More than 1,000 people were composed of horse infantry, so the marching speed was slightly slower, and after a night of rapid marching, there were still more than 30 miles of separation from Jizhou at dawn. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Qin Shuhuai left the team, took Meng Wei and Meng Hu to take the lead, quickly stepped up, and went straight to Jizhou City.

Because he carried the Jinyi Wei token with him, he was not stopped when he passed through the gates.

At three o'clock in the morning, we arrived at the city of Jizhou.

At this time, Jizhou City was already on high alert, the gate was closed from the city, and there were sentry horses and sentry posts of the Guanning Army everywhere within a radius of ten miles outside the city.

Qin Shuhuai passed his name outside the city gate, handed over the token, and after a series of interrogations, someone went to inform Yuan Chonghuan.

Soon, the city gate was opened, and a general in his thirties led more than a dozen people out of the city to greet Qin Shuhuai.

"Qin Lang, a staff general under the command of the last general Inspector Yuan, was specially ordered by Inspector Yuan to greet Lord Qin. ”

Yuan Chonghuan sent someone to greet him, indicating that he still remembered Qin Shuhuai's love for saving the 4,000 Guan Ning army.

Qin Shuhuai also saluted, "There is General Lao." ”

The group entered the city and went straight to the governor's palace in Jizhou City. The former governor Liu Ce and the garrison of Jizhou City have been sent away by Yuan Chonghuan.

Qin Shuhuai paid close attention to the Guanning army in the city along the way, and saw that these soldiers were neat and well-disciplined, and they were battleable soldiers at a glance. This was not surprising to Qin Shuhuai. Yuan Chonghuan was able to bring a scoundrel like Zhao Shujiao into a good general who will go down in history, which shows that he has a set of ways to lead people.

entered the Governor's Mansion and met Yuan Chonghuan.

is different from what he imagined, Yuan Chonghuan in front of him is a middle-aged man with a very literati temperament, thin, white, with a long beard on his chin, and a standard civil official dress.

A pair of eyes are not big, but they are blazing, and they are like a deep pool, which makes people unable to see through the bottom at a glance.

This...... It is Yuan Chonghuan, the Liao Governor of the Great Ming Ji, who is a collection of controversy, slander, scolding, worship and reverence by later generations!

Qin Shuhuai stepped forward and said, "Qin Shuhuai, a thousand households in Tongzhou, Xia Jinyi, will meet Inspector Yuan." ”

Yuan Chonghuan returned the salute to Qin Shuhuai with a smile and said, "Qin Qianhu is very polite." Qianhu was young, and he saved 4,000 of our Guanning soldiers that day, and sacrificed his life to help our army capture Luo Wenyu. On behalf of all the officers and men of the Guanning Army, I would like to thank Qin Qianhu. ”

Qin Shuhuai immediately said, "Inspector Yuan is serious, and he doesn't dare to be ashamed." ”

The two exchanged pleasantries and got to the point.

Qin Shuhuai said first, "On the orders of the emperor this time, I have come to assist the superintendent in defending Jizhou and Shimen Village. However, the superintendent is the master, and the subordinate is the guest, and he does not interfere in important matters, but only hopes to assist the superintendent for one or two. ”

After that, Qin Shuhuai took out the secret decree and asked Yuan Chonghuan to look at it.

According to etiquette, Yuan Chonghuan took the holy decree with both hands after cleaning his hands, opened it and saw that it was the same.

In terms of secret decree, Chongzhen named Qin Shuhuai as a guerrilla in Jizhou, responsible for collecting the defenders of the original Jizhou City and waiting for opportunities to resist the enemy, etc., and showed that he was not controlled by Yuan Chonghuan.

Qin Shuhuai first made his words clear, saying that I was appointed by the emperor to come to Jizhou, you can treat me as air, but you can't drive me away, let alone stop me when I reasonably exercise my powers. Of course, I'm a guest and won't point a finger at you.

Yuan Chonghuan frowned at first, the appearance of an army in his own defense area that was completely not under his command was something that no theater commander wanted to see. However, the emperor's order was difficult to disobey, and he couldn't openly resist the decree, so he returned the decree to Qin Shuhuai and said, "In this way, there will be General Lao Qin." ”

Qin Shuhuai said, "Inspector Yuan's words are serious. In the next time to come to the guest, Yuan Inspector is the master, as the saying goes, the Taoist is as the master goes, if Yuan Inspector is sent, just command. ”

The words were extremely polite, and he put himself in the position of Yuan Chonghuan's subordinates.

Yuan Chonghuan naturally didn't believe that Qin Shuhuai would completely listen to his own dispatch, but as long as Qin Shuhuai didn't dictate his arrangement and was not good at acting alone, he could also tolerate Qin Shuhuai's existence.

Qin Shuhuai paused, and then said, "Supervisor, I heard that the Jiannu army has recently arrived in the west of Jizhou City, I don't know if this is indeed the case?"

Yuan Chonghuan nodded and said, "Yes, on November 16, my horse sentry found traces of the Jiannu army twenty miles west of the city. At present, some of them have advanced to the west of the city and set up camp more than ten miles away, while the other part is nowhere to be found. ”、

Qin Shuhuai deliberately made a surprised expression and said, "Jiannu bypassed Shimen Village, didn't he want to attack Jizhou City directly?"

Yuan Chonghuan chuckled and said, "General Qin is too worried. Jiannu has not gone down to Shimen Village, dare to attack my Jizhou City?"

Qin Shuhuai continued to pretend to be puzzled and said, "That's weird, what is the purpose of Jiannu?"

Yuan Chonghuan smiled conceitedly and said, "Jiannu just wants to lure General Zhao out of Shimen Village, how can it be worth mentioning the small skills of carving insects? I have ordered General Zhao to close the city gate tightly and hold on to it, see how Jiannu should deal with it!"

It should be said that Yuan Chonghuan's judgment is correct. However, one thing that he can't compare to Qin Shuhuai is that Qin Shuhuai traveled from later generations, and he knew that Huang Taiji had done the thing of "sneaking through Jizhou"!

Seeing that the topic led to the direction he wanted, Qin Shuhuai said, "Inspector Yuan, I don't know if you know that there is a mountain range more than thirty miles southeast of Jizhou City. ”

Yuan Chonghuan said, "That's Hengling, why did General Qin mention this." ”

Why did you mention this? Qin Shuhuai wanted to jump up!

Judging from historical data, the Houjin army of that year climbed over from that not high mountain range and sneaked over Jizhou!

"Chongzhen Record" records that the route of the Qing army to sneak through Jizhou was to "take Yutian, Sanhe, Xianghe, and Shunyi counties".

There is also a similar record in the "Guoqi", "Jingyutian, Sanhe, Xianghe, Shunyi and other counties have fallen." ”

The place "Yutian" is mentioned in both places, and Yutian is also mentioned in the record of the Manchu people's own history book "Manchu Old Files".

This is a key clue. Yutian is located in the southeast of Jizhou City, separated from Jizhou by a low mountain range, according to Yuan Chonghuan, that mountain range is called Hengling.

Therefore, if the historical records are correct, then the Houjin army crossed Hengling, and then captured Yutian, and then continued to attack Sanhe and other places in the west.

Therefore, if Yuan Chonghuan in history did not deliberately indulge the enemy, then the only possibility is that now it seems that he did not expect that the Houjin army could climb over from Hengling.

Qin Shuhuai asked tentatively, "Inspector Yuan, there is an immature idea below. That is, will Jiannu cross the mountain from Hengling, and then take Yutian, attack the Xiang River, and then threaten the west of the river?"

Yuan Chonghuan was stunned, Hexi was a place where grain was hoarded, and if Jiannu took away the grain, then he could continue to fight to feed the war, and the consequences would be unimaginable.

I couldn't help but come to the table, open the map and look at it in detail.