At this time, the imperial court was receiving reports of defeats in various places every day, and Yang Sichang was also incapable of responding. Emperor Chongzhen was furious and could only mobilize heavy troops to help again. Due to the stable situation in the northwest, Emperor Chongzhen first transferred Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi, in November.

He led his troops to help, and the next month he ordered Hong Chengchou, the governor of Shaanxi, to come to the capital to aid the suppression. As a result, almost all the elites from the country were concentrated in the southern area of ​​​​Jinan.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen thought: The situation should have changed now!

Unexpectedly, the newly transferred Ming army was even worse. The Ming armies from the mainland were transferred to the front line, and they would only watch from a distance, or flee, and did not dare to contact the Qing army.

For example: Sun Chuanting's Qin army fought many victorious battles when encircling and suppressing the peasant army. When he was transferred to the Gyeonggi area in December, he was so frightened when he saw the smoke and dust of the Qing army's cavalry that the whole army collapsed. The commander

Sun Chuanting couldn't understand this situation.

In fact, this is not a problem of command, nor is it a problem of equipment, it is entirely a psychological problem of the soldiers. The saying "Jurchens are absolutely invincible" has already been heard as a cocoon, and now there is an upgraded version: "The Qing Army

Invincible!" No matter the brave generals, capable soldiers, or Emperor Chongzhen himself who thought he was strategizing, they could not eliminate the fear in the hearts of the Ming soldiers. What was needed most at this time was actually a psychiatrist.

The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. Emperor Chongzhen, who liked to express his anger, couldn't help it.

Emperor Chongzhen was greatly disappointed with Lu Xiangsheng's inaction on the front line. He wanted to replace him several times, but there was no suitable candidate.

And at the end of November, the chief scholar Liu Yuliang offered to go out to the capital to supervise the division when he was summoned. Emperor Chongzhen was very happy about this, because serving as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy with the lofty status of chief minister could at least establish prestige for the court.

Boost morale.

So Emperor Chongzhen asked Liu Yuliang to go back and write this request into a written memorial. For some reason, Liu Yuliang's memorial changed to going out of the city to supervise the armies. Liu Yuliang started to play word games, because the meanings of inspector and supervisor are obviously completely different. One

The one who actually commanded the battle, and the other just watched it, and did not need to bear the responsibility for the defeat at all.

Doesn't this add fuel to the fire? So Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but feel even more disgusted with the cunningness of the civil servants, but when the military situation was urgent, he had no choice but to order him to go out of the city to inspect.

At this time, Sun Chuanting's troops had arrived in the war zone. Emperor Chongzhen wanted to replace Lu Xiangsheng with him, but Yang Sichang advised him, "Changing commanders at the last moment of battle may affect the use of troops." So he did not implement it. However, in order to express his extreme dissatisfaction.

While Liu Yuliang went to inspect, Emperor Chongzhen announced that Lu Xiangsheng would be revoked from the title of Minister of the Ministry of War and replaced with the title of Vice Minister, Governor-General. He was still being suppressed by Gao Qiqian and Dai Sin.

In fact, objectively speaking, although Lu Xiangsheng and Gao Qiqian lost the battle, they still dared to fight after all. Compared with the Ming army who just watched from the sidelines, their performance was... Sorry! I can't find an adjective. Just one.

Principle: If you do more, you will make more mistakes!

Under such circumstances, on November 12, Wu Shigong joined Li Lu's tribe and officially joined the war in the northern expedition.

But no one expected that the first person to jump onto the stage would be someone no one expected, that is Yu Zilian and his Ruzhou Army.

If we want to select the most embarrassing commander and army in the Ming army, it must be Yu Zilian and his Ruzhou Army. This can also be seen from Yu Zilian's official position. A nondescript censor has no clear garrison.

There is no clear combat goal, and he seems to be a forgotten character no matter how you look at it.

Indeed, the imperial court did not pay much attention to Yu Zilian and his Ruzhou Army. The key point is that the Ruzhou Army had a bad background. The Ruzhou Army was neither a frontier army nor a combat soldier, nor even a guard. It was just Yu Zilian.

At that time, they were a group of strong civilians recruited temporarily in Ruzhou. Therefore, in the eyes of the imperial court, the Ruzhou Army was just a group of civilians who took up arms, and was at most stronger than a rabble.

What is strange is that the imperial court was willing to confer official positions and provide food and salary to recruit the rebellious peasant army, which also started from a mob. Moreover, the former peasant army leaders and their troops they recruited were repeatedly reused by the imperial court. This can only be lamented.

The flowers inside the wall are fragrant.

Another thing is that Yu Zilian himself has little reputation in the court. A low-ranking Jinshi, a county magistrate who has been heard from the local area for several years, except that he has a personal grudge with the notorious Wu Shigong, and this personal grudge

It came from robbing a woman, which made the big shots in the court who had heard of Yu Zilian think that Yu Zilian and Wu Shigong were nothing more than the same species. Therefore, Yu Zilian's reputation in the court was not good.

Then there is the inherent jealousy of human beings. Many courtiers thought: I don’t know what kind of bad luck Yu Zilian had. He was actually promoted from the county magistrate to the prefectural magistrate by the imperial court because of his undisclosed personal grudge with Wu Shigong. Moreover,

This was not over yet. Then he stepped on the shit twice in a row. He actually raised an army from the position of magistrate and won successively, so that he has now become a high-ranking official in the court. It's so annoying to compare people to each other!

Many officials even said: If I have such luck, what will happen? Anyway, I will definitely do better than Yu Zilian. So when many officials mention Yu Zilian, they will always feel sour in their hearts. That's why Xu Mengqi, the imperial envoy, has inexplicable thoughts.

The bizarre incident of arresting Wu Shigong and personally taking charge of the Runing Army.

Also, the Ruzhou Army was born at the wrong time. Although the Ruzhou Army played an extremely key role in the battles in which the Ruzhou Army participated, every time the Ruzhou Army fought, there were also great victories for the friendly forces.

Therefore, his light was overshadowed by the light of other Ming armies. In addition, the Ruzhou Army did not encounter any serious opponents. Therefore, in the eyes of the imperial court, the Ruzhou Army was considered dispensable, at most.

They hold an attitude: "It is always good to have more officers and soldiers."

Finally, there is Yu Zilian’s behavior. Yu Zilian’s experience as an official is destined to have little interaction with important officials in the court. In addition, he was suppressed by Wu Shigong in Ningling County for five or six years. Yu Zilian has long been no longer on the side of the canal.

That high-spirited scholar became very calm and mature, adhering to the principle of talking less and doing more.

To put it in modern terms: Yu Zilian will not create hype. In order to increase exposure, those modern stars, no matter whether it is good or bad, first come to "such and such a door" before talking about it, but Yu Zilian did not do any of this at all, that is, Ruzhou
Chapter completed!