I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Lu Xiangsheng said nothing. He entered the Chinese army's tent and beheaded Zhu Chunchen, the commander-in-chief of the three armies, with one sword. This was really shocking. However, the Ming army general sitting there was very calm and did not react. It was as if he saw Lu Xiangsheng occupying him. It's like the person in the position is pushing away, that's all.Chongzhen's eyelids moved, showing a look of horror. He immediately jumped up with a pale face, pointed at Lu Xiangsheng and shouted: "Lu Jiandou, you are so brave! Do you want to rebel?"

Lu Xiangsheng casually shook off the blood on the knife, bowed and said, "I don't dare!"

"Don't dare, what else are you afraid of?"

Lu Xiangsheng did not explain, nor did he wait for Emperor Chongzhen to say goodbye. He stood up automatically, turned to look at the generals in the tent and said, "I will succeed Zhu Chunchen and command the three armies. Does anyone have any objections?"

Emperor Chongzhen's face was originally full of anger, but now he calmed down. He found that no one of the generals present objected, but instead showed that this is how it should be.

Emperor Chongzhen understood. He was blind and treated Wu Sangui very well. Wu Sangui was promoted very quickly. In the first month of the sixth year of Chongzhen (1633), he was appointed deputy commander-in-chief.In December, he was given the title of Governor Qian.In September of the seventh year of Chongzhen (1634), Tongzhi, the governor of the Central Canadian Administration, was awarded the first rank.

You must know that Cheng Shijie recovered the four states in southern Liaoning and defeated the Jiannu slaves, but he has not yet enjoyed Wu Sangui's treatment. So the question is, what great achievements did Wu Sangui have?He couldn't tell himself.

Then there is Lu Xiangsheng. His promotion was like riding a rocket. In just over five years, he was promoted from a fourth-grade official to a second-grade civil servant. You must know that Lu Xiangsheng is a second-grade official and civil servant, and he has reached the pinnacle of civil servants.

Wu Sangui is unreliable, and neither is Lu Xiangsheng.Now he only thought of Cheng Shijie, and felt even more guilty. He should never have listened to the slander and misunderstood Cheng Shijie, a loyal minister.

"The last general is willing to obey Lu Shuai's command!"

Seeing that the matter had come to this, Emperor Chongzhen also hurriedly endorsed Lu Xiangsheng: "I deeply agree. Lu Qing has outstanding military exploits. He commanded the three armies. He gave Shang Fang the sword to kill all the enemies!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

After receiving the seal of command from the attendants around Zhu Chunchen, Lu Xiangsheng held a military meeting here.

"Everyone, please report what is the current situation, how many supplies and how many people are left!"

Emperor Chongzhen felt that he was redundant, so he got up and left the tent.

Lu Xiangsheng didn't seem to notice Emperor Chongzhen leaving. Of course, he didn't notice it because his back was to Emperor Chongzhen. However, other generals saw it and pretended not to see it.

This made Emperor Chongzhen even more hurt.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at the generals present with a look of resentment, and said, "I will remember you all. When Cheng Qing leads Ning Haijun and King Qin to rescue you, and when I return to the capital, we will settle the score again!"

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen was really frightened. He was not only worried that Lu Xiangsheng, who was red-eyed for murder, would stab him until Cheng Shijie came to rescue him, but he was also worried that Lu Xiang would study with Cao Cao and control the princes.

Of course, we have to admire Emperor Chongzhen’s mental circuitry. He is a loyal minister who will never die...

Lu Xiangsheng later found out that Emperor Chongzhen was gone, and didn't pay much attention. If Zhu Chunchen was said to be incompetent and exhausted the three armies, how could it be that Emperor Chongzhen had tricked the three armies to death?
Even if Lu Xiangsheng is the commander-in-chief of the three armed forces, and he is accompanied by Emperor Chongzhen, a guy who doesn't know how to pretend, getting in the way, what can he do?
What makes Lu Xiangsheng feel extremely desperate is that the current situation is worse than he imagined. In just a few days, the Northern Expedition army suffered casualties of 6 and 20 horses. The original strength of nearly 13 horses, including civilians, was now only [-]. Among the tens of thousands of people, there are less than [-] civilians, and more than [-] of the armies together.

The casualties are secondary. The most important thing is that after statistics, they still have [-] artillery pieces that can be used normally. There are still some shells, but each gun only has more than [-] rounds.

There were only sixteen rocket launchers left in the hands of the Tianxiong Army and more than 5000 rocket shells. As for the other artillery, they were either used up and destroyed by Jiannu and Guan Ning's army, or fell directly into the hands of Guan Ning's army.The Guan Ning Army under Zu Dabi has already drawn a clear line with the Guan Ning Army. They now claim to be the Liaoxi Army. There are less than 2 cavalry left in the entire army, and the total number of infantry and cavalry is less than [-].

There are eight thousand gunmen with less than thirty rounds of ammunition left per person, and the average number of crossbowmen is less than twenty arrows. The most serious thing is the lack of food. Now the entire army only has three days of food left.

Lu Xiangsheng looked at the generals and sighed: "It's all my fault. I misjudged the situation from the beginning and failed to make all preparations. That's why I was so passive!"

Li Chongzhen said angrily: "Master Marquis, don't say that! It's all the fault of this idiot Zhu Chunchen. If he hadn't commanded blindly and rushed forward greedily, how could the army have fallen into such a desperate situation!"

Lu Xiangsheng shook his head and smiled bitterly, looking around at the generals and saying: "We must break out of the encirclement immediately. If we are trapped by Jian Nu, we don't need Jian Nu to do anything. The wind and snow in the north of Saibei alone can bury us all!"

The generals looked stern and asked in unison: "Where to break out?"

Lu Xiangsheng said: "Now that Guan Ning's army has rebelled, it has cut off the army's return route. We can't go back south, and Beijing can't even think about it. Only by putting it to death and surviving, and breaking through to the north, can we have a chance! "

Lu Xiangsheng pointed at the map and said: "We can only take advantage of the fact that the heavy snow is not everywhere yet, and quickly enter the mountainous area. As long as we enter the mountainous area, Jiannu's cavalry will not be able to use it. The most important thing is that we must find a hot spring where we can spend the winter, otherwise , we can’t stand the cold alone!”

"But we are not familiar with the Sanshen Mountain Area. Besides, there is no support at all if we break out to the north..."

Lu Xiangsheng said: "No need to respond, just open a bloody alley and kill him! Li Chongzhen!"

Li Chongzhen stood up: "The general is here!"

Lu Xiangsheng said: "You command Tianxiong's army to cut off the rear. Before you fall, even if you smash it with rocks or bite it with your teeth, you must stop Jiannu's pursuers!"

Li Chongzhen solemnly raised his hands: "I will obey the general's orders!"

Lu Xiangsheng's eyes fell on the deputy commander-in-chief of the Trilateral Army, Meng Ruhu: "You are a Mongolian, and this is the birthplace of the Mongols. Be the leader! I think no one knows the terrain of this area better than you."

Meng Ruhu smiled bitterly and said: "Master Hou, although the last general is a Mongolian, he is from the Mongolian Tumote tribe and is not familiar with this area!"

"Who are you familiar with if you don't know me?"

Fierce Tiger thought for a while and said: "The last general knows one person, Tomb Timur. He followed Hu Dawei and surrendered to the Ming Dynasty. Now he serves as a guerrilla general under General Tiger!"

"Go get him!"

Mengruhu went to look for Tamaki Timur, but half an hour later, he learned that Tamaki Timur had been killed in battle, but his 19-year-old son Beidou Nu was still alive.

When Meng Su brought this Mongolian who looked to be 40 to [-] years old to the tent, Beidou Nu hugged Lu Xiangsheng's boots and kissed them.

"Get up. I heard that you are familiar with Sanshen Mountain?"

"Exactly!" "Then do you know if there is a valley with hot springs closest to us?"

"Yes, it's about eighty or ninety miles northwest of us. It can be reached in half a day. There is a large valley with hot springs flowing there. Every winter, many tribes go there to spend the winter!"

"Very good, you will lead the way!"

Lu Xiangsheng looked around at the generals and said in a deep voice: "Everyone go back, clean up military discipline, collect military supplies and weapons, and all edible food must be distributed uniformly. Those injured and dead mules and horses will be slaughtered and their meat distributed among the soldiers! The solid bullets are handed over and melted into shotguns and bullets. When facing the Jiannu cavalry on the Great Plains, your bronze cannons will not be able to play any role, but the shotguns and rifles can give them a fatal blow! After dawn tomorrow, I will lead my troops as the vanguard to break through the enemy's defense line. All ministries must follow up in time. We are competing with God for time. If we cannot reach the Hot Spring Valley before our limited ammunition and food are exhausted, we will all die. No burial place!”

"As ordered!"

The generals were awe-inspiring again, stood up together, bowed their hands, and then went down to make preparations.

Just after the generals left, Emperor Chongzhen ran over with red eyes: "You can't break out!"

Lu Xiangsheng felt that Emperor Chongzhen was mentally ill: "Your Majesty, if you don't break out, are you waiting to die?"

"I have asked Wang Chengen to break out of the encirclement and ask Cheng Shijie to come and rescue him. Cheng Shijie will definitely not let me down!"

"I believe that Commander Cheng will not let down His Majesty, but even if Cheng Shijie leads Ning Haijun to arrive here, it will take at least more than a month!"

"Ning Haijun is a flying army, they move fast!"

"Then cut it in half!"

Lu Xiangsheng laughed angrily at Emperor Chongzhen: "So what? I met Wang Gonggong five days ago. He is still more than 2000 miles away from Liaodong. Guan Ning's army has rebelled. Where do you think he can pass by?" Successfully arrived in Liaodong? There is no way to go to western Liaoning. We can only cross the capital and go to Tianjin. It will take at least more than half a month for the prince to arrive in Liaodong, right? It will take at least more than a month to go back and forth. We only have three days of food. How can we persist? More than a month?”

"Then you break out?"

"We here not only have no food and grass, but also no clothing or cold-proof materials. The weather will get colder and colder. The cold in Saibei is much colder than in the capital. The rocks here will be cracked by the frost, and there is no way to hold on!"

Lu Xiangsheng pointed to Sanshen Mountain in the northwest and said: "We have only one way to let the army survive!"

One more thing, Lu Xiangsheng didn't actually say, although it is very cruel, the Northern Expedition camp now only has more than 3000 dan of food and grass. If it is to feed 4 people, it must only be three days. What if there are fewer soldiers?Then hold on longer.

Lu Xiangsheng's real goal was to catch Huang Taiji off guard. When he came from south to north, he observed that Huang Taiji had deployed layers of siege in the south, but only symbolically deployed some troops in the north.At least four to five thousand elite infantrymen led by Lu Xiangsheng could break through easily.

Emperor Chongzhen was speechless by Lu Xiangsheng, and he could only be secretly angry.

On this day and night, the Ming Dynasty's Northern Expeditionary Army was making preparations nervously.Those bulky bronze cannons that could only fire solid lead balls were discarded without mercy. The cannonballs were gathered together and melted by the craftsmen accompanying the army to make rifle bullets and shotguns. The civilians struggled to search for available supplies in a pile of ashes. The materials used were to slaughter dead or injured mules and horses, cut off the meat, roast it, and divide it into pieces for each person.

There were not many tents left, and the soldiers huddled in their dens with their arms folded, shivering from the cold, but still insisted on sleeping for a while.The muskets, bullets, cannonballs, crossbows, etc. scattered everywhere were carefully collected and sent to the army.

These are valuable combat capabilities, which are related to the life and death of the entire army.People kept falling down due to excessive exhaustion, and they never got up after falling down, but no one complained. Everyone knew that only by breaking out of the encirclement would there be hope of living. Those who were dead would die, and those who were not dead would bite. Keep doing it!

Early the next morning, Lu Xiangsheng read the reports submitted by each unit, and his eyelids jumped. There were still more than 13 troops last night, but overnight, the wounded soldiers could not hold on and died, and some froze to death. Some died of exhaustion, and some died of starvation. Of course, most of the people who died of starvation were civilians.

In the Northern Expedition, the people who suffered the most were civilians. They ate the least and worked the most.

From the fact that the lights of the Ming army's camp were not extinguished overnight, Huang Taiji judged that the Ming army was preparing to break out. His strength was actually limited. You must know that the camp of hundreds of thousands of Ming troops was no joke. The camp stretched out For more than ten miles, even a cannon cannot penetrate it.

"The Ming army is preparing to break out, so all soldiers should be prepared."

Huang Taiji judged that the Ming army was preparing to break out, but he really did not expect Lu Xiangsheng to break out to the northwest. Instead, he judged that the Ming army must break out in this direction. In order to create hope for the Ming army to break through, Huang Taiji asked the Manchu and Qing cavalry to break through. Twenty miles due south.

The Ming Army's Northern Expedition was dominated by infantry, and the distance of twenty miles was just right. As long as the Ming Army broke through twenty miles south, they would definitely be exhausted and exhausted. When the time came, the Manchu and Qing cavalry would swarm forward, and the Ming Army would definitely collapse.

"attack!"

Lu Xiangsheng took the lead and launched an attack toward the northwest. During the first round of artillery bombardment, he quickly defended more than a dozen Mongolian banners in the northwest, and 6000 people were defeated.

"Report to the Emperor that Minggou is breaking through to the northwest, and Wu Keshan's troops have suffered heavy losses."

"The northwest direction, this is definitely not the main breakout direction of the Ming army!"

Huang Taiji was full of confidence.

"Report to the Emperor, Wu Keshan's Ministry can't hold on any longer!"

"Hauge, take Xianghuang Banner's 2000 troops to support us!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Under the bombardment of the Tianxiong Army's artillery, the first encirclement of the Manchu and Qing armies was officially broken. Lu Xiangsheng led the Ming army to surge directly to the northwest like an unprecedented flood.

It wasn't until he saw Emperor Chongzhen's imperial flag moving toward the northwest in the telescope that Huang Taiji realized that he had been deceived by Lu Xiangsheng.

Huang Taiji yelled: "Wu Sangui, Zu Dacheng, stop them for me! The whole army presses down and destroys them!"

Wu Sangui and Zu Dacheng's faces turned slightly pale, and in their hearts there were ten thousand grass and mud horses roaring past... Didn't they ask them to die!But they did not dare to disobey Huang Taiji's order, so they had to draw their swords and scream: "Follow me!"

Before he finished speaking, a violent roar came, and a large continuous curtain of fire appeared in the sky. Rocket shells turned into fire rain and fell from the sky, landing in the middle of Guan Ning's army. There was only a flash of lightning, and the ground followed. It was shaking like a magnitude [-] earthquake, making it impossible to stand. The continuous explosions turned into walls of flames and rose up from the ground, swallowing up hundreds of Guanning Army soldiers in an instant. .

The Ming army's rocket launchers were firing, and just one salvo blew up Guan Ning's army, knocking them off their feet. I don't know how many people were turned into ashes, and I don't know how many people rushed out of the sea of ​​​​fire with their clothes and hair ignited, screaming and wailing! (End of chapter)