Let’s talk about the afternoon of the first lunar month, Duoduo led the front troops of the Manchu Tatars invasion of the White Banner to the north bank of Xiaoling River, stationed troops and set up camp outside Jinzhou City, and then sent out all the whistle and cavalry to spy on the situation in the city of Songjin Front.

In the evening of that day, Haoge, Ma Guangyuan and Shi Tingzhu led their troops, transporting cannons or escorting food and grass, and arrived all the way outside Jinzhou City north of Xiaoling River, and met with the former troops of Duoduo.

For a moment, to the east of Jinzhou City and north of Xiaoling River, the Manchu Tatars camped for more than ten miles, with people and horses yelling, and flags waving, which was quite meaningful, "the power of the troops rushed to the desert and the murderous aura was swept into the sky."

Correspondingly, Songshan City and Jinzhou City on Songjin Front, as well as Xingshan City, which also received the news, closed the city gates one by one, and were ready to go, and did not dare to send anyone to rob the camp or harass it.

The next morning, Duoduo and Haoge competed to send troops to harvest the wheat and sorghum that the Liaodong Army had cultivated outside Jinzhou City as if they were entering a deserted land.

The wheat and sorghum cultivated outside Jinzhou City have not yet matured, and the Manchus did not want to serve as their own food rations, but as forage for war horses in their camps.

Therefore, the so-called harvest of the Manchus was actually more of a kind of destruction, and the purpose was to anger the defenders in Jinzhou City to leave the city and fight.

But after one day, there was no movement in Jinzhou City, and Zu Dashou did not even climb up to the top of the city to take a look.

It was also the afternoon of the same day, the Manchu Taurus Inlaid White Banner and the Inlaid Yellow Banner each had hundreds of cavalry, one by one, one by one, and one by one, they arrived near the west post road of Songshan City. They watched the city for a long time, and finally retreated.

Shortly after the Manchu Tatars' men spyed on Songshan City's defense retreated, Li Lu hurried to the General's Manchu Tatars's palace and reported to Yang Zhen that the Empress Palace was occupied by a soldier and horse of the Manchu Tatars's inlaid yellow flag.

"Governor, the Manchu Taurus's yellow flag troops occupying the Niangniang Palace are not worth worrying. We have buried many large iron barrels with large amounts of materials under the Niangniang Palace. If the Governor asks them to die in the third quarter of the year and dare to guarantee that they will never survive the fifth quarter of the year!"

Li Lu is a few years younger than Yang Zhen. Although he is not old, he has been with Yang Zhen for many years. In the first few years, they have experienced all kinds of defeats and all kinds of desperate situations.

In the past six months, Yang Zhen led them to change their past fighting style with the enemy head-on, and they started to operate. The worst was to come and never win.

Li Lu's experiences and the changes he experienced made him have a strong ability to withstand.

For him, everything now is to fight all in one battle, so what can it be? They have experienced a situation that is even worse than this, and he is not afraid at all. At worst, he can start over again in another place.

At the same time, the victory that Yang Zhen led them in the past six months gave him extremely full confidence in Yang Zhen now. No matter how many Manchu Tartars come, he is not afraid, because he believes that Yang Zhen always has a way to lead his brothers to win.

At this moment, the Manchu Tatars sent troops to occupy the Palace of Niangniang. Not only did he not feel depressed, but he also thought of the arrangements they had made before in the Palace of Niangniang, his eyes shone brightly.

"Sometime ago, it was raining rain and flooding. The fuses you arranged for ten thousand enemies were triggered. Is it possible that they would get damp or fail?"

"Don't worry, the governor, after Deputy General Zu led his troops to evacuate the Palace of Niangniang, we have already replaced all the fuses and fuses of ten thousand enemies. Moreover, there was no place where ten thousand enemies were deployed before, and the Beiye also made arrangements. If the Manchu Tatars did not settle in, as long as they settle in, Beiye can send them to the west at any time!"

"Don't worry, let's take a look. Don't waste such a time-consuming and labor-intensive arrangement on those irrelevant people. Once you want to blow it up, you have to blow up a big fish with enough weight!"

For Yang Zhen, this arrangement took so much effort, and it would be enough to kill him, a prince.

Thinking that his previous explanation of Li Lu's arrangement in the Palace of Empression was still useful, Yang Zhen was in a little better, but when he thought that the Palace of Empression had been taken by a soldier and occupied by the Yellow Banner of the Manchu Tartars, he was a little worried and worried.

"The gutters and secret passages you dug eastwards have been going to see them again recently? Are they still open? If I want to use them in a few days, are you sure that two thousand people can pass through them?"

In recent days, Li Lu has been busy reorganizing the reserve teams for the grenadiers to train grenadiers. He didn't have much time to get in front of Yang Zhen, and Yang Zhen didn't have the chance to ask him privately about the secret passage.

As a result, when asked today, Li Lu was startled.

"Make sure that two thousand people pass?!——Governor, those secret passages were dug out just to avoid the patrol and roars of the Tartars, and quietly approached the Empress Palace!"

Although Li Lu didn't say no, the meaning was very obvious. After he finished saying this with surprise, he continued to say with a disgrace:

"Although later, in order to keep the news with the navy stationed by the sea during the siege of the Manchu Tartars, we dug several miles long trenches from the vicinity of the Great Palace, but the secret passages were all small and narrow at the bottom, and in most places they could only allow one person to pass. If two thousand people were to pass through it, I'm afraid-"

Speaking of this, Li Lu seemed to realize something, suddenly stopped talking, stared at Yang Zhen with wide eyes, and then said in surprise:

"The governor wants to lead the team to secretly go out to sea?!"

"Yes, let's just look at how the Manchus act. Now they are gathering heavily in the Songjin area, and they may attack Jinzhou or Songshan, so we cannot act rashly for the time being. However, I think their main force will not be here for a long time. At most half a month or as few as a few days, they may send troops south. When they are divided, our chance will come."

Yang Zhen had nothing to hide about Li Lu, so he immediately told him what he thought: "I expect that the Manchu Tatars' army will be planning to be big this time, not just to plan Jinzhou or Songshan. They wanted to mobilize all the official troops who dared to fight inside and outside the pass to annihilate them in one fell swoop!"

"Ah? Although the Manchus gathered in large numbers this time, in fact, there are only more than 20,000 people at most. How dare they develop such a big appetite with a population of 20,000 or 30,000? Isn't it a delusion?"

Li Lu heard what Yang Zhen said about the Manchu Tartars, and was surprised that Yang Zhen was going to take the secret passage and board the boat to go to sea. He couldn't help but ask.

Yang Zhen looked at him, shook his head with a wry smile, and then said, "You only saw more than 20,000 people gathered in the Songjin Land at this moment, but you didn't see the other 100,000 soldiers under the command of Huang Taiji, the pseudo-Emperor of the Manchu Tartar. How far do you think the Shengjing City of the Manchu Tartars is from here?"

Speaking of this, Yang Zhen looked at Li Lu who was thinking, and said with a wry smile: "The Shengjing City, where the Manchus established its capital, is only more than 400 miles away from our Songjin Front. In fact, it is not much more than coming here from Shanhaiguan. If you ride a fast horse, you will arrive in one day and night. Even if you are a little slower, two days and nights will always be enough!"

After Yang Zhen finished these words, he paused for a moment, and waited for Li Lu to digest what he said, and then said to him: "If reinforcements from inside and outside my pass gather in Ningjin, the Manchus sent troops from Shengjing again, and did not fight with me, but only encircled the retreat of our army and cut off the food route of our army, then what would you think would be the result?"

"If this is true, our army will probably collapse without fighting. But if we know that the Manchus are fighting for the idea of ​​surrounding the points and aiding, will the court not see through?"

Inspired by Yang Zhen, Li Lu had already seen that the Manchu Tartars attacked Songjin Land was a huge trap, but he still didn't want to believe this.

"So what can I do if I see it? Can you give up Jinzhou or Songshan? Even if you give up Songjin, can you still give up Ningyuan in one breath? Do you dare to give up four hundred miles of land outside Shanhaiguan without fighting? As the saying goes, everyone's mouths make up gold and destroy bones. I'm afraid even the Emperor will not dare to do this!"

Yang Zhen's repeated questions made Li Lu, who rarely thought about these big questions, stunned on the spot.

"Yes, even if you know it's a pit, you may have to jump in with your teeth."

Li Lu was stunned for a while, and finally shook his head and smiled bitterly, while agreeing with Yang Zhen's analysis with conscience. After sighing and saying this, he asked Yang Zhen again:

"So, Governor, don't we have any solution?"

"Yes, of course there is. The solution is to defeat or even severely damage the people sent by the Manchus to fish. They want to surround some of the supporters and set off long lines to catch big fish, so we will cut off the fishing line they released and tell them not to catch fish!"

"What does the governor mean?"

"Today, they want to catch big fish, especially if they want to catch big fish as soon as possible, they will definitely go to Ningyuan. If I tell them not to surround Ningyuan, their big fish will naturally not be able to catch them!"

"The governor has to go on the sea to rescue Ningyuan?"

"We are not going to save Ningyuan, and Ningyuan doesn't have to save us. If Songjin City is here, even if the Manchus break Ningyuan, they can't keep it for a long time. So what's the use of breaking it? They went to Ningyuan to want to catch our fish, even the big fish in the pass, but we were going to go, but we were just using the trick!"

What Yang Zhen said made Li Lu understand for a moment, then he was confused for a while, and he felt like he was awakened by enlightenment, and then he felt like he fell into a fog in the five miles.

In the end, Li Lu simply shook his head, smiled and said nothing, just pretending he had understood.

"If my judgment is correct, then within a few days, they will go south to surrounded Ningyuan. At that time, we will follow them like shadows, and fight if we have the opportunity, and fight if we don't have the opportunity!"

Seeing that Li Lu seemed to understand, Yang Zhen stopped saying anything to him, but ordered him directly: "At that time, I will bring three musketeers, two grenadiers, and one sky-storm cannon team to go together.
Chapter completed!