Chapter 20 Borrowing Troops to Suppress Criminals
The rescuer has indeed arrived.
However......
"Li Yutian, the governor of Liaodong."
"Li Xixin, the governor of Chenshan Yong."
"Chen Yongping is preparing for Zhang Ruoqi."
As a large warship slowly approached, the three officials on the deck bowed at the same time, and then said in unison to Chongzhen, who was helped out by Wang Chengen: "Welcome to the holy driver!" ”
This is not Huang Fei's Denglai Sailor.
This is from the old dragon's head, subordinate to the Longwu Battalion Water Division of the Shanhaiguan General Army, and among these three Li Yutian and Wu Sangui led the military and civilians outside the customs to withdraw, Li Xixin is the Shanyong governor who commanded the soldiers and horses in Shanhaiguan and Yongping, in fact, he has been reappointed as the governor of Tianjin, replacing Feng Yuanyang who said goodbye to the old, but the will has not yet been issued Li Zicheng to Beijing.
Needless to say, Zhang Ruoqi's military preparation.
Together with Wang Yongji, the governor of Jiliao who had fled before, they together constituted the civil system in the Shanhaiguan area, and Gao Di, the general soldier of Shanhaiguan, and Wu Sangui, the general soldier of Liaodong, were the two main generals there, and there should have been Tang Tong, the general soldier of Jizhen who had surrendered, and Song Quan, the governor of Shuntian, who still did not know where he was after the defeat, and these people constituted the military and political core of the Ming Dynasty in eastern Hebei.
"Flat, you can come, I am very relieved!"
Chongzhen said expressionlessly.
He actually has nothing to consol, because this is a group of remnants of the defeated generals, originally the elites of each town were transferred to block Li Zicheng, and then basically all of them surrendered to the enemy, and these people are the old, weak, sick and disabled who stayed behind.
"The minister is late, please ask Your Majesty to forgive me!"
Li Yutian looked at the wound on his face and said cautiously.
He is the biggest official in this.
The governor of the Ming Dynasty was not full-time, but only temporarily set up for the task, and his own formal official positions were all imperial history, with the imperial history of the governor of a certain place, Li Yutian is the deputy capital of the imperial history, Li Xixin is the imperial history of the capital, and the same is true of the military preparation road, Zhang Ruoqi's official rank is actually according to the deputy envoy of the judge.
"It's good to be here."
Chongzhen said.
Li Yutian and the others saw that he was not in a good state, and they didn't dare to ask more, at this time there was quite a lot of wind and waves on the sea, and the two ships could not continue to get closer, so they escorted Chongzhen directly to Beitang, as for those who originally went to Beitang to intercept and kill Chongzhen, of course they withdrew at this time, although the strength of the Longwu Camp Sailor is not strong, but it is also a regular army of 1,000 people, not to mention that Yang Qing still has hundreds of slaves, this fleet berthed at the Beitang Wharf and requisitioned a local official office, where Li Yutian and others revisited the emperor.
They have received the Holy Decree.
It was precisely because he received the holy decree and knew that Chongzhen was ready to go south, so he hurriedly ran to Tianjin to meet him.
As for their purpose......
"Your Majesty, how can Your Majesty bear to abandon the people of the north, the ministers can not be edicted when they die, the ministers are born as the ministers of the Ming Dynasty and die as the ghosts of the Ming Dynasty, and they must not be juxtaposed with the rebels who committed chaos, and the ministers ask Your Majesty to take back their orders, and the northern military and people are willing to defend the Ming Dynasty to the death, fight to the end with the traitors, and recover the capital and return the palace to Your Majesty."
Zhang Ruoqi cried.
"Where is he from?"
Yang Qing asked Wang Chengen in a low voice.
"Shandong."
Wang Chengen said quietly.
"Oh, I see."
Yang Qing nodded, and continued to hold the hilt of the knife to play a statue beside Chongzhen.
"I have gathered troops from the north before, but I can't hold Beijing, what is the plan for Qing to recover the Beijing division? It has hundreds of thousands of troops, how many soldiers and horses does Qing have? In addition to a hundred battles, how many soldiers and horses can match them? ”
Chongzhen said as he drank his tea.
"Well, Your Majesty, the spirit of loyalty and righteousness of the ministers is worth a million troops!"
Zhang Ruoqi said righteously.
Then the teacup in Chongzhen's hand flew out and smashed on his head along with half a cup of tea.
"I ask you how many soldiers and horses you have!"
Chongzhen roared.
"Back to Your Majesty, there are still about 10,000 people in the Gaodi Department of the Guanmen General Army, more than 40,000 in the Pingxibo Division, and a total of 50,000 troops that can be collected in the east of Hebei are slightly better, but the Gaodi Divisions are all hastily recruited, and it may be okay to defend the city, and the field battle may be collapsed at the touch of a button, and the Pingxibo Department is elite."
Li Yutian said cautiously.
"It is said that those who can really fight and can fight in the field with it, don't say anything elite, and the erosion of the border army is not unknown."
Chongzhen said.
"This, no more than 10,000."
Li Yutian said honestly.
In fact, he is also exaggerating, the Guan Ning army is stronger than those militias in Gaodi, and the few thousand slaves who can really fight are Wu Sangui, who is very mysterious even guarding the Shanhaiguan, if he really wants to counterattack and recapture Beijing, then I am afraid that he really has to hope that Zhang Ruoqi's spirit of loyalty can move the heavens.
In fact, Wu Sangui was also beaten by Li Zicheng in the early days of history, and was beheaded by 3,000 in the field, and then had to be trapped in Shanhaiguan, and the situation was so critical that he couldn't hold it anymore, so he had to run to ask Dolgon in person, and then Dolgon joined the battlefield. The addition of the Qing army made the two sides join forces after the simple strength has far exceeded Li Zicheng, which led to Li Zicheng's defeat, Lao Li is not a hundreds of thousands of troops to attack Shanhaiguan, his strength is less than 100,000, the real elite is about 30,000, and Dolgon is with 80,000, Wu Sangui and Gao Di add up to 50,000, the lack of troops is the main reason for Li Zicheng's defeat in Shanhaiguan.
"What are you waiting to take back Beijing?"
Chongzhen shouted.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the minister still has a plan, which is entrusted by the Wang Inspector to play Your Majesty before leaving."
Zhang Ruoqi wiped his face and said.
"Say!"
Chongzhen said.
"Borrow troops to suppress Kou, borrow troops from Jiannu!"
Zhang Ruoqi hurriedly said.
"Uh, what about the magpie's nest?"
Yang Qing said with a pure look of astonishment.
"Never like this, what Jiannu wants is nothing more than property, at most some more land, and the thief wants to do what I will tomorrow also, if you follow the example of Song Liao to Xuanda cut and Jiannu, the two sides to the Great Wall and Yanmen Pass as the boundary, and then bait it with property, in exchange for its troops to help, then you will be able to recapture Beijing, in addition to this opportunity to negotiate peace with Jiannu, in the future each other as a brotherly state of non-aggression, and I Ming can gather all his strength to quell the rebellion."
Zhang Ruoqi said.
Chongzhen was silent.
Theoretically, this is indeed possible.
Of course, this is for the gentry, because the biggest problem with this is that Yang Qing said that the Qing army will occupy a magpie's nest, but this problem is not a problem for the gentry, because they can surrender to the Qing army, and the unlucky one is only the Ming Emperor, they will not have losses, they are nothing more than a change of master, as long as this master still uses them to change it, what does it matter? For them, no matter how bad Dolgon is, it can't be as bad as Li Zicheng, if they still had a little fantasy about Li Zicheng before, but now with the intensification of the fight against local tyrants in various places, this fantasy has disappeared. You must know that at this time, it can even be said that almost all the areas controlled by the Shun army have begun to fight the local tyrants, and those magistrates appointed by Li Zicheng almost the first thing they did after taking office was to put the local tyrants and inferior gentry into prison.
What happened to Jiannu?
Corporal Huangtai Ji Lixian, Dolgon still trusts a Xiucai, and Hong Chengchou and other subordinates are also highly used, how can this be much stronger than Li Zicheng!
As for the Ming Emperor......
Who cares if he lives or dies, he is a consumable, as long as he fools him into issuing a holy decree, as for the result, it doesn't matter, if Dolgon abides by the agreement, everyone will be happy, if Dolgon doesn't obey, it's a big deal to change the emperor, the old Zhu family has been the emperor for almost three hundred years, so why change it? As for the alien race or something, it is not in their scope of consideration, there are many alien races kneeling in the northern gentry!
Khitan, real Jurchen, Mongolia, none of them have ever knelt.
At this time, what does it matter if there is a fake girl?
"Taizu expelled the Tartars and restored China, so there were three hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, and you want to make Your Majesty turn to the Tartars for help, even if it can be done, how can Your Majesty see Taizu again after a hundred years? What's more, Li Zicheng is the minister of the Ming Dynasty, and how can Dolgon be the minister of the Ming Dynasty, His Majesty and Li Zicheng are also the internal affairs of the Ming Dynasty, and you want Your Majesty to lead foreign enemies to kill those who have been called ministers, what is this? Would you rather be with a friend than with a house slave? Is it unjust that you want to trap your majesty in unfaith and unrighteousness by destroying the covenant that you have made for ten days, and eating the promises made by all the peoples? ”
Yang Qing said faintly on the side.
"Why should you be faithful to the thief?"
Zhang Ruoqi said disdainfully.
"Then Yidi will talk to you about faithfulness?"
Yang Qing said.
"Your Excellency?"
Zhang Ruoqi looked at Yang Qing in surprise.
Of course, they knew Wang Chengen, and Cao Youyi also knew each other, but it was very surprising that Yang Qing, a strange Jinyi guard, spoke so unscrupulously, and Chongzhen actually didn't scold.
"General Yang was promoted to the commander of the Jinyi Guard with the merit of saving the driver."
Wang Chengen said.
"I've heard of it, but I'm a little puzzled below, that Li Zicheng caused trouble in the world, and made the Queen of Zongmiao Dust suffer and shame Sheji, he is really the enemy of my Ming Dynasty, Your Excellency, as a brocade guard, should be a thief, why do you cover it up everywhere? Which side are you on? ”
Zhang Ruoqi sneered.
"I am only on His Majesty's side, not on Your Excellency's side."
Yang Qing said with a smile.
"What do you mean by this, do you mean that you have selfish intentions?"
Zhang Ruoqi said.
"Do you have to make it clear?"
Yang Qing said.
"Please!"
Zhang Ruoqi said.
"Even if the Jiannu magpie's nest is occupied, it is also His Majesty's nest, you are nothing more than a new master, but Taizu's country will change hands, this is what you are talking nonsense with your eyes open, knowing that you will lead Jiannu into the customs, even if you defeat Li Zicheng, this world is no longer owned by the Ming Dynasty, and you are still lying to Your Majesty The reason why this kind of thing will not happen, of course you will not be afraid, Jiannu also has your place in the world, how about rewarding you with a Shuntian Mansion Yin? But if Jiannu takes over the world, will he still leave a place for His Majesty? Li Zicheng will respect His Majesty as the emperor and replace him with Dolgon, I am afraid that it is impossible for His Majesty to be a prisoner! ”
Yang Qing said unceremoniously.
"Your Majesty, the ministers impeached Yang Qing and the ministers with the right imperial history!"
Li Xixin said righteously.