Chapter 169: The Son of the Loyal Soul of the Great Ming

Lu Aiguo once again gave Sun Chuanting a deep salute:

"Governor, don't hide it, Lu Xiangsheng is his father, and he will be his unfilial son."

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The scene was instantly quiet, the scene of thousands of people, the entire palace compound was crowded, there was no sound at all, and the world suddenly stopped.

Whether it is Li Dingguo or Sun Chuanting, their heads are buzzing at this time.

It took dozens of breaths before someone suddenly spoke:

"It's amazing, no wonder the general usually looks sullen, it turns out that he is actually the son of the famous Lu Dushuai, the queen of the Ming Dynasty's loyal soul......"

"Yes, it turned out that it was Lu Xiangsheng's son who led our uprising, we didn't follow the wrong person, it was the lucky ......"

After Sun Chuanting reacted, he immediately hugged Lu Aiguo:

"Aiguo, why doesn't my uncle know that Jiandou has a son, you won't lie to me, tell me, tell me quickly, what's going on?"

"Commander, how dare the last general lie to you, here's how it ......"

Lu Aiguo told Sun Chuanting everything that happened.

Lu Aiguo is really the son of Lu Xiangsheng, the loyal soul of the Ming Dynasty, and his only son, who is seventeen years old this year.

Lu Xiangsheng was very ashamed of those literati officials in the Ming Dynasty, and he didn't want his son to bring disaster to the country and the people like those literati, so he was sent by his father to Sanqing Mountain to learn martial arts at a very young age.

originally wanted to wait for him to return from his studies to join the army and serve the country, but there are unforeseen circumstances and good fortunes and misfortunes, but who knows that he has never seen his father again.

On the day he left the school, Master Qingyun told Lu Aiguo about his father's death, and Lu Aiguo died of pain on the spot.

Later, he went down the mountain to find his mother, and wanted to kill the traitor to avenge his father, but his mother was worried that he would be framed again, so she forced him to leave home with death.

In the end, Lu Aiguo was helpless and followed a friend of his father's life to North Korea, and soon became prosperous in North Korea.

In order to resist the Eastern Captivity, he also established an army against the Eastern Captivity, numbering about 1,000 people, and made a living by robbing the Eastern Prisoners.

He has been fighting guerrilla warfare in the mountains of Korea, and has sent troops to clear the captives many times, but they have all failed.

Although he hated those treacherous people, like his father, he was loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and always hoped that one day the Ming army would come to recover Korea.

Lu Aiguo's persistence was not in vain, and he finally heard that the Ming army, under the leadership of Sun Chuanting, landed at Inchon and won successive battles in the Korean battlefield.

After observing the fighting quality of the Ming army for a few days, Lu Aiguo led his brothers to Seoul, preparing to contribute some meager strength to the Ming Dynasty.

Speaking of Lu Xiangsheng, writing the history of the Ming Dynasty, we must introduce him.

Lu Xiangsheng (1600-1639), a native of Yixing.

He has few ambitions and is diligent in his studies. At that time, the government of the Ming Dynasty was already corrupt, the people's grievances were boiling, and the Qing soldiers were waiting for an opportunity to invade.

While reading the scriptures, he studied military books and practiced martial arts, and at the age of 22, he became a jinshi and served as the head of the household department. When the eunuch Wei Zhongxian was controlling the government and wantonly persecuting the Donglin party, many officials in the court were attached to the eunuch party, and Lu Xiangsheng despised it with contempt.

At the age of 27, he served as the prefect of the Daimyo, at that time, in order to flatter Wei Zhongxian, many places built shrines for him, and some officials of the Daimyo Mansion also proposed to prepare for the construction, and invited Lu Xiangsheng to participate, but was refused.

In the Daimyo's Mansion, he suppressed many unjust prisons, severely punished bullies and corrupt officials, and made the rule of officials a new one.

In the second year of Chongzhen (1629), the Qing soldiers invaded the territory, and the Beijing division called the police. Lu Xiang rose to the king of military service, after the Qing soldiers retreated, Lu Xiang was promoted to prevent the Qing army from attacking again, the Daimyo military equipment was rectified, strict military discipline, strengthened military training, and the army was greatly invigorated, known as the "Tianxiong Army".

Later, he participated in the peasant army such as Li Zicheng, and was promoted to the right deputy capital of Yushi, the prime minister of Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Huguang, and Sichuan military affairs, and the governor of Huguang, and then promoted to the military department of the army, and then moved to the left of the military department, and the governor of Xuanzhou, Daimyo, and Shanxi military affairs.

In the eleventh year of Chongzhen (1638), the Qing soldiers continued to invade, the flames of peasant uprisings burned everywhere, and the Ming Dynasty was already in turmoil.

Some ministers of the DPRK and China, headed by Yang Sichang, the first assistant, strongly advocated first securing the interior and then the outside, negotiating peace with the Qing army, and stepping up the pressure on the peasant army.

Emperor Chongzhen summoned Lu Xiangsheng to discuss, Lu resolutely fought the main battle, he believed that "only those who can fight can keep their words, if they can't fight, they can keep their words everywhere, and the more they defend, the more they are subject to the enemy." Today, we must focus on war and defend as a supplement, so that we can control the enemy and not be controlled by the enemy. ”

Chongzhen asked him to discuss with Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian, who advocated peace with the Qing army.

In the court meeting, Lu Xiangsheng made a generous statement, he believed

"The enemy rides vertically and horizontally, drives straight people for a long time, the Ming Dynasty is not safe", if it is not "a battle to save the situation", it will "repeat the mistakes of the Southern Song Dynasty".

The court discussion was inconclusive. Lu Xiangsheng led his army to garrison Changping, fought many battles against the invading Qing army, and won victories, and the 20,000 troops he led also suffered more than 15,000 casualties.

Yang Sichang not only did not report Chongzhen to the news of Lu Xiangsheng's victory over the Qing army, but falsely accused Lu Xiangsheng of holding his troops and cut off his supplies.

Lu Xiangsheng led a force of less than 5,000 people to fight against the Qing army without food and grass, and was surrounded by the Qing army.

After the war, Yang Tinglin and his subordinates found Lu Xiangsheng's body on the battlefield, and he was still wearing a white net in linen (serving his father's funeral).

When the people of the three counties heard this, they wept bitterly, and the sound shook the world.

After Lu Xiangsheng died, Yang Sichang was afraid that he was not dead and would retaliate against him in the future, so he sent three patrols to check, one of whom was named Yu Zhenlong, and told Yang Sichang that Lu Xiangsheng was really dead.

For Yang Sichang, he hoped that his subordinates would say that Lu Xiangsheng was not dead, and he could impose charges such as cowardice and fear of war on Lu Xiangsheng's head.

But this Yu Zhenlong was very tough, Yang Sichang whipped him for three days and three nights, and he was about to die, he still stared at him and said:

"Heavenly gods, loyal ministers in vain."

The Shunde prefect played Lu Xiangsheng's death, and Yang Sichang deliberately made it difficult, and it took 80 days for Lu Xiangsheng's body to be collected.

The following year, Lu Xiangsheng's wife, Wang, asked for mercy.

In the third year, Lu Xiangsheng's younger brother Xiang Jin and Xiang Guan were invited, but they were not allowed.

It was not until Yang Sichang failed to kill Zhang Xianzhong that the imperial court learned the truth and gave Lu Xiangsheng the prince and young master, the military department's book, and a funeral.

When the king of Nanming Fu was king, he pursued the loyal martyrs and built a shrine to worship.

Later, the Qing soldiers went south, Lu Xiangsheng's younger brother Lu Xiang died with the army against the Qing Dynasty, Lu Xiangtong threw himself into the water and died, Lu Xiangjin became a monk, and there were more than 100 people martyred in the Lu family.

After listening to Lu Aiguo's introduction, Sun Chuanting clasped his fists in the direction of Jingshi and said:

"Shengshang, you have another good general, I have a loyal soul of the Ming Dynasty!"

"Jiandou, you can rest in peace in the spirit of heaven, there is a Taoist monarch in the saint today, and the treacherous and misguided country has been killed by him, and patriotism will do a lot."

After finishing speaking, the dignified god-level figure of the Ming Army, Sun Chuanting, the left governor of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, actually burst into tears.