The Liaodong Governor Wang Huazhen was indeed trapped. To be precise, it was a problem with his defense strategy. Using the Liaohe River as the defense line to set up six camps and separate the land to guard the land, which means that they may be defeated one by one.

Therefore, you have to drink the bitter wine you brewed by pinching your nose.

However, Wang Da Traditional Chinese Medicine has not yet realized this. He believes that the Later Jin army is just like this. Guangning's Ming army can break the siege of Xiping and repel the Later Jin army.

So, Wang Huazhen sent reinforcements and drove to Xiping Fort in three directions to rescue him.

One was led by Sun Degong, the confidant of Governor Wang, to help Xiping Fort from Guangning; one was Liu Qu, the general sent by Xiong Tingbi, to help from Zhenwu Fort; the other was led by Qi Bingzhong, to advance from Luyang Post.

Just as the third Ming army was rushing to Xiping Fort for assistance, the two imperial envoys rushed to Xiong Tingbi's army and Guangning City one after another.

After the Liaodong governor Xiong Tingbi ordered General Liu Qu to set up camp for assistance, he personally led 5,000 troops out of Shanhaiguan to join the war. At this time, he had already arrived in Youtun.

Xiong Tingbi was surprised that the imperial edict was summoned by his subordinates, and the commander of the military predecessor, Hong Fujiao, was very surprised, but he still knelt down to receive the imperial edict and thanked him for his gratitude.

The imperial envoy was an internal official, and followed ten Jinyiwei. He rushed to the scene for eight hundred miles, and everyone's faces were covered in dust and his fatigue was revealed.

Such a big situation made Xiong Tingbi feel that something might happen.

Sure enough, after the imperial edict was announced, the internal official did not accept Xiong Tingbi's kindness to ask him to rest, but instead said to Xiong Tingbi with a strong spirit: "Mr. Xiong, please borrow a step to speak."

Xiong Tingbi didn't understand why, but he still asked the inner officer to come to his tent. Several Jinyiwei guards stood outside tacitly, pressing the embroidered spring sword around his waist, and no one was allowed to enter.

Seeing that there were no outsiders, the inner official looked serious and took out a roll of sealed Huang Ling and said to Xiong Tingbi: "The emperor's secret order, Xiong Tingbi kneels down to receive it."

Xiong Tingbi was stunned for a moment, pressed his heart tossed, knelt down and kowtowed, "My minister Xiong Tingbi received the order."

The inner official handed over the secret decree to Xiong Tingbi and said, "The secret decree of the emperor is only to look at Master Xiong. The miscellaneous families dare not look at it, and they dare not hear a word. The emperor also ordered: This secret decree can be burned as you see, and you must not keep a word between the world."

Xiong Tingbi was even more surprised and found that the seal was indeed intact. As for the internal official, in order to avoid suspicion, he had already walked to the door of the tent with his hands behind his back and looked out.

He was in a complicated mood and nervous manner to disassemble the secret order. What Xiong Tingbi saw was not very beautiful and neat brush calligraphy. First of all, the text information that caught his eyes made Xiong Tingbi frown.

"... According to a secret report, the Guangning Central Army guerrilla Sun has already surrendered to the enemy after he received the merits... Xiong Qing should urgently support Guangning, help the wounded and defeated, and clean up the disabled, and still be able to achieve the effect of Sangyu. If Fenghe is in a hurry and enters the pass quickly, he will be selfish and short-sighted, and he will kill himself without any public opinion..."

It is said that it is a secret decree, but it is more like a secret letter. There is no formal decree, just telling, explaining, and instructing.

The words are not good-looking and the words are a bit popular, but Xiong Tingbi's face is becoming more and more serious and more serious.

"...If Xiong Qing held Guangning at this time and sacrificed his life to the border, wouldn't he be a strange man?"

After reading this sentence, Xiong Tingbi pursed his lips slightly, his eyes flashed with gleam, and a decisive look appeared on his face.

In front of it, there was "If a wind and crane are in a hurry to enter the pass, it will be selfish and short-sighted, and you will kill yourself without any public opinion." In the back, there was "Isn't it a man who sacrificed his life to the border to enfeoff the border?" The national law was in the front and motivated by the latter. It was obvious how Xiong Tingbi decided.

That's right, Xiong Tingbi and Wang Huazhen were in a quarrel, and after the defeat of Guangning in history, he did have the intention to read Wang Huazhen's jokes.

But he abandoned western Liaoning and retreated to Shanhaiguan, which was the biggest failure of his life.

Perhaps Xiong Tingbi believed that the situation was irreversible, the morale of the people collapsed, and the Later Jin army's momentum of victory was irresistible.

Some people may have defended Xiong Tingbi, believing that after Guangning fell, the Jin army did not go deep into western Liaoning. That was after the incident, and at most it was Xiong Tingbi's misjudgment.

However, the cold fact recorded in historical records is that after the Later Jin occupied Guangning, it successively captured more than 40 castles including Yizhou, Pingyangqiao, Xixingbao, Jinzhou, Dalinghe, Youtunwei, Tuanshan, etc., and obtained countless food, grass and supplies.

In addition, Nurhaci also ordered the people west of the Liao River to drive them to the east of the Liao River to slaughter the enemy, which was tragic.

Zhu Youxiao knew about this history. Although it was not detailed, it only made him angry and difficult to accept it.

Zhu Youxiao's efforts will at least make him feel less guilty.

Moreover, he believed that Xiong Tingbi would act in accordance with the secret order, rather than those corrupt scholars who claim to be strong and strong, who rejected his secret order.

Because from a historical perspective, although Xiong Tingbi is not a perfect person, he is definitely not a person who is greedy for life and fears death.

How could a general who was praised by historical books as "a courageous and wise" when he first arrived in Liaodong. In order to stabilize the hearts of the army and the people, he dared to "show off his troops and serve the gatherings"?

As for whether Guangning can be kept, in Zhu Youxiao's view, if the measures are properly handled, he should be 60% to 70%.

You should know that Guangning is a major military city that guards western Liaoning, the gateway to Shanhaiguan, and the highest military agency base of the Ming Dynasty in the northeast.

After decades of operation, the city was strong and the food was sufficient. There were still more than 10,000 defenders in the city. It was very likely that they would give up the surrounding forts and gather defeated soldiers, and obtain more than 30,000 troops.

With Xiong Tingbi's reputation and the strong city and sufficient food, the Later Jin army's ability to attack was insufficient at this time. After last month, the weather was cold and the land was frozen. Can the Later Jin army afford the energy consumption?

Therefore, although Zhu Youxiao had a plan to give up Guangning and shrink his defense line, now is not the time to implement it. At least he should work hard to turn the panic retreat into an orderly retreat.

Xiong Tingbi looked at the secret letter carefully again, and without much hesitation, he knelt down and kowtowed to the direction of the capital, "I will receive the order to thank you."

The inner official at the door of the tent turned around and glanced at the secret order that Xiong Tingbi had held over his head.

Xiong Tingbi immediately understood, got up and walked to the candlelight, stretched out the secret order, and the flames rolled the secret order, illuminating Xiong Tingbi's face, which had become firm and determined.

The last smear of ashes fell to the ground, and the remaining fire flashed twice and was completely extinguished.

The inner official breathed a sigh of relief, his eyes turned to Xiong Tingbi, and took out a piece of Huang Ling imperial edict from his arms, "Please accept the imperial edict, Lord Xiong!"

Xiong Tingbi knelt down and kowtowed, and heard the internal official's sharp voice saying, "Subject to heaven and inherit the fortune. The emperor ordered: "The Liaodong governs Xiong Tingbi, has good talents and good talents, and has sincere service..."
Chapter completed!