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Text Chapter 519: Take orders to leave the city

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    Wu Sangui was not a fool. He naturally understood the coexistence of risks and opportunities. As soon as he arrived, Li Yan asked him about sending troops, which was a test of his loyalty.

    It stands to reason that he has just arrived with the army, so he should let the army rest for a few days. Besides, it is more appropriate to leave the attack to Zu Dashou and the others, who are the local snakes in Jinzhou. Even worse, Li Yan also has 20,000 elites in his hands, but Li Yan  But he chose to leave this matter to himself, and the flavor contained in it was even more intriguing.

    Wu Sangui didn't answer, just bowed his head in thought. Li Yan didn't urge him, just smiled and looked at Wu Sangui without saying a word, but he remembered the words of Master Pang Gang who called him to the imperial study room before leaving Beijing.

    "My beloved, I am going to Liaodong to solve the border troubles in Liaodong in one fell swoop. The Tatars are ambitious and have been killing our Chinese people for decades without any reason and plundering our government's finances. Moreover, they are nomadic people and have no culture themselves.  If it is allowed to take over the Central Plains, it will bring immeasurable disaster to our country.

    Aiqing will go together with the Zu family, the Wu family and other local forces in Liaodong to carry out this important event. However, since the Wu family and the Zu family have been operating in Liaodong for hundreds of years and have deep-rooted influence, you should be careful when you go.  The rest of the Wu family are all inactive. Only Wu Sangui, the son of Wu Xiang, is brave and resourceful. You should be careful. As for Zu Dashou, he is a veteran in the battlefield and should not be underestimated.  You can use strategies such as differentiation and win-over to slowly figure it out, but you must not act too hastily"

    Li Yan carefully recalled what Pang Gang had said to him before leaving, but his eyes were carefully staring at Wu Sangui. He wanted to see the leader of the new generation of Liaodong forces who was evaluated by Pang Gang as brave and resourceful, but ambitious.  How great generals responded to their orders.

    Wu Sangui lowered his head and thought for a while, then finally raised his head and looked at Li Yan and said, "Since the Commander-in-Chief has an order, he must obey it, but before that, I have something to ask of you."

    Li Yan said with great interest: "Say it!"

    Wu Sangui said seriously: "Captain Mingjian, although the Tatars only have five thousand people, they are ferocious. If they really want to escape, the infantry will not be able to stop them. With the last six thousand cavalry, we can completely annihilate the five Tatars."  The difficulty of Thousand Elites is too great. I believe I can defeat them. But I am not sure of annihilating them all."

    "Hmm!" Hearing this, Li Yan nodded slightly, and his evaluation of Wu Sangui was even higher. He was still clear-headed and not arrogant, so he asked: "What do you think Mr. Wu has to say?"

    Wu Sangui said seriously: "I am ashamed of myself. I think that if we want to completely annihilate this enemy army, we can only do so unless the commander lends one of your cavalry to the general."

    Li Yan asked with great interest: "Then how many cavalry do you want to "borrow"?"

    Wu Sangui said without hesitation: ¡°Of course, the more, the merrier!¡±

    When Li Yan heard this, he couldn't help but get angry. Do you think you are Han Xin? The more the merrier, you are not afraid of being strangled to death.  So he shook his head and said: "No, the number of cavalry I brought is not large, but I can't hand it over to you. Also, didn't I give you more than 10,000 pieces of armor and many weapons a few days ago? How can I deal with it?  Are a mere five thousand Tatars so timid?"

    Wu Sangui opened his mouth to speak, but was stopped by Li Yan.  Li Yan said decisively: "Okay, don't take my idea anymore. If you think the troops are not enough, you can borrow them from Zu Dashou. As for me, I don't have a single soldier here. If  You can't do this well, so how can I expect you to defend our territory in Great China? If you fail to set off within half an hour, don't blame me for being ruthless in military law!"

    "Yes, I will prepare immediately!"

    Wu Sangui was speechless and just retreated angrily.

    Looking at Wu Sangui going out, Li Yan sighed softly.  He rubbed his temples with both hands, and after a while he let go. Now he finally realized the cunningness of these border generals.  These people are purely a group of people who are willing to do whatever is good for them, and when bad things happen, they are your goods. They have transported tens of thousands of sets of armor and weapons.  They swallowed it all without even frowning, but once they were asked to go into battle to fight the Tatars, each of them became more slick than the last. It would be extremely difficult to expect such people to eliminate the Tatars.

    But it was said that Wu Sangui walked out of the door.  More than a dozen soldiers guarding the door on the street in front and the generals from Shanhaiguan saw the general coming out and immediately led their horses to greet them. The leader, a deputy general with a long face, immediately asked: "Sir, what are you doing?"  What did the Superintendent say, did you do us any good?"

    Wu Sangui, who was furious in his heart, finally found a punching bag, glared at him angrily and reprimanded: "Benefit, what other benefit do you want? Is it to give you a hundred and eighty bitches, a mountain of gold and silver, or a mountain of gold and silver?  Make you a general?"

    The lieutenant lowered his head and said sheepishly: "The general said that we came all the way to Jinzhou, and the commander-in-chiefYou have to show something!  "

    "What a show!" Seeing his subordinate's greedy face, Wu Sangui couldn't help scolding him again, "We have just arrived in Jinzhou and have not made any achievements yet. Why should they tell us that he is our biological father or that he owes us a debt?"  Ours? You¡¯ve been thinking about benefits all day long, and I don¡¯t even know how you lead troops on weekdays.¡±

    The deputy general who had been scolded by Wu Sangui did not even dare to raise his head. Seeing that his companion was embarrassed, another general quickly smoothed things over and said, "Sir, Lao Zhang is such an unobtrusive person. Don't be the same as him. You  Let me tell you, what did the Superintendent tell you?"

    After listening to the general's words, Wu Sangui sighed and gave Li Yan's orders one by one.

    Everyone frowned. This task was indeed very troublesome. It was not easy to annihilate the five thousand Tatar cavalry. Not to mention whether it could be completed, even if it could be completed, what would the local generals like Zu Dashou and others in Jinzhou do if they sent out troops like this?  think?  Originally, the Wu family and the Zu family were so close that they could wear the same pair of trousers, but if Zu Dashou mistakenly thought that the Wu family was going to leave them alone because of this incident, it would inevitably cause a rift between the two parties who were originally as close as one family. This would not be worth the gain.  .

    Wu Sangui then smiled bitterly and said: "Originally, I wanted to borrow some cavalry from the Superintendent, but the Superintendent refused. He also said that if you want to borrow troops, you can borrow them from my uncle, but my uncle's troops in Jinzhou are not strong enough.  Not much, can he lend it to us? It seems we can only do it ourselves!"

    Speaking of this, Wu Sangui himself felt very ashamed. He had nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses, but he was still hesitant to deal with the Tatars' 5,000 soldiers and horses. It was no wonder that the governor did not want to see him.

    The long-faced lieutenant hesitated for a moment and then said: "Thenshould we inform Mr. Zu?"

    Wu Sangui thought for a moment and hesitated, then smiled bitterly and shook his head, "That's all, this is my uncle's territory. How could he not know about such a big thing like our sending troops? If we tell him deliberately again, it will inevitably make the supervisor unhappy.  , it¡¯s better not to say anything.¡±

    When everyone heard what Wu Sangui said, they didn¡¯t say anything. They all got on their horses and galloped towards the south

    Half an hour later, the news that Wu Sangui led the army to set off reached the ears of Li Yan and Zu Dashou. Li Yan just smiled faintly and went about handling military affairs, while Zu Dashou and others gathered in front of the general.  Countermeasures were discussed in the lobby of the mansion.

    Zu Dachou said angrily: "Uncle Chang is really unethical in what he does. The entire army went out without even saying a word to us. As a result, my second uncle doesn't even know what's going on. This is too disrespectful to us."  Uncle takes it seriously."

    Zu Dalue and the others did not say anything, but turned their attention to Zu Dashou who was sitting in the main seat.

    Zu Dashou held up the tea cup with his left hand, put it on the coffee table with his right hand and clasped it gently, making a soft "beep" sound. After a long time, he smiled and said: "Actually, it's nothing. Just now we didn't collect the tea at night. Yesterday  Thousands of Tatar cavalry were discovered more than a hundred miles outside Jinzhou City. They were led by Prince Su Hauge and were heading towards Jinzhou. Chang Bo must have left the city to meet the enemy on the orders of the governor.  "

    Zu Dachou was not happy and shouted loudly: "But they should tell us what they are doing. If they do this, we will look like outsiders! Don't forget, Jinzhou is our territory!"

    "Shut up!" As soon as Zu Dazhu finished speaking, he was stopped by Zu Dashou. He said reproachfully: "What's our territory? In the whole world, it's not the king's land; on the shore of the land, it's not the king's ministers. In this world  They all belong to the Emperor, and if the supervisor hears about your work, it will definitely cause trouble!"

    "What the elder brother taught me is that the younger brother is wrong!"

    Being scolded by Zu Dashou, Zu Dashou obediently lowered his head and admitted his mistake.

    Seeing Zu Dachou admitting his mistake, Zu Dashou softened his tone and said: "Actually, the reason why Uncle Chang didn't say goodbye to us was because he was afraid that the supervisor would have a grudge after knowing about it. This is also human nature, and we don't need to blame him so harshly.  He is dead. But I am very worried about whether the elder uncle is that Hauge¡¯s opponent!"

    Having said this, Zu Dashou sighed lightly.  Although there was nothing unusual on the surface after Li Yan came to Jinzhou, Zu Dashou could clearly feel that the knight Li Yan was still wary of Liaodong generals like himself, otherwise he would not sacrifice himself to him.  He couldn't live in such a big governor's house, so he lived in a small courtyard just a stone's throw away from the 20,000 troops he brought.

    Such a situation was seen by Zu Dashou. If he said he was not anxious, it would be a lie. For example, the foundation of the Dahua Imperial Court in the Central Plains was getting more and more stable. News came a few days ago that it was stationed in Jiangsu and Jiangxi.  The garrison has begun to take action, preparing to take action against Zhejiang and Fujian. If these two places are also recovered, then it is said that no one in the land of China can stop Dahua's unification.

    And like myself??It would be fine if such a border general obeyed the court's orders honestly. If he did not obey the orders, depending on Pang Gang's temper, the Liaodong generals, including himself, would definitely not end well!

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