On April 19, the ninth year of Yongli, Ma Guozhu, the governor of Jiangnan and Jiangxi, who had been bullied by Chen Wen from the "Governor of Liangjiang" to the "Governor of Shanjiang", immediately sent a secret report to the Qing court after receiving the news that Guazhou had been lost and the Jiangfang was broken by the Ming army in Fujian. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Next, Zhenjiang was lost, the garrison of the Eight Banners was gone, and the urgent military situation was transmitted to Beijing City at the fastest speed, "After a long time, and when I heard the rebellion in Beijing, the Beijing division was shocked." The guests in the southeast are all terrified and homesick, and there are those who cry. ”

In the Qianqing Palace of the Forbidden City, Shunzhi was speechless for a long time for the urgent request for help. Looking closely, his hands were trembling slightly, and his eyes were full of panic.

After waiting for a long time, the little eunuchs in the hall knew the character of this barbarian emperor very well, and they all held their breath one by one, making themselves not very eye-catching. In contrast, although Wu Liangfu, Shunzhi's most favored eunuch, said that he was not like this, but he did not dare to persuade him, and hurriedly glanced at a little eunuch at the gate of the main hall, and the little eunuch ran out as if he had been amnestied.

Before enough, a woman in her early forties, with braided hair and her head coiled, dressed in regular clothes, stepped into the main hall under the service of a group of eunuchs and palace maids.

The accompanying eunuchs and palace maids did not enter the door, only an aunt who was also in her early forties followed, and the servants present all knew that this aunt had served by her side since she was a child, and she was the most favored, so she was naturally different.

Seeing the woman stepping into the main hall under the service of that aunt, Wu Liangfu suddenly breathed a long sigh of relief, and even the straightened spirits of the little eunuchs who were serving in the Qianqing Palace were slightly soothed. Only Shunzhi was still staring at the reports in a cold sweat, and his body trembled more and more.

The woman with coiled hair walked in, strode to the front of the imperial case, copied the report without asking for instructions, frowned and read it carefully, and then threw it heavily on the imperial case.

"That's all because of this?!"

Hearing this, the seventeen-year-old boy Tianzi raised his head, and there was a faint hint of haze in his gaze when he looked at the woman.

"The Emperor's Mother."

The person who came was Xiaozhuang, but at this time no one would call her that, the Queen Mother was the title, and her name was Borzigit Bumubutai, the Mary Sue in the Qing palace drama in the later generations, the silly white and sweet big jade. However, the relationship between the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang and her son is not very harmonious, so later generations will vigorously promote the ancestral relationship between her and Kangxi.

The eyes of Shunzhi and Xiaozhuang met above the fold, and soon Shunzhi quickly lowered his head, but the words he said were absolutely thunder.

"Huang Eniang, let's go back to the customs."

Unexpectedly, when he heard this, Xiaozhuang slapped the Buddha beads in his hand on the imperial case, and shouted: "This great country is the result of a hundred battles of Taizu and Taizong, you are so cowardly that you want to give up, what qualifications do you have to make decisions for Taizu and Taizong!" ”

Drinking and scolding, Shunzhi was stunned. In the next second, it seemed that he remembered something that should not be touched, and he saw Shunzhi Teng stand up all of a sudden, and the cowardice just now was burned out by anger, and he pushed down Wu Liangfu, who was standing next to him, and walked quickly to the wall, and took off the sword that had been hanging here for a long time. Then he quickly returned to the front of the imperial case, and slashed his sword on the dragon chair where the warmth had not yet dissipated.

"I am the grandson of Taizu, the son of Taizong, and the emperor of the Qing Dynasty. I want to drive the expedition in person, destroy the Haikou Kou, and then exterminate Chen Wen's Zhejiang bandits. This world is mine, and no one wants to take it away! ”

From the frustration just now, to the anger at the moment, Xiaozhuang knew very well that her son's "Dolgon sequelae" was sick again. But the royal driving expedition, this kind of thing is not such a battle-hardened son of heaven, nine times out of ten, not only can not win, but it is more likely to spoil major things - a layman commands an insider, and it is fresh to win.

Wen Yan persuaded him, but it had no effect, and Shunzhi didn't dare to say it to his imperial mother, but he pointed to those eunuchs and said that whoever dared to persuade him would cut the persuader into meat sauce like chopping this dragon chair.

Seeing this, Xiaozhuang had to order Su Mo'er, who was waiting on the side, to invite Shunzhi's nurse, and Shunzhi could always listen to what the woman said. In order to prevent accidents, it is even more difficult for people to find Prince Zheng Jierharang, the oldest prince of the Manchu royal family, and he can't really drive the expedition.

Shunzhi's nurse was in the palace and quickly rushed over, but persuasion had no effect. In the eyes of Shunzhi in a rage, it is useless for the emperor and the nurse to add together. Fortunately, Zierharang arrived quickly, and on the way, he had already heard Su Mo'er explain the ins and outs, and he also knew the news of the fall of Guazhou, so he didn't say a word when he entered the main hall, and knelt down directly in front of Shunzhi.

"Slave Ji'er Harang, I am willing to go out on behalf of the emperor to conquer Haikou, and ask the emperor to approve the slave's invitation for the sake of the children of the Eight Banners who need the emperor to sit in Beijing."

The Eight Banners are the foundation of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but there is no doubt that even the Eight Banners stationed in various places and the Eight Banners Army on the expedition are also in Beijing in terms of personnel and authority, so the emperor must be in Beijing.

Zilharang reminded Shunzhi that he wanted to take the royal conquest in person, just to prove that he could inherit the inheritance of Nurhachi and Huang Taiji, so as to ensure that the throne would not fall into the hands of others. But if the imperial drive is personally conquest, the eight banners in Beijing are connected in series, and a new monarch is established, then it is putting the cart before the horse.

"Uncle Huang is still sick, so it is really not suitable to lead the troops to the battle."

From the royal driving to the person who led the troops to the battle, Shunzhi's tone was relaxed, and Xiaozhuang and the others breathed a sigh of relief, but Jierharang participated in the military aircraft during this time, and he knew very well what the news was sent back after Yue Le arrived in Jiangnan, especially in Hangzhou, otherwise Shunzhi would not let his son Jidu organize a group of Eight Banners Army and prepare to go south to reinforce Yue Le.

"Emperor Lao is worried, the minion's health is already well, but the slave's children and grandchildren are sick, and I am afraid that I will not be able to go out with the army."

Zilharang's face was pale, his body was very good, and his children and grandchildren were sick, and he was talking nonsense. However, Shunzhi did not refute Ji'er Harang's crazy words, but pondered for a moment before replying: "Then there is Uncle Lao Huang, my cousins and nephews are recuperating in peace in the capital, and I will send a doctor to treat them properly." ”

"Slave Xie Wu Huang is gracious."

Zilharang replaced his son as the commander of the new group of Qing troops heading south, which was a helpless thing. Among the clan princes, he is the only one who has risen little by little with Nurhachi, Huang Taiji and Dolgon, even Yue Leqi's experience is too low, let alone his son Jidu.

But even Yue Le was just a general with the army when he entered the customs, and as the commander he had only fought Khalkha Mongolia, but Zheng Chenggong of Nanming, especially Chen Wen behind Zheng Chenggong, was not those Mongolian Tartars, rather than letting them go south in vain to "send people away", it was better for him to personally lead the troops south, and the chances of victory would be greater.

It's just that when he took over the appointment, he had to ask for more powerful troops. There is no way, it has been some time since the fall of Zhenjiang, and from Beijing to Nanjing, it is estimated that Ma Guozhu and Kakam have no taste in boiling soup with their bones. Even Yue Le may already be a dead man.

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Zheng Chenggong's army approached the city of Nanjing, and the Qing army retreated into the city. Seeing this, Zhang Huangyan led his army south to appease the upstream prefectures.

This is the case in history, and now with the participation of Li Zhichun and He Wangsheng, Zhang Huangyan launched the march without any worries. And the reason has also changed from going upstream to recruit Fu to intercept the Qing army reinforcements in Huguang and Jiangxi, to recovering Chizhou, Huizhou, Taiping, Ningguo and other upstream prefectures and counties as soon as possible, and preempting Chen Wen.

"This official has always looked at Cangshui differently, and there is Cangshui going south, so you can worry about it."

Whether it's true or not, Li Zhichun doesn't know, but this reason is enough to convince Zheng Chenggong. Now is the honeymoon period between the Jiangnan gentry and the Fujian Ming army, Zhang Huangyan's Zhang Mingzhen's army, the degree of freedom is greater, and now the general trend has become a general trend, and there are gentry in the south to praise the military needs, Zheng Chenggong does not have much to do about it.

When Zheng Chenggong was still in Zhenjiang, Zhang Huangyan had already set off for Nanjing, but was intercepted by the Qing army in Nanjing and retreated to Pukou. As a result, because of the news of the victory in Zhenjiang, the defenders of Pukou saw that it was the Ming army on the Yangtze River, thinking that Zheng Chenggong was coming to fight them, so they directly abandoned the city and fled.

At that time, there was a nursery rhyme that said, "Is it a tiger? Eight iron horsemen, frightened away the city guards. It can be seen that the momentum of the Fujian Ming army sweeping the south of the Yangtze River has been formed.

After Zhang Huangyan set out from Nanjing, he went south along the Yangtze River. On the seventh day of the fifth month, Zhang Huangyan led the army to Wuhu, when the soldiers were only 3,000 and the ships were only hundreds, but compared with the embarrassment of less than 1,000 soldiers and less than 100 ships in history, it was already a world of difference. What's more, he also came out with that big killing weapon this time-Zhu Chenggong, the king of Yanping County!

"The past five chaotic summers have only been passed on again and again. Today, the East should be prophesied, suitable for the period of 28 autumn. It's true that the way of heaven is good, and the situation is also thoughtful. ”

"Since Li Thief advocated rebellion, Shenjing Lu Shen. The chieftain himself belonged to Yi, and he repeatedly rebelled, so he took advantage of many difficulties and stole in the Central Plains. The clothes became dogs and sheep, and the country fell to Rongdi. There is no flesh that does not gnaw his teeth at the slave chieftains. ”

"This domain advocates righteousness in the sky, hangs the people on behalf of the crime, tastes the courage of the salary, and uses the army in ancient times. It has been more than 10 years since we gathered the lessons. It is difficult to deviate, and only one line remains. Hereby, he is the master of pro-unification, the first to take Jinling, born in water and fire, and the prestige of the Han officials. ”

"The civil and military generals of the pseudo-bureau are all Ming sons, who are not Chinese gentry. When the time is poor, the court is wronged, and he examines his true intentions, and would rather not forbear? It is natural and righteous, and Huayi's distinction is very clear; Woody water source, loyalty and filial piety are at ease. ”

"As for the Liao people, they have been raised by our dynasty for 300 years, and they have been devastated by the rebellion for 30 years. His grandfather was poisoned by him, and his mother and wife were even adulterated by him. Er's second and third orphans are still slaves under his banner; Hundreds of thousands of weak women are the women of the Huzhong. Revenge and shame, not at a different time; Returning to the right and reversing the evil is today. then Zhang Liang reported to Han, and first waved the spine of Bolang; Zhu Xu returned to Jin, and then became the victory of Huai. ”

"Or take the opportunity to change the face, or change the map before the enemy. Those who return from all the provinces will not hesitate to divide the soil; Those who return from one town and one town will be determined and disciplined. or lead the troops, and they will be appointed according to their numbers; or come clean, and measure the amount of material according to their duties. ”

"If the Mongols and Jurchens are blessed by the state, they are not the same kind, they are all within the cover of heaven and earth, and they also have the same hatred, they have no two hearts, and they regard one body. Not only did he return to the Han Dynasty, but he was also famous in the day. And if you go back to the Tang Dynasty, the blazing light leaves will protect it. ”

"This domain is benevolent and righteous, and the rewards and punishments are clear for a long time. Those who take the lead will have no second reward, and those who come later will have unforeseen punishments. A body of blessings and misfortunes, in between the millimeters; The name of the eternal merit is fought for in an instant. The division will no longer be raised, the time will not come again, the proclamation will be far and wide, and the salt will be known. ”

"Sincerely."

As soon as the text came out, and the gentry in Jiangnan waited for a long time, the local civil and military forces also repented under the inspiration of those "lurking people" under the inspiration of those "lurking people", and asked Zhang Huangyan's poor and lonely army to surrender.

"The north and south of the river are coming back at a rate. counties are Taiping, Ningguo, Chizhou, Huizhou; The counties are Dangtu, Wuhu, Fanchang, Xuancheng, Ningguo, Nanling, Nanning, Taiping, Jingde, Guichi, Tongling, Dongliu, Jiande, Qingyang, Shidai, Jingxian, Chaoxian, Hanshan, Shucheng, Lujiang, Gaochun, Lishui, Liyang, Jianping; The state is Guangde, Wuwei and Heyang, or surrendered, or restored, where the prefecture is four, the state is three, and the county is twenty-four."

In the process of Zhang Huangyan's march, due to the return of some Qing troops to Shun and the participation of volunteers, the number of soldiers also increased, and in just ten days, the "water and land soldiers to more than 10,000" expanded several times.

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At the same time as the Fujian Ming army marched into Nanjing, the Huizhou government was also in chaos after receiving the order for help from the governor Yamen.

The destruction of Guazhou's river defense can also be attributed to the naval division of the Fujian Ming Army, which dominates the China Sea, but in the first battle of Zhenjiang, Jiangning's garrison eight banners were gone, and everything was very different.

Reinforcements, logically speaking, must be sent and must be sent. However, unlike other prefectures and counties in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, Huizhou is bordered by the occupation areas of the Ming army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang in several directions, and it is the area south of the Yangtze River that has been under the greatest military pressure in recent years.

Zhang Yingxiang, the current commander-in-chief of Huizhou, was originally the commander-in-chief of Nanru, Henan, and the year before last, Hu Maozhen was promoted to the governor of Jingbiaozuo Town in the southeast, and he was transferred from Henan by the Manchu court.

Huizhou merchants gathered, it is an extremely rich place, naturally much stronger than Henan and other places that have long been plagued by the scourge of the bandits for thousands of miles.

It's just that cheapness is not so easy to take advantage of, and pies don't fall from the sky. Before Hu Maozhen's promotion, as a reinforcement to aid Zhejiang, the Qing army in the southeast faced Chen Wen with repeated defeats, and even Hong Chengchou came to no avail. After Hu Maozhen was promoted, Huizhou had to face the threat of the Ming army in Quzhou and Yanzhou, and when Hong Chengchou was killed, it became an enemy on several sides - Yanzhou, Quzhou, Guangxin and Raozhou, strategically it had already entered the semi-encirclement of the Ming army.

For half a year, the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies did not launch an attack on Huizhou, but Zhang Yingxiang was worried every day, including those civil officials, who thought that the imperial court would die to temper each other. It's just that when that day came, Zhang Yingxiang didn't think about dying anyway, and those civil officials, he didn't believe that there could be a few who would really rather die than give in.

When the news of Zhenjiang's victory came, the gentry of Huizhou Prefecture mobilized one after another, just like other prefectures and counties, running to the officials' yamen and homes day and night. There is only one thing to talk about, and that is anyway. However, it was not the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies that gave the greatest pressure to Huizhou, but the army of Zhang Huangyan, the squire of the military department, who did not know if there was a partial division with a large number of characters.

For these people, kill, he did not dare. There's no way, it's still unclear who belongs in this world, stay a line in life, and see each other in the future. For example, the one in front of him is a typical example.

"Zhang Dashuai, the king of Huiji County has led his troops since the fourth year of Yongli, and he has won successive battles in Zhejiang, and there is no one who can fight against him. Even elite soldiers like the Eight Banners of Manchuria. There was also the fiasco of Siming Lake; Even a wise minister like Hong Chengchou was defeated by the four provincial capitals, attacked Yushan and failed miserably, and finally died in Guangxin Jiancheng. As for Shi Tingzhu, Jin Li, Liu Zhiyuan, Chen Jin, Tian Xiong, Yang Minggao, Liu Guangbi, Daniel Zhang, Wang Zhigang, Zhang Jie, Ma Jinbao and other thieves, they did not even have the strength to fight back. ”

"Now it seems that the Yanping Domain is sweeping the south of the Yangtze River, but a discerning person like Zhang Dashuai can see that this trend is rolled up by the king of my family. Compared with the Yanping Domain, which defeated more than 10,000 captives with tens of thousands of troops, the king of my family has always defeated the strong with the weak, and won more with less. Which is stronger and which is weak, Zhang Dashuai should know himself. ”

I met Chen Wen from Nanchang, but Chen Wen did not give him any endorsement for doing business in Jiangxi. Wang Fu knew that the relationship between the Ming Army of Jiangsu and Zhejiang and the Longyou Merchant Gang was harmonious, and there were too many businessmen who had cooperated with the Ming Army of Jiangsu and Zhejiang for a long time, and it was difficult for him to get attention as a Huizhou businessman with a very small capital. Even when he was summoned, it was he who noted on the worship post that it was Huizhou talents who reluctantly aroused Chen Wen's interest, not that the high-level leaders of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Mingjun groups could really trust him.

Assisting the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Ming armies to recover Huizhou, this is Chen Wen's condition, the price is very high, and it is even likely to be the price of a family's life, but the profit is also rich enough, so rich that Wang Fu really returned to his hometown in Huizhou with a letter, so rich that his father just asked him to wait for the situation to change, so rich that he really came to the General Military Mansion today to persuade him to surrender!

"Mr. Wang has seen the wrong person, Ben Shuai doesn't want to betray the court."

Hearing this, Wang Fu's heart was shocked. The family had already arranged to go to Wuyuan County, which had just been recovered by the Ming army, and the Qing army in Huizhou withdrew from the area that was more geographically favorable to Jiangxi without even the slightest resistance. But he had already put his life on the table, and when he found out that he had lost, he still had to panic.

However, at this moment, Zhang Yingxiang changed his mind. "Ben Shuai has long admired the prestige of the king of Huiji County, and knows that with the art of war, he is by no means the opponent of the king, and he does not want to be the enemy of the king."

Don't want to be an enemy?

But you won't surrender?

Wang Fu's mind is running fast, this statement is actually very simple, it is nothing more than riding the wall, but his purpose is to seize Huizhou for Chen Wen, and the Ming army has entered Wuyuan County, it is time to wait, and we must come up with a way to get the best of both worlds.

After a while, Wang Fu showed a confident smile, and then said to Zhang Yingxiang: "There is a proposal below, I don't know whether to talk about it or not." ”

"Oh? Mr. Wang, but it doesn't matter. ”

"I heard that Nanjing has been asking Zhang Dashuai to help, but is there such a thing?"

For reinforcements, Zhang Yingxiang has already sent one, half a battalion, and only 500 people. There is no way, his position is critical, and Ma Guozhu has tried his best to ask for help, and he does not ask for a certainty. But once Zhang Yingxiang heard this, he immediately understood the meaning of Wang Fu's words.

"Can this be done?"

"Don't hide it from Zhang Dashuai, I also know Pujiang Hou in Xia. Besides, there is a token of the king, and asking to see him in person can always strive for a fulfillment for Zhang Dashuai. ”

"In that case, then there is Mr. Lao Wang."