Great time travel

Chapter 175, This year China is rich in emperors ([-])

Riding on the war horse that has lost a lot of weight these days, looking at the familiar yet unfamiliar five-star red flag on the Fengshan Gate tower in Hangzhou, the Great Ming Zhexi General Soldier, and the modern traverser Wang Dou suddenly felt like a dream, and couldn't help but burst into tears orbital.

——Traveling to the end of Ming Dynasty for a full seven years, from the first arrival of the Great Wall frontier across the Central Plains, all the way to the south of the Yangtze River, his life has turned a huge circle on the land of China, but in the end it seems to have returned to the beginning origin.However, this is enough--thinking of Shunxiang Fort that was destroyed in the flames of war, and those familiar faces who died in the war, I am very lucky to have made it this far.

Thinking of this, Wang Dou couldn't help sighing, closing his eyes, the past few months seemed to be vivid in his mind.

——In the late autumn of last year, when Emperor Chongzhen and his coach Lu Xiangsheng led tens of thousands of troops by land and water, along the Yangtze River, they went straight to Nanjing in an attempt to establish the foundation of the emperor in World War I. Wang Dou was also ordered to lead four thousand troops across the mountains and mountains Go deep into southern Anhui to attack Huizhou at the foot of Huangshan Mountain.

Compared with the turbulent and exciting Nanjing War in the north, the process of the Huizhou battle in the south seemed lacklustre. Apart from the endless wading through mountains and rivers, the enemy soldiers Wang Dou encountered were basically either collapsed at the touch of a touch, or surrendered at the wind.Soon, he successfully captured the prefecture of Huizhou, captured the prefect of Huizhou alive, and recruited about 2000 soldiers. The surrounding counties also announced the change of flag.

Immediately afterwards, Wang Dou, who was conferred the title of General Soldier of Western Zhejiang due to his meritorious service, continued to cross the provincial border and entered Zhejiang eastward according to the instructions sent by Emperor Chongzhen. He easily captured Chun'an County, which was empty of military equipment, and then entered neighboring Hangzhou Tonglu County, where they had contact with the frontier forces of the "Australian Bandits".As a time traveler, Wang Dou quickly confirmed the identity and origin of the other party, and he couldn't help being shocked for a while.

However, at this moment, Xie Xiuniang, Wang Dou's child bride-in-law, suddenly ran into his barracks in ragged clothes and unkempt hair.But Wang Dou, who was in the mountainous area of ​​western Zhejiang and had no news, was shocked to learn that the bandits from the Central Plains had marched southward and entered the rear of Huguang, where Emperor Chongzhen lived, and that famous cities such as Wuchang and Xiangyang had fallen one after another.To make matters worse, the old mother Zhong Shi, who followed Wang Dou all the way to the south of the Yangtze River and thought she could live a prosperous life, was also on the way to escape from Wuchang, because the boat capsized and unfortunately fell into the water and died!

Not long after Wang Dou was sad, the report of the defeat in the Nanjing War also came.Next, news came that Emperor Chongzhen had died in Chizhou.This series of shocking changes almost knocked Wang Dou into a daze for a while.By the time he realized it, the Empress Dowager Zhou, Wen Shoufu, and the young emperor Zhu Cihong had already carried the coffin of Emperor Chongzhen and stationed in Huizhou all the way, announcing that the imperial court would be rebuilt here.

For such a development, Wang Dou has no objection, anyway, it is common sense for the throne to be succeeded by the father after death.But the problem is that after a series of major defeats, the military and horse territory of Emperor Chongzhen's court was almost lost.And Wang Dou, who had [-] soldiers and horses in his hands, seemed to have become the biggest warlord in the court, several times more than the imperial guards around the emperor, posing a huge potential threat to the civilian court around the little emperor.

——Thus, as soon as this government was opened in Huizhou, Wen Tiren, the chief assistant of the cabinet, immediately began to reduce Wang Dou's military power. Insert your own candidates.Then, in the name of "escort", he transferred away several collateral troops around Wang Dou.In the end, he resorted to the trick of ascending brightly and descending secretly, ordering Wang Qiu to hand over the army and return to the court to serve as an empty post.

Faced with such a series of interlocking combined punches, Wang Dou, who was caught off guard, could not parry at all-the Shunxiang Army, his confidant, established in Xuanfu Shunxiang Fort, after more than a year of exile from Saibei to Jiangnan, There is not much left.At this time, the army under Wang Dou's command was not his private army, but the official army of the Ming Dynasty drawn up according to the principle of "control of size". I don't want to fight the court and the emperor to the end for his boss.

Therefore, Wang Dou, who discovered that he had become a key guard against the imperial court, was completely disheartened so far. Although he had no intention of raising the flag to rebel, he was not prepared to return to the imperial court to be splintered by those Qingliu civil servants and the emperor's relatives. Instead, he left the official seal and a letter of resignation in the tent, abandoned the army and ran away, took his wife and servants, and went straight to Hangzhou to "join the Kun bandits".

For this compatriot who appeared suddenly, everyone in the Phoenix Villa Command headed by Special Commissioner Wang Qiu expressed a certain degree of surprise, but after inquiring about his origin, they only carried out general and routine disposal: Among them, Wang Dou himself was allowed to bring his wife back to live in the modern world, while his team of more than 100 servants was relocated to the newly occupied area of ​​Liaodong, where Huangshi settled down in a collective farm built there.Wang Dou's servants basically agreed with the above arrangement - they were originally from military households who farmed the land, so it is not bad to be able to return to the north.

After settling down Wang Dou and his defectors, Wang Qiu marked on the map the situation where various forces in the south of the Yangtze River were intertwined, and couldn't help laughing: "...There is an emperor in Huizhou, an emperor in Nanjing, and another emperor in Shanghai. How come there are more and more emperors in the dynasty?"

——What he didn't expect at this time is that starting with the death of Emperor Chongzhen, the number of special creatures like "emperors" in the land of China in this time and space will increase rapidly like mushrooms after a summer rain. multiplying more and more...

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Although Zhang Pu, Zhang Dai, Fang Yizhi and other envoys of the Shanghai court were very worried about the possible collusion between the Kun bandits in Hangzhou and the remnant party of Emperor Chongzhen in Huizhou, in fact they were completely safe.In the next few days, Zhang Pu easily negotiated the details of the grain and ordnance purchase contract with the "bandit leader".When they set off to return, Shen Tingyang's Shachuan gang had already transported the first batch of [-] shi grains and rice to Shanghai.

So far, the court of Emperor Yonghe in Shanghai, which has been in a precarious situation since its establishment, finally got rid of the crisis of food shortage for the time being.

At the same time, after more than a month of confrontation, stalemate, emissary exchanges and intrigue, in order to fight for the throne left by Huang Taiji after his death, the full-scale civil war of the Eight Banners Group of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties finally officially broke out in late March.

——It was Huang Taiji's eldest son, Hauge, the flag owner of the Zhenglan Banner, who first lost his patience and took the initiative to provoke the Qing court's civil war.

According to Hauge's thinking, as the only adult son of Huang Taiji, he is undoubtedly the next Qing emperor.Who would have thought that after so many days of dawdling, not to mention the other flags with ulterior motives, even the two yellow flags would falter and refuse to support him on the throne——Huang Taiji's two yellow flags had fifty bull records, after the emperor died Immediately split into many small groups.Among them, He Luohui, the governor of the Zhenghuang Banner, and Tan Tai, the governor of the Xianghuang Banner, clearly opposed Hauge's ascension to the throne, but they had very limited records.Soni, Aobai and others, who controlled Huang Taiji's imperial army, wavered in their attitudes, and at the same time sent envoys to Hauge, Dorgon, and Queen Zhezhe to bargain and prepare for a price.

What is even more worrisome is that during this period of time, Jierhalang, the owner of the Xianglan Banner, has also been recruiting troops, and at the same time wooing the forces of the two red flags—since the death of Dabeile Daishan, his two red flags have also split into many small groups , led by Daishan and the sons of his elder brother Chuying respectively, seven or eight Niulu of Adali and Shuotuo pledged their allegiance to Dorgon, while other groups were hesitating, but most of them expressed their loyalty to Jierhalang Goodwill and closeness.

On the contrary, Dorgon, who was the most threatening opponent, had 65 Niu Lu in the two white flags under his command, but they were still torn apart. Only 27 Niu Lu remained in Dorgon's hands, and there was a lot of shortage.Only the five Niu Lu under his uncle Abutai's management were basically full, and they were full-armored heavy cavalry.The simple-minded Azig took his thirteen Niulus to Yangzhou in a dilemma. After Huang Taiji's death, he didn't even have a goal of crossing the river to seek refuge. The white eyes of the two little brothers, Dagon, were really in a dilemma.

In this way, Jierhalang, who has thirty or forty cow records, seems to be qualified to aspire to the throne-after all, his surname is Aixinjueluo!

As time went by, seeing the situation not only did not become clear, but became more and more chaotic, Hauge, who was relatively simple-minded, couldn't sit still any longer.At this time, the Zhenglan Banner under his name had a total of 42 Niulu troops, but only the 28 Niulu led by Hauge himself could barely be regarded as the direct line, and Abatai and others who were also in the Zhenglan Banner did not listen to him.Therefore, at first Haoge planned to integrate the Zhenglan Banner first, merge with Abate, and then unite with Turge, who was resting in Jiangyin, to form an army of 45 Niulu, and finally marched to Nanjing, threatening the court and forcing Queen Mother Zhezhe agree to his succession.

However, at this time, Fan Wencheng, who had secretly taken refuge in Hauge, rushed to the Hauge camp in Liyang starry night to advise him: "...the fight for the throne has always been expensive and fast, how can it be so slow? Now the two yellow flags The attitude is vacillating, Nanjing's defense is empty, and there are very few garrisons. Your Highness only needs to send troops straight to Beijing to force the Empress Dowager to surrender. Naturally, the position can be established early. After the name is determined, why should you care about the number of troops under your command?"

As soon as Hauge thought it was reasonable, he gathered more than [-] soldiers and horses under his command, bypassed the camps where the banners were stationed, and went straight to Nanjing along the road.

At this time, the Empress Dowager Zhezhe of the Nanjing court held various seals of the Qing imperial family, and nominally controlled the legal central government of the Qing Dynasty, but most of the Mongolian Army Banner and the Two Yellow Banner Niulu that supported her were still stranded in the Zhenjiang area .In the dilapidated city of Nanjing, there are not many direct troops.

As a result, when Hauge led the Zhenglan Banner army to the city of Nanjing, the Empress Dowager Zhezhe was caught off guard.Suo Ni, Aobai and others who controlled Huang Taiji's imperial army actually stood still at Yuhuatai.However, the city wall of Nanjing is still dilapidated, and many gaps have collapsed, making it impossible to hold on.So Empress Dowager Zhezhe had no choice but to send a few guards around her to defend against the enemy, but they were defeated and killed, and the two little princes of Huang Taiji also disappeared in the chaos.However, the two favorite concubines, Da Yuer and Hai Lanzhu, managed to abscond Jiangbei with the royal family's jade seal seal, and went all the way to Dorgon in Xuzhou.

For the defection of these two pretty beauties, Dorgon was immediately overjoyed, knowing that Dayuer had an old relationship with him, and Hai Lanzhu was a beautiful woman, who could fascinate Huang Taiji upside down, which naturally made Dorgon quite envious. According to the old customs of Jurchen, the two daughters of Dayuer and Hailanzhu were accepted as concubines, and they counted Hauge's "rebellion" crimes, proclaimed themselves the leader, and claimed to go south to crusade.

At the same time, although Hauge in Nanjing failed to find the jade seal, he captured Huang Taiji's entire civil service team, so he simply proclaimed himself emperor in the Forbidden City of Nanjing with the support and persuasion of a group of Han officials. Continue to use Huang Taiji's Chongde reign title, and at the same time decree to crusade against the traitor Dorgon.

However, Hauge and Dorgon, the two rivals, still failed to fight in the end.Because for the sudden emergence of the emperor Hauge and the leader Dorgon, the remaining leaders of the banners all expressed their resolute denial—after learning of the shocking changes in Nanjing, Azig, who regarded Yangzhou as his own territory, Immediately, Chen Bing went north to Qingjiangpu, the important point of the Huaihe River, to block Dorgon's way to the south.Jierhalang, the owner of the Xianglan Banner, joined forces with Abatai and gathered more than 100 Niulu troops to march towards Nanjing, demanding to discuss his own status and power with the new emperor Hauge.

Looking at the black soldiers and horses outside the city, Hauge, who has limited psychological quality, suddenly felt numb. He only wanted to keep the throne under his buttocks, and everything else was negotiable.Next, after some haggling, Emperor Hauge announced that he would split the soil and seal the frontier. If more territory is laid down, it will be owned by each of them.

According to this policy, Azige was granted the feudal Yangzhou Mansion, Abatai was granted the feudal Changzhou Mansion, and Jierhalang was granted the feudal Taiping Mansion, and they were allowed to expand their territories in Jiangbei, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and southern Anhui.Hauge, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, only kept the land of Yingtian and Zhenjiang, and dared not hope for more.

In addition, the Two Yellow Banners who are not willing to belong to Hauge can also defect to any vassal he recognizes, and the emperor shall not be held accountable.

After such decentralization and bloodletting, relying on the mutual containment of the leaders of the various banners, the new Qing emperor Hauge finally managed to secure his throne.And Dorgon, the only one who was unwilling to go south, was unable to go south, so he had to proclaim himself emperor in Xuzhou, changed the country's name back to Dajin, and called himself Emperor Dajin. The emperor confronted each other, and the three kings along the river sealed off the vassal pattern.

However, because he knows that he is alone and cannot be supplemented, he can't stand any internal friction.Therefore, although the Eight Banners of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties were divided, they still did not dare to kill each other, but acquiesced to the reality of peaceful separation of families.Next, Abatai and Jierhalang broke up under the city of Nanjing, and led their men to go their separate ways, preparing to start the long-stalled Jiangnan strategy again.Among them, Jierhalang planned to conquer the upper reaches of the Yangtze River from Taiping Mansion to the west.Abatai plans to pull out the remaining nail of Jiangyin County in Changzhou, and then go straight to Suzhou and Songjiang to take all the fertile soil in the south of the Yangtze River.

However, what Abatai didn't know was that the nail in Jiangyin County was not so easy to pull out.

Because, just as he was gearing up and preparing for the Eastern Expedition, the aid fleet of the "Australian Bandit" also quietly arrived at Jiangyin Wharf...