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Chapter 126
(PS: The cervical spine has been hurting a lot these days, so there is only one shift every day. When the pure wolf's illness improves a bit, we will resume two shifts. Please forgive me.)
"Shenyang?! Sneak attack on Shenyang?!! Brother Zhang, are you sure you said the place name correctly? Are you sure you don't have a fever and talk nonsense?!!!"

On the fourth day after the Jiannu army withdrew, at the meeting where civil and military officials of the Ming army summarized the gains and losses of Jinzhou's offensive and defensive battles, after Young Master Zhang presented his long-planned counterattack plan, except for Man Gui, who had been stunned by Young Master Zhang beforehand, , including the well-informed eunuch Ji Yong and Song Xiance, who was famous for rebellion and rebellion in history, everyone was so frightened by the bold and crazy plan of Young Master Zhang that their heads went blank, and they couldn't believe their ears at all. .After finally regaining his senses, Song Xiance was the first to jump up and shouted, "Master, are you crazy? You're going to kill yourself for the sneak attack on Shenyang?"

"Yes, Tanhualang, you're taking too much of a joke." Ji Yong also rubbed his frightened chest, and said in a sharp voice: "Since the fall of Shenyang in the first year of the apocalypse, successive Liaodong There is no one in Jingfu who does not want to recover Shenyang. However, except for one Wang Huazhen who dared to shout this slogan, no one else, including Xiong Tingbi and Sun Ge, dared to shout such a slogan. + Dajun and Guangning City were lost by him again. Now the remaining army in Jinzhou City is only 10,000 to 5000 people, and there are many wounded among them. If you go to Shenyang with such a small force, it is simply selfish Seeking death!"

"Eunuch Ji, you are wrong." Young Master Zhang shook his head, and said even more frantically: "I didn't plan to take all the troops in Jinzhou City, I only planned to take the Mongolian cavalry of General Mangui, without luggage, only Dry food, Qingqi sneak attack Shenyang!"

"Only bring four thousand cavalry full of generals?" The civil and military officials in Jinzhou went blank for a while, and couldn't believe that there were such crazy people in this world.Young Master Zhang corrected: "It's not four thousand cavalry, it's three thousand six hundred and eight cavalry! During the offensive and defensive battle of Jinzhou City, I never let General Mangui's cavalry go to the main battlefield to consume, so the cavalry company of General Mangui's direct line was injured. They were killed in battle, and the loss did not exceed 610 people, in order to preserve the strength of Brother Man's cavalry and wait for an opportunity to launch a counterattack!"

The generals of the Ming army present saw each other. During the offensive and defensive battle of Jinzhou, the North Gate of Jinzhou, which Man Gui was in charge of, had indeed never fought a tough battle. The generals were only envious of Man Gui's good luck before, but until now, the generals of Jinzhou have finally understood that it turns out that Young Master Zhang is not bad for a day or two. From the very beginning of the Jinzhou War, Young Master Zhang has held back his wicked ideas. Ready to fight back against the slaves.The person involved, Man Gui, asked with a wry smile: "Generals, you should now understand why Brother Zhang took such good care of me before?"

"Tanhualang, the more you talk, the more absurd you are!" Ji Yong stood up and shouted in a drake voice, "Leading more than 600 cavalry to attack Shenyang, let's not talk about whether you will be destroyed on the way." If you take a step back and say that even if you were not discovered by Jiannu and successfully raided the city of Shenyang without siege weapons, how would you attack the city? Take a step back and say that you have captured Shenyang City. The Jiannu army counterattacked, and you How do you defend Shenyang with a little force? How will the imperial court reinforce you with food and supplies? How will you send reinforcements to you?"

"Jiannu won't find out, and even if they find out, it's too late to return to Shenyang City." Young Master Zhang spread out the map, pointed to his planned marching route, and said confidently: "Eunuch Ji, please look, I didn't intend to take the road of Sanchahe and Haizhou, which are closely monitored by Jiannu, but I planned to go north from Jinzhou, enter the Mongolian grassland from Daheishan in Zhenyuanbao, Guangningwei, cross the Liaohe River via Xiongshan, and appear directly northwest of Shenyang. Changshan Fort, and then go straight to Shenyang! This road is remote and difficult, but there is no Jiannu garrison to stop us. If the main force wants to return to Shenyang, it will definitely be too late!"

"If it is normal, this marching route will definitely not work, and I will never dare to take it." Young Master Zhang explained in detail: "The first is that this marching route must pass through the Horqin tribe, the hard-core ally of Jiannu. The Mongolian grassland, the second is that Shenyang is the base camp of Jiannu, and there are heavy soldiers stationed there to protect it. The third is that this road lacks water supply in this section of the Mongolian grassland, which is not conducive to the march of the army. If our army wants to take this road to attack Shenyang in normal times I'm afraid that as soon as they stepped into the Horqin grassland, the traitors of the Horqin tribe have already notified the slave-building army. When the time comes, the slave-building army will be strict and wait for it, and the Horqin traitor army will harass and block it later. We can't imagine It is difficult to destroy the army. But the situation is different now. The first Horqin rape has been beaten by Lin Danhan to the city of Geljurgen, the old nest. The army has retreated to defend the city. We don’t have to worry about being harassed and blocked by Horqin rape The second army of Jiannu went to Gelezhuergen City and Gaizhou for rescue in two ways. The Shenyang garrison was empty, which provided us with an opportunity for Qingqi sneak attack. Thirdly, there is now more than a foot of snow on the Mongolian grassland. We can replenish the water source anytime and anywhere, which is beneficial for our long-distance Qingqi raid on Shenyang. Eunuch Ji, generals, think about it, such a good opportunity is in front of us, wouldn’t it be a pity for us not to seize it?"

I have to admit that Young Master Zhang is indeed a wolf born for the battlefield. His keen sense of smell for catching fighters is almost invincible. They all had to nod their heads, admitting that this opportunity is feasible.Only Ji Yong resolutely objected, "No, Tanhualang, our family still says the same thing, even if you get to the city of Shenyang, how can you take it without luggage? And even if you take it, there is no way to hold it."

"Without siege weapons, we can take it by force. There are many Mongols in General Mangui's cavalry team. We can use this to make a big fuss and capture Shenyang City!" Young Master Zhang said with a smirk: "As for the capture of Shenyang City How will I defend the city in the future?——Why should I defend? The purpose of my attack on Shenyang City is to attack the morale of the Jiannu army and destroy their will to fight. I just need to burn, kill, loot and kill a few more Jiannu families in the city. We have retreated the same way, why are we going to guard that lonely city behind the enemy? As long as this plan is successful, we can not only fight against the arrogance accumulated by the Jiannu over the years, but also boost the morale of the soldiers and civilians of the Ming Dynasty, and let the main force of the Jiannu be exhausted on the land of Liaodong , and in turn rescue our Mongolian Lindan Khan and Dongzhen Mao Wenlong, who were besieged Wei and rescued Zhao, and can serve multiple purposes, wouldn’t it be wonderful?”

"If the purpose of taking down Shenyang City is to kill Jiannu's family, it is feasible to retreat immediately without defending the city." Ma Shilong was the first to nod in agreement. Dare to open your mouth to agree to this plan.Only Ji Yong blushed and shouted: "No, our family does not agree! Tanhualang, our family knows that you are planning to do this for the sake of the court and the Ming Dynasty, but this action is too dangerous. If you are a little careless, The consequences are unimaginable! If something happens to you, Tanhualang, how will our family explain to Jiuqiantui? How to explain to the court? You have already won such a big victory in Jinzhou, why would you risk your life? Do you know? , if your Qingqi sneak attack fails and you suffer heavy losses, even if you come back alive, you will not be able to get away with the crime of losing your teacher and humiliating the country?"

"Eunuch Ji, war is a risk. If you don't take risks, you will win a big victory?" Young Master Zhang still wanted to persuade him.Ji Yong waved his hands and shook his head again and again, and said angrily: "Tanhualang, even if you hate our family, our family just doesn't agree! Our family is the Jinzhou Supervisory Army and is in charge of the firearms arsenal according to the law. If you insist on going your own way, then Our family will not issue you weapons, so that you did not send out soldiers! You can report this to Jiuqiantui, but our family believes that Jiuqiantui will not agree with you to take such a big risk!"

Young Master Zhang smiled wryly, knowing that Ji Yong was doing it for his own good, and he was also afraid that Wei Zhongxian would take revenge on Ji Yong if something happened to him, but Young Master Zhang had already prepared for it, and pulled out a letter from his sleeve, holding Dao Ji Yong's face with both hands, with a serious expression on his face He said: "Grandpa Ji, Zhang Haogu has accepted your kindness. But Zhang Haogu is really reluctant to give up this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. How about this, this is a letter written by me, it is for Jiuqiansui , Eunuch Ji, please read the content."

Ji Yong took the letter in doubt and opened it, only to see that Young Master Zhang solemnly declared in the letter to Wei Zhongxian that it was Young Master Zhang who made the decision to lead Qingqi out of the fortress and attack Shenyang by detour. To hold anyone accountable, all the blame rests on himself alone.After reading this letter, Ji Yong shook his head again and said: "Tanhualang, you have misunderstood what our family means. Our family is not afraid of taking responsibility. Our family is really thinking of you. Don't forget, Tanhualang, your family But ten generations of single inheritance, to you this is still a single seedling..."

"Grandpa Ji, you have misunderstood me." Young Master Zhang interrupted Ji Yong and said seriously: "Grandpa Ji, I handed this suicide note to you because I was worried that if something happened to me, my godfather nine Chitose will ask you to settle accounts, so prepare the suicide note first, and excuse you from responsibility. This letter, Eunuch Ji, you don’t have to rush to hand it over to Nine Chitose. If I succeed, Eunuch Ji, you can just send this letter Burn it, all of us here have a share in the success of the sneak attack on Jianlao's lair! If I fail and die, Eunuch Ji, please hand this letter to Jiuqian, and everyone here will not have to worry about Jiuqian looking for you It's settled!"

"Brother Zhang, why are you calling us so shameless?" Young Master Zhang thought so thoughtfully of himself, Ma Shilong and Wu Xiang present would all be moved by it.But Ji Yong stood still for a while, and finally picked up the letter from Young Master Zhang, and threw it into the burning charcoal beside him. Young Master Zhang didn't expect that he would be opposed to offer such a good deal to Ji Yong. He couldn't help being a little angry, and asked, "Eunuch Ji, what do you mean?"

"Tanhualang, you are a man!" Ji Yong first gave a thumbs up to Young Master Zhang, and then said slowly: "Although I, Ji Yong, am a man without balls, I am willing to do some ballsy things! You Go ahead, if something goes wrong, our family will share the blame equally with you, and if you succeed, all the credit will be yours! For matters behind Jinzhou, you leave it to our family and General Ma, and they will never hold you back!"

"Grandpa Ji..." Young Master Zhang also began to have a little admiration for the old eunuch in front of him, and cupped his hands and said, "Grandpa Ji... no, Mr. Ji! Mr. Ji, you are also a real man! You are better than that of the Donglin Party!" Help the trash, a hundred times stronger!"

"Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack!" Man Gui took the lead in applauding, and said loudly, "Okay! Since Brother Zhang, you are not afraid of death as a civil servant, and Mr. Ji, as a father-in-law, you are not afraid of taking responsibility. If I, Man Gui, still say If you don’t go, what kind of general do you still have the face to be? Brother Zhang, I will accompany you on this trip to Shenyang!” Hei Yunlong and Ma Dengyun who also came to the meeting also applauded vigorously, and shouted with arms: “Brother Zhang, we will also accompany you. You're going to settle in Shenyang, go to Jiannu's lair and make a mess of him, and let them know how powerful our Daming men are!"

"And me, Mr. Zhang, I was recommended by you to Liaodong, it would be too mean if you didn't take me with you." Wu Liuqi also applauded.Over there, Wu Sangui also came out from behind Wu Xiang, and shouted: "Master Zhang, take me there again. Although I am still a child, Jiannu will definitely not pay attention to me. When you outwit Shenyang, you said Might not be useful to me."

"Okay, Wu San, Wu Liu and the two brothers of the Wu family will go with us." Young Master Zhang originally planned to bring along Wu Liuqi and Wu Sangui, who were extremely skilled, so he agreed without hesitation.Generals Ma Shilong, Zhao Lijiao, and Wu Xiang originally planned to go with them, but Young Master Zhang refused outright—Master Zhang has already sent a memorial to the imperial court, claiming that the city of Jinzhou was seriously damaged during the battle and lost its value. As long as the imperial court approves the transfer of all the soldiers and civilians in Jinzhou to the customs, someone from Jinzhou needs to lead the army to protect the people and retreat with food and grass.

After convincing all the generals to agree with his crazy plan, Young Master Zhang began to arrange the plan for sending troops, except for dispatching troops, preparing dry food, bacon, war horses, forage, weapons and other military supplies, as well as necessitating preparations such as agreeing on the dispatch period. For work, Young Master Zhang specifically explained: "Eunuch Ji, generals, you must remember one thing. You must keep secret the plan and route of my Qingqi attack on Shenyang! After I leave Jinzhou, you must keep it secret. Claiming that I was injured in the battle and need time to rest and heal, so I don’t see anyone!” Having said this, Young Master Zhang said with a serious expression: “Especially the envoys and officials sent by Ningyuan, if they want to inquire about me, You can't leak a single word of my Qingqi plan to attack Shenyang!"

"Tanhualang, are you worried about Ningyuan..." Ji Yong asked tentatively.Young Master Zhang said with a gloomy face: "Grandpa Ji, do you still remember our five problematic Hongyi cannons? Although it is impossible to investigate whether the five Hongyi cannons came from Ningyuan City now, but there are problems. The number of Hongyi cannons is exactly five, which is too coincidental, so I have to be careful."

"Brother Zhang, don't worry, we will keep it secret." Ma Shilong had already suspected this, and immediately nodded in agreement.Ji Yong over there also nodded in agreement, and added: "Don't worry, Tanhualang, there are envoys from Ningyuan, and our family and General Ma will personally receive them. They are in Jinzhou City, and our family will also arrange for people to watch over them." Their."

"Thank you, Eunuch Ji, thank you, Brother Ma." Eldest Master Zhang cupped his hands in thanks, turning his treacherous triangular eyes for a moment, and then said, "Generals, Eunuch Ji, if the envoy sent by Ning Yuan insists on meeting me, I didn’t see them under the pretext of being injured, and they couldn’t see the cavalry of General Man Gui who belonged to the Ningyuan garrison, I’m afraid it will make them more suspicious and secretly inquire about the whereabouts of me and General Man Gui, so why don’t we……”

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As Young Master Zhang expected, on the second day after Young Master Zhang's Qingqi left Jinzhou, the envoys from Ningyuan City came to Jinzhou City and asked to see Young Master Zhang by name, saying that he wanted to congratulate Young Master Zhang on his great victory in Jinzhou. After being rejected by Ma Shilong and Ji Yong on the grounds that Young Master Zhang was injured and needed to rest, the Ningyuan envoy really inquired about the whereabouts of Young Master Zhang and the Mangui cavalry in secret.However, Zhao Liaojiao and Wu Xiang, who are relatively close to the Ningyuan garrison, secretly revealed to the Ningyuan envoy that Young Master Zhang quietly led the cavalry from Mangui to pursue Nuerhachi's main force, because Young Master Zhang expected Nuer In order to rescue Gaizhou at full speed, Ha Chi's cavalry and infantry are likely to march separately, and the team is out of touch, which is conducive to the Manchu cavalry's surprise attack on the infantry team transporting supplies.The envoy of Ningyuan suddenly realized, so he believed it.

Maybe it was a coincidence. Not long after the envoy from Ningyuan left Jinzhou, Nuerhachi expected that Young Master Zhang might dispatch cavalry to chase and kill his train, so he specially slowed down the marching speed, using the slow-moving train as bait, carefully A trap was set up to wait for Jinzhou's pursuers to take the bait, but Nuerhachi's ambush soldiers waited left and right, and never saw the shadow of the pursuers led by Young Master Zhang himself, wasting five or six days of marching time, and had to travel day and night Rushed to Gaizhou to rescue Zhenghongqi.Ever since, after a series of news transmissions, the Ningyuan envoy came to Jinzhou City again, and began to inquire about the results of Young Master Zhang Qingqi's pursuit of Nuerhachi's army.

"Hey, don't mention this, people in Jinzhou City will burst into laughter when we mention it." Ji Yong sighed, and said to the Ningyuan messenger in the voice of a male duck: "Tan Hualang personally took the cavalry to hunt down this time. The roads of the Jiannu army were covered with ice and snow, but they fell off their horses and broke their legs in the Fujiatai area. There was no other way, so the army had no choice but to return to Xipingbao to station, while monitoring whether the Jiannu army would turn around and kill again. When I came back, while recuperating for Tanhualang, I had to postpone the matter of chasing and killing Nuerhachi, the old Jiannu."

With the lessons learned from last time, the envoy from Ningyuan certainly did not dare to believe all Ji Yong's words, so he asked Wu Xiang and Zhao Lvjiao again. The eldest son Wu Sangui and his brother Zhao Lvlun, who accompanied Young Master Zhang on the expedition, confirmed Wu Xiang and Zhao Lvjiao. Knowing that the news is true, both Man Gui and Young Master Zhang are now stationed in Xiping Fort, and the Ningyuan envoy returned to report contentedly.Not long after, this news inexplicably appeared in front of Nuerhachi, and Nuerhachi was completely relieved, and began to chase and kill Mao Wenlong's army who had heard the news and had given up Gaizhou and retreated to Lushunkou.

I have to admit that the Jiannu Eight Banners are really good at fighting field battles. Mao Wenlong's army is already capable of fighting tough battles in the Ming army, but they fought two field battles with the Jiannu Eight Banners cavalry, and they all ended in failure. The loss is not light .In this way, Mao Wenlong's army could only run away in a panic, while Nuerhachi, who had had enough of being useless under the city of Jinzhou, led his army in hot pursuit, and seized this opportunity to kill Mao Wenlong, a hidden danger in the rear.But just when Nuerhachi chased him to the territory of Jinzhou and was about to catch up with Mao Wenlong's main force, a ship docked at the nearby port of Fuzhou Bay. When they landed, the messengers on the ship rushed to catch up with the Jiannu army like crazy, and brought a bad news to Nuerhachi...

"Khan, hurry! Go back to Shenyang!" Fan Ji's courier yelled frantically: "Our boss received accurate news in Ningyuan City. After Khan your army removed the siege of Jinzhou, Jinzhou's military equipment Zhang Haogu didn't have it at all. Chasing you, let alone falling off your horses and getting hurt! Instead, with a team of light cavalry, go out of the Horqin Mongolian grasslands from the Black Mountains, detour to the Changshan Mountains and cross the Liaohe River, and directly attack Shengjing, the capital of your Daikin, with a team of light cavalry!"

"What?" Nuerhachi's head was dizzy, and he almost fell off his horse - Nuerhachi knew the current situation in Shengjing City better than anyone else. When he was still besieging Jinzhou, in order to gain time, he They also asked Abai and Tabai to lead a part of the defenders in Shengjing City to reinforce Daishan. Now the garrison in Shengjing City is only about [-] people from Babutai. He didn't have much fighting power at all. Once that little plague god Zhang Haogu attacked and breached Shengjing, Nuerhachi couldn't imagine what would happen!Frightened and angry, Nuerhachi jumped off his horse and grabbed the messenger by the neck, shouting: "Why didn't you send this news earlier?! Huang Taiji gives you so many benefits every year, so you just repay it!" he?"

"Great... Great Khan, please forgive me." The messenger of Fan Ji Company replied with difficulty: "The Ningyuan official who gave us the information had committed suicide a few days ago because of a problem with the grain collection account, so it is difficult for us to get it. There is news from the Ningyuan garrison. This news came from another Ningyuan official when our boss was drinking and chatting with another Ningyuan official. Yes..., yes, that little barbarian Zhang Haogu succeeded in attacking Shengjing After that, I have to go back to Jinzhou by the same route, please...please sweat...prepare...prepare..."

Speaking of this, the messenger had been pinched by Nuerhachi and passed out. Nuerhachi, who was completely mad, waved him away and shouted: "Immediately send an order, the whole army will return to Shengjing, and go and arrest Zhang!" Good ancient little barbarian, give me a thousand cuts! Dog barbarian, you brazen barbarian, little lunatic! You... dared to sneak attack my Shengjing city. I caught you this time, and I want you to kill me bite by bite. ——!”

"Ama, we are about to catch up with Mao Wenlong Manzi." Daishan reminded cautiously.Before he finished speaking, Nuerhachi slapped his face hard, and shouted: "Idiot! Is it Mao Wenlong's barbarian, or Shengjing City? There is a city at the mouth of Lushun. If Mao Wenlong retreats into the city again? We have to When will the fight last? Retreat, retreat, return to the division to save Shengjing!"

"Zha!" Dai Shan had no choice but to order the troops to retreat and turn around.Nuerhachi yelled wildly again: "If you send people to Horqin Grassland again, no matter how many good horses run to death, you have to send the order to Mangurtai and Tang Guertai before Zhang Haogu's barbarian retreats. They don't care about the Tartars on the Horqin Grassland, and immediately turn around and go back to the army, blocking Zhang Haogu's retreat! If Zhang Haogu's army runs away one by one, tell them to come to me!"

When they were about to catch up with Mao Wenlong's main force, the Jiannu army suddenly turned around and headed north. Mao Wenlong, who had nowhere to go, was about to fight a fierce battle and make a huge sacrifice. They also sent out elite cavalry to catch their tongues and torture them for the reason for the sudden retreat of the Jiannu army.And Mao Wenlong has quite a few capable people under his command. Geng Zhongming and Geng Jimao teamed up and captured a few Jiannu scouts in just one day. Under torture, Mao Wenlong was surprised to find that the reason why Jiannu gave up chasing and killing him , because Young Master Zhang sent troops to attack Shengjing.

"Hey, this little guy Zhang Haogu is really interesting." Mao Wenlong said to the generals with a smile: "I attacked Gaizhou at all costs, surrounded Wei and rescued Zhao and indirectly supported the Jinzhou battlefield, because that little guy Zhang Haogu was nine thousand Year-old godson, our military pay and food have to be nine thousand years old to send to Pidao. Unexpectedly, this little guy has just withstood the mad attack of the old Jiannu for more than a month, and immediately attacked Shengjing with Qingqi. Indirect support for us. Interesting, this little guy is really interesting."

"Godfather, my son thinks that little guy Zhang Haogu is too preoccupied." Kong Youde, one of Mao Wenlong's adoptive sons, said, "It's a good idea for him to take advantage of Shenyang's emptiness and make a sneak attack, but he didn't consider him. How do you retreat after a successful sneak attack? Jiannu’s Zhenglan Banner and Zhengbai Banner went to rescue the Horqin Mongolian Grassland. If they received news that Shenyang was attacked, they would definitely return to block his retreat. The main force of Jiannu returned to Shenyang. How could he retreat? Jinzhou? I'm afraid it's easy for him to sneak attack, but it's difficult for him to ride alone in Jinzhou."

"Stupid son!" Mao Wenlong scolded, and said with a smile: "Since Zhang Haogu can come up with the idea of ​​attacking Shenyang, he will definitely not be so stupid as to go back to the teacher to make dumplings for Jiannu. Where is he going?" He must have made up his mind to retreat."

"Then where will he retreat?" Kong Youde asked curiously.Mao Wenlong smiled and replied: "I think I probably guessed it. Let's go to that place to meet that little fellow Zhang Haogu. I can't wait to see what he looks like."

(End of this chapter)