The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 388
It's a pity that Qiu Hejia couldn't even control the gate of the city, and the unscathed Zu Dashou walked into the city swaggeringly, immediately surrounded by hundreds of ancestors' troops.

What can Qiu Hejia, who only actually commands a few hundred Fubiao battalion troops, do at this time?Besides, the Fubiao Battalion was also a Liao soldier, not Qiu Hejia's servant, so there was no loyalty at all.

Zu Dashou brought dozens of servants to the governor's yamen to meet Qiu Hejia. He never mentioned the matter of treason, killing friends and dedicating the city to the enemy. .

When the city was breached, the defenders scattered to break through. He himself fought for a day and a night, and his horses were exhausted. He had to hide in the mountains to escape the pursuit of Jiannu. After hiding for a few days, he found the opportunity to return to Jinzhou.

Why did Qiu Hejia not want to arrest Zu Dashou and bring him to justice, but more than [-]% of the Jinzhou garrison is Zu Dashou's Guan Ning Army, and the generals also account for the vast majority.

He can only agree with Zu Dashou's rhetoric, and he is full of apprehension in his heart, always on guard against Zu Dashou's arrest and offering himself to Dong Nu.

Fortunately, Qiu Hejia's worries were unfounded. The day Zu Dashou entered Jinzhou, he began to actively deploy defenses. Instead of lobbying the civil and military generals to surrender and become slaves, he called on the army and the people to work together to hold on to the city.

Qiu Hejia wrote a memorial to report the cause and effect of the fall of Dalinghe City, basically according to Zu Dashou's narration, and then he wrote the real situation as a confidant of the Mi Zhe Sect and sent him to the capital.

Emperor Chongzhen was speechless for a long time after receiving the two memorials from Qiu Hejia. Everyone surrendered to He Kegang.

According to the official report, He Kegang died of exhaustion in the bloody battle against Jiannu. Chongzhen could only accept this conclusion and gave him the posthumous honor.

Chongzhen, who had always hated Zu Dashou, wished he could cut him into pieces at this moment, but worried that the intimidation would be too much, and Zu Dashou would bring [-] to [-] men under his command to offer Jinzhou City to surrender and become a slave again.

In case Zu Dashou offered Jinzhou to join the enemy, Ningyuan would follow suit, because Ningyuan's garrison was also in the same line as the Guanning Army, and there were many generals surnamed Zu.

Chongzhen secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, he didn't hand over the white soldiers to Zhang Chun to take to reinforce Dalinghe City. If this group of troops were lost, who else could be trusted?
There are [-] loyal and brave white soldiers stationed in Shanhaiguan. If the situation in Liaodong deteriorates, it is impossible for Sichuan army generals such as Ma Xianglin and Qin Yiming to be as good as Liaozhen Kangdang.

Now Chongzhen has unresolved matters in his heart and has learned to keep his voice open. Liaozhen's troops are unstable and can't take action, and they have to provide money and food.
Chongzhen's attention was focused on Ningyuan, but which group of troops to send to garrison Ningyuan could not be assimilated by Liaozhen?This team has yet to fight.

The white-armed soldiers must not move if they want to defend Shanhaiguan. The "Red Banner Army" has just experienced a war and needs time to recover. Besides, Jinzhou is directly facing Jiannu. It is not easy to hold on there, and it must not be mobilized.

Soldiers must be used everywhere, such as bandits from Shanshan and Shanxi, rebels from Shandong, and slaves from Liaodong. The emperor's head is too big to make a decision.

Unexpectedly, misfortunes never come singly. In a few days, a huge bad news came. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Dengzhou, a strong city, was captured by the rebels. They are going to separate the Shandong peninsula and establish themselves as kings.

Four years of restless Chongzhen finally survived, and Daming went from bad to worse.

The fifth year of Chongzhen came amidst continuous prairie fires, and the first thing the court needed to solve was the Denglai Rebellion.

After all, Shandong is too close to the capital, so how can we allow others to sleep soundly on the side of the couch, and it is imperative to put down the rebellion.

The more than 2000 troops of deputy general Huang Weizheng, the more than [-] troops of general Han Zhikuan, and the more than [-] troops of Luanzhou garrison assigned by general Huang Yizhou were all ordered to participate in the Shandong counter-insurgency.

If you compare people, you should die, and if you compare goods, you should throw them away. The Luanzhou Garrison Battalion in Huangyizhou has 360 troops. He took 500 people to the expedition, and 140 of them accompanied him in the name of servants.

Huang Weizheng's more than [-] troops actually set out with more than [-] people, and Han Zhi's team sent out less than Huang Yizhou's team, so they both belong to the category of good generals of Ming Dynasty.

Yu Dake, the governor of Shandong Province, dispatched Chen Guangyuan, the general officer of Shandong, Shen Tingyu, the deputy general of the Chinese army, and Tao Tingyu, the deputy general of the Chinese army, to lead the troops to fight against Li Jiucheng's rebels. There were eight or nine thousand people on the list, and in the end, less than three thousand fought against the rebels in Ruanchengdian. .

The result was very funny. The Shandong soldiers were so vulnerable that they were scattered by Li Jiuzheng's armored cavalry in a single charge, and fled all over the mountains and plains.

These soldiers were not good at fighting slaves, bandits, or rebels, and they harmed the common people without a teacher. Later in history, Li Jiuzheng was beaten to death. After Kong Youde was beaten away, Shandong has been in chaos. balance.

At the beginning of the first lunar month, Hong, who was waiting for the news, saw his contact person, Zhang Yougong, bring a letter from Zu Dashou.

Zu Dashou claimed that Jinzhou was tightly guarded and could not start an incident in a hurry.Governor Qiu Hejia learned something from some soldiers who escaped from the Daling River, and now he has become suspicious, so he had no choice but to temporarily abandon the internal countermeasures.

In Zu Dashou's letter, he felt extremely guilty for not being able to fulfill his promise, and hoped that Da Khan would treat his nephews in the army well...

Hong Jie realized that Zu Dashou had made a fool of him, but he suppressed the anger in his heart because of the deep city, and still treated his son and Buqu who were abandoned by Zu Dashou in the camp kindly.

Since the Eight Banners had been dispatching troops for a long time, the veterans were tired, and the slave chiefs did not make persistent efforts to attack Jinzhou, he believed that after Zu Dashou suffered this defeat, he would definitely not dare to provoke the Jin army.

Keeping Jinzhou, a big city, is strategically beneficial to the Kingdom of Jin. In order to defend Jinzhou, Daming will continue to spend huge amounts of food and salaries. The Eight Banners can attack the supply line from Shanhaiguan to Jinzhou that stretches four to five hundred miles. It is really sure. Battlefield initiative.

So Hongxie decided to agree with Zu Dashou's rhetoric. He wrote back kind words to comfort Zu Dashou, saying that he would treat Zu Zehong, Zu Zerun, Zu Kefa and other ancestral nephews and soldiers well, and welcomed him at any time. Come and meet to offer Jinzhou City to the Kingdom of Jin.

Jiannu didn't attack Jinzhou, but just demolished Dalinghe City again and retreated back to Shengjing. Qiu Hejia, Wu Xiang, Song Wei and Zu Dashou were all secretly thankful.

The imperial court was relieved to learn that Dongnu had withdrawn from Jinzhou. Chongzhen felt that the Guanning Army could not be trusted and was too big to lose. He wanted to plan in time to avoid suffering from it.

Promoting the soup and stopping the boiling is nothing like drawing a salary from the bottom of the pot. Zu Dashou's disobedience to dispatch is nothing more than relying on the strength of the Guanning army to consume his people as much as possible to benefit the country and the people.

In the first month, Qiu Hejia received an imperial decree that the generals of the Guan Ning Army received some awards for their meritorious service in defending Jinzhou. Because the Denglai rebel army was in a difficult situation, the Guan Ning Army was transferred to Shandong to suppress the rebellion.

(End of this chapter)