At this time, the imperial court was receiving reports of defeats everywhere every day, and Yang Sichang was also helpless, and Emperor Chongzhen was angry, so he had to send heavy troops to help again. Due to the stability of the situation in the northwest, Emperor Chongzhen first transferred Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi, to lead his troops to aid in November, and in the second month, he ordered Hong Chengchou, the governor of Shaanxi, to also come to Gyeonggi to aid and suppress, so almost all the elites of the country were concentrated in the southern part of the country.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen thought: The situation should be changed now!

Unexpectedly, the newly transferred Ming army was even worse. When the Ming troops from the interior were transferred to the front line, they would only wait and see from afar, or flee from the wind, and would not dare to make contact with the Qing army.

For example, Sun Chuanting's Qin army won many battles when it encircled and suppressed the peasant army, and when it was transferred to the Gyeonggi region in December, it was frightened when it saw the smoke and dust of the Qing army's horse team, and the whole army was in chaos. Coach Sun Chuanting felt incomprehensible about this situation.

In fact, this is not a question of command, nor is it a question of equipment, it is completely a psychological problem of soldiers. The words "Jurchen is invincible" have already heard the cocoon, and now there is an upgraded version: "The Qing army is invincible!" "Whether it is a brave general, a capable soldier, or Emperor Chongzhen himself, who thinks he is strategizing, he cannot eliminate the fear in the hearts of the soldiers of the Ming army. At this time, the most needed thing is actually a psychiatrist.

The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. Emperor Chongzhen, who likes to be angry, can't help it.

Emperor Chongzhen was greatly disappointed with Lu Xiangsheng's inaction on the front line, and wanted to remove him several times, but there was no suitable candidate.

At the end of November, Liu Yuliang, the chief university scholar, offered to go to Beijing to supervise the teacher when he was called. Emperor Chongzhen was very happy about this, because as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy in the noble capacity of the first assistant, he could at least establish authority for the imperial court. Boost morale.

So Emperor Chongzhen asked Liu Yuliang to go back and write this request into a written recital, but I don't know Weishenme, but Liu Yuliang's recital became to go out of the city to inspect the army. Liu Yuliang began to play word games, because the meaning of inspector and supervisor is obviously completely different, one is to specifically command the battle, and the other is just to see it, and there is no need to bear the responsibility for defeat.

Isn't that adding fuel to the fire? So Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but be even more disgusted with Wenchen's cunning, but he had no choice but to order him to go out of the city to supervise when the military situation was urgent.

At this time, Sun Chuanting's department had already come to the war zone. Emperor Chongzhen really wanted to replace Lu Xiangsheng with him, but Yang Sichang advised, "I am afraid that it will affect the use of soldiers", so it was not implemented. But in order to show his extreme dissatisfaction. At the same time that Liu Yuliang went to the inspector, Emperor Chongzhen still announced that he had removed Lu Xiangsheng's title of secretary of the military department. Changed to the rank of Governor of the Chamberlain. is still caught between the same high and hidden crimes.

In fact, objectively speaking, although Lu Xiangsheng and Gao Qiqian lost the battle, they still dared to fight after all. Compared with those Ming soldiers who watched from the wall, their performance was already ......, I'm sorry! Can't find an adjective. Just one truth: it is also wrong to do more!

In this case, November 12. Wu Shigong joined Li Lu's troops and officially joined the war in the northern expedition.

But everyone didn't expect that the first person to jump on this stage was a person that no one expected, that is, Yu Zilian and his Ruzhou army.

If you want to select the Ming Army. The most embarrassing commander and army must be Yu Zilian and his Ruzhou army. This can also be seen from Yu Zilian's official position, a nondescript imperial history, without a clear garrison, without a clear combat goal, no matter how you look at it, it seems to be a forgotten character.

Indeed, the imperial court really did not pay much attention to Yu Zilian and his Ruzhou army. The key thing is that the Ruzhou army has a bad background. The Ruzhou Army was neither a border army nor a soldier, nor even a guard station, but a group of people recruited by Yu Zilian in Ruzhou at that time, so in the eyes of the imperial court, the Ruzhou Army was a group of people who took up arms, at most stronger than the rabble.

What is strange is that the rebel peasant army, which also started from a rabble, was willing to be appeased by the imperial court with official positions and food and salaries, and the leaders of the former peasant army and their troops who were appeased were repeatedly reused by the imperial court.

Again, Yu Zilian himself has no reputation in the imperial court. A Jinshi with a low ranking, a magistrate who has not heard a voice for several years in the local area, in addition to learning that he has a personal grudge with the notorious Wu Shigong, and this personal grudge comes from robbing a woman, which makes those bigwigs in the DPRK who have heard of Yu Zilian think that Yu Zilian and Wu Shigong are nothing more than a raccoon dog. So Yu Zilian's reputation in the court is not good.

Then there's the inherent jealousy of human beings. Many courtiers thought: I don't know what shit luck Yu Zilian had, but with his personal grudge with Wu Shigong who was not on the stage, he was directly promoted by the imperial court from Zhixian to Zhizhou. And it's not over, and then he stepped on two bubbles of shit in a row, and actually pulled up an army in the position of Zhizhou, and won one after another, so that now he has become a high-ranking official in the court, what a person is really more angry than people!

Many officials even said in YY: If I had this luck, what would happen. Anyway, it will definitely do better than Yu Zilian. Therefore, when many officials mention Yu Zilian, they will always have pantothenic acid in their hearts. Therefore, there was a strange incident in which Xu Mengqi inexplicably wanted to arrest Wu Shigong and wanted to take charge of the Runing Army.

Also, the Ruzhou Army was a little out of time. Although in the big war with the participation of the Ruzhou army, the Ruzhou army played an extremely key role, but every time the Ruzhou army fought, there was also a friendly victory, so his light was also covered by the light of other Ming armies, and the Ruzhou army did not encounter any opponents of sufficient weight, so in the eyes of the imperial court, the Ruzhou army was dispensable, at most it was a kind of "one more officer and army is always haode." Attitude.

zuihou is Yu Zilian's way of doing things. Yu Zilian's official experience is destined to have little contact with important ministers in the court, plus he was suppressed by Wu Shigong in Ningling County for five or six years, Yu Zilian is no longer the high-spirited scholar on the side of the canal, and he has become very calm and mature, and he pursues the principle of saying less and doing more.

In modern terms: Yu Zilian will not hype. In order to increase exposure, those modern celebrities, whether it is good or bad, will first come to a "certain door" and then talk about it, but Yu Zilian didn't do all this at all, that is, the Ruzhou army lacked food and salary, he didn't complain to the court, gritted his teeth and relied on himself without complaint. (To be continued......)