Chapter Twenty-Eight: Fragmentation

On the second day of the fifth month, the Qing army entered the Beijing division under the banner of avenging Emperor Chongzhen.

Prior to this, Wu Sangui, as a vanguard, had released news on the march, saying that he had found the former Ming prince Zhu Cihong, but then he was missing.

Rumors about Zhu Cihong were flying in the capital, and some former Ming ministers who stayed in the capital thought that Wu Sangui had driven away Li Zicheng and escorted the Ming prince back to Beijing.

So, some people specially set up the tablet of Emperor Chongzhen at the noon gate, wore linen and wore filial piety and cried bitterly, and some people put the prince Luan and knelt at the Chaoyang Gate to wait for the prince to return to the court.

There was a middle-aged man in a yellow robe, surrounded by the Qing army, sitting on the Luan car placed at the door, kneeling on the ground with his head bowed The ministers were in tears, saying that the Ming Dynasty was saved, and when he looked up, Luan was not driving Zhu Cihong, but a man with a money rattail on the back of his head.

It's a big oolong, and if it goes out, it will be laughed at by the world. Everyone simply made a mistake, no matter who he was driving, it must be no problem to call the ministers supportive, the world has changed hands five times, and everyone is used to it.

Dolgon, who sat on Luan's car, was in the limelight for a while, not the Son of Heaven but even the Son of Heaven, and the power leaned towards the government and the opposition.

If Aixin Jueluo Fulin, that is, the current Shunzhi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, is above 10,000 people, then my Dorgon is above Fulin.

The soldiers pursued Li Zicheng's Duoduo, Azig and Wu Sangui in two ways, and rushed for thousands of miles until the Dashun army retreated into Guguan before returning to Beijing.

At this point, the battle at Shanhaiguan was officially over, and the Qing army expected to win the pass with all its might, so they tried their best to draw the men in the clan, but the result was effortless to collect the Beijing division.

At the same time, the news of the defeat of the Shun army spread to various places one after another. The former Ming forces took the opportunity to start a counterattack, for example, the student Xie Majesty led the army to raise troops in Dezhou, Shandong, to hunt down and kill the officials of the Shun Dynasty, the former Ming guerrilla general Gao Gui and others raised troops in Tai'an Prefecture, and Ling Ma, the former director of the Ming Military Department, raised troops directly under Linqing.

All of a sudden, rebellions broke out in Hebei and Shandong.

To the south, Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang, who held military power, united with the commanders of the three towns, namely Gao Jie, Liu Liangzuo, Huang Degong, and the eunuch Lu Jiude, decided to support Zhu Yousong of the Fu Domain, and led troops to escort Zhu Yousong to Pukou to force Shi Kefa to make a compromise.

In the end, after a series of party infighting, the Fu Domain, backed by military generals, ascended the throne in Yingtianfu and changed to Yuan Hongguang, which was called Nanming in later generations. The military generals led by Ma Shiying got a "policy set", and since then, the civil and military status of the Hongguang Dynasty has reversed, and the attack and defense have changed shape.

If you count Zhang Xianzhong, who will establish himself in Shu in the near future, Zhu Youzhen, the Chongzhen Emperor in Datong, the Qing Dynasty, who is in Beijing, and the Nanming who looks across the river, Dashun who escaped into Shaanxi, and the land of Shenzhou, there are five regimes at the same time, as if history has turned back.

However, he said that the military advisor Song Xiance, seeing Li Zicheng's defeat, was worried that what he said earlier would be implicated and blamed, so he stole a horse and fled alone in order to save his life.

He expected that Li Zicheng would inevitably return to Beijing first, so he chose the old road that Chongzhen had walked and fled to Datong.

When you get the money and have a military general to follow, where in the world you can't go?

Song Xiance, who was complacent about his foresight, hurried all the way to the city of Datong Mansion, and when he saw that the city gate was closed, he couldn't help but be furious, and shouted for the defenders of the city to let him enter the city.

Wang Jinchao playfully watched the city riding a thin horse, and his hair was called Huazi.

"I'm the founding army master Song Xiance, don't you open the door soon!"

When the guards in the city heard this, they asked Wang Jinchao curiously, "The founding army division? General, have you ever heard of it? ”

Wang Jinchao didn't answer him, and said with a smile: "Ha, I didn't expect that Wang Jinchao met a dead mouse today, so let him in, tie him up, and send it to Your Majesty."

After Song Xiance reported his name, he saw the suspension bridge slowly lowered, the gate opened lightly, and he pinched his beard proudly.

When he fled, he was too embarrassed, and he didn't even care about his favorite feather fan, if he could fan that fan, wouldn't it be the same as Zhuge Wolong in the empty city plan?

Seeing a few guards walking towards him from the city gate, Song Xiance straightened his messy hair, put on a high-ranking look, and said, "Why don't you hurry up and come over and lead the horse for this army?"

"Take your mother!"

How could a few soldiers endure to go into the city and tie them up again? immediately jumped forward, tore Song Xiance to the ground, tied up the flowers, and kicked Song Xiance a few times by the way.

"Ah, what are you going to do?.. How dare you kick this official? You.. You don't want to die? ”

"Give him two feet, my mother has never seen such a debt."

Several soldiers punched and kicked Song Xiance, and the dust was flying.

"Ouch, stop fighting, ouch, I'm going to see the stars! I want to see Zhang Tianlin! ”

In the city of Datongfu, along the road by the city wall, soldiers either held stones or carried logs and ran panting.

After several days of physical training, seven adults gave up and quit halfway, and Chongzhen cut out some of the people who cheated and cheated, and only 2,000 people are still practicing to this day, including Yang Boxian's regimental training camp.

"One, one, one, two, one."

"One, two, three, four!"

"What a shame is there for a general!

June heavy in leopard fur,

I don't know the cold and heat, and I cut off my head.

Xiong'er Lantian for revenge,

In the middle of the night, he beheaded Xie and Zhou. ”

Yang Boxian and Jiang Xuan led the way in front, one shouted slogans, the other sang Jin Dynasty folk songs and state songs, and the long line of soldiers lined up in a row of five behind them followed and sang, all of them should be together, and their morale was high.

These are obviously from Chongzhen's handwriting, although he has little knowledge of military training, but combined with the experience of later generations and the military book in his hand slowly deduced, he is confident that he can summarize the training minutes suitable for the present.

Why don't you practice the battle formation and practice physical fitness alone, Chongzhen has his own understanding of this.

Ten thousand people in battle, tossing and turning, it takes soldiers to train hard for several years, and the time left for him is completely insufficient, so if you want to improve your combat power in a short period of time, you should exercise the physical fitness and will of soldiers.

If you want to defeat the strong with the weak, you must take it by surprise, and this surprise, Chongzhen intends to put on the speed of the soldiers' march.

Jiang Xiang was not very interested in this matter, he never came after the first day to watch, Long Live Lord was willing to pay out of his own pocket to mess around, he had nothing to say, but he was busy with military affairs, and in his heart, Chongzhen could not be a person who knew the soldiers.

Jiang Xuan was the first to arrive every day, and he watched it with relish.

Especially after His Majesty's ingenious arrangement, let everyone gradually get used to shouting slogans and singing folk songs and running circles side by side, the momentum exuded by concerted efforts made him eager to try since he was a child.

Yang Boxian went into the mountains to hunt since he was a child, running the mountains is commonplace, not to mention his physical strength, he still does not show fatigue after running for half an hour.

Chongzhen stood aside and watched, and saw that someone behind him was gradually falling behind, so he ordered his soldiers to ride to the front to inform Yang Boxian.

Yang Boxian received the notice, nodded, stopped and stopped, and the soldiers behind him also stopped, and someone was tired and his legs and stomach were weak, and he sat down on the ground.

"Damn, Your Majesty said that you are not allowed to sit, all get up!"

Yang Boxian and Jiang Xuan each took the sharpened wooden strips and walked back along the queue, if they found a soldier sitting down to rest, they would be smoked.

There were lively residents nearby, who watched for a few days in a row, and felt that it was hard to be a soldier, so they wanted to send them a few sips of water to drink.

However, no one dared to take it, as if they were hiding from the plague, shaking their hands and saying no.

Two days ago, someone took it, and the buttocks were beaten to a pulp, and now they can't get out of bed while lying in the camp.

After almost a quarter of an hour, Yang Boxian motioned for everyone to sit down and rest, but they were not allowed to lie down.

This part of the soldiers can be so obedient, Chongzhen has spent a lot of effort, and with the reduction of the number of additional trainees, the budget for raising soldiers in Chongzhen's hands has increased.

The soldiers who train every day have enough food and food, and there must be meat to eat for this meal, how can there be such treatment, and it is worth it for the soldiers to sweat for this meal.

Then Chongzhen personally supervised the salary in the army, whether it was a guard or a battalion, it was all paid according to the standard of one or two and a half cents per month, and all of them were counted to the soldiers, and those who added to the daily training were rewarded with five points of silver, which was a total of two taels.

And Chongzhen would visit the army every day, and he also gave up his body to ask the soldiers for warmth.

As soon as these actions came out, Chongzhen's prestige in the hearts of the soldiers increased greatly, and Jiang Xiang was unhappy about this, and he gradually felt that the army was getting out of his control.

But it's still the same truth, Long Live Ye paid out of his own pocket to help him raise soldiers, and didn't let him Jiang Xiang pay a penny, even if he was unhappy, he had nothing to say.

"Report! Outside the city, he captured one of the leaders of the bandits. ”

"Oh? Lead me to take a look. ”