Of course, Zu Dashou's personal visit was not just to inform Yang Zhen of the news in Manchuria.

Therefore, the topic between the two people quickly turned to the layout of the next battle situation in western Liaoning and eastern Liaoning.

Zu Dashou asked: "I heard that the imperial court asked you to open a town in Lushunkou and implement the strategy of attacking from the east and defending from the west?"

Ever since Hong Chengchou left the border and moved northward as the governor of Jiliao, and moved to Ningyuan City, various arrangements for the Liaodong war began to be spread to the Songjin Army one after another.

These arrangements cannot be hidden from a person like Zu Dashou, and there is no need to hide them from him.

Therefore, Yang Zhenkai answered him honestly: "Yes. This is exactly what the boy proposed to the emperor. Otherwise, it will not be enough to reverse the situation outside the Pass. If we just stop in Liaoxi, we will always be passively beaten.

status."

After hearing this, Zu Dashou nodded heavily.

Regarding the situation mentioned by Yang Zhen, how could he not have any insight into it since he has been outside Shanhaiguan for so many years?

But before, he had never dared to imagine that he could send a force of troops from western Liaoning across the Liaohai Sea, go deep into the enemy's rear and capture Fuzhou, capture Jinzhou, and finally seize Lushunkou.

He never thought that the battle in Liaodong could be fought like this, and until now, he still doesn't believe that it can really succeed.

Of course, Zu Dashou knew that something like this was not without precedent.

As early as the Tianqi period, someone did do this once, and that person was named Mao Wenlong.

But what happened to Mao Wenlong? Where is the once famous Dongjiang Town?

And even if Mao Wenlong had not died and Dongjiang Town had not been defeated, if Zu Dashou was asked to lead his army to fight behind enemy lines across the sea, he would never go.

Because the properties of his family and his generals are all in western Liaoning, in the Songjin area of ​​Guanning.

He is a vested interest in the current situation in Liaoxi, so how can he abandon everything in front of him and rush to the other side of the completely unpredictable sea?

Therefore, even if he once thought about opening up a new battlefield behind enemy lines to reduce the pressure on Liaoxi's defense, it was only a fleeting thought.

Anyone can go, but his Liaodong Army won’t go anyway.

After Zu Dashou came up with this idea, over time, the strategy of going around behind enemy lines to create another battlefield gradually disappeared from his sight.

However, what surprised him was that Yang Zhen, who had repeatedly given him "surprises", took the initiative to propose to the emperor that he lead his troops to move to Jinzhou and Lushun when he had the most trust from the emperor and was most likely to replace him.

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For Zu Dashou, the fact that Yang Zhen moved to the so-called Jinhai Town made him feel more sincerely happy than the fact that Emperor Chongzhen named him Jin Yibo.

Zu Dashou watched Yang Zhenli make dazzling military exploits one after another in Jinzhou City and quickly rise to his side, which made him full of anxiety about the future.

In October of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, when the Manchu Tatar army besieged Songshan City, Jinzhou City not far to the north of Songshan City, and Xingshan City not far to the south of Songshan City were heavily garrisoned, but not a single soldier came forward.

Go rescue Songshan City.

It can be said that the reason for such a strange situation is directly related to the complicated mentality of Zu Dashou himself and many of his subordinates.

They themselves did not want to fight to the death with the Manchu Tatar army, and at the same time, they did not want others to win in a deadly fight with the Manchu Tatars.

If Yang Zhen were to win another battle under their noses, how could they be so embarrassed? How could they explain themselves to the emperor, the court, and the people of the world, especially the elders of Liaodong?

Not to mention whether Yang Zhen and his generals would replace them, and whether the court would accuse them, just the reward that Yang Zhen might receive after winning the battle was enough to make them feel on pins and needles.

There is only such a big area in western Liaoning. If a few more cities were allocated to Yang Zhen, what else would they do?

Therefore, when the Manchu Tatar army besieged Songshan, these people simply stood aside and waited for the news that Songshan City had been breached.

However, Yang Zhen's response once again shocked them.

When Songshan City was already heavily besieged, Yang Zhen actually dared to send the main force out of the city to fight off the ambush of the Tatar army.

Since then, Yang Zhen has come up with all kinds of wild and unconstrained styles of play, which makes them feel unbelievable afterwards.

When Liu Zhouzhi from Tashan and Zu Daiming from Lianshan reported what happened to Yang Zhen, Zu Keyong and their entourage as they passed through the city on their way to the capital to present prisoners, they were even more shocked by Zu Dashou in Jinzhou City.

Even the young men in the ancestral army such as Zu Zeyuan and Wu Sangui, who had always looked down upon Yang Zhen, shut up.

No matter how envious and jealous they were of Yang Zhen's rapid rise, now they all had to admit that Yang Zhen was indeed more powerful than them, and at the same time they began to doubt his full Tatar fighting power.

From then on, no one said that Yang Zhen's Lien Chan and Lianjie victories were just rumors, and no one said that Yang Zhen's success was a fluke.

After all, Duduo, Tunqi, Yildun, Turge, Jinweicheng, Tong Tulai, Wu Shojin and others were first tied up alive and escorted to the capital, and finally turned into ferocious heads and passed down.

It's over.

Especially for people like them who often kill good people and take credit for their crimes, they don't have to trust the head, because the head can't speak and can be faked, but they can't help but trust the living person.

You can say that it is a rumor that he died in a stone pillar, and that Yang Zhen captured Fuzhou and other places is a rumor, but when people like Duduo appeared alive in Tashan City, appeared in Lianshan City, and appeared in Liu Zhouzhi, Zu Daiming

At present, this point cannot be faked.

Therefore, when Liu Zhouzhi, Zu Daming and others reported what they saw to Zu Dashou, Zu Dashou and his subordinates in Jinzhou were all dumbfounded and felt that they were in big trouble this time.

The rising momentum right under our noses can no longer be contained.

Comparing the two, they realized that they had bet on the wrong treasure this time, and Yang Zhen and his generals might take away more cities and general positions in western Liaoning.

Correspondingly, their views on the Manchu Tatar army also changed.

Are these still the Manchu Tatars of the past?

Why did they encounter Yang Zhen's troops? These Manchu Tatars turned into soft-shell crabs. Why were they so unbeatable?

Just when the generals of the Liaodong Army headed by Zu Dashou were worried and wondered how the court far away in the capital would readjust the situation in western Liaoning, they got the news that Zu Dashou was named Jin Yibo for his meritorious service.

At the same time, they also got the news that Yang Zhen was enfeoffed as Jin Haibo and would leave western Liaoning and move to Lushun, Jinzhou and other places.

The arrival of this news was like a sudden burst of joy for the Jinzhou generals.

This opponent, who was more fearful to them than the Manchu Tatars north of the Daling River and whose existence they could not accept, suddenly asked to leave. There was simply no better thing in the world than this.

Next, Zu Zerun wrote a letter to Zu Dashou in his own way and was sent to Jinzhou City. After Zu Dashou read it, he sat alone in his study for a whole day.

He remembered what Yang Zhen once said to him, and suddenly felt that Yang Zhen might be right, at least the hidden illness of Huang Taiji that Yang Zhen described to him at that time was right.

The Manchu Tatars had just established their country, and had just begun to show signs of conquering the world, when Huang Taiji fell ill. Not only was Huang Taiji ill, but his eldest son, who was already an adult and strong, actually died in front of him.

This is an ominous sign.

Of course, Zu Dashou also knew that Huang Taiji had other sons, but he knew even more clearly that Huang Taiji's remaining sons were very young, and the older ones were only a few years old. Once Huang Taiji died, there would be many more children in the Qing Dynasty.

Big chaos.

If the venerable Da Bile, Prince Li Daishan, was still there, then perhaps the Manchu Qing Dynasty could still be stable, but this Daishan was also dead.

And the once majestic and arrogant Prince Duduo of Yu also died.

From Zu Dashou's point of view, this is not a sign of destiny.

Then I thought that since Yang Zhen was leaving, there was no conflict of interest with him. On the contrary, what Yang Zhen said about attacking in the east and defending in the west was actually the most beneficial to him.

Once Yang Zhen established a foothold on the other side of the Liaohai Sea, the Manchu Tatars suddenly had an inner enemy. Will they come to western Liaoning again to invade and plunder?

It was with this thought in mind that Zu Dashou decided to have a good talk with Yang Zhen, so this meeting was held on the fourth day of the first lunar month.

"Very good. I will fully support your idea. If you go over there, I and you will both lose, and we will be dead. The better you play over there, the more stable I will be here. So you

Don’t worry, I will never hold you back in the future.”

Zu Dashou's words made Yang Zhen curse in his heart: "You won't be restricting me in the future. Does that mean you have been restricting me in the past?"

Yang Zhen cursed in his heart, but said nothing. He just smiled and nodded to indicate that he understood.

At this time, I heard Zu Dashou continue to say: "When do you plan to move the defense?"

"In these two days, I will first send some troops to travel lightly across the sea on the ice. The rest will have to wait until the ice on the sea dissipates and becomes navigable before we can make a large-scale eastward crossing."

Yang Zhen did not hold anything back and directly stated his general arrangement.

After hearing this, Zu Dashou nodded, without comment, and said after a moment: "If you need my help if you need anything, just ask. If you go to Lushun Jinzhou, you will be able to contain the Manchurian Eastern captives for me. I know this well."

Yes, I appreciate it too."

"In that case, I just have a few requests here. Please consider them seriously, Marshal Zu."

After hearing what Zu Dashou said, Yang Zhen was not polite at all and immediately made his request to Zu Dashou with a smile.

Of course, what he said was more of a suggestion than a request.

"One is to ask the commander to send troops and horses to go north to defend Yizhou. Although Yizhou City is in dilapidated condition, it is not a long-term solution to let it continue to be abandoned. If the commander does not send people to defend it, the Tatars will be full.

Someone will be sent to guard it.

"Once the Manchu Tatars rebuild Yiju City and garrison in Yizhou, they will have a convenient and stable rear in front of the Songjin Army. That will definitely be bad news for the Second City of Songjin! By then,
Chapter completed!