The smell of wine outside the door is overflowing, and the smell inside the door is stinking. A thin door divides the inside and outside into two very different worlds.

In the thatched toilet of Tongtianlou, a brief conversation that decided the life and death of countless people and also related to the fate of the Ming Empire took place in this slightly embarrassing environment. A door, a word, or even a fleeting thought in your mind can influence the world and change history. The so-called "law that does not depend on human will" is actually like this!

"Since Lord Hong does not agree with Governor Yang's opinion, why didn't he say a word at the table?" Zhu Youzhen aggressively asked Hong Chengchou.

Hong Chengchou smiled awkwardly and said, "Your Highness, Lord Yang is the governor after all, and the lower official is just the governor. If he is reprimanded in public, he will be guilty of the following crimes, and Governor Yang must not look good. After the dismissal, the lower officials had to talk with Governor Yang alone, and then they would explain their interests and disadvantages. However, please forgive the lower officials for bluntly saying that Governor Yang is too bookish, and his character articles are excellent, but he is a precipitous person, and he may not be able to listen to the advice of the lower officials. ”

Zhu Youzhen saw that Hong Chengchou had a unique gaze, and couldn't help but say approvingly: "Let's not talk about Governor Yang first, let's just say that according to Lord Hong's opinion, what should be done to the thieves?" ”

"Cut the grass and eradicate the roots, and leave no one behind." Hong Chengchou's face did not change, and he spit out these words lightly, as casually as talking about the weather.

Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but shudder, thinking that the thief was different from the bandits, in addition to the backbone of the battle, more than half of them were women and children. This Hong Chengchou's upper lip touched his lower lip, but he pushed all these people to the edge of the ghost gate. If he can really take charge of the military power in the northwest, he will definitely be a murderous demon king! Looking at his gentle and elegant appearance, it turns out that he is really a person who doesn't take other people's lives seriously!

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen suddenly smiled coldly and said, "I don't know what Lord Hong thinks of Jianyu. ”

Hong Chengchou was stunned when he heard this, and he didn't know why Zhu Youzhen suddenly jumped to another irrelevant topic. However, he didn't dare to slack off, and after pondering for a while, he said: "The prisoners and the thieves are both my Ming henchmen. But thieves are easy to destroy, and it is difficult to get rid of captives; The official army was repeatedly defeated in the field battles with the Tatars in Liaodong, so it was foolish to only stick to the city defense and not to fight in vain. ”

After a pause, he accentuated his tone again and said slowly: "The day before yesterday, the scholar Sun Chengzong built the Guanning defense line, and he had to advance to Jinzhou to build the city, and the lower officials also felt that it was very inappropriate. That Jinzhou is lonely in Liaodong, no less than hundreds of miles away from Shanhaiguan, once it is surrounded, is it saved or not? If it is saved, it will inevitably have to fight with Jianyu, and there is no chance of victory; If you don't save it, you don't need to spend a knife or a shot, you just need to trap the soldiers of Jinzhou alive. ”

Zhu Youzhen heard that what he said was the truth, and he couldn't help but think of the Battle of Songshan in history.

At that time, the thief chieftain Taiji had established himself as the emperor, the founding name was the Qing Dynasty, the west was united with Mongolia, and the east was conquered by Korea, which was the time of high spirits. In the Ming Dynasty, there were fires everywhere and smoke in eight places, Zhang Xianzhong rushed into Sichuan, Li Zicheng made a big disturbance in the Central Plains, and the officials and troops were at a loss and tired of coping. Huang Taiji seized this favorable opportunity, poured the soldiers of the Eight Banners of Mongolia and Han, and besieged Jinzhou.

At this time, Sun Chengzong had already been killed, Yuan Chonghuan had been killed, Man Gui, Zhao Shujiao and others had all been killed, and only one Zu Dashou was left in Jinzhou to support the crisis. Of course, he didn't dare to go out of the city to face the battle, so he had to send someone to the court to complain to the court in the starry night.

In the case of internal erosion, the imperial court still gathered only more than 100,000 elite troops, led by Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao, and set out from Ningyuan to save Jinzhou.

Hong Chengchou can also be called a scheming and calculating, he knows that the Jurchen cavalry is far better than the Ming army, and if he divides the troops like his predecessor Yang Hao, it is tantamount to asking for his own death. Therefore, more than 100,000 troops were gathered together, step by step, and slowly advanced. After only advancing a few miles a day, he firmly set up camp to guard against a surprise attack by the Qing army; He tried to wait for the Qing army to run out of food and grass and chaos without a fight, and then launch a decisive attack.

It should be said that there is nothing wrong with his idea, but unfortunately the Ming Dynasty was already at this time?