"Lu Xiangsheng was ordered to lead 30,000 new troops to encircle and suppress the Liukou, and killed the leader of the Liukou Wang Jiayin three months ago, and the power of the Liukou was greatly reduced.

This man is quite famous among the rogues, and under his leadership, the rogues, who were already on the verge of collapse, have begun to resurrect.

Gao Yingxiang was extremely cunning, never confronted the official army head-on, but led the rogue to wander around, so Lu Xiangsheng had to lead the army back and forth between Shaanxi and Jin.

Just last month, Lu Xiangsheng had already reported that he had forced Gao Yingxiang into Shaanxi, and was planning to take it down in one go. Unexpectedly, this stream of rogues somehow flowed to Shanxi, known as 200,000 troops, successively conquered Ningxiang, Shilou, Jishan, Wenxi, Hejian Zhuzhou County, and there were signs of flowing to Luoyang, Lu Xiangsheng had to report to the imperial court, asking the imperial court to increase the army. ”

Listening to Sun Chengzong's eloquent recounting of the battle situation, Yang Feng frowned tightly, and said very unhappily: "Lu Xiangsheng himself has 30,000 new troops, and although the officers and soldiers in Shaanxi and Shanxi have been eroding for a long time, they should be able to pull out tens of thousands of combatable soldiers. Now let him go towards Luoyang, are the local officers and soldiers all rice buckets? ”

Sun Chengzong and Zhu Guozhen looked embarrassed, and even Han Yi was silent, although history took a turn because of Yang Feng's arrival, some things still moved forward according to the original inertia, such as the guards and armies in various parts of the imperial court.

Not to mention the domestic health centers, they have long been reduced to a group of peasants, and there is no problem in letting them farm, but if they are allowed to fight, forget it. The local garrison may be stronger, but only less, and it would be a dream to expect these men to stop the hungry and green-eyed rogues.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao spoke, "No matter what, Luoyang must not lose." Xin Guogong, the reason why I recalled you from Nanyang this time is because I was worried that the Liukou would be big, and now my worries have really come true, and now I want to know, how long will it take for Xinguo Gong to gather people and go to Shaanxi and Jin to exterminate the Liukou? ”

The big boss spoke, Yang Feng couldn't ignore it like he did just now, he thought for a while and replied: "The Jiangning army under Weichen now has 30,000 people on an expedition to Luzon, and this part of the soldiers and horses must not be recalled, otherwise the previous efforts will be in vain."

Although there are still 20,000 horses in Fujian, it is far from being able to quench the thirst of the near, not to mention, if this part is rashly recalled, Fujian may be unstable, and some people will also have different hearts. ”

"Well, that's true." Zhu Youxiao also nodded.

Sun Chengzong, Zhu Guozhen and Han Yi on the side glanced at each other, they naturally knew who Yang Feng said about "some people", but at this moment they could only pretend to be stupid. But when they heard that most of Yang Feng's men and horses could not be mobilized, their hearts were also full of disappointment.

Today's Ming Dynasty, although it claims to have a million troops, most of them are guards who have long been transformed into peasants, and there are only a few that can fight. The representative ones are Yang Feng's Jiangning Army, Lu Xiangsheng's New Army, Jingying and Liaodong Army.

The Jingying and Liaodong armies can't move, after all, one has to protect the emperor and the other has to sit in Liaodong, and Yang Feng's Jiangning army can't get out in Fujian and Luzon, so it's a little troublesome.

"But ......" Yang Feng paused slightly, and then said: "This duke still has a left-behind army and horses in Jinling that can be mobilized. ”

Sun Chengzong's eyes lit up, yes, Yang Feng originally started in Jinling, and now he also has the title of Jinling General Soldier, how can his own nest have no manpower.

In fact, this can't be blamed on Sun Chengzong and others for forgetting, but in the past two years, Yang Feng has been in full swing in Fujian, and has successively transferred soldiers and horses to Fujian, so that the world has forgotten that this guy's nest is actually in Nanjing.

"How many are there?" Han Yi hurriedly asked.

Yang Feng glanced at him, and then said to everyone: "Now this duke still has 30,000 foot soldiers and 5,000 cavalry in Jinling, which was originally used as a force to defend Jinling. ”

Sun Chengzong frowned and said: "There are still 30,000 foot soldiers and 5,000 cavalry in Jinling, why don't the old man and the others know about it at this time?" ”

Zhu Guozhen and Han Yi's faces are also very ugly, as the first assistant and elder of the cabinet, they assist the emperor in managing the country, it can be said that there are definitely not many things that they don't know about the entire Ming Dynasty, but now there is an elite army that they don't know, which makes them feel like they are being kept in the dark.

Yang Feng snorted coldly: "Elder Sun Ge, Da Ming Law, the cabinet does not have the right to be in charge of military affairs, so why did this prince inform the cabinet of this matter?" ”

"This ......"

The three of them couldn't help but be a little speechless.

The cabinet of the Ming Dynasty only had the status of advisers at the beginning of its establishment, and the emperor had the power to make the final decision, and the scholars who were the elders of the cabinet rarely had the opportunity to participate in the decision, and this situation was not until the middle of the Ming Dynasty, when Xia Yan, Yan Song and others took charge of the cabinet, and the cabinet became the existence of suppressing the six ministries comparable to the prime minister.

But even so, the cabinet only has the right to draft votes, and it has never become the right to command hundreds of officials for the emperor in the legal sense, and military power is the most sensitive thing, and only the emperor is the supreme leader, and the cabinet naturally has no chance to get involved, so Yang Feng will ask such an unceremonious rhetorical question.

There is nothing wrong with Yang Feng's words, today's cabinet is already the most powerful department except for the Yellow Emperor, and they can ask about many things about the people's livelihood in the entire Ming Dynasty, and now they even want to get involved in military power, what do you want to do?

Although they knew this truth, the three of them were still a little unwilling. Han Yi wanted to say a few words to Zhu Youxiao, but when he saw Zhu Youxiao just sitting quietly on the chair and not speaking, his heart suddenly chuckled, the emperor had already known about his feelings, but he didn't tell them, there were too many things to associate with.

As soon as he thought of this, Han Yi swallowed back what he originally wanted to say, and then looked at Sun Chengzong and Zhu Guozhen on the side, and found that the two seemed to have the same expression, and it seemed that they both thought of a piece.

But now is not the time to talk about this, it is better to have soldiers than no soldiers now, not to mention the Jiangning Army, which is still the most elite of the 30,000 Ming Dynasty.

Sun Chengzong, who had always hung his heart, breathed a sigh of relief.

He brushed his beard and said: "Since the Duke of Xinguo still has a soldier and horse in Jinling, then the matter is simple, please Your Majesty can issue an order to send this elite army to Shaanxi and Jin to quell the rebellion, the old man believes that with these 30,000 elite soldiers, there is no need to worry about the rogues." ”

Yang Feng's voice sounded slowly: "Lord Sun, it is naturally no problem to transfer troops, but where does the food and salary for the soldiers come from?" ”