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Chapter 350 The Serial Butterfly Effect
After attending the enthronement ceremony of King Lu on August [-]th, Zhu Shuren will always stay in Nanjing for a few more days,

In the follow-up, there are still a lot of red tape, peer entertainment, network maintenance, and people's hearts to be done.

He was promoted to the governor of the three provinces and added the title of Minister of the Ministry of War. Who are the people in the court who are really happy for him? The Tatars are looking for someone who is rich and honorable, and all these must be sorted out.

There is no occasion for drinking and talking, and pretending to be heart-to-heart. After the new king ascends the throne, the unity of the court is always the most important thing.

Considering that going back to Wuchang from Nanjing is going upstream, it must be much slower than going downstream when you came here. After all this is done, Zhu Shuren will have to hurry back to Huguang at the end of August at the earliest. It's early September.

However, the rain is about to come, and the situation in the world is so precarious, other forces will not wait for the Nanjing court to further integrate the interior.

As early as before and after the enthronement ceremony of King Lu, on the northwest front, there was an urgent military report sent by Fang Kongzhang, the governor of Sichuan, who rushed six hundred miles away, and wanted to ask the imperial court for an opinion on how to deal with the enemy's changes.

Subsequently, similar nervous messages came from the front lines of Xiangyang and Xinyang in Henan, which can basically be mutually confirmed with the information sent by Fang Kongzhang.

The information sent by Fang Kongzheng is not too bad, but mixed, with both risks and rewards. The specific content is as follows:

According to reports from the Sichuan garrison Qin Liangyu and Fang Guoan, the Ming army in the direction of Hanzhong was invaded by a small group of thieves from Yuan Zongdi's troops under the thieves' command at the Chencang crossing at the end of July.

The Ming army defenders in Baoji County and Dasan Pass naturally defended the cage city and did not fight the enemy - this is also the policy that Zhu Shuren has set since the second half of last year after he pacified Sichuan.

Because Shaanxi was the number one sinkhole in the world in the last years of Chongzhen, an absolute financial bottomless pit, since so much land was lost, there is no rush to collect it first.

Of course, Shaanxi will definitely be needed in the future, and that is the homeland of China. However, when there are many phased options, it is still necessary to prioritize and take other easy ones first, so this policy itself is no problem.

After Zhu Shuren left, Fang Kongzhang had been keeping an eye on the defense of the Hanzhong area, and he also added some local troops from Sichuan to make up for the gap caused by Zhu Shuren's dispatch of Cao Bianjiao's troops.

The Sichuan army is relatively not good at plain field warfare, and there is still a lack of cavalry, and it is impossible to actively seek battle in the Guanzhong Plain.

But after a short period of stalemate, Qin Liangyu's soldiers and horses quickly discovered something unusual—Yuan Zongdi seemed to be just passing through the border. Occasionally, when the troops fled on the road, they would plunder casually in the wild, but they did not dare to attack the officials. Baoji County under the control of the army.

Even Yuan Zongdi dared to disregard his own food road back, and sometimes he led the army to detour not far from Baoji County, and then went upstream along the Wei River, crossing the valley between the Qinling Mountains and the Longshan Mountains, It seems that the troops are going to be transferred to Longxi.

This approach is obviously a big taboo for military strategists-in the art of war, the reason why those fortified cities that are in front of the main road cannot be directly bypassed by the attacker is because if you go around and don't fight, waiting for your main force If the troops are far away, the troops in Jiancheng can open the city gates and come out to cut off your logistics and food routes.

Yuan Zongdi's behavior of fleeing to the west without hesitation, and not worrying about the Ming army in Baoji County cutting off his Weishui shipping, really made Qin Liangyu confused for a while at first.Then she was not polite, and ordered her son Ma Xianglin to follow the routine and go out of the city to rob food when he saw the opportunity.

Ma Xianglin really hit the mark with a single blow, annihilating Yuan Zong's first small rear army's partial division, and took away the supplies.But Yuan Zongdi still swallowed his anger, and didn't mean to resist at all, but just made the rear army be more careful in marching and fleeing.

At this point, Qin Liangyu basically figured it out—Yuan Zongdi would definitely not stay in Xi'an for a long time. He retreated his troops to Longxi in batches.

At that time, Qin Liangyu, who was in Sichuan, did not know the situation of the war outside the border because of the lack of news, so she instinctively felt that Xi'an was the place where Li Zicheng started his family and became king before, and it must be an important city for the army. Even if Beijing fell, Li Zicheng would probably use Xi'an as a place How could you give up so easily?

But now the ironclad evidence is in front of him, Yuan Zongdi retreated westward in batches in such a desperate way, and ignored the interception of food, Qin Liangyu had to believe it even if he couldn't believe it anymore.

After a little friction between the two sides, at the beginning of August, the situation finally became clear: Yuan Zongdi really couldn't hold on anymore, and tried to make a negotiation request to Ma Xianglin of Dasan Pass.As soon as the two parties came into contact, Yuan Zongdi immediately succumbed, and wanted to ask the court if he would allow him to abandon the dark and turn to the bright, and let the past go.

Qin Liangyu was shocked when she heard the words, she couldn't believe it for a moment, and she had no right to decide such a major matter, so she forced the other party to explain more reasons and not hide anything.He also stated that as long as he truthfully explained the cause and effect, the imperial court would never force him with harsher conditions just because he was at the end of his rope.

Considering that Zhu Shuren's father-in-law is currently in charge of the Ming court, even though Yuan Zongdi is located in a remote area, he also knows Zhu Shuren's good reputation in recruiting and accepting rebels——

Even Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, and Liu Wenxiu surrendered, and now they are all whitewashed, and they returned to the generals by cleaning up the remnants of other thieves.Zhu Shuren is still notoriously fond of reusing the adopted sons of the bandit chieftains who killed their adoptive fathers to vote for them, and they are dedicated to destroying the normal order of China's father-in-law.

After Yuan Zongdi hesitated, he decided that the current situation is very different from when Chongzhen was alive. A new supervisor who is benevolent and cowardly dare not settle historical accounts, plus a powerful minister with a flexible moral bottom line, if he surrenders, the problem should not be a problem. big.

In the end, Yuan Zongdi confessed truthfully: the reason why he fled to the west, he wanted to abandon Guanzhong one by one, and finally Xi'an, and fled to Longxi was because from the middle and late July, Tongguan and Pubanjin in the east were attacked one after another. When the Qing army attacked.

To be precise, it was not only the Qing army that came to attack, but also another army with a special status and whose location was unknown due to the butterfly effect, that is Wu Sangui's Guan Ning army.

As mentioned earlier, in history, the Qing army completely settled Shanxi and Hebei in October of the 17th year of Chongzhen/the first year of Shunzhi. Levy Nanming.

And because Chongzhen died two months earlier and other rhythms have accelerated, in this life, this round of large-scale conquest by the Qing army has been brought forward to mid-July. Just after the hottest season, Dorgon rushed Deployment started.

And Wu Sangui in this life, because of Zhu Shuren's butterfly effect, had always maintained control over the Guanning area and one or two prefectures in the pass. At the time of the new stone war, Dorgon only entered the pass from Jimen to attack Li Zicheng.

Because there was a retreat route by sea, no matter how anxious Dorgon pushed Wu Sangui, Wu Sangui could still hope to withdraw a considerable part of his troops from the sea route, at most he would only leave behind some troops to fight back.So Dorgon also knew this very well, he didn't want to push the opponent too fast, but also wanted to soften Wu Sangui slowly, so the two sides maintained a delicate and fragile balance.

It's a pity, since it's a delicate and fragile balance, it's not bad if it can be maintained for half a year.Wu Sangui didn't expect Li Zicheng to be so unbeatable, and Dorgon to be so strong,

Li Zicheng ran away not long after entering Beijing, and in the next four months, the entire Hebei and Shanxi provinces fell into the hands of the Tartars.Everything is changing so fast that Wu Sangui has fewer and fewer chips, and it is becoming more and more difficult to maintain his detached status. He wants to keep his status as a "thief-seeking coalition" with Dorgon, but he already knows that he is not enough. qualified.

If Wu Sangui had no ambitions, and was willing to go back and obediently be a military commander of Nanming, losing the detached status of the separatist regime, then he could follow Zhu Shuren.

But once one has tasted the beauty of power, it is really difficult to go from extravagance to frugality, and few people can retire after success.

Of course Wu Sangui knew that in the past few years, Zhu Shuren had been wooing and disintegrating his direct lineage. Although Zhu Shuren had been helping the Guanning army to transport food and pay, it was also buying people's hearts!
Zhang Guozhu and other generals under Wu Sangui had already retreated south with Zhu Shuren, taking away at least a quarter to [-]% of the veterans of the Guanning Army under Wu Sangui!Li Fuming, who used to work with Wu Sangui, was also taken away by Zhu Shuren.

If he chooses to go south, Wu Sangui knows very well that he will never be able to be the emperor of the land who dominates one side and has the final say for the rest of his life.He will only be regarded as a guest general who has lost his base, and all the money, food and property rights are at the mercy of others.Just like in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Han Fu's counselor persuaded Han Fu to control Yuan Shao.

If Wu Sangui was a time traveler and knew the history of later generations, then his feeling at the time should be that after Zhang Hanqing lost the Northeast territory and entered the customs, he would be worried that he would be randomly dispatched and consumed by Chang Kaishen as a customer.

Out of this concern, he decided to make a final fight and use Zhu Shuren as a backup to renegotiate a more feasible condition with Dorgon.

As early as June, when Hebei was completely pacified, Wu Sangui extended an olive branch to Dorgon, hoping to cooperate more deeply with the Qing army to suppress thieves, and even consider "abandoning the Guanning base area", as long as Dorgon promised him Two other new conditions.

The first condition is exactly the same as the historical inertia, that is, "as a Ming minister, he only fights thieves", he can fight Li Zicheng together as an allied army of the Qing army, or even a guest army invited by the Qing army, but It was limited to fighting Li Zicheng. If the Qing army dared to attack Nanming, he would never participate.

Not to mention, many people who don't know much about the history of this period may be surprised by this condition, but in fact, Wu Sangui has always achieved this in the Hongguang and Longwu years in history.

Before the Nanming regime in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces in Nanjing was killed by Duoduo, Wu Sangui insisted on fighting only against the intruders and never fighting against the Ming army.That's why when Dorgon divided his forces between the two routes, Wu Sangui chose to follow Azige from the West Route Army instead of Duoduo from the South Route Army.

As for Wu Sangui's army attacking the Ming Dynasty later, it was mainly a matter of the Yongli period. Wu Sangui also found a fig leaf - he believed that Yongli was no longer the orthodox Ming Dynasty, because Yongli did not have his own troops, but chose Give Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo these "Zhang Xianzhong righteous sons" the title of king, and borrow the remnants of Zhang Xianzhong's army to protect themselves,
That's why Wu Sangui issued a statement saying that Yongli was a "puppet of the western thieves" and was coerced by the rebels. By doing a good job of psychological construction, he led the troops under his command that were originally under the banner of the Ming army to change course and completely became the Qing army.In the middle, there is actually a two-year transition period.

The current situation of Wu Sangui is much better than that of the same period in history. Of course, Wu Sangui will not take the initiative to be a traitor. In this regard, the conditions he puts forward will naturally be more stringent than in the same period of history.

And since Dorgon had agreed to Wu Sangui in the original history, he had to agree even more now.Dorgon said that Wu Sangui would never be asked to participate in military operations against areas controlled by the Ming Dynasty at present.

As for after the world's thieves are wiped out, Dorgon didn't say, but everyone knows that after the situation changes, there can be new requirements.

Wu Sangui's second requirement is more stringent than in history, and it is purely a butterfly effect.

Wu Sangui said that because he still has Guan Ning's land, if he is to give up this land, he must be given a "land for food" under his own jurisdiction, and he will not ask Dorgon Bai for this land for food. If he wants, he can help beat Li Zicheng and snatch it from Li Zicheng,

At that time, part of the land that Li Zicheng took back will be allocated to Wu Sangui. Dorgon admits that this land belongs to him, and everyone will not invade each other, and he can continue to use his troops to help Dorgon pursue Li Zicheng's remnants.

With this condition, Dorgon seemed more cautious, and repeatedly confirmed what Wu Sangui wanted.And Wu Sangui weighed it over and over again, and knew that it was impossible for Dorgon to give the valuable place. After a multi-party game, Wu Sangui said:

Since I heard that the Prince Regent wants Prince Azig to lead the western expedition army to completely wipe out the intruders in the northwest, Wu Sangui is willing to serve as the vanguard of the guest army and help Prince Azig fight. Wu Sangui's new base,
At that time, the population and land in the Guanning area will naturally be handed over to Dorgon, and it is also guaranteed that they will not withdraw from the sea route to the south of the Yangtze River.

After Dorgon thought about it, he considered that if he did not agree to this condition, Wu Sangui might jump over the wall and go to Zhu Shuren by sea.However, the sea power of the Qing army is still a pile of defenses, and it cannot be compared with the Shen family navy who has dominated the Yellow Sea for generations. This kind of thing cannot be stopped.In any case, the most important thing is to trick Wu Sangui away from Guan Ning and give up fleeing south.

On the other hand, Dorgon also did some intelligence work, especially to understand the current situation in Shaanxi. He also learned that during the reign of Chongzhen, Shaanxi had almost no normal years, and the environment had deteriorated extremely badly. , In fact, the money and food that can be provided are no more than one or two prefectures in the Guanning area, and it may not be able to recover for many years in the future.

Considering that Shaanxi is not worth much economically, Dorgon finally decided to agree that as long as Wu Sangui takes the main force to recover Xi'an, he will make Wu Sangui the de facto king of the Northwest, and Wu Sangui will continue to send troops to help fight in southern Henan and other finishing work.

After the thieves are completely wiped out, it is not too late to discuss further conditions.Dorgon believed that as long as Wu Sangui became the de facto king of the Northwest, he would never dare to surrender back to the Ming Dynasty, which was heavily guarded against generals, and was under the actual control of the Nanjing court. At that time, out of fear of liquidation, he would naturally It will force Wu Sangui to make further choices.

Under such layers of butterfly effects, Wu Sangui in this life became more motivated when he followed Azig to fight the Shaanxi bandits again, as if he had been beaten with chicken blood.

Yuan Zongdi was defeated in Tongguan and Pubanjin, and the road between him and Li Zicheng's lineage was cut off, Yuan Zongdi's defense area actually became an enclave.However, Shaanxi has not been self-sufficient in grain and grass. In the past two years, it has been relying on population consumption to keep the remaining army alive. Such a piece of land cannot be defended.

This is why he desperately ran to Longxi with his direct line troops on the eve of the fall of Tongguan, and was intercepted by the Ming army. He also wanted to surrender to the Ming Dynasty in name through Qin Liangyu-Yuan Zongdi actually knew that as long as he in name After surrendering, it is impossible for the Ming army to divide its troops to get as far as Longxi in a short period of time to control him. In fact, he is still in charge of himself.

And as long as he got the title of surrender and became a general of the Ming Dynasty, Wu Sangui, who was known as "not attacking the Ming land", would have no reason to beat him again.

Just leave the land of Guanzhong to Wu Sangui, and he also knew that Wu Sangui had spent all his money, and he would not give up until this goal was achieved.

However, as long as Yuan Zongdi can somehow leave Longxi, separated from Wu Sangui by Longshan Mountain, and Baoji County controlled by the Nanming court in the middle, strangling Chencang Road Crossing and Longshan Weishui Valley Pass, then he can basically It's no longer against Wu Sangui's well water.

At that time, it will be a big deal to divide the troops a little bit, and block the street pavilions and crossings in the north-central section of Longshan Mountain. Qin and Long have been two independent geographical units since ancient times.

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Of course, Qin Liangyu didn't dare to be self-reliant on such matters involving righteousness and fame, so she reported to Fang Kongzhao, and Fang Kongzan then rushed to Nanjing six hundred miles away.

At that time, when King Lu ascended the throne, Zhu Shuren was still in Nanjing, and all the important ministers gathered together, so the discussions were naturally efficient.

Zhu Changping has no opinion on this kind of matter, he just cowardly thinks that if someone comes to surrender, he can accept it.In this way, it will be easier for the people below——

Originally, if Chongzhen was alive, the people below were most worried that after Chongzhen asked the other party to surrender, if the other party did not surrender thoroughly, Chongzhen would ask his subordinates "why they accepted the surrender of such bandits who did not completely surrender", and then punish them.

Now Zhu Changping is weak and muddled. After accepting the surrender, the opponent did not fully vote and did not hold the decision-making civil officials accountable.

Under Zhu Shuren's decision, Shi Kefa went through the process, and the court quickly replied to Fang Kongxuan, asking him to accept Yuan Zongdi's surrender and give him the status of a general. At the same time, he quickly sent an envoy from Baoji to Xi'an to inform Wu Sangui and Yuan Zongdi of the truce , and appease Wu Sangui by the way, saying that the court has recognized his self-assertion and meritorious performance so far, so that Wu Sangui should not have psychological pressure.

Zhu Shuren felt that there was nothing wrong with doing this. If the Northwest can be stabilized, so what if he showed his favor to Wu Sangui? Regardless of whether Wu Sangui was a traitor in the end in history, at this moment he is still talking about "only beating thieves, not telling the truth." Army" fig leaf, the imperial court should use it as much as possible to avoid making more enemies.

In such a complicated and chaotic world, it is necessary to pay attention to a little ambiguity. We can't all be like scholars, and they don't let go of the righteousness, the principles, the principles and the ethics.To liquidate is not a matter now.

It took about a month for these back and forth to go back and forth. When the imperial order was delivered, Wu Sangui had indeed occupied most of Xi'an and Shaanxi. Only Tongguan, Pubanjin and a few ferries were controlled by the Qing army. The army also wants to control Wu Sangui and prevent Wu Sangui from dividing too much, so he has to hold the throat military fortress in his own hands, and only give Wu Sangui some farming land that is not dangerous to defend.

After Wu Sangui received the decree, he also borrowed the donkey from the slope to express that he was still a Ming minister, but he just cooperated with the Qing army in the special period. Fight Longshan again.

Before the war in the Central Plains, the Nanming court managed to stabilize the defense line in the northwest.In this way, only the battles in the middle and east roads should be considered.

Wu Sangui, Yuan Zongdi, Azig, and the Ming army's Sichuan army were also temporarily kicked out of the Central Plains battle for hegemony in the next year and a half.

On the battlefield of the Central Plains, only Li Zicheng's troops including Liu Zongmin and Liu Fangliang, the East Army of the Qing Army led by Duoduo, the regime of the Puppet King Fu in Fengyang, and the orthodox court of the Ming Dynasty in Nanjing were left to fight among the four forces.

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PS: Before the Qing army went south, I still spent some space to change the layout and map of the secondary battlefield, so that everyone would not feel awkward. After seeing it, I questioned why Wu Sangui, Azige, and Yuan Zongdi did not come to participate in this year. The decisive battle in the Central Plains.

This chapter is already almost [-] words long, so I won’t tear it down. It will be officially broken down for two changes tomorrow, which will be February.

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