In Liaoyang City, Liu Ji sat in the signing room of the second hall of the Liaoyang County Ya, holding a letter in his hand, which was the one sent by Jiang Chuan.

He first carefully inspected the lacquer and imprints on the seal, and after confirming that there was no problem, he put the envelope on the candle next to him to bake and melt and open it.

took out the letterhead from it, and after unfolding it, he saw Jiang Chuan's familiar, a little ugly handwriting in the eyes of many people, and even some words were still missing a pen, Liu Ji smiled, and then began to read carefully.

The letter is not long, just a piece of letterhead, just a few hundred words, and I read it quickly.

Liu Ji put aside the letterhead with the words written on it again, picked up the blank letterhead covered with the seal of the Liaonan General Army, looked at it for a while, shook his head and sighed: "I'm afraid the lord will be disappointed this time." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a voice came from the door: "Military advisor, what will disappoint the eldest marquis?" ”

Liu Ji looked up, but saw a person dressed in white like snow standing at the door looking at him with a smile, his face was happy, he stood up and said, "White girl, why are you here suddenly, please come in quickly." ”

The person who came was Bai Jinxiu, who looked a little haggard, with a dusty air on his face.

Bai Jinxiu was also not polite, and sat opposite Liu Ji generously.

The servant brought the tea, and then bowed and withdrew.

Liu Ji also sat down again and looked at Bai Jinxiu: "I just received a letter from the lord, and I was about to write to you, but I didn't expect you to stand in front of me." ”

Bai Jinxiu: "Then I'm here at the right time." If my guess is correct, I am sure that our eldest marquis is running out of manpower, so let the military advisor urge me to find someone for him. ”

Liu Ji laughed: "It's not bad at all, you still know the lord." The letter of the lord is here, so read it too. ”

After speaking, he stretched out his hand to pick up the letter and handed it to Bai Jinxiu on the other side.

Bai Jinxiu hesitated a little and didn't pick it up: "Military advisor, this is a letter from Master Hou to you, I don't think it's appropriate." ”

"There's nothing that doesn't suit, and it's up to you to do these things." Liu Ji smiled and handed the letter over again.

Bai Jinxiu took the letter with both hands and read it quickly, with a strange smile on her face.

Returning the letter to Liu Ji, Bai Jinxiu smiled and said, "Although the handwriting of our eldest marquis is still ugly, it is much better than before. It's just that I really can't understand why he always lacks a pen and a few strokes in his writing, and it looks so natural, as if he was born to write like this. ”

Liu Ji: "The lord is not an extraordinary person, and an extraordinary person has extraordinary things." White girl, you came to Liaoyang this time, but what happened in the rear? ”

Liu Ji obviously diverted the topic, it is not a wise move to talk about the lord behind his back, especially the person in front of him who may be the main princess in the future, and those who are ministers should be more cautious, Liu Ji knows this very well.

Bai Jinxiu did not continue the topic, but said: "There is indeed a big thing happening. I received news from the capital that Li Zicheng's two-way army was marching towards the capital, Taiyuan had been captured in the west, and the south road was about to reach Jinan. ”

Liu Ji's face suddenly became solemn, this is indeed a big deal.

He thought for a while, took out the book of Da Ming Yu drawn by himself from the desk, unfolded it and looked at it carefully, and said while reading: "Taiyuan is lost, and after Zhending Mansion, you will arrive in Gyeonggi." After Jinan, and then hit Hejian Mansion, it is the Beijing Division. I didn't expect Li Zicheng to advance so fast, obviously thinking that the two of them would encircle the Beijing Division. ”

Bai Jinxiu nodded: "The matter is urgent, so I hurried over as soon as I received the news, hoping that the military advisor and the Hou Ye can prepare early, so as not to fall into passivity in the future." ”

Liu Ji's brows also furrowed. The situation is moving so fast, which no one expected.

Originally, according to the judgment of Jiang Chuan and Liu Ji, it would take at least half a year for Li Zicheng to reach Beijing City. This half a year is enough for him to free up his hands to get rid of the Tartars and clean up Liaodong.

However, he did not expect that the Jiang army had just left the two cities in Liaodong, and Li Zicheng was about to hit the capital, which would undoubtedly have a great impact on the future strategic layout of the Jiang army.

The most direct thing is that once Li Zicheng is allowed to take Beijing, it will give him the first place, and then the officials and people of the world will join him one after another, and Li Zicheng's strength will expand rapidly. If Zu Dashou and Wu Sangui, who were guarding Shanhaiguan, surrendered Li Zicheng again, it would undoubtedly affect Li Yongnian's mind in Datong.

Although Li Yongnian is now an alliance with Jiang Chuan, he has not clearly expressed his allegiance to Jiang Chuan. Once Li Zicheng captures the Jingshi, then thinking about Li Yongnian again, Wu Sangui, the border guards will send a letter of surrender, and these people will inevitably not be moved.

After all, most of the Ming Dynasty was occupied by Li Zicheng, and it was impossible for their little men to confront the Dashun army.

Once Li Yongnian moved his mind, then it would be really troublesome for Jiang Jiajun to take Datong again.

Datong City is not as good as Liaoyang and Guangning, which are cities outside the gates, but they are Xiongcheng that has been continuously strengthened by the Ming Dynasty, even if the Jiang army has the confidence to fight down, the loss is definitely not small.

Moreover, half of the people in today's Jiang army are the original Ming army. And some of these people want to be, and some of them are Datong locals.

If Datong falls into the hands of Li Zicheng, it will inevitably have a great impact on the morale of the military. If you want to fight Datong again in the future, I'm afraid that these people may not be able to die.

Liu Ji thought about the impact of this in an instant, so that his brows tightened and he didn't speak for a long time.

Bai Jinxiu also fell silent, obviously she also realized the severity of the situation, waiting for Liu Ji to come up with an idea.

After a while, Liu Ji finally spoke: "White girl, you go back to Datong immediately, try to inform the people in the capital, and let them put some effort on that eunuch Li Jinzhong, the eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch, and make sure that the emperor will give the prince an order to the prince before Li Zicheng besieges the capital." ”

Bai Jinxiu's eyes widened, and she was puzzled: "Military advisor, are we really going to King Qinwang in the capital?" However, Liaodong has not yet been pacified, the vitality of the Tartars has not been damaged, and we only have more than 70,000 troops, so how can we fight on two fronts? ”

Liu Ji: "White girl, don't worry. It is true that the strength of our army is now insufficient to support our two-front operations. It is impossible to be a Qinwang, but this Qinwang order must be had. With this thing, the lord can do something justifiably. ”

Bai Jinxiu was already very smart, and after presiding over the Black Ice Terrace, he became more sensitive to these conspiracies, and his heart moved, and he shouted in a low voice: "What does the military advisor mean Datong? ”

Liu Ji smiled slightly: "If possible, we can do more." He said that he started to point at the location of the mountain customs on the map.