Jingshi, Qianqing Palace.

Even if it was late at night, the wait here was still on, Chen Xinjia, Chen Yan, Wei Dezao, and Zhang Sizhi, the first auxiliary scholar who was executed by Emperor Chongzhen before he was sitting, and he was the fifteenth first auxiliary scholar in the short fourteen years of the Chongzhen Dynasty.

But a group of pillars of the country, the core layer of the entire Ming Dynasty gathered together, but they were obscure, silent, and under the bright lights, they wished that everyone would hide their faces in the shadows.

After a long moment, he jumped up in rage, roaring and roaring.

"In the matter of Kaifeng, don't you gentlemen have a word to teach me?"

Sun Chuanting's prophecy is really like a curse hovering over the head of the Ming Dynasty, last month, just out of prison and was served as the governor of the trilateral military department of the former military secretary Fu Zonglong in Xiangcheng and died, Chongzhen eleven years to transfer the trilateral border troops to the east and south The drawbacks were completely revealed, and the big Li Zicheng was like a rampaging wild boar, this head came back from Kaifeng City, and it was a breath to defeat the joint forces of the trilateral Baoding, Baoding Governor Yang Wenyue fled eastward, and the two major Shaanxi generals fled westward, Only honest and pragmatic, calming Guizhou for 14 years, Fu Zonglong, who was continuously reinstated by Emperor Chongzhen, and even brought out of prison, died on the battlefield like a warrior.

Li Zicheng, who returned from victory, rushed to Kaifeng for the second time, frightened, Kaifeng City was sent to Jingshi one after another, and Emperor Chongzhen couldn't sit still.

But the elites of the Ming Dynasty were recruited overnight, and what they got was such a silence.

It's no wonder that the emperor doesn't get angry.

But even if Chongzhen was like thunder, these elites of the Ming Dynasty were still silent for a few seconds, and under the pressure of everyone's eyes, Zhang Sizhi, a scholar of Shoufu University, kowtowed with great difficulty.

"Your Majesty, our army is not short of men and horses, the soldiers are unfavorable, there is a lack of strong commanders, and there is a lack of scheduling, such as the battle of Xiangcheng, fierce as a tiger, He Renlong and other Shaanxi divisions collapsed in the north, leaving Fu Zonglong, the governor of the three sides, alone on the battlefield, thousands of people to fight against hundreds of thousands, how can they not be defeated!"

"These vulgar warriors who don't know the general situation!"

At the mention of this, Emperor Chongzhen faintly thought of someone in Liaodong, and snorted even more coldly, and immediately looked at Zhang Sizhi and motioned for him to continue.

The scholar was already seventy or eighty, his head was on the ground, the beads of sweat on his wrinkled head seemed to be a little more diffuse, and his voice seemed to be a little slower.

"Now among the armies of the Central Plains, the Zuo Ping thief army is prosperous, and his identity is also above the generals, as long as the Zuo Liangyu army is controlled, the rest of the armies can basically be controlled properly!"

"Back then, Zuo Liangyu was a sergeant in front of Hou Xun's account, promoted by Hou Xun, recommended for promotion, and then served in front of the army, experienced military exploits, accumulated merits and increased officials, this is Zuo Liangyu's today, Hou Xun has the grace of reinvention to Zuo Liangyu, Zuo Liangyu is also a grateful person, such as appointing Hou Xun as the governor of the five provinces, Zuo Liangyu will definitely obey his fate, as long as the army of thieves is like an arm, it is not enough to break into thieves."

This suggestion is still pertinent and realistic, Chongzhen, who listened to it, couldn't help but nodded, pondered for a moment, and then asked.

"Where is Hou Xun? Send him to me!"

"Return, go back to Your Majesty, Hou Xun, the former head of the household department, is here, waiting for trial in the prison......"

No wonder Zhang Sizhi is so spitting, Emperor Chongzhen himself is embarrassed to hear this, he is not authoritarian, but also arbitrary, his subordinates have a little disobedience, or make some mistakes, both go to prison, or be slaughtered, now the Central Plains war situation is chaotic, but the court is unavailable, Emperor Chongzhen has to bear the main responsibility.

But even if it's embarrassing, you have to use it if it's forced to the extreme, just like Chongzhen muttered when he released Fu Zonglong from the prison a while ago, I appointed him with guilt, he should ignore his previous suspicions, and die for me. This time, Chongzhen also nodded in embarrassment.

"Call him out of prison! See me on offense!"

"The old minister obeys!"

Seeing Chongzhen nodded, a few old guys finally breathed a sigh of relief, tonight's imperial meeting seemed to be able to prevaricate, but at this juncture, Wang Chengen, the eunuch of the court, suddenly acted in a hurry, broke into the door with a military report, and immediately knelt on the ground.

"Jinzhou Battle Report!"

The expressions of several cabinet ministers were even more relaxed, when the Central Plains was in flames, it was smooth outside the pass, Zhang Ruolin and Ma Shaoyu kept coming good news, it must be that Hong Chengchou won the battle again, as long as the siege of Jinzhou was relieved and the Hong Department was transferred back to the Central Plains, the thieves should not be worried!

It was also about the same thought, and he didn't pay attention to Wang Chengen's frightened eyes, Emperor Chongzhen took the fold presented by the little eunuch with a smile, and nodded with a smile while flipping through it.

"If everyone does things like humming, how can I ...... and ......?"

The words of praise were not finished, and the emperor who looked at the military report in hand was completely stunned, and a few seconds later, he stumbled and fell back to the dragon chair fiercely, the military information in hand fell to the ground, and his hands trembled uncontrollably, and his eyes looked at the front with extremely dull and empty eyes.

"Your Majesty!"

The three souls and seven spirits were almost frightened, and several ministers and eunuchs knelt down and hurriedly came to Emperor Chongzhen's side, grabbed his thighs violently, and screamed in horror.

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Another war that could have been won, let the impatient emperor intervene, and the civil ministers and supervisors who did not understand military affairs obstructed it, and they were defeated like water!

Under the first war, the Ming army lost more than 53,700 people, and tens of thousands of people were captured, among the eight general soldiers, Cao Bianjiao and Yang Guozhu were killed, Wang Pu, Wang Tingchen Ma Ke was almost wiped out, Tang Tong, Wu Sangui only fled back to Ningyuan with thousands of people, Li Fuming, the general soldier of Shanxi, fled to Tashan, and the remnants of the army under Hong Chengchou were less than 10,000 people surrounded Songshan, and the Ming Dynasty painstakingly pieced together, and the Guanningjin defense line plus the 130,000 elite army of the nine sides were wiped out.

Near Beacon Mountain, the cavalry of the Azig Department was cornered, the corpses of the Ming army drowned in the sea were overwhelming, and even the sea surface was covered, under the city of Songshan, the dense corpses were also all over the mountains, and the viscous blood that flowed down gathered into a red stream in the low-lying place, in the astonishing fishy atmosphere, it did not dry up for several days, and the captured Ming army was like a cattle, and was strung with a long rope by the nobles of each banner and escorted to Shenyang.

Although Jinzhou has not yet fallen, but hundreds of thousands of Liao people under the command of Liaodong Town in the Hexi Corridor of the Plain hundreds of miles from Ningyuan to Jinzhou have officially fallen into the hands of the Qing army.

However, the only difference from history is that there is no time and space without Mao Jue, outside the gate is the Qing family, Huang Taiji leisurely ordered to surround Songshan Jinzhou, trapped until they went out of the city and surrendered, and he still had time to run back to Shengjing to see Hai Lanzhu for the last time.

But here, Huang Taiji is still using a silver bowl to catch a nosebleed, anxiously supervising the battle under Songshan City, the cannons are roaring all over the city, and the captured Ming army border soldiers are crying and being driven to Songshan City on the high mountain to attack, on the city wall, Hong Chengchou is full of sluggishness and paralysis behind the battlements, without saying a word.

It's really over! Outside the gate, the Ming Dynasty no longer has the slightest strength to compete with this monster in the white mountain and black water, Guan Ningjin, it's over!

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Not only Hong Chengchou was silent, but the next day, at the great court meeting held by the Beijing Division, the civil and military officials were also silent, and for half an hour, the entire center of the Ming Dynasty did not say a word.

The army is not a leek, it can still come out after cutting, Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou were defeated twice, almost drained most of the elite troops on the nine sides, and the rest are still facing off against Li Zicheng's army in Henan, Jizhen is empty for thousands of miles to Shanxi, the emperor still wants to rescue, what will the imperial court take to rescue?

This silence almost made Zhu Youzhen's lungs explode, and he was furious above the court, and more than a dozen officials were dismissed and imprisoned on the spot.

"Immediately summon Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the military department, into the palace to see me!"

It is still the warm pavilion located between the Qianqing Palace and the front palace, a famous platform. A few years ago, it would have been a great honor to be summoned by the Emperor here, but now, this is a cursed place, and everyone avoids it.

At least that's how Chen Xinjia was, trembling, he trembled and knelt on the ground.

"Minister Chen Xinjia to meet my emperor, long live, long live!"

Surprisingly, this time the emperor was not angry, his face was calm as if nothing had happened, and he said softly.

"Chen Qing is flat, come here, give a seat!"

On the edge of a stool, Chen Xinjia reluctantly sat down, and in his frightened eyes, Chongzhen asked slowly again.

"Now that the Liao affair is corrupted, and the Central Plains is also in flames of war, soldiers are needed everywhere, can you have a strategy to teach me?"

Didn't you just ask this once in the court? I said earlier that don't rush to fight, don't fight, don't listen! Where can we still squeeze out troops and horses to save the besieged Jinzhou City?

But here he was received by the emperor alone, he was listed as a military department, if he pretended to be deaf and dumb here again, he might not be able to get out of this platform alive today.

But the problem is that it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice! He is now about to become the secretary of the military department, what can he use to answer the emperor's request?

Just when Chen Xinjia's sweat beads were dripping down, Emperor Chongzhen sighed with a meaningful melancholy.

"Since I ascended the throne, I have eaten and eaten at night, and I can't sleep at night, all of which are trembling and waiting for state affairs.

Here's the guess and I guess part! He knows his own affairs, Chongzhen didn't expect Chen Xinjia to come up with any anti-heaven ideas, it's still the same old way, the emperor has an idea, but he can't say it himself, he wants his subordinates to say it, and if something goes wrong, let his subordinates take the blame.

But this was also a lifesaver for Chen Xinjia, he didn't understand, so he sat on the chair of the military department in vain, and knelt on the ground from the chair, Chen Xinjia kowtowed hurriedly.

"Minister, please, negotiate peace with the Eastern Kidnapper!"

(End of chapter)