In the Qianqing Palace, Chongzhen was discussing with the cabinet and Jiuqing about how to save the crisis outside the Guan. Chongzhen means to negotiate peace, Songjin was defeated, the Ming Dynasty lost 120,000 troops outside the pass, and 800 miles outside the Shanhai Pass in Liaoxi, and there was only one Ningyuan lonely city left.

Chongzhen can't sleep at night now, and he will have nightmares after not sleeping for long, dreaming that the Qing army broke through the Ningyuan Mountain Pass and once again killed the city of Beijing.

Thinking that the Qing army might be like Chongzhen in the second year, and it might also invade the pass and plunder Hebei and Shandong as last winter, Chongzhen became more and more uneasy.

Especially now that Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting have been captured, even Wang Tingchen, Cao Bianjiao, Yang Guozhu and other fierce generals who are known as knowing soldiers and fighting have become prisoners, and generals like Wu Sangui, Zu Dashou, and Qin Liangyu have also been defeated again and again, and Chongzhen doesn't know who else can block the attack of the Tartars.

The Tartars really want to come to the city of Beijing again, and Chongzhen doesn't know who else is available.

Now the only available one is only one Chu Duke Zhu Ciye, but the more because of this, the more Chongzhen dares to throw this only chip on the gambling table easily.

Among the important ministers of the imperial court, Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the military department, supported the peace, and Chen Xinjia, as the secretary of the military department, could not come up with any effective way to stop the Qing army, so he could only hope for peace. In the cabinet, Zhou Yanru was also willing to negotiate peace, but this old fox refused to make a clear statement.

Chongzhen knew that Zhou Yanru was unwilling to come forward because Wu Fu opposed the peace.

Wu Fu resolutely opposed the negotiation of peace, believing that he would fight the Tartars to the end. Chongzhen asked him what his tactics were, and Wu Fu's method was to immediately abandon the land of Liaodong, transfer the Duke of Chu back to Guanning to preside over the overall defense, and then recapture Liaoxi with the elite withdrawn from Liaodong and the new army trained in the south.

For such a plan, Chongzhen was quite disappointed. It's not that Chongzhen is reluctant to give up Liaodong, but he feels that far water can't quench his thirst. The Liaohai Sea has been frozen. The soldiers and horses from the Central Plains who came to aid Liao didn't even arrive in time to rush to Liaodong, and now Zhu Ciye's tens of thousands of people have become a lone army, hanging alone.

It's hard to say whether you can survive this winter, how to transfer Liu Jun back to Guanning at this time? Fly back?

At this time, none of the six university scholars and auxiliary ministers in the cabinet and the nine senior ministers could come up with a suitable plan, but on the contrary, they were again arguing about the reorganization of the new army.

Due to the defeat of Liaoxi, 120,000 elites were lost, and the remaining 80,000 soldiers and horses were also demoralized. There is a shortage of food and equipment, and there is an urgent need for rest and replenishment. Therefore, in order to strengthen the defense, the military headquarters has just presided over the defense and reorganization of Gyeonggi, integrating the various towns of Gyeonggi and the three battalions of the Gyeonggi Army, and reorganizing them into a new three battalions and nine towns.

Then, the northern border army was reorganized into a new five military regions and fifteen towns.

Now, the Ministry of War plans to integrate the soldiers and horses in the rest of the Ming Dynasty according to this standard.

"Your Majesty, the military headquarters plans to be outside the three major battalions and nine towns in Gyeonggi and the fifteen towns of the five northern military regions. Then, the Central Plains and the southern regions were also reorganized. Our plan is as follows: Hubei and Hunan provinces will set up a governor of one or two lakes and a governor of Hubei, and another governor of Hunan, and reorganize a new army in one town. Jiangxi and Zhejiang provinces have governors of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. A new army was formed. Guangdong and Guangxi set up two governors of Guangzhou, and organized a new army in one town. Yunnan and Guizhou provinces set up Yunnan and Guizhou governors, and organized a new army in a town. Fujian and Taiwan set up a governor of Fujian and Taiwan, and organized a new army in a town. Nanzhili, Sichuan and Henan provinces. Each province has a governor, and each has a new army. A total of eight governors were set up, and eight towns were formed. In addition, the Yangtze River, Beiyang, Dongyang, and Nanyang four towns are added. In total, there were twelve towns of the new army, plus twenty-four towns in the north, for a total of thirty-six towns of the new army. ”

"The Ministry of War also plans to complete the removal of local guard posts within this year."

Chongzhen interrupted Chen Xinjia's report impatiently, "The Southern New Army should speed up its reorganization, I know that Lianghu and Liangguang have already begun to reorganize and train the new army, and they are ahead of the provinces, and now the other provinces should also speed up." Speaking of this, Chongzhen glanced at Chen Xinjia and continued, "During this time, I have received reports from many places, all of which say that many provincial officials have committed serious dereliction of duty such as malpractice and corruption and bribery in the process of removing the guard post and cleaning up the tuntian, and they have not done a good job of rectifying and relocating the types of work, but have taken the opportunity to encroach on the tuntian and fill their own pockets, causing many of the original guards officers and military households to be dissatisfied, and they have made chaos one after another, and even joined the bandits. ”

"Immediately suspend the removal of the guards, select and send officials to various localities to examine the situation of rectification, crack down on and punish corrupt officials, settle the military attaches and military households of the guards in various localities, and continue the rectification after the situation is ascertained and stabilized."

"Yes." Chen Xinjia hurriedly replied.

Chongzhen sighed and asked, "Is there any news from Liaodong?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, not yet. The Liaohai Sea has been frozen, and Songjin is occupied by the Tartars, and now it is cut off from Liaodong traffic, and the contact is not easy. ”

"Your Majesty, the commander of the Jinyi Guard sent Liu Qiao to see him outside the palace, saying that there was an urgent report from Liaodong."

"Announce quickly." As soon as Chongzhen heard the news of Liaodong, Teng got up and hurriedly shouted. Since the defeat of Songjin, the imperial court has not been in contact with Liaodong for several days.

The soldiers and horses of the three towns led by Zhu Ciye of Liaodong are the most elite soldiers and horses in the imperial court at the moment, and Chongzhen is very worried that this army will have some accidents, it is really unavailable.

Liu Qiao followed the eunuch into the palace, and he was still wearing an ordinary white robe, obviously in a hurry to enter the palace, and he was too late to change it. Chongzhen didn't care about these rude things at this time, he asked urgently, "Liu Qing, what's the news?" ”

Liu Qiao fell to his knees all of a sudden, and shouted excitedly, "Your Majesty, great news, the Duke of Chu has just sent someone to Beijing to report the victory, and the Duke of Chu has him."

"What's wrong with him?"

"Could it be that the Duke of Chu was also defeated?" Zhou Yanru asked, he even had a little expectation when he said this.

"After receiving His Majesty's order and ordering him to supervise the outside of the Guan, because it was far away from Jinzhou Road, he waved his army from Haizhou to the north to attack Liaoyang, preparing to attack the enemy and save Zhao."

"Nonsense, Your Majesty clearly ordered the Duke of Chu to rescue Jinzhou, but Zhu Ciye did something to encircle Wei to save Zhao, he deliberately resisted the decree and deliberately trapped the Liaoxi Army in danger." Zhou Yanru immediately shouted, "Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that it is because of Zhu Ciye's resistance that Songjin was defeated, and Zhu Ciye's crime should be discussed!" ”

Chongzhen didn't want to dwell on these at this time, he ignored Zhou Yanru, but asked Liu Qiao.

"And then?"

Liu Qiao glanced at Zhou Yanru, then raised his voice a few points, and said in a loud voice:

Then Chu Guogong really forced Huang Taiji to personally lead the army back to help, after Chu Guogong heard the news. sent some soldiers and horses to appear under Liaoyang City under his banner to bluff, and then the Duke of Chu killed Huang Taiji, who had come to help, halfway. Before the city of Jinzhou was broken, the Duke of Chu attacked Huangtaiji with 20,000 soldiers on the west bank of the Liao River and 5,000 people and horses to aid Liaoyang. ”

"What about Huang Taiji? What about Huang Taiji? Chongzhen shouted excitedly, his eyes glowing red.

"Chu State Gong Array beheads Huang Taiji!" Liu Qiao reported loudly.

"Kill Huang Taiji?" Chongzhen muttered several times, and then suddenly laughed out loud, laughing for most of the day, laughing until tears came down at the end. He still couldn't stop laughing.

It is really a village with no way out, and the willows and flowers are bright. A few days of shock, Chongzhen's heart can't stand it.

Zhou Yanru and Wu Fu and other ministers were also stunned on the spot, and no one expected this result. The Qing army won a great victory all the way in Liaoxi, why was Huang Taiji killed by Zhu Ciye, is this true or false?

"Really?" After laughing enough, Chongzhen couldn't help but ask again.

"Chu Guogong's handwritten letter, that battle, 5,000 Tartars were wiped out. In addition to killing Huang Taiji, the Duke of Chu also killed three Beile, two solid mountains and three bachelors, and more than 100 Niu Lu Zhangjing. Huang Taiji and the heads of Baylor and Gushan were all on their way to Jingshi. ”

"There is also good news, the Duke of Chu has captured Liaoyang. Now the army is sending to Shenyang! ”

"The captive head Huang Taiji is dead, hahaha, it's a good death." Chongzhen couldn't help but laugh again.

Zhou Yanru felt a little sour in his heart, and couldn't help but say. "It's a pity that it's a little late, if Chu Guogong can kill Huang Taiji earlier, then Songjin will not be lost."

"And. If the Duke of Chu had directly sent troops to aid Jinzhou after receiving the order, instead of besieging Wei and begging Zhao to fight Liaoyang, there would definitely be no Songjin defeat. ”

Listening to these words, Liu Qiao's heart was furious.

couldn't help but retort, "Haizhou is hundreds of miles away from Jinzhou, even if the Duke of Chu immediately goes to help, but Jinzhou will not be able to hold out at that time." Who would have thought that more than 100,000 soldiers and horses in Songjin would be defeated in a short period of time? If they could hold out a little longer, how could the situation be? ”

"Alright, don't talk about it." Chongzhen stopped them. In his heart, he actually had the same idea as Liu Qiao at this time, the army of more than 200,000 people in western Liaoning had spent countless food and salaries in vain, except for the few small victories that Wu Sangui began to fight, it was really useless. Defeated again and again, Songjin didn't hold it for half a month.

But it's not easy to mention this matter, after all, if Chongzhen hadn't blindly advocated gathering a large army in western Liaoxi to counterattack and restore Liao, there would have been no later Wu Sangui's rash advance, let alone the defeat of Songjin later. In the final analysis, he has a lot of responsibility for Songjin's defeat.

But it's really a pity that Liu Jun's killing of Huang Taiji was still before Songjin was lost, if the news of the killing of the Tartar Emperor had reached Songjin earlier, I was afraid that Songjin would not have been lost.

Although it is a pity, the result is quite good now. Liu Jun killed Huang Taiji and captured Liaoyang, which changed the situation greatly.

Chongzhen was even thinking that it would be better if Liu Jun could take the opportunity to capture Shenyang.

"In the battle of Liaohe, what were the casualties of Liaodong's soldiers and horses?" Chongzhen asked.

"The casualties of the Chu State Office are not light, and the losses are no less than 5,000." Liu Qiao replied.

"Annihilated 5,000 elite soldiers in Huangtaiji, and only lost more than 5,000 of his own, and only the Duke of Chu could make such an impressive record."

"Your Majesty, after the minister, the Ministry of Chu Guogong is now very critical, if Chu Guogong really sends troops to Shenyang, then he is alone in the depths. In case the Tartars return to the siege and are surrounded in Liaoshen, then there is a danger that the whole army will be annihilated. Your Majesty, now that I have a new defeat in Liaoxi, there is only an elite Liaodong Army left in the Chu State Office, and there must be no mistakes. Once the Liaodong Army is gone, there will be no more Tartar soldiers outside the pass. ”

After Wu Fu's performance, he requested that Liaodong be sent immediately and Liu Jun should withdraw his troops.

"An order should be issued immediately to the Duke of Chu to withdraw to Lushun, and not to go deep into the heart of the enemy alone, otherwise there is a danger of annihilation."

Chongzhen was a little hesitant, he was actually looking forward to Liu Jun's miracle again, in case he broke through Shenyang.

"Your Majesty, the Chu army is alone in Liaodong, but there are only tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in the three towns. Now it is necessary to divide troops to stay in Lushun and Zhenjiang, and the Liaohai Sea is frozen in winter, and the Beiyang Naval Division has no place for a while, and the real soldiers of Chu Guogong are only twenty or thirty thousand people, and the losses in the Liaohe River are not small, and the troops are also divided to stay in Liaoyang, Haizhou, Gaizhou, and Fuzhou Zhucheng to protect the back road. In this way, how many soldiers can the Duke of Chu really use to attack Shenyang? The number of 20,000 is insufficient, and although the Tartar Emperor was killed, the strength of Houjin is still strong, not to mention 100,000, even 50,000 soldiers and horses are killed, and the Duke of Chu can't stand it. (To be continued.) )

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