"Knock Knock"

The fierce sound of war drums and desolate horns resounded in unison over Tongzhou, and the two armies were fighting desperately on the battlefield, one of them was wearing red armor, and the other army was wearing red and blue armor, which was the Ming army fighting against the Manchu blue flag.

After about a stick of incense, the Ming army gradually lost to the Qing soldiers, began to slowly retreat, and the Qing soldiers were pressing step by step, and finally the Ming army evolved from defeat to rout, and finally rushed out of control to the Ming army camp, if it did not rely on the cover of the artillery in the Ming army camp, I am afraid that the Qing army would have rushed into the Ming army camp.

When the Ming army generals led by the rout retreated into the camp, they came to the big tent of the Chinese army, and bowed their heads in front of a eunuch who was sitting in the center with a blue face: "Gao Gonggong, the last general is not good at fighting, please punish Gao Gonggong!" ”

The eunuch sitting in the center of the big tent was Gao Qiqian, the commander of the King of Qin, and the general who had just lost the battle and was dejected and pleaded guilty to Gao Qiqian was Wang Pu, the chief soldier of Shanxi.

"You" looked at Wang Pu, whose armor was crooked and embarrassed, and he was angry when he got up, and pointed at Wang Pu and scolded: "You are incompetent, incompetent!" You dispatched 6,000 soldiers and horses, but you couldn't defeat 3,000 Tartars, is this how you are loyal to the emperor? We look at you like a rice bucket! ”

Wang Pu grinned, and wanted to say something, but finally endured it, only the generals in the big tent showed a trace of grievances, this dead eunuch obviously did not understand military affairs at all, but occupied a high position, since he pulled Lu Xiangsheng off the horse, swaggering to sit in the middle of the handsome position, blind command all day long, a month down, the loss of the Ming army once exceeded 30,000, while the loss of the Qing soldiers on the opposite side was only 2,000, such an aggrieved battle made the whole army have a serious war-weariness. And this war can be won by relying on a large number of people, if this is the case, everyone should not fight, just line up and count the heads. It seems that Gao Qiqian will only blame the generals for not fighting well, but he can't come up with any ideas.

After losing his temper, looking at Lu Xiangsheng, who was sitting beside him with his eyes closed, Gao Qiqian couldn't help but be secretly anxious, since Lu Xiangsheng was removed from the position of commander, he was like Xu Shu who had entered Cao Ying in the camp, he didn't say a word, didn't care about anything, and didn't ask anything.

Originally, Gao Qiqian was secretly happy to see Lu Xiangsheng like this, but he didn't come back to his senses until he suffered a few defeats.

It wasn't until now that Gao Qiqian understood the troubles of being the commander of the first army, don't look at himself as a coach, but he knows very well in his heart that if he really loses these tens of thousands of Ming elites, Chongzhen will never mind chopping himself into mashed meat.

Looking at the mocking gaze in the eyes of the generals, Gao Qiqian was distraught for a while, and ordered everyone to disperse and return to his tent with his hands behind his back.

"Can't go on like this, at the moment there are only more than 50,000 people in the Tartars, and the 90,000 army led by himself has already lost 30,000, if it goes on like this, you don't have to wait for defeat, I'm afraid there will be Jinyi guards coming to find you."

Thinking of this, Gao Qiqian was shocked, "I still have to find a scapegoat." ”

After thinking about it, Gao Qiqian's eyes lit up, and he said in his heart: "Isn't there a best scapegoat in front of me?" ”

Thinking of this, Gao Qiqian came up with an idea in his heart, he came to the bookcase, laid out a blank piece of paper and began to write: "The minister Gao Qiqian respectfully invites Sheng'an, the emperor is the king of Yao Shun, benevolence is in the grass and trees, and love soldiers is like a child." Since the slave maid was appointed by the emperor as the commander of the soldiers and horses of King Qin, she has been conscientious and dare not slack off, but the slave and maid have two positions but do not conform to the ancestral system, so they are ministers"

He wrote a large article freely, and then immediately called a confidant eunuch and asked him to quickly send this letter to the palace with six hundred miles of urgency, and that night, Emperor Chongzhen received this letter from Gao Qiqian.

"How did Gao Qiqian do this, it's not reliable at all, I just let him temporarily take on the position of coach last month, and I picked it up after only a month." In the Warm Heart Pavilion, Chongzhen was a little depressed and gave the high diving piece to Yang Sichang in front.

While Yang Sichang was looking at the excerpts, Chongzhen took a cup of tea from a palace maid, the faint fragrance of tea was refreshing, he smacked it lightly with his lips, and thoughtfully looked at this azure Xuanyao Dark Dragon Cup, admiring the exquisite precious art.

The palace maids and eunuchs who were standing next to him didn't make a sound, secretly looking at Chongzhen's facial expression and the subtle movements of his teacup. They all knew that the emperor would definitely ask Yang Ge Lao about some confidential matters later, but they didn't see any instructions from the emperor, so they didn't dare to automatically avoid going out. These palace maids and eunuchs usually did not need to wait for the emperor to speak, and they would act according to the slightest movement of Chongzhen's eyebrows, hair, lips, or beard to figure out his mind. When the emperor's eyes just left the teacup, a palace maid immediately stepped forward, took the teacup with both hands holding a pile of lacquer and gold plates, and walked out carefully, and the rest of the palace maids and eunuchs all tiptoed out within a second or two.

Yang Sichang exhaled a long breath after reading the recital and said to Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, Gonggong Gao is avoiding suspicion." ”

"Avoiding suspicion?"

"Your Majesty, people's words are terrifying, aren't those Qingliu in the capital just going to change the law and pick the emperor's fault? And Gonggong Gao is holding two positions at the moment, which is not in line with the ancestral system, if something goes wrong again, then they will have trouble. ”

Chongzhen sighed and said: "Yes, it is indeed difficult for him to let Gao Qi sneak into the second position, but if Lu Xiangsheng is used again, I am afraid that he will toss away the already not thick family foundation." ”

Yang Sichang's eyes rolled after hearing Chongzhen's words, and he immediately came up with an idea, "Your Majesty, in fact, you don't have to worry too much, you can let Lu Xiang be promoted and reinstated, but he is still controlled by Gao Gonggong, and if he can't do it, he can let them divide the army again, but Lu Xiangsheng can't be too far away from Gao Gonggong, and it is convenient for Gao Gonggong to control him, so that with Gao Gonggong's control, you won't be afraid of Lu Xiangsheng's chaos." ”

"Well, that's a good idea!" Chongzhen nodded again and again after hearing this, the emperor who wanted to use people, but constantly defended people, under the instigation of Yang Sichang, the two-knife military department Shangshu, issued a holy decree.

The next day, this holy decree was taken to the Tongzhou camp by several little eunuchs

(To be continued)