After Ningyuan's victory, Yuan Chonghuan proved to the imperial court that his strategy of building a defense line against Guanning with his mentor to resist Houjin was correct.

In view of the fact that Liaodong Jingluo Gaodi and Liu Qigui, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, retreated into the customs, they were too cowardly, and they were laughed at by the world.

Second, I am really sorry for the efforts of Yuan Chonghuan and Sun Chengzong, and if I am not careful, the situation that has been difficult to stabilize will be eroded again.

In this way, Ma Shilong's reckless but reckless military style that dared to fight and dare to fight, in stark contrast to Gao Di Yang Qi and his ilk, was easily remembered by the big guys who scolded Fang Xuan in the court.

Therefore, at this delicate time, it became a natural thing to be reinstated in the delicate position of the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan.

Yuan Chonghuan was noncommittal about the arrival of Ma Shilong and took into account the rights of the Jiliao defense line, and had a slightly jealous attitude, and had analyzed it with his henchman Zu Dashou, but unfortunately Zu Dashou was not very diligent in thinking and was not good at it.

As a result, Huang Chongzhen, a guy who was both questioned and recognized, dared to fight, and had many ghost ideas, took advantage of the situation to enter Yuan Chonghuan's staff team.

According to Huang Chongzhen's analysis, the intention of the imperial court is nothing more than checks and balances, precautions, and suppression.

Yuan Chonghuan was very annoyed by this, and even once aggrieved like an angry little daughter-in-law, Huang Chongzhen persuaded him with kind words, thinking that this was not a bad thing.

At least, Ma Shilong is also a general who dares to fight, and he is only guarding Shanhaiguan, and he can't dictate what Yuan Chonghuan did in Liaodong.

After all, since Daming was greatly pitted by Yang Hao, he was accustomed to handing over a place to a person to manage at the same time, and then sending a governor or supervising the army or something like that, the original intention was that there were both constraints and balances, and complementing each other, but the actual effect was often only the former.

This move can indeed effectively prevent local officials from forming a pattern of feudal towns, but it also causes the combat strength of the Ming army to be constrained everywhere.

As a result, he obviously has very rich experience in the imperial border, but he was unable to curb the gradually rising Houjin, and even under the tribal military and political system of "if you go out, you will be a soldier and if you enter the people", they have been defeated again and again.

Probably even Wei Zhongxian was scared of goods like Gao Di.

Therefore, he sent a person like Ma Shilong, who had a certain connection and prestige in the Guanning army, to form a barrier with the same effect as the virgin film in Shanhaiguan, a nine-sided important town that was extremely important to the Ming Jingshi.

Yuan Chonghuan was amused by Huang Chongzhen's interesting analysis, so he burst into tears and laughed, and went to exchange letters and communicate with the general soldier of Shanhaiguan, who was also called ** just now, and communicated his feelings.

Therefore, although Huang Chongzhen has never met Ma Shilong, he is no stranger.

So, when Ma Shilong's gaze came over, he no longer used Jiang Liang's burly body as a block, and naturally took a step to the side, solemnly stood up and saluted, and said loudly: "Mark Huang Chongzhen, I have seen Ma Shilong and Ma Zongbing." ”

Whether it is true or not, you can know it by looking at the posture that is gradually spreading among the Guanning army.

With Ma Shilong's experience, he would not be surprised that this dark-faced young soldier could recognize him, but said with a smile: "You are Huang Chongzhen?" ”

As he spoke, he looked it up and down, nodded lightly in approval, and said: "Long hands and long feet, lean and capable, neither humble nor arrogant, and the big locust that loves to stumble around in the elemental pen is like a retreat." ”

The element is Yuan Chonghuan's word, Huang Chongzhen naturally knows about it, but he doesn't know that his name is so loud, and he complains weakly: "This handsome man in my family, can't you give the mark a powerful adjective?" ”

"Adjectives?" Jiang Hao heard this little daughter-in-law-like resentment, and immediately lowered his head and shrunk his neck and held back a smile.

Xuan heard Ma Shilong laugh loudly, and then laughed out loud.

"Sycophants." Huang Chongzhen glanced at him with disdain, but he also laughed twice with Hehe.

Hearing Ma Shilong's laughter, he squeezed his eyebrows and said to himself, "Aren't you sent by the elements to stumble after the gold?" Why did you come here again? ”

Huang Chongzhen secretly said that this chief soldier is really a wonderful person, no wonder he can be entrusted with a heavy task by the Wei Party at the same time, and at the same time he has a hot fight with Yuan Shuai.

On his face, he said smoothly: "It is Shenyang that is marked, it is not the land of Houjin, it is only temporarily occupied, and sooner or later it will be recovered by us."

The water of Houjin was not as deep as imagined, it was still too shallow, and it had reached the bottom after only a few jumps, and it became extremely turbid.

It's just that on the way back, he was robbed by horse bandits, and in desperation, Fang Xijin sought life, and then turned south, but he didn't want to come to this Ma Lanyu, but it was also a kind of fate. ”

Ma Shilong laughed, hammered Huang Chongzhen's mountain-like straight shoulders, and said: "Sure enough, what kind of general can bring out what kind of soldiers, your kid is a little more arrogant than your handsome." ”

Xuan sighed faintly and said: "Recovering the lost land, my generation has dreamed of it, but the Houjin trend has been achieved, how can it be so easy." ”

Huang Chongzhen smiled and said nothing, because as far as he knew, what he said would be sooner or later, no more than three hundred years at the latest.

The consciousness of the Chinese nation to drive out the Tatars will awaken again, and with the momentum of sweeping the world, the deep black soil and the vast grassland will be firmly encompassed, and with "China" as the name of the country, it will form a big rooster of more than 9.6 million square kilometers, standing proudly, singing Dongfanghong with a loud voice.

It's so great, and it's incredibly proud to think about.

So Huang Chongzhen smiled and was full of pride.

Ma Shilong obviously couldn't get used to this kind of complacent, and immediately squinted at him and said, "Are you afraid that if you jump down again, you will be drowned?" When the locusts meet the water, they can't get up. ”

Huang Chongzhen smashed his mouth and said: "Houjin Eight Banners, Eight Great Baylors, there is insidious in barbarism, and delicacy is hidden in roughness, it is really not a fuel-efficient lamp."

Especially Huang Taiji, his cunning and insidious, more than his father, over time, will become a big trouble for my Ming Dynasty. ”

Ma Shilong frowned and said, "You mean, Huang Taiji has become the new Khan of the Later Jin?" ”

Huang Chongzhen was slightly shocked, thinking that with Huang Taiji's careful thoughts, at the moment he ascended the throne, he would send a messenger to send the news to Korea, Mongolia and other places, so as to strengthen his momentum and make his throne more stable.

The Ming Dynasty is the most important thing, after all, the slave chieftain wants to be recognized by the Ming Dynasty all his life, so the first thing Huang Taiji did after inheriting the Khan throne must be to help his father Khan fulfill his wish.

At the same time, if the Ming Dynasty can be inadvertently replied in the form of a national letter, it can be caused by the fact that the Houjin is not a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, but a khanate between the white mountains and black waters.

This is an extremely subtle diplomatic and political method, which is quite subtle, and ordinary people's thinking is not very likely to involve it in this aspect.

Huang Chongzhen has participated in too many missions to protect the Chinese diplomatic ambassadors, and is quite familiar with the doorway, so he can think of this.

But Ma Shilong, who is the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, did not see these envoys, which has two possibilities:

The first is to overestimate Huang Taiji, and he did not master such a simple but incomparably clever diplomatic method, that is, his staff Fan Wencheng, who was also not involved because of the limited pattern.

The second is that Yuan Chonghuan stopped the envoy sent by Huang Taiji, and did not report it to the Ming Dynasty.

If it's the former, then it's a happy thing. However, if it was the latter, Huang Chongzhen sighed secretly, and couldn't help but worry about Yuan Chonghuan in his heart.

This person swore to guard the "headquarters of Liaodong", the merits and demerits and whether he could defend Liaodong, let's not talk about it for the time being, but the most controversial place for future generations is undoubtedly the private correspondence with Huang Taiji.

Or in Yuan Chonghuan's heart, this is circumstance, operation, selfless and wise behavior.

Anyway, if you don't need money, you can still make Huang Taiji unable to find out the depth of the Guanning defense line, so he doesn't dare to start the war lightly, and buy time for the vicissitudes of the Ming Dynasty to lick its wounds.

Why not do it when there is chaos at home, build a defense line outside, gradually regain the disadvantage, and form a counterattack?

But in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, this is not eyebrows, what is it?

Thinking through these things in the middle of the lightning, Huang Chongzhen did not reveal even the slightest abnormality in front of the human-like Ma Shilong, but sighed softly: "Yes, that is a master of layout, not long after the slave chief died, the rest of Baylor quickly lost the ability and courage to compete with it."

It's just that he made someone pretend to be a horse bandit to intercept the road, so that I can't send this news back to Guanning as soon as possible, and report it to the commander and the chief soldier, you know, it's really hateful. ”

Ma Shilong did not doubt him, and said: "The matter is very important, I need to return to Shanhaiguan immediately to discuss this matter with the elements, you can go back with me...... You're the only one to make it back safely? ”

Huang Chongzhen said: "How can it, almost all of them are back." Sangui, Sangui, what are you doing hiding up there? Come over and see the chief soldier yet. ”

Huang Chongzhen roared at the gate, then his tone was slightly dark, and he said in a low voice: "General Sangui and General Dale have done their best, but there are still more than a dozen people who have not brought back, only their ashes. This is marked as incompetence, and when he returns to Guanning, he will go to ask the marshal for his guilt. ”

Ma Shilong patted him on the shoulder to show comfort, but a pair of tiger eyes were already staring at Wu Sangui, who ran down the stone steps to salute him.

"Little nephew Sangui, I've seen Shibo."

A little nephew, a Shibo, can scare Jiang Hao a lot, shrinking his neck and looking at Wu Sangui in shock, and then at Ma Shilong, his palms are full of sweat in this snowflake-heavy cold day.

Huang Chongzhen was also quite surprised, no wonder your kid loves to behave so much on weekdays, but today he hides and refuses to see people, at first I thought he wanted to stay warm up with the little sisters-in-law who were closed for a while.

Sure enough, Ma Shilong looked Wu Sangui up and down, and the expression on his face slowly changed from surprise to relief, and said: "Wu Xiang is willing to send his favorite little son to that kind of tiger and wolf land, it seems that he is really determined to get some face back." ”

As he spoke, he patted Wu Sangui's arm very vigorously, felt the solid muscles on it, nodded and praised: "Yes, much stronger than your father." The Wu family has been a general, whether it can be revived depends on whether you are angry, work hard, and don't disappoint your father and Shibo. ”

"No!" Wu Sangui tilted his face slightly and said loudly, not caring about the cold snowflakes falling on his face.

It was the first time that Huang Chongzhen had seen this heartless guy shed tears, and his senses in his heart couldn't help but become a little more complicated.

There are acquaintances, it is easy to do things, and the next thing is very logical.

Zu Da happily ran over, I don't know how his generation was arranged, but he also saw Ma Shilong's gift of son and nephew, which caused the latter to be a surprise again, and beat and laughed at this strong man who was still a little calf back then.

Zu Dale, who was already able to take charge on his own, was all stupidly happy.

Just when everyone was looking at the three big men happily with relief on their faces, Huang Chongzhen was secretly complaining that the relationship between the three Liaodong Jiangmen families was really messy.

Ma Shilong really wanted to leave for Shanhaiguan immediately, while bringing these two boys back, and on the other hand, passing the news that Huang Taiji had inherited the throne of Houjin Khan to Jingshi, as well as Yuan Chonghuan and Zu Dashou, who were stepping up the construction of Guanning Road and always guarding against the Houjin attack again.

Jiang Hao didn't let Mr. Ma, who had come with a long time, leave now, so that he could agree to repair for one night - after all, he is old, and he can't compare to these little cubs who have slept all the way, but are still a hundred times more energetic.

The snow is getting denser and denser, and the snowflakes are as big as goose feathers.

The defenders of Ma Lanyu, who had braved the cold all night at the gate, finally got the military order to return to the camp for repairs, and immediately lined up in a messy line, and returned to the camp under the leadership of the sentry team.

Huang Chongzhen was very unhappy about this, although Gu Tongying's beautiful wife was lightly touched, she was not a person who didn't know the general situation, and she was really grateful to the defenders for their switching.

So with a wave of arms, the generous Gujiazhuang men all contributed to the pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks they had worked so hard to bring.

The guards were too slow, so they helped catch pigs' feet and chased the chickens and ducks that were inadvertently released by the children, so as to run around the city.

One stove after another was also burning vigorously, and Ma Lanyu, who had been deserted for many years, was hot, and even the wind and snow could not cover it.

settled Gu Tongying and his entourage in the small city of Ma Lanyu, and by the way, pacified Gu Yanwu, who wanted to follow.

Huang Chongzhen took the Guanning teenagers who had obtained the true inheritance to the barracks, fully demonstrating their excellent survival skills, although they did not have the ability to solve cattle, they were also very familiar, and they did not waste even half a drop of blood.

When he saw the defenders who had put their mouths to the edge of their knives to drink the blood, he did not hesitate to kick them over, catch the blood of the beasts and birds with his utensils, add a little salt, and cook them in a steaming pot before handing them back.