"What? Are you going to resist the order?" Lu Xiangsheng was shocked.

Li Guodong said: "The general is not responsible for the orders of the king outside! Supervisor Lu, Jiannu has already set up a net of heaven and earth in Julu and wait for you. General Wu cannot see the Supervisor taking risks with him. General Wu is willing to follow the Supervisor's saddle and horse, and follow the Supervisor to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions! The Supervisor lacks cavalry. If the Supervisor does not go, the Supervisor's infantry will be too passive in front of Jiannu!"

Lu Xiangsheng was stunned at first, then his eyes became sharp and stared at Li Guodong: "General Li, what do you mean? As a minister of the Ming Dynasty, you should obey the imperial dispatch. If you disobey the order, this governor will kill you first for the imperial court!"

His expression was very stern, and he glared at Li Guodong. After a long time, he calmed down, with a bit of sadness in his eyes: "Guodong, you have made contributions under the command of the Chief Minister Chen? You don't have to follow me! As a minister of the Ming Dynasty, the most important thing is to be loyal to the court, never resist the imperial edict and act alone! My Chief Minister knows that you are a rare general in the Ming Dynasty. You can make contributions to the court wherever you go, why not resist the imperial edict for me? If so, I can't afford it."

When Li Guodong saw Lu Xiangsheng wearing a mourning uniform in his armor, he felt his eyes turn red and could not help but shed two lines of tears: "Sir Lu, I am unwilling to take risks with you. If this battle is defeated, my Ming Dynasty will be in danger! Since the Supervisor does not allow the Supervisor to follow you, I will be brave. Please don't have to go south to take risks! I also ask the Supervisor to return to Changping."

Lu Xiangsheng said: "When going south to pursue Jiannu, it was an imperial edict of the court. How dare I refuse to obey? As a minister of the Ming Dynasty, I could only die in the battlefield and serve the country with death!"

Li Guodong was already in tears, bowed to Lu Xiangsheng, rode his horse on his body, and left with Jinyang Army.

"Lord, General Lu takes risks with his own life. This time he goes south, it is probably a bad luck." Han Dashan rode his horse to catch up with him and headed with Li Guodong.

"I know that Supervisor Lu will not let us follow us, so we will return to Beijing quickly. When we arrive in the capital, I will quickly enter the palace to meet the saint. Third brother, you can order three thousand camel soldiers and five hundred god soldiers in Changping. When I leave the capital, I will immediately rush to Julu at full speed. In the event of trouble, we must not help!"

Li Guodong ordered 2,700 cavalrymen to gallop at full speed, and took more than 300 miles from Daming Mansion to the capital. One man and two horses were on the way. It took only two days before he arrived at the capital.

When he returned to the capital, Li Guodong set up a camp outside the capital. During this period, he heard a horrifying news: Sun Futai was imprisoned!

Sun Futai is the governor of Shaanxi Sun Chuanting! Emperor Chongzhen imprisoned Sun Chuanting, which was a terrible move! If Lu Xiangsheng could be arranged to guard the border against Jiannu and Sun Chuanting was used to deal with the inner world, the Ming Dynasty would not have been captured in the capital in the 17th year of Chongzhen, and Emperor Chongzhen would not have found a crooked tree.

However, Emperor Chongzhen threw Sun Chuanting into prison. It was not until the fifteenth year of Chongzhen that Chongzhen remembered again that everything was too late. At that time, the rebel army was already powerful and the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were no longer the opponents of the rebel army. After Sun Chuanting returned, he wanted to accumulate strength and fight the bandits again. Unfortunately, Emperor Chongzhen kept urging him to fight, which led to Sun Chuanting's defeat and death.

Originally, Sun Chuanting beat the bandits to the point of being thrown away, and almost destroyed them. As a result, Emperor Chongzhen's example of Sun Chuanting was thrown into prison, which made the bandits unable to suppress them and finally ruined Sun Chuanting.

Sun Chuanting is very capable. If Chongzhen could use him well, it would be easy to eliminate the thieves. However, Chongzhen himself was too tricky. Sun Chuanting was imprisoned for four years, so he would make the bandits bigger within these four years. By the time Sun Chuanting was released, the bandits would be unstoppable.

Li Guodong remembered the debate about who destroyed the Ming Dynasty in later generations. Some people said it was destroyed by thieves, while others said it was destroyed by the Qing Dynasty. Anyway, the debate was endless. In fact, they were all wrong. The Ming Dynasty was ruined by Emperor Chongzhen himself!

If Sun Chuanting had not been imprisoned, his Qin army would not have dispersed. Later, the main forces of the Qin army all surrendered to the bandits. By then, the trespasses were already strong and their combat effectiveness was actually not inferior to the Qing army. In the battle of a stone, the Shun Army defeated the Guanning Army all over the ground, and Wu Sangui was almost destroyed. The Qing army suddenly entered the pass and attacked the Shun Army. However, in the unfavorable circumstances, the Shun Army could still cause considerable losses to the Qing army. Don’t forget that the Shun Army had just come out of the capital that had experienced the plague and could almost destroy the Guanning Army. This combat effectiveness can be said to be quite powerful.

Even after the Battle of Yibishi, the Shun Army began to decline. After Li Zicheng's death, the Shun Army defected to the Ming Dynasty and the Zhongzhen Camp was adapted, which defeated the Qing army many times.

Therefore, Sun Chuanting came out after being imprisoned for four years. At that time, the Shun Army was already quite powerful. In addition to the battle-hardened old camp soldiers, the rest of the Qin army formed by Sun Chuanting surrendered.

After the Qin army joined the Shun Army, they first destroyed Sun Chuanting, the Ming Dynasty, and almost destroyed Wu Sangui. In the end, they could withstand the 17th year of the Qing Dynasty. This shows how fierce the Qin soldiers of Sun Chuanting were.

If Emperor Chongzhen had not put Sun Chuanting in prison, the Qin army could have suppressed the trespasses and turned back to fight the Qing army, and its combat effectiveness was still above the Guanning Iron Cavalry. Naturally, after the Guanning Army later acted as the thugs of the Qing Dynasty, its combat effectiveness also increased sharply, otherwise the Guanning Army's combat effectiveness might not be as good as the Qin army. Li Zicheng was afraid of being beaten on a stone, and his morale was lost afterwards.

The reason why Sun Chuanting was imprisoned was very complicated. On the one hand, it was a conflict with Yang Sichang, and on the other hand, it was unwilling to leave the Qin army in the capital area. Sun Chuanting submitted a memorial to Emperor Chongzhen, and said in the memorial: "The Qin army cannot be kept. If it stays, the thieves will be in a state of power, which will not be beneficial to the border. It is to withdraw troops on behalf of the thieves."

However, Emperor Chongzhen insisted on letting the Qin army stay in the capital and borders to deal with Jiannu, but Sun Chuanting's struggle was ineffective and was stopped by Yang Sichang and refused to see Emperor Chongzhen. Sun Chuanting was furious and claimed to be sick and asked to leave. However, Yang Sichang said that Sun Chuanting said that he was sick and refused, and Emperor Chongzhen was furious and threw Sun Chuanting into prison.

Li Guodong knew that the incident of Sun Chuanting was imprisoned had already sounded the death knell of the Ming Dynasty towards destruction. He didn't want to care about this matter. The Ming Dynasty should have been destroyed so far. The original vested interests needed someone to deal with them. Li Guodong wanted to treat the Qing Dynasty and the thieves as two knives to deal with those vested interests. After finishing the gentry, he would come out to deal with the mess. Although the Ming Dynasty should be destroyed, it should not be destroyed by the barbarians, but by the Han people.

What's more, Chen Xinjia also gave Li Guodong a warning: "General Li, don't worry about Lu Jiutai's affairs. You and I are both Yang Ge Lao's people. Don't let down Yang Ge Lao's high expectations for you!"

Li Guodong knew that it was actually Yang Sichang who asked him to beat him up. Lu Xiangsheng must have saved him, but he entered the palace alone and had no soldiers around him, so there was no need to mention this matter in front of Emperor Chongzhen. If he was thrown into prison, he would be doomed with Sun Chuanting.

Emperor Chongzhen did not let Li Guodong wait for too long. Soon someone entered the camp to announce the imperial edict and let him attack the Sei Saint.

This was Li Guodong's second time to enter the palace to face the saint. Emperor Chongzhen was very satisfied with Li Guodong's great achievements. When Longyan was very happy, he also gave him a set of bright light armor, a phoenix-winged helmet, a good sweat-blooded BMW, a sword, and gold, silver and other things.

Yang Sichang also said a lot of good things to Li Guodong. If it weren't for the title of Ming Dynasty that could not be given casually, Emperor Chongzhen would have been determined to grant Li Guodong the title of his uncle.

Because of the destruction of the Confucius Temple, Yang Sichang would never dare to risk offending the gentry in the world to negotiate with the Qing Dynasty. In short, the peace talks have been completely blocked. When Chen Xinjia met Li Guodong a few days ago, he also asked about the strategy to retreat to the enemy.
Chapter completed!