"The emperor asked us to withdraw our troops?" Fu Shan asked.

"Yes, General." The messenger's voice was full of exhaustion, and his robes, covered with dry mud, caught the pattern of a bird on the complement.

The emperor is either crazy or stupid, Liu Jun thought to himself. He took a sip of his wine glass, without saying a word, thinking about Chongzhen in his heart. When the wine entered his belly, a hot heat rose straight up, making him much warmer. Although he understands Chongzhen, even if he understands, he can't accept peace with the Qing people at this time.

The superintendents and generals gathered by Liu Jun quieted down one after another, listening to the angel's proclamation of the holy decree.

In the big tent, only the firewood in the brazier crackled, and the orange flames danced and swayed.

After a march and sweep, Liu Jun led the army to the city of Shenyang. Although it is still November, the area around Shenyang is already frozen for thousands of miles, and there is snow everywhere. This made the march very difficult, especially the transportation of artillery. Liu Jun had to ask the engineer battalion to make a lot of sleds, but fortunately, the Chu army had already replenished a lot of supplies for the winter in October, and the soldiers had thick cotton winter clothes, so that they would not suffer from cold and hunger.

But from Liaoyang to Shenyang, it was not just a 160-mile march. In order to ensure safety, when Liu Jun sent troops to stay in Liaoyang, he also had to send troops to sweep the castle villages and towns from Liaoyang to Shenyang all the way, try to send people and materials into Liaoyang, and send troops and horses to the castles along the road between Liaoyang and Shenyang to ensure the smooth flow between the two cities.

However, Kong Youde and other subordinates did not have the same good discipline as the Chu army, although Liu Jun reorganized these soldiers into a town, disrupted the original establishment, selected new officers, and sent many officers of the Chu army to the past, but this army, every night, there are always some people who become deserters. Fleeing into the night, and by the time of the afternoon march, many were exhausted and left behind, unable to keep up with the ranks.

Looking at these soldiers, Liu Jun had the impulse to escort them all to Taiwan. However, for the time being, there are few soldiers in Liaodong, and Liu Jun needs this army, at least he can do some auxiliary work, even if it is to help transport artillery and food.

Just today, Liu Jun finally arrived at the city of Shenyang with his soldiers and horses, and just erected a simple camp fence. Just as he was about to boil some hot water and take a pleasant bath, his scout came running with a group of people and reported that an envoy from the court had arrived.

The envoys of the imperial court went around in a big circle, because there was only one Ningyuan city left in Liaoxi, and the rest of the places were occupied by the Qing army, so the envoys of the imperial court first rushed to Shandong, and then took a boat from the port of Qingdao, which was not yet frozen, to North Korea, and then took a horse all the way to Zhenjiang by land, and then rode to Liaoyang from there. Arrived in Liaoyang. found that Liu Jun had gone to Shenyang, so he hurried again.

"How is this possible?" Zhang Shan asked puzzled, "How is this possible?" We have just killed the Tartar Emperor and captured the city of Liaoyang. Now that the soldiers are in Shenyang, they are going to plow the court and sweep the holes, and once they have solved the Tartars' lair, how could the emperor negotiate peace with the Tartars at this time. Want us to withdraw our troops? ”

The Emperor must now know that they have killed the Tartar Emperor and taken Liaoyang, but when these envoys came. The emperor must not have known this news yet.

The emperor was far away in Beijing, and he first received the news of the defeat in Liaoxi, but the news of the great victory of the Liaohe River and the capture of Liaoyang by the Chu army, the emperor must not have known so quickly. And even if the emperor knew about these news, he would not necessarily give the order to withdraw the army.

The emperor is not a general who commands the army, he is just a layman in battle, and even the group of ministers around him, there are few who really know how to fight. Chen Xinjia, the current secretary of the Ministry of War, was promoted by Xuanda and the governor of Shanxi, but he was able to fight, but the situation in the imperial court was that the secretary of the Ministry of War also had to listen to the cabinet, and the current six scholars in the cabinet, especially Zhou Yanru and Wu Fu, were not known soldiers.

Although Chongzhen said that he wanted to improve the status of the generals at the beginning of his succession, in fact, until now, the status of the generals is still low. Especially in the DPRK and China, the major military affairs, to put it bluntly, are ultimately decided by the auxiliary ministers of the cabinet.

Moreover, the defeat of Liaoxi is afraid that it has already made the emperor fearless.

Even Liu Jun could not have imagined that after the defeat of Ziyizhou in western Liaoning, the Ming army in Jinzhou, Songshan, and Xingshan would also be defeated so quickly and so miserably.

In the blink of an eye, only Ningyuan was left in Liaoxi.

It can be said that the Ming Dynasty has never been so miserable in western Liaoning, and the situation has never been so dangerous at the time of the apocalypse. It is indeed not unusual for the emperor to want to negotiate peace, but Liu Jun cannot agree.

Although the Ming Dynasty was defeated in Liaoxi, there was still a victory in Liaodong.

Especially now that the Tartar emperors are dead and Liaoyang is also lost, at this time it is even more necessary to concentrate troops and horses to counterattack. As long as the Ming army refuses to negotiate peace, not to mention an immediate counterattack, even if Wu Sangui leads his troops to stare at the Qing army in Liaoxi, harassing and delaying their return, it will make the Qing army miserable.

When it was time to negotiate peace, Chongzhen confidently mobilized elite soldiers from all towns in the world to enter Liao, spending countless money and food, but in the end he was defeated. At the moment when it was time to resist, Chongzhen wanted to negotiate peace.

"I would do the same." Fan Zhiwan said that when he heard about the defeat of Songjin, he resolutely opposed Shenyang in the north. Now when I heard the emperor's will to withdraw my troops, I felt even more relieved. "Commander, the city of Shenyang is as strong as Liaoyang. Moreover, there were a lot of soldiers and horses in the city of Shenyang, after Haoge fled back to Shenyang, he immediately began to assemble the Qing army, almost all the young and strong Jurchens near Shenyang were gathered in Shenyang, under sixty years old, over fourteen years old, everyone who could carry weapons was assembled, and even many sturdy Jurchen women were also gathered. ”

"In addition, the Jurchen Baoyi Aha and those Han military households have also been mobilized and assembled, and there are quite a few of them."

Although the Jurchens are only full of more than 300 cattle and one cow is 300 strong men, they are only full of banners. There are many people in a Manchurian household, and they all have many clothed minions. In normal times, there is only one armor for every three dings, and every time there is a battle, a Niu Lu is only twenty or thirty people to go out, and then bring some clothes and Han troops, and then call the Mongolian Eight Banners to fight.

Therefore, in the rear, in fact, the number of full people is still very large. In particular, even if the Manchu people are not wearing armor, the rest of the banner people are relatively strong and fierce, and even the women are many riding horses and shooting arrows. Now that they have hit their lair, these people really have to work hard, and they can't be underestimated.

Fan Zhiwan was most worried that the number of Chu troops was too small, originally in the three towns of Liaodong, the two towns of the army and one town of the water division. At the beginning of this expedition, only two divisions, six land associations and one detachment were transferred, adding up to less than 40,000 people, and the remaining half of the men and horses stayed in Zhenjiang and Lushun.

Relying on this little people, he broke Gaizhou and Haizhou, won the battle of the Liaohe River, captured Liaoyang, and now he has come to Shenyang. Although 20,000 people were selected to form a new town, after all, they were newly surrendered soldiers, and Fan Zhiwan never trusted them.

Moreover, Fan Zhiwan also looked down on these surrendered troops, feeling that they did not have half of the combat power of the Chu army, and they could be regarded as auxiliary armies at most.

Now Liaoyang still has 10,000 Chu troops left, and thousands more are stationed along the way, and the fleet with the water division has withdrawn, plus more than 3,000 losses in the Liao River, and now under the city of Shenyang, there are only less than 20,000 Chu troops and less than 20,000 new troops.

With such a little person, far away from the coast and alone, Fan Zhiwan has no confidence at all. Once the Jurchens returned from Liaoxi, how could they win the Qing army with tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands?

Especially now that the weather is cold and the earth is freezing, the rivers have become smooth roads, and the sailors of the Chu army have been forced to withdraw, while the iron cavalry of the Qing army can easily return from Liaoxi.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Qing army has begun to retreat." The intelligence officer of the General Staff said, "We have received information that it is said that Dolgon and the princes and beylors of the Tartars such as Daishan and Jilharang held a meeting in Jinzhou to elect a new emperor, and they elected the ninth son of Huang Taiji, who was three years old, to succeed him, and then they sent Zilharang and Duoduo to stay in Songjin and negotiate peace with our court, while Dolgon and Daishan led their troops back eastward. ”

"How many men did Dorgon and Daishan return with, and where did they go? How many people did Zilharang and Duoduo bring to stay in Songjin? Liu Jun asked.

"At least 30,000 people stayed in Songjin, and about 50,000 came back to help."

Fu Zonglong, the governor of Liaodong, still didn't speak, he stroked his beard and was thinking. Fu Zonglong will not speak casually, he prefers to listen to other people's opinions first, and listen more and say less is his style. And when Fu Zonglong began to brush his beard, it already showed that he was thinking carefully.

"50,000 Qing troops, that's a lot." Fu Shan Road.

Last time, they fought against 5,000 against 20,000, but as a result, they destroyed 5,000 enemies and lost more than 3,000 themselves. Now they have less than 40,000 men, and half of them are new recruits.

"Maybe we'll go back to Liaoyang first!" Li Chunjiang suggested to Liu Jun.

Liu Jun crossed his fingers and pressed his chin against his head.

"We should obey the order, immediately withdraw our troops, and negotiate peace with the Qing army." Fan Zhiwan shouted loudly again.

"Peace?" Liu Jun sat upright, picked up the wine glass again, drank it all, and then he slammed the wine glass on the table. "Peace? Fan Fuchen, do you really think that peace is negotiated? Why do you think the Qing army is proposing peace now? It's not been long since they last proposed, but when was that? It was the imperial court that relieved the siege of Jinzhou and surrounded Yizhou, and the Qing army sued for peace. And this time, it was we who captured Liaoyang and besieged Shenyang, and they sued for peace again. ”

"The so-called peace is just a delaying tactic, in order to cover people's eyes and ears and paralyze us. Last time, the Qing army sued for peace on the one hand, but on the other hand, it sent troops to two ways, aiding Yizhou and besieging Jinzhou, and the imperial court had a great defeat of Songjin. Now that the Qing army is asking for peace, do you think you can believe it? ”

Liu Jun continued slowly, "It is precisely because we broke the Gai, Liao, and besieged Shenyang this time that the Qing army will seek peace and retreat, otherwise, they will definitely have sent troops to Ningyuan at this time, and even killed at Shanhaiguan." Fan Futai, Taiping is not obtained by begging, but by fighting. (To be continued.) )

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