And what was the Ming Dynasty court doing at this time? They are still ignorant of the military operations of the Qing army, and they are still deeply involved in the party struggle of Yang Sichang's entry into the cabinet. This party struggle made Emperor Chongzhen embarrassed. Until Zuihou, Emperor Chongzhen was angry, so he demoted Huang Daozhou, the standard-bearer of the Donglin Party who attacked Yang Sichang, to six levels, and asked him to go to Jiangxi to make a small Jiupin Zhao grinding according to the judge, and he also secretly remembered this hatred in his heart.

As for Yang Sichang, he is still dreaming of making peace with the Manchu Dynasty. But soon, he will wake up from his dream. And Lu Xiangsheng, who was in charge of the Xuanda defense line, was abandoning government affairs and wanted to show his filial piety and noble character. And the leaderless Ming Dynasty Xuanda defense line suddenly turned into a plate of loose sand.

First of all, Yue Tuo's right-wing Qing army approached Miyun after entering the wall. Coincidentally, at this time, Wu Aheng, the governor of Ming Jiliao, was taking his subordinates to celebrate the birthday of Deng Xizhao, the eunuch of the prison army, on this day, everyone was drunk, and after hearing the alarm, they hurriedly responded to the battle and were defeated! Wu Ah Heng and the general soldier Wu Guojun both died drunk in battle. It's really a standard drunken dream!

It was not until the Qing Right Wing Army was waiting for the left wing to converge from the direction of Qian'an in the Jingdong area, and the Ming Court heard the alarm at this time, so the Beijing Division entered a state of martial law again.

However, for the re-entry of the Qing army, the Ming Dynasty has become a journeyman. Emperor Chongzhen and his ministers have experienced several thrills of the Qing army approaching the city in recent years, and they always have a little experience, not as panicked as they were at the beginning.

As for Yang Sichang, although he secretly complained that the imperial court could not adopt his proposal for peace as soon as possible, so that he was attacked like this again, as his own soldier, he had to dispatch troops and try his best to support, at least to drive the Qing army out of the pass.

Let's be honest. At this time, Emperor Chongzhen had high expectations for this capable military secretary, and he dreamed of achieving much better results than the previous ones, and even gathering and annihilating the invading enemy, so he approved Yang Sichang's arrangements according to the regulations.

And Yang Sichang's arrangement is as follows: speed transfer of the Liaodong forward chief soldier Zu Dashou to lead the troops into the guard, with the Shanhaiguan supervising army eunuch Gao Qiqian with the pass and Ning Bing as support; ordered Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Xuanda, to be promoted to the superintendent, to command the soldiers and horses of all roads, and to lead the armies of Xuanfu, Datong and Shanxi to the left road, and the armies of Tianjin, Qingzhou, Dengzhou and Laizhou to the right to flank the Qing army; The Qing army was contained from the front with Liu Zeqing, the general army of Shandong, the Yu Zilian department of Yushilian, the general army of Runing, Wu Shigong, and the general army of Nanyang, Li Lu; The armies of the Beijing camp strengthened the defense of the Beijing division.

Such a battle defense arrangement should be said to be decent, but it did not take into account the combat effectiveness of the Qing army's iron cavalry. It is simply not something that the corrupt Ming army can resist, and it does not take into account that the commanders of the Ming army from all walks of life have their own ideas.

Moreover, the Qing army was extremely arrogant, and after entering the plains, it often divided into several galloping forces, attacking cities everywhere and plundering them on a large scale. The Ming army's strategic counterpart, which was based on a steady and slow defense, was actually impossible to prevent.

Let's not talk about the other Ming armies. Let's talk about Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Xuanda, first! After receiving the military order, Lu Xiangsheng immediately rushed to Beijing at night. Garrison troops in Changping, and then enter Beijing to meet the emperor. Emperor Chongzhen has always had a very good impression of Lu Xiangsheng, and he was of great use at this time, so when he summoned the minister on the fourth day of October, he specially summoned him.

No surprise, when I saw Lu Xiangsheng. Emperor Chongzhen asked him what strategy he had for fighting the Qing army? So Lu Xiangsheng replied: "Bixia ordered the minister to be the superintendent, and the minister only knew that there was a war." The implication was to oppose peace talks with the Qing army.

But what Emperor Chongzhen said was inexplicable. Because Yang Sichang has been blowing the wind in the ears of Emperor Chongzhen, "Peace with the Manchu Dynasty!" Although Emperor Chongzhen never agreed, when the Qing soldiers came again. He did regret that he didn't follow Yang Sichang's advice at the beginning.

However, when the Qing army entered the fortress, it did not show the slightest intention of negotiating with the threat of force, and even if they wanted to contact the Qing army, they could not find a way, so where could they talk about peace talks?

It seems that Lu Xiangsheng is still immersed in the state of party struggle with Yang Sichang.

Emperor Chongzhen pondered for a while, and then said to Lu Xiangsheng very unhappily: "The imperial court didn't say that it wanted peace, it was just a groundless discussion from the foreign court. ”

Although this topic passed like this, Emperor Chongzhen's impression of Lu Xiangsheng immediately took a 180-degree turn. In the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, when Lu Xiangsheng was in danger of the country, he didn't want to turn the tide, but thought about party struggle, and such a character was too bad. Of course, there was some misunderstanding here, but in the future operations, this had an extremely bad impact on the operations of the Ming army, especially Lu Xiangsheng's own operations.

Maybe Lu Xiangsheng didn't believe Emperor Chongzhen's words, but he didn't want to delve into the matter; Perhaps Lu Xiangsheng saw Emperor Chongzhen's displeasure. Anyway, he knew each other very well and did not continue the topic.

Lu Xiangsheng continued: "What the enemy is heavy, everything should be guarded against. The persecution of the mausoleum to shake people's hearts is also worrying. Approaching Shenjing to shake the fundamentals is also worrying. Divide troops out of the south of Gyeonggi, plunder the surrounding prefectures and counties, and cut off our grain routes, which can be worried. If you concentrate your forces for fortification, you will lose many cities and fall into the land; The division of troops corresponds everywhere, and Liliang is thin and difficult to win. If there are few soldiers, the defense will not be strict, and if the army is short of food, there will be chaos. These are all difficulties in defending against the enemy. ”

Lu Xiangsheng was indeed an outstanding commander, and what he said was the dilemma of the Ming army, and he also sharply estimated the tactics used by the Qing army, and indeed pointed out the key points of fighting the Qing army. And Emperor Chongzhen also felt that it was very reasonable, so one person was short and two people were long, so Emperor Chongzhen ordered him to discuss with Yang Sichang and formulate a feasible battle plan.

In fact, when it comes to this, it can be seen that Yang Sichang and Lu Xiangsheng can be regarded as the two most outstanding military talents in the Ming Dynasty, but these two also have their own strengths, Yang Sichang is good at strategic planning, and Lu Xiangsheng is good at campaign command.

If these two people can learn from each other's strengths, cooperate sincerely, and make careful arrangements, then in the face of the Qing army's entry into the customs, although it is difficult, it is still possible to achieve a little better results in this battle against the Qing than in the previous ones.

It's a pity that both of them are confined to the views of friends, and they have been very suspicious of each other from the beginning, and they just tear each other down, and there is no cooperation at all.

As soon as Lu Xiangsheng saw Yang Sichang, he did not discuss how to face the Qing army first, but first blamed Yang Sichang for his peace. He said: "The public is determined to pay money, haven't you heard of it: the alliance under the city? Did Confucius also consider it shameful in the Spring and Autumn Period? Xiangsheng was appointed to supervise the teacher, if he only obeyed his orders, Yuan Chonghuan's fate would be a lesson from the past. Your Excellency doesn't want to think about it, filial piety is in the body, and you can't move filial piety to be loyal, work hard to serve the country, and lose both loyalty and filial piety, how can you still have the face to live in the world? ”

This made the conversation between the two full of gunpowder. (To be continued......)