Dashun Yongchang

What Tulai said was very humane, and some of the guards standing on the side went up to pull up Alima and pushed him to find water. Celt took the reins from Tulai and took his Order to find someone to come back and rescue these people.A conflict was finally resolved by Tulai, but after the crowd dispersed, Tulai frowned tightly, because he couldn't understand what Li Zicheng meant by doing these more and more.

Although the Shun army retreated from a piece of stone, the Ming army in Shanhaiguan did not let down their vigilance.Therefore, Wu Sangui has been sending people to keep an eye on the camp of the Shun Army, wanting to know what kind of nerves Li Zicheng was having. He ran to Shanhaiguan not to attack the city, but began to think of mourning for Emperor Chongzhen.

His cautiousness was soon rewarded. The sentry stationed outside the city reported to him that a group of people came out of the Shunjun camp in the early morning and headed for the Nine Gates. There seemed to be a group of full people in the middle.Although they didn't wear Manchu costumes, they showed the hair style of money rat tail.Because they were guarded by the Shun army, the sentries didn't dare to get too close, so they couldn't recognize the origins of these Manchus.

Wu Sangui became a little flustered after hearing the news. He asked people to put the scout under house arrest to prevent outsiders from knowing the news. Then he went to his father in the back house and asked him: " Father, when you were in the Shun army camp, did you hear any news about the Shun Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty?"

Wu Xiang was wearing a foreign uniform, sitting on a rich chair without any military atmosphere at all, like a scholar-bureaucrat staying at home, he looked at his son and shook his head and said: "After Emperor Yongchang entered Beijing with a large army, apart from searching for the emperor and the prince In addition to whereabouts, the government treasury was seized and officials were tortured. I didn’t even publish a statement to the south to stabilize the people’s hearts. How could I care about contacting the Qing Dynasty? As for after the Eastern Expedition, I was put under house arrest, and I don’t know Did Emperor Yongchang have any envoys with the Qing Dynasty..."

Chapter 19 Change

The sunlight came in through the open door, allowing Wu Sangua to see the subtle expression of his father sitting on the chair, and he realized that his father really did not hide anything from him.

This made him feel relieved. Before, he was afraid that his father, who had returned from the Shun army, would insist on surrendering to Dashun in order to keep his family in Beijing.Although he has now mastered the last Liaodong Army, considering his status as a filial son and his father's relationship with the Liaodong Army, if his father really wants to incite the army in the city to surrender, it will really cause him a lot of trouble.

His father was able to stay in the back house wisely instead of going out to wander around, which saved him a lot of trouble and further established his legitimacy in commanding the Guanning Army, which was why he felt relieved.

But at the same time, he also felt that his father was really a waste. No wonder his uncle looked down on him. After staying in Li Zicheng's army for so long, he couldn't ask for more useful information.

After looking at his father for a long time, Wu Sangui finally explained his reason for coming, "Father, I have figured it out in the past two days. Since Emperor Yongchang made such a sincere condition, if I don't respond, I'm afraid he will really take it." I thought I was determined to collude with Bei Bing and make him an enemy."

Standing in the backlight, Wu Sangui was hidden in the shadows. It was difficult for Wu Xiang to see the expression on his son's face, but he still followed his son's words and said: "My son's words are reasonable. In fact, there is no reason for my Liao army to join the Northern Dynasty. The good thing is that Zu Shuai was relieved of his military power after he surrendered to the Northern Dynasty, and he can only be a rich man. Now that we have taken refuge in the past, I am afraid that we can only become the second Zu Shuai. The Northern Dynasty will reward you with an empty title, but you will not be able to control it The Guan Ning army is now.

Instead, they voted for Dashun. If Emperor Yongchang meant what he said, then my family can go a step further.Even if Emperor Yongchang repents, my son will have soldiers and territory after occupying Hebei, so why should we look at his face?At that time, I am afraid that Beichao will value you even more. "

Hearing his father's words, Wu Sangui's heart was indeed a little moved, but he quickly said: "It's just that my boy is worried, Li Zicheng is cheating. He comforted my boy to make the northern soldiers retreat, and then settle accounts with my boy.

In addition, Hai'er was also worried that if Li Zicheng and Bei Bian bypassed Hai'er to discuss peace between the two countries, Hai'er would be abandoned by Bei Bian instead.If the soldiers in the city know that the Beibing is no longer supported by our army, and Shanhaiguan has become an isolated city, I worry that those soldiers will tie up our family and dedicate it to the Shun army or the Beibing, and my family will be unbearable. "

Wu Xiang finally became a little nervous, and he said, "Then what do you think about Sangui? Is it north or south? You can't just sit and wait in the city, right?"

Wu Sangui thought for a while and said: "The Northern Dynasty gave Hai'er the condition of being a vassal king, but they didn't divide the territory for Hai'er. Li Zicheng was more sincere, not only giving the prince, but also giving the territory. However, if Hai'er gets it Hebei, why do you need to bow to Li Zicheng? This bandit tortured and plundered all the officials in the capital. He was already angry and resentful. Once he quit the capital, he must be a lost dog.

If I occupy the capital and use the revival of Daming as a call, who else in the world is my opponent?Although the northern soldiers are strong, they have no foundation in the pass. At most, they are the Tubo soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, who returned north after being full of food after looting.When the northern soldiers return to the north, the pass will naturally be the world of my family.

Therefore, the boy does not want to vote for the north, nor does he want to submit.He really wanted to have a big battle with Shunqing, and Hai'er took the opportunity to revive Daming'er.Thinking about the kindness of Emperor Daxing to Hai'er, if Haier's plan succeeds, he will be worthy of Emperor Daxing. "

Wu Xiang didn't understand his son's dream, so he could only tactfully persuade him: "The generals of the Liaodong Army have different ideas, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to follow my family to revive Daming. They are willing to follow you to guard Yuguan. Clear the wind, waiting for the opportunity to place a bet.

Moreover, the North Dynasty has always been cunning and vicious, and Emperor Yongchang is also very human. If you want to make money among them, I am worried that you are playing with fire and setting yourself on fire.At that time, both sides are offended, and the generals below will all disperse. "

Wu Sangui felt that his father's courage was really too small. In this troubled world, even a thief like Li Zicheng can become the emperor, so why can't he touch the emperor's dragon bed as a general's son.Right now is the era when the strong soldiers and horses are the emperor. If you can't have a dream with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in your hands, it is really a waste of this troubled world.

However, he replied respectfully on the surface: "What my father said is true, so the boy thought, he should go and talk to Emperor Yongchang. For example, how he gave up Hebei to me, and how he fought against the northern soldiers. But the boy is all Due to the safety of this city, I cannot go to have an interview with Emperor Yongchang in person, and the other children are worried, so I ask my father to take the trouble to go to the Shun army camp to find out whether Emperor Yongchang is sincere or not."

Wu Xiang looked at her son expressionlessly, and felt that Chongzhen's praise of him as a "loyal minister and filial son" was indeed worthy of the name, no wonder Daming would be finished.Wu Sangui bowed to his father, and Wu Xiang sat on a chair. If he saw this scene from a distance in the courtyard, he would definitely feel that it was a scene of fatherly kindness and son filial piety.

When Sun Youbai returned to Jiumenkou the night before, Tulai's deputy Kara Angbang Eshuo had already led the forward of the Qing army to occupy the pass that was abandoned by the Shun army.Nine Gates is actually a section of the Great Wall on water. The Qinglong River crosses the Great Wall through nine gates. The river dries up in the dry season, and the mountain torrents rise sharply in the rainy season.Therefore, when the rainy season is not here, Jiumenkou can be marched, but it is not as suitable as Shanhaiguan for troops to pass through.

But for the Qing army, being able to get the Nine Gates means that Shanhaiguan is no longer a natural danger, but a checkpoint that can be taken down, because there are very few pass cities that can hold on to the front and rear attacks.

It was a surprise for the Qing army that the Dashun army abandoned Jiumenkou, which meant that the Shanhaiguan Ming army had much less bargaining capital.Therefore, Tulai ordered the forward troops in the rear to take over the Nine Gates without hesitation, and he himself followed Tang Tong's troops on a bigger adventure.

For the Qing army, it was indeed possible to turn against Wu Sangui's troops for Jiumenkou, so the forward of the Qing army who had been wandering in front of Shanhaiguan finally showed up and expelled the small group of Wu Sangui's troops who were trying to take over Jiumenkou.

This Qing army is mainly composed of 4 Niulu of Zhenghuang Banner under the name of Tulai, Mongolian Eight Banners, and Han Army. There are 400 Manchurian soldiers and about 800 Mongolian and Han troops.When E Shuo saw Sun Youbai coming back, he didn't think much about it, but asked him what order Tulai asked him to bring back.Sun Youbai lied to him, saying that Tulai asked him to bring a message to the Nine Kings, so E Shuo gave him horses and guards, and sent him to the rear.

It wasn't until this morning, when Selt came back on horseback to report, that E Shuo realized that it took less than a day for Tulai and the others to infiltrate the Shun army camp and they were discovered, and even Tang Tong was executed by Emperor Yongchang.Knowing that Tulai was not dead and had been released by Shunjun, E Shuo immediately led a team of fine cavalry to meet them, and finally found Tulai and his party more than 10 miles away from Jiumenkou.

E Shuo asked Tulai and others to prepare horses, and asked Tulai: "What happened? How did the Shun army find you? How did they let you go? How did Sun Youbai come back? "

Tulai, who got on his horse, just felt a burst of relief, and suddenly heard E Shuo's last question, turned his head to look at him and said, "Sun Youbai has also been released? Where are the others?"

E Shuo replied in a daze: "He arrived at the Nine Gates last night, and he said that there was an urgent military situation to report to the Nine Kings, so I sent someone to send him to see the Nine Kings. I guess at this time, he should be in the army Alright..."

Sun Youbai, who was mentioned by E Shuo, was being summoned by Dorgon at this time. On the way, he happened to meet the people sent by Dorgon to Shanhaiguan to inquire about the news. He heard that he had a military report from the Shun Army. He went to the army station, bypassed other people's eyes and ears, and was brought to Dorgon.

After listening to Li Zicheng's message brought back by Sun Youbai, Dorgon ordered Bai Yala next to him to take Sun Youbai down and resettle him properly, while he asked a burly middle-aged man beside him, "Big scholar, what do you think?" What did Emperor Yongchang say?"

This burly middle-aged man was exactly Fan Wencheng, who was valued by Huang Taiji. Although he was a scholar, he looked as burly as a martial artist, and even the clothes he was rewarded needed to be specially made.He stroked his belly lightly with his hand while thinking.

When Dorgon decided to send troops, he was recuperating at the Gaizhou Hot Spring on the pretext of illness.Of course, his illness was not that serious, but it was an internal power struggle in Manchuria who wanted to stay away from Shengjing.

Huang Taiji died suddenly last year. For Khan, the two white flags and the two yellow flags almost met each other.In the end, Dorgon decided to back down, not just for the sake of the overall situation, but the two red flags indirectly expressed his position.

Adali and Erbo Shuotuo almost openly lobbied Prince Zheng Jierhalang and Prince Li Daishan in an attempt to support Dorgon's succession.However, this caused dissatisfaction within the two red flags who supported Huang Taiji's lineage. Daishan was unwilling to split within the two red flags, so he reported his grandson and son. This also means that the two red flags are not as neutral as they seem.

Dorgon realized that there were not many people who supported him except for the two white flags.In addition to Huang Taiji's creation of mutual containment within the Eight Banners during his lifetime, the important thing is the death of the concubine Abahai, which has determined that many people are unwilling to let him ascend to the throne, lest he be retaliated by him.Facing civil war or compromise, Dorgon finally chose the latter.

But this does not mean that the power struggle within Manchuria has come to an end. Dorgon, who is the regent, has no intention of letting go of his political opponents. Prince Zheng Jierhalang, who is regent with him, publicly stated at the beginning of this year that the six Send the affairs to Dorgon first, and then give it to yourself.This is almost giving up his position as regent, and Dorgon's power has surpassed the kings.

Faced with the increasingly serious internal confrontation in Manchuria, although Fan Wencheng did not dare to intervene so as not to cause disaster for himself, it is not that he has not thought of a solution.In March of this year, he wrote to the kings to ask the kings to defeat Ming, persuading him: "...the one who steals the great cause will be immortal at this time, and the one who loses the opportunity and regrets the future is also at this time... China is also the one who thinks that Ming is a strong enemy, or else The rogues also. Just as Qin lost its deer, Chu and Han chased after it. Although they competed with the Ming for the world, they were actually fighting with the rogues."

In fact, it is hoped that the kings can let go of their prejudices and focus on fighting for the great cause of the world first.

Chapter 20 Comparison

After thinking about it for a while, Fan Wencheng finally figured it out and said: "The only one who is strong in the world is the thief and me. Today's trend is not that I help break the Ming, nor help the Ming to suppress the bandits, but to cut off those who can and My opponents in the Qing Dynasty compete for the world first.

If the bandits seize the capital of the Ming Dynasty, their momentum is already huge. If they cannot be defeated, the ignorant people in the pass will turn to the bandits. Since the small people belong to the bandits, the local gentry will not dare to act rashly. It will be difficult to contain it, and our dynasty will lose the opportunity to compete for the world.

As for the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen's death for the country was certainly staunch, but it also caused the remaining half of the Ming Dynasty to lose a backbone.Now the Ming army in the north who has not surrendered the bandits has soldiers but no pay, and the Ming land in the south that has not surrendered has pay but no soldiers.When they decide on a leader, I am afraid that there will be no results for a year or so.

Therefore, on the Ming side, the most powerful is actually Wu Sangui's tribe in Shanhaiguan.Although at this time Shanhaiguan is the weakest of the three sides, once he escapes to the south or occupies a piece of territory to recover, it will definitely become a confidant of my Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, we must attack the intruders, and Wu Sangui's troops must be weakened. If we can defeat the intruders in front of the Shanhai Pass, and then defeat Wu Sangui's troops, then our army will enter Shanxi and attack Shaanxi, and wipe out the Chuang and Ming forces north of the Yellow River. There will be no more opponents, and the world will get half of it. "

Dorgon is satisfied with Fan Wencheng's analysis. He doesn't really need other people's advice on military strategy, but if he wants to enter the customs and compete for the world, he must help these Han scholars, because only they understand the psychology of the Han people best .

"One battle determines the universe, wonderful." Dorgon couldn't help but blurt out a comment, and then he said to Fan Wencheng: "Then, see, Grand Scholar, how should we respond to the thief's request? How can we let Wu Sangui fight with Chuang first?" Thieves do it?"

Fan Wencheng thought about it carefully for a while and said: "Our army has fought against the Ming army many times. The combat characteristics of the Ming army are bullying the weak and fearing the hard, fearing field battles, and taking more steps than riding. When they have the upper hand, their combat power is not weaker than ours. However, as long as they are at a slight disadvantage, they will suddenly collapse. Therefore, if the Ming army defends the city, it can still fight;

Therefore, in order to make Wu Sangui's department submit to me, two conditions need to be fulfilled.One is to lure the intruders to attack Shanhaiguan with all their strength, and Wu Sangui will surrender to me for protection; the other is to bring up the heavy artillery from the rear as soon as possible, so that Wu Sangui knows that Shanhaiguan is useless to our army, and our artillery can break through the pass in an instant City, then the other generation will not dare to continue the first and second ends. "

Dorgon felt that Fan Wencheng's words were quite in line with his own wishes, so he asked again: "How to lure the intruders to attack Shanhaiguan with all their strength?"

Fan Wencheng said: "Go slowly, wait and see."

Dorgon thought for a while and said: "What the Grand Scholar said is very true. Let's set up camp after only 30 miles today."

People sent Fan Wencheng away from his tent, and Dorgon thought about Fan Wencheng's thoughts.Dorgon was still a bit afraid of this Han civil official who was trained by Huang Taiji, which was why he wanted to bring Fan Wencheng who was said to be ill.He was worried that this great scholar, known for his strategy in China, would come up with some schemes for the two yellow flags if he stayed in Shengjing, so that those forces that opposed him would unite. Amin who conquered North Korea is even better.

But judging from the present, Fan Wencheng is still honest, and he didn't hide any selfishness when making suggestions.Just like what he said when he wrote a letter to the kings before, "China is united from top to bottom, soldiers are selected and trained, and crimes are faced, provoking their soldiers, saving their people, and mobilizing soldiers with righteousness. It is indeed to assist the Qing Dynasty to seize the world, not to use it as a strategy to help the two yellow flags deal with themselves.

However, Dorgon was quite suspicious of Fan Wencheng's assertion that he could defeat the intruders in one battle.Even if there are some bad rumors about the Shun army in Beijing, Dorgon still has self-knowledge. The Qing army broke through the customs six times before, plundered the population in the pass, and killed the Han people in Liaodong, which is much worse than the Shun army. .

Could it be that those Ming literati so quickly forgot the brutality of the Qing army when they entered the customs, and only remembered the deeds of Li Zicheng who tortured a few officials?If the Ming people were so indiscriminate between right and wrong, then he would not mind listening to Fan Wencheng's advice. This time when he marched into China, he should not kill wantonly, but should comfort the people and make them return to their hearts.

On the other hand, Li Zicheng, who is patrolling the camp and familiarizing himself with the army, although someone has left most of Li Zicheng's memories, but such things as fighting are not easy to remember, especially for the understanding of subordinates and the army, after all, you have to see it with your own eyes Only then can you rest assured.What's more, in Li Zicheng's memory, the contact with his subordinates has been relatively rare since he entered the capital.

Because he followed the advice of Niu Jinxing and other civil officials, one is to establish rules for the old subordinates and soldiers of the Dashun Army, so he should not be too close to them, and it is not inferior if they are close; Son of Heaven, it is the destiny of heaven, if ordinary people know that you eat and shit like them, wouldn't everyone be able to be emperor.

Therefore, in order to be able to be a good emperor, Li Zicheng lived in the Forbidden City after entering Beijing. In the past, those close subordinates also had to pass the eunuch's report to see him.And national affairs are no longer discussed with generals, and are all handed over to the first assistant Niu Jinxing.Li Zicheng thought that doing so seemed to quickly restore peace in the world and bring the country back to the era before the war.

This was the thought of an ill-informed leader of a peasant uprising.After all, Li Zicheng has been fighting for the past 15 years, and he has never calmed down to govern a region. Suddenly, the whole country was sent to him. Li Zicheng was also panicked. He didn't know how to govern such a large country and population.

Under the city of Beijing, he asked Chongzhen for title, not only because of the unreliable surrender of the Ming army, but also because he was afraid of taking over the whole world.In the past ten years, the whole of northern China has been destroyed. Just last year, a great plague broke out in the north. The number of deaths is countless. In Beijing alone, 20 people died of illness, which is equivalent to a quarter of Beijing. s population.

Although occupying the area north of the Huaihe River in the Qinling Mountains, there are actually only two bases for Li Zicheng, the Xiangyang area of ​​Hubei and the Xi'an area of ​​Shaanxi. Although the Xiangyang area was built earlier, the population loss here was too great in the battles between the rebels and the official army. , so the economy is far worse than before the war, and it is difficult to support the materials for the rebel army to rule the entire North China.

Although the weather in Shaanxi has improved and there is no longer a series of famines like before, and it is Li Zicheng's hometown, the support for Li Zicheng is stronger than other regions in the north, but the strength is limited.Because Li Zicheng broke through Tongguan in October last year, took Xi'an in November, and proclaimed himself emperor in the first month of this year, he hardly had time to consolidate this base.

Therefore, when Li Zicheng attacked under the city of Beijing, the base areas he could really control were the two small areas of Xiangyang and Xi'an, and the other areas were controlled by the surrendered Ming army and Ming officials.To put it harshly, it was these Ming officials and generals who abandoned Chongzhen, not that they supported Li Zicheng as emperor.

Therefore, if Chongzhen is willing to negotiate with him, Li Zicheng is willing to go back to Shaanxi to run the business for a period of time, at least to digest the frontier army of the four towns in Shaanxi and become part of the Dashun army, instead of just changing it as it is now. On the next banner, those who lead these frontier troops are still those old Ming soldiers.

Naturally, someone would not accuse Li Zicheng of his mistakes, because he himself is Li Zicheng now, and it is obviously useless to complain about his body's past.What he wanted to know was how much loyalty this lineage army had left to him during the time when it was out of control in Beijing, and whether they were still willing to fight to the death on the battlefield.

Most of Li Zicheng's direct descendants were selected little by little from the hungry people in Shaanxi and Henan. This kind of selection is based on the standard of surviving life and death battles, and then strict military discipline is imposed. Those who were killed were about to be beheaded, and this was the way to cultivate this Dashun army, whose combat effectiveness and discipline far surpassed that of the Ming army.

As a believer of Lord Kaishen, he does not believe that anyone is always willing to fight to the death for the leader, at least he is not.Those Mao Zuo who attacked Kaishen and admired Mao every day were talking about it on the Internet, and everyone was just talking about who was willing to abandon his family and go to the revolution.

Compared with later generations, Li Zicheng didn't even say a word about revolutionary theory, just a slogan "If the King Chuang comes, he won't pay the food." How could he make these subordinates fight for themselves forever?In fact, before the fight to Beijing, this slogan was changed to "Chuang Wang has not paid for three years since he came".Then the military expenses of the Dashun Army depended on the bureaucratic gentry to "pursue stolen money and subsidize salaries". This policy was implemented not only in Beijing, but also in Shandong and other places.

But someone felt that Li Zicheng's policies were simply wrong. Before the land was redistributed, the biggest beneficiaries of not paying grain for three years were not the tenants and self-cultivating farmers, but the big landlords.

Therefore, the low-level peasants did not get much benefit, and the Dashun Army's pursuit of stolen goods and subsidies offended the big households in the local area. The only people who really supported Li Zicheng were those victims who followed him to fight the world, because Li Zicheng would also give them some of the land. However, a complete land division system has not been formed.

It's not that Li Zicheng didn't want to distribute the land to the victims who followed him, but that civil officials like Niu Jinxing objected to him doing so.These civil officials believed that it was okay to distribute land to generals and military families, and they should be rewarded for working hard for Li Zicheng.But to implement the policy of allocating land to all the disaster victims will offend the landlords all over the world, because except for those areas that have been slaughtered, the land in other areas is owned by the owner.

Not to mention other places, the four towns in Shaanxi, the generals of the Ming army who surrendered to Dashun, they also have a large area of ​​land, you want to distribute the land for the victims of the disaster in Shaanxi, have you asked them?This is also the reason why it was difficult for Li Zicheng to stop Liu Zongmin and his subordinates from looting after the Dashun Army entered Beijing. You are the emperor, don't we have any benefit from working hard?

Chapter 21 Military discipline is worrying

When Wu Xiang had no choice but to bring a few guards to the Shunjun camp, Li Zicheng was convening a meeting with the generals of each battalion in the big tent, and asked these subordinates to be accountable for the problems they saw during the morning tour of the camp.

"...In the past, the laws and regulations in our military camp were quite strict. The large camp was divided into several small battalions. Unless the patrolling soldiers on duty and the soldiers who were allowed to go out, the soldiers in each small battalion were not allowed to communicate in private. But now What? Soldiers from different battalions visit each other and no one controls them. There are even people who blatantly gamble and drink alcohol in the camp.

It's not that I want to say you, we are here to fight, not to go wild, the army is so scattered, how much morale can we have left when the war starts?We are now 700 miles away from Beijing and more than 2000 miles away from Shaanxi. If we were defeated here, how many people would still be able to return to their hometown in Shaanxi alive?Have you not considered it? "

Regarding Li Zicheng's criticism of military discipline in the battalion, Li Guo and Zhang Nai agreed with both hands, and Li Guo quickly echoed: "Your Majesty is right, the military discipline in this battalion should be rectified. Since I After the army entered Beijing, the discipline in the army was very bad. In the past, the sergeants acted cautiously, lest they violate our military laws. But now, many sergeants use the excuse that His Majesty has won the country, and they should be relaxed. They make small mistakes on weekdays, but they also No one dares to punish."

Zhang Nai also said: "After our army entered Beijing, because of the torture of officials, we sent these soldiers to arrest people and ransack their homes, but it gave them a lot of bad habits. Some accepted bribes from criminal officials, and some hid The gold and silver ones, some hijacked the maidservant of the official family, and the more courageous ones cooperated with the street thugs and invaded the house of goodness in the name of asking questions.

Although His Majesty pulled the army out of the capital in time, the hearts of the soldiers were already wild.Those soldiers who participated in the torture or went out to plunder the civilians had 50-100 taels of silver on them, and as many as 200-300 taels, and there were also generals who bought mansions in the capital to collect looted women... "

Having said this, Zhang Nai suddenly stopped and glanced at Li Zicheng's No.1 General Quan Liu Zongmin sitting on Li Zicheng's right hand.Although he didn't mention his name, all the generals here know that Liu Zongmin is the No. 1 man who occupied a mansion in the capital and looted beauties everywhere to enrich his backyard.This General Quan not only begged Li Zicheng for the beauties in the palace, but also snatched back Wu Sangui's concubine Chen Yuanyuan.

Seeing that the generals turned their gazes to him, Liu Zongmin jumped up and said, "I am loyal to His Majesty, but I just asked for some property and women. It's no big deal. However, I did not indulge the soldiers. They plundered and violated military discipline everywhere. Your Majesty, if you believe me, I will go and beat this group of bastards so that they behave in the camp, and if they dare to violate military discipline again, my old Liu will cut them down first. their heads."

Liu Zongmin's words made some generals who had ghosts in their hearts uneasy. They were not willing to let Liu Zongmin take charge of military discipline.When this general Quan is in a good mood, no matter how big a mistake you make, he can forgive you.But if you are angry, even a small mistake of hitting a few sticks may make you lose your head.

After all, the Dashun Army is not an official army, and the discipline in the army is actually quite casual. Don't look at Li Zicheng's ruthlessness when he was reorganizing the army in Xiangyang, but when he killed Cao Cao and He Yilong, he didn't produce any evidence of crime, just said Do it with your hands.Therefore, when Liu Zongmin patrolled the camp, I am afraid that he would not follow any rules. As long as he saw something that was not pleasing to the eye, he would chop it off.

Except for Li Guo and Zhang Nai, Li Zicheng's relatives, no one else is afraid of Liu Zongmin who is going crazy.There was a buzzing sound below, either asking each battalion to conduct self-inspection, or advocating the dispatch of a mature and prudent officer to rectify military discipline. Li Zicheng was unwilling to push the soldiers into a hurry.

While gesturing for Liu Zongmin to sit down, he said to everyone, "I'm not going to hold anyone accountable, but to solve the problem. What problem to solve? Solve the lax military discipline of the soldiers, and underestimate the seriousness of this battle." question.

Who wouldn't want to finish this battle and go back home to live a peaceful life?I think so too.But when fighting with this mentality, let alone whether you can win or not, it is just a matter of whether you can obey orders and obey commands during combat.Emperor Lie wanted to pacify Liaodong, but Jiannu became more and more pacified and stronger. He wanted to exterminate us rebels, but he suppressed more and more. Why? "

Under Li Zicheng's rhetorical question, everyone in the tent finally calmed down and listened to him.Li Zicheng glanced at the generals, and then came to a conclusion: "The key is that Emperor Lie is too impatient. He always thinks that if he wins the first battle, he can abolish Liao's salary, practice salary, and restore peace to the world. But this kind of dissatisfaction To be realistic, besides killing a large number of soldiers loyal to Ming Dynasty, he himself also died for the country.

We have fought for so many years, and everyone should know that the characteristics of our Dashun Army's operations are just one sentence: fight if you can win, and leave if you can't.Of course, I am not saying to avoid war, but to avoid the edge of the superior enemy.Why do we avoid Wu Sangui and the Qing army?Because this is Hebei, not Shaanxi, and there is no township party here, the villages here may not necessarily be on our side.

Although Wu Sangui's troops were repeatedly defeated against Shangjiannu, when the Liaodong army was transferred to the pass to attack us, we should still admit that this army is capable of fighting, and it is not comparable to those guards in the interior.

Of course, it’s not that I look down on Wu Sangui. The remaining 10,000+ Liaodong Army is a mess. They can guard Shanhaiguan without distractions, but if they go out of the city to fight with us, they will definitely lose.Because this army doesn't know who to fight for, Wu Sangui's so-called fighting for the restoration of Ming Dynasty is just a joke. Ming Taizi personally went to the camp to sacrifice to Emperor Lie, but he didn't even dare to go out of the city to sacrifice. This is Wu Sangui's determination to restore Ming Dynasty.

Even if he can't fool us, can he still fool those Ming troops in the city?Therefore, Wu Sangui can still defend the city by gathering these people in the city, but if he pulls these people out to fight with us, then I am afraid that these Ming troops will soon disperse.

Therefore, our real enemy is not actually the group of bereaved dogs in Shanhaiguan, but the Qing army watching behind them.The number of the Jiannu clan is only one million. After decades of fighting, the reason why the number of their own people has not decreased much is not that they have no losses every time they win, but that they have captured the entire ethnic minority in Liaodong to supplement their own population.

Today, the ethnic minorities in Liaodong are almost captured by Jiannu.Therefore, judging from the population ratio of Jiannu, even if all the males of their own clan are sent out, they can only get 20 soldiers. If the old and weak are removed, there will be 10 left. Fifty to sixty thousand, about the same as our Eastern Expedition team.

But our army's eastern expedition troops are actually only a small part of the Dashun Army. If we can bring elite soldiers from all over the country to Shanhaiguan, at least 2 to 30 elite soldiers can be assembled.In that case, Jiannu would not have the courage to wait and see behind Shanhaiguan, and would only watch us take down Shanhaiguan.

Thinking about it this way, I have to say that I was reckless in this hasty expedition.I should have stabilized the world first, or at least the north, before trying to recover Shanhaiguan. "

Liu Zongmin finally couldn't help but said: "Your Majesty can't blame it all. When Japan is supposed to lead the army, and my brother summons troops from all directions in Beijing, thinking that the ministers are backing up, then you don't have to worry about building slaves to help rebel against Wu." However, I am not afraid of Jiannu, and I am willing to fight to the death with Jiannu in order to defeat Jiannu's army in the future."

Li Guo and other generals also clasped their fists to salute Li Zicheng, shouting that they would fight Jiannu to the death and never disappoint His Majesty.After listening for a while, Li Zicheng held them down with his hand and said, "I'm not afraid of a fight to the death with Jiannu. It takes 20 years for every Jiannu to be replaced. China has a population of one billion. Even if two are exchanged for one, the Jiannu will be killed if they fight a battle.

The problem is that Jiannu will definitely not fight our army head-on, but will use Wu Sangui's tribe, the surrendered Ming army, and the Mongols to consume our army's strength first, and then prepare for a blow.For the soldiers of my Dashun Army, it’s fine to exchange lives with Jiannu, but it’s too bad to exchange lives with these bereaved dogs.

Therefore, if I want to rectify the military discipline in the camp, I must order and prohibit it, and I must not go to war without permission, and I must not lose my fighting spirit.This is the question I hope to discuss with you. What should we do to let the soldiers know that our main enemy in this battle is Jiannu. If Jiannu cannot be eliminated, no matter how many other troops are killed, this battle will still be lost. up.

Secondly, while rectifying military discipline, the morale of the soldiers in the army should not be damaged. After all, the war may start soon, and it is definitely not a good thing for the soldiers to go to the battlefield with resentment..."

This time, after hearing what Li Zicheng had said, everyone was no longer in a hurry to blame anyone, but expressed their opinions in a hurry.From Li Zicheng's point of view, this kind of discussion is quite effective, as long as the people participating in the meeting do not engage in personal attacks, but only talk about business matters.

After discussing for nearly half an hour, Li Zicheng coughed and said: "Well, let me summarize everyone's opinions just now. First, we need to arrange competent military judges in each battalion. I think this is a good idea, so we simply The establishment of a separate department is not only to maintain military discipline, but also to be responsible for the discipline assessment on weekdays and the performance assessment in wartime.

This new department is called the Examination and Punishment Department, and its personnel are divided into five levels, the highest being the director, and the lower ones are Qianhu, Baihu, Zongqi and Xiaoqi.Select the literate and honest people in the army to serve as the posts. The small banners are arranged in the team. Record merit, maintain military law and supervise logistics, and do not interfere with military command.

The Director is fully responsible for the Merit Examination and Punishment Department, and only responsible to me.In addition, the director can arrange two deputies, the left deputy supervisor manages personnel and checks whether the achievements are true, and the right deputy supervisor manages personnel files and reviews whether the punishment is legal.From now on, personnel files will be established from the head of the sentry, whoever I want to use is subject to the file records..."

Chapter 22 Send Zongbing Tang on the road

Although Li Zicheng summed up everyone's speeches, so naturally everyone would not stand up to oppose it.It's just like Liu Zongmin, always feel that something is wrong, it seems that Li Zicheng's summary is too perfect.Although Song Xiance, the military adviser on the other side, could tell that this was an institution for monitoring the garrison adapted from Jin Yiwei, he didn't think there was anything wrong with Li Zicheng's doing so.

Although the military discipline of the Shun Army was in chaos for a while after entering Beijing, the military discipline of the Shun Army has always been better than that of the Ming Army.However, the military discipline of the Shun Army is based on the fact that he was born in a hungry population, and he has been fighting with the army for a long time, and those who do not obey the military regulations have been eliminated, so that the current model has been formed.