nanming man

Chapter 577 Please Confer King Wei
Wu Sangui controlled more than 5 Guanning Army, which was too powerful, and the Qing court was naturally worried, so he found some excuses and sent a thousand-man Eight Banners Army to accompany him.

In order to obtain money and food from the Qing court and to reassure Dorgon, Guan Ningjun acquiesced in the Qing court's sending of the Eight Banners to monitor.

In this way, the Qing court can rest assured that Guan Ning's army can get military pay and supplies, and they get along very well.

It's just that this time Gao Yihuan proposed that the Guan Ning Army must be cleared and eliminated, which determined the tragic fate of this Eight Banners soldier.

Wu Sangui kept these Eight Banners in Baocheng and asked them to contain Zhang Xianzhong, saying that if the Guan Ning army wanted to recapture Guanzhong, they had to block Zhang Xianzhong.

The Eight Banners generals were loyal to the Qing Dynasty and accepted Wu Sangui's important task.

Zhang Xianzhong paid attention to Wu Sangui's movement all the time, and found that there was a change in Guan Ning's army. He thought that Li Dingguo had succeeded in attacking Xi'an, and was overjoyed. He immediately mobilized troops to attack Guan Ning's army.

When the Western Army entered Baocheng, it was blocked by more than 1000 Eight Banners soldiers. Zhang Xianzhong sent troops to attack from all sides.

The Eight Banners soldiers relied on the city walls, trenches, and precise arrows, which caused great damage to the Western Army. Zhang Xianzhong, who was red-eyed, launched a sea charge. Nearly [-] soldiers attacked. The Eight Banners resisted desperately and held on for three days. Annihilation, none of them left.

Zhang Xianzhong pulled out Baocheng and was about to continue northward, preparing to enter Guanzhong all the way, but the north was rolling with iron hooves. Tens of thousands of Guanning cavalry suddenly came, and the Western Army was caught off guard and was defeated. Zhang Xianzhong was shot by an arrow and fled back to the south Zheng.

At dusk, Wu Sangui arrived in Baocheng, the air was still filled with the pungent smell of blood, and the city was filled with thick smoke.

In the open space in front of the city gate, nearly a thousand corpses were neatly placed together, covered with white cloth.

Wu Sangui came galloping on horseback, dismounted and was greeted by all the generals of the Guan Ning Army.

Niu Jinxing took Wu Sangui's whip, led Wu Sangui to the rows of corpses, and said sadly: "My lord, all the Eight Banners soldiers who stood firm in Baocheng died in battle!"

Xia Guoxiang lifted a piece of white cloth, "My lord, this man is Bei Zi Shangshan, the second son of Bei Le Fei Yangwu. He fought very tenaciously and bravely!"

Wu Sangui looked at the mangled corpse, solemnly took off his helmet, and said sadly, "It's a man!"

The generals of the Guanning Army outside the city gate also took off their helmets and paid tribute to the Eight Banners soldiers who died in battle. The scene was solemn.

Wu Sangui scanned the corpses all over the ground, put his helmet back on, turned his head and said to Niu Jinxing in a low voice: "Junshi Niu, you deal with it, throw these corpses to Gao Yihuan, and urge Wei Wujun by the way, the food and grass must keep up!"

Niu Jinxing hurriedly saluted, "Don't worry, my lord!"

Wu Sangui got on his horse, and Niu Jinxing handed over the whip. After receiving it, he immediately clamped the horse's belly, raised the whip, and shouted: "The whole army goes straight to Nanzheng!"

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In Xi'an City, Governor's Mansion, in the temporary festival hall, Gao Yihuan sat on the commander's seat with a big horse and a golden sword, listening to the reports of many soldiers and staff.

Zhao Daxian stood up and said, "Commander, Tongguan and Pujin Pass have been captured, and in the entire Guanzhong, only the city of Yan'an is still resisting!"

Gao Yihuan touched his lower jaw, "Yan'an must be taken as soon as possible. After the spring, I don't want the Qing army to be in Guanzhong!"

Zhao Daxian clasped his fists immediately, "I understand that I will send people to urge the siege!"

Gao Yihuan nodded, then Li Yan stood up again and said, "Commander, most of the prefectures and counties in Guanzhong have surrendered. I checked the file and found that Gansu and other places are not counted. We have a new population of more than 350 million. If we add Upper Gansu, and northern Shaanxi, should have a population of more than 450 million!"

In the early years of Chongzhen, Shaanxi had a population of more than 500 million. At this time, the entire Guanzhong region had a population of less than [-] million, and almost one of the two died. The situation can be said to be quite miserable.

Huguang has a population of about 500 million, of which more than 800 million belong to Gao Yihuan, more than 300 million in southern Henan, and more than [-] million in Guanzhong. The total population under Wei Wujun's rule has exceeded [-] million.

Although there is a huge gap with the Ming Dynasty, it has narrowed the distance with the population under the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

According to Li Yan's estimation, the area occupied by the Manchu Qing, including the slaves and savages outside the pass, should only have more than [-] million people.

However, if the Qing army occupies Jiangbei, the population controlled by the Manchu Qing must exceed 3000 million.

Now for Gao Yihuan, population is a resource, he pondered slightly, and said: "Mr. Li, we must restore peace in Guanzhong as soon as possible to ensure that the more than 450 million people can survive and produce."

Li Yan nodded, but said: "Commander, to restore the order in Guanzhong and rule so many counties and people, our system must be established! With so many demoted officials, there are seventh-rank county magistrates, and second- and third-rank third divisions. Officials and generals have second-rank general soldiers. Their rank is so high. If they are all demoted according to our official positions, they must be dissatisfied, which is not conducive to the stability of Guanzhong. If we let them stay in their positions, then we will also be unhappy. Comfortable!"

This is indeed a problem. The people sent to contact Li Guo and Gao Yigong also brought back news that the negotiations did not make much progress.

Although Li Guo sent troops to reinforce him, he hesitated to submit to Gao Yihuan and become Gao Yihuan's subordinate.

Li Guo and Gao Yigong have a large group of earls and marquises from the Dashun Dynasty. Gao Yihuan's identity does not give him a good official position, and it is indeed not easy to recruit. In addition, they do not know whether Gao Yihuan is a running dog of the Ming Dynasty. The court surrendered, or he surrendered himself, so the matter was deadlocked.

Gao Yihuan frowned slightly, "What suggestions do you gentlemen have?"

Chen Mingxia said: "Marshal, it's time to be called the king and build a feudal clan! Establish a feudal state, the marshal will be called the king, and the subordinates can be promoted, and the issue of official positions will be solved!"

Gao Yihuan rubbed his hands, "I'm afraid this Nanjing will not be happy!"

Chen Mingxia said: "Behead first and then play. The commander-in-chief will be king first, and then send someone to Nanjing to ask for the title. Given the current situation in Nanjing, everyone will be happy if you agree. If you don't agree, what can you do?"

Gao Yihuan pondered slightly. If he didn't get promoted, his subordinates wouldn't get promoted. Moreover, if they took Guanzhong and ruled such a vast area, they should be called kings.

"Okay! Mr. Chen will handle this matter!" Gao Yihuan moved his buttocks, his face flushed a little, "Well~Mr. Chen wrote a note for Gu, please make him king of Wei!"

According to the rules, he should have repeatedly declined and his subordinates persuaded him repeatedly, but Marshal Gao is not humble at all, so he has the cheek to call him "Gu".

Chen Mingxia suddenly shook his robe, walked to the middle, plopped down on his knees, and bowed down, "My lord, I greet you, Your Majesty!"

After worshiping, he looked up, tears streaming down his face.

Many civil and military personnel in the hall reacted, and Zhao Daxian immediately went to the middle and prostrated himself, and said excitedly: "I pay homage to the king!"

"So what~" For a while, Gao Yihuan was a little at a loss, he had no experience in being a king, so he raised his hand and said with a silly smile, "Everyone, let's get back together!"

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