Before receiving the order from the Ministry of War, Huang Zhengse, the deputy general of the Shangzhou Association of the Qing Dynasty, had already completed the work of cutting down trees to block the road and sealing the Wuguan gate with earth and stones. The efficiency is still very high, and it is worthy of being a wise and brave general who once studied in the famous Jinjiang Panhu Renying Academy in Fujian, and read the surname from "Wan" to "Huang".

The Panhu Huang family, who controls Jinjiang Panhu Renying Academy, is a famous family in Fujian, and the mother of this Huang deputy general is the Huang family's side branch Shuzong, and he also has a distant cousin, who is the current soldier Huang Xigon, the operation of his cousin's surname, is it full of wisdom compared to recognizing Ye Dad and changing his surname?

Because his cousin was a squire in the military department and won the trust of the little emperor Kangxi, Huang Zhengse, who was a guerrilla in Xinghua Mansion before, was able to lead his guerrilla troops to Xi'an, and still recounted a welcome achievement, and was also promoted from guerrilla to deputy general, and sent to Shangzhou to guard the military pass.

He originally thought that this place in Wuguan seemed to be critical, known as the Sanqin Fortress, but it was actually quite safe. After all, there is a whole Nanyang Mansion in front of Wuguan!

And according to the regulations on "Longzhong Pair", Wu Sangui should order a general to take the army of Jingzhou to Wan and Luo, that is, after Nanyang, he should march to Luoyang!

As long as Luoyang was controlled by Wu Sangui's "generals", the Kangxi Emperor would inevitably abandon Guanzhong and withdraw to Beijing. It is impossible for him to stay in Guanzhong when Luoyang fell, and Shanxi and Zhili were both under the command of Wu Sangui's troops. And as soon as Kangxi withdrew, the defenders on the side of Wuguan also had the freedom of loyal ministers. Wishful thinking is playing very well!

It's a pity that no matter how well his wishful thinking is, he can't stand the other party, he doesn't care about "Longzhong Pair" at all, but he just covers his head and comes over recklessly!

This reckless man is not the Wu army with thousands of children, but tens of thousands of people! At night, the official road outside Wuguan and both sides of the official road were full of bonfires lit by Wu officers and soldiers to keep warm, and the stars seemed to be a galaxy falling from the sky.

What's even more troublesome is that when Huang Zhengse found out about the Wu army's arrival before, he ordered someone to cut down the trees that were piled up on the Guanxia Road to close the road, but now instead of stopping the pace of the Wu army's vanguard, it has become a cover for the Wu army's flintlock muskemen to cover and shoot!

These piles of tree trunks were effective for holding out cavalry and heavy infantry, as well as artillery and baggage, but they were not good for lightly armed flintlock pistermen.

Not only could they not resist, but these piles of tree trunks were also used by Wu Jun's flintlock musketeers, and during the day today, Huang Zhengse and his men watched Wu Jun who were carrying flintlock pistols without arquebuses, flexibly climbing over piles of trees blocking the way, and constantly approaching Wuguan. In order to block their advance, Huang Zhengse also sent 300 heavy infantry equipped with shotguns and Pu knives, and put them under Wuguan Pass with hanging baskets (the gate of Wuguan has been blocked), wanting to fight those Wu army bird spearmen hand-to-hand.

As a result, he was killed and wounded by Wu Jun's flintlock pipers who were shooting from the trunk bunker!

The firepower of those Wu Army's shotgunners was very dense, and the bullets came like raindrops, weaving a "dense and impenetrable" net in the air. The 300 heavy infantry sent by Huang Zhengse rushed in waves and left behind the corpses on the ground, and finally some armor soldiers rushed to the musketeers, but the musketeers not only ran away, but also took out a two-foot-long sharp blade and put it on the barrel of the musket and fought hand-to-hand with Huang Zhengse's heavy armor soldiers. And the result of hand-to-hand combat was the victory of the musketeers of the Wu army!

This simply shocked the jaws of all the Qing soldiers who watched the battle!

The elite of the Green Battalion, wearing heavy armor and holding a long-handled Pu knife, was actually defeated by the musketeers with flintlock pistols equipped with sharp blades in hand-to-hand combat, and the defeat was without suspense, which also convinced all the Qing soldiers who watched the battle.

The reason why there is no suspense is because there are many musketeers in the Wu army! The second reason is that some musketeers do not speak martial virtues, and use muskets loaded with ammunition to pretend to fight hand-to-hand with the Qing army. When there are still three or five steps left on both sides before they can fight, they will directly give a shot to the Qing soldiers on the opposite side!

How do you fight this kind of hand-to-hand combat?

Risking your life with the enemy's gun without bullets?

Who has the guts?

Even if you have the guts to gamble your life, it's a shot!

So after this wave of counterattacks was repulsed, Huang Zhengse never launched a counterattack - even if he gave the order, the people below would not dare to carry it out!

Therefore, 1,200,300 Qing troops stood on the Wuguan city wall and watched as the Wu army unhurriedly cleared the roads, set up camp, and set up artillery, and then buried the pot to cook and the whole army rested.

And they also roughly saw the number of the Wu army, which is tens of thousands of troops! There are dozens of times more than the defenders on the Wu Pass. If Xi'an doesn't send reinforcements over quickly, by the time the spirited Wu army begins to attack the city early in the morning, their 1,200 or 300 people will not even be enough to stuff people's teeth.

And just when Huang Zhengse and others were guarding the wall anxiously waiting for reinforcements, the order of the military department to kill people and not pay for their lives came!

"What? As long as the gate is closed, the road is blocked, and the enemy will retreat."

After reading the badge issued by the Ministry of War, Huang Zhengse didn't know how to scold people.

Wu Sangui sent tens of thousands of people over!

This is not a feint! This is the workhorse! It's the main force!

"Xietai, no! If you can't hold it, it's still."

"Xietai, the people of the military department are so blind to command, it seems that the Qing Dynasty wants to."

"Xietai, it's better for us"

"Xietai, you are also from Fujian! Why don't you also learn from Yang Zongbing and Cai Zongbing? ”

The loyalty of these green battalion soldiers is indeed very worthy of the little military salary issued to them by the Qing Dynasty.

In the face of the menacing Wu family's army, the big guys are ready to be retainers together.

And also found two role models for Huang Zhengse. Anyway, Yang Laijia and Cai Lu have already been out before, and now you might as well have one more!

However, Huang Zhengse snorted coldly, interrupted the group of disloyal and unfilial officers and soldiers below, and thought about surrendering, and said calmly: "Who do you think of Huang?" Huang has read the books of sages, how can he be like Yang Laijia, Cai Lu and others!

Come on, go to the official mansion to get the four treasures of the study room and send them to the customs building! ”

"Xietai, do you want to give the emperor a legacy?" Immediately, someone asked in an admiring tone.

"Leave a fart!" Huang Zhengse glared at the man, "This official wants to repair a table!" ”

Repair table?

Now everyone is convinced, this civil and military minister is exquisite!

Huang Zhengse then sighed again and said, "Before repairing the table, this official will give the emperor a fold. I have to let the emperor know that the Wuguan can't be defended, and the Wu family's army of tens of thousands is about to enter the pass. Let him run quickly, don't learn from Emperor Chongzhen! ”

He sighed again: "If you are a good monarch and a minister, there must always be an explanation, and it will be counted as the last way of being a minister!" ”

Not to mention, this Huang Zhengse is still a little loyal, at least stronger than Yang Laijia and Cai Lu, who are determined to be Erwuzai, and before becoming Erwuzai, he also knew to remind the old master to run away!

He is a loyal man among the two or five boys!

And this Zhongyi Erwuzai wrote the article very quickly, and after the four treasures of the study room were brought, he immediately wrote a recital to Kangxi on the Guancheng of Wuguan. In the middle of the twists and turns, he also explained to Kangxi very aggrieved why he had to be a second minister. He can't fight and fight, and he can't escape - he can escape himself, but the families of the green battalion soldiers below are all in Longju Village and Shangluo Town behind Wuguan, and they refuse to escape.

As for death. It seems to have died in vain!

So it's better to surrender!

However, as a Qing minister, he still had to truthfully inform Emperor Kangxi of the situation of the Wu army before surrendering, and he had to give the correct advice one last time - the emperor should run!

After writing the "final fold", he asked the military department Tangma who gave him the order to work hard and bring the fold back to Xi'an.

Then Huang Zhengse wrote another letter of surrender, and then sent a subordinate who could speak well, with the surrender table, from the Guancheng, and then went to find the senior official of the Wu army to surrender under the white flag.

Huang Zhengse's operation quickly put Emperor Kangxi and his ministers, who were still immersed in the joyful atmosphere of the Spring Festival, the most blinded of them was of course Huang Zhengse's cousin Huang Xigon - this cousin has his surname, of course he has to be responsible!

Huang Zhengse's deputy general of Shangzhou was brought to the movement by him, and he wanted to grasp a little armed in this troubled era, in case Kangxi couldn't hold Guanzhong, he didn't have to be martyred, and he could also be a third minister - he was a prodigy, Chongzhen was a jinshi in the thirteenth year, he was only nineteen years old at the time, and he was also awarded a governor of Guangxi when he arrived in the Southern Ming Dynasty, and he was only twenty-five and twenty-six at that time. However, he did not resist the Qing Dynasty to the end, but slipped back to his hometown to be a "fugitive minister", hid in his hometown for two years, and went to the Qing Dynasty to take the Hanlin Yuan Ji Shi in the fifth year of Shunzhi, and officially became a second minister.

Since they have all been second ministers, it is nothing to be a third minister, but he never thought that Wu Jun would come from Wuguan without a head or brain, and it was still tens of thousands of troops who went deep alone, which was completely a "reckless"!

As a result, he was so "reckless" that he became a second minister before him, how can he be his third minister now?

And what made Huang Xigon even more speechless was that this Huang Zhengse also gave Kangxi a lesson before becoming a second minister, explaining the reason why he wanted to surrender and the situation in front of Wuguan clearly, and suggested that Kangxi flee quickly.

What does this mean? Righteousness? Do you have to stand the last shift before surrendering?

When he met such a cousin, Huang Xigon had no choice but to let people tie himself up and go to Kangxi's Tianzi Xing to ask for guilt.

And this day happened to be Chinese New Year's Eve, Kangxi also gave himself a big vacation, and was in the palace with the newly acquired Portuguese cloth and the collar promised to practice wrestling and grappling, and when the practice was coming hard, Xiao Guizi panicked and reported that Huang Xigon, the soldier who was on duty in the military department today, "tied himself up and asked to meet".

Kangxi, who had just subdued a Xiyi plus-size beauty, was stunned, and looked back at Xiao Guizi: "What?" What is self-bondage? ”

"That is, I tied myself with a rope and then walked to see you."

Kangxi, who was practicing, was stunned, "What do you mean?" Is he crazy? Did he want to admonish? Rope. Admonish? ”

I haven't heard of it, I've heard of the "death admonition", and I haven't heard of the "rope admonition".

"No, it's not," Xiao Guizi shook his head, "Your Majesty, he's not here to 'admonish', but to ask for guilt." ”

"Please? What crime did he commit? ”

"Guilty of negligence in recommendation!"

"Referral negligence? Who did he recommend? ”

He recommended Huang Zhengse, the general of Wuguan, and that Huang Zhengse was his cousin. This morning, Huang Zhengse's excerpt was sent to the military department, saying that he was about to lead his troops to surrender to Wu Yingxiong! ”

Xi'an line in, south study.

When the ministers who had arrived after hearing the summons walked into the study, they saw Huang Xigon still kneeling there with his head down, while Kangxi was walking around irritably on the desk, and there was a map on the desk.

Kangxi muttered as he walked: "Who is this?" Who are the people I use?"

Suo Etu had just learned from Xiao Guizi what happened in Wuguan, and now he saw that Kangxi looked like he was about to collapse, so he quickly knelt down and kowtowed, and suggested loudly: "Your Majesty, the matter is urgent, please leave the emperor first, and the slave will stay in Xi'an and stick to it, and fight with the surnamed Wu to the end!" ”

Kangxi stopped for a moment, looked back at Suo Etu, and suddenly laughed: "Hahaha Suo Etu, what are you kidding with me?" Why did I leave? ”

Joke?

Is this a joke?

Jin Batai, a bachelor who came in after Suo Etu, hurriedly asked Huang Xigon, who was kneeling to plead guilty: "Zonglin, what's going on?" ”

"Jin Zhongtang," Huang Xigon said, "Wu Yingxiong's tens of thousands of troops drove to Wuguan Pass yesterday, and my cousin Huang Zhengse was defeated by Wu's army and surrendered at Juguan. Before he surrendered, he also gave the emperor a fold, explaining the situation before Wuguan Pass and the reason for his surrender."

"This" Jin Batai was also blindsided for a while, do you have to explain the reason before surrendering? Could this be the "salute" in the legendary "surrender with courtesy"?

Kangxi took over the topic at this time and said with a smile: "Everyone, don't panic, Wu Yingxiong has committed the taboo of being a soldier who is alone and going deep. He actually led tens of thousands of elite soldiers to Xi'an after taking Nanyang, he was killing himself! I didn't know how to annihilate the Wu army brigade to open up the situation, so he sent it to the door himself, it was really heaven to help the Qing Dynasty! ”

The ministers below these words are even more confused, how can this be that Wu Yingxiong has committed a taboo?

You have lost all this martial arts, and tens of thousands of troops of the Wu family have driven straight into Xi'an to fight Xi'an, how can this be a lone army? He is a lone soldier, so was Li Zicheng a lone soldier when he entered Guanzhong? Is Li Yuan alone in entering Guanzhong? Is Duoduo alone in the middle of the pass from Tongguan? An Lushan's army entered the pass, was it a lone army?

There are quite a few enemies in history who have gone deep into the pass alone.

"Your Majesty," the military department Shang Shu Saise said blackly, "You are the Venerable of Ten Thousand Times, but you must not take danger in the former enemy in Xi'an, you should first retreat to the Beijing Division, and then mobilize the heavenly soldiers to encircle and suppress Wu Zhi's department." ”

Kangxi shook his head again and again: "No need, don't you have to, isn't it tens of thousands of Wu Jun?" It was still a cold winter, and Wu Wei's soldiers in Hanzhong and Longxi couldn't move at all. Moreover, Xiangyang is also threatened by Li Zicheng, and Amida and them can counterattack Nanyang at any time to cut off Wu Yingxiong's retreat. The decisive battle between Sozhen and Wu Wei in Guanzhong is a victory, and nine out of ten are secure. Why did I withdraw? I'm going to withdraw, wouldn't it show the world that I'm afraid of Wu Yingxiong? Besides, as soon as I leave, the hearts of the people in Guanzhong will inevitably fluctuate, and it is difficult to say whether they can hold it when the time comes.

So, I'm not leaving! I don't learn from Emperor Tang Ming, I don't learn from Yang Guang, I want to stick to Xi'an, I will break the thieves under the city of Xi'an, and then mobilize all kinds of troops to besiege it, and annihilate tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of Wu Wei in one fell swoop. As long as these tens of thousands of Wu Shun's tens of thousands of people are sent to Guanzhong, then the time for me to level down all kinds of rebels and rebuild the prosperous era of the Qing Dynasty is just around the corner. ”

This wishful thinking is really rattling, but it seems to make some sense Wu Yingxiong's reckless entry into the pass, it is indeed a bit lonely. If he can't defeat Xi'an, under the fortified city, he sharpens his spirit, and Kangxi mobilizes a large army to fight back, and most of them can leave Wu Yingxiong's main force near Xi'an.

And Wu Yingxiong's tens of thousands of people are one of the "four main forces" under Wu Sangui! If it is all lost, Wu Sangui's vitality must be greatly damaged, and it is not impossible to go uphill and downhill from now on.

And if Kangxi slipped away first, would he be qualified to continue to be the emperor after he slipped back to Beijing? Fuquan seems to have done a good job, will the big guy support an emperor who escaped, or an emperor who looks very good at fighting? At that time, Kangxi will really click "thin"!

So Kangxi really can't learn from Tang Minghuang and Yang Guang, he has to learn from Chongzhen!

Take a gamble in Xi'an, come to the Son of Heaven to guard the country, and the king will die!

Thinking of this, the ministers below no longer persuaded Kangxi to run away, but said in unison: "The emperor is sage, and the servants (ministers) are willing to stick to Xi'an with the emperor to break the traitors."

(End of chapter)