Daming Mountain and Sea Guard Guancheng, Hong Chengchou's face was gloomy and could drip water, this time he came with absolute strength with the emperor's letter, and entered the Taibao and the prince and the prince and the division of the military department and the title of the right capital of the Imperial Palace, the governor Xuanda Jiliao quadrilateral military affairs, the high weight makes his officialdom career closer to a higher level, and more importantly, he has the conditions to show his ambitions. If Guan Ningjin's crisis can be satisfactorily resolved, then his entry into the cabinet will be inevitable, and there will only be one step away from the peak of the cabinet's first assistant ministers.

However, after Hong Chengchou came to Shanhaiguan, he realized the severity of the shape he was facing. He didn't understand what Yang Sichang had done in Liaoxi, and he had tossed the iron bucket-like Guanningjin defense line left by Sun Chengzong into the ghost in front of him. What's even more ironic is that it was precisely because Sun Chengzong dragged his sick body to fight the cabinet ministers in the Wenhua Hall that he coincidentally saved this cabinet scholar who was about to be beaten into a desperate situation.

The emperor transferred him out of the abyss of bitterness caused by himself with an edict, and returned to Henan to clean up the mess made by Xiong Wencan. After all, the imperial court was overstretched at present, and the emperor thought that he was effective in suppressing the thieves, so he transferred him back to the Central Plains provinces where the thieves were rampant, in order to suppress the thieves who were rampant again by virtue of the great drought and famine.

As a result, under this wrestling, Hong Chengchou actually became the biggest winner and the biggest gainer by mistake. On the contrary, it was Sun Chengzong's old ministry that got a tricky task that couldn't be more tricky. However, in the face of the predicament in front of him, he faintly hoped in his heart that that person could complete this mission, and he could just hold the last barrier of this Beijing division, Shanhaiguan, with a single soldier.

After all, Hong Chengchou is not a straw bag, it is impossible to pin all his hopes on others, after he arrived in Shanhaiwei, the first thing he did was to issue the arrears of more than a month's salary, not only reissued but also more, this account was naturally filled by the Jingshi household department behind him, and at this moment of life and death, he believed that even if he was as stingy as Li Waiter, he had to meet his request for a qiē on the silver coin.

Military salaries have had a certain effect on the stimulation of morale, and the hearts of the people who were originally panicked have gradually stabilized. At the same time, he transferred his own Shaanxi soldiers from Xuanfu, and at the same time promoted You Shilu, who had worked with him, as the general soldier of Shanhaiguan, and integrated the remnants of the Guanning Army to the general army of Shanhaiguan, so that the pessimistic atmosphere in the city was swept away, and many people looked at the new general soldier differently, and even circulated some arguments in private, if the emperor sent this Hongbutang early in the morning, instead of the straw-like Yang Sichang, Ning Jin would not collapse.

After several days of deployment, the morale of the Shanhaiguan army was gradually stabilized, and Hong Chengchou also further understood the depth of Yang Sichang's damage to the Guanningjin defense line. I have to say that Yang Sichang's means of gathering power and grasping power are extremely spicy and sophisticated, but this is not a court officialdom in the army, and the general military governor who dares to resist his military orders has been seized and killed by him, so he has great power in a short period of time, and the order is prohibited. But he ignored one point, these people are an important part of the Guanningjin defense line, and killing these civilian generals not only severely hit the morale of the army in front of the enemy, but Yang Sichang had no suitable replacement in his pocket, and directly led the great rout of the Jiannu army when it suddenly arrived.

You Shilu, the newly promoted chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, was originally not very impressed with this Hong Butang when he was in Xuanda, but after a series of purge measures through Guò, he also began to look at him with admiration. What he admired even more was that Hong Chengchou had already started the idea of outside Shanhaiguan after basically stabilizing the precarious shape inside Shanhaiguan.

The Jiannu army was not under the Shanhai Pass, but was stationed in front of Guangning, which was dozens of miles away from the Shanhai Pass, which gave Hong Chengchou room to maneuver. There were originally more than a dozen forts on this distance, but unfortunately they were all burned down in a hurry when retreating, and one of Hong Chengchou's plans was to rebuild these previously burned forts, and extend the defensive line to the north of Shanhaiguan step by step, in order to get Shanhaiguan out of the dangerous situation of facing the enemy.

After the group of defeated troops in Shanhaiguan was regrouped, their combat missions were also adjusted, and they became the main force for repairing the fortress. The first target is the nearest Balipu to them.

There were only a few ranger scouts in this area, and Hong Chengchou ordered You Shilu to send troops to kill and disperse all these people with lightning speed, and even achieved a rare small victory since the start of the war.

The Jiannu army obviously did not expect that the Ming army, which had been routed all the way to the end and was cowering in the city, dared to send troops to attack, and immediately organized several nearby rangers to counterattack, but under the attack of You Shilu's absolutely superior forces, they finally had no choice but to retreat.

Hong Chengchou personally visited the construction site of the Balipu to repair the fortress to boost the morale of the soldiers, and this trick really worked, and the morale of the soldiers who had been defeated by the fiasco began to gradually recover. You Shilu also seemed to see the hope of restoring the Ningjin defense line in Liaoxi, but the hidden worries in his heart were like a sharp sword hanging above his head, and he didn't know when it would swing down.

"Hongbu Tang is graceful, the Tartars have a small defeat in the first battle, I am afraid that it will set off a fierce revenge......"

The voice was very low, and only he and Hong Chengchou could hear it really, which also prevented the soldiers from listening to it and affecting the morale of the army.

"Within three days, the Tartars will definitely not rush into attack!"

Hong Chengchou only coldly dropped a sentence, and then took the governor's own soldiers to inspect his next target.

You Shilu didn't know how Hong Chengchou judged that Jiannu would not report back in three days, but Balipu Fort was built within three days under this circumstance, and the Tartars did not send a large army to attack except for a small group of harassment. He couldn't help but admire this Hong Butang even more, and he was even happier in executing military orders.

The next goal of the Ming army was to repair the Iron Factory Fort, which echoed Balipu from a distance away, but the Tartars did not give them more time.

Guangning Qiantun guard, the Manchu Emperor Taiji camp army dispatched, the leader of the army will be Yu Prince Duoduo, he does not care about this sortie, and even has a feeling of killing chickens with a knife, the labor division is just to defeat the Ming army outside the Shanhaiguan to rebuild the fortress, in his opinion directly attack Shanhaiguan is almost the same.

Duoduo was a straight man, everything was hidden in his stomach, and all his dissatisfaction turned into scolding in his mouth.

"The fifteenth brother said cautiously, the Great Khan is not lightly attacking Shanhaiguan because the Hongyi cannon has not yet been in place, and once it is in place, what awaits the Ming army will be an endless and painful hell."

"Wait, wait, when the Ming army is ready, how many more people will die in my Qing Dynasty Iron Cavalry? Besides, sooner or later, this work of gnawing bones must not fall on the fourteen? ”

Although this Dordor had a fierce temper, he obeyed his mother's fourteenth brother, Dorgon, and although Dolgon was convicted and demoted to Dorobelle, and he was still the dignified Prince of Yu, it still did not affect his support for Dolgon in the slightest.

"The Great Khan is far-sighted, it's not for you and me to speculate, Duoduo, just lead the troops to go after listening to Brother Fourteen!"

The obvious insincerity made Duoduo even more dissatisfied, "Brother Fourteen, what's wrong?" Has your ambition been wiped out by a single failure? ”

Dolgon no longer answered, but waved Dordor's departure.

60,000 Qing troops gathered in Guangning Qiantun Guard, Duoduo led 5,000 troops to kill in the direction of Shanhaiguan, but after a whole day of fighting, it was impossible to resist the Ming army to the death, and had to return after dark. For this reason, Duoduo, who had just returned to the camp, was recruited by Huang Taiji into the military tent and scolded him fiercely, and Duoduo acted in a confrontation without resentment, thanks to the intercession of Prince Li, who was also in the army, he escaped punishment.

Looking at Duoduo who shook his head and went out, Huang Taiji who reminded him without worry.

"If the Great Khan doesn't send troops again, Hong Chengchou will have to cultivate the fortress all the way outside my Daqing camp sooner or later, and it will be much trickier by then!"

Huang Taiji stroked his beard under his chin and was silent, and did not answer Dai Shan's question. Dai Shan didn't care, but opened his mouth again.

"I didn't expect that the Qing Dynasty's troops would enter Liaoxi so smoothly this time, if I took advantage of Yang Sichang's surprise, it may not be impossible to take Shanhaiguan, and now the Ming Court has sent Hong Chengchou, it is said that this person is quite capable, I'm afraid it will ......"

In Dai Shan's speculation, the always cautious Huang Taiji must have doubts about the decisive battle, Shanhaiguan City is high and deep, and it is the last line of defense of the Ming Dynasty's Beijing Division, the Ming army will inevitably go all out to rescue, there is no one for a year and a half to take it down, it will inevitably be huge under the long consumption, so hard is equivalent to giving up the easy and seeking the difficult, it is better to choose other passes to break through and enter the real.

Another point is that the Qing army has achieved the current results almost bloodlessly, and the Ming Dynasty's Ningjin defense line has been completely lost, which has far exceeded expectations. It was originally expected that there would be a protracted war in Jinzhou that did not happen, which may have made Huang Taiji have the possibility of sticking to the results of the battle.

But after thinking about it, this is not in line with Huang Taiji's consistent style, how can there be a reason not to eat the fat meat in the mouth. Then there is another possibility, he is ready to attract the main force of the Ming army from the high mountain pass of the city, annihilate it by the field, and then finish the battle again.

"Dordor, can't you let Dolgon go tomorrow, right?"

Dai Shan asked tentatively, Huang Taiji shook his head and still didn't speak, but this made Dai Shan more sure of his previous speculation.

"And let Duoduo go tomorrow? Sharpen his sharpness......"

This time, Huang Taiji did not continue to shake his head, but opened the delicate wooden box in front of the table, took out a crystal clear white jade box from inside, and opened the lid, revealing a white paste-like object that exuded a strange luster.