The butt determines the head, and the head determines the mind.

Although this is the most serious conflict between Cheng Shijie and the officers and men of the Ning Navy since the formation of the Ning Navy, in this conflict, there is really no fault party.

Are you going to say that Meng En and Admiral Ning are wrong?

In fact, they are not wrong, they are just thinking about what may happen in the future and planning a way back for themselves in advance, is it wrong? It is just human nature that people do not destroy heaven and earth for their own sake, and this is not wrong.

What's more, they just want to borrow the hands of Jiannu to get rid of the bastards in the capital, those moths of the country, in all fairness, this is indeed a solution to the problem.

However, the problem is that from Cheng Shijie's point of view, this incident is like a very famous joke in later generations: "A madman tied up five innocent people on the railroad tracks, and another track also tied up an innocent person, and now a train is speeding by, you can change the track of the train, will you take off the track and sacrifice an innocent person to save the lives of the other five innocent people?" ”

The current Cheng Shijie is just the person standing next to the track, the huge inertia of history, he has no ability to stop it, but he can get off the track and change the direction of the train.

Sacrificing the lives of the officers and men of the Ning Navy can certainly reduce the losses, which is equivalent to one person on this track, and the people of Gyeonggi are those five people. But the problem is that although Ning Haijun is a professional army in Cheng Shijie's mind, although Cheng Shijie has trained them more than once, they should not be loyal to Cheng Shijie, but to this country, but in the minds of Ning Haijun, they are not a professional national army, but only Cheng Shijie's personal private army.

They don't owe anything to the Ming court, but what they owe is Cheng Shijie, they can die for Cheng Shijie without hesitation, just like now, in order to wake up Cheng Shijie in confusion, they do not hesitate to use self-slaughter to stimulate Cheng Shijie with blood.

Cheng Shijie is still thinking about this problem, in fact, this problem is almost unsolvable, when the officers and men of the Ning Navy will stop Jiannu from going south at all costs, the Ning Navy will definitely die, and countless soldiers will die in battle, can it be said that the lives of the people of the Ming Dynasty are the lives, and the lives of the Ning Navy are the lives?

It is fate to die on the battlefield as a soldier, but the problem is that this war is completely an unnecessary war that took place at the wrong time and in the wrong place.

If the officers and men of the Ming army in the Great Wall defense line are conscientious, take advantage of the Great Wall passes, and resist stubbornly, even if the officers and men of the Ning Navy are exhausted, they will not have complaints in their hearts, this is a battle for survival, either you die or I die, the two sides have different positions, and naturally they can shed the last drop of blood for their own nation and country.

But the problem is that the defense line built by the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years and countless money and blood and sweat was deliberately opened by their own people, and their real purpose was to deal with Cheng Shijie, the Prime Minister of the Nine Sides. If Cheng Shijie had not accepted the official position of the nine-sided prime minister, maybe they would not have made such a decision.

Cheng Shijie is thinking about how to solve this problem, in fact, later generations have tried to solve this problem, just like the movie "Saving Private Ryan", which involves an abstract philosophical thinking, is it worth exchanging eight people for one person, Ryan's life is life, and Captain Miller's life is not life?

This movie is thinking about how to measure the value of life, if he stands in Cheng Shijie's point of view and kills all the Ming officials in the capital, he will not frown, some of those officials are not bad, but most of them deserve to die, but the problem is that just like winning over He Sui and Qiao Zhaolin, it is only the behavior of some officials, not all officials.

There are many officials in the capital of the Ming Dynasty who are conscientious and doing their own things, and they are not involved in this conspiracy, is it right to kill them for no reason? Because they are scholars, do they deserve to die?

Cheng Shijie took a machete, frantically chopping the bolted horse pillar outside the tent, and vented the anger in his heart by chopping the stake, until a knife was cut full of gaps, Cheng Shijie trembled and walked towards the Chinese army's big tent, Cheng Shijie's back looked unusually lonely and lonely, which made people feel distressed.

Looking at his lonely fingers, Zhou Ning frowned, a little unbearable.

It's the first time he's seen Cheng Shijie like this, Cheng Shijie wasn't like this before, even if the sky falls, he can smile on the top, that bright, sunny, and a somewhat unruly smile is very infectious, seeing him laugh, they will feel at ease, and the sky can be covered when it falls.

But now, there is no smile on his face anymore, the commander of the Ning Navy is injured, he was injured by them!

Zhou Ning turned to look at Li Xin beside him: "Are we going too far?" ”

Li Xin was silent for a long time, and sighed: "Dashuai is too kind, no matter what he does, he wants to do it perfectly, he hopes that this troubled country can be revived and regain its glory, and he also hopes that there will be no bloodshed, how is this possible?" He was so naïve. ”

When Li Xin said this, he smiled: "Of course, this is not a bad thing, didn't we decide to follow him because of his naivety and persistence?" If it weren't for this naivety and persistence, he wouldn't be Cheng Shijie, and there wouldn't be so many people willing to work for him. ”

Meng En smiled bitterly: "He's disappointed in us, really, so disappointed, I can feel it!" ”

"As expected, he has always hoped that the entire Ning Navy will have no selfish distractions like him and protect this country wholeheartedly, and in this case, of course he will be disappointed. Actually, we want to be like him, but ...... We are the generals of the Ming Dynasty, we are destined to not be able to do it, there are too many people who are dragging us back, or staring at us in secret, as long as we show the slightest flaw, they will pounce on us and tear us to pieces, even if it is to destroy the whole country for this! ”

Li Xin said with a firm face: "If you don't want to have a crisis like the current one, the only way is to sweep all the garbage into the trash can, wipe off all the dirt, and turn the whole country into a blank sheet of paper again!" ”

Only a blank sheet of paper can draw the most beautiful blueprint, and it is impossible to paint on a piece of paper full of dirt, even if it is a saint.

Zhou Ning sighed and said, "I'm afraid that the handsome will be hit by this and collapse!" ”

"When we're done with these things, let's apologize to Dashuai!"

Li Xin said almost coldly: "In the future, I will explain it to the big handsome and the plate, it's a big deal, use my life to make amends to the big handsome!" ”

Zhou Ning said: "Use the power we can use to spread the news that Jiannu is about to go south, let the people run, run as much as they can, and escape as much as they can, as for those who don't want to escape, they can only complain that their lives are not good!" ”

Li Xin continued: "Our transport team of the Ning Navy will stop sending grain to the capital from now on!" ”

Meng En said: "It's best to deploy in advance!" ”

"How do I deploy in advance?"

"Once those people take the initiative to retreat, there will definitely be a lot of routs. We planted a part of the numbers in advance and dispersed them among these routs......"

"Do you want to learn from Xie Zhiliang?"

Li Xin shook his head and said: "Xie Zhiliang was only able to succeed, there is a great factor of chance, first of all, he is the chief soldier of Taiyuan Town, he is not bad to the soldiers in peacetime, and he has won the hearts of the army. But on the East Road of Xuanfu and the army on the side of Zunhua Mansion, most of them are not from Beizhili, and the guest army fights, and no matter how many people are killed or wounded, how much does it have to do with them? ”

"Chief of Staff Li, you misunderstood what I meant, I mean, we have a large number of routs, let them entrap the people, and flee all the way south, even if we force the people to flee south, it is better than waiting for death in Gyeonggi!"

Cheng Shijie fell into deep self-blame, he closed the door, saw no one, and did nothing.

sat like this all night, and at dawn, Cheng Shijie seemed to have figured it out, in fact, he didn't figure it out, he just wanted to get out of this whirlpool, what do you want to do, then what to do, he just wants to leave this world with his children. Come out of sight is pure.

"Someone!"

Hou Shi bowed down and said, "Dashuai, please instruct!" ”

"Prepare the car!"

It didn't take long for Cheng Shijie's exclusive carriage RV to be prepared, originally Cheng Shijie's carriage RV was a troika, but with the arrival of Shirema, Cheng Shijie's carriage was replaced by a troika. However, although the contents of this carriage have not been changed, the carriage has been optimized.

The carriage adopts a bulletproof shield, but since then, the vehicle has also been much heavier, almost equivalent to pulling more than 2,000 catties, Cheng Shijie is lying on the carriage, he seems to feel like making a robot, and now the robot has its own consciousness and has begun to think independently.

Ning Haijun has his own consciousness, and he no longer needs Cheng Shijie.

"Dashuai, where are we going?"

"Go back to Liaodong!"

Cheng Shijie wanted to escape, wanted to bury his head in the sand and be an ostrich.

Of course, as the commander of the Ning Navy, even if Cheng Shijie wants to return to Liaodong, it is impossible to reduce the number of guards he should have, with more than 2,000 guards infantry, as well as nearly 1,000 guards cavalry, more than 3,000 people, responsible for protecting Cheng Shijie's safety.

At this time, Cheng Shijie was lying in the carriage, he seemed to be a deflated ball, and he couldn't raise any interest.

Cheng Shijie's departure did not affect the operation of the Ning Navy, in fact, Cheng Shijie was also very lazy, he handed over the government affairs of Liaodong to the Liaodong Management Committee, and the military affairs to the General Staff, and the staff team of the General Staff was quite luxurious, and his departure did not affect the operation of the Ning Navy.

After Cheng Shijie left, Li Xin, Zhou Ning, Meng En and others performed their duties, first released a large number of sentry cavalry and intelligence personnel, and kept a close eye on the wind and grass in the Beijing and Tianjin areas, and at the same time strengthened the contact with the Dashun army to ensure the control of the Dashun army.

Under the command of Zhou Ning, more than 50,000 Annam Corps of the Ning Navy withdrew from Datong and Shanxi and assembled in the direction of Datong Town.

There are only three roads that can escape north in the direction of Gyeonggi, one of which is in Juyongguan in Yanqing County, one in Gubeikou, that is, in Miyun County, and the Baihe Ancient Road is Jing'anbao, and the other is in Xifengkou in Qianxi County in Yongpyeongfu. Other directions are not suitable for large armies to enter and exit, sneaking through hundreds or thousands of elites, lightly armed personnel are acceptable, large-scale troops go south, and Jiannu can only be from these three directions.

At the same time, the General Staff of the Ning Navy prevented the Jiannu Army from taking advantage of the situation to move south after capturing Beijing, and built defensive lines in Baoding and Tianjin in case of contingencies, after all, Li Xin and the others just wanted to use their hands to cut off the cancer on the country's body, and never thought of giving them this splendid country.

……

In the capital, Dongzhimen, in an inconspicuous house, this is the stronghold of the Ning Haifeng Group.

Ma Xing is reporting to Chen Guodong the information he has just received, as the supervisor of the Ning Navy, Gao Qiqian was assassinated by an unknown force, no matter how the imperial court disposed of it, but the Ning Navy could not ignore it.

After all, it still depends on the owner to fight the dog, no matter what the status of the potential Ning Navy is, but he is labeled as Ning Haijun, and it is impossible to give up on this matter.

At the very least, it is necessary to investigate clearly who is targeting the Ning Navy.

Ma Xing took the intelligence report: "According to the situation, before Gao Gonggong was ambushed, the Beijing camp mobilized more than 2,000 people and horses to go to Xishan to suppress bandits, these two thousand men and horses, carrying more than a dozen artillery pieces, and more than 1,200 artillery pieces, a total of more than 260 horses!" ”

"What scale of bandits is worth using more than 2,000 capital battalions?"

"I don't know yet!"

Ma Xing smiled bitterly: "This army is led by Zhou Yuji, a guerrilla general in Beijing, seven days later, he led the remnants to return, and then three days ago, he was appointed by the Ministry of War as the chief military officer of Taiyuan Town, and now Zhou Yuji has gone to work!" ”

"Then please ask Mr. Zhou to meet!"

"I'm afraid that's not right, right?"

"That's right, the court also wants face, so ...... Zhou Yuji went to Taiyuan to perform his duties this time, he should have brought a lot of people, right? ”

"There are more than 800 people with me!"

"More than 800 people? That's a bit of a lot! ”

Chen Guodong said: "Zhou Yuji's side to find out who is the fastest to be promoted, it is best to take the opportunity to catch a few tongues!" Zhou Yuji can't move him easily, the people around him should be able to move! ”

"Then go and go for yourself!"

However, just as Ma Xing was about to leave the capital, Chen Guodong asked, "Is there any latest information on Yanqing?" ”

Ma Xing said suspiciously: "It's the same as usual, nothing big happens!" It's just ......"

"Just what?"

"General, see for yourself!"

Chen Guodong saw the information sent, and Meng En took the lead in forcing Cheng Shijie to the palace.

The butt determines the head, and the head determines the mind. No matter what Meng En's original intention was, he was coercing Cheng Shijie, and in Chen Guodong's eyes, this was rebellion.

Chen Guodong said: "Where is Meng En now? ”

"It's still in Yanqing!"

"Let Zhou Yuji's matter go, let's go directly to Yanqing! I want to see if Meng En wants to rebel, or Zhou Ning wants to rebel! (End of chapter)