"Lord Hong, why did you rashly start a war against Jiannu, now it is not easy for you to hold Jinzhou, and it is slim to win like this! And you're going to affect our business in Liaodong like this......"

Li Deqian complained to Hong Chengchou when he entered the camp, Hong Chengchou heard the words and said with a cold light in his eyes: "How do you know that I am going to war with Jiannu, I remember that those who know about this matter do not exceed five people in the whole army, and they are all senior generals, you ......"

When Li Deqian heard this, he said calmly: "Lord Hong, don't ask knowingly, the news we want to know in Lantian will be released as long as the wind is released, and someone will tell us that you have no secrets for us Lantian here." ”

Hong Chengchou smiled bitterly: "I didn't expect that my Hong's military camp would one day be infiltrated into a sieve by your Lantian, okay, I won't tell you, I really want to go to war with Jiannu, and it has reached the point where I can't go to war without going to war, Your Majesty has issued five holy decrees to force me to go to war with Jiannu, if I don't go to war, I'm afraid that soon, my position as the governor of Jiliao will be given to others, and when the time comes, I'm afraid that tens of thousands of horses in Jiliao will die in vain." ”

Hearing this, Li Deqian looked at Hong Chengchou and said, "Has it reached such a point?" ”

Hong Chengchou said: "Nuo, the holy order is on the table, it is written very clearly, if I don't organize a counterattack on Jiannu, then my position as the governor of Jiliao will be given to Wu Sangui, let him go, Wu Sangui is at least a person who knows the soldiers, and he will not be surprised, but if he does not venture, His Majesty will not be satisfied, and when the time comes, he will be forced to fight a decisive battle with Jiannu, if he does not obey, he will definitely be replaced, until he is replaced by a stupid minister, who is willing to fight with Jiannu, Your Majesty will be satisfied." ”

"And such people, either they don't know how to soldier, or they have bad intentions, they lead the troops, how can I feel at ease, these soldiers and horses stationed in Jinzhou are my old brothers, follow me from birth to death, there are not a few wounded people on their bodies, they are not afraid of death, what they are afraid of is that death is not worth it, and now the situation has reached this point, I, the commander, may not be able to help them a lot, I can only make their death more valuable, and also make a certain family's death more valuable."

Hong Chengchou said, and when he heard this, Li Deqian looked at Hong Chengchou and said, "My lord has a will to live and die?" ”

Hong Chengchou smiled bitterly: "Two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, when someone is martyred, Brother Lu and Brother Sun are already in front of me, why should I live in the world?" ”

Hearing this, Li Deqian looked at Hong Chengchou's expression and didn't look like a joke, so he sighed and said, "Lord Hong, it's actually ......."

"Actually, you want to say that Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting are not dead, right?"

Hong Chengchou looked at Li Deqian, Li Deqian looked at Hong Chengchou in a daze and said, "How do you know?" Do you have a spy in Lantian? ”

Hong Chengchou shook his head and said: "No, in terms of espionage, the strongest in the world now should be your Lantian secret spy department, I know this, even His Majesty's Jinyi Guard, and Cao Zhengchun's old dog can't get any useful information in your Lantian, not to mention that I, a rough man in the army, can't do it even if I want to know." ”

"Then how did you know that the two of them are in our Lantian Field?"

Hong Chengchou heard the words and said: "I don't know them, but I know that your county is the most indescribable person I have ever seen in my life, treacherous like Cao Cao, benevolent as Liu Bei, as open-minded as Emperor Qin and Han Wu, and not weaker than Tang Dynasty and Song Zu in the military, that generation of Tianjiao, I am afraid that in the eyes of your county respect, it is just a reckless man who bends the bow and shoots the eagle, it can be said that your county is not the first person in the past, and it is almost the same." ”

Li Deqian was very happy when Hong Chengchou said this, this surnamed Hong really knew each other, if he dared to say that the county respected a word, he would not give Hong Chengchou a good face today.

Hong Chengchou glanced at Li Deqian, saw that the expression on his face softened a little, and said: "In fact, the most admirable thing about your county is his love for talents, Zhou Gong spit out and feed the world, so he has released people around the talents he approves, Lu Xiangsheng has it by his side, Sun Chuanting has it by his side, of course I have it by my side, you will not watch us die!" ”

Hong Chengchou glanced at Li Deqian, Li Deqian stopped talking, he was a person with a heart, he knew it, and he never wanted to hide himself, after all, he dared to use his real name to associate with Hong Chengchou, so he didn't think about hiding it from Hong Chengchou.

Who doesn't know that Lantian reuses relatives, and at present, the people who reuse Lantian relatives are nothing more than Chaozi generation and German character generation, Chaozi generation is Li Chaosheng, Li Chaolong these, and German character generation is their son and nephew, there are more active people than Chaozi generation, the reason is very simple, the German character generation is basically cultivated by Lantian College, and the utilization rate is higher.

And his name is Li Deqian, and he is obviously the second-generation relative of Lantian!

Li Deqian stopped talking, looked at Hong Chengchou and said, "What do you want to do when Lord Hong says this?" ”

Hearing this, Hong Chengchou smiled and said: "I don't want to do anything, in fact, I want to make a deal with your county throne!" ”

"Buying and selling?"

Li Deqian looked at Hong Chengchou and frowned slightly, Hong Chengchou smiled: "That's right, exchange Hong's next loyalty for Lantian's support!" ”

Li Deqian looked at Hong Chengchou and said, "What kind of support?" ”

Hong Chengchou said: "I don't want anything else, I only need five thousand grenades, as long as you give me the grenades, after this battle, I will be loyal to the loyal dog of your county, and I will never repeat, how!" ”

Hearing this, Li Deqian looked at Hong Chengchou and said, "Five thousand grenades, this price is not low!" ”

Hong Chengchou said with a smile: "Five thousand grenades, buy a Ming minister who is both civil and military, this price is fair, I don't believe you go back and ask your county zun, if you are willing, Hong will give this hundred and ten catties to the county zun!" ”

Li Deqian looked at Hong Chengchou and said, "What you say is what you say?" If these 5,000 grenades are given to you, are you really willing to serve my county? ”

Hong Chengchou said: "Hong is a shameless person, learn literature and martial arts well, sell goods to the emperor's family, I didn't sell it at a good price in the Zhu family, so when I came to your county, I hope your county will give me a good price first!" ”

Li Deqian looked at Hong Chengchou and said: "That's it, since you say so, I won't refute you, I should undertake this deal, when are you going to ask for this batch of grenades?" ”

Hong Chengchou heard this: "The sooner the better." ”

Li Deqian said: "In three days, 5,000 grenades were served. ”

Hong Chengchou arched his hand and said, "Thank you!" ”

Three days later, five thousand grenades were sent to Hong Chengchou's command, and when Hong Chengchou saw the five thousand grenades, a smile appeared on his face and said: "Thank you, go back and tell the county to thank him." ”

After Hong Chengchou said this, Li Deqian always felt that there was something in this old guy's words, as if something bad was going to happen, but he didn't ask openly.

Two days later, Hong Chengchou sent troops, from the Shanhaiguan Ma Ke from Xingshan to the first attack on the Qing army, after the Qin army was attacked, Huang Taiji immediately sent the red flag Dai Shan to face the frontal battle, looking at the Ma Ke who was beaten and suffered heavy casualties.

The obese Huang Taiji looked at Dolgon, who was looking at the military map, and said, "What does the fourteenth brother think the purpose of the Ming army's move?" ”

Dolgon is much more stable at this time than a few years ago, and because of the loss of Naturalization City to Li Chaohu last time, his Zhengbai Banner was deprived of several Niu Lu's men and horses by Huang Taiji, and he was also called by Huang Taiji to his side, becoming an existence similar to a military advisor, which seems to be reused, but in fact, Huang Taiji is guarding against Dolgon.

Huang Taiji's body is getting worse and worse, and his body obesity has brought many sequelae, such as blood coming out of his nose when he speaks, which is obviously not a long-term appearance.

And now the two most capable people in the Manchu Qing should be Dolgon and his son Haoge, but Haoge is rude, less wise, and although he is good at fighting, his political talent is far from Dolgon, so Huang Taiji wants to kill Dolgon, but now the situation in the Manchu Qing is not optimistic.

Although Daming is a soft persimmon, and they are also very happy to fight in the country of sticks, but Mongolia was pressed to the ground by Lantian that Li Chaohu to fight, Lantian's army is too strong, it is simply their nemesis, Lantian everyone is equipped with flintlock pistols, that kind of gun is fast, long-range, high accuracy, they used to rely on the survival of the cavalry charge, that was Lantian trampled on the ground and rubbed, often they did not rush to the Lantian position, they were killed by Lantian bursts of muskets in the middle of the way.

Even if Jianzhou Erlang is brave and not afraid of death, he will shudder when he sees Lantian harvesting his life like harvesting wheat!

Fear is also inevitable, so it can be said that Jianzhou is currently in Liaodong, and it has its own advantages in Bangzi Island, only in Mongolia, and the disadvantage is very great, so even if Huang Taiji doesn't like Dolgon in every way, he still can't kill Dolgon, at this time, they may not be able to beat Lantian when united, if they kill Dolgon, one of the few smart people in the court, I am afraid that the Manchu dynasty will end here.

Therefore, for the long-term existence of this regime, Huang Taiji is unwilling and helpless, and he can't kill Dorgon, he can only hope that this Dolgon is still loyal enough to himself.

In fact, Dolgon is not stupid, he also knows that he is a thorn in the side of Huang Taiji, but there is no way, Huang Taiji is the emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and he is just a prince, he is still not enough to see in front of Huang Taiji, he can only keep his eyes on it.

"Your Majesty, my brother thinks that this is Hong Chengchou's plan to attack the west! Its killer move is not in Xingshan, but in other places. ”

At this moment, sure enough, a herald came to report: "In the rear of the army, there is the soldiers and horses of Wu Sangui, the general soldier of Ningyuan, who are attacking the flank. ”

When Huang Taiji heard this, the corners of his mouth curled and said: "The fourteenth brother really has no last resort. ”

Dorgon heard this: "No, this is not Hong Chengchou's main force, and the imperial brother doesn't need to send too many people." ”

When Huang Taiji heard this, he directly sent Amin with a blue flag to resist Wu Sangui's charge.

At this time, Dolgon said: "Your Majesty, now that we have sent two banners of men, Hong Chengchou will definitely feel that our base camp is empty, and I am afraid that he will come to attack the camp." ”

Huang Taiji heard this: "What are you afraid of, I will personally face him." ”

But after saying this, Huang Taiji's nose began to bleed, and the maid on the side immediately covered Huang Taiji's nose with a handkerchief and shouted: "Hurry up and invite the great shaman, Your Majesty has a nosebleed again." ”

Dolgon looked at Huang Taiji with his head down and still looked submissive, Huang Taiji covered his nose, looked at Dolgon coldly, and for a moment all the murderous intent in his eyes converged and said: "It seems that I can't go, the fourteenth brother will go on my behalf." ”

"Yes."

Dolgon obviously felt the murderous aura in Huang Taiji's eyes, but he didn't say anything, just nodded respectfully, turned around and took the two banner soldiers of Zhengbai and inlaid white, to meet the enemy, and soon met Hong Chengchou who was ready to sneak attack, the two sides had a big battle, Hong Chengchou was defeated and retreated to Songshan.

And Li Deqian watched the whole battle, but he didn't find that Hong Chengchou used grenades, where did the five thousand grenades go?

Li Deqian didn't know what Hong Chengchou was selling, anyway, in this wave of decisive battles, Hong Chengchou's side suffered more than 10,000 casualties, which was a big defeat, and soon the news spread to the capital.

Chongzhen was angry when he looked at the war report sent by him, and roared to replace Hong Chengchou, but none of the Manchu civil and military forces agreed, the reason is very simple, the situation in Liaodong is now dangerous, whoever you let take over will be sent to death, or let Hong Chengchou stand up to the thunder alone.

So Chongzhen said that he wanted to remove Hong Chengchou, but no one was willing, and in the end he had to do nothing, but the finances have collapsed, if you don't solve Liaodong, the imperial court will have no money to quell the rebellion, Li Zicheng is about to break the Jinan Mansion, and the political envoy of Shandong sends three letters for help a day, what do you let Chongzhen do.

In the end, Zhou Yanru came forward and said this, the household department will find a way to squeeze out some money, Your Majesty, you will also take out some money from the inside, let's gather all the general soldiers, gather in Jinzhou and Hong Chengchou to defeat Jiannu, only in this way can we solve the problem, if it drags on for a long time, it will be a waste of money, please Chongzhen think twice.

Chongzhen really had no choice but to hear this, gritted his teeth and agreed, and took out 300,000 taels of silver from the inside, and the imperial court scraped together enough 300,000 taels of silver and sent it to the Ministry of War, so that the Ministry of War immediately dropped all the heavy troops in the north to support Hong Chengchou and win the battle!

So half a month later, in order to save the crisis in Liaodong, the Ming Dynasty Military Department issued an order to recruit Yang Guozhu, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, Wang Pu, the chief soldier of Datong, Tang Tong, the chief soldier of Miyun, Bai Guangen, the chief soldier of Jizhou, Cao Bianjiao, the chief soldier of Yutian, Wang Yanchen, the chief soldier of the former tun, plus the general soldier of Shanhaiguan Ma Ke, the general soldier of Ningyuan, Wu Sangui, a total of 130,000 elite soldiers led by the general army of the Eighth Road, gathered with the generation of Songshan in Jinzhou, and prepared to fight with the Qing soldiers!

After Huang Taiji learned the news, he immediately transferred two banners from Shengjing to gather near Songshan, and in the middle of Songshan and Xingshan, the Ming army set up camp in the south!

And sent Zierharang to lead ZLQ to attack the outer layer of Jinzhou, cut off the supply line to and from Songshan, and forced Hong Chengchou to fight a decisive battle with him, Hong Chengchou saw this, summoned the eight chief military officers to swear in front of the army, and said that the blood feud between the Ming Dynasty and Jiannu for decades was reported today, and drank blood and wine with the eight general soldiers, and swore to advance and retreat together, and live and die together!

The next day, Hong Chengchou personally led the army to prepare for a decisive battle with Jiannu!

(End of chapter)