Dashun Yongchang

Seeing Li Zicheng bowed his head and said nothing, Zuo Guang first followed Li Zicheng's gaze. It turned out that Li Zicheng was staring at the corpse of a young cavalryman covered in mud. Then Li Zicheng squatted down and took out a handkerchief from his arms. Wipe the mud off the young cavalryman's face.

Seeing this scene, the guards who were originally standing behind Li Zicheng squatted down involuntarily, and cleaned up the remains of the corpses on the ground.Zuo Guang first sighed secretly in his heart, and stopped persuading Li Zicheng.

Although in Zuo Guangxian's heart, this battle is still a good deal, because the number of casualties of the Qing army is also more than [-], plus the group of people who surrendered, it is estimated that there are only a few dozen cavalry of the Qing army who fled.

In the old Ningyuan victory, Yuan Chonghuan said that he killed thousands of Manchus, but the bodies were taken back, so the heads of Manchus handed in were only a few dozen. According to Zuo Guangxian's estimation, the Ningyuan victory killed more than [-] Manchus. It will be more than a thousand, maybe only a few hundred, and they are not the elite of the Manchus.

But this time they actually killed five or six hundred Manchu vests, and they were all elite Manchus. This was a victory no less than the great victory of Ningyuan, and there was really nothing to be sad about.

But seeing the solemn expressions of the surrounding soldiers, Zuo Guangxian also knew that it was not the time to say such words, otherwise it would only arouse the resentment of these soldiers.After all, victory is only meaningful to the living, not to the dead.As a general, he may not hesitate to exchange the lives of soldiers for victory in the war, but for soldiers, they prefer to live to welcome the arrival of victory.

Just when Zuo Guangxian was about to give up his persuasion to Li Zicheng, a messenger rushed in, found Zuo Guangxian in the crowd, and begged the surrounding guards of Li Zicheng to ask Zuo Guang to move first.Zuo Guang first listened to the guard's report, then turned around and walked towards the gate of the courtyard. After hearing the message brought by the messenger, he came to Li Zicheng's side again and spoke.

"Your Majesty, Bai Bangzheng has dealt with the Qing troops who left the city. Also, some of the Han troops in these Qing troops launched an uprising. With the help of our army, these Han troops have already suppressed the soldiers of the Han army banner.

Yang Guohai, the guerrilla of the Qing army who announced the uprising, proposed to open the south gate of Cao County for our army. Now two teams of cavalry have led him to the south gate of Cao County.Bai Bangzheng decided to let the infantry continue to advance towards Cao County, and asked us for assistance.According to Yang Guerrilla, the general who attacked Cao County this time was Jiannu's clan, Aixinjueluo Bahana, who was planning to go to the city to persuade the chief soldier Tu Guobao to abandon the dark side and turn to the Ming.

Your Majesty, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. If Bahana can be trapped in the city and seized, it will be the first Aixinjueluo captured by our army on the battlefield since Lao Nu ascended the throne.If you miss this opportunity, you don't know when the next time will be. "

Li Zicheng handed the handkerchief in his hand to the guard, then got up and said with a long breath: "Well, for the sake of Aixinjueluo, I accept their surrender, but I ask them to come forward one by one, Disarm in front of you, expressing your abandonment of resistance, Zhang Jing wants to hand over his sidearms to you with both hands, and the cavalry will line up on both sides to supervise, this is the surrender ceremony..."

Hearing the terms of surrender brought back by the soldiers who understood Chinese, several of the more intimate subordinates around Kerkun said angrily: "These barbarians are really humiliating, let Mr. Zhang Jing hand over the weapons to their generals with both hands. What's the difference between this and ordinary civilians kneeling to receive soldiers? Let's fight these barbarians, my lord."

But Ker Kun glanced at the faintly visible Yellow Dragon Banner in the distance, and said calmly: "Maybe this is also Li Zicheng's idea, he is waiting for us to try our best to kill us all. Besides, if we can still work hard, we can still die." Is it necessary to surrender?

It is impossible for Li Zicheng to appear here for the small town of Cao County. He must have a big event when he comes to Cao County.If we die here, we won't know what this big event is, so we have to live.

As for humiliation, losing a battle is already the biggest humiliation, but there is nothing to be angry about when you have a saber in your hands.Go tell those Shunjun soldiers that I accept these conditions, and hope that they will keep their promises..."

Kerkun originally thought that he would not have any humiliation for the so-called surrender ceremony, but he soon discovered that he walked through a passage built by cavalry, and then surrendered himself to the generals of the Shun Army who were waiting there at the bottom of the passage. His sidearm, being surrounded by people during this process really filled him with a sense of shame.

But when things got to this point, he had already lost the opportunity to command his subordinates to work hard.As for Zuo Guangxian and Ma Bao who were watching Ker Kun walking step by step, the former was full of smiles, while the latter looked at them with hatred.

Ker Kun walked the whole journey without distraction, and then handed out his saber to Zuo Guang, but at this moment, Ma Bao suddenly said: "You are standing so straight, are you here to surrender, or ask Mr. Zuo to appreciate it?" The treasured sword? Do it again, we need to roll the name..."

Ker Kun glanced at Ma Bao, then lowered his head, raised his saber above his head, and said to Zuo Guang first: "Zhenglanqi...waiting to beg for surrender..."

After witnessing the surrender of Kerkun and others, Li Zicheng ordered the army to move to Cao County, and divided the surrendered Manchu and Mongolian soldiers into teams of ten. Stoppers are exempted from punishment.

When Li Zicheng headed to Cao County with a brigade of infantry and cavalry, Bahana was standing in a brick bungalow, yelling at the soldiers in the yard, "Have you barbarians eaten the guts of leopards? How dare you fight in this place?" It's time for a mutiny, go and call Tu Guobao, he doesn't want the lives of the whole family..."

Tu Guobao, Cao Hu and others standing outside the yard clearly heard Bahana's roar, and Tu Guobao said to Sun Yingpin who was standing aside with a calm expression: "Master Sun, please go in and persuade Bahana Lord Na, ask him to surrender his weapon and come out, or we shall have to set fire to the house."

Surrounded by Tu Guobao soldiers, Sun Yingpin, the supervisor of the army, quickly put down his weapon, but faced with the task at hand, he was still a little embarrassed and said: "Why did the commander-in-chief want me to persuade you? I just agreed to put down my weapon, but Persuasion is not what we agreed on. Hundreds of my family members are in the capital, is your lord wanting me to die?"

Tu Guobao looked at him in surprise and said, "Master Sun would not think that if you don't persuade Bahana to surrender, you will be fine, right? Do you think that except Bahana, who can afford this failure?" The responsibility? Only if Bahana also surrenders, the Nine Kings will not attack our family."

Sun Yingpin instantly understood the meaning of Tu Guobao's words. If Bahana surrendered, the failure of Cao County would not be the reason for Tu Guobao's defection, but because of Bahana's timidity and incompetence.

After thinking over and over again, Sun Yingpin finally agreed to Tu Guobao's request, and entered the yard to persuade Bahana in the house.It was only at this time that Bahana realized that it was not Tu Guobao's army that had mutinied, but Tu Guobao and Sun Yingpin.He can still understand that Tu Guobao rebelled, but he can't understand that Sun Yingpin dared to rebel.

He gritted his teeth and shouted back from the window: "Sun Yingpin, how can I owe your family the Qing Dynasty? This is how you repay the kindness of the two generations of ancestors to your family? If I can go back to the capital alive today, It is necessary to wipe out your wolf-hearted and dog-lung generation..."

Sun Yingpin, whose tone was a little weak at first, was really angry when he heard Bahana's words. He tried to persuade the other party with good intentions, but turned out to be a wolf-hearted person. There is nothing to talk about.In Bahana's angry rebuke, he finally retorted loudly unwillingly: "What is the kindness of two generations of Khans to our family?

On that day, Tianming Khan sent people to kill Wugu Han in various places because of the lack of food in Liaodong. My family was originally a rich family in Liaoyang, but the people in the countryside were also killed innocently.Later, Destiny Khan wanted to kill scholars again, and our family had a few more innocent souls.

At the time of Tiancong Khan, the third year of Chongde Khan ordered all the banners to write a letter to discuss state affairs. As a result, my brother Sun Yingshi was ordered to be executed by Khan because he helped Zhu Shichang change a few words.Zhu Shichang was just persuading Khan not to send his beloved daughter to a brothel. Does he mean to slander Manchuria?

It can be seen from this that our family is just lingering under the rule of Manchuria. Where can we get grace and support? "

Hearing this, Bahana became even more furious. He couldn't think of how to refute Sun's application, so he could only curse out the window: "I knew you savages couldn't be trusted, you are just unfamiliar dogs..."

The soldiers of the Han army banner who were guarding Bahana in the room couldn't help being very frustrated when they heard these curse words, and subconsciously moved away from the Manchus around them. After the guards around Bahana realized something was wrong, they finally persuaded Bahana .

Bahana also realized that he was confused by Sun Yingpin, and now is not the time to argue with Sun Yingpin.It's just that if he didn't respond to what Sun applied for just now, there would be no good fruit to eat when he went back.Right now, he can only call two Han army flags, Niu Lu Ezhen: Zhao Guozheng and Zhao Guozuo to appease him.

The two of them naturally did not dare to talk nonsense like Sun Yingpin, and accepted Bahana's words of comfort, but the soldiers under them could no longer trust the Manchus around them as they did just now.

Tu Guobao outside the door was also helpless about what happened now. He really didn't expect Bahana to be so stubborn, so after calling Sun Yingpin down, he asked his men to transport the collected firewood and combustibles around the house , Then he ordered to light the fire, and added some smoke to the fire, and poured the smoke into the room.

It was completely unexpected when Bahana was besieged by the Tu Guobao army, so he hid in the room with almost nothing. If Tu Guobao didn't want to catch them alive, they would have been burned to charcoal long ago.Right now, Tu Guobao is using fire and smoke to attack, and the people in the room have almost no way to resist.After more than a quarter of an hour, someone finally smashed open the window regardless and escaped, expressing his willingness to surrender.

Chapter 346 Reinforcements Arrive

After holding on for three days, almost all the soldiers in the county government were injured. Zhang Xiu looked at the exhausted appearance of the soldiers, so she said to Duan Zhuxin: "It seems that we will not see the dark today. Serving as soldiers eats food. Dying on the battlefield is a worthy death, but there is no need for the hundreds of women and children in the inner courtyard to be buried with me. After I die, Jun Ke will take them to open the door and ask for surrender."

Duan Zhuxin replied with a sad smile: "How can there be no eggs after the nest is overturned? With the habits of the Qing army, these women and children must be humiliated and die. In that case, it is better to die together to be relieved."

Zhang Xiu finally stopped talking, and just walked among the soldiers to appease and encourage him. Although everyone knew that the next attack by the Qing army might be his own death, no one made any dissatisfied remarks, but silently wiped his weapons Or rely on the wooden pillars to rest your eyes and close your eyes, preparing for the arrival of the last moment.

It was the first time for Zhang Xiu, who was walking among the soldiers, to face up to the mental strength of these soldiers. Although he obtained his official position from the local rebel army in Shandong to Dashun, in the past, he did not take these low-level soldiers seriously. How important it is to the soldier, what he values ​​is the capable brothers around him.

Although these Shandong local rebels also resisted the injustice of the court, the starting point of their uprising was to protect their own interests from the government and gentry, not to overthrow the old dynasty and establish a new one.Therefore, in terms of ideology, most of the leaders of the rebel army are actually similar to the king of the mountain, guarding their own one-third of an acre of land, and don't want anything else.

This kind of thinking of a Liangshan hero naturally means that except for those capable brothers who can worship and share wealth, those who are not capable can only be small ones.Little guy, you can have as much as you want, and the leaders don't take it seriously.A capable hero is rare, and one person can be worth tens or hundreds of minions.Therefore, it is obviously more effective to attract capable brothers than to expand the number of minions.

However, after experiencing this war, Zhang Xiu suddenly realized that once the soldiers at the bottom were really willing to risk their lives to fight, even though they were facing the elite of the former Ming Dynasty frontier army, they could still be on equal footing.On the contrary, those heroes that Zhou Hu gathered at the beginning scattered away after Zhou Hu was shot and killed by the Qing army, and did not show any loyalty to revenge for Zhou Hu and the courage to serve the country loyally.

Zhang Xiu stopped in front of a boy who was less than five feet tall. Seeing this childish boy holding a spear taller than himself, he couldn't help but said to the soldiers beside him, "Why do you put such a gun on the ground?" The little kid was also pulled up, it was a mess. Take off his weapon and let him go back to the inner courtyard."

Before the soldiers on the side could speak, the young man hurriedly shouted at Zhang Xiu: "My mother and sister are in the inner courtyard, and I am also a man. Naturally, I want to protect them here, so why should I kill them?" arms…"

The two soldiers who had already got up at the side sat back after hearing this, and a soldier who was about 40 years old with several cloth belts wrapped around his body leaned on a pile of firewood, grinned at Zhang Xiu and said, "Let Fifth Brother Let’s stay here, Lord Baihu. It’s not necessarily a bad thing to die in front of his family, we won’t let him die in front of us.”

Zhang Xiu was silent for a long time, looked up at the sky, and couldn't help saying bitterly, "These bastard traitors must be killed one day."

As time passed by, the Qing army outside did not launch another attack for a long time, which made the soldiers and civilians in the county government prepare more seriously. The fight against the Qing army these days has also taught them One thing is that the longer the interval between the Qing army's attacks, the more intense the next wave of attacks will be. After resting for such a long time this time, it seems that the Qing army is also planning to complete their efforts in one battle.

It's just that Zhang Xiu and the others didn't wait for the expected final blow. Instead, a small conflict seemed to break out within the Qing army. Because they suspected that the Qing army was setting up an ambush to lure them, Zhang Xiu and Duan Zhuxin finally decided not to move.

But soon, a group of cavalry ran down the street and stopped in the middle of the stone bridge in front of the county government gate. A knight stepped forward a few steps, then raised his head and shouted loudly at the guards on the county government wall He said: "Li Yuanyin, the first cavalry division of the Dashun Guards, was ordered by Emperor Dashun to come to help. Is Zhou Hu, the garrison of Cao County, here?"

The soldiers and civilians in the county government were silent, but turned their attention to Zhang Xiu and Duan Zhuxin. Compared with the knight outside, they trusted the leader who led them to guard the county government for three days.

Facing the quiet situation in the county office, Li Yuanyin was also quite at a loss. He had to repeat his shouting again, and this time someone finally answered him, "You said that you are the first division of the Dashun Guards Cavalry Yes, do you have any token proof?"

Li Yuanyin thought for a while, then rode his horse and continued to move forward until he walked to the gate of the county government office. Then he took off a bronze medal from his waist and shouted to the guard who looked at him from the wall: "It's done, this is me." badge."

Watching Duan Zhuxin look at the bronze medal in his hand over and over again, Zhang Xiu looked at him expectantly and asked, "Is it true?"

Duan Zhuxin looked at the bronze medal in his hand repeatedly and said: "I've never seen a waist medal of this shape before, but seeing how exquisite this brand is, I'm afraid it can't be made in a day or two. Besides, those Jianlu only need to If you work harder, you can break the county government office, so there should be no need to coax us into acting this out, right?"

Zhang Xiu looked at the soldiers surrounding him, and finally made up his mind and said, "Then I'll go out to meet the angels. If there's anything wrong, I'll give you a code."

Duan Zhuxin stopped him and said: "Are you the general, or you stay here, I will receive the angel. Besides, I have been to Xuzhou, and it is easier than you to tell whether the guards outside are cavalry."

Zhang Xiu didn't force her anymore, she just bowed to him and said: "If something happens, Brother Duan will go one step ahead of me, so I won't say anything unnecessary..."

When Li Yuanyin waited a little impatiently, he finally saw the small door of the county government office opened, and a general in bust armor came out. He asked hesitantly, "Are you Zhou Hu, the city's defender?"

Duan Zhuxin clasped his fists to Li Yuanyin and replied: "I am Duan Zhuxin, the magistrate of the city. Zhou Shoubei was killed on the first day the Qing army attacked the city. I don't know which general Captain Li followed? Didn't you hear the sound of the siege?"

Hearing that the general who defended the city was killed on the first day, the impatience on Li Yuanyin's face finally disappeared. It is obviously not something ordinary people can do to be able to survive the death of the general without surrendering and stick to it until today.

He saluted Duan Zhuan's letter and said, "I didn't come with that general. Your Majesty is just outside the city. The Tu Guobao Army has declared anyway, so we didn't attack the city. Our army is urging the Tu Guobao Army to round up the city. For the soldiers of the Eight Banners in the city, can your army send some personnel to help urge the Tu Guobao Army to guard the north, west, and east gates? Our army has already occupied the south gate."

Hearing that Li Zicheng personally led the troops to help, Duan Zhuxin believed that Li Yuanyin's words were believed, because if Li Zicheng hadn't come in person, the Tu Guobao army would not have been able to defect.After Duan Zhuxin passed the news back, cheers finally erupted in the county government office.

Around [-]:[-] p.m., Li Zicheng entered the south gate of Cao County under the guard of two cavalry teams. Tu Guobao and other generals knelt down on the left side of the road, while Bai Bangzheng, Zhang Xiu and Duan Zhuxin waited on the right hand side of the road.

Bai Bangzheng stepped forward to briefly report the situation in the city to Li Zicheng, and then Li Zicheng waved to Tu Guobao and other generals on his left, telling them to stand up.Then he said to Zuo Guangxian who was beside him: "Although the Chinese soldiers guard the land of China, the world has not yet been unified, and some soldiers' homes are still under the control of Jiannu. It is not a good thing to force them to fight for the country. You Go and ask the soldiers in the Tu Zongbing army if they are willing to stay and fight for Dashun. If they want to go home, don't force them to stay, and they will pay the travel expenses.

As for those who are willing to stay and contribute to Dashun, their military positions and salary will remain the same.As for the merits of Tu Zongbing, Yang Gueran and others, they will be reviewed and evaluated by the Military Council, so let's leave it at that.Next, I will go to the county government office to offer incense sticks to Zhou Hu, and discuss other matters later. "

Tu Guobao originally wanted Li Zicheng to make a promise first, but seeing the soldiers of the Shun Army Brigade entering the city, he did not dare to step forward to raise objections after all.So he could only watch Li Zicheng heading towards the county government office, while they followed far behind.

With Li Zicheng's order, a small sacrificial shed was quickly set up in the county government office, and Zhou Hu's wife and two children put on filial piety and stood by the side to express their gratitude.After Li Zicheng finished offering incense, he walked up to Mrs. Zhou, looked at the two boys beside her, and then asked, "Where is Zhou Shoubei's hometown? Is there anyone else at home?"

Mrs. Zhou suppressed her grief and replied: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your inquiry. My hometown is in Zhouzhuang in the north of the city. There are grandmothers and parents at home."

Li Zicheng nodded and said: "This place will become a battlefield in the short term, and the surrounding countryside may not be peaceful. I will send people to send you to Yangzhou after Zhou's defense is over. There will be no war there for the time being. Let the two children study at ease. Zhou Shoubei sacrificed for the country. He is a martyr. The country will not let the family members of the martyrs be displaced. If you have any difficulties in Yangzhou, you can go to Director Chen of the Statistics Department and she will help you. Those troublesome..."

Although Mrs. Zhou saluted and thanked Li Zicheng, her face was still full of sorrow.After receiving the ceremony, Li Zicheng walked out of the sacrificial shed with a serious expression, and then said to Zhang Xiu and Duan Zhuxin beside him: "Please check the number of military and civilian casualties in this city one by one. Public sacrifice. In addition, find someone who can judge the case. Before the public sacrifice, the crimes committed by the slaves will be liquidated. For those who issued the order to kill and plunder civilians, they need to pay the price."

The remaining soldiers and civilians in the county government expressed their support for Li Zicheng's order. Only Tu Guobao and other surrendering generals looked ugly when they saw the excitement of the soldiers and civilians.

Chapter 347 Arrangement One

That night Li Zicheng summoned Tu Guobao and Yang Guohai in the county government office. In front of these two, Li Zicheng, who was sitting behind a desk, had a much calmer expression than during the day.

After taking a look at the two uncles and nephews, Li Zicheng said straight to the point: "Yang Gueran revolted in front of the battle, and he killed the Han army flag Jiala Ezhen with his hands. He also opened the gate of Cao County and contacted your uncle. Anyway, the credit can be said Not small. Then do you plan to continue serving in the army? Or transfer to a civil servant? If you transfer, you can choose any place except the magistrates in Xi'an, Huai'an, and Yangzhou."

Yang Guohai was overjoyed when he heard it. He had been busy for a long time, didn't he just want to get Li Zicheng's approval, a magistrate's official title was enough for him, and this was a position he never dared to think about in the past.For a while, he couldn't care about the winks from his uncle around him, and just knelt down to Li Zicheng and said.

"Little... General, no, I just did a little bit of effort, and I don't have much credit, but I am willing to do my best for Your Majesty. I can go wherever Your Majesty asks me to go, but I am from the north. People, if you go to the south, you may have water and soil problems, if you can choose a place north of the Huaihe River, I will be very grateful."

After waving Yang Guohai to get up, Li Zicheng looked at Tu Guobao and said: "Although the Tu general soldier has contributed to the city, I know why you did it anyway. If it weren't for my army coming to the city, would you have revolted before the battle? "

Facing this question, Tu Guobao didn't dare to raise his head and replied: "I'm guilty, I dare not defend myself, I must have been fooled by ghosts before, so I made so many unimaginable actions. Your Majesty, please see that the guilty minister came to his senses at the last moment, and give the guilty minister a chance to reform himself."

Li Zicheng stared at Tu Guobao's head for a long time. When Tu Guobao came to see him, he changed into ordinary clothes and wore a Tang scarf on his head. When he pleaded guilty just now, he took off the Tang scarf on his head, and suddenly revealed a Bald head.Li Zicheng thought for a while before he realized that what Tu Guobao showed him was the hairstyle on his head. He shaved off the money rattail that represented the Manchurian hairstyle.

Li Zicheng finally withdrew his gaze, leaned his body back, and after relaxing his body, he then said to Tu Guobao: "I am afraid that the soldiers and people of Cao County will not approve of your current efforts to make up for the previous mistakes.

To me, the voices of the soldiers and civilians in Cao County are always stronger than yours.However, considering that your nephew was the first to take the initiative to revolt in response to the call of the Marshal's Mansion, I can give you a chance. "

Tu Guobao replied tremblingly: "No matter what your majesty asks me to do, I will die. This statement can be learned from heaven."

Li Zicheng didn't believe Tu Guobao's words, so he didn't comment, but continued: "Our army took Cao County today, and almost no one escaped. I think Lai Jiannu will not know what happened to you before the battle.

Caozhou is a prefecture under the jurisdiction of the prefecture, and there are two counties under it: Cao County and Dingtao County, but the state city is located at the site of Guchengshi County in the northeast of Cao County.Now Jiannu is attacking Dingtao, Chengwu and Caoxian with all their strength, so their defense against Caozhou's capital city should not be high.

I asked Zuo Guang to dismiss those surrendered officers and soldiers who were unwilling to serve Dashun first, and those who remained would naturally be more reliable.You can take them to sneak attack Caozhou Fucheng, and I will send people to contact Yuyuan Army and Manjiadong Army to assist you.

In this way, when the soldiers and civilians of Cao County start to try war criminals, you can avoid it.And when you make the credit for attacking the capital city of Caozhou, the matter of Cao County will be over.Next, you can start from scratch in Dashun.Of course, if you go to Jiannu again after leaving Cao County, I'll let you do it, but you'd better pray that you won't fall into the hands of my Dashun Army next time. "

Tu Guobao replied hoarsely: "The guilty minister never has such an idea. The guilty minister just wants to make up for himself. The guilty minister will definitely take down Caozhou City to redeem the past..."

Li Zicheng's face remained unchanged, and he directly turned to the next topic, "Of course, for the affairs of Cao County, we still have to give an explanation to the soldiers and civilians of Cao County. The policy of the Marshal's Mansion is that the chief culprit must be investigated, and the blackmailer will not be questioned. Before leaving , you need to explain who ordered you to kill the people of Cao County. In addition, in order to ensure the success of the attack, all officers and soldiers who participated must shave off their braids. I think these two requirements are not too much, right?"

Tu Guobao felt a bit bitter in his mouth, but he quickly shook his head and said: "This is a perfectly legitimate request. Your Majesty is already so lenient. If the criminals still don't accept it, they are no different from beasts..."

After sending the Tu Guobao uncle and nephew away, Li Laiheng, who was full of doubts, couldn't help asking Li Zicheng when he came back: "How can your majesty be sure that this Tu Guobao will not surrender and rebel after returning?"

Li Zicheng shook his head and said, "How can I know if Tu Guobao and the others will surrender and build slaves again? If I'm so powerful, I'll figure out when Dorgon will kill Shunzhi and become emperor himself."

Li Laiheng was even more confused now, and he boldly asked, "Then why did Your Majesty release the national treasure and they left? Right now, the four gates of Cao County are under the control of our army. As long as Your Majesty gives an order, we can take care of this trouble." get rid."

Li Zicheng glanced at him, then shook his head and said, "Do you know why the conspiracy cannot be seen?"

Li Laiheng was stunned for a moment before replying: "Because of seeing Guang's plot, others will be on guard."

Li Zicheng nodded and said: "Ming Dynasty likes to play tricks too much. Ever since the great ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang, they have been relying on the so-called tactics to govern the country. As a result, everyone who governs this country is in danger and no one trusts anyone.

The three major Hongwu cases: the Kongyin case, the Guo Huan case, and the Ouyang Lun son-in-law case. Everyone said that Zhu Yuanzhang’s torture was too severe, but they didn’t notice that before the three major cases, Zhu Yuanzhang had warned officials several times not to Greedy abused the people, and after the three major cases, the "Da Gao" was written to warn the officials of Ming Dynasty. How can there be any shadow of conspiracy in this?

Therefore, although the Hongwu Dynasty killed tens of thousands of officials, it cannot be said that Zhu Yuanzhang acted cruelly, because Zhu Yuanzhang taught and then executed.But his descendants only saw his method of cleaning up the nobles in Huaixi, and advocated ruling the country by conspiracy, so there were Jianwen and cutting down the vassal while the King of Yan rebelled, Jingtai closed the palace and there was a change of seizing the door, and after Jiajing he indulged the dissidents in the court. Disturbances caused the faction to run rampant in the court, and eventually the country fell to Chongzhen.

If I want to kill the national treasure, why should I close the city and besiege and kill an army?As long as the official punishment is declared and one or two guards are sent to the barracks to arrest him, how dare other people complain about him?But compared with the nearly 30 former Ming troops who surrendered the Manchus, what is the national treasure?Can we make the 30 former Ming army nowhere to go for a local national treasure? "

Li Laiheng finally realized something. In fact, from the current point of view, the Ming army is not incapable of fighting, but unwilling to contribute to the country.Because they have been deceived by the court too many times before and cannot be recognized by the common people, they naturally do not think that they have any responsibility to the country and the common people.On the contrary, most soldiers of the Ming army have a simple thought that you should bear the suffering we suffered in the past now, instead of enjoying the safety of the interior, but thinking that they are not obliged to pay taxes to support the army.

From the series of actions taken by the Qing army since it entered the customs, it can be seen that those Ming troops who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty were actually quite active in fighting south, because the military laws enforced by the Qing army gave these former Ming soldiers a fair Chance of spoils, they are now fighting for themselves, not for the emperor and country.

For example, the army of Tu Guobao is actually not a big name in the Ming Dynasty border army. In the past, when guarding the border, they saw the Mongols plundering the border. The battle has become more active.It's not because the Manchus will not loot their trophies like the officials of Ming Dynasty, and then take the credit for their own people.

Fighting for the Ming Dynasty, blood and sweat resulted in nothing, and if you become disabled, you have to send another male from your family to join the army; fighting for the Manchus, people not only remember the contributions of the soldiers, but also distribute the spoils according to regulations.No matter how loyal soldiers are to Ming Dynasty, they will forget who they are after one or two lootings.

At this time, the Manchus can turn a blind eye to the killing of Han civilians, because they are also the beneficiaries of it.And once the soldier's sense of right and wrong is lost, the army will become a real monster. Seeing that the Tu Guobao Army can turn against them in such a short period of time, they will know that this army is only afraid of power. As for moral values ​​and so on, It has been completely dropped on the ground.

If the Ming officials and soldiers who surrendered to the Manchus have become this virtue, then when they feel that there is no way out, they will only destroy everything around them, just like the large no-man's land they created in Shaanxi and Henan in the past.And at that time, Ming's officers and soldiers still had a shameful court to restrain them, but now the court, which is full of people, will probably only push the waves to help profit and encourage these Ming troops to create more no-man's land in the customs. .

Li Zicheng didn't think as much as Li Laiheng did. He couldn't trust Tu Guobao at all, so he couldn't let this army stay at such an important point as Cao County, and he couldn't send it to the rear.After weighing it several times, he felt that even letting Tu Guobao betray him would be more troublesome than keeping Tu Guobao's army by his side, so he sent Tu Guobao to attack Caozhou City.

When Li Zicheng returned to the inner office and sat for a while, Li Laiheng came to report to him again that all the generals of the army had arrived at the second hall, so Li Zicheng covered the documents in his hand, got up and walked out of the study.

Walking into the second hall through the small door, Li Zicheng glanced at the generals in the hall who stood up and saluted him one after another, then pressed his hands forward and said: "Sit down, everyone is so busy all night long. Come here, I feel that there is something I have to say about this battle..."

The generals who had a relatively relaxed expression on their faces became serious after Li Zicheng pointed out the large number of mistakes in the battle.In fact, they also knew in their hearts that the victory this time was really not due to their own strength, but was caused by many coincidental factors.

For example, the biggest surprise was that Li Zicheng led the cavalry to catch up overnight. Without the addition of this extra cavalry, even if Zuo Guangxian's infantry were present, it was just to support some remnants of the six hundred elite soldiers who wanted to defeat the Qing army. It is impossible to ride.

Li Zicheng concluded at the end: "The purpose of calling everyone here is not to hold anyone accountable, but to ask everyone to put forward their own experience and lessons for this battle, so that they can avoid these problems from recurring in the next battle..."

Chapter 348 Arrangement Two