: Be sure to settle the home first when fighting foreign countries

Liaocheng, Dorgon's residence.

Almost at the same time Wang Pu received the news of Zuo Liangyu's reprimand, Dorgon also received a secret letter sent by Fan Wencheng. Although the Bailian Sect's Feige sent a letter quickly, the Bailian Sect did not know the news until Jin Shengtan's army reached Jiujiang. However, Fan Wencheng sent his accompanying confidant to send a secret letter as early as when Zuo Liangyu decided to raise the army.

So Dorgon and Wang Pu learned about the news of Zuo Liangyu's rebellion almost at the same time.

When the intensive delivery was arrived, Dorgon was summoning Ajige, He Luohui, Sahalian, Ning Wan and others to discuss the matter. After reading the secret letter in a hurry, Dorgon's expression suddenly became extremely strange. He looked a little happy, a little angry, and even a little lost and melancholy.

Seeing that Dorgon looked strange after reading the letter and did not speak for a long time, the impatient Ajige couldn't help but ask, "Old Fourteen, whose letter is this? What did it say in the letter?"

Dorgon breathed a sigh of relief and said calmly: "This is Mr. Wencheng's handwritten letter."

"Fan Wencheng?" Azig said anxiously, "What did you say in the letter? Has his plan been successful?"

"It's successful, Mr. Wencheng's plan of Zhang Liang worked." Dorgon said in a quiet tone, "Mr. Wencheng really provoked the party struggles of the Southern Ming court. Ningnan Hou Zuo Liangyu has led an army of 800,000 along the Yangtze River to attack Nanjing, threatening to 'clean the monarch' to get rid of Sun Chuanting and Wang Pu who control the government."

"Okay, great!" Ning Wan, I said excitedly, "It's worthy of being a fair fight, but it really provoked the Nanming Party Contest!"

Dorgon suddenly looked at Ning Wanmei with a very strange look and asked quietly: "Mr. Wan, if you are in Zuo Liangyu's army now rather than Mr. Wencheng, would you still be willing to return to this king, and be willing to offer suggestions and contributions to the Qing Dynasty and contribute your wisdom?"

"Of course." Ning Wan responded without thinking, "The slave will definitely come back."

"Oh, Mr. Wencheng will not come back." Dorgon sighed long and said with a loneliness, "Mr. Wencheng said in the letter that the Battle of Liaocheng failed to annihilate Wang Pu's elite Central Army. Our Qing Dynasty has no chance. Mr. Wencheng still sincerely persuaded me in the letter to let me take the Eight Banners army back outside the pass..."

"What?" Ning Wan was shocked and said in a lost voice, "How can he do this, Fan Wencheng, this dog slave!?"

Ajige, He Luohui, Boluo and others were all angry and stared at Ning Wan. The impatient Ajige had already reached out to touch the handle of the knife, and his eyes also showed unconcealed murderous aura. Obviously, he recorded Fan Wencheng's account on Ning Wan's head.

"Oh." Dorgon sighed again and continued, "Mr. Wencheng also said that if I brought the Eight Banners army to the outside of the pass, I might be able to confront the Ming Dynasty across Shanhaiguan. If I insist on staying in Beijing and not leaving, I can only accelerate the demise of the Qing Dynasty. After all, my husband, what do you think of Mr. Wencheng's words?"

"All talk nonsense." Ning Wan said eroticly, "Fan Wencheng, this dog slave, is simply a dog slave. My Qing Dynasty, Longqing, Liaodong, is the destiny of heaven. How can a Wang Pu change it? It's crazy, Fan Wencheng, this dog slave, must be crazy, otherwise he would not be able to say such crazy words..."

"Go to die!"

Ajig roared, pulled his knife in his hand and stabbed Ning Wan's vest.

A cold light flashed, and the sharp blade had pierced Ning Wan's body. Ning Wan's body suddenly suffocated. Then he turned around with difficulty, slowly raised his right hand and pointed at Ajige, trying hard to ask why, but in the end he couldn't get what he wanted. Half of his fingers raised, he fell down depressedly, and his whole body fell straight to the ground. A pool of red blood soon emerged from under Ning Wan's body, and a large area of ​​moistening red.

Dorgon had no intention of stopping Ajige. It was not until Ning Wan died under Ajige's knife that Dorgon sighed faintly and said, "The Han people... are still unreliable after all!"

Ajige wiped the blood from his waist knife from Ningwan's body, looked up and asked Dorgon, "Old Fourteen, since Zuo Liangyu has already raised an army, Wang Pu will definitely choose to withdraw his troops in order to protect his lair. Should we send Mongolian cavalry to entangle them and prevent them from retreating?"

"No." Dorgon shook his head and said in a narrow voice, "Wang Pu has already caught fire in the backyard, why don't we have a fire in the backyard? Everyone should clean up the snow on their own. Don't worry about Wang Pu, go back to Beijing first to settle the tens of thousands of Henan bandits from Jiang Xiang, Wang Chengyin, Tang Tong, and Baoding. Let's talk about it. I want to see, is there really no hope in the Qing Dynasty?"

"Ah?" Azig said unhappy, "What a pity to miss such a good opportunity?"

"For Wang Pu, isn't this a good opportunity?" Dorgon said coldly, "Let Wang Pu leave this difficult bone for Zuo Liangyu to chew. Fan Wencheng is not optimistic about Zuo Liangyu and thinks that Zuo Liangyu can accomplish great things? Humph, I want to take a look. In the end, Zuo Liangyu dealt with Wang Pu, or Wang Pu dealt with Zuo Liangyu."

Ajige waved his fist viciously and said with a grim voice: "No matter who deals with whom, he will be dealt with by our Eight Banners Iron Cavalry of the Qing Dynasty in the end."

"Yes." Dorgon nodded heavily and said loudly, "Send an order to withdraw troops and return to Beijing!"

The Central Army camp, Wang Pu held the tent.

After hesitating for a while, Wang Pu still couldn't make up his mind, so he had to let the young lady find Liu Rushi. Although Liu Rushi's strategic vision was slightly inferior to Wang Pu, the two of them would always consider problems more comprehensively than one.

Liu Rushi was also surprised to hear that Zuo Liangyu had already raised an army and that Jin Shengtan's vanguard army had already reached Jiujiang.

After frowning and thinking for a while, Liu Rushi asked Wang Pu, "Marty, you guess, can Tang Sheng's White Lotus Camp and General Huang's Nanjing Navy block Jin Shengtan be blocked in Anqing?"

"There is no problem with this." Wang Pu said decisively, "Tang Sheng's Five Thousand White Lotus Camp was trained by Monk Zhang, and it was also selected from the bandits of Yuan Shizhong and Li Qingshan. It was a tough problem for them to attack Jiujiang. There should be no problem in defending Anqing, let alone Huang Degong and the three thousand navy soldiers helped him."

Liu Qingyan said: "But Jin Shengtan is just Zuo Liangyu's pioneer!"

Liu Rushi said: "Sister Qingyan, have your intelligence personnel investigated how many troops Zuo Liangyu has in the Qing Dynasty?"

Liu Qingyan shook her head and said in a narrow voice: "Zuo Liangyu is known as an army of 800,000, but the Yinu family is estimated to be about 500,000 at most. But what is certain is that Jin Shengtan's vanguard army has only 8,000."

Wang Pu also said: "Eighty hundred thousand people are definitely bragging. The one under Zuo Liangyu's men is the more than 30,000 veterans he brought from Guanzhong to Wuchang. Even if he has recruited many veterans of the thief, only more than 100,000 people will be added. The rest are just some old, weak, sick and disabled, and they are completely vulnerable."

Wang Pu is quite confident in his own judgment. After all, he has trained soldiers and knows that it is not easy to train an elite soldier. It cannot be solved by raising thousands or tens of thousands of strong soldiers. Even if Zuo Liangyu follows the military governance model of a thief, he has to give them weapons and equipment and give them food, right?

How could the prefectures and counties controlled by Zuo Liangyu be able to maintain such a huge army? How could it be possible to provide so many weapons and equipment?

Liu Rushi said: "However, even if the left army has only more than 100,000 people, Tang Sheng's Five Thousand White Lotus Camp will definitely not be able to resist it."

Wang Pu said: "If Zhao Xin does not send reinforcements, Tang Sheng will last for at most half a month."

Liu Rushi said: "Although there are still 60,000 Central Army in Yanziji Camp, they are all new recruits who have never been on the battlefield, and there are only long spear camps and baggage camps, which lack attack power."

Wang Pu said: "The worst thing is that there are 60,000 Jiangbei troops in Yanziji camp to train. These 60,000 people are all Gao Jie, Liu Zeqing, Liu Liangzuo's old subordinates, Gao Jie and others are all in Nanjing. If Zhao Xin takes the Central Army to reinforce Anqing, if there is a disturbance in Nanjing, we will have a home and will be difficult to return."

Liu Rushi sighed lightly and said, "It seems that he can only return to Nanjing."

"It seems that the national policy of resolutely pacifying the country first when fighting foreign countries is right." Wang Pu nodded and sighed, "Although we failed to solve Jiannu this time, the strategic purpose of our Northern Expedition has been achieved. After all, Li Zicheng has stabilized his position in Shaanxi and formed a confrontation with Wu Sangui in Shanxi."

After meditating for a while, Wang Pu said to Liu Qingyan again: "Sister Yan, you will go back to Jining now and inform Mr. Sun Ge Lao with a letter from Fei Ge Lao, and ask Mr. Sun Ge Lao to mobilize the censors of the Donglin Fushe as soon as possible to give Liu Zeqing, Liu Liangzuo and Gao Jie a random charge and put them in prison and put them in prison and monitor them."

Before Liu Qingyan responded, Wang Pu said again: "There is also the Hongmao of Baoding. It is impossible to attack Jiannu together. You immediately send a letter to inform the monk Zhang of Kaifeng, and ask the monk Zhang to send a quick horse to notify the Hongmao, and ask her to lead the army back to Henan as soon as possible. Dorgon suffered a great loss in Liaocheng, and there was a sense of evil fire in his heart. Let Jiang Xiang, Wang Chengyin and Tang Tong be his punching bag."

Liu Qingyan smiled and said, "Mr. Marquis, you are so bad."

"And." Wang Pu thought for a while and said, "Can you deliver a letter to An Qing Feige?"

Liu Qingyan said: "Yes."

Wang Pu said: "Then use Feige to send a letter to Tang Sheng and Huang Degong, so that they can only defend Anqing for at least half a month, and add another letter to Mr. Sun, asking Zhao Xin to bring 20,000 Central Army to support Anqing immediately, tell Zhao Xin that even if Zuo Liangyu brings the heavenly soldiers and the generals to attack, he has to defend Anqing. If Anqing falls within a month, I will twist his head off as a ball and kick it. I would like to remind your intelligence personnel to transfer my original words to Zhao Xin!"

Liu Qingyan responded in a charming voice: "Yes, I will accept the order."

Wang Pu waved his hand and said loudly: "Go."

Liu Qingyan couldn't help but give Wang Pu a blank look, and turned her slender waist and left.

When Wang Pu was about to summon the generals to announce the withdrawal of the troops, Scarface and Li Chengdong suddenly hurried into the tent. When Li Chengdong saw Wang Pu, he hurriedly hugged his fists and bowed. Scarface closed his legs together and greeted a standard military salute, and shouted: "Marty, Jiannu seems to be going to escape!"

"Escape?" Liu Rushi said in surprise when he heard this, "Marty, it seems that Jiannu has also known the news."

"Yes." Wang Pu nodded and said calmly, "Jiannu's nose is quite good. You will know the news so soon."

Scarface was confused when he heard this, and looked at Liu Rushi and Wang Pu, and asked, "Marty, what... what news?"

Wang Pu said: "Zuo Liangyu rebelled. Now that our backyard is on fire, we can no longer bother to deal with Jiannu. Otherwise, he would not dare to withdraw his troops by leveraging Dorgon's courage."

"Ah?" Scarface and Li Chengdong were surprised at the same time, "Has Zuo Liangyu rebelled?"

"Yes." Wang Pu nodded and said to Scarface, "Notify the entire army and withdraw the camp immediately, but let the brothers be alert. The muskets and artillery are loaded with ammunition and ready to fight against Jiannu's sneak attack at any time. Although Jiannu is also in a hurry to return to Beijing, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not send Mongolian cavalry to harass him."

"yes!"

Scarface, Li Chengdong agreed and took the order.

Feige sent a letter quickly. Liu Qingyan rushed to Jining that night to release the carrier pigeon. The next night, Sun Chuanting, who was in Nanjing, received the news. Sun Chuanting, who received the news, did not dare to neglect it, and immediately sent someone to invite Qian Qianyi, Lu Daqi and Nanjing General Zhao Xinguo Mansion to discuss matters.

Qian Qianyi and Lu Daqi's mansion were on the same street as Sun Chuanting's mansion, and the two arrived soon.

After talking about the ceremony in the study, Qian Qianyi asked, "The Master of the Pavilion met with the summons late at night, don't you know what urgent matters?"

Sun Chuanting said: "Old Qian Ge, Old Lu Ge, I just got the news that Zuo Liangyu has already rebelled!"

Due to the convenience of Fei Ge's delivery of letters, Wang Pu, who was far away in Shandong, actually learned about Zuo Liangyu's rebellion before Sun Chuanting. At this time, the fast horse sent by Tang Sheng from Anqing had just arrived at Yanziji camp.

"Ah?" Qian Qianyi was shocked when he heard this, "Zuo Liangyu rebelled, what should I do?"

"Oh." Lu Daqi also said anxiously, "Then let Governor Wang return to Nanjing as soon as possible. Zuo Liangyu has 800,000 soldiers under him. If Governor Wang is not in charge, Nanjing will be hung."

Sun Chuanting said: "The two cabinet masters don't need to panic. Governor Wang has returned to the south and can arrive in Nanjing within 20 days at most! But there are a few people, but we must not be careful."

Qian Qianyi and Lu Daqi asked in unison: "Who?"

Sun Chuanting said: "Gao Jie, Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing!"

Qian Qianyi's face changed slightly and he said in a calm voice: "What Master Ge means..."

Sun Chuanting said: "It is necessary to be aware of others. At present, there are 60,000 Jiangbei troops in the Yanziji camp. These 60,000 people are all old subordinates of Gao Jie, Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing. If they instigate the old subordinates to respond after hearing the news of Zuo Liangyu's uprising, the consequences will be unimaginable."

Lu Daqi said terrified: "The Master of the Court is extremely concerned. You should be careful about these three."

"It's not enough to be careful." Sun Chuanting said, "What I mean is to put them in prison on a charge!"

Lu Daqi frowned and said, "But what crime should I give them?"

"It's not easy." Qian Qianyi smiled sinisterly, "Didn't Zuo Liangyu rebelling? Just say that Liu Liangzuo and others are Zuo Liangyu's accomplices, isn't this accusation?"

Sun Chuanting said happily: "Just do as Mr. Qian wants to do it."

"Okay." Lu Daqi nodded and said respectfully, "I will inform Zhang Pu now. I will arrange for several censors to reveal this matter in the morning court tomorrow, and then let all the censors under Donglin Fushe list the evidence of the crime. Finally, the subordinates and Mr. Mu came forward to confirm the charges of the three."

"Yes." Sun Chuanting said happily, "I have to pay my money and Mr. Lu."

"Goodbye."

"Goodbye."

After the plan was decided, Qian Qianyi and Lu Daqi bid farewell to Sun Chuanting and assigned the censor of Donglin Fushe to arrange the matter of framing the dirty and framed it.

As soon as Qian Qianyi and Lu Daqi left, Zhao Xin entered the Pavilion Mansion.

After entering the study, Zhao Xin saluted Sun Chuanting with a standard military salute and said aloud: "I am not good at hiring the elders!"

Sun Chuanting waved his hand and said in a calm voice: "General Zhao, Zuo Liangyu has already rebelled."

Zhao Xin said: "I just received the news."
To be continued...