The next day, the army continued to set out and rushed to Guangning. At this time, the snow in Liaodong was broken, the road was muddy, and the army was in difficulty in moving. When the vanguard of the First Corps of the Imperial Guard arrived at the Zhongzuotun Guard of Guangning, it was almost completely dark.

Zhu Cijing was about to inform the Tianxiong army behind to set up camp on the spot. He came to meet again tomorrow morning and rushed to Dalinghe Fort together. Suddenly, there was a sharp sound of horse hooves from behind. A Ming army scout with a small flag on his back was running towards him.

Zhu Cijiu's heart skipped a beat and said to himself: "Isn't this a big deal?"

The scout naturally could not get close to the dragon chariot. The Qianjinyiwei around was not looking at it. As soon as he approached the outer edge of the dragon chariot, he was stopped. A Qianmen of Jinyiwei came forward to ask, then took a letter, ran to the dragon chariot, bowed and bowed, and said, "Your Majesty, it was sent by Mao Wenlong, the commander of the Dongjiang Army, who rushed forward to the 800-mile rush."

Mao Wenlong and Zhu Cijiu were relieved when he heard this. He might have come to report that he had sent troops to attack the Dingliao Right Guard as required. After all, the snow melted less than two days, and it would take at least one day for him to send a message from Pi Island. Calculate the time, he should have sent a message as soon as he arrived at the Dingliao Right Guard. But this guy is really true. If you send troops, you will send troops. Even if you arrive at the Dingliao Right Guard, you don’t have to send an 800-mile rush.

Zhu Cijiu shook his head helplessly, took the envelope from Jinyiwei Qianhu's hand, slightly checked the sealing condition, and then tore open the envelope and took out the letter paper. Then he opened the letter paper and put it in front of him, looking at the slightest light in the sky.

Mao Wenlong wrote in his letter:

Mao Wenlong, the chief general of the Dongjiang Army, initiated the report to the emperor:

I led 100,000 soldiers of the Dongjiang Army to launch a fierce attack on the Dingliao Right Guard on March 16th. After nearly two hours of fierce battle, I finally captured the Dingliao Right Guard in one fell swoop. In this battle, more than 12,000 soldiers of the Dongjiang Army were killed, more than 30,000 injured, and more than 10,000 enemies were killed. I was so surprised that when the Jiannu master was about to break the city, Amin, the commander of the Lanqin, led the remaining troops to flee in a hurry and failed to capture them in one fell swoop. I was afraid that Jiannu would encounter reinforcements on the road and would only increase casualties, so I did not send troops to chase them. Please forgive me for your crimes.

Zhu Cijing became more and more excited as he watched it. After reading it, he couldn't help but slap the handle of the seat and praised: "Mao Wenlong, good."

Sun Chengzong, who was accompanying him, heard this and said in surprise: "Is it because the Dingliao Right Guard has already taken it?"

Zhu Cijing replied excitedly: "Yes, the Dongjiang Army took down the Dingliao Right Guard at noon yesterday. OK, it will be easy to recover southeastern Liao. The Taifu is indeed a clever plan."

Sun Chengzong quickly said modestly: "This is all Mao Wenlong's credit. The gentle minister dare not take credit. This kid is more active than anyone else when he encounters an promotion and wealth. It is not surprising that he can win the Dingliao Right Guard in such a short time. It's just that the casualties are too great. If Jiannu counterattacks wildly, he will not know whether he can hold on."

Zhu Cijing became anxious when he heard this. He looked at the Guangning Zhongzuo Tun Guard, which was close to him, and couldn't help but urged: "Hurry, enter the city quickly."

The dragon chariot speed instantly. The Jinyiwei in front shouted, and the imperial guards who were entering the city quickly made it aside. Soon the Long chariot came to the residence of the commander of the Tunwei. At this time, the commander had naturally moved to another place. A bunch of Jinyiwei and eunuchs, and the palace maids were carrying daily necessities brought from the palace. Zhu Cijiong lowered the dragon chariot and said to Cao Huachun beside him: "Hurry up, find someone to take me to the study."

Cao Huachun, who had just turned over and got off the horse, stepped a little to the ground and rushed out with a whoosh. After a while, he led a eunuch to come.

At this time, Zheng Chenggong, the clever ghost, ran over panting. Zhu Cijing didn't say anything, waved to him and Sun Chengzong, and then followed Cao Huachun and the eunuch.

As soon as he entered the study, Zhu Cijing couldn't wait to ask: "Taifu, since the Dingliao Right Guard has been taken down, there should be no threat from Shandong. Why would he transfer 15,000 Shandong defenders to supplement the war damage of the Dongjiang Army?"

Sun Chengzong nodded and said, "Well, the emperor said very much, if you can get them a little more flintlock rifle and grenade, it will be safer."

When Zhu Cijiu heard this, he thought for a while and shouted to the door: "Eunuch Cao, I'll write an order."

Cao Huachun walked in quickly when he heard this, stood at the desk, poured water with one hand and grinded ink with the other hand, brushed it twice to grind the ink, then took out a blank imperial edict from the box next to him, stood there waiting for Zhu Cijiong to speak.

Zhu Cijing watched him work hard while sorting out his thoughts. As soon as he was ready, Zhu Cijing immediately spoke: "Song Yingxing, a doctor in the Ministry of Works, immediately prepared 20,000 flintlock rifles and 100,000 grenades. If it was not enough, go to the Second Corps of the Imperial Guard to find Shi Kefa to make up for it. After getting it all together, he immediately sent it to Tianjin Weihai Port."

Cao Huachun stood there and finished writing a few times, then handed it to Zhu Cijiong for a while, then took out a large seal and stamped it.

Seeing that he had finished his work, Zhu Cijing continued to issue an order: "Assign the Shandong Commander Command to immediately dispatch 15,000 defenders to Tianjin Weihai Port by sea, and then received the weapons and rushed directly to Dingliao Right Guard by sea to supplement the war damage of the Dongjiang army."

After Cao Huachun finished his work, Zhu Cijing asked him to arrange for someone to rush to the capital and Shandong to pass the imperial edict overnight.

Sun Chengzong watched Cao Huachun hurriedly walk out and then spoke: "Master, we are afraid we have to hurry up."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Cijing humbly asked for advice: "Please give me advice."

Sun Chengzong walked to the bookshelf and flipped out the map of Liaodong, spread it on the desk, pointed to the direction of Liaohe and analyzed: "According to the information collected in front, the army of various Mongolian troops should have not entered Liaodong yet, and Huang Taiji could not draw enough troops to attack the Dingliao Right Guard. However, tomorrow night, the Mongolian army will reach Haizhou and Dingliao Central Left Guards, which means that the day after tomorrow, Huang Taiji will be able to draw troops. We must launch an attack on the Haizhou Guards the day after tomorrow, so as to delay their attack on the Dingliao Right Guards."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Cijing frowned and said, "This road is too difficult to walk. We may not be able to get to Sanchahebao tomorrow."

Sun Chengzong shook his head and said, "The main reason is that the Tianxiong Army cannot escort the food and supplies. We can take the First Corps of the Imperial Guards to Sanchahe Fort first, and let the Tianxiong Army distribute the food and prisoners to Dalinghe Fort and Santaizi Fort tomorrow."

Zhu Cijing asked again: "Do we take the Liaodong Army and the Qin Army to attack the city? But half of the artillery brought this time is in the Tianxiong Army, and it is too wasteful to let the Tianxiong Army guard the food and grass."

Sun Chengzong shook his head again and said, "No, after we arrived at Sanchahe Fort, we would let Man Gui and He Kegang lead the troops to change their defenses. Tianxiong Army only arrived at Sanchahe Fort one or two days later."

Zhu Cijing said with some concern: "It's not enough for the First Corps of the Imperial Guards and the Qin Army to attack the city. When the Mongolian army arrives, there are probably more than 200,000 troops in Haizhou City."

Sun Chengzong still shook his head and said, "Haizhou City cannot accommodate so many people, at most 150,000. If there are too many people, there will be no place to camp. Huang Taiji will not gather so many people in Haizhou. Besides, we don't want to capture Haizhou City in one or two days, we just pretend to attack first and disrupt their deployment."

Zhu Cijing couldn't help but nodded and said, "If it's just a feint attack, 200,000 troops are enough. Then Jinzhou Guards and Fuzhou Guards can't leave it alone, right?"

Sun Chengzong thought for a while and replied: "Cao Wenzhao's Guanning Army is gathering and training in Gaizhou. Why not let him send general Zhao Shujiao and Cao Bianjiao to lead 20,000 troops to attack Jinzhou Wei and Fuzhou Wei tomorrow. The Jiannu of these two cities has less than 5,000 troops, and they should be able to take it down soon."

Zhu Cijiu nodded and said, "Then let it be. I don't know what Huang Taiji will react after he learned that the right guard of Dingliao was lost. I hope he doesn't have any trouble."

Huang Taiji knew that Dingliao's Right Guard had fallen, so he had thought of something wrong, but no one was there.

Although the Mongolian troops agreed to send troops, the speed of sending troops was simply outrageously slow. Sun Chengzong guessed that they would be able to arrive at Haizhou and Dingliao Central Left Guard tomorrow night, which was a high opinion of them. It would be good if they could arrive the day after tomorrow.

If there are not enough troops from various Mongolian troops, the 100,000 troops in Haizhou cannot be transferred. Even if Huang Taiji gave up the leftover troops in Dingliao Central Left Guard and Shengjing, no one left, all gathered together less than 50,000 to attack the right Guard of Dingliao. That would be a joke. It would be good if Mao Wenlong didn't run out of the city to beat them up.

Zhu Cijing naturally didn't expect that the Mongolian troops would be so delayed. The next day he took the First Army of the Imperial Guards to Sanchahe Fort and rested for a night. Early on the third morning, he gathered the First Army of the Imperial Guards and the Qin army, a total of 200,000 troops, and drove to Haizhou Guards in a mighty manner.

At this time, Daishan in Haizhou City had received the order from Huang Taiji and gathered 90,000 Jingqi. As soon as the troops from various Mongolian tribes arrived, he led 90,000 Jingqi to meet with Huang Taiji. The one who succeeded him to guard the Haizhou Guard was his twelfth brother, Ajige, the commander of the Yellow Banner.

At the 100,000 troops from Mongolians who had been dragging down finally arrived in Haizhou. Daishan and Ajige handed over some defense and were about to lead 90,000 cavalry to Shengjing to meet Huang Taiji, the scout suddenly heard an urgent report: "More than 200,000 Ming troops are quickly approaching Haizhou Guard, and they are probably able to arrive before noon."

Daishan and Ajige were both dumbfounded. Whether to leave or not is a question. Daishan didn't know how to make a decision for a while.

Ajige looked at the lazy Mongolian soldiers and felt even more assured. At least he gave him some time to rectify. With this lazy look, he probably would be frightened when the Ming army attacked these people. He couldn't help but ask Dai Shan and said, "Brother, please help me to suppress the formation behind you. Look at them like this, I'm really afraid that when the Ming army cannons fired, they would all run away."

Dai Shan didn't know what Huang Taiji was thinking. His second brother, who was promoted, still took good care of his younger brothers. Now that the twelfth brother has begged him, he is naturally embarrassed to leave. So while sending a fast horse to ask Huang Taiji for instructions, he ordered 90,000 elite cavalry to be stationed outside the north gate. If these Mongolian soldiers dared to escape, he would definitely kill one by one! At the same time, he could also help the twelfth brother guard the north, at least not let the Ming army surround Haizhou City.

Zhu Cijing didn't know that they had this opportunity, so he didn't plan to surround Haizhou City. Now he was just a feint attack, just scaring them in the south.
Chapter completed!