Seeing that Yang Tinglin became more fluent and excited the more he spoke, Lu Xiangsheng's heart moved for a moment, and then he shook his head and said with a wry smile, "Boxiang, this is really a scholar's opinion, how dare you hear the emperor with such an opinion?"

"Yes, I also think that the adults will not adopt it, and the emperor will not adopt it. Yang Tinglin knew his suggestion, he just didn't want the Ming Dynasty and the pillar stone of the Ming Dynasty to step into a catastrophe like this.

The two people in the room didn't feel a little embarrassed, Lu Xiang warmed up and said, "Don't look at the arrogance of the 'tiger' little Li thief in recent days, in my eyes I see this thief like a mustard ear, I heard that the provinces of the Central Plains are united, and the Li thief is about to collapse;

Lu Xiangsheng had a headache in the face of the devastating Qing army, but in the face of his defeated generals, Lu Xiangsheng was still very confident, he saw that Yang Tinglin was speechless, so he stood up and paced a few steps, "Besides, like Li Zicheng's uncle and nephew, a group of thieves in the mainland can take advantage of the convenience and flow from east to west, and sometimes they can make no ...... made the officers and soldiers suffer a little loss, as if this group of thieves still had some skills. As a matter of fact, once they leave the interior, they have no cunning people to drive them, and no hungry people to threaten and call them on, so they will have no way to use their tricks, so how can they fight the captives?"

Lu Xiangsheng's contempt is arrogant. In October of the second year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji led his army to avoid the Ningjin defense line held by Yuan Chonghuan, and perfectly performed a classic battle example of how to defeat the Maginot Line for the Third Reich, which emerged three hundred years later. They pretended to go to Inner Mongolia and broke into the pass from Xifengkou, making perfect use of the changes of the Ming Dynasty.

Wailang, a member of the first brother household department of officialdom, and Lu Xiangsheng, a famous man, also emerged at this time of crisis. He recruited more than 10,000 scattered soldiers and the people in the country, entered Beijing to assist in the defense, but when the border soldiers in Beijing were defeated and lost, they resisted the torrent of the Qing army like a mainstay, and made a lot of contributions, and in the following year he was promoted to the right political and deputy envoy, responsible for the rectification of the Daimyo, Guangping, Shunde three prefectures of military equipment, the establishment of the Tianxiong Army, this is the beginning of his troops.

In September of the ninth year of Chongzhen, the official attacked Yang He, that is, Yang Sichang, and his father was ineffective, and Yang He was arrested and imprisoned. Replacing Yang He as governor of Shaanxi was Hong Chengchou, Hong's men were brave and good at fighting, and the rebel army could not gain a foothold in Shaanxi, and they crossed the Yellow River into Shanxi. Hong Chengchou was then in charge of the military affairs of Shanxi and Henan, and a large number of thieves had to flow to the south of Beijing and the north of Henan......

"No, Lord Governor. Although the adults have fought many battles with the thieves in the past few years and won many victories, the thieves are not as vulnerable as the adults say. If it is really vulnerable, why has it been like a prairie fire for 10 years, and the imperial court has not been able to extinguish it with all the strength of the whole country? Moreover, as far as the lower officials know, Li Zicheng is different from other thieves. He is good at using soldiers, and can often turn danger into victory and defeat into victory. Although Gao Yingxiang's old department is the leader of the thieves, and the name is the king of Chuang...... the word "King Chuang" in Yang Tinglin's words is not an ordinary bandit, but represents Li Zicheng's military leadership position in many pole rebels.

In the late Ming Dynasty, among the thirteen rebels, only Gao Yingxiang's family had this title, and the first king was Gao Yingxiang, who was called Gao Chuang King by Jianghu Dao. In July of the ninth year of Chongzhen, when Gao Yingxiang's department fought with Hong Chengchou in Heishuiyu, Zhouzhi County, he was seriously ill and hidden in the cave, and was betrayed and captured by the officers and soldiers, and then inherited the mantle of Gao Yingxiang was Li Zicheng.

"His rough clothes and bad food, and the soldiers share weal and woe; and the army is clean and disciplined, even better than the officials and soldiers of the imperial court, if the imperial court can really pardon him from death, treat him sincerely, and make him meritorious service, it is really beneficial to the country without any harm. It's a pity that no one dares to give advice to the emperor. ”

Yang Tinglin saw Lu Xiangsheng's face showing a very disapproving look, and felt that he shouldn't say so much to him, so he said with a smile: "Tinglin is knowing each other, so he dares not to avoid being presumptuous and reckless." If I were to say these words in front of others, I wouldn't even say a word. ”

Lu Xiangsheng asked Yang Tinglin with a sneer: "How do you know so much about Li Zicheng?"

"Cracking down on thieves is a major national event, but it's a pity that the court has a lot of ignorance about the situation of thieves, such as in a drum, like in a dream. If you don't know yourself or your opponent, how can you win? Tinglin has been paying a little attention to this over the past year, so he dares to say that he knows a little bit about it. ”

Yang Tinglin actually knew a lot about the situation of the invasion army. One of his friends, Yu Shangyou, was a Jinshi of Chongzhen Xinwei, and as a supervisor of the imperial history, he knew a lot about the suffering of the people. Especially in recent months, Zhang Xianzhong, the leader of the newly attached bandits, sent one of his cronies to live in Beijing to do some activities for Zhang Xianzhong.

Yu Shangyou took this opportunity to learn from this person about the incident of the Thirteen Families. Speaking of the Thirteen Families at the end of the Ming Dynasty, they were the collective name of the thirteen tribes of the peasant army that rose up in northern Shaanxi and western Shanxi. These thirteen families sometimes joined together, and suddenly separated to echo each other, Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Cao Cao and others were the leaders of one of the families, and they were equal to each other in status. At this time, Li Zicheng was originally a general under Gao Yingxiang, and after Gao Yingxiang's death, Li Zicheng was elected by his remnants as the leader of the Gao Ministry.

Yu Shangyou knows the history of their thieves and the current situation. In this way, Yu Shangyou's understanding of Li Zicheng is much clearer than that of those Beijing officials who only rely on Tang Bao, Di Copy, and hearsay to talk about breaking into the army, even compared to the senior military officers who talk about the army on paper.

Once, when the two of them were drinking and having fun in their apartment in Beijing, when they were drunk, Yu Shangyou relayed the situation of Li Zicheng and others to Yang Tinglin. At this time, Yang Tinglin saw that Lu Xiangsheng had a deep prejudice against the Chuang army, so he didn't dare to mention another word.

The two people in the clean room sat relatively dry, Yang Tinglin moved his eyes to the wall facing him, and saw a statue of Guan Gong hanging in the middle, and next to it was Lu Xiangsheng's handwritten "Man Jianghong", the font was handsome and strong, and it was clear at a glance that it was changed from Wang Xizhi's calligraphy. Look at the payment below but it was yesterday's day, in addition to the stamp of the word Yang Xiangsheng, there is also a Yin text leisure chapter "Doctor has no friends abroad".

Yang Tinglin understood that Lu Xiangsheng had infinite emotion when he wrote this poem and used this idle chapter, so he smiled reluctantly and said: "Even if Yue Wu Musheng is reborn today, I am afraid it will be difficult to show his ambitions. ”

(End of chapter)