"Oh yes, the most urgent task is to deal with Gao Di!" Prince Ding Zhu Cijiong smiled awkwardly and looked at Huang Degong.
Huang Degong nodded slightly to show his agreement.
Zhu Cijiong said to Liu Zhaoji: "General Liu, Gaodi is now in your hands. Give me the men, money, and food if you need them."
"Thank you, Your Highness!"
In order to deal with Gao Di, Liu Zhaoji made very detailed and careful arrangements.
After everything was arranged, everyone took their leave.
Zhu Cijiong waved towards Li Dingguo, indicating him to stay.
Seeing this, Li Dingguo waved to Bakeyong, indicating that he should stay as well.
Bucky stood there with a lot of question marks on his head, at a loss as to what to do.
Soon, the door closed.
Only Zhu Cijiong, Huang Degong, Li Dingguo and Bakeyong were left in the room.
"Tell me about your plan to sow discord." Huang Degong urged impatiently.
He hated traitors the most in his life.
Especially people like Wu Sangui and Hong Chengchou who were highly valued by the court but betrayed the court at the critical moment.
Li Dingguo said with a serious expression: "Wu Sangui surrendered to the Jiannu with a large number of Guanning Army soldiers, and there are also many Guanning Army soldiers in our army. We can take this opportunity to place some people on Wu Sangui's side and wait for an opportunity to spread rumors."
Zhu Cijiong frowned: "Do you mean to imitate Chen Ping and alienate Xiang Yu and Fan Zeng?"
"Yes." Li Dingguo nodded.
"It's difficult!" Zhu Cixiong said a little frustratedly: "Unlike the King of Chu back then, Dorgon is a thoughtful and generous person. Moreover...Dorgon and Jiannu are in need of people at the moment. It is almost impossible to make him lose trust in Wu Sangui and Hong Chengchou by alienating them."
"It's really unlikely!" Huang Degong said without hope: "After Wu Sangui surrendered to the Jian Nu, he had no way out. Wu Sangui understood this truth, and Dorgon also understood this truth, so it is difficult for the alienation plan to succeed!"
Although Bakyong did not express his opinion for the sake of Li Dingguo's face, he still shook his head subconsciously.
"Your Highness is wrong, and General Huang is also wrong!" Li Dingguo stood up and paced back and forth while saying, "When Wu Sangui surrendered to Dorgon with 10,000 soldiers and horses, what do you think Dorgon thought?"
"What idea?" Zhu Cijiong didn't understand what Li Dingguo meant.
Huang Degong didn't understand either. He patted Li Dingguo on the shoulder and said, "I don't understand. Please simplify it!"
Li Dingguo thought for a moment and changed his tone, "How do you think Dorgon will use Wu Sangui?"
"Of course, charge ahead and retreat behind." Zhu Cijiong answered without hesitation.
"Does your Highness think Wu Sangui understands this principle?"
"With Wu Sangui's wisdom, he would have thought of these things in advance."
Li Dingguo smiled again: "Your Highness, do you think the Guanning Army under Wu Sangui will realize this?"
"It's hard to say. The soldiers didn't even know the truth about Wu Sangui's surrender."
"So," Li Dingguo stopped and said, "Let's start from this point and alienate the relationship between the Guanning Army and Wu Sangui. When the rumors spread throughout the Guanning Army, Wu Sangui's control over the Guanning Army will be in question."
"Dorgon does need someone, but he needs Wu Sangui who can control the Guanning Army. When he knew that Wu Sangui's control was in trouble, his attitude towards Wu Sangui would definitely change. So far, we have achieved our goal of alienating Wu Sangui and Dorgon."
Zhu Cijiong rested his chin on his hand and thought for a while: "The idea is fine, how do we do it specifically?"
"Let the Guanning Army soldiers under General Bakeyong take money to Wu Sangui's camp to buy people's hearts and spread rumors."
"How many people are needed? How much money is needed?" Zhu Cijiong also stood up.
Li Dingguo replied: "We don't need many people, 1,800 will be enough. But we need a lot of money, at least tens of thousands of taels of silver."
"How many tens of thousands of taels is it exactly?" Zhu Cijiong asked.
Li Dingguo replied cautiously: "Based on the current situation, at least 20,000 taels of silver will be needed."
"How sure are you?"
"About 40 to 50 percent."
"What if it increases to 40,000 taels?"
"Eighty percent sure."
"How much money can be 100% certain?" Zhu Cijiong asked seriously.
"No matter how much money it costs, I'm not 100% sure." Li Dingguo answered seriously.
Just when Zhu Cijiong wanted to agree, Huang Degong immediately stopped him and said, "Your Highness, the army does have a lot of money. But this money is used to pay the soldiers and cannot be used for other purposes. Once the court knows about it, you will be impeached by all the civil and military officials in the court."
Zhu Cijiong smiled and waved his hand: "Of course, we can't use military pay for this kind of thing! This is the job of the Northern Pacification Office, and the money should also be paid by the Northern Pacification Office."
"That's good, that's good." Huang Degong breathed a sigh of relief.
He had no objection as long as the money used to pacify the Liao army was not spent.
"Oh, right," Zhu Cijiong remembered something and asked, "You said before that if possible, we should alienate Hong Chengchou. How to do it specifically?"
"If you want to accomplish this, you need more than money, you also need some dedicated warriors!"
"Death squads are not a problem."
"That's easy..." Li Dingguo explained the plan in detail in front of them.
It was already midnight when we finished discussing the plan.
Zhu Cijiong and Huang Degong were not sleepy at all and arranged people to implement the plan overnight.
March 24, the 25th year of Chongzhen.
Before the morning sun shone on the earth, the Ming army opened the gates of Fushun and took action.
The first person to leave the city was Liu Zhaoji.
He led 5,000 cavalrymen to Shenyang as quickly as possible, waiting for Gao Di's arrival.
At the same time he left the city, several post soldiers set out from Fushun and rushed to Haizhou, Liaoyang, Qinghebao and the capital respectively.
After peace was restored near the city gate, hundreds of Guanning cavalrymen left the city from the south gate.
They did not run directly towards Sarhu, but first entered the nearby mountains and forests, made a long circle, and then ran towards Sarhu.
At this time, Sarhu was a busy scene.
Some people were cutting wood, some were setting up camp, and some were cooking.
After his defeat, Wu Sangui fled eastward and met Dorgon who was also fleeing on the way.
The two of them arrived near Sarhu, one in front and the other behind.
It was already night.
Dorgon ordered Wu Sangui to set up camp in Sarhu, while he led the main force of the Eight Banners back to Jiefanzhai to rest.
Because they fled in such a hurry, they didn't have time to carry any supplies.
Wu Sangui could only ask Dorgon for supplies for sleeping and eating.
Although Dorgon's supplies were not abundant.
But in order to express their welcome to Wu Sangui, they put together many tents, iron pots and food for him.
After working so hard until dawn, the Guanning Army finally set up camp.
During this period, many Guanning Army soldiers who got lost on the battlefield or fell behind while fleeing came here one after another.
Before noon, Wu Sangui finally settled his soldiers.
He was just about to wash his face to refresh himself when his confidant outside the door reported: "General, Prince Rui wants to see you!"
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