A large army is marching between the peaks and valleys between the mountains of the Qinling Mountains. There are tens of thousands of people. The former army has already passed under the towering Shaoxi Mountain, and is still heading west along the surging Wuguan River. The front army had already crossed the Wu Pass, while the rear army had just crossed the Qi River, still outside the border of Shaanxi Province.

Wu Sangui, the president of the Ming Dynasty, was in this team, he rode a Hexi horse that was paid tribute to by the Taiji Dashi Batur of the Qinghai Mongolian and Shuote Department, and wore a crown of good wings of the prince of the Ming Dynasty, a big red python robe, a jade belt tied around his waist, and his face was full of pride.

The sound of horses' hooves was thunderous, and hundreds of Wu family Ding Tieqi wearing expensive and beautiful fish scale waist-length armor and wine cup helmets on their heads, as well as dozens of civilian officials of the army wearing various official uniforms, gathered around Wu Sangui.

In front of Wu Sangui and the others, the thousands of cavalry under the command of Ma Bao, the commander of the iron cavalry, were all dressed in red cloth and iron armor, holding dozens of red flags, rolling in the wind, majestic.

Behind Wu Sangui and the others, there were countless red flags rolling, and there were endless foot soldiers wearing red cloth armor and helmets.

The main force of the Western Army of the Ming Dynasty has finally entered the customs!

It is not Shanhaiguan that enters, but Wuguan!

However, for Wu Sangui, the significance of his entry into Wuguan this time is still impossible to overemphasise. Because Emperor Xiao Mazi of the Qing Dynasty had previously declared that he would follow the example of Emperor Cao Rui of Wei Ming to resist Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, and then settled in Xi'an to guard the country.

And now Wu Sangui has entered Wuguan as a victor, which means that he has defeated the Qing Emperor Kangxi, who personally guarded the country, and won the house of the emperors of the 14th Dynasty, which is the best in the world, and has done something that Zhuge Liang failed to do in his five Northern Expeditions.

What made Wu Sangui even more excited was that Kangxi, the defeated little emperor of the Qing Dynasty, had to bow down to him in order to concentrate his strength on dealing with his good brother, Fuquan, who was "self-proclaimed regent"!

The Qing Emperor proclaimed himself a vassal of the Ming Dynasty!

What does this mean?

This shows that he, Wu Sangui, is now older than the little emperor of the Qing Dynasty. Naturally, he can be the emperor of the Great Zhou!

At the same time, Kangxi's retainers also made him ashamed, and he was forced to shave his hair after leading the Qing soldiers into the customs!

If you lead the soldiers into the customs to lead out a child emperor, even if you recognize the six-year-old Shunzhi as your father, even if you want to cut more land than the sixteen states of Yanyun, Wu Sangui will also admit it, at most people will scold Shi Jingjiao second!

But in the end, the benefits he got were much worse than Shi Jingjiao!

The child emperor didn't become a minion, but also became a slave of the little emperor of Shunzhi. This is really a shame in the traitor world!

A traitor like him, when he dies, he will be laughed at by them when he goes down to see Shi Jingjiao and Qin Hui, one of them is the emperor and the other is the executive deputy emperor, although he is scolded after death, he is very beautiful when he is alive. Where is it like Wu Sangui, when you are a traitor, you should go to a place like Yunnan, which is similar to filling the army and distributing it. In the end, I wanted to be a big traitor in Yunnan, but the little emperor Kangxi didn't allow it!

It's so angry to think about it!

Thinking of this, Wu Sangui coughed heavily.

Hearing him coughing, Liu Xuanchu and Wang Shirong, the two dog-headed military advisors, immediately stepped forward.

Wang Shirong said: "Lord Wang, it's cold, do you want to add some clothes?" ”

Liu Xuanchu also said: "Lord Wang, it's all ready. I'm ready to do big things for you! ”

It turned out that the yellow robe had already been made for Wu Sangui, and this time he was going to strike while the iron was hot and put Wu Sangui on the throne in one fell swoop!

However, Wu Sangui coughed at this time, not because he wanted to add clothes, but because he wanted to take something from Kangxi!

"The old man was outside the Shanhaiguan when he was shaved by Dolgon for no reason. It's not that the old man has a small amount of tools, but this loss, the old man must get it back! Xuan Chu, Shi Rong, how do you say the old man should be found? ”

Wang Shirong said: "Lord Wang, Dolgon cut your hair, you can also cut Kangxi's hair!" ”

Liu Xuanchu nodded: "Yes, we're going to cut their braids!" You can't just cut one, you have to cut them all! They Manchurians killed so many of us with a hair without a head, and this time we must find it. Give them a braid without a head! ”

"Good!" Wu Sangui nodded, "Someone, Xuan Ma Bao is here!" ”

Someone is entering the customs, and someone is exiting!

And the people who went out of the customs are now driving to Tongguan, the eastern gateway of Xi'an!

In the past two days, the small and dangerous Tongguan City, the army and military dependents have gathered, and the guard is extremely tight. The four gates of Tongguan - East Gate, West Gate, South Gate and Upper South Gate, after the arrival of Emperor Kangxi the day before yesterday, were taken over by the guard camp of his "West Eight Banners". Outside Tongguan City, all the places where troops can be stationed are full of Mabu troops and their families. Not only were the houses of the local people occupied by the army's dependents, but there were also tents and herds of war horses in the surrounding open spaces.

Although Tongguan was extremely dangerous and the number of troops gathered here was also large, the tense atmosphere still spread everywhere. Perhaps in order to relieve the tension of the big guys and avoid the camp roar, at night, countless bonfires will be lit around Tongguan, and from a distance, it seems that the stars in the sky have fallen. The sound of drums and trumpets to announce safety also continued to sound, and there were groups of patrolling knights, galloping back and forth, and no one knew how many people were working overtime.

However, it is not unreasonable for these people to work at night, because in Huayin County, not far from Tongguan, the handsome banner of General Wei Da, the leader of the Western Army of the Ming Dynasty and the governor of Ningxia, Wu Shicong, is already flying high in the city!

Wu Shicong led 20,000 Shaanxi and Gansu cavalry from Wuzhangyuan to the east five days ago, and did not encounter any obstacles along the way, and at dusk the day before yesterday they separated into the county town of Huayin, which had just been abandoned by the Qing army.

The 20,000 Shaanxi and Gansu cavalry were recruited from Liangzhou, Ganzhou, Xining, Pingliang, Ningxia and other state capitals and the area of Fengxiang in Shaanxi when Wu Yingqi and Wu Shicong and his son passed through Gansu. Many of them are descendants of the Shaanxi, Gansu and Ming armies, and some of them still retain a certain amount of strength after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, and they can be regarded as the heroes of Gansu.

The main force of the Shanxi thieves under Wu Sangui was actually an old border army from Datong Town, Yulin Town, Ningxia Town, Gansu Town, and Shaanxi Town. It is too common to have a common language with the descendants of the border army of the Ming Dynasty who are still suffering in Shaanxi and Gansu. As soon as many descendants of the border army of the Ming Dynasty saw the Xiwang Army wearing Ming Dynasty costumes, they cried and came to join the army - their own people are here! Hurry up and vote for it. If you want to fight the world and be a hero, you have to vote now, and there will be no place to make meritorious service when it's too late!

Because this group of meritorious Shaanxi and Gansu cavalry moved too quickly, it took only three days to run from Wuzhangyuan to Huayin County, which frightened Kangxi. If it weren't for the slow movement of the family members who withdrew from Xi'an, and the few boats on the Fenglingdu side, there was no way to immediately transport the 40,000 Eight Banner soldiers with 70,000 or 80,000 family members to Shanxi.

However, it was fortunate that Wu Shicong's army did not continue to march towards Tongguan after arriving in Huayin, nor did it prevent the family members who had withdrawn from Xi'an from moving to Tongguan through the official road north of Huayin County.

But Kangxi was still a little restless, for fear that Wu Sangui would suddenly turn his face after getting Xi'an City and send troops to raid his camp in Tongguan!

Although Kangxi has been laying out the facts and reasoning with his subordinates these days, telling them that Wu Sangui will definitely support the "Kang Ji Daqing" to fight Fuquan, the pseudo-regent - now the Qing Dynasty is "Fuqiang and Kang are weak", if Wu Sangui raids Kangxi, then Kangxi will be over immediately, and the civil war in the Qing Dynasty will end immediately. This didn't do Wu Sangui any good, how could that old fox do it?

But who can guarantee that the old fox will not go crazy?

Maybe Wu Sangui felt that it was better to cut off Kangxi's head to relieve his hatred, and it could also win him more Han support.

So in the past two days, Kangxi has been in Tongguan City, which is called uncertain! Even Mo Luo, the governor of Shanxi who came to meet him, Chen Tingjing, the minister of Shanxi regimental training, and Yu Chenglong, the deputy minister of Shanxi regimental training, all felt that this Kangxi emperor was a little restless.

Mo Luo, Chen Tingjing and Yu Chenglong are all loyal slaves or loyal ministers of the Qing Dynasty, and they came from Shanxi together today, in addition to welcoming them, just to make peace for the two brothers Kangxi and Fuquan. This brother is incompatible, and An can tolerate the world? At this time, when the three of them saw Kangxi's restless appearance, they all felt that there was a drama.

Mo Luo and Yu Chenglong both glanced at Kangxi's teacher Chen Tingjing, and Chen Tingjing also knew that he had a heavy responsibility, so he had to bite the bullet and say one by one: "Your Majesty, don't worry too much. In fact, the regent, no, it is King Yu, he has no intention of usurping the throne, at least not yet. ”

"Yes, yes," Mo Luo said with a smile, "King Yu actually doesn't have that strong strength, a while ago, Mu Zhan, the general under the command of King An, was defeated in Huaibei and lost Xuzhou, which shook Henan and Shandong, and King Yu had to send Guanyin Bao to lead the new army of Fengtai battalion south to Jining to resist the northern expeditionary army of Liu Jinzhong, the king of the puppet Ming Dynasty. Now there are only Yang Qilong's Zhili regimental training, Shi Lang's sailors, and the Mongolian cavalry directly under King Yu. There are quite a few people, but most of them are not very capable of fighting. ”

Yu Chenglong, a capable official who is said to not make much money, also agreed: "That's right, King Yu invited King Gong and Heilongjiang General Ba Hai to Beijing a while ago, and wanted to transfer troops from outside the customs into the customs, but they were rejected by King Gong and Ba Hai. King Gong and Ba Hai proposed to hold a council of ministers to discuss the state of the country, and in the end King Yu had to agree to King Gong and Ba Hai's request."

"Humph!" Kangxi looked disdainful and interrupted, "What kind of battle is Fuquan fighting?" In vain, he lost 30,000 elite soldiers in Suzhou, and he also lost Xuzhou! Those 30,000 elite soldiers have fought bloody battles with the puppet Ming rebels in Huguang and Jiangnan, and only the 40,000 elite soldiers of the eight battalions led by me can be compared. The so-called new army that Fuquan has set up in Beijing is nothing compared to these 30,000 elite soldiers! What if Guanyinbao's new army is all in Beijing? What can the troops outside the customs of Bahai do when they enter the customs? has not fought against King Wu Xi and Wang Rebellion, and he is not a real elite. ”

Kangxi's words were full of confidence, and at the same time, he also showed his determination to prepare for war with Fuquan!

As far as he knew, the so-called "new army" under Fu Quan was not new at all, and it was still the same set when Wang Fuchen was training at the small station, taking General Weiyuan's cannon (mortar artillery) and sub-mother cannon as the main force of artillery, and the tactics of muskets were also old-fashioned nine-in-ten chains, and it was difficult to coordinate such gun tactics and equipment on the battlefield.

Therefore, Fuquan's new army can't defeat Kangxi's Xi'an Banner Army at all - the Xi'an Banner Army is on the battlefield, and the tuition fee is paid and the Wu family army is learned!

The current Xi'an Banner Army has long abandoned the Weiyuan General Cannon and the weak sub-mother cannon that are only used when hitting fixed targets, and has turned to a large number of bronze artillery that can fire three-jin and six-pound units. At the same time, he also abandoned the shotgun tactics of nine into ten consecutive chains, and instead adopted the tactics of arranging shotguns on both sides of the spear and knife array, relying on the spear formation to defend or cover the attack of pikemen and knife soldiers.

Moreover, the old foundation of the Xi'an Banner Army is the flag army and the green battalion soldiers who were beaten by Wu Sangui in southern Sichuan and suffered heavy losses, they have all been trained on the battlefield for several years until now, they have smelled enough of the gunpowder smoke and seen a lot of corpses and mountains of blood, how can Fuquan's army compare?

Besides, Wu Sangui will also provide up to 10,000 reinforcements - although there are not many reinforcements, and they may not really go up to fight, but as long as they can help shout and cheer, it is enough to clarify their position.

Seeing that Kangxi seemed to be very sure, Mo Luo, Chen Tingjing, and Yu Chenglong also hurriedly stated their positions.

"Your Majesty, since you have made up your mind, the slave is willing to lead the 20,000 elite of the Green Battalion in Shanxi to advance His Majesty!"

"Your Majesty, the minister is also willing to lead the Shanxi regiment to train 10,000 people to follow Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty, the ministers also have a group training of 5,000, which is enough to fight with thieves!"

Hearing the three of them say something, Kangxi was a little more sure. 20,000 green battalions plus 15,000 regimental training plus 40,000 West Road Banner Army, a total of 75,000!

"Okay, I have 75,000 elite soldiers, so why be afraid?"

As soon as Kangxi's words fell, as if someone was embarrassing him in the dark, Xiao Guizi's panicked voice suddenly came from outside the door: "Emperor, the emperor is not good, the Wu army from Huayin is coming to Tongguan!" ”

As soon as Kangxi heard this, his face changed, and he didn't know where he had gone with that little confidence just now?

Mo Luo saw Kangxi's face suddenly change, and habitually expressed his loyalty: "Your Majesty, the 20,000 green battalion soldiers of the minions have arrived in Puzhou and Jiezhou, and they can enter Shaanxi at any time to fight against Wu Rebellion!" ”

Chen Tingjing and Yu Chenglong saw it, and they hurriedly wanted to follow up, but before their words could be spoken, Kangxi reprimanded with a straight face: "Mo Luo, don't talk nonsense, who is Wu Reverse?" ”

Mo Luo, Chen Tingjing and Yu Chenglong were all stunned, Kangxi gritted his teeth, and said loudly to Xiao Guizi outside: "Xiao Guizi, immediately send someone to summon the generals. I will go out with them! ”

Out of the way? Mo Luo, Chen Tingjing and Yu Jackie Chan thought: Do you want to fight? It seems that the emperor is still quite brave, and he was not afraid of Wu Sangui!

"The decree of the king of the Ming West, please come out to receive the decree of the Qing lord Wu Xuanye!"

Under the city of Tongguan, with Ma Bao's loud roar, Mo Luo, Chen Tingjing, Yu Chenglong, and all the other generals of the Western Road Banner Army who followed Kangxi to greet him all looked in the direction where Kangxi was.

Some of them already know who the "Qing Lord Wu Xuanye" is?

This is in the "Chang'an Covenant" signed not long ago, Wu Sangui gave Kangxi the full name of the Kangxi Emperor after the surname "Wu". Kangxi is Wu Xuanye now!

Although Kangxi signed the "Chang'an Covenant", he also expressed his gratitude to Wu Sangui for giving his surname - now Wu Sangui is the king, Kangxi is the minister, and it is a great honor for the king to give the surname to the minister! Of course, Kangxi has to be thanked. However, his face is still a little unbearable, so this "Wu" surname is not a common surname, and Kangxi's common surname is still Aixin Jueluo.

But now Ma Bao came from Huayin with more than 10,000 horsemen, and also brought Wu Sangui's order to see "Wu Xuanye" by name, can Kangxi not agree?

"Xuan Ye is here." Kangxi had no choice but to answer stubbornly.

"What?" Ma Bao looked very dissatisfied, "Wu Xuanye, did you miss something?" ”

"Chen Wu Xuanye is here!" Kangxi gritted his teeth and corrected it.

Mo Luo, Chen Tingjing, and Yu Jackie Chan who just came here were all stunned!

Why did Kangxi become "Minister Wu Xuanye"?

And Kangxi couldn't care about the disappointment in the hearts of his courtiers at this time, he could only try to stick to the bottom line - he couldn't kneel to meet Wu Sangui's order, and he couldn't leave the protection of the guards to go forward to receive the order.

Ma Bao glanced at the more than 10,000 Eight Banner soldiers who were brought out of the town by Kangxi - they set up a large phalanx under Tongguan City, and Kangxi, who was surrounded by a group of people on horseback, could retract at any time.

Since this Kangxi is not very easy to grasp, Ma Bao will not consider extraneous branches, but he can't completely let Kangxi Ruyi, I saw him smile and said: "Lord Daqing, I see that you are neatly clothed, and it is inconvenient to get on and off the horse, so it is not just the decree, but I still have to tell you the content of the decree." ”

As he spoke, he opened his throat and said: "His Royal Highness the King of the West said that since Wu Xuanye is a vassal to his old man, he should abide by his rules, and the rule of the King of the West for men to keep small braids is to keep braids without their heads, and keep their heads without braids!" Wu Xuanye, what do you want to keep? ”

"Of course it's the head!" Kangxi breathed a sigh of relief, "Xiao Guizi helped me cut my braids!" ”

In fact, this braid is not uncut for the Manchurians. The rule in Manchuria is "keep your hair without your head", and it is absolutely not okay to grow your hair, but there is nothing wrong with shaving a big bald head, it is much better than cutting your head with braids.

When Ma Bao saw Kangxi's attitude, he couldn't find fault with it, so he had to continue: "King Xi said that everyone here in Tongguan has to cut their braids!" Back then, Dolgon ordered to shave his hair and make it easy to wear, I don't know how many people were harmed! The king of the west will seek a little justice for them today. Whoever dares to wear braids will have his head cut off! ”

Kangxi's braid has been cut off by Xiao Guizi, but his head is still there, so he can raise his braid high and say loudly: "Ministers, soldiers, I order you to cut your braids immediately. Keep your head! ”

(End of chapter)