Be the emperor from the postman

When the emperor scolded Lu Xiangsheng in public, Lu Xiangsheng's body had already frozen hard.

A few days later, Liu Qin, the deputy general who broke out from the siege, found Lu Xiangsheng's body on the battlefield, and confirmed that his subordinates were wearing sackcloth (for his father's funeral) and had a supervisor guarding them.

He carried the body to Xinle County and handed it over to Yang Tinglin, who was under Lu Xiangsheng's command, and Yang Tinglin transported the body to Zhending Dongguan for cleaning.

Yu Ying, the magistrate of Shunde, hurried to confirm after learning about it. After finding that Lu Xiangsheng had really died in battle, she immediately reported to the court to know.

Seven days later, Yang Sichang went back and forth to confirm Lu Xiangsheng's death in battle and reported to the emperor.

Regarding Lu Xiangsheng's death in battle, Chongzhen didn't say anything. He didn't give a funeral or provide compensation, and kept his body outside.

After all, high officials of the imperial court died fighting for the country, and no matter what, the family members had to look at the arrangement of the imperial court and take the next step.

But in the end there was no arrangement, Lu Xiangsheng was worse than Sun Chengzong, at least the emperor talked about finding someone to pay for it.

Even when Lu Xiangsheng's family asked for a tribute, Emperor Chongzhen refused.

After Yang Sichang died, Chongzhen gave Lu Xiangsheng a posthumous title.

On the one hand, it was because Yang Sichang was there, and on the other hand, it was because Chongzhen felt that Lu Xiangsheng had failed his trust in him.

If he could be dismissed earlier and replaced, maybe this series of fiascos would not have happened.

What Chongzhen was upset about was not that Lu Xiangsheng died in battle, but that he did not deal with Lu Xiangsheng as decisively as he dealt with Yuan Chonghuan, and changed his commander.

Therefore, in the eyes of Chongzhen, the dead have no united front value.

Even if he is a loyal minister of Ming Dynasty, that's useless.

On the contrary, if they are alive and have military strength, even if they make a mistake, Chongzhen still has to pinch his nose to appease him.

For example, Zuo Liangyu, even Xiong Wencan can't control them, and the emperor and Yang Sichang have to make lubricant for them.

For example, Xu Dingchen, the governor of Shanxi, just refused to follow the order to come to King Qin.

He said that he must beware of the hammer bandits leaving Yanmen Pass, occupying the entire Shanxi Province, and threatening the capital.

After all, there are still two counties in Shanxi in the hands of Xu Dingchen.

As a loyal minister of Ming Dynasty, the one who dies is the fastest and the most aggrieved, and the emperor of Ming Dynasty still thinks that your death is delaying his business.

I don't know if the mean and widowed kindness was carried in the bones of the Zhu family emperor, or Chongzhen himself learned it without a teacher.

In this way, when the Qing army went south, Lu Xiangsheng's family died more than a hundred people in the anti-Qing battle, and the posthumous title was given by the Nanming and Qing court officials.

Mr. Zhang has no other intentions, not just wanting to slap Chongzhen in the face.

Even if they are honest in their hearts and look down on Chongzhen's operations, they should be praised, after all, both of them are in the same profession.

Of course, it is the tradition of the Qing emperors to praise Chongzhen, and the emperors of all dynasties have to boast about Chongzhen's actions from time to time.

Lu Xiangsheng died in battle, Gao Qi absconded and escaped without knowing it, and was defeated by the Qing army.

So all the kings and soldiers from all walks of life waited and watched the enemy.

As a result, Qing soldiers conquered Changping, Baodi, Pinggu, Qinghe, Liangxiang, Yutian, Jixian, Bazhou and other places.

When the Qing army captured Yutian, the magistrate opened the door and surrendered directly.

There were political differences within the Ming Dynasty, and Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian did not cooperate well with Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of the world who was helping the army, which resulted in his death and the loss of dozens of cities.

This incident caused an uproar in the court.

The entry of the Qing army not only made Yang Sichang's plan to fight against the outside world first, but the strategy of the ten-sided net would also transfer Hong Chengchou and others to the capital Qin Wang, which made the rebel army revive and gradually became a broken net.

Even though Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and the others don't know the news now, they can't hide this kind of thing, and it will definitely speed up their rebellion against the court.

Not to mention that Lu Xiangsheng was seriously thinking about how to deal with the hammer bandits in Shanxi, and Yang Sichang also wanted to take advantage of He Jinzhao's entrenched presence in Sichuan to encircle and suppress He Jinzhao's way out of Sichuan, so as to completely put down the hammer bandits.

Now all his plans are over.

Previously, in order to cooperate with Yang Sichang to destroy He Jinchao, Chongzhen also ordered the dissemination and publication of "Water Margin" to be banned in the whole Ming Dynasty, so as to prevent everyone from scrambling to follow the behavior of Water Margin.

Because according to the court's investigation over the years, it was confirmed that when He Jinzhao was imprisoned in the county government prison, he was telling the prisoners in the prison to confuse people's hearts and rebel.

So Chongzhen hated Water Margin.

Of course, he didn't know that the Qing government listed Romance of the Three Kingdoms as a special military textbook, otherwise it would definitely be banned together.

The successive defeats of the Ming army made Yang Sichang feel more and more pressured, and many officials began to impeach him.

He also wrote many times to take the blame and resign, but Chongzhen had more trust in him, and directly demoted all the officials who impeached him, and sent them to Wu Guojun to guard the border in Jizhen.

Regarding Yang Sichang's resignation, Chongzhen only let him resign and act with a crown.

But for the current military operations, someone has to be found to replace Lu Xiangsheng.

After much deliberation, Yang Sichang thought of Fu Zonglong who was imprisoned in the imperial prison, and proposed to release him to replace Lu Xiangsheng.

Chongzhen agreed, and now he can only select available talents from the imperial prison and let him stand in front.

But before that, Shao Jiechun, who was arrested with Fu Zonglong, knew that he could not get out of prison, so he committed suicide by taking poison in prison, and did not see the program of Fu Zonglong's release from prison.

After Fu Zonglong came out, he always felt a little unreal.

Chongzhen appointed Fu Zonglong to replace Lu Xiangsheng with the official position of Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of War and Youqian Capital Censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

But Fu Zonglong saw the continuous success of the Qing army, and immediately plunged him into work, trying to contain the Qing army.

After his sleepless research, he found that there is only one way at present.

That is not to fight lightly, to defend strictly, and to wait for an opportunity to counterattack.

But when he felt that he had a chance to fight back.

The thing that made him most desperate was that with Lu Xiangsheng's defeat in the battle, Fu Zonglong had no soldiers to supervise even though he was called the governor at this time.

It is true that he is a polished commander.

Besides studying battle reports, what else can it do?
Is it possible that it was released and used for the blame?

After all, he is the governor of the world, and the Qing court is so rampant, the responsibility lies with him!
Why do so many ministers in the imperial court refuse to recommend, but recommend a person who eats in prison?

Wasn't it because the Qing army entered and plundered the fortress several times, so that many ministers understood that doing a good job would lead to a good end?

Look at the fate of those good ministers?
It's better to put it badly, do less and make less mistakes, and save your life.

Fu Zonglong finally went out to gather the defeated soldiers, and included Hu Dawei, Yang Guozhu and other remnants under his command.

As a result, because Fu Zonglong had different opinions with Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian, Chongzhen issued an order to blame him, and he led the remnant troops outside the capital, and he was not allowed to enter.

Therefore, Fu Zonglong, the governor of the world, is fighting against the Qing soldiers. He should first understand Lu Xiangsheng's line and fight against his own people for a while.

After all, "to fight against the outside world, we must first secure the inside"!
How can you fight against the outside when you can't be safe inside?

Yang Sichang actually carried out this strategy to the end.

Hong Chengchou led a large number of King Qin's army northward to King Qin, hoping that the emperor would pay them military salaries, otherwise they would inevitably mutiny on the road, so it would be better not to go to King Qin.

But Chongzhen is already a poor man!

He couldn't get out even two taels of silver from his internal money, so he began to borrow money from the nobles.

Because Chongzhen also understood a truth after several times of plundering by the Qing army.

That is, Qin Wangbing needs to eat.

Otherwise, the old events of Geng Ruqi, the governor of Shanxi, and Zhang Honggong, the commander-in-chief, will repeat themselves, and Chongzhen will not be able to stand it.

At least make sure that Qin Wangbing does not mutiny!

After experiencing it a few times, people always have to learn to grow.

Both Chongzhen and his ministers have grown up.

As for repaying the money to the nobles, Chongzhen didn't even think about repaying it.

You have accepted the emperor's favor for generations, and when the country is in crisis, can't you help fill in the holes?
Isn't it vulgar to talk about repaying money?
It is very serious for an emperor to become a dishonest person and an old Lai.

Let's see if he can borrow a few hundred thousand taels of silver next time.

Daming's finances were on the verge of collapse, and it was still unknown whether Chongzhen could collect tax money to supplement the next wave of military pay.

Even people who borrowed money would be laughed at by those who didn't lend money to the emperor, let's see how the idiot was cheated by the emperor?
The emperor's act of dishonesty was finally a solution to the feeding problem of King Qin's soldiers, so that King Qin's soldiers would not follow the Qing army to plunder too frequently.

After all, besides being robbed by the Qing army, the people around the capital had to be robbed by the unpaid Ming army.

To be true, I thought that the Great Tomorrow Army would rescue them when they arrived, but I didn't expect that not only did they not bring them out of the mud pit, but they also stepped their heads into the mud pit.

Qin Wangbing didn't cut off the heads of the looted people, and then shaved their hair to look like the Qing army, so this group of Qin Wangbing had a bit of conscience.

But not much.

Dorgon felt even more disdainful when he saw that the Ming army was so afraid.

Because the surrounding area of ​​the Great Ming capital had been looted several times by the Qing army, Dorgon saw that the supplies looted by his subordinates were not very satisfactory, so he looted westward to the border of Shanxi, and passed any further.

The hammer bandit He Jinzhao has the strength to fight against the Qing Dynasty in the wild, and his side is here to plunder and strengthen himself, not to help the Ming Dynasty weaken He Jinzhao.

In addition, the road from Hebei to Shanxi is not so easy.

In particular, Huang Taiji also instructed him before dispatching troops that the real purpose of dispatching troops this time was to plunder Daming.

It's not about fighting with He Jinzhao.

They didn't take advantage of the previous few battles, and there was no need to go again.

The surrounding area of ​​Ming Dynasty is rich enough, as long as we can plunder a lot of people and rise slowly, there will be plenty of opportunities to attack He Jinzhao in the future.

He Jinchao occupied Sichuan and annexed Ming Dynasty to strengthen his strength, and our Qing Dynasty also has to take advantage of the opportunity of looting to strengthen our strength, so as not to fall behind.

Although Dorgon was not convinced, he still had considerable affirmation of He Jinzhao's strength.

After looting Guangping, Shunde, Daming and other places, Dorgon set his sights on Shandong.

Going further south, you will encounter a large number of King Qin soldiers.

Now we can only look east, and that leaves Shandong with the only choice.

The Qing troops on the left and right flanks headed towards Shandong respectively.

Now that things have happened, Yang Sichang has also adjusted his mentality and actively participated in the battle against the Qing.

After he learned of the movements of the Qing army, he believed that the Qing army must go to Dezhou to attack Shandong!
Therefore, he ordered Yan Jizu, the governor of Shandong, to move to Dezhou, leaving Jinan City empty of troops and not on guard.

Dorgon and Yue Tuo, the chief and deputy commanders of the Qing army, even beat this group of Ming court commanders in terms of military strategy.

The Qing soldiers bypassed the Dezhou defense line, crossed the canal from Dongchang, Linqingzhou and other places, all the way to Gaotang, all the way to Jining, and then joined forces in Jinan.

The Qing army led by Dorgon was the most fierce. It fought all the way from Hebei to Shandong without a single defeat. As the year approached, it surrounded Jinan.

Zhang Bingwen, the chief minister of the left, was shocked, because all the soldiers and horses were transferred to Dezhou to stop the Qing army, and now there are less than 2000 defenders in the city.

On the one hand, he sent people to report to the imperial court for reinforcements, and on the other hand, he mobilized the people in the city to guard Jinan City.

Jinan is known as the largest city in the Central Plains, and it has to be guarded by the old and the weak.

Gao Qiqian had soldiers and horses in his hands again, and he didn't dare to act rashly after receiving the news.

Lu Xiangsheng fought so fiercely that he was killed in battle. Now, asking me to lead the army to rescue him is not an act of sending him to death?
Don't go, don't go.

Yang Sichang had nothing to do about it, and he kept worrying that he would be held accountable for being transferred away from the Jinan defenders.

Dorgon would not give up this fighter and ordered a direct attack.

The city of Jinan was besieged, there were no reinforcements, and the people defending the city were even less able to fight.

The Qing army climbed up the ladder, and the Ming army fled in horror. Instead, a group of ordinary people were left to resist desperately in the city.

Within a day of the attack, the city was breached.

Song Xuezhu, the imperial censor of the Ming Dynasty, was killed by Qing soldiers rushing over as soon as he went out in a sedan chair.

After all, anyone who can sit in a sedan chair has money.

Dozens of officials including Zuo Buzheng Zhang Bingwen, deputy envoy Deng Zhouzhixun, Zhuanshi, and Zhifu fought in the streets wearing armor and holding knives, but these civil servants had no combat power, and they were all killed by the Qing army.

When Zhang Bingwen's wife and concubine heard that he was killed by the Qing army, they threw themselves into the lake.

Together with many county kings and clans, they were beheaded and looted by the Qing army, and the German king Zhu Youshu was captured alive by the Qing army.

Jinan City has become a hell on earth, the largest capital city in the Central Plains, with 13 corpses inside and outside the city, and all property has been looted.

The only good news for Daming is that Yue Tuo lived in Jinan City where there were many dead people, contracted smallpox, and died directly in the city.

Of course, he and his younger brother died of the disease together.

After all, Yue Tuo was good at fighting, and it was a big loss for the Qing court.

Since the Qing army conquered Jinan, under the leadership of Du Du, the Qing army conquered sixteen counties one after another, surrendered two counties, and won sixteen consecutive battles.

More than a hundred officials below the governor of Ming Dynasty were killed, and as many as 20 were captured.

However, Liu Yuliang, the chief assistant of the dynasty, and Chen Xinjia, who led the soldiers of the towns and kings, all followed the Qing army and did not dare to fight with them.

It was completely a replica of the last time Azig led the evacuation and Zhang Fengyi and others followed.

Dorgon didn't say anything about Yue Tuo's death, and directly crossed out Yue Tuo's name on his military exploits.

The dead still remember what they did.

In February, Dorgon led an army to Tianjin Wei. At that time, the canal was rising and it was difficult to cross the river with heavy luggage.

However, the generals of the Ming army, such as Wang Pu, Liu Guangzuo, and others were all concerned about each other and did not dare to move, so that Dorgon crossed the river slowly without any pressure.

Chongzhen obeyed the suggestion of Yang Sichang, the Shu Fu, and entered Hong Chengchou as the Minister of the Ministry of War and the right deputy governor of Ji and Liao military affairs, and Fu Zonglong as the governor of Baoding, Shandong and Hebei military affairs.

I hope they can make persistent efforts and win the battle against Qing.