Hauge said in his heart, sure enough, I came to transfer troops, fortunately, I was prepared.

The total number of the main forces under his command was less than 30,000, and these 4,000 Mongol soldiers were an indispensable fighting force. He immediately staggered a few steps from Sonom and whispered to Wakda: "'Escort' Sonom to Shengjing, strictly guarded, and never let him come into contact with anyone." ”

"Huh."

Soon, amid a burst of protests, Sonomu and his guards were "invited" to Shenyang.

Haoge looked at their backs and sighed secretly, "For the sake of the safety of Jianzhou, I have to grieve the Horqin tribes......"

A few days later.

A fast horse galloped from the north like crazy, and the rider waved his small red flag along the way, shouting, "Shengjing is in a hurry!" Shengjing is in a hurry! ”

The man ran into the camp of the Qing army, handed over a letterbox sealed with fire paint to Haoge's guards, and said hurriedly: "The four thousand southern troops came from the direction of Tongliao, and broke through more than ten cities and walls along the way, and it was less than two hundred miles away from Shengjing!" ”

There was a sudden silence in all directions, almost all the main forces of the Qing Dynasty were in Jinzhou, and there were only 800 defenders in Shengjing City.

Hauge pretended to be reading an urgent report, his eyes secretly scanned around, and suddenly crumpled the paper in his hand, pointed at the messenger and shouted angrily, "Bastard, it's obviously four hundred barbarians who have stolen over the mountain, how dare you shout nonsense and mess with our army?!" Come on, cut me off. ”

"Huh!"

The messenger had already landed before he could figure out what was going on.

Hauge shouted in a loud voice: "Whoever dares to spread rumors will be dealt with by military law." ”

When he returned to the tent, he hurriedly ordered all the main generals among his henchmen to be summoned to the big tent for discussion.

Before they had arrived, messengers came from the east. The person who came was clever, did not shout along the way, and only handed over the urgent report to Hauge.

The latter opened it and looked at it, his face suddenly turned a little paler, and he grabbed the messenger and asked in a low voice: "Isn't it that there are less than 3,000 Korean soldiers who are in rebellion, how can even Ye Keshu be defeated?!" ”

The 2,000 men and horses of Ye Keshu's department are the only remaining strength of the Zhenghong Banner, and with more than 2,000 green battalions, it should be right to deal with 3,000 Korean soldiers.

The messenger hurriedly said, "When I return to the prison country, the enemy army seems to be nearly 5,000. ”

"That Ye Keshu will not be the whole army ......"

"According to the news sent back by Kuandian, it seems that there are still Ming troops here."

Haoge only felt that the sky was spinning, Kuandian was the southeast of Liaodong, and it was only two hundred miles away from Xingjing......

In a moment, a Manchurian and Han ministers gathered in the Haoge tent.

As soon as the latter said that there were Ming troops on both the east and west sides, it immediately attracted an exclamation.

"How could the southerners come from the direction of Horqin, could it be that they flew over the desert for thousands of miles with wings?!"

"Even North Koreans dare to come and spread wild, it's really too deceitful!"

"In case Shengjing is lost, what is the use of us defending Jinzhou?"

"Xingjing is the land of Longxing, and I can't lose it......"

But many more are depressed and silent.

Hao Ge forced himself to calm down, and said loudly: "Now that the Qing Dynasty is at stake, there are only two roads in front of it. ”

He looked around, "First, beg for peace and keep my Qing foundation." ”

All the generals looked at each other, and no one answered.

They all knew very well how many people they killed and how many things they robbed after the Qing army entered the customs. Surrender? How could Nanming, who had a deep hatred in the sea of blood, easily expose it and let himself go?

Even if the Ming court was really dizzy and opened up to them, but they had already seen the world of flowers and flowers in the Central Plains, how could they want future generations to shrink in the bitter cold land of Liaodong forever?

"Okay." Hauge nodded and continued, "The second way is to fight to the death!"

"I plan to leave Prince Zheng and Wakda to lead 15,000 troops to continue to hold on to Jinzhou. I personally led 10,000 horses to kill the southern army in the direction of Shengjing. Ao Bai led 5,000 people to aid Xingjing.

"As long as we can quickly resolve the battle between the east and west sides, and then return to Jinzhou immediately, we will definitely be able to stabilize the situation again!"

Immediately, three people stood up, "The last general has orders!" ”

Most of the others were already in a state of confusion, and when they saw Hauge take out the charter, they immediately nodded without thinking about it, "The prison country is far-sighted......

"But thousands of barbarians, who have come from afar, will definitely be able to destroy them in one battle!"

"As long as you move fast enough, it shouldn't be a problem."

Haoge was about to order the dispatch of troops according to the plan, when he suddenly saw Fan Wencheng arch his hand and said: "Prison country, if you act like this, I am afraid that I will be in danger!" ”

Fan Wencheng is known as the first strategist of the Qing Dynasty, although Haoge frowned in his heart, he still tried to calm down and said: "Why did the scholar say this? ”

"Please supervise the country and think about it," Fan Wencheng said solemnly, "Since the defeat of Fujian by Boluo, the repeated defeats of the prince of Shuncheng and the prince of Yu have come because of the division of troops.

"Since Zhu Linmiao commanded the Southern Army, the Southern people have excellent firearms, strict military discipline, high morale, and many tricks. Don't say that the forces are similar, that is, only half of our army, and it is extremely difficult to win in a head-to-head confrontation. If the army is divided against the enemy, it will be broken by each of them......"

Hauge was about to get angry when he heard this, but then he realized that what he said was indeed the truth. The reason why he wanted to lead 10,000 horses to deal with the 4,000 Ming army in the direction of Shengjing was because he unconsciously thought in his heart that it would be difficult to win without so many soldiers.

He took a long breath and said, "Then the scholar thinks that he should concentrate all his strength to go out of Songshan to fight a decisive battle with the Nanren?" ”

Fan Wencheng lowered his eyes and said: "As far as the minister can see, the chance of winning a decisive battle in the south is no more than two percent......"

"If you can't divide your troops, you won't be able to fight a decisive battle! Do you think that the Qing Dynasty is no longer good?! ”

"The prison is angry." Fan Wencheng hurriedly said, "The minister does have a note, but I don't know if His Highness can make up his mind." ”

"You say."

"Abandon Shengjing."

Everyone in the tent was stunned on the spot. After a long time, Hauge gritted his teeth and said, "You go on." ”

"In addition to Shengjing, we must also abandon the Songjin defense line and let the southern army go north." Fan Wencheng walked to the map, "But only relax the road on the northwest side of the mountain, and the other fortresses still have to be held." Later, the prison state made a big fanfare, led a large group of weak soldiers to pretend to save Shengjing, and the southern army was eager to capture Shengjing, and would attack the city with the main force.

"And the elite of our army is lying on the east side of Jinzhou. This Liaodong is the ground of my Qing Dynasty, and tens of thousands of ambushes in the mountains and villages will never be detected by the southern army.

"When the main force of the southerners arrives in Shengjing, my ambush troops will be killed immediately, and the fortresses on the first line of Jinzhou and Songshan will be recovered, and the grain route of the southern army can be cut off. With the extreme cold of Liaodong, even if the southerners captured Shengjing, it would be difficult to survive more than a month after running out of food.

"At that time, our army only needs to defend the front line of Songjin and wait for the main force of Nanming to freeze to death and starve to death."

Hauge stared at the map for a long time, and finally slapped it the wall, "Shengjing is gone, you can build it again." According to the policy of the scholars, it is necessary to exterminate the main force of the barbarians! ”

(End of chapter)