[214] Wu Sangui's decision

In Liaoyang City, Song Youliang is holding an important meeting, which is not only an analysis meeting, but also a mobilization meeting. In Liaodong Province, officials above the general level of 1,000 attended this meeting, which later became the "Liaoyang Confrontation".

Song Youliang said straight to the point: "Don't think that Li Zicheng claims to have millions of troops and swept the north with lightning speed. What I want to say is that the faster he enters Beijing, the faster he will be defeated in the future. ”

Gu Junen used to be Li Zicheng's subordinate, and he first asked: "Li Zicheng can eat the same food and wear the same clothes as ordinary soldiers, and he can win the hearts of the army." Now there are not millions of soldiers and horses under his command, but also four or five hundred thousand, and there is the incomparably brave Liu Zongmin to kill the enemy for him, and the resourceful Niu Jinxing to offer him advice. Why do you say that you will lose, and you will lose quickly? ”

Song Youliang said with a smile: "If you want to achieve great things, the time, the place, and the people are all indispensable." Let me first talk about the time of the day: The so-called time of the day means that Li Zicheng will face the threat of the plague. Li Zicheng's army arrived in Beijing in mid-March, but since last autumn, large-scale plagues have appeared in Beijing and Tianjin, only because of the low temperature in winter, the spread of the plague has slowed down, and in March, the spring flowers are warm, the peach is red and the apricots are white, fleas and rats begin to be active, and the large-scale plague breaks out naturally. Because of the high mortality rate of the plague, I would venture to guess that it is not surprising that the defenders of Peking lost their combat effectiveness for a short time and then surrendered, so Li Zicheng occupied Beijing without a major battle. Because the military lives in groups, especially the lower ranks of the soldiers are crowded in crowded tents, once someone is infected, it can spread quickly. ”

"So what is location?" Gu Junen asked

"The so-called geographical advantage means that Li Zicheng will face the dilemma of lack of food." Song Youliang said with a smile: "Since Chengzu moved the capital to Beijing, Gyeonggi's grain has relied on the supply of southeastern Jiangsu and Zhejiang. According to Jinyiwei's report, starting this spring, the grain supply to Beijing has been interrupted in various localities, and the grain savings of the Beijing government have been exhausted. When the Dashun army entered and besieged Beijing, the soldiers defending the city had no fighting spirit for many months without paying rice, and the lack of food had made the army discouraged, and the soldiers no longer obeyed the orders and commands of the officers and generals. ”

Hearing this, Gu Junen seemed to understand some of the truths, and he nodded slightly in approval. At this time, Li Xin interjected: "What's even worse is that Li Chuang also put forward the slogan of free food for three years, which could trick the poor people into joining Li Chuang's army at the beginning, but now? Li Chuang has just entered Beijing, and he will not lose his word to the people so quickly, and the food and drink of hundreds of thousands of horses has become a problem. So the only solution to this dilemma is to ask those old men in Beijing for money. ”

The scheming Sun Chuanting said with a smile: "This is also to drink water to quench your thirst, because the thieves get gold and silver, not grain, and now in Hebei and Shanxi, the high price of grain is terrifying, and even money can't buy food." Li Chuang wanted food, so he had to buy it from Jiangnan and transfer it to the north. Although the Jiangnan area was a peaceful corner at that time, with few disasters and famines, and wars, Jiangnan was controlled by the forces of King Fu, and it was impossible to buy and transport grain. And Li Zicheng's pursuit of salary in the capital will definitely make people panic. At the beginning of the change of dynasty, the most important thing is to stabilize people's hearts. Now that people's hearts are not stable, Li Zicheng is anxious to settle accounts after the autumn, this is the so-called loss of people! ”

Song Youliang still smiled: "The teacher just said one of the points, the geographical crisis that Li Zicheng is facing, and there are others. Listen to me one by one. Li Zicheng's peasant army was always in a state of mobile combat, and after Li Zicheng advanced into Henan, he implemented the policy of "cutting the rich and helping the poor" and "free grain." It was warmly supported by the vast number of poor peasants, and the peasant army achieved brilliant military results and conquered dozens of prefectures and counties. Li Zicheng's peasant army turned from a disadvantage to an advantage. The rapid growth of the contingent and the sharp turn for the worse have objectively provided favorable conditions. It is a pity that Li Zicheng did not take advantage of these favorable conditions, but broke the city and went down to the city, abandoned it but did not defend it, occupied a lot of territory but did not have a backyard to defend and retreat, from the 14th to the 17th year of Chongzhen's three-year peasant army's combat process, from Henan, Shaanxi, Shanxi and other places to the war in more than three years, basically still in a state of frequent mobile operations. ”

"What the lord said is extremely true~!" Gu Junen said: "The reason why Han Gaozu was able to be defeated by Xiang Yu many times and not die was the result of Xiao He's continuous support from the money and food people in Guanzhong. ”

Song Youliang nodded appreciatively, and continued: "First of all, in fact, Li Zicheng was originally a very suspicious and jealous person. As early as when he attacked and killed Luo Rucai, this kind of character had already been revealed. Li Zicheng is good at attacking, Luo Rucai is good at defending, and everyone in the army knows about it. Luo is really his right-hand man. Just because he suspected that he wanted to accept the Ming army's recruitment, he killed him without any real evidence and swallowed up his men, which greatly weakened the strength of the peasant army and caused dissatisfaction among many people, especially the "Fifth Battalion of the Left Revolution". Li Zicheng turned against them as soon as he entered Beijing, and it can be said that the factor had been planted at this time. Secondly, it is also likely that his many years of conquest and career will make Zicheng more inclined to pay more attention to the battle of Liu Zongmin, who charges into battle with real swords and guns, and despises the "soft" strategists who can attract the people and endanger the enemy. In fact, a reckless man like Liu Zongmin is only worthy of being called a fighting general. "Sun Tzu's Art of War" has a cloud: "Those who win a hundred battles are also those who are not good; Those who surrender without a fight, and those who are good are also good, Liu Zongmin is far from being able to win a hundred battles. ”

Song Youliang tapped the table with his knuckles and said, "In addition, Jun En just said that Li Zicheng can eat and live with ordinary soldiers, and he has won the hearts of the army. I even heard that he was commensurate with Liu Zongmin's brothers, and that he was like a brother and sister to such generals, and often walked hand in arm. This friendship undoubtedly made it difficult for Li Zicheng to exercise the authority of the monarch. Those who lead soldiers know that Ci does not lead soldiers, but must lead soldiers and establish authority first. Jinyiwei came to report, saying that Li Zicheng had asked Liu Zongmin not to kill too many people when he was chasing money, and guess how Liu Zongmin answered: The power of the emperor belongs to you, and the power of torture belongs to me. ”

Everyone laughed dumbly when they heard this

In the end, it was Li Zicheng who neglected the construction of the local government, and Li Zicheng sent officials to some prefectures and counties in Huguang before and after the establishment of the central power in Xiangyang, thus taking the first step towards the building of political power. It can also be used as a reserve foothold in the event of a military defeat, however, Li Zicheng did not, took this lightly, did not pay attention to it, and led the main force to advance to Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Beijing, which is called a lone army going deep. In addition, Li Zicheng received some generals from the Ming Dynasty, but let them continue to defend the place. As long as Li Zicheng suffers a defeat on the front line, they will be like Yuan Shao in Hebei after the defeat in Guandu, and they will defect one after another. ”

Liu Tichun, Tian Jianxiu, Zhang Nai, and others are all Li Zicheng's old department, and when they heard Song Youliang analyze Li Zicheng's shortcomings and weaknesses, they were all silent, thinking that they were fortunately on the right side.

Zhou Guoqing listened to Song Youliang's analysis, and his heart suddenly brightened, and he said: "General, then let's send troops on the same day without further ado!" ”

"Send troops?" Song Youliang smiled, "It's not time yet, we still have to wait for someone!" ”

"The general is talking about Wu Sangui, right?" Li Xin said with a smile

"Not bad~~ Shanhaiguan is in front of us, if Wu Sangui doesn't stand on our side, I will call to follow the first emperor!" Pan Yuzhu said

Song Youliang smiled and said: "Don't worry, within half a month, Wu Sangui will take the initiative to come to Guishun, everyone is well prepared these days, we will enter the customs at any time." ”

"Order~" The generals agreed with a bang

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It is said that when Wu Sangui, who received the holy decree and went to King Qin, arrived at Fengrun, which was not far from Beijing, the news of the fall of Beijing came. So he ordered the troops to return to Shanhaiguan and station.

Wu Sangui is just like a duckweed with no support. In this undulating wave, he missed his beloved, and when he thought of her fate, his heart couldn't help but shudder!

That person is Chen Yuanyuan

"Is something really going to happen? No, it won't...... Don't guess yet, maybe no one will be able to find her, she's ...... life" Wu Sangui's heart has been beating very hard these days, and the eyelids of her right eye are also picking non-stop. For the first time, Wu Sangui was in a dangerous situation where the army was in a dilemma, and he didn't even think about how to advance and retreat, but thought about Chen Yuanyuan, he didn't even think about what would happen to his mother and family......

The meeting is like a dream, and the oath is like the wind.

Wu Sangui can't live without Chen Yuanyuan, if Yuanyuan has three long and two short, I will ...... What will I do?

Wu Sangui was still thinking about Chen Yuanyuan.

Three days later, Hosaku brought back his father's letters from Beijing.

"Sangui my son, the Dashun army has fallen into the city, and his father and ministers have surrendered. There is nothing at home, and Chen Yuanyuan is also safe. The child can prepare to surrender Dashun, but he must watch how Dashun treats the Ming general. ”

Li Zicheng, who occupied Beijing, took Wu Sangui's family hostage and asked Wu Sangui's father to write him a letter in which he wrote: If he returns to Dashun, he can not only save the lives of his family, but also make him a prince. Along with the letter, there were 10,000 taels of silver and 1,000 taels of gold sent to Wu Sangui's military camp.

Wu Sangui did not surrender immediately like his former comrades-in-arms Bai Guangen and Tang Tong, and after several days of repeated consideration, the famous general, who was in his early thirties, decided to test the thoughts of his generals first. So at a routine meeting, Wu Sangui suddenly threw out the question of the collapse of the country and the death of the emperor and the question of where to go in the future. The generals could not guess what he meant, and they were silent. Wu Sangui also said, now that the messengers of King Chuang have come, should we kill them or welcome them?

Only then did everyone suddenly realize that Li Zicheng's messenger had arrived. So everyone said that no matter whether Wu Sangui fought or surrendered, they would swear allegiance to the death and follow him forever. Zu Dashou also said that everything is arranged by Wu Sangui

Wu Sangui was secretly happy in his heart, he heard what he wanted to hear. Surrender, it seems, is only a matter of time. So Wu Sangui immediately lay on the desk and replied to his father Wu Xiang: Shun'er agreed very much, and he should rectify the soldiers and horses, and go to Beijing on a certain day.

In the world, this is Niu Jinxing forcing Wu Xiang to deceive his son.

Wu Xiang was being chased by Liu Zongmin at the moment, and he was tortured all over his body, and Chen Yuanyuan had been robbed by Liu Zongmin for many days. But can this be said?

Niu Jinxing planned to trick Wu Sangui into coming to Beijing first, but people are not as good as heaven, who knew that on March 26, Wu Fu, the manager of Wu Mansion, escaped from Wu Mansion late at night and fled to Shanhaiguan overnight

When he came to Wu Sangui's mansion, he was embarrassed and Wu Fu immediately asked to see Wu Sangui.

Wu Sangui heard that it was Wu Fu, the housekeeper, and immediately summoned him.

The news brought by Wu Fu made Wu Sangui dumbfounded!

The Wu family's property was confiscated by Li Zicheng!

My father Wu Xiang was severely tortured and detained by Liu Zongmin!

The Wu family is under house arrest!

What made Wu Sangui stand the most was that Chen Yuanyuan was snatched away by Liu Zongmin......

Wu Sangui suddenly lost his reaction - he felt that the earth was turned upside down in one day, what was wrong?

Yuanyuan, father, property, family......

He felt a surge of hot blood rush over his head, and he almost collapsed...... He stood still, his face flushed to the roots of his hair, his sinuses widened with excitement, beads of sweat the size of beans appeared on his forehead, and a deep wrinkle stretched from his biting lip to his aggressive chin...... An uncontrollable anger flashed in his eyes. Such a gaze made the attendants around him panic and frightened.

"Ah Fu~~ How long has Mrs. Chen been robbed?" Wu Sangui's voice was extremely cold, as if cold water was gushing out of the underworld

"Five~five~" Wu Fu was so glared by Wu Sangui's gaze that he didn't dare to raise his head

"How is Liu Zongmin?" Wu Sangui felt that he was stupid to ask this question

"Lust~Evil Ghost in Lust~" Wu Fu replied tremblingly

Wu Sangui's teeth clicked. Suddenly, he turned and drew his sword from his weapon rack, and suddenly let out a shout that only anyone who had heard the roar of a wounded lion could imagine:

Li Zicheng——! Liu Zongmin——! ”

With a single slash, the bookcase was split with a loud bang.

When the generals heard this, they gathered in an uproar...... Wu Sangui only felt that his throat and eyes were sweet, spit out a mouthful of blood, and staggered a few steps to the ground.

The generals gathered around:

There was a panic in the room.

After a long time, Wu Sangui woke up slowly, he didn't drop a tear, but his eyes were full of red threads, and his pupils were full of blood, and he saw that the crowd was around him, and waved his hand to them:

"Let me think for a moment, every man in the tent, and in two hours the tent will be divided."

"Then the general, you ......"

"Let's go!" Wu Sangui roared angrily

The generals are gone.

Wu Sangui closed his eyes and pondered: What should I do? Entering, Li Zicheng's army has been stationed at Shanhaiguan. Retreat, where to retreat? Surrender Li Zicheng? No, never! My Yuanyuan, my concubine, my beauty, why didn't I take you with the army at the beginning, why did I let you stay alone at home, now the thieves have entered the capital, Yuanyuan has fallen into the clutches of the devil, ravaged by Li Zicheng, her delicate body, how can she resist the trampling of this gang of thieves, Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin, you pigs and dogs!

I want revenge, I want to kill these pigs and dogs. But ~~~ Wu Sangui is depressed, there are hundreds of thousands of troops, and I, Wu Sangui, am only 30,000 people, how can I repay this revenge? By the way, there is a person~~ There is a person who can, and he will definitely be able to do it. He'll be able to do it

Wu Sangui wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with his sleeve, stood up straight and looked northeast, "Someone is coming~ send a messenger to Liaoyang!" ”