Ao Bai sat down on the ground, "It's over, Hong Chengchou, this bastard has abandoned us, the Qing soldiers in Hubei Prefecture are gone, Hong Chengchou's new army has run, run, and the Huaxia army has crossed us and occupied several county towns in front of us." Ao Bai vented hysterically.

"So what are we going to do?" Soltu was not in a hurry to plead guilty, and stood up and shouted in a panic.

At the same time, Hong Chengchou received news from the Qing court.

Feng Quan said to Hong Chengchou: "My lord, Dolgon is dead, Emperor Shunzhi, under the protection of Duolong and other guards, successfully persuaded the ministers of the court and the central government, mastered several large camps in the direction of the Beijing Division, and our four new armies were also controlled, they surrendered to Emperor Shunzhi, and the emperor was in power." ”

"What should I do?" Although Feng Quan is usually calm and resourceful, he is always a little flustered when facing major events, and he can't come up with a good solution.

Hong Chengchou closed his eyes and said silently: "What else can I do, let's see how the situation develops, isn't there still Haoge?" ”

Feng Quan slapped his forehead, "Yes, there is also Hauge, Dolgon is dead, but Hauge does not hide his ambition to become the emperor, he still has 50,000 Qing troops in his hands, as well as 100,000 Qing troops we sent, 50,000 new troops, and a total strength of 200,000 troops,"

Feng Quan turned around twice, "Haoge was in Xi'an Mansion before, according to the current progress, he has almost arrived at Taiyuan Mansion, if he successfully integrates the strength of the Qing army in Taiyuan Mansion, then his strength will reach more than 300,000, plus some local regimental training, Xiangyong, it is almost 500,000 troops." It's a scourge. ”

Hong Chengchou sneered: "We are Dolgon's forces, others can submit to Emperor Shunzhi, but we can't submit to him, even if we are obedient, we will be in prison in the future, do you want that kind of fate?" ”

Feng Quan shook his head, "Shunzhi has nothing to hold us, our people are all new troops, all of them are local or nearby recruited township warriors and regimental training, the people are young and strong, their families are here, there are some officials in the city whose families are in Beijing, but we can control these, since Dolgon is seriously ill, we have already started to clean up the soldiers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and our army here is basically under our control, although it is not foolproof, it is not almost possible to fight with the imperial court." ”

After saying these words, Feng Quan shook his head with a wry smile and said to Hong Chengchou: "I never thought that the ending would be like this, we actually betrayed our court again and again. ”

That is to say, he betrayed the country twice, the previous one was of course the Ming Dynasty, he was originally an official of the Ming Dynasty, and later became an official of the Qing Dynasty, but now, he wants to betray the Qing Dynasty and become a rebel, such an ending, in the late Ming Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty, when people's moral concepts have not collapsed, this choice is painful, and it can almost collapse an upright scholar.

Unless it is a hero, the hero sometimes has human feelings and feelings, I'm afraid he won't be too at ease, but the hero is good at hiding his heart.

Of course, Hong Chengchou is not happy, Dolgon's kindness to him made him feel quite painful in his heart, Dolgon represents the Manchu Jurchens, that is, the Jin State was destroyed by Meng Yuan, the Southern Song Dynasty of the Jin Kingdom was destroyed, but it was destroyed by Meng Yuan, and now the Jurchens, as the descendants of the Jin people, have to bear his betrayal.

"Not to mention Lord Feng, in fact, we have no choice, if we want to save our lives and glory and wealth, we have to do this, otherwise let us watch others step on our corpses and achieve other people's great achievements?"

"So what do we do now?"

"Now that the situation is so complicated, there have been Lu countries, Huaxia Army, Nanming States, Yongli Daming, and Yarkand Kingdom, do we also want to become a country of our own?"

Feng Quan said helplessly to Hong Chengchou.

Hong Chengchou shook his head, walked around in place with his hands behind his back, and shook his head for a long time before he shook his head and said: "We don't have an orthodox legal basis for rule, if we declare ourselves a country, those scholars will not recognize us, and the army will soon collapse, they are not loyal to us, we don't have the reputation to make others loyal to us, even if we have reputation, but who will be the emperor?" ”

He looked at Feng Quan, Feng Quan looked up at him, the two looked at each other, and immediately Feng Quan smiled bitterly, he didn't think about it, but he knew that once he showed this kind of thought, he would immediately be poisoned by Hong Chengchou, he didn't have a loyal army in his hands, Hong Chengchou controlled all the troops here, and most of the generals of the army were still under his command, and he was just a staff talent, not the material to be an emperor.

And Hong Chengchou is impossible, his reputation is almost worse than Wu Sangui, no matter how bad Wu Sangui's reputation is, the generals under his command are his family members, generals, people have been in business for a long time, the family rule is stable, people can succeed, as a think tank talent in the Qing Dynasty, Hong Chengchou cannot succeed, his prestige comes from the Qing Dynasty, if the Qing Dynasty falls, his prestige is not enough to restrain all the generals.

Even those generals who listened to him couldn't keep the fact that they didn't have the heart to overthrow him with the army in their hands that day, Hong Chengchou was a civilian official to put it bluntly, and he didn't have much power in the army.

Most of the people in the army are Han Chinese, and if they find a clan, they may obey, but if the two of them dare to take the throne, then they will play in minutes.

"Find a clan, yes." He was not free to shout out.

Hong Chengchou nodded, "The old man has already sent someone to contact King Lu, Zhu Yihai, he is close to us, and when the time comes, we are likely to become officials of Lu State, and this army may also become the army of Lu State, so that we will not be surrounded." ”

Seeing that he had figured it out, Hong Chengchou revealed his thoughts.

Feng Quan shook his head helplessly, he was still not as far-sighted as Hong Chengchou.

A personal soldier ran in and whispered a few words to Hong Chengchou.

Hong Chengchou turned to Feng Quandao and said: "Wu Sangui voted for Haoge, and now Haoge has mastered most of Shaanxi and Gansu, although there are still a few Qing officials who are not convinced, but Haoge has undoubtedly occupied most of the territory of Shaanxi, Gansu and Shanxi Prefecture, and is still advancing in the direction of Jingshi, and his army has expanded to 500,000. ”

Stopped, took a deep breath, "The generals of the nine sides also diverged, Zhou Peigong, Wang Pu of Datong all rebelled, they threw themselves into the Yongli Ming Dynasty, and were fighting against Haoge's Qing army, Haoge left 100,000 troops to encircle and suppress Datong, and the remaining soldiers and horses continued to march to Jingshi. ”

Feng Quan had a bitter face, "It seems that the Qing Dynasty is going to be chaotic, and the number of Da Ming's qi seems to be endless, and they actually let them turn the tables after more than ten years." ”

Hong Chengchou sat on his chair with a golden knife, touched his beard and said: "The old man thought about it for a while, it was the Huaxia Army that caused the Qing Dynasty to not be able to unify the land of the Ming Dynasty, and the Huaxia Army is now in high spirits, I don't know how they will deal with such a change?" ”

(End of chapter)