In the history of the late Ming Dynasty, there was such a group of generals who were good at speculation, who were born in military families for generations, and their ancestors ate the food and salary of the Ming Dynasty, and the strong enemy did not want to be loyal to the country, but they opened the city and surrendered one after another. The righteous army came to surrender to the righteous army, and the Qing soldiers came to surrender to the Manchu Qing, and when the Manchu Qing gave them unsatisfactory treatment, and the situation in the world was surging, when they saw wave after wave of Ming troops resisting the Manchu rule, they thought that the opportunity had come, so they re-raised the banner of the Ming Dynasty and raised their troops anyway.

Profit-seeking, capricious, and having milk is a mother, this is the kind of person who is talking about it, and Jiang Jiu is one of the representatives

When Li Zicheng led the Shun army to cross the Yellow River eastward, Jiang Liang had tens of thousands of troops, and there was a strong city wall to defend the Datong border, and Zhou Yuji, a Ming general who led thousands of remnants to defend Ningwu Pass, died in battle, Jiang Huang, who had a strong army, chose to surrender without a fight, and gave up the road to Beijing.

Li Zicheng does not have the strategy of a hero, but he has the bearing of a hero, so that Jiang Hao is still the general army of Datong, commanding the original army, and there is no means of restraint, it may be that Li Zicheng has absolute self-confidence, confident that he is so strong that no one dares to betray. As a result, the battle of a stone was defeated, Li Zicheng hastily withdrew from Beijing and retreated to Shaanxi, and the more than 100,000 Xuanda border troops who had surrendered to him once saw the defeat of the Shun army and announced that they would be anyway.

At that time, because the Qing army was fighting the banner of revenge for Chongzhen, Jiang Hao did not think that the Manchus would have the intention of seizing the Ming Dynasty at first, after all, although the Manchus had entered the customs and robbed several times over the years, they were only robbers, and did not have the intention of occupying the land in the pass. So Jiang Hao tried in vain to make a contribution to the establishment, and when he rebelled, he actually supported the Ming Dynasty clan. As a result, he was severely reprimanded by the Manchu regent Dolgon after entering the customs and occupying Beijing, and had to petition the Manchu court for guilt.

But in this time and space, because of the appearance of the traverser Chen Yue, the historical trend is completely different, the Manchu and Qing armies went south, and they were all defeated by the Ming army, and more than 40,000 elite soldiers of the Eight Banners died in the south, resulting in a great reduction in the strength of the Manchu court. In order to rule the Han land, which was fought down with great difficulty, the Manchu court had to reuse the surrendered green battalion soldiers, like Jiang Hao, who was not valued at all, was also crowned king.

And now, the Shaanxi Shun army attacked the city everywhere, the Shandong righteous army could not be wiped out, and the north occupied by the Manchu Qing Dynasty was full of beacons, and at this time, Chen Yue, the king of Southern Ming Qi, who defeated the two armies of Duoduo and Azig, led an army of 300,000 to the north to attack the Qing.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Manchu Qing Dynasty is already in the twilight of life, and the death of 40,000 Eight Banner soldiers who failed a year ago is an unspeakable pain for the Manchu people with a total population of hundreds of thousands. Jiang Hao was naturally able to see this clearly, so it was not too difficult for him to choose.

The conditions given by the Ming Dynasty were naturally not as good as those of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and raising troops was only a promise of a marquis anyway, but Jiang Hao was already very satisfied, because he knew the tradition of the Ming Dynasty, non-military merits could not be awarded, and the title was very rare, and once obtained, it was hereditary, and the descendants would pass it on forever.

Therefore, Xu Qingtian didn't bother to speak, just read the holy decree of the imperial court, and Jiang Hao decided to oppose the Qing Dynasty and return to the Ming Dynasty. Because he knew that the holy decree was right, once Chen Yue defeated Hong Chengchou and occupied Shandong, he would have an overwhelming advantage in the face of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the conditions he was willing to give to the imperial court would be much worse if he surrendered at that time.

"What does the court want me to do?" Jiang Hao still had some doubts.

"It's very simple, you just need to go back to Datong, kill the officials appointed by the Manchus, and announce that anyway, just build up the momentum, the imperial court has sent people to all parts of Shanxi, as long as you raise the banner of righteousness first, the rest of Shanxi will definitely smell the scenery, and Shanxi Province will no longer be owned by the Manchus!" Xu Qingtian said.

"Got it!" Jiang Hao nodded, turned around and passed on the generals, ordered to stop crossing the river, and the army that crossed the river quickly returned.

Although Jiang Hao only has more than 20,000 troops in his hands, he is the former Datong border army, and his experience and combat effectiveness are not weak. But now there is another problem, that is, Longmendu, where he is now, is thousands of miles away from Datong's nest, which is equivalent to crossing the entire territory of Shanxi from south to north.

According to Jiang Jiu's plan, he did not raise the anti-flag for the time being, but returned to Datong first, and then said that although the prefectures and counties that passed through were under the rule of the Qing Dynasty, they did not have many troops, so they could only let the army pass. Xu Qingtian rejected Jiang Jiu's plan, telling him that he must immediately declare an anti-Qing to attract the attention of the Manchus and create a good opportunity for the Ming army's Northern Expedition.

"Big brother, let's wait for the king of Qi to go north, now the anti-Qing is tantamount to attracting all eyes to us, you must know that the south of Belebolo and the king of Pingxi Wu Sangui are attacking Tongguan, not far from us, once the anti-Qing is not successful, I am afraid that waiting for our brothers is a dead end." Jiang Xuan secretly persuaded Jiang Xuan.

Jiang Hao sighed: "I don't know what you said about my brother, but the person surnamed Xu said it very clearly, now it is a great merit to attract attention for the Northern Expeditionary Army, and once the King of Qi leads the troops to the north, there will be no merit in raising things again, so I can't hesitate!"

At the beginning, our brothers took refuge in the Manchu Qing Dynasty a little late, and their position in the Qing court was really embarrassing. The reason is the same, if we wait for the King of Qi to defeat the Qing army, our brothers will be dispensable to the Ming Dynasty, and even the current status may not be guaranteed.

Wealth is in danger, for the glory and wealth of our Jiang family in the future, our brothers can only fight! ”

Jiang Xuan thought about it carefully, nodded, and agreed with his brother's words.

"What's going on? How to withdraw the troops! "Not far from the Longmen ferry is the county seat of Hejin, the Manchu Shanxi governor Wu Weihua personally sat in Hejin, for the army to levy the people's food and salary, heard that Jiang Huang's department stopped crossing the river and even withdrew to the east of the river, Wu Weihua was very shocked.

"Futai, Jiang Hao is reversed!" After a while, another subordinate hurriedly ran in and reported to Wu Weihua.

"Ahh Wu Weihua was shocked.

"Futai, there are only a few hundred troops in Hejin City, and they can't hold it at all, let's go back to Taiyuan quickly." The master of his subordinates persuaded Wu Weihua to be as good as a stream, and immediately led people to retreat from Hejin in a hurry. As soon as he came out of the city gate, a group of cavalry swept in from the west, and Wu Weihua's hundreds of men scattered in a hurry.

A general rode over, the steel knife in his hand waved, and Wu Weihua's head fell to the ground.

In the nineteenth year of Chongzhen, the third year of Shunzhi of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, in October, Jiang Xuan, the former general of Datong, led the people to oppose the Qing Dynasty, killed Wu Weihua, the governor of Shanxi of the Manchu Dynasty, captured the county seat of Hejin, and then sent troops to the north, marching along the Fen River to Taiyuan.

Hearing that Jiang Jiu was anyway, the gentry and righteous people in Shanxi were deeply encouraged, and they beheaded the officials appointed by the Manchu Qing Dynasty one after another, and returned to the Ming Dynasty. The gentry Hu Guoding led hundreds of servants to take up the county seat of Lu'an, and Chen Du, Zhang Douguang and others captured Jincheng. Pingshun, Puzhou, in just a few days, the southeast of Jin is full of beacon fires, and there are Ming gentry everywhere.

Ten days later, Jiang Hao led his troops to Taiyuan, Shanxi governor Wu Weihua was killed, and the leaderless city of Taiyuan surrendered under the leadership of the Taiyuan prefect.

The news of Jiang Xuan's uprising reached Datong, and Niu Guangtian, the general of Datong, was originally Jiang Huang's general, and immediately raised the righteousness after getting the news, and Geng Zhuo, the governor of Xuanda of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, fled to Xuanfu in a hurry.

Jiang Hao rebelled, Shanxi Province was full of beacon fires, Datong was lost, and the news quickly spread to Beijing, which made the Manchu court tremble.