Chapter Twenty-Five: Dorgon's Response
Dorgon didn't want the news of his illness to get out, and who saw him when he got sick, what else could you do but die? He pounced, and with a single sword, one of the maids of the palace tried to escape, and how could he outrun Dolgon, who was like a cheetah, and Dolgon grabbed her by the hair and killed her.
The sound of hurried footsteps, which was heard by the guards of the Baya, who were about to come in to see what was happening.
Dorgon shouted, "Don't come in! It's okay! The soldier just stayed outside and didn't move, but responded: "Yes! Regent! Dolgon looked outside, "Zhang Biwu! You can't destroy my foundation in the Central Plains! No! No one! ”
Dolgon clenched his fists: "What I promised Da Yu'er must be completed!" Finish! ”
"Ahem!" Dolgon couldn't help but cover his mouth, he was thinking, "Azig, don't be deceived! What Zhang Biwu wants is to continue to win, even if it is a small victory, he wants it, in order to inspire the people of the anti-Qing people! Let more people dare to rise up against my Qing Dynasty! ”
Will Azig succeed as Dolgon expected? Azig was monitoring Li Zicheng, and because Zhang Biwu had raided into the land of Jifu, Beijing was in danger, and he did not dare to start a war with Li Zicheng, and was ready to go north at any time.
At this moment, a messenger came to spread Dorgon's will, asking Azig to leave Li Zicheng alone for the time being, and lead a group of men and horses to return north to rescue the capital.
Azig took the holy decree, he looked back and forth, his subordinates Lei Xing and Ao Bai, Luo Xiujin, and Zhang Wenheng all came over, and Azig also showed them the decree.
Lei Xing said: "Lord, since you have a will. I think we'd better hurry up and do what we're told. Either the whole army is mobilized to the north. Or send a strong team to Beijing quickly! ”
Don't look at Ao Bai as a martial artist, he is thick and fine, he saw the problem, so he spoke out to remind Azig: "Lord, with the wisdom of the regent, he can't change his order overnight!" In the past, he ordered us to continue to encircle and suppress Li Zicheng, and he also analyzed the current situation for us with a letter, and it is best to eliminate Li Zicheng and the Hongguang regime first! Zhang Biwu's strength is not strong enough, he has an empty heart but has no power to return to the sky. ”
"In Beijing. We still have more than 30,000 elite troops with two yellow flags in Changping, not to mention that there are many Han troops who have surrendered, and there are definitely not 10,000 men and horses that Zhang Biwu can lead to the east. It seems that the regent will resist everything and not let Zhang Biwu succeed! I agree with the Regent's words, the Regent's policy is correct, and he can't change it! Is this edict fake? ”
Ao Bai said and looked at it carefully, and Azig hurriedly took out the edict from the last time to make a comparison.
It's hard to see the difference. The seals are all the same, there are no flaws. In this case. Can you not go?
Ao Bai then said: "Lord, I think we should be careful!" The regent asked us to continue attacking Li Zicheng, and we will continue! It would be nice to divide a strong team and return to the army! ”
Azig couldn't make up his mind, and at this time, Lei Xing spoke up again: "I think General Aobai's opinion is safe!" ”
Luo Xiujin, Zhang Wenheng and others are all in the same pants as Lei Xing, and Lei Xing put forward such an opinion, and they will agree with it.
Azig pondered for a long time, and he agreed that they were right, so he decided to do what Aobai had suggested.
Azig sent a group of men and horses composed of the Eight Banners to the north, but this group was still attacked by Zhang Biwu, and they did not expect that Zhang Biwu had returned to the division, so they were caught off guard and fled back to Xiangyang in embarrassment.
By the time the messenger sent by Dorgon arrived, it was impossible to stop it, and Azig was furious. There is only one point, Li Zicheng did not follow the agreement with Zhang Biwu, when Zhang Biwu defeated Azig's men and horses, he quickly sent out the army, but consolidated Wuchang and rectified the army's morale.
Zhang Biwu killed a Baylor and a Zhenguo Duke in a short period of time, and now defeated the army of Prince Ying, which can be said to have shaken the entire Central Plains.
Zhang Biwu is not only like this, he also sent someone to issue a war letter to Azig, humiliating Azig greatly, saying that Azig is a coward and he dare not fight! His failure was normal. It turns out that this is the Manchurian, is this the prince Azig who is called heroic? Totally a big piece of waste!
The content of Zhang Biwu's letter is extremely insulting, and Azig is of course furious after reading it! He tore Zhang Biwu's letter to shreds, and he couldn't wait to lead the army to kill Zhang Biwu now.
As soon as Ao Bai and Lei Xing heard about it, they hurriedly came to persuade Azig and told him that if he acted rashly, he would fall into the possibility of being attacked from both sides!
Because Zhang Biwu and Li Zicheng are united, Zhang Biwu just wants to lure Azig to attack, so that a large area of Huguang will be lost, and then the Azig army will be in a predicament and may be annihilated.
This was already stated in Dolgon's edict, reminding Azig that if he was defeated, he would never attack, and would rather protect the territory he had obtained and exchange news with the men and horses of Shaanxi, rather than attack rashly and thus suffer undue losses.
Azig saw that everyone was using Dorgon's will to suppress him, was there anything else he could say? Although Dolgon is the younger brother and Azig is the elder brother, Dolgon has the majesty of his father Nurhachi, so Azig is afraid of this younger brother, and he listens to his younger brother.
Ao Bai and others were all persuasions, but Azig was helpless, so he had to hide all his hatred. Lei Xing was afraid that Azig would be disgruntled, so they knew that Azig was greedy for money, so they sent some money to Azig so that Azig would no longer be angry and would not give them small shoes.
Not to mention, Azig, an old money fan, as soon as he got the money, he didn't care about anything, and the anger just now was gone. Likely, Lei Xing and the others couldn't help but take a big breath.
Having said that, why did Zhang Biwu suddenly come out and ambush Azig's men and horses? This is because when Zhang Biwu was about to transfer from Shanxi to the land of Jifu, Li Yan offered him a plan.
Li Yan said that there were 10 Hongyi cannons on the head of Beijing, and Changping garrisoned at least 30,000 or 40,000 people of the elite Manchu Qing Dynasty's two yellow banners, and all of them were cavalry.
Zhang Biwu's whole army only has about 10,000 people, if he still forcibly goes to the city of Beijing, not to mention that the Hongyi cannon at the head of the city destroys Zhang Biwu's entire army, even if the two Yellow Banner cavalry of Changping cover up and kill together, Zhang Biwu's whole army will be destroyed.
Instead of going to the city of Beijing to fight a war with no chance of winning, it is better to make a plan to first arrest an envoy sent from Beijing near Beijing and search for the edict on his body, so as to forge an edict, so as to trick Azig into sending troops and defeating Azig.
If the whole Azig army can be dispatched, it can be flanked from both sides with Li Zicheng, and the victory of Huguang will affect the general trend of the world, even if the Hongguang regime of the Southern Ming Dynasty is destroyed, because of the Azig fiasco, the strength of the Manchu Qing Dynasty has also been greatly reduced, which is a very big encouragement for the anti-Qing forces in the world.
Zhang Biwu heard Li Yan's plan, and knew that Li Yan was also saving Li Zicheng, because implementing this plan and defeating Azig would alleviate Li Zicheng's momentum, save Li Zicheng's downfall, and inspire people to rise up against the Qing Dynasty, which was indeed a good plan.
Zhang Biwu thought about it and felt that there was nothing better than this, even if Azig did not send the whole army to the north to rescue Beijing, as long as he sent an army to thwart one of his troops, he could still use the method of agitation to see if he could provoke Azig to come out.
Now Azig did not come out of Xiangyang because of Dorgon's strict orders, and he did not attack Li Zicheng, but only guarded in the north and south.
Because Zhang Biwu won one after another, and Li Zicheng had his humble words, this means that Li Zicheng is showing weakness to him! Show weakness to him in the Great Western Kingdom!
Zhang Xianzhong felt good, he was very happy, he used Dashun as the year name, and now Li Zicheng's Dashun didn't bow to him? Why don't you send troops? So Zhang Xianzhong sent troops out of Hanzhong in the hope of entering the land of Shaanxi.
The land of Shaanxi is guarded by He Luohui, He Luo will see that the Central Plains has been in great trouble, of course he does not dare to slack off, he immediately sent troops to cover Zhang Xianzhong, even if Zhang Xianzhong sent a small force to attack, he did not dare to slack off. For this reason, the Qing army in Shaanxi could not be associated with Azig.
Naturally, this news quickly reached Zhang Biwu's ears. "Report! What a big deal! Zhang Xianzhong sent troops! ”
Zhang Biwu smiled and said, "Sure enough, it's not what I expected!" Good! As long as Zhang Xianzhong sends troops, then immediately order my men and horses to prepare to attack Xiangyang! I will unite with Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng and others to fight against the Manchus! ”
"Great!" When Xiong Zongheng just wanted to give an order, Zhang Biwu stopped him and said, "Are you willing to follow me!" Xiong Zongheng didn't think about anything, so he said happily: "As long as I can follow the master's public service, of course I am willing!" In the defeat of Azig, we can't fight enough! ”
Gu Yanwu also said: "Yes! Since we have repeatedly defeated the Qing army, now the momentum is so strong that many people have taken the initiative to surrender to us! If we take in these horses, our strength will increase greatly! What's next? ”
Zhang Biwu shook his head and said, "Okay! I won't say more! I brought more than a thousand cavalry, I will take them all! Xiong Zongheng and Wu Xun, you will select 300 elite men from the Boy Scouts to follow me! ”
Zhang Biwu turned to Gu Yanwu and said, "Zhongqing, after I leave, all the territory can only rely on you!" Then you can expand your territory! But when expanding, you have to be conservative! It's too fast, and it won't work without soldiers! (To be continued......)