"Ladies and gentlemen, the siege of the Daling River has been around for a month, and there is no way to break the siege of Liaozhen. ////”

In the Qianqing Palace, Chongzhen's voice was a little stiff, and his face became even paler than a few months ago, and he found that as long as the Houjin soldiers appeared, there was very little he could do, and he could basically only be beaten.

Liang Tingdong, as the secretary of the Ministry of War, of course, could only speak first, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and before he could speak, Zhou Ruibao stood up and said loudly: "Long live, Dalinghe City was besieged for nearly a month, Liaozhen only fought twice, and the victory was the battle of Songshan, Weichen dared to ask, Guanning has an annual fee of more than 4 million Liao, and gathered 100,000 troops, why the siege of the city for a month, there is only one battle, and the battlefield is still in Songshan, with such a cowering army, when can the siege of Daling be solved?" ”

After Zhou Ruibao finished speaking, he stared at Liang Tingdong, "As for the construction of Lingcheng, the court and the central government have long had objections, and the soldiers, the Shufu and the governors of Liaodong are determined to build the city, so the slaves will attack or not. Wei Chen asked, regardless of the court's light provocation, without preparing a perfect strategy in advance, and leaving behind the difficult situation, how can he be called a loyal minister and a minister!? Although there is no need to blame for the past, tens of thousands of elite soldiers such as Zu Dashou and tens of thousands of businessmen are here, so why can't they abandon it. ”

Liang Tingdong was slightly flustered in his heart, the military department was in charge of the matter and did not fill in the gaps, and even the emperor's edict could be refuted, he had nothing to do with this seven-grade petty official, and now that people asked, he had to answer, and he was sorting out the right thing in his heart. Zhou Ruibao has already continued: "Weichen Er impeached the Shufu Sun Chengzong, the emperor endowed Shang Fang Jian, and ordered him to patrol the border, that is, the Shufu needs to experience the line in person, so that the reward and punishment for the crime are immediate, and with the spirit of a strong soldier, now Daling is surrounded." However, on the grounds that it was inconvenient to ride, the pivotal assistant stayed in Ningyuan, and only the governor of Liaodong sat in Jinzhou. If the pivotal assistant has a full-time responsibility, how can he delegate it to others? Isn't it the intention of substituting a special grant for long live? The minister begged to ask the central assistant to be a full-time dispatcher and stationed in Jinzhou. Break the siege in time. ”

Zhou Ruibao looked dignified, his loud voice echoed in the hall, he was impeached with a few bullets, and the others stopped and were silent when they saw that there was a bird, to see how Liang Tingdong responded.

Liang Tingdong calmed down at this time, glanced at Wen Tiren's direction, and saw that he lowered his head and lowered his eyebrows, without saying anything, knowing that he could only rely on himself. Gritted his teeth and straightened up, with a confident expression, "Zhou Ruibao impeached the ministers lightly, and the ministers asked to defend themselves." ”

Chongzhen said lightly: "This soldier, please speak." ”

"The building of Da Ling focuses on a place in western Liaoning. The Daling River is only more than 30 miles northeast of Jinzhou, even in terms of Hui fù Guangning, it is also far away, and the ministers discuss the construction of Daling, which focuses on the thistle rather than Liao, and imagines the time when they built the slave entrance. The loss of soldiers and civilians is not only tens of thousands, hundreds of miles near the Beijing division, all broken, the Great Wall of Jizhen stretches for hundreds of miles, and the defense line is broken, Liu Kexun trained tens of thousands of battalions are newly recruited, how to resist Jiannu, the ministers are anxious about it day and night, and then think about it, the Xiongbing soldiers in Liaoxi are in the town, after all, it is easier to defend than Jizhen Town, there was Ningjin Ningyuan's shortcut, if you can lead the Jiannu army to come, Jizhen can naturally be safe, and the rebuilding of Daling comes from this. Since the construction of the city in July, the army of Jiannu has been attracted to the west of Liaoning, there is no spare strength to look west of the town of thistle, with the ability of the pivot and auxiliary, as long as it can hold the west of Liaoning, it is already beneficial to my Ming Dynasty, if it can be delayed for a year, then the soldiers of Jizhen have been trained, and the damaged side wall has also been reinforced, not necessarily without the power of a battle, and the minister said that it is the policy of guarding the thistle in Liao. ”

There was a buzz in the court immediately, Liang Tingdong's defense was quite innovative, everyone lived in Jingshi, and naturally they didn't want to be surrounded by Jiannu again, so it seems that building Dalinghe City is not a bad thing. And Liang Tingdong's self-defense only said that his strategic decision was wise, and there was no problem with planning, as for whether Da Linghe could be held, he hinted that it depended on how Sun Chengzong fought, and the responsibility should lie with the executive assistant, not him, the decision-maker.

Chongzhen also frowned slightly, Liang Tingdong didn't leave his hand after a few Tai Chi slips, but even if it was correct, it had no effect on the current siege, although according to Liang Tingdong said, as long as Jiannu did not enter the Ming Dynasty, it would be considered a win, but the people of the world would not see it that way, everyone saw that tens of thousands of people were killed in the Daling River, and the Ming Dynasty lost after all. Moreover, it was the most elite Zu Dashou Department in Liao Town that was surrounded, and it was far from an ordinary loss of tens of thousands of people.

Zhou Ruibao refused to let Liang Tingdong go, he turned to look at Liang Tingdong and said: "Isn't Liao Town not under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War, there are tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Daling City, and Sima is a Liao guard thistle, all of whom are abandoned to barbarians?" ”

Zhou Ruibao does not belong to any faction of Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru, just a simple matter, people on both sides of Wen and Zhou did not come forward, Liang Tingdong said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, the people of Dalinghe City are all my emperor's people, and the military department will never abandon them. ”

Zhou Ruibao shook his hand, and he had to debate with Liang Tingdong, Chongzhen said softly: "Okay, since the soldiers have made a plan, they will order the battalions to set off quickly. ”

Liang Tingdong hurriedly agreed, knowing that he had passed the customs temporarily, and bowed down to agree, as soon as his voice fell, Xiong Kaiyuan stood up and said: "The minister seconded the cardinal assistant should be full-time dispatched, and His Majesty was awarded the Shang Fang, and the cardinal assistant and the governor of Liaodong had no other responsibility, and the reward was rewarded, and it was incumbent on him to give up, Yuguan originally had Gao Qiqian, Li Mingchen and other ministers to supervise the army, and then the emperor made a special envoy to the minister, Wang Ying, and these ministers really have the side of Sun Wu?" If Da Ling fails, I am afraid that the pivotal assistant and Qiu Jiahe will blame the ministers, and the ministers will ask the ministers to remove the ministers and ...... the matter with one power."

Chongzhen was very unhappy when he heard Xiong Kaiyuan jump out of the cliché again, if the foreign minister could let him worry, why bother sending the ministers to supervise the army, according to the current situation, he also planned to send more ministers to various places, let alone take back the prison army, and said coldly at the moment: "The dispatch of the internal staff has its own discretion, so there is no need to be suspicious." ”

As soon as everyone in the court heard it, they knew that the emperor did not plan to withdraw, and everyone stopped talking about this topic, but Xiong Kaiyuan nagged, and Chongzhen's face became even more gloomy, no one is afraid of these things, and they don't give face to the emperor's words. In the end, Wen Tiren finally spoke, and after all the good words, Xiong Kaiyuan was appeased.

Wen Tiren turned around and glanced at Wu Zongda, Wu Zongda came out of the class and said: "Your Majesty, the soldiers just said that the soldiers and horses transferred by Zhili are about to set off, why didn't you mention the soldiers and horses of Denglai. Since Sun Yuanhua took office, he has paid more than 900,000 taels of soldiers and 50,000 soldiers. Dengzhou, Dongjiang, and Wendeng three battalions of boat divisions cover the sea, why do they not see a single person for a long time when they send troops? ”

I heard someone mention Sun Yuanhua. The eyes of many courtiers looked at Zhou Yanru, Zhou Yanru, who was just thirty-nine years old, was like an old monk, he was from the champion to the present, he has been in politics for 18 years, and he has seen a lot of wind and waves, and now he is very clear about the situation in the court, the emperor does not like party fighting, Wen Tiren and himself are to avoid reflecting the group of officials, but the nose of those imperial histories is smarter than a dog, and they impeach more. The emperor actually knew that the two were not in harmony.

Needless to say, Sun Yuanhua and Zhang Tinggong are his people, Datong is relatively quiet, and Wen Tiren can't find any flaws in Zhang Tinggong, mainly because Sun Yuanhua is on his side, who originally had a great victory on Midao. Sun Yuanhua has the merit of strategizing, who knows that Sun Yuanhua was immediately impeached by Lu Zhi and Chen Xin, the two direct heroes, and Sun Yuanhua's merit has been completed.

Fortunately, Chongzhen actually understands the principle of balance, and he attaches great importance to Zhou Yanru, and he does not want Zhou Yanru to step down because of this. Therefore, Zhou Yanru was able to drag the matter of the investigation and wait for Sun Yuanhua to fight back. According to the plan sent by Sun Yuanhua to inform him, he thought that he was somewhat sure, but he just brought a letter to Sun Yuanhua not to impeach Wen Dengying too much, as the only general who could defeat the Ming army several times, Chen Xin's weight in the emperor's heart was actually very heavy, and he asked Sun Yuanhua to focus on the supervision of the army by the ministers, and the main impeachment of Chen Xin for his poor character. But yesterday his informant in the palace came with news that Lu Zhi had just sent a six-hundred-mile express report, which seemed to be unfavorable to Sun Yuanhua.

At this time, after listening to Wu Zongda's question, Zhou Yanru naturally did not come out to answer anything, or Liang Tingdong replied: "Denglai is far away, and it may be ...... to take the sea route when joining the aid."

Chongzhen suddenly sneered, "Scholar Wu is very good at asking this, I happened to receive an urgent report from the Denglai Prison Army, as of September 5, Denglai has not sent troops, and all the boats in the Dengzhou Water Camp need to be repaired, which is tens of thousands of soldiers with an annual salary of 900,000 soldiers." His voice gradually became higher, "There is no good boat in the water camp, but there is a good ship, but it is not loaded with soldiers. In addition to the three attendants of the governor's office, there was one more person on board. ”

Chongzhen slowly looked around at the ministers, Zhou Yanru felt that the situation was very bad, and sure enough, he heard Chongzhen shouting loudly: "There is also a Jiannu, identified by the people of Denglai Liao, this person is the nephew of Li Chengliang, and the current official is a guerrilla in Jiannu. ”

The ministers were shocked by this bombshell, and exchanged glances with each other in astonishment, Zhou Yanru's body also trembled slightly, it is not surprising to say that Sun Yuanhua is greedy for military salaries, but if you want to say that Sun Yuanhua is a slave, then they will never believe it, just say that across such a wide Liaohai, Jiannu will not give him any benefits.

Wen Tiren had naturally gotten the news in advance, and he pretended to be surprised and said: "Your Majesty, this matter is appalling, and the minister dares to ask, where does this news come from?" ”

Chongzhen nodded to Cao Huachun under the seat, Cao Huachun stood up and said loudly: "Denglai Prison Army, Inner Official Supervisor Lu Zhi urgently reported, September 5 in the sea off Dengzhou captured a suspicious ship, when catching up, there were people on the boat who resisted, after being killed by Lu Zhi's sailors, several corpses were found in the inner warehouse, as if they were killed by cannibalism, identified by Lu Zhi's entourage, three of them were the governor's yamen attendants, carrying a letter, and the other was dressed as a Jiannu, carrying a letter written by Yi Yu, all of which were not signed, and the tone of the Chinese book was like that of an official of my Ming Dynasty, Lu Zhi didn't dare to deal with it, and the two letters had been sent to Lu Zhi urgently. The head of Jiannu was also sent to Beijing at the same time, and after being identified again by an old official of Liaodong in the Ministry of War, it was indeed Li Sizhong, the nephew of Li Chengliang, and the official went to Jiannu to guerrilla. ”

Chongzhen said: "Give the letter to a few elders." As he spoke, his voice was cold.

Cao Huachun handed a few letters to Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren and others, Zhou Yanru got it and saw that this letter really looked like Sun Yuanhua's handwriting, which read, "The period of soldiers and horses can be delayed, only on the grounds that the ship should be repaired, the number of soldiers must be no more than 4,000, but with 1 million taels to Fuzhou for half a year and 500 coats, it may be difficult to pay, so it is proposed to change it to 500,000, as for the transfer of Wendeng camp to Liaoxi, because of the heavy losses in the first battle of Phi Dao, the court officials are afraid to oppose the redeployment, at most one of them, can only be reluctantly ......"

Zhou Yanru's first reaction was Lu Zhi's treacherous scheme, and he was not particularly clever, no matter how stupid Sun Yuanhua was, he would not do this kind of business with Jiannu, he couldn't take out that much silver, and there would not be many people who believed it, but the only thing to worry about was that there was really a Jiannu, and it was a Han guerrilla, but he immediately thought of Chen Xin, it must have been Chen Xin who caught this person and arranged this trap, but hated this Chen Xin would rather not have this military merit, but also use it to frame Sun Yuanhua.

Zhou Yanru ignored Wen Tiren who stretched out his hand after reading it, and directly gave the waiter Xu Guangqi, Xu Guangqi also had high hopes for Sun Yuanhua, he didn't expect it to become the situation in front of him, he trembled with his hands after reading it, and knelt down and said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, this is a plan to build a slave to divide the world, don't be gullible, if the four of them collude, how can they kill each other on the boat, if they commit suicide, why don't they destroy the letters, it doesn't make sense." In addition, Sun Yuanhua is simple in nature, and it is impossible to do such a shameless thing, and the old minister is willing to use the lives of the whole family to guarantee that Sun Yuanhua is a loyal person for the country, please ask the emperor to learn from it. ”

Wen Tiren didn't wait for Zhou Yanru to speak, and said first: "What Lord Xu said is very true, and the old minister seconded it. ”

Zhou Yanru was surprised by Wen Tiren's expression, and before he could react, Wu Zongda continued: "The minister also believes in Lord Sun's loyalty, but it is even more necessary to watch his deeds, Denglai soldiers and horses have not been delayed for a long time, but it makes people suspicious for no reason, even if Lord Sun does not have this intention, it will also make others misunderstand, and Lord Sun is not fortunate in the end." ”

Liang Tingdong immediately stood up and said: "The minister agrees with what Wu Ge Lao said, this matter is too unbelievable, and the minister does not believe that Lord Sun will do such a big rebellion, but since Lord Sun was appointed governor, his actions are indeed debatable. Even if we don't believe in this matter of collaborating with the enemy, we should quickly send someone to verify it, so as to restore Lord Sun's innocence. ”

Xu Guangqi didn't know what the plan was, and hurriedly replied: "The minister seconded the proposal, please send someone to check." ”

Zhou Yanru secretly shouted that it was not good, at this time he sent someone to check, what good can Sun Yuanhua do, even if he can't find out the matter, he will be urged to send troops, and then Da Linghe will be related to himself. But at this time, the ministers came up to second, he could only accept the overall situation, and was about to compete for the candidate, Chongzhen spoke.

The Great Tomorrow couldn't help the displeasure in his heart, stood up and said loudly: "Denglai has jurisdiction over the Dongjiang River, which is an important party to Jiannu, and there must be no ill-intentioned people. Da Ling besieged day and night, how can it be perfunctory, the soldiers asked General Chen of the Wendeng camp in another text, and sent some soldiers to accompany him, thinking that the army was bold. ”

After he finished speaking, he turned around and left, Cao Huachun hurriedly shouted, "Retreat!" Then he chased after him.

The courtiers dispersed one after another, Zhou Yanru stared at Wen Tiren with a calm face, Wen Tiren touched his gray beard, bowed to Zhou Yanru with a smile on his face, and swaggered away with Wu Zongda.

Zhou Yanru sighed heavily, now the battle of Daling River has something to do with him......)