Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 485
A month later, the time came to early June.

Gang Lin, Qi Chongge, Sony and other three military ministers are reporting military and political affairs to Dorgon in the South Study Room of Prince Rui's Mansion.

First, Sony reported: "Master, Tianjin Admiral Luo Yangxing urgently reported that another batch of fake navy ships arrived at Dagukou, and sent a large amount of personnel and materials to the Ming army staying at Dagukou. The details are unknown."

"The details are unknown again. If you say it, you don't say it." Dorgon said unhappily.

Sony went on to say: "The Pseudo-Ming Navy tried many times to go up the Wei River to invade Tianjin Wei, but they were all repelled by the Tianjin Green Battalion."

Seeing that Dorgon didn't respond, Sony went on to say: "General Ye Keshu of Shengjing urgently reported that Xu Yingwei, a puppet general, has repaired the blunderbuss ten miles outside Haizhou City, and is still advancing. Ye Keshu asked the master to make it clear." According to the charter, either abandon Haizhou, or mobilize all the troops in Liaodong to fight against it."

Dorgon's face suddenly became extremely gloomy.

decisive battle?What did Ye Keshu use to fight the Ming army?
Just relying on the thousands of armored men outside the pass?It's not enough for the Ming army to get between their teeth.

If you want to eat the Ming army of Gaizhouwei, you have to transfer troops from the pass.

But if troops were transferred from the pass to Gaizhouwei for a decisive battle with the Ming army, wouldn't it be a laborious attack?Wouldn't that fulfill Chongzhen's wishes?Such stupid things must never be done.

The Qing Dynasty must accumulate strength for the decisive battle a few years later.

At that moment, Dorgon said with a dark face: "What kind of battle are you fighting? Tell Ye Keshu that the overall situation is the most important thing, and immediately abandon Haizhou."

After waiting for a while, Dorgon said again: "Let the North Korean king Li Ji dispatch five thousand musketeers to wait for Ye Keshu to dispatch."

The tactical quality of North Korean musketeers is still very good. Dorgon is very satisfied, so he plans to transfer another [-] musketeers from North Korea to Ye Keshu, otherwise Liaodong is really empty.

"Hey." Sony hit a thousand, returned to his desk with the mansion newspaper and began to instruct: Shangyu, no war, the overall situation is the most important, immediately abandon Haizhou...

Gang Lin went on to report: "Master, I have some good news for this slave."

"Oh, really?" Dorgon finally had a smile on his face, "Quickly tell me, what's the good news?"

Gang Lin said with a smile: "The slave just received an urgent message from General Guihua, saying that so far, the Tumed Mongolian banners have only frozen to death less than 20 cattle and sheep, and starved to death more than a hundred herdsmen. The loss of livestock is actually the least in the past [-] years, and the most difficult winter has already passed."

"Okay! At last I didn't disappoint." Dorgon nodded happily.

In order to help Tumed Mongolia survive this winter, the Qing court spent a lot of money.

Speaking of this meal, Dorgon asked Qi Chongge again: "Qi Chongge, do you have any good news?"

Qi Chongge coughed lightly and said: "Master, I really have some strange news here, I don't know if it is good news or bad news?"

Dorgon asked, "What strange news?"

Qi Chongge replied: "About a month ago, Nanming's Huangming Times and Hanlin Daily each published an article, but the opinions they published were quite different. One group advocated restraining the monarchy..."

After hearing Qi Chongge's simple words, Dorgon said dumbfounded: "Isn't the Huangming Times a newspaper run by the pseudo-Ming clan? How dare you speak against the pseudo-Ming clan? Is the editor-in-chief tired of his job?"

"Master, this is where the paradox is." Qi Chongge smiled wryly.

"According to the information held by the servant, the article on the front page of Huangming Times was published at the behest of Chongzhen."

"What do you mean by that?" Dorgon was taken aback when he heard the words, and said in astonishment, "Chongzhen asked someone to write such a bullshit article, and the purpose was just to restrain his own power?"

"The servant can't figure it out either." Qi Chongge said with a wry smile and shook his head, "but it's the truth."

"Is Chongzhen free? Can't find anything to do?" Dorgon was really puzzled.

After a long while, he said again: "Leave him alone, he thinks his power is too great, and he wants to find someone to control him, that's his business, but I still have to continue to strengthen the monarchy!"

Qi Chongge immediately echoed and said: "Master's words are right, the ministers of military aircraft in the military aircraft room are really noisy, they can argue for a long time over a trivial matter, this is not acceptable."

"Well." Dorgon nodded slightly, and continued, "So we need to set up a South Study Room above the military machine room, and select three people from more than 100 military machine ministers to be on duty every day. The official title is called the South Study Room. Dealing with military affairs, as for the other ministers of military affairs, it is enough to hear about it afterwards."

"Hey." Qi Chongge was overjoyed when he heard that.

……

At this time, in front of Qipan Pass in Hanzhong.

Seeing that the Dashun army that had launched the attack was defeated again, Li Zicheng was so angry that he whipped his horsewhip heavily on the big tree beside him, and immediately let out a crisp sound.

"Who is the general of the Western Army on the opposite side?" Li Zicheng asked with a dark face.

"Why is it so hard to deal with? Our army has been attacking fiercely for more than a month, with thousands of casualties, and why can't we attack?"

Song Xiance, the right military division, came forward and reported: "Qizou Shengshang, the general of the Western Army guarding Qipan Pass in front is said to be Zhang Dingguo, Zhang Xianzhong's adopted son."

"Zhang Dingguo? Is that Li Dingguo?"

"My sage has a good memory, it is Li Dingguo."

"It's really this kid. I haven't seen him for a few years, but he has become so difficult."

Li Zicheng was a little surprised. That brat who was still young turned out to be an iron lock blocking the road to Shu, blocking the way to Shu.

Gu Junen said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, the road to Shu is difficult and dangerous, and it is too difficult to attack by force. Qipan Pass is only the first difficulty, and then there is the even more difficult Chaotian Pass. However, Chaotian Pass is not as good as Jianmen Pass. It’s nothing, so even if my Dashun army wins the seven rounds, it’s useless.”

Li Zicheng said: "So what do you mean?"

Gu Junen said: "Your Majesty, my minister's meaning is consistent, and defeating Shu can only be achieved by outsmarting."

"Outsmart? What you said is easy." Li Zicheng said, "What kind of outsmart?"

Gu Junen said: "When Liu Bei entered Shu, he fought under the banner of rejecting Zhang Lu for Liu Zhang. Today, His Majesty can follow Liu Bei's example and fight for Zhang Xianzhong to put down the rebellion."

Li Zicheng frowned and said, "Will Zhang Xianzhong believe it?"

Gu Junen said with a smile: "Believe it or not, you will know after trying it. What if Zhang Xianzhong really believes it?"

"That's right, even if he doesn't believe it, it doesn't matter, it won't be worse than it is now." Li Zicheng nodded slightly, and then said loudly, "Come on!"

Hearing this, Gu Junen knew that Li Zicheng had misunderstood.

He meant to build plank roads openly and cross Yinping secretly, but Li Zicheng took it literally, but Gu Junen was not in a hurry to tell Li Zicheng that there was no rush.

Yinping Road can go at any time.

……

Li Zicheng's letter was sent to Chengdu soon.

"Prime Minister, what kind of heart does Li Chuang have?" Zhang Xianzhong rubbed his chin and asked, "While sending a large army to beat me, he also said that he wanted to help me suppress the thieves?"

Wang Zhaoling said with a smile: "Isn't Li Chuang's mind a lice on the bald man's head? It's obvious? He wants to imitate Liu Bei's method of entering Sichuan and seek our territory in Daxi Kingdom."

"I guess it's the same." Zhang Xianzhong snorted, "But I won't believe him."

"Li Chuang is definitely not trustworthy, whoever believes will die." Wang Zhaoling shook his head and said, "However, this incident is enough to prove that Li Chuang has nothing to do with our Daxi Army."

"That's right." Zhang Xianzhong said with a smug smile, "Dingguo boy is really getting better and better. With him guarding Desheng Mansion (Baoning Mansion) and Qipan Pass, Li Chuang will not even think about entering Sichuan. "

"What the Holy Majesty said is very true." Wang Zhaoling readily agreed, "So, the Holy Majesty might as well pretend to make peace with Li Chuang, wait until Li Chuang retreats, and then join Yuan Tao, Wu Dading and others, and concentrate forces to fight Qin Liangyu and Li Xiangjun's army for a decisive battle."

"Oh yes, it wasn't the prime minister who reminded me. I almost forgot that the Ming army is our Daxi army's mortal enemy." Zhang Xianzhong nodded.

For more than a month, although the Ming army has been entrenched in the Kuizhou Mansion, Chongqing Mansion, and Zunyi Mansion and has not rushed to attack, there is nothing calm under the seemingly calm water.

Because since the Ming army entered Sichuan, they only focused on doing one thing: Anmin!

Not only the Han people, but also the natives of the three prefectures in eastern Sichuan were also the targets of the Ming army.

For example, that Li Xiangjun actually gave the natives an average of acres of land in Zunyi Mansion, isn't that nonsense?

When will the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty give the common people an equal amount of land?This is simply the sun coming out from the west.

This made Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi Army very passive, because the only advantage the Daxi Army had over the Ming Army was the popular support. Once the people's hearts returned to the Ming Army, what would the Daxi Army use to fight the Ming Army?
In fact, very bad signs have already appeared in the Great Western Army.

Almost every day, there would be servants of the Great Western Army fleeing quietly in the dark.

Although the only ones fleeing now are some servants, and the situation in the old camp is still very stable, but Zhang Xianzhong and Wang Zhaoling are also very clear that if this situation continues, the old camp will lose its people.

The only way to solve this trouble is to expel the Ming army from Sichuan.

After a short pause, Zhang Xianzhong asked Wang Zhaoling again: "But Prime Minister, are the thieves Cao Xun, Yuan Tao, and Wu Dading trustworthy? Don't we, the Daxi family, be the only ones sending troops to attack Ming."

"Your Majesty, don't worry, I have already made an agreement with Wu Dading and others." Wang Zhaochi said firmly, "Wu Dading and others have also assured me again and again that as long as our Daxi Army sends troops, they will follow."

"Okay, as expected of the prime minister, such a multi-way alliance can be formed." Zhang Xianzhong was overjoyed.

Speaking of this meal, he said again: "I will pass on my order to let Kewangbai, Wenxiubai and Nengqibai lead their armies back to Chengdu, but Dingguobai doesn't have to come back, he will guard at the Qipan pass Follow Li Chuang."

"The holy lesson." Wang Zhaoling said flatteringly, "Li Chuang is not trustworthy."

(End of this chapter)