"I am willing to lead my 40,000 troops to capture Ningyuan City and achieve the first merit in pacifying Liaodong!" Wu Sangui, the general of Liaodong, said to Wang Yongji.
Wang Yongji narrowed his eyes, very surprised at Wu Sangui's initiative to ask for a fight.
Is this still the Wu Sangui he knows?
In his opinion, Wu Sangui was a person who would rather let the imperial court lose the battle than preserve his own strength.
Why did you volunteer to fight today?
And it is Ningyuan City, the only fortified city in the Liaoxi Corridor!
As long as Ningyuan is captured, the Liaoxi Corridor will be unobstructed and the army can march straight to the city of Jinzhou.
Although he was puzzled, Wang Yongji was very happy about this initiative to fight. He stood up and responded: "Good! General Wu is indeed a great general and a pillar of the country!"
"I will grant your wish!" Wang Yongji waved his hand and said to everyone, "From now on, Wu Sangui will be the vanguard and the troops will march to Ningyuan!"
"Thank you, Governor!" Wu Sangui stood up and saluted Wang Yongji, "I have another request."
"speak."
"The Guanning Army lacks heavy artillery for siege, especially red cannon! Please ask the Governor-General to allocate thirty to fifty red cannons, as well as the necessary shells and gunpowder, for use in siege." Wu Sangui pleaded.
"No problem!" Wang Yongji agreed without hesitation.
Then he remembered something and said to everyone: "Everyone, I want to reiterate one thing."
"Please speak, Governor!" All the generals spoke at the same time.
"Before I left, the cabinet specifically instructed that the artillery assigned to you, especially the red cannon, must be well kept."
"Don't worry, sir. The Red Cannon is my life, Wu Sangui. As long as I'm alive, the cannon will be there!" Wu Sangui said, patting his chest.
"Wrong!" Wang Yongji shook his head. "The cabinet means that the artillery cannot be allowed to fall into the hands of the Jiannu intact. If there is a trend of being defeated when encountering the enemy, the artillery will be immediately blown into scrap metal."
The generals looked at each other in bewilderment...
Cannons are expensive, take a long time to make, and are inconvenient to transport.
It was finally transported to Liaodong, and then it exploded?
Seeing that the generals were hesitant, Wang Yongji once again warned: "Don't ask too many questions. This is the will of the court. Just follow the order."
"Yes." The generals responded.
On the morning of the tenth day of May, the Ming army set out.
Wang Yongji formed the central army with his own 5,000 soldiers and Huang Degong and Gao Yigong.
Wu Sangui was the vanguard.
Li Xingzhong, Yuan Zongde and Liu Xiyao were on the left wing.
Liu Zhaoji, He Jin, Ma Shiyao, Liu Tichun, Li Guo and Li Laiheng were on the right wing.
Tang Tong, Gao Di and Liu Fangliang were the rear wing.
With this arrangement, the central army has 28,000 troops.
The front wing is as high as 40,000.
The left wing numbered nearly 22,000, and the right wing about 23,000.
The rear wing is 18,000.
The reason for this arrangement is mainly to consider the combination of troops.
and.
He did not put the generals who had good relations together, but separated them into left, right, front and back.
If a certain army gets into trouble, Wang Yongji can dispatch generals with whom he has a good relationship to provide assistance.
As for the effect...Wang Yongji had no idea.
Amid the piercing sound of artillery fire, 40,000 Guanning troops were the first to leave the pass.
Stepping onto the familiar yet unfamiliar homeland, the soldiers of the Guanning Army felt deeply moved.
Especially the lower-level soldiers.
They didn't know Wu Sangui's true thoughts, they only knew that this expedition was to recover their homeland.
Recovering their homeland meant that they could return to Ningyuan and take back their houses and land.
Thinking of this, the entire army was filled with excitement.
At the front of the central army, Gao Dejie, Wu Sangui's trusted general, bowed to Wu Sangui and said, "Sir, I will remember this."
"Yes," Wu Sangui nodded, "Remember, don't fall for the enemy's trick of luring them deep into your territory!"
"Yes, I'll take my leave!" Gao Dejie turned and left, then led three thousand elite soldiers to rush forward.
Not long after he left, the counselor Fang Guangchen, the generals Hu Guozhu and Xia Guoxiang came to Wu Sangui on horseback and said, "General."
Wu Sangui nodded and asked Fang Guangchen, "Brother Fang, I have already boasted to Wang Yongji that we will definitely take Ningyuan. Now the army is leaving the border and will reach Ningyuan in five days at the latest. Brother Fang, do you have any plan to take the city?"
Fang Guangchen looked into the distance and shook his head, "Five days may not be enough!"
"What do you mean?" Wu Sangui was stunned. "The army to pacify Liao has 130,000 soldiers. There is no strategic location to defend the Liaoxi Corridor except Ningyuan. How dare the Jiannu set up obstacles along the way?"
"Brother Wu, don't be careless. Soldiers' quality is more important than their quantity, and a general's strategy is more important than his bravery! The Eight Banners soldiers are good at field battles, and they will not allow our army to pass through the Liaoxi Corridor smoothly and arrive at the city of Ningyuan."
"They can only hold us back for a while. Our army will arrive at the city sooner or later!" Wu Sangui stressed.
"Brother Wu, don't be anxious. Let's talk about it when the enemy is at the gates! The most urgent thing is to advance step by step!"
Wu Sangui was very upset after being tricked by Fang Guangchen. He turned to Hu Guozhu and asked, "Brother Hu, do you have any plan to take Ningyuan?"
Hu Guozhu shook his head: "Without knowing the deployment of Jiannu troops, I dare not say anything."
Wu Sangui was unwilling to give up, and looked at Xia Guoxiang with his last hope.
As a result, the other party also had the same attitude.
Wu Sangui had no choice but to command his army to continue advancing.
......
Shenyang (Shenyang).
"Six hundred miles, six hundred miles!" someone shouted outside the Chongzheng Hall.
Under the gazes of the crowd, a eunuch ran in with a letter in his hand. He looked in Fulin's direction, knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, this is an urgent letter from Ningyuan!"
Upon hearing the word "urgent delivery", Fulin's rosy face turned pale in an instant.
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