Liaoxi, Quang Ninh.

Approaching the end of the year, Zu Dashou, the chief soldier of Jinzhou, suddenly received an order from the imperial court to promote him to the commander of the army department and transfer him out of Jinzhou. It took Zu Dashou a while to finally figure out what the official position of army commander was.

"What kind of bullshit is this Army Commander?"

Zu Dashou jumped like thunder.

"This is a bright rise and a secret fall, depriving the military of rights." The army commander sounds like he is very lofty, except for the navy, all the land troops are under his control, which is more than the previous five army governors. But if you look closely, after the Privy Council, the military department is only in charge of military affairs, and the so-called military politics is in charge of logistics and equipment.

The commander of the army sits in the yamen of the military department of the Beijing Division, and is in charge of the roster of officers and soldiers under the name of the army, and the promotion and promotion. As for the dispatch of troops and command decisions, they have nothing to do with them, and those belong to the Privy Council.

What annoyed him the most was that Liaodong and Liaoxi were merged into the Guanwai Military Region, and his Jinzhou Town was directly withdrawn and annexed.

Wu Sangui, who was sitting opposite him, listened to his uncle's roar, and his heart was not happy. He sat there, glass after glass of wine.

Liu Jiye is aggressive and doesn't give him a way to live.

Fu Zonglong was transferred to the Central Committee of the Privy Council as the commander of the Chinese army, and Fu Shan, the governor of Liaodong, entered the court as the chief of the general staff of the Privy Council. He, the former governor of Liaoxi, has become a general soldier again.

There was another appointment that was also important to Wu Sangui, and his father, Wu Xiang, was appointed as the head of the General Logistics Department of the Ministry of War.

However, this chief logistics director can't do him any good. It turned out that in the two towns of Guangning and Jinzhou, there were still 60,000 soldiers and horses of 100,000 soldiers and horses, and even if Liu Jun only gave half of the food and salary, he could barely support 100,000 soldiers and horses.

But now, with the dismantling of Jinzhou Town, there are only 30,000 soldiers of 100,000 soldiers and horses. Even if the imperial court doesn't care about their excess, so much. But if he doesn't pay for food, he won't be able to raise so many soldiers.

Not to mention, half of the defense area of the original Jinzhou Town has to be allocated to Qin Liangyu.

"Lao Tzu won't enter Beijing, what can he Liu Jun do?" Zu Dashou shouted angrily. After fighting all his life and leading soldiers all his life, he didn't expect that in the end, he would become a bare-pole general.

Zu Dashou extremely refused this order in his heart, he was very scared in his heart, afraid that he would be questioned after entering Beijing. In the early years of Chongzhen. He was one of the four generals under Yuan Chonghuan, Yuan Chonghuan was taken down and questioned, and he led his troops to break through Shanhaiguan and run back to Liaoxi in the starry night. Later, Chongzhen made a special decree, saying that he would not be blamed for Yuan Chonghuan's questioning, so he reluctantly led his troops back to the division.

But since then, for so many years, he has never left the barracks, for fear that the Jinyi guards will arrest him if he is alone. Moreover, all these years. Many members of the Zu family have been demoted to the Qing Dynasty, and several of his brothers, and even his sons, have held high-ranking positions in the Qing army.

Once you don't have this soldier in your hand. When he went to Jingshi, he was very worried that Liu Jiye would ask him about his crimes.

The soldier is his talisman, and without the soldier, there is no sense of security.

"This is an order from the imperial court." Wu Sangui said. "Uncle, I know your worries, but I believe that after you enter Beijing. Liu Jiye didn't dare to do anything. ”

Zu Dashou sneered, "Don't you dare to take me?" Don't forget how Inspector Yuan was killed back then. What would Liu Jiye not dare? Even if you don't kill it, you can be raised like a dog in Jingshi, so what's the point? And how can you guarantee that next time Liu Jiye will not issue an edict in the name of the imperial court, and transfer you to Beijing to serve as the commander of the Marine Corps or something? ”

"Liu Jiye has already withdrawn from Jinzhou Town, and he has also taken away your position as the governor of Liaoxi, you say, what else does he dare not do. We must not sit idly by like this. ”

"Liu Jiye has already choked our throats, and any of our resistance will lead him to choke our throats." Wu Sangui said helplessly. Step by step to this point, he is also very painful in his heart, but if he wants to resist, he must have that ability.

When he commanded an army of 100,000 to defeat the Qing army in western Liaoning, but Liu Jiye only relied on tens of thousands of people to behead Huang Taiji, break Liaoyang, besiege Shenyang, and even when Dolgon and others led 50,000 elite Qing troops to help, he was helpless, and finally forced to sign an alliance with Liu Jiye under the city.

The Ming and Qing dynasties negotiated peace, and the Qing army was actually completely defeated.

Wu Sangui didn't have the slightest confidence to fight Liu Jiye at all.

"Hey, hey!"

Zu Dashou laughed a few times at this time, "Uncle, we don't need to raise the flag to rebel to make Liu Jiye's plan fall through. ”

"What are your uncle's plans?"

"Actually, it's very simple, you said that if we suddenly fight with the Qing army at this time, can Liu Jiye still dismiss Jinzhou Town?"

Will the Qing army come to invade the border now? Wu Sangui shook his head, never. The losses of the Qing army last year were even heavier than those of the Ming Dynasty. Although the invasion in the eleventh year, the Ming Dynasty broke dozens of cities, and the people lost hundreds of thousands. But Daming has a population of hundreds of millions, and Daming can withstand that loss.

But in the more than a year that Liu Jun invaded Liaodong, he also broke dozens of fortresses of the Qing army, and even captured tens of millions of gold and silver, and millions of people. But how many people did the Manchus have? All together, including the family and the clothed minions, will not exceed five million people. The captivity of millions of people is already a great injury to its vitality and bones.

In addition, Huang Taiji was beheaded, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty elected a three-year-old little emperor and the fourth prince to assist the government, and there were many internal contradictions, and it was difficult to send troops in a short period of time.

Like Da Ming, they all desperately need to recuperate.

Wu Sangui suddenly saw a sneer on his uncle's face, and suddenly realized in his heart.

If the Qing army doesn't come to attack, then let him do it. If he just doesn't come, that's okay, it's not easy to find a reason.

"You see what I mean?" Zu Dashou looked at his nephew's sudden realization and smiled.

Wu Sangui nodded, but he was still a little worried, "What if we provoke a fire and really attract the Qing army, but Liu Jiye is watching the fire from the other side, and if he sees death, he will not save him, so what if he borrows a knife to kill someone?" ”

Zu Dashou's smile froze.

This is indeed a problem, but he bets that Liu Jun will not do this, and he does not dare to take it so seriously. "If the Qing army really violates the border, Liu Jiye will not dare to see death and not save it."

Zhenyuan Fort, east of Guangning, the fortress closest to the border of the Eastern Qing army after the Ming and Qing armies negotiated and the dividing line.

Stationed in the fort were 200 bannermen with blue flags, under the command of Prince Zheng Zierharang. The commander of these 200 banner soldiers is a Niu Lu Zhangjing, since the peace was negotiated, the two sides have been peaceful, and more than half a year has passed in the blink of an eye.

In the middle of the night, Niu Lu Zhangjing and An were suddenly woken up by their subordinates from the warm bed.

"Master, it's not good, the southern barbarians have killed me."

He An kneaded his worried eyes, and he didn't wake up a little, "What did you say?" ”

"Master, wake up, the Southern Barbarians have come and surrounded us, at least tens of thousands of people."

He An woke up suddenly, and hurriedly asked his subordinates to help him put on his armor, and when he put on the armor and climbed on the castle, he found that the entire Zhenyuan Fort was surrounded by firelight, and the surrounding area of Zhenyuan Fort was as bright as day.

A sea of torches, there are really tens of thousands.

"Is the Nanban going to invade? But haven't we already made peace? "More than half a year of peace and quiet, so that He'an is a little confused.

At this time, in the light of the fire under the city, he rode to the gate of the fort and shouted, "Listen to the Tartars in the city, and immediately hand over my brothers in Panshan Fort, otherwise, you will be slaughtered in the whole fort, and no chickens and dogs will be left." ”

He An couldn't speak Chinese, and he couldn't understand Chinese, so he found a subordinate who could speak Chinese, "What is the Southern Barbarian talking about?" ”

"That man seems to have said something to tell us to hand over their people from Panshan Fort, otherwise they will break through Zhenyuan Fort and kill us all."

And Ann was confused.

Panshan Fort he knew that not far from them was a military fort close to the border line in Guangning Town of the Ming Army, and they could often watch the people on the opposite side of the border through the small river on the border. Because Zhenyuan Fort had already received a strict order from above not to provoke and cause disputes, there was well water on both sides on weekdays and not river water.

"Which of you dogs is cheap, and you caught the Southern Barbarian? Want to die? "And An's scolding." Quick, check it immediately and see which one is cheap. ”

He'an's order was passed down, and the small town of Yuanbao soon received the order.

But half a day later, one officer after another reported that no one had captured the southern barbarians and came back.

"Are you sure?" And Ann asked.

"It's really not, I've asked them all, and if I really want to be arrested, no one dares to hide it."

Hearing this report, He An breathed a sigh of relief.

At that moment, he hurriedly asked his subordinates to shout to the city, saying that it was just a misunderstanding, and their people did not arrest the people of Panshan Fort.

"Maybe it's just that their people have fled, let them look elsewhere, we don't have anyone to arrest them."

His men shouted loudly to the city.

But after a while, the Ming army under the city did not evacuate, but blew the horn. The whining horn was so cold in the cold wind of the cold night.

At the sound of this horn, the Ming army shouted and launched an attack on Zhenyuan Fort.

There was a loud bang, a red light flashed in the distance, and an iron ball roared and smashed over, and He'an's brain was dazed, and before he could react, he was directly hit, and blood splashed.

"Capture Zhenyuan Fort, kill all the Tartars, avenge the more than 100 brothers who were killed in Panshan Fort, rescue those brothers who were taken captive, kill!"

Under the city, Wu Sangui rode a tall horse, waved a long knife, and shouted again and again.

Groups of Ming troops poured into Zhenyuan Fort, and the small castle guarded by two hundred people was soon submerged in it.

On this night, the horn of war sounded again in the land of western Liaoning, and this night was the last night of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen.

After dawn, Zhenyuan Fort was breached, and more than 200 Qing troops in the fort were slaughtered. Wu Sangui's personal soldiers did not find the dozen or so missing soldiers in Panshan Fort in the castle.

But Wu Sangui still insisted that it was the Qing army in Zhenyuan Fort who attacked and abducted the patrol soldiers of Panshan Fort.

"The Tartars tore up the peace talks, attacked my Panshan Town patrol, and brutally killed my Guangning sergeant, we fought with them!"

The first rays of sunshine in the east shone on the land of western Liaoning, and the first year of Longwu officially began. On the morning of this day, after the Guangning army broke through the Qing army's Zhenyuan Fort and slaughtered more than 200 Qing troops in the fort, it launched a formal attack on the Qing army under the slogan of avenging the soldiers of Panshan Fort. (To be continued.) )