Chapter 074: Losing His Left Arm

"Li Sizhong?" Chen Cao frowned: "As far as I know, your Li family doesn't seem to have this person?" ”

Li Wan'er looked displeased: "He is my grandfather's cousin family, Fushun fell, my Li family suffered a catastrophe, their family is in Fushun, Li Sizhong did a lot of things for the Tartar after Li Ruzhen surrendered, and he participated in the fall of Tieling." ”

Chen Cao then remembered that Li Wan'er would be embarrassed at that time, and she didn't answer when she asked to death, and there were only two female dependents in the room, Zhang Chunyao and Xiaochun, so Chen Cao said: "Thinking of Ning Yuanbo's merits, I think Your Majesty will not ask about the sins of your Li family, so you don't have to worry." ”

Saying that, Chen Cao took off his armor with the help of Zhang Chunyao, and then looked relaxed: "Chunyao, in the future, Wan'er will be the same generation as your sister Xiang'er, you have to remember it." ”

Zhang Chunyao squatted down towards Li Wan'er again: "Sister Wan'er..."

Li Wan'er was used to hearing Zhang Chunyao's bad words in the house, and her impression of Zhang Chunyao was not too good: "You're polite." ”

July 26

Chen Cao's department, which had been wandering in the inner bay of the Daling River, received a large number of remnants of the defeated army on the shore, and because there were too many of them, they had to go to the nearby Juehua Island and place these people on it.

"I heard that it was Sun Degong who ran back to Guangning City, talking about the defeat ahead, and the Tartar pursuers followed, and Governor Wang bumped into Lord Xiong in Luyang, and was ridiculed by Lord Xiong."

Chen Cao still has reservations about Zu Dashou, a traitor in history, although this guy has repeatedly surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, but it is also forced by the situation, if the situation is favorable to the Ming Dynasty, Zu Dashou will not be cleared in Jinzhou.

"Uncle," Zu Dashou was a little embarrassed: "The last generals are all cavalry, so they run faster." ”

"You don't have to worry," Chen Cao waved his hand: "Benbo is also defeated, you can understand." ”

Zu Dashou was even more embarrassed, because before the defeat of Xipingbao, Chen Cao's defeat was resisting the attack of the Tartars, and he followed Sun Degong before he drew his knife after arriving, and Wang Huazhen spent tens of thousands of taels of silver to build him The three thousand cavalry was useless, and all of them ran to Juehua Island.

"How is Quang Ninh now?"

Zu Dashou said embarrassedly: "Lord Wang retreated first, Lord Xiong covered the people of Liaodong to retreat to Guannei, the Tartar cavalry has been pursuing behind, and all towns, forts, villages and other military strongholds have been withdrawn. ”

"If Guangning loses, the imperial court loses its left arm," Xing Shenyan, a counselor of the Economic Strategy, sighed.

During the retreat, because of the panic, he was separated with a small number of family members and Xiong Tingbi's large army, but fortunately he was with Zu Dashou and was brought to Juehua Island under his protection.

The Tartars did not have ships, although Zu Dashou had 3,000 cavalry, but they were trapped on the isolated island, and the Tartars only sent troops to guard the shore, and did not care, after all, it was still important for the whole Quang Ninh.

"Guangning is all over..."Chen Cao sighed, this is a butterfly effect, if Sun Degong does not rebel, he will not give up Guangning City, Wang Huazhen will not run, and Xiong Tingbi will not follow.

Fortunately, Chen Cao knew some history, and knew that the Qing soldiers withdrew after reaching Shanhaiguan, plundering the people and grain of the entire Guangning land along the way, making the entire western Liaoning a wasteland, and the Tartars and Mongols ran away at will.

"The hateful Uliangha Mongols actually attacked us together with the Tartars," Xing Shenyan is a civilian official, and he is most annoyed by the kind of people who eat inside and out: "The 400,000 Mongolian cavalry promised by Lin Dan Khan also deceived us, and they sent 10,000 troops, and ran away after the fall of Guangning City." ”

"Lord Xing, if you are not of my race, your heart will be different..."Chen Cao sighed as he spoke.

"Uncle, when are we leaving?" Zhao Xin asked.

"Withdraw?" Chen Cao looked around at the various high-ranking officials and generals present, and then shook his head: "You want to go back and be questioned?" ”

Civil officials have always had the saying that if they lose land, they will die, Xing Shenyan did not learn from Gao Bangzuo to commit suicide in Luyang, but followed the escape and was afraid of death, Chen Cao did not have a few serious henchmen and civil officials, but at this moment it was a great opportunity to buy Xing Shenyan.

Then he asked: "Lord Xing, the people of Liaoxi are not guilty, Ben Bo is ready to regroup, and after the Tartars retreat, he will make up for his mistakes, I don't know if Lord Xing has any ideas?" ”

Zu Dashou smelled the smell immediately, he is not a fool, he is under the command of Wang Huazhen, Wang Huazhen, as the governor of Liaodong, lost Guangning City, he must be guilty, and he himself can't escape, so he should give it up first: "Uncle, the last general is a warrior, blindly running away is to disgrace our warriors, and the last general is willing to follow the uncle with 3,000 cavalry under his command to make up for the merits." ”

Zu Dashou is a smart person, Chen Cao prefers this kind of person who knows the times, and although this guy's reputation in history is not good, he does have two brushes in battle, especially in the use of cavalry.

"Well, Ben Bo was originally the governor of the southern army to aid Liao, if he didn't make any achievements and went back, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to save face with this nobleman." Chen Cao nodded.

Xing Shenyan's brain is still good, Wang Huazhen and Xiong Tingbi have replaced the previous Liaodong officials, the defeat of Guangning The imperial court will definitely choose a few scapegoats, he is Xiong Tingbi's senator, to be honest, once Xiong Tingbi has an accident, he can't run away at all: "Ding Wubo, Xia Guan is willing to make up for his merits here with Ding Wubo." ”

"Okay," Chen Cao clapped his hands: "It just so happens that Ben Bo is short of a few people who are familiar with the situation in Liaodong, and with you and Zu Dashou here, Ben Bo feels that he has helped." ”

"Uncle is really polite." Zu Dashou arched his hand.

"Uncle," Xu Kaixian walked into the big tent: "Juehua Island counselor Jin Guan asks to see." ”

Jin Guan is also a native of Liaodong, and he guards Juehua Island as a general: "The last general, Jin Guan, has seen Uncle Dingwu." ”

Chen Cao raised his hand: "General Jin is polite, I don't know who General Jin belongs to?" ”

"The last general is under the command of Governor Wang."

No wonder...

"General Kim, how many people do you have?"

The golden crown arched his hand: "Uncle Hui, there will be 1,800 boat masters on Juehua Island." ”

"What do you mean?" Chen Cao frowned and looked at him.

"The last general will be trapped on Juehua Island, there will be no way out, it is better to follow the uncle." Golden Crown laughed as he spoke.

Feelings are indeed looking for backers.

Chen Cao nodded: "Yes, there is just a shortage of people, and you will have something to do in the future." ”

"Uncle Xie..."

Chen Cao took advantage of this free time to hurry to the barracks, the losses of the whole army were too great this time, and Song Che was registering the casualties in each guard station.

"Shi Xiu," Chen Cao walked into the camp: "What's the matter, is the statistics out?" ”

"Just wait to find you," Song Che held the booklet in his hand, and then handed it to Chen Cao: "My guard killed one thousand households, three deputy thousand households, seventeen hundred households, thirteen general banners, and one hundred and twenty-four small banners; Of the 1,762 dead and wounded, 238 were seriously wounded, 722 were lightly wounded, and 27 were missing. ”

Chen Cao frowned, looked at the document and said: "The number of casualties in the whole guard is two thousand seven hundred and forty-nine, reaching two-thirds," Chen Cao looked up at Song Che: "There are less than three thousand people who can fight, the proportion of casualties is too large, what about other guards?" ”

Song Che continued: "There are 1,232 people left in Songjiang Wei Quanwei, and the general only has one commander, Wang Xiaojie, and one commander, and the rest of the commanders and commanders are all killed, and the whereabouts of the commander Tian Xiaonian are unknown;

There were 4,210 people left in Yangzhou, and there were no casualties among the commanders and schools, and 17 casualties among the generals and schools below 1,000 households at all levels;

Zhenjiangwei had 2,400 people left, and the commander Zhang Da escaped from the battle, and he had been arrested, and the rest of the officials suffered 31 casualties;

There were 3,100 men left in Dahewei, and 57 casualties among the officials and schools;

There were 2,820 Guanhaiwei left, and 124 casualties in the official academy. ”

Chen Cao listened carefully, then looked at Song Che and said, "Command the servants to escape from the battle, and correct the law on the spot." ”

"Yes..."

Chen Cao thought for a while: "By the way, didn't we gather a lot of defeated soldiers at all levels in Liaodong?" Replenish on the spot, they are all veterans, as long as they have money to fight, it is a trivial matter, except for our right guard, the rest of the five guards will all complete the soldiers. ”

"Okay..."Song Che nodded.

July 30

"Uncle," Zhao Xin leaned to Chen Cao's side: "Urgent report, Jingluo Xiong Tingbi, Governor Wang Huazhen, Inspector Sun Chengzong and others all retreated into Shanhaiguan, and the Tartars have been beaten under the Guancheng of Shanhaiguan, and now the entire Liaodong is in the hands of the Tartars." ”

"So fast?" Chen Cao frowned: "What about the people? ”

"The subordinates were about to talk about this," Zhao Xin's face was solemn: "The Tartars have captured more than 100,000 people along the way, and they are on their way to Shenyang." As he spoke, he lowered his head and said: "Wan Qing has sent news, saying that the Tartars are likely to kill those old and weak women and children along the way, and the location is said in two places, the mouth of the Shuangtaizi River and the mouth of the Da Liao River. ”

Seeing Chen Cao's frowning, Zhao Xin added: "Wan Qing's meaning, the Tartars think that these people are delaying their time and wasting food, so they don't need to bury them after being executed at the estuary, they just throw them into the estuary and then rush into the sea. ”

Chen Cao raised his head: "When will our baggage boat arrive?" ”

"It should be soon, after the uncle got on the ship, he let them go back to Jinling to transport ammunition, if it goes well, they can arrive in ten days."

Chen Cao looked at Zhao Xin and said: "The Tartars can't go fast with so many heavy people, you go and contact Wan Qing to see if you can figure out which estuary they are doing, and we can save them." ”

"Yes..."

August 10

"Uncle," Zhao Xin walked quickly to Chen Cao's big tent: "Our baggage boat has arrived, and," he said, taking out the secret letter from his arms: "The Tartars drove the people to the mouth of the Shuangtaizi River yesterday, according to the orders of the uncle, we sank a lot of civilian boats there, Wan Qing said, the Tartars have decided to slaughter the people of our dynasty tomorrow at the mouth of the Daliao River, a total of more than 40,000..."

"So much?" Chen Cao raised his eyebrows: "The news is accurate?" ”

Zhao Xin nodded: "It's true, that's what the letter says, the Tartars know that we are on Juehua Island, but it seems that there are spies on the island, and they told the Tartars about our actual situation, Wan Qing said that the slave chief directly said in front of a group of generals that the uncle's army had no artillery and musket ammunition, and he didn't dare to go ashore at all, and he also knew that our establishment was disabled, so they had already left, and only sent 5,000 cavalry and 20,000 clothed troops to escort the people." ”

"It is said that every military defeat in our Ming Dynasty has the help of a traitor, I didn't think it before, but now it seems that there are really a lot of people who secretly do it," Chen Cao rarely burst into foul language, but he was also so elegant: "The matter of the traitor let Wan Qing carefully screen it, by the way, did our people break into the inside of the Tartar?" ”

Zhao Xin looked left and right, and saw that there was no one in the tent, so he whispered: "The subordinates have asked Liu Shouwen to take a group of people to shave their hair and change clothes, and mixed into the team of the Tartars, and Wan Qing secretly helped and planted them in each flag." ”

"Okay," Chen Cao nodded: "You did a good job, do you have any valuable news?" ”

"This time, the three guards of Uliangha sent 40,000 troops to help the Tartars take advantage of the fire to rob and loot the four cities, six forts and seventeen villages in Guangning, because they were too greedy, and there was a conflict with the slave chieftain, and the slave chief took advantage of this opportunity to solve the Hetao occupied by Uliangha in one go, and he had already led a large army to conquer Uliangha," Zhao Xin said and said: "Lin Dan Khan because of 10,000 soldiers and horses, the slave chief has a grudge and is ready to go to conquer Lin Dan Khan after conquering Uliangha. ”

Chen Cao felt that Nurhachi was a little bold: "Their tired teacher, so bold? ”

Zhao Xin shook his head and said: "Uncle doesn't know, the Tartars hit the city of Shanhaiguan, and the Mongolian tribes went to join Cheng. ”

"Oh..."Chen Cao suddenly realized: "The Tartar attack on Duoyan Sanwei is to deter the Mongolian tribes, Zhao Xin, it seems that I have to make another plan." ”

"Uncle, when are we going to act? It takes a day to get from Kyaw Hwa Island at the earliest. Zhao Xin gave up.

Chen Cao stood up: "Immediately send an order, all the troops on Juehua Island will board the ship and immediately go to the mouth of the Da Liao River." ”

"Yes..."

...

The slaughter order was ordered, and the two brothers who were in charge happened to be Cherge and Adahai, the two brothers suffered a big loss from Chen Cao, and their anger could only be used among these unarmed civilians, and it was the first time for Cherge to do such a thing.

Fei Yingdong's son can't get revenge, and he is also assigned to the task of slaughter, in short, it is all about killing, no matter who he kills.

"Suo Hai," Cherge found Suo Hai, who was escorting, "The Great Khan's order is to complete the task within three days, there are too many people, it is better to drive them all to the mouth of the Great Liao River and drown them." ”

Suo Hai thought for a while and nodded: "It makes sense, let's end the matter here as soon as possible, and then retreat to Shenyang, Amma's aftermath still needs to be dealt with." ”

"In this case, act quickly, I will let the minions go to Adahai and deal with these Ming dogs as soon as possible."

The mouth of the Da Liao River is relatively wide, and as soon as Chen Cao's fleet arrived, he saw that the Tartars were driving the crowd into the sea.

Seeing the fleet at sea, Ada Hai immediately went to find Cherge: "Brother, Minggou's fleet." ”

Cherge raised his eyes, and then smiled: "They don't dare to go ashore, the Great Khan said that the Ming Dog's fleet has no artillery supplies, and they don't dare to go ashore without cavalry, besides, if they dare to go ashore, we will stay here, don't forget, their cannons are all thrown at Xiping Fort." ”