After Yang Zhen woke up, he continued to pretend to be comatose for two days and two nights. Finally, after roughly understanding his situation and the situation he was about to face, he decisively "woke up".

After "waking up", the first thing he did was to go to visit his superior officers in Ningyuan City, accompanied by several subordinate officials.

After inquiring around, he not only knew the name of his official position, but also knew that there were two "coaches" temporarily stationed in Ningyuan City at this time, one civil and one military.

Among them, the head of the civil officials was Fang Yizao, the new governor of Liaodong, and the head of the military generals was Zu Dashou, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong.

In fact, Zu Dashou's station had been in Jinzhou before, but at this time he led the troops to station in Ningyuan, which was a last resort.

In the winter of the eleventh year of Chongzhen, the Jianlu army once again detoured through Mongolia and invaded the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty. Zu Dashou, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, led the main force of the Liaodong army and was transferred back to the division pass.

However, in this battle, the Ming side once again suffered heavy casualties. Countless civilian and military generals were killed, killed, or imprisoned for their inability to resist the enemy.

Not only that, when the Liaodong army followed Wu Aheng and Zu Dashou into the pass to reinforce the capital, Huang Taiji, the leader of the captive army, knew that Liaodong was empty and immediately sent tens of thousands more troops to besiege the Ningjin defense line.

As a result, they could not attack for a long time, so they surrounded Jinzhou City and Songshan City.

The warning message from Liaodong came, and Emperor Chongzhen, who was already in a state of distress, had to turn his attention to Liaodong again.

But at this time, all the civilian and military generals who had been in charge of Liaodong, including Wu Aheng, the governor of Jiliao, suffered all casualties in the battle to reinforce the capital, leaving a large number of positions vacant and no one available.

Under this circumstance, Emperor Chongzhen urgently appointed Hong Chengchou, who was supervising the division on the front line of suppressing bandits, as the new governor of Jiliao, and sent his trusted eunuch Gao Qiqian to serve as the eunuch overseeing the army in Liaodong.

Hong Chengchou was the supervisor and Gao Qiqian was the "director". However, neither of them were in Liaodong.

Hong Chengchou was still rushing back from the front line of suppressing the peasant army, while Gao Qiqian was also dealing with the aftermath of Zhili's fight against the Jianlu.

Emperor Chongzhen had no choice but to reinstate the position of governor of Liaodong that had been revoked in order to unify the governor's power in Liaodong, and appointed Wen Guanzao, a war censor who was a censor, as governor of Liaodong, and rushed to Liaodong to take charge of the overall situation.

Soon after, the Qing army that entered the pass retreated, and Emperor Chongzhen had to immediately issue an order to order the Liaodong army led by Zu Dashou to return to Liaodong to rescue Jinzhou and Songshan.

Zu Dashou led the Liaodong army in a wide circle, without even fighting a decent battle, so he started back again. By the time he was ordered to reach Ningyuan, the men and horses were exhausted and their morale was low.

Moreover, by this time, Jinzhou and Songshan had been heavily surrounded by the Jianlu army, and the Tatar army had reached Xingshan and Tashan. The Tatar forward sentries had already appeared in the north of Ningyuan.

Therefore, Zu Dashou led his exhausted troops and stationed themselves at Ningyuan, not daring to rescue Jinzhou and Songshan.

Next, Zu Dashou took the remaining main force of the Liaodong Army, more than 12,000 people, to rest in Ningyuan City for more than a month. He did not dare to take a step north and allowed the Jianlu army led by Huang Taiji to besiege his own.

Lair.

It is now March, and Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao appointed by Emperor Chongzhen, still has not arrived at Ningyuan City.

However, Gao Qiqian, the so-called director-general of Liaodong, who had already arrived in Shanhaiguan a long time ago, has been staying in Shanhaiguan and did not dare to take a step north.

This is the Ningyuan military situation that Yang Zhen is facing at this moment, and this situation makes Yang Zhen feel unusually big.

He was not familiar with Fang Yizao, the governor of Liaodong, and did not know what he was like.

But just hearing the names Zu Dashou, Hong Chengchou, and Gao Qiqian made him almost collapse.

Because, these people are all pig teammates, and they are all extremely cheating people.

Needless to mention Gao Qiqian, Lu Xiangsheng and Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army were tricked to death by this dead eunuch.

Zu Dashou had already surrendered to Huang Taiji once as early as the fourth year of Chongzhen's reign. From that time on, he began to listen to Emperor Chongzhen and the Ming Dynasty rather than listen to the propaganda.

That makes perfect sense.

As for Hong Chengchou, it is even more difficult to say.

The final defeat of the Ming Dynasty was, in fact, at his hands. He single-handedly destroyed the last main force of the Ming Dynasty.

That was the only capital the Ming Dynasty’s frontier troops had at that time!

Yang Zhen, who came from time-travel, didn't want to see these people at all, but thinking about how he would be working under these people from now on and struggling to survive under their command, it seemed that he couldn't do it not to see them.

Moreover, as Deputy General Ningyuan, people came to visit me when I was in coma. Now that I am awake, it is unreasonable and unreasonable not to visit me now.

Fortunately, he didn't want to see these people, and these people didn't have time to meet him at the moment.

Accompanied by several subordinate officers, Yang Zhen went all the way to the Ningyuan General Military Mansion where Zu Dashou was temporarily stationed. He gave his name and asked to see Marshal Zu, but Marshal Zu was not at the General Military Mansion.

When he hurried slowly and hurriedly to the Ji Liao Governor's Mansion, the temporary residence of the Liaodong Governor in Ningyuan City, he was once again rejected.

However, Bian, the gatekeeper of the Liaodong Governor's Yamen, recognized Yang Zhen, Ningyuan's deputy general, and helped pass the message.

However, not long after the request for an audience was reported in, the gatekeeper came back and said that the governor Fang was discussing important matters with the Liaodong Commander-in-Chief Zu Zongzhen, Ningqian Bingdao Master Qiu and other important figures. He said that it was the governor who said,

There is no need for Yang Zhen to show his courtesy, just let him rest peacefully for a few days, and then summon him again after a few days.

Of course, the outcome of this day's unsuccessful request to see the Shangguan was more in line with Yang Zhen's current mood. After all, he was also worried that he had just arrived and his situation was unclear, and others would find out the clues.

Therefore, after hearing the gatekeeper's words, he turned around and left without saying a word, returning to his camp under the east gate, only thinking about how to escape the upcoming tragic fate.

Of course, even though he has tried very hard to hide his true identity, since he woke up, he has repeatedly shown some discomfort in dealing with others, speaking and behaving, which still revealed a lot that he does not belong to this era.

of clues.

For example, his polite attitude towards the officials and servants around him aroused doubts and confusion among some people.

In particular, he suddenly showed extreme concern for all kinds of muskets and firearms in Ningyuan's army, which made some people think that Yang Xiezhen was a little weird, and maybe his brain was broken.

He didn't know yet what some of the officials and servants around Yang Zhen were saying behind his back.

However, even if he knew what the servants were talking about, he could no longer pay attention to what was there and what was not.

Because in the spring and March of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, it was the death date of Ningyuan Lieutenant General Yang Zhen, who had no soldiers and no power in history.

He didn't know the specific day, but now he must find a way to escape his tragic fate as soon as possible.

After much deliberation, he found only two options, one of which was to pretend to be sick.

In other words, when the imperial court and the governor of Liaodong sent troops to rescue the besieged Songshan City, he used the excuse of falling from his horse and being injured, saying that he was ill and could not go away.

No matter what others say, as long as they are not cut off on the spot, then they should firmly shirk the disease and refuse to go away.

No matter where you go in the future, if you follow Zu Dashou, or follow Wu Sangui, who is still serving as deputy general under Zu Dashou, you will have at least several decades to live.

In this way, he would no longer be like what happened in history, where he knew clearly that there were tigers in the mountains, but had no choice but to go to the tiger mountains. As a result, he was surrounded by the Qing army who were encircling the area for reinforcements, and finally the entire army was annihilated.

But can he shirk it? Can he not go? Are Zu Dashou's thick legs so easy to hug?

At this time, Zu Dashou already had many fierce generals under his command. The older generation of generals were still there, and the new generation of generals had emerged, such as Wu Sangui, Zu Keyong, etc. There was no need to spend any effort to win over an outsider like Yang Zhen.

Take rising stars like Wu Sangui and Yang Zhen as examples. Whoever is sent to carry out a near-death mission like rescuing Songshan City is like a lice on a bald man's head - it's obvious.

Wu Sangui was a guaranteed leader in the Liaodong Army. He was the nephew of Liaodong Commander Zu Dashou and the adopted son of Gao Qiqian, the eunuch who oversaw the army. If he didn't want to go, even if there was no legitimate reason, no one could do anything about it.

Force him to go.

But Yang Zhen is different.

Not only did he not have a strong backer to rely on in Liaodong, he also had a sworn enemy who was very prejudiced against him, namely Gao Qiqian, the eunuch whom Wu Sangui regarded as his adoptive father.

Gao Qiqian, a dead eunuch, is currently living in Shanhaiguan, but after all, he is the eunuch appointed by Emperor Chongzhen to supervise the Liaodong army, and his influence on the Liaodong army cannot be underestimated.

But he, the deputy general, had just been released from prison in Beizhili in the first month of the twelfth year of Chongzhen and was sent to the front line of Ningyuan as a deputy general. After all, he was an outsider who came to Ningyuan to atone for his sins.

As for the personal servants and old soldiers who came to Ningyuan with him, including those who could fight and those who couldn't fight, they were all full. Including himself, there were only one hundred and ninety-six people.

At that time, Gao Qiqian's order to force Ning Yuan's army to fight came. If Zu Dashou asked him to go, would he dare not to go?!

Even if Zu Dashou said nothing, if Fang Yizao, the governor of Liaodong, asked him to go, he would have to go!

A war is imminent. If you insist on refusing to go and slap some charges on you, you will probably be executed on the spot.
Chapter completed!