Chapter 326: Wu Sangui's Death
Under the strategy of Dolgon, Haoge, the prince of Su of the Qing Dynasty, personally commanded 10,000 horses with blue flags, detoured to the west, in order to avoid the eyes of the Ming army, they detoured more than 200 miles, and then from the west, suddenly to a Shiguan city to kill.
More than 200 miles, if the infantry is allowed to lead away, even if it is a rapid march, it will take at least a day, but for the people on horseback, these Manchu Tartars, it will take less than half a day to arrive.
At this time, the commander of the Ming army who was ordered to garrison a piece of Guancheng was Ma Luan, who was the son of Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang.
This person is strong in martial arts, immediately stepping down, eighteen kinds, proficient in all martial arts, good at using a three-pointed two-edged knife on the horse, and bravely crowning the three armies.
According to the original historical development, after the establishment of the Hongguang Imperial Court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, the absurd and incompetent Zhu Yousong was quickly hollowed out, and the power of the court was soon controlled by the father and son of the Ma family.
Now due to Lin Yi's crossing, the trend of history has been partially changed, and the government has nothing to do with their Ma family father and son, and can only lead the troops to fight as Ming ministers, which is undoubtedly a good thing for them.
Of course, their father and son have to thank Lin Yi, because of Lin Yi's crossing, they have achieved their fame.
Now Ma Luan is the deputy commander-in-chief, and when Lin Yi left Shanhaiguan, he ordered them to be responsible for guarding the official city.
Ma Shiying asked Ma Luan to take 6,000 Fengyang soldiers to garrison a Shiguan City, and the remaining more than 10,000 Fengyang soldiers, led by Ma Shiying himself, guarded the Guancheng of Shanhaiguan.
Now there are dozens of red-coated cannons on these two gates, and a total of more than 20,000 people and horses will defend these two perfect gates.
But what the Ma family father and son didn't expect was that it was less than a day before Lin Yi left Shanhaiguan with an army of 100,000, and the Tartars really started stealing from here, and they had to admire Lin Yi's anticipation of the enemy.
Now Prince Su with 10,000 elites of the Eight Banners suddenly appeared outside a Shiguan City and launched a fierce attack on the Guancheng.
Dozens of red-coated cannons opened fire on the invading enemy, and one shell after another exploded in the Tartars' cavalry camp, the ground shook, and the fireballs were accompanied by thick smoke.
To the east of a piece of stone, dozens of miles away is Shanhaiguan, and of course Ma Shiying, the guard of Shanhaiguan who is fighting fiercely on a piece of stone, knows it.
Afraid that his son would lose his youth, he immediately sent troops to reinforce his son, leaving an adjutant general with 5,000 troops to defend the city, and he personally commanded 10,000 troops to go, but when the reinforcements were just halfway there, the rumbling cannons sounded at Shanhaiguan again.
"What's going on?" Ma Shiying ordered the team to stop and asked his subordinates in astonishment.
"Lord Governor, a detachment of Tartars has come from the sea to attack us."
"These Tartars are so cunning, but fortunately, Master Taishi is a good soldier." Ma Shiying scolded, hurriedly divided the troops again, sent a confidant general, and led 5,000 troops to a Shiguan City to support his son Ma Luan, and he personally took the remaining 5,000 men and horses to hurry back to Fangshanhaiguan......
At this time, the first duke of the Qing Dynasty, Meler Zhangjing, the commander of the guards, led 10,000 horses, took a boat along the coast to the south, and landed from the sea, in the roar of artillery, the first warrior of Manchuria took the lead, led 10,000 Tartars with yellow flags, and wiped out the Ming army stationed on the coast with a charge, and then launched a fierce attack on Shanhaiguan.
However, this team was attacked by heavy artillery fire from the Ming army under the city of Shanhaiguan and suffered heavy casualties.
forced Ao Bai Sanyi War Horse, and did not attack the Shanhaiguan. However, Ao Bai did not give up, and after rectifying the people, he launched a fierce attack on Shanhaiguan again......
For a time, the cannons of Shiguan City and Shanhaiguan City roared like thunder, shouting and killing, and 20,000 Tartars and more than 20,000 Ming troops launched a bloody battle of attack and defense......
The gaze returned to the area of Huanggutun dozens of miles outside Shanhaiguan.
Faced with this empty bow, Gao Guiying was stunned, of course she didn't understand why Lin Yi wanted her to use this bow to kill Wu Sangui.
If you don't want Wu Sangui to suffer with a knife and let him die happily, but you want him to be tortured and punish this big traitor, there are many ways to do it, you can Ling Chi, peel the skin, cramp, unload eight pieces, divide the corpse of five horses, and flood the fire, how can this big traitor die? Why use an empty bow? That can only be strangled with a bowstring, can you crush him to death with a bowback?
Gao Guiying didn't understand, and neither did the thousands of Ming soldiers present, so they thought wildly.
Some people think that this may be Lord Lin's casual thoughts, blurting out, there is no special meaning, as long as this big traitor is punished, no matter how he dies, just kill him, and strangling him with a bow is fresher and more relieving than hacking him to death with a knife.
Some people think that Wu Sangui surrendered to the Tartars, and the Tartars are good at riding horses and archery, so that his death is more meaningful, so that he will regret it and not be a traitor in the next life.
But if that's how you put it, then why not shoot through the body? Wouldn't that be more meaningful, more hate-free, and more able to deter his next life? I'm afraid he can't even explain it.
Lin Yi didn't explain this, of course he knew it in his heart, and only he knew why he did it.
Because according to the original historical development, Wu Sangui surrendered to Dolgon, and after becoming a slave of the Manchu Tartars, he opened and closed the door and let the Tartars enter the customs.
From then on, the iron hooves of the Manchu Tartars officially knocked on the door of Shanhaiguan, wantonly trampled on the Central Plains, and the Manchu Tartars entered the Central Plains and began the bloody rule, enslavement and suppression of the Han people.
Because the Manchu Tartars entered the customs, the innocent lives that died under their iron hooves were tens of millions?
Not only that, Wu Sangui enslaved and suppressed the Han people for the Manchu Tartar rule, and was willing to be a pawn, if he was angry at the crown and became a red face, in order to take revenge on Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin, he was the vanguard of the Qing army to chase and kill the Dashun army, which is understandable.
But he wantonly slaughtered the anti-Qing Fuming forces, helped the Manchu Tartars to slaughter the Han people, especially when he chased and killed the Yongli Emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty all the way, and the Yongli Emperor ran to Burma, he still did not give up, forced the king of Burma to hand over the Yongli Emperor, and strangled the Yongli Emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty to death with a bowstring.
As a Han Chinese, he betrayed the Han people, surrendered to the Tartars, forgot his ancestors, betrayed the country to seek glory, and the crime was extremely heinous and intolerable to the world!
As a courtier and military general of the Ming Dynasty, he forgot his original intention, forgetting that his earl and military generals were given to him by the Ming Dynasty, but in turn he killed his master's family, drove them all out, cruel methods, forgot his roots and became enemies, disloyal and unjust, committed heinous crimes, and died innocently.
And decades later, Wu Sangui sang another farce against the Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty.
If you want to be the emperor, you just have to do it with Kangxi in a bright way, so you can be a good man. Because since ancient times, everyone wants to be an emperor, and the emperor is not planted by anyone, and the capable live in it, and the incompetent lose it, which is understandable.
But he just wants to use the banner of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, but looking at his various deeds, he is despised.
Of course, these other generals don't know, only Lin Yi knows.
As a traverser, of course Lin Yi will not use narrow-minded thinking to overturn the case for anyone, and deliberately clear the wrongs of anyone, because history is history after all, and what should be precipitated must be precipitated.
Otherwise, how can there be a thick history?
But since he is a military general of the Ming Dynasty, he has to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, maintain the Ming Dynasty's social society, punish traitors and eliminate evil for the Ming Dynasty, and since there is a historical reincarnation, he must also let Wu Sangui, a traitor, be retributed, he strangled others, and he also had to taste the taste of being strangled!
In other words, Lin Yi's execution of Wu Sangui in this way was completely for the public and for the sake of clarity, not out of any personal grudge and revenge.
Otherwise, Lin Yi would have tolerated sinners like Li Zicheng and Gao Guiying like the Ming Dynasty through the ages, let alone a Wu Sangui?
Lin Yi's mind is not narrow-minded, but very broad, he can almost drive an aircraft carrier formation, but he has principles and iron military discipline, since Wu Sangui chose to be a traitor, then he must die, and he must die well!
This is the reason why Lin Yi threw an empty bow to Gao Guiying.
The reason why it is Gao Guiying is because the former Wu Sangui framed Li Zicheng with conspiracy and trickery, which is equivalent to fulfilling Gao Guiying.
Now Gao Guiying doesn't think about the reason, not to mention that she can't understand at all, Gao Guiying's requirements are not high, as long as she can let her execute Wu Sangui with her own hands and avenge her husband Li Zicheng, she will be grateful.
Therefore, after Gao Guiying thanked Lin Yi, she came to Wu Sangui with a bow.
The countless soldiers of the Ming army present, both men and women, did not speak, just quietly watched, the fate of the traitors.
The current Wu Sangui is like a beast that has gone to its minions, it is the dragon that he has to coil now, and the tiger who has to lie down now.
Because Wu Sangui is now seriously injured and can't move at all, he never dreamed that it would be today's end.
Just now, Wu Sangui's soldiers were defeated and fled for their lives, and Lin Yi chased him and threw a flying knife under his horse.
This is not a hidden weapon flying knife, because Lin Yi's big knife can be said to be unparalleled in the world, dozens of catties heavier than Guan Yunchang's Qinglong Yanyue Knife back then, whose flying knife hidden weapon can grow one zhang and weigh 120 catties, it is unique!
But in this matter, Lin Yi insisted on using it as a hidden weapon, and the bow and arrow on the back of his body were saved, and he threw the big knife directly, Wu Sangui couldn't guard against it, and was thrown squarely.
Wu Sangui should feel glad that he was not cut into two pieces by this knife at that time, and he was able to live until now.
But the flying blade rotated and pumped to the back, vomiting blood, suffering serious internal injuries, and all internal organs should be damaged.
His mouth was full of blood, and he had no room to resist now, so he could only wait for death.
Now he felt unfortunate again, and it seemed impossible for him to die a happy death, and it was better to be strangled by a bowstring than to be slashed under a horse.
Failing to pretend to be a bear just now, Wu Sangui laughed again, and now when he heard that Lin Yi wanted Gao Guiying to strangle him to death with a bow and arrow, he began to scold again.
"The surname is Lin, you traitor, you can't die well, and I, Wu Sangui, will not let you go if I am a ghost......"
But before he could scold a few words, his mouth was blocked, and he couldn't scold anymore, several Ming soldiers held his arms and made him kneel on the ground, Gao Guiying walked behind him and wrapped his neck with a bow.
Gao Guiying, whose face was covered with blood, had murderous eyes condensed, and his hands clenched the big bow and tightened the bowstring in a circle.
The sound of broken muscles and bones sounded, Wu Sangui shaved his hands and feet, struggled for a while, tilted his head, and stopped moving.
"Husband, did you see it in the spirit of heaven, the concubine killed Wu Sangui and avenged her husband, and the husband can be blinded in the spirit of heaven......"
After speaking, tears rained down, and I couldn't cry.
Xiaoying took the female battalion soldiers to persuade her.
People die without making enemies, Lin Yi ordered someone to bury Wu Sangui's body here and there temporarily, set up a wooden sign as a mark, and notify them of the descendants of the Wu family in the future, and set up a grave, that is their old Wu family's business.
At this moment, on the side of the mountain in the distance, the shouts of killing were like the rising tide of the sea, Lin Yi and the others turned their heads to look, and countless Qing troops were overwhelming, pressing the ground.