Chapter 132: The Three Governors
On the first day of November, Zhu Ping'an led his army to conquer Shengjing, the capital of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and four days earlier, Cao Bianjiao, under the guidance of Delgrad, had captured Hetuala, and most of the vast territory of the Jurchens who had built a state fell into the hands of the Ming army.
In two months, it was the first year of the brand-new Longwu, and although the triumphant song was played outside the Guan, the war inside the Guanxi was defeated and retreated. In September, the main force of the green battalion of the Qing army was divided into two routes, one with Wu Sangui as the main general, Zhang Cunren as the supervising army, and led Qin Guanglian, Xia Guoxiang and other soldiers and horses to suddenly attack the front line of Xiangyang. Zheng Zhilong fell for Wu Sangui's "beauty plan" again, and almost lost his life. Xinchengwan, the place where Zheng Jun was stationed for grain, was burned to the ground, and Zheng Jun was defeated and retreated to Wuchang Mansion.
On the other hand, General Hong Chengchou Jingyuan drove straight into Sichuan, with Gushan Ezhen Bayan and the Han army inlaid with blue horses and Gushan Ezhen Li Guohan as the vanguard, and conquered Daning, the gateway to Shudi, overnight.
Zhang Xianzhong led the three righteous sons and the generals under his command to lead the army north to resist the enemy, but there was a fire in the backyard behind him.
Fan Yixing, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, and Wang Yingxiong, the governor of Sichuan, Hu, and Yungui, who were appointed during the Yixing Dynasty, have been trapped on the front line of Zunyi to resist the siege of Zhang Xianzhong. seized this opportunity and immediately raised troops to attack the rear flank of Zhang Xianzhong's department.
Zeng Ying, the former deputy commander-in-chief of Sichuan, led the army to capture Chongqing, joined forces with Fan Yixuan and Wang Yingxiong, and successively recovered Xuzhou, Luzhou, Zhongzhou and Fuzhou, making Zhang Xianzhong suffer from the enemy on his back, taking care of one and losing the other, and was defeated by Hong Chengchou in Dazhou, losing tens of thousands of troops, and could only retreat to the western part of Sichuan. Originally, Zhang Xianzhong's situation in Sichuan was suddenly reversed.
Zhu Yujian, the Longwu Emperor of Nanjing, was also worried when he received the news of Zheng Zhilong's defeat. 10,000 soldiers and horses were specially transferred from the newly built Beijing New Army in Nanjing, and the troops led by Shi Kefa, the secretary of the military department, Hu Dawei, the general of Jianwei, Wang Tingchen, the general of Fenwei, and Liu Zhaoji, the governor of the left capital, went to Wuchang Mansion day and night to rescue.
However, Zheng Zhilong did not plan to hold on to Wuchang City. In the first battle of Xiangyang, the Zheng army lost more than 30,000 elite people, and there were countless people who fled and surrendered to the Qing army. The 300,000-strong army was less than 100,000 in the blink of an eye. On the other hand, Wu Sangui's department is growing stronger and stronger, and Zheng Zhilong has doubts about sticking to Wuchang.
The remnants of the Shun army, Yuan Zongdi, Gao Yigong, Liu Fangliang and others, also became rats crossing the street, and Zheng Zhilong, He Tengjiao, Yuan Jixian and other Ming army generals were full of hatred for them and were not willing to be robbed at all. There was no way, they had to turn to Sichuan to withdraw their troops to join Zhang Xianzhong, who had just been defeated. The only exception is Luo Rucai.
After Luo Rucai took advantage of the chaos to enter Huguang, he occupied some places at first, but after the defeat of the Ming army, he and Ma Shouying's Fifth Battalion of Gezuo could not gain a foothold in Huguang, so he simply took Li Zicheng's head to Zheng Zhilong. Zheng Zhilong didn't have any ill feelings towards Luo Rucai, and because he brought Li Zicheng's head, Zheng Zhilong finally saved some face. Therefore, he and Ma Shouying were accepted.
After He Tengjiao and Yuan Jixian were defeated, they didn't even say hello, and led their troops to retreat to Jiangxi to recuperate. The Northern Expedition at the end of the first year of Yixing was the same as Sun Chuanting's time, and it was defeated again.
A series of news reached Liaodong, which also made Zhu Ping'an, Li Dingguo and the generals sigh. Zheng Zhilong marched north with 300,000 troops, but it turned out to be like this, and the original advantages of the Longwu Imperial Court were gone. However, the Qing army marched southward in a big way, leading a large number of green battalion soldiers with some of the elite of the Eight Banners to conquer Huguang and Jiangnan. It's really good. Zhu Ping'an never expected that Dolgon and Da Yu'er would have such courage at the beginning of entering the customs. Dare to use the Han army in such a hands-off way, although there will be some unstable factors inside, but in general, for the current Qing army, this is indeed the only way to solve the current predicament.
After taking a large area of land outside the Guan, especially after occupying the ancestral land of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Zhu Ping'an also knew in his heart that this would have a huge impact on the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Qing army had become a source of water and a tree without roots, although it looked invincible at the moment, but in fact it could not last long.
From the chaos of the world. Zhu Ping'an finally sorted out a clue and context of love, it can be said that winning the world is just a matter of time.
The day after arriving in Shengjing, Zhu Ping'an ordered someone to send the captured Jilharang to him. As the eight great and Shuobeile who shared the state politics in the Nurhachi period, and the four princes of the imperial Taiji period, including the three major regent princes of the Shunzhi Dynasty, Jierharang made great contributions to the Manchu Dynasty.
The rarest thing is that his father died directly at the hands of Nurhachi. However, Zilharang was extremely loyal to the Manchus, and he put all his emotions on the concept of the Manchus, and devoted his life to it.
For such an opponent, it is indeed worthy of respect, but from the perspective of the Ming and Qing dynasties, Zilharang is an unforgivable enemy of the Ming Dynasty.
It has only been two months since Huang Niwa was captured, but Jierharang seems to have aged ten years all of a sudden, the braids on his head have all turned into silver threads, his cheekbones are high, his eye sockets are deep, and half of his body still can't move a bit.
Zhu Ping'an looked at Ji'erharang carefully, and Jierharang was also observing Zhu Ping'an carefully. After a cup of tea, neither of them spoke, just looked at each other quietly.
Zhu Ping'an stood up, Wang Jinfa next to him hurriedly moved the stool and followed behind him, Zhu Ping'an arrived in front of Ji'er Harang, Wang Jinfa hurriedly put down the stool, Zhu Ping'an sat opposite Ji'er Harang, and the distance between the two was only a stone's throw away.
"I have instructed my subordinates, don't beat and scold you, don't abuse you, and have sufficient supplies as soon as possible, why have you become like this in just two months?"
Zilharang smiled, but the laughter was full of helpless pathos. "The country is ruined, the land of the ancestors is lost, and no one will be able to eat or sleep!"
Zhu Ping'an nodded, what Zilharang said was right. As early as after Huang Niwa was captured, Ji'er Harang had already begun to commit suicide, but Xiao Yuanteng found a way to send people to feed them, so that his life could be saved. You can see it. Zilharang's will to die has been decided.
"Look here, do you recognize it?" Zhu Ping'an pointed around.
Zilharang barely raised his head, anger bursting from his eyes, "Are you humiliating me? This is the Great Palace of Emperor Taizu, which is an important military and political place in my Manchuria, how could I not recognize it! ”
Zhu Ping'an nodded again. "You are wrong, before the first year of the Apocalypse, this was Shenyang, Shenyang Zhongwei, the capital of Liaodong. Daming has owned this place for more than 200 years, and this is not your place in the first place! ”
"Hmph, the winner, the prince, the loser, I have nothing to say!"
Zhu Ping'an smiled, "King Zheng, you are a smart person. Otherwise, it would not be that Shulhaqi was imprisoned until death, and you would still be able to get the reuse of Nurhachi and Huang Taiji's father and son, who may not have such trust in their sons and brothers! When you and I meet today, I plan to fulfill your wishes, but before that, I want to talk to you. ”
"How long do you think the Qing Dynasty can last?"
Zilharang was furious, "I am ordered by heaven in the Qing Dynasty. Since it shines with the sun and the moon of heaven and earth! The army of Dolgon, the king of Rui, is invincible in the Central Plains, and sooner or later. He'll kill him back outside the gates! ”
Zhu Ping'an smiled and waved his hand, and ordered Wang Jinfa to take a picture, and did not refute Zierharang's words, but pointed to the three places above and said slowly: "Aside from the soldiers and horses of my Ming Dynasty, just my Shandong army has now formed three large-scale groups. They are Liaodong, Shandong, and Henan. King Zheng may not know it yet. Originally, Bai Wang and Li Guo, the generals of the Shun army, had already surrendered to me, and they also surrendered Liu Hongqi and Liu Rukui by the way. Now there are 100,000 people under the command of Yang Tinglin, the military governor of Henan, including Yue Jinfeng, Qiu Ze, Zhang Dingbian, Gao Jie and other troops of our Shandong army, as well as the loyal battalion of Li Yan and other generals of the Shun army. ”
Zhu Ping'an ignored Ji'er Harang's expression and continued: "Let's talk about Shandong. As the governor of Shandong, Lu Xiangsheng commanded the new army in Shandong, and now he was about to launch an attack on Hebei and Gyeonggi. The three guards of the new army, Zhang Yaoxian, Pei Donglai, and Wu Dingguo, are all under his command, and I believe that King Zheng has a good idea of how much the total strength can reach. ”
"Then there is Liaodong. I don't need to introduce the generals under the command of Li Dingguo, the newly joined Mongolian Chahar Department and the soldiers and horses of other departments are also gathered, and the soldiers and horses of the Haixi Jurchen departments will also reach between 10,000 and 20,000. As soon as the news of the fall of Guanwai and the Mongol and Haixi Jurchen tribes spread, it is believed that many of them will reconsider their positions, and when the time comes, Dolgon will face a lot of trouble. ”
"Of course, I have some other powers in my hands. For example, my mentor, Lord Lu, the governor of Jianghuai, also had a considerable number of troops in the new army under his command. There is also my Denglai Naval Division, the ships have reached the scale of 1,000 ships, the Naval Master Tong Wanjun, Shi Lang, Shi Xian, Liu Guoxuan are waiting for the Dan, don't look at He Luohui is now holding the area of Dongchang Fort, densely covered with Hongyi cannons, heavily defended, it seems to be an iron wall, but as soon as the sailor arrives, he can launch an attack from any place in Guangning, Jinzhou, and Ningyuan at any time, King Zheng thinks that he He Luo will be able to support how much time? ”
Zhu Ping'an looked at Jierharang's flushed face like pig's liver, and continued: "King Zheng doesn't need to mention the so-called Green Camp Army. In fact, you also know in your heart how much loyalty those green battalion soldiers will have to the Qing Dynasty. It is true that Zhang Cunren and Hong Chengchou are loyal to the Manchus, but what kind of people Wu Sangui and Jiang Xiang are, I believe that King Zheng should know better than me! Once they learn the news outside the gate, they will have the idea of birth in their hearts...... hehe, I still don't know! ”
"Ahh Zilharan let out a desperate cry, and his body fell backwards, his eyes hollow, his trembling lips foaming at the bloodshot, and his whole body trembled.
Zhu Ping'an smiled, stood up, strode to the outside of the hall, and said as he walked, "I have already said what should be said, I believe you also understand what the outcome of the Manchu Qing Dynasty will be in the future, go on the road with peace of mind, all the captured clansmen will accompany you on the road!" (To be continued......)
PS: Something tomorrow, pause for a day, sorry Haihan!