"His Majesty will pay all the 100,000 pixiu to the minister, and the minister has been sleeping hard and not slacking off since he was ordered. Therefore, there was a small victory in Songshan in the front, and Jinzhou was relieved in the future. Now in the end, Lai Majesty Xià Fu, recovering Guangning, Xuexi in the past, Wang Huazhen lost the shame of his teacher, and avenged the plundering of Guangning. Today, the morale of the whole army is like a rainbow, and they all say that the death of the Jiannu clown has come. The slave chieftains were at a loss, and internal changes were frequent, and many of the people who were attached to the captives in the past had submitted letters, and they abandoned the darkness and turned to the light at the right time, and punished the Nurhachi clan. ”

The court heard the officials of the military department reading aloud this "For the Theme, the Army Recovers Guangning Shu" sent by the clipper overnight sent by Hong Chengchou, although Chongzhen has already read it several times, and almost memorized all the paragraphs and chapters in the article, but he doesn't mind listening to it again in the court.

This inscription, which was jointly performed in the names of Hong Chengchou, Zu Dashou, Qiu Minyang, Zhang Ruoqi and others, was sent to Beijing at the so-called 800-mile expedited speed on the day when the five general soldiers conquered Guangning. Of course, this is just a claim, in fact, the inscription was first written, and then the horse went to the vicinity of Jinzhou to board a sea ship, and then crossed the Bohai Bay and landed in Tianjin, and then moved forward at the limit speed of 300 miles in a day and night in Mingtang.

Although martial law was declared in the Gyeonggi area at this time because of the invasion of Abatai's troops and horses, it was still quite peaceful on the whole, because this Rao Yu Beile only swept through the Gyeonggi area like an autumn wind and headed south, and the ground in Gyeonggi was still relatively calm. And the post delivery along the way is relatively perfect, and these good news are all issued by the Liaodong front-line supervisors and supervising troops, and the specifications are super-standard, so the officials along the way naturally dare not slack off. Therefore, the report book did not stop all the way after landing in Tanggu, and the horse was not changed. In a hurry, he arrived at Beijing on August 17.

On the day the good news arrived, the entire Beijing division was in a sensation. First of all, there were several successive victories of the Ming army, and each battle was beheaded by a thousand-level theory, and it was a pseudo-Xigong Niangniang who captured the slave chieftain alive on the battlefield, but it was a pity that this Yi woman was weak, and she died without even reaching the camp in fright. However, the news of the capture of the slave chieftain and the pseudo-queen is still spreading all over Beijing and all over Gyeonggi.

Now there is more news of the recovery of Gwangning, which immediately makes the people of Gyeonggi rejoice.

Kyoshi boiled. Those who are victorious. Naturally, they also get over-spec treatment. In the early court held on August 19, Chongzhen specially held the court, and all the members were led to the imperial front by officials of Honglu Temple, and the Jieyin was read out one by one.

When the hundred officials have their own auspicious clothes, waiting for Xuanjie. The official of Honglu Temple delivered a speech. All officials bowed five times and prostrated three times. Subsequently, the Hanlin Academy wrote an article, and the Taichang Temple managed the sacrifices, and immediately sent officials to recommend the suburban temple. The Great Hang Festival celebrates.

Up and down the Beijing Division, firecrackers and thunder rang out for days, and the gentry and the people celebrated very lively.

In the battle of Jinzhou, Chongzhen was always worried about it, and he was often worried about whether the food and salary on the front line could be maintained, or how to face the rogues that spread like wildfire in the hinterland, and conquered cities everywhere. Moreover, he also had to face the constant questioning of the Chinese courtiers of the DPRK, asking him to transfer the soldiers and horses of Liaodong back to the division to eliminate the thieves.

Now after the news of the victory of the front line to recover Quang Ninh, the dragon face was immediately happy, and the sacred heart comforted him, as if he had taken a reassuring pill and settled down.

Listening to the eulogies of the courtiers in the court, Chongzhen couldn't help but smile, and he was in a very happy mood. And the eunuch specially explained to the cabinet lords: "The emperor has a will, you old gentlemen are not allowed to wear official clothes, please wear plain clothes to see the driver." ”

This is a bit of a taste of the emperor and the ministers treating each other as friends!

Several adults had family members to follow, and when they heard the will, they immediately ordered their family members to take civilian clothes and change them, and followed a few little eunuchs to the palace.

"Today, I also emulated those lords of prostitution, and set up a wine banquet in the imperial garden, and there are fresh goods sent by Li Aiqing from Jiangnan.

Several tables of sumptuous banquets have already been set up in the imperial garden, and each table is piled up with a high plate of hairy crabs from Yangcheng Lake in Suzhou, all of which are purple-backed golden claws, and they are dancing their teeth and claws, trying to break free from the shackles of the straw rope and escape, looking at the weight of seven or eight taels. Around the banquet are hundreds of pots of chrysanthemums in full bloom, Yao, Huang, Wei and Zi.

Seeing that even Chongzhen, who has always been thrifty, is so extravagant today, several cabinet bigwigs are bright, and the emperor is very interested today. Chen Xinjia couldn't help but turn red, and took the lead in kneeling on the ground: "How can Weichen and others dare to work on the emperor's wrong love, the crime deserves death!" ”

"The Zhongqing family has been suffering physically and mentally for several days, and I have prepared some thin wine, and it is also a great pleasure for you and me to drink and enjoy the flowers together today."

"The emperor's royal banquet is gratifying, Jun's grace is so deep, my generation is broken bones, and it is difficult to repay the grace of the saint."

On behalf of the cabinet, Xue Guoguan once again made a gesture of thanking God.

The hairy crab is carefully prepared by the locals of Suzhou with egg white and minced meat, although it is transported by sea bumps, but when it arrives in the palace, it is also seven or eight percent of the ten, and it is carefully fed in the imperial dining room for two days, all of them are full of meat fat.

More than a dozen young eunuchs in the imperial dining room each held a tray in their hands, and a white copper charcoal stove lit with charcoal fire on the plate was spitting flames outward. A small steamer next to the charcoal stove is delicate and cute.

Naturally, there were people waiting at the tables of the cabinet ministers, and they asked in a low voice which one the senior gentlemen planned to eat first? Pointed umbilicus or mass umbilicus? After receiving the reply, he carefully picked up the angry crab with a bamboo clamp and put it in the cage drawer.

Chen Xinjia looked at the tools placed on the table for eating crabs, small hammers, small tongs, small clips, and small tweezers made of sterling silver, which were delicate and cute.

"It seems that the emperor's interest today is really good, and he will have to recite poems for a while, so he must prepare first." Seeing that Emperor Chongzhen, who had always been thrifty, was an expensive seasonal fresh product and a delicate silver tableware today, Chen Xinjia couldn't help but praise it, and made up his mind to flatter it. Not only him, but the cabinet ministers present were all searching for dry intestines and extracting chapters and sentences. Prepare for a new poem for a while.

After a while, the soup and crab were cooked, and someone carefully put ginger vinegar and other things into the delicate porcelain plate of the official kiln, signaling that the adults could start. The little eunuchs who were waiting for the banquet next to them, under the will of Emperor Chongzhen, "Today's good party cannot be without wine", served the best Shaoxing flower carvings after scalding.

"Gentlemen, please!"

After a few cups of flowers, the atmosphere began to become warm, and the faces of the lords and gentlemen turned red under the influence of the good news of Jun's grace and the victories ahead. And the words that came out of his mouth increased.

In order to entertain the emperor and several cabinet members. Wang Chengen, who was waiting for the banquet on the side, ordered the little eunuch to take the latest issue of the mansion newspaper that was ready to be sent to the world, and read it aloud, thinking that it would be fun to accompany the wine.

However, on the eighth day of August in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Liu Zhaoji and Yang Zhuguo led the team north. Regain Quang Ninh. Quang Ninh is the gateway to mountains and seas. Trapped in the East for decades. Chinese soldiers. There is no day when I don't want to return to Guangning and avenge the loss of Guangning. Today, the Liaodong tigers will gather, and the morale is like a rainbow. Therefore, all the way through the hurdles, the gains are quite rich. The two general soldiers and soldiers as well as Quang Ninh recorded the beheading of 3,000 Dongyu, and countless armor and equipment. Tang Tong Cao changed Jiao Wang courtiers and the three general soldiers swept the fortress all the way, remembering the size of the castle twenty-eight, the east captives were extremely frightened, and there were many people who opened the fort door to beg for mercy. The officers and soldiers strictly obeyed the military orders, and all those who surrendered in Kaesong were not to blame for the past. The five general forces have now joined forces and will attack Quang Ninh in the near future. According to the insiders at the front, the chaos in the city of Guangning is not difficult, but now it is difficult, but the slave chieftain refuses to engage in the battle, retreats all the way, and fears that the decisive battle will be in Liaoshen, and it is easy to delay the time, and it will take the blood and sweat of the good people. Therefore, the five general soldiers asked one person to attack Liaoshen and cut off the way back to the east. ”

Everyone present knew very well that the only candidate for the so-called special dispatch of a general to attack Liaoshen was Ning Yuanbo and Li Shouhan's troops. There is no doubt about this.

"Gentlemen, this crab, these seasonal melons and fruits were ordered by Ning Yuanbo to be procured in Jiangnan, Lingnan, and Nanzhong, and sent by fast boat. Accompanying the ship was a notebook claiming that the soldiers, horses, money, and food were ready, and that the army could go north as soon as the ships were fully deployed. ”

"Tomorrow, once this newspaper is published in the world, a group of thieves in Liaodong will know that their death is coming, and they will be helpless!"

Emperor Chongzhen's cheeks were also crimson, and he muttered in his mouth.

"Your Majesty, it is reported that Dongnu is also quarreling and disturbing internally. Seeing that my rebellious army was conquering the heavens with the power of thunder, and it was getting closer and closer to its old nest Shenyang, the internal panic of the Liao thieves was frequent, and the slave chief Huang Taiji killed several puppet kings in a row to calm the situation, and the various departments of the Eight Banners of Dongnu were arguing endlessly about whether to flee north or west. ”

It is reported that since the Liaodong Hongdu Division raised the army to fight, it has annihilated more than 200,000 Dongnu and beheaded tens of thousands. When he marched to Guangning, he encountered the elite of the two white flags, and was suspected of killing the Liao thief puppet king Murgen Daiqing. In addition to the person who captured Huang Taiji's pseudo-Xigong Empress Hai Lanzhu a few days ago, his pseudo-queen Yi woman was called a philosopher, who fell ill due to fear, and died on the way to Shenyang, but he had a good death! The Liao thief hypocrisy prince pursued for our army, and when he fled, he panicked, his war horse was in turmoil, and he fell into the cliff and his bones were gone! ”

For a while, all kinds of true and false half-truths and half-truths flew all over the sky on this occasion at the highest level of the Ming Dynasty, and this practice of fooling each other and hypnotizing each other really worked well. The monarchs and ministers nodded frequently and were overjoyed.

However, there are also people who are dissatisfied with Li Shouhan's behavior and exude it through the intention of drinking.

"Your Majesty, when the situation on the front line in Liaodong was not very clear, he also issued an order repeatedly urging Ning Yuanbo's soldiers and horses to go north to solve the urgent need, but Ning Yuanbo had all kinds of reasons to prevaricate, either the soldiers and horses were not even, or the ships were not enough, how could the good news come today, and his question book also arrived? And claim to be able to go north immediately? What is this not a bully? ”

Chongzhen was happy today, and he didn't hear this kind of attack on Li Shouhan, but the two princes on the side kept this big nonsense person firmly in their hearts, and were ready to teach this guy a lesson at the right time, so that he could know what would happen to the owner who offended others.

Xue Guoguan was also shocked when he heard such words, he was also shocked into a cold sweat, this unknown thing! Although Li Shouhan did not send troops and horses to the north, he provided food and silver, and his armor and weapons were continuously transported to the front line in Liaodong, how can you erase this credit?

"You're different!" Without waiting for Xue Guoguan to speak, Chen Xinjia jumped out first, "If it weren't for the fact that Ning Yuanbo and Nanjing stayed behind, garrisoned and others that day had a joint defense agreement between the river and the sea. How could the Anqing Rebellion be quelled so quickly? If Anqing is in chaos, he will besiege Shucheng in March, and in May, he will take the opportunity to learn the imperial history Xu Zhiyuan will try the scholar to pretend to be a Confucian and steal the thief Zhang Xianzhong of Luzhou, and take the opportunity to invade, and the land in the south of the Yangtze River is bound to be rubble! Can you afford this responsibility?! ”

The Anqing Rebellion that Chen Xinjia mentioned was a mutiny that took place in Anqing at the beginning of this month. At the beginning, Liao Yingdeng, the deputy commander-in-chief, led 3,000 people, and Wang Zhengguo and Li Zichun each led 1,000 people. Governor Xu Shiyin newly arrived; He also gave the Criminal Division a discussion on Liao Yingdeng's military law. This mouth cannon article was published in the newspaper before the hapless governor arrived; So Liao Yingdeng and others led the troops to make trouble and killed Xu Liangkou, the commander of the capital. Shiyin hurried from Nanjing to Anqing. At first, it was planned to transfer Liao Yingdeng's troops and horses to Taihu Lake. Wang Zhengguo, Li Zichun and other troops were transferred to Tongcheng, but the rebellious soldiers did not open up if they did not pay off the arrears on the grounds that they had been in arrears for a long time. As a result, Xu Shiyin, who was a literati official, suddenly became confused. Or with the help of the Nanjing Garrison Mansion and Xinjian Bo and other nobles. 2,000 sailors of the Nanyue Army, which were patrolling near the mouth of the Yangtze River, entered the Yangtze River and fired artillery to attack the rebels. Chaos is a certainty.

Because this mutiny was quickly put down. Zhang Xianzhong, the eighth king who originally planned to take advantage of the chaos to enter the south of the Yangtze River, had to return north, and happened to bump into Sun Yingyuan, the deputy general of the Beijing camp, and Zuo Liangyu, who was chasing after hearing the news, and fought fiercely. Xianzhong was defeated, and the three harriers, Wang Xingguo and others were killed, losing thousands of elites and countless good vest staffs.

Chongzhen is still happy to see the quarrel between the ministers, but he is reluctant to do so on this occasion today, because it really hurts the scenery.

Just as he was about to open his mouth to stop it, a little eunuch on duty outside hurriedly broke in, muttered a few words in front of Wang Dehua and Wang Chengen, and handed over a copy of the question book to the second king.

"What's the matter? Is there another good news in Liaodong? ”

"Emperor, it's not Liaodong's recital, it's Henan Governor Li Xianfeng."

Wang Dehua stammered a little and told Chongzhen.

Li Zicheng's troops and Cao Cao Luo Rucai's troops, a total of nearly 150,000 soldiers, and nearly 200,000 auxiliary soldiers, arrived at Kaifeng City on the fifth day of the first month of this month, and began to attack Kaifeng City on the eighth day of the first month.

"The thieves had 300,000 elites, bright armor and fine equipment, tens of thousands of fine firearms, large and small francs, and thousands of six-pounder cannons, and they bombarded the city day and night. The governor led the army and the people to fight with it, but there were many thieves, and they were not afraid of death, and hit them with artillery fire and bricks, and the corpses of the thieves were piled up under the city wall and the city was level. ”

In order to make up for the lack of troops defending the city, Huang Peng, the governor of Kaifeng Prefecture, erected a big white flag in Caomen, which read: "Bianliang Haojie, I am willing to set up this flag from my travelers." This move really received considerable results, and the upper-class people in Kaifeng City, "the county king, the squire, the people, and the merchants were all unwilling to join the society." "Because of the experience of Luoyang, in order to maintain their net worth, these local snakes not only took out their own property, silver, grain and weapons to supply the city for use, but also controlled the strong men, tenants, shopkeepers, and slaves under their own control to join the Yiyong Shrine, an armed force with a strong landlord armed taste, and assembled a team of tens of thousands of people in a short period of time. The leaders assigned were all clansmen, squires, and wealthy merchants.

These people are inseparable from Li Zicheng, Luo Rucai and others, and they know that as long as the city is broken, it will be their own hell immediately. Because they all hated the peasant army besieging the city, and fought bravely to snipe and kill.

However, in the face of the prepared peasant army, this resistance could only temporarily relieve the pressure on Kaifeng City.

"The thieves will be in the prefectures and counties of Henan, the artillery of the officials and soldiers has been captured all over the time, and all of them have been brought to the city of Kaifeng, and every time they attack the city, they are bound to be lined up with hundreds of large and small artillery, bombarding endlessly, bricks and stones are flying, and the cannons are raining. Before the cannon fell, tens of thousands of ant thieves swooped down on the city walls with a crowd. The soldiers can't kill them, although they know that they are all Ming children and are coerced by thieves, but if you don't kill the thief, the thief will kill you. Kill it with hatred. Among the thieves were eleven or twelve-year-old boys, jumping and jumping, carrying ropes and ladders, and going to and fro in the smoke of gunpowder. When one boy lay down, another boy picked it up, and every time the ladder was erected, dozens of boys lay in a pool of blood. ”

"Gentlemen, what will you do when you look at the battle in Kaifeng?"

Although I was in a bad mood by this short-sighted inscription, but in comparison, the matter of Kaifeng is not so much of a headache for Chongzhen, after all, it is the ancient capital of several dynasties, the city is high and the walls are thick, and the control of Henan civil and military forces for the officers and soldiers and civilians in the city is far more than Luoyang, and there is no worry for a while.

"Your Majesty, although there are a lot of thieves and the equipment is fine, but although the city of Kaifeng is high and the pond is deep, there are many enemies and I am outnumbered, and it is a pro-vassal land. Chen Xi is the own soldier, in charge of the military department, foolishly thought that the supervisor Ding Qirui and Fu Zonglong should be ordered to lead troops and horses to rescue Kaifeng, even if they can't break the siege and rescue Kaifeng, at least they can disperse the forces of the two Cao and relieve the pressure of Kaifeng. ”

This drinking and chrysanthemum appreciation meeting organized by Emperor Chongzhen immediately became a prelude to the royal prelude again.

Everyone put down their wine glasses and crab feet, and began a serious discussion on how to dispatch soldiers and horses to rescue Kaifeng.

However, according to the devil's law, once things show signs of turning in a bad direction, they are bound to get worse.

"Emperor, I just received an urgent report! The slave chieftain Abatai's department has crossed the Hejian Mansion and gone to Shandong, and the urgent report from Dezhou is that there are tens of thousands of slaves and thieves, and there are thousands of real slave Baya soldiers, all of whom are riding healthy horses, like a storm. ”

That's a bit broken! Although the number of Qing troops was not as large as Li Zicheng's troops, the victory was huge, and the officers and men in the interior feared the enemy like tigers. Often, before Jiannu arrived, they were already timid, and there were many people who abandoned the city and fled. If this group of Jiannu is sent to Henan and contacted the thieves, then the Central Plains will not be as simple as an erosion!

If the thieves of Abatai are sent to the hinterland of Shandong, then several key joints in Shandong will have to be more careful! One is the relatives everywhere, the last time Jinan fell, there happened to be Ning Yuanbo rushed to the rescue, this time I'm afraid there is no such coincidence! The two are the tombs of the saints in Qufu, once they are lost here, I am afraid that they will make the world's scholars more agitated than the thieves who burned the imperial tomb of Fengyang. The three are the canal south of Linqing, and now the autumn grain is about to be collected, and the large and small grain ships on the canal are continuous, if it is burned by Abatai, the loss will be great!

"Your Majesty, the minister advocated that the thief general Zuo Liangyu go north in the starry night and join Fu Zonglong, Ding Qirui, Liu Guoneng, Li Wanqing and other troops, so that the tens of thousands of slaves and thieves will merge with the two tribes of Cao, and drive the thieves away from eastern Henan, making it difficult for them to join the slaves and thieves. After that, I will slowly figure it out. ”

Xue Guoguan's method is more in line with Chongzhen's spleen and stomach, and he nodded slowly, "According to what Mr. sees." ”

"Ancestor! Liaodong has another emergency military situation! A little eunuch standing in the distance gestured to kill chickens and wiped his neck, and quietly called Wang Dehua out, looking quite flustered.

"It's a good thing that the military intelligence has arrived! It just so happens that the emperor is not in a happy mood, so we can take this good news to give the emperor relief! ”

"Ancestor, it seems, is not good news." The little eunuch handed over the book of the military food eunuch from Ningyuan City, and looked panicked.

Liaodong military situation mutation!

When the brigade launched an attack on Quang Ninh, and the remnants of the celebration banquet to recover Quang Ninh had not yet been removed, a series of bad news came.

The slave thief is the leader of the blue banner Haoge, leading the army out of the thousand mountains, with thousands of ironclad cavalry as the lead, sweeping dozens of miles, the Ming army guard Jizhen general soldier Bai Guangen was scattered, Jizhen general soldier Bai Guangen died in the chaos, more than 10,000 people died or surrendered, only more than 2,000 people fled to the direction of Jinzhou.

"The chariots, artillery, armor staff, weapons, grain, grass, gunpowder, cannons and other things that Jizhen has accumulated over the years are all owned by slaves and thieves! What's more, the slave thief shaved the hair of the soldiers in Jizhen and compiled it into the Baoyi Niu Lu, driving it to rush to the rear of our army, and the army was caught off guard, and the slave Huang Taiji commanded the two yellow flags, the two red flags and other troops and horses rushed in all directions, and the Hong Inspector had to temporarily defend the city of Guangning for a while, in order to break the slave thieves. ”

"The thieves set the blue flag of Jierharang, and several flags of Mongolia and eight flags, and pounced on the outside of Jinzhou again, cutting off the traffic between Jinzhou and Guangning. The slave chieftain Zierharang turned to defend and did not attack, and lined up the artillery outside Songshan City to monitor the model brigade headquarters of our Daming Beijing Battalion. ”

"In addition, the slave chief Dolgon and other elite thieves with two white flags came out of the middle of the road and slammed into Tashan Fort, and the people in the city were caught off guard and all of them were killed. The slaves and thieves of this department are now defending the city and blocking the rescue of our army. (To be continued......)