Huang Taiji has sent troops to North Korea, and Zhu Youzhen is determined to "encircle Wei and save Zhao"!

The excuse of "waiting for the opportunity" last time is difficult to fool in the past!

In Zhu Youzhen's opinion, if you want to send troops, you can send an edict to Guan Ningjun!

In Wang Li's view, it is far from that simple!

If you really want to send troops, there are still many things to do!

Guan Ningjun's Zu Dashou and Wu Sangui have secretly served Wei Zhongxian!

From start to finish, their aim is to preserve their strength!

If it weren't for Wei Zhongxian's nod, even if Guan Ningjun was edicted to go on the expedition, it would only be a matter of disobedience to the yin!

In addition, several generals of the Guanning Army are only suitable for being generals, not commanders!

If you want to successfully "encircle Wei and save Zhao", you still need a far-sighted cow man to be the leader!

The "Five Tigers" and "Five Biaos" under Wei Zhongxian's command may be recognized by Zu Dashou, but they don't have such ability!

The civil officials in the court, from the chief assistant of the cabinet to the supervising envoys, do not have such ability - they do not greed for the military salary of the Guan Ning army, they are already burning high incense!

Hong Chengchou has been fighting with thieves for many years, and his prestige is high, after all, he is a little slippery, and he is not suitable to lead the Guanning army!

Besides, the thieves in the northwestern provinces can't do without him!

Not only Hong Chengchou, but any of the generals who are suppressing thieves can't leave at this time!

Thinking about it, only Sun Chengzong is the most suitable!

He is the founder of the Guanjin Defense Line, and he is familiar with the geographical environment and the fighting style of the Eight Banners!

Moreover, his prestige is extremely high!

Even Yuan Chonghuan was respectful to him, not to mention Zu Dashou!

However, at this time, Sun Chengzong was already seventy and three!

Is his body still strong?

Can it adapt to the severe cold of Liaodong?

The most important thing is, is he willing to go out of the mountain?

Two years ago, because of the dispute between Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru, this old man Sun lay down for no reason!

Disheartened, he left his job angrily!

Oops, it doesn't matter that much!

If Old Man Sun doesn't go, who else can do it?

After some thought, Wang Li wrote a letter to Sun Chengzong, Zhu Youzhen and Wei Zhongxian.

On Mr. Sun's side, he will not refuse to persuade from the aspects of loyalty, patriotism and national righteousness!

As long as Zhu Youzhen's edict arrives, he will definitely come forward!

Wei Zhongxian's side is also very simple!

He is the behind-the-scenes financier of the Guanning Army - if the Guanning Army can make a war exploit, his waist will be stiff!

When he receives his letter, he will definitely transport a lot of silver, and Zu Dashou and Wu Sangui will definitely go all out!

Zhu Youzhen's side, it's simpler!

When he received his letter of recommendation, he would not only give Sun Chengzong a heavy responsibility, but also send him to his own riding camp!

Under such coordination, the monarch and the ministers are united, the soldiers are hardworking, the food is sufficient, and the great things will be accomplished!

In history, whether Huang Taiji sent troops to North Korea, whether Zhu Youzhen supported, and what the final outcome was, Wang Li did not know;

Let's be the second attempt to "change history"!

What the final outcome will be, it can only depend on the destiny of heaven!

After all, the Guanning army is only 50,000 foot soldiers and 10,000 iron cavalry!

Even if you add the Xiao Cavalry Battalion, it is less than half of the Eight Banners!

Old man Sun, don't let me down!

If it can really hit Huang Taiji, history will change slightly!

Even if I can't change the general trend, I can still make money for a few more years!

Old man Sun, you must work hard!

As long as this battle is won, no matter how big or small the victory is, I will pay for it myself to build a shrine for your old man!

The scale of the ancestral hall is definitely more than any of Wei Zhongxian's!

Don't let your old man down!

"Governor Wang, when will my troops go to war? The soldiers under my command are urging all day long, and I am almost overwhelmed! ”

Zuo Liangyu's invitation to fight interrupted Wang Li's thoughts.

Picking up the bowl of tea, he asked unhurriedly: "Didn't you say that you and Governor Hong would strictly guard the Wuguan Pass, and Cao Wenzhao would go to attack and scratch?"

Besides, the soldiers under your command are all foot soldiers, what kind of excitement are you making around? ”

"Governor Wang, although my subordinates are foot soldiers, they are all good at fighting!

Even if you can't beat Gao Yingxiang, you can beat Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong or Luo Rucai! ”

"Huh!"

Wang Li understood Zuo Liangyu's thoughts, and smiled softly: "Didn't I give you 300,000 yuan, and it was spent so quickly?" ”

"No, that's not what I meant......"

Zuo Liangyu was so anxious that his face was flushed, and he hurriedly argued: "Governor Wang, the rule you set of "beheading the enemy and rewarding fifty silver" must be leveled with a bowl of water, right?"

You only let Cao Wenzhao kill the enemy and receive the reward, and the soldiers have complaints!

You have also seen that the thieves never come to attack Wuguan, how can I and Governor Hong's foot soldiers kill the enemy? ”

"Wait, there should be a chance!

When the time comes, you and Governor Hong's foot soldiers will surely kill the enemy to the point of relent! ”

"Alas! You say that every time! ”

Zuo Liangyu sighed helplessly and left in a huff.

In this regard, Wang Li could only sigh helplessly!

Originally, Hong Chengchou, Zuo Liangyu, Lu Xiangsheng, and Ai Wannian all received Zhu Youzhen's edict and were required to obey Wang Li's orders;

However, Wang Li deeply knows that he is an "airborne"!

Even with Zhu Youzhen's edict, it can't put an end to the disobedience of all the generals!

So, he bribed Hong Chengchou and several general soldiers - according to the number of soldiers and horses per person, he gave them "military salaries" ranging from 30 to 1 million taels!

In addition, the incentive of "killing one enemy, rewarding fifty silver" has also been formulated!

For Wang Li, this bit of silver is just a drop in the bucket!

only killed Li Zicheng, and then spent ten, hundred, thousand, or even ten thousand times and 100,000 times, it would be worth it!

As soon as the money arrived, people's hearts were bought!

The commanders and the generals under their command are not happy!

Every few days, Cao Wenzhao, Cao Wenyao, Cao Dingjiao, Cao Bianjiao and Song Xi will come back with thousands of ears!

The foot soldiers stationed at Tongguan, Wuguan and the crossing of the Yellow River could only watch the cavalry receive their rewards!

The call for war is higher and higher!

Lu Xiangsheng, who was stationed at Tongguan, and Ai Wannian, who was stationed at the crossing of the Yellow River, even sent a blood letter from the soldiers asking for battle!

The fighting spirit of more than 70,000 Ming troops has shown an unprecedented upsurge!

However, Wang Li was really helpless!

You're foot soldiers!

Even if I ask you to cut people, how many more will you be able to cut?

The land in Guanzhong, a horse and a flat river, there is no danger to defend!

If you meet Gao Yingxiang's cavalry, do you still have the head to come back?

It doesn't matter if you die, who will guard the gates?

If the thieves were allowed to escape, wouldn't they be a waste of time?

Historically, whether the thieves were also trapped in Guanzhong, Wang Li does not know.

But he can be sure that this is a great opportunity to annihilate the thieves and kill Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng!

Therefore, the general soldiers of all walks of life must guard their respective passes!

I can't kill the enemy for the time being, and I can't help it!

Who called you footmen?

Cao Wenzhao is my ministry, I have never denied it!

However, they are cavalrymen!

Only let him kill the enemy and receive the reward, it's really not my partiality!

Alas!

Since several general soldiers are red-eyed, then, for the sake of the unity and balance of the whole army, let's withdraw the cavalry for the time being!

Anyway, the cavalry just scratched!

The final victory will have to wait until the thieves run out of food!

……

"Mr. Cao, why did you ...... this time? Bringing back so few ears? ”

Zuo Liangyu, this guy, has a bad smile on his face!

It's really a pot that can't be opened!

Cao Wenzhao didn't know his original intention, and scolded angrily: "A few thieves, it's really enough to live!" They couldn't get food in Guanzhong, so they all went to Gansu!

I wanted to catch up and cut it, but I received a military order from the factory man, so I had to lead the troops back! ”

"Oh? The thieves went to Gansu? ”

Zuo Liangyu was suspicious, and after looking at Hong Chengchou, he asked strangely: "The drought in Gansu is more serious than that in Guanzhong, right?"

Thieves go to Gansu, can they find food? ”

"How do I know?" Cao Wenzhao spread his hands and jumped on the war horse: "They want to go to Gansu to seek death, and I can't help it!" ”

With that, with a wave of his big hand, the three thousand iron horsemen swaggered into Wuguan.

Perhaps it was "the speaker has no intention and the listener has the intention", a few days later, several general soldiers gathered in Wuguan and repeatedly asked for battle!

"No more!"

Wang Li held the tea bowl and explained confidently: "The drought in Gansu is even worse, and even the rats can't eat enough!"

If the thieves go to Gansu, they will definitely not be able to get food, and they will return within a month!

If 100,000 people can return to Guanzhong, it can be considered lucky!

No matter how anxious you are, it should be after January, right? ”

"Uh...... Governor Wang acted steadily, and there was indeed a certain amount of truth! Ai Wannian looked at Zuo Liangyu and continued to persuade: "However, Governor Wang doesn't know much about thieves!"

The leaders of all kinds of thieves will go to Gansu, in order to grab food, they will burn and loot all the way, and they will also coerce more people to join the thieves!

So, instead of decreasing, the number of thieves will increase even more! ”

"Not bad!" Zuo Liangyu couldn't wait, and quickly took over the conversation: "I'm waiting for the trapped thieves in Guanzhong, if we persist for four or five months, we can indeed win without a fight!"

However, the people of Guanzhong will suffer!

According to the spies' report, seven or eight out of ten of the disaster relief food received by the people in Guanzhong have been snatched away by thieves!

If they are allowed to wreak havoc in Gansu and Guanzhong, they will ignore millions of people!

Not to mention April and May, I'm afraid that in another month, all the people in Guanzhong will starve to death!

If the emperor investigates it, even if we wipe out all the thieves, I'm afraid it will be difficult to escape the responsibility! ”

When the words fell, Wang Li's heart trembled suddenly!

Zuo Liangyu and Ai Wannian obviously have selfish intentions, but their words do make sense!

Successive years of drought and famine in the northwest have greatly reduced the population!

In the past few years that Hong Chengchou has served as the governor of the three sides, in order to facilitate disaster relief and relief, all the people from all over the country have been moved to Guanzhong!

Therefore, at this time, Guanzhong is thousands of miles away, but there are still more than one million people!

A month ago, thieves from all walks of life went back to Guanzhong, raised their arms and shouted, and the hungry people responded!

This formation is really scary!

However, these new hungry people are just trying to have something to eat!

Luckily, the thieves don't have any food leftover!

The total number of hungry people who followed the thieves to Gansu was only about 100,000!

The hundreds of hungry people who remained are still good citizens!

In order to completely exterminate the thieves, the Ming army of all walks of life cut off the main roads between Guanzhong and Hanzhong, Shanxi and Henan!

If you surround it for four or five months, you can indeed win without a fight and wipe out all the thieves!

But at the same time, more than a million people in Guanzhong will inevitably starve to death!

It's not a thief, it's a massacre!

Zhu Youzhen's character, Wang Li knows it very well!

Settle accounts after the fall, that's for sure!

The reason is very good - the complete extermination of the thieves is not enough to make up for the slaughter of the people!

Zhu Youzhen's reckoning, Wang Li is not afraid, it's a big deal to turn his face!

However, if you turn your face with Zhu Youzhen at this time, how will you make money in the remaining nine years?

Zuo Liangyu is right, the food in the hands of the people in Guanzhong has been robbed by thieves seven or eight times out of ten!

If the siege continues, they won't last a month!

Fortunately, the thieves went to Gansu!

It's time to make some adjustments to the strategy in the siege pass!

Gansu, Gansu!

Looking at the map on the table, Wang Li's eyes suddenly lit up!

If, before the thieves return to Guanzhong, they quickly occupy Xiao Pass, what will be the result?

Wang Li pointed to the location of "Xiao Guan", and Hong Chengchou nodded solemnly: "If the thieves want to return from Gansu, Xiao Pass is the most convenient passage!"

If the soldiers and horses from all walks of life move to Xiaoguan, the troops will be more concentrated, which will be enough to block the way for the thieves to return to Guanzhong, which will be more beneficial to the thieves!

Take the opportunity to help the people in Guanzhong, the best of both worlds!

If there are more cavalry patrolling around, even if the thieves have wings, it will be difficult to return to Guanzhong! ”

"That's right!" Lu Xiangsheng slapped the table and was overjoyed: "Move to Xiaoguan and block the thieves in Gansu, you will be able to annihilate them in one fell swoop, it's much better than waiting stupidly in Tongguan!"

Governor Wang, give the order quickly! ”