Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 233 Invite Mr. Yan Quickly
Jingzhou.

Zheng Siwei, the deputy commander-in-chief on the top of the city, was full of sadness. He didn't expect that after killing Meng Changgeng and surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, he would attract so many sieges from the former Shun army comrades.

Nine troops including Li Jin, Gao Yigong, Li You, He Lan, Liu Rukui, Ma Chongxi, Zhang Neng, Tian Hu, and Yang Yanchang gathered under the city of Jingzhou.

Looking at the familiar flags, Zheng Siwei sighed constantly.

His hometown in Weishi, Henan Province, dropped out of school due to his youthful misbehavior, and became a gangster when he grew up. When Li Zicheng moved to the Central Plains, he joined the Chuang Army, and was promoted repeatedly because of his youth and bravery.

When Ren Guangrong, the general of the Dashun military system, led 6000 troops to settle in Jingzhou, he came to Jingzhou together as a partial general.

In February of the first year of the new year, Li Zicheng abandoned Shaanxi and retreated to Huguang via Dengzhou, Henan, all the way to Jingzhou, but he only stayed in Jingzhou for ten days before abandoning this important city. Zheng Siwei was left to assist Meng Changgeng in guarding Jingzhou.

In Zheng Siwei's view, this is simply to let them stay and wait to die.

Seeing that Li Zicheng's situation was gone, Zheng Siwei contacted the officers in private, launched an attack to behead Meng Changgeng, seized Jingzhou and led the people to surrender.

After accepting his surrender, Azig appointed him as the deputy general and still guarded Jingzhou.Ben used to have a promising future, but who knew that Li Zicheng was dead, and these remnants of the Shun army did not surrender to the Qing Dynasty but to the Ming Dynasty, and even joined forces to encircle them.

The outskirts of Jingzhou lost several cities, and the Shun army fought all the way to the city of Jingzhou. Zheng Siwei didn't dare to leave the city, so he had to send people to break through the encirclement to report to Tong Yang and the governor of Wuchang for help.

"Send people to Wuchang for help, and send people to Hanzhong and Xiangyang for help. If no one comes, Jingzhou will be gone!"

The general behind him looked at the battalion [-] miles away from Jingzhou City, all of them were frowning, "General, if you send people out of the city now, they probably won't go far, and they won't be able to escape the interception of the other party's patrolling cavalry."

"Then go out of the city at night, divide up a few more troops, and ask for help no matter how difficult it is!"

downstream.

Wuchang.

Governor Tong Yanghe had already packed up and saluted, and was ready to hand over the work in the area of ​​Luo Xiujin before returning to Beijing.

He has had enough of this mess in Huguang.

After Azig returned to the north, he didn't leave any soldiers for him. Tong Yanghe was in Wuchang and had no soldiers in his hands, so he had to row the river with He Tengjiao in Hunan to rule.

At that time, the rest of the Shun Army was still numerous, and Tong Yanghe couldn't fight, so he wanted to appease him. He sent people to contact Hao Yaoqi, Ma Jinzhong, Yuan Zongdi, Tian Jianxiu and others. Take the initiative to reach out to them.

It cannot be said that his strategy of recruiting was wrong, after all, he had no soldiers in his hands at that time, and after Li Zicheng's death, the Shun army was also without a leader, and it was very chaotic.Not only Tong Yanghe is recruiting to surrender, but He Tengjiao in the south is also recruiting.

At the beginning, Tong Yanghe moved faster. At that time, the Qing army was powerful, so Tian Jianxiu and others were also willing to negotiate, and put forward many conditions, such as allocating land for guarding, assigning officials to pay, and so on.

Tong Yanghe agreed.

But in the end, it was only one step away from success. In the end, the matter of recruitment was reported to Beijing, where it was agreed in principle, but there was one condition, that is, the hair must be shaved.

Tong Yanghe and Ben didn't care, but who knew that Yuan Zongdi was the first to refuse, Hao Yaoqi also refused to shave his hair, and Tian Jianxiu, who had already surrendered, also refused to shave his hair, and instead accepted He Tengjiao, Du Yinxi and others. surrender.

After Li Guo and others went south, Tian Jianxiu and others met and united with Li Guo and others, and finally sent Li Guo Yuan Zongdi Hao Yaoqi to go to the east to meet Lu Jianguo in person, and came back more firmly to join Daming.

Tong Yanghe's recruiting plan also failed completely.

Even because of ineffective recruitment, hundreds of thousands of rebels turned to the Ming army and were held accountable by Beijing. The final result was that he was removed from the post of governor of Chuanhu and replaced by Luo Xiujin, governor of Henan.

Tong Yanghe held his breath, but there was nothing he could do.

"Jingzhou is besieged?"

After Tong Yanghe received the request for help from the upper reaches, he just threw it aside, "When they entered the city, didn't they encounter the Ming army outside Wuchang?"

"Jingzhou is the only one under siege, and my father Wuchang is also under siege, and he still wants to ask Jingzhou to send troops to help!"

When Li Guo and other nine troops surrounded Jingzhou, Yuan Zongdi, Hao Yaoqi, and Ma Jinzhong also joined forces, claiming to be 20, marching from Yuezhou to Wuchang, and now they are sweeping the periphery.

But Tong Yanghe has been dismissed from the post of governor, and the new governor has not yet arrived, and there are not many soldiers in Wuchang City.

It is said that the supervision bid is [-], but in fact the supervision bid is not full at all, and there are not many who can fight.

The terrible thing is that not long ago, he sent Huguang General Soldier Zu Kefa, Huangzhou General Soldier Xu Yong, and Chengtian General Soldier Jia Sansheng to join forces to suppress the anti-Qing troops in the 48 villages in Qihuangshan Mountain.

At this time in the Dabie Mountains, Wang Jinyan, the former governor of Henan, Hebei and Shanxi, contacted various villages to fight against the Qing Dynasty. In the Dabie Mountains such as Luotian, Huangmei, and Huanggang, there were more than 48 cottages of different sizes, and [-] villages with the most powerful ones respected this former Minister of the Ministry of War. , The governor is the leader.

Tong Yanghe sent Zu Kefa, Xu Yong and other coalition troops to encircle and suppress them. At this time, the soldiers had all gone into the mountainous area, and they could not be transferred back for a while. Only Zhang Yingxiang, the general of Wuchang, and Hao Yingzhong, the deputy supervisor of the standard, were left in Wuchang City.

There are no more than three thousand soldiers.

Facing the overwhelming Ming army, Tong Yanghe had no choice but to send people everywhere to ask for help, apart from ordering the city gates to be closed and urgently recruiting strong men to help defend the city.

On the one hand, Zu Kefa, Xu Yong and others were urgently called back to Wuchang to help, on the other hand, they sent people to Jiujiang, Anqing and Jiangning downstream for help, and urgently asked for help at eight hundred miles to Beijing.

"What about Jingzhou?"

"Let Zheng Siwei stand firm and wait for help. Jingzhou is an important town with high walls and strong walls. Although there are many intruders, what can we do?" Tong Yanghe waved his hands ruthlessly.

Jiangning.

Recruiting Southern Governor Hong Chengchou, a scholar of the Inner Academy of Military Affairs, has been having some headaches recently. The regent of Beijing, Dorgon, has been urging Jiangnan to pay taxes, money and food, saying that the funds are insufficient. .

But Jiangnan has been unable to hand over the money and food for a long time.

Hong Chengchou was speechless in the face of the accusations, and could only keep urging the governors and governors below, but even Tu Guobao, the richest governor of Changzhen Susong, kept complaining, saying that before the Jiangnan Rebellion, the treasuries of various places had money and food. They were looted, even the money and food of local wealthy households and common people's homes were looted.

Now, according to the order of the imperial court, people are sent to urge the collection of food and payment, and three payment are added to the payment, but the effect is very little, and it is impossible to collect it at all.

He is now sending troops to force conscripts, but even if houses are demolished to arrest people, the effect is mediocre. On the contrary, because of the forceful conscripts, the rebellion in various places has intensified. He complains that soldiers are afraid to stay away from towns now. If you are alone, you may be attacked by rebels, and even the canal will not be safe.

They also complained that most of the newly reorganized green battalions in various places were not fully equipped and had insufficient food and salaries. They all hoped that they could replenish the money and food for armaments as soon as possible, otherwise it would be difficult to suppress the increasingly fierce rebellions in various places.

Hong Chengchou originally wanted to urge taxes from all over the country, but now local officials and generals such as Tu Guobao Li Yuchun turned to him for supplementary military supplies and salaries.

Helpless, Hong Chengchou had to sit in his study and began to truthfully report the situation in the south of the Yangtze River to the regent of Beijing, and suggested that the implementation of the hair-shaving order be suspended to appease the people, and at the same time stop the three payments...
Beijing.

Regent Dorgon was furious after facing the urgent request for help from Jingzhou and Wuchang, Hubei, and the report from Hong Chengchou in Jiangning.

After Azige's class, he boasted everywhere about his achievements in the southern expedition. How he chased and wiped out the main force of the Shun army in more than a year, wiped out Li Zicheng and his backbone Liu Zongmin, and how he successively captured more than [-] cities including Henan, Hubei and Jiangxi. Go ahead and ask for a reward.

But now the reports of Tong Yanghe, Zheng Siwei, Hong Chengchou, Pan Shilin, etc. all show that the current situation in Huguang is very bad.

The furious Dorgon ordered that Nanzheng's coach and Prince Shuoying Azige be demoted to the county king, and fined 5000 taels of silver.In addition, Gushan Erzhen Tantai, who was enlisted, was removed from the Duke, relieved of his original position, and demoted to Angbang Zhangjing, so that he could redeem himself.For the commander of the Xianghuang Banner Guards and the first-class Meile Zhangjing Obai who accompanied the army, they were fined a hundred taels of silver, and it was specially stipulated that the merits of the soldiers who accompanied Azig in the expedition were not allowed to discuss.

After this harsh punishment, Dorgon thought of the very talented Mr. Yan who had been summoned before.

"Called the great scholar Yan Wogong,"

In the chaos of Huguang, he wanted to hear the advice of Yan Wogong, who had quelled the rebellion in the Wuyue area.

As soon as Mr. Yan arrived, Dorgon, who was immersed in reviewing the memorial, immediately stood up and came to the door to greet him in person.

"Duke Yan, there is chaos in Hubei, please teach me a good strategy!"

(End of this chapter)