"Fengtian carrier, the emperor said, at this moment, my Ming thieves and slaves are rampant, and the rogue is raging, and the court is the time to employ people, so I ordered Lu Xiang to be promoted and reinstated, and led King Qin's soldiers and horses to defend the capital, and cooperated with Gao Qiqian to lead the army to defend the capital, and Qin this!"

The sharp voice of the little eunuch who delivered the decree echoed in the camp, stunned Lu Xiangsheng and the generals who were lying on the ground.

Seeing that Lu Xiangsheng was still lying on the ground in a daze, the little eunuch who passed the decree was a little unhappy, and said to Lu Xiangsheng: "Lu Dudu, why don't you thank you?" ”

Lu Xiangsheng, who was awakened by the voice of the little eunuch, quickly got up and said, "The ministers are grateful!" ”

Lu Xiangsheng, who received the holy decree, was still a little confused, "What kind of medicine is sold in this gourd of the emperor?" Why did he suddenly reinstate himself as an official, could it be that the emperor had already figured out that he wanted to replace Gao Qiqian's straw bag? ”

Lu Xiangsheng thought about it for a while, and shook his head secretly, no, if the emperor really wanted to replace Gao Qiqian, he would not let himself cooperate with Gao Qiqian, it seems that the emperor still plans to let himself be Gao Qiqian's puppet.

Thinking of this, Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help but feel a deep sense of powerlessness, between himself and Gao Qiqian, the emperor still chose Gao Qiqian, a house slave.

And the surrounding generals didn't know what to do, and when they heard the news of Lu Xiang's promotion and reinstatement, they all happily discussed, "Brother, Governor Lu Du has been reinstated, and now our words are much better." ”

"No, at least we don't have to go out and fight the Tartars to death."

Although the generals' discussions were quiet, some of them were still heard by Gao Qiqian on the side, and the heart of being raised and diving was naturally not so comfortable, and he secretly gritted his teeth in his heart, "When our family kicks that Lu Xiangsheng away, you must look good!" ”

Thinking of this, he raised his mouth and said to Lu Xiangsheng without smiling: "Inspector Lu, congratulations, you see how much the emperor trusts you, you have been reinstated in less than a month, this favor is unique in our Daming!" ”

Lu Xiangsheng just raised his hand and arched it, and there was no trace of expression on his face: "Gonggong Gao has won the award, they are all courtiers who share the emperor's worries, how can there be any unique favor, this official is just the emperor's wrong love to become the boss." Now I don't want to be promoted, I just want to kill a few more Tartars. ”

"Hmph, this old stubborn, thinking about a decisive battle with the Qing soldiers all day long, well, our family will follow your wish today!"

Gao Qi snorted a few times in his heart, but a smile appeared on his face: "Since this is the case, then it is okay, since the emperor has reinstated you as an official, our family will not say anything, so let's know that Lu Dudu is eager to fight, so let's divide the troops again." ”

"What, division of troops?" As soon as he heard about the division of troops, Lu Xiangsheng was taken aback, could it be that he hadn't tasted enough of the hardships of the last division of troops, and now he wants to do this again?

Gao Qiqian said with a smile: "Yes, our family has also thought about it, now our army is crowded here, it is useless at all, but if we divide the army, it will be different, the two families are each other's horns, and they can also support each other!" ”

When Lu Xiangsheng heard this, he was almost so angry that he turned his back on it, what kind of is this, the original 90,000 troops were tied together and fought with others for nearly a month, and they lost 20,000 or 30,000 people, and now you are still clamoring to divide the troops, you are not calling it a division of troops, you are looking for death!

It was a matter of life and death for the whole army, and Lu Xiangsheng couldn't care about being angry with Gao Qi, and immediately said sharply: "Gonggong Gao, don't you hear that if the army is united, it will be strong, and if it is divided, it will be weak, and now our army is already short of food and grass and morale, if we divide the troops again, how can we fight the Tartars?" ”

"Eh, it's not right for you to say that." If you pick up your mouth and dive high, you are really not afraid of Lu Xiangsheng, he smiled faintly: "It is not our family's intention to divide the army, that is the idea of the emperor and the military department, besides, didn't the emperor also say it in the holy decree last month, and it can be divided according to the situation." What is the meaning of dividing and attacking, it will soon be said that we are going to try to divide the troops. ”

Listening to Gao Qiqian's distorted interpretation of the holy decree, Lu Xiangsheng was so angry that he almost trembled, he, a person who grew up reading sage books, picked up his mouth and played with his mouth, where is Gao Qiqian, the opponent of the eunuch who has played with people in the palace for most of his life.

Listening to Gao Qiqian's words, Lu Xiangsheng asked angrily: "Then dare to ask Grandpa Gao, I don't know how many soldiers and horses you plan to let this official take out?" ”

In other words, the military system of the Ming Dynasty was actually very weird, originally fighting a war was a matter of military generals, but the imperial court was afraid that the military generals would have too much power, and sent civilian officials to lead the army, and that's it, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor was still not very at ease with civilian officials, so he simply placed the eunuchs around him into the army.

However, the emperor also knew that it was too ugly to eat, so he called it the prison army, and the prison army was not responsible for the war, but only helped the commander to take charge of the grain and grass and record the merits. But in these years, even a fool knows that if the army's food and grass and the power to record merits are gone, what autonomy does the commander have, no matter how well you fight, you have to eat, and no matter how great your merits are, you have to let the superiors know that it is useful, so although the prison army is nominally a prison army, its actual power is great.

For example, the division of troops, it stands to reason that how to divide the troops and how many soldiers are divided is the power of Lu Xiangsheng, the commander, but in fact, things can't be seen like this, the grain and grass are compiled in Gao Qiqian's hands, if you pull the soldiers to yourself more, people will not allocate grain and grass to you at that time, you can't let the soldiers eat the soil, so this is why Lu Xiangsheng asked Gao Qiqian how many soldiers he wanted to give himself after hearing the division of troops.

After listening to Lu Xiangsheng's words, Gao Qi thought for a while before saying: "According to our family, we can't stay here anymore, it's too unlucky." Lu Dudu, you can lead 10,000 soldiers and horses to the west to seek fighters, and our family will lead the rest of the soldiers and horses to follow behind, seeking fighters, what do you think? ”

"What, ten thousand?" Lu Xiangsheng was angry when he heard it, although the strength of the Ming army has been consumed several times, there are more than 60,000 soldiers and horses in the camp, Gao Qiqian let himself, the commander of the first army, only lead 10,000 horses to seek fighters, and he is a supervisor but takes a large army to watch the scenery behind, which is too bullying!

Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help but have a seizure even if he had a good cultivation, he was so angry that his face turned red: "Gonggong Gao, this official is an expected soldier and horse, but you let this official only bring 10,000 soldiers and horses to fight against the Tartars, but you are following behind with 50,000 troops, what is your intention!" ”

Gao Qiqian squinted his eyes and smiled, "Lu Dudu, don't be in a hurry, our family didn't let you die, didn't our family still lead an army of 50,000 to follow you, if you encounter something, can our family still stand by and watch." ”

Lu Xiangsheng shook his head like a drum, Ran Ping raised his head and said that the lotus flower fell, and he would never attack with only 10,000 people, it was not a decisive battle, it was death!

Gao rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "Okay, since neither of us can convince anyone, then let's each make a decision, and ask the emperor to come up and adjudicate." ”

"If you go up, you will go up, who is afraid of whom!" Lu Xiangsheng's bullish temper also came up, and the two of them each went back to the account to write a chapter and did not mention it.

That night, two pieces of music were placed in front of Chongzhen, but after Chongzhen finished reading the music, he frowned and scolded damned.

It turned out that Lu Xiangsheng counted Chongzhen in the recital, and he wrote in the recital: "If you can fight, you can keep your words, if you can't fight, you can keep your words everywhere, and the more you keep them, the more you will be controlled by the enemy." Today, it is said that we must focus on warfare and defend as a supplement, so that we can control the enemy and not be controlled by the enemy. If you don't "fight to save the situation", you will "repeat the mistakes of the Southern Song Dynasty"! ”

This made Chongzhen, who had always wanted to save face, very unhappy, and that's it, at the end, Lu Xiangsheng also asked Chongzhen to issue an edict for his own guilt. This pricked Chongzhen's heart, in Chongzhen's opinion, the country is like this, it is all civil and military ministers who have mistaken the country, what is he not? Hasn't he worked hard to run the world in the past ten years, always trying to make the country prosperous, and the ministers and ministers have failed to live up to his expectations? The second thing that hurt him the most was about the issue of peace with Manchuria. Lu Xiangsheng actually used the word "peace discussion" in his recital, which was intended to stab him, and not only spoke for Yuan Chonghuan, who had already died, but also wanted to obstruct the future "pacification" with Manchuria and oppose his great plan to seek the country.

Chongzhen was furious, punched on the imperial case, jumped up, and walked around the pillar in the Qianqing Palace. As he walked, he thought hatefully: Now that the state affairs have deteriorated to this point, no one is willing to help him, but only sees the royal relatives resisting him, the ministers criticizing him, and attributing him to him, and the common people continue to come to him to "write to him", and the civil and military generals in various places will only report to him disasters, famines, salaries, soldiers, and relief!

Chongzhen was angry, so he sat back on the bookcase and picked up the pen and wrote

The next day, Chongzhen's will arrived, in this will, Chongzhen not only had the same plan to divide the troops, but Chongzhen was quite kind, although he was already angry, but he still assigned Xuanda's 20,000 soldiers and horses to Lu Xiangsheng and asked him to find fighters.

"How's it going, Lutdu? What our family said is good, the emperor still agreed to divide the troops. At this moment, Gao Qiqian's triumphant appearance made people want to smash his nose with a punch.

Lu Xiangsheng sighed secretly, the emperor finally agreed to divide the troops, but fortunately, although Chongzhen was confused, he still gave him 20,000 Xuanda soldiers and horses, with these soldiers and horses, he didn't dare to say that he would kill the enemy and serve the country, but at least there was no problem with self-preservation.

Lu Xiangsheng had no choice but to lead Yang Guozhu and other 20,000 Xuan soldiers to pull out the camp and march to Zhuozhou, which is 100 miles away from Beijing, because Gao Qiqian said that there are often small groups of Qing soldiers there, and we can't beat Yue Tuo's 50,000 troops, can't we still beat those small Qing soldiers.

Just when Lu Xiang raised his camp and marched to Zhuozhou, Pang Gang also came to Jinan with thousands of his soldiers and horses.

(To be continued)