Chapter 145 It turned out to be him

"Master Gao, I don't know when we will send people to rescue Jinzhou City. The soldiers under the Mo General have made suggestions to Mo General several times." A black-faced general asked Gao Di anxiously, who was sitting on it with a tired face. This was the fifth general who came to see Gao Di today and asked him to lead his troops to fight.

Gao Di forced his heart to suppress his tiredness, took a sip of tea and cheered up before saying, "Civil Guan Shen, don't be impatient. The Jin soldiers are extremely powerful this time. We cannot send people to rescue them in a hasty way. At least we must have a coordinated plan. We can only send troops after all the troops are properly arranged, so we can't be anxious." This answer has been said dozens of times these days, so although the person is already very tired, he can still say this.

The Guan Gang General refused to give in and said loudly: "But Lord Gao, it would be very unfavorable for Jinzhou if this continues. According to the cavalry who came here to ask for help, there are 50,000 or 60,000 siegees this time. If we don't go to rescue quickly, I'm afraid they may not be able to defend the door. Jinzhou's location will not be lost."

Gao Di said: "I thought of this, but the Jin soldiers have invested such a large amount of capital this time. The goal must be quite large. As the governor of Liaodong, I cannot just focus on this Jinzhou city and draw all the people in several other cities. Otherwise, if Jinzhou cannot defend it, our army will lose the convenience of geographical advantages, and it will be too difficult to fight with the Jin soldiers." Gao Di's words were already a little impatient. He did not expect that such a general would dare to question his decision in this way.

General Guan Shen did not notice this. He wanted to continue to persuade Gao Di and asked him to send troops earlier, but as soon as he shouted "Sir", he was interrupted by Gao Di: "Okay, I have my own plans, you don't have to say too much. This Jinzhou is also my city in Liaodong, and the court will blame him for losing it. Do you think I am not in a hurry?" As he said that, he waved his hand and said, "Go back, I am going to rest." Seeing that this man was so ungrateful, he actually persuaded himself blindly, Gao Di finally put down his face and issued an order to expel the guest. General Guan Shen saved that it was too late at this time, and after paying his respects, he retreated.

Seeing General Guan Chan reluctantly withdrawing from the lobby, Gao Di let out a breath. He really didn't expect that the generals at all levels of Liaodong would have such a big reaction after hearing about the war, but he had decided not to send one soldier. In fact, when he first received the military report of Jinzhou being attacked, he immediately thought of leading troops to rescue like other soldiers. After all, Jinzhou is in a rush, and as long as it is under the control of the Ming army, the city behind can be protected from the invasion of Jin soldiers. But then Gao Di knew that there were 50,000 people attacking the Jin soldiers this time, which made him feel scared. If all the people rushed to rescue Jinzhou, and if they failed in the end, they would be afraid that the Jin soldiers would march straight in.

After discussing with the several staff members he brought with him for a long time, Gao Di finally decided not to move his troops and go to Jinzhou. If Jinzhou could be defended this time, it would be fine. If he could not, he would have to find a way to transfer all his troops back to Shanhaiguan. Anyway, he had plans for this before, and withdrew the people outside the city to have such a day. But he never calculated that the pressure on the soldiers would be so great. They had people coming to ask for battle every day, and he could only shirk all kinds of excuses. After a few days, he almost couldn't find a more suitable reason.

"If someone comes to ask for a fight tomorrow, I will pretend to agree to them first, and then I will delay it for a few days on the grounds that food and grass are not enough. Judging from the strategy of the Jin soldiers coming and going like the wind, their attack on Jinzhou City will not last long. As long as there are two more days, they will retreat. If Jinzhou really can't defend, the people and horses in the cities behind can defend for a while without moving." Gao Di lay on the kang thinking about his strategy to deal with the generals. Although he already had the idea of ​​losing Jinzhou, he still did not think that the Jin soldiers could really break it. He was even a little proud of his previous decision and transferred all the people and horses in the fortress outside Jinzhou City back to the city, otherwise all those people would be affected.

With a little smugness in his heart, Gao Di fell asleep. But after a while, someone slapped his door: "Sir, sir, something is wrong!" Hearing this sound, one of his own guards, Gao Di immediately got up from the kang, put on a cotton coat before opening the door. The cold north wind outside the door slammed into his face with a few snowflakes, which made him shiver, and at the same time, he had an ominous premonition in his heart. He looked at the guard and said, "What happened?"

"Someone came to report that it was Wu Jie, the garrison general of Jinzhou, who brought the defeated troops to retreat to our gates, and said that it was... it was that Jinzhou was captured by the Jin soldiers a day ago, and the 30,000 troops were lost to more than 20,000!" The guard said stutteringly, obviously he could not accept such a cruel fact in his heart.

"What?" Gao Di shouted in horror, thinking that he had heard it wrong. But after the guard repeated it again, he finally realized that what he heard was true. He pushed away the guard who was blocking the door and said, "Where is Wu Jie, please take me to see him." He said that and walked out quickly.

Although there was a carbon fire in the lobby of this command post, the doors and windows were closed, which isolated the cold weather outside, Gao Di still felt cold all over his body. A general standing in a messy hand was hanging from his hands, which was Wu Jie. When Wu Jie told the details of Jinzhou City being breached by Jin soldiers, Gao Di felt that he was in the cold wind. Only then did he realize that the Jin soldiers' combat power was stronger than what he knew. Jinzhou City had been attacked for five or six days.

Later, it was lost. Isn’t it even harder to defend the troops in other cities? “No, I must transfer all the troops back to Shanhaiguan. Only when we have the advantage of military strength and have a strong city as a support can we compete with these Jin soldiers!” Gao Di thought in his mind, and at the same time he was thinking about an excuse to let the troops retreat according to orders. Although he is the top leader of the military and political affairs in Liaodong, he has not been in power for a long time and there is no appropriate reason that he may not be able to completely obey orders.

"Master...Master" Seeing that Gao Di did not say a word after listening to his description, Wu Jie felt even more nervous. He could not escape the charge of losing the city this time. He just wanted to save his life, but when he saw the expression of Gao Master above, he seemed very angry. Without a way out, Wu Jie had to say: "Master, this is because the Jin soldiers are powerful and there are too many people they come to attack. The soldiers under his command could not resist it even if they tried their best, so they could not resist it.

"The Jin soldiers are powerful..." Gao Di changed his mind and suddenly he had a conspiracy. He relaxed his expression and said, "I also know that you have done your best, but others may not be able to understand your difficulties as I do. I also want to save you this time. If you really want to survive, do what I say."

When he heard that the tall man was willing to save him, Wu Jie immediately knelt down and said, "As long as the adult is willing to help him, he will be the reborn parents of the last general. If he has told the villain to do it!"

Gao Di looked around and found that they were only two of them, so he walked up to Wu Jie, helped him up, and then whispered in his ear. After a while, Wu Jie said in fear: "Sir, isn't this not a panic reporting of military affairs? This is a serious crime, the last general..."

"If you don't say that, how can you put the blame lightly? If you don't want to say that, I can only report to the court as it is. At that time, you will be treated as the defeated general who abandoned the city."

"I..." Wu Jie hesitated for a while before nodding, "Then everything depends on the adults..." As soon as he finished speaking, the closed door was pushed open from outside. The general Zuo from Shanhaiguan, led by Zhao Rujiao, also rushed in. Even more impatient, he didn't care about anything, and asked, "How could Jinzhou be lost so easily?"

In Ningyuan City, Tang Feng and Yuan Chonghuan both looked at the military order in front of them in a daze, with blue and white faces on their faces. This was a military order sent by Gao Di in the name of Liaodong Rules. In addition to the fall of Jinzhou City, it also mentioned that the Jin soldiers are now in great power. In order to preserve their troops and protect the gateway of the capital, they ordered all the people and horses to withdraw from their respective garrisons and retreat to Shanhaiguan to guard the pass with the people there. As for the people in each city, they also asked them to retreat with the army as soon as possible.

Yuan Chonghuan looked calm for a while and then said coldly: "What kind of Jin soldiers have a population of 100,000. In order to defend the portal, all the troops must be concentrated? This is clearly an excuse. When Wu Jie walked past our city, I asked that the Jin soldiers were at most 50,000, and they were already exhausted soldiers who fought for a long time. How could we abandon all the cities?" Gao Di and Wu Jie both forgot one thing. The retreating troops came from Ningyuan. They had known the details of the Jinzhou war for a long time, so how could they be deceived by this lie? But now that the military order has been issued, Yuan Chonghuan was also unsure of what to do.

"Yizhi, what do you think we should do?" Yuan Chonghuan turned to look at Tang Feng beside him and asked. However, he found that the other party still looked regretful. After a long time, he heard him murmuring: "It turned out to be him! I only thought that person was Wang Huazhen, so I killed him. I didn't expect that this person was not Wang Huazhen who I have always been guarding against, but his Gaodi. This person I didn't have much defense..."
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