Chapter 147: The world is in an uproar
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The last time Dolgon and Yue Tuo led the troops to knock on the pass and enter the Ming Dynasty Jingfu and Shandong and other places to plunder, the Mongolian Eight Banners also sent a lot of soldiers and horses to follow the customs, originally these Mongols followed the Jiannu to do it, one is because they are not united, they were afraid of the Jiannu, and they had to be driven to follow the south, used as cannon fodder, and the other is that they also need to plunder the population slaves and gold and silver and other materials from the Ming Dynasty to meet their needs, to put it bluntly, it is their little brother who followed the boss to rob, and took the opportunity to make a windfall. ()
But they didn't think that after entering the customs, they encountered a fierce blow from the Xingtian army in the area of Jingfu, and under each battle, Dolgon and their Qing generals took their Mongolian soldiers as a run back, resulting in heavy losses for the Mongolian soldiers when they entered the customs this time against the Xingtian army.
Originally, there were not many Mongolian Eight Banners, and the strength of the Manchurian Tartar Eight Banners far exceeded their Mongolian Eight Banners, and such an excessive consumption of Mongolian soldiers made the Mongolian Eight Banners banner owners very unhappy, and they dared to be angry before, but this time they entered the customs and found that although the official army among the Han people was not good, there was a Xingtian Army that could confront the Tartar Army head-on, and this Xingtian Army could also defeat the Jiannu Army in the field, so they started to move.
After the Mongols arrived in this era, they were no longer as strong as they were back then, their forces were very scattered, not to mention their own affairs, and they fought with each other in order to control the steppe, so that in the face of the fact that the population far exceeded the Jurchens, they could only choose to rely on the Jiannu Tartars, they can be said to be a group of pure villains, whoever is powerful will help whom, and they are doing the business of removing the weak and helping the strong.
In the past, they saw that Jiannu was more powerful than the Ming army, so they helped Jiannu deal with the Ming Dynasty, and now they suddenly found that there were people who were more powerful than the Jiannu army, so according to their habits, they began to become less obedient to Jiannu, after going back from the customs this time, they began to try their best to inquire about the Xingtian Army, from the news collected back, it was suddenly found that the Xingtian Army has now become a behemoth, by no means just one or two thousand horses, but has a comprehensive confrontation with the Ming, It is even possible to replace it.
Especially in the past six months, these Mongols found that the Xingtian army was unstoppable and captured most of Shanxi in one fell swoop, and at the same time had great strength in the border passes, and went south to Huguang and the area of "plunder", but the Ming Dynasty was in front of the Xingtian army, repeatedly defeated, even the old Yang Sichang of the Daming Pavilion died in the hands of the Xingtian army who entered Kou Huguang, and officials such as the governor were killed by the Xingtian army, and the Ming had no way to take them.
If it goes on like this, if the Ming Dynasty doesn't get it right, it will really be replaced by the Xingtian Army, considering that it is necessary to take precautions, once the Xingtian Army rises, it will definitely continue to be the enemy of Jiannu, and Jiannu is not the opponent of the Xingtian Army, once one day if the Xingtian Army even cleans up the Jiannu, then they are now following Jiannu, won't it hurt the pond fish?
So during this period of time, the Mongols did not seem to be very peaceful, not only did they not listen to the instructions of the slave chieftain Taiji, but even in some places, the Mongols began to secretly confront Jiannu, and the Mongols began to take the initiative to send people to the northern area of Jin, secretly contacted Wang Chengping and Li Lingfeng, and secretly started trading with the Xingtian Army, and sold the good horses, breeding cattle and other livestock needed by the Xingtian Army to the Xingtian Army, in exchange for the Xingtian Army to open up the trade routes in the Xuanda area and trade with them.
As a slave chieftain, Huang Taiji, of course, soon discovered the Mongols' small abacus, of course, he knew that once the Mongols rebelled against them, if they didn't get the Great Qing State he had just established, they would be in big trouble, so now he wanted to re-subdue these Mongols as soon as possible, and they would fall to the Xingtian Army in the future, so he would immediately agree to the peace proposal proposed by Chongzhen, and the consideration was to solve the internal problems first.
So Chongzhen in the first time after receiving the news, it can be said that he was relieved, in his opinion, in a short period of time, the north can be a little calm, Jiannu should be after the signing of the peace agreement, will not go south in the near future, so he quickly ordered the Guan Ning army to start going south to "suppress the thieves", the situation to this time, he can not wait for a moment.
Although there was a scolding in the government and the opposition, this time the Ming Dynasty still signed a peace agreement with Jiannu, ceded Jinzhou to Jiannu, and ordered Hong Chengchou to lead his troops to evacuate Jinzhou and garrison Ningyuan, and a large number of Jinzhou people also moved south.
Such a move caught the governor of Jiliao Hong Chengchou off guard, and before the peace conference of the Ming and Qing dynasties, he did not know about it at all, and suddenly the imperial court reached a peace agreement with Jiannu, and ordered him to supervise the army and escort the people of Jinzhou to move south, which immediately surprised the soldiers and civilians outside the pass, and then came the anger of the army and the people, and immediately many soldiers and civilians scolded the court, and for a time made a big mess outside the pass.
Hong Chengchou was also very stunned by this matter, and suddenly fell into a dilemma, he was the governor of Jiliao, is the most direct target of the people's attack, as soon as the news spread, he was thrown into the yamen of the governor's palace in Jinzhou on the same night, and a notice scolding him also appeared on the wall, demanding to resolutely resist the peace with the Tartars, and never withdraw from Jinzhou, and some ordinary people even committed suicide to resist the cession of Jinzhou City to Jiannu.
Hong Chengchou then hurriedly sent someone to the Beijing division to send Chongzhen to play a sparse, Li Chen can not do this, once this is done, the entire defense system outside the pass may collapse, the army will be scattered, and the people's will also be severely frustrated, once Jiannu repents, knock on the pass again, then there will be no available soldiers outside the pass, don't expect them to be able to block the Jiannu army from entering the customs, the territory outside the Shanhaiguan will definitely be taken away by Jiannu sooner or later.
And although Chongzhen also realized that this might cause a big loss of people's morale and the discouragement of the army, but now that the wood is in the boat, he has no room for repentance, and if he repents at this time, then it will definitely immediately incur Jiannu's fierce revenge, at this time, the Xingtian Army in the interior of the Ming Dynasty has reached the point of uncontrollability, once Jiannu goes south again because of his repentance, Daming will be completely finished under the internal and external attacks of the Xingtian Army and Jiannu, so he knows that Hong Chengchou is right, But he didn't dare to go back, and ordered Hong Chengchou to act in accordance with his holy decree, abandon Jinzhou City, and the superintendent and the people immediately retreated south and redeployed in the Ningyuan area.
Hong Chengchou, as a minister of the Ming Dynasty, got Chongzhen's reply, and had no choice but to act in accordance with the holy decree, ordered the withdrawal of troops to retreat to Ningyuan, and gave Jinzhou City to Jiannu.
This retreat, so that the entire outside the Ming defense system basically collapsed, the military heart was shaken, the people's hearts were scattered, a large number of money was spent, the materials stored in Jinzhou and those who spent countless silver taels to build the fort, were abandoned to Jiannu, many soldiers were scattered on the road, materials were thrown all over the ground, all in vain to those who followed and monitored their evacuation from Jinzhou Jiannu army, so that the Jiannu army levied tens of thousands of servants, pushing a cart to follow the retreating Ming official army, Picking up all kinds of materials that were discarded by the officers and soldiers, he made a lot of money in vain.
And with the news of the peace conference between the Ming and Qing dynasties, those Mongols who were just a little disobedient realized the danger, and the Ming Dynasty was completely out of action at the moment, and they couldn't count on it for the time being, and the sharpness of the knife on the Jiannu side could be cut to their necks at any time, if they were not obedient at this time, then they believed that the cunning Huang Taiji would definitely pick up the butcher's knife against them without hesitation, so suddenly these Mongols became much more honest and became immediately submissive again.
As the spy leader of the Xingtian Army, Feng Weihan naturally also had to install the details of the Xingtian Army in the Beijing Division, and these details sent the news out of the Beijing Division as soon as possible, as soon as Feng Weihan got the news, he immediately sent someone to Xiao Tianjian to learn about it as quickly as possible.
Xiao Tianjian had just finished the first Xingtian Army in Wuchang Mansion at this time, and he was in a good mood, waiting to rectify the soldiers and horses, and finally discuss the battle plan for Nanzhili again.
But he didn't think that at this time, such news came from the north, which made Xiao Tianjian be taken aback, not only him, but the news had spread, and even the old court officials in Huguang who surrendered to Xiao Tianjian suddenly scolded.
In Xiao Tianjian's view of history, although he felt sympathy for Chongzhen's loss of the Ming Dynasty, he also felt sad for him, and he was a little angry, but he was not very clear about the peace between the court and Jiannu at the end of the Ming Dynasty, so he always believed that Chongzhen did his duty in treating Jiannu, and the Son of Heaven guarded the country until the dynasty overturned, Chongzhen did not leave Beijing, and fled to Jiangnan like Huizong and Gaozong of the Northern Song Dynasty, which is very admirable. So he has always subconsciously thought that Chongzhen will not really negotiate peace with Jiannu.
But it didn't come to pass, history was completely messed up by him, Chongzhen, who had never negotiated peace with Jiannu, at this time, he was forced to make this decision, and reached a peace agreement with Jiannu early, completely gave up Liaodong legally, and even did not hesitate to cede Jinzhou City, which was still under the control of the Ming army, in order to free up his troops and go south to deal with him.
In fact, when Xiao Tianjian captured Gao Qiqian, he learned from Gao Qiqian that Chongzhen was at the end of the eleventh year, so he instructed Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian to secretly negotiate peace with Jiannu, but later because the news was revealed, the government and the opposition were in an uproar, forcing Chongzhen's peace to be concluded in the end, and what Xiao Tianjian didn't know was that in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen in history, he had also sent people to negotiate peace with Jiannu, but later because Chen Xinjia was careless, his servants revealed the news, which once again caused a shock to the government and the opposition. forced Chongzhen to fail to reach a final peace agreement with Jiannu.
But in the development of history, since he Xiao Tianjian was involved, completely changed, this time Chongzhen actually concealed the world, before the news was revealed, he reached a peace agreement with Jiannu, and cooked the raw rice into cooked rice, although there are still many voices of opposition from the government and the opposition, but after all, he has done this, the wood has been completed, and it is too late to regret it.
And Xiao Tianjian didn't need anyone else to remind him at all, he could figure out why Chongzhen did this, in fact, to put it bluntly, he forced it, and now he has destroyed several official armies of the imperial court in the mainland, so that Chongzhen can't find any elite soldiers and horses that can deal with him in the mainland, so in order to save the Ming Dynasty that is about to fall, it is actually understandable for him to do this, the only thing he can call is only those Guan Ning troops outside the country, if it is someone else, there is a chance that Chongzhen will do this, It can even be said that Chongzhen is still a wise choice to do this.