Zhu Cihong, who listened to this series of battle reports, was dizzy, all of them were defeated, and there was no good news, was the Ming army really so exaggerated in this later period!

Sun Chengzong also sighed again and again when he received the battle report, and picked up a toothpick to insert the lost city, from the years of the Apocalypse to the first year of Chongzhen, the cavalry of Jiannu was not so powerful, and the war horse armor was far less complete and sophisticated than now.

Ten years later, this barbarian land could also grow rapidly, and now that the climate has become a climate, it is difficult for the Ming army to confront the Jiannu army head-on in the field.

"The Qing army is so scattered, and its intention is to rob, that is to say, each group of Qing troops is probably only a few thousand people.

Zhu Cihong picked up a wooden stick and pointed out the route of the Qing army's siege on the map, and suddenly thought of a question, that is, how many people were in the Ming army, and it was impossible to even beat the Qing army, which only had thousands of people.

"Does Lu Xiangsheng have a few soldiers and horses?" he

turned his head to look at Sun Chengzong.

"Take the roster of Lu Xiangsheng's army. When

Sun Chengzong heard this, he immediately asked to mobilize the roster of the number of people reported by Lu Xiangsheng to the army this time.

He opened it and immediately said: "There are 5,000 people in Lu Xiangsheng's headquarters, 3,000 people in Yang Guozhu, and 4,000 people in Hu Dawei.

Sun Chengzong said, pointed to two places on the map with a wooden stick, and said: "However, these two general soldiers still have troops to guard their own stations, so this time only half of the soldiers and horses were brought over, and Yang Guozhu was guarding Tongzhou, Hu Dawei retreated to Shunyi, and Wang Pu had the most soldiers and horses, eight thousand, but they were all scattered by Dolgon."

"That is, Lu Xiangsheng can command only 12,000

soldiers and horses?" Zhu Cihong was stunned after hearing this, the total soldiers stationed on one side have an average of less than 10,000 soldiers and horses, which is too outrageous, thinking about it, he suddenly shouted: "Take the roster of the military department, and find out the military roster of Yang Guozhu, the chief soldier of Shanxi, Wang Pu, the chief soldier of Datong, and the general soldier Hu Dawei of Xuanfu, how many soldiers are under these three people!"

"In the entire vicinity of Beijing, there are so many cities, not to mention that there are 100,000 soldiers and horses, at least there are 50,000 Qing troops, and no one dares to go out of the city to face the battle, and let the Qing army burn, kill and loot around my Gyeonggi stronghold, and watch the people of the Ming Dynasty in the villages outside and let them slaughter, all of them are waste!"

Zhu Cihong's voice filled the entire hall, and his anger made all the officials tremble, and even the movements in their hands were much smaller, for fear of attracting the attention of His Royal Highness the Prince.

When the Qing army entered the customs, it was simply all evil, how could he not be angry, this group of brutes was simply the same as the devils of later generations who entered the village, as soon as they entered the city, they were the three-light policy, burning, killing, and robbing the light, and Yangzhou and Jiading in the future were examples!

There is also this area of Shandong, I don't know how many times it has been looted by the Qing army!"

At this time, Sun Chengzong came over with three booklets and said, "It is very likely that these three people are eating empty salaries, at least 15,000 or 6,000 empty salaries." "

The three of them add up to 60,000 people, it is impossible to lead more than 10,000 soldiers this time, even if there are still 10,000 troops left in the station, it is impossible for the three people to have such a small number of soldiers and horses, so they only have empty salaries, and among the guards in the country, the empty salaries are tacit things for everyone, but no one has said it.

After all, everyone is greedy, and it is impossible for anyone to dare to speak out, otherwise they are public enemies, and of course, there are also very clean officials, but in the minority.

"How many people have been reported by the guard, and your

military department will really believe it?" Zhu Cihong took the booklet and looked at it, and immediately threw it out, pointing to a group of military officials, and scolded: "You won't send someone to verify and inspect

?" "And the household department!"

After speaking, he looked at Ni Yuanlu again and said: "When the military salary is issued, it will not be verified, and the amount will be sent as much as it is reported, if each general soldier reports 100,000, you will also send it correctly?!"

There are also officials, and they won't go to check?" Zhu

Cihong really got angrier and angrier the more he thought about it, and the more he said it, the more angry he became, and he directly broke the defense, and finally looked around, and didn't find that the people from the ministry were here, so he gave up.

"The ministers are guilty.

Everyone lowered their heads, not daring to look up, and after His Royal Highness the Crown Prince finished scolding, they knelt down and pleaded guilty.

"Your Highness, this matter is the responsibility of the minister. Sun

Chengzong also knows that he is guilty and does not quibble, in fact, he knows many things, but he just didn't make changes, after all, with his own strength, he really can't change.

"Ministers also have responsibilities.

Ni Yuanlu did not shirk his responsibility, and said after pleading: "In the future, the household department, all matters related to money will be investigated clearly, and after it is confirmed, the appropriation will be made."

Zhu Cihong took a deep breath, did not speak, raised his hand to signal everyone to get up, and then thought that in the original history, after Lu Xiangsheng died, he still turned Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou over to stabilize the situation, or the Qing army grabbed enough, so they retreated outside the pass, but this also led to the peasant army becoming bigger again.

In this battle, Lu Xiangsheng really couldn't defeat the Qing army.

After calming down, Zhu Cihong came to the sand table table, looked at the map, pointed to Xiangjiang, and said, "Take the battle report just now." (The Xiangjiang River is a river, on the right side of the capital, and it is also regarded as the moat on the right side of the capital.)

Sun Chengzong took the battle report handed over by his subordinates, spread it out on the table, and said: "Your Highness, judging from the information on the battle report, the right wing of the Qing army is approaching from Xiangjiang, and the left wing is approaching Daxing from Fangshan, it seems that their goal is Daxing."

"Daxing is below Tongzhou, and below Daxing is Lu Xiangsheng's Zhuzhou.

As he spoke, he pointed at the Sanfang city with a wooden stick, and said: "That is to say, if the Qing army wants to break Daxing at this moment, it will be surrounded by Yang Guozhu of Tongzhou and Lu Xiangsheng of Zhuzhou."

"But once the Qing army breaks through the city and enters the city, our army will lose the advantage of encirclement, so the Qing army approaching Daxing from Fangshan and the Qing army passing from Xiangjiang, before they meet, we must first form a situation of encirclement.

"And the Guanning Iron Cavalry led by Gao Qiqian, who rushed from Linqing, has 18,000 cavalry, and has arrived in Langfang at this moment, which means that at this moment, our army has three parties that can flank the two Qing armies rushing to Daxing, as long as Lu Xiangsheng commands properly, our army can encircle the Qing army in three directions and annihilate it in one fell swoop!"

Sun Chengzong combined the battle report with the map of the route of the Qing army and the stronghold of the Ming army, and immediately formulated the tactics of encirclement in World War I to stabilize the situation.

"Okay, that's it.

Zhu Cihong analyzed it in his heart, Sun Chengzong's encirclement tactics are indeed the best way at present, and the guards of other cities are thankful that they can defend their own cities, and they can't be expected to go out and take the initiative to attack the Qing army.

"The Ministry of War immediately drafted an order to Lu Xiangsheng of Zhuzhou, Yang Guozhu of Tongzhou, and Langfang to raise and dive, so that they could implement the tactics of encirclement, all of which were uniformly deployed and commanded by Governor Lu Xiangsheng, and it was necessary to annihilate these two Qing troops approaching Daxing in one fell swoop!"

Next night.

Zhu Cihong left the military department mentally and physically exhausted and returned to the East Palace.

"Your Highness, you're back.

As soon as he entered the East Palace, Jiang Xuezhu ran out of it, and when he saw Zhu Cihong, he immediately smiled, but soon his face was full of sadness, and he said, "Your Highness has been worried for the past few days.

She said, "Your Highness must not have eaten yet, Xiaoxue cooked noodles."

Zhu Cihong smiled and didn't speak, and he didn't plan to talk to Jiang Xuezhu about any national affairs, he was really worried, and most of them were angry with his own Ming army.

"Press.

Zhu Cihong picked up the noodles and pointed to his shoulder while eating.

"Yes.

As soon as Qiu Zhizhong walked into the hall and saw this, he immediately put down the basin in his hand and came behind His Royal Highness the Prince.

"Father-in-law Qiu, I'll come.

Jiang Xuezhu said with a smile, since she came into the palace, she had never seen His Royal Highness the Crown Prince idle, and now this time it is obvious that things are very big, and she also wants to share her worries for His Royal Highness.

"Qiu Zhizhong, ask someone to go to the military department to get a map.

Zhu Cihong said, I don't look at the map, I always feel very panicked, look more, and think of a way.

Night.

Zhu Cihong ate a bowl of noodles, washed his face, picked up the map and looked at it, with a sad face, no sleep, walking back and forth in the hall.

"Your Highness, the Department of Agriculture is urgent!" At

this moment, Qiu Zhizhong suddenly ran in with a solemn face, holding a booklet in his hand!

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