After sealing Zheng Guogong, Wang Zhizheng was mixed in his heart, he was not keen on fame, and he did not attach much importance to the title, but the glory of one door and two dukes would indeed make people feel a little excited.

Wang Zhizheng entered the palace and handed Chongzhen a thank you watch, Emperor Chongzhen put down the brush in his hand, smiled and said: "Zheng Guogong, don't thank you, if you don't keep thanking me for the seal, I won't force you to seal it." Hurry up, Cheng En, pour tea for grandpa. ”

Wang Zhizheng held the tea, thought for a moment and said: "I listened to the report of the Ministry of War, the Tartar Dolgon has now conquered Datong, the general soldier of Datong Jiang Wen was killed, Dolgon slaughtered the city, killing nearly 100,000 people, this incident made me can't help but start to have a new view of this character, he attacked a city, plundered Jing, slaughtered the city and returned, in fact, in order to destroy our national foundation, we must deal with it immediately." We are short on time, and if we don't intercept Dolgon immediately, it is likely that it will lead to the form of border people throwing money thieves!"

Emperor Chongzhen nodded and said: "Guogong, I am also worried, the governance of Datong was slaughtered, it seems that it is necessary to order the choice of governance."

Wang Zhizheng waved his hand: "No need, the Eight Banners of the Golden Thieves are Liukou, they only attack but do not occupy them, when I go to Datong, the Golden Thieves must have already attacked Pucheng." ”

"Bucheng? ”

Wang Zhizheng touched his beard and said, "I observe that the soldiers of the Eight Banners are mainly based on Kou Luo, and they will not choose to attack the strong city, but will definitely attack the small city, attack our weakest city, and the closest weak city to Datong is this Pucheng." If my judgment is correct, I will lead the troops directly to Pucheng this time, and if I am lucky enough to encounter Dorgon in Pucheng, I will hopefully encircle and suppress him in Pucheng. But I must be prepared with both hands, if I can't defeat him, he will definitely retreat to Datong, because I suggest that Ning Yuan and Wu Sangui set up a pocket formation in Datong, and Cao Bianjiao and I besiege Dolgon in Pucheng. ”

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, his confidence suddenly doubled, he took out a talisman from the jade box and said: "Aiqing transferred troops from Pucheng, it took too much energy, I handed over 10,000 people from the five military camps to you, and you led the five military camps to go straight to Pucheng." ”

Wang Zhizheng excitedly held the talisman in both hands and said: "Repel the Tartars, and Weichen will return the five military camps to Zhao." ”

Emperor Chongzhen waved his hand: "The five military camps will be handed over to you, and I will rebuild the five military camps." When you go to Datong, how can you do without soldiers?"

Wang Zhizheng kowtowed movingly.

said: "Weichen thanks the emperor for his grace. ”

Wang Zhizheng immediately summoned Jiang Nai, Wang Chengen, Huang Zongxi, Zhou Cheng and Xie Zhenglong, commander of the five military camps, to hold a meeting to study the plan for the march.

After Wang Zhizheng said the idea of attacking Pucheng, Huang Zongxi asked: "Grandpa, if Pucheng is empty, our military operation will be passive,"

Wang Zhizheng pointed to the map and said: "Everyone, please see, Dolgon is now slaughtering Datong, but the weaker city around Datong is only Pucheng, if he does not capture Pucheng, he will not be able to further march in the direction of Jingshi, but if Pucheng is really empty, there is no need to be afraid, because we can take the opportunity to march into Datong and re-cultivate Datong as the governor's seat of the northern front! Then recuperate the troops and look for Dolgon's march again." Dolgon did not attack Pucheng, but could only return from Datong, and the first big city of Datong was in Xuanzhou. Withdraw from Xuanzhou to Longjing Pass to Mongolia, the Xuanzhou guard will surrender, and now the new guard will be Zu Kefa, the son of Zu Dashou. He is a tiger general, and he only needs to hand over a letter to him, asking him to bite Dolgon in Xuanzhou and fight him to the death, so we can pick up the back road and attack Dolgon in Xuanzhou! No matter how you plan, this time we must eliminate this Dolgon in the Guannei, I observe his military operations, it is hard to believe that he is only twenty years old, if this person is not eliminated, there will be endless trouble! So no matter what, the purpose of this operation is to strangle, no matter how much the price is paid, he must be killed!"

Wang Zhizheng's murderous appearance was a little abnormal, and Xie Zhenglong asked, "Governor, isn't our purpose to defend the city and protect the people?"

Wang Zhizheng waved his hand and said: "Zhenglong, this time, we do not defend the city, nor protect the people, the harvest and protect the people is the occupation of the local general soldiers, not under our control, after our governor's palace, only remember one point, all the gold thieves who enter the customs, we warmly welcome, but sorry, it is easy to enter the customs and difficult to get out, as long as he enters the customs, we will immediately block the three major passes of Xifengkou, Longjing Pass, and Gubeikou, trap the Tartars in the pass, and kill them repeatedly, no matter how much they pay, how many kills and how many kills, until they are killed!" There is a shortage of gold thieves, the number of troops is only 100,000, and it is distressing to die a person, and our task is to kill all the Tartars who come in, so that Huang Taiji does not dare to risk sending soldiers and horses to the customs at will, and send 10,000 people to die and 10,000 people, and he himself will calculate this account. ”

Only then did everyone understand that Wang Zhizheng's strategic purpose was to kill people, not to protect the people.

Wang Zhizheng stared at the generals and said: "I have learned that there are 13,000 Tartars who came this time, of which 8,000 are Mongol soldiers, 7,000 are gold thieves, and these 13,000 are all cavalry, so in this way, there are 13,000 war horses, people are killed, horses are captured, and it is also a great fortune for us to have the war horses of Jianzhou!"

Wang Zhizheng said: "In the field battle, we are not the opponent of the Tartars at all, so we must use the strategy of catching turtles in the urn to besiege the gold thieves in Pucheng, and then encircle and gather to annihilate them." ”

Huang Zongxi shook his head and said: "The golden thief is trapped in the city, and the grain and grass will definitely be slaughtered!"

Wang Zhizheng smiled coldly: "Even if the grain and grass continue to run out, they won't slaughter the city?"

Huang Zongxi, who asked in one sentence, was speechless,

Wang Zhizheng pointed to the map with his baton and said: "The layout this time is Xuanzhou, Pucheng, Datong three-point line, three-point mobile operation, Xuanzhou, or Zu Kefa to collect, Datong, Wu Sangui layout, we and Cao Bianjiao are in charge of Pucheng!"

Wang Zhizheng stared at Xie Zhenglong and said: "The five military battalions are the most powerful battalions of the four major battalions of the forbidden army, and in this siege, your five military battalions must give full play to your advantages!"

Xie Zhenglong arched his hand and said: "Don't worry, the five military camps were brought out by you personally, and you are afraid that the combat effectiveness will not meet the standard?"

Wang Zhizheng ignored him, but stared at Huang Zongxi and said: "The enemy army is mainly cavalry, if the cavalry is against the cavalry, we can't beat the Jurchens, they are skilled in arching and horses, and they have been practicing since they were infants! The most effective way to deal with cavalry is cannons and crossbows. Datong has a red-coated cannon, the Tartars have captured it, they won't use it, and they have been demolished, and there is also a red-coated cannon in Pucheng, if it is in the hands of the Tatars, it must be snatched back. Huang Zongxi, you have a good way of practicing the arrow formation, this time we will prepare a million arrows, the cost will go to the Ministry of Commerce and Taxation, I ask for an average of 100 arrows in each Tartar, this batch of arrows will follow our troops together, Pucheng will run out of arrows, remember, not a single one is allowed to remain!"