As soon as he entered Qianqing Palace, Chongzhen came over eagerly.

"Shopkeeper, how's it going? Can they keep up with the plan?"

"I can catch up."

Chen Ye recounted the progress of today's inspection, and Chongzhen felt relieved.

"By the way, shopkeeper, ever since you said you wanted to start mining, I arranged for Song Aiqing to inspect the coal mine.

News came back yesterday that the open-pit coal mine has been found, when do you think it would be a good time to start construction?"

"Don't worry, you can prepare the logistics staff first.

As the drought becomes more severe, the number of victims will increase. When the time comes, they will be resettled and repaired to build infrastructure, which will also provide some employment opportunities.

Let him survey the terrain, combine it with the pictures taken by the drone, and plan the houses that need to be built during later mining, as well as the number of people who need to be recruited."

Chen Ye didn't expect Song Yingxing to be so efficient. Not long after he arrived in the capital, he had already found the mine.

Although these mine sources are mapped by modern mines and their locations are extremely accurate, most of those places are still uninhabited areas and it is not easy to explore.

Jinzhou Military Camp.

Zu Dashou had a dark face and said nothing in the camp. During this period, he really felt what it meant to be in a dilemma.

Qian Wenhong had lost a piece of flesh on his face, and he was facing Zu Dashou.

Zu Malong and thousands of households in Jinzhou were sitting around the table, each with their own thoughts.

"Commander, the Jiannu offensive has weakened, and the Jiannu positions of the two red flags and the blue flag in Rufeng Mountain have been captured.

Now between us and Songshan, there are only around 10 troops of the Mongolian rebels and the Jiannu Banner, and we can break through at any time."

"Commander, Hong Chengchou sent someone over to tell us that they are here to meet us, but they cannot help us get out of the siege, and they dare not go directly into the city for fear of being blocked.

Jinzhou is too far away from Guan Nei. Once it is blocked, many people in the city will starve to death sooner or later.

Commander, let us destroy the fortifications in the city and then evacuate to Ningyuan."

"Commander, let's go."

Zu Dashou felt upset when he heard the shouting below, but the problem was that he was thinking that it was impossible to leave like this.

Based on his understanding of Chongzhen's character, if he gave up Jinzhou and fled, would he be able to survive back in the pass?

"Breaking through, is it that easy to break out? The reason for the weakening of Jiannu's offensive is because they mobilized their troops to deal with Zu Dashou.

But there are still 10,000 troops stationed in this outer city, and if we go out now, we will only be swallowed up by them all."

"But we have to give it a try. Now that Governor Hong is facing the enemy at Rufeng Mountain, we can break through and disrupt the Jiannu camp."

"No, right? Those Mongols in the outer city are still guarding the city. Do you expect them to rebel again?"

A group of people also had a headache when they thought about the tens of thousands of troops stationed in the outer city.

The party attacking the city usually suffers more casualties than the party defending the city. This is because the attacker is putting in more effort.

But correspondingly, if the defenders want to break through, it will not be an easy task.

If they wanted to break out of the encirclement, they could only run in the direction of Hong Chengchou. There were many Jiannu slaves there. If they turned around, they could block them in the city.

If they break through towards the Daling River or Yizhou, they will directly run into Jiannu's base camp.

Sad, Zu Dashou felt like he was going to die of worry.

The Ming Army camp in Songshan is more than thirty miles apart.

Wang Pu's Datong Army was placed on the right, responsible for assisting the center army in attacking and recruiting miscellaneous soldiers, and did not have direct contact with Jiannu.

Now only three military camps have arrived at Rufeng Mountain, divided into three groups: left, middle and right. Four more groups are slowly starting from Tashan.

"Brother, the letter has been circulated and no one has noticed it, but is it really okay for us to do this?"

"What's the problem? Which general in the entire military camp has nothing to do with that place? Do you think they didn't do this?

Look at Wu Sangui and the others on the right, did they really have a good fight with Jiannu?"

Wang Pu said without any guilt that he knew it was not a good thing to pass on information to Jiannu, especially information about where the food was.

But judging from the confrontation, he found that the Qing army's firearms were equally powerful and there were many cavalry, which suppressed them.

It was only because the Qing army was temporarily short of personnel and the Rufeng Mountain Fort was still under construction that they fought so smoothly.

So he was thinking of finding a way out for himself so that he wouldn't die on the battlefield.

He didn't know that arranging him to be in the right army was completely a remote control arrangement given to Hong Chengchou by Chongzhen.

Judging from the Shanxi merchants' collaboration with the enemy in Datong, Chen Ye analyzed that during the Ming army's battle between Song and Jin, the main intelligence information was leaked, and Wang Pu, the general of Datong, must have had a share of the credit.

The specific location of the grain and grass in Beacon Mountain can be known, and the back road was dug out without anyone noticing, which means that there is something wrong with Wang Pu, who was originally planning to arrange the back road.

At the Ming Army headquarters, Hong Chengchou had just finished using the radio, and now he had to report the battlefield situation to Chongzhen every day.

"This radio station is really magical."

"Governor Hong, by sending messages thousands of miles away, His Majesty can know the war situation instantly. Your Majesty also knows what you think.

There is no way for you to say that your life has been compromised now, but in the same way, no one can say anything bad about you."

Qiu Minyang, the current governor of Liaodong, was also sitting in the camp and said while looking at the battle damage reports of each general.

The Ming army fought smoothly in the early stage because Jierhalang did not have many people stationed at Rufeng Mountain.

Hong Chengchou did not enter the Jinzhou area because the total number of troops from the Seventh Army only reached the Third Army. In order to prevent the troops from entering the Jinzhou area and having no backup to follow in time, he did not enter the Jinzhou area.

In this war, both the Ming and Qing parties were scheming against each other. Only Zu Dashou was caught in the middle, wavering like a straw on the wall.

Hong Chengchou did not dare to really open the Jinzhou passage, because once the Jinzhou passage was opened, he would have to guard it, and then he would really become a thorn in the side of Jiannu.

Jierhalang and the others did not dare to really engage in a war with the Ming army now, for fear that the Ming army would be turned back and not take over Panjin Prefecture.

In that case, their plan during this period would become a Jinzhou City without consuming the capital of the Ming Dynasty. It would be a loss-making business.

People on both sides were watching Jinzhou City hold on for dear life.

"But there is no way to hold on like this. I heard from the supervisor from the palace that the price of food in Zhili is rising now.

If someone comes from Beijing to urge us, or if someone confuses His Majesty, this radio station may become our talisman again."

Qiu Minyang thought about what the supervisors who came to the camp recently said. The fluctuations in food prices in the capital and the court's food replenishment all showed that the food reserves were unstable.

Once the capital’s food becomes unstable, the next thing that becomes unstable is their food and salary. If they don’t have money to support themselves, how can they live without food?

When Hong Chengchou was told this, he was a little skeptical, but he suddenly thought of something, and that was Chongzhen's method of transporting grain.

Every few days, Chongzhen would order him to go to a designated place to pull grain. According to the grain transport officer's report, the person pulling grain had never seen anyone transporting grain, but as long as he received the news, he would go there again.

, you will definitely be able to see the food.

"You can rest assured about this matter. Your Majesty already told me when I came out that no matter how the war in Jinzhou happens, Your Majesty will not rush the food and grass issue.

Originally, given my temper, I would not be so rash, and I rushed to Songshan Tashan in just one month.

But considering the great favor of the Emperor and His Majesty's great support for me, I can't be cowardly. I didn't expect that it would go so smoothly."

"That's fine. It's just in the court. Can Your Majesty really make the decision?"

"How can those people in the capital still look like civil servants? In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, how many of the six arts of a gentleman could they do?"

Hong Chengchou listened to Qiu Minyang's muttering and said something disdainfully. Qiu Minyang nodded.

Although they were civil servants, in the territory of Liaodong, the boundaries between civil servants and military attachés were blurred.

Dealing with Jiannu all the time, he and Hong Chengchou were equally capable of slashing people with their swords.

"By the way, Governor Hong, why did you let General Yang camp near Beacon Mountain?

There was also a camp set up at Gaoqiao, and they only asked their deputy general to bring the flag, and they even kept it secret from the commander-in-chief below."

"Haha, Governor Qiu, I have always admired the clenched-fist tactic, so I gathered troops in Ningyuan. Only 50,000 people dared to send troops, and I waited here in Songshan for follow-up support.

The advantage of this is that when we are together, the slaves cannot take advantage of their elite troops and defeat them one by one.

But with more people, our advantage can be fully utilized. The Jiannu soldiers are few and cannot compete with us. Even if three people are replaced by one Jiannu, the Jiannu cannot fight."

"Wonderful, this policy is indeed very targeted against the establishment of slaves.

But what does this have to do with you arranging them to guard food and guard Gaoqiao?"

Qiu Min looked up and did not turn the corner.

"This brings us to the shortcomings of gathering hundreds of thousands of people, that is, our retreat is full of holes, because if the troops are in one place, they will not care about the head and tail.

The Jian Nu only need to take a detour from the top to easily cut off our retreat. At the same time, Bijia Mountain, where food and grass are transferred, can also be easily captured by the Jian Nu."

"Hey, I understand, these two are just ambushes arranged by you? Are you so sure that Jiannu will attack by surprise?

If the Jiannu find out that we have two vacant guards, we will still be unable to stop them under the Eight Banners."

"So let their lieutenants take the general's flag and a few troops to form a formation in the rear, so that the three armies in the front and the two armies in the middle cannot come into contact.

In this way, not only can the amount of food transported be reduced, but it can also give the slaves an illusion of opportunity."

Qiu Min listened to Hong Chengchou's arrangements and gradually turned to admire him.

"As expected of Governor Hong, ordinary civil servants are already overwhelmed just by integrating these more than 100,000 troops.

Not only did you command in an orderly manner, but you were also able to guard against the slaves accordingly, and even dug holes for them. Sun Wu was a fortune teller in this generation."

"Hahaha, this is only possible because of this sand table and His Majesty's guidance. My ability is only a little bit greater than that of an ordinary governor."

When Hong Chengchou heard Qiu Minyang's praise, he laughed and explained it, but he was still very proud of it.

He has been running Liaodong for so many years, and most of the generals and border generals obey him, so he has organized the entire army. If he wants to replace someone, the integration alone will be fatal.

With a smile, Hong Chengchou took out the walkie-talkie from his waist, and he wiped the coated walkie-talkie again and again.
Chapter completed!