After taking Quang Binh Mansion, Gao Jie did not stay long, but continued to advance north.

To the north of Guangping Mansion is Shunde Mansion, which leads nine counties and is one thousand miles away from Beijing.

During the Hongzhi period, there were 21,614 households in the whole government, and 181,825 mouths. In the sixth year of Wanli, there were 27,633 households and 281,957 mouths.

But in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, there were only more than 10,000 households left in Shunde Prefecture, and more than 90,000 people.

Of course, drought and locust plagues are important causes, but the more important reasons are military chaos and man-made disasters.

During the Chongzhen period, Dongyu repeatedly committed border breaches and plundered Qifu. Shunde Prefecture, which is under the jurisdiction of Beizhili, is also not spared.

In the eleventh year of Chongzhen, a great war broke out here that shocked the government and the opposition, and the two warring sides were the Ming army led by the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Lu Xiangsheng.

On August 23 of the 11th year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji ordered Prince Rui Dolgon to be ordered to lead the left wing army as a general, and Feng Belle Yuetuo was the general of Yangwu to lead the right wing army, and Belle Dudu and others marched to the Ming Dynasty.

On September 22, Yue Tuo broke into the Kou from the Ziling of the Miyun Wall and killed Wu Aheng, the governor of Jiliao in the Ming Dynasty. Shortly thereafter, Dolgon's Left Wing Army broke through the wall at Castle Peak Pass on 28 September.

The two armies finally met in Tongzhou and approached Beijing.

Emperor Chongzhen was shocked and ordered martial law in Beijing. At the same time, Emperor Chongzhen gave Lu Xiangsheng, who was the governor of Xuanda at the time, the sword of Shangfang, to lead the soldiers and horses of the king of Qin.

However, it is said that he commands the soldiers and horses of the world, but the only people that Lu Xiangsheng can really command are the more than 20,000 soldiers and horses he brought from Xuanda and the tens of thousands of Guan Ning troops commanded by the eunuch Gao Qiqian.

The Ming army did not have a numerical advantage over the Eight Banners Army led by Dolgon and Yue Tuo, but if they were united, they were not without the strength to fight under the leadership of Lu Xiangsheng.

But the problem is that at this time, Emperor Chongzhen already had the idea of negotiating peace, and sent Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the military department, to contact the Qing army privately to discuss the details of peace.

Yang Sichang, a scholar of Dongge University, and Gao Qi, the eunuch of the supervising army, thought about it, and knew that Emperor Chongzhen wanted to negotiate peace, so they repeatedly suppressed Lu Xiangsheng of the main battle faction. If you want grain and grass, you will not be given grain and grass, and if you want armor, you will not be given armor.

Gao Qiqian also asked Lu Xiangsheng to divide the troops on the grounds of saving his family for Daming.

Lu Xiangsheng had no choice but to agree to Gao Qiqian after repeated efforts to no avail, and Gao Qiqian would lead the Guanning army, and Lu Xiangsheng would lead the Xuan army.

The Ming army was thus divided.

After this division of troops, Lu Xiangsheng's troops were greatly reduced, but he still took the initiative to attack, went out of the Beijing division, passed through Zhuozhou, arrived in Baoding, and finally launched an encounter with the Qing army in Qingdu.

Lu Xiangsheng won this battle, and he won it very beautifully.

At that time, Yang Sichang and Lu Xiangsheng had personal grievances, and they didn't want to watch Lu Xiangsheng make meritorious contributions, so they asked Emperor Chongzhen to hand over part of Lu Xiangsheng's soldiers and horses to Chen Xinjia to achieve the purpose of checks and balances.

Emperor Chongzhen agreed.

As a result, Chen Xinjia took away 20,000 Xuanda elites from Lu Xiangsheng, leaving less than 5,000 old and weak soldiers to the Xuanda governor.

This is the second division of troops, and after this division of troops, Lu Xiangsheng no longer has the strength to fight with the Qing army. If you force yourself to fight, you will definitely be defeated and killed.

But he knew very well that with Emperor Chongzhen's character, if he didn't take the initiative to fight, he would definitely be arrested and escorted back to Beijing by the emperor on the charge of passive slacking in the war, and he would probably suffer the severed head.

This is absolutely unacceptable to Lu Xiangsheng. Whether he decided to take the initiative to seek a showdown with the Qing army.

This is very similar to Zhuge Liang, who played the teacher's table before the Northern Expedition, knowing that he could not do it, just to be worthy of heaven and earth, and worthy of his heart.

On the march, Lu Xiangsheng met the people who spontaneously rushed from the Daimyo's mansion. After they saw Lu Xiangsheng, they all persuaded him to move to the Daimyo Mansion to rest and recuperate.

But Lu Xiangsheng refused.

He knew that he would lose this battle, and he didn't want to lead the war disaster to the Daimyo's Mansion again, so that the people of the Daimyo's Mansion would die in vain.

An army of lonely deer!

In December of the eleventh year of Chongzhen, Lu Xiangsheng led his troops to Julu Jiazhuang.

At the Artemisia Bridge not far from Jiazhuang, Lu Xiangsheng encountered the main force of the Qing army. He once sent people to break through to Gao Qiqian for help, and at this time, Gao Qiqian, who led tens of thousands of Guanning iron horses, was stationed in Jize, which was less than fifty miles away from Jiazhuang.

As a result, Gao Qiqian completely ignored Lu Xiangsheng's request for help, and allowed the Qing army to surround Lu Xiangsheng and encroach on it step by step.

Lu Xiangsheng shouted to kill the captives and repay the country, and led 5,000 Erlang to fight hard until the bullets were exhausted and the whole army was annihilated.

When Gao Jie led the army to Julu Jiazhuang, he specially ordered the army to be stationed, and he went to the Artemisia Bridge alone to pay his respects.

Six years have passed, and now there are no traces of the war next to the Artemisia Bridge, only small mounds and clusters of weeds remain, which is very desolate.

Gao Jie turned over and dismounted, took out the cowhide wine bag and sprinkled the wine and said: "Inspector Lu, the traitor killed you by misleading the country, Gao Mou knows that you are not blind to death, you want to see with your own eyes the day when the Ming Dynasty Zhongxing is exterminated." Now that Dongyu has entered the borders of Kegyeonggi, Henan, Shanxi, and Shaanxi, the world is in danger. Gao was ordered by His Majesty to lead the army to the north, vowing to regain the lost land of the Ming Dynasty. I also hope that Inspector Lu will bless Gao's Northern Expedition to win the whole field! ”

It stands to reason that Gao Jie and Lu Xiangsheng's backgrounds are completely different.

Gao Jie was born in a rogue, while Lu Xiangsheng was the governor of Xuanda and the minister of governorship.

Even after Gao Jie descended to Ming, he only became the chief soldier.

A civil servant and a military general do not have much intersection between the two.

But Gao Jie admires Lu Xiangsheng from the bottom of his heart and admires this kind of loyal and upright minister.

There were countless governors of the Chongzhen Dynasty, but the only ones who could really make Gao Jie admire were Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting.

Both of them were martyred, so that Emperor Chongzhen was unavailable when Li Zicheng came to Beijing, what an irony.

After the news of Emperor Chongzhen's hanging, Gao Jie even thought that the Ming Dynasty was about to be destroyed in the past three hundred years.

Fortunately, Emperor Chongzhen's eldest son, Zhu Cihong, the prince of the East Palace, made a series of moves after ascending the throne that made Gao Jie see hope again.

Pro-virtuous ministers, far villains, rectification of officials, and suppression of the dynasty.

This is definitely the Wise Sage, the Lord of Zhongxing!

What makes Gao Jie most gratified is that he is an active main battle faction.

Even the first emperor Chongzhen once had the idea of negotiating peace with Dongyu.

Now, as early as the beginning of the practice of Zuo, he had said to the six ministries and nine qings that those who dared to speak out and negotiate with the East were dead.

This is the most direct statement, with the statement of the Son of Heaven, Gao Jie and these generals dare to throw off their arms and fight with the Qing army to the end.

Gao Jie hasn't read any books and doesn't understand too many big truths. But he knew that this world was the world of the Han people, not the world of the Dongyu.

If the East Captives take the country, then the people of the land of Shenzhou will not lose the country but the world.

When the family and the country are in danger, someone has to stand up. There were Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting before, and now it's his turn to be Gao Jie!

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