Shaanxi, Xing'an (Ankang), Zuo Liangyu camp.

After more than three months of mobilization and deployment, Zuo Liangyu has already come to Xing'an with his team, and the soldiers and horses in other towns are basically in place, and they are about to start encircling and suppressing Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai.

"What kind of bullshit order is this?!" Zuo Liangyu threw Yang Sichanglai's instructions on the table casually, and scolded: "Let my main force stay in Xing'an, and send 3,000 soldiers and horses from Shaanxi to chase after him." What if Zhang Xianzhong doesn't come to Shaanxi? ! What's the matter with 3,000 soldiers and horses?! What should I do if He Renlong asks my subordinates to take the lead?! My soldiers and horses are not for anyone else to tiptoe! Hum! Scholar's view! ”

Zuo Mengeng asked, "Then what should we do?" ”

Zuo Liangyu thought for a while, and then said: "Reply to Yang Gebu, just say that Zhang Thief Xianzhong may not return to Shaanxi." The direction of Chengdu is the most worrying, and it is expected that Zhang Xianzhong will flow into Shu and poison Sichuan. Therefore, the last general decided to enter Shu with the Shaanxi soldiers to suppress the thieves. ”

"Can the Yang Pavilion agree with us?" Zuo Mengeng asked unconfidently.

Zuo Liangyu said with a smile: "Whether he agrees or not, we just need to grab the soldiers in our hands." Now is the time when the court needs us, and they won't do anything to us. You have to remember, 'the cunning rabbit dies, the lackey cooks'. As long as the court still uses us, even if we do something out of the ordinary, there is nothing. After all, we are not civilian officials, and the army is our strongest backing. ”

Zuo Mengeng digested his father's teachings, and then bowed down and said, "The child remembers." ”

Zuo Liangyu looked at his eldest son lovingly, and now he was his only son. He had not continued since all his family had been slaughtered, even if his men had plundered beautiful women to offer to him, he would not accept them, but he would not stop his men from having fun. What he has to do now is to teach his son well so that he can grow up early.

"Dashuai," the staff took the written official document and said, "The palindrome has been written, please use the seal." ”

Zuo Liangyu saw that there was nothing wrong, so he stamped his private seal and ordered: "Send it to Yang Gebu." ”

When the soldiers went out with the letter, he said to Zuo Mengeng: "Prepare, let's visit the Governor of Shaanxi Zheng (Zheng Chongjian), I think he is willing to let us go with him to suppress the thief." You have to remember that after all, the court is headed by civil officials, you always have to find one, or find a group of civil officials to be allies, let them fight on their own, we just need to do what we think. ”

"Oh, the boy wrote it down." Zuo Mengeng was a little puzzled, just now he said that as long as there is an army, he can do whatever he wants, why is he saying now that he wants to pull a few civilian officials as allies? But he didn't dare ask, he was afraid that his father would be disappointed. So he put the doubt in his heart, planning to think slowly in the future, but on the face of it, he had to seriously agree.

Five days later, Yang Sichang, who was in Xiangyang, received a reply from Zuo Liangyu. He was so angry, this is a plan that he gathered his staff and worked out in three months, how can it be changed? And he is very confident in his judgment, Zhang Xianzhong will definitely return to Shaanxi after the encirclement and suppression begins! So he immediately gave Zuo Liangyu an order, telling him that he must follow the plan, leave the main force in Xing'an, intercept Zhang Xianzhong, and prevent Zhang Xianzhong from escaping out of the encirclement.

After that, the letters were exchanged, but no results were achieved, and Zuo Liangyu did not listen to Yang Sichang at all. On the first day of February, he took his troops and went to Sichuan with the Shaanxi soldiers.

After Yang Sichang learned the news, he was helpless, so he had to send his letters to Zuo Liangyu and Zuo Liangyu's orders to Emperor Chongzhen to Beijing. This is Yang Sichang's way of self-preservation, his orders have been given, but Zuo Liangyu does not listen, if something goes wrong in the future, it will not be his Yang Sichang's responsibility.

The current superintendent is not a good job, Xiong Wencan has been imprisoned, just waiting to be convicted. Liu Yuliang before also went home to live idlely. Although he, Yang Sichang, is Chongzhen's most trusted minister, there are many ministers in the court who want Yang Sichang to have an accident, and he has to guard against it.

After leaving Beijing, Yu Shitai wrote a book, suggesting that this time Yang Sichang went out of Beijing, he must not be appeased, but can only be exterminated. Xiong Wencan tried his best to appease him, and Zhang Xianzhong surrendered and rebelled, so his successor Yang Sichang could no longer be appeased, but could only be suppressed. 'The little soldier and the civilian said that it was the crime of spies to be appeased! The Taoist gentleman said that it was the crime of thieves who were appeased! The governor of the town will say that the appeasement is the crime of misleading the country! Look, how terrible it is.

Fortunately, Chongzhen was not confused and did not agree. There are three or four hundred thousand thieves, twenty or thirty thieves, if they really want to suppress them, the Ming Dynasty will not do anything, and there will be only thieves left.

Shengjing, Chongzheng Palace.

"The advice of the Han officials is very good!" Huang Taiji sat on the dragon throne and said, "But the three strategies you gave, I think you should adjust them." Ningjin should be taken first, and the land outside the border should be consolidated! ”

Han officials Zhang Cunli, Zu Kefa and others offered advice, first, to attack Beijing and completely defeat the Ming Dynasty; Second, attacking Shanhaiguan, like a sharp sword, pierced the throat of the Ming Dynasty; Third, take Ningjin first, consolidate the Guanwai, and slowly cut off the Gongwei land of the Ming Dynasty.

"The emperor is wise!" All the Manchu and Han officials praised loudly.

The owners of the Eight Banners all know that going directly to fight Beijing is self-defeating. Although they often go around Beijing, they have seen the walls of Beijing, and even their red-coated cannons may not be able to collapse. They were stationed under the fortified city, and when the Ming army came over, they were in danger. It's the same with Shanhaiguan, if you don't go to Ningjin, how can you hit Shanhaiguan? In fact, this is just those Han officials showing their loyalty to the Qing Dynasty.

When the dynasty was dispersed, Zhang Cunli proudly said to Zu Kefa: "As long as the emperor continues to attack the Ming Court, with the Ming Court now full of thieves and famines, it will not be long before the Qing Dynasty enters the Central Plains." ”

Zu Kefa also smiled and said: "Yes, now we are traitors, and when the Qing Dynasty enters Beijing City and takes the whole world, we will be the heroes of Conglong!" My father (Zu Dashou) was obsessed, and he still hasn't seen it clearly, this is God's death, and it is not something that human beings can stop. ”

"Yes, the number of Da Ming Qi is exhausted. Daming is fire virtue and still red. And the Qing Dynasty is still green, it is the virtue of water, isn't this replacing fire with water? This is providential, providential. Zhang Cunli shook his head and said.

Zu Kefa nodded and said, "Yes, there are droughts, locusts, and displaced people are all over the wilderness, this is the heavens condemning crimes." In the world, only the virtuous live. Good birds choose trees to perch on, and good ministers choose their masters. Let's just wait for the wife to be sealed, hahaha. ”