"Dorgon's troops should be lurking near Ningyuan now. The thousand Jurchen cavalry you met earlier are his advance troops, right or wrong?"
Seeing the panic on Zu Zerun's face, Zhu Yuanzhang shouted and asked again.
"How did you know?"
After Zu Zerun responded instinctively, he hurriedly explained: "Dor... Although Dorgon has quietly come..., he is worried that Jinzhou and other places will be lost."
"In addition, many of the accompanying soldiers were infected with the plague, so there were only about 10,000 people on this trip, and one-third of them were soldiers from the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, so their combat power was not strong."
"Now that your majesty has defeated Duduo, the army is at its peak. If you lead the army in a surprise attack, and with the response of the criminal's father's old troops, you may be able to capture Dorgon alive. Please think twice, your majesty!"
Zhu Yuanzhang saw Zu Zerun's panicked face when he spoke. He was clearly in a state of confusion. He shouldn't have said such a logical statement, but he not only said it, but it was also feasible. He knew that they had planned this matter before. OK
The purpose should be to rescue Zu Dashou while he led his army to attack Ningyuan and Dorgon mobilized Jinzhou army to come.
Once Zu Dashou is rescued, with his influence in Liaodong, he will be able to quickly form a powerful army, and then the Zu family will be qualified to negotiate with him.
Zhu Yuanzhang thought of this and sneered: "A surprise attack on Ningyuan, maybe you want to surprise Jinzhou?"
When Zu Zerun heard this, he said with a panicked look on his face: "Jinzhou is also going to be attacked. This will cut off Dorgon's return path and make it possible to capture him alive!"
Zhu Yuanzhang pretended to be dissatisfied and shouted angrily: "That's nonsense. Dorgon has always acted cautiously. Since he dared to come, he must have a complete plan."
"What's more, although Duduo and Azige have been defeated, they still have five or six thousand remaining soldiers. Adding Kong Youde's navy, their strength is nearly 30,000."
"And Ningyuan City has high walls and thick walls, and the land and water armies are at odds with each other. How can we attack by surprise?"
"You clearly saw Duduo's defeat and wanted to save the situation for Dorgon, so you came up with this strategy to deceive us. How could we be fooled!"
As he spoke, seeing that Zu Zerun's will had not been broken, he shouted loudly: "Come here, drag this rebellious man down and behead him!"
When Zu Zerun heard this, his face turned pale with fright, and he hurriedly said loudly: "Your Majesty... Your Majesty, the guilty minister did not deceive you. There is indeed a way to take Ningyuan. Please allow the guilty minister to explain it in detail!"
In fact, Zu Zerun, as Zu Dashou's disciple and a former military general, was not someone who was so afraid of death.
Just because he cared too much about Zu Dashou's life and death, he was worried that once Zu Dashou died, he would not be able to restore the ancestral family's previous glory, and then he would become the sinner of the ancestral family.
In addition, he is a reckless man. He may be good at fighting and charging, but when it comes to mental skills and strategies, he is inferior to ordinary scribes.
His previous words were also guided by his ancestors and counselors, but after Zhu Yuanzhang threatened him several times, his mind was already disturbed.
At this moment, he heard that Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to kill him, and felt that there was no hope of rescuing Zu Dashou, so he was completely confused.
Wang Euzhi, who was on the side, also knew that Zhu Yuanzhang was just intimidating the other party, so he persuaded him: "Your Majesty, what Zu Zerun said is not entirely without merit. Since he said that he has a strategy to take Ningyuan, you might as well wait for him to finish. If If you don’t think so, it’s not too late to punish him!”
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he snorted coldly and shouted: "For Wang Qing's sake, we will give you another chance. If you don't take it seriously, we will definitely make your life worse than death!"
After hearing this, Zu Zerun felt a little relieved.
He first glanced at Wang Fuzhi gratefully, and then whispered: "Your Majesty, the guilty minister really wants to take advantage of your attack on Ningyuan to rescue his father, but he does not dare to plot to harm you!"
"The reason why the guilty minister said that he could attack Ningyuan by surprise is because he has sent people to hunt down Duduo, and also arranged three or four teams of troops along the way, so he should be able to capture Duduo."
"If Duduo is lucky and is not captured alive, the time to escape back to Ningyuan will be extended. In this way, we can have people pretend to be Duduo and make it look like they are under siege."
"Dodor and Azig are Dorgon's biggest helpers. After he learned about this, even if he didn't personally lead the army to rescue, he would let trustworthy people
Go to. "
"At that time, the remnant soldiers had not yet returned to the army, so he could only use the soldiers and horses in his hands. Once he divided his troops, the criminal's father's old troops would start an uprising in the city. Even if they could not capture Dorgon, they would still be able to capture Ningyuan City. !」
Zhu Yuanzhang originally thought that Zu Zerun had some clever plan, but after listening to his story, he couldn't help but sneered: "You have a good plan, but what if Dorgon doesn't divide his troops?"
"Or maybe he uses Duduo as bait and takes advantage of our exit to lead an army to attack Shanhaiguan. How should we respond?"
Zu Zerun was stunned and said: "Dorgon will definitely divide his troops. Not to mention that he is a brother to Azig and Duduo. He has always had a good relationship. Even if he ignores brotherhood, in order to stabilize him As a Jurchen, I will never sit idly by and ignore it!"
Zhu Yuanzhang sneered and said: "Brotherhood, do you know that the last time Duduo attacked Beidaihe, it was Dorgon who deliberately condoned it?"
"As for status, as long as he has an army, no one can defeat him. Your arguments are simply untenable."
"Actually, we also know what you are thinking. You proposed this method just because you want us to send troops to attack Ningyuan. Then Dorgon, under pressure, will mobilize troops from Jinzhou to help, and then you can take the opportunity to rescue Zu Dashou, right? ?」
When Zu Zerun saw that Zhu Yuanzhang revealed what he was thinking, he was slightly surprised and then denied it again and again.
Seeing that he could not ask any more questions, Zhu Yuanzhang was about to ask someone to take Zu Zerun down, but suddenly he saw a dead tiger warrior running over in a hurry and respectfully handed over a secret letter.
Zhu Yuanzhang took the secret letter and saw that it was Liu Wenbing's secret message. He couldn't help but feel happy. He hurriedly took out the letter and browsed it quickly.
He only took a few glances, and a smile couldn't help but appear on his face.
It turned out that after Liu Wenbing led his army to leave, he was supposed to secretly return to Shanhaiguan.
Unexpectedly, he received the bad news about Gong Yonggu halfway. He was so sad that he vomited blood and passed out several times.
Fortunately, he had a strong mind and knew that the war situation was critical at this moment. He was prepared to brace himself for illness and return to Shanhaiguan.
Just at this time, Jiang Yingkui led his army to meet him and told him Zhu Yuanzhang's plan.
Liu Wenbing was worried that after Gong Yonggu died in the battle, the rebels would send elites to attack the capital. Now that he knew that the battle at Shanhaiguan was scheduled to take place in five days, he asked Jiang Yingkui to lead the troops because of his serious illness, and he took more than a thousand soldiers with him. The cavalry rushed to the capital at starry night.
After he arrived in the capital, he first went to see Shen Zhanran who was confronting Hauge.
After learning that Hao Ge had fallen into the trap, he prepared to join forces with Shen Zhanran to repel Hao Ge first and then deal with the rebels. However, he suddenly learned that Zhu Cixiang was trapped.
The two of them were shocked when they heard the news. When they were trying to rescue him, they didn't expect that Zhu Cixiang led his army to Shen Zhanran's camp.
It turned out that Zhu Cixiang wanted to deal with Liu Fangliang's rebels first because they were coming in force.
However, Wang Chengen proposed that he use Zhu Cihong's name to attack the rebels, while Zhu Cihong led the army to attack Hauge.
Because Wang Chengen felt that although the rebels had fallen into the trap, Lu Jiude and others could not do anything.
Based on the mentality of Lu Jiude and others, they must have thought that Zhu Cihong would attack the rebels first, so if they had an ambush, it would definitely be on the rebel side.
If this is the case, it will be difficult for them to defeat the rebels quickly.
Once the war reaches a stalemate, the effect of surprise troops cannot be achieved.
Therefore, he felt that the main force should be focused on attacking Haug, while he led the army to attack the rebels and attract everyone's attention.
In this way, even if it fails, it will not affect the overall situation, and it can also paralyze Hauge and others.
Zhu Cixiang also felt that what Wang Chengen said was reasonable, so he accepted his suggestion and divided his forces.
When Liu Wenbing and Shen Zhanran heard that Wang Chengen was so loyal and brave, they couldn't help but think highly of him.
Then the three of them joined forces and took advantage of Deming's lobbying opportunity to launch an attack on Haug.
Hauge had already fallen into Shen Zhanran's scheme, and because he was tired of his troops and in the moment of success, he was immediately defeated.
Liu Wenbing and others were about to pursue the victory, but they received news from Jin Yiwei that Li Guo had been found a hundred miles away from the capital.
The three of them passed by
After some discussion, they felt that after Hauge's defeat, Ao Bai wouldn't be able to hold on for long. It would only be a matter of time before he retreated, and there would be no danger to Li Jing.
As for Wang Chengen, Huang Degong is here, so nothing will happen for the time being. On the contrary, the battle between Li Guo and Shanhaiguan is more critical.
Therefore, they decided to divide their troops into two groups, with one group led by Shen Zhanran and Zhu Cixiang to deal with the sneaking Li Guo.
The other group, led by Liu Wenbing, rushed to Shanhaiguan to support Zhu Yuanzhang.
