Since the flag was raised, Wu Sangui's coalition has been progressing smoothly. ≤≤Little≤Say,

With the raid, he captured Dalinghe City in one fell swoop, and then he successfully captured Yizhou, Jinzhou and other cities. Wu Sangui rode his horse and slowly entered Jinzhou City.

Looking at this empty city, Wu Sangui was in a complicated mood, and Zu Dashou, who was next to him, was the same.

This important city in western Liaoning, a city that was once repeatedly fought for for the Ming and Qing dynasties, is now open to welcome his entry. However, Wu Sangui was not at all happy.

When he raided and captured Dalinghe City, he was extremely happy and excited to drink three bowls of wine.

But now, Yizhou and Jinzhou have been captured one after another, but he can't laugh anymore.

He didn't take Jinzhou down, but the Ming army voluntarily gave up.

The thing he was most worried about happened. Liu Jiye did not fight with him in western Liaoning at all. Before sending troops, he had carefully thought about how to fight the Ming army. Finally, combined with the Liao army's war with the Qing army over the years, Wu Sangui formulated a very detailed combat plan.

That is, first raid the Dalinghe City, and then the troops besiege Jinzhou. According to the Qing army's method of dealing with the Ming army, they besieged the city and attacked Jinzhou, and then forced the Ming army to come from afar to help. They then used the maneuverability of the cavalry to attack the aid halfway.

Use Jinzhou City to fish out the Ming army bit by bit, and then defeat them.

The Chu army was very strong, and Wu Sangui never thought that he could defeat Liu Jun easily. But he had a plan, that was, to first teach the Ming army strongly, at least he had to force Liu Jun to realize his power, and it would be best to force the Ming court to negotiate with them. Then he would negotiate peace with the court, and the court would assign Liaoxi to him. He would still be a minister of the Ming Dynasty, but the minister who split the land and sealed the spear, and could listen to the tune or not.

He wants to be the king of western Liaoning.

But now Zuo Liangyu has evacuated, and Jinzhou City has become an empty city.

"Master, the Left Army withdrew from Ningyuan. He took all the people away and burned away everything that could not be taken away. All the cities and villages were set on fire, and many sections of the city walls were demolished. Even all the wells were thrown away dead, and many of them were filled directly."

Western Liao became a ghost domain, a scorched earth.

Wu Sangui and Zu Dashou were both experienced people and could see through the Ming army's intentions at a glance. This is a solid wall and clear field.

In this way, they were in a dilemma.

If they continue to advance and attack Ningyuan, they will not be able to replenish food and grass on the spot and have to transport it from the rear. This is a big problem. The Liao army had already cut off food and grass, and this time they sent troops to borrow a batch of food and grass from Haoge. There was no food and grass to transport in their rear.

Even if he wants to occupy Songjin and station here, it won’t work.

Without food and grass, he just sat here and waited for death.

"How could Liu Jiye do this?" Zu Dashou looked angry, "Didn't his Chu army claim to be invincible? Why didn't he defend Jinzhou? Why didn't he send troops to reinforce? Why did he retreat without fighting?"

"Aren't he afraid of being impeached by officials? He was attacked by public opinion, saying that he was afraid of fighting and that he lost his territory?"

Wu Sangui sighed, "With Liu Jiye's status in the Ming court today, he does not have to be afraid of those attacks, and no one dares to attack him like this. I heard that Liu Jiye has controlled the Ming court now, and the capital of the capital is all his Chu army stationed, and even the Jinyiwei has become his hawks. No one has opposed his memorials, and no censor has ever impeached and attacked him. Those who try to impeach Liu Jun will be interviewed by the Jinyiwei for tea first."

Zu Dashou didn't know what to say.

He even envied Liu Jun. A general was even more glorious than Wei Zhongxian and more majestic than Zhang Juzheng. He was even thinking. How refreshing it would be if he could reach Liu Jiye.

"Liu Jiye is indeed the most difficult opponent." Wu Sangui sighed again, "not only is he difficult to guess, but he now has control over the center of the Ming Dynasty. His actions are not restricted by the court. If anyone dared to abandon the land without defending, the court would definitely have memorials flying in like snow, and countless officials would impeach it. But now, there are not even a person who farts."

"Now" Zu Dashou's liver pain, and the current situation is in front of him, and he doesn't know what to do.

There are three ways before them.

Continue to attack, retreat, or occupy Songjin and other places.

Continuing to attack, the serious supply problem faced by occupying Song Jin, and the problem of occupying the army was still facing such a problem. Even if it was withdrawal, Wu Sangui would not be able to avoid the supply problem.

No matter what kind of army it is, it cannot do without food and grass. Without food and grass, it is difficult to move forward.

"Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan are full of heavy troops, and the Liaohai Sea is about to thaw. There is also a Beiyang navy on the sea. At that time, they can go around from the sea to the back of us at any time to surround us."

Wu Sangui analyzed to Zu Dashou.

"Liu Jiye gave up Songjin and retreated to Ningyuan. I think he was deliberately luring us to attack Ningyuan. In this way, we stayed away from Liaodong and the logistics supply line was lengthened, especially in this way, Liu Jun's navy could encircle us at any time."

"But we can't just retreat like this, we can't stay here forever. There is nothing here, and the food we bring is only enough for half a month." Zu Dashou reminded.

Wu Sangui was in a dilemma.

On that day, Haoge led his army to arrive.

Looking at the ruins, Haoge's face was also very bad.

He also hoped to come to Liaoxi to grab the special forces and strengthen his strength. The result was that except for winning something in Dalinghe City, there was nothing left in western Liaoxi.

These Ming people were really cruel, thousands of miles away from the western part of Liao, and turned into scorched earth.

"Prince, in the current situation, we can no longer attack Ningyuan. Ningyuan is full of heavy troops, the city is strong and the cannon is powerful, so it is not appropriate to attack."

"Wu Shuai wants to retreat?" Haoge asked.

"Of course not possible." Wu Sangui couldn't retreat even if he wanted to retreat, and he didn't look back.

Wu Sangui took the map and spread it in front of everyone.

"Prince, I have a plan to bypass Ningyuan, which is heavily guarded. Ningyuan has heavy troops and is difficult to attack. Even if Ningyuan is captured, there is Shanhaiguan with more severe defense. Shanhaiguan has never been breached from the front of the pass for thousands of years."

"We bypass Ningyuan, just like Emperor Taizong back then, we detoured the south of the desert, entered the pass from the Great Wall in northern Yan, and went straight to Beijing."

He said to Haoge, "Now western Liaoning is scorched earth. Our supply is also a problem. If we detour the south of the desert, we can replenish food and grass from all Mongolian tribes to solve this difficult problem."

"My intelligence shows that Liu Jun has deployed heavy troops on the front line of the Great Wall. There are also heavy troops in the capital." Haoge said.

"Then we can attack Xuanfu Datong from the south of the desert and rob Shanxi." Wu Sangui said.

As soon as Chen Shi arrived, Liu Jun walked into the yamen of the imperial cabinet.

Although he took office as the commander of the rebellion to fight against rebellion, Liu Jun was still the minister of regent, and Liu Jun set up a headquarters in Tongzhou. However, he went there three days, and most of the time he still stayed in the capital.

Every day, at around 7 o'clock in the morning, he first went to the cabinet in the imperial city. He first went to the cabinet in the morning, and then went to the Prime Minister's Office in the palace. If there was no meeting of the Military Affairs Office, he would be the director of the Governor's Office outside Desheng Gate in the afternoon.

Liu Jun has multiple positions and his daily itinerary is arranged in a compact manner. Even a servant checks and arranges it for him for each itinerary.

The cabinet was located in the imperial city, which was for the office of six cabinet ministers. After several expansions, the scale was still not very large. The cabinet's courtyard only had three small buildings, with a flying corner and a double eaves in the middle, which was spacious and magnificent, and was the office of the cabinet ministers. The small building on the east side of the courtyard was an imperial house, an imperial house on the west side, and an imperial house on the south side was originally a gap. Later, due to insufficient office space, three large volume sheds were built here during Yan Song's tenure as the chief minister. All the officials in the cabinet were moved here.

The public rooms of the cabinet ministers are at the entrance to a hall, and the tablets of Confucius are enshrined in the center of the hall. There are veranda on all sides of the hall. The guest rooms of the cabinet ministers are all open on the veranda. Some rooms on the upper floors are bowing rooms, while others are resting places for the cabinet ministers.

Liu Jun ranks third in the cabinet, has his own public housing, and an exclusive lounge upstairs.

There are two sets of food and food for one set. There are six dishes, confidential rooms, document rooms, reception rooms, etc.

When Liu Jun arrived, the two servants had already cleaned up in the room and cleaned the room. Some officials had presented some important official documents to Liu Jun's desk.

As soon as he walked in, all the officials and servants came to see him.

Liu Jun has his own set of rules of service. As long as he comes here, the first thing he does in the morning is to hold a simple regular meeting first.

After taking over the tea made for him by the adjutant, Liu Jun drank the tea while listening to the officials taking turns reporting on work, and reported some important things that had been done and had not been done. Liu Jun also knew all these things.

He finally explained a few things, and the regular meeting ended, and they all went back to start working.

As soon as he sat down, Wu Yan came.

"Prince, there is an important thing now, which is very troublesome." Wu Qi frowned, "Citizen just sent someone over here, and he received news from his family that his father died of illness."

According to the Ming Dynasty system, officials must follow the Confucian traditional concept of filial piety. During the reign of the court officials, if their parents die, no matter what position the person holds, from the day they learn about the funeral, they must return to their ancestral home and keep the system for their parents for twenty-seven months. This is called Dingyou.

"Does Liu Ge always want to go home to obey the system?" Liu Jun asked.

"Yes." Wu Qing sighed, "Prince, now the court is in trouble. Wu Sangui rebelled and joined forces with the Eastern Captains to invade. I thought the court needed Master Liu at this time. I think the emperor should issue an order to seize the love and let Mr. Liu keep it."

When an official’s parents die, he must be kept in peace, but in special circumstances, it can be retained. This is to seize the love. The emperor issued an order to seize the love and let the officials continue to retain it.

For example, Lu Xiangsheng and Chen Xinjia, both of these two ministers were taken away. At that time, the Qing army invaded, and the emperor ignored the two people's filial piety and issued an order to seize the love and let them lead their troops to resist the Qing army.

In history, Zhang Juzheng was also taken away.

Wu Yan hoped that Liu Zongzhou would seize the love and retain it, because since Zhou Yanru committed suicide, there were only three ministers left in the four courts, and he needed Liu Zongzhou to check and balance Liu Jun with him. If Liu Zongzhou seized the love, he would leave the center for three years. During these three years, he could not participate in the government affairs based on matters.

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The ministers of Gushi were specially appointed, not permanent. After Zhou Yanru committed suicide, one was missing. If Liu Zong and Zhou were Dingyou again, then there would be only two left before he came back.

Wu Qi did not want Liu Zongzhou Dingyou to leave, but hoped that he would take the love. (To be continued.)
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