Gang Lin, Qi Chongge, Sony and other three military ministers were reporting military and political affairs to Dorgon in the south study room of Prince Rui's residence.
First, Sony reported: "Master, Admiral Luo Yang of Tianjin has urgently reported that another batch of pseudo-Ming navy ships have arrived at Dagukou and sent a large number of personnel and supplies to the Ming army staying at Dagukou. The details are unknown."
"The details are unknown again. If you say it, it means you haven't said it yet." Dorgon said angrily.
Sony went on to say: "The Puppet Ming Navy repeatedly tried to invade Tianjin Wei up the Wei River, but was repelled by the Tianjin Green Camp."
Seeing that Dorgon did not respond, Sony continued: "Shengjing General Ye Keshu reported urgently that the pseudo-Ming general Xu Yingwei had built the gun platform ten miles outside Haizhou City and was still advancing forward. Ye Keshu asked the master to make it clear.
According to the regulations, either abandon the defense of Haizhou or mobilize all the troops in Liaodong to fight decisively."
Dorgon's face suddenly became extremely gloomy.
Decisive battle? What would Ye Keshu do to fight the Ming army in a decisive battle?
Just the few thousand armored men outside the pass? It's not enough for the Ming army to fill their teeth.
If you want to defeat the Ming army of Gaizhou Guard, you have to mobilize troops from within the pass.
But if we mobilize troops from within the Pass to Gaizhou Guard to fight a decisive battle with the Ming Army, wouldn’t it be a waste of troops to attack far away? Wouldn’t that be just what Chongzhen wanted? Such a stupid thing must not be done.
The Qing Dynasty must accumulate strength for the decisive battle in a few years.
At that moment, Dorgon said with a dark face: "What kind of battle are we going to fight? Tell Ye Keshu that the overall situation is the most important thing and abandon the defense of Haizhou immediately."
After a moment's delay, Dorgon said again: "I will order the King of Korea, Li Jun, to dispatch five thousand musketeers to Ye Keshu's dispatch."
The tactical quality of the North Korean musketeers was still very good. Dorgon was very satisfied, so he planned to transfer another 5,000 musketeers from North Korea to Ye Keshu. Otherwise, Liaodong would be too empty.
"Hey." Sony hit a thousand, took the newspaper back to his desk and began to give instructions: I am not going to fight, the overall situation is important, immediately abandon the defense of Haizhou...
Gang Lin then reported: "Master, I have some good news here."
"Oh, really?" Dorgon finally had a smile on his face, "Tell me, what's the good news?"
Gang Lin said with a smile: "I just received an urgent message from the naturalized general. It is said that so far, the total number of cattle and sheep in the Tumut Mongolian banners has been less than 20,000, and more than 100 herdsmen have starved to death.
Livestock losses have actually been the lowest in the past 20 years, and the most difficult winter has been over."
"Okay! Finally, I was not disappointed." Dorgon nodded happily.
In order to help Tumut Mongolia survive this winter, the Qing government spent a lot of money.
Speaking of this meal, Dorgon asked Qi Chongge again: "Qi Chongge, do you have any good news?"
Qi Chongge coughed lightly and said: "Master, I really have some strange news here. I don't know if it's good news or bad news?"
Dorgon asked: "What strange news?"
Qi Chongge replied: "About a month ago, Nanming's Huangming Times and Hanlin Daily published an article each, but the views expressed were very different. One school advocated restraining the monarch's power..."
After listening to Qi Chongge's brief explanation, Dorgon was dumbfounded and said: "Isn't the Huangming Times a newspaper run by the pseudo-Ming clan? How dare you go against the pseudo-Ming clan? Is that editor-in-chief tired of living?"
"Master, this is where the paradox lies." Qi Chongge smiled bitterly.
"According to the information obtained by this slave, this article on the front page of Huangming Times was published under the instruction of Chongzhen."
"What do you mean by this?" Dorgon was stunned when he heard this, and said in astonishment, "Chongzhen himself found someone to write such a bullshit article, and the purpose was just to restrain his own power?"
"This slave can't figure it out," Qi Chongge said with a wry smile and shook his head, "But that's the truth."
"Is Chongzhen idle? Can't find anything to do?" Dorgon was really puzzled.
After a long while, he said again: "Ignore him, he thinks he has too much power and wants to find someone to control him. That is his business, but I have to continue to strengthen the power of the monarch!"
Qi Chongge immediately agreed and said: "My master has hit the nail on the head. The military ministers in the military machine room are really talkative. They can argue for a long time over a trivial matter. This is not good."
"Well." Dorgon nodded lightly and continued, "So we need to build a south study room above the military machine room. Three people are selected from more than a hundred military machine ministers to be on duty every day. Their official title is called south study room guard. Assistance
I handle major military matters, and as for other military ministers, they can just wait and hear about them afterwards."
"Hey." Qi Chongge was overjoyed when he heard this.
…
At this time, in front of Qipan Pass in Hanzhong.
Seeing that the Dashun army that had entered the attack was defeated again, Li Zicheng was so angry that he whipped his horsewhip heavily on the big tree next to him, making a crisp sound immediately.
"Who is the general of the Western Army opposite?" Li Zicheng asked with a dark face.
"Why is it so difficult to deal with? Our army has been on the offensive for more than a month, with thousands of casualties, but we can't take it down."
Song Xiance, the right military advisor, stepped forward to report: "Your Majesty, the general of the Western Army guarding Qipanguan in the front is said to be Zhang Xianzhong's adopted son Zhang Dingguo."
"Zhang Dingguo? Is it Li Dingguo?"
"Your Majesty has a good memory, and he is none other than Li Dingguo."
"It's true that this kid has become so difficult to deal with after not seeing him for several years."
Li Zicheng was a little surprised. That young boy who had never done anything back then had actually become an iron lock on the road to Shu, blocking the way into Shu.
Gu Junen then whispered: "Your Majesty, the road to Shu is difficult and dangerous. It is too difficult to attack by force. Qipan Pass is only the first difficulty, and then there is the even more dangerous Chaotian Pass. However, compared with Jianmen Pass, Chaotian Pass is even more difficult."
It’s nothing, so even if our Dashun Army wins the seventh round, it will be of no use.”
Li Zicheng said: "So what do you mean?"
Gu Jun'en said: "Your Majesty, my intention is consistent, and the only way to defeat Shu is to be smart."
"Outwit? What you said is easy." Li Zicheng said, "How to outwit it?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Gu Jun'en said: "When Liu Bei entered Shu, he fought on behalf of Liu Zhang to suppress Zhang Lu. Today, the Holy Emperor can also follow Liu Bei's example and fight on behalf of Zhang Xianzhong to quell the rebellion."
Li Zicheng frowned and said, "Would Zhang Xianzhong believe it?"
Gu Junen said with a smile: "Believe it or not, you won't know until you try it. What if Zhang Xianzhong really believes it?"
"Yes, it doesn't matter even if he doesn't believe it, it won't be worse than now." Li Zicheng nodded lightly, and then said loudly, "Here comes someone!"
Upon hearing this, Gu Junen knew that Li Zicheng had misunderstood.
He meant to build the plank road openly and cross the Yinping River secretly, but Li Zicheng took it literally. However, Gu Junen did not rush to tell Li Zicheng that this matter was not urgent.
You can take the Yinping Road at any time.
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Li Zicheng's letter was quickly delivered to Chengdu.
"Prime Minister, what is Li Chuang thinking about?" Zhang Xianzhong rubbed his chin and asked, "While sending a large army to beat me, you also said that you want to help me suppress thieves?"
Wang Zhaoling suddenly said: "Isn't it obvious that Li Chuang's thoughts are like lice on a bald man's head? He wants to imitate Liu Bei's method of entering Sichuan and seek the territory of our Daxi Kingdom."
"I guess so." Zhang Xianzhong snorted, "But I won't believe him."
"Li Chuang is definitely not trustworthy. Anyone who trusts him will die." Wang Zhaoling shook his head and said, "But this incident is enough to prove that Li Chuang has nothing to do with our Daxi Army."
"That's right." Zhang Xianzhong said with a proud smile, "The boy from Dingguo is really getting better and better. With him guarding Desheng Mansion (Baoning Mansion) and Qipanguan, Li Chuang can't even think of entering Sichuan.
"
"What the Holy One said is absolutely true." Wang Zhaoling agreed happily, "So, the Holy One might as well pretend to make peace with Li Chuang and wait until Li Chuang retreats before joining Yuan Tao, Wu Dading and others to concentrate their forces for a decisive battle with Qin Liangyu and Li Xiangjun's army."
"Oh, yes, unless the Prime Minister reminded me, I almost forgot that the Ming Army is the mortal enemy of our Great Western Army." Zhang Xianzhong nodded.
For more than a month, although the Ming army has been entrenched in Kuizhou Prefecture, Chongqing Prefecture and Zunyi Prefecture and has not been in a hurry to attack, under the seemingly calm water, it is not calm at all.
Because since the Ming army entered Sichuan, they have only focused on one thing: peace of mind!
Not only the Han people, but also the local people in the three prefectures in eastern Sichuan were also the targets of the Ming army's efforts.
For example, that Li Xiangjun actually equalized acres of land for the local people in Zunyi Prefecture. Isn't this nonsense?
When did the Ming government and army share acres of land with the common people? It was like the sun was rising in the west.
This made Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi Army very passive, because the only advantage the Daxi Army had over the Ming Army was the people's support. Once the people's support returned to the Ming Army, what else could the Daxi Army do to fight the Ming Army?
In fact, there are already very bad signs in the Daxi Army.
Almost every day, some soldiers of the Great Western Army would quietly escape under the cover of night.
Although only some servants are fleeing now, and the situation in the old camp is still very stable, Zhang Xianzhong and Wang Zhaoling are also very clear that if this situation continues, the old camp will also become disorganized.
The only way to solve this trouble is to expel the Ming army from Sichuan.
After a short pause, Zhang Xianzhong asked Wang Zhaoling again: "But can the Prime Minister, Cao Xun, Yuan Tao, Wu Dading and other thieves be trusted? By then we will only be the Daxi Kingdom sending troops to attack the Ming Dynasty."
"Don't worry, Your Majesty, I have already made an agreement with Wu Dading and others." Wang Zhaochi said with confidence, "Wu Dading and others have also promised me again and again that as long as our Great Western Army sends troops, they will follow suit."
"Well, as expected of the Prime Minister, he was able to establish such a multi-way alliance." Zhang Xianzhong was overjoyed.
Speaking of this meal, he added: "It is my will to let the children of Wang, Wenxiu and Nengqi lead their armies to return to Chengdu. However, there is no need for the children of Dingguo to come back. He will guard Qipan Pass."
Follow Li Chuang."
"The Holy Spirit has a clear warning." Wang Zhaoling said with a flattering look, "Li Chuang is not trustworthy."
