Chapter 45: Nothing but death
Zhang Cunren has two good friends in his life, the first is Huang Taiji, and the second is Wu Sangui.
From the standpoint of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the relationship between him and Huang Taiji was that of a Ming monarch and a virtuous minister.
After Zhang Cunren surrendered with Zu Dashou, Huang Taiji found that he was all-round in civil and military affairs, and his character was also good, so he was immediately promoted and reused, feeling that he had picked up a treasure...... Zhang Cunren was very moved, and made a gesture of death for a confidant on the spot, patted his chest and made a military order, and vouched with his head that he would definitely do a good job.
His original words were like this, "If the ministers are timid in doing things, and they are reluctant to blame, please kill the ministers for the crime of being the king!" If the minister pretends to be a public servant and cares about his feelings, please kill the minister for the crime of bullying the king! If a minister is greedy for money and takes bribes, please kill him for the crime of greed! ”…… If you remove the background description, and put this passage on which brave and loyal Han family ministers, such as Yu Qian, such as Wei Zheng, there is no sense of disobedience.
But in fact, Zhang Cunren is a ruthless traitor who aids and abuses.
Zhang Cunren's life is a life of struggle for "my Qing Dynasty", in the history books compiled by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he is an iron-clad minister, many times to the emperor Taiji outspoken, and a lifetime of hard work, outstanding meritorious service. After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, he always appeared in the place where the problem was the most complicated and the work was the most difficult to do, it was simply a brick of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
For example, although the Yuyuan Army in Shandong was repeatedly surrounded and suppressed by the Qing army, they persisted tenaciously in the struggle against the Qing until the eighth year of Shunzhi, where they hid in the local elm forests and dug tunnels to deal with the Qing army. Although the Qing army had an absolute advantage in strength, it had no way to deal with them. After Zhang Cunren became the governor of Zhili, he first dug up the embankment of the Yellow River. The elm forest was flooded, and then burned with fire after flooding, completely destroying the hiding place of the Yuyuan army, and quickly pacified this "anti-thief".
Zhang Cunren also had a very good relationship with Wu Sangui, and when the Qing army entered the customs, he wrote a letter to the effect that he should recognize the Qing form and not follow Li Zicheng to the black. If you resist to the end, you will die sooner or later, and surrender as soon as possible. can also keep the glory and wealth...... He has personally experienced this kind of thing, and his feelings are more profound, so this letter is written very sincerely, and Wu Sangui feels very reasonable after reading it. He surrendered to the Manchus. (The building will fall.) A single tree can't support it. Indulged in the years, tried his best to be poor, and finally followed his uncle's mistakes. Why don't you fall before you are trapped, and you will have a lot of honors? )
Chong Guan is angry and red-faced? That is the plot of the novel, and Zhang Cunren's "big truth" is even more lethal.
Feng Shui takes turns, and when the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, Zhang Cunren never imagined that today, a few years later, he once again fell into a predicament from which he could not escape. Surrounded by the Chu army on Chepanling.
When he was first surrounded, Zhang Cunren tried to break through several times. The sound hits the west, the darkness is Chencang, and the whole is reduced to zero...... All kinds of tricks were used again. The tactics of the Chu army were very clumsy, that is, they tightly surrounded Chepanling, compressed the encirclement little by little, and no matter how Zhang Cunren tossed in the encirclement, he never launched a general attack.
In the end, Zhang Cunren was trapped in the stockade on the top of Chepanling Mountain, and he had been without food for more than ten days, and he had eaten all the things he could eat, and he had eaten all the things he couldn't eat.
"Goo-do-tuo, goo-doo!"
The wet wood burned up and the smoke was very large, and there was an iron pot on the stove, inside the iron pot, the yellow-brown soup kept churning, exuding a strange and disgusting taste, and some black fragments appeared in the soup from time to time, no matter how it looked like food, a group of Wuzhen Chaoha soldiers probed their brains behind the wall, drooling at the iron pot.
There are still a few houses made of stone in the stockade, Zhang Cunren climbed to the top of the highest roof, looked out of the stockade, and saw very clearly from a high position, the Chu army's position is obviously a little strange today, and it keeps moving troops to the front, just the team flag, the recognition of various flags, is twice as much as usual...... Basically, it can be concluded that the Chu army will soon launch a general attack, maybe this evening, maybe until tomorrow dawn, but never more than twelve hours.
Compared with the Ming army that was preparing nervously, the Qing army in the village was very quiet, and there was not even a figure on the wall.
But Zhang Cunren knew that the Qing soldiers were not idle, but were so hungry that they couldn't move, or they were so full of food that they didn't care that the Ming army would attack.
Zhang Cunren has nothing to do about it.
The green battalion soldiers and auxiliaries in the stockade had escaped from the cottage and surrendered to the Ming army during a riot three days earlier. The rest are Wuzhen Chaoha soldiers who have followed him for many years, they are dying of hunger, it would be good if there was no mutiny, and it is really difficult for them to climb the wall of the wall to guard.
Now in the entire village, there are no more than ten people who can stand up, such as Zhang Cunren, who can still stutter food, such as Zhang Jie, the captain of his personal soldiers.
"Let them all come over and have dinner." Zhang Cunren went down to the roof and ordered Zhang Jie to call the Wuzhen Chaoha soldiers behind the earthen wall to have dinner together.
"Don't, right? This is the last piece of leather armor, they have eaten it, and tomorrow the military gate will not eat it! Zhang Jie made a very rare objection. The leather armor is made of cowhide, although the appearance is ugly, but it can indeed be satisfied, but unfortunately most of the Qing army wore cotton armor, and a limited number of leather armors have long been eaten up.
"No need, give each of them a bowl. I've been with me for so many years, and although there is nothing good to eat at the last meal, at the very least, don't be a starving ghost. Zhang Cunren sent Zhang Jie over, but he didn't eat, turned around and entered the room.
Wash your face and wash your hands, change into neat clothes, pull a rope and hang it on the roof, tie a dead button at the bottom, and pull two more handfuls to see if you can bear your weight. When doing this qiē, Zhang Cunren's demeanor was very calm, no different from usual.
"Junmen, don't do it!"
Zhang Jie happened to come in from outside the door, and was shocked at first sight, Teng Tengteng rushed over and hugged Zhang Cunren, and shouted with a white face: "The military gate is a military general, and it is a big deal to die in front of the battle, why do you want to find a short view?" If the military gate can be trusted, the general will be willing to desperately escort the military gate to break through at the end of tonight. ”
"You're just in time, sit down, I have a few words to say." Zhang Cunren's tone was very calm: "As the saying goes, there is nothing important except death, I can't help myself everywhere in my life, how to live I have to listen to others, how to die, I want to make my own ......decisions" (to be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point () to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. For mobile phone users, please go to M. to read. (To be continued......)