Lu Xiangsheng groaned, "Your Majesty, the 30,000 troops in North Korea have already stretched the supply of the imperial court, and at this time, it will be more difficult to transfer the army to North Korea?" Moreover, the Four-Nation Alliance has been rampant in Liangguang, and in the long run, will it be a great blow to the morale of the Ming Dynasty? ”

Although Lu Xiangsheng has paid attention to the wording, Zhu Youzhen still doesn't like to hear such words, he allows his subordinates to have other views, but he is not very happy that a general can't figure out his intention to do this, which proves that Lu Xiangsheng is only worthy of being a general, not a handsome, after all, his level is a little different from Yang Sichang, Chen Xinjia and Chen Qiyu.

Zhu Youzhen turned around and asked Yang Sichang, Chen Xinjia and Chen Qiyu beside him, "What do you three think?" Do you feel the same way as him? ”

Yang Sichang was beheaded because of his father, but he was reused by the emperor again, and he didn't blame the emperor at all, not only everyone in the world felt that the emperor was powerful, but Yang Sichang and his family were even more grateful to the emperor.

Yang Sichang, born in the scholarly family, grandfather Yang Shifang is a famous scholar in Wuling, attaches great importance to the construction of local culture, and has self-financed the construction of stone towers and Bafang Towers in Gufengling, Deshan; Father Yang He, a Jinshi in the thirty-second year of Wanli (1604), has excellent poetry and writing. Yang Sichang's late father was six years old, and he was a jinshi in the thirty-eighth year of Wanli (1610). Due to the troubled times, Yang Sichang and his father Yang He were both famous as overseers. Yang Heguan to the right attendant of the military department, the governor of Shaanxi trilateral military affairs.

After entering the official career, Yang Sichang successively served as a professor in Hangzhou, a doctor in Nanjing Guozijian, a scholar in the Ministry of Rites, and a scholar of Dongge University. During this period, military affairs were rectified. On the second day of the fifth month of the second year of the Apocalypse, he asked the emperor for the salary of Yuan Keli, the governor of Denglai. "Fuchen Yuan Keli was ordered to be new. Please pay 200,000 yuan to disperse the soldiers, it seems that it is a last resort. But in the Holy Judgment, a certain number shall be given. ”

However, the request was not granted because of the tight treasury. In the third year of the Apocalypse (1623), he was ostracized by the eunuch party, and resigned due to illness. In the first year of Chongzhen (1628), he was the deputy envoy of Henan and joined the right to participate in politics. Later, he was promoted to the right of the imperial history, governor of Yongping and Shanhaiguan. Famous for knowing the soldiers.

Emperor Zhu Youzhen praised him for his meritorious work in rectifying defense, building two wings of Shanhaiguan, and resisting the invasion of the Later Jin. In the seventh year of Chongzhen, he was awarded the right attendant of the military department and the right to the imperial history, and the military affairs of Xuanfu, Datong and Shanxi. Xuan returned home with the death of his parents one after another. In the tenth year of Chongzhen, the peasant uprising swept the Central Plains, and he was appointed as the secretary of the military department, presided over the suppression of the uprising, and formulated the encirclement and suppression plan of "four positives, six corners and ten nets".

In the original history, Yang Sichang was appointed as "the secretary of the Ministry of Rites and a scholar of Dongge University, and entered the aircraft service." is still in charge of the military affairs", becoming a prime minister-style figure in power at the end of the Ming Dynasty. Wuling folk have the name of "Yang Ge Lao" and "Yang Xiang". In the winter of that year, the Qing Army's three-way army invaded the south for the fourth time, Beijing was shaken, Emperor Chongzhen fought and made peace, and Yang Sichang advocated peace; However, Lu Xiangsheng advocated resolute resistance, so he led the generals to split up and fight with the Qing army in Qingdu, Zhending (now Wangdu, Zhengding, Hebei) and other places. Yang Sichang held the power of the army, and everything constrained Xiangsheng, Lu Xiangsheng lost many battles, and finally died on the battlefield. Chongzhen urgently transferred Hong Chengchou's troops to the north to Qinwang, and the strategy of suppressing Kou fell short. Later, Li Zicheng went to Henan to develop.

In May of the twelfth year of Chongzhen (1640), Zhang Xianzhong Gucheng resurged, and the peasant uprisings in various places rekindled. Yang Sichang and Shaanxi deputy generals He Renlong and Li Guoqi attacked Zhang Xianzhong in Agate Mountain in Taiping County (now Wanyuan County, Sichuan). ”

Chongzhen expressed his appreciation, and there was an edict saying: "Since the resignation of the Qing Dynasty on the sixth day of September last year, he has been more than half a day, and he has not been in suspense every day. He also heard that Qingqing had careful scheduling, strict rewards and punishments, and was deeply comforted by the intention of Ping Kou and the people." But at this time, there were many internal contradictions in the Ming Dynasty's official army, and many generals did not need to die, and He Renlong and Zuo Liangyu both supported their own troops and did not listen to orders. Yang Sichang ordered: "Pardon the crimes of Luo Rucai, the general of the peasant army, and others, but Zhang Xianzhong will not be pardoned, and those who capture and behead Zhang Xianzhong will be rewarded with 10,000 taels of silver." Zhang Xianzhong declared: "Those who come from the Pavilion Department (Yang Sichang) will be rewarded with three silver coins." Si Chang wrote in a letter to Song Yihe, the governor of Huguang: "Strange disasters fell from the sky, and the servants vomited blood and were sad, and they were tied to death, and there was nothing to say. ”

In the first month of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen (1642), Li Zicheng fell into Luoyang and killed Zhu Changxun, the king of fortune. In the middle of the night of the fourth day of the first month of February, Zhang Xianzhong galloped 300 miles out of Sichuan in one day and night, attacked Xiangyang, and on the fifth day of the first month, he killed Zhu Yiming, the king of Xiang, in the West Gate Tower, and the government and the opposition were shocked. Yang Sichang failed to pursue the peasant uprising, was full of fear, the old disease recurred, and he was terminally ill. Yang Sichang only spit out, "Return to Jingzhou, and I will pay homage to Huidi." The king ordered Xie to say: "Sir, if you want to see the widow, please go to the king first." Shame on the heirs, but hanging. ”

Can be so tired that I vomit blood, and be so ashamed that I hang myself, Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen certainly knows what kind of person Yang Sichang is, even if there are some shortcomings, it is only because he was born at the wrong time, Yang Sichang is everywhere for the court, for the sake of me, Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen does not want to miss the fate of the monarch and minister between Yang Sichang, besides, although the imperial party has been established for many years, the basic work has been done, but the high-level ministers, after all, need qualifications and talents, experience is very important, or need to select talents from the original old ministers.

Yang Sichang heard the emperor ask, Zhengse said, "The minister thinks that the emperor's decision shocks the ancient and modern, it is really the success of the soldiers, if the army goes south, although it can get the food supply in the south of the Yangtze River, and the army sends Korea to Korea, and can not get the food supply, but it can make all the soldiers have the determination to break the kettle, foreign land, do not fight to the death, all waiting to starve to death, must fight to the death, this is one of them, the minister guessed that the emperor's next step must be to burn all the Japanese warships to send troops to Japan, and the war to the death will get food and money, and the war can be successful. At the same time, the collusion between the Japanese and Jiannu can be smashed, their back roads can be cut off, and their alliance will be self-defeating. ”

Chen Xinjia and Chen Qiyu heard Yang Sichang's analysis, and couldn't stop nodding yes, and they both praised the emperor's clever idea.

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen sweated slightly, this was all Zheng Yuelin's idea, although the decision was made by himself, he did not feel glorious, and said lightly, "This battle is dangerous, and the Japanese cannot take it lightly." ”

This time it was Chen Xinjia who was the interface, Chen Xinjia has always been known as Xiao Yang Sichang, who was originally the secretary of the military department in the last period of the Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen, and was also a tragic figure in the fall of the empire. "It is a headache for the Japanese slaves, mainly because there are a lot of dead soldiers in this group of people, and there are a lot of brave people, although the figure and firearms are not as good as the Ming Dynasty, but desperately, in close combat and street fighting, it is very troublesome."

Lu Xiangsheng heard that the three senior staff officers understood the emperor's intentions, and felt a little unwilling, so he said at this time, "Your Majesty, no matter how fierce the Japanese slaves are, my Imperial Forest Army is also a long-term training and battle-hardened one, and the ministers will definitely lead the Imperial Forest Army to fight to the death." ”

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen nodded, "Fighting a war is not only to be brave, but also to use more brains." ”

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen thought of many half-buckets of water in later generations and said that Lu Xiangsheng's kung fu was not high, it was funny, Lu Xiangsheng once rushed into the enemy formation alone and slashed hundreds of iron horsemen, this kung fu is not high? Winning more with less is commonplace on Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting's side, if it weren't for the extreme weakness of the Ming Dynasty, with the ability of Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting, it would be a combination of generals, Confucian generals and military generals in any dynasty.

After several baptisms of naval battles, Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen also had a new understanding of the combat effectiveness of the central naval division of the Ming Dynasty, knowing himself and knowing that the other side would not be defeated in a hundred battles, which was why he dared to let the twenty main ironclad ships go deep alone, he believed that the twenty ironclad ships were not inferior to the four hundred battleships of the Japanese, and they were not inferior...... (To be continued......)