Since raising the flag, Wu Sangui's coalition forces have been progressing smoothly.

With the surprise attack, he captured Dalinghe City in one fell swoop, and then he successfully took Yizhou, Jinzhou and other cities. Wu Sangui rode his horse and slowly entered Jinzhou City.

Looking at this empty city, Wu Sangui was in a complicated mood, and the same was true of Zu Dashou next to him.

This important town in western Liaoning, which was once a city repeatedly contested by the Ming and Qing dynasties, is now open to welcome his entry. But Wu Sangui didn't have any joy in his heart.

When he raided and captured Dalinghe City, he was overjoyed and drank three bowls of wine excitedly.

But now, Yizhou and Jinzhou have won successively, but he can't laugh.

Jinzhou was not captured by him, but was given up by the Ming army on his own initiative.

What he was most worried about happened, Liu Jiye didn't fight with him in Liaoxi at all. Before sending troops, he had carefully thought about how to fight the Ming army, and finally combined with the Liao army's war with the Qing army over the years, Wu Sangui formulated a very detailed battle plan.

That is, first raid and take Dalinghe City, and then besiege Jinzhou. According to the Qing army's method of dealing with the Ming army, besieged the city and sent reinforcements, besieged Jinzhou, and then forced the Ming army to come to help from afar, and then they used the mobile advantage of the cavalry to send reinforcements halfway.

Use Jinzhou City to fish out the Ming army little by little, and then defeat them.

The Chu army is very strong, and Wu Sangui never thought that he could easily defeat Liu Jun. But he has a plan, that is, to teach the Ming army a hard lesson in Liaoxi first, at least to force Liu Jun to realize his strength, and it is best to force the Ming court to negotiate with them. Then he will negotiate peace with the imperial court, and the imperial court will attribute Liaoxi to him, and he will still be a courtier of the Ming Dynasty, but the minister of the torn earth and the spear can listen to the tune and not listen to the announcement.

He wants to be the king of Liaoxi.

But now that Zuo Liangyu has evacuated, Jinzhou City has become an empty city.

"Marshal, the left army has withdrawn to Ningyuan, and he has taken all the people away. He also burned everything that could not be taken away. The cities and towns were all set on fire, many sections of the city walls were torn down, and even the wells were thrown dead, and many of them were directly filled. ”

Liaoxi has become a ghost domain, a scorched earth.

Wu Sangui and Zu Dashou are both experienced people, and they can see through the intentions of the Ming army at a glance, which is a strong wall and a clear field.

As a result, they are caught in a dilemma.

Continue to advance and attack Ningyuan, then they will not be able to replenish food and grass on the spot. It had to be transferred from the rear. This is a big problem, the Liao army has run out of grain and grass, and this time the troops still borrowed a batch of grain and grass from Haoge. In their rear, there is no food or grass to transport at all.

Even if he wanted to occupy Songjin and be stationed here, he couldn't.

Without food and grass, he just sat here and waited to die.

"Liu Jiye, how can he do this?" Zu Dashou's face was angry, "Isn't his Chu army known as invincible, why don't you stick to Jinzhou." Why not send troops for reinforcements, why retreat without a fight? ”

"Isn't he afraid of being impeached by officials and attacked by public opinion, saying that he is cowardly? Say he lost ground? ”

Wu Sangui sighed, "With Liu Jiye's status in the Ming Court today, he doesn't have to be afraid of those attacks, and no one dares to attack him like this." I heard that now Liu Jiye has taken control of the Ming Court. Gyeonggi was all garrisoned by his Chu army, and even the Jinyi guard became his eagle dog, and no one objected to his recitals. There was never an official who impeached and attacked him. Those who try to impeach and attack Liu Jun will first be interviewed by Jinyiwei and invited to tea. ”

Zu Dashou didn't know what to say.

He even envied Liu Jun in his heart, a military general can actually do this, his mother is more beautiful than Wei Zhongxian, and even more majestic than Zhang Juzheng. He was even thinking about how refreshing it would be if he could do Liu Jiye's point.

"Liu Jiye is really the most difficult opponent." Wu Sangui sighed again, "Not only is he difficult to guess, but he now controls the center of the Ming Dynasty, and his actions are not restricted by the imperial court at all." If in the past, whoever dared to abandon the soil without guarding it, the court would definitely fly in like snowflakes, and countless officials would be impeached. But now, up and down the Ming Dynasty, there is not even a person who farts. ”

"Now" Zu Da Shouqi's liver hurts, and now the situation is in front of him, and he doesn't know what to do.

There are three paths in front of them.

Continue to attack, retreat, or occupy places such as Songjin.

Continuing to attack, facing a serious supply problem, occupying Songjin, is also facing such a problem. Even if the army is withdrawn, for Wu Sangui, the supply problem cannot be bypassed.

No matter what kind of army it is, it is inseparable from food and grass. Without food and grass, it is difficult to move an inch.

"Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan are heavily armed, and the Liaohai Sea will be thawed soon, and there is also a Beiyang naval division on the sea, and they will be able to go around our rear bread from the sea at any time."

Wu Sangui analyzed to Zu Dashou.

"Liu Jiye gave up Songjin and retreated to Ningyuan, I think he was deliberately luring us to attack Ningyuan. In this way, we are far away from Liaodong, and the logistics supply line is lengthened, especially in this way, Liu Jun's sailors can outflank us at any time. ”

"But we can't just retreat like this, we can't stay here forever, there is nothing here, and the food and grass we bring is only enough to last for half a month." Zu Dashou reminded.

Wu Sangui was in a dilemma.

On the same day, Hauge arrived with his army.

Looking at the ruins, Hauge's face was also very ugly.

He also counted on coming to Liaoxi to grab a special robbery and strengthen his strength. The result is good, except for some gains in Dalinghe City, there is nothing left in Liaoxi.

These Ming people are really ruthless, thousands of miles to the west of Liaoxi, turned into a scorched earth.

"Lord Wang, in the current situation, we can't attack Ningyuan anymore. Ningyuan is heavily armed, the city is strong and the artillery is sharp, and it is not suitable to attack. ”

"Wu Shuai wants to back down?" Hauge asked.

"Of course not." Wu Sangui couldn't retreat if he wanted to, and now, there was no turning back when he opened the bow.

Wu Sangui took the map and spread it out in front of everyone.

"Lord Wang, I have a plan, we will bypass Ning Yuan, who is heavily guarded. Ningyuan has a heavy army, which is difficult to attack, and even if Ningyuan is captured, there is a more heavily defended Shanhaiguan behind it. From Shanhaiguan to the present, it has never been broken from outside the customs for thousands of years. ”

"We bypassed Ningyuan, just like Emperor Taizong back then, we made a detour to Monan and entered the customs through the Great Wall in Yanbei. Straight to Beijing. ”

He said to Hauge, "Now that Liaoxi is a scorched earth, our supply is also a problem. If we make a detour to Monan, then we can replenish grain and grass from the Mongol tribes on the spot and solve this thorny problem. ”

"My intelligence shows that Liu Jun has deployed heavy troops on the front line of the Great Wall, and Gyeonggi has also assembled heavy troops." Hauge Road.

"Then we can attack Xuanfu Datong from Monan and plunder Shanxi." Wu Sangui said.

As soon as the hour arrived, Liu Jun walked into the yamen of the Imperial City Cabinet.

Although he was appointed as the rebel supervisor responsible for fighting rebellion and quelling the rebellion, Liu Jun was still the auxiliary minister of the government. Liu Jun set up a line in Tongzhou, but three days passed, and more often he still stayed in Beijing.

Every morning, around seven o'clock in the morning, he would go to the cabinet in the imperial city first. In the morning, first in the cabinet, then to the prime minister's office in the palace, and if there is no meeting of the military aircraft department, in the afternoon in the governor's palace outside the Desheng Gate.

Liu Jun wears many hats, and his daily schedule is compact. Even each itinerary has an attendant check the arrangements for him.

The cabinet was located in the Imperial City and served as the office of the six ministers. After several expansions, the scale is still not very large, and the courtyard of the cabinet has only three small buildings. In the middle of a flying corner heavy eaves, grand and magnificent, for the cabinet office; The small building on the east side of the courtyard is the edict room, and the west side is the system house. The south was originally a gap land, and later due to the lack of office space, during Yan Song's tenure as the first assistant. Three major sheds were built here, and all the assistant officials of the cabinet moved here.

The public house of the cabinet ministers is a hall at the entrance, and the tablet of Confucius is enshrined in the center of the hall. The four sides of the hall are verandahs, and the doors of the ministers' duty rooms are open on the verandah. Some of the upstairs rooms are court rooms, and some are resting places for the ministers.

Liu Jun is third in the cabinet, has his own public house, and has an exclusive lounge upstairs.

There are six rooms for one set of duty, six rooms, confidential rooms, clerical rooms, reception rooms, etc.

When Liu Jun arrived, the two handymen had already cleaned up in the house, and the house was cleaned. And some subordinates have already presented some important official documents to Liu Jun's table.

As soon as he walked in, the officials and miscellaneous servants came to pay his respects.

Liu Jun has his own set of rules, as long as he comes here, then the first thing in the morning is to have a simple regular meeting.

After taking the tea that the adjutant had made for him, Liu Jun drank the tea while listening to the subordinates taking turns to report on their work, and some important things that had been done and what had not been done were clarified, and Liu Jun also knew these things well.

He finally explained a few things, and after the regular meeting, they went back to work.

As soon as he sat down, Wu Fu came.

"King Jun, there is an important matter now, which is very troublesome." Wu Fu frowned, "The second assistant sent someone over just now, and he received news from home that his father was sick and died. ”

According to the Ming system, officials must follow the traditional Confucian concept of filial piety, during the reign of the court officials, if the parents died, then no matter what position the person occupied, from the day of the funeral, must return to the ancestral hometown, for the parents for 27 months, this is called Ding worry.

"Does Liu Ge always want to go home to guard the system?" Liu Jun asked.

"Yes." Wu Fu sighed, "King Jun, now that the imperial court is eventful, Wu Sangui rebelled and united with the Eastern Captives to attack, I thought that the imperial court needed Liu Ge Lao at this time." I think it should be decreed by the emperor and let Mr. Liu keep it. ”

When an official's parents die, they must be kept in order, but there are special circumstances that can be retained, which is to win affection. The emperor issued an order to seize the favor and let the officials continue to be retained.

For example, at the beginning of Lu Xiangsheng and Chen Xinjia, these two ministers were robbed of affection, when the Qing army entered the Kou, the emperor ignored the filial piety of the two of them, and issued an order to seize the affection, so that they could lead their troops to resist the Qing army.

In history, Zhang Juzheng was also robbed.

Wu Fu hoped that Liu Zongzhou would be retained, because since Zhou Yanru's suicide, there were only three ministers left, and he needed Liu Zongzhou to work with him to balance Liu Jun. If Liu Zongzhou wins the love, then he will leave the center for three years. During these three years, they will not be allowed to participate in the administration of the government on a case-by-case basis.

The Minister of Gu Ming is not a cabinet position, and Liu Zongzhou Ding is worried, and his position is reserved, but he cannot be a director for the time being. According to the usual practice, the imperial court will appoint a person to temporarily replace Liu Zongzhou's position, but it is only limited to the post of secretary of the Ministry of Industry or the secondary auxiliary position of Liu Zongzhou, but it cannot replace the post of minister of Gu Ming.

The Minister of Orders is ad hoc, not permanent. After Zhou Yanru committed suicide, there was one less, and if Liu Zong and Zhou were worried, then before he came back, there would only be two left.

Wu Fu didn't want Liu Zongzhou and Ding Wei to leave, and hoped that he would win his love. (To be continued.) )

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