"If you are willing to stay, I will treat him well." Wu Sangui had reached a formal agreement with the Qing court, and now he officially defected, openly rebelled against the Ming Dynasty, and led his troops to join the Manchu Dynasty. Feng Yuanbiao, the envoy of the Ming Dynasty, was shocked by this result, and looked angrily at Wu Sangui to surrender him.

Feng Yuanbiao laughed angrily, "I will never betray Da Ming and be a lackey of Jianyu." ”

"Those who know the times are Junjie, and if you want to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, how long can you be loyal? Liu Jiye's wolf ambition is obvious, and sooner or later he will usurp power and seize the throne. ”

The sky had already broken and the faint sparkling on the surface of the Luan River was flickering.

The Liao army camp by the Luan River has regained a lot of vitality, Haoge has arrived to join the camp with it, and Dolgon has let people transport a large amount of grain and grass from Liaodong, and for the time being, Wu Sangui no longer has to worry about the problem of grain and grass.

Haug has arrived with a large army, and Zilharang will also come today with the blue flag. Duoduo and Azig were also leading tens of thousands of horses and horses from Liaodong.

Dolgon stayed in Shenyang and moved to Liaoyang on behalf of Shan.

This time, the Qing army seemed to be preparing to fight the Ming army head-on.

"I will never be a traitor and a traitor." Feng Yuanbiao said, "The Ming Dynasty did not record you, the emperor and the court pardoned you for the crime of rebellion, and also awarded you an earl, why do you still want to surrender?" ”

Wu Sangui touched his head with his hand, although the Qing people did not ask him to hand it over, but since he had lowered the Qing, he had to show sincerity. He was the first to take the initiative to shave his hair, leaving a bunch of hair on the back of his head to form a money rat tail. The freshly shaved head is always a little difficult to adapt, and the head is cold and swishing.

"The so-called past of the imperial court is not to blame magnanimity, but it just wants to kill people with a knife. What's the use of just giving an empty title? The officers have no money, the soldiers have no food, and the army has no ordnance, but they want us to guard Liaoxi. If I really believe in the court, the result will not be that we will starve to death. It was killed by the Qing army, since the court is unkind, then don't blame us for being unjust. ”

"Mr. Feng, anyway, we are all courtiers for others, who are we doing things for? The Qing Dynasty still appreciates the attachment to Hanchen, do you see that I entered the Qing Dynasty, won't I be crowned king? If Mr. Feng is willing to submit, it will not be a problem to be crowned a prince. ”

"I, Feng Yuanbiao, still know what shame is, phew!" Feng Yuanbiao spat at Wu Sangui and twisted his head to the side. Don't bother to pay attention to this rebel. Wu Sangui pulled up his sleeves to wipe the saliva from his body, and waved his hand to stop the guards who were about to rush forward. "In that case, then the king will fulfill you, come, take him up, guard him strictly, and don't let him escape."

Alone in the tent, Wu Sangui's face was ugly.

He was originally on the side of the Qing monarch, but he went all the way. In the end, there were only 50,000 of the 100,000 left. When he was cleared, he took the initiative to shave his hair, and then ordered the whole army to shave his hair.

As a result, a large number of Liao soldiers refused to carry it out, and his own soldiers went down to supervise. As a result, there were several uproars, which almost led to a mutiny, and finally Wu Sangui had to personally intervene and change the original order. Soldiers were allowed to freely choose whether to shave their hair or not.

He also gave all the gold and silver rewards he had just received to the soldiers, and ordered pigs and sheep to be slaughtered. It was not easy to stabilize the people's hearts.

But he knew very well that the morale in the army was very low now, and everyone's minds were a little shaken. They don't know what they're fighting for, and they are confused about the future.

Haoge brought a large amount of grain and grass to Wu Sangui, and at the same time brought a lot of official positions. Wu Sangui was crowned the king of Pingxi, and Zu Dashou was crowned the king of Jingnan. Wu Sangui served as the owner of the green flag and Gushan Ezhen, and also served as the governor of western Liaoning, and Zu Dashou was the owner of the green flag and Gushan Ezhen, and the governor of Liaodong.

The Qing court also gave the two a lot of official hats, and asked the two to recommend their subordinates. Each of them had three admirals, six commanders, and a large number of adjutant generals, staff generals, guerrilla generals, and other officers, who were appointed by their own recommendations.

Official titles can buy hearts and minds, but not everyone is willing to die for them.

Wu Sangui felt that if he continued to attack, he would be sent to death.

By the time Duoduo and Azig arrived, the Qing army would have as many as 150,000 horses. But Wu Sangui still didn't think there would be any chance of winning, and even these days he came to a very pessimistic conclusion after carefully listening to the scout's reconnaissance information. Facing this eight-hundred-mile defense line of the Great Wall of Yanbei, they had no way to say anything at all.

With such a long line of defense, there should have been loopholes everywhere, but now they have nowhere to start.

The defense line arranged by Liu Jun is not just a simple front line, but a clear hierarchy, which can support each other at any time, and there are even several reserve echelons of troops.

In addition, the Great Wall has been reinforced and renovated, the defense line is full of many newly repaired fortresses, equipped with a large number of artillery, and the soldiers guarding are all equipped with new flintlock torches, and the division co-standard officers in charge of the command of the entire defense line are all generals from the Chu army.

There are no flaws.

The Qing army will also hit their heads in front of this steel defense line and break their blood. Thanks to Liu Jun, today's Qing army has suffered a great loss of strength compared to the Huang Taiji era, among which the Han army flag has suffered an unprecedented blow, the black flag is gone, and the four Han banners have also been hit hard. Although the four banners of the Han Dynasty have now been expanded into the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, the number of people is as high as more than 40,000.

However, these people are no longer the young and elite who were carefully selected in the past, many of them do not even know how to use bows, and many of the prisoners who were previously captured from Korea and Daming are farmers and traders, who have no military training and are not physically strong.

Now that he is forced to join the army, it is just helpless.

If the war goes well, maybe they can still play a role as cannon fodder. But once the momentum is not good, these people will immediately collapse and turn away.

When one man drops his spear, there will be a hundred and a thousand people to follow suit.

Now not only is the Han army flag so useless, but even the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners are not as good as before, and many new armies have been mixed. Many of these newly elected Hanmeng Eight Banners are not serious Jianzhou Jurchens. These people are also unreliable, and no one can tell when they will turn back.

Liu Jun's original Liaodong attack dealt a terrible blow to the Qing Dynasty, and even now, because the Chu army still occupies Zhenjiang and Lushun and other places, it is still a no-man's restricted area within a hundred miles of thousands of miles of coast.

Of course, there are still many elite teams in the Qing army who are experienced and brave and fierce. However, most of these soldiers had to stay in Shenyang, Liaoyang, Kuandian and other places, and they had to be ready to guard against the Chu army from Zhenjiang Lushun to attack and raid their lair. It is also necessary to prevent Liu Jun from sending troops to Liaoxi from the sea to cut off their way back.

With such a division of troops, there are not many elites who can really be sent to participate in the war against Ming.

Moreover, what worries Wu Sangui the most is the problem of logistics and supply, a force of 150,000 people has to consume more than 500 heads of cattle and sheep and other livestock a day. The staple food consumed was an astronomical amount, not to mention that their troops also had a large number of horses, which required a lot of food and grass.

They are not like the Ming army that can defend the city, they are defensive and fighting, they have sufficient food and grass equipment, they come from afar, and the logistics supply line is thousands of miles long.

There is no better way to count poison than to go hungry.

Once the Chu army sent troops from the sea to land in Liaoxi, cut off their connection with Liaodong, and cut off their supply of grain and grass, then these hundreds of thousands of troops would really not be able to go back.

Wu Sangui didn't want this battle to really start, once the fight started, he would definitely be transferred to the forefront to charge and take the lead. Lao Tzu bears the infamy of a traitor and a thief, but he is not to be cannon fodder for the Manchus.

Capital.

Wu Fu sat in a carriage under the escort of the family, and he sat in a four-wheeled carriage, which was very gorgeous. This kind of carriage is the style of the European Hongyi people, the color is gorgeous and the style is luxurious, and it is very stable and comfortable to drive in Beijing.

Two horses drove through the street, and the streets were much less crowded. Since Liu Jun publicized the epidemic prevention, the people have also tried not to crowd the streets, and they have not gone out if they have nothing to do, and they are all hiding at home.

Now the most common sight on the streets are the blue-gray terracotta officers of the Five Cities, who are collectively renamed the police. If you make a detailed distinction, you can also divide it into patrol police, criminal police, people's police, fire police, marine police, tax police, etc., and now the security of the Beijing division is under their control. Even the sanitation of the street market is under their control, so to speak, they do everything.

Two mounted policemen on horseback whistled to stop a carriage in front of them, asked the coachman to pull the carriage to the side of the road, and then shouted an order, accusing the coachman of not using a dung bag, causing the horse to just defecate directly on the road, violating several items in the Jingshi public security and health regulations.

They issued a ticket, a triplicate ticket stamped with a riding seal, a fine of 20 copper yuan, and forced the groom to buy two dung pockets and immediately put them on the horse, 50 yuan each.

"It's a total of 120 copper yuan, and you take this ticket to the front police station to pay the fine." A mounted policeman said loudly to the bitter-faced driver, "You have three days, if you haven't paid the fine after three days, then we will double the fine, and if you don't pay it after three days, we will revoke your carriage license, and we will also impose a severe fine on the owner of the car, and the driver will be detained or forced to clean up the city." ”

Wu Fu watched all this from behind the carriage window, which made him quite unhappy.

Every corner of the Beijing division is already Liu Jun's shadow.

The internal guards of Gyeonggi are already full of Liu Jun's people, and the whole court is about to be mastered by his family. When Yuan Jixian and Yao Minggong entered Beijing and entered the cabinet, they were afraid that Liu Jun's influence on the court would become stronger and stronger.

This is a rare opportunity, Liu Jiye actually dared to bet with him that Wu Sangui would not accept the surrender of the imperial court, and also took out his official position to bet, this is really a rare opportunity.

He believed that Wu Sangui would definitely accept the court's recruitment, such good conditions, why Wu Sangui did not agree, it was strange if he did not agree.

Liu Jiye must be removed from power this time. (To be continued.) )

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