Holding Chu Fan's hand, Qin Hong kept rubbing the marks from the shackles, and said distressedly: "Don't let me find out which god is killing you, he will definitely behead the whole house." ”

Chu Fan smiled, pinched Qin Hong's face and said, "If you don't commit crimes, why bother your family, but have you thought about it, who is harming me?" ”

"This is really not clear, it stands to reason that most of the people you offended are speech officials, and speech officials scold people to scold people, but it is really unnecessary to harm you by this means, they scold you just to earn a reputation, why work so hard?"

"yes, I think so, who is it? There's no need for an official, follow the trend and scold me for a few words to earn a reputation, what should you do, why do you want me to die? It's really embarrassing for this person to be thinking about forging letters. ”

"Anyway, I've been investigating, what the situation will be when the time comes, let's act on the opportunity." Qin Hong Nunu mouthed, leaning on Chu Fan.

For a few days, Sun He brought people to interrogate Chu Fan, Chu Fan naturally would not take everything on his body like in Dongchang, 1510 and Sun He explained clearly, and Sun He of course also had 1510 records.

After the daily arraignment, Qin Hong guarded Chu Fan as usual, and the little couple were happy in prison.

When the whole court of the Ming Dynasty was paying attention to the Chu Fan case, Hou Jin and Cibo Jun were not idle.

On that day, Nurhachi was transferred from the mountain and chased to Shanhaiguan, but let Chu Fan's large army go, so that all the Ming army safely withdrew to the capital.

Under the anger of Nurhachi, he rushed into the empty city of Ningyuan, and burned a lot, which not only vented his anger, but also provoked the Ming Dynasty.

But Chu Fan was not there, but Wu Weizhong was very cautious, neither going out to fight at the customs, nor showing his head to harass, and quietly stationed at Shanhaiguan.

After Chu Fan led the team back to Beijing, he handed over the troops to Wu Weizhong, and after ten days of repair, Wu Weizhong sent the troops to Shanhaiguan and Datong to defend, after all, this was already the last line of defense of the Ming Dynasty. Nurhachi completed the repair in Ningyuan City, and the second wave army also completed the reorganization, and Governor Konishi contained the second wave army that had run away and scattered and reorganized it.

The Japanese and Jinjin armies were ready to go, and Wu Weizhong and Wang Zheng were preparing intensively for war at Shanhaiguan and Datong respectively.

The first to find the door was not the Jin army, which had already been prepared, but the second wave army.

Although the second wave army suffered heavy losses in Ningyuan, but the speed of gathering is also very fast, looking at the second wave army since the Battle of Pyongyang, there is a very big characteristic, dispersed quickly, assembled quickly, how to fight, how to be afraid, but soon can strengthen confidence and attack the Ming Dynasty again.

This has to see some clues from the character of the people of Cibo.

Jibo Island, under the tip of the mouth of a Chinese chicken, is surrounded by the sea on all sides, like a worm floating on water.

Therefore, the Cibo Chinese people, who began to study Chinese culture in 300 B.C., learned various cultures such as Confucianism and Buddhism from China, but they never learned Taoist culture.

Taoist culture teaches us to take a step back and open the sky.

We can retreat, the vast continent, even the most tragic Yuan Dynasty, the Han people were forced to retreat to the seaside, but in the end they still retained this great nation.

But the people of Cibo, you let him open the sky? Where do you let him go?

He had no way back but to keep expanding.

This is also the reason why the people of Cibo have always lived cautiously and constantly coveted Chinese mainland.

For them, not advancing – is retreating.

Therefore, the second wave army actually advanced Nurhachi and advanced the army outside the Shanhai Pass.

Shanhaiguan, the old dragon head, is located in the modern Qinhuangdao City, the east city tower is near the sea, the west city tower connects the Great Wall directly to Datong, the south is the Ming Dynasty pass, the north is now the territory controlled by the second wave army, the city pass is magnificent and strong, the ancient name is "the first pass of the Great Wall of the world", the legendary Meng Jiangnu cried down is this Great Wall.

Wu Weizhong led 20,000 Qi family troops, and 2,000 soldiers of the guard station who were originally stationed at Shanhaiguan, and stuck to the city wall.

After the Battle of Ningyuan, the second wave army lost nearly 100,000 people, but even so, it still pressed the border with ten times the strength of the Ming army.

After the last battle, Wu Weizhong learned a lot of new skills, what fire hooks, quilt incendiary bombs, although the troops are very small at this time, but with the help of the sturdiness and height of the Shanhaiguan city wall, Wu Weizhong is still gearing up to wait for the second wave of troops to attack.

The second wave army didn't know where Chu Fan was at this time, looking at the towering city wall in front of him, and also knew the strength of the Ming army, so he didn't rush to attack, but stationed five miles outside the city, waiting for an opportunity.

When the Houjin troops learned that the Cibo army had arrived at Shanhaiguan, they immediately set out from Ningyuan City and attacked Datong.

The atmosphere in the court became tense again.

"Zhu Aiqing, what is the best plan?"

Yang Hao, the secretary of the military department, walked out of the train and arched his hand: "Your Majesty, at present, the 20,000 elite soldiers mobilized by Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Liangguang have achieved results in training in the capital, and they have been initially reorganized into the Weijing Army, and His Majesty plans to divide the Weijing Army into two and send them to Shanhaiguan and Datong respectively to assist in defense. ”

When the military department Shangshu said this, what else could others say? After all, the Manchu Dynasty can't find anyone who understands military affairs, and the only one who understands is now in prison.

In fact, Mr. Yang Hao is not a good commander, and he cannot be said to know anything about military affairs, or he can be said to have no understanding at all.

After all, the experienced generals basically died on the battlefield in Liaodong, and Shi Xing and Chu Fan were degraded officials and imprisoned.

There are no available ministers in the court, Wanli sighed from the bottom of his heart, there have been farces over the years, since the death of Mr. Zhang Juzheng, there is only one Chu Fan left to maintain the dynasty, but there is still the possibility of rebellion and rebellion.

No way, since there is no other opinion, then do it, and soon the Qi family army was sent to Shanhaiguan and Datong Mansion.

This Uncle Yang's military strategy is to completely cause a big disaster.

The Qi family army had less than 30,000 people in total, and more than 10,000 on each side, almost all of them arrived at the same time as the Jin army.

The most dangerous thing this time is in the direction of Datong.

At present, Datong only has more than 10,000 Tibetan soldiers, 6,000 original guards, plus a few thousand people supported by Ganzhou Wei, a total of 20,000 troops, plus the support of the Qi army, it is only 30,000.

Although the number of people is slightly larger than that of Shanhaiguan, the city wall of Datong is low, and the city fortifications are not as good as Shanhaiguan.

On the other hand, the second wave army on the side of Shanhaiguan was very frightened by the last blow, and the attack was not strong.

In the battle a few days ago, Datong fought extremely fiercely, both sides suffered certain losses, Nurhachi lost in Ningyuan, and this time he was desperate to find face, so the attack was very strong.

The second wave army on this side of Shanhaiguan is a night attack every time, sneaking close while it is dark, once the Ming army finds it early, it immediately retreats, not a sincere fight, but a constant temptation.

But in the following days, the situation changed subtly.

After a few days of strong attack, Nurhachi fell into depression again, the Ming army could not hold out, with the advantage of the city wall, always stubbornly resisted, every charge had more than 1,000 firecrackers sent by Ganzhou Wei to attack from a long distance, lost a lot of people, finally hit the city wall with bullets, were desperately driven down by the heroic Ming soldiers.

The loss of so many people in each attack was significantly smaller than that of Nurhachi in the Ming army.

The situation in Datong became more and more unfavorable for the Jin army, and Nurhachi decided to suspend the attack.

And on the side of Shanhaiguan, after several night raids, the second wave army found a problem, although the Qi family army here also has firearms, but the number is obviously insufficient, and there are no new tricks, Konishi Xingchang deduced from this that Chu Fan is not in Shanhaiguan, he must be in Datong, so the attack of the second wave army gradually began to fierce, and the defenders of Shanhaiguan gradually fell into disadvantage.

As the saying goes, blessings are incomparable, disasters are not one-way, and bizarre things always catch people off guard.

The Jin army, which had obviously fallen to the upper hand on the Datong side, stopped the attack, but sent a messenger to send a letter to persuade the defenders to surrender.

On the other side, the Ming army, which was obviously inferior, also sent a letter to persuade the second wave army to surrender.

This kind of behavior makes people puzzled, why would someone persuade the other party to surrender when they lose?

Stationed in Datong is the Tianshui Wei Admiral Wang Zheng, although Chu Fan promoted him to Datong as the deputy chief soldier when he was in office, but this time Chu Fan was not implicated in the accident, the reason is very simple, there is no general to change.

Datong, as the two major gateways, is the main target of the attack of the Jin-Ri coalition army, and everyone knows that it is pure nonsense to use tens of thousands of people to block the enemy's hundreds of thousands of troops here, so whoever the military department points to is shirked, and even would rather resign than carry this black pot.

After all, as long as you go, or die on the city wall, even if you don't die, you will not escape the crime of escaping.

And the guard of Shanhaiguan is Wu Weizhong, the chief soldier of the Qi family's army.

Tactics, the art of fighting, if you talk about it, these two defenders are very artistic.

The Later Jin army became more and more difficult, and it was so difficult that Nurhachi lost his mind and went crazy, so he actually persuaded the Ming army to surrender, expecting a miracle.

And how shrewd is the guard Wang Zheng, who can win the battle, how can he come to persuade him to surrender? Obviously you can't beat it, scare me.

And Wu Weizhong of Shanhaiguan wrote a letter to the second wave army to persuade the second wave army to surrender, using a bizarre trick.

Wu Weizhong said in the letter that now Chu Fan is in command in the capital, and if he can't resist it, Chu Fan will go directly to the front line to command the battle, and advise the Cibo State to either surrender or retreat, otherwise Chu Fan will come.

This trick really worked, and the second wave army immediately stopped the attack.

Chu Fan's deterrent power in the second wave army is indeed not just talking, just a letter, saying Chu Fan's two words, can make the second wave army stop attacking, I don't know what Emperor Wanli will think when he knows this scene.

Governor Konishi is a smart man, before coming to the Ming Dynasty, he was a standout, with an army of 400,000 pressing the border, if it weren't for the Houjin Army just behind the Cibo Army, he must not have formed an alliance with others casually.

However, after the alliance, the original Polish army was still superior in numbers, but because it was heavily damaged by the Ming army in Ningyuan, it lost nearly 100,000 people, and its strength at this time can only be said to be on par with Houjin.

But you can't lose any more, if you lose again, even if you win in the future, you will lack bargaining chips, how to carve up the Ming Dynasty is not a strong decision?

Therefore, he was cautious in attacking Shanhaiguan this time, and he deliberately preserved his strength.

This letter told Governor Konishi that no matter whether what Wu Weizhong said was true or not, there was an essential problem that the Houjin army must be consumed, otherwise he would not be able to take the initiative in capturing the capital in the future.

Immediately repair a letter and send someone to Houjin, urging Houjin to fight quickly.

But as Nurhachi, who has been dealing with the Ming Dynasty, it is certainly impossible to be worse than Konishi Yukinaga in terms of intelligence, and as soon as he received the letter, he scolded him.

"Hmph, these widows have a lot of ghost eyes, and they want me to rush forward, so he can sit and reap the benefits."

Nurhachi knows very well that the situation is in his best interest right now.

Originally, the Polish army was the most victorious and had the most troops, but Ningyuan fought a battle, and the losses were huge, and now the strength was on par with himself, and the Ming army at Shanhaiguan was the least

As soon as the customs are broken, the Datong Ming army will naturally shrink back and rush to the aid of the capital, and they can completely reap the benefits.

Both of them have their own little ninety-nine, and this kind of cooperation will be problematic.

As a result, both Shanhaiguan and Datong went out.

The second wave army on the side of Shanhaiguan is slightly better, after all, there is the strategic support of the second wave country behind it, plus the newly occupied North Korea continues to provide grain and grass, and the second wave army is waiting for Datong to break the city.

Then the Jin troops were much more miserable, nomads, there was no habit of strategic support, they all grabbed wherever they went, their wives and children were all with them, and they waited for the men to rob and come back to make a living. After taking Ning Yuan before, he originally wanted to loot it, but when he entered the city, he found an empty city.

Previously, there was not much grain and grass left to eat from Liaodong, but now it is blocked outside Datong, in the vast desert, and even a larger mouse cannot be found, let alone food. Faced with the threat of grain and grass, Nurhachi was restless, and he probably couldn't wait for Shanhaiguan to break the city.

Nurhachi, who was pacing back and forth in the big tent, suddenly laughed, it turned out to be his favorite concubine Yehenara who came to bring him food with a big belly.

The Yehenara clan was the great nobles of the later Qing Dynasty, characterized by the abundance of queen mothers, and the one in front of him was the daughter of the leader of the Yehe tribe, Zhezhe.

Zhezhe is an out-and-out smart woman, although she was forced to marry Nurhachi, but for the benefit of the clan, she endured humiliation, and worked hard to meet Nurhachi, and gradually became Nurhachi's favorite concubine, at this time it was the first time to be pregnant, but she refused to be idle, according to the usual daily to send snacks to Huang Taiji, take care of Huang Taiji's daily life.

There are many women in Huang Taiji, but there are few sensible ones, most of them are nomadic girls' personalities, straightforward, but rude.

Zhezhe, a sensible and intelligent woman with some literary talents, is like a dazzling diamond in the nomadic tribe, shining brightly.

"The Great Khan has any troubles today, and he can't open his brows."

Nurhachi laughed: "It's okay, what's wrong with me? I don't think it's hard to see you, I just want you to give me a brother as soon as possible. ”

"The Great Khan laughed, he hasn't been born yet, how do you know it's Brother"

"Well, the wizard said, it must be an elder brother, an elder brother with a long life."

Zhezhe touched his stomach and said leisurely: "Hey, I wish it was a Gege, if it is Gege, I will marry when I grow up, and the daughter of the Great Khan will not be bullied, and I will be happy in this life." ”

"What's wrong with Brother? Isn't it also my son, who dares to bully? ”

"Of course someone bullied, he still has so many brothers."

Nurhachi laughed and said, "How can my brother bully my younger brother? Fujin, don't worry. ”

"How not? Mang Gurtai even killed his biological mother, let alone his younger brother? I'm really worried. ”

"No, don't worry, I have my own way to protect you and Little Brother, whoever dares to bully him, I will punish him."

"Great Khan, if you let the little brother not be bullied, you can protect him more, cultivate him well, and cultivate him like a successor, so that everyone will respect him when they see him."

"That's natural, the brother you gave birth to me, of course I have to double my protection and not let others bully."

"Then you have to promise me, if it's an elder brother, you have to treat him well and train him well."

"That's nature!" As he spoke, Nurhachi took Zhezhe into his arms.

Of course, Nurhachi understood this sentence, that is, to let this child inherit the great unification in the future and train him as a successor.

In fact, there is no need for Zhezhe to say, Nurhachi also thinks so.

The Jin people have not been unified for a hundred years, and they have always fought separately in tribal units.

It is the embodiment of the nobility of the tribal leader, and Zhezhe's father is the leader of Yehenara, Nurhachi naturally likes this unborn child the most, plus Zhezhe himself is smart and virtuous, and he is deeply loved by Nurhachi, so he is very much looking forward to the birth of this little brother.

"Great Khan, but worried about the war?" Zhezhe, who was taken into his arms, said against Nurhachi's face.

"Hey, this group of turtle grandsons, just don't beat hard, for fear of suffering, let me take advantage, every day I write letters urging me to attack the city, hum, all the grains eaten, why did he eat Xiaoxi Xingchang smart? Why should I fight with my life? ”

"But I think that if the Great Khan wants to win the world, he must have enough energy."

"What do you mean by that?" Nurhachi couldn't help but be a little curious.

"Great Khan, if you want to win the world, you can't have a dislike with the coalition forces, and sometimes you even have to take the initiative to give credit to the coalition forces, and you can't just look at your own interests." "Then Fujin thinks that at this time, Shanhaiguan and Datong have already fought a stalemate, what should I do?"

"The Great Khan might as well stabilize Datong first, divide his troops and attack Shanhaiguan with the Japanese army."

Women are not terrible, they are afraid that women are educated, and women like Zhezhe are very scary, not only know how to please people, but also have such lofty ideas.

"Fujin, isn't this to let the Japanese army take the lead? If we succeed in the future, how can we be qualified to negotiate with them? ”

Zhezhe straightened his body, rubbed his stomach and said, "Great Khan, think about it, where is the nest of the Japanese army?" Where is our Shengjing? The Japanese want to occupy the Ming Dynasty for a long time, they do not understand the language, can not communicate, occupy the disadvantage, and we, generations and Ming people come and go, the language is the same, you explain that if people break the country, who will they listen to? ”

"What does Fujin mean that sooner or later, the Japanese army will make us wedding dresses?"

"Great Khan, the Japanese people came to fight the Ming Dynasty, in addition to venting their anger, they just want some benefits, and when the time comes, just give him such a big country, can he gnaw it?"