Win the Ding 1617

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On the fourth day of February in the 12th year of Chongzhen, when Wang Chengen's victory team had just arrived in the capital, Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian was furious in the East Nuan Pavilion of Qianqing Palace.These days, there is no news that can make him feel comfortable.Just now there is definite news that the slave chieftain Dorgon led a large army to attack Jinan on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. The German king Zhu Youshu and Fengguo general Zhu Enshang were captured after the city was broken and all the people in the city were taken into captivity.

Not only that, the Qing army was still raging in various places in Shandong, and the soldiers seemed to be approaching Dagonzhou, Qingzhou, Jiaozhou, Dengzhou, and Laizhou.However, Gao Qiqian, who was defeated in Jize, and Zu Kuan, the general of the aid and suppression army who flinched in Dezhou, wrote to the emperor asking to temporarily avoid their edge on the grounds that the bandits and slaves are powerful.Seeing these missing documents, Chongzhen was furious, and his eyes turned black.

Could it be that none of the civilian and military generals of the Ming Dynasty could stop the Qing army?The situation is so rotten that the Qing soldiers are like entering a no-man's land.

"Where is Li Shouhan?! I don't hesitate to promote him, and put Guangdong and Guangxi under his jurisdiction. Now that the court is in crisis, there is no news about him?! What does he want to do?!"

This news was sent a few days ago, and there has been no news from Shandong for several days. The entire cabinet is planning for the worst, that is, the whole Shandong will be ransacked by Jiannu!

The princes and county kings in Shandong are all royal families, and there is even the Confucian family in Yanshenggong Mansion. In this way, how should the court explain to the subjects of the world?How to explain to scholars?

At this time, he frowned deeply, and paced back and forth in the pavilion, feeling very frightened in his heart, Shandong.What is the situation?Will it really be as the cabinet fears?Why is there no pond newspaper?

This time, the establishment of slaves and the invasion of bandits, including the famous cities of Baoding and Jinan, are all places where there are governors, governors, and even vassal kings. Is it lost like this? !First, Lu Xiangsheng was killed in battle, and then Gao Qi was defeated in Qianjize.After that, Zhang Qiping abandoned the city and left, and now Jinan Mansion has also fallen!Is there any worse news? !

His mind was up and down, all kinds of thoughts came one after another, and he was restless.

Beside him, Yang Sichang, Xue Guoguan and others sat firmly with their eyes open, their eyelids drooping downwards, and they did not dare to raise their eyes. The emperor's inexplicable anger came.

"Your Majesty. Today the cabinet received a Tang report from Zu Kuan. The slave chief Dorgon led more than ten thousand troops out of Shandong. The marching team was tens of miles long. At night, the lights were like a long dragon. It seemed that there was a sign of returning to Zhili and Gyeonggi. .”

"Zuo Liangyu's tribe, who was ordered to go north, fought with Dongnu Rangers many times in the border of Cangzhou, and made some small gains."

Yang Sichang finally found some plausible news to evade the emperor.

At the time when several monarchs and ministers were sitting in a sad city with nothing to do in the warm pavilion.Cao Huachun, the chief eunuch on duty outside the Nuan Pavilion, ran in with Wu Liangfu in small steps!

"My lord! My lord! Great victory, great victory, great victory in Jinan. Master Wang beheaded [-] slaves and thieves, and beheaded slave chiefs Yuetuo, Duoduo and others! He also captured armor banners, golden dragon banners woven by the false king, etc.!"

Chongzhen opened his eyes wide, almost bursting into flames, "What a bold slave! So presumptuous!" He was reprimanding Wu Liangfu for being so bold and reckless, for daring to fabricate such earth-shattering lies.And the ministers in the cabinet, after hearing it clearly, were also full of disbelief, and all of them stood up involuntarily.

As the chief assistant of the cabinet, Xue Guoguan stood up abruptly involuntarily.Due to his excessive movement, the teacup on the small table beside him was brought down by his robe, which wet his boa robe first.Afterwards, the teacup fell to the ground paved with gold bricks in Linqing and was smashed to pieces, without realizing it.

"Eunuch Cao, what did this little eunuch say?"

"Lord Xue, our Ming army has won a great victory in Jinan! Killing [-] rank slaves in Liaodong, and capturing armor and weapons is useless, and killing slave chieftains and falsely pretending to be the king of the county, Yue Tuo, the leader of the red banner! Recover Jinan Mansion! Right now, Wang Cheng'en, the prince who reported the victory, is about to enter the city!"

"What?! Wang Chengen came back to report victory?!"

Everyone no longer doubted the authenticity of the news.

The cabinet ministers all knew that both Wang Chengen and Wang Dehua were angels sent by the emperor to Guangzhou to urge Li Shouhan to send troops.Now that Wang Chengen came back to claim victory, it was undoubtedly Li Shouhan who defeated Dorgon in Jinan, recovered Jinan Mansion, and killed Yuetuo.

This also explains why Dorgon's troops began to withdraw from Shandong!

"Li Shouhan won another battle? In this case, how should he be rewarded?"

Yang Sichang's thinking immediately shifted from how to resist the invasion of Jiannu to how to deal with internal problems.

The official road along the Tonghui River outside the Chaoyang Gate was bustling with people. Although there were slaves and bandits, no matter if they were ordinary people or high-ranking officials in the court, they all needed three meals a day.This place has become a lively market, from the Duke's House to Shengdou Xiaomin, you can find what you need here.Faintly, suddenly heard the sound of thunderous hooves in the distance, it seems that hundreds of horses are galloping from a distance, who is so bold to ride horses to the capital's important place?Thinking of the Tartars who came to the city not long ago, many people all changed their colors.

A lieutenant general of the Beijing battalion guarding the Chaoyang Gate was about to lead his servants up to check, swearing dirtyly, when suddenly he was dumbfounded. The group of knights got closer, and a few big bright sun and moon flags in the cavalry were taken away by the galloping speed. The blowing wind tore straight.There are only dozens of knights in the cavalry, but they are equipped with three horses for one person, and they are all fat and strong horses.The clothes and appearance of the leader made the lieutenant's calves start to twist.

Wearing a three-mountain cap inlaid with gold on his head, and wearing a boa robe are just the standard attire of a decent eunuch in the palace.An originally gloomy face, after the baptism of wind, frost and war, has become gloomy and even more murderous, which makes people feel shuddering.The entourage who galloped with him behind him were either Jin Yiwei or eunuchs in the palace, all of them were in flying fish suits and embroidered spring knives!There are more than a dozen former colleagues from the [-] Battalion, all of these people have washed away the domineering and arrogance of the day, and they have the demeanor of being an elite in a hundred battles and having been beaten in blood.

The face of the leader, the deputy general, was fortunate to have seen it before, and it was the one favored by the emperor.The chief eunuch Wang Chengen, Eunuch Wang Cheng'en, the supervisor of ceremonies, spent 3000 taels of silver to meet him that day, so naturally he knew the bones even after peeling the skin off.I heard that he led people to Guangdong not long ago to urge King Qin's troops, why did he appear here in such a hurry today?Look at this prince who usually looks unchanged in front of the mountain collapse, now he can't stop whipping the horse's hip, in a hurry.The lieutenant general was about to go forward to please him.Maybe I can catch the line of Wang Gonggong.

There was a smile on his face, and he was about to go up to say hello, when he heard several people in the opposite horse team yelling, "Get out of the way! Move the rejected horse away!"

"Old Liu, your mother's good dog is out of the way!"

He yelled and cursed, but the sound of horseshoes was not calm at all. More than two hundred horses rushed straight forward and rushed into the city gate, almost knocking Vice General Liu and a dozen of his subordinates to the ground. .Ride the horse and roll away.

"Old Liu! Come to my house tonight! I have something good to take care of you!"

A cry from near to far.

As the more than two hundred riders galloped into the city, a series of shouts sounded on the streets along the way.Like the fleeting spark under the horseshoe, it quickly ignited the emotions of the whole city!

"Great victory! Great victory! Master Wang's great victory in Jinan! Beheading [-] people! Beheading slave chiefs Yuetuo and Duoduo!!"

Regardless of being tired all the way, under Wang Chengen's signal, everyone danced and shouted hoarsely all the way on the streets of the capital.

"Great victory, great victory. The slave chieftain Dorgon was defeated, and Wang Shi regained Jinan!"

"Great victory, great victory. Master Wang, great victory! Dengzhou, Laizhou, Qingzhou, Yanzhou and many other cities are safe!"

"Great victory! Great victory! Your Majesty has planned a strategy to win thousands of miles! Mobilize a powerful army to go north, and thwart the flames of slaves and thieves. Now the army is chasing north!"

Most of the people they passed along the way were rich and noble families in the capital, and almost all the houses were filled with exclamations. No less.There were also countless idlers running along with Wang Chengen's cavalry, which looked like an army of thousands of horses, shouting for joy.

At this moment, Wang Chengen experienced the feeling of Father-in-law Sanbao back then!

The entire capital was almost boiling.Only one voice echoed in the sky and the earth: "...great victory...great victory!"

"Hooray! Hooray!"

Although the eunuch Wang Chengen sent to the city to report in advance had already got the news, the sound of firecrackers and the shouts of long live in the city became louder and louder.Hearing more and more clearly.The voice made him both surprised and delighted, his whole body trembled uncontrollably, and he thought in his heart that Wang Chengen would really be able to handle the errand!He strode to the door of Dongnuange, leaning against the door and waiting eagerly, regardless of the cold wind.

Finally, when a group of eunuchs, big and small, surrounded Wang Chengen and appeared in front of him like stars holding the moon, Chongzhen's eyes couldn't help but get a little moist.

"Ah! Unexpectedly, there will be such a storm in February!"

In order to maintain the image of the emperor in front of Xue Guoguan, Yang Sichang and others standing beside him, he intentionally found an excuse.

But at this moment, everyone turned their attention to the eunuch who was rushing over.

Wang Chengen ran forward a few steps, staggered and fell to the ground, then got up again and limped towards Chongzhen.

"Your Majesty! The servants were ordered to send troops to the south to enter the guard. Fortunately, they did not disgrace their orders! The army first fought in Changqing, then in Ping'andian, and in Jinan three times. They killed the slave chief Yuetuo successively, and killed the fake white flag in Manchuria Gushan. There are more than a thousand bandit slave leaders under Erzhen, and [-] bandit slaves have been beheaded. Recover Jinan Fucheng! First, I will present the battle report!"

With a hoarse voice, Wang Chengen loudly reported to Emperor Chongzhen the results of his outing for errands in front of the empty palace. Hearing this, Chongzhen couldn't stop nodding, and tears filled his eyes.

Everyone looked at the large and small holes in the python robe on Wang Chengen's body, some of which still had traces of being burned, and some of which had been shot by arrows.With the dignity of an angel, it is still like this, which shows how fierce this battle was fought.

"This battle is the biggest victory since the old slaves in Liaodong rebelled when the emperor was in power!"

Chongzhen finalized this victory in muttering to himself.

"I can finally comfort the Taimiao!"

"Your Majesty, why don't you ask the prince to send the title book first, and then talk about it after learning the details of this battle?" Xue Guoguan, the chief assistant of the cabinet, reminded Chongzhen in a low voice.

Over there, Wu Liangfu had already helped Wang Chengen up very well, "The ancestor has worked hard all the way! This is the glory on the faces of the servants!"

In the warm cabinet, the dull atmosphere just now was swept away with the arrival of Wang Chengen. Everyone ignored the identities of the chief assistant, second assistant, and minister of the imperial cabinet, and they were almost handed over by each other. , Wang Dehua, Taian Guerrilla, Sanqianying Wu Guerrilla and others jointly signed the inscription.

Chongzhen saw Zhu Youshu's name taboo.My heart suddenly became relieved. It turned out that the rumor that King De's family was captured was just a rumor. If King De was captured, how could it appear in the report book?

An inscription about victory is written with colorful flowers, magnificent words and sentences, successive and continuous, describing the bloody battles as vividly as if they were vividly remembered.The thrilling and moving parts are even more frightening.

However, these people are old fritters who are used to these bureaucratic articles, so they naturally know that Ming generals and officials have the ability to turn defeat into victory and turn small victories into big victories.

However, Wang Dehua and Wang Cheng'en were both favored eunuchs by the emperor's side, and there was absolutely no reason for them to collude with Li Shouhan to deceive the emperor for a little military merit.What's more, there is also the signature of King Dewang Chitose.So no one doubted the authenticity of this battle.

"Wang Gonggong, it said that Yuetuo was killed. But the truth?!" Yang Sichang pointed to an important sentence on the question book and asked Wang Chengen with a smile.

"That's right. On that day, together with Du Du, the owner of the false flag inlaid with red flags, this Liao led thousands of real slaves, tens of thousands of Tartars, and more than ten thousand rebels to attack Changqing. Governor Li Shouhan immediately offered a reward of [-] silver dollars to anyone who captures and beheads this thief." One hundred thousand silver dollars will be rewarded to those who are promoted to a higher level, and the fruit will be beheaded by our army in front of the battle. The reward of one hundred thousand silver dollars is also handed out to the meritorious soldiers by our family!"

"Yuetuo's armor, banners, weapons, etc. Although the slaves and servants have already entered the capital together, there are also armors and banners to capture and kill the leaders of the Dongnu leaders at all levels. It is too complicated and numerous. The servants are eager to enter the capital to announce the good news to the emperor, so I ordered them Hurry up after Nigu landed."

There's nothing wrong with that!No general who leads an army will spend [-] silver to reward his subordinates in order to falsely report his military exploits.There will be no captured armor, banners, weapons and other items escorted to Beijing!

"Big Companion, the inscription said that in several battles, you personally led people into the battle and fired artillery, how many Jiannu were shot?" Chongzhen was in a very good mood at the moment, waving the inscription in his hand.With an unstoppable smile on his face, he had already made up his mind about his internal exercises in the future.We have to leave it all to Wang Chengen!Who can use a confidant who can fight against Jiannu without losing the wind, which one should he use? !

"My lord, among the seized objects, it is reported that there is also a real golden dragon banner woven on the forehead of Manzhougu Mountain with a false inlaid white flag? Was it ever true?"

Yang Sichang twirled his beautiful beard, and asked Wang Chengen in a low voice. For some reason, facing this eunuch who came back from the battlefield, he, who was born on the right track, couldn't hold his head up!

"That's right! On that day, our soldiers fought hand-to-hand with Jiannu. Hundreds of white-armored guards and a big leader pounced on our formation. He fought back and was stabbed to the ground by our soldiers, and the enemy's formation was thrown into chaos immediately, and our troops took advantage of the situation to snatch the object back."

"At that time, someone in the army shouted loudly, the master is dead!" Wu Guerrilla, who was kneeling outside the Nuan Pavilion, carefully added what he had seen and heard that day.

"So, the pseudo-slave chieftain, Prince Yu, and the owner of the white banner, Duoduo, are dead!?"

Everyone is happy.

Being able to kill the two princes of the slave chieftains in one battle and defeat and eliminate the main forces of the four Manchurian Eight Banners has never happened since the rise of the Liaodong Army.

"The gentlemen of the cabinet will work hard today to draw up a charter to see how to award and encourage meritorious soldiers. Pass the decree and publish the mansion newspaper to inform King Qin's army of the great victory in Jinan, as an encouragement! If there are any, kill them again. Lord of slave chieftains and banners, I will definitely reward you!"

When all the gentlemen in the cabinet left Dongnuan Pavilion one by one and went to the cabinet to do business, Wang Chengen saw that the gentlemen were gone, and immediately ordered the little eunuch to strictly guard the door.

"My lord! The slaves are guilty!"

Chongzhen's heart sank suddenly, his eyes fixed on an oilcloth package that Wang Chengen took out from the inside of his robe.

This is a very confidential inscription written to Emperor Chongzhen in the names of Wang Dehua, Wang Chengen, and Li Shouhan, and an apology note jointly signed by De Wang and others is attached to it.This inscription describes in detail the real results of the Battle of Jinan: the capture and beheading of Yuetuo, the capture of Du Du, the exchange of several Mongolian Eight Banner banner dragon banners, the almost complete annihilation of the two Red Banner Manchuria, and the beheading of thousands of rebellious government troops.

In the Battle of Ping'andian, thousands of exhausted troops faced off against tens of thousands of invaders and slaves, and even faced the firecrackers of thousands of rebel officers. "However, the soldiers use their lives, relying on the blessings of the second ancestor and the ancestors, relying on the power of your majesty, the whole army fights with all their strength. The eunuch Wang Dehua, the eunuch in charge of the ceremony, beat the drums to cheer for the whole army. The number of enemy chieftains."

After a bitter battle, both sides saw that they could not gain any advantage, so they gathered their teams and quietly withdrew their troops.

"General Li discussed with the servants, and in order to preserve the dignity of the royal family, he reluctantly exchanged the bodies of Du Du and Yue Tuo, who were captured alive, with Jian Nu, and exchanged them for the men of King De's family, and more than a hundred thousand captives. People. Slaves who make decisions without authorization deserve death!"

Wang Chengen wept bitterly, kept grabbing the ground with his head, and yelled "Guilty!" in a low voice.

But how could Zhu Youjian, the emperor, punish them for their crimes?

How to say?

"Shouldn't you use your military exploits to exchange my brothers with Jiannu in order to preserve my dignity and the dignity of the Ming royal family?"

Compared with those generals, Li Shouhan in Jinan at this time can be called the four characters of Gongzhong Tiguo.

"Who else knows about this?" Chongzhen tightly held the incrimination booklet written by De Wang and others, his joints turned white from exertion.

"Back to the emperor, the matter was handled by some of General Li's subordinates. They are all from Miao Yaoxidong, and they can't speak Chinese well. Please rest assured, the emperor! The servants and general Li have already discussed it, and they are talking about morality to the outside world. When the Wang family broke through the city that day, they fled out of the city in a hurry to take refuge, and were encountered by our army on horseback. As for the story of being captured, it’s all rumors from the road, rumors made by slaves.”

Several confidant eunuchs and effective officials defended their authority in this way. Chongzhen nodded slightly in satisfaction, "Companion, pass the decree. De Wang lost his virtue, and the loss of the state can be seen in his private virtue. Immediately went to Fengyang ancestral mausoleum to plead guilty, Shut up and think about it."

"Then, General Li, how to award him?"

Chongzhen fell into a dilemma.How to deal with such a courtier made him quite difficult.

"My lord, this is the title book that General Zhu Enshang of Fengguo begged his slaves to bring to the lord, saying that it can only be read by the lord himself."

In addition to crying and pleading guilty, Zhu Enshang's title book is different from the title book led by De Wang Zhu Youshu in that he scolded Li Shouhan in it.

"The so-called fact that Mr. Li forcibly bought the Wangzhuang farmland in the hands of the clans at a very low price, was it ever true?"

It is mentioned in the inscription that Li Shouhan forcibly purchased large tracts of fertile land in Weixian, Rizhao, etc. from Dewang at a price of [-] silver dollars. "Greedy and violent, leading beasts to eat people, there is nothing like this!"

"But there are some. Lord Li's troops suffered a lot of casualties, and many of them were unable to go south by boat for a while, so Lord Li wanted to buy some land to temporarily house these soldiers. When their injuries improved, they would go south by sea boat."

"Aside from King De's Wangzhuang, is there anyone else's?"

"Every clan in Jinan has land purchased by General Li."

Hearing the news, a vague smile appeared on the corner of Zhu Youjian's mouth.