Emperor Ming Dynasty

Chapter 468 When the Northern Expedition is underway

Many people are arranging the way out, the Han Eight Banners, surrendering the army, or surrendering the ministers.

However, benefiting from Emperor Shaowu's long-standing reputation of hating traitors, especially when he expelled the nobles in Nanjing and demoted them to the frontiers, many people were frightened.

The word "bright traitor" was uttered by Emperor Shaowu.

The reason why they are not traitors is that there are many Mongols in the Ming army and they cannot be left behind.

In fact, in the act of transferring the family members, they were extremely quick, and then they couldn't wait to fool the merchants and buy the land deeds in their hands.Grab another before you go.

Time passed by little by little, and on July [-], Azig and others from Shanxi and Luck Dehun from Henan also led their troops back to Beijing.

They also agreed with the policy of preserving vitality.

It is impossible to sacrifice the lives of the Eight Banners for the sake of the place in the pass, it is not worth it.

Just like the Mongols, didn’t they continue to live for hundreds of years after leaving the pass?Lin Danhan has just died a few years ago.

Dorgon no longer hesitated, sowed a large amount of gold, silver and jewels, and forced 20,000 people from Chahar Mongolia and Khalkha Mongolia to go south to protect Beijing.

This is also his balancing act.

After going south again and again, not only the Manchu Eight Banners suffered heavy losses, but the Han Eight Banners and Mongolian Eight Banners were also torn apart, and almost every family wore mourning.

Most of the incorporated Eight Banners were captives and belonged to Chahar Mongolia. There were only 110 seven Niulu and more than [-] people.

At that time, Huang Taiji extended the establishment of flags to the entire Mongolian region, dividing Mongolia into Inner Mongolia and Outer Mongolia.

Inner Mongolia is Chahar Mongolia, and Outer Mongolia is Khalkha Mongolia.

However, this kind of banner and alliance is only an administrative organization, not the Eight Banners.

In other words, the Mongolian Eight Banners are no longer Mongols. They are already subordinate to the Eight Banners.

Considering the balance outside the customs, Mongolia is the arm of the Qing Dynasty, and it is inevitable that Chahar and Khalkha will contribute to fill the vacancy and consume their troops so that they will still be obedient in the future.

And Dorgon's so-called blocking the Ming army is not just talking. In fact, he wants to use the hands of the Ming army to consume the strength of the Mongols.

Both the Mongols and the Ming army suffered losses, which is what he would like to see most.

At this time, the Eight Banners soldiers and horses gathered in Beijing, plus Mongolian soldiers, had exceeded [-].

This is the second time after entering the customs, the Manchu Qing gathered so many soldiers and horses again. All the people and horses gathered together for a while, and there were war horses in sight, which gave people a feeling of conquering the world.

Dorgon knew that this was an illusion.

Even if he defeated the Ming army with so many soldiers and horses, judging from the experience of the past two years, the Eight Banners must have suffered heavy losses.

And the ones who benefited are likely to be those Mongols.

He glanced sideways at the Mongols in the camp, and saw that they were big-bodied, gorging on wine and meat, while the nobles of the Eight Banners, such as Luck Dehun, kept drinking with them.

The Mongolian marriage with Chahar has been married for many years, and the family does not have one or two Mongolian concubines.

"We're having a good time chatting now, but in the future we may not know how fast we can swing the knife!"

Sighing in his heart, Dorgon even made up his mind to cut his soldiers.

On the other side, when Chen Yongfu learned that Le Kede had abandoned Zhangde Mansion and returned to the north, he immediately knew that something big had happened.

Soon after, the imperial court issued a military order ordering him to gather his troops and go along the Yellow River to join Li Jizu in Shandong.

As a result, the army can be assembled and the strength will be stronger. It is much stronger for him to fight in Beizhili alone.

Second, it is easier to deploy grain and grass, and the canal is the most convenient and fast.

In this way, the collection of ships, plus the journey, arrived in Jinan in about half a month, and at this time the imperial court's luggage had just arrived.

In this way, together with the 20,000 people in Henan and the soldiers and horses in Jinan, there are more than 140,000.

"Brother Chen!"

Li Jizu held Chen Yongfu's hand tightly and said with emotion: "I haven't seen you for many years, are you okay?"

"Thanks to His Majesty's blessing, it's not bad."

Chen Yongfu was also filled with emotion.

Since staying in Luoyang, he did not participate in the emperor's battle to conquer Nanjing, and he was forced to stay in Henan when he ascended the throne, let alone.

After a year and a half, the two finally met each other.

"You did a good job in this battle!"

Chen Yongfu said with emotion that he treated Li Jizu equally and never relied on his seniority.

What about the Henan General Army during the Chongzhen period?He is now in a higher position than you, and is the sole ruler of Daming.

"Oh, it's not my fault, it's just following the steps."

Li Jizu told the truth.

As early as in Tongguan, he had taken refuge in the emperor, and now, from guerrilla general to control, his military ability can only be said to be quite satisfactory, relying on his obedience.

It is precisely this point that he is extremely cautious in fighting, step by step, and will never make mistakes, because he knows that he has no ability to turn the tide.

Chen Yongfu took a high look at him,
Taking down Wu Sangui and surrendering the Guan Ning army, regardless of whether it was poisoning or what, these are all credits, and they are still so humble.

Sure enough.

After he saw Wu Sangui, Chen Yongfu suddenly took a look at Li Jizu: There is really nothing wrong with being humble.

He didn't fight a fierce battle, so he got the credit.

"This is Zhang Qi, commander of Yanzhou Guard, and Ren Qi, commander of Qingzhou Guard—"

"This is Marquis Fu, Luoyang stayed behind, Chen Yongfu—"

Li Jizu opened his mouth to introduce two thick and dark men.

"The last general has seen Fuhou—" Zhang Qiren hurriedly cupped his hands and saluted.

The titles are all superb.

"This is Li Yingren, General Soldier of Liaodong, after Ning Yuanbo Li Taibao (Li Rusong)."

"I've been looking forward to it for a long time!"

This time, Chen Yongfu was a little more active.

The Li family in Liaodong can be said to be very famous and well-known.

However, it seems that he is only more than 20 years old, so why is he the chief soldier?
Chen Yongfu felt a little depressed.

I climbed for 20 years and fought many battles before I became the general soldier of Henan.

However, he glanced at Li Jizu, the control is only worth money now, and the general soldier is no more than that.

He also met people from the Beijing camp one by one, such as Li Dingguo and Gao Yigong, who were rumored to be treated differently by the emperor.

Now, Chen Yongfu was quite helpless: "Why are they all surnamed Li?"

However, when discussing the major events of the Northern Expedition, Li Jizu only left Chen Yongfu:

"Your Majesty and the Chief of Staff have sent a message, asking us to put prudence first, and not to be greedy for meritorious deeds and damage our troops."

"In addition, according to Jin Yiwei's news, as early as two or three months ago, the Manchu Qing gradually returned their family members to the north, and only the soldiers and horses were still there."

"It seems that the Manchuria is really going to be returned outside the customs."

Chen Yongfu was filled with emotions, and was quite touched for a while.

After recovering a little, he said refreshedly, "So, according to His Majesty's wishes, we will go northward along the canal and travel no more than thirty miles a day."

(End of this chapter)