Chapter 349

With the Ning Navy's attack on Shenyang City has been frustrated, of course, this is not a setback, if it is really desperate, the Ning Navy will definitely be able to break through Shenyang City, if it is a heavy casualty, this result is not what Cheng Shijie is willing to see.

The generals of the Ning Navy, especially those from Liaodong, asked for battle, and they had red eyes, and they had to demolish Shenyang City.

But Changyu refused their invitation to fight, Changyu knew very well that anger was useless, Shenyang City was originally the largest city in Liaodong, but with the rise of Jinzhou City, although Shenyang City was not as good as Jinzhou City, but through Liaoyang, Guangning and other cities are much larger.

The tall city walls, sufficient preparations, and the defense of Jiannu with the city walls are enough to offset the huge advantage of the Ning Navy in terms of equipment, and if it is attacked, it will require large casualties. Whether it is Cheng Shijie or Ning Haijun's combat system, unless it is a last resort, they will not exchange human lives for victory at all.

Of course, when there is no way to retreat, then you can only defend and fight to the death.

Zhang Yu ordered the attack to be halted and the artillery bombardment continued, while the scouts were all released to see if they could catch Jiannu around the city of Shenyang.

Zhang Yu also knows very well that this is the first battle of his overall command, and it must be fought well, if the first time he leads the troops to fight, he will leave a bad impression that he will only take people's lives, then his future in the Ning Navy will be worrying, and the ghost knows how many people are secretly staring at his position!

There is another advantage to stopping the attack after the attack is frustrated, that is, to tell Jiannu: We can't take Shenyang City in a short time, you can still stay in Shenyang City for a while!

Jiannu obviously understood the message that Changyu wanted to convey to them, so he had been actively planning and mobilizing troops during the fierce war, intending to play big. Now the main force of Jiannu is trapped in Kuku and Tun, which is more than 2,000 miles away, although Jiannu has sent rescue messengers.

It will take at least ten days for the main force to return to help, and it is likely to take half a month, after all, the current main force of Jiannu has a large number of captured materials and cattle and sheep, and they can't hurry up if they want to.

However, when Changyu sent Ning's navy to reconnoiter around, that night, a mysterious person came to meet Changyu and told him a shocking news.

"What do you say? Shenyang City is already empty? How is this possible? ”

"More than a month ago, the thief chief Taiji was like his Fujin Zhezhe, as well as dozens of people such as the fourth son Ye Bushu, the fifth son Shuosai's eldest daughter and second daughter, and quietly left Shenyang! Among them, the entourage also includes Daishan, Dolgon, and the families of the nobles of the Manchu Dynasty! ”

Zhang Yu stared at the man in his thirties in front of him: "Who are you?" ”

"I'm Aixin Jueluo Shuo, it's too late, you can verify my identity with Cheng Shuai!"

Shuo Zhi pointed to Shenyang City and said: "Now there are only more than 4,000 Jiannu in Shenyang City, more than 10,000 Han military banners, and their families are also not in Shenyang City. ”

Zhang Yu did not believe Shuo's one-sided words: "You go down to rest first, this general has his own plan!" ”

As Shuo Yu was arranged, Zhang Yu said: "Li Xiaodong! ”

"Humble duty!"

"You personally lead the team, bypass Shenyang, and go to the Kaiyuan area to investigate!"

"Yes!"

After receiving the order, Li Xiaodong hurriedly set off with the reconnaissance cavalry of the Ning Navy.

……

In Yanqing, Meng En took a piece of information and walked to Cheng Shijie's account.

His face was full of indignation: "Those Wenchen really deserve to die, look at what they have ruined this country!" ”

Zhou Ning was a little puzzled: "What happened again?" ”

"Something's wrong, what's wrong!"

Meng En gritted his teeth with hatred and said, "Chief of General Staff Zhou, see for yourself!" ”

"Nanyang lost?"

Zhou Ning looked incredulous: "How is this possible?" ”

"What else is possible?"

Zhou Ning said puzzledly: "More than a month ago, Lu Xiangsheng and Lord Lu were not against Li Zicheng, they only had one breath left, how could they fight Nanyang now?" ”

Meng En smiled bitterly: "It's not because of King Tang!" ”

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, following the old system of the Yuan Dynasty, Nanyang Mansion was set up, with jurisdiction over Nanyang, Nanzhao, Tangxian, Miyang, Tongbai, Zhenping, Xinye, Neixiang, Dengzhou and other places.

Nanyang is the fief of Zhu Yuanzhang's twenty-third son, Tang King Zhu Tan, Yongle built a large-scale Tang palace in Nanyang City, and built nine county palaces during the Chenghua period. With the gradual loosening of Zhu Yuanzhang's anti-human ancestral system, Nanyang's commerce was active, and merchants from Shanxi, Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Sichuan, and Hubei came one after another, and various business halls and mansions sprung up in various places, and a large number of grain, cotton, raw silk, tobacco, silk, oilseeds, furs, wood, and medicinal materials poured into the market and were sold all over the country.

In 1632 (the fifth year of Chongzhen), Zhu Yujian succeeded as the king of Tang and fiefdom Nanyang. Emperor Chongzhen gave him the Emperor Ming Zuxun, the Ming Huidian, the Five Classics and Four Books, the Twenty-one History, the Tongjian Compendium, the Loyalty and Filial Piety Classics and other books.

This Zhu Yujian is rich all over the world, very rich, and he did not study behind closed doors as Emperor Chongzhen requested, Zhu Yujian likes military affairs, so he asks for his own pockets, expands the palace and guards, and recruits two or three thousand people to practice, but at this time, Zhu Yujian is just doing things behind closed doors and practicing blindly by himself.

Until May of the eighth year of Chongzhen, Zhu Yujian was commanded by Liu Zeqing, the commander of the Linqing Dynasty, to take refuge in Chen Xiangfei, who was killed by an ordinary military household, because someone was responsible for Song Xiance's Dashun army, so Chen Xiangfei was used as a scapegoat.

As Zhu Yujian's subordinates became decent under the training of Chen Xiangfei, after learning that the 400,000 Mongolian army in Mobei was going south, Zhu Yujian asked Emperor Chongzhen to go north to defend against the enemy. Emperor Chongzhen did not allow it.

Zhu Yujian actually ignored the national rule of "the vassal king is not in charge of the army", recruited troops, and personally expanded the more than 2,000 guards to 10,000 people, because Cheng Shijie sold a large number of iron tools to the Central Plains in this time and space, Zhu Yujian's more than 10,000 raised troops were much better than historical equipment, and he used the purchased iron tools to privately build thousands of pairs of armor.

Zhu Yujian went north from Nanyang, and when he arrived in Luoyang, the governor Yang Shenwu personally led the Nanyang defenders north to chase the Tang Wangfu guards, however, at this time, Nanyang, which lacked troops, was dozens of elites under Li Zicheng, disguised as a caravan, entered Nanyang City, and took advantage of the emptiness of the defenders to capture Nanyang City in one fell swoop.

Li Zicheng and Gao Yingxiang rushed into Nanyang City, Nanyang as the most prosperous city in the Ming Dynasty at present, with a large population, Gao Yingxiang used the grain of Nanyang City to coerce the people of Nanyang to rebel, in just a few days, Gao Yingxiang's troops soared by more than 100,000 people, after eating up Nanyang City, Gao Yingxiang led troops south, threatening Xiangyang.

At this moment, even Emperor Chongzhen panicked.

Zhou Ning sneered again and again: "Is it really just the credit of Wenchen?" Without the active cooperation of the Son of Heaven who is above all beings, empty-eyed, and self-serving, do these Wenchen have the ability to ruin the good situation that the handsome man has worked so hard for? ”

Zhou Ning's perception of the Ming Court has always been bad, he has seen too many officials corrupt among the people, not one or two, but the whole country is corrupt. These bastards colluded with the gentry, and in the event of a famine, they not only did not provide relief, but also did not let the gentry with a clear conscience provide relief, and they were bent on starving all the hungry people to death in order to swallow up their land, or using the famine to sell the hoarded old grain at sky-high prices, making a windfall and ruining the people's families.

Corrupt officials live a life of spending all day and drinking, and a few good officials who still want to do something for the common people are forced to hang themselves by Jingcha, the corpses outside the customs are mountains and seas of blood, Jiangnan is drunk and gold-obsessed with singing and dancing, the gentry and businessmen and Jia's family are not allowed to pay a penny, and the peasants' families are harsh and taxed......

All this proves that this old dynasty has run out of energy, and it is time to fall apart. After taking refuge in Cheng Shijie, especially in southern Liaoning, which was originally barren, it took Cheng Shijie just three or four years to run a prosperous business like Gyeonggi.

This made Zhou Ning's perception of the Ming court change, although this old dynasty has all kinds of shortcomings, but it is by no means ambiguous in terms of external affairs, which is still worth affirming. He became Cheng Shijie's right-hand man in handling military affairs, and with his help, Ning Haijun was on the right track of development.

Looking at the improvement of the living standards of the people in Liaodong little by little, and watching the increasingly stable border defense line, Zhou Ning also had a little more hope in his heart, thinking that the country could still be saved, as long as he followed Cheng Shijie's model and reproduced the glory of the Hongwu and Yongle periods, it would be a matter of time.

However, this time, Zhou Ning was completely disappointed in the Ming Dynasty and Emperor Chongzhen, what did those ministers do? Obviously, those civil servants collaborated with the enemy country, and did not hesitate to push the Ming court into the bottomless abyss, but the question is what Emperor Chongzhen is doing?

He was actually pretending to be deaf and dumb, although Qiao Zhaolin was dead, his confession could not be faked, Xie Zhiliang was still alive, but on the grounds that there was no evidence, he asked the three divisions to investigate strictly.

These were originally done by those Wenchen, let Wenchen check and check himself, if he can find out the problem, it would be a strange thing, Cheng Shijie sent three twists to Emperor Chongzhen, hoping that Emperor Chongzhen could find out the truth about Wu Zongda's death, but the problem is that Wu Zongda's coffin has come to Tianjin Wei, but there is still no clue in this case.

If Cheng Shijie encounters this kind of thing, he will definitely arrest the relevant responsible persons for interrogation, and it is impossible to hesitate at all, because Cheng Shijie believes that no official in the Ming Dynasty has a clean butt, and he will be arrested and tried, and the first trial will be approved, whether the pond fish is corruption, or dereliction of duty, or a matter of private life, or a matter of morality, no matter who it is, it will not escape the review of these charges.

There is no evidence to find slowly, only if there is no problem at all, it will be released, what should be compensated will be compensated, and what should be punished will be punished, Emperor Chongzhen is good, both inside and face. also has to talk about evidence, in Cheng Shijie's eyes, there is only doubt, and it doesn't matter whether there is evidence or not. Yuan Chonghuan's incident, he actually tried it for ten months.

Meng En smiled bitterly: "It's a big trouble now, the matter at the border has not been resolved, I don't know what the situation is in Lanzhou now, but Jingxiang has another accident, you say, I can't tell which one is heavy!" ”

"They can tell!"

"What is the hard work of the handsome man in Liaodong who works day and day long? What is Ning Haijun trying to do after drinking blood and chewing grass roots outside the gate for several years? What is the Ning Navy trying to hold on to in Liaodong? What's the use of trying harder? So many people are pulling their hind legs, turning their hands into clouds and covering their hands into rain, which can make all our efforts go to waste! ”

Zhou Ning said bitterly: "Hasn't it been like this for two thousand years?" Tan Daoji made Suo Lu frightened, invincible, and Emperor Wen of Song asked for his life with an edict, which made Liu Song's fortunes turn sharply; Chen Qingzhi's 7,000 white-robed cross-border expedition to the north, defeated the Northern Wei and conquered Luoyang, and Emperor Wu of Liang sat still and watched the Northern Wei counterattack, which eventually led to his defeat and the annihilation of the white-robed army...... and Yue Fei, who was about to hit Bianliang, Zhao Gou's thirteen gold medals summoned him back, and then a trumped-up charge took the life of his father and son! It has been like this for two thousand years, and it has never changed, and those of us who are courtiers can only pray that we can meet a wise and magnanimous monarch like Emperor Guangwu, otherwise we may die at any time! ”

Meng En's light flickered and he muttered, "Why can't we control our own destiny?" Why should we let the emperor dictate everything about himself, even if he is a stupid pig? Why does he rule over us? Why does he selfishly think that this country is their private property and can be squandered wantonly, just because his surname is Liu Li and his surname is Zhao and Zhu? ”

"Monn, what do you want to do?"

Zhou Ning's tone was stern: "Your idea is very dangerous!" ”

"My thoughts are not dangerous!"

Meng En took a breath and said: "Chief of General Staff Zhou, you also know that the birds are good and the bows are hidden, the cunning rabbits are dead, and the lackeys are cooked." We have developed the Ning Navy to the present, and there is no turning back. ”

Zhou Ning said: "That's it, that's it, you take care of your mouth!" If the king is not secret, he will lose his minister, and if the minister is not secret, he will lose his body! ”

"I'm not for myself, I'm for the marshal, for all of us in the Ning Navy!"

Meng En pointed to a Ning Navy officer beside him: "Have you had enough?" ”

"What?"

The soldier was at a loss.

Meng En said indignantly: "I've had enough, I don't want to continue like this!" Why can't we control our own destiny? ”

"Why can't you take control of your own destiny?"

Didn't Zhou Ning understand Meng En's words?

He understands, but the problem is that this matter is too big, once it is torn apart, the problem will be big, and the sky of Daming will fall: "At least not now, Dashuai must return to Liaodong safely!" ”

Meng En seemed to understand what Zhou Ning meant: "I know how to do it!" ”

"Don't mess around!"

"I'm not a brainless person, just ask the world, who doesn't want to fight side by side with the commander and open up territory? Going down in history? ”

Meng En said: "I think, I dream about it." ”

Zhou Ning said: "Meng En, in this way, you call the officers above the general level to have a small meeting, and ...... like this."

(End of chapter)