Li Xin held a grand welcome ceremony for Sun Jiao's arrival, which greatly boosted the morale of the three guards in the city. In fact, at this moment, many people in Jinzhou City are a little confused, thinking that sooner or later they will run out of ammunition and food, and if the Qing army returns to the division in a big way, the entire Three Guards Army will inevitably fall into a desperate situation.

Even if the Qing army would not return to the division in a short time, the plan to besiege the city and send reinforcements with the general's claim had proved to be a failure, and the effect of containing the Qing army was still unclear, especially after learning that the Qing army was transporting personnel and materials back and forth by sea.

Including Sun Jiao, they all had different views on Li Xin's forcible occupation of Jinzhou, but it was just inconvenient for them to blatantly oppose it.

"I wonder what General Lee's next plan will be? Now that my father intends to let you go south to flank the Qing army, as Sun Ji expected, the will of the Jingshi may also arrive in Liaoxi soon, and he must urge you to go south. ”

Sun Ji analyzed left and right, but did not say his conclusion, Li Xin didn't know what he thought for a while, so he had to ask: "Where does the second prince think Li Xin should go?" ”

The implication is that I should follow your father's orders and go south, or stick to Jinzhou, or have another plan?

Li Xin asked directly, and Sun Jian didn't want to go around in circles, so he said his opinion bluntly.

"To be honest, Sun Jiao does not agree with going south to flank the Qing army, on the surface, it seems that our Korean army has become a north-south flank attack, but when you dig deeper, it is far from the case." Speaking of this, Sun Ji sighed leisurely, "With the current men and horses of General Li's Three Guards, there may be more than 10,000 people to hold Jinzhou, but if the army as a flanking party is not strong, if it is forced to fight a decisive battle, it will inevitably suffer heavy losses......"

Sun Jiao's tone was calm, and when he said it, it was like saying something homely, but his analysis fell into Li Xiner, but he couldn't help but feel cold all over his body. He looked at Sun Jiao, his eyes full of confusion and doubt.

"To be honest, Sun Ji couldn't come up with a better idea, it was better to be quiet than to move, in fact, the best way to save the Three Guards was to leave Liaoxi and think long-term. After all, if the Qing army gave up Shanhaiguan, once the 100,000 troops returned to the division and crushed it, Jinzhou City would inevitably become an isolated island until it ran out of ammunition and food......"

"What do you mean?"

Sun Ji hesitated for a while, and finally affirmed: "As the saying goes, if you leave Qingshan without firewood, under the power of two evils, of course, you must take the lesser of the two, and take the initiative to attack the Qing army outside Shanhaiguan in the south, although it will relieve the pressure of the Qing army on Shanhaiguan, and even pose a certain threat to the Qing army's encirclement of Shanhaiguan, but for this reason, it is inevitable that the gains outweigh the losses to bury an army that can occupy a good war." In the absence of foreign aid, it is not a problem for Shanhaiguan to hold on for more than half a year, and in the end, the situation faced by the Qing army is nothing more than to continue to besiege the city, or to attack the Beijing division again......"

If the Qing army attacked and harassed the Beijing Division, then it would be equivalent to a complete failure of Shanhaiguan's defensive strategy, and then the emperor must pull out a scapegoat to carry the black pot...... Yang Sichang, Hong Chengchou, Liu Yuliang, including Sun Chengzong and other important ministers and pillars may not be able to escape the burden. Obviously, if these people are all convicted, the turmoil in the court is by no means a blessing for the Ming Dynasty, and Li Xin, who sacrificed a mere general soldier, seems so insignificant in comparison.

Although Sun Jiao's words were soft, they were like a sharp sword plunged straight into Li Xin's chest, and then pulled out fiercely, dripping with blood...... Indeed, in the eyes of people of insight and people with a sense of the overall situation, there is nothing that cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the overall situation of the imperial court, but why is it he Li Xin who is sacrificed every time.

Li Xin asked himself to become an official of the Ming Dynasty, not a day is not trembling, resettlement refugees, afraid of killing and injuring too many people, striking at the Mongolian Manchu Qing, in order to avoid the tragedy of the fall of the Ming Dynasty, this one by one, which one is not dedicated to the country, speaking of which he is a general who worships the altar, but looking at the Ming Dynasty, which is such a high-ranking official, no permanent property, no wife and concubine? Until now, who else can there be besides him Li Xin?

Even so, compared to the huge civilian clique, it is nothing more than a rag that can be discarded at will.

Sun Jiao was kind, so he didn't shy away from saying these words. In fact, even if Sun Ji didn't say that Li Xin could see through the key to this matter, he was still full of gratitude for Sun Ji's kind reminder.

However, Sun Jian made a fatal mistake, that is, the Three Guards Army was not an ordinary Ming army, and Li Xin did not completely intend to passively hold Jinzhou, a more ambitious blueprint had already been conceived and even implemented.

"The second prince must not worry, the Third Guard Army will neither lightly and meaninglessly fight with the Qing army, nor will it sit in the city of sorrow."

Hearing this, Sun Jie's eyes burst into a burning gaze, "Does General Li still have a clever plan?" He did not doubt Li Xin's ability to turn the tide and come back to life, after all, he had seen him successfully resist the Qing army in Gaoyang, and successfully dragged the main force of the Qing army under Gaoyang City, which finally laid the foundation for the defeat of the Qing army and the victory of the imperial court without a fight.

Therefore, when Li Xin confidently said that he had other plans, he believed it without hesitation, and he was more inclined to Li Xin's way of getting along better.

"The second prince has heard about the death of the slave chieftain Taiji?"

"What?"

Sun Jiao's shock was incomprehensible, Huang Taiji actually died! This is definitely a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the imperial court, and the Qing court will inevitably fall into many disputes because of the struggle for the throne, so where can they concentrate on the use of troops externally, and the final withdrawal of troops is also a matter of course. But when he thought about the current situation, he felt that it was difficult to understand, according to common sense, the best choice for the Qing army must be steady troops, but they were still attacking Shanhaiguan with all their might, and even put on an aggressive posture.

In this way, the commander of the Qing army was either prepared to calmly withdraw his troops after gaining a certain advantage, or he was ......

After Sun Ji thought of the second possibility, he felt sweating, if the Qing army commander's idea was really the latter, then the problem they faced would be extremely thorny.

"Does General Li have a strategy for dealing with the death of the slave chieftain?"

Li Xin nodded.

"Li Xin has already facilitated the stalemate between Dolgon and the slave chieftain Zhuang Concubine to compete for the throne, and now there is a Three Guards Army operating in the Liaoyang area as a containment, so far away in Shanhaiguan Dai Shan has become a key figure in determining the ownership of the throne, I think it won't be long before they will count on Dai Shan in Shanhaiguan to show their attitude......"

"Daishan? Do you mean that it is Dai Shan who is now commanding the Qing army in Shanhaiguan? Dai Shan, as the brother of Huang Taiji and the son of Nurhachi, has a pivotal position in the Qing court, and this person's ambition is by no means under Dolgon, but he is afraid that Dolgon will make a wedding dress for others after a quick roar! ”

Li Xin secretly praised that Sun Jiao's insight was really not bad. He has the insight of later generations, and he often has prescient preparations for historical events, but Sun Ji completely inferred from what he knows, so it is not simple.

Did Dorgon not make a wedding dress for anyone else? For the Ming Dynasty, a weak lord was definitely less of a threat than a strong king, so what Li Xin needed to do was to make it a reality for Dolgon to do this for others, and not only that, but he also wanted to take this opportunity to get Daishan to withdraw his troops and at the same time recover Ningjin, which was lost in this battle.

When Li Xin revealed his thoughts and thoughts, Sun Ji was completely shocked, he really didn't expect Li Xin's plan to be so unbelievable.

"The key now is to cut off the sea route of the Qing army!"

Sun Ji fell into deep thought, and after a long time, he said: "The coast of western Liaoning is long and narrow, and there are not a few places where you can land and land, and it is by no means a wise choice to encircle on the shore, and we don't have sea ships, so we can't fight at all, this difficulty is not small!" ”

Li Xin said with a smile: "This problem has been solved before the arrival of the second son, although they have more than one landing place in western Liaoxi, but in the place where they dock in western Liaoxi, there are only two or three places, Sanhekou and Gaizhou are the first to bear the brunt, as long as the news is accurate and the dispatch is appropriate, after attacking these places, a fire will burn the Tartar ship, and then the Tartar back road will be cut off!" ”

It turned out that it was not in Liaoxi, but to Liaodong. It is not surprising that Sun Jiao's thinking was limited to Liaodong due to inherent reasons, because sending troops to Liaodong was unthinkable before, and now that the Qing court army is in Shanhaiguan and the interior is empty, it is possible to take advantage of the weakness to enter Liaodong and raid Liaodong. What's more, according to Li Xin, he had previously sent people to loot and burn in the Liaoyang area, disrupt the rear of the Tartars, attract people to the public, and successfully achieved the goal.

"But there is still a problem at the moment, I need the help of the second son!"

Sun Jiao didn't expect Li Xin to take the initiative to ask him for help, and hurriedly said: "It is my duty to contribute to the imperial court, although General Li said that Sun Jiao will do his best!" ”

Li Xin put away his smile and said, "This matter is quite tricky, and it is not easy!" ”

"When did you learn to sell off? Say! ”

Sun Ji shook his shirt and urged indifferently.

"Liu Yuliang came here with a fate, and if he wants to worry about the future, he still needs the second son to come forward and convince this person!"

Liu Yuliang actually can't influence whether the Three Guards send troops or not, but the key is that after he returns to Beijing, he can easily erase the Three Guards with their lives and fight back for their exploits.

"What's the matter, just leave it to Sun Jiao!"

The two discussed the situation for a while, and Sun Ji got up to say goodbye and went to Liu Yuliang to solve the problem raised by Li Xin. Li Xin, on the other hand, summoned Bei Ko'er, and the steppe cavalry he led was simply a charcoal in the snow, and he was ordered to rest and recuperate after the face-to-face instruction and immediately sent out the troops.

Then he ordered Cheng Mingjiu to personally take the first battalion of the infantry battalion to cover each other, and march north after dark, which was enough time to reach Sanhekou in one night.