Chapter 69 Chongzhen's dilemma

However, as soon as Xiao Tianjian returned to Luoyang, news came from Shandong that the slave chief Yue Tuo led the slave army to attack the empty Jinan. After entering the city, he washed and killed tens of thousands of Ming people inside and outside the city, and captured Zhu Youshu, the king of Fengguo, Zhu Enshang, and the young and strong people of the whole city in the city. In a place where Dorgan joined forces in Shandong Province, he began to return to the north with a large number of people, livestock, gold and silver, grain and other materials that had been expelled from the bandits this time.

Almost at the same time, Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides, and Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi, also led 100,000 Shaanxi troops along the Great Wall and went to Taiyuan, Shanxi Province to enter the land of Beijing.

However, Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting were still too late to enter the guard. When they arrived at the land of Beijing, most of the Jiannu had already plundered and began to return to the north.

Let's take a look at the situation of the imperial court at this time. It can be said to be a mess. In the whole Jingfu land, before Hong Chengchou led the Shaanxi troops into the defense, there were only more than 10,000 soldiers of Shanxi Xuanda under the command of Chen Xinjia, the new governor of Xuanda, which were still the soldiers and horses, tens of thousands of Beijing battalions guarding the Beijing Division and the Guanning army, and Lu Xiang The two corps controlled by Sheng and Gaoqi submersible were basically defeated by Jiannu and scattered all over Jingfu, and no longer have combat effectiveness.

After learning that Gaoqi's potential Qiu County was defeated by Jiannu, Chongzhen sat in the dragon chair and didn't say anything for a long time. He still trusted Gao Qiqian very much. The reason why he ordered him to stop the position of director of Gao Qiqian and let Liu Yuliang replace him was actually just to calm the public's anger, but he didn't think about it. After arresting him, he cut off his head, but now Gao Qiqian has made the most elite Guan Ningjun of 30,000 Daming like this. Chongzhen really has the intention to kill him now.

Unfortunately, according to the news uploaded from the battlefield, he disappeared after the war. Now there are several possibilities. One is that he was killed by Jiannu and abandoned in the chaotic army. The other is that the man knows that he is deeply responsible and may abscond in fear of crime. The third is that he may be captured alive by Jiannu.

Among these three possibilities, what he most wants to see is that Gao Qi died in the chaos. Otherwise, this person knows too much, and it will become a great threat.

At the same time, he also learned one of the reasons for the failure of Gao Qiqian. This battle of Gao Qiqian was actually teased to Qiu County by Xing Tianjun. Chongzhen could think that Gao Qiqian wanted to fight back the water and rely on a great contribution to wash away his crime, but he was deceived into the battlefield and became the sacrifice of Jiannu's men. Livestock.

Now as long as he thinks of the words Xing Tianjun and Xiao Tianjian, Chongzhen hates his teeth. He is a supreme Ming emperor of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, but he can't help this group of Xing Tian thieves. Every time he comes up with a way to deal with them, he will always be resolved by them, and he will retaliate at ten times the cost, rising to the potential Qiu County. The defeat and disappearance is largely due to the revenge of Xing Tianjun on Gao Qiqian. At the same time, it is also a kind of revenge for the court's brazen use of force to block the Xing Tianjun's soldiers and horses going south. This time, the court stole chickens and lost the rice, and lost the soldiers.

By this time, Chongzhen has had an ominous premonition. He felt that the dragon chair under his buttocks might not be stable. This Xing Tianjun has become his biggest enemy, far beyond the threat of other people's people to the Ming Dynasty.

Immediately after the news that Jinan was conquered by Jiannu, the king of Germany was abducted by the Tas, which undoubtedly dealt a great blow to Chongzhen. Now it can be said that Daming has completely entered the point of domestic and foreign difficulties. Internally, there is a Xing Tianjun that is so strong that the court can't deal with it. The enemy, externally, has a Jiannu enslave in Liaodong who stares at Guannei, and is also a strong enemy that is almost impossible to deal with. Under the squeeze of these two enemies, the Daming River can be said to have entered the wind and rain, and one may be subverted by one of the enemies at any time.

Chongzhen can't stand this situation any longer. After Jinan was broken, a large number of slaves had begun to return to the north, so he would have to take more energy to deal with this criminal army.

However, what made him feel a little better was the news from Henan that Zuo Liangyu had sent an army into Henan after the New Year, defeated Nanyang Mansion in one fell swoop, and killed nearly a thousand thieves in Nanyang Mansion. Fu Ruwei, the governor of Runing, said that the officers and soldiers of Runing Mansion had also recovered a lot of land. In such bad news In one situation after another, these two news are undoubtedly the highlights.

So Chongzhen was immediately overjoyed and issued an order to reward Zuo Liangyu, Fu Ruwei and others, calling them the pillars of the country, and trying to continue to serve the country and eliminate the Xingtian thieves as soon as possible.

But this kind of happiness is just a matter of an instant. Chongzhen was submerged by more worries. At present, Lu Xiangsheng and Gao Qiqian are nowhere to be found. However, some people swear that they have seen Lu Xiangsheng's body in the Xingtian Thief Army, but because they have no evidence, they can't be sure of Lu Xiangsheng's life. Death, to some extent, Chongzhen has begun to believe the news of Lu Xiangsheng's death, but for Gao Qiqian, a bastard, it also disappeared after the war in Qiu County, and they disappeared. The important thing is that after the defeat of their generals during this period, they seemed to have evaporated from the world. I don't know where they all led the defeated soldiers to hide.

Although these military generals seem to be a little incompetent, after all, the court still has to rely on them. There is always someone to lead the army in this war! Military generals are not as easy to find as soldiers. If these people are afraid of the court's accountability, they dare not show up. Who else in the world is expected to help him defend them? What's more terrible is that once these soldiers and generals are afraid of being held accountable afterwards and simply turn to Jiannu or Xingtian thieves, wouldn't it be more troublesome?

Therefore, Chongzhen discussed with Yang Sichang for this and decided to publicly issue an edict to the defeated generals, saying that the responsibility for this defeat was not on them, and the blame was on Lu Xiangsheng and Gao Qiqian, so as to avoid their guilt and make them appear quickly, and the court will still stay with them.

In this way, after learning that the court had issued a decree to exempt them from their responsibilities, these defeated generals, who had disappeared for many days, appeared one by one in Jingfu. The first ones to appear were Yang Guozhu, the general of Xuanfu, and Hu Dawei, the deputy general of Shanxi. The two of them were in the battle of Julu on that day, because the battalion was killed by Tart. The soldiers conquered, and the generals in the battalion were separated by the Jiannu army, so that they could not get together with Lu Xiangsheng. Later, when the Xing Tianjun suddenly appeared and entered the battlefield, Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei took the opportunity to lead hundreds of officers and soldiers out of the siege and broke away from the battlefield.

Originally, they could have merged with Xing Tianjun, but because Hu Dawei was defeated by Xing Tianjun many times in those years, now he is going to be destroyed by the Tatars, but saved by Xing Tianjun. This face is really lightless, so he refuses to lead the army to join Xing Tianjun. At the same time, Yang Guozhu They were also worried that they would bear the charge of a thief in the event, so after discussing, they led the remnants to sleep all the way and fled to the area of Dingzhou. It was not until they heard that the court issued a decree not to pursue their responsibility that they dared to lead the troops to appear in Baoding Prefecture.

As soon as the two appeared, they immediately wrote a note and reported the details of the giant deer's war to Chongzhen. They angrily scolded Gao Qiqian for not saving him, and how they later broke through the siege to Zhu Youjian. Moreover, the two also clearly wrote Lu Xiangsheng's performance in this war and reported Zhu Youjian together. It was not until this time that Zhu Youjian found that he had misunderstood Lu Xiangsheng, and Lu Xiangsheng may have really been seriously injured.

With the entry of Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting, the Jiannu army left Beijing, and the safety of the Beijing Division was basically guaranteed. At this time, Chongzhen could not wait. Xiong Wencan had already been arrested. At present, because of Jiannu's entry into the bandit, the position of governor of the five provinces has been vacant, and the Xing Tianjun is larger than that of Jinnan, Henan and other places. If you don't find a way to suppress Xing Tianjun as soon as possible, it is really not certain who will be in the future.

Therefore, although the Jiannu army was still raging in the northwestern part of Shanxi and Shandong and had not yet withdrawn from the customs, Chongzhen was still impatient to ask Yang Sichang how to deal with the big trouble of Xing Tianjun.

It's definitely not good to appease. Although Xiao Tianjian agreed verbally because the court said that he wanted to recruit Xiao Tianjian, the conditions of the two sides could not be negotiated at all. Xiao Tianjian's condition was to cut the land and claim the king, and the money to raise soldiers had to be paid by the court. No one could agree to this condition, so only There is a way to continue to suppress the Xing Tianjun.

In fact, Yang Sichang doesn't have many good ways at this time. At present, the officers and soldiers in the Ji Liao area have collapsed a lot with this time when the Tatarazi entered the invasion. The troops are very empty, and Gao Qiqian has lost a lot of soldiers and horses in Qiu County, which makes Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting's Shaanxi soldiers who are guarded this time to stay to resist the construction of slaves. Therefore, the hinterland of the Central Plains The strength of the officers and soldiers is more empty.

Now only Zuo Liangyu and Zuo Guangxian and He Renlong in Shaanxi can fight against Xing Tianjun, but can they deal with Xing Tianjun?

Yang Sichang asked himself that he was not sure of this. After all, this time he knew better than the emperor. With only more than 10,000 troops, the Xing Tianjun went north to defeat the Jiannu army several times in various parts of Jingfu and killed thousands of Jiannu, but he was not defeated. Who else in the world of the Xingtian Army can deal with them? Yang Sichang is not clear. Chu.

Chongzhen saw that Yang Sichang was very speakable, but when he asked about the destruction of Xing Tianjun today, he was a little covered up. Suddenly, he was unhappy. Looking back on what Yang Sichang had done after he came to power in the past two years, Chongzhen suddenly found that Yang Sichang was actually not as good as he thought at the beginning. Gan, although at first he put forward a plan to open the net on all sides and saw some results, he finally let Xing Tianjun sit in the Central Plains, and he recommended a Xiong Wencan, and finally basically threw a big Henan to Xing Tianjun, but only appeased Zhang Xianzhong and other thief chiefs.

And now he is having a headache about Xing Tianjun, but Yang Sichang, who is regarded by him as a minister of humerus, can't come up with any good way, which suddenly made him quite unh than happy.

Speaking of Yang Sichang, he just said that he wanted to reuse Zuo Liangyu to recover the lost land in Henan as soon as possible. In addition, he could call the army of Shaanxi He Renlong and enter Henan to use soldiers at the same time. In this way, he could restrain Xing Tianjun Yunyun, and he has never come up with a good way.

After hearing this, Chongzhen was even more not happy, so he asked him who could sit in the Central Plains. The commander-in-chief suppressed the Xing Tianjun. At this time, Yang Sichang was really forced into a dead corner, so he had no choice but to ask him to go to Huguang in person to supervise the battle and dispatch all the troops to Henan to suppress the Xing Tianjun.

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