Since Wu Xiang spoke to Emperor Chongzhen, he sent a letter to Wu Sangui, asking his son to keep his troops still, not to show off his eagle without seeing the rabbit, not to show off his eagle without seeing the benefits.

After 16 years of winter, Wu Sangui was surrounded by the Qing army in Ningyuan City, and the latter raised troops and headed straight for Shanhaiguan, he wanted to retreat to Shanhaiguan.

The latter is different from Ningyuan City. The small Ningyuan City can be surrounded by Qing army. If Dorgon is fully prepared, he can completely surround Wu Sangui like the previous battle in Jinzhou, and not fight, and "encircle" Wu Sangui to death.

As far as he knew, the court did not have the second elite nine-sided troops in his hands to have another "Songjin Decisive Battle" to rescue Ningyuan. That is to say, as long as Ningyuan City is surrounded, Wu Sangui and his Guanning Army will end up without reinforcements outside and guarding the lonely city. This is a dead end.

But what about Shanhaiguan? It is the world's best pass that is leaning against Chongshan in the north and the sea in the south.

The city was more than four feet high, which was tall and thick, and the cross-section was not large. Gao Di, the general of Shanhaiguan, was even more timid. The army retreated to Shanhaiguan, and 50,000 troops were squatting in a group. Even if the Qing army was trying their best to attack, Wu Sangui was not afraid.

Therefore, after the 17th New Year, what Wu Sangui was waiting for was not the capital's military order, or even a million taels of silver, but was anxiously waiting for the order to withdraw Ningyuan.

As time entered March, he first received the good news of the title of the title, and of course he was happy. He was awarded the title of Xibo at the age of 33, which was undoubtedly another major breakthrough in his career. Looking at the 200-year history of the Ming Dynasty after Chengzu, he was awarded the title of sir for his achievements at such a young age, and Wu Sangui was also the only one.

At that time, he really felt a sense of satisfaction that he had never felt before.

However, after his brief excitement, he had to think about what Chongzhen meant this time to give special rewards. Based on his years of experience, he realized that Chongzhen's generous enthronement would have the effect of his own. After thinking more deeply, he felt that the situation in the court had probably become very serious and had reached a very dangerous level. Otherwise, how could Chongzhen suddenly add the title of "Ping Xibo" to himself?

He lives in Liaodong, and his title is not "Ping Liao" or "Ping Liao" but the word "Ping Xi" is added. Isn't this clearly telling him that he is going to fight the civilian army in the west?

Sure enough, Wu Xiang's expedited document was delivered, and Wu Sangui realized the crisis facing the capital, and understood the light of the scope of this enfeoffment.

When the Chongzhen envoy eunuch rushed to Ningyuan, Xingye and issued an order to summon the "King King". Wu Sangui understood even more and could not understand it anymore. He immediately bowed to the imperial edict, thanking the emperor for his great kindness, and bluntly said that he did not dare to neglect it, and immediately deployed the evacuation matter. At the same time, Governor Qiu Minyang had been ordered to leave the customs and led the soldiers and civilians of Ningyuan outside the pass into the customs.

Wu Sangui's troops had 40,000 troops. In the words of Qiu Minyang, they were both resistant to fighting, while the storm of the storm of 3,000 cavalry, especially fierce. In addition, there were no less than 100,000 people on the left and right. If they just withdraw troops, it would be easy, but if they still had to withdraw the local people, it would be much more trouble.

Although Wu Sangui's words sound very nice, most of his subordinates are from Liaodong. It is impossible for him to leave his relatives and neighbors behind and walk by himself.

Wu Sangui had to think about his subordinates, because this was related to the morale of the army, so he naturally had to move all the people in Ningyuan and its nearby people into the pass. For him, this was the most critical matter. As for the capital, no matter how urgent the situation was, it was necessary to keep it behind his mind.

Zhang Dou said that "if you do not delay, just read the infantry and cavalry" and the movements are neither too fast nor too slow. After the evacuation is completed, it is already mid-March.

Although the time when Emperor Chongzhen's order was late, it was not impossible. Just like when Yuan Chonghuan rushed to Yanjing to remove the siege of the Later Jin soldiers, he chose to select elite troops and personally led them to speed up, so he could also arrive in Yanjing in time. However, he only entered the pass with some infantry and cavalry first. He led the elite soldiers behind the palace and slowly marched with the people, and was not in a hurry to advance.

Zhang Dou was so angry that he cursed, but he had no choice but to do anything about it.

Wu Sangui was slow to act, and in order to protect the safety of the people and avoid attacks from Qing soldiers, it was not unreasonable. But the fact was not the case. The Qing soldiers launched an offensive in winter last year. Although they broke through several small cities, they quickly withdrew their troops and did not occupy them. Because these small cities were between Shanhaiguan and Ningyuan, the Qing Dynasty was worried that they would be attacked by the enemy from behind, so they would rather abandon the city than send troops to defend it. They only maintained military pressure on Ningyuan and added detectives at the same time.

This time, Ningyuan's military and civilians evacuated, and were not pursued by the Qing army along the way, but allowed them to leave.

Wu Sangui did this purely because he was intentionally delaying time and was unwilling to hit the wall with a strong head. Instead, he wanted Zheng Zhilong's army to fight the Dashun army under Yanjing first, and then reap the benefits of the fisherman, which not only saved his strength from great losses, but also shared the achievements of "salvation for the king".

So when people brought their troops to Shanhaiguan, it was March 16th.

At this time, he received the latest urgent report from Wu Xiang and the handwritten order from Emperor Chongzhen.

He really caught him off guard. Because, he never thought that Emperor Chongzhen would move the capital south.

After learning the news, Wu Sangui was completely confused.

The emperor ran away to Nandu, and the civil and military ministers and nobles in the court could follow him, and Zheng Zhilong's army could follow him together. So can their Guanning army run away? This is simply impossible.

Wu Sangui was confused. He didn't expect that he had just played a clever trick and was about to be a few days late to lose his fate with the Ming Dynasty.

Yes, it's gone.

The first moment he received Chongzhen's migration south, he realized that it was time for him to part ways with the Ming Dynasty.

The Guanning Army could not live without Liao territory, nor did he live without Guanning Army, so he could only leave Emperor Chongzhen who went south together. He could not only follow him and work hard for the Ming Dynasty to follow the emperor to Jiangnan, and throw most of the Guanning Army at Shanhaiguan.

Wu Sangui never thought of being independent.

Look at the current situation, Zuo Liangyu and Zheng Zhilong, who have their own system, each have their own territory. Zuo Liangyu is entrenched in Huguang, and Zheng Zhilong is in Fujian. They either have enough money and food or have places to raise money and food, but although Wu Sangui and the Guanning Army led by him are very powerful, a problem of money and food stuck his neck.

Compared with Zheng Zhilong and Zuo Liangyu, who had become a warlord, Wu Sangui could only be a soldier. This is the biggest reason why the Ming court always had higher trust in the Guanning Army than Zheng Zuo.

However, whether it is a soldier or a warlord, they have one thing in common, that is, the army is closest and the army is the best. It is their subconscious to seize all military power tightly.

Now, there are only two roads left before him, one is Li Zicheng and the other is the Qing Dynasty outside the pass.
Chapter completed!