Li Guopu smiled: "Elder Ge doesn't have to be surprised by this. What is this, once you will succeed and your bones will wither, if you want to do great things, you will inevitably have to do a few cruel things. ”

"Why Uncle Guo can have such power today is, in the final analysis, the word 'ruthless'!"

"Ye Chengxue doesn't borrow a few heads and make a few great achievements, how can he do what Zhang Yong did to get rid of Jiang Bin in the future?"

After hearing this, Lai Zongdao fell silent for a while.

After a long time, Lai Zongdao asked, "So, you let Ye Chengxue defect?" ”

Li Guopu nodded: "Not only did he turn against him, but he also informed Uncle Zhang Guo in advance that he might be killed in Qingjiangpu, but I also agreed that Ye Chengxue took the initiative to tell Uncle Zhang Guo." ”

"But you know, if you don't, you maybe."

Lai Zongdao pointed at Li Guopu excitedly and said.

Li Guopu asked abruptly: "Maybe Uncle Zhang Guo was really killed, and then the prince successfully went out of the pavilion to study and was educated by Confucianism?" ”

Saying that, Li Guopu said: "As long as the sun has not set, without an Uncle Zhang Guo, there will be an Uncle Li Guo and Uncle Wang Guo!" Besides, in this situation, Ge Lao really thinks that without him Uncle Zhang Guo, he will be able to win the dynasty? ”

Li Guopu said this, and put the teacup on the table: "Wrong! ”

"As long as the power is not in our hands, none of this can be done! Aim high, and some things can't be rushed. Uncle Guo is no longer alone in harming my Daming, but a large group of people are following him to harm Daming. ”

"To deny him and destroy him, you can only take your time! Wait for them to start a mess inside. Isn't there already a clue this time, whether it is Li Yulan or Zhou Neng, one betrayed him, the other was expelled from the Hou Mansion by him personally, Xilin Academy and the Guards, and the Wen Yiwu founded by his uncle Zhang Guo is not completely aspiring. Now, his Uncle Zhang Guo can also eliminate the contradiction between the two by liquidating the profits of the Jiangnan gentry, but after the profits of the Jiangnan gentry are taken away, there will be contradictions. Not everyone can live a life on the ideals of saints. The hustle and bustle of the world is for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit. ”

"So, he Ye Chengxue can still be trusted?"

Lai Zongdao asked.

Li Guopu has now begun to indulge in his own wisdom, he can't wait to be like Zhuge Liang, take a goose feather fan and shake it a few times, and only said: "This person is a wonderful chess set up by me next to the Son of Heaven, not only credible, but will also be the key to turning the situation around in the future!" ”

"That's fine."

Lai Zongdao said a word, and said: "This matter can't be impatient, when the temple was in the world, the Yan Party and the country were cleaned up for more than 20 years." What's more, now the Son of Heaven trusts Uncle Guo even more than the Temple trusts Yan Song! ”

"Maybe you and I won't see the day the sun sets."

Li Guopu sighed.

Lai Zongdao also frowned at this.

He began to understand why Sima Guang, after returning to the Northern Song Dynasty as the new ruler, was in a hurry to abolish all new laws, and even ceded the land captured from the Western Xia during the reign of Song Shenzong to the Western Xia.

Because it's really hard to see the world you want to see reappear.

Li Guopu and Lai Zongdao are thinking about when they can abolish the new policies created by Zhang Gui and Tianqi, while Zhang Gui and other reformers are now protecting their estates for Li Guopu and Lai Zongdao, and they are trying their best to plan how to command more than 100,000 soldiers and horses to eat all the Tartars who entered the customs!

In the history of the Ming Dynasty, there were not many commander-in-chief civil servants who had the strategic and tactical command ability of the army in the late Ming Dynasty, and Xiong Tingbi, Yuan Keli, and Lu Xiangsheng were among the representatives.

And now, the person in charge of the command is Lu Xiangsheng.

The real commander of the large corps, Zhang Gui asked himself that he still couldn't play, after all, there were a lot of tactics and scheduling involved, so he only took the initiative to cooperate with Lu Xiangsheng, and used his power to suppress the civil and military officials inside and outside the city to cooperate with Lu Xiangsheng's scheduling.

As a result, Lu Xiangsheng, the secretary of the military department, was very handy when he commanded more than 100,000 Ming troops inside and outside the city, including the Guanning soldiers.

For a time, Changping Prefecture, Shunyi, Pinggu, Sanhe, Xianghe, Baiyangkou, Juyongguan, Jizhou, Zhenbian City, Huailaiwei, Huairou, Miyun, Gubeikou and other places were all heavily guarded by Lu Xiangsheng in various ways to confuse the enemy, like a bucket of iron.

Huang Taiji and Lin Dan Khan may not know that they have fallen into the net arranged by Lu Xiangsheng at this time, and they are still driving heavy troops to attack the West Mountain.

At this time, outside the West Mountain, the elite of the Tartars had been seen, waving flags and drums, and the formation had been opened.

"Huang Degong's general reserve battalion is not moving, or let Zhou Yuji lead the Xishan battalion and the Tiger Ben army to meet the enemy head-on in Xishan."

And when a large number of Tartars had already appeared in Xishan, the Ming army also began to beat drums and beat gold, and the formation was all in line, and Lu Xiangsheng also talked to Zhang Gui about his thoughts again, and asked Zhang Gui: "What does Uncle Guo think?" ”

After Zhang Gui thought about it, he asked Lu Xiangsheng: "Are you still worried about Guan Ningbing?" ”

Lu Xiangsheng nodded.

Zhang Guidao: "Then arrange it according to what Da Sima said!" ”

Lu Xiangsheng didn't say anything more, and followed Zhang Gui and the others to the outer wall of the fortress.

As soon as they arrived at the outer wall of the fortress, Zhang Gui and Lu Xiangsheng all picked up their binoculars and looked outside.

When Zhang Gui saw that many Mongols also began to push forward with the chariots and artillery carts covered with several layers of cowhides, and hid the heavy armored infantry with firearms behind the chariots and slowly advanced, he couldn't help but say to Lu Xiangsheng first: "These Mongols have also learned to use the tactics of Jiannu, using the chariots and artillery as cover, and the infantry and artillery in heavy armor are hiding behind the chariots, it seems that Jiannu should have handed them over." ”

Lu Xiangsheng said at this time: "But their cannons are different, this Jiannu's cannon already has a turntable, and the barrel is closer to the barrel of our guards, obviously someone leaked secrets to them, but these Jiannu people also obviously left a hand when teaching the Mongols." ”

Zhang Guidao: "The leak should have been leaked by Li Yulan and these people." There is no way to do this, there are millions of people in the Xishan Industrial Division, plus the Guards, it is difficult to keep it absolutely secret. In fact, the best way to keep it secret is that we have to stay ahead of the curve in terms of what we have learned and how we do it. That's why, the last time Duoduo came, I asked you not to rush to use the rifled guns installed in Xishan, just to let them know in advance, and we changed them to new ones. ”

Lu Xiangsheng was inspired after hearing this: "I just found out that these Mongols and Jiannu have begun to install turtledoves, but there are no flintlock pistols and firing pistols in their camp. This means that they don't know that we have flintlock pistols and firing pistols. And they are using refueling tactics, the first batch of Tartars to attack is not many, about more than 5,000 people, even so, it is better to let the Cao Wenzhao Department of the Xishan Battalion of the Guards temporarily retreat to the second line of defense, and let Li Zicheng's Tiger Ben Army engage the enemy first! The Tiger Army is now only equipped with turtledoves, which can easily make the Tartars mistakenly think that there is no difference between us and them in terms of firearms. ”

Li Laiheng, who was on the side, said after hearing this: "This is so unreasonable! Let's go to death first. We don't do it. ”

Seeing this, Zhang Gui shouted angrily: "Li Laiheng! You yellow-haired doll, do you know the military regulations, dare to question the great Sima of the dynasty, don't be a soldier if you are afraid of death! A Tartar head, Your Majesty's extra reward, twenty taels of silver for a good deed, some people do it! And for you, believe it or not, this overseer ordered you to be killed directly! Not only will you not receive the money, but you will also die! ”

Then, Zhang Gui looked at Li Zicheng again: "Let you strengthen the education of military discipline and military regulations, how do you do it." ”

Li Zicheng is still obedient to Zhang Gui, because these days, he and Zhang Gui have also been together for a long time, and they have long admired Zhang Gui, so they came over and gave Li Laiheng a slap: "What nonsense, if you are afraid of death, get out!" Listen to Uncle Guo. Order, the brothers of the old battalion go out of the city to meet the Tartars! ”

The Tiger Ben Army retains part of the traditions of the Righteous Army, and the elite main soldiers are all organized into old battalions.

Therefore, Li Zicheng mentioned the old camp here.

"I'm afraid of an egg, isn't it just killing a tartar, I'll go!"

Li Laiheng replied.

Next, Li Zicheng's old battalion of the Tiger Ben Army went out to meet the Tartars first.

And the Guards Xishan Battalion temporarily retreated to the rear.

Because it was a general battle, it was to annihilate these Tartars, so the guards and tiger army of Xishan were all lined up outside Xishan Fort, and of course, they couldn't be lined up in the city.

At this time, Li Zicheng's old battalion soldiers and horses of the Tiger Ben Army also pushed chariots and artillery wagons, wearing cloth armor, and attacked the Tartars on the opposite side.