Chapter 9 Layout
In the lobby of the Jinzhou Governor's Palace, the edict sent by Chongzhen to risk his life finally arrived in Wang Feng's hands. Now the generals of the Guanning Army gathered in the meeting hall to discuss.
The generals of the Guanning army who received the edict were immediately divided into two factions, one faction led by Wu Sangui advocated immediately sending troops to aid the Beijing Division, while the other faction was the opposite, they were led by Zu Dashou and strongly opposed the dispatch of troops to King Qin.
The two factions quarreled in the council hall, although Zu Dashou and Wu Sangui were nephews and uncles, but at this moment when it was related to the life and death of Guan Ningjun and their personal interests, the two of them couldn't take care of much.
In Wang Feng's opinion, the reason why Wu Sangui and others resolutely advocated the rescue of the Jingshi was nothing more than because they had families and mansions in the Jingshi, and once the Jingshi was broken, then their families and property would all be reduced to nothing, so it was not surprising that these people advocated the rescue of the Jingshi.
The opposition led by Zu Dashou and other local officers in Liaodong is mainly based on Nandu considerations, their families are a big business in Liaodong, and now Nandu naturally involves evacuation, but for them, this evacuation can not be completed overnight, it will consume a lot of manpower, and a large number of people are needed to escort Nandu Road, if all the troops are transferred to rescue Jingshi, it will definitely be bad news for them.
The most important reason why an army can be proud of the world is unity. At this moment of life and death, what Wang Feng needs more is a united Guan Ning army, looking at the two factions that are constantly quarreling, Wang Feng is silent and silent.
"Okay! Have you had enough of the noise, just shut up for me and listen to me, a handsome man!" After a long time, Wang Feng finally burst out with an angry roar.
When the generals present saw that the handsome man was angry, they were so frightened that they immediately closed their mouths and obediently sat down in their seats.
Wang Feng stood up and straightened his clothes: "This governor thinks that the Beijing division must not be saved, first, the emperor's order must not be disobeyed, and second, my Guanning army still has many family members stranded in the Beijing division, these are our parents and sisters, and they must not be lost, and third, our Cao Wenzhao general army also took our brothers to garrison in the Beijing division, they are our comrades, how can our Guanning army leave their comrades and ignore it? Therefore, we must go to the Beijing division! And this governor will go in person. ”
As soon as Wu Sangui, the main aid faction, heard that the marshal had stated that he would rescue the Jingshi and that he would rescue him in person, his eyebrows suddenly fluttered, and he was overjoyed and couldn't wait to go down to prepare immediately. And the opposition is like ashes.
Of course, Wang Feng noticed the expressions of these oppositionists, and he suddenly changed his words, "But this governor thinks that this rescue of the Beijing division lies in the quality of the soldiers, not in the many, and besides, the Nandu also needs to consume a lot of manpower, so the Governor has decided to personally bring only 40,000 cavalry to help this time! The others will assist General Zu in the work of Nandu!"
Zu Dashou, who was originally like a dead heart, immediately straightened his waist when he heard that Wang Feng only led 40,000 soldiers and horses into Beijing, and the others were assisting him in the evacuation work.
"Okay, everyone go down and prepare immediately!" Wang Feng waved his hand, and everyone immediately went down to prepare.
When everyone walked away, Song Xiance spoke, "Young Marshal, you are really painstaking!"
"Hehe, what can I do?" Wang Feng laughed miserably. Now he must do his best to maintain the unity within the Guanning army, and in doing so, he takes care of the feelings of the Jingcheng faction in the army and takes into account the interests of the Liaodong faction, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone, and there is also a reason why Wang Feng has to go in the Jingshi.
It is foreseeable that this time the thieves will definitely conquer the Jingshi, and this is also a matter of time, according to Chongzhen's character, Wang Feng has already expected that he will never steal his life, so the problem is that Chongzhen will die and there will be no orthodox emperor in the Ming Dynasty, and the ministers who will stay in the south will definitely have their own ghosts and set up another emperor.
Wang Feng of later generations remembered very well that the Ming Dynasty was because of Chongzhen's martyrdom, which led to the vacancy of the throne, which led to a series of separatist regimes such as the Hongguang regime, the Luwang Jianguo, the Lu Wang Jianguo, the Longwu regime, and the Yongli regime, and even sometimes there was a situation where the prison and the emperor coexisted, which was completely caused by the absence of an orthodox heir to the throne.
One of the purposes of Wang Feng's trip to Beijing is to seize the opportunity, although he can't save Emperor Chongzhen and he Wang Feng has never planned to rescue the emperor, but he is quite happy to fish out the prince and the two princes, as long as he Wang Feng masters the prince and the two vassal kings, and then relies on the strength of the Guan Ning army to justifiably support the prince, then who else in the world can dare to oppose it.
In fact, one of the more important reasons why Wang Feng went to Beijing was that there was a woman there, a woman he loved, he would never just ignore it, he wanted to rescue his woman with his own hands.
"Kang Nian, I still don't feel at ease to let Zu Dashou handle the matter of retreating south alone, you still stay to assist him, but I have a little request, even if we abandon the city, we can't leave a brick and tile for the Tartars, we would rather destroy it than stay, understand?" Wang Feng once again admonished, for the Tartar Wang Feng is hatred in his heart, so he would rather destroy it than cheapen the Tartars in vain.
"Don't worry, young marshal!" Song Xiance bowed deeply to Wang Feng.
"Take care!" Wang Feng gently patted Song Xiance's shoulder, and walked out of the hall without looking back.
Jingshi Chaoyangmen, since Ningwu received the edict of King Qinqin into Beijing, Cao Wenzhao led 50,000 horses into the Beijing division to participate in the defense of the city, because Cao Wenzhao's soldiers and horses are mostly border soldiers who can fight well, as soon as Wang Chengen came to arrange for them to be stationed in Chaoyangmen.
As the starting point of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, whether it is a merchant from the south who enters Beijing or an official who leaves Beijing to take up a post, it can be said that this Grand Canal is the lifeblood of the Beijing division to all places, and the original noisy and lively Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal has been unusually quiet since the siege of the city.
These days, Cao Wenzhao can almost be said to have stayed awake all night, he has inspected the city defense over and over again, although the high walls of this Beijing division city are thick, but for the nearly one million rogue troops outside the city, the Beijing division seems so small.
Although Cao Wenzhao had nearly 50,000 horses in his hands, he never thought that he could hold the city of Beijing by relying on these 50,000 horses alone.
"General, general, someone is coming from Liaodong!" A small colonel ran over happily, followed by two young men in black robes.