Liu Jun believed that Kong Youde might indeed want to surrender to the Ming Dynasty anyway. Although he committed too much crimes in Dengzhou and later surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Kong Youde had tens of thousands of people under his command. Moreover, Kong Youde was rude and honest. At that time, his family and young were killed by the Qing army, and he was the only one who killed him. He was as deep as the Qing Dynasty. But later he rebelled and rebelled and was desperate, but he still crossed the sea to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

The situation of the Ming army is very good now, while the situation of the Qing army is getting worse and worse. Kong Youde and his heart are understandable.

However, Liu Jun cannot guarantee whether Kong Youde really wants to surrender, and he doesn't care much. Kong Youde did not threaten him much. Since the Chu army landed in Lushun, Kong Youde has been holding troops. Later, although it took several months to arrive in Jinzhou under the repeated urging of Huang Taiji, he had never launched an attack.

Jinzhou is a fortress with strong defense, with dense fortresses and numerous forts. Liu Jun was not afraid of Kong Youde, and even wanted Kong Youde to come and touch him with his traitor army. Unfortunately, Kong Youde was very smart and would rather be angry by Huang Taiji than just touch the little property he had in his hands under the Jinzhou Fortress.

In this regard, Kong Youde is indeed a smart person, and he does send people to seek peace.

"Lord Qing, do you know that the emperor just issued an order to transfer me to Liaodong. From now on, our eighth and ninth towns will always be in Liaodong. And the emperor also issued a secret order to me, let us recover the land of Liao."

Chongzhen secretly ordered Liu Jun to restore Liao to the point of sending troops north, not just to relocate, but to regain and occupy those cities and lands and defend those cities and lands.

"Now?" Fu Shan asked in confusion, "It's not the time yet?" After following Liu Jun for so long, especially after attacking Liao, Fu Shan already recognized Liu Jun's plan to attack Liao, and believed that this was good now. He built two counterattack bases in Liaodong. Try to avoid the real and go to the virtual, attack the empty areas of the Qing army, grab their money, grain and materials, and migrate their population.

Now the Chu army has done a good job. In just half a year, the Chu army established two bases in Lushun and Zhenjiang, moved hundreds of thousands of people from the Qing army-controlled area, captured hundreds of their cities and fortresses, and seized tens of millions of silver dollars in money, grain and materials. It can be said that the results of the battle were quite abundant.

They successfully forced the Huang Tai army to draw tens of thousands of troops to defend them, and forced Huang Taiji to issue a sea relocation order and voluntarily abandon the 50-mile area along the coast.

According to the current situation, if the Chu army continues to plan, at most two years, the hundreds of miles of the coastal areas of Liaodong will become the control area of ​​the court, step by step suppressing the living space of the Qing army. When the Qing army is in trouble with internal and external affairs, it will naturally be able to restore Liao in one fell swoop.

But now the Qing army suffered little loss in strength. At this time, it forced its way north to recover those cities and garrison them. There would be dispersed forces and long supply lines. Now the Chu army's troops are all in Lushun and Zhenjiang, with fortresses and turrets defending, concentrated troops, and navy forces can support it, just like clenching two iron fists. If the Qing army dares to fight head-on, there will be no advantage to take.

But if the troops were dispersed, the situation would be greatly changed.

October of the 13th year of Chongzhen.

Huang Taiji sent Grand Secretary Fan Wencheng as a representative to Ningyuan to discuss peace with the Ming army. Hong Chengchou, Gao Qiqian and others reported to Beijing. Chongzhen sent Fu Zonglong, the Minister of War to discuss peace. Fu Zonglong refused to accept the order and opposed the peace.

Chongzhen was appointed as the governor of Liaodong as the Minister of War of Fu Zonglong, and the military affairs of Liaodong. Fan Zhiwanchao was promoted to the right assistant censor and governor of Liaodong. Eunuch Wang Kun had military discipline, eunuch Lu Weining supervised food and money, and Qu Shili was the military censor.

Chen Xinjia was promoted to the Minister of War and went to Ningyuan to be responsible for peace talks.

Liaodong was divided into two major systems since then, one was Guanning Jin Town in western Liaoning, and the other was Beiyang Town in Lushun Town, Liaoning. Guanning Town was led by Governor Hong Chengchou, while Lushun Town was Governor Fu Zonglong. In terms of military generals, there was an admiral under the two governors. In western Liaoning, Wu Sangui was admiral, and in Liaodong, Liu Jun was admiral.

From then on, the outside of the pass was divided into Liaodong and Liaoxi. The governor, the governor, the governor, and each had a member of the eunuch chief and the eunuch governor, plus each had three generals and the military censor, forming two large towns outside the pass.

"Fan Zhiwan was appointed as the Promotion Office of Yongping, and was later exiled to the Procuratorate of the Huguang Administration and the Procuratorate. He was promoted to the Promotion Office of Ningguo, the Prefect of Zhending, and the Deputy Envoy of Guannei."

The head of the Intelligence Department reported to Liu Jun the information about the new Liaodong Governor who had just been investigated.

"Fan Zhiwan's backstage must be very good as deputy envoy to governor all at once. Is he a member of Wu Yan or Zhou Yanru?" Liu Jun asked.

"The general is as expected as a god. Fan Zhiwan is said to be a descendant of Fan Zhongyan and is a Jinshi. He was able to be promoted from a deputy envoy to the governor because his master was Zhou Yanru, the chief assistant of the dynasty. It was Zhou Yanru who made him the governor of Liaodong."

"I'm not surprised at all." Liu Jun smiled. Now the two parties in the court, Jiangnan and Jiangbei are in a state of power, and they are fighting each other around the chief and secondary assistants. Both sides have begun to appoint private individuals and plant their party members. This is also a strange scene in the Ming Dynasty, and there will be internal fighting no matter when it comes.

The two parties in Jiangbei and Jiangnan are essentially dominated by Donglin and Fushe, but they are now fighting again.

After all, Zhou Yanru was not well-known. He was not from Donglin, which made his position in the Donglin Party a bit awkward at this time. In particular, Chongzhen also specially used Wu Yan, who was very prestigious in the Donglin Party, as the secondary assistant, which was destined to have internal conflicts from the beginning.

Chongzhen's original intention may be to check and balance, but he did not know that this intensified the internal struggle and party struggle.

It is better for the great man to say that there are no factions within the party. Even if they are both Donglin, they will inevitably be inseparable from internal strife.

Zhou Yanru specifically asked his disciple Fan Zhiwan to serve as the governor of Liaodong. He contacted Zhou Yanru several times before showing goodwill. Liu Jun estimated that Zhou Yanru still wanted to establish a good relationship with him and get his support.

Liu Jun didn't care much about the imperial court sending Fu Zonglong as governor and Fan Zhiwan as governor. At present, the military system of the court has been changed, and there are no model soldiers in the governor's town, and the generals no longer have no servants. Even Liu Jun, the admiral, has no model soldiers in the name of the emperor.

Three new towns were established in Liaodong, the eighth town, the ninth town and the Beiyang Navy were all organized by the town division association battalion. Nominally, after the Governor took office, the Governor was the highest commander of the three towns, and then the admiral Liu Jun. Since Fan Zhiwan was the governor of Liaodong and the military affairs of the admiral, he also had the title of admiral. However, because Liu Jun added the two departments, the Minister of War and the Left Deputy Censor, the rank of Liu Jun, was far higher than Fan Zhiwan, so Liu Jun's command power should be ranked before the governor, and then the general of the three towns.

But in fact, even the governors and governors did not have a baton, so the actual control of military power must be Liu Jun. After all, this was the army he established, and Liu Jun also controlled military pay, and others could not seize the military power. Since Chongzhen ascended the throne, he has been seeking to improve the status of military generals.

The reorganization of the new army and the new military system undoubtedly greatly improved the status and command power of military generals. Without the supervision of the bid and the governor of the bid, the power of the officers has actually been greatly improved.

"The court really wants to negotiate peace?"

During the military discussion, many generals asked.

"Of course it is impossible. The court never negotiated peace in the worst situation at the beginning. The situation is very good now, how can it negotiate peace?" Liu Jun said.

"That's the court?"

The intelligence officer reported, "According to what we learned, the court is preparing for a large-scale counterattack with the intention of regaining Guangning. Now the peace talks with the Qing emperors is just a delaying strategy to paralyze them."

Liu Jun smiled, "Actually, the Qing barbarians didn't want to make a real peace. They were also slowing down the military."

Both sides of the Ming and Qing dynasties had the same idea. The peace talks are just to prepare for the next round of large-scale attacks. Fu Zonglong came to Liaodong, but he was demoted because he was not unwilling to discuss peace talks, but to preside over the battle situation in Liaodong.

It's really funny that both sides are planning an attack, but they are still serious about pretending to be peace.

In mid-October, a group of new officials including the new Liaodong Governor Fu Zonglong and Liaodong Governor Fan Zhiwan arrived in Lushun. Liu Jun led the officers and soldiers of the three towns, as well as local officials from Lushun and Zhenjiang Prefectures to welcome them at Lushun Port.

On the dock, hundreds of civil and military officers all changed into brand new official robes and lined up to greet them.

Admiral Liu Jun stood in the front of the team. After Fu Zonglong and Fan Zhiwan, dressed in red official robe, got off the ship, Liu Jun led everyone forward.

"Library and military officials in Liaodong welcomed Tuchen Fu and Fuchen Fan! Welcomes Director Wang and Governor Lu!"

"Duke of Chu and his colleagues from Liaodong are exempted from gifts." Fu Zonglong smiled and walked in front, while Fan Zhiwan was slightly behind.

The two eunuchs Wang Kun and Lu Weining smiled and walked forward, "Duke Chu, we are here again. The imperial edict will be sent to us to partner with Duke Chu. Our family is so happy."

"Zhu is also very happy to be able to cooperate with the two father-in-laws."

"My Lords, I have prepared a banquet in Lushun City, please."

In the official hall of the Admiral's Office of the Lushun Fortress, Fu Zonglong immediately asked Liu Jun to convene a senior official meeting.

"Everyone, I came to the governor of Liaodong military affairs under the order of the emperor. I arrived in Lushun today and saw that Lushun was strong and strong, and his armor was strong. Everyone, the emperor's orders to make our three towns in Liaodong immediately attack the Jianlu, recover and cover Haizhou, march into Liaoyang, and cooperate with Ningjin's troops to launch a counterattack on Liao."

"When will your Majesty ask for troops to be sent?" Liu Jun asked.

"It's now!" Fu Zonglong replied.

This result surprised Liu Jun, "Ning Jin's troops are ready?"

"Well, Ning Jin's troops should have launched a counterattack at this time. Our three towns in Liaodong should launch an attack immediately and cooperate with them." Fu Zonglong asked Liu Jun, "Is there any problem with the admiral?"

"No problem." Liu Jun smiled and replied.

The court had already asked Ning Jin's troops to launch an attack, and the battle was started, so Fu Zonglong was notified after he arrived, what else could Liu Jun have to do with him at this time. Regardless of whether he wanted to or not, the counterattack had already begun. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!