Saving the Ming Dynasty: I can exchange bodies with Chongzhen

Chapter 124 Chongzhen: Am I entering the center now?

"Great...great victory...Yes, sister, I just saw someone who looks like my sister." Chongzhen's Adam's apple rolled and he quickly changed his words.

"No, you just said a great victory. I heard it clearly." King Xiang asked relentlessly, "My son, what do you know? I am your father... You should tell me everything."

"I..." Chongzhen's face looked ugly.

How should I explain to King Xiang? Should I tell him that I am Chongzhen and that I have swapped bodies with his son?

Not to mention that if he doesn't believe it, he will think I'm a lunatic. Even if he believes it, it will be a bigger trouble. How are we going to get along in the future?

Should I let King Xiang kneel down and kowtow to me?

"Dad, you heard me wrong. What I said was really..."

Suddenly, Chongzhen's pupils shrank sharply, and he turned his head to hide, but unexpectedly bumped into someone.

"Third Master?"

It turned out to be the Third Master and Li Yan. Chongzhen asked with a somewhat unpleasant expression, "Why are you here?"

Previously, the Third Master came to Prince Xiang to exchange their birth dates, and now they come again, could it be? !

"What are you going to do? Come to me if you have any problem!" Prince Xiang's face was also as purple as eggplant, but he still protected Chongzhen at the first moment.

It's over. In his opinion, Lady Hong must have come to force a marriage. Does his Zhu family really want to marry a traitor?
He wished he could slap himself twice. If he had not told his son that he wanted to go to Beijing and see the land of the Ming Dynasty, none of this would have happened later.

The Third Master smiled and said, "Old man, it's the First Master who came to discuss serious matters with Master Zhu. It's not what you think."

"Business?"

Not only was Prince Xiang confused, but even Chongzhen was confused. The Third Master gave a riddle, "It involves military intelligence, Master Zhu will know when he arrives."

When Chongzhen followed the two men into a tent, he was shocked to find that it was full of people.

They are all big and small leaders of the mountain gangs.

As soon as Chongzhen showed up, everyone looked at him.

"Is it him? He is just a young man!"

"You look young, but you have such ability?"

"Age is not a factor in ambition. You are almost fifty, and your martial arts and literary talent are not uncommon, are they?"

"I think he also wrote the manifesto..."

Suddenly facing so many people's gazes, Chongzhen felt a little guilty. He stood there, at a loss, until Hongniang coughed and said, "Please show Master Zhu a seat."

Chongzhen then realized that this meant he was asked to sit down.

Hearing the noisy voices of the crowd, Chongzhen became even more uneasy, but he saw Hongniang stretch out her hand and everyone quieted down.

"Yes, this is Master Zhu whom I told you about before. He also predicted the Ming army's defeat of the Later Jin in the article he wrote..."

After listening to what Hongniang said, Chongzhen finally understood what was going on.

He had had an argument with Li Yan before. Li Yan thought that the Ming army would certainly not be able to resist the Tartars' invasion of the pass this time, and that Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting and other troops who were currently encircling and suppressing the peasant army would inevitably be transferred to Kyoto again to defend the king.

As a result, King Chuang would expand his team again and urge Hong Niangzi to join Li Zicheng. Only by combining the troops and forming a greater force could they possibly fight against the Ming Dynasty.

However, Chongzhen bluntly stated that this time the Later Jin's entry into the pass would not be as easy as the previous times, and it might even be defeated. The armies of Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting would not be transferred to the capital to defend the king, but would instead work harder to suppress the peasant army.

To surrender to Li Zicheng at this time would be tantamount to walking into a trap.

Now... Chongzhen looked at everyone, then looked at Hong Niangzi, "Could it be that there is news about the Ming court and the Later Jin?"

Lady Hong nodded, "As you said, the Ming court's army of more than 100,000 people resisted the entry of the Later Jin, and won the battle."

"Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three borders of Shaanxi, and Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi, not only did not go north to support the king, but instead suppressed the rebels and defeated the king."

When Hongniang said this, she took out a copy of the "Da Ming Times" and there were four words written in the most conspicuous place on it.

Great victory in Tongzhou.

She stared at Chongzhen with burning eyes, "Everything is just as you said at the beginning. I want to ask you, how did you know?"

"I..." Chongzhen's scalp felt numb. How should he answer how he knew that?

I can't say that I know because I am Chongzhen. Although I have exchanged bodies with Zhu Changgan, I still have first-hand information?

"That..." Chongzhen opened his mouth and said with a stiff face: "I don't know why I know, but I just feel that way, intuition, yes... it's my intuition that makes me feel this way."

In order to make his words more convincing, Chongzhen added more words to himself.

Inside the tent, everyone was looking at him, silent, with eyes flickering in different ways.

Hong Niangzi also narrowed her eyes. "If what you said is true, how will the war between the Ming court and the Later Jin go?" "Uh..." Chongzhen pondered for a moment, then raised his head and said, "Then the Ming court will definitely defeat the Later Jin. Within a month, the Ming court can drive the Later Jin out of the border."

"Oh?"

Li Yan shook his head. "How is this possible? Last year, the Later Jin army stayed in Ming for more than two months and abducted 100,000 people and livestock. You said they would be driven out of the border within a month. If the Ming court was so powerful, the Later Jin wouldn't have invaded the border five times in a row."

"That's right. The Later Jin army is over 10,000 strong and invincible. Although the Ming court can defeat the Later Jin army temporarily, this time the Later Jin army has dispatched more than 80,000 troops. Once the troops gather together, they will attack one family, and they will definitely be unable to resist."

"impossible……"

Many generals kept shaking their heads and couldn't help laughing.

Just then someone outside the tent called out, "Boss, Boss..."

A peasant soldier from the mountain stronghold ran in from outside, holding a piece of paper in his hand, panting, "Boss, I...we intercepted a copy of the Ming Daily from Xinyang Prefecture, and it said...it said..."

The Third Master was close by and took it from him, reading: "Great victory in Tianjin... The Ming army defeated the armies of Dorgon and Yuetuo, beheading more than 13,000 people... The Later Jin army fled north."

quiet,
At this moment, it was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

Everyone's eyes fell on Chongzhen's face again. He was right again. The Ming court actually defeated the Later Jin army led by Dorgon and Yuetuo.

The Third Master shouted loudly, "Let Master Zhu take his seat."

"Give Master Zhu a seat!"

The seating arrangements of all the people present had a reason. For example, the third in command was one person above the chief in command, while Li Yan sat in the position of military advisor.

When Chongzhen first came in, he had a seat, but it was the farthest away.

A peasant soldier walked up to Chongzhen and said, "Master Zhu, please stand up for a moment."

Then he picked up the chair under him and began to put it forward. As soon as he put it down, the person in front of him waved his hand and said, "What virtue and ability do I have to be in front of Master Zhu?"

He put it down again, but was rejected again, "Please put Master Zhu's seat in the seat before me."

"Please let me go first..."

When he reached Li Yan, Li Yan wanted to stand up and give way again, but Chongzhen firmly refused, so he stopped.

Chongzhen sat there in bewilderment, watching Hongniang hold a military meeting.

It’s hard to imagine that this guy has suddenly become the core of the peasant uprising army?
During the whole process, he didn't listen to a word that Hongniang said. All he could think about was how to escape from here.

He even felt that everyone was looking at him with awe.

……

"My son, how are you? They didn't do anything to you, did they?"

When Chongzhen came out of the tent, he saw the anxious Prince Xiang again and shook his head and said, "They didn't do anything to me, but I seem to have become their military advisor..."

Anyway, this thing has already happened. Even if I don't say it, King Xiang will know it. Instead of letting the people in the mountain stronghold add fuel to the fire, it is better for me to tell it first.

"You... could tell that the Ming Dynasty could defeat the Later Jin?" King Xiang looked at his son in disbelief. "I remember that before you left, you mentioned a great victory. Could this be what you were talking about?"

Chongzhen was worried about how he could explain to Prince Xiang, and he couldn't help but nodded when he heard this.

"Could it be that my son is good at fortune-telling?" This time it was King Xiang's turn to have a dry throat and dilated pupils.

Chongzhen shook his head repeatedly, "I'm definitely not good at predicting things, I just revealed some information and analyzed some clues."

King Xiang knelt on the ground with a plop, and kowtowed towards the south, saying: "Ancestors, our Zhu family's ancestral tomb is not only emitting smoke, but is actually on fire. Please bless our Qilin child to be safe and sound and escape from danger."

"Unworthy descendant Zhu Yiming..." Prince Xiang knelt down and tried hard to pull Chongzhen down to kneel down.

Chongzhen could be as embarrassed as he could be.

……

June 11, evening.
After a day's rest, the Ming army troops began to withdraw one after another.

The battle reports and memorials have been submitted. What they have to do now is to go back to where they came from.

At this time, Cao Huachun found Lu Xiangsheng.

"Governor Lu, His Majesty's secret order."

Lu Xiangsheng quickly dismissed his attendants and knelt down to receive the order.

A moment later, Lu Xiangsheng burned the secret decree, reorganized his troops, and marched towards Xuan Da as if nothing had happened.

What puzzled the Tianxiong Army, Shanxi Army and Datong Army was that the three major camps were actually traveling with them.

　Chapter 2 presented
　　
　
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