Tianlang was still thinking about summoning a few back, and shouted in his mouth: "I haven't finished crepe, you guys are leaving!" Hmph, then I'll tell the vast sky. 'The cold goes with the night, and the spring comes with the fifth watch. His complexion changed in the air, and his face returned secretly. The scenery is unconscious, and it has been painted with plum in the back garden. ”

After finishing the three poems, Tianlang was secretly happy in his heart, because he could finally memorize the last poem. It's a pity that everyone is playing their own games, no one encourages his vassal elegance, Tianlang smiled helplessly, and said: Okay, it's best to leave me alone to enjoy this snow scene, everyone in the world knows how to appreciate flowers, but how many people know the benefits of this snow?

Took advantage of the excitement to go to Dongting, but in the end he was alone, Tianlang was still happy at first, until he found that the women who had never seen the snow were very happy, and almost forgot about him, on the way back, Tianlang has been bowing his head and not saying anything. Several women were still the same, ignoring Tianlang when he was angry. As soon as he entered the door, the celebrant and the attendant all reported to the country: "Long live the lord, there are four adults, Li Dingguo, Du Yinxi, Hao Yongzhong, and Gao Bizheng, who have been waiting outside for a long time. ”

Tianlang raised his hand: "Oh? Then please come in. After a short time, the four accompanying important ministers of the court and the central government walked quickly to salute. Tianlang said lazily: "You are flat, the dynasty has already ended, the sun is about to set, you must have something important here." Say it quickly and I know. ”

Gu Yinxi spoke first: "Long live Xie, just got the report, our army has suffered another defeat in Henan recently, Jierharang is currently dividing the troops into two roads, respectively in Nanyang, Luoyang defeated Wang Jincai's two troops, Liyang Bo Wang Jincai has now divided his troops to retreat to Zhuyang Pass, Wuguan and two places. In addition, the reinforcements of the Qing army in Nanzhili, Zuo Mengeng, have arrived in Xuzhou a few days ago, with a strength of about 100,000 troops, and Zheng Chenggong's troops are obviously inferior. Now Zheng Chenggong has been forced to retreat to Fengyang and Yangzhou by Zuo Mengeng's reinforcements, and Zheng Chenggong's siege of the northern part of Nanjing is about to collapse. ”

Before he finished speaking, Gao Bizheng said impatiently: "Long live, in the past few years, our old Gao has not caught a decent battle, and this time no matter where the battlefield is, I also want to go." It seems that Nanjing's current bustle is not small, I asked myself to lead reinforcements to break the enemy, do you think? In the past few years, our old Gao has accompanied the emperor to drink and make trouble every day, and his reputation has stinked on the street. It's all because of you, well, you have to help me get back this ruined reputation! ”

Seeing that a group of comrades-in-arms are now killing in various battlefields, Gao Bizheng couldn't hold back his yearning for galloping on the battlefield, and hurried ahead of other generals, wanting to compete for the opportunity to lead troops to fight this time. Tianlang smiled approvingly at him and said, "Old Gao, plan and then act." Your previous reputation was not worth a few dollars, even if you lose it, it doesn't matter. But let's do some deliberation first, we have to carefully study the situation first, and see if we have a chance of winning this time. Let's let Rujing (Li Dingguo's character) and Yongzhong also talk about it. ”

Li Dingguo and Hao Yongzhong heard Tianlang's words, and they each gave in, and in the end, Hao Yongzhong, who was still relatively uncalm, said first: "The minister thinks that Henan's Jierharang can take advantage of Liyangbo in this battle, just because he has more troops than Liyangbo." And if we can dispatch troops from Wuchang, Jiujiang, and Tongguan to Henan, Jierharang will definitely take care of one and lose the other. If one of them can seek a decisive battle with Zilharang and contain his main force, and finally the other two will outflank Jilharang together with Li Yangbo, then Jilharang will be defeated. There are also Nanjing, Fengyang is the place of my Ming Longxing, if you can be determined to recover, the shock to the Tartars and the encouragement of the morale of my Ming army and people are naturally not comparable to the recovery of other regions. The minister thought that the army of Jierharang had been trapped in the south of the Yangtze River for a long time and had long been tired, and he had observed that he had been in Wuchang and Jiujiang, and he could not hold out for more than a few months. And he never dared to send troops to fight against our army, he must have long been jealous of our army, so the minister thought that it would not be difficult to defeat Zilharang. Bashan and Hong Chengchou in Nanjing were besieged for a long time, and Zuo Menggeng's troops were the least combat-effective in the Qing army. Therefore, the recovery of Nanzhili is also just around the corner, and the day when Zuo Mengeng and Hong Chengchou will be annihilated is not far away. I implore the Lord to kill these two traitors to set an example. ”。

Hao Yongzhong's words were very appreciative of Tianlang, and his grasp of the overall situation and his meticulous analysis of the enemy were reasonable. It seems that his growth has been evident during this time. After hearing this, Tianlang couldn't help but nod and praise: "Yongzhong, the person who can say these words can be worthy of the Ming Dynasty's strategist and think tank!" Ha ha. Although Hao Yongzhong blushed a little embarrassed, he was very useful to Tianlang's praise.

Tianlang looked at Li Dingguo again at this time, and motioned for him to analyze it as well. Li Dingguo found Tianlang's expression, and said knowingly: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the time is basically ripe for one or two general battles with the Tartars at this time. In the past, the Qing army concentrated the main force too much in order to clear out the rebel army in Shanxi, so the situation at that time was quite unfavorable to our army's strategic assumption of seeking to gradually consume the living forces of the Qing army. And now that Nanjing has been besieged for a long time, although Hong Chengchou has not been committal to us several times to surrender, the minister thinks that this is only because of the timing. There were many loyal generals of the Qing court in Nanjing, so Hong Chengchou was quite constrained. Now the Qing court sent Zuo Menggeng south to support Nanjing, and the minister thought that this move was more like Dolgon's temptation. It is used to observe the direction of our army's main attack, and to decoy our main force to go to destroy Zuo Mengeng, and he will wait for the opportunity to fight with me again. The decisive battle at Tongjierharang in Henan, as envisaged by General Hao, was difficult to achieve. Although it seems that this Jierharang seems to be desperately expanding his control over Henan, the minister believes that he should still take holding the banks of the Yellow River with Kaifeng and Luoyang as the final goal and bottom line, and it is unlikely that he will continue to greatly expand his sphere of influence to the south in the future. Before exposing his final bottom line, he will successively carry out small-scale extensions throughout Henan, but not on the offensive, but on active defense. If, in the future, once our army chooses Henan as the main battlefield, he will immediately shrink his forces to the front line of Kaifeng and Luoyang to wait for reinforcements. Shanxi's Azig defense is also secondary to the south of Daizhou, and the focus is on Datong. The layout of these three Qing armies is actually to attract our army to attack, and they are all bait for the main army of Dolgon. Dolgon's real purpose was to wait for our army to eat any of his corps in Shanxi, Henan, and Nanjing, and then he would press it with his main force. Then we were forced to engage in a strategic decisive battle with the Qing army in a cavalry field pattern that was conducive to the Qing army, and asked Your Majesty to observe it. ”