Let's go back and talk about the Beizhi side.

Officials of all sizes in Nanjing were busy moving, businessmen were busy raising funds to prepare for the stock fair of railway freight companies going north, and Chongzhen, who was far away in Beijing, was not idle.

After taking control of the inner city, that is, the full city, immediately after sending troops to control the outer city.

After taking control of the outer city, they began to arrest people, Fan Wencheng, Ning Wanme, and Zu Dashou, who did not go to Chaoyangmen, were not spared and were all arrested.

In the end, hundreds of thousands more people were arrested.

Of course, it's just a simple arrest.

After all, the Ming New Army is not a slave, nor is it a thief of Li Zicheng, nor is it a Ming border army, there are scholars and Guozisheng as the backbone of the new army, and they will never do such a thing as burning, killing, plundering, and raping women.

The fact is that on the day the Ming army entered the city, order was restored in Beijing.

The lives of ordinary people have not been affected in any way, and it is business as usual.

But there is still a lot of work waiting for Chongzhen to do, and the remnants of Jiannu have not yet been cleared.

Before the arrest work was over, Chongzhen began to prepare to send troops to suppress Wu Sangui and Jiang Jiu, while ordering Xu Yingwei to lead one town south to Yanzhou, and on the other hand, he personally led two towns to the east to conquer Shanhaiguan.

Yan Yingyuan took another town north out of Juyong Pass to prevent the Mongol cavalry from moving south.

Guguan and Bauhinia Pass have been controlled by the puppet Shun army, and Chongzhen has no time to pay attention to it for the time being.

Three days after the end of the decisive battle of Bali Bridge, that is, on June 21, the 22nd year of Chongzhen.

At the same time that Nanjing's civil and military officials set off to the north, Chongzhen also began to purge the remnants of Jiannu, mainly to eliminate Jiang Huang entrenched in Yanzhou and Wu Sangui in Shanhaiguan.

Among them, Wu Sangui of Shanhaiguan is the main target.

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Two days later, at noon, Wu Sangui was pacing anxiously in the line of Shanhaiguan.

Although five full days had passed since the end of the Battle of Bali Bridge, Wu Sangui still had not obtained any information about the Battle of Bali Bridge, which was a complete cut off of intelligence.

The battlefield was blocked, of course, Zhu Cijiong led the cavalry to do it.

And now Zhu Cijiong is doing this, and he is becoming more and more professional.

Wu Sangui sent to Gyeonggi to inquire about the news, but he was all hunted down by the Ming army.

After a long delay in receiving news from Gyeonggi, Wu Sangui became more and more anxious.

His concubine Chen Yuanyuan came over and kindly persuaded him to go back to the Houya to rest for a while, but instead he was scolded by Wu Sangui with his head covered his face, and Chen Yuanyuan had to hold back his tears and return to the Houya without mentioning it.

Seeing Chen Yuanyuan's graceful figure disappear behind the arch, Fang Guangchen reluctantly withdrew his gaze, this Jurchen stunner in the world.

This kind of stunner is a reckless man like Wu Sangui, which can really be described as a tyrannical thing.

However, on the surface, Fang Guangchen was extremely respectful to Wu Sangui: "The prince is worried that the victory of the Ming and Qing dynasties has been divided?" ”

"Can you not be worried?" Wu Sangui said, "If the Qing army wins, it will be fine, if the Ming army wins in the end, you and I will have no chips in our hands, then it will be troublesome." ”

What Wu Sangui feared most was that the Ming army would win a decisive victory before he surrendered.

"The prince is too worried, if the Ming army wants to solve the Qing army in one battle, it is absolutely impossible." Fang Guangchen said eloquently, "So the dispute between the Ming and Qing dynasties must be a long-term process." ”

"Even if the Ming army can win, I am afraid that it will be a miserable victory in the end."

"This also means that after the Ming army defeated the Qing army, it will no longer be able to continue to use troops against Shanhaiguan and Yanzhou Mansion, so if nothing else, Chongzhen will most likely take a pacification strategy against the prince and Jiang Hao, after all, appeasing the prince and Jiang Hao can protect the people of the north from sword soldiers."

After a pause, he said: "Hasn't Chongzhen always advertised as people-oriented? ”

After listening to this analysis, Wu Sangui finally felt a little relieved, because Fang Guangchen's analysis was undoubtedly reasonable.

Even if Chongzhen doesn't want to see him, Wu Sangui and Jiang Huang and other ministers, but the people of the northern provinces always have no enmity with you, don't you always claim to be the king of benevolence and righteousness? Then we should think of the people, and we should take appeasement as the top.

Thinking of this, Wu Sangui sent a family member to call his eldest son, Wu Yingxiong, in.

Wu Yingxiong is actually Wu Sangui's second son, but because his eldest son Wu Yingqi passed on to Wu Sanfeng as his stepson, Wu Yingxiong became the eldest son.

Wu Sangui likes Wu Yingxiong's son very much.

Although Wu Yingxiong's martial arts are not as good as Wu Yingqi, he is tall and handsome.

"Father." Wu Yingxiong first waved his hand at Wu Sangui, and then turned to salute Fang Guangchen, "The student has seen the teacher. ”

Wu Sangui snorted and said: "I'll give you an errand to move all the Liao people outside the city to the city, if anyone dares to resist, they will be killed!" ”

This is to use Liaomin as a bargaining chip to blackmail Chongzhen.

Speaking of which, the land of the Liaoning West Corridor is still very fertile.

Therefore, after the political situation of the Manchu Qing Dynasty stabilized, the Liao people who had originally taken refuge in Yanshan because of their shaving and easy clothes returned to the western Liaoning corridor to farm, and then took refuge under Wu Sangui.

However, Wu Sangui has never only used these Liao people as his bargaining chips.

This was the case when he was the general soldier of the Ming Dynasty, and now he is the same as the Liao Governor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the only thing that remains unchanged is that these poor Liao people will always be just his bargaining chips for Wu Sangui.

Seeing Wu Yingxiong leave, Fang Guangchen asked, "Does the prince want to use these Liao people as bargaining chips?" ”

Wu Sangui did not deny it, nodded and said: "This method is of no use to the Qing army, the Qing army does not care about the life or death of the Liao people at all, but it may be of some use to the Ming army, if the situation really reaches the worst in the end, as long as these Liao people are driven to the city wall, the artillery of the Ming army can have some scruples." ”

Fang Guangchen said in a dark voice: "Unless the Ming army can ignore the life and death of the Liao people in the city, it can only appease the prince, and still have to appoint the prince as the governor of Jiliao and the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan." ”

While the two were talking, Wu Yingxiong suddenly came back with a black face.

"Why are you back?" Wu Sangui said, "Didn't you want to arrest the Liaomin?" ”

"Father, the Liao people have been taken away by the Ming army." Wu Yingxiong said angrily, "It was done by the Ming army in Liaodong, and Wang Fuzhi promised to give the people of Liao every hundred acres of land, and there is no need to pay grain within three years!" ”

"Didn't Wang Fuzhi's Liaodong Ming army always shrink in Gaizhouwei?" Wu Sangui's face changed for a moment, "When did you arrive in Liaoxi?" Why don't you report it if you don't collect it at night? ”

"Father, we don't dare to do the night, I'm afraid that we have already been killed by the Liaodong Ming Army."

"It can't be." Wu Sangui said categorically, "No matter how powerful the scout cavalry of the Ming army is, it is impossible to kill all of our nights. ”

Wu Yingxiong said: "That is to be rebelled." ”

Hearing Wu Sangui and Wu Yingxiong's father and son arguing there, Fang Guangchen couldn't cry or laugh.

At that moment, Fang Guangchen persuaded: "Lord Wang, since the Ming army of Liaodong has entered the corridor of Liaoxi, what is the point of arguing about whether the night is not collected and killed or a rebellion?" The top priority is to quickly find out the exact intentions of the Ming army, and also, is it only the Ming army from Liaodong, or is the Ming army from the direction of Beijing also coming? ”

"The Ming army in the direction of Beijing?" Wu Sangui's face changed greatly.

If the Ming army in the direction of Beijing also came, then it can only say one thing.

That is, the decisive battle between the Ming army and the Qing army has been decided, and the Ming army has won a big victory, which is undoubtedly the worst result for Wu Sangui.

However, the more you are afraid of something, the more you come.

Wu Sangui was worried about the Ming army in the direction of Beijing, and a family member came in to report: "The prince is not good, a large number of Ming troops have been found at the southern foot of Yanshan, and it is less than twenty miles away from Shanhaiguan!" ”

"What did you say?" Wu Sangui was furious, "Why didn't you report it until now?" ”

Jia Ding said in a panic: "Because we didn't collect any of the nights we sent out in the direction of Yongping Mansion, we didn't come back, and in the end, it was a hunter who found the trace of the Ming army and rushed to report that we were able to know." ”

"Damn." Wu Sangui said hatefully, "It seems that Chongzhen doesn't want to appease this king anymore." ”

After a pause, Wu Sangui gritted his teeth and said: "Since this is the case, then let Chongzhen know that Shanhaiguan is my Wu Sangui's territory, and when I came to Shanhaiguan, it was the tiger that lay down for me, and the dragon also gave me Pan!" ”

Fang Guangchen also nodded and agreed: "So far, I can only fight to the death with the Ming army." ”

……

The two towns that conquered Wu Sangui this time were the 1st town and the 2nd town, of which the 2nd town was the main force, which was actually a way of balance, because the 2nd town did not participate in the Battle of Bali Bridge.

In order to increase the speed as much as possible, neither the 1st nor the 2nd town carried field artillery brigades.

Because there was no drag from the field artillery, the speed of the march was extremely fast, and it took only two days to enter an abandoned village called Yiyuankou at the southern foot of Yanshan, which was about 20 miles away from Shanhaiguan.

The sound of horses' hooves sounded, and Zhu Cijiong led Xu Wuniu and dozens of other scout cavalry to return to the brigade.

"Father Qi, it seems that he ran away from a hunter and sent the news to Shanhaiguan, so now the Wu army in the city is already preparing to defend the city."

"What about the common people? You weren't caught in Shanhaiguan, were you? ”

"I didn't meet a few people here in Yongping Mansion, and the Wu army couldn't catch it if he wanted to, but there should be Liao people on the side of the Liaoxi Corridor, so I don't know if the Liaodong Army can stop the Wu army."

"It's not a big problem, Wang Fuzhi is still trustworthy."

"Father, my son has something unclear and wants to ask for advice."

"Do you want to ask why you didn't appease Wu Sangui?"

"Yes, we can appease Wu Sangui first, and then find a way to clean him up, for example, in the name of playing the right to bring him into the Beijing Division and then execute him, wouldn't it be more convenient?"

"You think Wu Sangui is too stupid, even if he is appeased, he will not enter Beijing easily."

"Also, if a big traitor like Wu Sangui does not resolutely suppress it, but instead adopts a policy of appeasement and appeasement, it is equivalent to setting a very bad precedent, which is equivalent to encouraging border ministers like Wu Sangui, even if they support the army and respect themselves, or even raise their own respect, there will be nothing to do, and there will be more border ministers in the future."

"Therefore, Wu Sangui must be suppressed, and the opportunity to surrender cannot be given to him."

After a pause, Chongzhen said again: "Because Wu Sangui has broken through the bottom line of military generals." ”