Daming: Stealing Chen Yuanyuan at the beginning

Chapter 289 But looking at the sun flame floating retting water, I feel that impermanence corrupts people

Li Guo's army easily entered Shangzhou Fucheng. They changed the way they fought during this period and no longer adopted guerrilla tactics. Instead, they used Shangzhou Fucheng as their base camp. While strengthening the defense forces in the city, they sent troops to attack Lantian County.

Lantian belongs to the prefecture of Xi'an. If you go east, you can threaten Lintong, Weinan and other places, and if you go west, you can directly attack Xi'an city.The Ming army aggressively attacked Lantian County, and Guanzhong was shocked for a while.

At the same time, Jierhalang, Prince Zheng of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, was awarded General Dingyuan, and led his troops to Tongguan, but stopped.

Wu Sangui was so worried that he kept writing letters to Jierhalang, asking him to go west quickly and come to Xi'an to meet up.

Ji Erhalang didn't want to take it lightly, and wrote lightly in the letter: "This king guards Tongguan and holds the key of the Sanqin land, precisely to prevent the Ming army from leaving the customs, to contain Li Guo's troops, and to relieve the pressure on King Pingxi."

Wu Sangui stomped his feet angrily, and shouted: "The distant water can't quench the near thirst. Does Prince Zheng understand military affairs? Xia Guoxiang, what do you think?"

Xia Guoxiang is a strategic-level military and political talent, both civil and military, and good at planning.

Historically, Xia Guoxiang was Wu Sangui's son-in-law, and he was the number two figure in Wu Sangui's army. After Wu Sangui died of illness, it was Xia Guoxiang who helped Wu Shifan to the throne of God.

At this time, Xia Guoxiang had not yet become Wu Sangui's son-in-law, and had just emerged.But Wu Sangui has a unique insight, sees Xia Guoxiang's extraordinary talents, and draws him as his confidant.

Xia Guoxiang stepped back and said: "General Wu, you are wrong. Jierhalang is not ignorant of military affairs. On the contrary, he is a figure who cannot be underestimated!"

Jierhalang is the owner of the Xianglan Banner. Like Daishan, he is quite calm, but he is different.More often, he seems to give people a feeling of being weak and obedient.

After Huang Taiji's death, facing the powerful Dorgon Group and the aggressive Hauge, Jierhalang proposed a compromise plan to allow the young Fulin to inherit the throne.

Fulin ascended the throne, and Dorgon and Jierhalang co-assisted the government.Later, Jierhalang was suppressed by Dorgon and almost died in prison, but miraculously made a comeback.Jierhalang was the only direct descendant of the eight emperors in the early Qing Dynasty who was not a direct descendant of the emperor, and also the only person in the history of the Qing Dynasty who received the title of "Uncle King" except Dorgon.

"Is such a person a fatuous person? When looking at Prince Zheng's actions, one should analyze them from a political perspective. He and the regent seem to be at odds with each other, and the garrison in Tongguan is hesitant to move forward. In fact, it is to maintain strength." Xia Guoxiang finally came to such a conclusion. .

Wu Sangui said: "Your analysis is well-founded. Since I surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, I have been working under the Regent's command. I'm afraid that Jierhalang regards me as the Regent. But why don't he think about it? Manchu nobles Such infighting consumes Man Qing's strength, does he really not care?"

Xia Guoxiang smiled and said: "King Pingxi, to say something harsh, how did the Manchus regard the land of China as their homeland, and why did they take the Han people seriously? Another point is that when Li Guo attacked Shanyang County and other places, , mercilessly beheaded the soldiers of the Eight Banners Manchus, probably the Manchus were also afraid and didn’t want to fight their lives.”

"Hmph, if the people don't work hard, who would do it for them?" Wu Sangui snorted coldly, touching his bald head, "Since everyone has ghosts in their hearts, let's go our own way."

Xia Guoxiang said: "Prince Zheng is self-confident that he is a Manchu nobleman, and also the benefactor of the Empress Dowager and the little emperor. Even if Xi'an falls, the imperial court will not do anything to him. We are different, we still have to make superficial efforts."

"Now one is to send troops to support the defenders of Lantian County, and the other is to prevent Li Dingguo from attacking from Hanzhong. General Wu can continuously report the military deployment to the regent to show his loyalty and efforts. In the future, the city of Xi'an will fall, and the court will Then you can't blame the general."

Wu Sangui asked: "Then how should we deploy our troops?"

"Let Liu Jinzhong take precautions against Li Dingguo's army; let Niu Quan deal with the Ming army attacking Lantian County."

Wu Sangui gave a thumbs up and laughed: "What a brilliant plan! Liu Jinzhong and Niu Quan were originally from the peasant army. Their subordinates have never obeyed the king's management. Moreover, Liu Jinzhong and Li Dingguo had a grudge, and Niu Quan and Li If we live together forever, let them go dog-eat-dog."

Immediately, a general order was sent out, asking Liu Jinzhong to lead the army and horses of the headquarters to garrison Baoji, Mei County, and Wugong to guard against Li Dingguo's attack on Kansai.

Then he summoned Niu Quan who had just fled to Xi'an City, and shouted, "Prefect Niu, this is the second time you have escaped from the city of Shangzhou without authorization, can you be convicted?"

Niu Quan knelt down and said, "King Pingxi, it's not that the subordinate officials left their posts without permission, but that after He Zhen's death, his subordinates mutinied. If the subordinate officials don't escape, they will become ghosts under the sword."

"Did the imperial court keep you and let you run away? Niu Quan, we all know how you got the flower feathers on your head! Your father Niu Jinxing followed Prince Ying to fight against the regent, and the imperial court did not kill him. You, I still do it for you, don’t you know how to repay the favor?” Wu Sangui slapped the table and shouted.

Niu Quan trembled in fright: "Pingxi Wang Mingjian, my father was held hostage by Azig, and he didn't really want to be an enemy of the regent."

"I don't care about my deeds. Your father is still fleeing on the grassland. This is a fact that is obvious to all. Niu Quan, this king will impeach you immediately. After asking for the order, he will be executed."

"King Pingxi, please forgive me, please forgive me..." Niu Quan kowtowed and shouted, "I am willing to give 10 taels of silver to pay for the army. If it is not enough, I can send my concubines to the military camp." , I just ask King Pingxi to raise his hands high."

Wu Sangui didn't speak, but looked at Xia Guoxiang.

Xia Guoxiang said: "A man lives in this world for the sake of money. You are willing to contribute money and women. It seems that you are loyal. King Pingxi, why don't you give him a chance?"

Wu Sangui borrowed the donkey from the slope and said: "Since this is the case, I will give you another chance. Niu Quan obeyed the order and ordered you to take He Zhen's old troops and go to support Lantian County."

"He Zhen's old department?" Niu Quan was dumbfounded.

He Zhen's old men fled to death, and only a few hundred people followed him to Xi'an. He led hundreds of people to fight the Ming army to the death, obviously to die!

"Why, don't you want to go? Well, come here, pick off Niu Quan's top-wearing feathers, put him in jail, and wait for the court to question him." Wu Sangui yelled.

Niu Quan hurriedly said: "I'll go, I'll go rescue Lantian County!"

Niu Quan donated his money and women, and had to pay for his own money to recruit soldiers. Finally, he gathered a mob of thousands of people and went to Lantian County.

However, in Wu Sangui's booklet to the Qing court, he said that he allocated 3 taels of silver to pay Niu Quan, and sent [-] soldiers to resist Li Guo's army.

(End of this chapter)