"What's going on?"

Lu Xiao looked at the woman in his study and asked Guo Zhen.

"Lord Lu, this is the scabbard given to you by the emperor!"

Lu Xiao: "......, you are a eunuch, why are you so familiar with this kind of joke."

"Lord Lu, you have been fighting endlessly for the Ming Dynasty, and the killing aura of Jin Ge on your body is too heavy, and you need to reconcile yin and yang, which is the right way. Your Majesty gave you a beautiful woman for your sake. ”

"But, this ......"

Guo Zhen did not respond to Lu Xiao's remaining questions. Because he couldn't pick up the next topic.

Lu Xiao looked at the woman in front of him a little helplessly, the flesh on his waist had been twisted by Ding Baiying, and it was blue and purple.

It's Zhou Miaoxuan, this is something that Lu Xiao never expected. Maybe Chongzhen knew that before he took the throne, Zhou Miaoxuan had an intersection with Lu Xiao. In the movie, Chongzhen never really cared about Zhou Miaoxuan's life. But in any case, the scene in front of him still made Lu Xiao a little speechless.

"Zhou Miaoxuan, a folk girl, has seen an adult."

Lu Xiao: "......"

What can he say about this kind of thing, saying that I can't accept it? That week, Miaoxuan could only die. Say I'm having fun in my heart? Ding Baiying's knife was already half drawn.

Therefore, in the end, Lu Xiao could only arrange a family banquet. received Zhou Miaoxuan in a proper manner.

Ding Baiying is also very face-saving, and it won't take long for her to become commensurate with Zhou Miaoxuan's sisters. It's just that there is something wrong with Lu Xiao's face. Lu Xiao knew that it was not good, so he prepared an excuse for his stomach, not a reason, and prepared to take a nap for her. As a result, the door didn't enter, and he was directly blocked out.

In desperation, I could only go back to the study and sleep alone.

...................

Huang Taiji did it. After trimming the Tartars for a winter, they once again went south and began to plunder. They had a good time. At this time, I went out of the mountain, and when I went south and had the results, it was exactly ten points of the summer harvest. When the time comes, there will be plenty of food, and we can feed the war with war and achieve greater results.

Liaoyang and Shenyang were soon completely controlled by Huang Taiji. It's just that the granaries of the entire Liaodong area have been burned in large quantities again. Countless people in Liaodong were forced to move to the interior. The entire Liaodong has long been turned into a scorched earth. Therefore, Huang Taiji must go south as soon as possible.

"Your Majesty, this is all the information of that Lu Xiao. According to our spy report, Lu Xiao is a person. It doesn't match the officialdom of Daming at all. He is not a clique, he is not greedy for money, and he is not greedy for power. It is to bury one's head in military training. The reason why the grain and grass in our Shanxi side were cut off was because all those merchants were exterminated by him.

He also used the money to train a new army called the Loyal Guard. It is said that the rogues in Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces have not dared to show their faces. ”

"Loyalty? What kind of army, how many people, what kind of configuration? ”

"Back to Your Majesty, there are now about 15,000 loyal and brave guards, and it is said that they are mainly firearms, supplemented by hoplites, and a small number of cavalry."

"Firearms ......" Huang Taiji frowned. Unlike Nurhachi, he attached great importance to firearms from the beginning. But helplessly, now the smuggling channels of Daming have been completely cut off by Lu Xiao's Jinyiwei and Dongchang. He only had some third-rate firearms from the early Ming Dynasty. Kill your own people more than your enemies.

"The red-haired ghosts haven't come back yet?" He thought of the Western merchants again.

"This ...... Your Majesty, those Westerners refuse to trade firearms with us. Only a very small number of Western merchants brought in some muskets. But there are also some serious wear and tear, almost unusable. ”

Bump. Huang Taiji slapped the table in front of him heavily.

"I'm not telling you that when you trade with them, you have to pay for both the money and the goods. So they will continue to trade with us? Is it forced to buy and sell again? The subordinates were so frightened that they knelt on the spot.

"Back to Your Majesty, this is really nothing. Those Westerners said that it was Lu Xiao of the Ming Dynasty who gave the order. Whoever dares to trade with us will be driven out of the Ming Dynasty forever. Nowadays, there are almost no Western merchants who dare to trade with us. ”

Huang Taiji was so angry that he almost fell to the ground. A great helplessness filled his chest. There is really no way to do this, they really don't have anything in the Qing Dynasty, and they can take a shot to attract those Western merchants.

On the other hand, the Ming Dynasty, although it has been declining. But the foundation is there, and there are still many good things. Naturally, those Western merchants would not give up the Ming side and come to trade with this group of savages. Now they are all small businessmen who have been excluded by others. They can't get anything good at all.

"Forget it, since you can't buy it. Let's go to Daming to grab a free one. ”

..............

"Huang Taiji is out of the mountain?"

"Yes, this time Huang Taiji has appointed 200,000 troops. And he has already released words to enter the Central Plains. ”

"Two hundred thousand, one hundred thousand at most. They don't have enough food and grass to raise so many elites. But 150,000 Tartars are dangerous enough. The Liaodong defense line has been completely paralyzed, so let's start according to the plan. ”

"This ...... My lord, isn't it a little ......" Shen Lian's expression was a little unbearable.

"You want to say it's too cruel?"

“...... Be! ”

"I know it's cruel. But there's not enough time. If you can make Huang Taiji retract back into the mountain for ten years, he won't come out. I can end this war in another way. Can you? ”

"I can't."

"That's it. To fight a war, the time and place are favorable. Now the time and place are not on our side. And people can only be said to be so-so. So I have to use some extraordinary means. ”

"Humble duty understood."

"It's good to get it. You must remember that there is no room for compromise in the battle of fortune between the two races.

In this battle, we must completely cut off the hidden dangers of the Tartars. In this way, Daming has a chance to rise again. As the saying goes, fight with one punch, so as not to come with a hundred punches! ”

"Commanded by humility."

And knew that Lu Xiao was going to go on an expedition. Ding Baiying finally opened the door and let Lu Xiao enter the house. And specially arranged a surprise for him to see him off.

Lu Xiao was excited and sighed again. Before leaving, I brought a pack of wolfberries to drink on the way.

There was a basic operation in ancient city defense. Before the enemy arrived, all the fertile fields, woods and even villages outside the city were destroyed. In this way, the enemy was denied food, slaves, and siege equipment.

Lu Xiao's plan is very simple, just to amplify this tactic a little. He asked the loyal guards to empty the towns and villages on the Huang Taiji's offensive route in advance. Execute an extreme scorched earth plan.

The original scorched earth plan in Shenyang was just to empty a city. This time......

And when the Loyal Guards attacked. Lu Xiao did not follow. He quietly left the capital and came to a port in Tianjin. Waiting here were the fleets of European merchants, as well as the three thousand elites that Lu Xiao had carefully selected a long time ago.

This plan is codenamed Dragon Slaying!! It was the Great Qing Dragon Vein that was slashed!!