When Zu Dashou was besieged in Jinzhou, Hong Chengchou stationed troops in Ningyuan, wanting to deal with the Tartar offensive with a steady and steady approach. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 However, due to the locust plague in Hebei and Henan, the thieves resurged, and the momentum was rising, and Emperor Chongzhen wanted to make Liaodong a quick victory, so that he could transfer troops back and suppress the thieves.

So he ordered to urge.

Hong Chengchou had no choice but to lead the army out of Ningyuan, with 130,000 mighty troops, running to Songshan and looking at Jinzhou from afar.

Huangtai is based on sending Azig to lead an army of 8,000 to go around Songshan and Benta Mountain, wanting to cut off the grain road and retreat from Hong Chengchou. Later, he personally led the yellow flag and the yellow flag to ride 5,000 to the outside of Songshan to check the strength of the Ming army.

Outside Songshan Fort, there are nearly ten sentry forts and forts on the left and right, showing the trend of turning corners, standing on the top of large and small hills, arching and defending Songshan. However, the Ming Dynasty declined, the army was defeated repeatedly, and the spirit was broken early. Let that Huang Taiji Luan swagger, but he didn't dare to fight against it. Among them, the defenders were fearful, and the wolves rushed to the dolphins.

Huangtai is based on the top of the mountain, condescending to look at the pine mountain.

At this time, in Songshan Fort, Hong Chengchou was convening his generals to discuss the matter.

It sits on the main seat, and there are Wu Sangui, Ma Ke, Wang Pu, Hu Dawei and other general generals on the left and right sides of the hall.

Hong Chengchou said: "Jiannu is arrogant, and Huang Taiji personally led the army to the outside of the fort to peek at my troops. Now that Jinzhou is besieged, General Zu is in a hurry to ask for help, and His Majesty has issued orders again and again to urge the war. You are all my Ming warriors, I don't know if you have a plan to teach me?"

All the generals know the strategy of the superintendent, which is nothing more than to use their strengths and avoid their weaknesses, and replace the attack with defense. The Ming army was good at defending, not good at field warfare. It is a good strategy to wear down the Tartar soldiers in a defensive position, and then slowly plan for them.

But the emperor urged the day to be urgent, and the holy decrees were issued several times, although Hong Chengchou was the superintendent, he was helpless.

Among them, all the generals knew it, and when they heard Hong Chengchou speak, they were silent.

Seeing this, Hong Chengchou sighed in his heart.

If you give him enough time, if not to mention defeating the Tartar, at least he will be able to return in vain. But the emperor sits high in the Jinluan Palace, where does he know the hardships of the front line?

However, Hong Chengchou also knows that this year's locust plague in Henan and Hebei is huge, and the thieves have resurged, and the emperor is anxious, which is understandable.

After all, in the Ming Dynasty now, the available soldiers are roughly the army of Liaodong.

But Hong Chengchou knew that although the thieves were powerful, they were mostly rabble. If we can't defeat Jiannu, we will exterminate the thieves, so what's the use?

For this, he can only lament.

Seeing Hong Chengchou's gloomy expression, although the generals had their own thoughts, they also felt the same way. Ma Ke, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, hesitated for a moment and said: "Huang Taiji only has 5,000 soldiers and horses, why don't you go out of the city and kill it?"

As soon as these words came out, all the generals rolled their eyes.

Wu Sangui said: "Mr. Ma's words are wrong. Although Huang Taiji only has 5,000 soldiers and horses, they are all elites, all cavalry, coming and going like the wind, and they can come and go when they want to go. ”

The rest of the generals also bowed their heads and thought so.

"Or can it be designed to attract it and encircle and exterminate it?" Wang Pu, the general soldier of Datong, thought for a while and said.

"False. What kind of character is Huang Taiji, how can he be easily fooled?" Hu Dawei shook his head again and again: "This thief is treacherous, and his design can't be successful, and he will be counted against him, and it will be too late to regret it." ”

Every word you say to me, the noise is like a vegetable market, but there is no result.

A touch of helplessness flashed in Hong Chengchou's eyes.

These generals are all veterans, and none of them are bloody, which is really sad. As the commander of such an army, Hong Chengchou could almost foresee his fate.

He patted the armrest of the Taishi chair and said in a straight voice, "Listen to me. The Tartars are fierce and cannot fight head-on. But His Majesty issued an order urging the Japanese urgency, and General Jinzhou Zu's office has also been surrounded for nearly a month, and the food is in front of him, so he has to be saved. I will pour out the army, suppress the people with more and less, and force the Tartars to withdraw. The Governor has a detailed plan, and the commanders and generals of the general army must act according to the plan, and they must not advance through the advance, and they must not retreat unless they are summoned. ”

Speaking of this, Hong Chengchou's official position was vast, and his eyes swept away: "If you dare to disobey military orders, military law will deal with it!"

For a moment, the hall was silent.

At this moment, a long call came from outside the hall: "Report, Supervisor, Li Fuming, the chief soldier of Tashan, sent someone to come, and there is something important to report!"

"Tower Hill?"

Hong Chengchou's expression moved, and he changed suddenly.

Although he was born as a civilian official, he was good at military strategy. When I heard the report from Tashan, my heart jumped at the moment, and I thought of a lot, and I couldn't help but stand up all of a sudden: "Hurry up!"

A messenger from Tashan entered the hall, first bowed, and then presented a letter of silk.

The left and right servants hurriedly presented the letter, and Hong Chengchou opened it, read it quickly at a glance and ten lines. The generals on the left and right of the hall also looked at Hong Chengchou nervously, seeing that his face changed first, a smear of ash appeared between his eyebrows, and then the ash dissipated, and a touch of surprise was revealed, and finally only doubts remained.

Putting down the letter, Hong Chengchou pondered for a long time, and then said to the messenger: "Is there any falsehood in what General Li said in the letter?"

"There has never been a half-truth. "The messenger is colored.

Hong Chengchou paused: "That... Then Zhao Zhuangshi has someone?"

"There really are people. ”

"Azig really gave the head?"

"Sure enough, the head was awarded. ”

"Eight thousand Tartars beheaded nearly half, surrendered two thousand?"

"The head is outside the city, and the surrender is on Tower Hill. ”

Hong Chengchou took a deep breath and got up suddenly: "The generals will follow me out of the city to have a look." ”

The generals were deeply puzzled, but Hong Chengchou didn't say it, and they didn't want to ask, so they each glanced at each other, and then followed Hong Chengchou out of the governor's mansion, and each rode his horse and whip and ran outside the city.

At this time, outside the city gate, many Ming soldiers were besieging the city, and the uproar was endless.

Seeing the arrival of Hong Chengchou and others, the officers and soldiers hurriedly got out of the way, and everyone rode on horseback, and saw dozens of carts parked there.

On the cart, the heads of the people were tired into small hills, pickled in lime, and although they couldn't see their faces clearly, they could see a handful of rat tails on top of their heads!

Hong Chengchou's eyes suddenly certain, flicked the horsewhip, galloped forward, turned over and dismounted, regardless of his identity, threw himself in front of a big car, did not feel dirty, did not avoid the smell, grabbed a head, took a closer look, was stunned, and immediately laughed.

"Hahaha..."

He almost laughed tears flowed out, and stroked his palms and said, "God help me, God help me!"

The generals behind him just came to the front, and one by one they also turned over and dismounted, each lifted a human head, took a closer look, and after being amazed, they all looked at Hong Chengchou.

"Overseer, this... What the hell is going on?!"

Wu Sangui looked surprised: "These dozens of big cars, I'm afraid there are thousands of heads, this... Where did you kill so many Tartars?!"

Hong Chengchou exhaled, only to feel that most of the clouds on his head had dissipated, and he smiled at the messenger and said, "You come here." ”

Then the Messenger will come all the things that will happen.

First of all, I heard that Azig led an army of 8,000 and went straight to Tashan by bypassing Songshan, and everyone's faces changed.

I also heard that suddenly there was a man and a horseman, with one enemy and ten thousand, at the pass of Lianshan, beheaded Azig, defeated 8,000 troops, beheaded thousands, and captured 2,000!

"Impossible!"

Wu Sangui shouted and shouted: "Military affairs are not child's play. Even if the overlord of Chu is resurrected, he can't be decisive. If it is said that the battle is slashed by Azig, if it is properly calculated, it is not impossible, and it is not outrageous. But with his own strength, he defeated ten thousand armies and intercepted cannonballs, could it be that the heavenly soldiers and generals could not succeed?!"

The rest of the generals also nodded their heads again and again, all of them did not believe it.

The messenger was anxious and cried out, "If there is half a word of lie, the villain will be struck by thunder from heaven!"

He hurriedly said: "I don't believe in the generals and look at the skull incision, they are all the same!"

This messenger is clearly the leader of the family sent by Li Fuming to check the situation at that time!

Zhao Yu's feat, he witnessed it with his own eyes. Now when I see that people don't believe it, I am very anxious, but I don't know how to refute it, so I have to use the head incision to speak.

As soon as the generals heard this, Wang Pu said: "How is it possible? With so many heads, how can the incision be the same..."

Hong Chengchou stroked his beard and smiled: "Come on, give this inspector!"

There were soldiers on the left and right who stepped forward, and each car pulled out three or five heads, and compared them carefully.

A moment later, the soldiers came to report: "It's not the same." ”

Wu Sangui laughed: "Sure enough." Mr. Li's outrageous lie is really despicable. ”

But I heard the soldier say: "Judging from the experience of villains and others, the incisions are not the same, but they are caused by the different directions of the heads. But judging from the traces of the knife edge, it is clear that the same knife was made. ”

Wu Sangui's laughter stopped abruptly.

The soldier exclaimed again: "This kind of sword technique is really amazing. Each head is killed from the gap in the neck bone, and at the same time, the bones are not hurt in the slightest. If you like that, you can solve the cow and enter the room without thickness!"

At this time, all the generals were dumbfounded.

If we say that among these thousands of heads, there are three or five, which enter through the gaps in the bones, and the heads of the owls do not hurt the bones. But every one of them is like this, and that's amazing!

"Good guy, is it really the work of one person?" Hu Dawei couldn't help but say: "Could it be that after killing these Tartars, he found an executioner to behead them?"

"Why don't the general find an executioner and see if he has the ability to cut off thousands of heads in half a day without hurting the neck bones in the slightest?" the messenger was unhappy.

Hu Dawei glared at the messenger, but was speechless.

The messenger added, "My total army has only 3,000 soldiers and horses in Tashan, and they are all old, weak, sick and disabled. On the ground of Liaodong, in addition to the superintendent, where are there any soldiers and horses who can defeat the eight thousand Tartars?"

The generals were even more speechless.

Except for a few of these heads, the others are undoubtedly real Tartars. Hugh said that the 3,000 old, weak, sick and disabled people in Tashan are all out of the Songshan army, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to have such a record.

Seeing this, the messenger was even more arrogant, and said: "Zhao Zhuangshi is a person from Daxingbao, next to Dafu Fort, the hometown of my family's general soldiers, and is a fellow villager. Now Zhao Zhuangshi is in Tashan, originally to come to see the superintendent immediately, but the chief soldier of my family was afraid that the superintendent would not believe it, so he sent the villain to send the head and the superintendent to have a look. ”

"Oh?"

When Hong Chengchou heard this, he spoke: "This Zhao Zhuangshi wants to come to see the governor?"

The messenger bowed and said, "Zhao Zhuangshi wants to take the head of the Tartar Emperor and sacrifice his parents." But he was afraid of the power of one person, and he was run away by the Tartar Emperor, therefore..."

Hong Chengchou was clear.

He has been a supervisor since he came to Liaodong and has made a detailed understanding of the changes in the situation in Liaodong in the past 20 years. Whether it is Daxing Fort or Dafu Fort, they have all been attacked and slaughtered by the Tartars. Presumably, Zhao Zhuangshi's parents and family died in the hands of the Tartars.

No wonder they want to seek revenge on the Tartars.

That's a good thing!

Hong Chengchou's heart turned, although he didn't believe in such a feat of surpassing the overlord of Chu, but Hugh said that compared to the overlord of Chu, he was almost inseparable from Guan Yunchang and Lu Fengxian, and he was also a fierce general through the ages. Among the armies, the commander captures the flag, which can be used on the blade.

So he said: "The tired messenger ran again and told Zhao Zhuangshi that the governor was waiting for him." ”