"General, the military report sent back by Mi Yan!"

Li Da held in his hand Mi Yan's military report that the former enemy would send back to Nanjing every day, which was the latest progress of the current military situation, and he could only make various situations according to the development after obtaining these military information. Slapping the official document in his hand and tearing off the waterproof oiled paper, Li Xin put a thin official document on his desk, and began to read the official document without a glance, thinking about another thing in his heart.

After Sun Ji passed away, Wei Guogong, who had been closed, jumped out again, and on the grounds of the troubled times, he suggested to the Nanjing Political Affairs Hall that he should ask the Beijing Division to send another governor of Nanzhili to the south. His intention in doing this was self-evident, but Li Xin couldn't let the political hall refuse, otherwise the world would portray him and the Three Guards as unpredictable. On the cusp of the storm, he has always walked on thin ice, and he does not dare to have any abnormal behavior, which makes him deeply understand what it means to be a rafter that has endured wind and rain.

Li Xin's hand trembled, and his eyes began to carefully read the contents of the paper line by line, leaving the complicated things in his heart behind for a while.

Yang Sichang led the army straight to Suiyang and Qixian, won a battle, and won again and again, and the officers and troops of the department were like a bamboo......

Originally, Li Xin expected that Yang Sichang would suffer some hardships at Li Zicheng's hands, but he didn't expect that it was Li Zicheng who tasted the hardships from his hands. This reversal of the tide of the battle has taken him by surprise, so maybe the situation may change at this point.

At this time, Li Xin also completely understood why Yang Sichang shrank his troops in Huaibei, it turned out that his battle was in Henan, not in Huaibei. Not only did he succeed in deceiving the people of the Three Guards, but all of them, including Li Xin, took it for granted that he would continue to move south.

Maybe even Li Zicheng's subordinates were deceived, thinking that Yang Sichang would not trouble them for the time being. However, Yang Sichang is a sword that went off the rails and took him by surprise.

Now that Suiyang and Qixian are down, most of the days have passed when the military report arrives in Nanjing, so Yang Sichangjun may have passed Chen Liu's time at this time. Soon he will be able to march into Kaifeng, which has been besieged for a year. Kaifeng as the only city in Henan that has not been conquered by thieves, its strategic significance is extraordinary, if this relief is successful, the situation in Henan will be swept away, from defense to attack.

And so it was!

After a few moments, Li Xin figured out the joints and slammed his fingers against the table continuously. Li Da on the side saw that the Marquis of Zhenyu seemed to be suddenly touched, and knew that the content of this war report was by no means as ordinary as before, he took the military report in Li Xin's hand, read it at a glance and ten lines, and suddenly realized in his heart.

"Yang Sichang, this is making a mistake for his crimes!" Saying that, Li Da added another sentence, "If this battle is successful, he will not only make a contribution, but also make a great contribution!" ”

It is precisely like this, Li Xin nodded, Yang Sichang knew that even if he successfully recaptured the Grand Canal in the northern section of Huaibei and wiped out the five battalions of the revolutionary left, the credit was not his, because all the credit for the plan was in Lu Xiangsheng, not him.

Yang Sichang himself is a proud person, how can he be willing to pick up people's teeth. But if he refuses to pick up people's teeth, he will have to take out a credit that can overshadow the restoration of Huaibei, and this credit, except for recapturing Henan, which is an important place in the Central Plains, and lifting the siege and Kaifeng, there is no second choice.

In fact, Yang Sichang's move is already half the battle. Li Zicheng is leading the main force at this moment to attack the pass, if you want to go back to reinforce Henan, it is impossible without half a month's effort. And it is this half a month's hard work that is enough for Yang Sichang to work in Henan.

After all, the soldiers trained by Lu Xiangsheng were not made of mud and wood.

At the same time, this also explains why Yang Sichang purged Lu Xiangsheng's old ministry as soon as he took office. If Lu Xiangsheng's old ministry is still there, he will inevitably fight openly and secretly to prevent Yang Sichang from giving up Huaibei and attacking Henan. Yang Sichang, who is well versed in the way of fighting for power and profit, has long expected these situations carefully. Therefore, it is logical to remove Lu Xiangsheng's old department. For this reason, he preferred to risk losing the combat effectiveness of the Shandong army.

Yang Sichang must ensure the consistency of internal thinking and enforce orders and prohibitions, otherwise once a situation of disobedience is allowed, the army of more than 100,000 people will be scattered, and any of his strategic intentions will not be smoothly implemented.

Therefore, Yang Sichang is not out of his mind and makes stupid moves, he is targeted.

"Yang Sichang, this thief is a great enemy of my three guards, and the Hou of Zhenzhen must be guarded against!"

Li Da's background made him have an innate contempt for almost all officials in the Ming Dynasty, so in words, even Yang Sichang had no respect for leading ministers like Yang Sichang. He suddenly realized that the appearance of this person was definitely a difficult threat to the development of the Three Guards.

Li Xin did not respond, and Li Da thought that he was also deeply troubled by the troubles in the future. He suggested: "Why don't you repeat your old tricks and drive the tiger and devour the wolf?" ”

Li Xin suddenly thought of a more important event, and he didn't react to the meaning of his words for a while.

"What drives the tiger and devours the wolf?"

Li Da's eyes flashed with excitement.

"The Fifth Battalion of the Revolution Left, which is entrenched in Fengyang, Luzhou and other places, still has considerable strength, if these people are driven to Henan......

Li Xin immediately understood his intentions, which was nothing more than to use the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution to contain or even defeat Yang Sichang, so that Yang Sichang would lose the capital to recover, and sooner or later he would be questioned by the emperor again. However, Li Xin disdained to do so.

Li Da values Yang Sichang and his person, but it does not mean that Li Xin also regards Yang Sichang as a strong rival. In Li Xin's view, Yang Sichang is narrow-minded and extremely selfish, just ask such a person to rely on the emperor's favor to fight for power and profit or be invincible, if he fights shirtless with real swords and guns? It's not that Li Xin is too self-trusting, and Yang Sichang is not worthy of being his opponent at all.

As for the weakness of the Ming Dynasty, which had been tossed by thieves, Li Xin wanted to end this situation as soon as possible. If Yang Sichang can defeat and solve the scourge of Li Zicheng in one battle, it will be something he is happy to see. What's more, Li Xin didn't think that Yang Sichang would be able to completely eliminate Li Zicheng in the final battle with Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng, a small strong man who can't be killed, the imperial court has gathered many famous ministers and famous generals, but they have not been able to cut down the grass and eradicate it, how can Yang Sichang, who is not much stronger than a straw bag, do this thing successfully?

And even if Yang Sichang succeeds, Li Xin is not afraid that Yang Sichang will point the finger at him in the future. The current Three Guards and his Li Xin are not horse thieves who entered the Ming Dynasty officialdom at the beginning of the year, and all honor and disgrace depend on the emperor's trust.

Now that the Three Guards control several provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, he Li Xin also has irreplaceable restoration skills, and with his current merits and status, it is not something that a certain cabinet minister can deal with if he wants to deal with it by relying on the forces of the Son of Heaven. And at this moment, even if he is jealous of himself, he is afraid that he will be polite to the Three Guards and himself on the surface.

Seeing that Li Xin rejected his proposal, Li Da was a little anxious, thinking that he had relented again.

"Zhenyu Hou, to deal with the enemy, you must do whatever it takes!"

Li Xin bypassed the topic and brought up another matter.

"Is there any news from Shanhaiguan?"

Li Da shook his head, "Count the days, there should be a letter delivered today, but the situation at sea is changing rapidly, maybe there is a delay at some place on the sea!" ”

The news about Shanhaiguan that Li Xin asked about was not a question of war, but the life and death of a person, that is, Sun Chengzong, who once pinned the hope of the entire empire on the defense of northern Xinjiang.

Just a month ago, this high-profile figure suffered another stroke and his condition took a turn for the worse. The information sent last time showed that Sun Chengzong's days were numbered, and I was afraid that it would only be a matter of a few days.

And now Li Xin is thinking about this matter. To be honest, he didn't want Sun Chengzong to die so early, if the Ming Dynasty lost him at this critical moment, it would be doomed to be a thief and civil strife in Nanping.

Throughout the history of the Ming Dynasty officials and armies in the past to suppress thieves, whenever there was a time when the thieves were about to be closed to the Jedi, the Manchu Qing Tartars in the northeast outside the pass would inevitably knock on the border and attack the thieves would fall short. And this time, he had a strong premonition that maybe this scene would happen again.

At that time, Yang Sichang will definitely be transferred to Shanhaiguan by Zhu Youzhen, so the task of fighting Li Zicheng may naturally fall on the Three Guards.

Regardless of whether the ministers of the court or the Son of Heaven wanted the Three Guards to send troops to the Central Plains, they had no choice, because there were so many chess pieces in their hands that they wanted to destroy the Liukou who were wandering through half of the Ming Dynasty, and there was no other way.

Seeing Li Da's puzzled gaze, Li Xin just wanted to explain, and there was a personal soldier outside the door to report: "General Hua asks to see!" ”

Only then did Li Xin remember that he had summoned Wallace today to discuss a major event that he had been planning for a long time.

So, he put aside the small talk with Li Da, and instead asked his soldiers to invite Wallace into the study.

"Your Excellency the Marquis, the three large sea ships have been prepared, and they can set sail just for your order!"

Wallace unfolded a rather detailed chart in his study. In Li Xin's eyes, this is naturally deformed compared with the maps of later generations, but compared with the simple maps of the Ming Dynasty with sparse lines, it has been many times finer.

The eastern coast of the Ming Dynasty suddenly became apparent, with the four Japanese islands located in the northeast sea, and the Luzon Islands in the southeast. Further east is an uncharted sea, with only a handful of islands marked.

After the Battle of the Southeast, Li Xin asked Wallace to plan to go to sea in search of America. However, given Wallace's current importance in the military, he no longer intended to lead the fleet with him, as naval battles could break out again at any time. Moreover, a large number of Westerners had been captured in Taiwan before, and there were countless people with rich sailing experience, so naturally there were a lot of people who could be pulled to use. These Westerners do not have the loyalty of the Easterners, they basically belong to the type of mother who has milk, as long as someone is willing to pay enough money, he will work for it.

Li Xin picked up a carbon strip on the side of the table, and simply sketched a line from north to south in the blank space to the east of the sea.

"The continent is rich in gold and silver......"

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