Chapter 156

Sun Chengzong lived to be sixty-seven years old, and it was the first time that someone dared to pull out the knife in front of him without saying a word, and looking at Cheng Shijie's posture, he had the meaning of splitting it down without saying a word.

Theoretically speaking, looking at the Ming Dynasty, no one dared to be so presumptuous in front of him, but the problem was that Sun Chengzong did not dare to gamble.

The older the rivers and lakes, the less courageous they are.

Cheng Shijie's rise is too fast, and Sun Chengzong, who has long left the center, doesn't know much about Cheng Shijie, and his understanding of Cheng Shijie is only in the banknotes of the Tang Newspaper Mansion. As a newly rising general in the military, Cheng Shizhuo's frequency of appearing in the newspaper is not low.

It is difficult for the names of countless ministers to appear on this in a lifetime, but Cheng Shijie appeared five times in just one year, the first time was to serve as the garrison of the Ning Navy, as the military attache of the imperial court, Cheng Shijie had the opportunity to appear on this for the first time, the second time was to suppress Kong Youde's rebellion, and the third time was to seal the general and control the Dongjiang army. The fourth time was the victory of Jinshi Mountain, and the fifth time was the victory of Haizhou.

In just one year, Cheng Shijie's name appeared in the newspaper five times, and it was difficult for Sun Chengzong not to pay attention to Cheng Shijie, but when he really met Cheng Shijie, he lit up the knife.

In fact, Sun Chengzong is really not afraid of death, nor is he afraid of being threatened by Cheng Shijie, as a prince and young master who has been in the officialdom all his life, he was a scholar of the military department, a scholar of Dongge University, and a scholar of Wenhuadian University, when Cheng Shijie appeared in front of him, he himself represented the attitude of the palace.

Sun Chengzong knew that there was no invention to invite him out of the mountain, which showed that there were still many people in the center of the court who opposed him going out of the mountain, and he could only compromise and let Cheng Shijie take a private capacity.

Cheng Shijie's private identity also represents Chongzhen's attitude.

Therefore, Cheng Shijie is playing a lawless reckless man, while Sun Chengzong is pushing the boat down the river, pretending to be threatened by Cheng Shijie. Sun Chengzong hurriedly changed his words.

Cheng Shijie immediately held Tang Zhidao with both hands to Sun Chengzong and said: "Old Sun Ge, Lord Sun, the lower official gave you a treasure knife, how about you take a look?" ”

"Good knife, it's really a peerless divine weapon!"

Sun Chengzong is obviously a knowledgeable person, and he can see the difference between this knife at a glance, of course, just from the appearance, in addition to the fact that the Tang straight knife can be chopped and chopped, the most different thing from ordinary knives is that it can be stabbed.

The handle of the Tang straight knife is wider at both ends, the middle is slightly thinner, the penetration effect is excellent, and the heavy armor can defend against the slashing of the horizontal knife, effectively reducing the killing effect of sixty percent or even seventy percent, but the defense effect of the straight stab is not good.

Using this kind of knife, in addition to the white armor soldiers who cannot directly and effectively kill the Jiannu, but the killing effect on the red armor soldiers or armored war slaves will be very good.

"Come on, serve tea!"

Only then did Cheng Shijie send three carts of gifts from himself.

The three cart gifts are similar to those sent to the palace by Cheng Shijie, but the amount is much less, 100 catties each of sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn, beef jerky, milk lumps, dried fruits, etc., are all ten catties, and the amount of cloth is also not much.

Sun Chengzong has always been like this, and it is his advantage, he has always been very lenient with people with ability, and he can tolerate no matter how big the other party is.

Yuan Chonghuan is arrogant and arrogant, Zu Dashou and Wu Xiang are selfish, Man Gui is reckless and rude, Mao Wenlong is unruly, and even Qin Liangyu is confronted in person, he can tolerate and reuse them, because these people are all outstanding talents of the Ming Dynasty.

Although Cheng Shijie pulled out a knife in front of Sun Chengzong, he was not too presumptuous, compared to Cheng Shijie's ability, this is not a trivial matter worth mentioning.

Sun Chengzong said with a smile: "The old man has known your name for a long time, some people say that you have the courage to be unsuitable, some people say that you dare to be brave, and the old man also admires you, but he is entangled in chores, and he has not been able to find a chance to meet you, but I didn't expect to meet here today." ”

Cheng Shijie didn't feel embarrassed either, as if it wasn't him who threatened Sun Chengzong with a knife just now.

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "Thank you, Elder Ge for your appreciation!" ”

"Don't be polite!"

Sun Chengzong waved his hand and said: "Don't say polite words, the old man has not mentioned you, he just thinks you have talent, if the old man can hear your name as soon as possible, maybe Da Linghe ......"

The battle of Daling River is an eternal regret in Sun Chengzong's heart, he not only carried the black cauldron of defeat, but at the same time, he also recognized the reality that he had lost influence on the army formed by himself in Guanning Army.

"You have talent and talent, you should be reused, you did a good job, in less than a year, you turned the wild land in southern Liaoning into a rich land where merchants gather and granaries are full, feeding dozens of military households, and exterminating thousands of Jiannu in one battle, which is really jaw-dropping."

"Xiaguan has not done enough, far from enough, now it is Jinzhou, Gaizhou, Fuzhou and Haizhou, almost still a barren!"

Cheng Shijie continued: "Actually, don't hide it, the victory in Haizhou is actually not the work of Cheng and the officers and men of the Ning Navy, this is just when Jiannu does not know the sky, a sudden spring cold, and tens of thousands of Jiannu will freeze to death, Cheng is just lucky to pick up the leak, get this great achievement, this great victory, just to boost the hearts of the Ming people, not the Ning Navy's combat effectiveness!" ”

Sun Chengzong nodded.

The good news of Haizhou's victory is written with a nose and eyes, and it is full of flowers, but the details can't be scrutinized, which is what Sun Chengzong is strange about, listening to Cheng Shijie, the party, finally understand the real reason.

Sun Chengzong took a sip of the teacup, savored it and said, "You have done a good job, it's not a good thing to be too eager!" ”

It was only at this time that Cheng Shijie took a serious look at this famous minister in the late Ming Dynasty and the founder of the famous Guanning Defense Line. Sun Chengzong was quite tall, with hair like snow, his face was covered with wrinkles, and his cheekbones protruded, carving a hard and sharp outline.

He is sixty-seven years old, "life is rare for sixty years", in this era when the average life expectancy is less than forty years old, sixty-seven years old is already an absolute age, and he should tease his grandchildren at home to enjoy Qingfu, but he is still worried about the Ming Dynasty, an empire that is on fire everywhere.

Decades of conquest and court battles have honed his mentality to be extremely tenacious and powerful, like an ancient pine, no matter how wind and rain you blow, you still stand upright, honor and disgrace.

If no miracle had happened, he would have completed his legendary life in the eleventh year of Chongzhen's Gaoyang Lonely City.

In this time and space, there will be no more such regrets.

Sun Chengzong said: "Old man, what can you do for General Cheng?" ”

"There is an old man in the family, if there is a treasure!"

Cheng Shijie said: "At the end of the school, I am willing to worship the old man as a teacher, and I hope that the old man will not dislike Shijie for being dull!" ”

Sun Chengzong understood.

Cheng Shijie said it nicely, but in fact, he was pulling his tiger skin as a banner, using him, an old guy, to shelter from the wind and rain, as long as he went to southern Liaoning, everyone's eyes would look at him, and Cheng Shijie could use the light to continue to do his thing.

In fact, Sun Chengzong is not willing to be lonely.

Sun Chengzong carefully studied the practice of Cheng Shijie in southern Liaoning, and Cheng Shijie built more than 30 towns and forts in southern Liaoning, and rebuilt the four acropolises of Haizhou, Fuzhou, Gaizhou, and Jinzhou. In southern Liaoning, a road was built through the north and south, with the acropolis as the fulcrum and the town fort as the contact point.

It is exactly the same as his fortress strategy back then, if you want to say that it is different, that is, the Ning Navy is not like the Guan Ning Army, and the Guan Ning Army does not dare to fight with the Jiannu Wild Land, but the Ning Navy officers and soldiers are not afraid of Jiannu.

Sun Chengzong is not old-hearted, and he still wants to see how far Cheng Shijie's fortress tactics can go.

The Gaoyang Sun clan held a great migration, and Sun Chengzong's five sons, six grandsons, two nephews, eight nephews, plus his wife and concubines, a total of forty-one names, accompanied Cheng Shijie to southern Liaoning.

……

In Shenyang City, after half a month of investigation, at the end of September, nearly 100,000 troops from the Manchu Eight Banners, the Mongolian Left and Right Battalions, and the Han Army Banner gathered in Shenyang City.

"King Qiyu Khan, the matter has been investigated!"

"Who did it?"

Huang Taiji is actually very angry, these bastards under his hands are too short-sighted, if they rob the caravan and can't guarantee the safety of the merchants, will they do business with them in the future?

Although these businessmen are very annoying at the moment, they are simply greedy. Huang Taiji himself also wants to strangle these greedy Jin merchants, but the question is, if there are no huge benefits, who will deliver supplies to them?

Without supplies, how can Jiannu live in Liaodong?

For nomads, it is a matter of life and death whether they can get additional supplies from the farming areas, whether they are obtained by hard or through mutual markets, otherwise the situation of the entire group will become extremely difficult.

Before the Ning Navy came to southern Liaoning, it was not difficult for them to obtain such supplies, Guangning, Jinzhou, Datong, Yulin, Yinchuan...... These areas have become their fixed pastures, and when they see that the harvest is ready, they will kill them and grab a vote.

However, now it doesn't work, the damned Ning Navy has guarded the long border of southern Liaoning like an impregnable wall, and even used its naval division troops to cut off smuggling operations at sea. What's even more odious is that the scouts of the Ning Navy run over the side wall to the grassland from time to time to collect people's heads, and they have repeatedly violated the side and made them bleed, which is really hateful!

The only way they can obtain materials now is from the hands of the Jin merchants, the eight families of the Jin merchants, plus the Cao Sanxi family, are considered the nine families, and these nine families have always advanced and retreated together, Fan Yongdou's cattle and horses were robbed, and other Jin merchants would also wait and see, and even withdraw from Shenyang, which was too fatal for Dajin.

"King Khan, this is really not our people's doing!"

"Impossible, these minions, King Ben Khan knows about them!"

Huang Taiji is too much about what kind of urine is the Jurchen nobles under the command of the Qing Dynasty, and it is better to expect the sun to rise in the west and the rooster to lay eggs.

"Not only did it not happen to our people, but many of our tribes were looted, especially the pasture grass located in the Heliao grassland was burned for hundreds of miles, and the losses were heavy!"

"Really?"

This is Su Wan's impulsive behavior, it is the only flaw, even if the Jiannu soldiers and horses robbed Fan Yongdou's cattle and horses, they would not set fire to the grassland, once the grassland was burned, without those pastures, they Jiannu would be very difficult to endure in this winter.

Huang Taiji's face became extremely gloomy: "So, we are all fooled!" ”

Fan Wencheng nodded very much: "It's very likely, we were fooled, Cheng Shijie, this guy, came up and deliberately showed a very greedy appearance, paralyzed us, and made us think that he was a very weak coward." ”

Huang Taiji sighed: "Before and after the autumn harvest is his weakest time, we want to use Cheng Shijie's people to harvest the crops in the field, so that we can pick up ready-made, and he uses our ideas to make a gesture of being willing to sell grain, now the autumn grain in southern Liaoning has been put into storage, and his Ning Navy is also training day and night, I am afraid that we are waiting to attack Haizhou at this moment!" ”

"Now it's time to fight!"

"yes, I have to fight!"

On the grass outside Shenyang, the grass has long been gnawed by cattle and sheep, revealing the smooth soil, which is dusty under the trampling of thousands of troops and horses.

Flag hunting, people shouting horses neighing, magnificent. The Jurchen Eight Banners, the Mongolian Left and Right Battalions, and the Han Army Banners, the elites are all gathered here, and the prosperity of the army is unprecedented.

When Huang Taiji left Shenyang City on a war horse, countless Eight Banner soldiers raised their arms and shouted: "King Khan, King Khan!" ”

The cheers of tens of thousands of people spread from far and near, like a surging tsunami, drowning out all sounds. Those clothed minions were prostrate in the dust, and they didn't even dare to raise their heads, and they were not qualified to cheer and salute this Jurchen nobleman.

Huang Taiji coughed, quieted everyone down, and said in a deep voice: "King Ben Khan knows that everyone has been waiting for this battle for too long......"

"Long live the King Khan!"

Huang Taiji inspected his troops, laughed loudly, and shouted: "My warriors, Zhu Ming has no way, he has lost the favor of heaven, and the momentum of the death of Jin Xing is irreversible!" Hold on to your swords and guns, follow my banner and fight into southern Liaoning, turn the cities of the Han people into a sea of blood, plunder their wealth, wives and daughters, kill all their warriors, and make them kneel before us and wagging their tails and beg for mercy, and be our slaves! ”

"Go south, go south!"

The soldiers of the Eight Banners were boiling with enthusiasm, shouting at the top of their voices: "Go south, go south...... go south"

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Qianshan Town, about 100 miles southwest of Anshan City in later generations, dozens of horses greedily gnawed on the dry grass on the grass, and fifty Ning Navy scouts were divided into more and more teams, each of which lit a fire, and an iron pot was hung on the bonfire.

There was boiling water in the iron pot, and there were a few pieces of beef jerky, salted fish, and horse jerky floating in the water, and the Ning Navy scout sitting in front of the bonfire looked at the red lady dressed as a man and said: "Soup, there are good things, don't hide it!" ”

The red lady has been successfully promoted to the sentry commander in the usual training, and her identity has not been discovered so far, and the scouts of the Ning Navy will reward jerky and dried fruits if they perform well in the usual training.

The red lady raised the bag in her hand and said: "No, it's really gone, today is the last day of our mission, stand on the last shift, want to eat meat, let's go back and eat!" ”

At this time, the Ning Navy scout cavalry who was on guard in the distance said: "Tangtou, there is a situation!" ”

The red lady hurriedly got up and took a look, only to see smoke and dust billowing in the distance, and a large group of Jiannu cavalry swarmed over.

On September 28, the fifth year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji led nearly 100,000 Jiannu elites, and went south, the main force of the army was still in Shenyang, and the forward scouts had dispersed to the vicinity of Qianshan.

"Quick, hurry up and report, Jiannu is here!"

(End of chapter)