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Chapter 129 The crime of moving Zuo Liangyu to town

"What? The Luoyang defenders rebelled against the bandits? King Fu and Yinchang, the king of Luoyang who participated in politics, have both been killed?"

The news of Fu Wang's death spread back to Huguang in the south, obviously a day or two faster than the news of King Fu's death in the north.

In Xiangyang City, Yang Sichang, whose health was deteriorating and with gray hair, was so startled that he almost fell off the bed when he heard the bad news, coughing and wheezing violently.

At the side who brought him the bad news, the doctor of the Ministry of War in Nanjing and Wanji, the supervisor of the army, could only serve the soup with his own hands, and while patting Yang Sichang on the back, he tried his best to comfort him:
"Master Ge, please take care! Victory or defeat is a common matter in military affairs, and the defenders follow the bandits as internal responses. This is not your fault for not dispatching reinforcements in time. It can only be blamed for the fact that there are too few loyal ministers and righteous men who understand the general principles of righteousness.

Alas, to say something rebellious, according to the message from Luoyang, His Royal Highness Fu Wang didn't say that it was his own fault, but at least he didn't understand the general situation.

The local people have deep resentment towards Fu Wangzhi's wealth, and his family wealth is nearly ten million taels, but they are only willing to give out 1000 taels to reward the guards and soldiers before the city is broken.

Lu Shangshu of my Nanjing military department was temporarily ordered by His Majesty to live in solitary confinement because of his failure to resist the war. He also returned to his hometown to live in Luoyang at that time.It is said that before the city was broken, Lu Shangshu also bitterly advised Fu Wang to pay the scholars, but Fu Wang insisted on being stingy.Lu Shangshu himself dissipated all his family wealth, but unfortunately it was only tens of thousands of taels, and he couldn't feed the city guards and people. After the city was broken, Lu Shangshu's family was also killed. "

Hearing so much about Wanjifen, Yang Sichang's remorse was gradually diverted by "angry him not to fight".

If it is in front of people, you dare not talk about such outrageous words. Who would dare to accuse the vassal king of being greedy and unwilling to spend money?

But in private, he only had his confidants, so Yang Sichang couldn't care less, and spat bitterly.

"Zhu Changxun! Such a wealth-preserving porpoise dog. Fortunately, the loyal and upright men of the Manchu Dynasty fought for the country, so that Shenzong did not cause a catastrophe, and he used this generation of wine and rice bags as his heirs! Thief great cause!"

Wanji was shocked when he heard the words. Although there was no one around, Elder Yang Ge dared to insult the vassal king. Based on his understanding of Elder Ge, he had a faint feeling of bad premonition: Could it be that Elder Ge was afraid of sin and did not dare to insult him? The desire to survive?Why are you so bold?

He hurriedly persuaded Yang Sichang for a while, lest Yang Sichang commit suicide.

Yang Sichang also calmed down a bit, and asked: "Where are the reinforcements from Henan?"

Wanji, as the supervisor of the whole army, was very clear about the information, and answered immediately: "Zuo Liangyu has just passed Xinye, and the day before yesterday, he came from the upstream of the Han River and slowly arrived at Fancheng to cross into the Baihe River.

However, Shen Shuren and Liu Guoneng, because Kaifeng government could not provide military rations before, they could not get through the food road in Runan and Huaibei in a hurry, so they had to lead the army back, and also went to Nanyang and Luyang to the north, trying to break through the Funiu Mountain Pass from Luyang and help Luoyang in the north.

Also because of detours, resulting in delays.But Shen Shuren and Liu Guoneng fought loyally and bravely. When Luoyang City was broken, they were still fighting fiercely with Ma Shouying, who was blocking them, in Luyang.After hearing that the city was broken, they seemed to have given up going north and were about to turn back. "

"Reversed? If Luoyang is broken, they won't go and beat Li Zicheng?" Yang Sichang seemed a little confused, and was a little disappointed when he heard this.

Seeing Wanji's bewildered expression, he realized that he had expected too much from Shen Shuren—he was only a soldier in Hubei, and he had just been promoted to a soldier in Huguang a few days ago.

Even if the Qiandu Yushi is added, the scope of his inspection by the Qiandu Yushi does not include Luoyang and Kaifeng Mansions, at most it is only the Runing Mansion in Henan.

Rescuing Luoyang and Fu Wang before was the order of the imperial court, and it was urgently dispatched by the authority for temporary matters.Now that King Fu is dead, all the wealth in Luoyang has been robbed, and the thieves are so powerful, how can it be possible to directly bump into them?

It is indeed time to retreat and recuperate. Shen Shuren and Liu Guoneng did the right thing.

Yang Sichang thought for a long time, sighed and ordered: "Forget it, the situation of the war is like this, I can only bear the responsibility for this crime. Shen Shuren and Liu Guoneng are right, they have tried their best. Let Shen Shuren go back to his teacher, Huang.

Liu Guoneng's original strongholds in Yexian County and Yancheng area are not worth defending anymore. It is inevitable that such a loyal man will be left alone in a dangerous place surrounded on three sides, which will inevitably chill people's hearts.Let him retreat to the Runing Mansion, and from then on, take Xinyang as the foundation and raise troops to guard the Huaihe River.

Right now, I'd better think about how to explain to His Majesty the guilt of Luoyang's defeat.After a big defeat, seeing through the fickleness of the world, the old man can still have power for a few days, it all depends on whether His Majesty is in a hurry to ask the crime.For the sake of the world, in the last days, it is necessary to fight this old bone and make those domineering generals pay the price!Praise the loyal and demote the evil!
Also, Yuanji is going to let the accompanying army pack up and set off, and the governor wants to go north to Nanyang himself.In the last few days, I always have to put on an appearance of leading the way, which is not a disgrace to my mission. "

Yang Sichang was already prepared to die soon, and he didn't want to be humiliated before death.But a sense of responsibility also rose in his heart, and he wanted to bite down those rebellious officials, thieves and warlords in the last days!
In order for the emperor to slow down the progress of convicting him as much as possible, it is also very important to perform a positive gesture in the last few days.That's why he decided to change from sitting in Xiangyang, the center, to personally leading troops north to supervise the battle——

To make a digression, in history, before Yang Sichang died, Zhang Xianzhong temporarily stole Xiangyang and killed King Xianggui, and it was also related to Li Zicheng killing King Fu in the north more than a month before Zhang Xianzhong stole Xiangyang.

Before Li Zicheng killed King Fu, Yang Sichang's layout still centered on Zhang Xianzhong as the more important enemy.But Li Zicheng's act of killing King Fu suddenly made Li Zicheng's head more valuable.

Therefore, in order to express his determination to the emperor, Yang Sichang had to go north in person, assuming that destroying Li Zi became the priority, which led to the temporary emptiness of Xiangyang.

In this life, the only difference is that Yang Sichang was able to bring back the non-existent butterfly effect of Shen Shuren, to the defense zone that Shen Shuren should be defending.

At the same time, Yang Sichang also intensified the impeachment of Zuo Liangyu, which was heavier than in the same period in history, and wrote a memorial to the emperor immediately about the causes and consequences of a series of defeats.

After all, under Shen Shuren's control, Zuo Liangyu's crimes in this life have also increased compared to the same period in history.

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Yang Sichang led the personal guards from Xiangyang to Nanyang, and Shen Shuren and Liu Guoneng returned from Luyang to Xinyang and Suizhou respectively. Naturally, it took some time to march.

The army is dispatched, and the land travels no more than sixty or seventy miles a day, but the waterway can travel more than 100 miles downstream.

The straight-line distance from Xiangyang to Nanyang is 240 miles. When passing through Xinye and Dengzhou, you have to make a detour to avoid dangerous points. It is normal for the army to walk for five days.In addition, Yang Sichang needed preparations for his emergency departure, and in fact he would not arrive in Nanyang until seven days later.

It will take Liu Guoneng more than 400 miles to go back to Xinyang from Luyang, and he needs to part ways with Shen Shuren and go back to Xinyang from Rushui River to Huaihe River in Henan Province.

Shen Shuren returned to Xiangyang first, and then returned to Suizhou from Xiangyang along the Han River.

So according to this itinerary, after four days, Shen Shuren and Yang Sichang will meet in Dengzhou, north of Xiangyang, and then pass by.

Whether the four days are long or not, is not short.Because the urgent military situation in the Luoyang war zone, as well as the cause and effect determination of guilt, all belong to Liubaili urgent information.Therefore, these four days were enough for Yang Sichang's fast horse courier to deliver the memorial to Chongzhen in the capital.

This also meant that Shen Shuren had no chance to speak out about how Yang Ge Lao shared the blame for the murder of the vassal king from the beginning to the end.

This is neither a good thing nor a bad thing.Shen Shuren could not carry private goods, and avoided the suspicion of sowing dissension, but with a public mind, it was up to the court to determine it.

……

Four days later, Yang Sichang's apology memorial arrived in the capital as scheduled.

It has been seven days since King Fu died.

Chongzhen also gradually recovered from the initial sadness, and the posture of stopping the court for three days was finished, and the routine court meeting has resumed as usual for four days.

Faced with Yang Sichang's plea, Chongzhen certainly would not forgive easily, but the reason still needs to be carefully examined.

After all, even if you want to question the guilt, who to ask and how much responsibility to ask depends on Yang Sichang's analysis and self-defense.

Chongzhen finished watching with a livid face, in the midst of disappointment, he still found two or three points of relief.

After all, there are still loyal people in Daming——Liu Guoneng and Shen Shu are too hard for those who are capable. During this period of time, they are exhausted. They just killed He Jinhe Yilong, and then rushed hundreds of miles to rescue Luoyang and King Fu.

Although they were not rescued in the end, after all, they recovered several counties in Runing Mansion along the way and wiped out the remnants of He Yilong's death.This is what has been tried.

As for the fact that they did not cross the boundary of Kaifeng Mansion and rescued Luoyang from east to west, it was only because Kaifeng Mansion could not provide the army rations for this army, so they had to take a detour and rely on the Nanyang area still under the control of Yang Sichang. Maintaining the grain road, and finally fought a fierce battle with Ma Shouying who was blocking the road in Luyang.

Yang Sichang wrote it in great detail, and he also attached a summary of the documents between Shen Shuren and the prefect of Kaifeng asking for food and returning it.

In the end, Yang Sichang pointed out sincerely: Zuo Liangyu was the culprit for Liu Guoneng's transfer from Henan.When the Battle of Suizhou broke out two months ago, if Zuo Liangyu hadn't seen death in Wuchang and Hanyang, which are across the river from Suizhou, there would have been no need to transfer Liu Guoneng from Henan to copy He Yilong's back road, Playing Surrounding Wei and Rescuing Zhao?

Moreover, not only did Zuo Liangyu not rescue Suizhou two months ago, but this time after hearing that Li Zicheng had entered the Luoyang Basin, he was still very slow in moving northward.

Shen Shuren Liu Guoneng had already fought Ma Shouying in Luyang, and Zuo Liangyu hadn't arrived yet!He also said all the way that he has a large number of people and it is difficult to raise food and grass!
Chongzhen was really angry this time.For Zuo Liangyu, who sells his teammates and preserves his strength to become a warlord, Chongzhen must severely punish him this time.

Unfortunately, he also knows that Zuo Liangyu's tail is too big to fall off, so he can't ask to beheaded directly - Zuo Liangyu has gathered a hundred thousand people, and many of them are not in the imperial court's establishment, and all rely on Zuo Liangyu to harm the local government Food and pay.So that part of the non-staff troops was only loyal to Zuo Liangyu, not to the imperial court at all.

Even if Zuo Liangyu himself could be designed to trap and kill him, there is a great possibility that his extra troops will directly become a new rebel force, and the whole of Huguang will be completely corrupted by then.

Even if Chongzhen didn't fully understand this point, Yang Sichang deliberately reminded him in the secret performance.

In addition to grief and indignation, Chongzhen could only choose to walk in two steps, and take it slowly.

"Wang Chengen, call Hanlin to draft an edict! Cut off Zuo Liangyuping's rank as a general! Deprive him of the authority to continue recruiting troops to fight against thieves! He was ordered to leave Wuchang Mansion and Hanyang Mansion to go north and station in Nanyang Mansion. From then on, he was responsible for preventing Li Zicheng from going south!
Then give Yang Sichang a secret edict, if Zuo Liangyu refuses to accept the deprivation of the title of general and the right to recruit new troops, then it can be deemed to be the opposite!Let Yang Sichang deal with it by any means! "

What Chongzhen thought of was to gradually weaken part of Zuo Liangyu's power by taking advantage of the court's authority.

Zuo Liangyu's troops included the private armed forces that expanded their recruits arbitrarily after he served as General Ping Zhai, as well as the regular guard troops of the imperial court that he controlled when he was in Wuchang Mansion and Hanyang Mansion.

Zuo Liangyu's personal armed forces were not so easy to change, but at least let Zuo Liangyu move the place and bring the imperial guards of Wuchang Mansion and Hanyang Mansion under the control of loyal ministers of Ming Dynasty.

In addition, if Zuo Liangyu is ordered to move north to Nanyang, the old imperial army in Nanyang must be transferred first, so that Zuo Liangyu will not have the opportunity to control the new imperial army.

In this way, at least Zuo Liangyu's foundation can be weakened first, with a reduction of 3 or [-] horses, and then he is forced to go to the front line against Li Zicheng.Even if Zuo Liangyu couldn't be forced to fight for the time being, at least it was possible to wait until Li Zicheng took the initiative to go south to fight Zuo Liangyu.

In today's Chongzhen's view, if Zuo Liangyu and Li Zicheng can lose both, then he is already going to burn the incense.

(End of this chapter)