Blood from Daming

Chapter 844
After Xue Wu accepted Elder Wang's department, he defeated Zuo Liangyu and the pursuers of Kaifeng Prefecture in Henan Province in Tangyin, Zhangde Prefecture. Knowing that he had met Xue Jiajun, he greeted the 5000 men and horses and escaped cleanly, making the Kaifeng government army a scapegoat.

After Zuo Liangyu fled to Kaifeng Mansion, he encouraged Henan officials to go up to the imperial court to dispatch troops to wipe out the Xue family army in Zhangde Mansion. On the point of destroying the Xue family army, the Henan officials and gentry were of one mind with Zuo Liangyu, and soon Kaifeng Mansion Zhou The joint package headed by Wang was handed over to the Forbidden City in Beijing.

Emperor Chongzhen has always ordered Xiong Wencan, Lu Xiangsheng, and Hong Chengchou to strengthen their combat readiness, planning to attack all the Xue family troops next spring. Therefore, the memorial to the Kaifeng government to wipe out the Xue family troops in Zhangde Prefecture has been kept. unified action.

At the end of February in the 11th year of Chongzhen, Weiyuan County, which belonged to Gansu Town, Shaanxi Province, was broken by bandits. Patriarch Xue Rui wept bitterly over the death of his eldest daughter Xue Aoshuang.

Xue Rui implored the imperial court to allow the Xue family to send someone from Weiyuan to deal with the funeral. The eunuch Cao Huachun, the admiral of Dongchang, secretly reported to Emperor Chongzhen, who agreed to Xue Rui's request. Aunt Xue Aoshuang, uncle Song Wen's funeral, and the recent situation of younger sister Song Wenjia.

Xue Aoshuang's suicide was first learned by Gao Guiying. Gao Guiying immediately notified Datong and Hangzhou. On March 11, Chongzhen [-]th year, Gao Guiying identified the peasant army who broke through Weiyuan County, Gansu Town through the relationship with the Shaanxi peasant army. It was done by Liu Zongmin, the chief sentry of Wang Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng and other ministries who were originally eating in Sichuan heard that Hong Chengchou, the governor of the five provinces, led his troops into Sichuan and gathered in northern Sichuan to defend against danger. However, northern Sichuan is a land short of food, and the peasant army is not difficult to last. Li Zicheng was defeated by Hong Chengchou's Sichuan-Shaanxi army at Zitong, and Li Zicheng fled back to Shaanxi with the rest of his troops.

After Li Zicheng led his troops from Sichuan to Shaanxi, he broke through the counties in Lintao to prepare livestock and supplies to escape from the pursuit of the officers and soldiers. Weiyuan County was broken by Li Zicheng's general Liu Zongmin at this time. After Li Zicheng led his troops to escape the side wall However, Hong Chengchou did not let him go, but sent his generals Cao Bianjiao and He Renlong to continue chasing and annihilating him.

In the department of Li Zicheng, the capital of the capital, it was destroyed by Aruhan, a general sent by Harizhula. More than half of the more than 1 horses and horses were lost. His wife was also captured by Aruhan. Liu Zongmin fled back to the pass with only a few dozen people. Li Zicheng also escaped from Aruhan's Mongolian cavalry and the Ming army Cao Bianjiao and He Renlong, and hid in the southeast and north of Gansu. In the Longnan Mountains.

Liu Zongmin's wife naturally became the woman of the Mongolian soldiers. The peasant soldiers scattered outside the pass were either killed by the Mongols, or they starved to death on the grassland without food. With luck, they became slaves of the head of the Aoerdu Department. The Mongolian army's participation in the encirclement and suppression of Li Zicheng's troops made Emperor Chongzhen think of a way to use Xue's army to destroy the peasant army, and he hesitated about the plan to immediately destroy Xue's army.

Huang Taiji got 50 North Koreans to return to China as slaves, and plundered a lot of supplies from North Korea. However, 50 more people ate, drank and slept, and the financial and material resources of the Manchu Qing could not support it. Provide food, and North Korea, which has gone through wars, can't fill its stomach. Where can there be surplus food to support the Qing Dynasty.

Huang Taiji had no choice but to fight Ye He's idea. How could he know that before the fight started, Ye He's family fled to Horqin with cattle, sheep and livestock. Thousands of people basically failed to grab the cattle and sheep belongings of Ye He's tribe, so it can only be regarded as a fruitless expedition.

What Huang Taiji lacks most now is livestock and food, so he focused his attention on the fat meat of Daming. In order to deal with the robbery from the Xue family army from Datong, Huang Taiji recruited soldiers to the maximum extent among the Koreans, and won the North Korean soldiers. Nearly [-] were incorporated into the Jurchen Niulu to train and prepare to attack the Ming Dynasty.

On August 11, the 23th year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji ordered Belle Yuetuo to lead the army as General Yangwu. Prince Rui Dorgon, Belle Dudu and other three groups conquered the Ming Dynasty, and Huang Taiji also led an army of [-]. The threat of Xue Jiajun in Datong.

On September 22, Yue Tuo destroyed the Great Wall from Qiangziling and Qingshan Pass in the north of Miyun, and broke in through the side wall. Governor Wu Aheng of Miyun rushed to the battle and was killed by Yue Tuo. The two armies moved to Tongzhou and crossed Fengrun , along the Taihang Mountains and the canal, divided the troops into eight groups and attacked westward.

Chongzhen was shocked, and ordered martial law in the capital. Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Xuan, Da, and Shanxi, supervised the world and gave Shang Fangjian. Unexpectedly, Datong Daming agreed to follow Lu Xiang to be promoted to King Qin, which made Lu Xiangsheng overjoyed. He asked Datong Xue's army to meet in the outskirts of the capital, so he led 2 people from Xuanfu to King Qin in advance.

When Emperor Chongzhen learned that the 20 troops of Jianlu had invaded the bandits, he had the desire to make peace at that time, and asked Chen Xinjia, Minister of the Ministry of War, to contact the Manchus in private.The academician Yang Sichang and the eunuch Gao Qiqian guessed that Chongzhen intended to negotiate peace, and they obstructed Lu Xiangsheng in many ways. Lu Xiangsheng was named the governor of the world, but he couldn't mobilize other people's troops at all, thus facilitating the peace talks with Jianlu and preserving the strength of the Ming army. Vitality.

Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Xuan, Da, and Shanxi, was the one who lost his father and forgot his home, and the superintendent went to the capital to help him. He just entered the capital. When he heard that Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian were discussing peace, he was very upset. He consulted on the platform called by Emperor Chongzhen At that time, Lu Xiangsheng said with emotion: "The emperor ordered the minister to supervise the teacher, and the minister intends to take the lead in the battle."

Emperor Chongzhen blindly fought against Lu Xiangsheng, disregarding the court's strategy of making peace at home before fighting against the outside world, he couldn't help but change his face. After a long while, he said: "There may be something said in the court discussion, but I agree with it."

However, as soon as Lu Xiangsheng left the imperial palace, Emperor Zhen let Yang Sichang, Gao Qiqian, and Lu Xiangsheng divide their military power without restraint; The 2 horses I brought from Xuanfu.

Emperor Chongzhen may have given Lu Xiangsheng the official title of Minister of War to comfort Lu Xiangsheng. Lu Xiangsheng was grateful for the grace of Emperor Chongzhen and planned to march to Zhuozhou. , don’t think about begging for alliances in the city, the shame of the Spring and Autumn Period. Chang’an’s tongue is like a sword, isn’t it against Yuan Chonghuan’s mistake?”

When Yang Sichang was told by him, his cheeks turned red immediately, and he said slowly, "As you said, you are going to add me with Shangfang sword."

Lu Xiangsheng said angrily: "Lu is neither going to the funeral nor fighting, Shang Fangjian is the first to add to his own neck, how can he add others?"

Yang Sichang said: "It's a public holiday! Please don't trap people with rumors about Chang'an."

Lu Xiangsheng said: "Zhou Yuanzhong went to the border to make peace, and we have been in contact for several days. The whole country knows it, so why hide it?"

Yang Sichang had no words to say and left in dismay; the next day, Lu Xiangsheng met Gao Qiqian again, and the two talked about the war and became more and more at odds. The criminals went straight from Lugou Bridge to Liangxiang, and Lu Xiangsheng sent generals to split up to prevent the blockage.However, the number of troops under his command was less than [-], which was not enough to dispatch, and the Qing soldiers were as swift as a rainstorm, and they were too fast to guard against.

Yang Sichang impeached Lu Xiangsheng for inappropriate dispatching. Emperor Chongzhen cut Lu Xiangsheng's title of Minister of War, and still supervised the world's soldiers and horses as a servant. Lu Xiangsheng's most bitter thing about this matter was that the soldiers were poorly paid and had no one to help him. Every night, he would cry alone until dawn. He also supervised the soldiers, advancing but not retreating.

On the one hand, he was calling for the Ministry of War to transport food and grass, but was stopped by Yang Sichang. Seeing that the food and salaries were exhausted and the soldiers were hungry, he knew that death was not far away, so he went out of the tent in the early morning, bowed down to the soldiers, and said with tears: " I share the grace of the country with all the lords, and I will not die if I suffer, and I will not live if I do not suffer."

All the officers and soldiers cried when they heard the words, and please fight to the death with the enemy. Lu Xiangsheng sent troops to Julu. At this time, there were only [-] soldiers left around Lu Xiangsheng. Begging for help, Lu Xiangsheng sighed: "He, will he come to help me?" Yang Tinglin insisted on asking for a party, and Lu Xiangsheng said goodbye to Yang Tinglin.

In November of the 11th year of Chongzhen, Sun Chengzong, the former scholar of Liaodong Economics, was 76 years old. He led his descendants and the people of Gaoyang to strengthen the defense of the city wall, preparing to resist the attack of the Qing soldiers on Gaoyang. On the [-]th, Prince Jianlurui Dorgon came to Gaoyang City, and Dorgon went to Gaoyang City to persuade Sun Chengzong to surrender, but was rejected by Sun Chengzong!
After Sun Chengzong sternly rejected Dorgon's inducement to surrender, he immediately led his family and the people of Gaoyang to prepare to resist the attack of the Qing army. At this time, a family member came to report: "Old ancestor, Peng Yishi of Zhili is asking to see him."

Sun Chengzong was a little surprised when he heard this. Now that Gaoyang is in a state of chaos, all outsiders who can leave have left. Why did this Peng Yishi come to see him now, but Sun Chengzong still agreed to see this Peng Yishi, and soon Peng Yishi came in front of Sun Chengzong , Peng Yishi knelt down and prostrated and said: "Mr. Peng Lang of Zhili, under the order of the mistress, traveled thousands of miles to help Gaoyang. Please be dispatched by Master Jinglue."

(End of this chapter)