Chapter 554: The Decision of the Exchange
Although the morale of the Zheng Jiajun was high, but from the physical reasons of the soldiers, Zheng Xunrui did not agree to the plan of forced march, including Zheng Jinhong and others all believed that the Zheng Jiajun's Mauser gun and Hongyi cannon were top-secret weapons, and they could use these firearms to hit the Houjin Tartars fiercely, and they could achieve another major victory, so they adopted the method of forced march, arrived at Yanqing Prefecture as soon as possible, and launched a surprise attack.
Zheng Xunrui also wants to win another major victory, and even hopes to be able to capture Dolgon alive, but the idea is the idea, in fact, whether it can be done, or there is an accurate judgment, Du Du has 30,000 Houjin Tartars, but after the battle, there are more than 2,000 Houjin Tartars who do not know what to do, maybe not many of these Houjin Tartars can survive, but someone must rush to Yanqing Prefecture City to report the news to Dolgon, and after Dolgon knows the situation, he will definitely make corresponding preparations.
The plan is not as good as changing, the Zheng family army entered the North Zhili to fight, it has been very smooth, the exterminated Houjin Tartars and the Han army are close to 40,000 people, such a major victory, put on the other imperial court troops, I am afraid that it has long been extinguished to celebrate the victory.
Yanqing Prefecture City is more than 480 miles away from Baoding City, according to Zheng Xunrui's plan, the army strives to arrive within three days, it should be said that three days later, the imperial court also knew that Zheng's army entered Beizhili to fight.
Of course, Zheng Xunrui will not obey the dispatch of the imperial court, nor will he fight according to the requirements of the imperial court.
After the departure of the army, the speed of the march was beyond Zheng Xunrui's expectations, it turned out that Zheng Jinhong and Yang He, Liu Zeqing, Hong Xintao and others discussed, and decided to rest in Zhuozhou on the first night, Baoding Mansion City is two hundred miles away from Zhuozhou, which shows that the marching speed of the army is very fast.
War horses are enough, exterminate nearly 40,000 Houjin Tartars and Han troops, Zheng Jiajun captured a large number of war horses and carriages, each soldier is a double horse, enough to ensure the speed of the march. Looking at the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that only Zheng Jiajun is so luxurious.
Set off at the hour, rest for half an hour to eat, and arrive in Zhuozhou City at the time.
There was a deathly silence in the city. There was no one to be seen, nothing was annoying, everything was quiet, only the ruins explained everything that had happened here.
The soldiers who entered the city found countless frozen corpses on the street.
Matters relating to the burial of the body. It was also carried out quietly, the climate was cold, and the land was frozen, but the soldiers of the Zheng family army gritted their teeth, dug out more than a dozen big pits, and buried all the corpses found in them.
There were almost no complete houses in the city, and Zheng Jinhong and others finally found a few slightly better houses in a house that was probably a gentry's house. As for the Yamen, it has long been in ruins.
Zheng Xunrui is not so particular, this is not the first time he has seen such a situation, what he never understands is why the Houjin Tartar is so cruel, why do you want to kill them all, is it possible that the Houjin Tartar is really hard-hearted.
This is probably the only incomprehensible place for Zheng Xunrui, who has traveled through more than ten years.
When it got dark, the house was lit with oil lamps. Zheng Jinhong and others found some charcoal and lit a fire in the house.
Zheng Xunrui didn't bother to go up to roast the fire, he still looked at the map carefully, and Zheng Jinhong and the others would not bother. They knew that this was Zheng Xunrui's habit, how could Li Yan, Li Panlong, Xu Jikuang and others take the soldiers of the law enforcement battalion and urge everyone to drink ginger soup and pepper water, this thing is not delicious, and it was a little uncomfortable to drink it at the time.
Hurried footsteps rang out outside. Zheng Xunrui didn't particularly care, after Zheng Jiajun entered Zhuozhou City, it became an iron bucket, and no one should think about making a move.
It was Wen Kun and Ma Xianglin who came in.
Both of them were pale, the difference was that Wen Kun looked very tired, but Ma Xianglin was not in the right spirit.
Before Wen Kun could speak, Zheng Xunrui thought of what had happened.
"My lord, the white pole soldiers were defeated, General Qin Liangyu was captured alive by the Houjin Tartars, and the battle was launched not far from the city of Changping Prefecture, and the Houjin Tartars led by Dolgon set up an ambush in Changping and ambushed the white pole soldiers......"
When Wen Kun reported it, the room was very quiet.
Zheng Jinhong and the others' faces also changed slightly, there were more than 10,000 white pole soldiers, and they couldn't imagine that they were ambushed, and they didn't expect that the coach Qin Liangyu was actually captured by Houjin Tatars, which shows that Dolgon is indeed not ordinary, much stronger than Du Du and others.
After Wen Kun finished speaking, Ma Xianglin stepped forward and knelt in front of Zheng Xunrui.
"The subordinates implore the adults to save their mothers, and the subordinates repay the adults by making cattle and horses."
Zheng Xunrui sighed softly and helped Ma Xianglin up.
"The matter has come to this, General Ma doesn't need to be in a hurry, there is always a way."
Although the Zheng family army wiped out nearly 40,000 Houjin Tartars and Han troops, but in terms of losses, the Ming Dynasty is still huge, Xiong Wencan's 50,000 former troops are considered to be annihilated, and more than 10,000 white pole soldiers under Qin Liangyu are also annihilated, when Dolgon and Du Du led the Houjin Tartars and the Han army into the pass, they killed more than 3,000 Ming troops, and in the past two months, countless cities in Beizhili have been broken by the Houjin Tartars, and the people have suffered heavy losses, which may not be able to recover in a short time.
The court should bear a large part of the guilt in this.
"Wen Kun said the situation, you have all heard, so you should know that Dolgon is indeed resourceful, when Wen Kun set off, I was worried that after Dolgon learned the news, he would lead the Houjin Tartars to Changping Prefecture, if such a situation occurs, then it can only be seen whether the white pole soldiers can resist the attack of the Houjin Tartars."
"After the Jin Tartars' 150,000 troops entered the pass and plundered, the imperial court did not understand the situation on the premise, but also under the condition that the 50,000 former army led by Lord Xiong Wencan was almost wiped out, and asked General Qin to lead the white pole soldiers to reinforcements, don't the emperor and the cabinet understand that Dolgon has already set up a position and is waiting for the army to go to reinforcements, Dolgon's tactics of besieging the city and sending reinforcements, fools should see it."
"In the battle of Dalinghe that year, Huang Taiji adopted such tactics, surrounded the Dalinghe City that had not yet been built, and waited for the imperial army to go to reinforcements, but the reinforced army suffered heavy losses, and the Dalinghe City was also lost because of the ammunition and food, and in less than ten years, the imperial court forgot the previous lesson."
"Hmph, I always think about my own safety, thinking that everyone will go to protect the capital, protect the imperial court, those adults in the court, have you ever thought about the misery of the people, they mobilized heavy troops, and the guards are only the capital, and the more than 100,000 imperial court troops led by Lord Hong Chengchou, if they are not intercepted by the Houjin Tartars, I am afraid that they will all be concentrated in the capital."
"The place where the Houjin Tartars passed, thousands of miles of uninhabited, in the eyes of some adults in the court, it is not a big deal, as long as they can protect the capital, everything is fine, they are afraid of death, they think about the protection of the army, they can hide in the capital, are the people not afraid of death, but where can the people hide."
"The upper and lower effects, the officials are afraid of death, and the soldiers are willing to die, this is the guard army in the land of Gyeonggi, they dare not face the Houjin Tartars, they dare not fight, they should have kept the peace of one side, but when the catastrophe came, they either surrendered, or cowered in the city, or hid far away, without a trace of blood, what kind of army is this." ……
Zheng Xunrui's words, everyone listened silently, of course they understood the meaning.
However, what everyone didn't expect was that Zheng Xunrui would openly show such a big temper, and the words were referring to the emperor and the cabinet, as well as some adults in the court.
It was late at night, and all the people went to rest.
Zheng Jinhong stayed.
"Jin Hong, I have an idea, use Du Du to exchange General Qin Liangyu, see if it's feasible."
Zheng Jinhong hesitated slightly.
"Young master, I don't know what the imperial court will think of this."
"I understand what you mean, now that I can't control what the court thinks, General Qin Liangyu is old, he can't suffer such torture, if our actions are slow, I'm afraid that General Qin will be difficult to save his life, I think it's decided like this, as for those voices in the court, no matter what he is."
"If the young master decides, his subordinates will start arranging."
"Don't be too anxious, the action I said should be fast, including two aspects, the first aspect is of course to exchange as soon as possible, and the second aspect is to let Dolgon know the power of the Zheng family's army, and we want to fight them obediently evacuate Beizhili and go back to Shenyang."
Speaking of this, Zheng Xunrui stood up.
"One day, I will lead the soldiers of the Zheng family army to Shenyang, I will capture Huang Taiji alive, and I will uproot the so-called Great Qing Kingdom."
Zheng Jinhong also went to rest.
Zheng Xunrui walked out of the room.
The snow on the ground has condensed into ice, and the climate has become colder and colder, and if you are not careful, you will fall.
Hong Xinyu was almost next to Zheng Xunrui, and the house was already on high alert, and there were sergeants on duty everywhere.
"Hong Xinyu, do you remember what happened in Xuzhou back then?"
"I will never forget it for the rest of my life."
"These days, I often think of the eight hundred heroes of Hongjiabao, after so many years of fighting, the eight hundred heroes have died close to 100 people, I don't like to fight and fight, but it is always inevitable to lead the brothers to fight, every time we fight, there will be brothers leaving us, think about those brothers who have been sleeping in the ground, think about the people who always suffer hardship, and even think of so many rebel rogues, I always feel uneasy, if the Ming Dynasty is strong enough, if the people have food, how can there be so many battles, How could so many people die. (To be continued.) )