Chapter 44: Fleeing in a hurry
Bolo is Nurhachi's grandson, Shunzhi's cousin, and the Zhenglan Banner clan, because Huang Taiji's eldest son Haoge is the owner of the Zhenglan Banner, so Bolo is considered to be from Haoge's faction and belongs to Dolgon's political enemies.
After Li Zicheng and the Hongguang court were wiped out, the Han people set off a greater upsurge of resistance to the Qing Dynasty, and Dolgon was anxious for a while, and political enemies led by Hauge took the opportunity to fight for power with Dolgon.
In this context, Dolgon retreated and sent Haoge troops to attack Sichuan, and Bolo troops to attack Zhejiang, stabilizing the political situation of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
(Dolgon played a hand to divert the tiger from the mountain, Hauge wanted military power, so he sent him out to fight, Hauge and Zhang Xianzhong in Sichuan desperately, he copied Hauge's back road in Beijing, on the one hand, he won over the two red flags, inlaid blue flags and other intermediate shili, on the other hand, divided and suppressed the two yellow flags that supported Hauge...... Hauge's faction has no leader, and the two yellow flags of Aobai, Sonny and others were very miserable, and when Hauge returned victoriously, the court situation has been completely controlled by Dolgon, and Hauge was killed by just looking for a crime. )
Bolo sent troops to Zhejiang, with a certain amount of chance, Lu Wang Zhu Yihai and Ma Shiying and others stormed Hangzhou, and he hurried from Beijing to support.
Because the main force of the Eight Banners went to attack Sichuan, Bolo's troops were not too many, and there were only more than 10,000 Eight Banners in total, but because it was a garrison force left in Beijing, its combat effectiveness was very strong. In addition, he also has several strong green battalion soldiers under him, among which Li Chengdong's department has the strongest combat effectiveness.
The Eight Banners were not adapted to the hot climate in the south, so when the Manchus launched an attack on Jiangnan, all the large-scale battles were launched in winter. However, there has been significant progress in the surrender of Zheng Zhilong in Fujian.
Pie fell from the sky, Bolo did not return to Beijing, and prepared to attack Fujian.
But the surrender of this kind of thing is not so simple, Zheng Zhilong's subordinates are known as 200,000 troops, and the internal opinions are not unified, such as Zheng Chenggong, Zheng Hongkui, Zheng Zhibao and others are not in favor of surrendering to the Manchus, Zheng Zhilong himself also supports the army and bargains with the Manchus, Bolo tried again and again, and then carefully took the Qing army into Fujian.
Fujian and Zhejiang are separated by the Wuyi Mountains. Xianxia Pass, Fenshui Pass, are important passes in northern Fujian, Zheng Zhilong in order to show the sincerity of surrendering to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, to the general stationed in northern Fujian Shi Fu secretly ordered. led the defenders to withdraw from the Xianxia Pass, Fenshui Pass and other key passes, and the natural danger of a man should be a pass. But there was not a single soldier guarding it. The Qing army spent five days calmly crossing Wuyi Mountain.
Bolo was overjoyed!
The Qing army walked 200 miles of mountain roads in Wuyi Mountain, because of the dangerous terrain to be worried all the way, in many places in Xianxia Pass and Fenshui Pass, only one person and one horse can be allowed to pass, if the Ming army resists according to the danger. The Qing army couldn't even enter the gate of Fujian...... Unexpectedly, Zheng Zhilong really withdrew the defenders.
Even bigger surprises are yet to come!
The Qing army went all the way south to Jianning Mansion, an important town in northern Fujian, where local Ming officials surrendered en masse. Greet the Qing army outside the city. After Bo Luo entered the Jianning Mansion, he heard the news that made him even more excited, Emperor Longwu was in Nanping, more than a hundred miles away, and was preparing to flee to Jiangxi.
Pursue!
After only a short rest, Bolo chased down with a large army, and sent an elite Eight Banners cavalry, light and fast horses, to intercept Emperor Longwu......
After Emperor Longwu left Fuzhou, he traveled to Jiangxi via Nanping.
He took a large number of utensils and books, as well as hundreds of civil and military officials and their families, under the escort of more than 2,000 brocade guards and imperial forest troops, all the way slowly and leisurely, although the Qing army occupied Zhejiang, but there was Wuyi Mountain in northern Fujian as a barrier, Emperor Longwu was not worried.
The name of the Imperial Forest Army sounds very spirited, but in fact, they are all guards of Fujian, negligent in training, vulnerable, Emperor Longwu also knows this, but they are used to carry all kinds of utensils, books, grain and grass, and do not expect this so-called Royal Forest Army to fight.
After leaving Nanping, Emperor Longwu's brigade turned to the southwest and headed for Tingzhou, on the border between Fujian and Jiangxi, but their marching speed was too slow, and they could not walk more than thirty miles a day, so they had to camp in the field at night.
hastily set up a camp, buried the pot to make rice, and everyone soon fell asleep......
"Woo! Woo! ”
The poignant horn pierced the night sky, and the shouting of killing woke up Emperor Longwu in his sleep, and he put on his clothes and rushed out of the sleeping tent, only to see that the camp was already full of firelight, and under the light of the fire, the hideous-looking Eight Banners soldiers were raising their horses and raising their swords, and were cutting down the Imperial Forest Army one by one.
How so!
"Did the Qing army fall from the sky?!" I can't see how many Qing troops there are in the night, and Emperor Longwu doesn't understand, Wuyi Mountain, several Xiongguan natural dangers, Jianning and Nanping, the two strong cities, have all been lost?
When he was stunned, a group of people hurriedly rushed over.
"Holy Lord, there are Tartars attacking the camp, go quickly!"
He Wuyu, a scholar who was loyal to Bo Zhou's domain, gave Xiong Wei in the matter, and brought more than 500 Jinyi guards and the Imperial Forest Army to rescue him, and they couldn't help but say that they set up Emperor Longwu and fled outside the camp in a panic.
"And the queen and the crown prince!" Emperor Longwu shouted hoarsely, struggling to shake off Zhou Zhifan.
"Hurry up and find the queen!" He Wu ordered Xiong Wei to find Empress Zeng. The other concubines couldn't take care of it, but the queen and the crown prince were related to the national unity, and it was indeed a serious mistake to forget them, no wonder Emperor Longwu was angry.
Xiong Wei turned around with a few guards, and the others urged Emperor Longwu to leave the danger quickly, but Emperor Longwu pulled out his sword with a bang, his eyes full of anger.
"I and the queen are a husband and wife in distress, we must not abandon her to escape alone, who dares to persuade me to blame me for being ruthless under the sword!"
Emperor Longwu was imprisoned twice in his childhood and youth because of royal grievances, and he spent most of his life in a prison cell for more than 20 years, and he had a deep relationship with Empress Zeng, and Empress Zeng had just given birth to a prince for him, and he resolutely could not leave them.
Fortunately, it didn't take long for Xiong Wei to find Empress Zeng, who was supported by two eunuchs, and still held the prince who had just completed the moon in her arms, and escaped under the protection of several guards.
"Let's go! Come on! ”
A group of people fled in a hurry, unable to see the road clearly in the night, and had just run out five or six miles when the scholar He Wuyu fell off his horse and was seriously injured.
"Your Majesty, you go first......" He Wusu broke his leg, couldn't walk, couldn't ride a horse, Emperor Longwu had to leave him a few guards, and continued to flee to Tingzhou Mansion with the others......
The vanguard cavalry of the Qing army was only more than 100 people, but they made great achievements in stealing camps and robbing villages, capturing Zhu Shengdu, the king of Yangqu, Zhu Shenggan, the king of Xihe, Zhu Yanhan, the king of Songzi, as well as the two concubines of Emperor Longwu, and more than 100 other civil and military officials.
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PS: The following content is not within the scope of the charge, but it has something to do with the plot, it can be regarded as supplementary information, interested book friends can take a look.
Among the generals in the early Qing Dynasty, Bolo was not a famous general, and defeating Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, was the pinnacle of his military career.
However, in the records of the "Qing Historical Manuscript" and the "Records of the Ancestors of the Qing Dynasty", the Qing army captured Fujian and experienced more than 20 battles, including tens of thousands of people participating in the big wars, vicious battles and bitter battles, and even when Emperor Longwu Tingzhou was killed, there were also records of "Ming general Jiang Zhengxi attacked Tingzhou at night with 20,000 people, and our army went out of the palace and killed more than half", in fact, they are all false.
The reason why there is such a ridiculous record is because Bolo lied about the military situation, colluded with his subordinates, and deceived the Qing court to obtain military exploits.
Before the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, such a situation was unthinkable, including when Azig and Duoduo went south after entering the customs, and there was never such a large-scale false report of military exploits.
This is an important sign that the Eight Banners are beginning to corrupt. (To be continued......)