Within a month, Fang Yuan ordered the Xuanjia army that had gone to Liaodong to harass them to evacuate from Jinzhou, and Dolgon also complied with the negotiation treaty and escorted Shang Kexi, Geng Jingzhong, and Kong Youde, three rebel generals, along with more than 100 members of their families, to Shanhaiguan.

Fang Yuan ordered the sergeant to take the three generals Shang Kexi, Geng Jingzhong, and Kong Youde, together with Fan Yongdou, who had been captured before, to the foot of the Shanhai Pass, and directly cut the four of them alive with a knife.

Fang Yuan ordered all the officers and soldiers of the Guan Ning Army to go to watch the execution, and the screams of the four before they died reached Wu Sangui, and also in the ears of the soldiers of the Guan Ning Army, which shocked everyone's hearts.

The whole family of Shang Kexi and Fan Yongdou had already been wiped out by Fang Yuan, and the whole family of Geng Jingzhong and Kong Youde, regardless of men, women, and children, were dragged to the shore of the Bohai Sea and cut down, and the blood and water also stained the beach red.

Fang Yuan wanted to torture and kill these four traitors, exterminate their entire family, and let Wu Sangui and all the soldiers of Guan Ningjun take a look, and whoever dared to be traitors to the Manchu Qing Dynasty would end up with these four families.

After a big killing, Wu Sangui understood that Fang Yuan, who usually looked at the grinning Fang Yuan, was so ruthless to the traitors, and couldn't help but secretly rejoice that he hadn't surrendered to the Manchus before, otherwise, now he was killed alive, I'm afraid even he would be counted together. I was chopped alive, and the whole family didn't have a mouthful.

Wu Sangui was so frightened that he couldn't stand steadily, and he knelt on the ground at Fang Yuan, "Regent, Wu Sangui has really surrendered, and only the regent is the head of the horse." The Manchu Qing Dynasty has not been destroyed, please ask the regent to give Wu Sangui another chance to make contributions on the battlefield! ”

Fang originally wanted to take the opportunity to solve Wu Sangui, but seeing that he did surrender with sincerity, and the general in the Ming Dynasty was considered a fierce general on the battlefield, he forgave him, "Governor Wu, now the Guanning Army can be adapted?!" ”

Wu Sangui really surrendered completely this time, and he didn't dare to have the slightest rebellion and bargaining, "Guan Ningjun's consistent practice since Yuan Chonghuan to Zu Dashou was to eat fifty percent of the empty salary, and deceived the imperial court to fill his own pockets. After Wu Sangui took over the Guanning Army, he couldn't change this customary vice. He also asked the regent to count them one by one, eliminate the inferior soldiers, and leave only the elite. In the future, everything will be carried out according to the treatment of the Xuanjia Army. ”

Fang Yuan looked at his prostrate back and fell into deep thought.

Wu Sangui was just one of the Han warlords who surrendered to the Manchus at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and there was no essential difference between Jiang Ting, Zuo Menggeng, Li Chengdong, and Zheng Zhilong. At that time, the Han people were rogue and warlords in various places, and the combined strength of the army was at least one million or more, and Wu Sangui's command was only 40,000 or 50,000 soldiers and horses, and the share was simply insignificant. He could not influence the general trend of the world in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and he did not have the ability to keep the Manchus out of Shanhaiguan.

The reason for the Manchu Qing Dynasty's entry into the Central Plains was counted on his head was that during the rebellion of the three feudatories, Emperor Kangxi gave him a set and put a big hat on him that he couldn't afford. At least when Wu Sangui led the Tartar soldiers into the customs, Shi Kefa and others of the Southern Ming regime also sent him a congratulatory telegram, praising him for his behavior of leading the Tartars into the customs to destroy the Liukou, and praising him as a great loyal minister and a great hero of the Ming Dynasty.

That's it! History returns to history, and reality returns to reality.

Fang Yuan picked up Wu Sangui and laughed, "Governor Wu, you and General Tang will count the number of Guan Ning's army together. After the count, you are still the commander of the Guan Ning Army, and Tang Tong is the deputy general. ”

Fang Yuan ordered Wu Sangui and Tang Tong to count the number of Guanning troops, and the Guanning army, which had a strength of 50,000 people, was actually only 26,000 people, and they ate 50% of the empty salary. Of these 26,000 people, about 16,000 were old and weak soldiers who could only defend the city. There are only 10,000 Guan Ning Iron Cavalry who can really go to the battlefield.

This is a reasonable explanation why Yuan Chonghuan had 100,000 Guan Ning troops back then, but he only sent 4,000 of Zhao Led to guard Zunhua, and he only led 9,000 people to rescue him.

Because these 13,000 cavalry are already all the elite of the Guanning army, the rest are either empty or indiscriminate, and they are also slaughtered when they are sent to the battlefield.

Fang Yuan retained the establishment of 25,000 Guanning troops, 10,000 elite Guanning iron cavalry was commanded by Wu Sangui, and 15,000 old and weak soldiers who could only defend the city were led by Tang Tong.

Fang Yuan relied on the torture and killing of the four big traitors, shocked the entire Shanhaiguan, and finally reorganized the Guanning army. The next target, of course, is the city of Beijing.

Fang Yuan ordered Tang Tong to lead 15,000 Guanning troops to guard Shanhaiguan, and he led Jingjie, Chigutai, Wu Sangui, and Liu Yiliang generals to lead the reorganized Xuanjia Army and Guanning Army to march to the capital in a mighty manner.

Because Fang Yuan repelled the Tatar soldiers who entered the customs and defended the peace of Gyeonggi, most of the Gyeonggi counties were surrendered to the wind, and the people were even more eager to welcome the regent to take over the counties.

When the army arrived in Yutian County, there was a military situation from the front, and Shi Kefa gathered 3,000 soldiers and horses and stationed them in Tongzhou, unwilling to open the door to meet the surrender. Huang Daozhou even led a team of 1,000 people composed of disciples and family members to snipe Fang Yuan's army marching towards the capital.

Fang Yuan was silent when he got this military report, Dolgon's full eight banners were repelled by Fang Yuan, and Shi Kefa's mere 3,000 people could defend Tongzhou? And Huang Daozhou led a thousand people to snipe Fang Yuan, isn't this laughing off people's teeth?

Fang Yuan had to admit that no matter how capable Shi Kefa and Huang Dao were two, there was no doubt about their loyalty to Da Ming. When the Ming army surrendered one after another, only these two powerless literati were willing to be lonely and loyal ministers.

The treatment of these two people is not a military issue at all, but a question of people's hearts. Killing, it will inevitably lose the hearts of the world's corporals, and he will be convicted of the crime of rebellious ministers and thieves.

The two sides only disagreed politically, and Shi Kefa and Huang Daozhou did not betray the country, nor did they commit heinous crimes. These literati did not come to fight, but to martyr for the Ming Dynasty.

Fang Yuan decided to capture everyone alive first, and immediately ordered Jing Jie's 3,000 Xuanjia army to attack, captured Huang Daozhou and 1,000 people alive, and repeatedly instructed that they should not be surrounded but not annihilated, and not a single person could be killed indiscriminately. This kind of small-scale military operation did not require Jing Jie to go out in person, but Fang Yuan was worried that sending other generals, such as Chigutai and others, would cause serious casualties.

Jing Jie led his troops to attack, and in less than two days, at the cost of several casualties, Huang Daozhou and the 1,000 people accompanying him were captured alive and escorted to Fang Yuan.

Huang Daozhou sat in the lobby as if he were dead, looked at Fang Yuan and shouted, "Rebel ministers and thieves, kill quickly!" I can't guard Your Majesty in life, and after death, loyal souls should also guard the Ming Society!! ”

He looked at Wu Sangui again and scolded, "Wu Sangui, you have a heavy army in your hands, and you are deeply favored by the emperor, but you don't know how to repay the favor, but you surrender to the thief, and the ancestors of the Wu family are ashamed of you!" ”

Wu Sangui lowered his gaze and remained silent.

When he opened his mouth, he was a chaotic minister and thief, and he insulted indiscriminately, and Chigutai was dissatisfied, "When the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, why didn't you rotten people retreat?" Why don't you scold Dorgon to your face? When the regent is benevolent, it's easy to bully, isn't it? ”

Huang Daozhou said in a deep voice, "One wolf, one embarrassed, how can they distinguish each other?!" You rebellious ministers and thieves are just gaining momentum for a while, and the history books of Khan Qing will never spare you! Today you win, I lose, thousands of years later, let's see who loses and who wins! ”

Fang Yuan looked at him silently for a while, didn't argue with him, and sighed, "Huang Weng, you and I have been friends for several years, and you have already decided that I am a rebellious minister and thief, and I don't care about you. The so-called Qing is self-purifying, I am about to go to the capital to ask His Majesty for peace, you will go with the army to take a look at the good life, you and I are right and wrong. ”

Fang Yuan easily sent down the Zodiac Zhou, as for Shi Kefa in Tongzhou City, Fang Yuan did not go to attack the city, only sent Wu Sangui and Guan Ning Army to besiege Tongzhou City, and then led the army to bypass Tongzhou City and go to Beijing City, which was close at hand.