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A ray of dawn, through the heavy morning fog, sprinkles the north and south banks of the Nuer River.

But at this moment, in the camp of the Ming army on the south bank of the Naughter River, the sound of horns and golden drums rang together, startling the whistlers of the Tartars from the north bank to gallop over and wait and see.

They looked at the Ming army on the other side of the river, and saw that they kept pushing boats and rafts into the river. From the foot of Rufeng Mountain to the foot of Shimen Mountain, there were Ming army camps, and the banks of the river were lined up with large and small boats and rafts.

The Ming army gathered on the river bank, and as far as the eye could see, there was a piece of red armor, standing in groups under the sea of ​​red flags, as if they would board a ship and rush in at any time.

Even Prince Dorgon of the Qing Dynasty and Shuorui was shocked by this action. He shouted at the sentinel who came to report the news: "Is the Ming army dispatched?"

"Returning to the prince, the Ming army is all over the river bank, and boats and wooden rafts are piled up everywhere along the river. It should be crossing the river to attack."

Dorgon continued to ask, "Where did the Ming army want to cross the river and where did they attack? Can you find out?"

The Zhenghong Banner Bayala who came to report back was allocated Shiku, and replied with a confused face: "Your Majesty, there are boat rafts everywhere along the river, slaves... slaves... slaves don't know that the Ming army is the main attack." where……"

"Trash, it's all trash!"

For some reason, since Huang Taiji left the Jinzhou front line and returned to Shengjing, Dorgon's temper became very irritable, and he was not as calm, deep and feminine as before.

At this time, Dorgon shouted angrily, and then said to the left and right: "Prepare your horse, follow me to have a look. Let's see where the Ming army wants to attack?"

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In the tent of the Chinese Army Commander in Ningyuan Town, Wu Sangui was sitting with his lapels straight. He seemed to be full of energy and looked radiant. He must have had a good night's sleep last night.

It is strange to say that both Wu Sangui and Zhang Cheng seem to have a habit, that is, before every major event, they will repeatedly consider and weigh the gains and losses, but once they decide on a strategy, they will sleep soundly, and rarely toss and turn. situation occurs.

As the commander-in-chief of a town, and leaders in the military circles in their respective regions, both of them can be called outstanding people!
Naturally, everyone understands the principle of "decisions are expensive", so when making decisions, they will naturally think carefully and plan carefully, and once they make a decision, they will take a good rest and focus on execution.

Wu Sangui's Chinese army commander's tent is very spacious, and there are two burly and strong sergeants at the felt curtain of the tent door, standing guard with their hands on their waist knives.

They are all tall and burly in general, wearing hats and helmets, and wearing long body armor, with exposed armor leaves, all of them are fine and exquisite, coupled with copper buckles and sheath belts, and their demeanor is both sturdy and full. It is heroic.

It must be known that although Wu Sangui is famous in Liaodong for having a large number of servants under his command, it is not easy for ordinary servants to enter the guard barracks.

After all, my safety in sleep depends on these people to protect me. Even if such a heroic figure as Wu Sangui is not as insidious and treacherous as Cao Cao, he is not too shabby. people.

He neither imitated Cao Cao's insidious and cruel dream killing, nor did he have the ability to sleep with his eyes open, so he had stricter requirements on the guards around him.

First of all, he required that the parents of these people must be servants of his father Wu Xiang or his uncle Zu Dashou; secondly, he had to have two relatives in his Ningyuan army; Healthy, and you have to move to Ningyuan City.

In this way, these guards have no reason to murder themselves.

Because they have been family members of the Wu family and the ancestors for generations, and they know the roots and the bottom line, and their loyalty is guaranteed first, and if any of them makes a mistake, it will endanger their parents, wives, children, brothers and sisters, and even at least two other relatives. The price is also too high.

What's more, Wu Sangui asked their relatives to move to Ningyuan, which not only has the deep meaning of being a hostage, but also has the advantages of being nearby and taking care of them. Wu Sangui has always treated his family members extremely preferentially, let alone guards.

Of course, in addition to the above, their personal force must also be very outstanding, even outstanding. After all, it is used to protect their own safety, not as a display for outsiders.

And from the tent door to Wu Sangui's back, every two steps there was an equally strong pro-army, making the entire Chinese army commander's tent full of solemnity.

To Wu Sangui, who was always treated kindly by his subordinates, although he was usually extremely gentle, he had a serious face during the war, especially at the moment when the solemn killing in the army tent made him not angry.

Although Wu Sangui's Chinese army commander's tent is large and thick, it doesn't look very luxurious.

In fact, it's not that Wu Sangui doesn't have the ability to be extravagant, it's just that his ambition is still above making meritorious deeds at this time, and he doesn't attach much importance to those vain and useless things.

Of course, although Wu Sangui didn't really pursue luxurious decorations, he didn't mean to live a harsh life in order to hone his will, and everything in his handsome tent still had everything one expects to find.

On the left is the topographic map of Rufeng Mountain, Shimen Mountain, and Nuerhe area. Jinzhou, Songshan, and even Yizhou are depicted in great detail. After all, this is their home field, so they know it well. The only thing they don’t know is the deployment of Qing troops.

On the right side is a row of weapon racks, where the broadswords, bows and arrows he used well are displayed here, and the armor rack next to him is even more empty, because they have been worn on Wu Sangui's body.

And there was another person sitting side by side with Wu Sangui at the top, Chen Jiugao, the former commander of the Shenji Battalion, because the governor Hong Chengchou paid the most attention to Wu Sangui's side, and he was also very friendly with Wu Sangui, so he personally Come and take command.

However, there are only two seats at the bottom, one is Wu Sangui's uncle Zu Dale, and the other is Fu Yingchong, the deputy general of Shenji Battalion, and the rest of the generals are all standing in their respective positions.

Wu Sangui glanced at the generals in the tent sharply, and said in a deep voice: "The ancestor of Jinzhou has guarded the city for more than a year, and he has exhausted the vigor of the slaves. This is the perfect time for us to break the siege of Jinzhou.

Now, we are only separated from Jinzhou City by the Naughty River in front of us. How can you look at the river and sigh, just to make the slaves laugh? "

He looked at the generals one by one with sharp eyes, and continued: "The imperial court has spent money and food to support you, and today is the time to repay each other with blood. I hope you can go forward bravely, kill Nuuhe in one fell swoop, and hit the city of Jinzhou. I will not hesitate to reward Sangui."

Zu Dale was the first to speak out: "I would like to obey the commander-in-chief's order."

He then turned to the generals in Ningyuan, and continued: "The commander-in-chief has treated me well, Jinzhou is very close today, how dare we not bravely kill the slaves?
What's more, there is also Chen Zongbing's artillery from the Shenji Battalion to help us out. We are defending the soil and fighting hard, so we dare not let Chen Zongbing see the jokes of my Liaodong soldiers. "

"You must kill slaves bravely, and repay the kindness of Wu Shuai and Zu Shuai with death!"

Generals under Wu Sangui's command, such as Chinese general Wu Guogui, left camp guerrilla Hu Xinshui, right camp guerrilla Xia Longshan, Du Si Gao Dejie, Wang Pingfan, Ji Zhonglun, Li Qinggong and others all echoed loudly.

Wu Sangui's generals were very satisfied with the reaction. In fact, all of this was within his expectations. The Ningyuan Army was different from the official troops of Shanhai Town, Ji Town, and Miyun Town, but somewhat similar to Zhang Cheng's Xuanbei Army.

The Ningyuan Army is a private army built with nearly [-] family members under Wu Sangui's command as the backbone. Although it still receives the military pay and food from the imperial court, these are directly given to Wu Sangui according to the number of personnel, and then he will pay according to his own. Willingness to redistribute.

Therefore, in the Ningyuan army, they only know their own general, Wu Sangui, but they don't know what the emperor's order is. In Liaodong alone, there are the ancestral family represented by Zu Dashou, and the Wu family represented by Wu Sangui, who use this method to raise troops .

Other commanders like Tang Tong, Ma Ke, Bai Guangen, etc., although they also have this heart, but they are not like the ancestors and Wu family who have been operating in Liaodong for a long time, with a lot of land and tenants and slaves in their hands, so they have this heart, but is helpless.

It is precisely because of this that all the generals in the Ningyuan Army were single-handedly promoted by Wu Sangui from the family, so they are naturally loyal to him, and in critical situations, they can bravely rush to kill regardless of danger, and protect him, the general. Grandpa's safety.

At this moment, Wu Sangui waved his hand to signal everyone to stop, and then he turned his head and said to Chen Jiugao: "Chen Zongbing also cheers you up!"

Chen Jiugao was not as serious as Wu Sangui, and he said to everyone with a smile on his face: "I have long heard that the soldiers and horses under the command of Liaodong Patriarch and Wu Zongbing are the most capable of fighting. Today, Jiugao can kill slaves side by side with you all." , I am truly honored..."

He first praised the generals of the Ningyuan Army, which won everyone's favor, and then sold them well, only to hear him brag about himself: "...please rest assured, generals, our Shenji Camp has plenty of gunpowder and cannons. Hey, I, Chen Jiugao, hereby make a promise to everyone that I will definitely shoot him all the cannons, so that the tartars will not even be able to find which side is south, let alone stop everyone from crossing the river..."

"Hahaha……"

After Chen Jiugao finished speaking, he laughed loudly to himself. Looking at the entire handsome tent, there was only one person who laughed out loud besides him and Fu Yingchong.

In order to avoid Chen Jiugao's embarrassment, Wu Sangui, the commander-in-chief of the Ningyuan regiment, grinned, and under his signal, the generals of Ningyuan laughed out loud.

Because Wu Sangui's Ningyuan Army will launch a fierce attack after Jizhen and Shanhai Town, so there is still plenty of time to prepare.

But even so, Wu Sangui had already arranged for the generals to arrange everything properly, and the general attack could be launched at any time only after the governor Xingyuan's military order was issued.

After all, it was his own uncle who was besieged in Jinzhou City, and he, Wu Sangui, could not be tolerated no matter what. This was also the starting point for Hong Chengchou to arrange his Ningyuan Army to undertake the main attack.

Moreover, with the prestige of Zu Dashou in Liaodong, as long as he is still alive, he will always be the emperor of the land of Liaodong. Even if Wu Sangui wiped out the Ningyuan army today, he can rebuild it in the future, and it will definitely be better than today. stronger.

This is why Wu Sangui spared no expense to understand the siege of Jinzhou!
In the end, he gave some generous encouragement and promised generous rewards, then he led the generals out of the tent and went to the river bank to inspect the preparations for the war.

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As soon as Wu Sangui and Chen Jiugao came out of the tent hand in hand, there were layers of guards wearing solid iron armor, holding iron guns and giving them a military salute.

Wu Sangui had long been accustomed to this and didn't take it seriously, but Chen Jiugao was overwhelmed by this murderous aura, and even the smile on his face faded a little.

They walked all the way to the bank of the Daughter River. Along the way, they saw sergeants busy inside and outside the barracks. Some of them packed their armor and weapons, and some were transporting supplies to the river bank, preparing for the upcoming battle.

However, there was not much tension on the faces of the members of the Ning Yuan Army, and it seemed that fighting was not a terrible thing for them.

It can be seen from this that whether an army can fight, in addition to ensuring the food and treatment of the soldiers, daily drills are also very important.

Among the Ming army, there are very few troops that can achieve the above two points. Even Zu Dashou, who is the soul of Liaodong trapped in Jinzhou City, can barely maintain the treatment of his servants.

The reason Wu Sangui was able to support nearly [-] soldiers and horses under his command was not only the output of a large amount of land in Liaodong, but also more importantly, the support of Governor Hong Chengchou, who gave priority to allocating most of the food, grass and salaries to the Ningyuan Army.

The distribution of the Ningyuan Army's large camps is that Wu Sangui's central army is located in the middle, facing the river section that will be attacked with all its strength, and the remaining battalions are placed in turn on the left and right, and only the rear army is behind the central army.

He arranged it like this, because there were no Qing troops stationed on the south bank of the Daughter River, and although there were still thousands of Qing soldiers in the western section of the Daughter River, the troops of Tang Tong, Bai Guangen, and Ma Ke stood in front one by one. Naturally, there is no need to be on guard here.

Chen Jiugao's artillery team of the Shenji Battalion was located fifty or sixty steps away from the river bank. After all, the sand and soil on the river bank were soft.

At such a distance, I am afraid that only the dozens of red cannons can bombard the Qing army on the other side. Seeing this situation, the generals of the Ningyuan army questioned whether these dozens of red cannons could suppress the Qing army?

Chen Jiugao's expression turned embarrassing in an instant, but his brain also became active at this moment. Inspired by the wooden rafts by the river, Chen Jiugao suggested that the wooden rafts should be fixed with wooden stakes, so that they could shoot for a few miles in the camp. Cannons at a distance can be fired on wooden rafts.

The officers and men of the Ning Yuan Army did what they said they would do. After all, the more intense the artillery fire of the Shenji Battalion, the weaker the defense line of the Qing army, and the fewer casualties of their own soldiers.

Although the Ning Yuan army can be called a brave army, who would dislike the tactics that can reduce the casualties of one's own side without taking advantage of the bastard?

What's more, in order to erect the pontoon bridge faster, the wooden rafts are already well prepared, and using some now will not affect the erection of the pontoon bridge.

As the military order was issued, the place immediately became a bustling scene.