Yuan Yingtai was speechless.

Zhang Quan can't be a timid mouse, he knows this. Even he felt that Zhang Quan was one of the few civil servants in Liaodong who could be pragmatic and able to do things. Before the battle of Salhu, Zhang Quan played to the imperial court, and concluded that Yang Hao was not handsome, and could not control Juniper, Liu Ling, Li Rubai, these arrogant generals, and also had a lot of complaints about Yang Hao's in-depth deployment of the lone army, but the court did not listen to his advice, and finally Salhu was defeated for a while, and the loss of troops was more than 100,000.

In the summer of the 48th year of Wanli, he once again advised the imperial court not to send more Liao salaries in the interior in order to quell the rebellion of Jiannu, so as not to provoke a rebellion in the mainland. Now it is advisable to unite people's hearts to consolidate the fundamentals, how can they be cut without a single skin, and drive chaos. The reason was clear enough, but the court still didn't listen to him.

Even Yuan Yingtai, who is the boss, often does not hesitate to put forward opinions when he feels that there is a problem with his approach, such as when Yuan Yingtai gave the order to surrender, trying to enrich himself with the Mongols and Jurchens who surrendered, Zhang Quan argued, saying that it was very risky, but Yuan Yingtai did not listen at that time, and Zhang Quan could only sigh and say, "This is the beginning of the disaster." ”

In hindsight, Zhang Quan's construction is very reasonable, most of these surrendered people are unreliable, and there are even a lot of Jurchen side of the fine work, many times the Jurchens rely on these internal should to capture the city, the most recent example is Shenyang.

But what's the point of regretting it now? Yuan Yingtai sighed gloomily in his heart.

It wasn't that he didn't know the risks when he gave the order, but at that time, the Liao facts were corrupting, and the Ming army already had a deep fear of the Jurchen army, so he thought about using these people who could fight to enrich his own strength, but

"Yu Heng, I know that you are angry in your heart, thinking that I have misled the country, and I have nothing to say, it is indeed my fault. But now the overall situation is important, I don't want to do any more battles of will" After being silent for a long time, Yuan Yingtai sighed, "Yuheng, you will leave Liaoyang tomorrow and go to Hexi, there is still someone there to preside over the overall situation"

Zhang Quan was a little puzzled at first, then suddenly understood something, and then his beard stood on end in anger.

"Lord Yuan, are you telling me to run quickly? What kind of person do you think I am, how can I, Zhang Quan, be so greedy for life and afraid of death?"

"Yu Heng, how can I look down on you?" Yuan Yingtai was also a little anxious, "It's just that it's useless for you to stay here now, why bother?" I am a strategy, I can't leave my post without permission, and when the war in Liaodong is over, you are the only one who can go there to clean up the situation and pacify the western Liaoxi for the imperial court."

"The situation, what else is the situation? It's all over" Zhang Quan was still angry, and shouted again, "We are all misguided people, what face do we have to say to clean up the situation for the imperial court, I only hope that the imperial court can send one or two capable generals to calm down the situation in Liaodong, so that we can have the face to see the ancestors and ancestors."

When they said this, the two of them were dumbfounded again, obviously not confident that the imperial court would be able to "send one or two capable generals to calm down the situation in Liaodong" in the future. In front of this army, is there really anyone in Daming who can flatten it?

They don't have the bottom in their hearts, but they can only choose to believe.

After this suffocating depression lasted for a while, Zhang Quan finally regained his composure.

"What a beautiful thing to die for the country, if you don't run, how can I ⊥ you to be beautiful? Besides, the Liao affair has been corrupted to this point, and we are all responsible, and now that the catastrophe is coming, how can I escape alone after that, naturally someone will come forward to clean it up, and I can serve the country here."

Seeing the firmness in Zhang Quan's eyes, Da Ming Jingluo finally felt the determination that this colleague had made.

His heart couldn't help but tremble.

It's okay, then the two of them will die here together.

However, when Yuan Yingtai was still sighing in his heart, Zhang Quan suddenly spoke again, his eyes full of pain.

"Now that the matter has come to this, we should take the blame for self-determination, needless to say. But the Liao affair is getting worse and worse, what should we do when the time comes?"

"In the three hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, there are many talents in the world, how can there be no way to take a little barbarian like Jiannu? Yuheng, don't think about it. Yuan Yingtai smiled, but his tone was a little astringent, "Okay, since you don't want to leave, then let's stay here together, that's fine." It's good."

At this moment, a fierce drum suddenly sounded from afar, and the two of them hurriedly looked in the direction of the Jianzhou Jurchen Jin Army at the same time, and then, they saw a Jurchen army with a blue flag breaking away from the array and rushing towards the city.

Do you want to attack the city directly? The thought flashed through the hearts of both of them at the same time.

Then, they suddenly appeared, behind this group of soldiers, there were many people dressed like ordinary people, who were being escorted and rushed towards Liaoyang City

What's going on? Is it to drive the civilians to attack the city?

The two men looked at each other.

"It's not good, Jiannu wants to dig a ditch and drain the trench" After looking at it for a while, Zhang Quan suddenly shouted. "Jingluo, quickly order to block"

"Damn Jiannu" Yuan Yingtai also reacted immediately.

The most important thing for the city defense is the city wall, followed by the moat, if the moat is removed, then it will be difficult for Liaoyang City, which is only a bare city wall, to hold out for a long time - as the Ming Liaodong strategy, Yuan Yingtai knew that the Ming Dynasty would not be able to gather too many troops to aid Liaoyang in the short term, and it could even be said that there might not be anyone to rescue Liaoyang at all.

It is also unrealistic to directly abandon the outside of the city and retreat inside the city for defense. Since ancient times, if the army defending the city does not have the courage to fight with the enemy in the field, then even if the turtle retreats to defend the city, it will not be able to hold it for long, even Yuan Yingtai, who has not led troops before, understands.

In this case, since he is going to die anyway, it is better to die a little more heroically, Yuan Yingtai thought to himself.

Thinking of this, Yuan Yingtai didn't hesitate any longer, he looked at his own soldiers, and then shouted orders.

"Hurry up and order General Hou and Li Zongbing, this official will personally lead them out of the city and fight with Jiannu"

It didn't take long for Yuan Yingtai, who had put on his armor, to lead the chief officers of the Ming army, Hou Shilu, Li Bingcheng, Liang Zhongshan, Jiang Bi, Zhu Wanliang and others out of the city for five miles, and rushed over to meet the Jiannu army.

The moment he left the city, Yuan Yingtai knew that he couldn't win - he couldn't win the situation where Salhu had several times the advantage of troops, and now this situation where the enemy was outnumbered had no chance, he just wanted to kill as many soldiers as possible.

"My lord, don't be under the repeated defeats, the soldiers have long been frightened, we are already so difficult to defend the city, if we go out of the city to fight, it is even more impossible to win" Before going out of the city to meet the attack, a staff member persuaded Yuan Yingtai bitterly, "Although the Liao affairs are difficult, but since the saint trusts the Liao affairs, the adults still need to work hard, why are they so self-defeating?" ”

"I have made up my mind, why not say more" Yuan Yingtai only left such a sentence, and then turned around and left.

Looking at the back of Inspector Yuan leaving, the staff was so anxious that they trembled, but in the end they could only stomp their feet fiercely and sighed.

You only think about martyrdom, have you ever thought that the Son of Heaven sent you here to recover the country's mountains and rivers, not to make you martyred

This kind of civil servant, who can speak well and speak loudly, but when the matter comes, he can't think of anything, he just thinks about reporting to the king in a hurry, and you can leave a good reputation for yourself when you die, but what about the expectations of the great tomorrow? What about the blessings and misfortunes of the people of Liaodong? What about them

"Those who kill the country are corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and those who mislead the country are clear stream and ministers" Maybe it's because of the premonition that the end is coming, this staff member doesn't care about anything, a cautious person on weekdays, actually shouted at this time, his eyes were full of tears, "The Ming court is now full of both, filling the temple, I think it's going to be over."

Yuan Yingtai couldn't hear this exclamation, and even if he did, he wouldn't say anything.

Although it was a charge, in fact, the array of the Ming army was not neat, let alone the tragic momentum of fighting to the death. The soldiers, barely maintained by the officers, with weapons in hand, staggered towards the opposite side, shouting of different lengths, and did not even have any effect on emboldening themselves.

After Nurhachi saw the Ming army coming out of the city to meet the attack, he did not miss the opportunity and immediately ordered the army to attack the Ming army.

The two armies soon collided.

Where is the Ming army, whose morale is so low, the opponent of the battle-hardened Jianzhou Jurchen Jin Army?

The Jurchen armor soldiers wearing strong armor quickly cut into the Ming army's formation, and then swept towards the surrounding Ming army with their skillful battle formation skills and strong personal ability, tearing at the Ming army's front like a sharp blade.

The soldiers of the Ming army, who had already been frightened, completely lost the will to continue fighting under such an unfavorable shape, and they soon began to cower and retreat, but the Jurchen armor soldiers did not give them a chance to breathe at all, and kept chasing them and fighting. As the battle progressed, the casualties of the Ming army became larger and larger, but the Jianzhou Jurchen Jin army did not have many casualties, as if it became more and more brave the more they fought.

Finally, a small force could not stand this hopeless battle, and they turned and fled, shouting loudly.

"Defeated, defeated"

As if a chain reaction, after seeing a small army fleeing, the remaining Ming soldiers seemed to have been infected, and withdrew from the engagement with the Jurchen troops, and then fled backwards.

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