Signed to Zhu Cihong, Prince of the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 77 Chapter 77, Zhu Cihong is ready to go south, Wu Sangui firmly opposes
Beijing City, Ming Palace.

Another court meeting was held. Needless to say, the core of this meeting is the upcoming battle to the south.

After all, real war is not a computer game. All preparations can be done with two clicks of the mouse. A certain number of military meetings are essential.

Judging from the current time schedule, this should also be the last military meeting before going south for a decisive battle.

Zhu Cihong sat on a chair and looked around at the crowd present.

Needless to say, there are old faces such as Ying Gong, Li Guozhen, Li Banghua, and Fan Jingwen. The only person worth mentioning is Wu Sangui.

Someone is about to ask, why did Wu Sangui appear here?
The answer is very simple, because Wu Sangui is now a scholar of the Ming Dynasty and Minister of the Ministry of War, and a serious cabinet member.

In fact, Chongzhen also secretly solicited the opinions of Zhu Cihong and others, asking whether to kill Wu Sangui, or to dispose of Wu Sangui.

However, after the discussion, everyone agreed that this is not the time to deal with Wu Sangui at this stage.

On the one hand, although Wu Sangui procrastinated, he did rush to Beijing City and completed the rescue order.

On the other hand, the officers and soldiers of the Guan Ning Army of the Ming Dynasty are currently the main backbone. This Guan Ning Army was built by Wu Sangui. If the court disposes of Wu Sangui at this time, it will have a negative impact on the morale of the Guan Ning Army. It caused a huge impact, which affected the next counterattack against Li Zicheng.

After thinking about it, Zhu Cihong also agreed with this opinion.

After so many things, Zhu Cihong can actually feel some laws of his own system.

To put it simply, our system is a auxiliary system. It can provide a lot of things to help reduce the difficulty of Zhu Cixiang changing his fate against the will of nature, but it will not simply and crudely directly summon a large number of god-level soldiers or generals. Such things to deal with Zhu Cihong's enemies.

In this case, Zhu Cihong still needs to pay attention to the cultivation of Daming's actual strength.As the saying goes, you need to be hardworking yourself to strike the iron, and cultivating a great army of the Ming Dynasty to flatten Li Zicheng and the Manchu Qing Dynasty is still a stronger sense of accomplishment than directly summoning thousands of troops from the system.

The most basic team of the Ming Dynasty's official army is now composed of Guan Ningjun. In order to stabilize the foundation, it is not a big deal to keep Wu Sangui alive.

Without an army, even if Wu Sangui wanted to do something, Zhu Cihong would take care of him in minutes, so don't be too simple.

Who told me that I am a cheater? I am so unreasonable!
Therefore, although Wu Sangui was under house arrest for a few days, he was finally able to regain his freedom and naturally participated in this military meeting.

But this freedom does not come without a price.

In order to gain this freedom, Wu Sangui completely lost control of the Guanning Army. The official army of the Ming Dynasty completely annexed the Guanning Army, and Wu Sangui was destined not to be able to lead the army in the next battle of Li Zicheng's southern expedition.

Zhu Cihong could tell that Wu Sangui's face was gloomy and he was in a bad mood, maybe he was going to make trouble today.

Chongzhen said: "Everyone, the British Duke just said that the entire preparation process for the expedition has been completed, and they will be able to go south in a few days. Then, let's discuss the strategy for going south."

Although the city of Beijing was rescued, the Ming court was still in jeopardy, so Chongzhen was still worried.

The British Duke stood up and made a brief introduction: "Your Majesty, what I mean is very simple, that is, all soldiers and horses who can go south should go south to fight a decisive battle with Li Zicheng."

From the British public's point of view, Ming Dynasty really has no chips to slowly compete with Li Zicheng. It can only show all its trump cards and directly play, either taking away Li Zicheng in one wave, or being taken away by Li Zicheng in one wave.

As soon as Mr. Ying finished speaking, someone suddenly spoke up: "Mr. Ying's words are wrong. If you really follow this strategy, you will definitely make the same mistake as Sun Chuanting!"

As soon as the voice came out, everyone turned around and found that the speaker was Wu Sangui.

The corners of Zhu Cihong's mouth twitched slightly, as expected.

I know that you, Wu Sangui, are not satisfied and have come to look for presence.

After hearing what Wu Sangui said, the British Duke felt very unhappy.

Sun Chuanting was the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu in the Ming Dynasty. He was killed by Li Zicheng in Xi'an just last year.

Wu Sangui actually said that Duke Ying would become the next Sun Chuanting. Isn't this a curse that he will die?
The British Duke said coldly: "Wu Shangshu, what advice do you have?"

Wu Sangui stood up, and said a series of questions in a deep voice: "My opinion is very simple, the enemy of Ming Dynasty is not only Li Zicheng, but also the Jiannu in the north!

If we send all the troops and horses we can mobilize south to fight Li Zicheng, what will happen to the defense of the north?
If Jiannu knew that we had sent troops and took the opportunity to attack, how could Shanhaiguan be defended, and how could the capital be defended?
By that time, our army will be in a dilemma, how can we win this battle? "

After Wu Sangui finished speaking, Duke Ying subconsciously glanced at Zhu Cihong.

Why should we watch Zhu Cixiang?
Because the whole strategy of the British government was proposed by Zhu Cihong.

Zhu Cixi smiled lightly and stood up as well.

"Wu Shangshu, there is no need to guard Shanhaiguan. You have guarded Shanhaiguan these past few years, but I would like to ask you, has your Shanhaiguan helped Daming block Jiannu's attack?"

This sentence was so sharp that Wu Sangui was immediately speechless.

Yes, although Wu Sangui guarded the Shanhaiguan Pass, Huang Taiji led the Manchu army directly from Monan, that is, the direction of Inner Mongolia in later generations, and detoured southward. .

Wu Sangui's face turned red, he had already lost his army, and urgently needed to regain face in order to regain power, so he was unwilling to back down when facing Zhu Cihong, the prince.

What's more, Zhu Cihong is still the key figure who took away Wu Sangui's military power!

So Wu Sangui immediately said: "His Royal Highness, what you said is wrong. Even if Jiannu can make a detour, it will take time for them to make a detour. Doesn't this buy the capital time to defend?
If there was no Shanhaiguan, what danger would the capital have to defend?If the capital is attacked by Jiannu, it will be too late!Therefore, this time we should not go south with all our strength. We must leave part of the army to guard Shanhaiguan and defend the capital! "

The reason why Wu Sangui is so persistent is that his idea is actually very simple.

Shanhaiguan is the lair that Wu Sangui has been running for several years, and it is also the place guarded by the Guanning Army.

If someone is sent to guard Shanhaiguan, then this task should fall on the Guan Ning army.

Even if only a part of Guan Ning's army went to Shanhaiguan, as the saying goes, the sky is high and the emperor is far away. As long as they are not at the foot of the emperor in the capital, Wu Sangui can find a way to quietly let people carry out some actions in Shanhaiguan and regain control of the Shanhaiguan army.

At that time, Wu Sangui will have the chance to continue fighting with the imperial court, and even take revenge on the prince in front of him!

(End of this chapter)