However, the good news on the northern front, compared with the aggressive offensive posture of the Qing army on the southern front, and the performance of his pig teammates in this regard, can only be said to be a sigh.

After Zhu Yousong escaped from Nanjing with Ma Shiying and others, his original plan was to go to Wuhu to join Huang Degong's department, so that Ma Shiying's troops and horses, the soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp, and the more than 100,000 horses of Huang Degong's department added up to nearly 200,000 people. In this way, Li Shouhan, who is outstanding in the combat power of soldiers and horses, also has a certain right to speak, and will not become the second Han Xian Emperor and Han Lin'er, the king of Xiaoming.

However, although the abacus is well played, the planning and design drawings are often very different from the final as-built drawings, and even the original design is not the same at all.

At the beginning, Zhu Yousong and Ma Shiying's design can be described as wishful thinking as a stand-alone game. However, the people who participate in this game are not simple passers-by, but living people who have thoughts and can think.

As a result, not long after leaving the city, Zhu Yousong was intercepted and looted by local soldiers when he passed through Lishui County, and he was separated from Ma Shiying. Ma Shiying escorted his biological mother Empress Dowager Zou to the direction of Hangzhou, and Zhu Yousong himself in Ma Shiying's son Ma Luan led the Yongwei battalion soldiers to rush to the Taiping Mansion (the government was in Dangtu), and the Taiping Mansion officials did not know what was going on and closed the door. It was not easy to transfer to the Wuhu Yasukuni Gonghuang Degong military camp.

Huang Degong, who was stationed in Wuhu with his troops, knew nothing about the changes in the capital, and the sudden arrival of the emperor surprised him. After asking the reason, he said with emotion: "Your Majesty is guarding the capital and summoning the ministers with a piece of paper, and the ministers can still lead the soldiers to get a job." Why listen to the words of traitors and abandon the society! Now there is no basis for advancing and retreating, and the camp is thin, how can he deal with Your Majesty? Although he had realized that Zhu Yousong was helpless and hopeless, he still decided to be loyal to the end and welcomed the stunned emperor into his military camp.

Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong issued an edict in Wuhu "Zheng Zhilong, Huang Fei, Fang Guoan, Du Hongyu, Bu Congshan are all Jin Earls, Dacheng, Dadian worship the left and right ministers, and the master is on the back of Luan, and the plan is to defend the palace (Nanjing)." But it's no longer possible."

If he did not write this edict, then the troops of the Southern Guangdong Army, who had galloped all the way east from Jiujiang to the east, would have stopped in Wuhu to discuss with him their next steps. However, he issued this edict, on the one hand, he canonized Zheng Zhilong, the admiral of the Southern Yue Army and the son and daughter of Li Shouhan, as the earl, and on the other hand, he made Ruan Dacheng and Zhu Dadian the left and right ministers, but did not mention Li Shouhan at all, how can this convince everyone in the Southern Yue Army? Taking advantage of Li Shouhan's coma, he turned a blind eye to Zhu Yousong in Wuhu, who was moored on the river.

"The king regards the minister as a sibling, and the minister regards the king as the heart; The monarch regards the minister as a dog and a horse, and the minister regards the monarch as a countryman; The king regards his ministers as mustard, and the ministers regard him as an enemy. Since we, the emperor, want to dig into the corner of our Nanyue army, and don't take our lord seriously, why do we still use our hot face to stick to other people's cold butts, and let our soldiers and horses give him desperate protection of the country? ! Let's go! Let those whom he has promoted give him a fight! ”

This is the inner view of the Nanyue Army, from Li Huamei, Li Peiting and other core figures to an ordinary soldier and sailor.

The sequelae of this holy decree went all the way to Shanghai, and after the Nanyue Army settled down, the generals and officials from all over the country either wrote letters or came in person to greet the lord Li Shouhan and express their loyalty. Li Huamei and the others were all courteous, but Zheng Zhilong, the commander of the sailors, felt that the atmosphere was not right as soon as he landed on the shore. Whether it is the Navy Division or the Army, they are all cold when they see him, although they have never lost anything in terms of etiquette, but they are rejecting people thousands of miles away.

After a little inquiry, Zheng Zhilong was suddenly taken aback! "This damn faint king! Pony Eminem's! This is a dead man! "Emperor Hongguang's empty edict is here in the Nanyue Army, if there is no Li Shouhan nodding, it is a piece of paper in the toilet. However, this piece of paper is now stained with Yoneda Gong, and it is stubbornly pasted on his Zheng Zhilong's face. How to confess and explain to Li Shouhan is all a later story, so I won't press it for the time being.

(In a similar historical context, after the First Zhifeng War, Cao Kun and Wu Peifu also used this trick within Zhang Zuolin's Feng army.) Wu Junsheng, who was known as Wu Da's tongue, the overseer of Heilongjiang and Zhang Zuolin's brother at the time, was appointed to serve as the patrol envoy of the three eastern provinces, creating contradictions and divisions within the Feng army. ）

Originally, it was planned that the Nanyue Army would act as the backbone of the troops before its own royal drive, and act as a continuous provider of food and equipment, so that the 200,000 troops led by Huang Degong could become the backbone of the Ming Dynasty. However, the departure of the fleet of the Nanyue Army suddenly caused rumors to spread among the Ming army camps stationed near Wuhu, and there were many discussions, the morale of the soldiers was low, and the generals and officers had their own small calculations.

Originally! Who doesn't know that the grain, grass and military salaries of the Nanjing Imperial Court were all provided by Liang Guogong and his old man's pocket. Now, the emperor treats people like this, and they don't do it and leave. I think our future military salaries and grain will be finished!

The so-called Eighth General Soldiers under Huang Degong, such as Tian Xiong, Ma Xiong, Ma Degong, Qiu Yue, Zhang Jie, Huang Ming, and Chen Xiance, quietly contacted Zuo Mengeng, who was collecting the remnants of the defeated generals in Anqing, interceded for Zuo Mengeng and others in front of Huang Degong, and suggested that the tens of thousands of remnants of Zuo Mengeng be contained to expand their strength.

How can such an army resist the fierce pursuit of Dorobelenikan, the commander of the escort army, the Eight Banners of soldiers and horses led by Gushan Ezhen Ashan, Gushan Beizi Tunqi, and Hexuan, as well as the hundreds of thousands of traitor troops led by Liu Liangzuo and others, who had just surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and were eager to make meritorious contributions?

"Even if you want to surrender, you can't surrender like him Liu Liangzuo, that would be a bit too cheap to sell us! Why do we have to have some explanation, so that the Manchurian Tartars have to look up to us before we can surrender. This is the unanimous opinion reached by Tian Xiong, Ma Degong, Ma Xiong, Zuo Mengeng and others in private.

Sure enough, Liu Liangzuo sent someone to quietly write a secret letter to Tian Xiong and others, persuading them to surrender.

"How are the soldiers and horses of the brothers' subordinates compared to the Han Dynasty and Ji Lindan? Than the soldiers of Madoye? Is it more powerful than soldiers? That Lin Dan, who was the enemy of my Qing Emperor, fought several times and was defeated. Defeated all the way from Hetao, far away to Qinghai, but my Qing soldiers and horses pursued all the way, making Lin Dan unable to sleep and eat, and finally died of illness in the wilderness. ”

"Today, I am the commander of the soldiers and horses in the south of the Qing Dynasty, which is the western expedition to insert the Han Department on the same day, forcing the son of Lin Dantaiji to lead the rest of the troops to surrender to Huang Taiji, and sacrifice the commander of the jade seal of the Mengyuan Emperor, the younger brother of Prince Regent Rui, Prince Heshuoyu, and the mighty general Duoduo! If the brothers can follow the example of the sages, the foolish brothers are willing to be the ancestors of the brothers and be the guide for the brothers. It must be known that after Ezhe returned to obedience, he was named a prince because of his merits, and his knighthood was above Zasak. Among the three princesses born to the first emperor and the Empress Dowager Zhezhe, the eldest princess of Gulun Wenzhuang married him as his wife, called Chahar Gulun forehead! Glory and wealth, or death in the battle array, death in the ravine, all in the thought of brothers! ”

"What do you think?" Tian Xiong asked his accomplices.

"My young marshal said, everything is up to the arrangements of your marshal." The representative sent by Zuo Mengeng was very determined, and first expressed the attitude of the left army.

"Ezhe surrendered, was made a prince, and became a concubine of the Qing Dynasty. That's because he had a good old man, and the first emperor wanted to set an example for the Mongols who surrendered. Moreover, he also made a great contribution to the first emperor, that is, he dedicated the jade seal of the Great Yuan court to the first emperor. After getting this jade seal, the morale of the whole army in the Qing Dynasty was greatly boosted. It is because of this jade seal that the first emperor was able to announce to the military and civilians that he was ordered by heaven and the mandate of heaven was in the Qing Dynasty. Then, in April of the ninth summer of the former Ming Chongzhen, the Great Baylor was good. The ministers of Heshuo Belzilharang, Dolgon, Duoduo, Yue, Haug, Abatai, Azig, Dudu Rateman, Han, Mongol ministers and the forty-nine Beylers of the Sixteen Mongol Kingdoms asked Huang Taiji to be proclaimed emperor with a three-body inscription, and presented the "Bogda. Chechen Khan". In June of the same year, the first emperor officially ascended the throne as emperor, changed the name of the country to "Qing", and changed the Yuan Chongde. ”

Although Ma Degong is an old military stick who followed Huang Degong all the way to the north and south, he also knows a lot about these things in the north, plus Liu Liangzuo's letter. In the words, changes have taken place, and all the words are about the Qing Dynasty, the former Ming Dynasty, and for Huang Taiji, who has long since died, he is also an emperor.

"The old horse is right! Since ancient times, if you want to be looked down upon as a tenant, you must first hand in a sufficient amount of a certificate of surrender and a door entrance gift. In this way, we can't be underestimated! ”

"However, if you want to accept the name, you must also have a suitable and sufficient weight! You must know that we don't have a good father, and we don't have the jade seal of the country in our hands! ”

"We don't have a dead heirloom jade seal in our hands, but we have a living treasure with enough weight!"

Tian Xiong and the others invariably looked into the distance, where the imperial boat of Emperor Hongguang was moored. Several of the traitors looked at each other, exchanged glances, and smiled knowingly as if you had the same idea.

"Good! That's it! I'll go back and report this matter to my family, Liu Dashuai. Please ask him to make it clear to the general and all the Baylors that if this matter can be accomplished, it will be indispensable for all the high-ranking officials to be generous and give their wives and sons! ”

"How do you want my left battalion to cooperate with this matter, and please show me!"

Liu Liangzuo and Zuo Menggeng's envoys each expressed their attitudes to several marshals.

"It's so simple!" Ma Xiong sneered a few times. "Our brothers are bent on returning to the Qing Dynasty. However, our Yasukuni Gong may not think so. For the sake of great things, it is inevitable that our brothers will kill their relatives in righteousness. However, the stakes are high, and we need to cooperate with several of them! ”

It was agreed on the spot.

When the Qing army marched west into Wuhu, Zuo Menggeng's headquarters in Anqing also had to quietly advance eastward, detour to the flank and back of Huang Degong's troops, and cooperate with the Qing army to launch an offensive!

"In this way, the soldiers and horses of the Qing Dynasty are in the front, and the soldiers and horses of the left commander are behind and on the flanks, and the two of them will work together, and the position of our prince will inevitably be chaotic! At that time, our brothers will make trouble again, and we will not worry about Huang Degong! ”

"Kill Huang Degong, fire and his headquarters soldiers and horses, and the rest of the Beijing soldiers and horses in Wuhu City will not be enough to see! They are the fate of sending us armor and soldiers! ”

"Solve the Jingying people, whether he Zhu Yousong is in Wuhu City, or on the riverside boat, it is a piece of fatty pork in our brother's mouth! Whether we want to eat steamed or fried and boiled lard, it's up to us! ”

"Sure enough, it's a good plan! It's just that when the time comes, the army is gathered, the battalion is chaotic, and there are many banners, in order to identify the enemy and me, I have to ask the commanders to get a charter. ”

"It's easy! We heard that in the battle when Wu Sangui of Shanhaiguan returned to the Qing Dynasty and was named the king of Pingxi, his soldiers and horses were all wrapped with white cloth on their left shoulders to distinguish him from the Liaodong army and the Liukou. We don't dare to compare with the king of Pingxi, how about a black cloth for the right shoulder? It can be regarded as our filial piety for Huang Degong, and we have done our best! ”

"Good! Just listen to all the handsome, the one with the black cloth wrapped in the right shoulder is my own person in the Qing Dynasty! ”

After the traitors agreed on a murder plan, they quietly went back to make arrangements without mentioning it.

Sure enough, when Liu Liangzuo arrived in Wuhu as the vanguard of the Qing army along the way to Dorobelenikan, Huang Degong reorganized his troops and horses to prepare to meet the enemy. Unexpectedly, his life path has entered a countdown state, and the commanders of his subordinates are preparing according to their own deployments.

Huang Degong's order to rectify the soldiers and horses has also become the departure order of Zuo Menggeng's troops. He led his troops to set off quietly from Anqing, and the soldiers galloped away, and the horses went to Luanling. All the way through Chizhou and Tongling, he quietly sneaked to the flank and back of Huang Degong's troops. This road is more than 400 miles, and Huang Degong's subordinates along the way just closed their eyes and pretended not to see it.

All the development of the situation proceeded according to the plan of the traitors to cooperate with each other.

Huang Degong sent troops to fight against Liu Liangzuo. Liu Liangzuo stood in front of the formation and asked his old friend Huang Degong to come out and speak. "Lao Huang, don't fight yet, you come out, I have something to say!"

Seeing his old friend shouting in front of the battle, Huang Degong, who was quite heroic, never doubted whether there was any other ghost trick, and even if he jumped out of the crowd. However, he has a chivalrous heart comparable to the British Lionheart, but the other party is not necessarily Saladin or Uncle Sheep.

Seeing Huang Degong come out of his camp to talk, Liu Liangzuo sneered and ordered his subordinates: "Send the shot!" The time has come! ”

A trumpet sounded in Liu Liangzuo's army. But Huang Degong was quite surprised, obviously he wanted you and me to talk before the battle, how did he fire the cannon?

As the trumpet sounded, Tian Xiong, Ma Xiong, Ma Degong, Qiu Yue, Zhang Jie, Huang Ming, Chen Xiance and other commanders under Huang Degong's subordinates issued an order in their respective battalions, "Wrap black cloth!" In the blink of an eye, hundreds of thousands of people wrapped black cloth around their right shoulders, not only people, but also on the flagpole of the flag, and on the bridles of war horses, they were also wrapped with black cloth, lest they be injured by mistake.

As this horn sounded, the soldiers behind Liu Liangzuo each took off their hard bows from their backs and shot at Huang Degong with a random arrow!

With the sound of this horn, he had already sneaked to Zuo Menggeng's department behind Huang Degong's soldiers and horses like a poisonous snake, shouting in unison, and each of them rushed towards Huang Degong's troops with knives and guns!

"Bastard! Bastard! Huang Degong saw that dozens of sharp arrows suddenly shot from behind Liu Liangzuo, who was still smiling just now, and he cursed a few words involuntarily, and such a thought came to his mind: "Is Liu Liangzuo's subordinates mistaken?" ”

However, this thought was instantly interrupted by a scream. Several of Huang Degong's pro-soldiers behind him were shot and fell off their horses.

"Damn it!" A sharp pain came from Huang Degong's neck, and he noticed from the afterglow of his eyes that it turned out that a sharp arrow had shot into his neck through the guard.

The huge pain and dizziness caused by blood loss made Huang Degong feel a little erratic, and he endured this feeling and tried to look back. The shouts and shouts of killing from behind him made him feel very relieved. "In the end, it is our Lao Tzu's soldiers, worthy of my Huang Chuangzi's subordinates!"

However, when he turned his head to see the scene in front of him, the heavy blow was too much for him to bear.

Behind him, Zuo Menggeng's troops, holding high the banner of the word "left", rushed towards his central army and flanks. And the two wings of his Chinese army and several general soldiers lined up in Qian also attacked his Chinese army fiercely.

The rebel officers and soldiers, with black cloth and silk wrapped around their right shoulders, shouted: "Great joy! As a slogan, go to Huang Degong's Chinese army headquarters!

(This slogan was put forward by Qiu Yue, Zhang Jie and others.) "This time, we have presented a big living jade seal to the Qing Dynasty. We should let the people below shout out! With a strong momentum! So, the slogan was decided. Originally, it was planned to be a jade seal, but most of the subordinates were vulgar and unliterate ruffians, illiterate, and it was a bit awkward to use such a crepe word as a slogan like a jade seal, and it was easy to be conveyed out of shape, but it was easy to misunderstand. So, it was changed to the popular slogan of "great joy", in fact, the meaning was originally "big jade seal". ）

"Unexpectedly, this is actually my Huang Degong's subordinates, and this is actually my Huang Chuangzi's soldiers?" Watching his subordinates lead their own soldiers, like a group of wolves with sharpened teeth and sharp teeth, they launched an attack on the almost unsuspecting Chinese army's main formation, chopping melons and vegetables and slaughtering their own brothers who had greeted them with smiling faces just a moment ago.

"Why do you have to do this?!" The huge sense of defeat in Huang Degong's mind overpowered the pain, and he struggled to touch the sword at his waist, and struggled to pull it out of its scabbard.

"Kill! Brothers, kill! After killing them all, let's kidnap Zhu Yousong and go to Prince Yu! He will not be like Liang Guogong, who wants to check the strength of our soldiers and horses! ”

Opposite Huang Degong, Liu Liangzuo watched the killing in the opponent's camp chasing north, and couldn't help but applaud and cheer loudly.

At his shout, Huang Degong slammed his sword across his neck.

"Quick! Huang Chuangzi is dead! Don't hurry up and grab the military merits! ”

There were people on both sides of the north and south who shouted and pounced on Huang Degong's body.