Chapter 28 I think it is true too ()

The weather has not yet completely cleared up, and thin water vapor covers the capital.

Beijing City is like a crouching silent beast.

Because it was still early, there were few pedestrians on the street, and occasionally there were scattered passers-by. After shouting "Tofu, Lao Tofu" a few weakly, he fell into silence again.

It's so depressing that I can't breathe.

Tai Chi Hall.

The core center of the Ming Dynasty.

Emperor Chongzhen was only in his thirties and was wearing green trousers with a piece of velvet on the corners of Yishanguan. This Ming monarch who had not closed his eyes for two days seemed much older than his actual age, and his face was terrifyingly pale.

Chongzhen was so thin that he was heartbroken. If it weren't for the tight tie of Dalu jade belt on his waist, the loose and sleek Longlan robe that could not be hung over his shoulders.

With a "bang", Chongzhen threw off the melody in his hand heavily, causing the ministers below to tremble in shock.

"Sun Chuanting should be executed." Chongzhen was almost roaring, his voice echoing in the empty Tai Chi Hall.

No one dares to tell, or no one is willing to stand up and say something.

Sun Chuanting, who was guarding the front line of Xi'an, had originally played well, but at least stuck Li Chuang on several strategic points. Emperor Chongzhen, who was eager to achieve success, was extremely opposed to this defensive style of fighting that was waiting for the enemy. He repeatedly urged the army to take the initiative, and even asked Sun Chuanting to "destroy the thief every day."

Nowadays, Li Chuang can be eliminated in a short while?

Although some people opposed Chongzhen's speech for Sun Chuanting, the stubborn emperor suppressed the negative argument with strong elasticity almost every day, a strict order urged Sun Chuanting to fight with Li Chuang immediately, and even sent eunuchs to supervise the army one after another.

Helplessly, Sun Chuanting had to give up the strategic location in Xi'an and chased Li Zicheng's butt and ran around.

Once, even forced Li Zicheng to the Jedi, and it was possible to wipe out Li Zicheng. Emperor Chongzhen was also happy about this and firmly believed that his strategic decisions were perfect, but the people below did not implement them properly.

With such a urge to give a death order, wouldn’t Li Chuang, who has been living several times, fall into the world?

Sun Chuanting's battlefield was opened too wide, showing too long, and there were inevitably too many loopholes in the logistics supply line. This inevitable negligence was caught by Li Chuang, and the Ming army's logistics was immediately cut off.

It was a glorious tradition of the Ming army to be defeated immediately after the logistics was cut off, and Sun Chuanting could not avoid it.

In fact, Sun Chuanting had no choice. Whatever fights in war is money and food. How can the soldiers fight if they can’t afford food? Li Chuang doesn’t even have to fight hard. As long as he drags it to death, the Ming army is expected to be defeated.

If Emperor Chongzhen was a general who led the army, he would have to use his sword to force the soldiers to fight, but his fate would have been that he would be attacked by the mutiny soldiers, and then these soldiers would turn around and surrender to Li Zicheng.

Being a soldier is for the purpose of eating.

Whoever gives you food will work hard, it will never last forever.

Emperor Chongzhen was not thinking about this.

What he thought was that as a citizen of the Ming Dynasty, he should be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, even if it was death.

In a desperate situation, Sun Chuanting had only one thing he could do: ask the court for help.

This was already the last main force of the Ming Dynasty. Chongzhen did not have the ability to sprinkle beans and could not produce reinforcements.

Even if there were reinforcements, the imperial court would not be able to dispatch it, because the Ming Dynasty's finances were already ruined.

In addition to asking nearby prefectures to find a way to rescue the siege, the only thing Emperor Chongzhen could do was to continue to be furious and then push the unfavorable cause of the war on his ministers.

"Since I ascended the throne, I have been diligent in political affairs, and I have been walking on the abyss with thin and trembling in fear, and I have not been sleeping at the third and fifth sessions. But some ministers without conscience have delayed national affairs..."

To be honest, Chongzhen was definitely a diligent person, and the entire Ming Dynasty did not have the emperor as conscientious as him. Compared with Wanli, the lazy king who had been unable to attend court for decades, Chongzhen could be said to be extremely diligent.

However, the current situation in the Ming Dynasty is a hundred times worse than that in the Wanli Dynasty.

The monarch and ministers in the Tai Chi Hall couldn't understand why this was.

The ministers of all sizes in the Tai Chi Hall did not try every means to save the crisis, but instead cursed Sun Chuanting, who had made great achievements in the Ming Dynasty.

"Arrogant and domineering", "indulging subordinates", "young brave and unscheming" are all light, and some even took out General Sun's family affairs and cursed them.

As the emperor, Chongzhen was not surprised at all, and even became numb.

The officials of the Ming Dynasty, especially those who believe they are innocent, are best at speaking loudly. They are afraid that they are not extreme in their arguments, and their words are afraid that they are not shocking.

One by one, they cursed Sun Chuanting, a dog that fell into the water thousands of miles away, as if he was more hateful than Li Chuang.

Due to the backward communication methods at that time, Sun's army had long been defeated by Li Chuang, and he himself disappeared in the chaos.

If these civil servants knew that Lao Sun was missing instead of being killed in battle, they were afraid that the shouting and scolding would increase a few degrees.

The responsibility of a warrior is to put out fires everywhere, and the obligation of a civil servant is to criticize him later, which has become a habit.

No matter how much you scold, you always have to find a way to find a way to remedy it, so someone began to think about the Liaodong Army.

Some people even agreed with the brainless idea of ​​mobilizing the Liaodong army into Shaanxi.

Fortunately, Chongzhen was not so stupid.

But the civil servants who spitted out stars for a long time were reluctant to give in: "The elite Manchus have been wiped out, the Manchus Emperor Taiji has been killed, and the generals of Jianzhou have been finished..."

What? Huang Taiji was killed? Why didn’t I know?

Emperor Chongzhen was also puzzled.

In any case, Huang Taiji's death was great news for the Ming Dynasty.

Once Huang Taiji dies, Manchuria will inevitably fall into civil strife for supreme leadership. More importantly, it can take this opportunity to mobilize the elite Liaodong army piled up with silver to come back to put out the fire.

Li Jiantai, the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, hurriedly ordered someone to search for the newly handed memorial.

Yang Tinglin's good news is indeed inspiring, but it is really hard to believe that such unproven good news as killing Huang Taiji in the Formation.

An unknown little man killed Huang Taiji, which was a bit too much. The experienced cabinet ministers such as Wei Zaode and Fan Jingwen suppressed the memorial. No matter whether this absurd thing is true or false, they will wait until it is confirmed.

Only Li Jiantai, who had the least qualifications, had just entered the cabinet, took it as a real person, but he actually mentioned it in front of so many people.

"Eliminate all three thousand elite Manchus, and kill the enemy chief Taiji..." Since ascending the throne, Emperor Chongzhen has never seen such great news, and his body is trembling slightly.

If the Ming army and civilians really killed Huang Taiji... Chongzhen didn't dare to think about it anymore.

"How many troops are Chaohe?" Although the excited Emperor Chongzhen's face was flushed with excitement, he still remembered this most basic question.

"More than a thousand."

All 1,000 people in Chaohe are just literal numbers. It would be great if the real situation is 500. Except for Chongzhen, everyone understands what it means to eat empty space.

"A small Chaohe Station annihilated three thousand heavy armors in Manchuria. Even the cavalry will not believe it." The military officer was already laughing secretly, preparing to watch a joke.

One thousand border guards defeated three thousand Manchu elites. If the Ming army had such combat power, would it be as far as today? Emperor Chongzhen jumped up like a monkey who was fooled: "Does I be a three-year-old child? Can such a big lie be fabricated?"

After the emperor got angry and announced his dispersion, he went straight to the West Warehouse to review the memorial that could never be reviewed.

Strangely, Chongzhen seemed to have forgotten to punish Yang Tinglin who lied about military merits.

"Come in." The western warm room was very dark, and Chongzhen called in a few guards on duty.

These guards were wearing Qilin clothes, which were the costumes of Jinyiwei in the past.

Since the Chongzhen Dynasty, the Jinyiwei has no longer had the power as powerful as the previous dynasty. After the major blood exchange, it has only become part of the inner guards in the palace, which is almost the same as the complete ban.

"You go and check Yang Tinglin to see if he has lied about military merits."

When the Ming Dynasty lied about military merits was half public, Chongzhen was not unaware of it, and he was already numb. The reason why he cared so much about Yang Tinglin was because Yang Tinglin was the official selected by Chongzhen for the crown prince Zhu Cixuan.

All the officials of the Eastern Palace, including Yang Tinglin, such as Fang Fengnian, Yao Minggong and others, although their official positions are not high, are all heroes among scholars, and their character is absolutely unquestionable. In order to select a future team for the prince, Chongzhen made great efforts, which shows how high the expectations for the prince were.

Therefore, Yang Tinglin, who obviously lied about military merits, did not punish him, but sent someone to investigate it first.

In short, Yang Tinglin's personal character should be trustworthy.
Chapter completed!