Chapter 230: The Great Army Closes
Looking at the blood on the ground, Luo Luohun felt very tricky, and now the Loyal and Righteous Army has already captured Mianzhou and Yuxian (today's ST County and then use Yuxian as a transit station for grain and grass, and the grain and grass of the army are continuously transported to the front line through the navy. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
After the improvement of logistics, the morale of the various units of the Loyal and Righteous Army was greatly boosted, and now they are approaching Chengdu Mansion along the post road, and after listening to the repeated defeats of the Manchu Qing Tartars by the Loyal and Righteous Army, the people who had been plundered by the Qing Army spontaneously poured into the post road some time ago.
Seeing such support from the people, Yang Xuan was full of emotion, in addition to strict military discipline, he emphasized fair trade and strictly prohibited everyone from doing things that damaged the reputation of the loyal and righteous army.
In addition, when it was heard that the Loyal and Righteous Army had defeated the Qing army, successively recovered Baoning Mansion and Long'an Mansion, cut off the Manchu Qing Dynasty's road out of Sichuan, and was now reorganizing the army and marching towards Chengdu, the generals of the Ming Army in southern Sichuan and the Ming army in western Sichuan reinvigorated one by one and led the army to come to the round.
In this way, when the loyal and righteous army rushed to the city, Yang Zhan, the general of southern Sichuan, and Cao Xun, the deputy general of western Sichuan, set up camp in Chengdu City one by one to prepare for the siege.
In late January, Yao Zhijiao and Jin Tongwu's troops arrived directly under the city of Chengdu, although the Qing army sent troops to garrison, but the Ming army was helpless, and the morale of the Qing army's green battalion was low, and the city of Chengdu had already been dilapidated, and the battle was unfavorable, so he was forced to lead the army to flee to the east.
In this way, the three families joined forces, and everyone recommended Yang Xuan to command the various departments.
During the banquet, from the mouths of Yang Zhan and Cao Xun, Yang Xuan now knew that Sun Kewang had left ZQ to occupy Qiji half a month ago, and now he was leading the department to occupy Zunyi ten days ago.
In order to avoid the military disaster, Wang Yingxiong, the governor of the four provinces, fled to Bijiewei under the escort of the general soldier Wang Xiang, and now unfortunately died of illness in the army.
After occupying Banzhou, Sun Kewang jumped out of the encirclement of the Ming army, just like after the Red Army escaped from the encirclement of the *** army and entered northern Shaanxi, it was difficult to concentrate on clearing in the short term.
In addition to the death of Wang Yingxiong, the governor of the four provinces, and Sun Kewang's escape from the siege and pursuit, it was the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, Fan Yixuan, who was ridiculed by everyone, because of his jealousy and jealousy to squeeze the loyal and righteous army out of Chengdu, so that the Chengdu Plain suffered a tragedy, and now many villages are uninhabited, and their desolation is no different from the mountain villages in northern Sichuan.
And Fan Yixuan suddenly became old overnight, and he didn't care about anything at all except for long sighs and short sighs every day in Xuzhou Mansion.
In addition to these things around him, that is, the center of the Ming Dynasty has changed again, and Emperor Shaowu and Emperor Yongli of Liangguang have also divided the winners and losers, which can be said to be a farcical internal duel, which is full of bribery, spies, and counter-plots.
When the two emperors were fighting happily, the Qing generals Tong Yangjia and Li Chengdong disguised themselves as Ming Dynasty troops and captured Guangzhou by surprise. Emperor Shaowu and Shoufu Su Guansheng committed suicide and martyrdom, and GD fell.
After shooting the first emperor (that is, the Longwu Emperor Zhu Yujian) and capturing the first emperor (Shaowu Emperor Zhu Yujian), the traitor Li Chengdong led the main force westward to capture Zhaoqing and Wuzhou, where the Yongli Emperor was located.
Seeing the barbarian Qing army advancing westward, Yongli Emperor Zhu Youlang was shocked, ignoring the suggestion of GX Governor Qu Shiyun to insist on sticking to Zhaoqing, and asked Qu Shiyun to lead troops to Wuzhou and lead troops to protect his escape, so Yongli Emperor began a wandering career of "fleeing when he heard the alarm".
Li Chengdong led his troops to occupy Zhaoqing and Wuzhou, forcing Zhu Youlang to flee to Guilin in the north of GX.
In the process of fleeing, the former group of sanctimonious monarchs staged a series of ugly dramas of surrender.
First of all, Cao Hua, the governor of GX appointed by Emperor Yongli, made a farce of meat-grabbing sheep, and **** led a few lambs to surrender to Li Chengdong.
Of course, the most representative is the story of Emperor Yongli's Wuyingdian University scholar Ding Kuichu surrendering to Li Chengdong, which shows how shameless the officials were at that time.
As the important minister of Emperor Yongli, he relied on his support, Ding Kuichu only knew how to accept bribes and sell officials all day long, and only knew how to form a party for personal gain and seek benefits for himself.
It was rumored that after Li Chengdong led his troops to occupy Guangzhou and capture Emperor Shaowu, Ding Kuichu, who was a scholar of Wuyingdian University, not only hid and did not report, but also appeared unhurried.
Ding Kuichu sought a way out for himself, and sent his cronies and servants to carry 30,000 taels of gold and a large number of rare treasures to Li Chengdong to show goodwill and be ready to surrender at any time.
Li Chengdong, who was preparing to attack GX, was of course very happy, and wrote to Ding Kuichu to reassure him that he would have his own arrangements.
In this way, when the ministers of Yongli fled in a big way, Ding Daxue Chengzhu filled forty big boats with the property he had looted and accepted bribes in the past few years, and walked slowly on the river, just like the prime minister of Taiping in peacetime.
After Li Chengdong captured Wuzhou, Ding Kuichu received a letter from Li Chengdong asking him to come over and preside over the affairs of the two Guangzhous.
After arriving at the destination, Ding Kuichu saw Li Chengdong riding a horse to the shore to greet him from a distance, and set up a big banquet to entertain Ding Kuichu's father and son (Ding Kuichu originally had three sons, but two died of illness due to war, and now there is only one son left).
During the drink, Li Chengdong put his arm around the shoulders of Scholar Ding and said affectionately: "The southeast half of the country depends on the support of you and me, Mr. Lao." He also repeatedly said that he would choose an auspicious time to hold a conferral ceremony another day, and officially handed over the seal letter of the governor of Liangguang to Ding Kuichu.
Seeing Li Chengdong think so highly of himself, Ding Kuichu was so moved that he was in a mess, and when he left, Ding Kuichu looked even more tearful.
That night, Ding Kuichu was dreaming of being in charge of Liangguang, when he was suddenly woken up by a soldier and asked him to get off the boat and enter Li Chengdong's camp to discuss matters.
The old thing was about to take office as the governor of Liangguang, and when he heard this, he was overjoyed in his heart, and hurriedly felt that Li Chengdong was handsome.
Entering the handsome tent, Ding Kuichu saw Li Chengdong sitting upright, and the soldiers on both sides were standing with their eyebrows and swords out of their sheaths, Ding Kuichu knew that things had changed, so he knelt down on his knees and kowtowed: "I hope that the handsome man will only kill me and spare my wife and children."
Li Chengdong laughed and said, "Do you want me to spare your son's death? ”
With a wave of his hand, the guards around him stepped forward and cut off the head of Ding Kuichu's only son and placed it in front of him.
Seeing his son killed, Ding Kuichu wailed, and Li Chengdong was annoyed when he saw it, so he ordered the soldiers to pick up this scheming "old intellectual" and kill him.
After that, Li Chengdong killed all the men of Ding Kuichu's family, stripped him of his wife, four concubines, three daughters-in-law and two daughters, and put them into his own account to enjoy them slowly in the future.
In addition, the 840,000 taels of gold and treasures carried by Ding Kuichu's forty large ships belonged to Li Chengdong.
This gold alone, if the old thief uses this salary to buy people and horses, it is enough to resist the Qing army for two years and three years.
Now, the Yongli Emperor Zhu Youlang, who was fleeing to Guilin, was in a panic, but he still relied on the emperor's name to appoint officials in the SC stacking bed.
After hearing that Wang Yingxiong was killed in battle, Zhu Youlang appointed Lu Daqi, the secretary of the Donglin Party's military department and cabinet university, as the governor of the four provinces to replace Wang Yingxiong's vacancy.
After hearing that the Ming army such as the Loyal and Righteous Army expelled Zhang Xianzhong and Kuang restored Chengdu, Fan Yixuan was appointed as the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi and the secretary of the military department and the secretary of the household department.
In addition, Zhu Youlang also appointed Li Gande, the former governor of Biyuan, as the governor of northern Sichuan, Zhan Tianyan as the governor of southern Sichuan, and Qian Bangxin as the governor of SC.
However, on the grounds of foreign relatives, he only posthumously recognized Zhu Shuying's county lord, posthumously recognized Yang Xuan's position as the governor of Yunyang, and named him the earl of Xindu, but there was no actual reward.
What worries Yang Xuan even more is that after Li Gande, the governor of northern Sichuan, entered the SC, he had a hot fight with Yuan Tao, Wu Dading, ******, Li Zhanchun and others.
Everyone admonished Yang Xuan that he needed to seek the position of SC governor no matter what, although the strength of the loyal army was far above that of the various departments in central Sichuan, but it was still a bit unjustifiable.
After thinking about it for a night, Yang Xuan still sent Gong Wanjing and Zhang Lang, the governors of the yamen, to the imperial court with soft makeup to inquire about the movements of the imperial court and seek the position of governor.
Yang Xuan used the reason that Liu Liangchang, who participated in the politics of northern Sichuan, and Zhao Sixuan, the prefect of Chengdu, abandoned the city and fled, and demoted them to the governor's yamen senate account.
Considering that there were many defeated troops in Daxi near Chengdu, and Yan Ximing was once the right prime minister of Daxi, and he was more representative of the interests of the Sichuan people in the Daxi regime, he was immediately appointed as the prefect of Chengdu, and Liu Daozhen was appointed as the governor of Chengdu Prefecture, so as to stabilize the local people.
Liu Daozhen is the first one to appear in this book, and the protagonist is a classmate and friend of Jinjiang Academy, and he fainted in front of the Gongyuan that day.
Since the Great Western Army entered Sichuan, Liu Daozhen followed the general Cao Xun to fight against Zhang Nengqi of the Great Western Army in western Sichuan.
Leave Wang Shuji's regiment, capital and return to the regiment to maintain local security.
After the three armies joined forces together, Yang Xuan took Yang Zhan as the vanguard, and the army marched eastward along the post road, and the Qing army was invincible along the way, and the people along the way spontaneously went out of the mountain to greet each other.
By the beginning of February, all kinds of troops gathered around ZQ Mansion, and at that time, the deputy general Fan Mingshan had already led his troops and horses to occupy ZQ Mansion.
During this period, as the commander-in-chief of the coalition army, Yang Xuan also inspected the various departments of the Sichuan Army, and through continuous inspections back and forth, Yang Xuan had a deeper understanding of the thoughts of the generals in the last years of the Ming Dynasty and the situation of each department.
Compared with the various departments in central Sichuan, the general army Yang Zhansuo's department is still quite elite, since the beginning of the army, it has fought with the Great Western Army, especially in the Sanjiangkou defeat, the reputation of the Great Western Army and the water army has been greatly enhanced, and it is considered to be the second strong force in Sichuan in addition to the loyal army.
On this day, when I came to the Yang Zhan military camp, I saw flags all over the camp from a distance, and the soldiers from the gate to the big tent were dressed neatly one by one.
Seeing that his department was so sophisticated, Yang Xuan was also quite happy, and took Yang Zhan's hand and praised it repeatedly.
Although Yang Zhan was born in Wu Tanhua, Yang Xuan's reputation has risen in recent years, coupled with the fact that he has just defeated the Manchurian army and is respected as a famous general by the world, Yang Zhan, who was quite unconvinced in his heart and deliberately put on a posture, actually blushed, and the whole person looked very embarrassed.
During this period, especially when inspecting the barracks, after inspecting the three thousand pro-troops in the department, Yang Xuan proposed to wander around the barracks, which was originally a very ordinary move, but it actually caused Yang Zhan to sweat profusely and resign.
This made Yang Xuan feel quite surprised, at present, the relationship between the two families in the Sichuan army is very good, and everyone has the intention of supporting each other, how to visit the barracks was actually refused.
returned to his big tent and talked about the things of the day again, everyone laughed and said nothing, and it took a long time for Yin Chengqi to unravel the mystery.
Since the beginning of the army, although Yang Zhan has been fighting with the Liukou and the Tartars all the time, and now he also occupies the land of Jiading Mansion and seized a large amount of real money and silver from the Liukou, but because there are too many soldiers and horses (more than 20,000), the dead and wounded in the battle need to be compensated, and he only controls the land of a mansion, and now there is a shortage of food and salary for soldiers and horses.
In order to improve the combat effectiveness, Yang Zhan also divided the soldiers and horses of his department into two like Liukou, personally led 3,000 elites, and the generals of each department led hundreds of people as the main force to fight on the battlefield, while the remaining majority of the men and horses were used as servants, or transported grain and grass in peacetime, helped carry weapons, and waved flags and shouted loudly on the side during wartime.
In this way, the generals and soldiers are full of food, and they have meat to eat every once in a while, and they train every day and receive military salaries every month.
The other ordinary Ming troops were completely different, not only did they not receive much military salary, but many of them were skinny and did not have much training.
Although he knew that the army was divided into main forces and non-main servants, he was still quite shocked after being confirmed again.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, why the hundreds of millions of Han people were ruled by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, in addition to the reason for military salaries, that is, although there were tens of thousands of troops on the surface, only two or three percent of them were really worthy of a war, and the others were recruited from the people, just a rabble waving flags and shouting beside them.