Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng have always been disliked by Zhu Youzhen, the great son of tomorrow, but they have always remembered their past merits, so they did not punish these two people. However, if you want to enable them, it is not a good idea in Zhu Youzhen's opinion.

Although Sun Chuanting has a lot of merits, he is arrogant and arrogant, and he will speak disrespectfully when he is slightly dissatisfied, and Lu Xiangsheng and his impression of Zhu Youzhen are too stupid, so the two candidates proposed by Zhang Sizhi were pressed back by him.

Zhu Youzhen is more inclined to choose one person from the cabinet ministers to go to Shanhaiguan to sit in the town, and now Yang Sichang, who has military experience in the cabinet, has already suppressed thieves in Henan, and the only one left who knows the soldiers is Liu Yuliang. Therefore, this time, he tried his best to dispel public opinion, and even without going through the court meeting of the small court, he directly ordered Liu Yuliang, a cabinet scholar, to go to Shanhaiguan with the title of secretary of the cabinet university to lead the military department, and command and coordinate the various ministries.

Liu Yuliang and Zhu Youzhen's holy decree naturally did not dare to shirk, but he proposed that Shanhaiguan had few soldiers and needed to send at least 30,000 people with him. Zhu Youzhen recognized it, and Changping recruited 20,000 recruits and handed them over to Liu Yuliang to command.

As a result, Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng missed this excellent opportunity to make a comeback. Liu Yuliang had the confidence to have a large army, and arrived at Shanhaiguan three days later. However, the situation in Shanhaiguan was far from what he imagined.

Liu Yuliang can remember that when Gaoyang was in crisis, the three floors outside the city were full of Qing troops, and the city walls were mottled and broken, and dead corpses were all over the ground. At present, the Shanhaiguan Pass is a little incomprehensible, and only occasionally can you hear the rumbling sound of cannon in the distance.

He asked Qiu Minyang and Zu Dashou, the governor of Shanyong who accompanied him, puzzled: "Didn't you say that Dongyu counterattacked in a big way, and Shanhaiguan was in danger?" ”

Qiu Min looked embarrassed on his back and explained: "There is a Hongbutang guard in front of Guangning, and it is not Shanhaiguan's turn for the time being!" ”

Liu Yuliang nodded in a sudden realization, and Zu Dashou next to him also followed, "Yes, thanks to the presence of Hong Butang, otherwise Shanhaiguan may have changed hands now!" ”

After listening to Zu Dashou's words, Liu Yuliang praised Hong Chengchou's role, not only praised his strategic vision, but also affirmed his bravery. However, soon some people jumped out to accuse Zu Dashou, saying that he was alarmist and would not be saved when he saw death.

Liu Yuliang's expression was puzzled again, and he turned his head to look at the person who dared to challenge the authority in Shanhaiguan. It turned out to be just a general, and he was still a face of life.

"At present, Hong Butang uses himself as a bait to attract the Tartar army to the front guard in Quang Ninh, which is a good opportunity for our army to take advantage of the situation to attack from both sides, so if you cower in the city and see death and do not save it, sooner or later you will miss this golden opportunity!"

Zu Dashou spoke sharply and stopped it, but Qiu Minyang, the governor of Shanyong, was silent, in fact, he hoped in his heart that this cabinet scholar, who was known as a soldier, would be able to defy public opinion and send troops to attack Hong Chengchou on both sides.

However, Qiu Minyang is in no hurry to make his position clear until he finds out the true intentions of the cabinet scholar. Although he is the governor of Shanyong, these two places are both critical places, there are governors and scholars above, and it is not his turn to be the governor at all, even if he has the heart, he is powerless, so he is not willing to do futile things in vain.

Who knew that Liu Yuliang called the general to his side with a smile and asked, and turned his head to look at Qiu Minyang, and asked with a smile: "How is it?" What does Qiu Butang think? Should Shanhaiguan not come out at the moment, or should it send troops to cooperate with Hongbutang? ”

Qiu Min was stunned for a moment, and immediately arched his hand: "The lower officials think that the situation in Shanhaiguan seems to be stable, but in fact, there is an undercurrent......

"So, is Qiu Butang in favor of sending troops to join forces inside and outside?"

"Back to the old saying, the lower officials also believe that the Guangning Qiantun guard is like a nail, nailed to the only way for Jiannu to attack Shanhaiguan, as long as the Guangning Qiantun guard is in the hands of Hongbutang for a day, Shanhaiguan will have a day of peace......"

Liu Yuliang laughed and said: "Qiu Butang said that the old man was confused, do you agree with sending troops or do you agree with sticking to it?" ”

Qiu Minyang didn't expect Liu Yuliang to chase and fight so hard, so he had to say truthfully: "Xiaguan is blunt, and please ask the elder to show me!" ”

Zu Dashou listened to the words of the two people, and suddenly interjected: "The Tartars retreated before it was clearly a plan to lure the enemy, and the current situation may be a plan of the Tartars, come to besiege the city to help, if the elder takes the opportunity to send troops in case of a plan, Shanhaiguan will be in danger!" ”

Liu Yu nodded, and seemed to agree with Zu Dashou's statement, "General Zu is right, but Hong Butang is dedicated to the country, and there are 50,000 elites in Shanhaiguan. ”

Liu Yuliang pretended to be embarrassed, and looked up at Qiu Minyang, Zu Dashou and others. Suddenly, the general who was in charge of Zu Dashou jumped out when he saw that he was dying, knelt on one knee and burst into tears, begging Liu Yuliang.

"Please ask the elder to mark a team of men, and mark that he is willing to fight to the death with the Tartars, and cooperate with the outside of the Hongbu Hall!"

Qiu Minyang suddenly found a strange light in Liu Yuliang's eyes, and his heart chuckled, could it be that Liu Ge Lao agreed to send troops in his heart? Sure enough, Liu Yuliang bent down and helped the general up with both hands.

"There are generals who are so loyal and brave, why are the Tartars worried, and the thieves are not worried? Hurry up......"

The general still refused to get up, but confirmed: "The elder has agreed to the request under the mark? ”

Liu Yuliang smiled and nodded: "Of course, the old man will not look left at Hong Butang and Tartar alone, but the situation outside the city is complicated, the enemy situation is unknown, the general can first lead 5,000 people to test the reality of the Tartars, wait to find out the enemy's situation, and then make careful arrangements to fight with the Tartars and rescue Hong Butang from fire and water!" ”

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Just when Shanhaiguan was still arguing over whether to send troops to rescue the Qiantun guards in Guangning, Hong Chengchou was almost in a desperate situation, and 20,000 troops took turns to defend the city, and most of them were killed and injured in less than seven days, which shows the fierceness of the Qing army's siege of the city.

Dolgon is obviously determined to conquer the Qiantun Acropolis of Guangning in the shortest possible time, of course, the most attractive thing for him is the flag of Hong Chengchou who has been floating on the enemy tower on the city wall, as long as the city is broken, Hong Chengchou will be extremely fatal to the Ming Court regardless of life or death.

The reason why Dolgon was in a hurry to break the city Hong Chengchou knew very well that as a powerful minister of the Ming Dynasty, he held a lot of power, what it would mean once he fell into the hands of the Tartars, and how big the blow would be to the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, he could not tolerate the possibility of defeat, but his determination to swear to live and die with the city had been polished bit by bit by the Qing army's large-scale attack.

The worried Hong Chengchou had not closed his eyes for seven days and seven nights, and his subordinates persuaded him to rest in a private house under the city wall, but the shouts of killing outside the city were once again loud, and he understood that the Qing army had launched a new wave of attacks.

Unlike Hong Chengchou's worried state of mind, among the Qing army separated by a wall, the actual commander of this counterattack, Dorobelle Dolgon, sat calmly in the military tent and drank the tea brought by Goshha, while Duoduo next to him was a little impatient.

In the military tent, Prince Li sat on the throne, he was impatient with the small city of Quang Ninh Qiantun for seven days, according to his expectation that the city would be broken in about three days, but who knew that it had been delayed until now.

"Second brother don't worry, originally the small city of Guangning Qiantunwei couldn't last three days in front of my Daqing Iron Cavalry, but there was one thing unexpected, that is, Hong Chengchou, the governor of the four sides, actually stayed in the city, which greatly strengthened their will to fight."

"Does the fourteenth brother have a way to deal with it?"

Dai Shan asked with concern.

"The Han people have a good saying, the blessing of misfortune depends on, Hong Chengchou stayed in the Qiantun Acropolis of Guangning, although it strengthened the will of the Ming army to fight, but it is a rare big fish, if he can be captured alive, the blow to the Ming Court in this battle will be far more than expected!"

Duoduo slammed his palms, "Brother Fourteen didn't say it earlier, Duoduo will personally raise troops to attack the city, and he must capture the surnamed Hong alive!" ”

Dolgon and Daizen laughed when they heard this, pointing out that Dordo was in a hurry.

"The little Guangning Qiantun guard has not yet needed the fifteenth brother to go out in person, and it is not too late to go out when the Shanhaiguan is hit......"

Dolgon's three fingers shook in front of the two of them.

"Three days, three more days, the former guard of Guangning will inevitably be trampled by my Daqing Iron Cavalry!"

Suddenly, Goshha crept into the military tent and came to Dolgon's side and whispered a few words, but when he saw Dolgon's face surprised, he got up and said to Daishan: "People from the house, come when you go!" ”

Dai Shan waved him to go, and when Duoduo heard that it was from Shengjing, he also followed Dolgon out of the military tent.

The smile on Dorgon's face disappeared after he left the tent, and Dordor noticed the change in him and asked worriedly, "What's the matter, something happened at home?" ”

Dolgon shook his head and whispered to Dordor, "It's Li Xin, he sent someone to negotiate with Brother Wei!" ”

"Negotiations?"

Dodor was surprised by this answer, and his voice unconsciously raised.

Dorgon glared at him, motioning for him to be quiet.

"It's really strange, what do we have to talk about with that Li Xin?"

Duoduo's question is also Dolgon's question, what kind of medicine is sold in this Li Xin's gourd, can only be known by seeing this secret envoy.

In the white flag tent, a thin man in a green robe stood with his hands in his hands, and waited for Dolgon and Duoduo to come together and salute deeply: "In Xia Miyan, wait for more than two people!" ”

Duoduo was the first to ask, "Tell me, what is your intention in coming here?" Be careful, if it doesn't suit your wishes, be careful that your head is not guaranteed! ”

In the face of Duoduo's intimidation, Mi Yan laughed instead, and Shi Shiran said: "This is nothing else, it is to show the two highnesses a clear way, are the two highnesses completely unaware of the danger that is already in front of them?" ”

Dorgon's breath gasped.