Chapter 329: Dead Eunuch (Text)
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On the way back, I was very careful, and I never saw any trace of Qinglu again.
After the cavalry of King Qin of Liaodong Town arrived, Dolgon did not dare to divide his troops again, and ordered all the soldiers and horses to concentrate on the Tongzhou camp and move to the south of Beijing.
It was late at night when Zhai Zhe returned to Changping City, the Qing army had retreated, and Lu Xiangsheng led the Tianxiong army to supervise the camp and stationed in Changping.
Xuanda Town's Qinwang soldiers and horses are also about to arrive, Datong General Soldier Hu Dawei and Xuanfu General Soldier Yang Guozhu are stationed at the intersection of the capital leading to Xuanfu, and the 15,000 soldiers and horses of Shanxi General Soldier Wang Pu have arrived at Xuanfu.
When he saw Zhai Zhe, Lu Xiangsheng praised him, "I Xuanda Town is the only one who can clear the siege and retreat." ā
This is Lu Xiangsheng's praise for him, this sentence can't soothe Zhai Zhe's feelings, but seeing Lu Gong's exhaustion and filial piety, Zhai Zhe's heart slowly softened, and Lu Xiangsheng was also a helpless choice.
"Go back to the camp as soon as possible to rest, and follow me to Beijing tomorrow!"
Zhai Zhe was a little surprised, and quickly said, "Obey!" ā
The soldiers and horses of the King of Qin have been gathered everywhere, and Lu Xiangsheng, as the governor of the world's soldiers and horses, entered Beijing to face the saint, and he was able to bring him, but he was actually treated as a cronie. followed Lu Xiangsheng into Beijing to give him a bigger stage, Lu Gong has always been right about things and people, and he is defensive of Zhai Zhe, but in fact, he is more about taking care. The best way to not admit that a person makes a mistake is not to give him a chance to make mistakes.
The Spring Festival passed in a daze, and this Spring Festival was really a disaster for Daming.
The streets of Beijing are crowded with refugees fleeing from the surrounding area. The soldiers of the Beijing camp were patrolling with their necks bent and the cold wind, and after the news of breaking the customs and entering the city from the streets, a curfew was imposed in the capital, and from the time of Hai to Yin, the people who dared to appear on the streets were all arrested and put in prison. The Beijing camp can only do this, for many years, so many that those soldiers themselves can't remember the last time the Beijing camp went to the battlefield to fight. Outside the city, there are Qinwang's troops transferred from all over the city, and they only need to stand at the head of the city wall to make a show, and the Jurchens will not waste their efforts to attack the capital division of the Ming Dynasty.
The Qing army under the city did not let the whole city of Beijing fall into panic, late at night, there would still be a suppressed sound of silk and bamboo in the depths of the wide house, of course, under the order of the curfew, they would restrain a little.
When the sun hung in mid-air, a column of 100 cavalry arrived outside the Guangqu Gate, which was Lu Xiangsheng's personal soldiers. After the Qing captives went south, it is now safe here.
In addition to the eight personal soldiers, Zhai Zhe also brought Liu Suifeng and Feng Qin, a total of ten people, who were arranged in Lu Xiangsheng's personal soldiers to enter the Beijing division of the Ming Dynasty. Someone from the military department had already come to answer, and Lu Xiangsheng went to meet Yang Sichang, the secretary of the military department, first.
Lu Xiangtong stayed in Lu Xiangsheng's mansion in the capital, and asked the family to come to meet and settle the soldiers. Zhai Zhe followed Lu Xiangtong into the Lu Mansion. Lu Xiangtong was very polite to Zhai Zhe, because of the Shang Alliance, they were also old acquaintances.
"Vice General Zhai, there are many guests in the mansion, when you meet, you have to be cautious!" Lu Xiangtong reminded.
Zhai Zhe nodded and agreed: "I understand!" "The water in the capital is very deep, and every word he says now may be taken as Lu Xiangsheng's thoughts.
Lu Xiangsheng's mansion is old, and it doesn't occupy much area from the outside, so when he walked to the door, he could hear the noisy sound inside.
"If we negotiate peace with Qing Hui, then wouldn't we be working with someone like Qin Hui?" I don't know who has a loud voice, and the noisy voice clearly enters Zhai Zhe's ears.
Then there was a chorus.
Lu Xiangsheng explained: "These are all friends of the master, I heard that the master is going to enter Beijing to face the saint, and he has been gathering and waiting here for the past few days. ā
Zhai Zhe nodded, the Donglin Party is weak, and Lu Gong is afraid that he doesn't have any powerful friends in the court now.
Before the two of them entered the door, a bearded man came up, his voice was like a bell, and he stopped Lu Xiangtong and asked, "Has Lu Gong entered the city?" ā
"I've entered the city and gone to the military headquarters!" Lu Xiangtong responded with Shi Li, pointed to Zhai Zhe behind him and said, "This is Deputy General Zhai of Datong, who entered the city at the same time as the master." He pointed to the bearded man on the opposite side and said, "This is edited by Yang of the Hanlin Academy, and he is now serving as the prince's lecturer." ā
"I've seen Lord Yang!" Zhai Zhe knew that it was not strange that people were polite, and he had no idea how big an official the prince was.
Yang Tinglin is not such a literate literati, he returned the salute, went up and down a large number of Zhai Zhe with a curious eye, and asked, "You are Zhai Zhe?" ā
"Exactly!" Zhai Zhe nodded with a smile.
Yang Tinglin was not very interested in him, and turned around and asked Lu Xiangtong, "When will Lu Gong come back?" ā
"This villain doesn't know, but the master is going to face the saint tomorrow morning, and he will definitely be able to come back tonight."
There was a commotion in the room, and Zhai Zhe realized that these scribes were not much more crazy than the rude soldiers in the army. Lu Xiangtong arranged for him to rest in the side room, and Zhai Zhe heard the noise of these people with his ears sideways. It turned out that the imperial court did have the intention of negotiating peace with the Qing Dynasty, and there was already a rumor in Beijing that these people were the court officials who opposed the peace, and they came to Lu Gong to ask for ideas.
"Peace when the soldiers are in the city?" Zhai Zhe sneered in his heart.
Da Ming had fought with the Tumuts once in the Qinggeng Incident, but it was quickly over. These people also mentioned that Yang Sichang, the secretary of the military department, drew an analogy with the matter of the Altan Khan of the Tumut Ministry and the mutual market.
Daming's military department Shangshu really had ideas, first planning the "Four Positive and Six Corners" to recruit and suppress thieves, increase the salary and conscription, and then want to negotiate peace with Huang Taiji. There is no hole card in the hand, how to negotiate a peace? The peace negotiation with Tumut was also because Altan Khan's grandson Touming took advantage of the contradictions between the naturalized Han slave Zhao Quan and the Mongolian nobles.
"It's better to find a way to drive the Qing prisoners back, and then mention the matter of yƬ and peace!" Zhai Zhe muttered in his heart, of course he would not join in the noise.
It wasn't until the sun went down that Lu Xiangsheng returned to the mansion, and his face was a little unsightly. Zhai Zhe heard him talk to these civil officials, and expressed his disapproval of the peace negotiation in person, and he would swear to kill the enemy with the emperor's grace, so these people were relieved to leave and leave. By the time they were all gone, it was completely dark. Lu Xiangsheng still has to stay up all night to prepare for the emperor's recital tomorrow morning, but Zhai Zhe is idle and lies on the bed early. In this capital, no one is safe outside the fortress.
The next morning, before dawn, Zhai Zhe heard Lu Xiangsheng go out of the door and got up himself. He felt that the atmosphere in the city of Beijing was not quite right, the Qing army was outside the city, and the DPRK and China had not yet decided on a war and a peace policy, which cast a shadow on the future of this battle. In the tormented waiting, a few more guests came to the Lu Mansion, including court officials and cloth clothes.
Lu Xiangsheng came back after noon, and he couldn't see what the result of his face was from the outside, and after sending off a few guests in a hurry, he led Zhai Zhe and others out of the city in the middle of the afternoon.
The cavalry of the herald galloped outside the city of Beijing, and the armies of King Qin of Xuanda Town and Jiliao Town joined forces at Guangqumen. There were 30,000 cavalry in Guanning Town, 30,000 horses in Xuanda Town, and a total of 60,000 troops gathered overnight, and the imperial court sent the eunuch Gao Qiqian as a supervisor.
Qingyu had already gone south, heading towards Baoding, south of Gyeonggi.
In the following days, the army was entrenched under the city of Beijing, neither advancing nor retreating. Zhai Zhe has not participated in the military conference, and the second monk is confused.
Bad news came one after another, first Qingyu broke through Gaoyang County. The family of Sun Chengzong, a bachelor who returned to his hometown, died in battle, and the government and the opposition were in an uproar. Emperor Chongzhen issued an order to enter the barracks and reprimanded Lu Xiangsheng for fearing the enemy and avoiding battle.
The thought of asking for battle flashed in Zhai Zhe's mind, but it was extinguished in an instant, this was not his Daming, and he was not the commander of the army.
Five days after the chaos passed, Yang 6kai sneaked into Zhai Zhe's barracks and scolded: "This dead eunuch, dog eunuch!" The green tendons on his head burst out, Zhai Zhe had never seen him so out of shape.
"Brother Yang, why is this?" Zhai Zhe ordered his soldiers to bring him a book of water.
The lord tried his best to devise several strategies to deal with the enemy, but the dead eunuch did not agree to any of them. The soldiers and horses of Guanning Town were unwilling to fight with the Qing captives, relying on the dead eunuch to support them, and they disobeyed the adults, and the army could not advance or retreat. Yang 6 Kai slapped his waist knife angrily, his face was worried, "I think this battle is more auspicious!" ā
"How about that?" Zhai Zhe sighed secretly in his heart, and he began to sympathize with Lu Xiangsheng. It turned out that the seemingly powerful Lu Gong was so vulnerable.
"Divide the troops!" Yang 6 Kai raised his head, "The lord said that he would divide the troops with the dead eunuch, the soldiers and horses of Guanning Town will belong to the dead eunuch, and the soldiers and horses of Xuanda Town will belong to the adults." ā
"The dead eunuch agreed?" Zhai Zhe scolded Yang 6kai's mouth.
"Agreed!" Yang 6kai took out the Qi knife and slowly returned it to the sheath.
In this situation, no matter what happens, Zhai Zhe cannot be surprised. The 60,000 army was divided into two, and the soldiers and horses of Guanning Town and the soldiers and horses of Xuanda Town moved to the south of Gyeonggi and stationed on the outskirts of Baoding to lift the siege of Baoding.
This battle has not been fought, and the spirit of the army has been lost. The cavalry walked in the cold snow, Zhai Zhe began to think about his future, if Lu Gong was defeated, the position of the governor of Xuanda would be changed. I don't know what the attitude of the new governor is towards him, he is a close confidant of Duke Lu, and he must not be favored.
Xiao Zhiyan and Zuo Ruo's scout cavalry were ordered to go out to investigate the military situation and learned that the main force of the Qing army had retreated to Qingdu. Lu Xiangsheng led the Tianxiong Army and the Xuanfu Army Weizhong Army, the Datong General Soldier Hu Dawei and the Shanxi General Soldier Wang Pu entered Qingdu in three ways, and Zhai Zhe's cavalry was on standby. The foot soldiers marched extremely fast, Zhai Zhe could feel Lu Xiangsheng's urgent mentality, and if he didn't fight again, he would not be able to explain to the emperor in Beijing.
After a day of marching, in the afternoon, there was a sound of guns twenty or thirty miles away, and the scouts urgently reported that the front battalion had engaged the Qing captives.
Zhai Zhe hurriedly urged the cavalry to rescue, and when he arrived at the battlefield, he saw that the Qing cavalry was fleeing not far away, and there were nearly a hundred corpses of Qing captives under a small hillside.
"Qinglu doesn't want to fight me at all!" Lu Xiangsheng pointed to the cavalry in the distance and shook his head at Zhai Zhe. He has few soldiers and horses, many foot soldiers, and has to be strictly defensive and cautious when pursuing, and the Qing prisoners are cavalry, if he doesn't want to engage in battle, he really doesn't have many options.
"Qinglu is a cavalryman, of course he has to wait for the opportunity to fight again!" Looking at Lu Xiangsheng's indignant face, the filial piety in the **** has not been removed, and Zhai Zhe suddenly felt a little sad.