Chapter 6: Betrayal
Lu Xiangsheng also heard about Xiao Tianjian's foreign insult during this time, when he learned about it, Lu Xiangsheng was really happy, and he was also keenly aware of Xiao Tianjian's text from Xiao Tianjian's court, which was Xiao Tianjian's palace forcing action, forcing the current saints and ministers of the court to give up the idea of peace, although in his opinion, it was a little dirty, but Lu Xiangsheng did not think that Xiao Tianjian was wrong.
After all, Xiao Tianjian really ordered his soldiers and horses to stop attacking the imperial court at this time, which is already very rare, if it is replaced by someone else, an opportunity like this can be said to be a once-in-a-lifetime good time, the imperial court is busy dealing with the construction of slaves, if you don't take this opportunity to quickly expand the territory, it is simply impossible, but Xiao Tianjian still resolutely gave up such a good opportunity, so that the imperial court can get a respite, and have the ability to draw troops to the north, In fact, a huge concession has already been made.
This also made Lu Xiangsheng have a huge impression of Xiao Tianjian, and at the same time saw clearly that Xiao Tianjian was indeed not a trustworthy person, after his letter was sent, Xiao Tianjian not only did not make small moves in Shanxi, but also stopped military operations in Henan at the same time, in fact, it has been fully explained that Xiao Tianjian is indeed considered for the Han people in dealing with Jiannu.
But what annoyed Lu Xiangsheng was that he was a loyal minister who was full of desire to protect the Ming Dynasty, but he was never able to show his ability, and led the troops to beat Jiannu out of the pass, but he was constrained by Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian everywhere, seeing that there were 50,000 Guanning troops under Gao Qiqian's command, but he was afraid of the Jiannu army like a tiger, giving birth to tens of thousands of troops, but he did nothing, he could only watch a large number of Jiannu troops continue to go deep into the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, but he had no ability to repel it.
After November, the Jiannu army divided the road to the south, until the Baoding Mansion of the North Zhili, broke through Gaoyang City, and at this time, Sun Chengzong, the former minister of the Ming Dynasty, was telling the old man to return to his hometown, and the family lived in Gaoyang City, when the Jiannu army invaded Gaoyang City, Sun Chengzong, who was already seventy-six years old, led the family in Gaoyang City to fight to the death with the Jiannu army in the city, and finally the family of more than 40 died under the Jiannu knife, and Sun Chengzong was captured and resolutely did not surrender, and finally threw himself into the water and died, even Jiannu also admired it.
At this time, Lu Xiangsheng was really disappointed in the current emperor and Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian's generation, so he ignored the hard work, wrote a song and sent someone into the capital, and submitted it to Zhu Youzhen, in which he asked Zhu Youzhen to open the Hebei passage, and allowed the Xingtian army to go north to assist the imperial court officials and soldiers to resist the enemy, and force Chen Xiao Tianjian This person is patriotic, good at using it, he will be able to become a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, and the soldiers under his command are also quite brave, when he can repel the ...... on behalf of the emperor's general Jiannu.
Chongzhen didn't wait to finish reading Lu Xiangsheng's recital, so he immediately ripped it to pieces, and fell heavily under the dragon case, and Chongzhen was almost suffering from myocardial infarction.
Originally, he was still a little ashamed of Lu Xiangsheng, although Lu Xiangsheng was appointed as the governor of the world, but in fact, he himself knew that in order to prevent Lu Xiangsheng, the hard-line main battle faction, from leading the Ming army to fight to the death with Jiannu, and finally lose a large number of elite Ming troops, so he secretly ordered Gao Qi to divide his power, and controlled a large number of soldiers and horses, so that the number of soldiers and horses that Lu Xiangsheng could actually control was extremely limited, and later he asked Chen Xinjia to divide part of Lu Xiangsheng's troops. So much so that Lu Xiangsheng's troops at hand were even more scarce, so although he didn't know what Lu Xiangsheng had done recently, he also knew that Lu Xiangsheng was alone, and he couldn't repel the Jiannu army with the little soldiers and horses under his command.
But he didn't expect Lu Xiangsheng to propose to let him invite the Xingtianjun to go north, this is a big taboo for him, although he hates Jiannu at the moment, but for this surnamed Xiao, his hatred is far more than the hatred of Jiannu ten times and a hundred times, now not only Lu Xiangsheng pleaded to ask the Xingtianjun to go north, but even many scholars also jointly asked the Xingtianjun to go north, and the entire public opinion has the momentum of falling to this Xiao Tianjian, and the people are already laughing at him, the son of the great tomorrow, saying that although he is the son of heaven, But he couldn't defend himself against the enemy outside the country, and watched Jiannu wreak havoc in the territory of Daming, but he didn't dare to fight to the death with it, but that Xiao Xingtian was a good man.
Such a comment, although no one dared to say it to Chongzhen, but Chongzhen still managed to learn something, if it goes on like this, where is the majesty of him, the emperor? This Xiao Xingtian is simply squeezing him.
Now Xiao Tianjian openly declared that he could accept Zhao'an, but he asked to negotiate first, everyone wanted to get it, this must be Xiao Tianjian's tricks and drag out time, but he still had to pinch his nose and admit it, and send Gao Mingheng to negotiate with them, the ghosts can figure it out, this negotiation must be fruitless, this Xiao Tianjian only needs to propose a way to let the court bear the food and salary of the 100,000 army under his command, so he can go bankrupt, so this negotiation has no possibility of success at all, in the end, this Xiao Tianjian only needs to declare that the court is unwilling to accept his conditions, In the end, the negotiations broke down, so this black pot still had to be detained on his Zhu Youzhen's brain.
So after watching this Lu Xiangsheng's recital, Zhu Youzhen's face turned blue with anger, and it happened that a waiter accidentally broke a teacup, and as a result, Zhu Youzhen even sprinkled his anger on this unlucky eunuch, and let people drag this eunuch out and beat him to death.
Then Zhu Youzhen personally wrote an edict, angrily reprimanded Lu Xiangsheng, and reprimanded him for being afraid of the enemy and avoiding the war after arriving in Beijing, and working in vain, and ordered Lu Xiangsheng to be demoted by one level, and took back the Shang Fang sword that was issued to Lu Xiangsheng, and ordered him to immediately move south to prevent Jiannu from continuing to go south.
After Lu Xiangsheng received the holy decree, he was really disappointed to the extreme, but he still had to accept the decree and thank him, and led his troops to start south, following the footsteps of Jiannu and driving in the direction of Baoding Mansion.
At this time, because of Sun Chengzong's death, Chongzhen was really annoyed, and at the same time ordered Gao Qiqian to lead his troops south, and cooperated with Lu Xiangsheng to prevent Jiannu from continuing to go deep into the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty.
Gao Qiqian was also angry to death, feeling that this time it was because of Lu Xiangsheng that he was unlucky, he didn't think that the Ming army he led would be the opponent of the Jiannu army, this time he went south, it was simply to send the sheep to the tiger's mouth, so for this reason, he immediately sent someone to Baoding Mansion to inform the Baoding prefect that Lu Xiangsheng should not provide any food and salary support, in short, Lu Xiangsheng did not have the strength to fight with the Jiannu army, and after Lu Xiangsheng of the province won the battle, he could not explain to the emperor.
Poor Lu Xiangsheng didn't know that he had been betrayed by his colleagues at this time, but he still led thousands of officers and troops under his command to rush towards Baoding Mansion in the cold wind.