As soon as Mu Xia said this, buddy, I was instantly excited.

Although she is sometimes very rude and willful, she does help me a lot at some critical moments.

I suddenly turned back to her and asked, "If there is any good plan, tell me quickly!" ”

"Huh! You have to practice martial arts with your teacher first, and I can tell you as a teacher! ”

Damn, this unruly little girl is really going to kill me.

No matter how I begged her, she didn't say anything, she had to force me to learn martial arts from her, and complained that my martial arts were not good now.

There's no way, buddy, I can only let her come, so I went to the martial arts room with her to practice martial arts.

After practicing for an hour, buddy, I was half tired and half dead, so I sat down on the ground.

Seeing this, she pretended to be serious and said: "Emperor, don't shout tired, continue to practice at this pace, and in another month, I can teach you some tricks and routines as a teacher!" ”

"Don't tell me any tricks and tricks first, tell me what your plan is!"

I couldn't afford to mess with this brute girl, so I could only beg again. Fortunately, she didn't be willful anymore, and pulled me back to the upper study.

After returning to the upper study, she neatly took out the military map, pointed to the map and talked eloquently.

"Brother Emperor, you see, the area controlled by the Ming Dynasty is mainly east of Sichuan and south of the Yangtze River; Li Zicheng and Wu Sangui occupied almost all the areas north of the Yangtze River, even including Suzhou and Hangzhou Prefectures within the Yangtze River, and Nanjing; The Manchus, on the other hand, were in the northernmost part of Shanhaiguan. So we look at the tripartite pattern, Li Zicheng is equivalent to being caught in the middle, and the situation is the most passive. Once the Ming army marched north, Li Zicheng would be attacked on both sides. So just like the emperor's brother said, in such a situation, it is very likely that many variables will occur. ”

Speaking of this, Mu Xia sat down and took a sip of tea, and said seriously: "Then if you want to avoid these variables, in fact, the most critical role is not Wu Sangui, but the Manchu Qing Dynasty." Brother Emperor, you might as well imagine that if the Manchus weakened their offensive against Shanhaiguan during the Northern Expedition of the Ming Army, then Wu Sangui would not be so difficult, and in this way, he would not surrender to the Manchus. ”

What Mu Xia said makes some sense, but since I have gone on the Northern Expedition, how could the Manchus not storm Shanhaiguan?

You must know that once I go on a Northern Expedition, it will be good for the Manchus, and there is no harm in it, after all, Li Zicheng has to deal with my side.

The Manchus could take this opportunity to intensify their efforts to storm Shanhaiguan.

Once the Shanhai Pass is breached, Wu Sangui may defect to the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Thinking of this, I asked: "What you said is very good, but how can we make the Manchus weaken their attack on Shanhaiguan?" ”

Mu Xia shook his finger at me and said, "Brother Emperor, I didn't say you, you read the military book every day, and you actually forgot about it!" ”

Nima! As soon as he said this, buddy, I suddenly realized.

Meng I lined up the table, pointed to the military map, and said: "Do you mean to let North Korea cross the Yalu River and attack the Manchus, so as to contain the Manchu forces, and the Manchus will weaken their attack on Shanhaiguan?" ”

"That's right!" She smiled at me and said, "The Li dynasty of Joseon has always been loyal to the Ming Dynasty, as long as the emperor's brother gives them the next letter of state, they will definitely be obedient!" ”

Yes, it is true that the Yi dynasty of Korea has always regarded the Ming Dynasty as the Zhengshuo and is the most loyal vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. This is well documented in history.

Moreover, the last time I sent a letter of state to North Korea, asking the Li Dynasty to borrow money and grain for the Ming Dynasty for emergency purposes, they all agreed, and even gave a lot of money and grain on the basis of what I borrowed.

Thinking of this, buddy, I didn't say a word, and I wrote a letter of state to the Lee dynasty of North Korea.

After writing it, he asked Wang Chengen to send someone to North Korea immediately.

Although the national letter was sent out, buddy, I was still very worried about the variables.

Because Korea has limited troops after all, I am worried that the Li dynasty will not be able to completely contain the Manchus.

At the same time, even if North Korea temporarily contained the Manchu Qing, once the buddies' Northern Expedition crossed the Yellow River, Wu Sangui still had many options.

After all, as long as I crossed the Yellow River, it basically meant that Li Zicheng was completely out of action.

But now buddy, I don't have a choice, I can only take one step at a time.

……

After formulating the strategic policy of "combining vertical and horizontal", my buddy, I didn't wait for Li Dingguo and Xia Wanchun to return to Fuzhou with their troops, and they started the Northern Expedition.

And the main purpose of this Northern Expedition is to take advantage of the fact that the imperial court now has enough money and food, and Li Zicheng has no time to look south, to take the two states of Suzhou and Hangzhou occupied by Wu Sangui before, as well as Nanjing, an important town on the Yangtze River, in one go!

After taking the three important towns on the south bank of the Yangtze River, as soon as Li Dingguo's army arrived, I could unite Zuo Liangyu in Jiangxi, Liu Wenxiu in Sichuan, Sun Kewang in Yunnan, and Zheng Chenggong in Taiwan.

Under such a grand strategic policy, buddy, I decisively ordered that the 30,000 Ming troops who had stayed in the five provinces south of the Yangtze River should gather in Quzhou, Zhejiang, and then divide the troops into two routes and march towards Hangzhou.

Under my command, the Ming army successively broke through military strongholds such as Jiande, Zhuji, and Tonglu with the momentum of destroying and decaying. In the end, with the momentum of double ghosts slamming the door, Hangzhou will be taken.

Originally, after I defeated Wu Sangui last time, he didn't have many troops left behind in Hangzhou.

But at that time, after I took Quzhou, the supply of the imperial court could not keep up, so in the end I could only retreat and attack Taiwan to solve the supply problem.

After I solved the supply problem, I then led my troops to Sichuan to pacify Zhang Xianzhong, which took nearly three months.

In these three months, Wu Sangui gradually replenished the troops in Hangzhou, and by the time I attacked Hangzhou, there were as many as 20,000 rebels in the city.

Even so, under the onslaught of the 30,000 troops of the Ming army, Feng Yaogang, the defender of Hangzhou, only resisted for two days before he was broken through by his buddies.

After breaking through Hangzhou, I directly beheaded Feng Yaogang under the city, and then reorganized the army again, and completely annihilated the rebels in Suzhou at Taihu Lake with the momentum of land and water. Soon, the Ming army easily occupied Suzhou.

After taking these two cities, the Ming army was shocked, and Huang An, the main general of Wu Sangui who stayed in Zhenjiang, abandoned the city and surrendered.

In this way, the army won the battle, and in less than ten days, the army came to the city of Nanjing.

I thought that Nanjing, as the most important city in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, would send a large army to stay behind.

Unexpectedly, when I arrived in Nanjing, there were only more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in the city.

Under such circumstances, it only took half a day, buddy, to take Nanjing.

Seeing that the imperial court drove out the rebels and nationalized Nanjing again, the people in Nanjing came to the streets one after another to greet Wang Shi with pot pulp. Some elderly women and children even shed tears of excitement.

My buddy, I sat on my horse, and looked at the excited people, and I wondered how happy I was.

You must know that in addition to its military and strategic significance, the recovery of Nanjing also has extremely important political significance.

Politically, Nanjing's importance is comparable to that of Beijing, as it was the first capital of the Ming Dynasty after the founding of the People's Republic of China and the place of Zhu Yuanzhang's Longxing.

Even if Zhu Di, the king of Yan, later moved his capital to Beijing, Nanjing was still directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, which was equivalent to the current municipality of Shanghai.

Therefore, the recovery of Nanjing is equivalent to telling the world that the Ming Dynasty is not dead.

This is undoubtedly a reassuring pill for those who still have a wait-and-see attitude towards the imperial court.

……

Thanks to the effortless efforts of the army, in just 10 days, the strategic goals that I had set before were achieved. So after the buddies recovered Nanjing, they held a feast to reward the soldiers of the Ming army.

Just as I was drinking with the soldiers, the commander of the forward battalion suddenly ran towards me and said to me in a panic: "Your Majesty, something is wrong, the thief is coming!" ”

Dude, I handed him a bowl of wine and said calmly, "What thief is coming?" Drink this bowl and talk about it! ”

His hands trembled, he didn't dare to drink at all, and said hesitantly: "The last general has just received an urgent report from the front, and Liu Zongmin is about to arrive in Chuzhou with his army. ”

I grass! Hearing this, buddy, my startled wine bowl fell directly to the ground.

Who is Liu Zongmin?

According to historical records, he is the first fierce general under Li Zicheng!

And the reason why Li Zicheng's local peasants were able to break through Beijing relied on Liu Zongmin.

"How is this possible?"

I was amazed, and the whole person was stupid.