Huang Taiji led the Jiannu army to attack Jinzhou, and the situation seemed to be dangerous, but in the eyes of everyone in the cabinet, it was just a war thousands of miles away, and the danger was not as good as the emperor messing around outside.

Jinzhou City is high and deep, the soldiers are good and the food is sufficient, and it is not easy for Jiannu to fight down. Even if Jinzhou is lost, there is still Ningyuan, and Shanhaiguan, and it is difficult for Jiannu to attack the pass.

And the emperor outside is messing around, but he can shake the "foundation" of the Ming Dynasty!

Huang Liji personally wrote a note, together with the military information documents of Liaoxi, and ordered people to take a fast horse, 600 miles to send it to northern Shaanxi urgently, and urged the emperor to drive back to Beijing immediately.

Emperor Fushicheng's palace, Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou were all summoned, and on the table in front of Zhu Youzhen, in addition to the cabinet's recital, there was also a secret report from Jinyiwei from Liaoxi. At the same time as the cabinet was dispatched, Tian Ergeng, who was assigned to Liaodong, also sent back the secret report of the Jiannu army and the secret report of Sun Chuanting, the governor of Liaodong.

"Two Aiqing, how should this matter be handled?" Let the two of them see the cabinet first, Zhu Youzhen asked.

Lu Xiangsheng condensed his eyebrows and said: "The tens of thousands of troops of Jiannu are besieging Jinzhou, and the momentum is violent, and I am afraid that with the strength of the Liaoxi Army, I will not be able to retreat from the enemy." The minister was willing to lead the Praetorian Guard army to western Liaoxi to help the Liao army repel Jiannu. ”

The Praetorian Guard has been practicing for so long, and after the battle to suppress bandits, it has initially formed its combat effectiveness, but how strong the combat power is, whether it is the opponent of Jiannu or not, remains to be tested on the battlefield. Hearing that Jiannu invaded Jinzhou, Lu Xiangsheng was a little eager to try.

Zhu Youzhen shook his head: "No, it's not time to use the Praetorian Guard yet." ”

Lu Xiangsheng suddenly understood, and remembered the plan agreed upon by the two of them to eliminate Jiannu when Zhu Youzhen appointed him as the Xiyuan military envoy. The Praetorian Guard is the killer weapon to annihilate Jiannu and recapture Liaodong, and its strength cannot be exposed at the moment.

"Weichen understands, but where is Jinzhou?"

Hong Chengchou interrupted Lu Xiangsheng's words with a smile: "The key to the problem now is not Jinzhou, but what do the cabinet elders want?" ”

"The Cabinet?" Lu Xiangsheng was stunned for a moment, he was only thinking about it from a military point of view at first, whether it was time to reinforce Jinzhou, and did not think about anything else.

Hong Chengchou said: "As soon as Jiannu sent troops, the cabinet impatiently urged His Majesty to return to Beijing, as if Jiannu would attack Jinzhou and Shanhaiguan at once. ”

Lu Xiangsheng shook his head slightly: "How is it possible?" How could the Ningjin Defense Line, which the imperial court spent four or five million taels of silver in western Liaoning every year and spent more than ten years building, be weak? ”

Lu Xiangsheng suddenly realized, it turned out that the cabinet was not worried about whether Jinzhou would be lost, and the real purpose was to invite the emperor back to Beijing!

Seeing that Lu Xiangsheng understood, Hong Chengchou smiled slightly, turned to Zhu Youzhen and said: "Your Majesty, Yansui Town has just been established, the rural restructuring is still underway, the recruitment of new soldiers has not yet begun, and Northern Shaanxi still needs His Majesty to sit in charge, and it must not be shaken by the war in Western Liaoning." ”

From the beginning of being "coerced" by the emperor to join, the current Hong Chengchou has wholeheartedly considered the future cause, as for the interests of the gentry class, what is it?

Zhu Youzhen nodded: "Aiqing is right. Jinzhou has Sun Chuanting, the governor of western Liaoning, and Sun Chengzong, the governor of Jizhou, in the pass, where is the Ningjin defense line so easy to break? The two Aiqing and take a look at Governor Sun's secret recital. ”

Saying that, let Wang Chengen show Sun Chuanting to the two of them.

The reason why Zhu Youzhen is so confident is because of the secret music sent by Sun Chuanting through the Jinyi Wei system. In the secret recital, Sun Chuanting put forward his own strategy, to use Jinzhou City to consume the strength of Jiannu, and use the Ningjin defense line as the flesh and blood mill of Jiannu, Sun Chuanting showed strong confidence in the recital.

"Governor Sun is commendable, but he doesn't know that the soldiers of Liaoxi are unusable?" Lu Xiangsheng said with some concern. Regarding the combat strength of the border army, Lu Xiangsheng was very worried.

Hong Chengchou didn't speak, because he was as worried as Lu Xiangsheng. Zhu Youzhen and the Praetorian Guards did not return to Beijing, but it did not mean that they ignored Jinzhou. Jizhou and Xuanda still have more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, and there are reinforcements that can be dispatched. And Sun Chuanting didn't even want reinforcements, if he didn't have absolute confidence, he would be too arrogant to underestimate the enemy.

Zhu Youzhen was also a little worried, but he still insisted and said: "Since Governor Sun said so, he must be absolutely sure." ”

There is no doubt about employing people, Zhu Youzhen did not do it in the previous life, whether it was Sun Chuanting or Hong Chengchou in front of him, he repeatedly urged him to fight a decisive battle with the enemy, and the result was that the army was defeated and lost his division. In this life, Zhu Youzhen has already reflected on himself, knowing that he doesn't know how to fight, and decided to give enough trust to these ministers who are reused by him, and never command remotely again!

Of course, there are other reasons for Zhu Youzhen to maintain confidence in Sun Chuanting, that is, Sun Chuanting's actions in the past few months when he was governor of western Liaoning.

Before Sun Chuanting took office in Liaoxi, Ningyuan had just had a military rebellion, and the Sichuan soldiers and Huguang guest soldiers made trouble for four months because of the lack of pay and silver, and the thirteen battalions responded and arrested the governor Bi Zisu, the chief military officer Zhu Mei, the general judge Zhang Shirong, the push officer Su Hanchun and other officials, and tied them to the tower.

When Sun Chuanting first arrived in Ningyuan, he announced that he would pay three months' salary, which quelled the Ningyuan mutiny, and then Sun Chuanting trapped Zhang Zhengchao, Zhang Enshun and other leaders who took the lead in the rebellion, and the guerrilla generals killed as many as fifteen people! The hard-line and iron-blooded methods made nearly 100,000 Liao soldiers terrified.

Ordinary soldiers received their salaries, so naturally they would not make trouble again, and the generals were afraid of Sun Chuanting's methods, and they trembled one by one. As soon as Sun Chuanting arrived in Liaoxi, his prestige was established.

Next, Sun Chuanting conveyed the will of the imperial court, and the emperor allocated tens of thousands of acres of imperial villages in Gyeonggi to settle the generals of the Liao army.

Of course, in the eyes of those who have a heart, this is because the imperial court wants to take the families of the generals of Liaoxi as hostages, and those generals of Liaoxi must be unwilling.

On the contrary, those generals rejoiced one by one, and rushed to send their families to Beijing.

Liaoxi, that is the front line of the war with Jiannu, the city will be broken at any time, and the family members are in danger at any time. However, Jingshi is the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and its prosperity can be compared with such poor and remote areas as Liaoxi?

Sending their families to Beijing to enjoy happiness, these generals usually don't dare to think about it, because it is impossible for them to buy a field mansion manor in Beijing.

Now, the emperor gave them the manor and field house for free, and their children and grandchildren will become Jingshi people in the future, and Zhu Youzhen also sent down a decree that the nephews of the generals above the general can enter the country to study, and they can be awarded officials after graduation and passing the assessment, which is simply the emperor's grace!

As for the family members sent to Jingshi as hostages, please, Lao Tzu didn't think about surrendering Jiannu!

The repayment of salaries, the execution of mutinous officers, and the placement of the families of the Liao army generals brought Sun Chuanting great prestige, and the Liao army generals obeyed him and did not dare to disobey him.

Of course, at this time, Liaoxi was far from forming the kind of warlord group more than ten years after the previous generation, Zu Dashou, who had a huge strength in Liaoxi in the previous life, is now just an ordinary general, Wu Xiang is just a commander, and there are many generals above them.

Jiannu has not yet entered the customs and plundered, nor has he experienced the defeat of the Daling River, the strength of the Liaoxi soldiers is still there, and the majesty of the imperial court is still there, which is also the reason why Sun Chuanting was able to control the generals of Liaoxi in just a month.

Next, Sun Chuanting recruited sharp soldiers for the entire Liaoxi, formed a patrol standard battalion, and recruited a total of 5,000 cavalry, which was commanded by Cao Wenzhao He Kegang, with armor and firearms, and practiced day and night, as if he had formed a combat force. And this is also the reason why Sun Chuanting is not afraid of Jiannu attacking.