1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 3268
"The criminal Sun Quanming, please see Marshal Chen!"

When Sun Quanming's knees just touched the ground, Chen Yixin stretched out his hand to support him at the right time: "Master Sun, please get up! Your actions have prevented Tianjin Health from being ruined. What's the crime? What kind of culprit? I think it's a big deal." The hero is the right one!"

Chen Yixin's generous praise made Sun Quanming feel a little embarrassed.

Although he had agreed on the terms of surrender with Haihan in advance, when the situation came to a close, he would still feel a little uneasy. He was worried that after he handed over the Tianjin Guard, Haihan would kill him.

However, Chen Yixin's attitude quickly dispelled his doubts.

Chen Yixin immediately ordered to show Sun Quanming some tea.The reason why he gave the other party such courtesy was naturally because he hoped to get more information from Sun Quanming.

Chen Yixin asked: "Master Sun, do all the people in Tianjin Wei like you?"

Sun Quanming was not sure of Chen Yixin's intentions, so he replied cautiously: "That's not entirely true...Commander Liao Zhengsheng, commander Hu Tao, governor Wang Ping'an and others all advocated fighting to the end, so I will take the lead first." They took them and locked them all in prison.”

If he dared to boast that everyone was united and no one objected to surrender, Chen Yixin would definitely not believe it.There is such a group of officials who do not want to surrender, but they seem real and credible.

Chen Yixin nodded and said: "Then do you think the Ming army in Shuntian Mansion knows the situation of Tianjin Guard at this moment?"

Sun Quanming seemed to have figured out Chen Yixin's intention, and quickly responded: "The noise of the Haihan Army's attack on the city today can probably be heard from more than ten miles away. If reconnaissance cavalry is deployed near the Acropolis to cut off the news, the outside world may not expect the Acropolis." It will change hands so quickly.”

"As long as there continues to be some noise here, maybe the outside world will notice something strange after three to five days."

Chen Yixin nodded and said: "Then I'll trouble you, Mr. Sun, and send someone to the rear to request reinforcements as soon as possible. Just say that the Tianjin Guard has held back the main force of the Haihan Army and is in urgent need of reinforcements to cooperate with the outflanking route."

"what?"

Sun Quanming never expected that Chen Yixin would have such a plan.It seems that the capture of Tianjin Wei without loss is far from satisfying his appetite, and he wants to use Tianjin Wei to destroy more Ming troops.

"What? Mr. Sun thinks there is something wrong with my plan?" The smile on Chen Yixin's face dropped, and his tone seemed to become colder.

Sun Quanming quickly responded: "The commander-in-chief has misunderstood! I am really stupid, I never thought of such a clever plan, I just sighed for a while."

Chen Yixin's face brightened slightly: "Then Master Sun, are you willing to cooperate with the implementation of this plan?"

"Yes, yes!" In this situation, how could Sun Quanming dare to say no?

Not to mention reporting false news that led the Ming army into a trap, even if Chen Yixin now asked him to wear armor and lead troops to participate in the battle, he would not be able to refuse.

Chen Yixin smiled, called a combat staff officer, and asked him to take Sun Quanming to write a letter asking for help.After Sun Quanming left, Chen Pingliao, who was standing beside him, said, "Father's plan is really ingenious. The Ming army in Shuntian Mansion would never have imagined that Tianjin Wei would become our chessboard so soon! It's just that Sun Quanming is so weak, he doesn't know How did he climb to the position of commander of the guards?"

Sun Quanming, as a third-grade guard commander, surrendered without putting up any decent resistance during the battle between the two armies.This is also the highest-ranking Ming official who surrendered to Haihan since the war began.

Chen Yixin said: "There are only a few frontier troops that can really fight in Ming Dynasty. The one Sun Zhen met in Shanhaiguan is one of them. Sun Quanming and his troops are more interested in business than in war. Much more, if you don’t train normally, even if you don’t surrender, you won’t be able to last long.”

Chen Pingliao said: "But this person's position is so easy to be shaken. If my father wants to use him, he still has to be careful."

Chen Yixin nodded and said: "When the war here comes to an end, send him away from here. Let him choose a place to stay in Liaodong or Shandong."

According to the intelligence obtained by the Military Intelligence Bureau, Sun Quanming did not have any outstanding military talents. He was appointed as the commander of the Tianjin Guard by the Ming Dynasty. This was purely the result of paying tribute to important cabinet officials.

It is said that Sun Quanming originally wanted the position of Minister of War, but unfortunately the relationship was not strong enough, so he had to settle for Tianjin Wei.However, by accident, he developed a friendship with Haihan. In the past few years, he has controlled foreign trade and made back the money he spent on the official purchase.

People like Sun Quanming can find a way to survive no matter where they are, but Chen Yixin will definitely not arrange for him to be an official again.From now on, whether you are a landowner or an apartment owner, just don't appear in Haihan's official office.

Sun Quanming was indeed very cooperative, and he wrote a letter asking for help in a short time.After giving it to Chen Yixin for review, Sun Quanming's personal soldiers carried the letter and rushed to Dong'an, Wuqing, Xianghe and other places in the west to move reinforcements.

If the Tianjin Guard is the first line of defense deployed by Ming in the direction of the Bohai Sea, then the Ming troops stationed in Dong'an, Wuqing, Xianghe, Sanhe, Pinggu and other places have built a second line of defense in this direction.

Judging from the intelligence provided by Sun Quanming, there are at least [-] soldiers and horses on this second line of defense. If a few thousand can be lured to the Tianjin Guard to annihilate them, then the subsequent battle towards the capital should be much easier.

It's just that Chen Yixin is not fully sure whether this move will be successful.If the local Ming army generals were more cautious, they might have seen through the trick.

But one day later, the person who went to deliver the message returned to the Acropolis, saying that the garrisons in Dong'an and Wuqing, the two places closest to Tianjin, had already departed, but Xianghe, which was farther away, did not agree to send troops for rescue.

Being able to deceive two Ming armies was a pretty good achievement. Chen Yixin immediately made arrangements and set up an encirclement near Tianjin Acropolis, just waiting for the Ming armies to fall into the trap.

Another day later, two Ming armies indeed entered Tianjin Wei's jurisdiction.But what was waiting for them was not the "excellent fighter plane" that Sun Quanming mentioned in his letter, but the Haihan army setting up an ambush in the woods on both sides of the official road.

It wasn't until the two groups of ambushed and maimed troops fled all the way into the Acropolis that they found themselves in a dead end. The place had already been occupied by the Haihan army.

As for Mr. Sun, who claimed in the letter that "the advantage is mine" and asked them to rush to Tianjin as soon as possible to join the war, there has been no news at all and his whereabouts are missing.

After the battle, the Haihan army wiped out more than [-] Ming troops who came to support them from two groups, and also seized a batch of military supplies.However, this strategy can only be used once, and it is impossible to deceive the next Ming army.

(End of this chapter)