On the eighth day of October in the 22nd year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, in the afternoon, Qufu County, Yanzhou Prefecture, Shandong, outside the south gate of the Yishui Courtyard of Confucius Mansion. The 67th generation grandson of the Confucian saint, the current Yan Shenggong Kong Yuqi is dressed in all robes, trembling, standing on the side of the road. Behind him were a group of Confucian retainers and local officials in Shandong, and everyone was worried.

The 500 Confucian Mansion guards and the 500 Kang Wangfu guards were all neatly draped, arrayed on both sides of the official road, standing face to face, waiting quietly. On both sides of the road, a little far away from the south gate of the Confucian Palace, there is a post in five steps, a post in ten steps, and a sentry in ten steps, all of which are Qing soldiers wearing gowns, carrying arquebuses, carrying waist knives, and wearing warm hats. A little farther away from the official road, there were also some cavalrymen who looked quite strong, escorted on all sides, some with muskets on their backs and some with spears in hand, all with their chests and bellies protruding, looking around.

This scene is enough to be heavily guarded and impermeable, but the expressions on the faces of everyone present are not a little calm, but since the Holy Father of Kong, everyone is restless.

The guards of the Confucian Mansion and the Kang Mansion, although they are both dressed similarly and are both men with grown figures, but now they are standing face to face, looking at the other side, their eyes are quite cold, and even a little gloomy.

The Confucian family is all Shandong people who are a water, and they have been sheltered in the Confucian Mansion for generations, many of whom are also surnamed Kong, and they know the Confucian family's wall grass law best Since Kangxi was defeated in Zou County, the Confucian family in Qufu is naturally going to fall to the Ming Dynasty according to the law of the ancestors, so Kang Wangjieshu, who ruled Tai'an Mansion, is the enemy of Confucius and Mingjiao!

And the guards of King Kang's Mansion are all outsiders who came to Shandong from Beijing or Liaodong, and they are here to oppress the people of Shandong! Otherwise, how can a small Tai'an Mansion afford to raise an army of 20,000? And Tai'an Mansion and King Kang's Mansion in Jining Prefecture are still so luxurious? A brick and a wood are all the people's fat and people's ointment in Shandong. Part of it is taken from the Confucian family's grange in Tai'an.

The rents of these granges should have been eaten with the help of the Confucian family, but now that they are all owned by the servants of King Kang's mansion, Confucius under Jiuquan must have been angry!

Robbing the food of the family members of the Confucian Mansion is "anti-Confucianism and anti-Confucius"!

And the people of King Kang's Mansion did not like the people of the Kong family. Qufu Kong's family, the old surrender family! Whoever will surrender to whose master! Now the emperor has suffered a defeat in Zou County, saying that he lost 30,000 soldiers. According to past practice, 30,000 times two is almost an actual loss. That's 60,000!

Even if the battle of Zou County began to cross the Yi River and march into Zou County, it was only a few days. Sixty thousand lost in a few days. Why can't the emperor practice the skills of soldiers? Alas, the battle of Zou County was fought to achieve this virtue, and then Qufu will be lost!

Qufu was lost, and the Kong family surrendered 100%!

At that time, the Confucian family will not only be used by the Ming Dynasty and become a tool for the Ming Dynasty to envelop the Han people in the north, but also the savings of the Confucian family for many years, especially the grain storage, will be used by the Ming Dynasty. It's better to take advantage of the fact that now, the Qufu Kong family will be raided!

I heard that the Kong family is richer than the emperor, and the family has so much silver in deposit that they can't count it!

And the funerary goods brought to the coffin by the Holy Fathers of the past generations are also priceless. This "fight" of Confucius Mansion will fall down no matter what!

Kong Shenggong's own mood was of course the most restless. Although his family is an "old surrender family", and there are ancestral "surrender cheats" and "family protection cheats", this situation has never been encountered.

In the past surrender incidents, the Kong family has always watched the big drama of the world from afar, whoever wins and kowtows to whom, and whoever comes to power will stand for whom. But the Kong family itself has never appeared in the center of the stage of the struggle for hegemony. But this time, the Kong family actually stood in the center of the stage, although he was not the protagonist, but he was also a big trick. It is also involved in a big rebellion case of killing the monarch and plotting rebellion!

Although Kong Shenggong was very reluctant to mix, he also threw the pot to Shang Shuying. But if Shang Shuying messes things up, can the Kong family get out of it? She is going to be arrested, and under severe torture, she is still not allowed to confess to the Kong family?

But if he wanted Kong Shenggong to betray Shang Shuying to protect himself, he wouldn't dare!

Selling "dogs" depends on the owner!

Shang Shuying is Li Zhongshan's "dog." Kong Shenggong dared to sell her, and when Li Zhongshan came to Qufu and sent him, Kong Shenggong, to see his ancestors, it was not an easy matter?

Killed Kong Shenggong and later "Gong"! If a new saint comes up, he will still sing praises for General Li, and even if the general wants to be the emperor, he will take the lead in persuading him.

Therefore, Kong Shenggong is now having a feeling of walking through the abyss with a hemp rope, and if he is not careful, he will become a "first father" if he falls!

Seeing the worried appearance of the Holy Father, Sun Sike, the commander of Shandong, walked to Kong Yuqi's side and coughed.

Kong Shenggong looked back and found that it was the No. 2 imperial court official on the ground in Shandong who came, and hurriedly asked in a low voice: "Sun Junmen, do you have any orders?" ”

Although Sun Sike is a Han army, and he is also included in the four Han generals of Hexi in history, he is different from Daniel Zhang, Zhao Liangdong, and Wang Jinbao, and the "shallow slaves" of those three were all surrendered after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, and he Sun Sike is a glorious "second generation of slaves", the son of the great traitor Sun Degong, that is the slave of the old Han army Zhengbai Banner! What he looked down on the most was Daniel Zhang, Zhao Liangdong, and Wang Jinbao, the juniors of the slaves. Oh, of course, including the current empress Yang Xiaomi and Yang Qilong, the superintendent of the Joseon state.

These two cannot be regarded as the real children of the Eight Banners, Yang Xiaomi, who impersonated himself to enter the Yuwang Mansion, and after the fall of Yuwang, she should be sent to the internal management as a slave. But Kangxi actually married her directly as the queen!

It's just too unusual

And Sun Sike, a "minion", has always had a problem of "joy and anger", so it is very unlikable, although he has worked hard for the Qing Dynasty in history, he can't even be a baron - later Qianlong looked at him pitifully, no one was a second minister, and he made so many contributions, why couldn't he be a lord? So he was posthumously awarded a first-class baron.

This time, his problems have not changed, Queen Yang has developed him as a candidate confidant from the beginning, but he looks down on the queen's mother. So much so that Empress Yang wondered if he had a habit of dragon yang? Empress Yang's body has been particularly popular with men since she grew up, and she has rarely met Sun Sike like this.

So Queen Yang didn't go to her heart. The Qing Dynasty couldn't help this, so he gave him a Shandong governor who didn't have a few soldiers to supervise, and sent him to Shandong, where there were many princes, to be an official - the Shandong governor said that he was a governor, but because the territory of Shandong was almost all divided into large and small princes, the territory directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court was only the capital of Shandong, Jinan, the capital of Licheng, and Qihe, Yucheng, Pingyuan, and Dezhou, which also belonged to Jinan, a total of one state and four counties.

This point of territory is managed by the governor of Shandong, the political envoy of Shandong, the envoy of Shandong, the military gate of Shandong, and the prefect of Jinan, although the territory is small, there are many troubles (it has to be maintained between a group of princes who cannot be provoked), and there is no money, but Sun Sike still worked hard to maintain the promotion of 1,000 people, and he did not extinguish the mind of allegiance to the Qing Dynasty.

However, Kangxi didn't look down on his 1,000 standard-lifters at all, all of them were outdated weapons, and many of them were still carrying bows and arrows, which was funny. But Kangxi didn't let him go back to Jinan, which would discourage people's enthusiasm too much, but sent him to Qufu to garrison.

So Sun Sike had no way to enter the loyalty, and he was blessed by misfortune - otherwise he would probably have gone down to see Sun Degong by now.

After Sun Sike arrived in Qufu, his enthusiasm was quite high, and he had been doing his best to protect Kong Shenggong. Now seeing that Kong Shenggong was uneasy, he took the initiative to come up and relieve him: "Shenggong, you can rest assured, although the emperor has suffered a small setback in Zou County, his vitality is still there, and there is a strong city to defend here in Qufu. If the Ming army dares to come, the official will defend the city with you, even if the Ming army has 100,000 people, they will not want to take Qufu Jiancheng! Besides, the Ming army's grain route is cut off, as long as we are in Qufu Jiancheng for ten days and eight days, they should run out of food and retreat. ”

Kong Shenggong sighed, and said in his heart: You Sun Junmen knows a fart. According to the 'Parallel Trench Siege Method' that Ben Sheng Gong learned from the textbooks of the Ming Army's Lecture Hall, Qufu will defend for a month at most! Moreover, the Ming army will not run out of food, because in order to show the sincerity of surrender, Ben Sheng Gong has sent someone to tell General Li the location of a granary on Nishan that contains 200,000 stone wheat and 100,000 bales of hay! These 200,000 stone wheat alone can feed General Li's 800,000 army for at least thirty days!

Just when Kong Shenggong was calculating how many days Li Zhongshan could support after getting the grain he contributed, he suddenly heard a sound of horses' hooves from far and near, he hurriedly looked up, and saw from a distance that Ma Hada, the deputy capital of King Kang's Mansion who was sent out to meet Kangxi, had already rushed back with more than a dozen fast horses, and shouted to Kong Shenggong from afar: "The emperor has arrived, the emperor has arrived!" ”

The guards of the Confucian Mansion and the guards of the Kang Palace, who had been waiting a little impatiently, hummed and let out a low noise, and then one by one they stretched their necks to look south.

Everyone knows that Kangxi was defeated, but what did he become of it?

After a while, a yellow flag finally appeared on the horizon, waving in the wind, and there was no clear figure on it, but it was about a dragon flag, right? After a while, the big guy saw a jumping spear helmet and helmet at the end, and then saw thousands of knights of all colors, surrounded by Emperor Kangxi, appeared in sight.

These thousands of cavalry did not belong to one horseman, but to a total of six flags of two red, two blue, inlaid white, and yellow, among which there was also a cavalryman wearing a blue coat, who was the person of Prince Kang's Jieshu, and some were wearing cuirasses, which were Kangxi's elite white armor.

Thousands of cavalry from different sources were now mixed together, and there were no banners, and they were not in good formation, but a large group of people came in like stragglers.

Sun Sike and some other Qing officials' hearts sank, and Kong Shenggong let out a sigh of relief and bet on the bet!

By the way, I have to follow Shang Shuying's Confucius soldiers to give instructions when I turn around, so that they can help Shang Shuying make meritorious contributions! If the great merit of killing Kangxi is really taken by Shang Shuying, it will be taken by Li Zhongshan!

This favor is big enough!

At this moment, Mahada, who was crying mourners, had already arrived in front of Kong Shenggong and Sun Sike, who was thinking about what to do about this surrender and did not pay attention. And Sun Sike had already seen Mahada's expression clearly, and hurriedly asked, "Deputy Commander Ma. How's it going? How is your prince? ”

It's good that he didn't mention the "prince", but as soon as he mentioned the "prince", the mahadow fell from the horse crying and fell: "The prince is gone. My lord is gone."

Jieshu is dead in battle! Dead throughout.

According to Goshha, who protruded from Prince Kang's side, Prince Kang was shot with a black gun on the afternoon of the seventh day of October when he went to the front line (in fact, the front line was approaching him) to supervise the war, and he was shot in the left leg and thigh, bleeding profusely, and the bullet penetrated deep into the bone marrow, and there was no way to take it out, so he had to invite a military doctor to rescue him. This doctor, the disciple of the Le Shen Doctor, is said to have won the true transmission of the Le Shen Doctor, and after just a little observation, he asked people to bring a saw to see his legs!

Jieshu didn't agree at first, so he said it badly, but in the end, he really had no choice, so he reluctantly agreed to abandon his leg to save his life.

As a result, Jieshu had a good thigh, so he let this miracle doctor be sawed alive, just sawed up, and before he could let Jieshu take a look, the Ming army called. And the doctor didn't bandage Jieshu with medicine to relieve the pain, but left the prince who was missing a leg and fled for his life

"This, this is too miserable, isn't it?" Kong Shenggong listened to Mahada's description, and gasped on the spot, "How much is left of the emperor's army?" ”

Mahada shook his head: "I don't know if the lower officials only encountered these, but the emperor said that there are still 30,000 foot riders behind him, and there are more than 20,000 elite people with white flags and two red flags, and there are 60,000 people in total."

It's over, there are only about 30,000 left!

Sun Sike knows the rules, and the number of remnants of the defeated battle is the real data. If you win the battle, you will destroy the enemy and fold it in half! So Kangxi's true strength was immediately calculated.

And Kong Shenggong also knew that Kangxi had lost miserably, and he couldn't even put out a whole color of horse team, how could there be 60,000 people?

It's over!

Although I knew in my heart that something was wrong, I still had to save my face, but I couldn't show the expression that the Qing Dynasty was going to end.

So Kong Shenggong, Sun Sike, Ma Hada, and other high-ranking officials went south together to meet Kangxi's defeated army, and after a while, the two sides met. When they got closer, Kong Shenggong and Sun Sike found that this group of "flower cavalry" were all depressed and tired, and their war horses were all wilted, dragging their steps, barely moving forward.

Kangxi himself looked drowsy, and he almost fell asleep on the back of a horse - he was also under great pressure like Li Zhongshan, and he was so worried that he couldn't close his eyes for a few days and nights

"The ministers greet the emperor, and the ministers respectfully invite St. Ann"

The voice of a group of energetic ministers asking for peace together made Kangxi tremble, and most of his sleepiness disappeared suddenly, he rubbed his eyes, cheered up a little, and looked at the Confucian family courtyard in front of him, which can be called a fortress, his eyes were sour, and tears flickered.

"Your Majesty," Sun Sike saw that Kangxi was about to cry, and hurriedly enlightened him, "Victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, and the emperor is still green now, so why worry about not burning the enemy's firewood?" Besides, there are 10,000 elite soldiers in Qufu City, with sufficient grain and grass, and abundant military resources, if the defenders get their own people, they can resist 100,000 thieves! ”

When Kangxi heard this, his mood suddenly became a lot happier, and at the same time, he felt that he couldn't be cowardly now, and he had to show a confident appearance, so he laughed.

When he laughed, everyone below was stupid - it couldn't be that he lost the battle and ate too badly, couldn't stand the blow, and went crazy, right?

"Your Majesty, why should you laugh?" Kong Sheng's justice.

Kangxi said with a smile: "I laughed at Li Yat-sen's vain claim to be the reincarnation of Wuhou, and Sun Wu was reborn, but after all, it was still a bad move!" If Wuhou and Sun Tzu use soldiers, they will definitely divide their troops in Qufu and set up a killing move here in Qufu. When our troops are defeated at this point, they must be anxious to rest, and the three armies will sleep peacefully, and if they suddenly attack at night, they will surely win a great victory. Pity. Li Zhongshan is just Li Zhongshan after all! ”

When Kong Shenggong heard this, he thought: Your Majesty, Li Yat-sen has already arranged a killing move! Just take it slowly

(End of chapter)