In the past six months or so, Lu Xiangsheng has indeed fulfilled the secret agreement with Xiao Tianjian, and has not made great efforts to attack Jinnan again, but has focused on training troops in Xuanda and preventing Tartars from entering the country, for which he was also reprimanded by Chongzhen, and Yang Sichang also put a lot of black bricks on Lu Xiangsheng, but Lu Xiangsheng knew that the Jiannu army might break through at any time, so he refused to transfer Xuanda's soldiers and horses south to suppress Jinnan, and only ordered the officials and troops in Shanxi to monitor the Xingtian army in Jinnan, and only fought some small battles. without launching a major offensive.

Therefore, in the past six months, the officials and armies of Yan Chongxi's department and Shanxi in the southern part of Shanxi have not fought big battles, but have continued to fight small battles, and basically no longer expand outward, fulfilling Xiao Tianjian's original promise to Lu Xiangsheng, as long as Lu Xiangsheng is still in Xuanda and responsible for Shanxi's military affairs, he will no longer expand in Shanxi, and Lu Xiangsheng is also very impressed by Xiao Tianjian's commitment to abide by it.

Moreover, Wang Chengping and Li Lingfeng, who were active in the northern Jin Dynasty, did not make any trouble for Lu Xiangsheng, stopped attacking and harassing the Xinzhou area, and instead concentrated their energy mainly on the Zhangjiakou area in the northeast of Datong Prefecture, or simply went out of the Great Wall to the Mongolian area to raid and harass, to rob the caravans of the merchants who colluded with Jiannu, or to loot some tribes in Mongolia, kill their people, and rob their horses, cattle and sheep. On the contrary, they secretly also secretly provided Lu Xiangsheng with a lot of property for Lu Xiangsheng's military training.

Through these things, Lu Xiangsheng believed that Xiao Tianjian did have great sincerity in dealing with Jiannu, anyway, although Xiao Tianjian rebelled against the court, but this can be regarded as a nest fight, and he and Lu Xiangsheng are completely consistent with Jiannu.

So in any case, in order to save a force for the imperial court that could be used to deal with Jiannu, instead of consuming them on the battlefield inside, no matter how the court urged him, he made every excuse not to launch another large-scale offensive against Jinnan, and only with the official army in Shanxi, at the moment it could not gnaw at the Xingtian army entrenched in Jinnan, so after entering the eleventh year of Chongzhen and ending the battle of Lu'anfu, the situation in Shanxi was quite calm.

But in May, Lu Xiangsheng's father died of illness, Lu Xiangsheng was very sad, and he had no intention of Xingtian military soldiers, he resigned many times, asking to resign from the current position of governor of Xuanda, and return to his hometown to guard his father's tomb, but Yang Sichang secretly obstructed many times, and Chongzhen also thought that Lu Xiangsheng should be a usable talent, at this time Lu Xiangsheng Zhishi, no one in Xuanda was in charge, and Shanxi was more afraid that the situation would be erosive, so he repeatedly did not allow it, and ordered Lu Xiangsheng to stay in office with filial piety.

Lu Xiangsheng was also very dissatisfied with Yang Sichang for this reason, but considering his secret agreement with Xiao Tianjian, he was afraid that after he really became a scholar, Xingtianjun would be free of the shackles of this secret agreement, and would once again raid in Shanxi, and finally for various reasons, Lu Xiangsheng had to choose to stay in office.

After the Qing army entered the customs at the end of September, Lu Xiangsheng received Zhu Youzhen's holy decree, and immediately began to act, leading 20,000 or 30,000 Xuanda and Shanxi's soldiers and horses, and rushed out of Shanxi to the capital.

But Lu Xiangsheng was afraid that as soon as he left, Xiao Tianjian would act again in Shanxi on the grounds that he had left Xuanda, so before he set off from Xuanda to Beijing, he still wrote a letter by himself, and sent his slave Li Qi to rush to Jinnan with this letter, find someone from Xingtianjun, and give this letter to Xiao Tianjian.

As the Jiannu army is getting closer and closer to the Beijing Division, the scale of the Jiannu into the Kou is gradually known by the Beijing Division, when it is learned that the Jiannu sent so many troops, the Beijing Division is in an uproar, everyone knows that the current Ming officials and troops are not enough to hold at all, the generals are greedy and afraid of death, each is afraid of the Jiannu into the tiger wolf, not to mention the leadership of the troops to fight to the death, they are afraid to avoid it, even the Guanning Army, which is called the first male soldier of the Ming Dynasty by the government and the opposition, is almost a virtue, and the Jiannu Army will collapse and flee, at most it is hiding in the city, Seeing the Jiannu swaggering under the city, plundering around the city, allowing them to slaughter the people of the Ming Dynasty at will, taking young and strong men and women into slaves, snatching the people's money and grain, and a large number of livestock were also taken away by them.

And the Jiannu army has already seen the weakness of the Ming army, and does not put the Ming army in their eyes at all, after entering the customs, in the north of the Beijing division, such as entering a no-man's land, attacking the city and pulling out the village to fight the Ming army can not parry at all, the soldiers quickly pointed to the capital, this situation, as a cabinet minister, Yang Sichang and the eunuch Gao Qiqian, the chief eunuch of the supervising army, are very afraid.

Even Chongzhen, who has been unwilling to bow his head to Jiannu, at this time, began to be afraid, and now Chongzhen is also very clear that the Ming Dynasty is not as good as a day, the generals are becoming more and more disobedient, and there are not many people who can do things in the civil ministers.

For how to face such a situation, whether it is Chongzhen or Yang Sichang and others, they all agree that the most important thing at the moment is to solve the internal problems first, and solve the Xingtian Army that is currently "wreaking" in Henan before they can turn around and deal with Jiannu outside the Guan, so they all came up with the idea of wanting to be soft on Jiannu, to put it bluntly, it is to compromise with Jiannu first, Yang Sichang, who is now a favorite minister, was keenly aware of Chongzhen's war-fearing thoughts, so he secretly began to consider, How to compromise on the matter of Jiannu comes.

But the government and the opposition also began to perceive this wind direction, and there was an uproar immediately, not to mention, although the ability of the Ming officials is not strong, but in terms of Jiannu, it is unusually tough, and there are not many people who support the compromise on Jiannu, so that Chongzhen and Yang Sichang and others want to compromise with Jiannu, but they dare not say it in a big way, so they can only discuss secretly, and secretly send people to Jiannu to discuss the matter of land cession and compensation.

But this kind of thing is impossible to accept for people like Lu Xiangsheng, after Lu Xiangsheng entered Beijing, he had a conflict with Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian, in Lu Xiangsheng's view, now the Jiannu soldiers are in the city, but Yang Sichang wants to sign an alliance with Jiannu, it is simply unrealistic, even if he compromises with Jiannu, he must fight with Jiannu fiercely, and after Jiannu is beaten back, it is not too late to talk about this matter, at least you can get the weight of the negotiation, and you don't have to pay too much price.

However, Chongzhen and Yang Sichang and others were afraid that Jiannu's army was too strong, and they didn't think that the current Ming army had any possibility of winning, rather than wasting the troops at hand in the battle with Jiannu, it was better to preserve their strength, and then concentrate their forces to destroy Henan's Xingtian army.

Regardless of whether they thought right or not, but in this case, the important ministers below Chongzhen were bent on making peace and avoiding war everywhere, so that Lu Xiangsheng, the nominal governor of the world, could not do his best to deal with the Jiannu army, and the eunuchs of the supervising army controlled all the soldiers and horses of the Guanning army and the Beijing camp, so that Lu Xiangsheng could only control the 20,000 soldiers and horses of Xuanda Shanxi on hand after leading his troops into the guard.

Although after he entered the guard, he led his troops to fight a few battles with the Jiannu army around the Beijing Division, and recovered some of the prefectures and counties captured by Jiannu, but after entering November, Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian distributed the soldiers and horses under Lu Xiangsheng's command to Chen Xinjia, who newly replaced Lu Xiangsheng as the governor of Xuanda, more than half of them, so that Lu Xiangsheng did not have many troops on hand.

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