Abatai has been stationed in Ningyuan for a long time, but he has always been in the process of worrying, especially after the Eight Banners Army was forced to withdraw from the Shanhaiguan Pass that had been occupied a year ago, Abatai's worries are increasing day by day.

Abatai fought with Zheng Jiajun several times, and was captured by Zheng Jiajun, Zheng Jiajun's courage has a deep impression in his mind, in all fairness, Zheng Jiajun should be the largest and most powerful opponent of the Eight Banners Army, the two armies are afraid that the Zheng Jiajun will win the battle in the end, and it is precisely for this reason that Abatai, who is stationed in Ningyuan, will always pay attention to the movements of the Zheng Jiajun.

More than a year has passed since the peaceful days, and Abatai has slowly felt a little relieved, and Huang Taiji has written letters several times, asking Abatai to manage Liaodong well and use Liaodong as a frontier position to resist the Zheng Jiajun and the Ming Dynasty, so Abatai's main energy is focused on how to control the entire Liaodong.

Speaking of the management of people's livelihood, Abatai is not a master, not to mention Abatai, even if the vast majority of the Manchu nobles, this aspect is not very good, after all, the Manchu people are proud of their bravery, and they do not pay special attention to scholars, but after Huang Taiji created the Great Qing Kingdom in recent years, scholars have gradually received attention.

The people's livelihood in Liaodong did not have the slightest creativity, and Abatai could only ask some Ming officials who were captured at the beginning to govern the affairs of the people's livelihood, and these Han people were not trustworthy and would not do their best to do things.

There are a lot of Han people in Liaodong, especially in Ningyuan, when the Eight Banners Army occupied Ningyuan very suddenly, most of the Han people did not have time to evacuate, and these Han people became the object of exploitation by Abatai and the Eight Banners Army.

News came from the direction of Shanhaiguan that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was Zheng Xunrui. The imperial expedition is about to begin, and the first place for the Zheng family army to attack is the Guanningjin defense line.

This news made Abatai a bird of terror.

The intelligence of Liaodong was almost blank, especially after the Zheng army occupied Shanhaiguan, Abatai could hardly get any information in the pass, and sent Han people into the pass to spy on the information. Abatai is not at ease, the Manchurians can't be sent out at all, people will know the identity by looking at the braid on your head, so Abatai, who is stationed in Ningyuan, is about the same as a deaf person.

Knowing that the Ming Emperor was about to drive a personal expedition and go to the Guanningjin defense line, it was purely accidental, and several businessmen who came and went to Jinzhou and Ningyuan to do business. When discussing in private, they were discovered by the sergeants of the Eight Banners Army, and after being arrested and interrogated, these businessmen confessed what they were discussing.

Abatai hurriedly sent personnel to the Shanhaiguan area to investigate the news, this time he did not expect that the sergeant of the Eight Banners Army who went to investigate the intelligence obtained the news very smoothly, and the Ruiyuan Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was indeed going to personally lead the Zheng family army. Launched an attack on Qiantun, Ningyuan and Jinzhou, and completely recovered the Guanningjin defense line.

After getting the accurate news. Abatai quickly wrote a paperwork to Huang Taiji.

While anxiously waiting for the Holy Decree of Huang Taiji, Abatai successively received some information, and some information said that the garrisons in Qiantun, Gaotaibao, Tashan and other places had found traces of the Ming army, and they were estimated to be the Zheng Army. At the same time, news came from Qiantun that the Zheng family army stationed in Shanhaiguan was very moving, and it seemed that it was ready to fight and fight.

Abatai did not pay attention to the news of the appearance of the Ming army in various places, but focused his main attention on Shanhaiguan, and the Ming Emperor drove the expedition in person. It shows that Zheng Jiajun really wants to recover the Guanningjin defense line this time, as for what Zheng Jiajun is going to do next after recovering Ningyuan and Jinzhou and other places, it should not be difficult to imagine.

According to Abatai's previous arrangement, if the Zheng family army began to launch a large-scale attack on Ningyuan and other places, in the case of difficulty in resisting, he would lead the army to withdraw quickly, after all, the foundation of the Eight Banners Army in these places is not particularly stable, and the Guanning Jin defense line from Qiantun to Jinzhou, there is almost no dangerous terrain, most of the places are a horse and a flat river, fighting in such a place, it is extremely beneficial to the Zheng family army with excellent firearms, and it is very unfavorable for the Eight Banners Army.

But now Abatai will never dare to withdraw his troops, even if he has suffered heavy losses from the Zheng family's army, because Shenyang's defense at the moment is extremely empty, and it can be said that it is the emptiest time in so many years.

100,000 Eight Banner Army has entered the grassland to fight, the purpose is to unify the entire grassland, eliminate the threat of the existence of the west of the Qing Dynasty, 150,000 Eight Banner Army stationed in Liaodong, and 50,000 Eight Banner Army stationed in southern Liaoning, and stationed in Shenyang and other places, the total number of less than 40,000, at this time, if Abatai leads the army to evacuate Ningyuan and Jinzhou and other places, then the Zheng family army that is pursuing behind can quickly attack Shenyang.

If such a situation had happened, Abatai's death would not have been able to undo his sins.

Abatai had to hold on, at least until the Eight Banners Army, which had attacked the grassland, returned to Shenyang and strengthened the defenses of Shenyang, at which time he could lead the army to withdraw from places such as Ningyuan and Jinzhou.

Stationed in Ningyuan with Abatai, there was also Geng Zhongming, the king of Huaishun.

Abatai usually ignores Geng Zhongming, but at this time and then, after all, Geng Zhongming used to be a general of the Ming Dynasty and was somewhat familiar with the combat methods of the Ming army, so after thinking about it again, he still found Geng Zhongming to discuss how to resist the Zheng family's army.

Enter the official residence of Abatai, which was once the governor's mansion of Jiliao.

Geng Zhongming's face didn't have much expression, he had also heard the news of the Ming Emperor's personal expedition, and knew that Abatai had sent a sergeant to verify, but in a few days, he came to discuss things on Abatai's order, and it seemed that the Zheng family army was preparing to really recover Ningyuan and Jinzhou and other places this time.

Although he had never fought face-to-face with Zheng Jiajun, the monk Kong Youde, who was crowned king by Huang Taiji at the same time as Geng Zhongming, was delighted, and both of them died at the hands of Zheng Jiajun, which also made Geng Zhongming know the courage and strength of Zheng Jiajun.

Entering the wing, Abatai was waiting in the wing.

After Geng Zhongming saluted, before he could sit down, Abatai spoke.

"General Geng, Ben Shuai has got the exact news, Emperor Daming is about to personally lead the Zheng family army to launch an attack on Liaodong, the garrisons in Qiantun, Gaotaibao and Tashan have found traces of the Zheng family army, this marshal invited you to come today, is to discuss how to deal with the matter."

Geng Zhongming did not answer immediately, but opened his mouth to ask rhetorically.

"I don't know how the marshal is going to respond."

Abatai looked at Geng Zhongming with some annoyance, if he had a good way to deal with it, he wouldn't need to find Geng Zhongming to discuss, but now the situation is urgent, and it is not the time to be angry.

"This marshal doesn't have any good way for the time being, the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, I don't know if General Geng has a good way."

Geng Zhongming groaned slightly, he knew that he had to speak.

"The opinion of the last general, it is best to find out the scale of Zheng Jiajun's troops, and how the attack on Liaodong will be launched, and according to the deployment of Zheng Jiajun, the marshal will make a decision."

Abatai slowly stood up, walked to Geng Zhongming's side, and spoke with a sharp gaze.

"General Geng doesn't want to take advantage of this time to take refuge in the Ming Dynasty again."

Geng Zhongming's body trembled, and his face turned pale and he spoke.

"The last general has no such meaning, the big marshal said this, which made the last general panic."

"No matter how frightened you are, what you want to hear is the truth, if General Geng blindly deals with Ben Shuai, then don't blame Ben Shuai for being polite."

Geng Zhongming thought about getting angry, even Huang Taiji didn't speak like this in front of him, but now in the face of Abatai, he didn't dare to lose his temper, people really had the ability to cut off his head.

"What the last general just said is the truth, if you don't know how the Zheng family army is deployed, the Eight Banners Army will definitely have some difficulties in coping, but according to the last general's prediction, since it is the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, then the Zheng family army must have launched an attack from Shanhaiguan and adopted a step-by-step approach."

Abatai nodded slightly, in fact, he thought the same way.

"Why does General Geng have such a judgment?"

"The last general believes that since it is the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the first thing is to ensure safety, and it is the safest to attack step by step, even if the attack is unfavorable, you can calmly withdraw to Shanhaiguan, so as not to suffer too much loss, the marshal is afraid that he does not know, there is such a precedent in the Ming Dynasty, when Emperor Yingzong drove the expedition in person, he was captured alive."

A smile appeared on Abatai's face, but it was worse than crying.

"General Geng's analysis is good, and Ben Shuai also sees it this way, since Zheng Jiajun is preparing to attack from the direction of Qiantun, how should Ben Shuai deal with it."

"The last general believes that strengthening the defense of the two cities of Ningyuan and Jinzhou, especially strengthening the defense of the city of Ningyuan, as for other places, it can be neglected for the time being, as long as the Eight Banners Army holds the two cities of Ningyuan and Jinzhou, and blocks the attack of the Zheng family army between these two cities, then the Zheng family army will not dare to make other moves."

"What if you can't hold it."

"The last general thinks that the marshal should report to the emperor, if the Zheng army is too brave, then the marshal can take the initiative to give up Ningyuan and Jinzhou and other places, withdraw to Guangning, deploy a good defense line, and prevent the Zheng army from marching in the direction of the Liao River, and at the same time, the marshal can suggest that the Eight Banners Army strengthen the defense of the Liao River, and order the Chahar tribe and the Horqin tribe to attack Beizhili and disperse the forces of the Zheng army, so that the two-pronged approach can defend against the attack of the Zheng army."

"General Geng's suggestion is very good, and this commander will immediately report to the emperor and write General Geng's suggestion truthfully."

When Geng Zhongming left the mansion, the expression on his face quickly became serious, in fact, there were some things he didn't say, since the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty drove the expedition in person, he would definitely take Jinzhou and Ningyuan and other places, and the best preparation for the Eight Banners Army was to evacuate, not to have a hard time with the Zheng Family's army, so as not to cause unnecessary losses.

However, Geng Zhongming will not say these words, and he will not listen to Abatai. (To be continued.) )