In the early spring of the 16th year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, the Pou Nu Army occupied Ningyuan without a single battle and began to drive away Mongolian and Turkic slaves to repair the empty city. The officers and soldiers of the Pou Nu Army Engineering Battalion and the Navy's Basin east of Ningyuan were repairing three pier trests. The Juehua Island and the mainland were connected by thick sea ice, and the Navy set up a temporary camp on Juehua Island to defend against possible sneak attacks by Jiannu. Zhang Li, the commander of the Eagle Camp, has been very busy recently. He personally inspected these two places back and forth to ensure the speed of construction. The area controlled by the Eagle Camp and the Personal Barracks was on the line from Ningyuan to Juehua Island. Nearly 9,000 scouts from the Eagle Camp had eight scouts and nearly 9,000 troops left to the near Songshan Mountain in Jinzhou.

Zhang Li took a thousand cavalry and looked at Ningyuan City, which was gradually taking shape. I recalled that the situation of Zhang Dashu led seven or eight of them to more than ten horses from Ponu City. It has only been a short ten years since the attack on Jiannu City. Attacking Jiannu is the desire of all their commanders. Everyone has waited for this day for too long. Zhang Li knew very well that his Eagle Camp out of Ningyuan was just a small goal of Zhang Dashu, and the recovery of Guangning City was the highlight of this year. The Ponu Army was different from the Ming army. The Ponu Army had to occupy Xiping Fort guarding Guanning because there was a mountain road there that could lead to Shisanshan Post. Shisanshan Post was behind Guanning, and if the Ming army was afraid that the rear was cut off by the enemy. The Ponu Army captured Guanning because it was back to Qingsongling Pass and could advance and retreat freely.

Zhang Li, the commander of the Eagle Camp, was busy working in Ningyuan, and Zhang Ping'an, the commander of the Po Slave Army, began to dispatch the engineer battalion and 50,000 slaves to build the Qingsongling Mountain Road for more than half a month. The commander who attacked Guanning was Hu Ming, the commander of the Po Slave Army, known as the number one hob meat of the Po Slave Army. Although the Qing Dynasty built countless dangerous passes on this mountain road, it was not too difficult for the Po Slave Army to break through these passes. Over the years, the most inventory of the Po Slave Army was "*". With the experience of breaking the Qingsongling Pass last time, Hu Ming believed that he was 90% sure. Hu Ming's confidence came from the fact that he cooperated with him in the battle was Yang Meimei, the commander of the Central Cluster Artillery Team. Hu Ming was very proud of this artillery master.

Yang Meimei, the commander of the artillery team of the Pou Nu Army, is a person who is not tired of making military achievements. He volunteered to follow Hu Ming to fight as soon as he came back from the battlefield in Shanxi, which moved Zhang Ping'an, the commander of the Pou Nu Army. However, Zhang Ping'an was very puzzled. The land obtained by Yang Meimei's military merits was as large as tens of thousands of acres, so why did he still enjoy fighting so much? Zhang Ping'an was a little confused that Yang Meimei's family was not prosperous, and why did her two sons and daughters have to do such a land? However, in order to commend Yang Meimei's enthusiasm for hearing the battle, Zhang Ping'an specially used private money to create a gold medal weighing five kilograms for Yang Meimei, and engraved the word "cannon god" on the gold medal to reward Yang Meimei's desperate spirit of fighting for military merit.

Hu Ming's army did not take much effort to attack Qingsongling Mountain Road. Yang's artillery team used "*" to open the way and took down all the relevant passes built by the Qing Dynasty in two days. When Hu Ming's army appeared in Yizhou, the defenders of Yizhou in the Qingshou escaped. With Yizhou's foothold, the conditions for the Pou Nu Army to attack Guanning were basically ripe. However, the road on the Qingshou Mountain Road of the Pou Nu Army was not complete, and Hu Ming's army could only consolidate the existing defense zone without subsequent support. The reason why Zhang Ping'an, the commander of the Pou Nu Army, wanted to fight Guanning without sufficient combat materials was mainly to expand the security depth of the Juehua Island Wharf. Years of war experience told him that the soldiers of the Pou Nu Army would pay the price of bleeding for this.

After the Possess Army captured Ningyuan, the Ming army did not ask the Ming army to defend themselves as usual, not to mention that the Ming army almost hurried in Shanhaiguan and did not dare to go forward to meet the enemy. The Ming court was also well aware of this embarrassing situation. Therefore, Duke Hua submitted a memorial saying that the Possess Army would attack Guanning City. The Ming court approved the memorial in a very short time. Emperor Chongzhen also issued a Ming edict for this, praising the loyalty and courage of Duke Hua. Under a good situation, the commander of the Possess Army began a series of military layouts. Zhang Ping'an approved the request of the commander of the Cheetah Battalion to return to Ping'an City to recuperate, and transferred Wu Tianxing to Pingshun City as the city guard. At the same time, the identity of Wu Tianxing as the head of the Cheetah Battalion was lifted, and Wu Tianxing was only allowed to bring 3,000 troops back to defense, and the commander of the Pingshun City Liu Yuhu was appointed as the commander of the Cheetah Battalion.

Somewhat strange is that although Wu Tianxing was deprived of the position of commander of the Cheetah Battalion, he retained the official position of the second-class commander. At the same time, Zhang Ping'an, the commander of the Ponu Army, ordered Lu Xiangsheng, the commander of the Ponu City Xuanwei, to take half of the troops of the White Bone Camp to Ponu City. Regarding this troop mobilization, Zhang Ping'an explained to the outside world that Lu Xiangsheng is good at handling military affairs and he needs Lu Xiangsheng to provide rear guarantees for the attacking army in Ponu City. Ponu City is not without discerning people. The Prime Minister of the Civil Affairs Office Chen Liang and Vice Premier Long Tao discovered something strange from this transfer. In the Ponu Army, Lu Xiangsheng established the direct inheritance of General Zhang, and he hoped that Zhang Shangde would inherit Zhang Ping'an's mantle from the bottom of his heart. Therefore, Lu Xiangsheng was the most dedicated in teaching Zhang Shangde in Zhengrong City, and Zhang Shangde felt safe because of Lu Xiangsheng's protection.

The Cheetah Camp is a veteran war camp in the Po Slave Army, and has always been controlled by Wu Tianxing. Zhang Ping'an solved Wu Tianxing's military power with one move. He transferred Lu Xiangsheng from Zhengrong City, further disintegrating the momentum of the literati gathered around Zhang Shangde. In the eyes of Chen Liang and Long Tao, Zhang Boss Zhang was cutting off Zhang Shangde's wings and forcing Wu Tianxing to take risks step by step. As the saying goes, the authorities are confused, Chen Liang believes that if Wu Tianxing really wants to do something, it will be this year at the latest. This is because Zhang Zheng of the Po Slave Army has a habit of patrolling the rear of the battlefield before any war to ensure that there will be no major problems during the war. Therefore, at some point this year, General Zhang went to patrol the area of ​​Ping'an City, appease the place and inspect the combat preparations here.

More importantly, the main force of the northern cluster of Ponu Army has already gone to the Mongolian East-West Hassan Wen Khan's troops controlled by Ponu Army. The troops near Ping'an City are empty after all. The only place to gather heavy troops is Jianrong City, and the Ponu Army here is hundreds of miles away from Ping'an City. If you want to support Ping'an City immediately, it will not be possible to reach it in one day. As the prime minister of the civil yamen, Chen Liang is very familiar with the city defenses of the Ponu City Xuanwei Inspector. According to his understanding of Zhang Ping'an, this boss Zhang will definitely take a risk to go once the layout is completed. The only thing that worries Chen Liang is that Zhang Ping'an usually only leads two thousand war soldiers to guard the Guards. If Zhang Ping'an is in the process of handling the situation, at least the Ponu Army will fall into a situation where there are no leaders in the group of dragons.

Last time, the Jinyiwei sent someone to assassinate Zhang Boss. Zhang Ping'an, who pretended to be dead, did not look at military and political affairs, and made the Ponucheng Xuanweishi in the office for a long time. After tentative communication with Long Tao, Chen Liang found that Long Tao, the old fox, also had the same idea as him, so the two of them discussed it and found that Zhang Dashen in the study of the Shuai Mansion on the grounds that the civil yamen were allocating money and grain for the Liaodong front line. After talking about government affairs, the two old foxes began to talk about Zhang Ping'an about the complicated business affairs of the civil yamen. In addition, Zhang Ping'an's cunning fox wolf really didn't understand what they were going to do. The key is that everyone is acquaintance who is almost familiar with each other. The performances of Chen Liang and Long Tao made Zhang Ping'an observe unusual things. Based on Zhang Ping'an's judgment, these two were definitely not here to talk about business affairs, and they must have other unspeakable purposes.

Zhang Ping'an, who was preparing for the Liaodong war in the study of the General Manager's Mansion, was very impatient with such extremely boring messy things. He said bluntly: "You need to tell me when employed people in the civil yamen? How many confidants have you installed in these years as me? But I don't have the heart to care about these messy things. What do you want to ask for? I didn't see how much hair I whitened for the fight against Jiannu. I was so young that my back was hunched and my waist was sore. If you both bother me with these nonsense, be careful that I would deduct your money!"

When Chen Liang heard Zhang Ping'an complaining, he smiled and said, "Your boss's waist is sore that he works too hard at night. My wife always says that Zhang Liu (Liu Zhenzhu) is favored during this period! It seems that Uncle Li has to make your boss a stronger wooden bed."

Zhang Ping'an didn't think that he was talking to his acquaintances, but he was just talking to his acquaintances. He immediately started to talk nonsense: "Isn't this Liu Zhenzhu old without children? I, the boss, have always been fair! Look at Yang Ai's childhood prayer for gods and Buddhas when he had no children, changed his name to Liu Rushi, and then gave birth to a pair of dragons and phoenixes. I am still knowledgeable, and the name Liu Rushi is so literary! I have to change Liu Zhenzhu's name. What do you think you are called Liu Ru?"

After hearing this, Long Tao sighed in his heart that this boss Zhang is indeed a master who can figure out the hearts of the people, and he is really not his opponent. Long Tao, who was forced to do so, tentatively introduced the theme: "Boss, a few days ago, Teng (Zhang Huzhou) sent a letter saying that after Deputy General Chen Zheng led the army away, is it a bit too thin to leave only one battle camp in Ping'an City? After all, Deputy General Chen and his military funds were stored there. If foreign enemies attacked, they might cause trouble."

After hearing Long Tao's words, Zhang Ping'an was shocked. There were indeed many smart people in the world. Zhang Ping'an immediately realized that these two people probably guessed his arrangement in Ping'an City. The two of them came here to test his next plan. Zhang Ping'an was extremely unhappy with his subordinates guessing the central matter, but on the other hand, these two must be worried about his safety. Zhang Ping'an felt warm in his heart when he thought of this. What Zhang Ping'an needs to consider is that Chen Liang and Long Tao could guess his thoughts, Lu Xiangsheng, who was smarter than these two, would definitely guess. Fortunately, Lu Xiangsheng would be under his nose, and nothing big should happen.

"I said you don't have to be so careful when you talk to me! When have you ever seen me make a mistake? Let me tell you clearly. If you have read history books, you should know the life story of Ruan Sizong (Ruan Ji) and Yang Dezu (Yang Xiu). Go back and think about it carefully, and then read. I will tell you all day long that you need to study, and even more about politics, so that you can understand it!"

After the puzzle between Zhang Ping'an and these two people, he felt quite proud. He believed that knowledge could teach people. But his son Zhang Shangwu broke into the study and told a major event that drove Zhang Ping'an crazy. (To be continued)
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