"Eunuch Cat" sighed and left after meeting the emperor... He was originally a military eunuch who was a royal eunuch, but he also wanted to make contributions to the Ming Dynasty on the battlefield, collect some bribes and embezzle some military pay. of.
Now it's better, I've become a cat eunuch! What merit can be achieved by catching mice? And there is no military pay to be corrupted. The most you can do is greed for a little cat food... but you can't be too greedy, because cats are traitors, and they will run away without food, and it is difficult to catch them! When the time comes for Long Live Lord to count and see all the cats running away, why don't Long Yan get so angry that he drags out the cat eunuch and chops off his head?
What makes Mr. Cat even more worried is that this operation in Datong and Taiyuan seems to be to prevent the spread of plague!
Although Zhu Youjian denied it, Father Cat kept observing his words many times, and of course he could detect that Emperor Zhu was lying! Moreover, Mr. Cat is quite good at thinking, and he immediately thought of the plague in Datong and Taiyuan. In fact, there was a plague in Datong during the Wanli period, and many people died. Later, he recovered. Maybe he didn't take advantage of it. , and now it has relapsed.
In order to stabilize people's hearts, Long Live Lord blocked the news and prevented others from knowing...
This is the plague!
It's too late for others to hide, but I still have to bite the bullet and push forward. It's not easy to be the cat father-in-law of Tmall Company!
As soon as Mr. Cat left, General Counselor Chen Qiyu led Liu Ce, the left minister of the Ministry of War, into the hall in a hurry. Liu Ce was sent by the cabinet, Empress Zhou and Empress Zhang to Zhangde Mansion to meet Zhu Youjian - when Zhu Youjian was in Xuzhou, he approved the supervision of his nephew, the queens of the two palaces, and the Sixth Department of the Cabinet and other yamen, Etai The nephew came out and moved to Xuanfu in the name of Fujun.
This is actually just a name. There is no danger in pretending to be a brat sending troops.
Because the current Xuanfu is no longer the frontier. It is 700 miles away from Xuanfu to the Xilin River bordering the Ming Dynasty and Houjin Dynasty.
Even if the Jin army went south from the pine forest for thousands of miles and ran 700 miles, they only reached the Xuanfu Great Wall. We still have to break the heavily garrisoned Xuanfu Great Wall before we can attack the impregnable Xuanfu City... As long as Huang Taiji is not stupid, he will basically not do such stupid things.
Even if Huang Taiji becomes stupid, Nizi will definitely be able to handle it!
However, Queen Zhou and Queen Zhang were still worried - they didn't know how powerful Ni Zi was! So Wang Zaijin sent someone to ask Zhu Youjian to return to Xuan Mansion to take charge, and Liu Ce came for this purpose.
"Long live my lord, when I left Beijing, Prince Xin's Mansion just sent a report saying that two hundred-man troops stationed in Qingping Town were attacked by slave thieves, and most of them were destroyed. Only a few dozen of them escaped back to Kaiping City. Ju them Reports indicate that the number of slaves who attacked them was at least 1,000, all elites of the Eight Banners!
In addition, due to the fall of Qingping Town, the communication between Prince Xin's Mansion and Xilin City has also been interrupted... Since Prince Xin's Mansion has very few troops stationed in Xilin City, only three hundred troops, it is estimated that the situation is also in danger. , it is very likely that it has been breached by slave thieves.
Mr. Wang Ge, Mr. Zhang Ge, and Mr. Sun Ge were all worried that the slave bandits would invade westward through the Thousand Miles of Pine Forest, so they all hoped that Long Live Lord could return to Xuan Mansion as soon as possible to preside over the decisive battle with the slave bandits..."
In the Chengyun Hall, Liu Ce, who had come from all walks of life, was reporting to Zhu Youjian about the situation on the front lines of Xilinhe and Dalahaizi (Qingping Town). The more he talked, the more he felt that something was wrong with the atmosphere. The young emperor seemed to be looking at him with a very strange look... What on earth happened? Why does the emperor look at people so horribly?
"Liu Qing..." Zhu Youjian spoke, with a little apology in his tone. As soon as he spoke, he sighed.
In his previous life, he was the emperor at the beginning. He was young and ignorant, impulsive, and often killed his ministers out of anger... When he lived again in this life, he often saw people who died unjustly in his previous life.
The Liu Ce in front of me is a ghost who died unjustly in his previous life! When the Revolution occurred in the previous life, he happened to be the right minister of the Ministry of War and the assistant manager of military affairs. He had no choice but to command the "flat account soldiers" of the Beijing camp to go into battle. He also served as the censor of Youqiandu and the prime minister of Ji, Liao and Baoding military affairs. . But how could those "pact soldiers" fight in the wild with the slave thieves? The result was a huge defeat, and he was impeached and imprisoned. The next year, he was tried for death and had his head chopped off in the West City... Now that I think about it, this guy was quite unjust! I wonder if it hurts when beheading?
Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian sighed: He was confused and chopped off his head in his previous life, but he must be treated better in this life.
"Liu Qing," Zhu Youjian's tone became particularly kind, "Is the injury on your neck better? Does it still hurt?"
What? A wound on your neck? Liu Ce was confused by the question. His neck was not injured! Maybe Long live the Lord made a mistake? But it doesn’t matter, I can deal with it.
Liu Ce smiled and said: "It's so smooth now, it doesn't hurt at all!"
"That's good, that's good..." Zhu Youjian nodded and said, "The old camps of Xinfu are in Guihua City and Jining City, which are far away from Xilin River and Dala Haizi, so there is no way to stay in Xilin There are heavy troops stationed in Xilin City and Qingping Town. Moreover, Wu Liangha will not send Xinfu's elite troops so far away. Those stationed in Xilin City and Qingping Town are just soldiers from dependent tribes, not worth mentioning.
And Huang Taiji will not march to Kaiping in the middle of winter... Now that the grassland is covered with ice and snow, there is no way to graze, how will Huang Taiji's army be resupplied? What did their horses feed on?
As far as I know, Huang Taiji does not have a huge camel army, so it is impossible to make any big moves on the grassland in winter. He suddenly sent troops to Xilin City and Qingping Town, probably because he wanted to seize these two strongholds as a support point for the march to Kaiping in the spring and summer of next year. "
"Your Majesty thinks Huang Taiji's goal is Kaiping?" Liu Ce asked.
The cabinet and the queens of the two palaces discussed it for several days, but they still couldn't figure out what Huang Taiji's goal was? As soon as Zhu Youjian heard that Xilin City and Qingping Town had fallen, he already knew it.
He nodded and said with a smile: "What Huang Taiji really wants to compete with me is the title of Great Khan of Mongolia! This title is dispensable to me, but to Huang Taiji, it is a matter of life and death.
Because only by taking down Monnan and Mobei Mongolia, the slave thieves can barely have a market for the Khitan and be able to compete with me, the Ming Dynasty.
Otherwise, the slave traitor will be Goguryeo at best. How can Goguryeo fight against China for a long time? When the years of famine in China are over, the slave thieves who only have the scene in Goguryeo will be dead! "
Liu Ce also felt that the young emperor's analysis was reasonable, but he still asked Zhu Youjian: "Long live my lord, when can you return to the court? Although the slave thieves will not march in large numbers in winter, there is no guarantee that they will send elite troops south to harass Attack...The emperor's great nephew is young, so I would like to ask Your Majesty to return to the court to take charge of the overall situation."
Zhu Youjian smiled bitterly and said: "I also want to go back early, but there are still many rats in Shanxi that are causing trouble. I have to go to Taiyuan personally to take charge of these rats... At the national gate of Xuanfu, the emperor's nephew is in charge. Can."
What kind of rat is this? More difficult than Huang Taiji? Does the Ming Emperor need to catch it himself? Liu Cexin said: The emperor's nephew is only 5 years old, why should he not go to Xuanfu to guard the country? What if I get into trouble?
This Banzai Lord's behavior... is still a bit dazed!
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It was December 12, the sixth year of Dajin Tiancong.
To the west of Thousand Miles of Pine Forest, next to the long-frozen Dala Haizi, there is a dilapidated town, but it has a pretty nice name, Qingping Town.
About three to four thousand Houjin Eight Banners soldiers (actually Eight-Cheng Eight Banners soldiers) and a similar number of North Korean soldiers have been busy in the wind and snow since early in the morning - busy repairing the battle for Qingping Town the other day. The destroyed city. Obviously, Zhu Youjian's guess was correct. Hou Jin did not send out a large army. Instead, he captured Qingping Town and Xilin City with only a few thousand elites, and secured two key strongholds to the west of Qianli Pine Forest.
After taking Qingping Town, this group of Hou Jin soldiers did not focus on expanding their victory. Instead, they took the defensive first and began to build city defenses in Qingping Town, preparing for a long-term tug of war with the Ming army.
