, but the court will at most demote Wu Xiang to a commoner, and it will not take a few years, and he will have to raise an official position with a false title, also because Wu Sangui has enough strength, and the court still has to rely on it, and it can't do things absolutely.

The successive defeats of the Manchu Tartar War, the heroic and capable ministers who supervised the Wenchen were all killed, and those nerds did not know how to command, and as a result, Wu Sangui, the general soldier of the Ningyuan regiment, was uncontrollable.

With nearly 100,000 soldiers in his hands, and serfs in the fields, and still at the key point of communication between the two countries, it is impossible to say that it is impossible to let this Wu Sangui lead the Liao soldiers to fight to the death against the Qing Dynasty, but pondering and relying on the strength in his hands to bet and speculate is something that Wu Sangui thinks about every day.

Wu Sangui is different from Zuo Liangyu, although Zuo Liangyu's status is noble. Although his soldiers and horses are numerous, he can obtain food and salary, where he is stationed, etc., which is not much different from the thieves of the year, and Wu Sangui is the general of Liaodong for generations.

These Liaozhen generals. A large amount of land was occupied in the Kanwai Circle, and in this era, land was the most important capital and property. It is impossible for the Liaozhen army to give up such huge benefits, unless someone offers a higher price.

At present, the Ming court is recognizing the military generals of Liaozhen, and at present, it is also recognizing Wu Sangui's various interests outside the customs, so Wu Sangui is still content with the status quo for the time being.

But now the situation is in turmoil, the imperial court is in turmoil, and Wu Sangui is also planning for the future, but before November of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, no matter how you look at it, it is more worthy of refuge in the Manchu Dynasty. znetbsp; In order not to fight on both sides, the Tartars even retreated twenty miles back from the defensive line arranged in the Ningyuan area. Moreover, it reduced the harassment of the cavalry team Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan all the way, and in accordance with the previous rules, sent an envoy to Wu Sangui to promise Wu Sangui all kinds of high-ranking officials to surrender. Wu Sangui, the chief soldier of Ningyuan Regiment Training, felt that the current situation was still unclear, and if he waited, he might be able to get better conditions and commitments.

However, the Manchu Qing's expression was also responded to by him in good faith, and the soldiers and horses of Liaozhen were in the absence of the Tartar army, and knew that the Tartars had gone to the pass to plunder and harass. The soldiers and horses of Liaozhen did not take any action, of course, they had long been afraid of being beaten, and the soldiers of Liaozhen might not dare to make any moves at all.

After the Manchu Tatars entered the Kou Pass, the troops of Beizhili were almost all stationed around the Beijing Division, and the Tartar army advanced along the canal. On the contrary, it made the northern part of Shuntianfu and Yongpyeong very peaceful. After the Tartars, it was business as usual. And the message is very handy.

In the battle of Hejian Prefecture, the Tartars' soldiers and horses were completely annihilated. It took twenty days for Jingshi to know the news, but Shanhaiguan and Liaozhen knew it earlier.

How the Tartars are in the pass directly determines their next move, but the Jingshi side sets up its own guard like a turtle shell, the outside can't get in, and the inside doesn't dare to come out, no one knows what has changed, Liaozhen simply sent his own spies.

Hejian Mansion to Shanhaiguan area, basically there are no ups and downs, and it is a place like Beizhili, the official road is accessible in all directions, it is said that after the war, if you don't stop, Shanhaiguan will be able to know the news in about five days, but this war makes the spies who have been following can't believe it.

Deliberately pretending to be a poor man who fled from the three guards of Tianjin, he followed the team of the labor army to see the Jingguan piled up by the river, and only then did he dare to judge that the nearly 40,000 troops in this Tartar land were indeed wiped out.

When the spies returned to Shanhaiguan, they saw Gao Di, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, and heard the spies say that the 40,000 soldiers of the Manchu Qing Tartars were all wiped out, and Gao Di was stunned at first, and then drew his knife and stood up, and shouted angrily:

"Damn the killer, when the official is a three-year-old child, I can't do it, I'll chop you up and feed the dog now!!"

Gao Di can react so much, this spy can also understand, unlike the soldiers and civilians in the Guannei, the soldiers and civilians of this Jiliao land are like wolves and tigers to the Tartars, thinking that it is an invincible existence, and suddenly 40,000 soldiers and horses will be wiped out in Hejian Mansion, who can believe it.

But the Hejian Mansion looked lax, in fact, the precautions were very tight, and it was difficult to get a certificate, this spy was also a bachelor, gritted his teeth, took out a dagger, chopped off one of his little fingers, and said in pain:

"Even if Xiaodi has the courage to do it, he doesn't dare to tell this kind of lie about exterminating the race, the master, the small sentence is true!!"

Seeing that this spy was so resolute and sure, Gao Di believed three points, took a few steps back and sat on a chair, where he pondered hard, what kind of strong army in the pass can eat 40,000 soldiers and horses of the Tartars in one bite, it is the power of the country, but after calculating, the power of the Ming Dynasty to pour the country, how can it be possible not to transfer the Liao soldiers into the pass.

After thinking about it for a while, Gao Di felt dizzy, as if there was a behemoth in Hejian Mansion, and even if he looked at it, he was dizzy.

He still couldn't be sure, so he simply sent his cronies to investigate, and everyone prepared enough horses and dry food for transfer, day and night, just to bring back credible news as soon as possible, and at the same time, the spies who sent back the news as soon as possible were put in prison and temporarily detained.

This time the news came back quickly, after Gao Di, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, rewarded the spies twice. hurriedly sent someone to inform Wu Sangui, the chief soldier of the Ningyuan regiment.

It is conceivable that Wu Sangui's reaction, his first thought was whether Gao Di had a conspiracy and wanted to take the opportunity to encroach on his own territory and people, or something else.

After the news was confirmed, Wu Sangui, the chief soldier of Ningyuan's regimental training, was still in disbelief, such a big victory would inevitably be reported to the imperial court. As long as the imperial court confirms it, then the news is almost certain.

If it is a big victory, I am afraid that Gao Di and Wu Sangui will not believe it. Because there are too many cheats, the two of them often report to the imperial court, saying that they will behead dozens of Tartars in a certain place on a certain day, and they are all things that fool people, but if they are annihilated, this fake is too difficult to do, and it must be a real victory.

It is much easier to send troops to Beijing to inquire about the news, and Wu Xiang, the military governor of the Beijing Division, will also provide a lot of convenience. All kinds of signs fully prove that the victory of the total annihilation of Hejian Province is true news.

The news that the soldiers and horses of Shandong had completely annihilated the 40,000 Tatar army was tightly blocked by Gao Di and Wu Sangui, and those who knew it were the most trusted personnel.

Even if they inquired about the course of the battle through the eyes of the Jingshi, Wu Sangui and Gao Di racked their brains and couldn't understand when such a strong army came out of Daming Pass.

Think about it. After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Wu Sangui and his subordinates figured out such a result: perhaps it was not that Shandong's army was strong, but that the Tartars' soldiers and horses were too weak, after all, there were only more than 8,000 real Tartars in it, and the rest were either Mongol or Han troops.

Someone said smartly: Maybe after the first battle of Matsuyama. The Tartars also hurt their spirits. Besides, since the Tartars formed an army. has not tasted defeat, perhaps the arrogant soldiers are slack. It's not a strong army anymore.

Since the battle of Songshan, the Liaozhen soldiers and horses led by Wu Sangui and the Tartar army have not had any conflict for almost a year, and they are at peace with each other.

Naturally, the level of nearly 40,000 others can't be compared, and it is also a glorious thing to be able to kill dozens or hundreds of people here, and send them to the Beijing Division.

What's more, if you can push the Tartars back towards Liaodong, the fields you occupy on your side will be larger, and you can also collect more Han people in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which will do no harm. At present, the most border of the Liao troops stationed is the line between Wanghaitai and Shahebao in the northeast of Ningyuan, while the place where the Tatars are stationed is the line between Daxingbao and Tianqiao, and there is a buffer zone of almost 50 miles on both sides.

In Daxingbao, he led the troops in a blue flag, and below he led 400 people from the Jurchen Eight Banners, 1,000 people from the Eight Banners of the Meng, and 300 from the Han Army.

If it was stationed elsewhere, the proportion of the Han army might have been higher, but this was the place where the Ming army was confronted, and the Manchu and Mongolian soldiers accounted for the majority.

On the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, Wu Sangui sent one of his guerrillas, leading 5,000 men to attack Daxingbao, these 5,000 soldiers and horses knew in advance the news that tens of thousands of Tatar troops were annihilated in Hejian Province, and their morale was high, and they all came to the front line with the confidence of victory.

The Tartar commander who was guarding Daxingbao saw a large number of Liaozhen Ming troops swarming in, and thought that he had misunderstood, and only after confirming it did he excitedly gather troops and horses.

When the Ming army faced the Tartar soldiers and horses, it was often a shock and defeat, and it was even too late to cut and kill, which was one of the most headaches for the Manchu army in recent years. The gates of the Liao soldiers were closed, the camps were strictly defended, or they scattered and fled, and no one came to meet the battle at all, and some people were stationed for three years, and they didn't even cut a level, so now the best errand for the Manchu soldiers is to go to Mongolia and Ming, every time there is a big battle, every time there are military achievements. I don't know what kind of epilepsy the Ming army in Liaozhen has today, and they actually took the initiative to attack the city, in the eyes of the Manchu soldiers in Daxingbao, this is not the level of 5,000 people, this is clearly 5,000 heads, all of which are military merits!

It turned out that when they heard that there was a great victory of tens of thousands of Tartars in the pass, the Liaozhen troops who came over thought that the Tartars would not dare to go out of the city, so they could only hold on.

When the Manchu army fought against the Liao soldiers, it had not been defended in advance for nearly decades. This time was no exception, the Jurchen and Mongol cavalry totaled more than 600 cavalry, all mounted and drove forward.

The morale of the soldiers in Liaozhen was high, but the other skills were not much higher, and it was still when the opponent was out of range, and all kinds of firearms were released indiscriminately, and the momentum was huge. The effect is almost none.

When the cavalry rushed to the front, only two or three Tartar cavalrymen were thrown off their horses because they were frightened, and the greatest injury to the rest was to choke on the smoke of the firearms.

This has already caused the soldiers of Liaozhen to riot. The soldiers with firearms desperately crowded towards the back, but the soldiers with cold weapons in the back were reluctant to step forward.

Within the effective range of the bow and arrow field, dismount and shoot on foot, which is also a common routine of the Tartars, and more than 600 cavalrymen calmly dismount and draw their bows and arrows.

In the first round of arrow rain, the queue of the 5,000 soldiers turned from a commotion to a big chaos, and the leader of the blue flag in the leading place was still confused at this time, and the Ming army was still so hasty, but today it had the courage to take the initiative to attack. What the hell is going on here?

The archery had an effect, and the six hundred cavalrymen remounted their horses and drew their weapons, and rushed towards the Ming army's already chaotic front, and the foot soldiers in the rear team also followed.

The chaos of the Liao army's array turned into a collapse, pushing each other and killing each other, and everyone wanted to leave this Shura field as soon as possible and escape as soon as possible.

The Manchu soldiers had already rushed into the formation and began to slash and kill. There were screams and cries everywhere, and the guerrilla who led the troops was more unlucky, he was originally a close confidant of Wu Sangui, and he also knew the news that the Manchu army had lost tens of thousands of troops in Hejian Province, and his confidence skyrocketed.

The former array. This guerrilla was always deployed in the rear. If you want to run yourself, you will run first, but today your faith has skyrocketed. led the soldiers to stay at the forefront, ready to rush forward when the time came. You can also earn some face in front of your own general.

Standing in front, when the team was in chaos, he couldn't run if he wanted to, and he was blocked by headless flies behind him, so he didn't run at all.

But the Manchu cavalry behind him had already rushed to the front, and this guerrilla attack was bloody at the last moment, leading more than 100 pro-soldiers under his command to meet him.

This is the only scene that can be called a battle today, but the return of more than 100 people did not drive the entire large position to hate the enemy, and the rest of the Liaozhen soldiers took advantage of this opportunity to flee quickly, and there could be no miracle for more than 100 people against more than 1,000 people.

The result of the battle was in the hands of Wu Sangui that night, I thought that the morale of the Tartar soldiers and horses was low, and I sent this army to test it, even if I couldn't take advantage of it, I wouldn't suffer any big losses, who would have thought that this defeat was still the same as before, or even worse.

Because in the past, when the troops encountered the Tartar soldiers and horses, they would flee at the slightest mistake, and although the troops collapsed, they could run far away before the real general attack of the Tartars, and the scene was ugly, but there were few casualties.

But this time, because they were a little sure in advance, they consciously felt that the Manchu soldiers and horses were not as strong as before, and they were inevitably a little slower when they fled, and some people still wanted to come forward to fight.

In this way, the casualties will naturally be heavy......

Wu Sangui, the chief soldier of Ningyuan's regimental training, was terrified in his heart, if the Tartar soldiers and horses took advantage of the situation to attack, I was afraid that the situation in Liaozhen, which was barely maintained, would collapse completely.

However, this time Wu Sangui can be said to be extremely lucky, because the Manchu soldiers and horses stationed in Daxingbao had no extra strength to attack, followed by the sudden death of Huang Taiji in Shengjing, and the entire territory of the Manchu Qing Dynasty contracted martial law to prevent any unforeseen events.

Naturally, he didn't care about a retaliatory attack on the newly defeated Liaozhen soldiers and horses, which was what made Wu Sangui take a breath, and this stupid battle made Wu Sangui understand a truth. The 37,000 Manchu Qing Dynasty soldiers and horses were annihilated by the Shandong soldiers and horses of Hejian Prefecture, and this shocking and unbelievable victory was not that the Tartar soldiers and horses had become weaker, but that the strength of the Shandong soldiers and horses was particularly strong.

Wu Sangui, the chief soldier of the Ningyuan regiment, has been thinking about what force he and his Liaozhen soldiers and horses should throw themselves into in order to keep the current force or obtain greater benefits.

Prior to this battle, Wu Sangui had been oscillating between the Ming and the Manchu Tatars, and he had even considered the side of King Chuang and Cao Cao, who were becoming more and more troublesome in the Huguang land of Henan.

In the first month of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, the military leaders of Liaozhen finally understood who was the strongest force, and Liaozhen was at the forefront of the battle against the Manchu Tatars. Compared with other people in the Ming Dynasty, they can realize more deeply how powerful the Shandong army is that it has annihilated tens of thousands of Tartar soldiers and horses.

The local generals with real power went directly to contact Li Meng in Shandong, after all, there would be all kinds of inconveniences, and now that the Beijing division was in chaos, Wu Xiang, the governor of the Chinese military government who was in an idle position, came forward, but it was not so noticeable.

Of course, the envoy sent by Wu Xiang was Wu Sangui's cronies in Liaozhen. If you have a different name, you can be confused......

In a sense, even Wu Xiang, the governor of the Chinese Military Government, sent someone to visit. It is also a great special case for Shandong.

After the great victory, except for the magistrates of Shandong, most of the other people who came over were local gentry and clans, and these people may be a certain bigwig in the court, or they may be civil and military generals from other provinces, but the name of coming to visit is to use the private contact behavior of the people.

Only this Wu Xiang used the official name, perhaps because he felt that in this way he could sincerely express his respect for Li Meng, the general of Zhendong.

It was different from what Li Meng thought, he thought that the envoy sent by the Wu family might have to show off his identity and take advantage of his strength in Liao Town to get a shelf or something, but he didn't expect this to make him very respectful and docile. This team can not be considered small, almost more than 100 people, more than a dozen big cars, they spent their own money to find an inn in Jinan City to live, in the waiting place these days, every day is politely asked when to see the handsome.

However, it was Wu Xiang's nephew, Wu Sangui's cousin, who was replaced by Wu Muhuan. But he didn't have any military position, he opened a big warehouse in Liaozhen, and he just used his relatives' power and wealth.

For such a role, Li Meng went out to meet, and that was because he had lost his identity. Let this Wu Muhuan wait for three days. Yuan Wenhong, the head of the Jiaozhou camp, came forward to receive him.

If it is seen by those who do not understand the rules, the Lord will not show up. And to send a small landlord to come is rude and contemptuous of people.

It can be used by those who know the Jiaozhou camp. Yuan Wenhong, the chief bookkeeper, came forward, this is already a great face, although the official position of the chief bookkeeper is not high, but he is a confidential scribe next to Zhendong General Li Meng, who is a first-class inner circle figure, and when he sees this master book, what he says and what he says will definitely be conveyed to Zhendong General Li Meng's side.

It's just that those who can know these are people with status in Shandong, and they have to be people with enough status to know.

It can be seen from Wu Muhuan's performance that either he did enough intelligence gathering before coming, or he was ordered by his master to be extremely humble, and judging from Yuan Wenhong's observation, it should be more later.

This Wu Muhuan also has a five-rank military general's false title, but after Yuan Wenhong entered the house, Wu Muhuan actually knelt down with a big salute and respectfully greeted him, but Yuan Wenhong, the main bookkeeper, was startled, and hurriedly stepped forward to help him up, thinking that this was too unruly.

"Mr. Yuan, my old lady and my general sent a villain to greet the marshal, and wished the marshal Wansheng mighty, and he will definitely be a prince in the future!"

"Your kindness, Yuan will definitely convey it to my family, please rest assured!"

The martial artist is the most clearly aware of the gap in strength, and the person sent by Wu Sangui is completely humble and respectful, and treats his own family as a subordinate everywhere, but there is no situation where he is very self-controlled.

This is the shock and awe brought by the strong strength of the Jiaozhou battalion after the big victory, Yuan Wenhong sighed in his heart, but he still responded politely.

The first contact between the two sides is just to express respect and goodwill, and many words will not be in-depth, not to mention that neither party is the principal, and meeting at this time is just polite to each other.

It is said that after saying a few words and leaving a gift, Wu Muhuan should say goodbye and leave, but he has always known the advance and retreat, but Wu Muhuan, who is familiar and tactful, has always refused to leave, and said hesitantly:

"Mr. Yuan, when I came here for the first time, our Wu family didn't dare to slack off, and specially prepared a heavy gift, but it was just ...... It's better for the handsome to accept this gift personally......"

When he said this, Wu Muhuan's expression was quite strange, what kind of gift did he want to give, it was so solemn, it was really curious. I have to continue to rush upward, and vote for Lao Bai with a guaranteed monthly ticket, thank you