Chapter 589

When Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong army and his whole army were destroyed in Nanpi, the whole court was shocked.

When the news came to the capital, Emperor Chongzhen was presiding over the early Dynasty and discussing how to raise a batch of grain and deliver it to the soldiers on the front line.

The emperor was worried about the country and the army. He knew that the soldiers on the expedition were short of clothes and food. They were hungry and cold to fight, so he still came up with some ways to get more food to support them, and how to allocate reinforcements from all walks of life.

After the two armies of Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng, they are also successively mobilizing the troops on the nine sides. In short, the Liu family is not allowed to control the canal in any case. This is unacceptable in any case. The Liu family's control of the Beijing Hangzhou Grand Canal is tantamount to clamping the throat of the Ming court, being controlled by others everywhere, and even the state will not be guaranteed.

Therefore, they know that sending troops in winter is a great taboo of strategists, but there is no way. They can only choose to send their troops to fight. They not only sent the troops of Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng, but also sent the elite of the nine sides in the past, hoping to crush the enemy in one fell swoop with the advantage of strength.

This time, they are very different from the exiled bandits. The exiled bandits run around and fight on the move. When the officials and troops arrive, they have already fled. However, the Liu family is different. He occupies the most affluent place of the six governments in Shandong in the Ming Dynasty. The imperial court can calmly mobilize troops from all directions to encircle and suppress them.

If they don't escape, they will die under the iron fist of the imperial court. If they escape, they can regain control of the canal. The most difficult thing for the imperial court is to hand over the control of the canal.

While they were still discussing how to get more food and the south.

The officials of the general administration department were shocked and hurriedly sent an emergency war report. This war report was the news that Lu Xiangsheng's army was destroyed and Lu Xiangsheng died for his country from the governor of Cangzhou.

The news was like a magnitude-10 earthquake, which hit the imperial court. All the officials were shocked and pale.

Tianxiong army is the most powerful army in the imperial court. They are also the elites and representatives of these literati and bureaucrats. Everyone thinks that Lu Xiangsheng has failed at most. Who knows, he was defeated in a short time. Even the unknown general Lu Xiangsheng in their eyes died quickly.

Emperor Chongzhen was so worried that he almost cried and couldn't speak for a long time.

Yang Sichang, the Minister of the Ministry of war, is not much better. You know, he is a strong advocate to let Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng's army quickly go south and recapture Shandong. As a supporter of this policy, he has suffered a huge defeat. He can't shirk his responsibility.

As the new minister of the Ministry of war, he didn't get a happy victory to cheer up and inspire morale. Instead, he was so defeated, which made him very frightened.

Before he took office, he had a clear idea. He thought that as long as he took action, he could calm down the wandering bandits, build slaves, rule the country and the world, and become a famous official of ZTE Daming. Who knows, after he took office, he painstakingly organized it, which annoyed the imperial court. The imperial court asked you to go to war, coordinate the whole army in the south of the Yangtze River to go north and attack Liu Jiajun. It's good for you, He left it to his men to do, and then he just recited poetry and did the right thing.

Xiong Wencan, another governor of the five provinces whom the imperial court placed high hopes on, wrote again and again, saying that he lacked talent and prestige and was not enough to serve as governor of the five provinces.

This is a ghost. These officials of the imperial court tried every means to sharpen their heads and climb up in order to get promoted, but he wrote directly and said he couldn't be an official.

Moreover, this was the second time he had postponed. When he first postponed, the imperial court directly refused his postponement and asked them to take office immediately. He was still refusing to come. He would rather die than go north in Guangzhou.

The main issues to be discussed by the imperial court today were how to get Wu Zongda and Xiong Wencan to run, and how to prepare for military pay. As a result, the news came that the high-ranking general Lu Xiangsheng, whom they had high hopes for, was destroyed.

Yang Sichang sighed, "Alas!"

The whole court was like eggplant beaten by frost. They all withered, and their faces were pale.

Originally, many officials were still instructing the country just now. They seemed confident. It seemed that as long as they sent troops to fight, they would be able to subdue Liu thieves immediately. However, they were shocked and frightened to hear that Lu Xiangsheng, the most proud of them, was destroyed.

You should know that Lu Xiangsheng is an alternative among the literary ministers. He was a high school scholar at a young age. Although he is a complete literary minister, he leads the army like a military general, which makes the whole literary ministers feel that this man is a creative talent and their pride. As a result, the hero they are proud of has been destroyed in a short period of more than ten days, I've fallen to pieces and died for my country. Everyone is really afraid.

It seems that Liu Jiajun is more powerful and terrible than JianNu.

Yang Sichang, who had the hope of the emperor, solemnly entered the military headquarters and took charge of the military power with his own ideas. This was the hope of the world. Who knows that he ushered in such a disastrous defeat, but after all, he was a relatively calm person. He immediately asked, "what is Cangzhou like, and what is the trend of Liu thief army?"

At this time, the official in charge of intelligence collection finally submitted the second battle report again. This is the second battle report that Liu Jiajun quickly entered Cangzhou after killing Tianxiong army in Nanpi city. Li Huan, the governor of Cangzhou, committed suicide and died for his country. He offered the city with his hands. It can be said that Liu Jun won Cangzhou without cutting blood. Then he divided his troops into two ways, attacking Baoding all the way and Tianjin all the way.

Hearing this news, the ministers were even more afraid and panicked, which meant that Liu's army had more troops and they had to directly siege the rhythm of the capital.

Hearing this war report, the ministers immediately talked like ants that had blown up their nest. Even the imperial court was responsible for supervising and even the etiquette censor shouted.

The imperial court sent out a large army and went all out to suppress Liu thief. Instead of suppressing his arrogance, it made him more powerful and fierce. This made them very angry and resentful, and made them strong enough to attack the capital directly.

Since the establishment of the capital in Beijing, Daming has been besieged several times, but these besieges are basically the nomads in the North who break through the customs and besiege the capital. However, the nomads have no ability to attack the city at all. They enter here reluctantly and quickly retreat after looting around the border.

But Liu Jiajun is different. They don't look like these nomads. They have a strong ability to attack tough problems. It would be terrible if they were allowed to attack directly under the capital.

Hearing this news, Yang Sichang ignored a group of sparrows like ministers chirping in the imperial court, and directly asked the emperor to immediately transfer Hong Chengchou's army back to Baoding and stick to the South Gate of the capital.

After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen agreed without hesitation.

At the same time, Wen Tiren also requested that the troops assembled from the nine sides no longer go south and directly go to Tianjin to assemble and stick to the Tianjin guard.

Now everyone knows that it is a very critical time. Once Liu thieves occupy these two places, they can directly attack the capital, so Yang Sichang asked to go to Tianjin to resist the enemy.

Now it was a critical moment of life and death. Even the emperor knew that the situation was very critical. If he could not restrain the attack of Liu thieves, the capital would be attacked. Therefore, he immediately agreed to Yang Sichang's request and ordered him to lead 20000 troops in the Beijing camp and immediately set out to Tianjin to defend the military.

Yang Sichang knelt and kowtowed to the emperor on the spot. He said, "the minister guarantees with the head on his head. If the minister is in Tianjin, it can ensure that Liu thief can't go beyond one step."