It was already evening when Li Guodong returned to Changping. Before he arrived in Yong'an City, he saw Lu Xiangsheng personally leading the Tianxiong army out of the city to greet him.

Seeing Li Guodong return safely, Lu Xiangsheng said with a smile: "You are the only one in Xuanda Town that can escape from Jiannu's encirclement. You are indeed a tiger general!"

"Returning to the commander, we will save more than a thousand people and annihilate more than 3,000 real and fake Jianshu, of which two thousand heads were captured. Our army lost more than 500 people." Li Guodong knelt on one knee, bowed to Lu Xiangsheng, and reported the results of the battle.

Lu Xiangsheng touched his beard and smiled, "Guodong is such a powerful general! Even the Guanning Iron Cavalry has never had a virtuous nephew's victory! He is indeed the talent of my pillar of the Ming Dynasty!"

Wang Pu, Yang Guozhu, Hu Dawei and others came up with a smile: "Brothers Guodong have made great contributions again, and have won more than 2,000 levels. How much credit can we brothers share this time?"

Before Li Guodong could reply, Lu Xiangsheng had already spoken: "What can you guys divide? Only Guodong's cavalry can break through the encirclement of Jiannu! You are all infantrymen. Not to mention the credit, it is a lucky chance to escape from the encirclement of Jiannu. Do you still want to divide the credit?"

This time, Lu Xiangsheng asked Li Guodong to take all the credits for beheading more than 2,000 levels alone, and he was unwilling to distribute them to those people. After all, Wang Pu, Yang Guozhu, Hu Dawei and others did not go east to save the people. Theirs, who were mainly infantry, could only give away their heads if they went there.

Lu Xiangsheng said: "Nephew Guodong, please follow me back to the city. Director Gao is here to Changping."

"Eunuch Gao?" Li Guodong was stunned.

Gao Qiqian. In real history, Lu Xiangsheng proposed to divide troops into four groups to attack the enemy camp at night, and Gao Qiqian was unquestionable. Lu Xiangsheng, who was angry by Gao Qiqian's arrogant expression, submitted a memorial to ask for division of the troops. Emperor Chongzhen agreed to Lu Xiangsheng's proposal. The 50,000 reinforcements gathered in Changping were divided into two. Lu Xiangsheng led 20,000 Xuanda, while Gao Qiqian led the pass, and 30,000 reinforcements from all over Ning. After today, the beginning of a series of tragedies.

Because of Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian's selfishness, coupled with Chen Xinjia's false information, Lu Xiangsheng led his Tianxiong army to Julu and fell into a siege of the Qing army. In fact, when Tianxiong army arrived at Julu, there were only more than 10,000 people left by Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong army, and Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei's army, there were only more than 20,000 people. Wang Pu, who had the strongest troops, escaped at the battle, resulting in Lu Xiangsheng's death.

Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei each had only 5,000 men and horses. Wang Pu, the largest number, had 8,000 men and horses, but Wang Pu ran the fastest.

Li Guodong thought to himself: Yang Sichang must have selfishness, and it was also because of his selfishness that harmed Lu Xiangsheng. Although Yang Sichang was kind to him, this time, he could only be sorry to Yang Sichang. No matter what, he had made sufficient preparations in Julu that he should be able to defeat Dorgon and rescue Lu Xiangsheng.

But then he won a large number of heads in Julu and saved Lu Xiangsheng, and he would definitely offend Yang Sichang. I don’t know what Yang Sichang would do to him in the future. But Li Guodong felt that he had done nothing wrong, and even if he had to bear Yang Sichang’s thunderous anger, he would not be afraid. After the battle, Li Guodong believed that he was already a warlord who commanded the troops. Even Emperor Chongzhen would not dare to do anything to himself, let alone Yang Sichang.

Lu Xiangsheng took Li Guodong into Yong'an City, Changping, and everyone had been waiting at the Governor's headquarters for a long time.

Entering the hall of the pedestal, I saw a huge iron case in the middle, with gold medals, arrows and other objects on it. On one side of the flag tower, a huge map was hung with red pen markings filled with dense arrow symbols.

There were many stars in the hall of the headquarters, and all the generals and officials were covered with armor. In addition to the officers and soldiers of Xuanda Town, there were more than 30,000 officers and soldiers from Ning towns, including Wu Sangui, Tang Tong, Bai Guangen, Wang Tingchen, Cao Bianjiao, Ma Ke and others. Even the governor of Shaanxi three borders, Hong Chengchou, also came.

"Brother Guodong!" Cao Bianjiao walked up and bowed to Li Guodong.

"Brother Cao, it's been a long time since we met." Li Guodong stepped forward, bowed and returned the greeting, and walked aside with Cao Bianjiao and chatted and laughed, looking like a good brother who had been reunited after a long time.

"Brother Guodong has made another extraordinary contribution. He went to Tongzhou with only 7,000 troops and killed three thousand thieves. It is really admirable! Looking at today, our Ming army encountered Jiannu, and more defeats were more defeated. If every general could have the talent of Guodong brothers, why worry about the immortality of Jiannu and the unfair bandits?" Cao Bianjiao said with a smile.

"Brother Cao has been awarded."

While talking, a sing came from outside: "Director Gao is here!"

Li Guodong turned his head and saw a man wearing eunuch's costume, wearing a gold-embellished three-mountain hat, a brocade robe and a delicate jade belt around his waist, and a conspicuous jade belt around his waist. This man was tall and burly, but his face was pale and had a kind of evil spirit of a eunuch. Behind him were several people wearing eunuch's costumes, each with a gloomy face. Li Guodong had met eunuchs, from Eunuch Wang who was stationed in Xuanda to Wang Chengen and Cao Huachun beside Chongzhen. Gao Qiqian was slightly different from the eunuchs Li Guodong had seen before. He always felt a kind of hostility on his face, and always had a gloomy face, which made people feel very uncomfortable at first glance.

Needless to say, this dead eunuch is just Gao Qiqian.

Lu Xiangsheng followed Gao Qiqian and followed Chen An, Yang Lukai and others behind him.

There was a sound of armor colliding in the hall, and everyone knelt on one knee to salute: "The last general (lower official) had met Director Gao and Commander Lu."

Lu Xiangsheng walked to the edge of the iron table and asked Gao Qi to sit down.

Gao Qiqian sat down without hesitation, and then Lu Xiangsheng sat next to Gao Qiqian.

"Please get up!" Lu Xiangsheng said.

Civil officials Hong Chengchou, Yang Tinglin and others stood up with the generals, and the sound of armor colliding sounded again in the hall.

Gao Qiqian glanced at Lu Xiangsheng without a smile, and stood up from his seat, pulling a shrill voice comparable to a soprano, saying, "Everyone is here, our family is talking about military affairs. Our family discussed military affairs with the Chief Secretary Lu yesterday. The Chief Secretary Lu discussed the division of troops, and our family agreed. The Chief Secretary Lu submitted a memorial yesterday, and Your Majesty also agreed to the division of troops with our family. Since Your Majesty's imperial order agreed to division of troops, then our family will explain that the reinforcements from the Xuanda towns are all under the command of the Chief Secretary Lu, and our family will lead the remaining troops."

The incident happened suddenly, except for Li Guodong who was mentally prepared, the rest of the generals were stunned.

Everyone sighed, especially the generals of Xuanda towns. They had too few soldiers and horses, and they were a little cruel. Except for Wang Pu's eight thousand men, Hu Dawei and Yang Guozhu had only five thousand men. Wang Pu's eight thousand men were actually garbage that could not fight at all, and only a few servants could fight. In fact, Wang Pu's eight thousand men may not be as good as Hu Dawei's five thousand men, and Wang Pu raised even fewer servants.

Even the generals of Guanning Army had a serious expression. Originally, the Ming army was not as good as the Qing army, and they had to divide their troops to attack them. Isn’t the lesson of the Battle of Sarhu that year deep enough? The incompetent Yang Hao’s troops were divided into four groups, but they were defeated by the Later Jin army. If the Ming army had been united in one group, the Later Jin army would definitely not be able to win. However, the Later Jin army divided the troops and concentrated their troops to defeat them.

Gao Qiqian saw the generals sigh and his face darkened: "Apart from the generals and officials of Xuanda Town, everyone will follow our family!"

The generals of the Guanning Army had no choice but to follow Gao Qi to sneak out of the hall.

Seeing that the generals in the hall had been half gone, Lu Xiangsheng felt helpless and full of grief and anger.

Wang Pu stepped forward and knelt on one knee: "Supervisor Lu, our army has joined forces and has not yet been able to fight against Jiannu. Why did the army divide the troops instead?"
Chapter completed!