"Your Highness, not all of Wang Tieniu's seven or eight brothers remained, only three people remained, and the rest were all placed in the city to do other errands, and he found a few recruits among those routs, it seems that he is willing to use his brains."

Cheng Xiaolian laughed: "What kind of errand did he find for his brothers who left?" ”

Yang Youcai also laughed: "Speaking of this, I helped him do it, he begged for my head, I don't dare to offend this future pro-army commander, and it's not a big deal." ”

Cheng Xiaolian smiled bitterly: "Even if you don't complain about this, I will make this matter clear to you, if the Jinyi Guards are people like you Yang Youcai, not to mention that they have the intelligence of the Son of Heaven and the world, even if they are standing in the court, I have no opinion." It's a pity that most of these people are halfway monks, of course they have the ability, but the loyalty is not certain, you have to know the identity of this Son of Heaven's personal guard, plus the things in their hands, are enough to cause serious damage to Daming. ”

Yang Youcai nodded: "I have already discovered this problem, so I have always hoped to find some children to start cultivating from an early age, but now there are too few people, if these people are unreliable in the heyday of the Ming Dynasty, we can just change a batch, and now we can only settle for it, so I fully support the decision made by His Royal Highness, but I will always keep an eye on Wang Tieniu, and I will definitely not let him make any unfavorable moves." ”

After laying the pass, Cheng Xiaolian and the others only rested for one day, and then left 500 brothers and continued to rush towards the hinterland of Shaanxi. There is no preparation on the border, not to mention other places, the army of the imperial court is about to enter Tongguan, where do they have the heart to guard against anything.

In their opinion, saving their lives is the most important thing, and as for how much land the Manchu court lost, what does it matter to them.

The civil officials in the side pass want to report the news, no matter when, the people who read the book must always know more about the general situation, these people want to report the news, but unfortunately they are not as fast as Cheng Xiaolian's cavalry, and before they arrive, they have already been killed.

In the end, those loyal to the Manchu Qing finally gathered some men at Ningwu Pass, and then sent news to the imperial court and General Tuhai, respectively.

In their opinion, it is not safe to only send a letter to the imperial court, and if they wait for the imperial court to send troops, they estimate that the corpses are cold. Tuhai is fighting under Tongguan, and the back road will be blocked soon, and passing the news to him is not considered a leapfrog.

Tuhai was first taken aback when he received the news, and then locked up the messenger. Regardless of whether what he said was true or not, the officers and men in the army must not be allowed to know the news, otherwise the army will definitely be unstable.

Thinking of this, he immediately found his confidant strategist: "This matter is like this, the defenders of Ningwu Pass must have sent a letter to the imperial court, although I have the emperor's will to act cheaply, but it is not easy to make up my mind at this time, once the Ming army has a chance to breathe, we will be busy in vain these days." ”

Several strategists glanced at each other, but none of them meant to speak, and Tu Hai let out a soft snort to express his dissatisfaction.

Seeing that he couldn't dodge, a strategist stood up stubbornly: "Dashuai, I don't think it's appropriate for us to bring troops back to help now, but if those thieves break through the Ningwu Pass, in case they alarm the Jingshi, even if we have a hundred mouths, we can't say clearly." At that time, not only will the emperor be disappointed in us, but even those in the court who secretly support the marshal will doubt our ability. That's why I suggest we should divide our forces. ”

Tu Hai's eyes narrowed: "Divide the troops? I heard that the number of thieves is over 10,000, how many troops do you think is appropriate? ”

This strategist laughed: "The marshal is negligent, how many people are there in the entire Ming Dynasty?" Besides, our spies also found out that they still have to guard against the Geng Shang coalition army in Kuimen, if tens of thousands of horses are divided, and they are all cavalry, is it possible that they will scatter beans and become soldiers? ”

"You mean to say?"

"These are old examples on the battlefield, the victorious will exaggerate their results, and the defeated must of course speak of the enemy extremely strongly, otherwise how can they shirk their own guilt? Therefore, according to the opinion of his subordinates, the cavalry of the Ming Dynasty will not be too much, only three or five thousand. ”

Tuhai smiled and nodded, "What do you guys think of his words?" ”

Those few people hurriedly nodded: "Mr. Sun has always been far-sighted, and this judgment is reasonable and well-founded, so I will be convinced." ”

"That's right, Mr. Sun is very reasonable, how could Qianming have so many people to deal with us, it must be those people who lied about the military situation, so it seems that we only need to divide our troops to go over, first, not to delay the siege, and secondly, to give an explanation to the imperial court."

Tu Hai raised his voice: "Let Counselor Military Affairs Mu Zhan come to see me!" ”

Mu Zhan, a native of the Yellow Banner, was originally a guard of Shunzhi, and the Tusi of Pingyuanjiang was meritorious, and he was given a third-class Ada Hahafan, and he was promoted to the banner of Melle Ezhen. Tuhai entered the northwest, led by the vanguard of the Mu Zhan Administration, and counsellor military affairs. This person has the ability, and he is the nephew of Prince Zheng of Heshuo Zheng, Jierharang, so the speed of promotion is very fast.

The reason why Tuhai looked for him was that he felt that he could be alone, even if he couldn't stop it, the people in the court would not give too much pressure, Huang Taiji died, thanks to Zilharang's maneuvering, after Dolgon's death, he was the first to stand up and liquidate Dolgon, so he united the court to liquidate Dolgon's faction and returned to Shunzhi.

Therefore, from the beginning of the Shunzhi Dynasty, Zilharang was the uncle king, which was the only uncle in the history of the Qing Dynasty except for Dolgon, which established his unshakable position.

Mu Zhan, as his nephew, is naturally happy if he wins, and if he loses, those people in the court will have to weigh whether to find the army.

Mu Zhan quickly rushed to the camp: "Meet the marshal." ”

"Excuse yourself from these false courtesies, Mu Zhan, now there is a sky-breaking wealth, do you dare to continue?"

Mu Zhan was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly spoke: "The marshal only has to give orders, and the last general will not dare to disobey." ”

"The rebel raid of the Qianming army behind us has already reached Ningwu Pass, do you dare to send troops to teach them a lesson?"

Mu Zhan is not a reckless person: "Dare to ask the marshal, how many people do they have?" ”

"No more than five thousand."

"The last general asks to lead 8,000 children of the Eight Banners, and these 8,000 people will have cavalry."

"Okay, Ben Shuai promised you, but you also have to give Ben Shuai a guarantee, if this battle is lost, the court, whether it is you or Ben Shuai, life will not be easy."

Mu Zhan immediately knelt on the ground: "The last general is willing to make a military order, if he can't exterminate the thieves, he is willing to come and see him!" ”

(End of chapter)