Anyone who dares to rebel against the Ming Dynasty will be punished no matter how far away!
When Sun Chuanting heard this, he immediately remembered that Fang Yizao had threatened just now that he might be forced to rebel against his ancestors. He couldn't help but wonder, could the emperor be a prophet of the unknown and send an angel to say this? Somewhat ironically, the emperor sent Wu Sangui to arrest the traitorous general. If the ancestral family really wanted to rebel, what would Wu Sangui do?
Thinking of this, he looked at Fang Yizao and shouted coldly: "Don't you have a good relationship with Zu Dashou? Most of his nephew's troops are also servants of Zu's family, right? In this way, you will forward these letters to them Bar!"
After hearing this, Fang Yizao came back to his senses and seemed to have calmed down before saying: "As the governor of Liaodong, I naturally want to appease the generals under my command and make them loyal to the emperor and serve the country. This principle can be explained clearly wherever I go. !”
"Then what did I say? Don't think too much!" Upon hearing this, Sun Chuanting said expressionlessly, "After you go, tell Zu Dashou that he has been in charge of the farmland for so many years, and I hope he can do it himself Thanks to all the credit, the past grains will be used for military purposes, otherwise, when I come to visit in person, the past grains will also have to be counted!"
After hearing this imperial edict, he felt more confident and spoke without any concealment, explaining the conditions straightforwardly.
Fang Yizao looked at the angel and found that the angel seemed to be watching a show. He knew that the angel must be on Sun Chuanting's side, so without saying anything more, he let the guards take the packages and said goodbye to the angel. gone.
As soon as he left, the angel said to Sun Chuanting: "The emperor has another explanation, saying that Jianlu has decided to send troops to Ningyuan. I hope the governor will make preparations in advance!"
Upon hearing this, Sun Chuanting was surprised: Jianlu has decided to send troops to Ningyuan. Does the emperor know such news? how did you do that?
He thought for a long time, but couldn't figure it out, but he had to take the emperor's warning seriously.
However, Sun Chuanting thought for a long time and found that he could not effectively use this news. Because he doesn't have a strong army in his hands! Now, if they were to fight in the wild outside the pass, the Ming army would really not be able to defeat Jianlu.
The so-called ambush? That's impossible too. Jianlu's scouting horses were all sent out far away, and all of them were veterans of the war. They would scout out any places that might be suitable for ambushes in advance.
Unless we first hide a strong army in Jinzhou, wait for the Jianlu troops to penetrate deep into Ningyuan, defeat their troops monitoring Jinzhou, and then cut off their retreat, preventing them from having the opportunity to return to Liaodong, and be trapped in Ningyuan. In the Brocade Corridor. In this way, maybe we can defeat Jianlu.
However, the strongest army in Guan Ning's army was in the hands of Zu Dashou. For now, it is absolutely impossible for him to use his troops to fight Jianlu. The most important thing is that even if he wants to, his men and horses may not be able to defeat Jianlu. Jianlu, who was trapped in the Ningjin Corridor, would jump over the wall in a hurry, and his combat power would be a bit stronger than usual.
In fact, Emperor Chongzhen had thought of this method. However, the strongest army in his hands is only three battalions.
In terms of field strength, if they were to fight head-on with the Manchu and Qing armies, he still wasn't optimistic that the three major battalions would win. First, many of the three major camps are recruits selected from the refugees. Let them bully the Mongolian Tatars and those bandits. It is okay to fight a smooth battle, but it is obviously impossible to fight a hard battle.
The second reason is that even if they are all veterans, if they just come back from the expedition and head to Liaodong without rest, it will have an impact on their strength. Originally, it might be difficult to build a captive army, but now it becomes even more impossible to win. Unless the three major battalions have been rested, trained, and then equipped with ordnance and armor, and fully armed, then they will have the strength to block the retreat of the Qing army.
Although he couldn't seize this opportunity, in the future, Emperor Chongzhen felt that there would still be an opportunity. Therefore, he never thought of trying the current three major battalions.
When the training of the three major camps is almost the same in the future, we can do it this way. In addition, if Dongjiang Town has been re-established, it can also take advantage of the Jianlu troops to send troops to Ningjin to harass them in the hinterland of Liaodong.
Besides, Sun Chuanting thought about it for a long time and found no particularly effective way to use this news, but it didn't mean that he wouldn't use this news.
Therefore, he ordered Ningyuan regiment training commander Jin Guofeng and Jinzhou commander Zu Dashou to change their defenses. Jin Guofeng was stationed in Jinzhou and Zu Dashou was stationed in Tashan.
The reason for doing this is because Tashan is the barrier of Jinzhou. If Jinzhou is to be captured, Tashan must be captured, otherwise it will be right across the Jianlu's retreat route. It will be very inconvenient to transport supplies, such as artillery, gunpowder, and food.
At the beginning of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji led troops to attack Dorgon in Jinzhou Ceying Pass, and he had attacked Tashan. However, this battle was not fought ideally, but instead it helped Jin Guofeng, the deputy commander-in-chief at the time, and was eventually promoted to the training commander-in-chief of the Ningyuan regiment because he defended Tashan.
Speaking of which, Jin Guofeng was also a capable general and good at defense. At that time, he only took less than 3,000 people with him to defend Tashan. Of course, this is also related to Huang Taiji's failure to attack Tashan with all his strength.
According to later records, after Huang Taiji retreated, the Jianlu in Shenyang City learned that "most of the troops were defeated, several generals were also killed, and most of the people walking in the streets looked anxious and unhappy. Far outside the city, among the streets and songs, the sound of crying filled the sky." This is an exaggeration. But no matter what, being able to defend Tashan with less than 3,000 people is indeed capable.
Now, if Jianlu wants to attack Ningyuan again, he must attack Tashan first. Let Zu Dashou lead the troops to garrison Tashan and show his flag. Sun Chuanting doubted that Jianlu would really continue to advance to Ningyuan regardless of the rear?
If Jianlu could be dragged to the Tashan side, it would be a good thing to reduce the fighting on the Ningjin Corridor.
Of course, Sun Chuanting's purpose in asking them to switch defenses in this way was not entirely to defeat Zu Dashou. But Jin Guofeng's 3,000 troops were almost enough to fight. Although they were later supplemented by 10,000 troops, they had no combat effectiveness. If he were allowed to continue to garrison Tashan, if Jianlu attacked again so soon, Tashan might be lost. Therefore, transferring Jin Guofeng to defend Jinzhou, with a strong city and powerful artillery, can make up for the shortcomings of his new soldiers.
Another point is that Jin Guofeng is not from Zu Dashou, he is from the avant-garde of Xuanfu in Shanxi. It is also necessary to support military forces other than the Zu and Wu families in the Guan Ning army.
Sun Chuanting didn't know that after making such a change, he saved Jin Guofeng's life.
In the original history, when the Manchu Qing attacked Tashan again, although Jin Guofeng had 10,000 men, they did not dare to fight in the face of the Jianlu outsiders. If we only defend without attacking, the city will fall sooner or later. In desperation, Jin Guofeng took his two sons and dozens of men to attack him unprepared and destroy Jianlu's intention to attack the city. But he didn't expect to be surrounded by Jianlu. In the end, he and his two sons went to battle and all his men died in the battle.
A few days later, the military order was mobilized for the garrison, and Fang Yizao, the governor of Liaodong, arrived in Jinzhou.
Zu Dashou had already heard the news and knew that Sun Chuanting, the governor of Jiliao, was going to have him operated on and asked him to vomit out all the farmland. He was already very unhappy and was ready to give Sun Chuanting some color.
After receiving this military deployment order, he immediately became angry.
Although Zu Dashou and Jin Guofeng were both commander-in-chief, Zu Dashou had been a commander many years ago, while Jin Guofeng was only newly promoted to the rank of commander-in-chief. It goes without saying which one is better and which one has a higher status, whether stationed in Jinzhou or stationed in Tashan!
"Why do you want Jin Guofeng to overpower me?" Zu Dashou slapped the table angrily and yelled hatefully.
When his brother Zu Dale heard this, he immediately stood up and said to him: "I have already said, just do as before, find an excuse to stage a rebellion, what will Sun Chuanting do?"
"Yes, even if you don't kill him, you still have to humiliate him. It's best to make him so ashamed that he hangs himself!" Zu Dacheng, another brother of Zu Dashou, also said angrily.
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Seeing his brothers shouting, Zu Dashou, who was furious at first, calmed down. He sat back in his seat, frowned and said: "The rebellion due to arrears of wages is the easiest to explain. However, now the imperial court has made up for the previous arrears of wages; and what Sun Chuanting is doing now is also in the name of Qingtun. The slogan of "full pay" is to find food for the soldiers. In this case, the excuse of rebellion due to lack of pay can no longer be used!"
He didn't have any conscience-stricken feelings about it at all, he just thought that if he did it, he wouldn't leave any loopholes. Therefore, he rejected his brother's proposal in this regard.
After thinking about it, he shook his head and said: "If we want to cause a mutiny that would humiliate the governor, ordinary things are absolutely impossible. Even if we want to do it, the soldiers will not follow us."
If you want to do such a big thing, of course you can't tell the whole world about it, but secretly encourage a few people to come forward and encourage others to mutiny. But as Zu Dashou said, unless the debt is owed for a long time and the people are hungry and cannot survive, then the mutiny is logical.
"Then what should we do? Or threaten him, and if he forces us, he will defect to the Jianlu!" Zu Dale was a little annoyed, and he slapped the table and said in a hateful voice.
His proposal did not attract the support of other brothers.
Therefore, none of them were willing to give up the power of Ning Jin, but defected to Jianlu to find a new master. What they want is just to become another force between the independent Ming Dynasty and Jianlu.
There was silence in the back hall for a moment, and then Houzu Dacheng said: "Is there no other way? You can't just let Sun Chuanting say whatever he says, right? Do we really want to go to Tashan? Anyway, whoever wants to go, I am Don’t go!”
"I won't go either!" Zu Dabi, who had been silent, echoed at this time.
Zu Dashou looked at them and suddenly sighed and said: "Sun Chuanting is the governor of Jiliao, and we are just warriors. It is impossible to confront him head-on. Now it seems that the only choice is to go to Master Zhongcheng to take a look. It is best to let him The supervisory army and all the adults in the court impeached Sun Chuanting and removed him. Even if they transfer him, we will be fine!"
"Brother, I don't know what happened to that eggless man Gao Qiqian. He is very different from before. I remember that he had a very good relationship with Mr. Zhongcheng before. But now, he is fawning over Sun Chuanting, which is definitely not the case. There will be an impeachment report at the meeting." Zu Dacheng said helplessly.
After Gao Qiqian and Prince Qin were over, he took the initiative to hand over the dirty money and was pardoned by Emperor Chongzhen, who sent him to Shanhaiguan to supervise the army.
If in the original history, he colluded with Yang Sichang and Fang Yizao in an attempt to negotiate peace with the Manchus.
However, in this plane, he saw the emperor's methods during King Qin's war, and knew the importance of Sun Chuanting in the emperor's heart. Therefore, he would only seek death to embarrass Sun Chuanting for money or something.
In this way, in the eyes of Zu Dashou and others, Gao Qiqian was fawning over Sun Chuanting and was on Sun Chuanting's side.
Zu Dabi seemed to be calmer, and after thinking for a while, he said to Zu Dashou: "Brother, let's see what happens with Lord Zhongcheng. If he can't stop Sun Chuanting's arrogance, you can also ask him for advice. After all, their civil servants like to fight the most, and if they know how to behave in court, they can make Sun Chuanting go away!"
"That's the only way." Zu Dashou also sighed, nodded and said: "Contact Master Zhongcheng immediately..."
At this point, he paused, as if he remembered something, and then said: "It's a pity that my nephew is not here, otherwise he would go and tell Master Zhongcheng that he is the most suitable candidate!"
The nephew he was talking about was naturally Wu Sangui, who was sworn brother to Fang Yizao's son.
Zu Dacheng was silent for a while, then suddenly sighed and said: "It's a pity that all the nephews are with Jianlu. Otherwise, it would be more suitable for any one of them to go on our behalf!"
During the Battle of Daling River, several of Zu Dashou's sons surrendered to the Qing Dynasty along with Zu Dashou. But then Zu Dashou fled back, but several of his sons did not come back. They made a lot of contributions to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, including leading troops in the pass to open up territory for the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
When Zu Dashou heard this, he was about to say something when he suddenly heard a servant hurried in from outside and announced: "Master Zhongcheng is here!"
Upon hearing this, Zu Dashou and others immediately stood up and glanced at each other. They all felt that Fang Yizao's sudden arrival might be related to the matter they were discussing. So they immediately went out of the house to greet him.
It was indeed Fang Yizao who had arrived. Originally, he hadn't arrived so quickly. But when he heard on the way that Sun Chuanting had sent a new military order to Jinzhou, he was a little worried, so he rushed over immediately.
Seeing his tired appearance, Zu Dashou felt nervous, knowing that there must be something important. So, they immediately asked Fang Yizao to speak in the back hall.
Fang Yizao nodded and turned to his bodyguards: "Bring these packages with you!"
When Zu Dashou heard this, he turned around and looked a little puzzled. He didn't know why Fang Yizao brought several big packages here and why he wanted to take them to the back hall?
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