After taking down Guangping Prefecture, Gao Jie did not stay for a long time, but continued to advance north.

To the north of Guangping Prefecture is Shunde Prefecture, with nine counties under the leadership, one thousand miles away from the capital.

During the Hongzhi period, there were 21,614 households in the prefecture, and 181,825 households in the prefecture. In the sixth year of Wanli, there were 27,633 households in the prefecture, and 281,957 households in the prefecture.

But in the 17th year of Chongzhen, the entire Shunde Prefecture had only more than 10,000 households and more than 90,000 people left.

The drought and locust plagues are of course an important reason, but the more important reason is war chaos and man-made disasters.

During the Chongzhen period, the Eastern Barbarians repeatedly invaded the border and robbed Jifu. Shunde Prefecture, which belonged to the Northern Zhili, was not spared.

In the 11th year of Chongzhen, a great war broke out here that shocked the government and the opposition. The two-way battle was the Ming army led by the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Lu Xiangsheng.

On August 23, the 11th year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji ordered Prince Rui Dorgon to command the left-wing army as the general, and appointed Beile Yuetou as General Yangwu to lead the right-wing army, and Beile Dudu and others launched a large-scale conquest for the Ming Dynasty.

On September 22, Yue Tuo invaded from the bridge of the Miyun Gunziling and killed Wu Aheng, the governor of the Ming Ji Liao. Soon afterwards, Dorgon led the left-wing army to break through the wall from Qingshan Pass on September 28.

The two armies finally met in Tongzhou and headed straight to Beijing.

Emperor Chongzhen was shocked and ordered martial law in the capital. At the same time, Emperor Chongzhen gave Lu Xiangsheng Shangfang, the then Governor of Xuanda, the sword, to command the king's troops and horses.

However, it is said that he was the commander of the world, but Lu Xiangsheng was able to command only the more than 20,000 troops he brought from Xuanda and the tens of thousands of Guanning troops led by the eunuch Gao Qiqian.

Compared with Dorgon, the Eight Banners Army led by Yue Tuo did not have a numerical advantage, but if the top and the other were united, they would not be without the power of fighting under the leadership of Lu Xiangsheng.

But the problem was that Emperor Chongzhen had already had the intention of discussing peace at this time, and sent the Minister of War Chen Xinjia to contact the Qing army in private to discuss the details of the peace talks.

Yang Sichang, a Grand Secretary of the Dongge, and Gao Qi, a military eunuch, thought it was obvious that Emperor Chongzhen wanted to negotiate peace, so he repeatedly suppressed Lu Xiangsheng, who was the pro-war faction. He asked for food and grass instead of food and grass, and did not give armor.

Gao Qiqian also made a request to divide the troops to Lu Xiangsheng on the grounds of preserving his family's fortune for the Ming Dynasty.

After repeated struggles, Lu Xiangsheng had no choice but to agree to Gao Qiqian, who led the Guanning Army with Gao Qiqian and Lu Xiangsheng led the Xuan Army.

The Ming army divided the troops here.

After this division of troops, Lu Xiangsheng's troops were greatly reduced, but he still took the initiative to attack, left the capital, passed Zhuozhou, and arrived in Baoding. Finally, he had an encounter with the Qing army in Qingdu.

In this battle, Lu Xiang won, and she won very beautifully.

But at that time, Yang Sichang and Lu Xiangsheng had a personal grudge. They didn't want to watch Lu Xiangsheng make contributions, so they asked Emperor Chongzhen to hand over part of Lu Xiangsheng's troops to Commander Chen Xinjia to achieve the purpose of checks and balances.

Emperor Chongzhen agreed.

As a result, Chen Xinjia took away 20,000 Xuanda elite soldiers from Lu Xiangsheng, leaving only less than 5,000 elderly, weak and remnants for the Governor Xuanda.

This is the second division of troops. After this division, Lu Xiangsheng no longer has the strength to fight with the Qing army. If he forced his war, he would definitely be unable to escape and die.

But he knew very well that with the character of Emperor Chongzhen, if he did not take the initiative to fight, he would definitely be arrested and taken back to the capital by the emperor on the charge of passive and lazy war, and he would probably have to be killed by the slaughter.

This is something that Lu Xiangsheng could never accept. Is it because he decided to take the initiative to seek a duel with the Qing army?

This is very similar to Zhuge Liang who submitted a letter to the army before the Northern Expedition. He knew that he could not do it, but only wanted to be worthy of heaven and earth and true to his original heart.

On the way to the marching, Lu Xiangsheng met the people who came spontaneously from Daming Mansion. After seeing Lu Xiangsheng, they advised him to move to Daming Mansion to rest and make some decisions.

But Lu Xiangsheng refused.

He knew that this battle would be defeated, so he did not want to lead the war to Daming Mansion, which would cause the people of Daming Mansion to die in vain.

A army is brave enough to look at Julu!

In December of the 11th year of Chongzhen, Lu Xiangsheng led his troops to Jiazhuang, Julu.

Lu Xiangsheng, at Haoshui Bridge, not far from Jiazhuang, encountered the main force of the Qing army. He sent people to break through and ask Gao Qiqian for help. At this time, Gao Qiqian, who led tens of thousands of Guanning cavalry, was stationed in Jize, less than fifty miles from Jiazhuang.

As a result, Gao Qiqian completely ignored Lu Xiangsheng's request for help, and allowed the Qing army to encircle Lu Xiangsheng and erode him step by step.

Lu Xiangsheng shouted to kill the enemy and serve the country, and led five thousand erlangs to fight hard until the bullets were exhausted and the entire army was wiped out.

When Gao Jie led his army to Jiazhuang in Julu, he specially ordered the army to station. He went to Haoshui Bridge alone to pay tribute.

Six years have passed, and the traces of the war that year have disappeared next to the Haoshui Bridge, leaving only small mounds and clusters of weeds, which are very desolate.

Gao Jie turned over and dismounted, took out a cowhide wine bag and spread the wine, saying, "Sir Lu, the treacherous minister killed you because he was killed. Gao knew that you were dying with your eyes. You wanted to see the day when the enemy was revived by the Ming Dynasty. Now the Eastern Barbarians entered the neighboring city, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and the world was in danger. Gao led his army to the Northern Expedition under His Majesty's order and vowed to retake the land lost by the Ming Dynasty. I hope that the Superviser Lu would bless Gao to win the entire Northern Expedition! "

Logically speaking, Gao Jie and Lu Xiangsheng have completely different backgrounds.

Gao Jie was born as a bandit, while Lu Xiangsheng was Governor General of Xuanda and Governor General.

Even after Gao Jie surrendered to Ming Dynasty, he only became the general.

A civil servant and a military general do not have much intersection.

But Gao Jie admired Lu Xiangsheng from the bottom of his heart and admired such a loyal and upright minister.

There were countless governors and governors of the Chongzhen Dynasty, but only Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting could truly admire Gao Jie.

Both of them died for their country, so that when Li Zicheng came to the capital, no one was available to Emperor Chongzhen. This is such a irony.

After the news of Emperor Chongzhen's suicide came, Gao Jie even thought that the Ming Dynasty would be destroyed in the past three hundred years.

Fortunately, the eldest son of Emperor Chongzhen and the series of actions of the crown prince of the Eastern Palace, Zhu Cilang, made Gao Jie see hope again.

Be close to wise ministers, stay away from villains, rectify officials, and rectify the court rules.

This is definitely a wise saint, the Lord of Revival!

What made Gao Jie most gratified was that today I was an active pro-war faction.

Even the late emperor Chongzhen had the idea of ​​arguing peace with the Donglu.

Now, as early as the beginning of the throne, he had told the six ministers that those who dared to discuss money with the Eastern Captains died.

This is the most direct statement. With the emperor's statement, generals like Gao Jie dared to throw their arms around and fight the Qing army to the end.

Gao Jie had never read any books and did not understand many great principles. But he knew that the world was the Han people's world, not the Donglu's world.

If the Eastern Captains take over the country, the people in the land of China will not destroy the country but the world.

When the family, country and the world are in danger, someone must stand up. There were Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting before, and now it is his turn to Gao Jie!

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