Lao Hu has now become Chang Yu's special driver, driving a carriage back to the city, as for Chunxiang and the others, they can only guard the dilapidated house, after all, there are heavy treasures that need to be guarded by henchmen.

After entering the palace, Changyu told Lao Hu to go to the ceremonial supervisor to do something, and he went straight to the prince's mansion, and as soon as he entered the door of the mansion, he felt that something was wrong, Tang Potian and several people stood in the courtyard with bitter faces, and saw that he kept his eyes on the face, looking towards the main hall, several eunuchs and palace maids stood at the door tremblingly, and there was an angry roar from inside.

Chang Yu frowned and walked straight to the door of the hall, and pushed open the door of the hall after a little contemplation, but saw Linglong and another palace maid sweeping the fragments of tea bowls on the ground, and the seats in the hall were in a mess, Zhu Cihong sat on one side with red eyes and wept, seeing Chang Yu come in, his face was sad and angry.

With a look and let Linglong and the two go out, Chang Yu walked up to Zhu Cihong with a gloomy face: "What's wrong?" ”

"Ping, Pingyang Mansion is lost, the thief, the thief is further" said and cried: "Could it be that my Ming is really going to die."

Chang Yu was stunned, his eyes were suddenly blank, and he did it in a daze: "How could it be, how did you lose it?" ”

"The Mole Sacrifices the City"

Zhu Cihong slammed his fist on the arm of the chair, his face full of grief and indignation!

Chang Yu's eyes closed, tears flowed down, he was not hypocritical, people in later generations felt sad and indignant when they read that period of history, not to mention that he is now experiencing it personally, and he is dedicated to helping Daming, that kind of heartache is really the same as the old Zhu family.

"Yes, Minxin!"

Chang Yu slowly opened his eyes and sighed, Zhu Cihong frowned and wondered, he didn't understand why Chang Yu said the word "people's heart".

When the Eight-Nation Coalition entered Beijing, the people of the capital dispatched tens of thousands of people to help transport materials, helped the ladder to assist the coalition army in attacking the city, and during the anti-Japanese period, the devils attacked the Central Plains and Henan people sent more than 100,000 people to lead the way, as well as to ensure logistics and so on.

It was a dark age when the king did not love the people, and the people did not know that there was a country, and at present, although the Ming Dynasty will not completely enslave the people like the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but the backbone and solar terms are still not as important as the belly.

In the face of external humiliation, not to mention that it is now a civil war, Chongzhen repeatedly increased taxes in order to raise money in the later period, on the contrary, the strategic propaganda of the thieves was very moving: open the door to meet the king, and the king will not pay food when he comes. With this sentence, he has won the hearts of the people, especially the people in the northwest who have been ravaged by drought and flood locust plagues.

This is also why the south is rich, the officers and soldiers are weak, but the peasant army has not gone south, because the south is rich and they have no popular base, and many large households in the south have private armies, local armed forces, and the thieves can't play there, and they are not popular with the people.

You can imagine that the people of Pingyang Mansion have long been committed to thieves, coupled with the pressure of the army, the military spirit is unstable, and there is no people's heart and no military heart, even if one Zhang Lanran and Wang Lanran and Li Lanran are removed.

Suddenly, Chang Yu stood up suddenly, his brows tightened: "What time is it today, twenty is right?" ”

"That's right, it's twenty" Looking at Chang Yu's appearance, Zhu Cihong felt bad.

Chang Yu's expression was even more solemn, because he remembered that the loss of Pingyang Mansion was January 23, and now it was three days ahead of schedule!!

This! Zhu Cihong was also shocked, and then sat down again. muttered: "Ahead of schedule...... That's how good it is."

It seems that time is not waiting for me, I thought that two months of preparation was hasty enough, but now the schedule is still in advance, which suddenly makes Chang Yu feel deep pressure.

"This should not be a hypocritical moment, how to deal with it is the most important thing at the moment, the prince, you go to tell the emperor, mobilize Xuanda troops to support Taiyuan Mansion, Taiyuan Mansion should be an important fortress in front of you, and transfer Zhou Yuji from Ningwu Pass, now the most capable and best use of soldiers over there is Zhou Yuji."

Zhu Cihong was stunned, and his face was full of surprise: "This is how my father arranged."

Eh, it's Chang Yu's turn to be circled, is it a coincidence?

"There are a few more things you should suggest to the emperor, first, you must inform the thief army that the strength of the army is only more than 60,000 people, the thief army division Li Yan is too good at psychological warfare, tens of thousands of people dare to blow it into millions, people are afraid to hear it, where do they dare to fight again, this matter must be announced by the whole army, and the officers and soldiers are afraid of it"

In fact, the thieves did this at the beginning of the war, the soldiers fought guerrilla warfare with their families, and it was a snowball-style conscription, and they swept everywhere they went, and they looked really terrible when they swept away a large family, but they could only fight one-sixth of them on the battlefield.

However, since the first acquaintance of the thieves in Xi'an after the emperor's crusade, it is true that they only sent troops instead of dragging their families, but they always can't quit snowballing along the way, forcibly requisitioned, surrendered, and those who can't mix up the common people who voluntarily follow Soon the snowball became bigger, and it became a towing family with a mouth, these snowballs have little combat power, but the formation is terrifying, especially the thieves have already studied a set of fighting methods, let these cannon fodder consume officers and soldiers when they charge into battle, and his elite pro-army picks up leaks, and when they escape, these cannon fodder are used in the palace, and they are not happy. So he doesn't reject snowballing, except for the consumption of rations, which makes his head big.

"The second thing is to immediately let Wu Sangui pack lightly into the Guan Yan Formation, and hand over the aftermath to others."

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, at this time, if you talk about who is the best at using soldiers and who can fight the most, it is not Wu Sangui.

In the late Ming Dynasty, there were three strongest armies, one was the Tianxiong army of Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of the five provinces, about 20,000 people, and most of his troops were killed in battle, and the rest were shared by Hong Chengchou and Zuo Liangyu.

The second Qin army of Shaanxi governor Sun Chuanting was about 10,000 people, and the court died and the army was scattered.

The third is the strongest Guanning Iron Cavalry, about 40,000 people, the cavalry of the Ming Army is mainly concentrated here for Yuan Chonghuan to form, after Yuan's death, about 15,000 troops for Wu Sangui obtained, Guanning Iron Cavalry is the ancient top ten victorious corps.

To this day, only Wu Sangui is left of the three strong armies, and good steel is used on the blade, and has been stationed at Shanhaiguan in Liaodong.

"Third, immediately summon the generals who are abroad, King Qin"

Chang Yu knows that it is in vain to give the order to King Qin, at this time Chongzhen has lost control over the generals abroad, there are few people who bird him, in history he ordered King Qin, Liu Zeqing, Zuo Liangyu and others to find various reasons to refuse to go north to rescue, even Wu Sangui has been delayed in entering the customs, leaving the cabinet Chen Yan, Wei Zaode is afraid of being responsible and does not dare to agree, repeatedly delayed, Wu Sangui himself is also dragging and grinding along the way, and Beijing City was broken halfway, only Tang Ping, the general soldier of Jizhen Town, took 9,000 people to Juyong Pass, but at that time the general trend had gone, so Lao Tang naturally opened the city gate.

Why is there no one to be a king? This is also the biggest embarrassment in the late Ming Dynasty, the courtiers dare not take responsibility, they shirk each other, they all follow the golden mean and live a chaotic life, the military has no soldiers and no pay will not obey the order, either surrender or escape, the main reason is that everyone thinks that the Ming Dynasty is going to finish, and they don't want to follow the old Zhu family to the black, it is better to maintain their strength and wait for the price to sell, especially Wu Sangui guards the important land of the throat of the Ming Dynasty, and it is the object of many parties.

Therefore, since the death of Sun Chuanting, the most loyal and obedient general, there is a saying that "the court dies and dies".

"I'm going to see my father now," Zhu Cihong said and was about to leave, but was stopped by Chang Yu

"There is another thing, the Beijing camp is the last line of defense in the capital, although it is rotten, but it may not be too late to do your best, and it may not be too late to make amends.

Zhu Cihong nodded: "Who do you think is more reliable?" ”

"Which of those who died for the country and the monarch is not more reliable than Li Guozhen, as for which one is suitable, I don't dare to say anything, you just need to say it to the emperor, presumably he has his own conclusion."

Zhu Cihong nodded and left, Chang Yu took a long breath: I have done my best, I don't need more than the army and salary, I will help you raise the salary, you can't transfer this soldier, it depends on you whether you can fight or not.

Thinking of the military salary, Chang Yu hurriedly ran to the gate of the palace and called Zhu Cihong, who had already walked a long way: "Prince, is the silver coming back?" ”

Zhu Cihong, who was about to walk out of the prince's mansion, turned his head and frowned: "Not yet, I plan to ask for it in the afternoon, I won another 200,000 last night, and Zhu Laogou lost more than 100,000 yuan in redemption, I was almost mad, and Xu Yunzhen also lost nearly 40,000 taels."

Chang Yu nodded: "You enter the palace first, and I will accompany you to ask for silver in the afternoon, let's make a big fuss today and sulk."

Zhu Cihong nodded vigorously, Chang Yu's words were so heartwarming that he was holding back a fire in his heart and was about to vent, this proposal was great.

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