Chapter Forty-Eight: The King of Pingxi, Who Achieved Outstanding Achievements
"Chief helmsman, this ugly Taoist priest ....., why is this jade machine real person so terrifying, what kind of realm is it, isn't it rumored that he has been executed by the Qing court?" , The Great Elder of the Heaven and Earth Society only felt cold sweat all over his body at this moment, and his clothes were soaked.
"It is said that when you reach the realm of the Great Grandmaster, you can transform your internal force into evil qi, control the surroundings through the evil qi, and mobilize any matter around you, even the air, this jade machine Dao Master is estimated to have reached the peak realm of the Great Grandmaster!" Chen Jinnan sighed.
At this moment, Chen Jinnan was extremely depressed, and there was a heroic end in his heart, and there was nowhere to talk about the desolate mood.
Chen Jinnan has always been very confident in his kung fu.
As a master at the peak of the grandmaster, he has few opponents in this world, even if he is the head of Shaolin and Songshan, Chen Jinnan believes that even if he does not win, he can resist at least fifty moves before he can decide the winner.
Over the years, Chen Jinnan has indeed not been defeated.
Because of this, even if the road ahead of the anti-Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty is bleak, Chen Jinnan has also gone against the odds, never lost confidence, and has never cooled down.
And today facing the real person of the jade machine. actually didn't even have the qualifications to fight, so how could the proud and conceited Chen Jinnan not be discouraged.
"This Qing court actually has such a master of the jade machine real person to help, it seems that the great trend of the Qing Dynasty has been completed, the anti-Qing Dynasty has restored the Ming Dynasty, and the road ahead is bleak, fortunately, this time the jade machine real person performed peerless exercises, and the helmsman has a comprehension, so he will return to the helm to retreat for two months, and the helmsman vows to break through the confinement of the peak of the grandmaster." Chen Jinnan regained his broken confidence and clenched his fists.
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Not to mention Chen Jinnan and others, let's talk about Wu Sangui.
Wu Sangui was born on June 8, 1612, a native of Qiantunwei Zhonghousuo (now Suizhong County, Liaoning) in Guangning, Liaodong, and his ancestral home was Gaoyou (now Gaoyou City, Jiangsu Province). A political and military figure in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the son of Wu Xiang, the general soldier of Jinzhou, and the nephew of Zu Dashou.
Born in the gate, good at riding and shooting. During the Chongzhen period, he was admitted to the martial arts, and by virtue of the shade of the door, he was given the command of the governor. He has repeatedly made military exploits, and has been relocated to Ningyuan Regiment to train the general soldiers. In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (1644), he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, participated in the Battle of Shanhaiguan, defeated Li Zicheng, followed the Qing army into the customs, and was named the king of Pingxi. After that, the peasant uprising was quelled, the city was conquered, and the war achievements were outstanding.
Born in a family of generals in western Liaoning, he has been practicing martial arts since he was a child and is good at riding and shooting. His father, Wu Xiang, heard and witnessed how the Ming Dynasty lost the Battle of Guangning in the second year of the Apocalypse (1622), how Xiong Tingbi was rumored to be the head of the Nine Sides, and how Wang Huazhen, the governor of Liaodong, was imprisoned and died. Wu Sangui's father, Wu Xiang, was transferred to Beijing by order and married Zu Dashou's sister as a continuation. Zu Dashou is a prominent family living in Liaoxi, Wu Xiang became Zu Dashou's brother-in-law, and Wu Sangui became Zu Dashou's nephew. The marriage of the Zu and Wu families made Wu Xiang and Wu Sangui find a strong backer, and also made the power of the Zu family stronger. Under the teachings and influence of his father Wu Xiang and his uncle Zu Dashou, Wu Sangui studied both literature and martial arts, and was admitted to the martial arts examination before the age of 20.
In the second year of Chongzhen (1629), Emperor Taizong of the Qing Dynasty personally led an army of 50,000 or 60,000 to avoid the Ningjin defense line built by the Ming Dynasty, and detoured through Mongolia to Beijing. In the face of the fierce Qing army, there was a lot of criticism from the government and the opposition, and it coincided with the Huang Taiji's design to rebel, and the suspicious Chongzhen arrested Yuan Chonghuan and imprisoned him. The Guanning army has been treated unfairly for a long time since it entered the guard: it won the two victories of Guangqumen and Zuo'anmen, but it was still abused as a spy, sleeping in the trench for half a month, the Beijing camp threw bricks from the city and killed three people, selected the front to go out of the city to hack six people, and the night patrol soldiers were killed or blackmailed, and when Yuan Chonghuan was wronged, the soldiers were already disheartened, and they all said, "With the loyalty of the superintendent, I can't avoid it, what is my generation doing here?" He didn't listen to Zu Dashou's orders, and ran straight to the east. In the battle of Dalinghe in the fourth year of Chongzhen (1631), Wu Xiang, the chief soldier of the regiment, led more than 40,000 horses to aid Zu Dashou in Dalinghe City (now Linghai, Liaoning), but Wu Xiang escaped from the battle and was cut down.
In June of the fifth year of Chongzhen (1632), in order to quell the mutiny of Kong Youde, a general in Dengzhou, Shandong Province (now Penglai City, Shandong Province), Wu Xiang went to Shandong with the deputy general Zu Dabi, and finally Kong Youde crossed the sea by boat from Dengzhou and defected to Houjin, and Wu Xiang resumed his position as the chief soldier. With the reinstatement of Wu Xiangguan, Wu Sangui also served as a guerrilla at the age of 20. In the eighth year of Chongzhen (1635), Wu Sangui was promoted to the general of the right battalion of the forward, at the age of 23. In September of the eleventh year of Chongzhen (1638), he served as the deputy general of the right battalion of the forward, equivalent to the deputy general soldier, at the age of 26. In the twelfth year of Chongzhen (1639), Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao, Fang Yizao, the governor of Liaodong, and the eunuch Gao Qiqian, the eunuch of the imperial horse supervisor of the two towns of Guanning, reported to the imperial court for approval, and Wu Sangui was promoted to the general soldier of the Ningyuan regiment at the age of 27.
In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen (1640), the Ming army and the Qing army had an encounter in the area of Jiama Mountain near Xingshan (now Xingshan, Jinxian County, Liaoning). In this battle, Wu Sangui showed his superb combat skills, desperately rushed to kill, and fought a bloody battle with the Qing army, but because of the extraordinary courage of the Qing army, it ended in mutual casualties on both sides. At the beginning of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen (1641), the Qing army gradually formed a situation of encirclement of Jinzhou. Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao, and Qiu Minyang, Wu Sangui, the governors of Liaodong, repeatedly discussed and decided to take the risk of transporting rice to the three cities of Jinzhou, Songshan, and Xingshan.
In the first month of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen (1643), Zu Dashou, who had surrendered, received a letter from Wu Sangui in Shengjing. The heart of the general, hesitating. I'm afraid that the general will miss a chance, but it's a pity. Wu Sangui was shaking, although he did not clear the clear, but he had already left himself a way back. In the spring, Wu Sangui was ordered to enter the customs and gallop to the aid of the Beijing division to resist the Qing army that entered the fortress for the fifth time. The march was slow, and the Qing army had retreated when he arrived, but Chongzhen still valued him very much and thanked him for coming to Beijing to serve as king. On May 15, Emperor Chongzhen invited Wu Sangui and others who came to King Qin to a banquet in the Wuying Palace, and gave Wu Sangui Shangfang a sword. In September, the Qing army bypassed Ningyuan, and laid down the back station, the front guard, and the middle front station, seven or eight days before and after, the three cities all fell, and Wu Sangui's Ningyuan became a lonely city outside the Shanhai Pass, which had lost its strategic significance.
At the beginning of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (1644), the Ming Dynasty, which was facing the fate of collapse, bet on Wu Sangui, who had heavy troops outside the Guan. Many courtiers, such as Wang Yongji and Wu Linzheng, successively went up and demanded that Ning Yuan's division be withdrawn to defend the capital. The Dashun army pointed directly at the Beijing division, Chongzhen edict to recruit the king of the world's soldiers, and on March 5, Wu Sangui was crowned as Ping Xibo, and Wu Sangui was ordered to quickly lead the troops into Beijing. [4] On 19 March, Wu Sangui led his army to Shanhaiguan, and then led his troops westward into Gyeonggi. On the 22nd, Wu Sangui's soldiers went to the area of Yutian (belonging to Tangshan City, Hebei Province), and at this time they suddenly received the news that the Beijing division had fallen and Chongzhen had hanged himself.
The fall of the Ming Dynasty made Wu Sangui lose his trust, and in order to find a new master, Wu Sangui could only speculate among various political forces for more than a month.
Dashun Li Zicheng has surrendered many times, Wu Sangui hesitated again and again, and once had the idea of surrendering Li Zicheng. It is rumored that he later heard that his concubine Chen Yuanyuan was taken captive by Li Zicheng's subordinates and gave up. Wu Sangui, who was attacked on both sides, was invincible to Li Zicheng internally, and it was difficult to stop Dolgon externally. Chen Yuanyuan and the Wu family became hostages of Li Zicheng. In order to save his family's life, Wu agreed to negotiate peace with Li Zicheng, and in order to prevent Li Zicheng from cheating, he privately asked Dolgon for help on the condition of dividing the north and south of the Yellow River. On 13 April, Li Zicheng led an army of 60,000 to Shanhaiguan. At this time, Li Zicheng, who had been carried away by a series of victories since the beginning of the year, underestimated the seriousness of the military confrontation at that time. After Wu Sangui learned the news that Li Zicheng personally led his army to the east, he immediately sent six people, including the gentry of Shanhaiguan, Confucian scholars Li Yousong, Tan Dihuan, Liu Tailin, Liu Taishan, Huang Zhen'an, and Gao Xuan, to "light up the thieves" to greet Li Zicheng's army in Sanhe County, not far east of Beijing, and express their intention to surrender, so as to delay time and wait for the Qing army. After the envoy sent to the Qing army for help returned to Shanhaiguan with Dolgon's reply, Wu Sangui immediately sent a letter to Dolgon, begging him to "quickly organize the tiger brigade and go straight into the mountains and seas". It was not until Li Zicheng arrived at the gate that Wu Sangui sent representatives to contact the surrender in a vain attempt to escape, and only then did he discover Wu Sangui's true intention of making a false surrender, but he had already missed the favorable opportunity for the light troops to quickly advance and seize the gate. However, after receiving Wu Sangui's second letter for help, Dolgon arrived at Guanmen fifteen miles away on the 21st after a day and night of forced marching.
On April 21, Dolgon took advantage of Wu Sangui's critical situation to force Wu Sangui to abandon the policy of attacking Li and completely surrender to the Qing Dynasty. On April 22, Wu Sangui was defeated, and Wu Sangui asked for help from Dolgon, who took advantage of the negotiation between Wu Sangui and Li Zicheng to suddenly attack Li Zicheng. In the Battle of Yibianshi, Wu Sangui united with the Qing army to defeat Li Zicheng. After the Qing soldiers entered the customs, they invaded Beijing, and after Dolgon made the capital of Beijing, he canonized Wu Sangui as the king of Pingxi.
After the Qing soldiers entered the customs, due to the sharp changes in the contrast of various political forces, the Qing government implemented the policy of bribery by high-ranking officials, and the bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty surrendered to the Qing Dynasty one after another. Wu Sangui also gave up his claim to support Prince Ming. As a representative of the Han landlord class that descended to the Qing Dynasty, there was still a considerable distance between Wu Sangui and the Qing government. First of all, Wu Sangui's beggar attacked Li, under the banner of "revenge for the monarch's father".
At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Wu Sangui still maintained certain contacts with the remnants of the Ming Dynasty. Regarding the regime of King Fu of Nanjing, he even said: "I can't bear to add one arrow to the other." Thirdly, unlike other degraded officers, Wu Sangui also had a force under his own independent command. Therefore, at the beginning of entering the customs, the Qing government showed favor to the outside world, and was suspicious of it, and did not grant it the right to do things. In addition to taking strict precautions against him politically, militarily, he only used his hatred of Li Zicheng's rebel army to lead his troops to attack Li Zicheng. In June, Wu Sangui's division went out of Shandong to pacify the rest of Li Zicheng, and in September, he conquered Li Zicheng from King Aziges.
In August 1644, after Li Zicheng's main force was basically wiped out, the Qing government transferred him back from the front line and "left the town of Jinzhou". Wu Sangui knew this arrangement of the Qing government. From then on, he never mentioned anything "revenge on his father", but turned his rudder, called Emperor Chongzhen "the old master", and repeatedly confessed that he was "loyal to the new dynasty".
In 1645, Dolgon transferred Wu Sangui to enter the customs, and together with Li Guohan, the general of the Eight Banners, he was in Hanzhong to kill the remnants of the anti-Qing rebels in the northwest. During this period, in order to show his loyalty to the Qing Dynasty, Wu Sangui not only brutally suppressed the remnants of the peasant army and slaughtered the city at every turn, but also spared no effort to kill some of the descendants of Zhu Ming who rose up to resist the Qing Dynasty. The change in Wu Sangui's thinking and actions made the central government of the Qing Dynasty rely more on him, and the remnants of the anti-Qing rebels in the northwest region were wiped out.
In 1646, Dolgon ordered Wu Sangui and Li Guohan to lead an army into Sichuan to attack the remnants of Zhang Xianzhong's army. In the past few years, it has successively pacified Chongqing, Chengdu and other important towns in Sichuan.
In 1647, Wu Sangui captured Yunnan. After conquering Yunnan, he entrusted it to open a feudal domain, guard Yunnan, and take charge of military and civilian affairs. In 1647, he was out of Burma, and in a few years, Wu Sangui led his troops from the northwest to the southwest border, and established special merits for the Qing Dynasty to establish its rule over the whole country. Therefore, Dolgon's Qing Dynasty changed his control and use to let go, but as Emperor Dolgon, he still had doubts.
And Wu Sangui himself also has reservations.
At this moment, Wu Sangui, in the face of the Yuji Zhenren, no longer has the grandeur of the prince, the Yuji Zhenren does not even dare to provoke the emperor, if the King of Pingxi knows, it is estimated that he will be more afraid of the Yuji Zhenren.
Wu Sangui has seen his terrifying methods, if such a person wants to kill himself, it is not easy to get up.
Fortunately, Yuji Zhenren is his savior.
But Wu Sangui didn't know the intentions of the Yuji Zhenren, so he could only sit in the carriage and drive with the Yuji Zhenren, and he didn't dare to ask.
Yuji Zhenren set up a carriage and slowly sent the king and princess of Pingxi to the Jiangning County Ya, and Wu Sangui was completely relieved.
After chatting with the magistrate of Jiangning County and his lieutenant general, Wu Sangui and Chen Yuanyuan invited Yuji Zhenren into the inner hall.