Chapter 356 Capturing Hong Chengchou Alive The first 5000-word chapter
The capital of the Great Western Kingdom is also the later Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, which is the imperial capital that Zhang Xianzhong has just established.
Now Zhang Xianzhong is pushing a trolley up the wall - shaking (steep) up, also wearing a dragon robe, wearing a dragon crown, three palaces and six courtyards, palace maids and eunuchs in groups, left and right prime ministers, civil and military officials, long live the court.
Zhang Xianzhong sat down on the dragon chair, holding a jade seal in his hand, he had completely found the feeling of being an emperor, as if he was really the true dragon son of the world, that feeling was difficult to describe for those who had not experienced it personally.
However, his dragon chair and jade seal are fakes relative to the Ming Dynasty, or to the entire history.
This point is not quite the same as Li Zicheng's dragon chair and jade seal, although Li Zicheng only controls the land of projectiles, and the territory of Shaanxi Province is not as large as that of Sichuan Province.
But at least Li Zicheng entered Yanjing, sat on the orthodox dragon chair, took the orthodox jade seal, Emperor Chongzhen was forced to commit suicide, if it weren't for Lin Yi's crossing to change history, stabilize the Ming Dynasty, and use the special identity of the prince to skillfully achieve a smooth transition, the Ming Dynasty would have completed 276 years.
Later, Zhu Yousong, the king of Xiaofu, founded the country in Nanjing and ruled the world, and then he became Nanming. and the Ming Dynasty established by Zhu Yuanzhang in history, strictly speaking, they are two different things.
Just like the Southern Song Dynasty and the Northern Song Dynasty, the Southern Ming Dynasty is only half of the country, not a unified world, partial to the south of the Yangtze River, and it has not existed for a long time. Although the entire Nanming Dynasty has experienced 40 years, she has passed through four emperors and one prison country, and all of them are short-lived.
In history, Li Zicheng's attack on Yanjing and the hanging of Emperor Chongzhen were regarded as the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty's entry into the Central Plains in the same year was regarded as the beginning of the Manchu Tartars' rule of the world. It's a dynastic change. Although this period of Nanning is also an important period in history, it is at most a troubled era, a process in which the Qing Dynasty eliminated the remnants of the Ming Dynasty to rule the Han people.
Just like the Three Kingdoms, the Two Jin Dynasties, the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, or the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, they cannot be regarded as a complete and unified Jiangshan Dynasty.
Therefore, Li Zicheng only overthrew the Ming Dynasty, and he, the Emperor of Dashun, was just more or less touched by the edge of the true dragon emperor.
And Zhang Xianzhong's dragon chair and jade seal are simply imitations, and the imperial capital is also set by itself, which is equivalent to one is genuine, one is pirated, one is original from a regular factory, and the other is a copycat version and stall goods.
Of course, the difference is very big, just like the difference between genuine and pirated copies.
Because the Ming Dynasty has been a unified dynasty for more than 200 years, the Ming Dynasty has not perished now. Because of Lin Yi's crossing, there was at most a high-level earthquake in the Ming Dynasty, and now a smooth transition has been achieved. Under Lin Yi's supervision, the Ming Dynasty is still a unified dynasty.
And there are no two emperors in the official history, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng was still the emperor in Yanjing for a day, and he had to run away in a hurry before his ass was warm, they are at most a country within a country, and there is no essential difference between those mountain kings who occupy mountains and warlords.
But despite this, Zhang Xianzhong also felt quite satisfied, no matter whether his emperor was true or fake, as long as it worked in his own imperial capital.
And he is no longer driven away by the Ming Dynasty officials and soldiers in a corner, so he has to sleep in the mountains and forests with thieves and thieves, and he does not dare to show his face in public, and now he can also go to the so-called dragon chair and work in a dignified place.
On this day, Zhang Xianzhong received a recital from the former enemy. When it was opened, it was written by his godson, Li Dingguo, the king of Anxi of the Great Western Kingdom.
It is good news again, Zhang Xianzhong is very happy, since they entered Sichuan for the second time, his Great Western Army has won battles one after another, especially Li Dingguo's people, who are simply invincible, and the remnants of the Ming army have been beaten away, and hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of territory have been opened up for the Great Western Kingdom.
Now the sphere of influence of the Great Western Kingdom can be said to be not only Sichuan, but also extends to the land of Qin and Jin in the northeast and the Yunnan-Guizhou provinces in the southwest, and the situation is very good.
Zhang Xianzhong read the letter from beginning to end with a spring breeze, and couldn't help frowning.
Although this is good news, this time is different, Li Zicheng's wife Gao Guiying and think tank Li Yan and others led the remnants to vote?
He took the fold and read it three times from beginning to end, and then turned around twice in front of the dragon book, and on the yellow face with a beard on his chin, a pair of eyes that defied the world flashed a few times.
Suddenly, he said in a deep voice: "Someone."
"Slaves and maidservants serve Your Majesty." The eunuch Zhang hurriedly bowed down with a fly brush.
"Spread my will, let the prime ministers come to see me quickly."
"Yes." Eunuch Zhang agreed, walked to the door of the main hall and rushed outside, shouting in his unique dumb chicken voice, "Your Majesty has a decree, pass the left prime minister and the right prime minister to enter the palace to see the driver." ”
The time is not big, the left prime minister Wang Zhaolin, the right prime minister Yan Ximing, sat on the eight sedan chairs at the entrance of the Golden Palace, and then the two of them got off the sedan chair after shaking their robes, and trotted all the way up the steps.
When they arrived at the gate of the Golden Palace, the eunuch passed the word inside again, and then the two prime ministers of the Great Western Kingdom entered the main hall, knelt down and kowtowed to Zhang Xianzhong on the dragon chair, and said Long live my emperor.
"The two Qing families, don't be polite." Zhang Xianzhong sat upright, making it look like the real thing.
"Long live thanks." After the two prime ministers paid their respects, they stood there in a proper manner, listening to the hadith.
Zhang Xianzhong ordered the eunuch Zhang Yong to hand the fold to the two of them and took turns to watch.
After the two of them read it, they looked at each other again, no one said anything, and handed the fold to the eunuch respectfully, and the eunuch respectfully handed it to Zhang Xianzhong and put it on the dragon book case.
"How do the two Qing families think this matter will be decided?"
Wang Zhaolin and Yan Ximing couldn't figure out what Zhang Xianzhong was thinking in his heart, but they would never dare to talk nonsense, because there was a size place on this golden palace, and if Zhang Xianzhong was unhappy with a wrong sentence, he would be guilty of bullying the king, and he might lose his head.
A companion is like a tiger! Don't look at Zhang Xianzhong, the emperor, is just a soil emperor who manages a piece of territory the size of a palm, but this person is from the military, and he is also the emperor immediately.
Therefore, the two of them quickly turned around in their minds, and Zuo Prime Minister Wang Zhaolin spoke first. Because the two prime ministers are one left and one right, of course, the left is the top.
Wang Zhaolin said that this was a good thing, Dashun was now extinct, and the remnants of Li Zicheng had defected to them, increasing their strength and expanding their influence. Now the remnants of the Ming Dynasty are still relatively strong, and Daxi is employing people. It should be given courtesy and reuse, and it also seems that the king of Onishi is virtuous and has the heart of an emperor. But we must be wary of their big tails, and after they stand firm, they will set up another mountain, and everything depends on the dragon's will.
After Prime Minister Wang finished speaking, Zhang Xianzhong didn't say anything for Prime Minister Yan to say.
Yan Ximing saw that the old Wang Tou was really cunning enough, and he was afraid that he would say something wrong and say something that was either left or right, this guy was really a donkey dung, bright inside and out. This prime minister can't talk nonsense, lest he make a mistake in settling accounts after the autumn, and he really has to let Long Yi call the shots in this matter.
Therefore, Yan Ximing also dragged some words, although the content of what he and Wang Zhaolin said was different, they were also two words, and the ideas of the two people were similar.
Actually, both of them are talking nonsense.
Zhang Xianzhong nodded after hearing this, and smiled coldly at the corner of his mouth, "Didn't you two see that this was a trap?" ”
When the two prime ministers heard this, they knelt down with a plop.
"Your Majesty, Weichen is stupid, please forgive your sins."
"Li Zicheng and his Dashun army have already been wiped out, and the rest have all surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, and now they have come to take refuge in my Daxi, which is obviously a countermeasure."
The two knelt on the ground, their eyes rolled, and they instantly understood Zhang Xianzhong's intentions.
Zhang Xianzhong wants to get rid of the remnants of Li Zicheng and never suffer in the future.
Of course, the two of them will not forget that when Zhang Xianzhong was at the end of his rope, he defected to Li Zicheng. Li Zicheng wanted to get rid of Zhang Xianzhong, but it was Cao Cao at that time who maneuvered and allowed Zhang Xianzhong to escape.
But thirty years to the east of the river, thirty years to the west of the river. Tongguan Nanyuan Li Zicheng fell for Hong Chengchou's strategy, and in that battle, he only had 18 horses left to hide in Shangluo Mountain.
During this period, Li Zicheng, who was not in the first place, also came to Zhang Xianzhong, and Zhang Xianzhong also held a grudge, so he listened to Pan Duxi's plan and planned to take the opportunity to get rid of Li Zicheng, so as not to fight for the world with him in the future.
At the critical moment, it was Cao Cao who leaked the secret, allowing Li Zicheng to escape.
Since then, the bond between the two has been concluded. On the surface, they are all rebels, fellow villagers, or two comrades-in-arms under the same banner, their common enemies are the Ming army, and sometimes they are closer than brothers when they meet, and there is cooperation and division of labor.
But in essence, the two of them are calculating each other in their hearts, and one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers, at this time Zhang Xianzhong knew that Li Zicheng's wife and these famous generals under him could not really defect to him, and they were not taking the same road.
They came only for temporary refuge, and after they had gained a foothold in the shade by the trees, they would set up another hill. At that time, he Zhang Xianzhong wanted to dominate the world, and he had one more enemy.
Zhang Xianzhong now says that this is Daming's countermeasure, but it is just an excuse. How could he tell from the letter? And the two of us prime ministers can't see it?
Li Zicheng and his Dashun army were completely annihilated, and the rest surrendered, is there no remnant of not surrendering? Isn't there Li Zicheng's diehard loyalist who wants to avenge him?
How did Li Zicheng die? How did his Dashun die? On the surface, he fell for the tricks of Wu Sangui and Dolgon, and the Shanhaiguan was wiped out in the first battle, but if it wasn't for Lin Yi leading the Ming army to drive out his troops left in Yanjing, if it weren't for Lin Yi sending troops and copying Li Zicheng's hometown in Xi'an, would Li Zicheng and his Dashun be able to disappear like lightning?
Gao Guiying, Gao Yigong, Li Yan, Li Guo These people are Li Zicheng's cronies and friends, they burned the tomb of the Ming Emperor, dug the ancestral grave of the Zhu family, and cooked and ate the uncle of the Ming Emperor, Zhu Changxun, in Luoyang, which attacked Yanjing and forced Emperor Chongzhen to hang, they have a grudge with the Ming Dynasty, how could they surrender to the Ming Dynasty? Even if they are desperate and willing to surrender, can the Ming Dynasty tolerate them?
In fact, His Majesty has already made up his mind, and the reason why he still invites the two of them to discuss the state and let them talk nonsense is to give people a false impression, and he does not want to leave the world with the truth of "being unkind, not remembering old feelings, and attacking friendly troops", so as to affect his glorious image of a king.
Wang Zhaolin and Yan Ximing, the prime minister, are not in vain, they have a splendid mind, they have good intentions, and they don't rub sand in their eyes, think about these things clearly, and immediately kowtow to them.
"Your Majesty's eyes are sharp-eyed, I can't wait for it, so I ask Your Majesty to issue an order to kill these bold people."
When Zhang Xianzhong heard this, he really had a cold smile on his face, and immediately picked up the imperial brush and brushed a little bit, and wrote a few words on Li Dingguo's letter: Dingguo Wu'er, Gao Guiying, these people are all spies of the Ming Dynasty, they have already betrayed Dashun, and they are no longer my allies of Daxi.
After writing, the ink was dried, the fold was resealed with fire tin, the envelope was signed with the word "top secret", and Wang Shangli, a general of the Chinese army, was sent to Junzhou for a trip to Junzhou, and he must hand it over to Li Dingguo in person.
After receiving the order, Wang Shangli took the secret letter in his arms, ordered a cavalry, left Xijing, and flew to Junzhou on horseback......
Outside Jinzhou City, three watches, all the gates of Jinzhou City are opened, and all the gates are to be opened, which has a certain degree of confusion, the north gate and the east gate are shouting and killing out, and the two torches are lined up in a long line under the night sky.
Hong Chengchou, Azig, Aobai and others will not let all the men and horses out at once, the city gate of 20,000 horses is limited, and the drawbridge cannot be squeezed through, if it gushes out, the city gate may collapse, and the upper drawbridge of the moat will also be squeezed out.
Therefore, the two groups were divided into three batches, each with about 3,000 people, just like opening the floodgates, one by one and releasing them out.
They also knew that those who rushed to the front must be cannon fodder, and the 100,000 horses of the Ming army had been besieging the city for so many days, how could they easily break through the siege?
Therefore, the main general pressed the rear formation, Hong Chengchou sat firmly in the Shuaifu, and Azig and Aobai were not in a hurry to enter the battle first, but listened to the letter in the city.
Outside the city, the two Qing soldiers and horses led the way out, and the cannons outside the city rang out like a pot.
After about half a pillar of incense, the north gate and the east gate killed a group of Qing troops, this is the second batch, and it is a burst of shouting and killing, Hong Chengchou sat in the Shuaifu and closed his eyes to recuperate, and Azig and Ao Bai went up to the high place to watch, only to see the firelight in the distance, reflecting the red sky, shouting and killing, gunfire, and screams can not be distinguished.
After about half a pillar of incense, Azig and Ao Bai went out with the last elite of the Qing army in person......
"Lord Zhongtang, Prince Ying and Lord Ao have all gone out of the city, and we should also go." The lieutenant general under the marshal's mansion reminded Hong Chengchou.
"What's the panic, what's the battle situation ahead?" Hong Chengchou didn't even open his eyelids.
"Back to my lord, the details are not clear, but with the adults' strategy, with the divine strength of Prince Ying and Lord Ao, and with the courage of our army, we will definitely be able to ensure that the adults break through safely, pack up and leave quickly, it will be too late for the Ming army to rush in after a while."
"Alas, if the Ming army invades, we will set off, and if the Ming army does not attack, we will still wait here." Hong Chengchou sighed.
"No." The adjutant did not dare to speak any more.
Although the deputy general didn't understand what Hong Chengchou meant, he knew that Hong Chengchou was strategizing and winning a decisive victory, otherwise Huang Taiji would not have spent so much money to recruit this person, and the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang would not put down the shelf and feed Hong Chengchou in person, showing her gentleness, and this time she would not let him be appointed as the secretary of the military department, what Zuo Jian Du envoy, and let him command the army to hand over the Ningjin defense line to him, and even Prince Ying Azig and Ao Bai were assistants to this person.
Hong Chengchou still sat there with his eyes closed, as if an old monk was meditating.
Now the more than 1,000 generals around him are gone, are they still sitting here waiting to be killed?
It also shows that the army will attack and they will leave, and the Ming army will not leave if it does not attack in, and the Ming army will kill it in a while, can they still go if they want to? Now that all the costs of Jinzhou City have been opened, and the Ming army has attacked, this is a matter of minutes, isn't this old man's brain in water?
These generals had everything they wanted, but none of them dared to say more.
However, the Ming army never attacked, and only heard the shouts of killing outside the city, and the sound of artillery rang out in the sky.
These Qing soldiers waited and waited, anxious, but they did not enter the city in the open, and waited until the sky seemed to be dawn and did not appear, when someone suddenly ran in.
"Lord Zhongtang, the Ming army has come in, let's go!"
At this time, the generals present heard the shouting and killing sound getting closer and closer, the running sound of countless soldiers and horses, the neighing of war horses, the screams of military generals, and the occasional musket sound, the fire flashed and flashed, as if it was lightning before the storm.
The army of more than 1,000 Manchu Tartars present was ready to protect Hong Chengchou and fight outside, they were waiting too quickly, because the 20,000 soldiers and horses in the city had already run out, and the British prince Azig and the first warrior of Manchuria, the commander of the protector army, Aobai, should have already fought out of the encirclement, leaving only more than 1,000 of them, they were impatient.
But looking at Hong Chengchou again, he was not in a hurry at all, he still sat there motionless, his eyes did not open, and he made a more annoying sentence.
"It's only coming in now, it's too late, no one can leave......"
Hong Chengchou said weakly, and looked at the two incense sticks in front of him, which had burned out one after another, listless, like a deflated leather ball, slumped there.
The soldiers under him will be angry, just let you go, you don't go, you have to wait until the Ming army comes in before leaving, and now that the Ming army is attacking, you say it's too late, you can't go. This, this, this......
Angry, these soldiers of the Qing army looked at each other, secretly gritted their teeth, and couldn't wait to pull Hong Chengchou over and smack his mouth, and then unload eight pieces of chaotic blades to split the corpse.
Time is not big, a Ming army attacked the marshal mansion of Jinzhou City, more than 1,000 Qing troops still want to resist stubbornly, but they were quickly killed, when the sky is bright, the Ming army rushed into the tent, Hong Chengchou sat there without moving, countless Ming soldiers and soldiers made his tent inside and outside.
Hong Chengchou suddenly opened his eyes, took the Imperial Gift of Heaven Hall that had been prepared a long time ago, and pulled out the sword with a bang, and put it across his neck, which means that if you want to come over and catch it alive, it is simply impossible......