Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 606
"It's said that Zhu Yihai is very good at using troops, but what famous battles did he fight?"

The first-class Gonggushan Ezhentulai was wearing mercury armor, straddled a bay red horse, carried two guns on his back, reined in his horse to rest, and spoke bluntly to the Ba Yala knight under his command, with a face full of disdain.

At the beginning, he followed Bo Luo all the way to Hangzhou City, drinking horses on the Qiantang River.Zhu Yihai raised troops in Taizhou, but would Zhu Yihai dare to come to Hangzhou at that time?
They are all running around like mice.

Even now, he still doesn't admit that Zhu Yihai is capable of fighting, because he can't find a case where Zhu Yihai really fought the Qing army head-on and won.

"Zhu Yihai knows how to run away. The current situation in our dynasty is bad. It's not because of the Eight Banners that we can't fight, but there are treacherous ministers and traitors."

The treacherous ministers in Tulai's mouth naturally refer to the three Dorgon brothers. They used the Han people to surrender their ministers, and Fang You was defeated now.And the traitors are Hong Chengchou, Yan Wogong, who was reused by Dorgon, and those traitors and traitors who demoted officials.

Now in the Beijing imperial court, the three Dorgon brothers have gradually been identified as rebels and thieves, and more and more princes and ministers have come forward to expose his crime of treason.

The meeting of kings and ministers discussed the crimes of Azige and Duo Duo first, and Su Ke Saha, the Minister of the Two White Banners, took the lead in exposing Dorgon, and finally agreed on [-] major crimes of Dorgon.

Pursue all seals, destroy tombs and exhume corpses, destroying bones and ashes.

Then began to completely clean up Dorgon's party forces. University scholar Ganglin, general Tan Tai, minister of guards Bai Yintu, Bahana, Leng Sengji, etc. were all arrested and imprisoned for crimes.

The forces that Dorgon had cultivated for many years were completely disintegrated.

All the titles of the three Dorgon brothers were deprived, and their children were all implicated. Not only were they deprived of their titles and property inheritance rights, but they were all exiled to Ningguta and exiled into the army. Erbo was also ordered to return the clan, directly making Dorgon completely extinct.

His only daughter, Dong'e Gege, was given to Daishan for adoption. It is said that Daishan plans to use it to make peace with Mongolia and even Zhu Yihai in the future.

Emperor Shunzhi was only in his teens, so of course he didn't do these things.

The two regent uncles, Jierhalang and Daishan, joined hands to kill Azig first, then Duoduo, and then forced to kill the empress dowager. The little emperor was completely controlled by them and became a puppet.

After a period of appeasement and wooing, the final liquidation began.

Princes Boluo and Nikan also exposed Dorgon's cronies Rosh, Boerhui, Ekeqin, Subai, Wubai, etc. to shake the state affairs.

Then Tan Tai, who originally switched to Dorgon, saw that the situation was not good, and quickly reported He Luohui and Hu Xi for assisting Dorgon in doing evil.

So He Luohui and Hu Xi, two generals of the Eight Banners who did not know how to repent and refused to change their positions, were hacked to death.

After these diehards were wiped out, the rest basically turned to new owners.

The two regent uncles also promoted Budan, Zhan Dai, Suksaha, Gong Adai, Obai, Batulujan, and Durma as ministers of state affairs, and appointed Man Dahai, Luo Keduo, Wada, and Jie Shu and others were promoted to princes.

The three kings, Boluo, Nikan, and Mandahai, had actually been put under Dorgon's command before, but now they acted according to the wind. Like Sukesaha and Tan Tai, they switched to the new owner, and even made trouble.

It meant that He Luo would be more loyal, and in the end he and Rosh and others would rather die than follow, and they were all wiped out.

Aobai, Ye Bilong, Sony and others who were once suppressed by Dorgon were also revoked, their qualifications as ministers of state affairs were restored, and they were promoted to ranks. In addition, Hake Saha was awarded the first rank of the minister of the guards. Obai also bestowed a first-class duke for his military position.

Basically, after more than a year, the royalist faction headed by Jierhalang and Daishan in the Qing court completely cleaned up the Dorgon Group.

During this round of purges, brothers Bo Luo and Yue Le, because of their bravery and ability to fight, hold the military power in their hands, are small flag owners, and know the current affairs, so their power has increased.

Nikan, Mandahai, etc. also once again secured their positions as assistant kings.

People like Tulai have actually experienced many storms in this round of struggle.

Although he has passed the test, he is actually very dissatisfied with this struggle. He feels that this kind of internal struggle at this time has seriously weakened the strength of the Qing Dynasty, and even caused chaos in the center for a while, leading to the defeat of Hanzhong on the western front. Failed to invade Sichuan, but let the Ming army take the opportunity to take Hanzhong, and even incorporated the remnants of the Western Army.

Not to mention, the situation in Henan and Shandong is even more missed.

If it weren't for this mess, Zhu Yihai wouldn't have the opportunity to be so arrogant now.

Of course, now that the situation has been settled, the Eight Banners can finally unite again, and on the Shandong side, Boluo and Tan Tai can join forces again. At least everyone will not be confused.

Just like right now, the Eight Banners in Jinan are all young and strong, with more than [-] troops, both young and old.

"After defeating Zhangqiu's Shence Army, cross the Daqing River and destroy another town of Zhongyongying, then we can go straight to Denglai and capture Zhu Yihai alive!"

Turai is still dreaming sweet dreams.

A group of Eight Banners Ba Yala also shouted, as if the victory was already at hand.

"Cheer up and keep going!"

After a ten-mile break, Boluo personally led the army, and Tulai was even more forward, ready to attack the Shence Army who dared to go out to Zhangqiu in one fell swoop. No matter how many routes he came, the Qing army only went all the way.

Before setting off, Bo Luo deliberately took another silver to distribute to the Eight Banners, and also admitted that Zhangqiu was taken down, and when the city was slaughtered, all the wealthy women in the city would be rewarded by the Eight Banners.

There is a shortage of food and food in Jinan city, but there is no shortage of money.

Boluo was stationed in Jinan, trying his best to search for money, collecting grain according to the yellow book of the Wanli Year of the Ming Dynasty, household registration and the number of acres of land, and also various additional levies.

After the conquest is over, in the past the Ming Dynasty reserved more places, some of which could reach half.

But Boluo only kept about [-]% of it, and the remaining [-]% was shipped. Because of the war, [-]% of the shipment went directly to Boluo.

The remaining money is too little, and the local government's expenses are not enough, so they will directly collect additional money.

There are six major items of local expenditures, official salaries, food and meals for government officials, ceremonies, agency expenses, poverty alleviation expenditures, and post station expenditures.

Among them, the biggest problem is the yamen staff, food, silver, etc. There are a lot of people, and the cost is also high.

For example, Licheng County, as the capital of the prefecture, collected more than 2 taels of tax on the surface, but Boluo only left more than 2000 taels of silver for the county.

The subordinate officials in the yamen accounted for more than 1000 taels of work and food, while the officials only had more than 200 taels. After all, the county magistrate only had 45 taels a silver.

But in fact, how could the county magistrate be so small? He hired a few masters to spend hundreds of thousands of taels of silver a year, so after the tax was [-]% taken by Bo Luo, they added an additional tax, and the annual tax was revealed Twenty-three thousand, actually [-] was collected.

They handed over 2000 taels to Boluo. They stated that they had kept more than 3 taels, but in fact they still had [-] taels.

Part of the 3 taels is to make up for the expenses of the yamen, such as subsidies to the subordinates of the yamen, and the overspending of the post station. It is with this silver.

Of course, the county magistrate himself will keep at least 3000 taels in the end.

No matter how poor you are, you can't make the county magistrate himself poor.

After Boluo took away more than 2 taels of tax from the county, the county magistrate levied an additional 2 taels, and then gave him more than 1000 taels. People have a share.

But for Boluo and others, it is useless to have too much money, because too many people fled, plus the floods in the flooded areas of the Yellow River, and the Ming army continued to harass Jinan in the west and south of Shandong, plus the loss of Denglai Qingxin , making them worse.

The grain in Denglai next door is already one stone for one tael, but in Jinan, the black market is eight taels for one stone.

This time the Eight Banners were holding back their energy, and all young and old came to battle, not only to take the initiative to attack the Shence Army, but also to grab the food and grass carried by the Ming Army.

If it really doesn't work, it's okay to catch Shence Army and stew and roast it.

If this continues, the Eight Banners will even have to kill and eat their war horses.

The men of the Eight Banners never thought of going to Dengzhou. After all, they also know that Denglai has built many castles, defended by many cannons, sharp firearms, and gunboats at sea to support them. too much.

So they just thought about being able to defeat the invading Ming army. If they could take advantage of the trend and enter the territory of Qing and Xin, and plunder and search for food, they would be satisfied.

Going to siege a city and fight a fort is impossible, and it is impossible to fight. Without enough food support, how can we fight such a siege of a strong fortress.

However, the Eight Banners felt very confident when they went deep into the edge of Jinan and the Shence Army stationed in Zhangqiu fought in the field.

Even if they were aggrieved in the past two years, they would never admit that they could not defeat the Ming army. It was only because of factors other than the battlefield. If they really wanted to fight in the field, who would they be afraid of?
Mounting his horse again, Tulai galloped towards Zhangqiu with the forward cavalry of the Three Thousand and Eight Banners. The Manchurian soldiers on the horse were already hungry and thirsty.

Finally, he was able to kill again.

Of course, there is still food that tempts them. Some people even think that they must roast a few Ming soldiers to eat, so they choose thigh meat to eat.

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Zhu Yihai was very leisurely watching Yunqi Yunshu at the foot of Changbai Mountain.

"So, Boluo is going out of the city and wants to put all his eggs in one basket? But it's a pity that he will be disappointed."

As soon as the Boluo soldiers and horses left Jinan, someone had already quickly passed on the military information. The intelligence system of the Ming army has now been infiltrated even in Beijing, let alone Jinan in Shandong.

In fact, Zhu Yihai also expected that the Qing army in Jinan might not be able to resist going out of the city to fight.

So he deliberately sent the Shence Army to advance until Zhangqiu before stopping.

Tai'an and Qinghebei each sent an army, deliberately far apart, so that the Tartars mistakenly thought that this was an opportunity, a chance to fight.

But how could Zhu Yihai be so careless, he sent the Shence Army to Zhangqiu just to fish, and the real ultimate move was the three towns of Jinwu, Qianniu and Yulin brought by him.

The men and horses in the two towns of Tai'an and Qinghebei were just a cover, deliberately making the Qing army in Jinan think that they had an opportunity to take advantage of it.

After Shence Town advanced to the Zhangqiu area ahead of schedule, the most important task was to send cavalry to block, mop up, and clean up the battlefield, and to block the news so that the Tatars could not obtain the information that he led the three towns to arrive.

The Tartars thought that only the army from Shence Town stood out, but they didn't know that Zhu Yihai had already rushed to Changbai Mountain in Zhangqiu.

The elite imperial battalions of the four towns consisted of [-] soldiers, plus [-] capable auxiliary soldiers, as well as dozens of tens of thousands of rebels and regiments like Xie Qian.

In this battle, Zhu Yihai can say that his troops are very abundant.

Not to mention that the Tartars only came with more than [-] soldiers, even if he transferred all the defenders of the Mongolian Eight Banners, the Han Army, the Eight Banners, and even the Green Battalion City, Jinan would not leave a single soldier, they would not be opponents of the Ming army.

From the very beginning, Zhu Yihai had prepared two sets of battle plans.

Plan A is to divide and attack from all walks of life, meet under the city of Jinan, and then launch a siege operation against the Qing army that can't shrink back. Attack hard and destroy the Tartars.

Plan B is to intentionally create an opportunity to lure the captives to attack, and advance to the vicinity of Jinan to lure him to attack, and then surround and ambush, severely injure or even annihilate the elite Tartars, and then it may not be necessary to attack Jinan again, and even the city of Jinan can be persuaded to surrender up.

Now Boluo is coming according to plan B.

"Should I immediately send an order to the two towns of Tai'an and Daqing Hebei to come here to fight?"

"No, let them go to Jinan and stop Boluo from returning. It would be best if the Jinan defenders can be persuaded to surrender. If not, surround Jinan. If Boluo is defeated, don't let him retreat into the city and let him flee north."

"The two towns of Yulin and Qianniu were deployed to the two wings of Zhangqiu. After Jinwu deployed Zhangqiu City, Boluo's forwards came. Don't rush to encircle them. You must wait for the main force of Boluo to arrive before encircling them. Don't scare Boluo away. Lo."

"Then Your Majesty?"

"I will also go down the mountain, enter Zhangqiu City, and sit in town with General Jin Gongyu."

"Your Majesty, this is too risky."

"What kind of adventure is this? Zhangqiu is also a big city. What's more, there are tens of thousands of people here. Could it be defeated by the Tartars?"

The accompanying ministers tried to persuade them, so they didn't waste any more words. They were all used to the emperor's temper. When the army first started, this man even charged on the battlefield with a blunderbuss on horseback. Now he can Sitting in the city according to one's temperament is already extremely restrained.

Even everyone actually likes such an emperor.

The country's society is in danger, isn't it because Zhu Yihai, who dared to rush and fight, stabilized the banner of Ming Dynasty?
Like Zhu Youjian, when the enemy came, he only knew to hang himself.Like Zhu Yousong, he had already quietly abandoned his subjects and fled while the enemy army was still hundreds of miles away. Just like Zhu Changhao, when the enemy hit the city, he was still hanging wine and meat on the city to the Tartars who were fighting with the Ming army If the soldiers eat, this Ming Dynasty will really perish.

Fortunately, God blessed Daming, and such an emperor came out.

Only then can the Northern Expedition be able to fight near Jinan, instead of being beaten to Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong or even Yunnan by the Tartars.

The emperor's dragon flag came down from the mountain and went straight to Zhangqiu City, where Jin Wu was stationed in the east of the city.

The two towns of Qianniu and Yulin are also stationed on the west wings of the city, hiding behind the Shence Army.

The emperor's dragon flag was not erected in Zhangqiu City, but the soldiers and civilians in the city were all rejoicing, and their morale was soaring.

Li Jinming and Li Jinyi, who were packing up their things and preparing to leave, also rushed to the street to watch when they heard the movement. Seeing the emperor riding into the city and the soldiers and civilians cheering enthusiastically, they couldn't help being dazed.

After a long time, he returned home.

Call brothers and nephews.

"Going to Tokyo is postponed, and all the men above sixteen in the family are going to help defend the city. Also, all the food in the family, except rations, is used to help the army.

Take another 3000 taels of silver, Lao Jun.

The children of the family, the servants of the family, and the young and strong who contribute to the defense will each be rewarded with two taels of silver and three dou of rice. "

"Second brother?" Li Jinyi was a little puzzled. "With so many soldiers and horses, how can we help defend the city?"

"It doesn't matter whether you need it or not. Attitude and performance are very important. If you become an official in the future, these are the minimum things you need to understand."

What you want is this attitude, what you want is this attitude.

Li Jinming is obviously more insightful than his brothers.

(End of this chapter)