Chapter 161: I'd rather die at the hands of the Ming Kingdom
Although there have been Gushan Ezhen and Jiala Ezhen leading the army to surrender to the Yue Ming army before, these Gushan Ezhen and Jiala Ezhen are out-and-out parallel goods, most of them are temporarily promoted Niu Lu Ezhen, and the soldiers and horses led are at most less than 1,000 even if the unarmored clothes and slaves are counted.
But now it is Prince Su Haoge who personally led his troops to surrender, and there are as many as 10,000 soldiers and horses in his department, and the morale of the imperial camp is boosted, and they congratulate Liu Yongxi one after another: "Your Majesty, Prince Su Haoge has surrendered, which can only show that the Qing Dynasty has exhausted its national morale, and the recovery of the capital is just around the corner." ”
Liu Yongxi laughed: "I believe that others come to surrender, but King Su is the eldest son of Huang Taiji, how can I be gullible when he leads ten thousand troops to surrender!"
In the eyes of civil and military officials, Haoge is just a general of the defeated army, and it can be said that he has been a special defeat in the past six months, and even to the point that he turned around and fled as soon as he heard the news of the Yue Ming army's expedition, which is not a problem at all.
If it weren't for Haoge leading the army to run first and exposing the flank of the Azig army in Henan to the Yue Ming army, it would not be so easy for the Chengtian Dynasty to eat the Azig army, so everyone felt that it was a very normal thing for Haoge to surrender.
But Liu Yongxi has a very high opinion of Haoge, although it is true that Haoge has been defeated repeatedly and even fled without a fight, but Liu Yongxi feels that Haoge, as the eldest son of Huang Taiji and the former second person in the Qing Dynasty, cannot give up his goal so easily.
And Empress Gao had already heard the overtone in Liu Yongxi's words: "Your Majesty means that Haoge is a fraudulent surrender this time?" Since he has the intention of surrendering, then we have a way to deal with him!"
Although Li Zicheng was the most resolute in the fighting spirit of the Liumin Army in the late Ming Dynasty and never surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, the late Ming Dynasty was a common method of deception, and the official army also used it with the Liumin Army, not to mention that the Great Western Army was the great master of the deception, and even the Yue Ming Army had also used small means of deception.
Now that he knows that Haoge has the possibility of surrendering, the generals of the Ming army present naturally have countless ways to deal with Haoge and ensure that Haoge will die without a place to be buried, Xing Shengping assured Liu Yongxi: "At most, 10,000 remnants of Haoge's army will be defeated, and as long as Your Majesty says a word, they can be wiped out." ”
Liu Yongxi laughed: "It's not easy to actually Haoge, although he is mostly a fraudulent surrender now, but many times as long as he gets on the boat, he can't get down, let's better let him change from a fraudulent surrender to a real surrender!"
After all, many Ming generals and righteous gentlemen such as Hong Chengchou and others, when they first surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, they held a mentality of deception and false surrender, but soon became hardcore traitors due to changes in the situation, and they were more vicious than the Eight Banners of Manchuria to deal with the Ming Kingdom.
It is based on this judgment that Liu Yongxi will continue: "Anyway, you are responsible for bringing Prince Su Haoge over, whether you live or die, but it is better to be a Prince Su who has changed his heart!"
In fact, just as Liu Yongxi judged, although Haoge released the news of "leading more than 10,000 troops to surrender", since he is the eldest son of Huang Taiji and the theoretical number one heir of the Great Qing Kingdom, he is naturally dreaming of the Qing Emperor.
"Actually, the Jinhua thief is not terrible, the terrible thing is that Liu Yongxi, the thief, is just one person, as long as Liu Yongxi is killed, the Jinhua thief will naturally be scattered and completely collapsed!"
Although this is already a repetition of the old tune of the commander of the Qing army, and everyone also knows that the Chengtian Dynasty was completely established on numerous military victories, Liu Yongxi is only in his twenties now and does not even have a daughter, and if he dies unexpectedly, he will be able to fight several civil wars for the sake of the heir.
However, Gushan Ezhen Bahana, who has followed Haoge for many years, feels that killing Liu Yongxi is the only feasible strategy at the moment: "That's right, as long as Emperor Chengtian dies, we can easily defeat dozens of defeated generals like Wang Puxiang and Xing Shengping!"
This year, Duo Haoge was beaten by the Yue Ming army countless times, so he also became cautious: "It is not an easy thing to kill the Chengtian Emperor Liu Yongxi, this time you must try to listen to my arrangement, so that the Han people feel that we are sincerely asking for surrender, and only when you really see the Chengtian Emperor Liu Yongxi, listen to my orders before you do it!"
Bahana thought so: "Yes, we all listen to King Su's orders, I don't believe it, our 10,000 soldiers and horses are still not moved!"
Haoge laughed even more: "Not only there are more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, but also my Prince Su, although the Ming Kingdom has seen the Ying Prince who died in battle, but the Prince Su who is alive and willing to surrender to Ming, they must be the first time to see it, this Chengtian Emperor will definitely meet us as soon as possible!"
Whether it is the era of Nurhachi and Huang Taiji, not to mention a big man of Prince Su's level, even if it is a Mongolian nobleman and Han who command hundreds of soldiers and horses, Nurhachi and Huang Taiji will personally go out of the city to greet them, and even have a higher standard reception and try every means to envelop them.
And since Emperor Chengtian is the founder of the country, he will definitely operate according to this line of thought, and the reason why the Great Qing Kingdom failed to kill Liu Yongxi before was entirely because he couldn't see this Emperor Chengtian himself.
Therefore, Haoge said confidently: "This time, there should be sixty percent hope to completely solve this Chengtian Emperor!"
It's just that Hauge always feels that the so-called "sixty percent hope" is the lowest estimate in his heart, and the actual situation is much more optimistic, at least eighty percent hope or even ninety percent hope to solve the problem.
It's just that things always turn out of way that deviates from Hauge's expectations.
Although the Yue Ming army sent people to contact and ensure that all the original status and interests of Haoge would not be affected, and Emperor Chengtian would still give a special reward, the problem was that the news of Haoge's surrender spread all over the city as soon as possible.
Whether it is for the Qing State or the Ming State or the wallhead grass who temporarily holds a wait-and-see attitude, the surrender of Prince Su Haoge to the Ming Dynasty is the most typical symbolic event.
Azig did not die in the battle of the whole army in Henan, the regent Dolgon died in the internal strife of the Manchurian nobles, and now the prince of Su Haoge led a large army to surrender to Ming, and everyone felt that the Qing Kingdom was completely hopeless.
Therefore, many outlaws who were still waiting and watching and even preparing to fight to the death with the Ming army changed their attitude at the first time and directly surrendered to Ming, and they even became particularly active, hoping that the Yue Ming army would be able to attack Beijing tomorrow, and there were many Manchurian relatives and nobles.
And Haoge's tens of thousands of generals who finally retreated from Shandong also fell into extreme chaos because of this news, although many Han troops and foreign Mongolians had seriously considered the issue of reducing the Ming before, but with Haoge in charge, they naturally did not dare to act rashly, but now that Haoge has descended to the Ming, they naturally behaved very actively.
In fact, it is not only the Han army and the Outer Domains of Mongolia who want to surrender to the Ming now, but also the Mongolian Eight Banners under Haoge and some Manchurian Niulu, who feel that since they want to descend to the Ming with Haoge, it is better to contact the Chengtian Dynasty directly and sell them for a good price.
As for the remaining Qing troops who refused to surrender to Ming, they are also in a situation out of control now, they feel that Haoge is the number one sinner in the fall of the Qing Dynasty, and they can't wait to kill Haoge now.
This army retained most of its strength under the pursuit of the Vietnamese Ming army, but due to Hauge's order to surrender, it became fragmented within three or five days, and at least two or three thousand soldiers and horses crossed the battle line directly without saying hello.
The remaining thousands of soldiers and horses are now disheartened, Haoge has encountered several assassinations and triggered several camps, and what makes Haoge cry and laugh is that the rebels are the most loyal soldiers of the Qing Dynasty, and the people who help him quell the rebels are all those who want to rebel against the Qing Dynasty.
The reason why they still support Haoge is naturally that they hope that this Prince Su can come forward to help them negotiate a good price with the Yue Ming Dynasty, and now Haoge does not dare to talk to others about the issue of deception, but is bent on playing the role of Prince Su who is completely disappointed in the Qing Dynasty.
At first, Haoge was just playing on the spot, and deep down he was thinking about how to take the opportunity of deception to kill Chengtian Emperor Liu Yongxi, but soon he found that he had been coerced involuntarily, no longer the Prince Su of the Great Qing Kingdom, but the King of Su of the Ming Chengtian Dynasty, and he was dedicated to helping the Chengtian Dynasty to surrender and rebel.
As for those Qing courtiers who refused to belong to the Chengtian Empire, they died at the hands of Haoge, although this was by no means Haoge's original intention, but the development of the situation has been developing in a direction that he does not want to see, and more and more loyal Qing courtiers died at his hands, even more than at the hands of the Ming army.
Although Hauge really wants to explain the truth, he is now completely under the sword, and he has gradually changed, and he feels that it seems good to become the Prince Su of the Great Ming Dynasty, and the butcher's knife against the Great Qing Kingdom is getting faster and faster, and even he personally took action to solve some diehards of the Great Qing Kingdom.
Now the Qing Dynasty regards Haoge as the most dangerous enemy, although everyone can understand that Haoge was forced to surrender due to the situation, but Haoge turned his face too ruthlessly after surrendering!
Originally, everyone thought that the Qing Dynasty could resist for a while, and could even reach an alliance with the Ming Kingdom, but Haoge made such a fuss, and the chips that the Qing Kingdom could play were almost swept away.
And Haoge's Ming also played an exemplary role, the Qing army that descended to Ming before was at most three or five thousand people, but after Haoge surrendered to Ming, almost all the commanders of the Qing army in Shandong and Beizhili, regardless of race, followed Haoge Ming.
Therefore, now the thinking of the Manchurian aristocracy and the Qing court has changed from how to make an alliance with the Yue Ming army to "rather die at the hands of the Ming State than at the hands of King Su".
However, after the soldiers and horses of Prince Su Haoge descended to the Ming Dynasty, they had become extremely brutal, and they were even more vicious than the Yue Ming army, whether it was the Eight Banners, the Mongols, or the Han army, as long as they refused to belong to the Ming Dynasty, they were tortured and killed on the spot, so now the Qing Dynasty suddenly felt that the Chengtian Emperor seemed to be good.
After all, the Chengtian Emperor was particularly lenient with his enemies, and after Haoge's surrender, the Qing Dynasty's plan to retreat to Guanwai was no longer operational, so their first request for sending envoys was to hope that the Chengtian Emperor would arrive in his loyal city of Beijing as soon as possible.