Chapter 142: Quelling the Chaos (7)
"The overall situation has been decided, Qin Aiqing, let's enter the city" Now that the shouting and killing in the city has gradually disappeared, Chongzhen began to propose to enter the city, Guangningwei, the highest military organ in the northeast of the Ming Dynasty, and the location of the Liaodong General Military Mansion, after many years, finally returned to the hands of the Ming Dynasty again, this military town that controlled the Mongolian bomb and suppressed the Jurchens, and he will still let him travel after he takes it back.
"Your Majesty, now that the war in the city has just subsided, now when you enter the city, I am afraid that there will be fish that have slipped through the net to disturb the holy driver, so let the ministers send people to clean up again in the city" For Chongzhen's safety, Qin Liangyu is 120,000 points vigilant, and the status of the emperor in the imperial country is extremely important, especially when the designated heir has not yet grown up, if something goes wrong with the emperor, it will be for the crown princes to set off a bloody storm for the throne, and the decline of the empire is also a common thing, so for Qin Liangyu, this war can fail, He and his soldiers could die in battle, but the emperor himself must not have any accidents.
"Now there are tens of thousands of troops in the city" Suddenly Chongzhen asked loudly, "With the protection of my soldiers, what am I afraid of" Even if the current Jurchens have escaped the net, they are just a group of stragglers, and with the protection of the brocade guards and the army, how can they get close to themselves.
"Swear to protect the emperor's safety" All the soldiers near Chongzhen who heard Chongzhen's words immediately stood on the ground with their swords, saluted on half their knees, and responded loudly.
After saying "enter the city", Chongzhen went to the Liaodong General Military Mansion under the escort of a group of brocade guards.
"Lord Qin, for the sake of the safety of the saint, let's send someone to arrange it immediately, our family is willing to have someone disturb the emperor" After Chongzhen left, Wang Chengen took a step behind and whispered to this Qin Liangyu.
"Father-in-law, don't worry, the official will immediately send someone to arrange" After Wang Chengen left, Qin Liangyu immediately sent his personal guards to lead the team of soldiers to rush away.
I have just experienced the war, and the ground has not had time to be cleaned up, and there are small pools of blood gathering and blood stains dragging corpses all over the way, and there are bloodstained knife marks on the wall, obviously knowing that I am going to the General Soldier's Mansion, the corpses along the way have been dragged away, but I came too quickly, and the blood stains on the ground have not had time to clean up. And in the corner where Chongzhen can't see, the street that Chongzhen is going to pass, all the houses on both sides have soldiers go in to check in advance, and then send people to station, Chongzhen on the road to the general soldier's mansion, there are soldiers in the four or five nearby streets to clean up and guard in advance, and those corpses that were originally on the road were dragged behind the wall, and the emperor traveled, even in a war-torn place, it was not accessible to ordinary people.
Looking at the general military palace in front of him, which had changed hands for many years and returned to his hands, Chongzhen was full of emotion for a while, "Qin Aiqing, you make arrangements, leave a partial general and 10,000 soldiers to defend Guangning, rest for one night, and tomorrow the army will continue to go north, I heard that Huang Taiji also has a palace in Shenyang, and he Huang Taiji has been to my imperial city, and I also want to see his Huang Taiji's palace."
The next day, the army continued to go north, along the escape route of Huang Taiji and went straight to Xiping Fort, the original Xiping Fort guard Luo Zheng, stubbornly waiting for reinforcements, Nurhachi's army attacked the fort, and the defenders of Xiping Fort were killed in battle, so that the loyal and brave people died on the battlefield, so that Chongzhen was quite a pity. It was only after today's Ming army arrived at Xiping Fort that they found that the entire Xiping Fort had already been emptied, all the buildings were burned by fire, and Chongzhen was left with only a piece of ruins.
At this time, the scout came to report that all the bridges above the Liao River were destroyed by the Jurchens, and without the bridge, their tractors could not cross the Liao River, and a large number of haystacks were found on the opposite side of the riverbank. Either wait for the day when I am ready to go north and destroy the Jurchens in one fell swoop and rebuild the slave Gandusi, that is, the day when all the Jurchens, regardless of men, women, and children, will be sent to the mountains to dig mines for a lifetime and do a lifetime of hard labor."
This time the Northern Expedition, or too hasty, not only did not cooperate with the cavalry, but even the logistics did not prepare in advance, if it hit Shenyang in one go, broke the city of Shenyang, there will naturally be countless materials to supply, but now it is blocked by the Liao River, and it is not possible to build a stone bridge that can be passed by tractors for a while, but this time the 200,000 Manchurian and Mongolian coalition troops, less than 50,000 people fled back, and it has become a big climate. Don't worry about the emperor Taiji not falling.
"Where is Lu Xiangsheng, I ordered you to guard Xiping Fort, and the Liaodong Navy Division will merge with the patrol fleet to form an army of its own, and return to Phi Dao and Lushun General Soldier Huanglong to control it, and now your main purpose is to let the Jurchens negotiate peace with the Ming Dynasty, and the terms of peace are: 1. Hand over Huang Taiji. 2. Paying tribute to the Ming Dynasty every year of five million silver, if the other party wants to say no, you can tell the other party that the Jurchen has no money, but the great Mongolia and the Li Dynasty of Korea have money, no matter how the other party gets it, as long as the Ming Dynasty does not receive the tribute, then you will personally lead the troops to Shenyang to get it. In addition, I give you authorization, you can temporarily agree to the other party's condition that the Ming will not send troops, so that they can rest assured, as long as the Jurchen can ensure that the tribute offered is sufficient and has shown respect to the Ming, then the Ming will not send troops easily, if the tribute is less, it is disrespectful to me, disrespectful to the Ming, I don't mind taking back the slave Gandu Division and sending people to collect taxes by himself"
Anyway, Shenyang can't fight when it takes place, it's better to threaten the other party, let the other party obediently send money to himself, as for maintaining the supply, the Ming army will not send troops, that is a joke, the weak have never had a choice in the face of the strong, as long as they want to, they can raise the tribute to 10 million taels at any time, unlimited exploitation, no country can stand it, this trick is still Chongzhen like the eight countries of later generations to learn, the eight countries of later generations can fight the Jurchen people called the tribute, the current Ming can also do it.
"Minister's Order" Lu Xiangsheng was still very happy with Chongzhen's order to go to the Jurchens to blackmail him if he had nothing to do.
"After I go back, I will let people transport supplies to Xiping Fort, and leave 50,000 horses for Aiqing as soldiers guarding the river, hoping that Aiqing can build Xiping Fort into a military town to contain the Jurchens and intercept all the threats of the Jurchens to the Ming beyond the Liao River" The war here has been decided, and Chongzhen is also planning to return to Beijing, for an emperor, the border pass is not a place to stay for a long time. However, before returning to Beijing, Chongzhen planned to go to Huai'an Mansion first, knowing that in later generations, he found a salt mine that accounted for half of the world's reserves there, and with so much salt, it was a strong guarantee for him to re-customize taxes in the future.