Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 484
Although the Northern Expedition with great fanfare did not achieve any results. At best, it regained a Guide Mansion and obtained a base from Henan, but in fact it did not have the strength to enter Henan at all.

But Yang Chao wasn't very depressed. This time he was experimenting with Li Wuliu's new army formation, and his real purpose was not the Northern Expedition, but to mobilize the Huguang Qing Army.

The failure to mobilize the Qing army in Huguang was what frustrated Yang Chao the most. He acknowledged Dorgon's strategic vision. Even in the most critical situation, Dorgon was still able to insist on deploying elite troops in Huguang. To contain Yang Chao. On this point, those in power in Ming Dynasty should really be ashamed. When Zuo Liangyu went east, Ma Shiying and others insisted on resisting with all their troops and would rather give up Jiangbei. This kind of panic in the face of the enemy, It forms an extremely sharp contrast with Dorgon's calmness under the dual pressure of internal and external troubles.

So Yang Chao quickly admitted the failure of attacking Henan and mobilizing the enemy's strategy. At the same time, he immediately issued an order to let Lu Mo and Xie Fei jointly attack Hong Chengchou in Jiujiang.

In the past, Hong Chengchou was always asked to stay in Jiujiang. Firstly, Yang Chao did not want to attack Jiujiang. Second, Yang Chao felt that it would be safer for Hong Chengchou to stay in Jiujiang than to send him to Huguang. If King Sanshun and Le Ke Dehun's elite soldiers from the Five Routes would make Yang Chao feel uncomfortable sleeping and eating.

Therefore, he wants to transfer the Huguang Qing army to Henan through strategy, and then clean up Hong Chengchou. Now that the strategy has failed, he must solve Hong Chengchou as soon as possible. Occupying Jiujiang is even secondary, and Hong Chengchou is more important.

But what Yang Chao didn't expect was that Xie Fei and Lu Mo attacked from two directions, or even attacked from three directions, but Hong Chengchou still ran away.

Hong Chengchou gave Xie Fei and Lu Mo another tactical lesson.

Previously, Jiujiang was an isolated city, so the morale of the Jiangxi green camp soldiers in the city was low, and they were almost in a state of collapse. Fleeing was a common thing, even if Hong Chengchou had a strategy, he could not stop this phenomenon.

As for the green battalion soldiers who escaped from Jiujiang and surrendered to the Ming army, Yang Chao asked Xie Fei to screen them out, and asked them to go back and spread the promise that the Ming army would not kill a single person. This move even shook the morale of the green battalion in the city. At the end of the plan to attack Jiujiang, the number of Qing troops who fled to their army had already exceeded [-], which was more than the Qing troops in Hong Chengchou's hands in the city.

Moreover, Xie Fei also reached an agreement with the main Qing army generals in the city. As soon as Xie Fei started to attack the city, they would immediately turn their guns, kill the Eight Banners soldiers who were monitoring them, and dedicate Jiujiang City to the Yang family army.

With the guarantee of this relationship, Xie Fei is confident.

On the eve of the attack, a lieutenant general of Jiujiang City quietly left the city, entered Xie Fei's camp, discussed with Xie Fei face to face, and asked Xie Fei to give him a night.

Xie Fei didn't doubt it at all, and waited until the next morning with peace of mind, but it turned out that someone did sacrifice the city, but it wasn't the lieutenant general, who had escorted Hong Chengchou to run away last night.

Obviously this lieutenant is Hong Chengchou's confidant, the purpose of deceiving Xie Fei is to let Xie Fei relax his vigilance and give them a whole night.

Occupying Jiujiang, but losing Yang Chao's most valued Hong Chengchou, Xie Fei was so annoyed that he sent troops to chase him for hundreds of miles but failed to catch up.

Knowing that Hong Chengchou had successfully escaped from Jiujiang, Yang Chao had no choice but to adjust his military deployment. Dorgon in the north put a lot of pressure on Yang Chao, and he couldn't use Jiangbei's soldiers. However, after capturing Jiujiang, there is no need to deploy too many troops near Jiujiang. up.

Let Xie Fei sit in Nanchang, leaving only Jiang Fan's navy and a thousand defenders in Jiujiang.Tiao Lu Mo went to Yuanzhou Mansion and Ji'an Mansion, while many men were in Ganzhou and Nan'an Mansions. Yang Chao didn't want to see Hong Chengchou break through from the center again.

After dealing with these, Yang Chao returned to Nanjing.

When I returned home, my family greeted me in front of General Dragon and Tiger Square, but this time there was a newcomer, Hongguang Emperor Zhu Cihong.

"His Majesty!"

Yang Chao jumped off his horse all the way, and was about to kneel down when he got close, but was grabbed by Zhu Cihong.

"Hey, Uncle Zhongyi has worked hard!"

Zhu Cihong sighed with a vicissitudes of life in his eyes.

"Your Majesty has suffered!"

Yang Chao said politely.

Zhu Cihong shook his head: "The lonely king is no longer the emperor, it is enough to wish to be a prince of Taiping, and the loyal uncle must not be called your majesty anymore."

Yang Chao laughed: "Your Highness!"

Zhu Cihong just nodded.

In fact, Zhu Cihong doesn't need to live in Yang's house, Nanjing has the imperial palace, although there were two fires, one was deliberately set by Yang Chao, with the purpose of framing the scholar who gathered a crowd to make trouble, that time he just lit a few piles of wood in the open space, But the second time it was a real fire, the second time it was set by Kong Youde.

But after that, Yang Chao found someone to repair it, and the palace was still able to live.

Even if he didn't want to live in the deserted palace, there was still a place to go in the city of Nanjing. Ding Wang Zhu Cijiong was also in Nanjing. When Zhu Cihong was the emperor, he built a garden for him as Dingwangfu. Zhu Cihong could go to his younger brother, but he still didn't go.

He lives in Yang's house.

This attitude is obvious, and it is an attitude of supporting Yang Chao.

In fact, after Zhu Cihong was captured, he wanted to understand many things, and he saw clearly.

When I was a prisoner in Beijing, I was trembling and fearful all day long. Fortunately, with Yang Chao's military power, he was always valuable, so he was not killed by Dorgon, because Yang Chao has always been under the banner of Emperor Hongguang. If Yang Chao If I directly pulled out Zhu Cijiong's words to establish a new king, I am afraid that Zhu Cihong would have died long ago.

But this is only one aspect, it's just a small matter that makes Zhu Cihong think that Yang Chao misses the old love. The real reason is that he has seen through the group of civil servants who are full of benevolence, righteousness and morality. They usually pretend to be loyal, but in the end there is no loyal minister.

When he was in Beijing, whenever he was defeated by Yang Chao, Dorgon would pull Zhu Cihong out and let him accompany various ministers and dignitaries to banquets. Zhu Cihong saw many civil servants who used to be officials in the court. His face made him feel extremely disgusted, especially some of the high-ranking guys.

"If Uncle Zhongyi can invade Beijing one day, all these people can be killed. Shandong Sun Zhixie, Shuntian Feng Quan and others can be killed, and Chen Mingxia and others can live."

Sun Zhixie from Shandong and Feng Quan from Shuntian Mansion, both of them have eunuch backgrounds, and the Feng family is also a wealthy family. Because Feng Quan was implicated by his father, both father and son were impeached and dismissed from office.

In the reign of Tianqi, when Wei Zhongxian went to Zhuozhou to pilgrimage, Feng Quan seized the opportunity and knelt on the side of the road to greet him. He was appreciated by Wei Zhongxian and became an official again.After the Qing army entered the customs, in order to win people's hearts, they recruited Feng Quan, a wealthy official with power in the local area and Beijing.

The same is true for Sun Zhixie. After Wei Zhongxian fell from power, he was also dismissed from office.But this person was unwilling to be lonely at home. After the Manchus entered the customs, he immediately let his wife and daughter let go of their little feet according to Manchurian customs, and the men of the family shaved their hair, and used this to show their merits. "Effective and full system", after pleasing Dorgon, he was able to enter the court as an official.

Sun Zhixie's despicableness did not stop there. At that time, Dorgon had not yet issued an order to shave their hair. Because a large number of Ming Dynasty officials surrendered, there were often two classes when they went to court, one for Hanchen, one for Manchen, and Sun Zhixie. After Zhixie came to court, because of a braid on his head, the Hanchen would not tolerate him, and the Manchen also felt that he was a Han and could not tolerate him. As a result, Sun Zhixie could only stand in the middle for a long time. Neither Han nor Man.

But Sun Zhixie soon wrote a letter requesting to shave his hair and change his clothes: "Your Majesty pacified China and changed everything, but the system of clothes and hair tied up only preserves the old Han. It's hard to say calm down, hard to say surrender."
It was precisely because of Sun Zhixie's advice that Dorgon issued an order to shave his hair.

People like Sun Zhixie and Feng Quan, who can regard eunuchs like Wei Zhongxian as their masters, obviously don't have a bit of lofty literati and officialdom, so they have no sense of shame, so they are especially hated.

When Zhu Cihong was in Beijing, he also had a banquet with these two people, but in front of Dorgon, these two people made extreme sarcasm to Zhu Cihong, the old crown prince and the new Ming emperor, which hurt Zhu Cihong's heart very much, so he He felt that both of them could be killed, but a real literati like Chen Mingxia, although he also surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, had the integrity of a literati, and he repaid his old master with courtesy, which made Zhu Cihong grateful and feel that he could live.

"This generation of traitors will be punished by everyone. Please remember what your Highness said."

Yang Chao also gave Zhu Cihong a lot of face.

Zhu Cilang sighed: "The lonely king also made a big mistake. If it wasn't for the words of his cronies and ministers that day, and wrongly blamed Uncle Zhongyi, how could I have today."

Back then, Liu Zongzhou and his group spoke bad things about Yang Chao in Zhu Cihong's ears all day long, which made Zhu Cihong and Yang Chao alienated. As a result, the Qing army went south, and these literati couldn't protect him. He had to run away, and was finally captured and humiliated. , Still a high-ranking official and rich salary went to Fujian to fool another little emperor, and he still enjoyed a great reputation.

But he, Zhu Cihong, was in a precarious position in Beijing. He even laughed at being humiliated during the day. He had experienced the general state of mind of the second Huiqin sect in the Song Dynasty, and he had always feared that he would be killed like the second Huiqin sect. Fortunately, he It is much better than the life of Huiqin Second Sect, because of Yang Chao's relationship, the Manchu Qing actually let him go.

Yang Chao also sighed: "You are a literati, you have a good name, you don't care about the consequences, you have to believe it, and you can't believe it!"

Zhu Cilang sighed: "It's a pity that the lonely king was not sensible at that time."

After finishing speaking, he took a silent look at Yang Chao, and suddenly bowed at ninety degrees: "Uncle Wang Zhongyi will not count the faults of the lonely king, and will continue to be loyal to the country in the future. The lonely king is grateful!"

Seeing Zhu Cihong bowing down, Yang Chao never thought of it, and he was taken aback for a moment before quickly helping him up.

"Your Highness, it is absolutely impossible!"

(End of this chapter)