Yingtian Prefecture's Ministry of War Yamen.
Butler Qian knelt on the ground, trembling. The six ministers of Yingtian Prefecture looked at the waist token on the table with gloomy expressions.
"Asking a tiger for its skin? This is the outcome!" Lu Daqi, the Minister of War of Yingtian Prefecture, said angrily.”
"All of us have been tricked by Li Zicheng.”
"Li Zicheng's 200,000 strong army is currently missing. I'm afraid they're not far from the Ningguo Manor.”
"Look at your idea. Now it's great. Li Zicheng has taken Qian Qianyi away and even slaughtered a group of gentry in the Ningguo Manor.”
"Now, in this huge South Zhili, not only does Yang Jing have a tiger, but Li Zicheng has also appeared. With the two tigers standing side by side, how are we going to resist them?!”
Zhang Shenyan, the Minister of Revenue of Yingtian Prefecture, stared at the waist token with Liu Zongmin's name written on it for a long time. After pondering for a moment, he turned to look at Butler Qian.
"Butler Qian, did you see the faces of those people clearly?”
Butler Qian shook his head in fear.
"I didn't see it."
Zhang Shenyan nodded." In my opinion, this matter might not have been done by Li Zicheng.”
The six ministers raised their heads and looked at Zhang Shenyan.
"How do you know?"
Zhang Shenyan glanced at them and continued,""Before Butler Qian came to report today, I received news that Liu Zongmin was already dead.”
Everyone in the hall was shocked." Liu Zongmin is dead?!”
"What happened?"
"What about his 200,000 soldiers?!”
Zhang Shenyan shook his head and sighed." I think it's not Li Zicheng who's toying with us. The one toying with us is Yang Jing."”
"We've all underestimated him."
"Someone who can send troops north to Liaodong to slaughter the Manchu Tartars is indeed a ruthless character!”
"I heard that Yang Jing predicted that Liu Zongmin would attack the Hui Prefecture at night. Yang Jing had already set up his firearms and waited for a long time in the Hui Prefecture's Jixi County!”
"With the help of the cannons, Liu Zongmin's 100,000 soldiers were instantly defeated.”
Lu Daqi widened his eyes in disbelief." Cannon?!”
"Where did he get the firearms and cannons?"
Zhang Shenyan looked at him solemnly and shook his head.
"I don't know."
"Let's not talk about the handgun for now. Lord Lu should be very clear about how powerful the cannon is.”
As he spoke, Zhang Shenyan cupped his hands to the right." The emperor who is guarding the capital is afraid of hurting Li Zicheng, so he didn't use his cannons against the Lei Shun Army.”
"And this Yang Jing acted without hesitation, wiping out the 100,000 soldiers of the Shun army.”
"Truly ruthless."
After Zhang Shenyan said that, everyone in the hall agreed.
Lu Daqi waved his hand at the crowd and looked at Zhang Shenyan." You mean that Liu Zongmin is dead and this wasn't done by Li Zicheng's people?”
Zhang Shenyan muttered to himself for a moment.
Gao Hongtu, the Minister of Personnel Affairs of Yingtian Prefecture, walked around the hall with his hands behind his back. Then, he looked at Lu Daqi.
"If you ask me, it's hard to say.”
"Although Liu Zongmin is already dead, everyone knows that he brought a total of 200,000 soldiers with him.”
"Since Yang Jing killed 100,000, where are the remaining 100,000?”
"It can't be that they returned the way they came, right?”
"This is most likely done by Li Zicheng's people.”
Lu Daqi disagreed." What good is it for Li Zicheng to offend us at this time?”
"Don't forget, Qian Qianyi has disappeared." Gao Hongtu thought for a moment and said.”
"Qian Qianyi also knows that we pretended to cooperate with Li Zicheng, but in fact, we wanted to use the hands of the Manchurian Qing Dynasty to severely injure Li Zicheng's Great Shun Army.”
"Among all the people in the Ningguo Manor, I'm afraid only Qian Qianyi knows about this.”
"When Li Zicheng's men saw that Liu Zongmin was dead, they probably thought that we deliberately concealed Yang Jing's possession of the cannons in order to lure them to the Hui Prefecture to die.”
"When the 100,000 strong army was defeated, they kidnapped Qian Qianyi and learned about our plan from him.”
"Then, he flew into a rage out of humiliation and sent people to infiltrate the Ningguo Manor's Xuancheng County to slaughter the gentry of the Ningguo Manor.”
"When the thief fled in a hurry, he accidentally dropped Liu Zongmin's personal guard's waist tag.”
Everyone nodded solemnly." It's very possible!”
Li Zicheng's subordinates, apart from a few people, were all brave but foolish boors.
When they saw Liu Zongmin's death, they flew into a rage out of humiliation and directly rushed into the Ningguo Manor, kidnapped Qian Qianyi, and massacred the gentry of the Ningguo Manor.
The officials of the six departments of Yingtian Prefecture all had their own opinions on who had kidnapped Qian Qianyi. Some said that it was Yang Jing, while others said that it was Li Zicheng.
Their chattering gave Lu Daqi a headache.
He couldn't tell what was going on at the moment. After all, he was neither Yang Jing nor Li Zicheng.
However, in this situation, the only thing they could be sure of was that it was impossible for them to continue working with Li Zicheng.
Not to mention whether Li Zicheng would believe them again, Li Zicheng was definitely involved in Qian Qianyi's matter.
Admittedly, it was not a wise move to ask a tiger for its skin.
Now that Li Zicheng's remaining 100,000 soldiers were missing, the Ningguo Manor would soon be lost, and Yang Jing's forces were growing stronger.
Nan Zhili was already in a situation where they were being attacked from both sides.
One wrong step led to more mistakes. At first, they chose to ask Li Zicheng for help and open the southern checkpoint to let Li Zicheng's soldiers in. As a result, they could no longer control this behemoth that was still entrenched in the south.
However, Yang Jing's act of wiping out Li Zicheng's Great Shun Army in one go was not without benefits.
A hundred thousand soldiers was not a small number!
This time, Li Zicheng failed to steal a chicken and ended up losing rice. Not only did he lose the opportunity to take down South Zhili, but he also lost 100,000 troops.
This would also have a huge impact on his journey north.
Thinking of this, Lu Daqi began to hope that Yang Jing was the one who did it.
If the one who attacked was Yang Jing, then with his methods and temperament, he would definitely not let go of the remaining 100,000 Great Shun soldiers hiding outside the Ningguo Manor.
As long as he took in these 100,000 Great Shun soldiers, Li Zicheng, who had lost 200,000 soldiers, would lose a leg.
Such heavy losses would certainly slow down his advance north to the capital.
This way, he could at least buy two months for the Emperor to move the capital to Yingtian!
When Lu Daqi thought of this, he already had his own calculations in his heart.
He had to write a letter immediately and inform the Emperor of the current situation in the south.
If the Emperor could give up on the north and choose to lead Wu Sangui's Guanning Iron Cavalry to the south, then the combined forces of the north and south would definitely be able to eliminate Yang Jing!
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