Chapter 45: Jingshi

And after Xiao Tianjian and Luo Li joined forces, the strength of the army recovered to more than 10,000 people, and they already have stronger combat capabilities, after fighting with the Tartars these days, Xiao Tianjian has also confirmed that with the current ability of the Xingtian Army, it is not inferior to the Tartar soldiers, and if it is a one-to-one battle, the Xingtian Army will definitely be able to overwhelm the Tartars. Now no one has the slightest doubt about the combat effectiveness of the Xingtian Army.

So based on this, Xiao Tianjian believes that they don't have to be cautious anymore, but can take the initiative to find fighters and go to the Tartars to fight, and the Tartars have divided their troops into several ways to plunder in Jingfu and Shanxi after entering the Kou this time, and the troops of all roads have been diluted, with their current strength of more than 10,000 people, they have the strength to seek one of them, and give it a break, as much as possible to recover some Han losses, and force the Tartars to withdraw from the pass as soon as possible.

Regarding Xiao Tianjian's opinion, Li Xin, the senator of the army, also agreed, after all, he and Luo Li only relied on more than 3,000 troops to defeat Du Du, who was the deputy commander of the Tartar's Left Wing Army, in Neiqiu, and he had already seen the ability of the Tartars, and thought that Xiao Tianjian would not have much of a problem doing so.

It's just that Li Xin reminded Xiao Tianjian of one thing, that is, to prevent the official army from doing anything to them again, after all, this time Xiao Tianjian's front foot just after a battle between Julu and Dolgon, Gao Qiqian led tens of thousands of officers and soldiers to copy the back road of the Xingtian Army, although in the end because Xiao Tianjian took the initiative to avoid the war, the two sides did not formally clash, but it can also be seen that the official army is basically as hostile to the Xingtian Army as the Tartars, if you want to fight the Tartars, you must be careful of some officials and soldiers.

In addition, it is now rumored that Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting have led the Shaanxi army, which is known as more than 100,000, has set out from Shaanxi and went to Beijing to enter the guard, once Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting lead their troops into the guard, then the official army will have an absolute superiority in the area of Jingfu, once the Tartars avoid them without fighting, they may not be able to attack the Xingtian army.

Therefore, on the one hand, Li Xin agreed with Xiao Tianjian to lead his troops to continue to find trouble with the Tartars, but at the same time, he also expressed his opposition to Xiao Tianjian's excessive penetration into the land of Jingfu, and now that they have arrived in Shunde Mansion, it is best not to go north again.

Regarding Li Xin's point, after hearing this, all the generals remembered what Gao Qiqian was doing, and they were all annoyed and scolded.

Xiao Tianjian touched the beard on his chin and thought for a while, nodded slightly, and said: "What Senator Li said makes sense, we really have to guard against the officers and soldiers!" Although we have obtained more food and grass by fighting Du Du this time, we are fighting in a guest land after all! Senator Lee has considered this very thoroughly!

But in my opinion, even so, we can't stop there, the Tartars are the common enemy of our Han family, if we are too cautious, we will connive at the Tartars to wreak havoc on the ground of our Han family, and more people will suffer, so even if we take some risks this time, we can't stop there!

And this time, don't you see the reaction of Dorgon and Yueto after being hit like us like this? Tartars are actually scared by us! They came to rob this time, not to fight hard, so the Tartars didn't dare to fight with us, and suffered such a big loss, why didn't the Tartars gather their forces and chase us over to fight to the death?

It can be seen that the Tartars are actually weak-hearted, so they dare not come, so we will go to them! If the officers and soldiers really want to trouble us, are we afraid of them? It's a big deal to beat them up again!

As the saying goes, when it comes to fighting, the soft ones are afraid of the hard, and the hard ones are afraid of the dead! Hehe! At the moment, the official army is the soft one, and the Tartar is the hard one, and our Xingtian Army is the one who doesn't want to die! Thinking that the tartars are afraid of us, will we be afraid of the soft persimmons of the official army? ”

Everyone listened to Xiao Tianjian's interesting and funny metaphors, so they laughed along, and suddenly the depression just now was swept away, and they all stepped forward to fight......

Chongzhen looked at the Tang newspapers sent from all over Jingfu at hand, it was really a head and two big, and the entry of the Tartars had already made him a little exhausted, but now the Xingtian Army was also mixed in, and the Zhangde Mansion, Guangping Mansion, and Shunde Mansion along the way all urgently reported that the Xingtian Army was heading north, and the situation seemed to be a little out of control.

But what made Chongzhen even more annoyed was not the fact that the Xingtian army went north, but the note sent by Gao Qiqian, Gao Qiqian said that Lu Xiangsheng was afraid of the enemy and avoided the battle, and led the Xuan army to be surrounded by Tartars in Julu, Lu Xiangsheng was defeated and abandoned the army and fled, and now his whereabouts are unknown, and Yang Guozhu, the general of Xuanfu, and Hu Dawei, the deputy general of Shanxi, are also missing, and the general Zhang Yan has been killed in battle, and the Xuanda soldiers and horses are basically gone.

And Gao Qiqian's guy is really bad enough, saying that he tried to lead his troops to rescue Lu Xiangsheng, but he was restrained by the Xingtian Army and could not make the trip, and at the same time, Lu Xiangsheng also colluded with the Xingtian Army and tried to converge with the Xingtian Army, so that it was not conducive to the rescue of Xuan Dabing, so he asked Chongzhen for his guilt.

This piece of music is full of nonsense, and he picked himself up cleanly after a little dive, and all the blame was placed on Lu Xiangsheng's head, and the responsibility for Lu Xiangsheng's defeat was detained on the body of the Xingtian Army, completely reversing black and white, and shaping himself into a loyal minister.

However, what is different from the song sent by Gao Qiqian is that someone from the military department has presented a completely different statement, saying that it is true that Lu Xiangsheng was surrounded in Julu County, but at the critical time, the Xingtian Army suddenly entered the battlefield, rescued Lu Xiangsheng and some of his Xuan soldiers from the siege of Tartar, and severely damaged the Jiannu army in Julu.

At the same time, Yang Tinglin also played a note to impeach Gao Qiqian, saying that Lu Xiangsheng ran out of ammunition on the way south, and after reaching Julu, he was surrounded by the Jiannu army.

In the end, it was the Xingtian Army that entered the battlefield, saved Lu Xiangsheng and some of his generals, and defeated the Jiannu Army in Julu, killing more than 2,000 enemies and winning a great victory.

However, it is rumored that when Lu Xiangsheng was rescued by the Xingtian Army, he died of serious injuries under the battle, and now his body was taken away by the Xingtian Army, and his whereabouts are unknown for the time being.

Yang Tinglin arrived on the battlefield from the Gaoqi Hidden Camp after the Battle of Julu, and what he saw was the corpses of the Tartar soldiers all over the ground and the officers and soldiers under the command of Lu Xiangsheng, many of the Tartar soldiers had been cut off and disappeared.

In a fit of rage, Yang Tinglin directly wrote down what he had heard and seen as Song Shu sent someone to Beijing to impeach Gao Qiqian and avenge Lu Xiangsheng and many officers and soldiers who died in battle.

But Chongzhen didn't believe Yang Tinglin's words, because Gao Qiqian was the most trusted eunuch around him, if he hadn't trusted Gao Qiqian, he wouldn't have let Gao Qiqian be the commander of the army, and let Gao Qiqian share Lu Xiangsheng's military power.

It's good now, all parties say one thing, Lu Xiangsheng's life and death are unknown but it is a fact, and judging from the news from all sides, the Xingtian Army has played a role in this battle, Gao Qiqian said that the Xingtian Army restrained him, making him unable to rescue Lu Xiangsheng, which he would rather listen to Gao Qiqian's words than Yang Tinglin's words, but in the end, whether the Xingtian Army appeared first in Julu, whether they fought with the Jiannu Army, but no one can say clearly at the moment.

For this reason, Chongzhen recruited Yang Sichang and showed these performances to Yang Sichang, even if Yang Sichang said that Gao Qiqian's words were reasonable, how could he beat the Jiannu Army with a thief army of the Heavenly Army? Moreover, there are more than 2,000 Jiannu soldiers in what formation, which is not credible at all, so it should be true if you are high and dive.

For Yang Sichang to say this, Chongzhen deeply agreed, although he also knew that the Xingtian Army was very powerful, and there were almost no officials and troops in the Central Plains who could deal with them, but he still believed more that Jiannu was the most powerful soldier in the world, and it was impossible for the Xingtian Army to defeat the Jiannu Army, so what Xingtianjun helped Lu Xiangsheng, it should not be true.

So the arguments of several parties come together, and they all point to one thing, that is, Lu Xiangsheng doesn't know where to run, and they all say that Lu Xiangsheng has collusion with Xingtianjun, so Lu Xiangsheng must have colluded with Xingtianjun!

At this point, Yang Sichang also listed several crimes against Lu Xiangsheng, saying that when Lu Xiangsheng was the governor of Xuanda in the past two years, he refused to work hard to suppress the criminal thieves in southern Jinnan, which is very suspicious, and Lu Xiangsheng's whereabouts are unknown now, it is likely that he has abandoned the army and fled, and ran to join the Xingtian army.

After hearing this, Chongzhen felt that it was very reasonable, and immediately took the case and was furious, and wanted to send someone to find Lu Xiangsheng, and asked the Criminal Department to issue a sea arrest document to pursue Lu Xiangsheng, and at the same time ordered the Dongchang Detective (Jinyiwei) to investigate Lu Xiangsheng's whereabouts, and ordered the Ministry of War to send people to Julu County to check the battlefield, and Lu Xiangsheng must be found.

There are people like Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian, no wonder Chongzhen is confused, his subordinates are all some city fox society rats, upside down black and white things, he wants to be a person who understands, and it is difficult for Yang Sichang to be the most favored in the DPRK at the moment, and most of the DPRK and China are Yang Sichang's accomplices, and Chongzhen can't hear the real situation at all about many things, so Chongzhen was confused and convicted of Lu Xiangsheng's defeat and escape and collusion with the thief, and ordered Lu Xiangsheng to be removed from all his fame and official positions, and demoted him to a commoner, once he was found, he was immediately arrested in the capital to ask for the crime.

But what Chongzhen didn't know was that at this time, in many places south of Beijing, the Xingtian Army sent troops to rescue the officers and soldiers, and the news of Lu Xiangsheng's martyrdom had already spread all over the country, and the people had their own judgments, who were loyal ministers and who were traitors, they had their own accounts in their hearts, so there was a scolding of Gao Qiqian everywhere.