East Factory Governor

Chapter 218 Meeting Yuan Chonghuan for the First Time

More than a thousand people were composed of horse and infantry, so the marching speed was a bit slow. After a quick march overnight, there were still more than [-] miles away from Jizhou at dawn.

Qin Shuhuai left the brigade, led Meng Wei and Meng Hu one step ahead, and rushed straight to Jizhou City.

Because he carried the token of Jinyiwei with him, no one stopped him when passing through the gates.

At three o'clock in the morning, I arrived at the city of Jizhou.

At this time, Jizhou City was already on high alert. The gates inside the city were closed tightly, and there were sentry horses and sentry posts of the Guanning Army everywhere within a radius of ten miles outside the city. It has to be said that Yuan Chonghuan has a way of defending the city.

Qin Shuhuai gave his name outside the city gate and handed over the token. After a series of cross-examinations, someone went to inform Yuan Chonghuan.

Soon, the gate of the city opened wide, and a general in his thirties led a dozen people out of the city to welcome Qin Shuhuai.

"The last general, Qin Lang, under Governor Yuan's command, came here to welcome Master Qin under the order of Governor Yuan."

Yuan Chonghuan sent someone to greet him, which showed that he still remembered Qin Shuhuai's rescuing of the four thousand Guan Ning troops.

Qin Shuhuai returned the courtesy, "I'm here to help you, General."

A group of people entered the city and went straight to the Governor's Mansion in Jizhou City.The former Governor Liu Ce and the defenders of Jizhou City have been sent away by Yuan Chonghuan.

Along the way, Qin Shuhuai paid close attention to the Guan Ning Army in the city. He saw that these soldiers were well-organized and disciplined, and they looked like they could fight.This is not beyond Qin Shuhuai's expectation.Yuan Chonghuan was able to lead such scoundrels like Zhao Shujiao into a good general who will go down in history, which shows that he has a way of leading people.

After entering the Governor's Mansion, I met Yuan Chonghuan.

Different from what he imagined, Yuan Chonghuan in front of him is a middle-aged man with a very literary temperament, thin and fair, with a long beard on his chin, and a standard civil servant dress.

A pair of eyes are not big, but they are piercing, and like a deep pool, people can't see the bottom at a glance.

This... is Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Ji and Liao Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty, who is controversial, slandered, scolded, worshiped and revered by later generations!
Qin Shuhuai stepped forward and bowed, and said, "Qin Shuhuai, a thousand households in Xiajinyiwei Tongzhou, pays homage to Governor Yuan."

Yuan Chonghuan returned the salute to Qin Shuhuai with a smile, and said, "Qin Qianhu is so polite. Qianhu was young, and he used a clever trick to save my four thousand officers and men of Guan Ning that day, and he gave up his life to help our army capture Luowenyu. He is indeed a talented person of the country! On behalf of all the officers and men of the Guan Ning Army, I would like to thank Qin Qianhu."

Qin Shuhuai immediately said, "Master Yuan Du has spoken too seriously, I am ashamed to take it seriously."

After exchanging pleasantries, the two got to the point.

Qin Shuhuai first said, "This time, I have been ordered by the emperor to assist the supervisor in defending Jizhou and Shimenzhai. However, the supervisor is the master, and I am a guest. I will not interfere in important matters. I only hope that I can assist the supervisor. Just one or two."

After finishing speaking, Qin Shuhuai took out the secret decree and asked Yuan Chonghuan to have a look.

According to the etiquette, Yuan Chonghuan took the imperial decree with both hands after cleaning his hands, opened it, and it was indeed so.

According to the secret decree, Chongzhen appointed Qin Shuhuai as a Jizhou guerrilla, responsible for gathering the original Jizhou city defenders and waiting for opportunities to fight against the enemy, and stated that he would not be restrained by Yuan Chonghuan.

Qin Shuhuai first made it clear that I was appointed by the emperor to come to Jizhou, you can treat me like air, but you can't drive me away, and you can't stop me when I exercise my power reasonably.Of course, I'm a guest army, and I won't tell you what to do.

Yuan Chonghuan frowned first, and there was an army that was not under his command in his defense zone, which was something that any theater commander would not want to see.However, the emperor's order was hard to disobey, and he could not defy the order openly, so he returned the imperial order to Qin Shuhuai and said, "If that's the case, General Qin will be in trouble."

Qin Shuhuai said, "Teacher Yuan speaks seriously. I am here as a guest, and Governor Yuan is the master. As the saying goes, guests do as the master pleases. If Master Yuan sends you, just do as you please."

What he said was extremely polite, and he put himself in the position of Yuan Chonghuan's subordinate.

Yuan Chonghuan naturally didn't believe that Qin Shuhuai would completely listen to his orders, but as long as Qin Shuhuai didn't dictate his arrangements and was not good at making decisions and acting alone, he could allow Qin Shuhuai's existence.

Qin Shuhuai paused for a moment, then said again, "Master, I heard that the army of founding slaves has arrived in the west of Jizhou city recently, is it true?"

Yuan Chonghuan nodded and said, "That's right, on November [-]th, my horse sentry found traces of the slave army twenty miles west of the city. At present, some of them have advanced to more than ten miles west of the city and set up camp, while the other part is unknown. trace.",

Qin Shuhuai made a surprised expression on purpose, and said, "Jiannu bypassed Shimenzhai, so he wanted to directly attack Jizhou City?"

Yuan Chonghuan smiled lightly, "General Qin is too worried. How dare you attack my Jizhou City before the slaves go to Shimenzhai?"

Qin Shuhuai continued to pretend to be puzzled, and said, "That's weird, what is the purpose of being a slave?"

Yuan Chonghuan smiled conceitedly, and said, "Jiannu just wanted to lure General Zhao from Shimenzhai out. How is it worth mentioning the small tricks? I have ordered General Zhao to close the city gate and not be able to hold on. Let's see how Jiannu will deal with it." Of!"

It should be said that Yuan Chonghuan's judgment was correct.However, one thing he can't compare to Qin Shuhuai is that Qin Shuhuai came from later ages, he knew that Huang Taiji had done "diving across Jizhou"!

Seeing that the topic led to the direction he wanted, Qin Shuhuai said, "Master Yuan, I don't know if you know that there is a mountain range more than thirty miles southeast of Jizhou City."

Yuan Chonghuan said, "That's Hengling, why did General Qin mention this?"

Why mention this matter?Qin Shuhuai wanted to jump up!

Judging from the historical data, the army of Houjin back then turned over from that not-so-high mountain range and sneaked across Jizhou!
"Records of Chongzhen" records that the route of the Qing army's sneaking across Jizhou was to "take the counties of Yutian, Sanhe, Xianghe and Shunyi".

There is also a similar record in "Guozhu", "Three rivers in Yutian, Xianghe, Shunyi and other counties were all trapped."

The place "Yutian" is mentioned in both places, and Yutian is also mentioned in the records of Manchu's own history book "Manchu Laodang".

This is a key clue.Yutian is located in the southeast of Jizhou City, separated from Jizhou by a low mountain range. According to Yuan Chonghuan, that mountain range is called Hengling.

Therefore, if the historical records are correct, then the army of the Later Jin Dynasty crossed Hengling, captured Yutian, and then continued to attack Sanhe and other places westward.

Therefore, if Yuan Chonghuan in history did not deliberately manipulate the enemy, then the only possibility is that, now it seems that he never thought that the Houjin army could turn over Hengling.

Qin Shuhuai tentatively asked, "Master Yuan, I have an immature idea. That is, will Jiannu cross the mountain from Hengling, then take Yutian, attack Xianghe, and then threaten Hexiwu?"

Yuan Chonghuan was taken aback, Hexi Wu was where grain was hoarded, if Jiannu seized grain, he could continue to support war with war, and the consequences would be disastrous.

Involuntarily came to the table, opened the map and looked at it in detail.

(End of this chapter)