Chapter 324: Bad News
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Wu Sangui's movements were quite fast, and in less than a month, the entire Hunan had been taken by him. The reason why Wu Sangui was able to take one city after another so quickly was that in addition to the two reasons why he had many generals and enough soldiers, the three hundred artillery pieces of various types he got from Geng Jingzhong also played a great role. Except for a part of the fortified defense placed by him in Kunming, the rest were all equipped to the army, Ma Bao, Gao Qilong, Liu Zhifu, Zhang Zufa, Wang Hui, Wu Yingqi, Guo Zhuangtu, and the total soldiers under him were each divided into 20 to 30 gates.
Although the number of artillery is not much, but the role is very huge, often many cities are bombarded for half an hour, either take the initiative to open the city and surrender or are bombed into the city. It took only 21 days for the vanguard army from Ma Bao to enter Hunan, followed by Wu Sangui's army, and the entire territory of Hunan was subordinate. Shun took Hunan, but Wu Sangui stopped the pace of attacking, not because he was unable to continue to go north, but because he had other considerations.
Wu Sangui has been raising troops for less than two months, and has completely occupied the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Hunan, and Wang Pingfan, the general under the command of the Sichuan region, is stepping up his attack. Although the territory in his hands has expanded by four or five times all of a sudden, Wu Sangui's heart and his only son Wu Yingxiong are still in the capital. At this moment, the soldier stopped his pace of going north, thinking of forcing Kangxi to give Wu Yingxiong back to Fang.
When Wu Sangui raised his army, he had already considered the safety of his son Wu Yingxiong. Wu Yingxiong can also be regarded as a bitter character. In fact, he originally wanted to help Wu Sangui in the capital. It's just that I didn't expect to fall into it. And Wu Sangui's side may have a fluke mentality, mistakenly thinking that Kangxi would not dare to harm his son, and he would definitely take Wu Yingxiong as a hostage as a bargaining chip to blackmail him in the future. It's a pity that Wu Sangui miscalculated Kangxi's determination, just yesterday night, there was news from the capital. His son Wu Yingxiong and grandson Wu Shilin were hanged, and they both fell victim to the imperial court and Wu Sangui.
In fact, if Wu Sangui didn't write that letter, maybe Wu Yingxiong's father and son could live for a while longer, or maybe they wouldn't have to die. But as soon as Wu Sangui's letter arrived, it strengthened Kangxi's determination to exterminate him. In order to prove his determination, the best way to show it is to directly execute Wu Yingxiong's father and son! And Kangxi, after getting the approval of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, decisively ordered Wu Yingxiong and his son to be hanged together. As Wu Yingxiong's wife, Wu Shilin's biological mother, and the fourteenth daughter of Huang Taiji, Kangxi's aunt Princess Jianning directly cried and fainted. It's a pity that although he is a princess, he can't control the situation at all, and can only watch his husband and son being executed.
Wu Yingxiong's father and son were executed. Subsequently, the imperial court issued a proclamation to inform the whole country. When Wu Sangui got the bad news, other places across the country also received the news. However, the reactions of various forces have been mixed. Some people are happy and some are crying, and when Wu Sangui got the unfortunate news, he obviously cried! He was still drinking when he first got the news yesterday, and in an instant, his face changed drastically, and he couldn't help but tremble his hands and feet.
Slowly put down the wine glass in his hand, and tears unconsciously quietly welled up in his eyes. There was a burst of pathos in his heart, and his expression was a little dull and he said to his henchman Fang Guangchen, who was drinking with him: "Today's momentum, it's really a tiger!" Fang Guangchen also understood what he meant, it was difficult to ride a tiger, which was a portrayal of Wu Sangui's situation at this time.
What kind of person Wu Sangui is, these strategists know best. Strictly speaking, his temperament has always been "good at both ends", left and right, and evidence-based. After his rebellion, he still felt a little regretful, and he also had the idea of "going down to the tiger's back", although this idea was quickly thrown away, but it doesn't mean that he didn't save it. And now that his children and grandchildren have been executed, the court has shown him with practical actions that from this moment on, the court will be completely inseparable from him, and will only stop the army after it wants to destroy him.
When he arrived at this step in the field, how could he get down on the "tiger's back"? At this time, he spoke the truth and said that it was difficult to ride a tiger. Fang Guangchen can't say anything at the moment, the pain of losing his son and grandson can't be compared to anything else, if he doesn't say it well, it will lead to ruin. Wu Sangui's appearance was really all expected by Zhou Peigong, Wu Yingxiong's father and son were executed, and the flesh and blood were mutilated, which was a huge and heavy blow to an old man over sixty years old.
This blow also made Wu Sangui realize for the first time that he had begun to pay the price of blood in order to protect his own interests. He did not hesitate to pay for the blood of the soldiers, and his own flesh and blood were paid for his life and blood, which was the price for him to be called the king of Zhou! The moment he heard the news, his spirit was almost on the verge of collapse, and his heart was filled with pain, which also caused him to be confused about his future. He seemed to feel a sense of foreboding, and so he spent the whole night lying alone on his bed in agony and suffering. All night, he felt this ominous approach at him.
After all, Wu Sangui is still a traitor, and he has not slept all night, which has also made him figure out a lot, and now is not the time to give in to fate, he has no other choice but to go down his own path......
Wu Sangui received the news that his children and grandchildren had been killed, and after quickly adjusting his state, he turned his grief into strength, and suddenly increased his attack on various places. Under his urging, Wang Pingfan, regardless of the losses, took the entire Sichuan five days ahead of schedule. At the same time, news of the successive rebellions against the Qing Dynasty in Fujian, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Shaanxi, and other provinces or regions spread throughout the country, and the situation had already crossed Henan and Hebei, piercing Beijing, the heart of the Qing court, and even north of the Great Wall, and also ignited the flames of rebellion
Forbidden city
"Eight hundred miles expedited! Eight hundred miles expedited! "A roll of yellow dust rolled in, and the horses galloped in. The soldiers defending the city did not dare to stop them in the slightest, and immediately let the people enter the city out of the way. The soldiers at the gate had not yet seen the faces of the visitors. Then I saw smoke and dust billowing out. The other party is gone!
"Eight hundred miles of urgency!" Ouchi's guards sent the urgent mail to the study. Suo Etu immediately took it and handed it to Kangxi.
"Hurry up!" Kangxi said with a wave of his hand.
On January 29 of the twelfth year of Kangxi, Wang Fuchen, the governor of Shaanxi, accepted the edict of Wu Sangui as the general of Pingyuan and the governor of Shaanxi East Road, and paid 200,000 taels of silver. Wang Fuchen had 30,000 troops, and since the date of receiving the title, he led his troops from Chuxian County, through Luoyang, into Longnan, Jiezhou, Hui County and its subordinate Cheng County, Wen County, etc. At the same time. The guerrilla Li Shiying in Tongzhou raised troops according to Shendaoling, and captured Luochuan, Yichuan, Yanzhou and other cities, and the counties of Yansui Town, such as Fushui, Yuhe, Boluo Battalion, Jiazhou, Wubao, Qingjian, and Mizhi, rebelled and responded with troops. In just seven days, Wang Fuchen attacked the city, and Suide, Yan'an, Huamachi, and Jingbian fell one after another. The guilty ministers realized that they had to gather soldiers and horses to defend Xi'an, and hoped that the emperor would send reinforcements as soon as possible to exterminate the rebellion! Suo Etu quickly read the recital, but the sound became quieter and quieter as he got to the back.
This situation made Kangxi and the ministers a little unexpected. Wang Fuchen actually reversed, so the situation in the west is quite dangerous. If Wang Fuchen is based on Pingliang, which is to be rushed in Shaanxi and Gansu. Ningxia can be controlled in the north, Bashu can be connected in the south, and the east can resist the imperial army, which is like inserting a sharp knife in the chest for the imperial court, although it is not hit in the heart, it is very dangerous.
Two months ago, when Wu Sangui had just started his army, Wu Sangui sent Wang Shirong to send a letter to Wang Fuchen, asking him to be the general in charge. Kangxi had also instructed Wang Fuchen and Gansu Governor Daniel Zhang to lead Shaanxi's military affairs together, and Wang Fuchen did not greet Daniel Zhang, so he asked his son Wang Jizhen to send Wang Shirong and Wu Sangui's surrender letters to Kangxi, Kangxi was overjoyed when he saw the letter, and immediately put Wang Shirong to death and made Wang Jizhen a servant. So far, Kangxi still trusts Wang Fuchen very much. But a month earlier, one of his decrees had become the direct trigger for Wang Fuchen's rebellion.
Daniel Zhang's military exploits were originally above Wang Fuchen, and he had a dislike for this, but this did not matter. Because the governor of Sichuan, Zheng Jiaolin, responded to Wu Sangui's rebellion, Kangxi sent the important minister Mo Luo out of Beijing to serve as a university scholar to manage the affairs of the strategy, Mo Luo was the original Ao Bai party, Kangxi gave him full power to mobilize the soldiers and horses of Shanxi and Shaanxi, Wang Fuchen had a holiday with Mo Luo before, and Mo Luo and Daniel Zhang had a good relationship, so Mo Luo was very hostile to Wang Fuchen at first and constrained everywhere.
In less than half a month, the two sides had a conflict because of the unfair distribution of food and horses, and Wang Fuchen's deputy general Shao Lingzhi was angry and took the lead in leading the troops to storm the Eight Banners barracks, and in a hurry, Mo Luo was lost and killed in the throat. As soon as Mo Luo died, the matter would be irreparable, and Wang Fuchen would not be able to reverse this time. As soon as Mo Luo died, the army under his command was immediately annexed by Wang Fuchen, who sent an envoy to see Wu Sangui with a letter, expressing his willingness to follow his troops against the Qing Dynasty.
Wang Fuchen took the lead in raising troops, which caused a chain reaction in Shaanxi and Gansu, and most of the local generals participated in the rebellion, and only Daniel Zhang, the governor of Gansu, Sun Sike, the chief soldier of Xining, Wang Jinbao, the chief officer of Xining, and Chen Fu, the chief officer of Ningxia, did not raise troops. Therefore, the whole province of Shaanxi has not been completely lost, but only Xi'an and the two prefectures of Pi and Qian, and Gansu has only retained a narrow strip of the western Liaoning corridor.
After listening to the report, Kangxi's face was gloomy and he could drip water, but he didn't say a word for a long time. The entire upper study fell into a deathly silence, and the ministers in the room, such as Suo Etu Mingzhu, seemed to have turned into wooden stakes. Such a change is a big bad news for the court at this moment, the emperor must have become a powder keg at this moment, whoever blows up whom, it is better to wait for the emperor to vent first.
"Who can sue sù me, how can this be! Why did Wang Fuchen suddenly turn around, and what is the reason? Kangxi's roar finally sounded in the upper study, and the horrified ministers immediately knelt on the ground. (To be continued......)
PS: Dear, yesterday there were 500 words missing, and today I made up 2,000 more! Eleven o'clock has a bigger chapter