Chapter 162

Jinzhou, Pingliao General's Mansion.

Zu Dashou also learned from his channels that Cheng Shijie of the Ning Navy had won another big victory, winning five battles and five victories, and achieving a record of more than 700 beheadings.

Zu Dashou has not yet expressed his position, but Wu Xiang sighed: "Cheng Shijie still has a set of battles, and he can win such a difficult battle...... Zu Shuai, judging from this situation, Jiannu is afraid that it will be difficult to take advantage of Haizhou, should we send some troops over to help the Ning Navy? ”

Wu Xiang's meaning is very obvious, this is a good opportunity to rub off on his achievements, don't let it go!

Zu Dashou's face was a little gloomy, it was not that he didn't want to rub off on this military feat, but he couldn't trust Wu Xiang, if he let the Guan Ning army go up, I am afraid that the situation of Ning Haijun's steady victory would be broken.

Perhaps seeing Zu Dashou's concerns, Zu Dale said: "This war, the whole country has watched it, and our Guanning army is only afraid that it will be inappropriate to continue to stand by and watch, you see, should we take advantage of the emptiness of Jiannu's defense, pull out a few strongholds closer to Jinzhou, or let the younger brother lead an elite army to Lushun to participate in the war, so as to have an explanation to the imperial court?" ”

Zu Dashou stood up with a snort, and stared at Wu Xiang sharply: "Fight, you know how to fight, and you don't want to think about it, Jiannu is really so easy to fight?" Do you really treat Jiannu as a soft persimmon? ”

Wu Xiang hurriedly explained: "Zu Shuai, I mean, we mean what we mean, it's not a real fight, send thousands of steps to ride over, the victory is naturally happy, defeat, it has nothing to do with our Guanning army, anyway, this battle is under the full command of Cheng Shijie, let's just cooperate with him to fight!" ”

Wu Xiang didn't open his mouth, but he rubbed his anger at the beginning of his ancestor's life: "How about the battle of Daling River?" The elite mobilized by the imperial court was no less than 100,000, and the result was not that they were annihilated by Jiannu in batches on the banks of the Daling River, especially our Guanning army, which suffered heavy losses, and it has not been relieved until now! ”

Wu Xiang's head shrank and he didn't dare to speak again.

Wu Sangui said with a smile: "What my uncle said is very true, Cheng Shijie's kid just won a few battles by luck, what's the big deal?" Once Jiannu is ruthless, he will definitely not be able to hold on to fighting with him! ”

Wu Xiang groaned: "What does Zu Shuai mean, wait and see? ”

"The two rings, the eldest uncle, and you, must remember that these soldiers and horses are our capital to settle down in this troubled era, and our glory and wealth are all tied to this, and every step must be cautious, and it is absolutely necessary to be willful!"

Zu Dashou softened his tone, and then said: "Besides, even if Haizhou wins, what good will it do us?" It's okay if you lose, in case of victory, it is difficult to guarantee that the imperial court will not be hot-headed, vigorously support the Ning Navy, and allocate a large amount of military salaries and ordnance to them, and our Guan Ning Army will not get anything in the end! ”

"What Zu Shuai said is extremely true!"

Hearing this, Zu Dale and Zu Dabi's hearts were half cold.

In the battle of the Daling River, the ancestral army suffered heavy losses, and it is absolutely impossible to say that this revenge does not want to be avenged. However, Zu Dashou has changed, as the head of the ancestral family, they will never contradict Zu Dashou in front of Wu Xiang and Wu Sangui's father and son.

Wu Xiang and Wu Sangui came from afar, Zu Dashou set up a banquet, feasted Wu Xiang and his son, drank three rounds, and cooked five flavors, Wu Xiang and Wu Sangui father and son left Jinzhou.

Zu Dabi and Zu Dale were in a bad mood, and although they didn't have a seizure at the banquet, they kept drinking stuffy wine.

Seeing that Zu Dashou was not there, Zu Dabi suddenly got up, ready to go to the backyard to find Zu Dashou and make it clear, but as soon as he got up, Zu Dale grabbed Zu Dabi's hand: "Second brother!" ”

Zu Dabi said indignantly: "What are you doing? ”

"Don't go!"

"I'm going, I'll ask him if he's been intimidated by Jiannu!"

"Second brother, the eldest brother won't agree, he is no longer the eldest brother he was at the beginning!"

Zu Dabi kicked the table with indignation, this is a table case made of green oka wood, weighing five or six hundred catties, Zu Dabi only kicked the table slightly, but kicked his foot painfully.

"Hiss......"

At this time, Zu Dashou slowly walked out, he looked at Zu Dabi and said, "Drunk? Someone will take the second child down to sober up!! ”

"I'm not drunk!"

"Just like this, how can I rest assured of you!"

Zu Dabi was ecstatic in his heart: "Big brother means ......"

"Hui'er has been in Golden State for longer, you take someone to pick Hui'er back!"

Zu Dabi was a little disappointed in his heart: "Yes! ”

"Now that the ground in Liaodong is not peaceful, you should bring more people and horses, and bring ...... Three thousand, not six thousand cavalry, take Hui'er over! ”

Zu Dabi was ecstatic: "Yes, big brother! ”

The 6,000 cavalry is the only family background that the eldest brother can get out of now, and most of these 6,000 cavalry are of Mongolian descent. Later Jin attacked southern Mongolia, and in order to escape the war, Lin Dan Khan's subordinate Uzhumuqin, Sunit, Haozit and other departments defected to Lin Dan Khan's ally and brother-in-law Shuolei Jinong, and some of them took refuge in Huang Taiji, and some surrendered to Zu Dashou.

Taking advantage of the Mongolians' good at riding and archery, Zu Dashou gave these Mongolians excellent armor, sophisticated equipment, and their generous treatment, their combat effectiveness is top-notch in the Guanning army, with Zu Dashou to fight in the east and west, with the Mongolian cavalry strengthened in equipment, you can fight with the Jiannu red armor soldiers on the battlefield to fight half a catty against eight taels, of course, in all fairness, they are worse than the white armor soldiers.

Zu Dabi and Zu Dale brothers each led 3,000 cavalry, a total of 6,000 cavalry, brought half a month's dry food, and went to the direction of Haizhou.

This name is actually to guard against some people within the Guanning Army.

Zu Dashou said: "When you arrive in Haizhou, you must accept Cheng Shijie's dispatch, even if you fight for 6,000 cavalry, you must not retreat without authorization." ”

Zu Dabi said excitedly: "Big brother, don't worry, our ancestor family has no seeds!" ”

Zu Dabi and Zu Dale's movements were very fast, at a speed of two or three hundred miles a day, it took four days to finally arrive at Baliwan Town, when they saw Cheng Shijie, Cheng Shijie was receiving Huang Long, the general soldier of the Dongjiang Army.

Huang Long and Zu Dashou's purpose is the same, he did not follow Cheng Shijie's order, from the Yalu River to the north, and went straight to Shenyang, the nest of Jiannu.

"Cheng Shuai, don't you know, now Shenyang is an empty city, and those who can move have moved away, Erdeni Qiqige (Zhezhe), at the beginning of October, take Princess Gulun and other children to Horqin Province!"

Cheng Shijie suddenly realized, it turned out that this time Huang Taiji was fighting against the water, he moved his family away in advance, and in Horqin Mongolia and Huang Taiji belonged to the relationship of wearing a pair of pants, not to mention, the distance was too far, and sending troops to a surprise attack was simply a send-off.

Then, since then, Chen Dayong's department may have been in vain.

"It is precisely because I just knew that Shenyang had become an empty city, so I brought 18,000 elites of the Dongjiang Army here to listen to Hou Chengshuai's dispatch!"

"And me!"

Zu Dabi bowed to Cheng Shijie: "Zu Dabi was ordered by Zu Shuai to lead six thousand elite Guanning troops to support Cheng Shuai, me and Da Le, we have six thousand people, Cheng Shuai is going to fight!" ”

"Good!"

Cheng Shijie said it well, but in fact, he didn't have any hope for Guan Ningjun, on the contrary, he thought that Zu Dashou sent 6,000 people over specifically to help Jiannu.

These 6,000 Guanning troops are in Haizhou, and Cheng Shijie needs to send at least five or six thousand people to see them, and if he wants to use infantry to see the cavalry, he must transfer the thunderbolt and flying thunder cannon.

In this way, Cheng Shijie has a sense of powerlessness with a mustache.

Pig teammates.

Just like during World War II, Germany once commented on the Italian army, if Italy is the enemy, ten German divisions can destroy Italy, if Italy is an ally, unfortunately I will send fifty divisions to support him.

Cheng Shijie feels this way now, but there is no way, the Guanning army is still the army of the Ming Dynasty, at least it is still quite a capable army, but the uncertainty of this army is too great, and Cheng Shijie must guard against them.

Of course, this must not be said openly, but only secretly.

Cheng Shijie smiled: "Someone! ”

Wu Sheng's second apprentice Meng En, now he has become the general manager of Cheng Shijie's Communications Bureau, of course, Wu Sheng has also been promoted, he is now the general manager of the guard department, although he is also the general general, but Wu Sheng's status is slightly higher than Meng En, this is for sure.

Meng En said: "Marshal, first press the brothers of the Dongjiang Army and the Guanning Army to stay, and kill sheep and eat meat today~!" ”

"Yes!"

Meng En looked at the signal given to him by Cheng Shijie, Cheng Shijie tapped the table three times with his left hand when talking about the Dongjiang Army, and when he talked about the Guanning Army, he tapped the table five times with his right hand, three long and two short.

Meng En placed the Guanning Army in the left battalion of the Central Army of the Ning Navy, and the Dongjiang Army in the right battalion. Reassuring the Guanning Army at ease with the Chinese Army is not only a superficial trust in the Guanning Army, but also the most effective care for the Guanning Army.

You must know that Cheng Shijie's Guards Division is the one with the highest firearms equipment in Cheng Shijie, and the Thunderbolt alone is equipped with 32 sentinels, a total of 256 units, and the Flying Thunder Cannon also has 18 sentinels, a total of 72 guns.

If the 6,000 Guanning Army moves, the Guards of the Ning Navy can teach the Guanning Army what iron is and what steel is.

24,000 reinforcements arrived at the Baliwan camp to settle these troops, although Cheng Shijie was well prepared, it was not an easy task, and he had to be busy for most of the day, to say the least.

The leader of the gang had the foresight to set up a cauldron, light a fire, and start cooking. These soldiers have been hungry for a day, and they must be given a good meal.

The food arrangements of the officers and men of the Guanning Army and the officers and men of the Dongjiang Army are the same, and there is no limit, and the leaders of the respective armies will come out immediately and work all the time, even if they are tired of the cooking soldiers of the Ning Navy, they will not be able to cook more meals for 24,000 people.

With the addition of the Dongjiang Army and the Guanning Army, the efficiency has improved a lot, first of all, salted fish, fried in a frying pan with some oil, and soon the smell of fish comes to the nose.

Then there is a large piece of mutton, the mutton is boiled into a thick mutton soup with oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, and then the potato noodles are reconciled, and the potato noodles are pulled into the thickness of bean sprouts and thrown into the pot, which is boiled until the foam is soaring, and the aroma is tangy.

Zu Dabi looked at the mutton in the bowl of the soldiers of the Guan Ning army, each piece of mutton was at least half a catty in size, and he was stunned at this time, although Guan Ning was the richest army in the Ming Dynasty, but compared with the Ning Navy, it was too bad.

That's right, Cheng Shijie didn't have the military expenses of the imperial court, but he went to ask for a total of 2.8 million taels of salt from Emperor Chongzhen, which was a huge amount of money, and in the hands of others, these salt quotes were worth 1.792 million taels of silver, but in Cheng Shijie's hands, the iodized salt he sold was worth 12.6 million taels of silver, which was 4.5 times that of ordinary salt.

This is the huge profit of technology monopoly, the military expenditure obtained by Guan Ningjun is drifting from the treasury for three or four percent, and it has to be dotted up and down, but Cheng Shijie doesn't need to dot it, even if he dots something with high diving, it is basically not worth it, and he can also share some silver from high diving.

Especially in one year of farming, Cheng Shijie's net profit is more than four million taels of silver, even if Ning Haijun expands by five times, he can still afford it.

In the face of a meal with plenty of oil and water, 6,000 Guanning troops plus more than 18,000 Dongjiang troops are not a small number.

Zu Dabi said uneasily: "Cheng Shuai, are you ...... Isn't it too expensive! ”

Huang Long said with a smile: "Cheng Shuai is a rich man, you can rest assured that you can't eat him, give Cheng Shuai your life, what's wrong with eating a few meals from him!" ”

Huang Long picked up a big bowl with peace of mind, which could be said to be a basin, directly filled a pot of mutton noodles, asked for two more cakes, crushed the bread, put it in the basin, and devoured it.

Cheng Shijie's bowl is really the size, and he also drank mutton soup and added a little chili oil, which was delicious......

Zu Dale said with a smile while eating: "Jiannu dispatched nearly eighty percent of the elite soldiers to attack Haizhou, originally wanted to take Haizhou in one fell swoop with the overwhelming momentum of Mount Tai, but now it has become a war of attrition, their national strength is far inferior to the Ming Dynasty, manpower, financial resources, grain and grass reserves and the Ming Dynasty are not the same, Haizhou can not be attacked for a long time, Cheng Shuai, your trick is poisonous!" ”

Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "The best way to deal with a strong enemy like Jiannu is to use the national strength to consume them little by little and crush them. ”

Zu Dabi asked with some surprise: "Cheng Shuai doesn't want to keep spending like this until Jiannu retreats?" ”

"Of course not! They came all the way to kill and plunder, how many Ming soldiers and civilians were slaughtered, they have to pay a price, right? The territory of the Ming Dynasty is not their back garden, they can come and go if they want! ”

Cheng Shijie smashed a fist on a head of garlic, blew off the garlic skin, and said with a faint smile: "When the time comes, Ben Shuai will fight back, and if you don't beat them out, I won't be surnamed Cheng!" ”

Cheng Shijie's generosity allowed the soldiers of the Guanning Army and the Dongjiang Army to enjoy a big meal that they might not be able to eat during the New Year.

The generals of the Guanning Army were even warmly entertained, and they enjoyed a sumptuous meal, not to mention, Cheng Shijie also gave them a Tang straight knife with sharpened iron and a set of armor made of stainless steel, which made these generals of the Guanning Army so happy that they couldn't find the north.

The Guan Ning army is not poor, compared with the Ning Navy, they are really poor, there is no way, it is difficult to mine steel, and it belongs to the control materials, where is like Cheng Shijie, behind closed doors, he mines iron ore and makes steel by himself.

How expensive a pair of iron armor is now, for the generals to know it, they can get two or three hundred taels of silver, and they may not be able to buy it.

The timing of Cheng Shijie and others was actually heavy snow, because Jiannu's troops had too many cavalry, and Cheng Shijie's cavalry troops were too few.

But the problem is that once it snows, it will be different, as long as the snow exceeds thirty or forty centimeters, the war horses will not be able to run, and there is no permanent military camp, and there will definitely be a large number of non-combat attrition in Jiannu.

On October 23, the fifth year of Chongzhen, the blizzard that Cheng Shijie was looking forward to was finally coming.

"Within three days, there will be a blizzard."

Cheng Shijie asked more than one old farmer, these people have the ability to see the clouds, in order to avoid accidents, he consulted more than 100 farmers who are over 50 years old and have the ability to see the clouds.

"The time is ripe!"

Cheng Shijie smashed his fist on the table, looked at the generals of the Guan Ning Army, the Ning Navy, and the Dongjiang Army and said, "Mr. Song, you write a war book!" ”

Song Xiance bowed down and said, "Yes!" ”

Song Xiance waved his pen immediately, and wrote more than 400 words in a battle book, Cheng Shijie glanced at it and said: "It's soft!" ”

"Soft?"

Song Xiance was a little puzzled: "What's soft?" ”

"The war book is soft!"

Cheng Shijie thought for a while and said: "Ben Shuai said, you come and write!" ”

"Yes!"

"Huang Taiji, you have Lao Tzu, three days later, there is a kind of coming to Baliwan to fight to the death!"

"That's it?"

"Yes, that's it!"

Cheng Shijie said: "You can also add two sentences, east of Bali Bay, dozens of miles in radius, a flat area, come over if you have a kind, and go home with your children if you don't have a seed!" ”

Song Xiance felt that Cheng Shijie was too vulgar, but the problem was that Cheng Shijie ordered in front of all the generals, and he could only do it.

Sun Zhixi felt that his brain was bursting out, of course, he knew that on the current occasion, he couldn't dismantle Cheng Shijie's platform, and when the generals left, Song Xiance took the battle book, but he felt that it weighed about a thousand catties.

"Cheng Shuai!"

"There are no outsiders here, call Uncle Shi!"

"Yes, Uncle Shi, ...... now"

Sun Zhili smiled bitterly: "You can now transfer people's husbands, pretend to be the elite soldiers of the Ning Navy, and wait for the battle in Baliwan, or you can send a partial division to go around to the rear of Jiannu and attack Jiannu front and rear...... In this way, Jiannu will definitely collapse without a fight, and if our army takes advantage of the situation to cover up and kill, Jiannu will definitely be defeated. ”

Sun Zhixi's words won Song Xiance's admiration, and he smiled: "Sun Gongzi is reasonable!" ”

"There is a plan, this commander has a lot of strategies, and the General Staff has no less than ten sets of plans for this battle alone, why would this commander rather give up his strategy and fight with the Jiannu wilderness, and it is still in the case of favorable Jiannu terrain?"

Song Xiance shook his head: "I don't know!" ”

Sun Zhirong also shook his head.

Cheng Shijie said loudly: "Ben Shuai doesn't want to play intrigue and tricks with Jiannu, but wants to fight with Jiannu in the wilderness, and use real knives and real guns to fight with Jiannu, that is, to smash the myth of Jiannu with a hammer, saying that the Jurchen is not satisfied with 10,000 and is invincible, this squeamishness, Ben Shuai wants to beat them, let them pee their pants when they see the banner of our army!" ”

"This ......"

Cheng Shijie looked at Sun Zhilan and said with a smile: "Do you want to say that this kind of hard-hitting style of play is very stupid, and we will kill a lot of people?" ”

Sun Zhilan nodded and said, "Yes!" ”

"But if you want to eliminate Jiannu as soon as possible, this is the best way, and you can only do this if you want to beat Jiannu as soon as possible and destroy their confidence and pride!"

Song Xiance nodded and said: "Marshal, if we can really completely defeat Jiannu in one battle, when the two armies face each other in the future, Jiannu will be cowardly by three points before fighting, but we can shed a lot less blood, so even if we sacrifice more soldiers in this battle, it is worth it!" ”

"That's it, send the war letter to Jiannu!"

"Yes!"

……

In the Qianshan area, on a high hill, this high post can overlook the entire defense system of Qianshan Town, and the Great Tent of the Khan of Huang Taiji was built here.

After more than half a month of testing, Huang Taiji did not find the loopholes in the Ning Navy's defense line, and he didn't know how to break the situation, and now his food stock was running out, and his morale was rapidly declining at a speed that was visible to the naked eye.

Now Huang Taiji is also difficult to ride a tiger, he is the first time to encounter a city that he wants to attack but not captured, and he wants to fight a battle that he has not won, the last time was in Ningyuan, when he commanded his father Nurhachi, under the city of Ningyuan, relying on the Ming army defended by the heavy artillery of Jiancheng, and opened up their attack.

But since ascending to the throne, Huang Taiji has never fought such a humiliating battle.

This kind of defense line can only be described as "cutting off children and grandchildren", if you want to gnaw down such a line of defense, you don't want to take tricks, honestly take human lives to fill it, according to the shamelessness of this line of defense, it is impossible to gnaw it down without killing 10,000 people.

The most terrible thing is that gnawing this line of defense is only the beginning, from Qianshan to Taizi River, and then to Haizhou, with a defense depth of more than 100 miles, even if the Qianshan defense line is broken, Haizhou's defense system is still intact, and the ghost knows what kind of immoral tricks the Ming army has prepared to wait for them!

Sad!

Huang Taiji felt that he was becoming less and less energetic.

Of course he has no energy, for half a month, he hasn't slept a good night, is it strange that his spirit is good?

Yue Tuo smiled bitterly: "King Khan, the Ming army is too well defended, unless they are willing to leave the trenches and open a camp to fight a decisive battle with our army, it will be difficult for us to win them!" ”

Huang Taiji's expression was gloomy, and he said unhappily: "Impossible, the Ming army is determined to consume us, how can they ......?"

While he was talking, a Jiannu scout ran into the big tent with a rolling belt.

"To the King of Khan, great joy!"

"Daiki?"

Huang Taiji's brows furrowed: "What is the great joy of King Ben Khan!" ”

"The Ming army has issued a war letter, and they are going to fight a decisive battle with our army in Baliwan!"

Huang Taiji hurriedly stretched out his hand to take the war book, and on the cover of the war book, the two words of the war book were neatly written in the book, which was Cheng Shijie's original words.

Huang Taiji rubbed his eyes, it was not fake, it was also covered with Cheng Shijie's big seal, and he captured the general Cheng, the general Cheng of the Ning Navy, the envoy of Liaodong Economic Strategy, and the Cheng of the Dongjiang Army......

These big seals prove that this is no joke.

"Haha!"

Happiness came too suddenly, and it suddenly made Huang Taiji a little unbelievable.

(End of chapter)