Chapter 342

The cold wind blowing from the north cut the city wall of Pingdingzhou, and the snow powder and ice particles hit like bullets, hitting the face and hurting badly, and the Ming officers and soldiers who defended the city had a layer of frost on their eyebrows and beards, and they had already put on all the clothes they could find, and the whole person looked as bloated as a bear.

Cold, it's really too cold, if you don't wear gloves, it's basically impossible to coexist peacefully with the weapon in your hand, and if you are exposed to the cold wind for less than half a time, the skin of your palm will freeze with the weapon, and you want to get rid of the weapon, unless you tear off a layer of skin and flesh!

But even if the conditions are so difficult, they still stick to their posts, stand guard and patrol back and forth, not for anything else, just because they are Ning Navy.

The battle of Pingdingzhou finally came to an end, but in this battle, the losses of the Ning Navy were also huge, Li Dingguo led 800 cavalry to fight, and only one hundred and four people were left when they returned, and more than 30 seriously wounded did not survive. Cheng Shijie led more than 2,000 elites, plus 300 personal guards, a total of more than 3,140 horsemen, and now there are only a little more than 30% left.

Ning Haijun also paid more than 1,300 casualties, of course, the heaviest casualties were the defeated troops organized under Xie Zhiliang, who stopped more than 2,000 defeated soldiers before and after, and defended Pingdingzhou, and only 462 people survived in the end.

Shuo Lei sent more than 20,000 civilians to arrest, only the four or five thousand children were saved by Li Dingguo with a brave and decisive assault, the old man let the defenders of Pingding Prefecture shoot them with strong crossbows at the beginning, and thousands of women pounced on the Mongol army escorting them when Li Dingguo was under siege.

They scratched with their nails, bit with their teeth, smashed them with stones, and became entangled with the Mongol army, and were almost wiped out by the Mongol army. And in the pile of women's corpses, you can see the corpses of many Mongolian soldiers, their faces are scratched by their nails, their eyeballs are pulled out, their throats are torn open by these desperate mothers-in-law with their teeth, fear and disbelief are frozen on their faces, even when they are angry, even if their faces have been scratched to pieces, they are still so vivid, probably they can't believe that these weak women have exploded into such horror until death, right?

Cheng Shijie's gaze lingered on the pile of civilian corpses for a long time, and his lips almost bit blood. Don't drag innocent civilians into battle, it's his principle, he's been following it for so many years, and now the Mongol army doesn't seem to be going to follow his rules!

Hou Yan said angrily: "Nearly 10,000 women, all dead! The few who survived by luck also went crazy! These dogs and tartars are not people! ”

Cheng Shijie said: "This debt, Ben Shuai will recover it with interest!" ”

Cheng Shijie led the Ning Navy and the officers and men of the Tianxiong Army, and decided to start the battle to recover Taiyuan, in fact, the battle of Taiyuan was not difficult at all, with the defeat of the Chechen Khan's Shuo base, the Mongolian army stationed in Taiyuan City had already fled.

Those original Taiyuan Mansion rebels have long since run away and don't know where to go.

Cheng Shijie thought that most of the entire Taiyuan Mansion had surrendered except for Xie Zhiliang, however, what Cheng Shijie did not expect was that Taiyuan Mansion Town was called Sanguan Town, which is often referred to as the Outer Sanguan, after Datong Town, it played a role in supporting and strengthening Datong Town, blocking the enemy's in-depth, and defending against the invasion of Mongolian tribes in the north and west of the Ming regime.

The three passes of the Great Wall, Ningwu and Yanmen are collectively called the "outer three passes" of the inner Great Wall, the wall of the Great Wall is mostly heavy boulders, "the mountains are continuous, the danger of the real heaven is solid", it has jurisdiction over three passes, 19 mouths, 39 forts, and set up a general officer to guard Shanxi, a deputy general soldier who assists in guarding, six generals who are guarding the staff, a guerrilla general, an officer in the camp, 13 people in the garrison, and two people who are in charge.

When he came to Taiyuan City, Cheng Shijie knew that the six generals in Taiyuan Town, in addition to the general He Sui who was co-opted, the other five generals Yang Liuqing, Li Dongping, Ning Shiwu, Zheng Zanyi, and Cai Lingwu were all killed in battle, and the sacrifices were extremely tragic, especially Yang Liuqing and Li Dongping, Li Dongping was pierced through the body by more than a dozen throwing spears, and because of the spear shaft, he did not fall down until he died, while Yang Liuqing was burned from the calf, burned to the waist, and the upper body was almost not burned.

Obviously, Yang Liuqing was hurt to death, and in the entire Taifu City, there were more than 6,000 Ming soldiers killed in battle, but they did not have effective command and were broken by each other......

When he came to Taiyuan City, Cheng Shijie was no longer recognizable, this city had become a ruin, and there were corpses of killed civilians everywhere, due to the cold weather, the corpses did not rot, and they still maintained the shape of ice sculptures.

It can be seen that many people were driven directly into the courtyards, and then set fire to them, some were burned alive, some were choked to death, and there were women's corpses everywhere, swaying in the wind, their mouths opened incomparably wide, as if they were complaining, as if choking.

Cheng Shijie's face was gloomy and terrifying: "We must settle this account!" ”

……

Beijing City, Forbidden City.

Since appointing Cheng Shijie as the prime minister of the nine sides, Emperor Chongzhen has stopped expressing his opinions when he convened the court meeting, and all issues have been put on hold, which is not a good phenomenon, on the eve of the storm, this silence and silence make people feel uneasy.

Cheng Shijie told Chongzhen that the king of a country cannot admit mistakes, he is the son of heaven, the darling of heaven, and he will never make mistakes. Even if the emperor really did something wrong, he couldn't admit it, and if he really wanted to admit it, he had to wait until he died, and then the successor would admit his mistake for him, which has been the case since ancient times.

Cheng Shijie is defending him, and all the ministers in the world want Chongzhen to make himself guilty and admit his mistakes, which is a matter of principle.

"Emperor!"

Wang Chengen said: "You better hurry up and eat something and drink a few glasses of wine to recover some strength...... The battle is not over yet, who knows what will happen next, and how to cope with it without strength. ”

Emperor Chongzhen's facial expression moved stiffly: "What is the movement of Guan Ningjun now?" ”

Chongzhen is an emperor, and the world's rogues rebelled, which is actually understandable, because the court is sorry for them, but the court is worthy of Guan Ningjun! poured out state-owned assets to support the hundreds of thousands of proud soldiers and soldiers, so that they could live a prosperous life, and they dared to drop the chain at a critical moment.

Wang Chengen said: "Back to the emperor, the military department received a letter of invitation from Zu Dashou, and they asked to go to war!" ”

"Now Zu Dashou knows that he has moved?"

Emperor Chongzhen smiled faintly and said, "In this way, General Cheng has won ......"

Just as he was talking, the Lu Bu of the Ning Navy came from outside: "The great victory of Pingding Prefecture, Cheng Shijie, the Prime Minister of the Nine Sides, led the Ning Navy with the support of the Tianxiong Army to defeat the Chechen Khan in a battle, and now the Chechen Khan has fled!" ”

This news made Emperor Chongzhen believe even more that Zu Dashou must have received Cheng Shijie's battle report in advance, knowing that in this battle, the Ming Dynasty would win, and he Guan Ningjun only knew the move now, they were not fighting, but snatching the fruits of victory.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't speak, but thought in his heart: "In the future, Liaoxi will be slaughtered, no chickens and dogs will be left, and all the soldiers of Guanning will be beaten into the lowly ranks, otherwise we can't eliminate the resentment in my heart!" ”

This time, in fact, Zu Dashou was really wronged, he had already decided to change his ways, but the problem was that Guan Ningjun's bad deeds were riddled, this was like an old thief, saying that he didn't wash his hands himself, but no one believed it.

Emperor Chongzhen naturally believed that Zu Dashou saw that Cheng Shijie had the hope of defeating the Mongol army in Mobei, and Zu Dashou wanted to pick peaches.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at Wang Chengen and said, "Wang Companion, you say, what will Cheng Qing do next?" ”

"This ...... Old Slave ...... The law of the ancestors, eunuchs are not allowed to interfere in politics! ”

"Forgive your innocence!"

Wang Chengen groaned: "This matter is a disaster, I'm afraid it won't be solved until the beginning of spring!" ”

Emperor Chongzhen shook his head and said: "Wang Companion, I am not asking about this matter, but asking you, whether Cheng Qing wants to be Cao Mengde or Wang Mang in the future!" ”

This is too heavy, when the emperor asks a minister whether he wants to be Cao Cao or Wang Mang, there is basically no friendship between the monarch and the minister, only you live and die.

Of course, Emperor Chongzhen is now doubting one thing, whether Cheng Shijie is forming a party now? Now there are more and more officials impeaching Cheng Shijie, and Cheng Shijie is about to be impeached into a sieve. But the question is, Qin Hui still has three good friends, why does Cheng Shijie have no friends?

Although Cheng Shijie does not have Wang Mang's good name, he can be Cao Cao.

Wang Chengen didn't know what Emperor Chongzhen thought, but he knew that he and Emperor Chongzhen were one, and if there was a rift between Cheng Shijie and Emperor Chongzhen, the sky of the Ming Dynasty would collapse.

In this case, if it weren't for Cheng Shijie, who would be able to turn the tide, and who would be able to shelter Emperor Chongzhen from the wind and rain?

"The slave doesn't dare to say it!"

"But I'll let you speak!"

Wang Chengen looked at Emperor Chongzhen and said, "Your Majesty, don't you believe in General Cheng?" ”

"Wang Chengen, don't think that I don't know that you received Cheng Qing's silver!"

"The slave and maid received the silver from General Cheng, if the emperor really asked the slave and maid to say it, then the slave and maid will say it!" Wang Chengen said: "Now the soldiers on the East Road of Xuanfu are no longer credible, Datong, Shanxi, and the nine-sided army are no longer credible, what is the emperor going to do?" Kill them all? Or do you swap it all out? ”

Emperor Chongzhen was really scared this time, Qiao Zhaolin abandoned the city and fled before Jing'an Fort, if it wasn't for Cheng Shijie to go up, I was afraid that the Mongolian army had already changed to the capital. From the Guanning Army to the Nine-Border Army, they are not trustworthy.

But the problem is that Cheng Shijie actually turned around in such an unfavorable situation this time, more than 2,000 cavalry, abandoning the advantage of field warfare, and in the case of defending the city, they were able to beat the strongest Chechen Khan in Mobei and fled in embarrassment.

Emperor Chongzhen sighed and said, "Cheng Qing's military exploits this time are as high as Yu Shaobao back then. The name of Cheng Shijie's god of war resounded all over the world! Now as long as Cheng Shijie ascends to the top and shouts, the entire Liaodong Peninsula will follow like a cloud, and the nine sides will respond in the northwest, but whether it is a secession or a northward fight with Jiannu, it is a matter of course, such a good opportunity Cheng Shijie will give up? I'm afraid that even if Cheng Shijie wants to give up, the tens of thousands of soldiers of the Ning Navy will not be reconciled, right? ”

"It turns out that Your Majesty thinks of General Cheng so much, if General Cheng knows that the emperor thinks of him like this, I'm afraid that General Cheng will be cold!"

Chongzhen sneered. He was very suspicious, but after this heavy blow, it became even heavier, Daming raised Qiao Zhaolin's ancestors for generations, but Qiao Zhaolin betrayed, Daming poured the power of the whole country to support the Guan Ning army, and the world was full of wolves, but what about the Guan Ning army? How did they repay Daming?

Sitting on the wall and watching, immobile as a mountain.

Emperor Chongzhen now forgot that it was Cheng Shijie who stepped forward and disregarded his own life, but only remembered that Cheng Shijie was more famous and had the strength to threaten the Ming Dynasty.

Wang Chengen is like being in an ice cellar, Chongzhen actually thinks about Cheng Shijie so much, doesn't Emperor Chongzhen know how strong Cheng Shijie's real strength is?

However, looking at Emperor Chongzhen's attitude, Wang Chengen kowtowed to the gold brick (floor): "Your Majesty, Emperor, can you ......?"

Wang Chengen didn't say this, but also said, after saying this, Emperor Chongzhen didn't listen to a word, he only remembered that Wang Chengen received Shijie's silver.

Once the seeds of distrust are planted, they can be as suspicious as if they were magical.

This is like a woman who suspects that the other party is having an affair, and once this suspicion arises, she will involuntarily increase all kinds of "favorable" evidence. Like, why did he take a shower? Is it because I'm afraid I'll smell the other person's body? Why did he wash his face? Do you want to see each other cleanly?

Why doesn't he play with his phone anymore? Are you afraid that I will find out that the other party is chatting? He must have made an appointment between the two parties, as long as he doesn't send a message when he goes home, it must be like this.

Human logic is so strange, very good at making up for the brain.

But the problem is that the content of the brain supplement is very consistent with the real thing.

……

Just when Emperor Chongzhen doubted Cheng Shijie's loyalty to him, Zhou Ning, as the chief of staff of the Ning Navy, was actually thinking about what to do with the Ning Navy in the future.

The Mongol army in Mobei went south, so that the real strength of the Ning Navy was also exposed to the people of the world, Cheng Shijie transferred more than 70,000 troops from Liaodong before and after, this is not a 70,000 army filled with people, but a real soldier, don't look at the entire nine-sided army, there are more than 50 to nearly 600,000 troops on the military roster of the military department, and the soldiers who can really fight are probably not 70,000 people.

It is no exaggeration to say that if Ning Haijun is willing, he can use the Ning Haijun in Cheng Shijie's hands at any time to play a game of Yiqi on the nine sides, but it is a pity that Cheng Shijie will definitely not do this.

Zhou Ning looked at Sun Zhilan, the director of the management committee beside him, and said, "Lord Sun, have you ever thought about the future?" ”

"Later?"

Sun Zhilan was slightly stunned: "What's wrong with the future?" Could it be that the imperial court will go down to the house to draw a ladder? ”

"The brains of those people in the court are not easy to guess!"

Zhou Ning smiled helplessly and said, "In Lord Sun's opinion, do we still have a choice in the Ning Navy?" This officialdom is like sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat! But the problem is that we can't retreat, and once we retreat, those people will pounce on us like hungry wolves, tearing us to pieces, and swallowing us to the point that there are no bones left! ”

Sun Zhilan said puzzledly: "What do you mean? ”

"Be prepared, we need to open up the pattern!"

Zhou Ning said with a solemn face: "We have to prepare for the worst!" ”

"What does that mean?"

Sun Zhili smiled bitterly: "Throughout the ages, the merit has been high, but it has never ended well!" ”

PS: I'm very sorry, I'm too sleepy, everyone refresh, the content will definitely not be repeated.

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