When I heard this, I was anxious, but I was helpless.

You know, if you withdraw your troops like this, then this Northern Expedition can only be regarded as a failure.

In the end, I said to Sun Kewang: "Let me think about it again, don't withdraw my troops for the time being!" ”

After saying this, Sun Kewang walked out, and I lay on the bed, thinking hard about how to deal with the menacing Wu Sangui.

But no matter what I think, it seems that there is only one way out, and that is to withdraw the troops.

In such a situation, my whole body was about to collapse, and when I closed my eyes, I sighed.

Just when I was lamenting bitterly, Mu Xia suddenly said to me: "Brother Emperor, I have a plan, don't you think it will work!" ”

"What a plan, you say it quickly!"

Mu Xia pondered for a moment and said, "Brother Emperor, think about it, now that we are militarily, it is impossible for us to retreat Wu Sangui." But we can use the military strategy to repel him! ”

"I can't repel him militarily, what else can I do? What you say?"

"Brother Emperor, listen to me first." Mu Xia complained, and then said: "Although Wu Sangui is like a god now, he is a man under Li Zicheng after all. If Wu Sangui rebelled against Li Zicheng, what kind of situation would it be? ”

Hearing this, I was immediately excited, Mu Xia is really my goddess of luck.

I couldn't help but say: "You mean to use a divisive strategy to make Wu Sangui and Li Zicheng turn against each other?" ”

"Yes. Once the two of them turn against each other, Li Zicheng is bound to clean up Wu Sangui. In this way, the sandpiper and the clam will fight, the fisherman will benefit, and then the Ming army will be able to take the opportunity to take them! ”

"Well said!" As I spoke, I couldn't help but clench her hand and sighed: "You are to me what Liu Bowen was to Emperor Taizu back then!" ”

"Brother Emperor, you have won the award, I am just a small skill of carving insects, where can I compare with the national teacher Liu Bowen!"

……

After Mu Xia finished talking about this strategy, I immediately asked someone to forge a secret letter written to me by Wu Sangui.

In the secret letter, I said that everything Wu Sangui did to take refuge in Li Zicheng was to help me recover the country, and even to repel the Tibetans, I said that it was Wu Sangui's credit.

After making this secret letter, I deliberately let out the rumor that Wu Sangui was about to join me in Jinan, and then cooperate with me to besiege Li Zicheng. At the same time, I even arranged for someone to deliberately expose the secret letter to Li Zicheng.

After doing these two things well, I sat in Jinan and waited for Li Zicheng and Wu Sangui to meet each other.

Sure enough, just when Wu Sangui's army arrived on the north bank of the Yellow River and was about to attack Jinan, Li Zicheng's big old man suddenly killed him from Cangzhou, and without thinking about it, he fought with Wu Sangui.

Just when their two armies were fighting, I suddenly led a large army across the Yellow River, and with the momentum of encirclement, Wu Sangui, who had been beaten, could not react at all, and soon retreated to the city of Tianjin.

After defeating Wu Sangui, I immediately turned around and marched to Li Zicheng, who was a reckless man, who was not my opponent at all, and finally lost three towns in a row and fled directly back to Beijing.

In this way, the siege of Jinan was easily solved, and more importantly, Wu Sangui was in a hurry to fight Li Zicheng, so he didn't have the heart to care about me at all.

In such a situation, I held a large area of land on the north bank of the Yellow River, divided my troops into three routes, and began to march towards Beijing. intends to take Beijing in one fell swoop when Wu and Li are fighting among themselves.

But what I didn't expect was that Wu Sangui took the lead in that dog's day, and soon hit Beijing from Tianjin, and finally forced Li Zicheng to flee in embarrassment and occupy Beijing by himself.

I originally thought that Wu Sangui occupied Beijing and would pull Chongzhen's crown prince out as a puppet emperor, and then blackmail the Son of Heaven to order the princes. Unexpectedly, after he occupied Beijing, he directly proclaimed himself emperor, named the country as Great Zhou, named himself Emperor Wu of Zhou, and his son Wu Yingxiong as the crown prince.

That's not all, the day after he ascended the throne, he sent his son Wu Yingxiong to personally lead a large army to fight against the Ming army.

Although the Ming army was brave, it could not stop him from studying the "Chengtian Eight Lock Array" from the scriptures, and he was soon defeated, and finally had to retreat to Jinan again.

……

After the Ming army retreated to Jinan, Wu Yingxiong chased after him and hit Jinan very quickly, and the Ming army could only give up Jinan in the end.

After abandoning Jinan, Wu Yingxiong relied on the "Chengtian Eight Lock Array", and successively took the Ming army to occupy the nine cities, and the Ming army could only continue to flee south, and finally fled to Haining City, Jiangsu, and morale fell to the bottom.

Looking at the fierce Wu Yingxiong, I felt a sense of powerless frustration, feeling that if this progress continued, the Ming army would be finished sooner or later.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, Wu Yingxiong suddenly withdrew his troops.

Seeing that Wu Yingxiong had withdrawn his troops, I was very puzzled, but I didn't dare to go on a northern expedition immediately, because I was afraid that this was a trick played by Wu Yingxiong, deliberately luring the Ming army, and then annihilating the Ming army in one fell swoop.

In this way, the Ming army neither advanced nor retreated, so they could only stay in Haining City and watch.

Soon, the spies in front reported to me that the reason why Wu Yingxiong would withdraw his troops was not to lure us, but that the Manchu Qing Dynasty had suddenly attacked from the north, regained the two important towns of Jinzhou and Panzhou in succession, and was sending troops to Shanhaiguan.

Hearing the spies say this, I couldn't believe it at all, because with Wu Sangui's current formation, it was impossible for the Manchus to recover Jinzhou and Panzhou.

So I asked the spy why he was here. As a result, the spies told me that the reason why the Manchus were able to quickly recapture the two cities was because of a strange man who came to Dolgon's side, and this strange man helped the Manchus to build powder guns with a range of 500 meters, as well as mines and cannons.

I didn't dare to trust what the spy said, thinking he was bragging.

Think about it, under the industrial conditions of the Ming Dynasty, it was simply impossible for a gunpowder gun to shoot at a range of five hundred meters.

You must know that the Dutch's powder gun was the most advanced at that time, and it could only shoot 100 meters.

As for artillery, mines, then it is even more nonsense.

You must know that artillery was really used in military warfare on a large scale during World War I.

I didn't believe the news reported by the spies, thinking that it was impossible for technology to reach it at that time, so I didn't take it to heart. Instead, he was thinking about whether he could find out the secret of cracking Wu Sangui's formation from other channels.

……

Just when I was thinking hard about how to crack Wu Sangui's formation, the slut from Xiaozhuang suddenly came to Haining City.

I calculated the time for a while, and thought to myself that she should have come to find an antidote for that kid Xuanye.

Unexpectedly, after she came, she didn't mention the antidote at all, but talked to me about other things.

What is it?

In her words, the Manchurians had to sacrifice to the gods every winter, and the sacrifice required fireworks, so they needed a lot of sulfur and saltpeter.

When I heard that, I instantly felt that something was wrong.

Because according to the records of the historical books, the Manchu people did not set off any fireworks at all, but used animal heads.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but think of what the spies had reported to me before, and I wondered if the Manchu Qing had developed a firearm with a range of 500 meters?

You must know that the raw materials needed to make ammunition are sulfur and firepeter.

And the three northeastern provinces currently occupied by the Manchu Qing Dynasty do not produce sulfur and petpeter at all, so she will come south to beg me.

If I give these things to her easily, then the Ming army will not be able to help the Manchus at all in the future. After all, in the face of guns, all ancient formations were powerless.

It's just that I don't understand who will be able to help the Manchus develop modern guns.

You know, according to the productive forces and means of production of the Ming Dynasty, the conditions for the manufacture of these weapons simply did not exist.

So I deliberately said: "Queen Mother, I have been fighting again and again in the Ming Dynasty, and I don't have time to mine sulfur and fire, even if I want to give it to you, I can't help it!" ”

"Your Majesty, I won't go around the bend with you, you make a price, as long as it's reasonable, I will satisfy you!"

Grass, as soon as she said this, I became even more convinced that the Manchus wanted to use these things to make firearms.

I thought about it for a while, and then said: "Queen Mother, it's not a matter of money, but mining these things requires a lot of manpower and material resources!" ”

"You don't have to worry about manpower. As long as you agree, I can send people south to mine immediately. ”

Nima! In such a hurry, it seems that the raw materials for the manufacture of ammunition in the Manchu Qing Dynasty have been almost used, otherwise Xiaozhuang would not have said such a thing.