Be the emperor from the postman

Immediately afterwards, Yang Sichang held a second meeting with Lu Xiangsheng the next day.

Lu Xiangsheng is nominally the governor of the world's soldiers and horses, but in fact he controls less than [-] troops.

Gao Qiqian, the supervising army, controls most of the powerful Ming army who are fighting against the Qing army this time.

It can be said that in this battle against the Qing army, except for Lu Xiangsheng, 90.00% of them are of one mind with Yang Sichang.

Who would have an exquisite heart who didn't know Yang Sichang's current favor in front of the emperor, and would still disagree with him, because he wanted to cause trouble for his official career?

Do you still want to go further!

Do you want a future?

Gao Qiqian, the eunuch, also thought about how to please the emperor.

The job of these people is to figure out the emperor's preferences and thoughts, and most people are not competent, otherwise staying in this position will also cause trouble for themselves.

In addition, Yang Sichang was quite witty and tactful, and he was good at getting along with the people around the emperor.

That's because Lu Xiangsheng didn't know how to adapt, so he seemed out of tune with them.

When the Qing army was raging around, the contradiction between Yang Sichang and Lu Xiangsheng deepened.

Lu Xiangsheng exposed Yang Sichang's secret peace negotiation activities against the Qing court in person, which delayed the war.

Do you insist on negotiating peace without considering the alliance under the city at all, the shame of the Spring and Autumn Period?

Even if the capital's tongue is sharp, can Yuan Chonghuan's disaster be avoided?

Can I get the Qing army to withdraw from the Great Wall obediently by negotiating a peace?

Later Jin Tartars plundered many times, and they all returned with full rewards.

How can the bandits outside the Great Wall not come to plunder because you bowed your heads to negotiate peace.

Why are you still so naive?
The officials who advocated peace talks all had unfriendly faces.

But when Yang Sichang returned to the city, he knew that Lu Xiangsheng was not the kind of person who opposed for the sake of opposing.

This person is capable, a civil servant with a Guan Dao personally goes into battle to chop people, and he is currently the only one in Daming.

It's a pity that it is because he sticks to his old prejudices that he opposes peace talks with the Qing court.

The key is that Daming does not have the strength to fight on the third front.

And it is easy to be consumed by the Qing army, rogue bandits, and He Jinzhao who occupy the northwest and southwest.

Seeing that most of the rogues surrendered, a small part also went into the mountains to hide.

He Jinzhao has even occupied the land of three provinces, and he has become the big traitor of the separatist side.

And as long as the people's hearts are stabilized, the strength will be stronger than the Qing court Huang Taiji who always loots.

Yang Sichang also took the initiative to exchange letters with Lu Xiangsheng, agreeing that the two of us will put the overall situation first.

Don't just meet each other all the time, the exchange of letters is also very good.

If you can't hear the tone of the two parties, you can avoid quarreling when you meet.

Lu Xiangsheng agreed with this.

The two sides seem to take a step back, but the confrontation behind the scenes continues.

Lu Xiangsheng discussed strategy with Gao Qiqian at Andingmen, but he still advocated taking the initiative to attack. Gao Qiqian objected on the grounds that field warfare was the chief of the Qing army.

After this meeting, Lu Xiangsheng once had the idea of ​​asking Chen Xinjia to replace him, expressing his intention of "recommending a virtuous person" to Yang Sichang.

The curtain caller Xu Deshi pointed out that this move was in Yang Sichang's arms, and Chen Xinjia was Yang Sichang's man, so he was bound to make peace.

Lu Xiangsheng dismissed this idea and wrote to Yang Sichang that he would continue to fight the Qing army to the end.

Yang Sichang's plan failed, so he stopped replying.

Then Lu Xiangsheng was removed from the title of Minister of the Ministry of War, and he was allowed to preside over the work as a servant.

But Gao Qiqian was not a good stubble, he was regarded by Chongzhen as someone who knew military affairs, and the emperor trusted him very much.

But in actual operation, the surveillance army was defeated when they punched Kong Youde, and then picked up dead bodies and cut off heads to pretend to be meritorious.

Later, he was sent to supervise the army of Cao Wenzhao, Zuo Liangyu and others. He took the lead in embezzling and embezzling military supplies. Facing the enemy, he often led the elite soldiers to flee first.

In short, it is not important to put down the rebellion of the peasant uprising army, the elite soldiers must first protect my safety.

In the end, these generals all began to show bad behavior, and Chongzhen withdrew all the supervisors, leaving only Gao Qiqian, an eunuch who was good at military affairs.

When Gao Qiqian went down to inspect the troops and asked everyone to salute him, several officials wrote impeachment letters and were dismissed by the emperor.

Gao Qiqian's behavior was entirely due to the emperor's partiality.

Dorgon sent some troops to the south from Shunyi, and the soldiers pointed directly at Dongzhimen, intending to attract the troops of the Ming army.

Faced with the frequent attacks of the Qing soldiers, Lu Xiangsheng supervised the troops to fight day and night.

At night, the Qing soldiers moved to Beitu City outside Desheng Gate, and Lu Xiangsheng led the army to fight.

At dawn, he fought against the Qing army at Xizhimen again, and obtained more than a dozen giant cannons, including old bombs.

The Qing army took advantage of the situation to retreat.

Lu Xiangsheng asked to take advantage of the victory to pursue the pursuit. After discussion among the officials, Chongzhen did not approve the pursuit until the next afternoon, but it was too late.

At this time, Gao Qiqian secretly sent people to chase after the Qing army, wanting to take advantage of it, and then repay the emperor for his credit.

As a result, his subordinate Liu Bolu was defeated by the Qing army at Lugouqiao.

Gao Qiqian panicked, he thought he was grabbing credit with his hand and showing his face in front of the emperor.

In the end, he was defeated, and he couldn't hide it even if he wanted to.

Gao Qiqian could only beat back, saying in front of the emperor that Lu Xiangsheng was not suitable for combat and leading troops to fight against the Qing army, he was easy to be fooled, and he was easy to miss good opportunities.

Chongzhen didn't think it was because he wasted time that he didn't bite the Qing army hard and let them prepare.

When Gao Qiqian, a eunuch who "knows very much" about military affairs, gave advice, Chongzhen couldn't sit still.

He began to summon Hong Chengchou to lead the troops to help. Hong Chengchou knew that he could not delay any longer, so he sent the surrendered general Bai Guangen to lead tens of thousands of horses first.

On the one hand, it was to respond to the emperor's words, and on the other hand, it was to confuse Li Zicheng.

Let him think that the imperial army went directly to support the capital and deal with the Qing army.

Before Li Zicheng was happy for a few days, Hong Chengchou led the elite soldiers to fight Li Zicheng who just wanted to equalize the land and exempt the tax.

Li Zicheng was beaten and seriously injured, and his wife and daughter were captured. There were only 17 people left, and they ran to hide in the mountains on the border between Henan and Shaanxi.

This time, Hong Chengchou, governor of the five provinces, personally led Zuo Guangxian and Wang Chengyin, who claimed to have a total of 15 people, to march towards the capital.

Hong Chengchou hoped that before resisting the Qing army, His Majesty could give him some military pay.

After all, so many people went to rescue the siege, and the loss was huge, so they had to pay no matter what.

Otherwise, it is not impossible for someone to rebel on the spot.

After Hong Chengchou lost his basic board, the problem of military pay is quite difficult to solve.

Lu Xiangsheng was not sensitive to the direction of the court. As the commander-in-chief of King Qin, he decided to enter Baoding, ordered the generals to attack in separate ways, and fought in Qingdu (now Wangdu, Hebei), killing the Qing army by [-] ranks.

Gao Qiqian had a bad face. He sent people to fight against the Qing army in order to gain credit, but he was defeated.

On the contrary, Lu Xiangsheng won again and again. Isn't this a slap in the face?
Any foreign invasion is not as important as what he thinks.

However, Lu Xiangsheng's situation is also very difficult, and the army is short of pay.

On weekdays, we owed the military salary, and we have nothing to eat because of Governor Lu sharing weal and woe with everyone, and he doesn't eat either. For his sake, let's bear it.

But when our brothers fought against the Qing army, they killed more than 300 people, and nearly a thousand people were killed, and more than 300 heads were cut off.

The emperor doesn't have any rewards at all, so why don't we sell our lives?
Who doesn't know that the Qing army is notoriously brutal and difficult to fight?
Such grievances spread among the soldiers of the Ming army, which naturally restrained Lu Xiangsheng's further actions.

Lu Xiangsheng has also been getting angry all the time.

Although he is the main combat faction and dares to fight against the Qing army, there are too many constraints.

The important ministers in the court disagreed with him and tried to get rid of him.

The supervising army sent by the emperor also felt that Lu Xiangsheng's behavior had affected his good image of being "good at military strategy" in front of His Majesty, so he was not pleasing to his eyes.

Lu Xiangsheng wrote to the emperor many times, hoping to allocate food and salary to him, so as to maintain morale and continue to attack the Qing army.

But Zuo Qiren, the magistrate of Qingwan County, and Zhang Qiping, the governor of Zhending, did not pay him.

There is no logistics and logistics, let alone replenishing soldiers.

Neither Yang Sichang nor Gao Qiqian wanted Lu Xiangsheng, the nominal supervisor, to control many people.

Lu Xiangsheng sent a letter to the Ministry of War and got no reply. Yang Sichang just put the memorials in a pile of memorials and told the emperor.

Fang Zhenghua, the eunuch sent by Gao Qiqian, impeached Lu Xiangsheng closely for "staying with pay".

The secrets sent by such close people naturally aroused Emperor Chongzhen's dissatisfaction with Lu Xiangsheng.

But Dorgon didn't have the mind to pay attention to the minds of so many people in Ming Ting, he just wanted to plunder as much as possible during this expedition.

The Gyeonggi region has lost more than a dozen prefectures and counties, including Zhending and Hejian, and Sun Chengzong, a senior official, was also killed.

After Chongzhen heard the news, he lamented sadly and ordered the relevant officials to do follow-up compensation, and then no longer care about it.

After this incident, it is still unknown whether any direct descendants of the Sun family survived, so the relevant officials only agreed verbally, but did not implement it.

The Qing army captured Hengshui, Wuyi, Zaoqiang, Jiming, Bazhou and many other counties, and killed the retired Imperial Academy of Ming Dynasty.

Only Neiqiu, Gao Xianghan, the magistrate of the county, defended for more than ten days. Seeing that the Qing army could not conquer it, they withdrew to harm other places.

There is also Wei Zhongxian's hometown, Suxian County, Cangzhou, which was built by him to be quite solid, but it was difficult for the Qing army to conquer, so he directly detoured.

Because these Qing troops were used to seeing the poor appearance of the county town, when they arrived at Wei Zhongxian's hometown, they suddenly saw that the county town was so strong that it must be an important pass for the Ming army. After conquering it, they might be able to capture a lot of food and property.

As a result, the Qing army discovered that it was an important town for the Ming army, and the fort was built quite solidly, and it was absolutely impossible to conquer it without artillery, so they withdrew directly.

These counties were guarded by the army led by Kochi County, and Wei Zhongxian’s hometown was not breached. The Qing army was unstoppable and conquered many towns one after another.

Dorgon divided his troops into three groups, attacking Yizhou from Laishui, attacking Xiong County from Xincheng, and attacking Ansu from Dingxing.

At such a critical moment, Liu Yuliang, the chief assistant of the cabinet, took the initiative to invite Ying, willing to go to the front line to inspect the military situation and share your worries.

Chongzhen was overjoyed, and immediately ordered Lu Xiang to be dismissed from his post and inspected, and Liu Yuliang to replace him as the governor of the world.

But when Liu Yuliang really heard that the emperor wanted to let him go, he was stunned.

I couldn't help being afraid, I just wanted to stand behind and express my determination in front of the emperor, but I didn't want to actually go!
Liu Yuliang's words are similar to Yuan Chonghuan's. I support His Majesty and am willing to share His Majesty's worries, but the environment is too harsh and I can't handle it well.

However, the emperor thinks that you can do it, so you have to do it for me.

Otherwise, I will not only change you, but also kill you!
But Yang Sichang and Xue Guoguan didn't want Liu Yuliang, the chief minister of the cabinet, to show off. After all, he was a waste and could only rely on Lu Xiangsheng.

This is tantamount to personally sending him to Lu Xiangsheng's warship. Once the chief minister of the cabinet fully supports Lu Xiangsheng who is in the main battle, the result may be quite different from their original intention.

Therefore, it is probably not a good thing for the two of them to play together and say that they will change their commanders when they are ready for battle.

Chongzhen's arrest of Yuan Chonghuan last time obviously didn't teach him the lesson he deserved, so Lu Xiangsheng didn't perform so well a little bit, so he wanted to change people without thinking about the consequences at all.

Therefore, people fall into the same pit several times. It is not bad for a liar to be straightforward. It is really personal ingenuity and illogical.

Chongzhen ordered Liu Yuliang to inspect the reinforcements in each town and no longer replace Lu Xiangsheng.

Lu Xiangsheng thought that the imperial court sent the chief minister of the cabinet to assist him, and his confidence immediately rose. The last time he killed the Qing army, the generals Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei were not small.

If Shoufu can bring some money and food, it will be a great savior.

Lu Xiangsheng was stationed in Nanjiazhuang, Julu. Because of Yang Sichang, Minister of the Ministry of War, Lu Xiangsheng assigned troops to the new Xuanda Governor Chen Xinjia to guard the imperial tomb as an excuse to curb his desire to fight against the Qing army.

After all, Lu Xiangsheng's record is still considered to be impressive among the hard-working masters.

But after this Zhuangzi stopped, Lu Xiangsheng only had more than [-] disabled soldiers in his hands. The soldiers were weak and lacked food and pay.

The soldiers also had to eat cold water to satisfy their hunger in winter.

Chongzhen's sinful edict is like farting.

Even though Lu Xiangsheng wanted to kill the foreign captives, there was no one to cooperate with him, constantly pulling his hind legs.

As a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, there are not many friends who insist on being true.

The army fell into such a situation, Lu Xiangsheng could only send Yang Yanlin, the head of the painting department of the Ministry of War, to Jiming, fifty miles away, to ask Gao Qi, who had Guan Ning's heavy troops, for help and food.

Gao Qiqian spends most of the winter sleeping in bed, and has no time to take care of a small praise painting.

After Lu Xiangsheng waited for a day, there was no news. His former daimyo and other elders suggested that he go south to daimyo and other places to recruit soldiers.

But he didn't want to get the name of fleeing the battlefield, and he didn't want to hurt the people of Daming and other places, so he refused.

Yao Dongzhao, a freshman from Julu, heard about this and donated [-] Dendrobium of food, so that the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty could eat hot food, and their morale recovered a bit.

For three full days, Lu Xiangsheng sent three waves of people to contact Gao Qiqian, but no news came back.

Lu Xiangsheng hoped for the last time that Gao Qiqian could join forces with him and attack the Qing army.

But Gao Qiqian was annoyed by Lu Xiangsheng, so he left Jiming directly and headed to Linqing, ignoring what you said, the military supervisor of the world.

Aren't you Lu Xiangsheng brave in battle?
If you have the ability, go to fight the Qing army by yourself, what do you have to do with me?
The next morning, Lu Xiang was promoted to his tent, and met with the lieutenant soldiers in all directions, saying:
"I and you are equal to the grace of the country. If you suffer, you will not die, and if you do not suffer, you will not live."

All the soldiers cried loudly.

Lu Xiangsheng immediately ordered the whole army to pull out the stronghold and enter the army, to fight to the death with the Qing army.

Datong General Soldier Wang Pu immediately frowned and retreated behind everyone.