Chapter 326: Scapegoat?
Gui (the state has eight mountains, one water and one field, is the only province in the country that does not have the support of the plain, but the strategic position of the state is too important
During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, in order to quell the rebellion in Nanyue, the envoy Tang Meng drank the drink of wolf sauce in Guangdong, knowing that he could enter Guizhou from Si (Sichuan), and then go straight down to Guangdong along the Guiqi River (a tributary of the Pearl River) in Guizhou, so that there was the story of Yelang's arrogance, and there was the beginning of Guizhou's belonging to China.
Before the Ming Dynasty, the Guizhou Prefecture did not establish a province, and in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, in order to pacify the rule of the Liang King of the Yuan Dynasty in the Yunnan-Guizhou region, such a Guizhou Prefecture gradually established a province.
Guizhou is a place with a particularly large number of guards, in the Ming Dynasty there were more than 22 guards, according to 1 guard garrison of 5,600 people, so it needs more than 100,000 people.
But there is no doubt that with the passage of time, there is no need to establish so many guards to stabilize the local order, in this case, Yang Xuan eliminated 22 guards into 10 garrison battalions, and each garrison battalion only retains 400 standing troops, so that there is no one out of ten.
And at the same time that Yang Xuan was focusing on rectifying the state affairs of Gui (state), the first encounter between the Volunteers and the Zilharang Department took place.
It turned out that Jierharang defeated the loyal battalion in Chenzhou, defeated Wang Jincai, Ma Jinzhong, and Yuan Zongdi of the Dashun army in Shaoyang, Qianyang, Yuanzhou, and Jingzhou, and defeated Jiao Lian's department in Quanzhou.
Jierharang was looking for Hao Yongzhong, a powerful force under He Tengjiao, and at this time, Hao Yongzhong was attacking Chen Youlong's troops with all his strength according to He Tengjiao's orders, and caught up with Chen Youlong and killed him in the Zhongchao Institute of Liping Mansion, seizing Chen Youlong's property.
Although Hao Yongzhong has followed He Tengjiao for a long time, and the number of people in the department has reached 30,000, there have been no decent supplies in recent years.
And at this time, the Manchu co-commander Ahanikan led the 3 Jiala Manchurian cavalry, 5,000 Han troops killed, and Hao Yongzhong was caught off guard.
At this time, Li Dingguo, the commander of the capital of Guizhou, also led his troops to Liping Mansion, and on this day he heard that there were two Ming armies fighting in front of him, so he first sent an envoy to reconcile.
As soon as the envoy set off, he returned from the horse, and the battlefield changed abruptly, killing the Tartar soldiers from behind a Ming army.
Hearing this, Li Dingguo was overjoyed, and while ordering all departments to be on alert, he rode a horse and rushed to the front line with his escort to check.
When he saw through the telescope that about thousands of Tartars were coming from 10 miles away, Li Dingguo was overjoyed, and he and the standard generals Yang Wei and Dou Minwang led their troops and horses to meet them.
was caught off guard by the other party, Hao Yongzhong wanted to lead his troops to escape, but suddenly saw that the volunteers were killed, and he resisted desperately.
Seeing that thousands of Ming troops rushed to support, Ahanikan did not care, leaving one to continue to ravage Hao Yongzhong, and ordered the rebel general Liu Xiyao to command 3,000 green battalions of soldiers and horses to meet the enemy.
After seeing more than 1,000 soldiers and horses of the green battalion on the other side, Li Dingguo ordered the elephant soldiers to charge in front with 15 elephants, while he led the soldiers and horses to cover the past.
In the south of the cloud (Li Dingguo once practiced elephant soldiers, this war elephant is huge, an adult Asian elephant height in 2~3.7 meters, weight more than 2~7.5 tons, far away to see 15 behemoths rushing over.
Just like the familiar modern warfare, in the face of the opposing infantry, 15 modern war tanks are rampage in front.
At this time, the people's knowledge was very narrow, and they were already frightened when they saw these 15-odd behemoths, and some of them were so frightened that their feet were weak and they didn't listen to the call at all.
These 15 elephants rushed into the opponent's formation like 15 tanks, and rolled up their two-meter-long noses from a distance to roll up the weapons that killed them, and some people wanted to resist, but the knives, guns and spears hit the elephants, which was equivalent to itching and had no effect at all.
Seeing these 15 elephants so ferocious, walking on the ground in the mountains, frightened the fake Tartars to retreat one after another.
And immediately behind these 15 elephants were the 2,000 volunteers led by Li Dingguo, who shouted and killed, just like Hitler's blitzkrieg in the previous life, 15 huge tanks in front of the opponent disrupted, and 2,000 infantry shouted and killed in the back.
The combat strength of Liu Xiyao's rebels is not too strong, because there are Tartar cavalry to support the troops in successive battles.
Now that they suddenly saw Li Dingguo's elephant soldiers killed, everyone was shocked and did not dare to face the battle, and it can be said that they would collapse at the first touch.
Li Dingguo took the opportunity to lead his troops to kill the past, and the soldiers and horses of the green battalion were defeated, and the routs were all over the mountains and fields, everywhere.
Ahanikan has been fighting for many years, and the Manchurian and Mongolian Tatar cavalry in his hands are invincible, but the war horse is panicked when he sees a huge body of war elephants, and after being killed more than 100 horsemen, Ahanikan saw that the situation was not good and led the army to withdraw.
Li Dingguo led his troops to pursue the Tartars for more than 10 miles before collecting troops and returning to the camp, and camped and stayed.
Seeing the righteous army full of wounded soldiers, Li Dingguo smiled and said: "Hao Yongzhong, He Tengjiao, the governor of Huguang, has died in battle, and our lord is now the governor of the six provinces of Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Yunnan, Guizhou, Huguang, and Guangzhou. ”
Hao Yongzhong shook his head and said, "Brother Ning Yu, you were the king in the past, why are you just following Yang Xuan to become a general soldier now?"
Although He Tengjiao died, our troops were strong and strong, and they would inevitably be reused by the imperial court. ”
Li Dingguo repeatedly persuaded Hao Yongzhong that the Son of Heaven was still there, so how could he not defect to the Son of Heaven and defect to the next governor?
Immediately did not listen, led the troops to retreat to the western territory of Guangzhou, to find the emperor.
Li Dingguo had no choice, so on the one hand, he sent an envoy to the governor's yamen to report that there were Tartar soldiers in the military and civilian government of Lizhou, and asked for instructions on how to deal with them, and on the other hand, he dispatched troops and generals, thinking about how to destroy the enemy in front of him.
When he received Li Dingguo's official letter, Yang Xuan was furious and threw the imperial decree on the table.
Why is Yang Xuan angry, he is really criticized by the courtiers in many ways, and the relationship between the two sides is almost icy.
At that time, after Li Chengdong's nest died, Emperor Yongli posthumously crowned Li Chengdong as the king of Ningxia, and buried Li Chengdong with Yili, such as "dozens of teams of horses and horses were used to make color reeds, and they were ashes for a while"; "The concubines are all ordered to die in the fire, and so on.
On the one hand, Zhu Youlang took Li Chengdong's son, and Li Yuanyin, who was the most powerful to replace Li Chengdong, stayed in Zhaoqing, the capital of Liudu, and let him ride the general's seal with a trailer in Nanyangbo, and still banned the brigade with the governor of Jinyi Weidu.
Emperor Yongli sent Liu Yuansheng, a squire of the military department, to Guangzhou to comfort the generals, intending to take advantage of the relationship between Liu Yuansheng and Li Chengdong as fellow villagers in Shaanxi to take over the position of governor of Liangguang.
Seeing that Emperor Yongli wanted to harvest the fruit, Du Yonghe openly opened the seal as the governor of Liangguang;
The Yongli court had no choice but to acquiesce.
Just as Qian Bingjian and others thought at that time, "At that time, the generals were only able to become Dongzi Yuanyin." When he heard the change, he ordered Li Yuanyin to gallop into his army, take charge of the commander, and summoned Du Yonghe to join the Yuanyin forbidden brigade.
He refused to be ordered by the court, and there was no way to refuse Yuan Yin.
Yuan Yin is decisive and wise, and his brothers Li Yuantai and Li Jianjie are all important positions in the military government, and they are the most known as Xiaojian. Yuan Yin to, the generals have different aspirations, Yuan Yin is also enough to make it. So the army was moved to Nanlong, and the heavy troops were on the ridge, and the northern division could not be driven into it for a long time."
When the struggle between the Wu faction and the Chu party in the imperial court was in full swing, Gong Wanjing accompanied Zhang Tongchang and Hu Zhigong to Zhaoqing to meet the Son of Heaven.
Gong Wanjing returned the two holy decrees of the imperial court, and counted all kinds of military exploits of the volunteers in public, and now the imperial court actually changed the order early and overnight, and the shilling order was the Duke of Qianguo, and then appointed as an ordinary adult.
Yang Xuan ordered Gong Wanjing to arrive in Zhaoqing with Zhang Tongchang and Hu Zhigong, and put on this posture, that is, to tell the imperial court, I have received the two holy decrees, and I think that Hu Zhigong's holy decree is true, so please rewrite a holy decree and reconfirm the hereditary holy decree of the Duke of Qianguo.
Seeing the two holy decrees, listening to Hu Zhigong say in person, the princes of the court looked at each other, and couldn't believe that the holy decrees in the world were fake?
Gong Wanjing seemed to be taken for granted, and Wang Jian led his troops to destroy Chu, and sent envoys to meet the King of Qin every day to ask for a reward.
Xiao He made great achievements in guarding the pass, and in order to show his loyalty to the imperial court, he defiled himself and embezzled and accepted bribes.
Now that the governor Lian Ke has made great achievements in the war, the princes of the court are quite suspicious of him, and he asks for hereditary Mahu Mansion for self-protection.
Gong Wanjing thought that it was only necessary to explain the cause and effect of the matter, and that the princes of the imperial court should understand the suffering of the governor, and re-issue the holy decree to recognize the title of the lord.
But Gong Wanjing's idea was too naïve, and as soon as he finished speaking, Jin Bao, the leader of the Chu Party, came out and demanded that Chen Bangchuan, the prince of Qingguo, be punished, but he did not admit it.
Of course, the Wu Party is unwilling, and the only powerful local faction that the Wu Party can control is Chen Bangchuan, who is entrenched in Guangxi, and if he is punished, there is no foreign aid.
But the imperial court issued two completely different holy decrees, and it was always necessary to find a scapegoat, and it was impossible not to stop it.
Now when Senator Gong Wanjing goes to the court every day and asks the Southern Ming court for an explanation, this day it is reported that the volunteers pacified the disaster of the warlord Pi Xiong, and asked Liu Changlin to be the governor of the state (the governor of the state, the town of Jiang Ding is the governor of the state (the political envoy of the state, Li Dingguo is the commander of the state (the news of the command of the state capital, the court was in an uproar.
I don't know who started it, but everyone accused the Volunteer Army of being the same and almost rebellious.
Gong Wanjing looked very aggrieved, and what the adults did was completely in accordance with the imperial decree.
Far away in the Ming Dynasty moved south to the Hongguang Imperial Court, the imperial court set up four towns, promulgated the holy decree, recovered the land, and the officials were appointed and dismissed, all of which were presided over by the general army of the four towns.
The Volunteers were isolated from the imperial court for a long time, and of course they were self-contained, and the appointment of the land officials was still decided, and the imperial court did not intervene.
The volunteers entered Yunnan to quell the chaos, which was reasonable, and how could others be allowed to sleep under the couch, and the volunteers would not let the army of rogues appear behind them in the future expedition to the east and the north.
The Volunteers marched eastward, and the Skins and Bears blocked the road and prevented the Volunteers from passing.
Pi Xiong and others were violent in the local area, wantonly expanding the army, and the local area had long caused a lot of complaints.
This is also the reason why the vanguard of the Volunteer Army can drive straight into the city and approach Gui (Yangcheng.
But the ministers of the court didn't think so, everyone thought that Yang Xuansuo was sealed in the front, and the attack on friendly troops was behind, and all kinds of actions were almost rebellious.
Seeing that the small court of Yongli in the Southern Ming Dynasty reversed black and white so much, and in the end, on the grounds that the volunteers did not listen to the order, they were beaten as the culprit of the failure of the third anti-Qing movement, and the shadow warrior behind the true and false holy decree, Gong Wanjing felt extremely sad and indignant.
Gong Wanjing knew that it was useless to say more, so he said goodbye to Emperor Zhu Youlang and returned to Guiyang to report all kinds of things in the court. (Just like in history, Sun Kewang Suofeng).
Although he was prepared for the refusal of the imperial court, he did not expect that the ministers of the Southern Ming Dynasty would openly accuse themselves of rebellion in the court, which simply made him a scapegoat for the failure of the third anti-Qing climax, thinking of this, Yang Xuan was extremely annoyed.
Seeing such a result, Qian Bangqi, Liu Changlin and others sighed for a long time, thinking that the imperial court was too short-sighted, comforting Yang Xuan while pondering the joint performance, no matter what, the situation could not be allowed to deteriorate.
And Ren Su and others don't see it that way, these people have already seen that the Ming Dynasty has run out of energy, and everyone is thinking about making immortal achievements.