Dashun Yongchang

It's just that the Nine Kings disagreed, and suppressed everyone with the words of the first Khan, "If you win Beijing, move to the capital immediately to make progress."Then the kings Zhubeile asked the Nine Kings if they really wanted to unify the world, the Nine Kings finally did not make the bold words they said in Shenyang, but prevaricated: "Why do you say unification? But the size is the size, and the size is the size." Ear."

The opinions of the kings and Baylor above could not be unified, while the officers and soldiers below only thought about when they could rob.If the Dashun Army is really weak and can be bullied, then they don't mind chasing it down. After all, the news of the Dashun Army's torturing the officials and gentry of the Ming Dynasty in Beijing has already spread, and everyone thinks that Li Zicheng must have a lot of wealth with him. , defeated Li Zicheng, and these wealth became their spoils of war.

But if the Dashun army is a tough bone, Nu Shan is not willing to let his subordinates gnaw it alone. If there are too many dead, how can he see his relatives when he goes back?Many of his subordinates are related to himself or his relatives.For example, Abatai plundered a lot of wealth from the pass, but no one in the Eight Banners treated him, thinking that the clan was too vicious, and exchanged the lives of their relatives for their own military exploits and wealth.

But Abate is the clan after all, and everyone can only poke him in the back. If he has killed so many people, it will not be a matter of cursing behind his back.Therefore, after thinking about it for a long time, Nu Shan gave up the idea of ​​directly attacking the long base of the Shun army. Instead, he stationed at the same place, and then sent someone to report the situation to Duoduo, and sent someone to cross the river to contact Wu Sangui's army to find out who it was. what happened.

Duo Duo was also at a loss when he received Nu Shan's report, but he was the one who survived under Huang Taiji's hands. Although he was not as deep as his second brother Dorgon, he was able to hold his ground in case of trouble.

He called Aixinjueluo Shuosei, Aixinjueluo Handai, Aixinjueluo Zakana, Gushanbeizi Aixinjueluo Boluo and other clans, and announced to them that the Nushan faction had led Message back and ask them what they think.

Han Dai and Zakana have always believed that the current army should not move lightly. They must first figure out how Wu Sangui was defeated, the number of casualties, and whether they can continue to fight, etc., before considering continuing with the Dashun Army. fighting.Han Dai said: "Our army has about 8 people in addition to Wu Sangui's army, and the army behind the Shun Army is about 2 to 3, but the total number of Shun Army is more than 4. If the Sangui Army can't fight anymore, just Can our [-] men really defeat the army led by Emperor Yongchang himself?"

Boluo said that he is willing to go to Wu Sangui's army to investigate these issues, so that the army can feel at ease as soon as possible.Duoduo then pushed the boat smoothly and said: "Then our army will set up camp on the spot and let Nushan monitor the actions of the Shun army. Boluo, you go to Wu Sangui's army, and invite Engetu and Sangui to come to the big tent to discuss matters..."

Chapter 90

When the moon was about to rise into the sky, a group of cavalry crossed the North Canal in the north of the Doduo camp. Of course, as soon as they landed, they saw the sentry cavalry of the Qing army standing on the river embankment.

After recognizing Boluo Beizi by the light of the fire, the Qing soldiers patrolling the river bank quickly escorted the fifty or so cavalry back to the camp.After Wu Sangui and Engetu entered the camp, the guards around him were left near the gate of the camp. Although he felt uneasy, Wu Sangui still signaled to those around him to wait here with peace of mind.

After passing a few sentry posts, Wu Sangui saw a big cowhide tent on a gentle slope. The weeds and shrubs in front of the big tent were cleaned up. A group of people sat silently on the cleared space. There was a carpet under them, and a bonfire burned on the ground below them, which not only illuminated the gentle slope, but also added some wormwood to the fire to repel mosquitoes.

Wu Sangui walked up and took a look, and found that besides Duoduo, Han Dai, Zakana, Geng Zhongming, Kong Youde, Zhuobutai, Haning'a and other important Manchu and Han figures had arrived.Seeing their arrival, no one got up to greet them. Although Wu Sangui was terrified, he followed Boluo Beizi and Engetu to salute Duoduo first.

After the two parties greeted each other, Zakana, who was sitting on Duduo's left hand, got up and said to Engetu and Wu Sangui, "It's not too late to say the greetings later. You should first talk about how many people you lost. How did the battle go?"

After Zakana sat down, other people also echoed, asking Engetu and Wu Sangui to clarify these two issues first.While Wu Sangui was thinking, Engetu took a step forward, pleaded guilty to the silent Doduo, and told the whole battle from beginning to end.

Wu Sangui stood aside and listened very clearly. What the other party said was no different from what he had discussed in the afternoon. He never said that the ten kings asked them to send troops to raid the Acropolis of Tianjin in advance. He only said that Kong Xigui, Jin Bin, and Yang Weihan were corrupt. The aggressive advance caused the friendly army to mistakenly believe that they went deep into the city, and finally had the opportunity to be set on fire by the Shun army.

Because he was sitting far away from the bonfire, Duduo's upper body was not illuminated by the flames, so Wu Sangui couldn't see Duduo's expression clearly at this time. He could only wonder in his heart whether the ten kings would accept En Ge or not. Figure this statement.

At this time, Wu Sangui heard Duoduo ask him in a calm tone: "General Wu, is there any legacy from what Engetu said? Today's defeat was really caused by the greed of Kong Xigui, Jin Bin, and Yang Weihan." of?"

After only hesitating for a few moments, Wu Sangui replied loudly: "That's true. If Kong Xigui hadn't tried his best to ask Lord Hetuo for help, Lord Hetuo would not have rushed into the city. If we had to wait another half an hour, we would eventually bring When the rear army arrives, naturally there is no need for Lord Hetuo and Lord Sasuka to personally lead troops to support..."

Hearing the two people's answer, Doduo felt a lot relieved.He looked again at the clan generals sitting on both sides, and then he said: "What do you think of their rhetoric? Although Kong Xigui, Jin Bin, and Yang Weihan are the culprits of this defeat, En Getu and Sangui are the culprits." The leader of the army, I'm afraid he can't be blameless, right?"

Han Dai, the Minister of State and Affairs with the white flag, immediately took over the words of the banner owner Duoduo and said: "Ten kings, it is time to employ people, and Engetu and Sangui also made unintentional mistakes. Yes. Even Kong Xigui, Jin Bin, and Yang Weihan should not be punished too severely. The most urgent thing is to find out their whereabouts, and then allow them to defend themselves before the king, so as to set an example for others and let others know. I'm Qing Dynasty, not Ming Dynasty, so I won't engage in such things as innocent and punishable."

The clan generals at the side whispered to each other for a while and then agreed with Han Dai's opinion aloud. Like Engetu, they were unwilling to offend the two white flags at this time because of the red flag.Besides, Zakana with the red flag didn't say anything, so they naturally didn't want to say anything.

Although Zakana is inlaid with the red flag, he is the grandson of Shuerhaqi. After his grandfather was killed by Nurhachi, their lineage has been guarded by Nurhachi's descendants. The inlaid red flag is not very helpful for him. It was the prison, and the heavy loss of Xianghongqi had no effect on him at all, so he would not offend the kings of Baiqi for the loss of Xianghongqi.If you have any dissatisfaction with the Xianghong flag, you can go to the capital to find the banner owners Luo Luohun and Gu Shan Ezhen Yechen and cry.

Duoduo then reprimanded Wu Sangui and Engetu, but did not punish them, but waited to hear the self-defenses of Kong Xigui, Jin Bin, and Yang Weihan before punishing them.In this way, Doduo removed himself from the main responsibility for this defeat. As for the responsibility that he should bear as the coach, he could not escape, but he didn't need to shirk it. The second brother, besides himself and Aji In addition, who else can be pushed out to lead the army?Can he let go of this heart?

However, although most of the responsibility for this defeat can be shirked, it still cannot change the predicament facing Doduo.Duoduo is not his big brother who knows how to fight, he knows very well that entering the customs is the second brother's all-or-nothing, because since Huang Taiji became a sweater, Shangsanqi has already taken over the iron barrels operating near Shenyang, even if the second brother wins temporarily If you lose Hauge, you may not be able to win against other Six Flags.

Just as the ministers of the two Yellow Banners said when they tried to fight their brothers in the palace: "We are fed by the emperor and clothed by the emperor. The emperor's kindness to us is equal to heaven. If the emperor's son is not established as the new Khan , we would rather follow the emperor underground."

This is not just a sentence of intimidation, but also shows that Huang Taiji's favor to the people near Shenyang during his lifetime is not just to cool the tea as soon as they leave.Dorgon can kill all of Haoge's supporters, but he can't kill the people of Shenyang as well. If the people of Shenyang forget Huang Taiji's kindness, then it is best to leave that city.

Although most of the Manchus do not read books, Dorgon is one of the few who are willing to read. Of course, what he reads is not the Four Books and Five Classics and poems and poems, but Chinese history. Duo Duo followed the second brother and still read it. some historical ones.

For example, he remembered that Dorgon commented that the reason why Song Taizu could not pass the throne to his son was not the alliance of the golden chamber, but that Zhao Guangyi had been the prefect of Kaifeng for 16 years, and the whole city of Kaifeng only knew King Jin He was the younger brother of Taizu and didn't know that Zhao Dezhao was the crown prince, so King Jin was able to successfully take over the throne after his brother's sudden death, because Kaifeng was his eyes and ears.

Therefore, as long as they stay in Shenyang, both inside and outside of Shenyang will always remember who Huang Taiji's descendants are, and they will not remember that they are also Nurhal's sons.If there is a trouble, Dorgon is not sure that he can suppress the two yellow flags and Zhenglan flags in Shenyang City.If you want to change the state affairs and make people forget Huang Taiji and remember him Dorgon, you have to move the capital. Only in a brand new place can the Eight Banners know who is their new master.

Of course, there are many people who oppose the idea of ​​moving the capital, even Azig opposes it.After all, after taking Shanhaiguan and Beijing, Shenyang has become very safe. Some people think that it is impossible to conquer China with a population of one trillion with the power of Manchurians. After all, there are less than 18 people now. This has already counted all the males between 60 and [-]. Even if all these males are pulled out to serve as soldiers, it is not as large as the number of Ming troops in Hebei.

What's more, Manchuria is not one-on-one with China, and not all tribes on the Mongolian grasslands surrender to Manchuria.While fighting with the Han Chinese with a population of tens of millions in the pass, you must also pay attention not to let the Mongols on the grassland betray you. Is this simply betting on the fate of the Qing Dynasty? It is a good thing to win, but if you lose, it is a Decades of hard work from Tianminghan to Huangtaiji have been in vain.

For some people, there is really no need to gamble like this, because the Daming who had a grudge against the Manchus is finished, and there is no enmity between them and Dashun, so as long as the two sides stop fighting and make peace, then they can follow the rules of the Song Dynasty. The Northern and Southern Dynasties were established in the Liao or Song-Jin model.With Shanhaiguan and Beijing under control, they can come and leave whenever they want in the pass. There is really no need to go deep into the south and fight to the death with the Han people.

But Doduo still understands Dorgon's thoughts. If he can't seize the military power of the Eight Banners in the name of fighting against China, then Hauge will have a chance to breathe. As the eldest son of Huang Taiji and the banner owner of the Zhenglan Banner, Hauge is not There is no name to win over the flags.Even if Fulin is older, if the two brothers collude together, their brothers will be in danger.

Although Dodo finds it difficult to understand some of Dorgon's thoughts, his position has been bound by Dorgon in the internal struggle of the Eight Banners. At critical moments, he can only support Dorgon, otherwise Dorgon will be ruled by the kings. Even if Zhu Baylor was driven off the stage, he would not have any good results either.Only that Azig, who didn't understand the situation, would chatter against Dorgon's idea of ​​moving the capital for the sake of a little farm in Shenyang. What a fool.

Thinking of this, Duo Duo felt that he could no longer drag Dorgon down. This defeat must have aroused the voices of those who opposed the capital move, and maybe these people would point the finger at him. If he could not take a clear stand Come out to support Dorgon's relocation of the capital, this defeat is really difficult to pass so simply.

After making up his mind, Duoduo said to everyone: "The reason for Tianjin's setback this time should be familiar to everyone. Next, we still need to discuss what to do next. Follow the old rules , let’s speak one by one, Han Dai, let’s start with you.”

Han Dai thought for a while and said: "From this battle, we can see that Emperor Yongchang is the number one enemy of this dynasty. If he is not defeated, this dynasty will not be able to govern even if Shanxi and Shaanxi are defeated. Take the opportunity.

So I think that we should not rush to attack at this time, but should explain the situation to the Nine Kings, and ask the Nine Kings to send the main force to support us, and then gather heavy troops to smash the iron walnut in Tianjin, and exhaust the elite soldiers in Yongchang's hands. What else would he use to entangle our army? "

Geng Zhongming nodded in support: "What Master Chengzheng said is exactly that the old soldiers in Yongchang's hands were also fought with the Ming army, and they could not be trained overnight. If our army concentrates the main force and loses one arm, Yongchang can only recover. It's a traitorous nature. As long as we don't give him a chance to recover, Yongchang will die and Dashun will die..."

Chapter 91

Wu Guogui leaned against the water gate, put his head on a floating corpse and pretended to be a dead corpse to escape the search of Shunjun.After escaping from the north gate, under the pressure of the fire, everyone could only run towards the big puddle in the northwest of the city, hoping to use the puddle here to avoid the fire.

However, the Shun army blocked on the other side of the puddle seemed to let them rush ashore, and soon dispatched archers and pikemen to guard the shore, shooting from long distances and poking near, coupled with the support of firearms, the water puddle soon Littered with dead bodies.The coalition soldiers here would rather be shot by the Shun army than be burned to death or suffocated to death, and the Shun army soldiers over there were also worried that so many coalition soldiers would rush through the puddle, so they tried their best to eliminate the danger in the puddle. So near this puddle became a slaughterhouse.

Before and after the fire spread to the heels, Wu Guogui had long forgotten his promise to his subordinates. After all, he still had some sense. He noticed that the soldiers of the Shun Army mainly paid attention to those who could move, and paid little attention to the corpses. If he didn't lean towards the opposite bank, Shun Jun wouldn't make up his sword to make sure he was really dead.

So he shouted and fought with those Shunjun soldiers, led his subordinates and rushed into the puddle with 200 people. At the same time, he untied the armor on his body. The corpse survived the height of the battle.In fact, it can't be called a battle, it can only be called a massacre, because few people can get close to the other side.

When Wu Guogui was pretending to be a corpse in the water, he could hear the desperate cries of the soldiers on his side and the firing of firearms on the other side, but he didn't hear anything wrong with the Shun army. People are dying instead of fighting.Occasionally, a few smart people also wanted to run to Shuimen to find a way out, but they were chased by Shunjun and beaten to death one by one, Wu Guogui didn't dare to expose himself even more.

He soaked in the water for a whole night. Even though it was night, the fire shone like daylight all night. There were still people patrolling the shore from Shunjun, and some of them couldn't bear it and wanted to go ashore. That's how the smart man was killed by the Shun army.

Wu Guogui's endurance was good, and he carried it until dawn. At this time, the fire that had been burning all night finally gradually began to extinguish, and the whole city of Tianjin was filled with the smell of barbecue. vomit.If he didn't still have some sense, he couldn't help but bow his head and take a few sips of dirty water.

But even so, Wu Guogui, who had soaked in the water all night, was about to lose consciousness at dawn. He thought that he couldn't stay in the water any longer, otherwise he would freeze to death in the water.At this time, the soldiers of the Shun Army began to fish for corpses in the water, and Wu Guogui finally tried to ask these Shun Army soldiers for help.

Hearing his shouts, someone finally came over and rowed him ashore with a bamboo pole. Wu Guogui asked the other party for water after thanking him. One of the young people looked at him disdainfully and said, "There are some people in the river. Water, haven’t you had enough after drinking all night?”

Wu Guogui fell silent for a moment, but the older Shunjun soldier at the head untied the skin bag on his waist and handed it to him, and said to the young man, "Hou Qi, don't be so mean. He looks like a mere It’s just small soldiers, didn’t His Majesty Yongchang have already said that it was Wu Sangui, Gao Di and other big Ming dignitaries who colluded to build slaves and betray China, and they have nothing to do with the soldiers below, they were just deceived.”

After Wu Guogui took the skin bag, he took a big gulp without hesitation, and almost choked it out, but he was overjoyed, the skin bag was not filled with water but wine, so he quickly drank two more gulps, and then his stomach A ball of fire shot up inside, and I felt my whole body warm up.Wu Guogui then thanked the other party with the leather bag in both hands, "Thank you for the water, brother. You really saved my life."

The veteran of the Shun Army who led the team hung his leather bag back to his waist, and said to the young man beside him: "Hou Qi, take him to the shelter, let's continue to work, our task is to finish before noon." We need to clean up this area, otherwise when the corpse rots, there will be a plague here."

The young soldier Hou Qi angrily kicked Wu Guogui who was sitting on the ground, telling him to get up and follow him.Wu Guogui obediently got up and followed him, without showing any dissatisfaction.On the way, he took a careful look at his appearance, and realized that after removing the iron armor, his attire was no different from that of an auxiliary soldier, even because of the soaked water, the background color of his middle coat could no longer be seen. No wonder the veteran just thought he was just an ordinary soldier.

After following Hou Qi for sixty or seventy steps, we arrived at an east-west avenue, then walked west along the puddle for 2 or 300 steps, and saw a wooden bridge with a platform in front of which several scholars Sitting behind the table, talking with the captives brought in.Soon, Wu Guogui was brought to the front of the platform, and Hou Qi said to the scholars behind the platform, "Deng Shen's third battalion, two companies and three platoons captured an enemy soldier near Shuimen."

Then, Hou Qi stepped back and said to Wu Guogui: "If you honestly confess your identity, someone will arrange your whereabouts, so be it."

After finishing speaking, Hou Qi turned around and walked away, leaving Wu Guogui here.When Wu Guogui was thinking about how he should react, the scholar who had just talked to Hou Qi pointed at him and asked, "What's your name? Where is your hometown? Where did you serve as a soldier before the war? What's your boss's name..."

Wu Guogui was a little at a loss as he looked at the scholar who was asking him a series of questions. He really didn't expect to be asked so many questions as a prisoner.However, under the inquiry of the scholar, he hesitated and gave his real name, but his resume was that of an ordinary soldier under Fu Sanyi. Anyway, Fu Sanyi's first team was almost dead, so he felt that the other party should not be able to find out what he said is not the truth.

After finishing writing, the scholar didn't ask any more questions, took a wooden sign from the table and threw it to him and said, "Okay, now you are the No. 321 prisoner camp, organized into the second battalion, three companies and four rows, follow the guards, As long as there are 50 people, there will be tasks assigned to you. Those who work hard will have food, and those who refuse to do things will be whipped, understand?"

Of course Wu Guogui understood that this was a much better ending than he expected, and doing some hard work was better than getting his head chopped off.The coalition soldiers who survived like him were coming out of various hiding places in the city to surrender to the Shun army. Compared with the coalition soldiers in the north side of the city when the fire broke out, the coalition soldiers in the city were undoubtedly luckier, because there were many open spaces in the city. There are places where you can escape the fire.

And for these coalition soldiers who surrendered, except for the wounded who do not need to work, everyone else needs to do the work of clearing the fire scene.After registration and formation, the Shun army only needs to use a small part of the troops to supervise and let them go to work.And the captives who spent their physical strength on cleaning the fire scene, at least they would not think about it anymore, and it also relieved a lot of physical strength for the soldiers of the Shun army who guarded them.

So within a short period of time, the captured soldiers of the coalition army calmed down and obeyed the arrangement of the Shun army.The Shun army was busy cleaning up the battlefield and repairing the pontoon bridge.At noon, a pontoon bridge on the South Canal was finally repaired, thus resuming the land traffic between the north and south of the canal.

At noon, Li Zicheng took the generals across the pontoon bridge to inspect the defense line on the north bank, and focused on the triangle fort defense area.In addition to rewarding the craftsmen who built the triangular fort, Li Zicheng also summoned the troops stationed in the triangular fort yesterday.Standing on the platform of the triangular fort in the middle, he made an impromptu speech to the soldiers of the Shun Army inside and outside the fort: "Yesterday, we achieved a brilliant victory.

Jiannu and Wu Sangui joined forces to try to destroy us, but under your heroic fighting, although the enemy outnumbered us 4 times, we still defeated them, and Jiannu even set fire to block our attack, but ended up with himself and The friendly army was buried in the sea of ​​​​fire.

I want to thank you for your hard work, and I want to thank those martyrs who sacrificed themselves for the future of China.Some of them were the soldiers of the Ming Army in the past, but now they are the soldiers of the Dashun Army; there are also peasant brothers who have been following me to resist the tyranny of the Ming Dynasty; there are also Mongolian brothers and Korean brothers who joined us to fight against the tyrannical Manchus.It is with your efforts that we can defeat those greedy and brutal bandits, thus safeguarding the people's homeland.

Why can we attack the strong with the weak?Why can we win more with less?In the final analysis, because we are defending our own homeland, we are righteous, so we can get the support of the people and defeat those robbers.

Why can't Daming stop these bandits from repeatedly entering the customs and robbing?Because the people do not trust the officers and soldiers.Why do the people distrust the officers and soldiers?Because Daming's destiny is gone.

What is Daming's destiny? It is clearly written in "Zhu Yuanzhang's Essay on the Northern Expedition of the Yuan Dynasty": expel the Hulu, restore China, establish guidelines and discipline, and rescue the people.Daming's destiny is actually two things: to drive out the barbarians and save the people.

And what did Emperor Shenzong do when he was in court?The Spaniards killed our merchants in the Philippines. Emperor Shenzong said that it was their own fault; the Qi family army fought for the country, from the south to the north, and did not rest for the country and the people, but the emperor Shenzong condoned the treacherous and slaughtered the Qi family army without reason; the country's funds were insufficient. , Zhang Juzheng pleaded for the people and promoted national reform, but Emperor Shenzong not only persecuted Zhang Juzheng's descendants for his own selfishness, but also abolished the new law.

I have heard: Those who hold salaries for the people must not be frozen to death in the wind and snow; those who open the way for freedom must not be trapped in thorns.But in the Ming Dynasty, good people did not live long, and evil people had golden belts.Therefore, during the Shenzong Dynasty, Daming's destiny was exhausted.The officers and soldiers regard the people as lambs to be slaughtered, and the people regard the officers and soldiers as wolves. How can such a country stop the invasion of Jiannu?

So I, Dashun, rose up according to the destiny. What is my destiny, Dashun?I thought there were only two points, protecting the people and republic..."

Yesterday's big victory had already washed away the Shun army's fear of Jiannu and their confusion about the future.Although when evacuating from Beijing, Li Zicheng arranged for a preacher to publicize to the various troops that this was only a temporary evacuation. After the prince was sent to the south and the rear of Dashun was settled, Emperor Yongchang would lead them to regroup and fight back to Beijing. here.

But everyone is still dubious about this, it's just that Li Zicheng's prestige suppresses everyone from speaking their hearts.But after yesterday's big victory, everyone finally no longer doubted their ability to fight back to Beijing.Everyone thought in their hearts, get things done in the south as soon as possible, and stabilize the rear, so that Emperor Yongchang can bring them back and fight back.

And today's speech by Emperor Yongchang dispelled the last shadow in the hearts of the soldiers in the army.That's right, Da Ming's destiny has been exhausted, even if the crown prince goes south to restore the country, it is impossible to be that Daming, and our Dashun is the real heir to the destiny, so why do you worry about the future?

With this in mind, after Li Zicheng finished his speech, the army couldn't help shouting "Long live", and the sound shook the sky for a while, even the Qing army and the Sangui army on both sides of the North Canal were startled.

Chapter 92

After motivating the soldiers, the next step should be to reward the meritorious service, but the meritorious service department did not summarize the military merits of the various ministries so quickly, so Li Zicheng named the three troops.

The first unit was of course Jiang Xun's battalion, which was defending the Drum Tower. There were more than 200 people in the whole battalion, and only a hundred of them were withdrawn in the end.So Li Zicheng announced that he had transferred a group of officers and soldiers from his side and several reserve regiments to supplement the battalion, and gave the battalion the title of Drum Tower Camp. Troops with titles should move out of the way and salute them.

The second awarding unit was a regiment stationed in the Triangle Fort. Li Zicheng gave it the title of the Triangle Regiment, and the other treatment was the same as that of the Drum Tower Battalion; then the two cavalry units in the rear were awarded the titles of Chilong Division and Canglong Division. These two cavalry divisions also lost about 300 cavalry in repeated battles with the Qing cavalry, accounting for almost 15% of the total force, and they really need to be encouraged.

The soldiers who just won a big victory are more tolerant. After all, this time is not a hard battle, so they can also accept Li Zicheng's practice of giving honors first, not to mention that the meritorious deeds of these troops are indeed outstanding, and rewards alone are not enough To reward their contributions, such honorary titles are more honorable, after all, for those who sacrificed, gold, silver, silk and satin are not needed.

After inspecting the results of the war and the army on the north bank, Li Zicheng and the generals walked into the yamen of the Ministry of Supervision and Payment, and held the first military meeting after the war.The content of this military meeting is very simple, it is to discuss what kind of response the Qing army will make and how the guards should evacuate.

Song Xiance first said: "After this battle is over, the Ming army of Sangui and other Manchus who surrendered should feel a little scared. Therefore, the next time they attack us, the Manchus will definitely take the lead and defeat our army. Vigorous, so that you can command Sangui and other troops and let them attack our army with all their might.

Therefore, after the Battle of Tianjin, our army was not fighting against the Sangui Army, other Ming troops who surrendered, and Jiannu;

The minister thought that our army might as well pretend to stick to Tianjin and see how Jiannu will attack our army in front of Sangui and other troops. If Jiannu can't show the ability to quickly defeat our army, then Sangui and other troops may not return. There is a determination to be loyal to the slaves.We can take advantage of it. "

However, Yuan Yuzong disagreed and said: "The Song army division's idea is good, but it is too risky. The Sangui army and those frontier soldiers who surrendered to Jiannu, even if they had the idea of ​​​​deviating from Jiannu in their hearts, they would not agree to it." They will come here on our side, because Hebei is not the base of our Dashun, if our army and Jiannu fight to lose both sides, I am afraid that these top rats at both ends may not have the desire to profit from the fisherman.

Since His Majesty had already made a strategy for going south before the war, he wanted to use Jiangnan as a backing to manage Xu Si's land, and then go north after rectifying the people's military preparations. I think this is the safest way.

In the past ten years or so, disasters have continued in the north, and the banks of the Yellow River have long been empty. If our army wants to stay in the north and continue fighting, where will we get food and pay?As for Jiannu, they have entered the customs five times in the past ten years, and they have been operating outside the customs for many years. They may not be able to survive relying on the money and food outside the customs.Instead of spending time here with Jiannu, Sangui, and the frontier army, it is better to retreat to the south as soon as possible and stabilize Jiangnan first.

As long as money and food from the south can be continuously sent to the army, no matter how close Jiannu and Sangui are, they will not be able to consume us after all.How can the broken north support hundreds of thousands of troops? "

The generals sitting in the hall also spoke in order, and most of them still supported Yuan Yuzong, because everyone felt that the fire would be happy, but Tianjin also lost the basis for long-term defense.

After listening to the opinions of the generals and the General Staff Headquarters, Li Zicheng pondered for a while and finally spoke: "The strategy of going south will not change, but there is no need for us to withdraw so quickly, so as not to increase the morale of Jiannu.

If Jiannu really wanted to take revenge on us, yesterday afternoon would be the best time, but they didn't dare to confront our army immediately, which shows that they are not a group of lunatics, but a group of cunning enemies.

You can't blindly show weakness to cunning enemies. This is the same as encountering a wolf in the forest. If you turn around and run away after scaring it, it will only stimulate it to hunt you.But if you find a big rock to confront him, then it won't dare to act rashly.

The situation between us and Jianu is also the same. If we run away now, they will think that we are at the end of their arrows, and they must catch up and try it out.But if we stick to it first, they may not dare to rush up by themselves.

According to the inquiry of those Manchus by the statistics office, I don’t think there are even 1 real Manchus in Liaodong. Some of them will stay outside the customs, some of them will stay in Beijing, and they will march to Shanxi and Xuanda. Duduo There are really many people in their hands who don't know if there are [-].If he brought Zhenman people up to fight with me, I would praise him as a good man..."

Duduo, who was praised by Li Zicheng as a good man, was naturally not so stupid. He didn't even have five thousand Zhenmanren in his hands.This time, there are 4 Manchu Eight Banners, less than 2 Mongolian Eight Banners, and a little over 2 Han Army Eight Banners, a total of 8 people.If you add the slaves under the banner, there will be almost more than 13 horses.

The losses caused by yesterday's fire to the coalition forces finally passed to him in the morning. Wu Sangui's troops lost a total of more than 7 people, of which Kong Xigui's army was almost wiped out.Of course, Doduo doesn't care about the number of deaths who surrendered to the Ming army. What he cares about is another number. More than 1000 people from the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Han Dynasty have not returned, and nearly [-] of them are really Manchurians. Losing one-tenth of the Manchurian soldiers in his hands, although they were mainly people with red flags, really made him feel a little heartbroken.

Last night, he just felt that it was possible to lose so much, and he still had a little luck in his heart, but seeing the numbers in the newspaper, he really couldn't avoid it anymore.At this time, what he was thinking about was not how to take down the Tianjin Acropolis, but how to exchange those Manchu corpses and captives first, otherwise the morale of the Manchu soldiers in the camp would be shaken.

Moreover, with the two battles of Huangtuzhuang and Tianjin, plus the fact that the Shun army had delayed his army all the way, Duduo did not have the confidence to defeat the Dashun army with relatively small losses.Although there were 1 people in the group he led, the Eight Banners Army was only about [-], and the remaining [-] were surrendered Ming troops. He did not dare to expect these people to follow him to the camp of the Shun Army. It would be very dangerous to force them to attack the camp of the Shun army after the fire.

Coupled with the shouts that just came from the Shunjun camp, such morale is obviously not an object that can be eagerly attacked.After thinking about it for a long time, Duoduo called the pentieshi beside him and asked him to write a letter on his behalf. Then he used his own seal and sent someone to find a general from the camp to send the letter to To Li Zicheng.

At the same time, he personally wrote a letter to Dorgon, and then sent someone to expedite it to Beijing.After doing all this, Duoduo called his subordinates, and while monitoring the movement of the Shun army in the long base, he sent out sentries to scout the road along the South Canal, making preparations for chasing the Shun army.

On May 21, under the planning of Song Quan, the new Xuanhua Jiedu envoy, and Li Jian, the former governor of the Xuanfu government, Cheng Shaokong, the governor of the city, Wang Yinghui, the deputy general of the Xuanfu, Yang Guozhu, the younger brother of the general of the Xuanfu, and the former Datong General Jiang Yu joined forces with the gentry in the city to rebel against the Dashun Army, and Huang Yingxuan, the general of the Shun Army stationed in Xuan, Li Yungui, the defense envoy, and 15 people were all killed.

Since the Dashun Army retreated from Shanhaiguan, "Dashun Army was defeated in Shanhaiguan, Bai Guangen, Tang Tong and other troops have surrendered to Sangui", "Chuang Wang led his army to flee, and has abandoned Beijing and returned to Shaanxi" These are either true or false The news continued to spread to Xuanfu, and the hearts of the people in the city were already floating.At this time, Song Quan, who was transferred to Xuanfu, did not have the idea of ​​being loyal to Dashun. The former general of Datong, Jiang Yu, was summoned by Li Zicheng to go to Beijing, and because of these news, he did not stop at Xuanfu.

In addition, Xuanfu was the main gateway for Ming to smuggle exports to Mongolia and Manchuria, and the shop in Zhangjiakou did not have the support of these Xuanfu officials.Compared with the Dashun army, the local business gentry were more willing to invest in Sangui or Manchu, because it was more beneficial to their out-of-mouth trade in Zhangjiakou.

As for Jiang Yu, he did not want to leave Datong. When he surrendered to Li Zicheng, he originally thought that he would be able to continue ruling Datong. The three brothers of the Jiang family had already formed an interest group in the north of Shanxi. The emperor is happy.

It's just that Li Zicheng is not willing to satisfy his ideas, and wants to kill him.If it hadn't been for someone to intercede, he would have lost his head in vain.Therefore, Jiang Yu was dissatisfied with Li Zicheng, but when he heard that Li Zicheng had taken the city of Beijing smoothly, he had no choice but to accept Li Zicheng's order honestly.

But when he arrived in Datong, he felt that the world was going to be chaotic again, so he naturally refused to continue to Beijing.The Xuan Mansion and Datong are already closely related, and the Jiang family is also a big family of border smugglers.After a few words were mentioned by the people in the Xuan Mansion, he recklessly joined the gamble.

After killing the generals of the Shun army in Xuanfu, the hearts of the people in the city did not immediately calm down. Even if they sacrificed the heads of these Shunjun to Chongzhen, the people of Xuanfu were still in panic, thinking that the Western army would definitely come to retaliate.At this time, Azige sent Wu Weihua to Xuanfu to surrender. For this former Ming nobleman, Li Jian and Song Quan decided to surrender to the Manchu Qing who occupied Beijing after discussing, because they really couldn't see that Sangui had any The possibility of recovery.

After subduing the Xuanfu, Azige immediately returned to the capital with Li Jian and Song Quan, and asked Wang Yinghui and Jiang Guan to act as the chief soldiers of the Xuanfu temporarily.The people of the Xuan Mansion felt relieved now, and if the Shun Army came to take revenge, at least they could ask the Man Qing for help.

So on May 27, Dorgon in Beijing received two pieces of good news in a row. Xuanfu surrendered to the Azig Army, Manchuria Zhenghuang Banner Gushan Erzhen Tantai also successfully won Zhending, and the Shun Army had already Completely retreated into Shanxi.To the north of the capital, all cities inside and outside Juyongguan and Zhending have surrendered, leaving only Tianjin.

At this time, Dorgon was not sure whether Li Zicheng was on the way to Shanxi or on the way to Tianjin, but he felt that as long as Duoduo could defeat the enemy in Tianjin, then no matter which way Li Zicheng was, things would be fine. It's done.

Chapter 93

Fan Wencheng, who was discussing with Dorgon, was also in a good mood when he heard the news of Xuanfu's surrender. He immediately suggested to Dorgon: "Song Quan and Li Jian are the first batch of governors and officials who voluntarily surrendered since entering the customs. They should be treated preferentially and set an example for the world.