The slaughter of the city is nothing new for the Guanning army, but Wu Sangui's next plan also requires Xi'an to have enough people's livelihood foundation, but those Manchurians and Mongols in the city are a bunch of hidden dangers, and it is far better to eliminate them to save trouble. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Lord Wang, is this ......?"

Slaughtering the city, Chen Wen, who has not even fought in battles over the years, has not done it in any way, at least not on the bright side. In this regard, Wu Sangui's son-in-law, Guo Zhuangtu, who also manages the logistics of the Wu army, seemed a little hesitant.

"Virtuous son-in-law, you must know that the true Yi Ding mouth of the Tartar is scarce, and Chen Wen, the king of Yue, has already pulled it into a fatal wound, and now it is just right to sprinkle them with a handful of salt, so that the Tartar has no possibility of recovery."

Speaking of this, Wu Sangui sighed, and then said: "Besides, if we want to succeed, we must be more ruthless than that Chen Wen." He used the coolie battalion to torture the Tartars, exhaust the Tartars, and use the lives of the Tartars to build fortresses, repair official roads, and dig mountains and mines. It's to save people's power, but those foolish men and foolish women and half-understood rotten Confucians know what, all they want is to be happy, as long as we slaughter this city, they will only say that we are inseparable from the Tartars, and praise us, so that they can overpower Chen Wen. If it weren't for that, Mo said that it would have gone further, but I am afraid that even the stains that have followed the tartar all these years will not be cleaned. ”

Wu Sangui was so frank that Guo Zhuangtu nodded frequently while being moved, and hurriedly replied: "What my father-in-law said is very true, and my son-in-law felt a sudden feeling when he heard it. It's just that I'm afraid that such a high-profile will anger the court, and then we won't be able to take advantage of the fishermen. ”

Guo Zhuangtu obviously still had a deep-seated fear of the Manchu Dynasty, Wu Sangui shook his head, and then said to him: "Hey, virtuous son-in-law, let's betray the court in the end, do you think that if you don't slaughter the city today, you won't come?" No, what they are afraid of now is only Chen Wen and the Ming army of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Jiangsu, so they will definitely come over, and it won't be long, because if they show weakness on this, what will the officials in other places think, and what will those Tartars in Monan and Mobei think, if they show a little timidity, it will be a situation where the wall is down and everyone pushes it. ”

"How's that good?"

"Have you forgotten that this king has already sent people to ask for help from the imperial court before this. Count the days, it's almost coming, when the time comes, with the strength of the two armies, as long as there is such a big victory, we can take the capital before Chen Wen's Northern Expedition, which is the only way for our Guanning army to survive. ”

When Wu Sangui said this, Guo Zhuang reacted when he came to the top. The current situation, the Manchu Qing is the least optimistic, because the major forces of the Han land want to destroy them, and the Mongol tribes are basically watching the style, there are strong enemies inside, no reinforcements outside, and the number of their own core forces is too small, and now it is the most difficult moment for the Manchu Dynasty.

However, who destroyed the Manchu Qing Dynasty, there are many ways to speak of it. The reason is very simple, the legitimacy of the Ming comes from the expulsion of the tyrannical yuan, although the population of the Manchu Qing cannot be compared with the tyrannical yuan, but the destruction is deeply hated by everyone, and it can be equated.

If the imperial court destroyed the Manchu Qing Dynasty, then with the huge strength of the Ming army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang, especially the geographical location they occupy, the Ming court would definitely not be able to sleep peacefully, and the only way to cut the domain would be. However, once the feudal domain is cut, the Chen Wen clan is a dead end, but the other feudal towns will also be frightened, and when the world is in chaos, the Ming court will be overthrown by those angry and frightened subordinates under Chen Wen, and then these people will be divided for who will inherit Chen Wen's position, and their Guanning army group will have a chance to speak of.

But if Chen Wen destroyed the Manchu Dynasty, he also had to use the peak of prestige to change the dynasty, otherwise after a long time, the prestige of being a courtier would definitely be suppressed by the emperor, and then the court would still have to destroy Chen Wen Manmen to cut the domain. However, once Chen Wen changed the dynasty, his own group seemed to be extremely stable at least for now, so these small and medium-sized feudal towns would either be exterminated or fall into a situation of being scattered, which Wu Sangui did not want to see.

The small court and the big feudal town have never been able to coexist in harmony for a long time. This was the case with Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty and the Cao family at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the same was true for Tang Zhaozong and Zhu Wen at the end of the Tang Dynasty.

What is a hero who has made great achievements in the world, those who have made great achievements in the world are not rewarded, and those who bravely shock the Lord are in danger, this is the eternal truth. When the time comes, these feats will be erased from the history books, and anyway, it is only Chen Wen and those so-called axioms and justices who will suffer, and they are all indifferent things.

"Father-in-law, but if the reinforcements from the imperial court don't arrive in time, what will happen?"

Wu Sangui didn't think about this problem, his operation had already started when Chen Wen killed Hong Chengchou. For three years, with the continuous change of the situation, he even thought about returning to Henan with Chen Wen and marching eastward.

The situation has reached this point, and when he chose to instigate Zhang Tianfu, he had already thought of Guo Zhuangtu's problem, and this problem, judging from today's battle, is not a problem at all.

"Virtuous son-in-law, don't you understand today's battle? With this Spanish phalanx, Chen Wenke almost broke his head on the old formation back then, not to mention that this king still specially modified it, what virtue did the Tartar have and how could he get this king! ”

Wu Sangui needed enough reinforcements to continue his advance eastward before Chen Wen's Northern Expedition, otherwise it would take time to train more Spanish phalanxes, which would be unstable. However, at this moment, there is no need for the Mancheng of Xi'an, all that is needed is to divide the Mancheng, and then put the slaughtering troops designated by Wu Sangui into it.

Xi'an Mancheng was built in Shunzhi six years, it is along the north gate street and the east gate street in the city to build the city wall, the east and north sides borrowed the city wall, the northeast of the city all drove out of the Han people, thus divided into a full city.

"The city is full of two thousand six hundred and thirty zhang, which is fourteen miles and six minutes and zero. The distance between east and west is seven hundred and forty-five zhang, which is four miles and two minutes and zero; The distance between north and south is 575 zhang, which is three miles and one minute zero. "Since the actual location of the north and south gates is west of the city wall, and the actual location of the east and west gates is south of the city wall, the city occupies the northeast of the city, but it is still larger than a quarter.

In a city of this size, there are as many as five gates alone. The east gate borrowed the Changle Gate of the Fucheng City Gate; The south gate is the west section of the south wall of the city, and the place where the original Qin Wangfu is used to complete the clothes is called the end of the door; In the southwest direction, the east arch of the drum tower in the city is used as the city gate; The Xihua Gate in the south of the west wall was originally the west gate of the outer city of the Qin Wangfu, which was moved out and renamed when the city was built; The new city gate in the north of the west wall was built when the city was expanded and built.

Wu Sangui's army captured the city and quickly took control of the city walls and gates, and the eight banners in the city and the families who could not escape could only shrink inside.

"The soldiers listened to the order, and the barbarians brutalized the people of the Han family for decades, and they slaughtered the Liao people as early as in Liaodong, and they intensified after entering the customs. Our army has now captured Xi'an, and there is a city full of this, all of which are barbarians. Today, the president of the world's water and land master Xingming begged for the general, and the king of Hanzhong, Wu Youling, slaughtered this city and sealed the knife in three days! ”

The order to slaughter the city was given, and it was none other than the ten battalion leaders of the Eight Banners Army that he relied on to break through the loyalty, bravery, and bravery. The whole city was likewise divided into ten districts, each with a battalion head, impartial.

The army entered the city and went to their respective divisions along the streets and alleys, and the Eight Banners defeated the army to organize some men and horses, but they were not treated as a unified enemy at all, at most they used the terrain to suddenly use cold arrows, which was better than nothing.

The Eight Banners Army slaughtered cities in various places, and this time they were slaughtered, and they had already been psychologically prepared, and before the Guanning Army entered, many Manchu and Mongolian women threw themselves into the city, jumped into the well, and were even killed by the men in the family themselves. After the Guan Ning army entered, in the face of resistance, they pursued the principle of killing without mercy, except for those women and young children who could be dragged out for adultery, and the others were left behind.

The city of Xi'an was soon reduced to hell on earth, and the cries and cries shook the sky, one after another. These Eight Banners and their families would never have thought that when their myth of invincibility was broken by Chen Wen, even Wu Sangui would jump out and slaughter them.

All over the city, the Guanning army killed people when they saw them, broke into houses when they saw them, and took away everything of value, and the battalions even threw the captive women and children into the designated area and humiliated them on a large scale.

This is the case inside the city, and the looting and killing of the people are indispensable outside the city as early as the siege of the city, but when the cry in the city comes out, the people in the city all stop, listen to the screams that can only come out in hell, and exclaim with joy, just like the music of heaven. Only those survivors who were killed, wounded, and looted when the Guanning army broke the city, as well as the families of the victims, don't know if they should dare to take a turn for these people after seeing Chen Wen break the myth of the invincibility of the Eight Banners of Manchuria.

It's like this all afternoon, and in the evening, the carnival in the city is far from over, and the three-day sealing knife is an order issued by Wu Sangui, but with the few people in the city, it is estimated that they will be almost killed by tomorrow, and the rest is nothing more than torturing those Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banner captives who are worse than death. It's just that compared to the Qing army slaughtering the city in recent years, what is it?

Historically, more than 200 years later, the Xinhai Revolution also staged such a scene in the city of Shaanxi. But in comparison, the level of bloodiness was far less than it is now—not only was the military discipline of the Guanning army worse, but more importantly, without those two hundred years, the Manchu Qing Dynasty's slaughter of the Han people was just around the corner, and Wu Sangui's troops needed the blood of the city to wash away the stains on their bodies, at least they thought it could be done.

Xi'an Mansion City, originally there was a Qin Palace, it was the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang's second son Zhu Fan began to build when he became a vassal, after more than 200 years, to the end of the Ming Dynasty was Li Zicheng's Dashun Palace. Although this seems to be a little unlucky with Li Zicheng, the victory is high enough, and as Wu Sangui, the king of the county, he is far better.

However, when the city was built, the palace of King Qin was divided into the city, the outer wall was demolished, and the inner city was also rebuilt as the school field of the Eight Banners Army. And now, the slaughter of the city is still ongoing, and Wu Sangui naturally can't enter the city to work, so he arranged for his trip to the yamen of the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi - anyway, Li Guoying, a stubborn fool, has already been sacrificed by him, and he has no intention of appointing an official position such as the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi.

After Guo Zhuangtu's investigation, the reason why Chen Jixin, the governor of Shaanxi, did not allow him to enter the city was that the trick of deceiving the city had been exposed in the process of going north to collect Fengxiang Mansion City halfway, and the Qing army that escaped reported the possibility of collusion between Wu Sangui and Zhang Tianfu to Chen Jixin, the governor of Shaanxi. When Wu Sangui led the rout to come, Chen Jixin was not only worried that Wu Sangui was deceiving the city, but also suspected that the green battalion soldier who reported the news was lying or guessing wrong, so he had to close the city gate tightly and politely refused Wu Sangui's request to enter the city.

Previously, Wu Sangui staged a hat trick of deception in Lanzhou Mansion, Gongchang Mansion and Fengxiang Mansion along the road of Weishui and the county seat, which can be described as invincible. But in this world, there are always times when liars make mistakes, and in the final analysis, it is still necessary to decide the victory or defeat with real knives and guns, and Wu Sangui relied on the killer weapon created by the Ganshan Green Battalion returning to Shaanxi from Jiangxi back then, and it did play its due role.

At this moment, Wu Sangui can be said to be full of confidence and full of longing for the future. He is only forty-six years old now, in the prime of life, with tens of thousands of armor under his command, and he is the most powerful force in the northwest of the Han Dynasty, which is not comparable to the sixty-two years old at the time of the rebellion of the three feudatories.

"I just don't know what title the court will give to this king, preferably King Zhou, no matter how bad it is, it's okay to be the King of Liao. When the time comes, the three kings of Zhou, Jin, and Shu will balance the Yue Wang family, and the court should be willing to play those big and small tricks in it, the emperor is willing, and the civil officials are also willing, so they will not be stingy with this throne. ”

In the Ming Dynasty, the title of prince was not given a different surname, and when it came to the Southern Ming Dynasty, it was Sun Kewang who broke this convention by force. In contrast, the two feudal domains of the King of Jin and the King of Shu were Yongli willing to come to reward him for his great work, and it was also related to Sun Kewang, and there was a cause to have an effect. Even Chen Wen's titles of King Yue and King Qi are also related to Sun Kewang, one is the great achievement of recovering Nanjing, and Sun Kewang canonized it on his behalf, and the other is the King of Qianliqin, who only got it by beating Sun Kewang violently.

Wu Sangui is extremely beneficial to the Yongli Imperial Court anyway. First of all, the road to the north has been opened, secondly, northern Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu and other places have changed their banners, and then there is the route of the Northern Expedition to the capital, and finally Wu Sangui's Guanning army can be used to cooperate with other feudal towns to balance the strongest Chen Wen.

"With the title of prince, we can better attract people's hearts and turn this northwest land into my Wu Sangui's vassal state, just like Liaoxi back then. At least he can't be pressed by Li Dingguo, otherwise he will marry the emperor of the Zhu family and Li Dingguo's thief in vain, so it is better to close the door and call himself a lonely widow, and compile tens of thousands of Spanish phalanxes and then go east to come in. ”

The Manchu Qing Dynasty was defeated several times by Chen Wen in the south of the Yangtze River, and its strength was greatly weakened, and Wu Sangui has now eliminated this garrison of the Eight Banners, and the situation is even better. And it is precisely with such a victory that the generals of this Guanning army also feel that the future is bright, and the celebration banquet here is even more cheerful.

Wu Sangui drank a glass of wine, and it was a long time since he was so happy. The dancers in the hall danced, the musicians were also playing hard, the singing and dancing were all set off the atmosphere of the victory, and the generals present also pushed the cup and changed the lamp, and from time to time they had to get up to congratulate Wu Sangui.

Inside the high walls, the cries of Manchurian and Mongolian families are intertwined with the wild laughter of the city slaughterers, and in the rows outside the high walls, the cups are pushed and the lamps are changed, and the songs and dances are light. At this moment of joy and sorrow, Wu Sangui's personal captain jumped in from outside the main hall and whispered a few words in Wu Sangui's ear.

"What are you still doing in a daze, setting up an incense case, and inviting an angel."

Angel?

The generals who were still immersed in the atmosphere of the celebration banquet were stunned for a moment, then remembered the reinforcements mentioned by Wu Sangui, and then followed Wu Sangui to the courtyard outside the main hall.

The envoy of the Yongli court was a team of eunuchs guarded by the Ming army, and his clothes had just been changed, but it was still difficult to hide the wind and frost on the road.

"Fengtian carries the emperor, and he says: Wu Sangui, the former chief military officer of Zhenningshan Customs, and the king of Hanzhong, ......"

Since Wu Sangui bowed down to the case, the duck's throat sounded, and Wu Sangui could be regarded as a courtier of Nanming. The president of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Zhili, and Shandong provinces aided the general military officer, gave python jade, acted cheaply, hung the seal of the pioneer general, the right army governor's mansion, the left governor, the Taibao and the prince and the prince, and Wu Sangui, the king of Ji, were also announced.

I didn't get the king of Zhou, and I didn't get the king of Liao, but it's always good to have the title of a prince. In addition, the generals under his command also have many rewards. It's just that after Wu Sangui got the title of prince, what he was most concerned about was when the reinforcements would arrive, which was a matter of life and death after all.

"Back to His Royal Highness the King of Ji, when the miscellaneous family set off, His Royal Highness the King of Shu had personally led an army of 50,000 and was ready to go north through Sichuan, and now he is already on the way."

"That's good, that's good. Relying on the Son of Heaven Hongfu and the soldiers with their lives, this king has just defeated the captive division in Xi'an, annihilating the Eight Banners Army no less than 5,000. Now that he is waiting for the arrival of reinforcements from the imperial court, he can move eastward and sweep away the northland. To be able to get the help of His Royal Highness the King of Shu is like a tiger with wings, and the court has the reason to be immortal? ”

It was Liu Wenxiu, not Li Dingguo, who came, and Wu Sangui couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. There is no other reason, Liu Wenxiu was once his defeated general, although the victory was very thrilling, even he said afterwards that he had never met such a strong opponent in his life, but for Wu Sangui, whose self-confidence has skyrocketed, Liu Wenxiu is a better choice.

"Please also ask the angel to return to Your Majesty, just wait for His Royal Highness the King of Shu to arrive in Shaanxi, and the minister Wu Sangui should start Qin Longjia to recover the capital for His Majesty and the Ming Dynasty!"