The situation in western Liaoning suddenly became tense, and the Eight Banners of Khan under the command of Huang Taiji finally launched an attack on Jinzhou City on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Everyone knows that the ability of the Houjin Tartars to attack the city is very weak, but no one thought that this time it was the Khan Eight Banners that attacked Jinzhou City, and the soldiers of the Khan Eight Banners were composed of Han Chinese, and many of them were the Ming army of Jin after surrendering, these soldiers have undergone rigorous training, and their combat effectiveness has been greatly improved, and they have the most feared weapon for the soldiers guarding the city, that is, artillery.

The Han army under Kong Youde was basically incorporated into the Eight Banners of Khan, and these sergeants used to train in Dengzhou and Laizhou, and one of the focuses of their training was the operation of firearms, and their familiarity with firearms even exceeded that of the sergeants guarding the city.

This made the defenders of Jinzhou and Ningyuan feel tremendous pressure.

After Huang Taiji led the army to Liaoxi, he did not rush to attack, but held on with the Ming army for a while, and waited until the reinforced Ming army entered Jinzhou and Ningyuan in large numbers before launching an operation, leading the army to take the periphery of Jinzhou and Ningyuan in one fell swoop, so that Jinzhou and Ningyuan and some of the military forts became isolated cities or isolated forts.

During this period, Huang Taiji led the Eight Banners Army to take a lot of military forts, which did not attract much attention.

It wasn't until Huang Taiji officially prepared to launch a large-scale attack on Jinzhou City, that Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao, discovered Huang Taiji's plan, this time the attack of the Houjin Tartars was not only to prepare to take Jinzhou and Ningyuan in western Liao, but also to eliminate a large number of imperial armies, so that the imperial court could not gain a foothold in western Liaoxi from now on, and could only defend the Shanhaiguan.

Once the Shanhaiguan Pass is lost, then the capital of the Ming Dynasty will face a catastrophe.

After understanding Huang Taiji's intentions, Hong Chengchou was highly nervous, but it was a pity that the army he led was stationed in Ningyuan City. There are still more than a hundred miles away from Jinzhou, and there is no reinforcement in a short time, of course, Hong Chengchou also knows that once the Houjin Tartars start to attack Jinzhou with all their might, it will be impossible to firmly control many places outside Jinzhou and Ningyuan City.

The city of Jinzhou. With its own glory, when Huang Taiji led the army to storm Jinzhou, in the end was not able to take, helpless to lead the army to evacuate, now stationed in Jinzhou is Shanhaiguan chief soldier Zu Dashou, has a wealth of combat experience, as long as firmly defended, it is said that there are not many problems.

But Hong Chengchou has a pimple in his heart, that is, Zu Zerun, the banner owner of the Yellow Banner in the Eight Banners of Khan, is the son of Zu Dashou. Although Zu Dashou swore that there was no son Zu Zerun, but the father and son were connected, who knew if Zu Dashou would take into account his son Zu Zerun when the Eight Banners of Khan attacked Jinzhou City.

Hong Chengchou asked Zu Dashou to garrison Jinzhou City, which was also a helpless move, and the officers under his command, both in terms of ability and courage. None of them can be compared with Zu Dashou, and they are generally gold-phobic.

Just after the news came that the Eight Banners Army had begun to attack Jinzhou City. Hong Chengchou made a decision, at a critical time, he led the army to aid Jinzhou City, and the Houjin Tartar is a human being, not a god, and he is always tired of dealing with the front and back attacks. Of course, the army needs to seize the best opportunity to attack, otherwise the scene of the Battle of Daling River is likely to be repeated.

Hong Chengchou quickly wrote a memo to the imperial court, and after the report, the Jin Tartars began to attack the city of Jinzhou with all their might, and at the same time reported the situation of his own troops to the imperial court, hoping to get greater support from the emperor and the imperial court.

A rogue led by Li Zicheng. Soon took all the territory of Zezhou, stationed in Zezhou Ningshan Wei sergeant, forced to completely evacuate, almost fleeing in the direction of Luzhou to evacuate, it was the time of the first month, I thought that Li Zicheng would die down, at least wait until the first month before launching an attack, who knew that Li Zicheng did not rest at all, ordered Liu Zongmin to lead the army to continue to kill in the direction of Luzhou, Luzhou Wei sergeant and stationed in Luzhou Shenyang in the guard sergeant, forced to start to meet the Liukou.

The army that united to deal with the Liukou was Luzhou Wei, Shenyang Zhongwei and Ningshan Wei, and the total number of the three-way army exceeded 20,000 people, but it was a pity that the battle was really not good, even if it was stationed in the city, there was not much fighting spirit.

The governor of Luzhou and Shanxi knew that with their own strength, it was difficult to truly resist the invasion of the Liukou, so they wrote a memora to the imperial court, begging the imperial court to send the border army of Datong to help, not to mention defeating the Liukou, at least to protect Taiyuan Mansion, you must know that once the Liukou took Luzhou, they could follow the direction of Taigu and drive straight into the attack on Taiyuan Fucheng.

did not say that they doubted the combat effectiveness of the Liukou, since they were able to take Kaifeng Mansion City, they could also take Taiyuan Mansion City.

Zhang Xianzhong, stationed in Yunyang, also began to be restless at this moment, he personally led the army, marched towards Sichuan, and launched a fierce battle with the white pole soldiers in Kuizhou, although Ma Xianglin is very brave, the combat effectiveness of the white pole soldiers is also very strong, but unfortunately in terms of numbers, they are far from being able to compare with the Liukou, they tried their best to fight, and they could not stop the pace of the Liukou's advance, until the time of the Liukou Chen Bing Kuizhou Prefecture, Qin Liangyu and Ma Xianglin were forced to write to the imperial court, and begged for help.

Xiong Wencan, the governor of the five provinces, and Wang Yongji, the supervisor of the army, led more than 100,000 troops, were supposed to completely exterminate Zhang Xianzhong, but Xiong Wencan found that the morale of the army was unusually low, and he had no intention of fighting face-to-face with the rogues, and even the supervisor Wang Yongji did not have the slightest confidence in completely exterminating Zhang Xianzhong and his subordinates, which made Xiong Wencan dare not act rashly. Therefore, before the army is fully prepared, Xiong Wencan does not plan to send troops.

After the news of the crisis in Sichuan reached Xiangyang Fucheng, Xiong Wencan found out that the situation was serious, the mountains around Kuizhou were sparsely populated, and once the Liukou entered Sichuan, the task of encirclement and suppression by the imperial army became extremely difficult.

Xiong Wen said that he had finally made a decision, and the army went to Kuizhou to exterminate the Liukou.

However, Xiong Wencan's order was not implemented quickly, including Wang Yongji, including the officers, put forward the problems of grain and grass, after all, Huguang supported more than 100,000 troops of grain and grass, it was too difficult, a few months passed, the silver taels allocated by the imperial court, like water, have entered the winter, and the grain transported by Cao cannot be transported, and it must wait until the beginning of spring to continue to transport.

The soldiers and horses did not move the grain and grass first, and it was useless for Xiong Wencan to lose his temper.

At this time, Xiong Wen said that he had received an edict from the Ministry of War, asking him to send 50,000 troops to aid Liaoxi.

This made Xiong Wencan like a deflated ball, leading an army of more than 100,000 people, and he did not dare to guarantee that he could completely exterminate Zhang Xianzhong and his subordinates, and draw nearly half of the troops to Liaoxi, and the remaining sergeants were afraid that they would not dare to go deep into Kuizhou to conquer.

The edict of the Ministry of War, in fact, is the emperor's meaning, Xiong Wencan did not dare to disobey, he could only grit his teeth and transfer the sergeants, but in this way, Xiong Wencan did not have the idea of entering Sichuan to conquer, what he thought of was to consolidate Xiangyang and Wuchang in Huguang, as for Zhang Xianzhong who entered Sichuan, the focus was on Qin Liangyu, the general soldier of Sichuan.

Beijing, Forbidden City, Wenyuan Pavilion.

However, in a few days, Chen Xinjia's hair turned a lot whiter, his age was not very old, and he had not yet reached the age of white, but after receiving the Jiliao Governor Hong Chengchou, the Governor of the Five Provinces Xiong Wencan, and the Governor of Shanxi, Huguang Governor Fang Kongzhi, Henan Governor Zhang Pu and Luzhou Zhizhou, etc., Chen Xinjia, who was pretending to be calm, couldn't hold back, not long ago he thought that he could temporarily stabilize Houjin Tartar or Liukou, so that the main energy of the military department could be concentrated in one place, I didn't expect that the first month had not passed, and there were big problems in three places at the same time.

After reporting to the emperor, Chen Xinjia gritted his teeth and sent an edict to Xiong Wencan, asking him to send 50,000 soldiers to help Liaoxi.

The issuance of this edict means that the imperial court is completely in a passive situation in the battle to exterminate the Liukou, to put it bluntly, it is hoped that the Liukou can move more slowly, and do not directly attack Taiyuan in Shanxi and Xiangyang Mansion and Wuchang Mansion in Huguang, and the rest of the places will not be taken care of so much for the time being.

The house leak happened to rain overnight, and Chen Xinjia had no way to deal with such a desperate situation.

Qian Shisheng, the first assistant of the cabinet who has been looking at Chen Xinjia coldly, seized the opportunity at this moment, he suggested to the emperor that at this critical moment, Chen Xinjia, the second assistant of the cabinet and the secretary of the military department, should coordinate and command, and the current focus of the imperial court is in Liaoxi, Chen Xinjia can go to Liaoxi to supervise the war on behalf of the emperor and the imperial court, and strive to defeat the Houjin Tartars as quickly as possible.

Qian Shisheng is right, but the so-called standing and talking does not hurt his back, no one can guarantee the victory of the battle in western Liaoning, if a situation of stalemate is formed with the Houjin Tartars, then there will be a major danger in Henan, Shanxi, Huguang, Sichuan and other places, if the Liukou start to attack Shanxi Taiyuan, Huguang Xiangyang, Wuchang and Sichuan Chengdu and other places, the Central Plains will completely fall into chaos.

If the decisive battle in Liaoxi fails, the consequences will be even more unimaginable.

Without much thought, the emperor agreed to Qian Shisheng's suggestion and decided to send Chen Xinjia to Liaoxi to coordinate and command the decisive battle in Liaoxi with full authority.

Chen Xinjia had no choice but to go to Liaoxi, he planned to be stationed in Shanhaiguan, as for whether to go to Ningyuan to see, that was the next step.

However, before leaving the capital, Chen Xinjia must face the saint, he has something to say, Daming can be regarded as an embattled situation, at this moment must distinguish the priority, focus the main energy on a certain place, and temporarily ignore other places.

Chen Xinjia was very worried, he was already sitting on the top of the crater. (To be continued......)