From Shanhaiguan to Beizhili, and from Beizhili to Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan; Beat Li Zicheng, beat Zhang Xianzhong, beat Sun Kewang, beat Liu Wenxiu, beat Li Dingguo....

From the first year of Shunzhi to the present, Wu Sangui has been working hard for the Qing Dynasty for sixteen years, and it can even be said that half of the Qing Dynasty was beaten down by Wu Sangui, so some people say that there would be no Qing Dynasty without the King of Pingxi; Some people also say that if there was no king of Pingxi back then, it would have been Li Chuang sitting in Beijing, Zhang Xianzhong in the southwest, Zhu Ming in Jiangnan, and Manchurians occupying Guanwai, where did the Qing Dynasty come from! There are still people in the capital who slander Wu Sangui, saying that if there are three points in the world, there must be his Wu family. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Fortunately, the Qing court did not believe these rumors and malicious slander, although it was always wary of Wu Sangui, but after all, it was still of great use, otherwise there would be no Yungui pacification. After Zhu Youlang abandoned the country and absconded, the Qing court rewarded him with merit, and Wu Sangui was the prince of Pingxi, which made Wu Sangui the first and only prince of Jin among the Han vassal kings, and the king of Sanshun had already met the prince of Yan.

Wu Sangui became the Prince of Pingxi, and his subordinates were naturally greatly encouraged, but Doni, the real commander of the Qing army in the southwest, was not happy and was afraid of Wu Sangui, because this Han prince had more soldiers and horses than he, the king of Manchuria. According to reliable sources, Wu Sangui took in as many as 100,000 Ming Dynasty troops in a few months, including more than 100,000 soldiers and horses in his headquarters, while there were less than 80,000 soldiers and horses in Doni's hands, including 14,000 in Manchuria, 20,000 Mongolian soldiers, and the rest were Han troops and green battalions. The rest of the tens of thousands of Yungui Ming troops adapted from the surrender army have become a little unstable because of the defeat of Luo Tuo and Zhao Butai in Guangxi. Doni don't trust them.

In terms of military strength alone, Doni, the commander, is really a bit out of place, so he can't understand why the emperor wants to promote Wu Sangui as the prince, even if he wants to be the prince of Jin, then he should be promoted to Doni first, and then Wu Sangui, otherwise Doni will do something to suppress Wu Sangui.

Luo Keduo, the king of Pingjun, came to complain again, saying that he had no food to eat in Guizhou, could neither enter nor retreat, and had to endure the harassment of those barbaric natives in Guizhou, which was really miserable. Now, except for a few big cities and towns such as Guiyang, Luo Keduo can no longer control the rest of Guizhou, resulting in half of the signal and grain roads being blocked, and it is even more difficult to collect grain for food.

Rocodor's suffering, Doni knows, because he is also bitter. After the news of the defeat of Luo Tuo and Zhao Butai in Guangxi came back, some Ming troops who had surrendered to the Qing army immediately started a rebellion, and many Tusi who had surrendered to Cheng also responded to the rebellion, resulting in a resurgence of smoke in Yunnan. The pacification policy of Hong Chengchou's deployment completely failed, and the favorable situation for the Qing army after Zhu Youlang abandoned the country was completely lost, and the Qing army, which was already exhausted and looking forward to the return of the squad to Beijing, had to put on armor again to go into battle to calm the place.

Fortunately, the Taiping army in Liangguang did not advance westward from Guangxi after annihilating Luo Tuo and Zhao Butai, and the Ming army and Tusi who were in rebellion could not get the support of the Taiping army, and they lacked contact with each other and did not have unified command, so they were quickly suppressed by the Qing army. Rao was like this, and the Qing army also paid thousands of casualties. The casualties are secondary, and the key point is that this turmoil, which lasted for nearly two months, made Yunnan's already withered people's livelihood worse, and directly led to a significant drop in the grain, grass and manpower that the Qing army could collect.

What annoyed Doni the most was that Di Sanpin, the Ming general of Jianchang, had originally agreed with the Qing army to hold Feng Shuangli, the king of Qingyang of the Ming Dynasty, hostage to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, but since he learned that the Taiping army occupied Huguang and relieved the difficulties of the Kuidong Loyal Battalion, and defeated the Qing army in Guangxi, and beheaded the Jingnan general Luo Tuo and the line Guoan, he immediately regretted not surrendering to the Qing Dynasty.

After that, according to the instructions of Li Guoying, the governor of Sichuan, Gao Minzhan, sent troops from Baoning to collect Guan County, Mianzhu, Shifang, Hanzhou, Jianzhou and other places, and marched into Chengdu. Liu Yao, Yang Youcai, Cao Changzuo, Chen Anguo, Zhao Youyan and other miscellaneous troops of the Ming Dynasty guarding Chengdu retreated automatically, and the Qing army entered Chengdu, the provincial capital of the "city full of thorns", on the same day. Li Guoying and Gao Minzhan successively recruited Yang Guoming, the general of Anwu of the Ming Dynasty, and the general army Wu Guoyong, and the officials of the Ming Dynasty in various states and counties along the way all surrendered to Yin and surrendered to Cheng, and the south of Sichuan was determined.

It's a pity that Sichuan's good news will not affect the situation of Yungui, as long as the Taiping army continues to blockade the borders of Hunan and Guizhou, the hundreds of thousands of Qing countries in Yunnan and Guizhou will be like birds trapped in a cage, and it will be difficult to spread their wings and fly high.

At the beginning of July, Doni received news that the Taiping army in Guangdong and the loyal battalion in Huguang had joined forces to establish the puppet Ming Longwu's younger brother Zhu Yuyi, the king of Tang, in Guangzhou. Before digesting this astonishing news, another news came from Wu Sangui's army. It is said that there are people in the Wu army who are talking about what is flying and the good bow is hidden; The cunning rabbit dies, and the lackeys cook.

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Qing Tingjin himself is the prince, in the past, Wu Sangui would definitely be ecstatic, but now, he is not shocked. However, in front of outsiders, Prince Pingxi was still grateful for the grace of the Qing Dynasty, and he only burst into tears.

After Su Yunxiang returned from Burma, he brought Wu Sangui the exact news, that is, his blockade of the Yunnan-Burma border was still successful, at least the remnants of Yongli Junchen and Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan in Burma did not know about the war in Liangguang and the state affairs of Tang Wangjian.

A few days ago, Doni sent Ai Xing, the minister of the guard, to Wu Sangui's army. Aixing Alai has two purposes, one is to let Wu Sangui allocate some military rations to Guizhou, and the other is to let Wu Sangui immediately send troops to exterminate the remnants of Li Dingguo's troops operating on the border.

Ai Xing Ah didn't mention letting Wu Sangui send troops into Burma to capture and kill Yongli, I don't know if Beijing knew that the Tang King of the Ming Dynasty was in charge of the country in Guangzhou, and Yongli, the pseudo-tomorrow, had no meaning, so he didn't want to pay attention to it, or because Beijing's attention was completely focused on the direction of Guangdong.

Whatever the reason, it was a good thing for Wu Sangui that the Qing court did not explicitly order him to bring troops into Burma, because he did not want to kill Yongli.

He knew very well that although the Qing court promoted himself to the prince, he was a Han after all, a halfway companion, and had a heavy army, so the Qing court could not really trust him, otherwise he would not have sent Li Guohan to monitor and guard against him for so many years. For Prince Jin, I am afraid that the biggest reason is not that Yongli was kicked out of the country by him and pointed him into Burma, but because of the great changes that occurred in Liangguang. Luo Tuo and Zhao Butai were wiped out in Guangxi, and it was not just tens of thousands of soldiers and horses that were buried, but the only hope for the Qing army in the southwest to break out of the encirclement. Counting on Pingkeduo, who is not even as good as Doni, to get through the Hunan and Guizhou borders is no different from counting on sows to go up trees.

Wu Sangui did not refuse Ai Xing's request to transfer grain, he got a lot of grain and grass when he pacified Na Song's father and son, plus the recruitment of border Tusi and Ming army armies, unlike the Qing army in other places to kill people and set fires, slaughter cities and villages, but attached great importance to the restoration of the place, and appointed many Ming Dynasty officials to govern and operate, making his reputation as the king of Pingxi even louder than the Qing Dynasty, and more popular. However, Wu Sangui can only control the western and southern Yunnan regions now, which are still relatively barren and cannot be stationed for a long time, so Wu Sangui needs a larger territory to raise troops, so he hopes that Beijing can fulfill Dorgon's promise and let him Pingxi Wang Yongzhen Yungui.

Wanting Beijing to give Yungui to him, Wu Sangui naturally could not show any disloyalty to the Qing court, he agreed to Aixing's request and transported 800 stone of grain and grass to Guizhou, which made Aixing'a very satisfied, and Shangshu said a lot of good things for him Pingxi Wang. Dhoni didn't react at all.

But I don't know when it began, who spread it in the army, saying that the imperial court was likely to make a cunning rabbit death and lackey cooking against the king of Pingxi, and the news of Liangguang came one after another, and the Ming army recruited by Wu Sangui in large numbers began to be unstable, and even the Guanning generals of his descendants were confused and uneasy about the situation.

Wu Sangui couldn't stop the rumors from spreading, and he was also a little scared. The weakness of his heart is not because he sent Su Yunxiang to Burma to show goodwill to the Yongli court, but he is also worried that when Liangguang supports the Tang Dynasty and the Qing army in Yunnan and Guizhou fails one after another, the Qing court is worried that he Wu Sangui will be like a grass on the wall.

The eldest son-in-law, Xia Guoxiang, heard a rumor from somewhere, saying that the emperor in Beijing was preparing to go south to conquer in person, and intended to let Wu Sangui lead the army back from Sichuan and Shaanxi to join the Huguang battlefield.

The feasibility of this rumor is very low, because if Beijing really wants Wu Sangui to join the Huguang battlefield, it can directly let him go north from Guizhou, why go around and go from Sichuan and Shaanxi. Guizhou Luo Keduo can't rush out, it doesn't mean that he Wu Sangui can't rush out.

Wu Sangui smiled contemptuously and said in front of his subordinates that this rumor was very ridiculous and should not be ignored. But the subordinates don't see it that way, Guo Yunlong said that the prince now has a heavy army, and of course he has the final say in Yunnan, but if the Qing court really lets the prince return to the north, will the prince have the final say?

Wu Sangui was silent, the military system of the Qing Dynasty was like that of the Ming Dynasty, and the soldiers and generals had to be separated, once he really returned to the north, he must hand over the military power in his hands according to the system, and be a prince of peace and happiness.

But Wu Sangui has never been a person who is willing to be happy, and there are no soldiers and horses in his hands, who dares to guarantee that the Qing court will not really come to the death of a cunning rabbit and cook a lackey?

The so-called impermanence of the monarchy, Dolgon made so much credit to the Qing Dynasty, and after his death, he was not dug up and whipped his corpse. The young genius has an impermanence in his heart, and it is difficult for Wu Sangui to guarantee that he will not kill himself.

After all, he, Wu Sangui, is Han!

What to do now, a group of strategists and generals under King Pingxi have different opinions. For the sake of safety, Wu Sangui summoned them one by one. The reason why he was summoned alone was because Wu Sangui knew that there must be people installed by the Qing court around him, and in addition, Doni's army was still eyeing Kunming, and he didn't dare to guarantee that all his subordinates would be loyal to him. As for a few henchmen, such as strategists Fang Xianting and Hu Shouliang, sons-in-law Xia Guoxiang, Hu Guozhu, and Guo Yunlong, Wu Sangui naturally does not have to be so careful. If you are also cautious about these people, then there is really no one to trust around King Pingxi.

Hu Guozhu asked Wu Sangui about the true intention of sending Su Yunxiang to Myanmar to see Yongli, and Wu Sangui said to him with a smile that he just remembered the old master's feelings and had no heart to regain his sight.

Hu Guozhu didn't speak after hearing this, but Xia Guoxiang was thoughtful.

Hu Shouliang knew the true intentions of the benefactor, and he said to Wu Sangui: "Lord Wang, the matter of restoring his sight is not good yet, one is that there are few soldiers, the other is unfounded, and the third is that the money, food and equipment are not enough to start. Therefore, at present, we must first seek a foothold, take root and accumulate more than enough, so that we can follow the example of Han Liu Bang and Ming Zhuwu, and then make plans. ”

Su Yunxiang nodded and said, "The prince should plan to guard the southwest now, and don't go back to Beijing." It is best to strive to learn from the Ming Dynasty Mu Ying to guard Yunnan for generations, and then figure it out. ”

Fang Xianting nodded slightly, as early as when the Manchu Qing Dynasty was fighting with Sun Kewang's Great Western Army in Guizhou and Hunan, Fang Xianting persuaded Wu Sangui not to completely sweep the Southern Ming, and should take this opportunity to go out of Hanzhong to occupy Wuchang, take Jiangnan as the base, and then go north. Wu Sangui did hesitate at first, but he finally thought that it was too hasty, the troops were insufficient, and the timing was not sufficient, if he really did this, the Southern Ming and Qing Dynasty might be caught in the north and south, so he did not adopt the opinion.

"Keep the cunning rabbit, and the lackeys will survive!"

It was the general Guo Yunlong who spoke, this person was Wu Sangui's Guan Ning lineage, who was born and died with Wu Sangui, and his weight in Wu Sangui's heart was comparable to that of two sons-in-law.

The eight characters that Guo Yunlong said were actually what Wu Sangui was doing now, and the reason why he did not continue to pursue Emperor Yongli who entered Burma was because of this thought. As for other Ming forces in Yunnan, such as Li Dingguo's remnants, Wu Sangui now ordered not to pursue, and even secretly ordered the front-line generals not to force Li to be too urgent not not to give them some room for maneuver. As for the information reported from the front that Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan were training troops and might be waiting for an opportunity to counterattack, Wu Sangui did not order to take corresponding measures, but only strictly ordered to seal the border and not allow Li Dingguo and them to get in touch with the country.

Wu Sangui didn't mind Guo Yunlong's use of the word "lackey", but he felt that these two words were the most appropriate to describe him.

"This king also wants to stay in Yungui, but if the court really wants this king to return north, I'm afraid it will be tricky."

Hu Shouliang said: "The prince is afraid that he needs to ask Hong Jingluo for help in this matter. ”

Wu Sangui thought about it and wrote a letter to send to Hong Chengchou in Kunming. A few days later, Hong Chengchou really found an excuse to come to Wu Sangui's army. Wu Sangui was busy preparing a banquet, and there were not many people attending the banquet, all of whom were Wu Sangui's cronies. And Hong Chengchou didn't bring an entourage, and went to the banquet alone, obviously, Hong Laojing was much more cautious.

The banquet was set up with big dishes and small dishes, not too extravagant, not too simple, not only to show Wu Sangui's respect for the teacher, but also to show the characteristics of the banquet.

Hong Chengchou glanced at the wine and food on the table, and said to Wu Sangui with a smile: "Changbai, the old man is not a glutton, so feasting on me is too rich!" ”

Wu Sangui hurriedly said: "The teacher's political affairs are complicated, it is difficult to get me here, this is still a little bit of the student's heart, please taste it a little." ”

In terms of officialdom, Hong Chengchou is the ambassador of Jinglu, although he is also a marquis, but in the end he is not as big as Wu Sangui's Prince of Pingxi. But in terms of personal relationships, Wu Sangui is a student of Hong Chengchou, and Fang Xianting, Hu Shouliang and others who are sitting at the table are even younger generations. didn't say much at the moment, and everyone raised their glasses to Hong Chengchou. Hong Chengchou also did not refuse to come, looking at the spring breeze.

Unconsciously, he had drunk three teas, and at this time, it was already three watches, and Hong Chengchou was about to leave. Wu Sangui suddenly withdrew everyone, and there were only two of them left at the banquet. Seeing this, Hong Chengchou didn't understand, but he remained silent on the surface.

"Is there something wrong with Changbai?" Hong Chengchou asked lightly.

"Sangui wants to gain a foothold, and I heard that Beijing wants to transfer Sangui back to the north, so I hope the teacher will not hesitate to give advice." Wu Sangui suddenly got up and knelt in front of Hong Shouchou with tears in his eyes.

"And tell me that you have any contact with the Burmese side?"

"This..."

Wu Sangui was stunned and didn't dare to hide it, so he told Hong Chengchou about sending Su Yunxiang to Burma, and also mentioned that the Burmese side should not return Yongli to Li Dingguo.

After Hong Chengchou heard this, he didn't say a word. Wu Sangui didn't speak, and waited silently. Half a sound, but heard Hong Chengchou say: "You have to send someone to Li Dingguo." ”

(To be continued.) )