The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 655
"The Jade Tower and the Golden Tower will go back lazily, and the plum blossoms will make Luoyang drunk."

The city of Luoyang in the Ming Dynasty was very famous, and the slave chieftains who were familiar with Han books coveted it. If this big city could be captured, it would definitely shake the Ming Dynasty.

At the beginning of October, the Qing army assembled an army of [-], and drove the [-] Han people who were coerced to adopt the tactic of encircling the three to launch an attack.

Fortunately, there is Lu Xiangsheng here, the civil official and lord who personally fought bloody battles at the top of the city, and the soldiers and civilians in Luoyang got a boost of morale.

General Hu Dawei, Li Zhongzhen, Lei Shisheng, General Liu Guangzuo and other generals followed Lu Xiangsheng for a long time, and at this moment they are more united against the enemy.

Jiannu attacked for three days and found that the Ming army was determined to defend the city, so they gave up, and then they continued to attack eastward along the Yellow River.

Seeing the Qing soldiers all over the mountains and plains, Lu Xiangsheng had to swallow his anger. He knew that when the troops were completely against the trend, he could only take a defensive position. Moreover, the safety of the soldiers and civilians in Luoyang City and King Fu could not be underestimated.

The emperor followed Huang Han's suggestion and issued an imperial decree to strictly order all the troops to occupy the city, defend the city according to the danger and not ask for an attack. It should have saved Lu Xiangsheng's life.

Zhu Yujian, the king of the Ming Dynasty whose residence is in Nanyang, is a responsible person. It can also be said that this prince is not willing to wait for his life to die.

At the end of July, he actually disregarded the Ming Dynasty's national law that "vassal kings do not control soldiers", recruited troops and bought horses without authorization, and made a thousand or hundreds of people. He personally led the royal palace to guard more than a hundred warlords from Nanyang to the north, under the banner of "Resist Qingqin King".

Of the 500 troops recruited by the King of Tang, four to five hundred were in fact village warriors trained by the "Red Banner Army", and more than a dozen of them were banner guards. Of course, the team leader Shi Kunshan reported this important information to his superiors.

Pei Daneng, the head of the Henan Military Intelligence Department who has crossed the Yellow River and has been working in Yingzhou, gave instructions to assist Tang Wang to make contributions as much as possible.

Nine out of ten banner guard leaders are retired veterans with injuries, and the developed banner guards also have special skills. They stand out from the crowd recruited by the king of Tang. Appoint general and general banner officers and the like.

Shi Kunshan was favored by the Tang king, appointed him as the general manager, and promised that he would make a contribution this time, and would definitely recommend him to the imperial court as a guerrilla or garrison.

A few months passed, and because the imperial court judged the situation and did not demand the Ming army to attack, the people guarding the cities were at ease, and many large cities did not fall.

However, the Qing soldiers were uncharacteristically, entering the customs for half a year, penetrating more than 35 miles into the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, capturing one prefecture, three prefectures, and [-] counties, breaking through Yanmen Pass and Piantou Pass, killing dozens of civil servants of the Ming Dynasty, and killing a few hundred generals above the defense. Yu people.

Captured more than 46 people, plundered more than [-] taels of gold, more than [-] million taels of silver, and countless other valuables. The suffering and property losses suffered by the subjects of the Central Plains are immeasurable.

The Qing soldiers had already invaded Henan after grabbing a lot of money, and they were still relentlessly attacking, showing no sign of preparing to retreat.

The Ming army in the interior became more and more difficult, and many cities were almost under the attack of slaves and rogues. It is not an exaggeration to describe it as endangered.

If it continues to develop like this, won't it lead to the loss of Shanxi, Henan, and Shaanxi and become the territory of the puppet Qing Dynasty?
Seeing that November is about to enter, the number of places where the Yellow River can be frozen will gradually increase, and the damage caused to Daming by the Qing soldiers crossing the Yellow River to the north and entering the Gyeonggi area will be doubled.

Liu Zhilun and Fang Zhenghua took strict precautions against the Yellow River natural danger, which was about to become more and more difficult because of the freezing of the whole line.

Zhang Fengyi, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, was impatient, and urgently mobilized the troops in the Gyeonggi region to move south, and even many garrison battalions were recruited.

Seeing that the battle to defend the Yellow River was about to kick off, Liu Zhilun and Fang Zhenghua appeared calm and composed. It wasn't that they were confident, but that they were both ready to serve the country with death.

At this time, Chen Biqian, the governor of Henan Province, issued an urgent document stating that tens of thousands of Qing troops captured Xingyang, captured Zhengzhou, occupied Zhongmou County, and besieged Kaifeng.

He also specially presented the emperor, and now there are not only Zhou Wang and his family in Kaifeng, but also Tang Wang, who "resisted Qing Qin Wang".

Kaifeng Mansion is the administrative seat of Henan Chengxuan Political Envoy Division. Kaifeng City is the largest city in the Central Plains, and there is the residence of King Zhou in the city.

Chen Biqian, governor of Henan Province, only had more than [-] troops. He found that the Qing soldiers did not dare to abandon the city without encircling the city, so he sent many messengers to rescue the soldiers.

Just three days before Kaifeng was besieged, a Ming army with less than 2000 people came from outside the city.

Because the king of Tang wanted to destroy his family and build his country, he spent a lot of money and food to recruit soldiers and horses. The king of Ming Dynasty was really rich.

The men and horses formed by the king of Tang all had newly issued mandarin duck war jackets, and three to 400 people also had iron armor. Among the weapons used were not only the cold weapons of the Ming army, but also more than [-] Lumi guns.

In the past two months, under the training of Shi Kunshan and others, plus a small half of them have actually received military training.Although he didn't practice every day, he had accumulated a lot of time in the past three years. Assassination and shooting Lumi guns were not a problem.

King Tang now trusts Shi Kunshan even more, because he left Nanyang and went north. Although this brave man did not fight against the Qing soldiers, he had already defeated three groups of bandits and obtained three or four hundred and a few captures.

Now the morale of this brave man is high, when he came to the city of Kaifeng, the governor Chen Biqian saw it and thought it was some frontier army who came to help.

It stands to reason that the civil servants and military generals guarding the city would not easily let a man without a warrant enter the city, but no one in Kaifeng City would refuse such a strong man to enter the city to help defend, because there is a Daming vassal in the team.

If the king of Tang refused to enter the city, he rushed to Luoyang with less than 2000 people and was beaten by the Qing soldiers.

Kaifeng was under siege. If the city was broken, two vassal kings of Ming Dynasty would be in trouble, and the emperor and ministers would be helpless.

Chongzhen was furious when he learned that the king of Tang dared to recruit troops without authorization, but at this time the country was in troubled times, so he had to choose to endure temporarily and ask the officials for advice.

However, the ministers failed to make suggestions on how to resist the invasion of the Qing army, and jumped out one by one to impeach the Tang king for violating the ancestral system, and all advised the emperor to arrest the Tang king quickly to make an example.

Does it make sense to talk about these useless things at this time?Chongzhen was not in a daze, he knew that the king of Tang had less than 2000 people, and now there were more than [-] Ming troops in Luoyang, so the king of Tang would not openly fight for the throne if he was so stupid.

But Tang Wang's move is not necessary, so many vassal kings dare to recruit soldiers privately in the future, so it's okay?It is necessary to settle accounts after autumn!

(End of this chapter)