Chapter 1 The Trapped Governor

Lu Xiangsheng has indeed fulfilled the secret agreement with Xiao Tianjian for more than half a year. He did not make great efforts to suppress Jinnan. Instead, he mainly focused on training soldiers in Xuanda and preparing for the entry of the Tartars. For this reason, he was also reprimanded by Chongzhen, and Yang Sichang also put a lot of black bricks on Lu Xiangsheng. However, Lu Xiangsheng knew that the Jiannu army might break through the barrier at any time, but he refused to transfer the Xuan soldiers to suppress Jinnan. He only ordered the officers and soldiers in Shanxi to monitor the Xingtian army in Jinnan and only fought some small battles without launching a big offensive.

So for more than half a year, the officers and soldiers of Yan Chongxi and Shanxi in Jinnan, Shanxi have not fought big battles, and small battles have stopped, stopped fighting, and basically no longer expanded to the outside world. Xiao Tianjian fulfilled his original promise to Lu Xiangsheng. As long as Lu Xiangsheng is still in charge of Shanxi military affairs, he will no longer be in the mountains. In the westward expansion, Lu Xiangsheng also admired Xiao Tianjian's promise.

And Wang Chengping and Li Lingfeng, who were active in the northern part of Jin, did not cause any more trouble for Lu Xiangsheng. They stopped the attack and disturbance in Xinzhou area, and instead focused their energy on the Zhangjiakou area in the northeast of Datong Prefecture, or simply went out of the Great Wall to Mongolia to attack and rob those Jiannu. The caravan of collusion with merchants, or plundered some tribes in Mongolia, killed their people, and robbed their horses, cattle and sheep. At this point, Lu Xiangsheng naturally had no reason to send troops to deal with them. On the contrary, they secretly provided a lot of property for Lu Xiangsheng's continuous secret for Lu Xiangsheng's training.

Through these things, Lu Xiangsheng believed that Xiao Tianjian was indeed very sincere in dealing with Jiannu. Anyway, although Xiao Tianjian created the opposition of the imperial court, it was also a fight. For Jiannu, he and Lu Xiangsheng were completely consistent.

So anyway, in order to save a force for the court that can be used to deal with Jiannu, instead of consuming them on the internal battlefield, no matter how the court urges him, Lu Xiangsheng makes every excuse to refuse to launch a large-scale offensive against Jinnan, and the Shanxi's officials and troops alone can't gnaw the plate at the moment. Xing Tianjun is located in Jinnan, so after entering the 11th year of entering Chongzhen and ending the battle of Lu'anfu, the whole situation in Shanxi is still calm.

However, in May, Lu Xiangsheng's father died of illness. Lu Xiangsheng was very sad and had no intention of Xingtian's military soldiers. He resigned many times and asked to resign as the current governor of Xuanda University and return to his hometown to guard his father's tomb. However, Yang Sichang secretly obstructed many times. In addition, Chongzhen also thought that Lu Xiangsheng should be a usable talent. At this time Lu Xiangsheng became an official, and there was no one in Xuanda. Shanxi was even more afraid that the situation would be ruined, so it was repeatedly inaccurate. He made a decree to make Lu Xiangsheng stay with filial piety.

Lu Xiangsheng was also very dissatisfied with Yang Sichang, but considering his secret appointment with Xiao Tianjian, he was afraid that after he really became an official, Xing Tianjun would not be bound by this secret contract and would once again make a big strategy in Shanxi. Finally, for various reasons, Lu Xiangsheng had to choose to stay in office.

After the Qing army entered the customs at the end of September, Lu Xiangsheng received the imperial edict of Zhu Youjian and immediately began to act. He led 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers and horses from Xuanda and Shanxi to rush out of Shanxi to the capital.

But Lu Xiangsheng was afraid that as soon as he left, Xiao Tianjian would take action again in Shanxi on the grounds that he left Xuanda. So before leaving from Xuanda to Beijing, he wrote a letter and sent his slave Li Qi to Jinnan with this letter to find the people of Xing Tianjun. This letter is given to Xiao Tianjian.

As the Jiannu army is getting closer and closer to the capital division, the scale of the Jiannu army is gradually known by the Beijing division. When it is known that the Jiannu sent so many troops this time, there was an uproar in the capital division. Everyone knows that the Ming officials and soldiers are not enough to hold at all. The military generals are greedy and afraid of death, and each of them are afraid of Jiannu and tigers. Not to mention leading their troops to fight to the death, they were afraid that they could not avoid it. Even the Guanning Army, which was called the first hero of the Ming Dynasty by the government and the opposition, was almost a virtue. When they met the Jiannu army, they collapsed and fled. At most, they hid in the city, watching the Jiannu swagger under the city, plundered around the city, and let it slaughter the Ming Dynasty at will. The people took young and strong men and women into slaves, robbed the people's money and food, and a large number of livestock were also taken away by them.

And the Jiannu army has already seen the weakness of the Ming army and does not pay attention to the Ming army at all. After entering the customs, it was like entering the land of no one north of the capital. The Ming army could not fight at all when attacking the city and pulling out the fortress. The military front quickly pointed to the capital. In this situation, Yang Sichang, as a cabinet minister, and the eunuch of the superintendent of the army rose up. Qiandu is very afraid.

Even Chongzhen, who had been refusing to bow to Jiannu, began to be afraid at this time. Now Chongzhen is also very clear that the Ming Dynasty is getting worse day by day. The military generals are becoming more and more disobedient, and there are not many civil servants who can do things. At present, officials in the court can only fight with each other. Either it will only be empty talk and mislead the country. Now the Ming Dynasty can be said to be internal and external troubles. Is it possible that the 300-year-old foundation of the Ming Dynasty will be destroyed in his hands?

As for how to face such a situation, whether it is Chongzhen, Yang Sichang and others, they all agree that the most important thing at present is to solve the internal problems first, and solve the Xing Tianjun, who is currently "raging" in Henan, before he can turn around and deal with the Jiannu outside the customs, so they all have the idea of building. To put it bluntly, the idea of being soft is to compromise with Jiannu first. Yang Sichang, as his favorite minister at present, was keenly aware of Chongzhen's fear of war, so he began to secretly think about how to compromise with Jiannu.

However, the government and the opposition also began to notice this kind of wind direction, and suddenly there was an uproar. Not to mention that although the ability of Daming officials was not strong, they were extremely tough on Jiannu. Not many people supported the compromise with Jiannu at all, which made Chongzhen and Yang Sichang and others not want to compromise with Jiannu, but also did not dare to compromise. When he said it, he could only secretly discuss it and secretly send someone to Jiannu to discuss the compensation for the cession of land.

However, this kind of thing is impossible to accept for people like Lu Xiangsheng. After Lu Xiangsheng entered Beijing, he had a conflict with Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian. In Lu Xiangsheng's view, now that Jiannu soldiers are under the city, Yang Sichang wants to sign an alliance under the city with Jiannu, which is not realistic at all, even with Jiannu compromises, and must also fight fiercely with Jiannu. After beating Jiannu back, it's not too late to talk about this matter. At least you can get the weight of the negotiation, and you don't have to pay too much.

However, Chongzhen, Yang Sichang and others are afraid that Jiannu's army is too strong. They don't think that the Ming army has any possibility of winning at present. Instead of wasting the troops at hand in the battle with Jiannu, it is better to preserve their strength. After Jiannu exits, they will concentrate their troops. Li, go to destroy the Xingtian army in Henan. Since ancient times, we must first settle down inside. After the Ming Dynasty is stable, it is not too late to plan to fight against Jiannu.

No matter whether they think it is right or not, in this case, the important ministers below Chongzhen are single-headed and avoid war everywhere, so that Lu Xiangsheng, the nominal governor of the world, can not do his best to deal with the Jiannu army at all. The eunuchs of the superintendent control the soldiers and horses of the Ning army and the Beijing camp, so that After Lu Xiangsheng led the army into the defense, he could only control the soldiers and horses in Xuanda Shanxi at hand.

In this way, Lu Xiangsheng did not have enough troops at hand and could not fight with the Jiannu army at all. Although after he joined the defense, he led his troops to fight with the Jiannu army around Beijing and recovered some prefectures and counties occupied by Jiannu. However, after entering November, Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian, in order to hinder Lu Xiangsheng, Lu Xiangsheng's soldiers and horses were divided into more than half of Chen Xinjia, who replaced Lu Xiangsheng as the governor of Xuanda, so that Lu Xiangsheng did not have much troops on hand.

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