Yang Zhenzheng was holding up his telescope and continued to search for the Jinzhou Army's camp, but he heard Yu Liangtai saying from the side: "This Hongluo Mountain has a radius of dozens of miles. This large area is called Da Hongluo Mountain. There is a small remaining stretch to the north, also called Da Hongluo Mountain."

Xiaohongluoshan!

"Between the Big and Small Hongluo Mountains, there is a ditch, but it is a shortcut to Jinzhou and Songshan! The Jinzhou soldiers' camp in this area is on the Little Hongluo Mountain!"

Speaking of this, Yu Liangtai paused for a moment, and then continued: "I just came here from a humble position and didn't understand the terrain here. I asked the Jinzhou soldiers who followed us to get ahead and take advantage of our location! Alas, we won't care about it from now on.

Whether you travel by land by carriage and horse, or travel by water by boat, everything is under the nose of the Jinzhou soldiers!"

After Yu Liangtai finished speaking, he sighed again. After finishing his words, he fell into silence, as if he was very worried about the existence of Jinzhou soldiers under Zu Dashou's command.

In fact, any time an alien force exists, it will always make people feel worried. Yang Zhen can feel such a feeling like a thorn in his back. He needs to have a good talk with Marshal Zu.

What surprised Yang Zhen was that just after midnight that day, before he really knew how to create an opportunity to have a good communication with Marshal Zu, the opportunity suddenly came.

Not long after the end of the afternoon that day, Yang Zhen had just finished inspecting the camp and mine in Hongluoshan. Accompanied by several generals, he returned to the Wuxin River dock not far from the west gate of Houyingzhai and saw the people heading towards Jiadaogou.

Zhang Guogan, who was patrolling the area, returned with his team of troops.

And behind them, there was another group of armored and sharp cavalry. Judging from their bright clothes and well-equipped horses, it was obvious that they were the heavy cavalry of the Jinzhou Army.

Zhang Chen led the men on the left wing of the Musketeers to meet him and asked. Sure enough, they were Jinzhou soldiers, and they were also the Central Army of Marshal Zu. The purpose of coming here was to send an order to Yang Zhen to go to Xiaohongluo Mountain to face the enemy.

Meet the great commander-in-chief.

Regarding this sudden and somewhat bizarre order, Yang Zhen and his generals were momentarily surprised and doubtful. Most of the generals believed that the situation was unclear and they must not go.

If someone catches him, accuses him of any crime, and kills him indiscriminately, who can he talk to to reason with him?

Yang Zhen was also a little surprised and confused about this, because with Zu Dashou's status as the commander-in-chief of Liaodong Town, there was no need to leave Jinzhou City to summon Yang Zhen here.

If he wanted to see Yang Zhen, he could wait until Yang Zhen returned to Songshan City and then call Yang Zhen to Jinzhou City to meet him.

However, as Yang Zhen had thought before, he believed that it was indeed time to meet Zu Dashou and gain mutual understanding on certain issues.

Otherwise, things here in Hongluo Mountain will be difficult to handle, and once you leave Songshan and go west, everything will have to be reported to the Marshal's Mansion in Jinzhou City, so many things will be difficult to handle in the future.

Therefore, this time he defied all opinions and left Xu Changyong, Li Lu and others to continue to preside over the entire team of people for transshipment and shipment at the dock. While he himself, accompanied by Zu Keyong, Zhang Chen, and

Under the escort of the advance camp musketeers, we headed to the so-called Xiaohongluo Mountain in the north to meet Zu Dashou.

The reason why he dared to take risks and was not afraid that some of Zu Dashou's generals who could not understand him would fake orders was because although Yang Zhen was very surprised by the whole thing, when he thought about it carefully, he felt that everything was reasonable.

middle.

In fact, the news that Yang Zhen led his troops to the west to pick up troops reached Jinzhou City not long after he left Songshan.

Yang Zhen couldn't hide this matter even if he wanted to, not to mention that Zu Dacheng patrolled the border with his troops and met Yang Zhen, Zu Keyong and the others in person, so it was no secret that they went west to the border.

This was also the basis for Yang Zhen to feel that it was necessary to talk to Zu Dashou as soon as possible without worrying about the risks.

If Zu Dashou had already made up his mind to join the Manchus, then when they learned that Yang Zhen, the commander-in-chief of the Songshan regiment, had led his team to the border areas, and they only needed to reveal the news to the Manchu Tatars, then I am afraid that Yang Zhen and the others would really

If you can't eat it, you'll have to walk away.

If he had calculated carefully and unintentionally, to deal with the few people Yang Zhen brought to the border, he would not even need to send out a large army of Tatars, or do it himself. Instead, he would only need to order the tribes in the East Mongolia area to gather a large number of cavalry, and Yang Zhen could be defeated.

Zhen and his group were wiped out on the grassland.

And this is the fundamental reason why Yang Zhen was always on tenterhooks and did not dare to create any trouble when he was on the grassland outside the border.

However, Yang Zhen had already returned with the crowd, but this situation did not happen.

A large number of cavalry from the Haraqin tribes did appear, but judging from the series of performances of the Haraqin cavalry, they obviously did not know who the real opponent they faced was.

This shows that although Marshal Zu in Jinzhou City knew about Yang Zhen's actions, and although he might be quite dissatisfied with Yang Zhen's actions, he did not take the opportunity to betray Yang Zhen to the Manchu Tatars.

So, is it because the communication channels between Zu Dashou and his ancestral generals and the Manchu Tatars are broken or restricted?

Probably not.

From the north of Jinzhou City where Zu Dashou was stationed, to the other side of the Daling River, apart from the Zu Family Army, there were no other Ming Dynasty official troops stationed in Liaodong.

If he wanted to contact the Manchu Tatars north of the Daling River, such as those stationed in Guangning City and other places, it would be very convenient, and he would not have to worry about anyone discovering him.

But he didn't do this, so this situation illustrates at least two possibilities.

First, Zu Dashou has not yet completely made up his mind to join the Manchu Tatars. He may still have the idea of ​​​​stepping into two boats, that is, betting on both sides and profiting from both sides, maximizing the interests of his family, rather than taking full advantage of the treasure.

Pressure on the Tatar side.

After all, most of the Ming Dynasty's annual salary expenditure of more than one million taels fell on him and his generals. Needless to say, how great this benefit was.

Correspondingly, once he really reaches the Mantatar side, he will no longer have such benefits.

Mantatars are not rich. How can they have millions of taels of silver a year to give them?

Secondly, Zu Dashou has not yet completely made up his mind to break up with Yang Zhen. Whether he is trying to win over Yang Zhen or deliberately retaining Yang Zhen, the vanguard of the resistance, for emergencies, in short, he seems to be at the moment

There was no intention to kill Yang Zhen and his advance battalion for the Eastern Expedition.

Of course, Yang Zhen didn't know exactly what Zu Dashou was thinking. All of this was just Yang Zhen's own guess as he tried to save others by himself.

But no matter what, after making these basic judgments, Yang Zhen was very surprised by Commander Zu's sudden summons that afternoon, but he accepted it calmly.

In fact, just as Yang Zhen and the others discovered the Jinzhou sentries observing them on the distant mountains, those Jinzhou sentries also immediately discovered Yang Zhen's large group of people.

Moreover, based on the size of Yang Zhen's group and the flags they raised, the Jinzhou Sentinel Cavalry quickly determined that this was Yang Zhen, the leader of the advance battalion for the Eastern Expedition and the chief officer of the Songshan regiment training, who had returned from the grasslands outside the border.

These days, they have been sent to Hongluo Mountain to keep watch. On the one hand, they want to see what the Songshan army is doing, but on the other hand, they are also following Zu Dashou's orders, waiting here for Yang Zhen at any time.

Return.

Therefore, the news that Yang Zhen had returned from the border was first quickly sent back to the Jinzhou Army Camp in Xiaohongluo Mountain, and then quickly sent back to the Marshal's Mansion in Jinzhou City.

Zu Dashou, who had been waiting for news about Yang Zhen in Jinzhou City for a long time, was already a little impatient. After hearing the news, at noon that day, he personally took the first section of his Chinese army and left Jinzhou City and went straight to

Coming from Hongluo Mountain.

Just as Yang Zhen wanted to see Zu Dashou and have a good talk with him, Zu Dashou was also eager to have a good talk with Yang Zhen these days.

On the one hand, news has come from Shanhaiguan that His Majesty the Emperor of Ming Dynasty attaches great importance to this Yang Zhen, and I am afraid that he will have to re-employ him in the next step, and it is very likely that he will be completely out of his control from now on.

Although Zu Dashou had already written a letter to Shanhaiguan and asked someone to submit a letter to oppose the decentralization of military power in Liaodong, he also knew very well that the current emperor was suspicious of him and feared him for more than a day or two.

Now, since Yang Zhen, who dares to fight and can fight, has appeared on the ground outside the pass, then His Majesty the Emperor and the ministers in the court will definitely seize the opportunity to promote Yang Zhen and weaken the ancestral family.

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Zu Dashou knew this, so he had to be prepared in case the rumors came true.

During this period of time, Yang Zhen's bold behavior has given Zu Dashou a headache.

Zu Dashou's consistent strategy of adhering to the Songjin Defense Line is the so-called calming and delaying changes.

However, Yang Zhen's style of play was a hammer here and a mallet in the west, which was completely random. At least in the eyes of Zu Dashou and many of his generals, it was completely causing trouble and causing trouble for the Songjin defense line.

For them, why don't they just stay in Songshan City for a while? Why do they cross the ocean and go deep behind enemy lines, and then go west to recruit troops? What on earth do you want to do?

Including the recent period, Yang Zhen's troops first stationed troops at Rufenggang in Luhong Mountain, then went to mine at Heishigang. At the same time, they were still working hard to build Songshan City, and now they have set up camp here in Hongluo Mountain.

, garrison, start furnaces, and mine.

All these actions of the Songshan officers and soldiers under Yang Zhen made the generals stationed in Jinzhou very unhappy. They felt that Yang Zhen was too unruly and arrogant.

It also made Zu Dashou feel that it was necessary to have a serious talk with this new commander-in-chief, who could win the favor of the emperor but was unruly.
Chapter completed!