Beijing City, Ming Imperial Palace.

Another court meeting was held. Needless to say, the core of this meeting was naturally the upcoming battle to go south.

After all, war in reality is not a game on the computer. You can get all preparations with just a few clicks of the mouse. A certain number of military meetings are essential.

Judging from the current time progress, this should be the last military meeting before the decisive battle to the south.

Zhu Cilang sat on the chair and looked around the crowd.

Needless to say, the old faces such as the British Duke, Li Guozhen, Li Banghua, Fan Jingwen, etc., the only person worth mentioning is Wu Sangui.

Someone is going to ask, why did Wu Sangui appear here?

The answer is very simple, because Wu Sangui is now a Grand Secretary of the Ming Dynasty and a Minister of War, and a serious member of the cabinet.

In fact, Chongzhen had secretly sought opinions from Zhu Cixuan and others, asking whether to kill Wu Sangui or deal with Wu Sangui.

However, after the discussion, everyone agreed that this stage is not the time to deal with Wu Sangui.

On the one hand, although Wu Sangui delayed, he did arrive in Beijing and completed the rescue order.

On the other hand, the main force of the Ming Dynasty's official army is the Guanning Army as the backbone. This Guanning Army was built by Wu Sangui. If the court dealt with Wu Sangui at this time, it would have a huge impact on the morale of the Guanning Army, thus affecting the subsequent counterattack against Li Zicheng.

After thinking about it for a while, Zhu Cixuan also agreed with this opinion.

After so many things, Zhu Cilang could actually feel some of the rules of his system.

Simply put, its own system is an auxiliary system. It can provide many things to help reduce the difficulty of Zhu Cilang's destiny to change his fate, but it will not simply and roughly summon a large number of god-level soldiers or generals to deal with Zhu Cilang's enemies.

In this case, Zhu Cilang still needs to pay attention to the cultivation of the actual power of the Ming Dynasty. As the saying goes, blacksmiths must be strong by themselves. To cultivate a great Ming army to defeat Li Zicheng and the Qing Dynasty, it is still a stronger sense of accomplishment than to directly summon thousands of troops from the system.

The most basic team of the Ming Dynasty's official army is composed of the Guanning Army. In order to consolidate the foundation, it is no big deal to keep Wu Sangui's life.

Without an army, even if Wu Sangui wants to do something, it will take Zhu Cilang to deal with him in a minute. It’s not too simple.

Who made me a cheater? It’s so unreasonable!

So although Wu Sangui was under house arrest for several days, he was finally able to regain his freedom and naturally participated in this military meeting.

But this freedom is not without a price.

In order to gain this freedom, Wu Sangui completely lost control of the Guanning Army, and the official army of the Ming Dynasty annexed the Guanning Army intact, and Wu Sangui was destined to be unable to lead the army in the subsequent Battle of Li Zicheng in the Southern Expedition.

Zhu Cilang could see that Wu Sangui's face was very gloomy and in a bad mood. Maybe he would make trouble today.

Chongzhen spoke: "Everyone, the British Duke just said that the entire preparation process for the expedition has been completed and you can go south soon. So, let's discuss this strategy of fighting south."

Although Beijing City was rescued, the Ming Dynasty court was still in danger, so Chongzhen was still worried.

The British Duke stood up and briefly introduced: "Your Majesty, what I mean is very simple, that is, all the troops who can go south can go south and fight to Li Zicheng."

In the eyes of the British Duke, the Ming Dynasty really has no bargaining chips to slowly play with Li Zicheng, so it can only show all its trump cards and directly rush it, either taking Li Zicheng away in one wave or being taken away by Li Zicheng.

As soon as the British Duke finished speaking, someone suddenly spoke: "The British Duke is such a bad word. If you really follow this strategy, you must follow Sun Chuanting's mistake!"

As soon as the voice came out, everyone turned around and found that the person who spoke was Wu Sangui.

Zhu Cilang pulled the corners of his mouth slightly, and thought to himself that this was indeed the case.

I know that you, Wu Sangui, are not satisfied and come to find your presence.

After hearing Wu Sangui's words, the British Duke was very unhappy.

Sun Chuanting was the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu in the Ming Dynasty. He was just killed in Xi'an by Li Zicheng last year.

Wu Sangui actually said that the Duke of England was going to become the next Sun Chuanting. Isn’t this curse him to die?

The British Duke said coldly: "Shangshu Wu, I wonder what your opinions are?"

Wu Sangui stood up and spoke a series of questions in a deep voice: "My opinion is very simple. The enemy of the Ming Dynasty was not only Li Zicheng, but also Jiannu from the north!

If we go south to fight Li Zicheng, what should we do if the defense in the north?

If Jiannu knew that we would take the opportunity to attack after sending troops, how would we defend Shanhaiguan and how would we defend the capital?

By that time, our army will be in a dilemma. How can we win this battle?"

After Wu Sangui said that, the British Duke subconsciously glanced at Zhu Cixuan.

Why do you need to look at Zhu Ciyang?

Because the entire strategy mentioned by the British Duke was proposed by Zhu Cilang.

Zhu Cilang smiled indifferently and stood up.

"Shangshu Wu, there is no need to guard Shanhaiguan. You have indeed defended Shanhaiguan in recent years, but I ask you, has your Shanhaiguan helped the Ming Dynasty block the attack of Jiannu?"

This sentence was very sharp, and Wu Sangui couldn't speak.

Yes, although Wu Sangui defended Shanhaiguan, Huang Taiji directly led the Qing army from the south of the desert, that is, the later Inner Mongolia direction. The Guanning army at Shanhaiguan in western Liaoning could only stare at and could do nothing.

Wu Sangui's face turned red. He had lost the army and urgently needed to find a way to regain power. Therefore, he was unwilling to give in to the prince Zhu Cixuan.

What's more, Zhu Cilang is still the key figure who took away Wu Sangui's military power!

So Wu Sangui immediately said: "Your Highness the Crown Prince is such a bad word. Even if Jiannu can take a detour, it will take time for them to take a detour. Isn't this a time for defense for the capital?

If there is no Shanhaiguan, then what danger is there to defend the capital? If the capital is captured by Jiannu, it will be too late to regret everything! Therefore, this time we should not go south with all our might. We must leave a part of the army to guard Shanhaiguan and defend the capital!"

The reason why Wu Sangui is so persistent is actually very simple.

Shanhaiguan is the old nest that Wu Sangui had run for several years and is also the guardian of the Guanning Army.

If someone is sent to guard Shanhaiguan, the task should be on Guanning Army.

Even though only a part of the Guanning army went to Shanhaiguan, as the saying goes, the emperor was far away. As long as he was not at the foot of the emperor of the capital, Wu Sangui could find a way to quietly make some moves at Shanhaiguan and regain control of the Shanhaiguan army.
Chapter completed!