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Since the Ming Dynasty moved the capital to the north and set the capital in Beijing, the political and cultural center of the Ming Dynasty as a whole began to move northward, and at the same time, a large number of people also moved north, so that on the one hand, the population of the north grew rapidly, and at the same time, a large number of northern land was developed, and another advantage was to make it more convenient to defend the northern Mongols from going south to enter the Kou.

However, the problem is that the north needs a large number of southern transfers to the north every year to meet the problem of insufficient grain production in the north, so the Ming Dynasty has attached great importance to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal since Zhu Di moved the capital, and specially set up officials to transport the canal, and after a period of time, the canal will be dredged to always maintain the capacity of the canal.

Although shipping can also replace Caoyun, but for a long time, the Ming Dynasty since Zheng He, it has returned to the policy of sealing the sea, shipping has never been able to flourish as in the Song and Yuan dynasties, not to mention that Caoyun also involves the livelihood of almost millions of people, and many officials and the interests of businessmen who make a fortune by Caoyun, so the Ming Dynasty has always attached great importance to Caoyun, once something goes wrong with Caoyun, the north will soon fall into a situation of lack of food.

With the arrival of the Xiaoice River period, the grain output in the north at the end of the Ming Dynasty declined year by year, and the grain production in the north could not meet the needs of the north at all, so it was even more necessary to rely on the south to send grain to the north to meet the needs of the north, especially after the construction of slaves in eastern Liaoning, this situation became more serious, the center of gravity of Daming's defense was basically in the area of Liaodong for more than ten years, and in Liaodong, Chen Bu continued to defend Jiannu, not only consuming a large amount of Daming's financial revenue every year, At the same time, more grain needs to be transferred from the south to the north to meet the demand for food from the heavy army in the north.

Therefore, once there is a problem with the canal, the blow to the Ming Dynasty may be devastating, the entire north is not only the Beijing division to fall into a food shortage, but also the northern pass outside the border to completely fall into a food shortage, so after the Xingtian Army began to attack Nanzhili and Shandong in the previous year, the court was worried about this, Chongzhen issued many orders, ordering the officials in various places along the canal to strengthen their garrison, and not let any section of the canal be captured by the Xingtian Army, he really knows the importance of the canal to his Beijing division at the moment.

This is also the reason why Li Xin once again proposed to attack Jining Prefecture, and Jining Prefecture is precisely an important capital city on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

Once the canal was cut off by the Xingtian Army, it was not impossible for the imperial court to use sea ships to transport grain northward from the sea, but to do so, it would take a long time to remobilize, and ordinary boats could not go north by sea.

It was also at the beginning of February, before the imperial court had raised enough food for the soldiers, it received news from Jining Prefecture, and the Xingtian Army, which had more than 10,000 troops all the way, suddenly launched a fierce attack in the direction of Jining Prefecture after the contraction of the previous year, and in two days it defeated Juye, and the troops were directed at Jining Prefecture.

As soon as the news arrived in Beijing, Chongzhen immediately couldn't sit still, so he immediately issued an order, ordering Ma Ke, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, Wu Sangui, the chief soldier of Liaodong, and the hundred officials of the general army, to go south immediately without violating it, and at the same time ordered them to obey the dispatch of the governor Sun Chuanting and immediately rescue Jining Prefecture.

And Chongzhen personally gave Sun Chuanting an order, no matter what way he thinks, he must save Jining Prefecture, and he can't throw Jining Prefecture away from anything, so that the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal was cut off by the Xingtian Army, and at the same time, the Shang Fang sword was given to Sun Chuanting, so that he could hold this Shang Fang sword to supervise the generals under his command.

As soon as such a holy decree came into the hands of Sun Chuanting, Sun Chuanting could know that the emperor of Jingshi was already in a hurry, and he also knew that if he couldn't save Runing Mansion this time, then what would happen to him, maybe the emperor wouldn't kill those generals, but he would definitely kill him, the governor!

Although Sun Chuanting was the governor of Baoding, at the same time, Chongzhen also appointed him to supervise the military affairs of Jingfu and Shandong, so Jining Prefecture was naturally within his jurisdiction, and he couldn't even find a reason to shirk it.

Therefore, Sun Chuanting, who was sitting in Shunde Mansion, did not dare to slack off after receiving the holy decree, and immediately ordered to transfer the soldiers and horses of Dengzhou in Shandong Province to Jining Prefecture immediately south to join the aid, and at the same time ordered Liu Zeqing to immediately rush to Jining Prefecture to personally sit in Jining Prefecture to guard against the attack of the Xingtian Army. Even if there is not a single person left under his Liu Zeqing, he will stay in Jining Prefecture to block the Xingtian Army.

In this way, Liu Ze has no way to retreat, he knows more or less about Sun Chuanting's temper, this person has a violent personality, when he was in Shaanxi, those Shaanxi soldiers and generals were afraid of him, this person is a bit of a skill, and at the same time he is a ruthless person, and now he is ordered to defend Jining Prefecture, speaking of this, in fact, he has been warned that if he dares to escape again, then he will never be allowed to live.

Therefore, Liu Zeqing didn't look at the usual fear of war like a tiger, but after being forced to this part, he was forced to a dead end, so he had to quickly receive the order and led thousands of men and horses from Jinan Mansion to the south and rushed to Jining Prefecture to sit in the town.

But Sun Chuanting is not a stupid person, he always feels that this time the Xingtian Army sent Jining Prefecture is a bit abnormal, if the Xingtian Army really wants to capture Jining Prefecture, then with the strength of the Xingtian Army, it is easy to gather 350,000 troops, in that case, Jining Prefecture can be taken very quickly, and even the imperial court can not be given a chance to react.

Moreover, this time, the Xingtian army sent troops to Jining Prefecture, creating a great momentum, and it was well known to everyone that it was noisy many days in advance, but it was several days late to really send troops to Jining Prefecture, so that the Shandong side learned the news in advance, and it was an emergency to the Beijing Division, and it was an emergency to his Sun Chuanting, which made the DPRK and China earthquake, so he was ordered to go to Jining Prefecture immediately.

At the same time, Sun Chuanting was on the side of Shunde Mansion, and he also continued to send fine works to the lost Zhangde Mansion, Daimyo's Mansion, Weihui Mansion and other areas controlled by the Xingtian Army on the north bank of the Yellow River to listen to the news, but these meticulous workers sent back the news, saying that they found signs of a large number of movements of the Xingtian Army, but instead of being transferred, they were being transferred from the south bank of the Yellow River to the north of the Yellow River, and at the same time, various materials were constantly transferred to the north of the Yellow River.

In this way, Sun Chuanting was a little suspicious of the true purpose of the Xingtian Army's attack on Jining Prefecture this time!

Sun Chuanting did not receive the holy decree, he immediately rushed to Jining Prefecture in person, but first waited for the Guanning army to go south in Shunde Mansion, and then talked about the direction of the troops after meeting them. The North was forced to fall into the predicament of food shortages and silver salaries completely.

The second is that the real purpose of the Xingtian Army this time is not to take Jining Prefecture and cut off the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, but to seek to go north directly, cooperate with the offensive of the Xingtian Army on the Shanxi side, directly attack the Beijing Division, and induce him and the Guanning Army going south to Shandong, so that the troops in the Funan area are empty, and create conditions for them to directly approach the city of Jingshi.

The third is that the Xingtian Army may not have the first two purposes, but to control the initiative, secretly mobilize the main force, and seek a decisive battle with him and the Guanning Army that went south this time, and defeat them in one fell swoop.

Among these three situations, the first two possibilities are not small, and the third possibility is slightly lower, but it is not unguarded, at present, the official and military forces on the south side of the country are not enough, if he ventures to transfer troops to Jining Prefecture, if he accidentally falls into the Xingtian Army's plan to transfer the tiger away from the mountain, then Jingfu may not have the strength to stop the Xingtian Army from going north.

Now Sun Chuanting has understood the strength of the Xingtian Army, the Xingtian Army is not only fierce and abnormal, extremely good at fighting, but also cunning, during this time he can be said to have suffered a lot of losses from the Xingtian Army, since he became the governor of Baoding, not only did he not recover half of the lost land, but also lost the Zhangde Mansion and the Daimyo Mansion, so Sun Chuanting had long put away his contempt for the Xingtian Army, and became cautious, often not daring to judge the idea of the Xingtian Army only from the surface, especially this time he has also learned, The thief chief Xiao Tianjian has suspended the use of troops against Nanzhili, and led a group of elites under his command to return to Henan, and now he is dealing with not Henan's Xingtian Army, but to face this Xiao Xingtian, so he dare not be careless.

So while he sent a detailed work to infiltrate the jurisdiction of the Xingtian Army to investigate all kinds of news and investigate the deployment of the Xingtian Army in the north of the Yellow River, he wrote his thoughts into Chen Tiao and sent someone to rush to Beijing, Chen explained to Chongzhen why he did not go to Jining Prefecture for the time being, and it also expressed many of his worries, so he told Chongzhen that he should be cautious.

Chongzhen was a little numb after getting Sun Chuanting's recital, he was the emperor, not a general who personally supervised the soldiers and horses, so he couldn't tell him about this kind of thing, in the end Sun Chuanting's words were right, after all, Sun Chuanting's worries were reasonable, if the officials and troops who went south this time were taken to Jining Prefecture by Sun Chuanting, once the thief chief Xiao Xingtian used the strategy of diverting the tiger from the mountain, in that case, the gate of Gyeonggi would be opened, and the sharpness of the Xingtian Army would take advantage of this opportunity. If he let a force drag Sun Chuanting and a large number of officers and troops in Shandong, and at the same time mobilize the main force to attack the Beijing division from Shanxi and Funan, he really won't be able to use any forces to stop them, and then the Beijing division will be in danger.

After thinking about it, he didn't dare to make a decision to let Sun Chuanting rush to Jining Prefecture, nor did he dare to conclude that this was a conspiracy of the Xingtian Army, so he immediately fell into a dilemma, so he hurriedly announced Chen Xinjia into the palace and asked Chen Xinjia to discuss how to deal with this matter.