The Hongguang Dynasty was keen on the strategy of uniting with the Qing court to make peace with the Qing court, and it became a top priority.

Chen Hongfan, the former governor of the same governor and the chief military officer, volunteered to play the northern envoy, and then recruited the right attendant of the Nanjing Military Department and the right imperial envoy of the capital Zuo Maodi, and the servant Shaoqing Ma Shaoyu, and the three of them formed the northern mission.

The Hongguang Imperial Court sent a northern mission to negotiate peace with the Qing court, and there should have been a clear plan as the basis for bargaining, but the actual situation was not the case, and before Zuo Maodi set off, the Hongguang Dynasty had not come up with a specific plan.

Emperor Hongguang ordered the ministers to discuss, or said, "Take the two Huai as the boundary." Gao Fuhongtu said: "Shandong's hundred and two mountains and rivers must not be abandoned, and they must be forced to be the ears of the rivers." Ma Fushiying said: "The other lord is still young, and he is an uncle and nephew with His Majesty." ”

On the first day of August, Ma Shaoyu wrote to Wu Sangui that after the reconciliation was settled, he would use the prince of his uncle and nephew to kill the Li thief and share the peace.

Hongguang Junchen intends to rule by dividing the realm into Ming and Qing, Hongguang is his uncle, and Fulin is his nephew, so he wants to save some face for the boss empire, but how naïve is this kind of thinking.

Not to mention others, Beijing is the former capital of the country, the mausoleums are all in the north, Emperor Chengzuwen, the bow and sword of the ancestors have been hidden, the first emperor's Zigong has not been laid, the common people are still according to the tomb, how can the Son of Heaven abandon the cemetery?

Besides, Hongguang Junchen put all his hopes on the side of the Qing army, but he did not train soldiers and horses, and did not think about going north to fight thieves, but hoped that the Manchu Qing would eliminate Li Chuang, and then live in peace with him, which was simply wishful thinking.

Before Zuo Maodi, the chief envoy of the Northern Mission, felt that things were inappropriate, so he wrote again, wanting to clean up Shandong along the way and connect Wuzhen with Wu Town, so as to wait for changes in the future, but Shi Kefa, Ma Shiying and other important ministers of the imperial court were eager to listen to his opinion.

When Zuo Maodi passed by Sizhou, he met with Shi Kefa and wanted to persuade him again, but Shi Kefa said: "Manager, Gu Wen'er; Tonghe, the edict also. It is advisable to travel in a hurry and do not stay. ”

Zuo Maodi could only embark on the road to the north against his will, and when he passed through Shandong, Zhao Yingyuan and other righteous soldiers were willing to serve the Hongguang Dynasty, but he was afraid of the pressure of the DPRK and China, so he did not dare to use it, so he could only say good words and encouragement.

Traveling to the Beijing Division, the northern mission held the Hongguang Imperial Book, entered the city from the Zhengyang Gate, and the Qing court placed them in the Honglu Temple to live, and sent troops to take strict precautions.

The next day, the officials of the Qing Court Rites Department came to Honglu Temple and asked, "What happened to the princes from the south to our country?" ”

The envoy replied: "I asked the Son of Heaven for your country to borrow troops to destroy the thieves, and to return to the mourning clothes of the first emperor. ”

Qing Dynasty officials said: "There are books to pay for my door." ”

The envoy told the supreme ruler of the Qing court that the imperial letter should be handed over to the supreme ruler of the Qing court in person, and it could not be handed over to the Ministry of Rites. ”

Zuo Maodi and others couldn't help but be furious, saying that what they held was a **** national letter, not a tribute document, but the Qing court officials ignored it, and the two sides couldn't hold on, so they couldn't do it.

In the following days, the Qing court tried every means to insult the people of the northern mission, trying to make them submit, the Qing Inner Academy scholar Ganglin was extremely arrogant, and even threatened to send a large army to capture Jiangnan.

Subsequently, the Qing court sent troops to confiscate the property brought to Beijing by the northern mission, and wanted to expel the mission from Beijing and make it return to the south, threatening to send troops south.

Zuo Maodi saw that the Qing court had no intention of peace talks, so he retreated and wanted to worship Emperor Chongzhen, but Ganglin categorically refused: "I have cried for you, sacrificed, and buried." What do you weep about, what do you sacrifice, what do you bury? When Emperor Lie was alive, thieves did not send troops, and after Emperor Lie died, he supported troops and did not ask for thieves. Emperor Lie is not subject to the sacrifice of your disloyal ministers in Jiangnan. ”

Later, Ganglin took out another document and read it on the spot, accusing the ministers of Nanjing, "It is the first crime to not save the emperor, the second crime is to set up Hongguang without permission, and the third crime is to support the army and abuse the people in each town, and the army is sent to punish the guilt." ”

At this point, the mission of the Northern Mission has completely failed.

The next day, the Qing court sent 300 troops to send the mission south.

At the first day of the eleventh month, the mission was escorted to Tianjin, but Chen Hongfan in the team had other thoughts.

The Hongguang Dynasty sent Chen Hongfan as an important member of the northern envoy, originally considering that he had been in the army for a long time and had an old relationship with Wu Sangui, which was convenient for contact, but he did not know that he had already surrendered to the Qing court.

As early as June 16, when Tang Yu, the general of the Ming Dynasty who descended to the Qing Dynasty, played Dol Roll, "If you are worried about Zhang Xianzhong and Zuo Liangyu's first rat, there is Chen Hongfan, the former town minister, who can be appeased." The courtier, Qilong, is Hong Fan's son-in-law, who was a general under the Shi Kefa standard, and the generals in him know a lot, and begged him to recruit him, then he came from near and far, and the work of unification could be accomplished. ”

Dolgon soon agreed to appease Chen Hongfan, and ordered the general Tang Qilong to wait on the road through which the northern mission must pass, and secretly met Chen Hongfan.

In order to buy himself a good price, he secretly wrote a report, asking Dolgon to leave Zuo Maodi, Ma Shaoyu and other members of the Northern Mission, and let him return to the south alone, so that he could recruit the people of the four towns for the Qing court on the way.

Dolgon was overjoyed when he received his secret recital, and sent forty or fifty cavalry to the south of the starry night, and finally caught up with the mission in the south of Cangzhou on the fourth day of November.

Zuo Maodi saw that the Qing army wanted to detain the people of the Northern Mission back to Beijing, but let Chen Hongfan go south alone, his heart suddenly sank, and he had already guessed that Cheng Hongfan might descend to the Qing Dynasty, and he couldn't help but be very anxious.

Chen Hongfan left the team and went all the way south, while the northern mission walked north under the escort of the Qing soldiers.

There is no need for other tricks, so Chen Hongfan only needs to spread the message of peace after arriving in Nanjing, and lie that the Qing court has accepted the peace talks, so that the southern ministers will neglect to take precautions, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

Along the way, Zuo Maodi was worried, the food was difficult to swallow, and his face was ugly.

The team marched in the territory of Beizhili, which was an area controlled by the Qing army, so there was no need to worry about safety, so Zhan Ba, the leader of the team, let the team rest.

But he would not have imagined that in the woods a few hundred meters away from them, there was a troop of about a thousand men and horses, who were so disorganized that they could not see the banner, and they did not know whether they were rebels or horse thieves.

Watching the Qing soldiers turn over and dismount and lie on the side of the road to rest, a spy who looked a little ruffian, dropped the weeds in his mouth, slowly got up, and then quietly retreated into the woods.

The men and horses in the forest did not expect to meet a group of Qing soldiers, and the north was directly subordinate to Pingchuan, if they were bitten by the Qing cavalry, then most of them were fierce and lucky.

When the spy returned to the forest, he hurriedly touched the side of a man in a long shirt and said, "Childe, fifty cavalry, three hundred foot soldiers, and more than a dozen Ming officials are still being detained, to fight or not to fight?" ”

The spy is Liu Shun, and the man in the long shirt is naturally Wang Yan who escaped from Qingzhou.

In the first battle of Qingzhou, the righteous army broke through the Qing army's northern camp, burned a large number of supplies and robbed Hetuo, and also stole a lot of war horses, which made Hetuo very angry.

Although he captured Qingzhou, he still felt that he had lost face, and it was really difficult to swallow a breath in his heart, so he led the Qing army to look for the Shandong Righteous Army everywhere and launched a crazy revenge.

After the failure of the Qingzhou Incident, the rebel army did not dare to seize the big city of Shandong again, and because the Zhulu rebel army gathered in Qingzhou, after losing the common goal, they also dispersed again and fought separately.

In order to clear Shandong, Hetuo, Li Shutai and others did their best,

Under the pursuit of the elite Eight Banners, the rebels who had just won a victory were killed and defeated before they had time to rejoice.

Although the rebels were numerous, they were not regular officers and soldiers after all, nor were they war-hardened thieves, lacking training and experience to compete with the Qing cavalry, and did not dare to occupy the city, so they could only escape into the mountains and forests, exhausted.

Wang Yan, who was unconscious, was protected by Liu Shun and others, and hid in Tibet with the righteous army, and later Qin Shangxing, Guo Jiangpai and others were swept away by the Qing army, and everyone couldn't stay in Shandong, so they decided to leave Shandong and find another way out.

They originally wanted to go south to Huainan and go to Shi Kefa, but they wanted to kill Wang Yan and then quickly, hated the Shandong righteous army to the core, and arranged heavy troops on the way south, and in desperation, they had to take Wang Yanliu to the area of Beizhili.

Compared with Shandong, Beizhili was occupied by the Qing army for many days, and the righteous army had already been cleared by the Qing army, and the Qing army's defense was much looser.

In the forest, more than 1,000 rebels lay on the ground and did not dare to make a sound.

At this time, Wang Yan listened to Liu Shun's words, and couldn't help frowning and thinking, if the north is directly subordinate to Pingchuan, if they can't completely annihilate this Qing army, once their whereabouts are exposed, they are very likely to face another chase, but dozens of Ming officials who were detained with more than 300 people aroused his interest.

After weighing the pros and cons, Wang Yan decided to vote for the election, firstly because they were in urgent need of supplies, secondly because they were three times more numerous than the Qing army, and third, he felt that the status of the detained officials would not be ordinary, and it was worth taking a risk.

At that moment, Wang Yan called Wang Wei, Qian Yifeng and other old brothers, each with hundreds of people, and agreed to divide the plan of joint attack. Quietly, they split into three roads and surrounded the Qing soldiers.

For the crisis, the Qing soldiers resting on the side of the road were completely unaware, and they didn't blame Zhan Ba for being careless, this place was only ten miles away from Cangzhou, how could he have thought that someone would be so bold and sneak attack here.

The Qing soldiers were lying or sitting on the side of the road, some closed their eyes to recuperate, some drank water leisurely, and when they were idle, a rain of arrows struck.

I only smelled "whoosh~whoosh~whoosh~" A gust of wind hit.

The Qing soldiers suffered dozens of casualties in a miserable scream in an instant, which immediately caused chaos in the team, that Zhan Ba is a Wenchen, where has he seen such a scene, he was almost scared into cerebral palsy.

"Brothers! Kill the captives with me! ”

As soon as Wang Yan drew his waist knife, the rebels beside him jumped up and rushed towards the Qing army on the side of the road.

"Childe has an order! Don't let anyone go, kill me! ”

The shouts sounded from three sides, blocking the way for the Qing soldiers to advance and retreat.

At this time, the 1,000 righteous army, and the Zhao army guarding Qingzhou City is no longer the same, they have fled for more than half a month, and the Qing soldiers have fought dozens of times, although they have been chased and beaten, but they have practiced the ability to fight.

After a burst of killing, the righteous army was like a tiger entering a flock, killing most of the Qing soldiers in an instant, which shocked Zuo Maodi and others who were detained on the side.

"Lord Zuo?"

Suddenly a call pulled Zuo Maodi's gaze back from the fierce fighting rebels, looked at the man with a knife not far away, and suddenly said in surprise: "Wang Shiheng!" ”

"Why are you here?"

"How could Shiheng be here?"

The two looked at each other and couldn't help but ask at the same time.

"Alas~ It's hard to say!"