The Hexi Corridor from Ningyuan to Shanhaiguan was the territory of the Guanning army in the past, and it was also the main concentration of military landlords such as Wu Sangui and Zu Dashou who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.

Of course, the concept of the Guanning Army here is different from that of the Guanning Iron Cavalry in the past, and there is actually no Guanning Army now.

However, the landlord class in this area is basically the family of Wu and Zu and other Han military landlords, and it was once the most important base for the Ming Dynasty to resist the Qing army.

In the past thirty or forty years, the Ming Dynasty has invested most of the income of the treasury in this land, and there is even a special Liao Xiang in the three rings.

However, contrary to expectations, the Han military landlords in this area were nourished by the imperial court, but they raised their own self-respect, developed their own power and became a warlord, and they also violated the will of the imperial court, and now they have directly surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

After these Han military landlords such as Zu Dashou joined the Qing court, they probably did not think that the Ming Dynasty would not perish one day, nor would they have thought that the Ming Dynasty would even make a comeback and directly surrender troops from the sea to occupy their fundamental land.

Prince Zheng of the Manchu Qing Dynasty reinstated Zu Dashou as early as the 22nd year of Chongzhen, and appointed Zu Dashou as the chief military officer of Shanhaiguan, responsible for the defense of Ningyuan to Shanhaiguan.

The Manchu Qing also knew that this area was the territory of the Guanning army, and also knew that Zu Dashou had a lot of prestige at this point, so they thought of borrowing Zu Dashou to dominate the Liao soldiers and civilians here to resist the Ming army that might enter Beijing from outside the Guan.

Zu Dashou did not refuse the Manchu appointment.

Now, the Ming Guards' severe punishment of the Qing gentry on the way to the Northern Expedition has already made the entire northern gentry class panic, and these Ming officials who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty did not choose to abandon the Manchus because of the worries about the future of the Manchus, and even more loyal than before, trying their best to help the Manchus resist the Northern Expedition of the Ming Guards.

Zu Dashou is the same, he even made a military order to Shunzhi, saying that if he did not block the Ming army from Shanhaiguan, he would cut Shunzhi by himself.

"Zhu Ming has no virtue, vainly trying to take advantage of the small people to restore the world, and not treat us and other officials and gentry well, don't you know that the rule of the world is based on us, and now since this Ming army wants to be a thief, we should swear allegiance to our Qing Dynasty and try our best to resist the enemy!"

Zu Dashou said this when he convened a group of cronies to discuss military affairs, revealing his hatred for Daming in his words, without the slightest feeling for the old master.

"Father Shuai was the strongest general in Liao, if it weren't for Father Shuai, you were loyal to him Zhu Ming to protect the territory, his Zhu Ming Dynasty had already been destroyed by my Qing Dynasty, and now my father Shuai has followed my Qing Dynasty Holy Lord, but he is undoubtedly still the strongest general of the Han people, we are also the strongest Han soldiers, those southern barbarians are just sharp firearms, and our firearms drills are no worse than them! And it's not coming from us. ”

Zu Dashou's second son, Zu Zepu, said so.

Zu Dashou was even more proud, he did regard himself as the most powerful general of the Ming Dynasty in the past, and in his opinion, his nephew Wu Sangui could only be regarded as his disciple.

"I heard that it was Qin Zuoming who commanded the troops this time, and he didn't know where to come out of nowhere, his father Qin Minping only had the share of the night pot in front of Lao Tzu, and Zhu Youzhen was still such a stupid person, let this kind of milky hairy child be the commander, but it was only with fast guns and sharp guns that he captured Shenyang, Liaoyang, Guangning and other important towns, and now it is difficult to think that he can really break through Shanhaiguan?"

Zu Dashou was not only to stimulate morale, but also to maintain his military prestige, so he also affirmed his son's flattery to him, and he did not put the second season of the Guards and Qin Zuoming in his eyes at all.

But what Zu Dashou didn't know was that it was not Qin Zuoming who was responsible for attacking Shanhaiguan this time.

In terms of knowing oneself and knowing that one hundred battles are victorious, Zu Dashou has lost thirty percent.

Whether it is the Manchu Qing Dynasty or Zu Dashou, it is naturally not that he does not know the importance of intelligence, and he also knows how to send eyeliner and scouts.

However, first, the limited communication in this era is underdeveloped and the strict secrecy regulations within the Guards, and second, the intelligence system of Jinyiwei has been developed after more than 200 years of accumulation, and it is naturally stricter than the Manchu Qing and Zu Dashou in terms of intelligence organization, and Zu Dashou's own blind arrogance has led to his lack of understanding of the enemy opposite, that is, the Second Army of the Guards.

If Qin Zuoming can only be regarded as a hairy child in the eyes of Zu Dashou.

Jiao Lian, the deputy chief officer of the Second Corps of the Second Army of the Guards Army, who is now responsible for recovering the Liaoxi region from Ningyuan to Shanhaiguan, has never heard of it.

What Zu Dashou and others would not have imagined was that the real battle to recover the western Liaoning region this time was no longer even the main force of the Second Corps of the Second Army of the Guards Army, but the hired Korean Army.

The Second Corps of the Second Army of the Guards only played the role of supervising the war and ruling the local punishment of Han and traitors.

Jiao Lian is regarded as the fastest rising general among the deputy commanders-in-chief of the Guards Army, except for Yan Yingyuan.

Although it is not obvious in today's era, it still leaves a strong mark in the original history of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

Today's Jiao Lian is even more stable than himself in his time and space, after receiving the training of the senior general class of the Ming Army Military Academy, he has now changed from a fierce general who can only rush and fight fiercely to a Confucian general with both bravery.

After occupying Ningyuan City, he did not continue to attack, but waited for Jinyiwei's next intelligence news, and did not relax his attention to Zu Dashou and others.

Although the Second Corps of the Guards now has more than 100,000 soldiers.

However, because of Jiao Lian's prudence, Zu Dashou's ambush plan was not realized, and even made Zu Dashou begin to think that the Ming army was really afraid because he heard his name under the flattery of his son and subordinates.

But what Zu Dashou didn't know was that now Jiao Lian can now know that his Zu Dashou slept with the concubine in that room last night.

"Do you want to assassinate Zu Dashou?" Shen Lian, the person in charge of Jinyiwei intelligence in the western Liaoning region, asked Jiao Lian.

"No need, it is useless for Zu Da to die or not to die in the overall situation, once he dies, the Qing army in Liaodi will definitely shrink into Shanhaiguan and dare not come out again, and the grass startles the snake, it is better to let him jump for a while first, so that we can eat all this traitor army before capturing Shanhaiguan!"

At this time, Zhang Huangyan, the governor of the Second Corps of the Second Army of the Guards, also spoke:

"My side has sent thousands of Liaodi people who are willing to act as rebels for us to Shanhaiguan to Ningyuan to plot against their relatives and friends, tell them that the Ming Dynasty is good to the people and plot against them to rebel against these traitorous landlords, and if more than ten people come to Guangning, they can be rewarded with an extra 10 yuan for one acre of land; 、

At that time, there should be a good effect, these traitorous landlords want to coerce the people of Liao to resist the Ming Dynasty's goal will not be realized, maybe we haven't started fighting, they will be in chaos first. ”

(End of chapter)