Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 633 Baoding
Zhili.

Baoding Fucheng, Qingyuan.

Ma Guanghui, governor of the three provinces of Zhili, Henan, and Shandong, looked at the urgent Tang newspaper that had just been delivered, feeling worried.

"How can this be good?"

Ma Guanghui looked at the people in the hall.

Ma Guanghui is a bannerman of the Han army with yellow banners and a servant of the emperor, because the current owner of the two yellow banners is the young emperor Shunzhi.Ma Guanghui was born in the Ming Dynasty, and he followed his elder brother Ma Guangyuan to the Qing Dynasty. Now he is an official to the Minister of the Ministry of War and the Yushi of Youdu.

Among the traitors, he is already top-notch.

This is mainly because he has a good elder brother, Ma Guangyuan, who is from Shuntian Daxing. He was an official at the end of the Ming Dynasty and went to Jianchang as a general. He led his troops to surrender in Yongping.Because he surrendered early, he made a lot of meritorious deeds.

In the first year of Chongde, Wuzhenchaoha was divided into two wings, Gushan Ezhener was set up, Shi Tingzhu governed the left wing, and Ma Guangyuan governed the right wing.Two years later, it was renamed the Han Army Two Banners, and then divided into four banners. Ma Guangyuan became the Two Yellow Banners Han Army Gushan Ezhen.

After entering the customs, he begged for rest due to his old age and illness.

At the beginning, Ma Guanghui served as Gushan Ezhen (Vice Dutong) of Xianghuang Banner, and later served as the Ministry of Officials. During the Battle of Songjin, he made great achievements in casting cannons. He entered the first-class La Zhangjing and entered the customs. , meritorious service.

After Hong Chengchou became the governor of the three provinces and rebelled halfway, most of the Han officials in the Qing court were investigated and even demoted, but there were still a group of Han generals who were not affected.

Most of these Han generals who entered the Eight Banners of the Han Army are still trusted and reused by the Qing court.

Ma Guanghui was even awarded the post of Governor of the Three Provinces because his elder brother was one of the earliest Lianggu Mountains in the Han Army Banner.It's just that he is not easy to be the governor. Before leaving Beijing, the Daming Mansion, the residence of the governor of the three provinces, was taken by the Ming army.

He had to open his office in Baoding instead.

Although brothers Ma Guangyuan and Ma Guanghui were sent to the Qing Dynasty as military generals, they actually did not have much military merit. When they were sent to the Qing Dynasty, their military positions were not considered high.

However, for the two uncles who are now regents, the Ma Guangyuan brothers were suppressed for offending Dorgon before, but now they just happen to be reused, and the Ma brothers are old and senior, and their ability to handle affairs in the court is not bad.

But the situation is so precarious, Ma Guangyuan is helpless when he comes.

"Tu Guobao, the pseudo-governor of Tianjin in the Southern Ming Dynasty, seized the cities of Jingxing, Huolu, and Pingshan, and now Ma Guozhu appears to seize Shijiazhuang? Didn't Ma Guozhu die in Huainan long ago?"

Ma Guozhu was a member of the Zhengbai Banner of the Han Army. He was a native of the Eastern Liao Dynasty.

After entering the customs, he was the governor of Shanxi.

Later, he was promoted to the Governor of Xuan, and then transferred to Jiangnan to serve as the Governor of the three provinces of Jiangxi, Henan and Jiangnan. After the Battle of Jiangning, he went to Henan to move reinforcements and disappeared. The Southern Dynasty said it was beheaded.

Now it suddenly popped up, appeared in Zhengding Mansion, and even led troops to besiege and break Shijiazhuang Town.

Shijiazhuang Town and Zhengdingfu City are separated by the Hutuo River.

"If it was said that Shijiazhuang was destroyed by the Tu National Treasure, the headquarters would not be so surprised, but where did Ma Guozhu appear? Didn't he die for the country long ago?"

Ma Guanghui was puzzled. When the news of Ma Guozhu's death reached Beijing, he was still serving as a servant in the Ministry of Officials. Later, when he went south to reinforce Huguang, he heard that Ma Guozhu had died for his country.

The imperial court also chased him down as the crown prince and Taibao, so why did he come out again now.

"Could it be that Tu Guobao sent someone to fake it to shake the morale of the Zhili army?" Lang Tingzuo, a bachelor of the Academy of Secretaries and governor of Zhili, asked.

River Governor Yang Fangxing retorted, "However, many people who returned from Zhengding said they saw Ma Guozhu with their own eyes. Ma Guozhu persuaded them to surrender, but they refused. Ma Guozhu, you can’t be wrong, one or two say it’s Ma Guozhu, maybe it’s false, but if dozens or hundreds of people say the same, then there’s still something wrong?”

"Can Ma Guozhu be resurrected?" Lang Tingzuo asked back. Lang Tingzuo is also a member of the Han army. His family is from Guangning, and his father was a scholar of the Ming Dynasty. job guerrilla.After his death, the eldest son Tingfu took over his position. Lang Tingzuo was the second son. He was awarded the pen and sticker style of the inner court by officials and students. .

The Lang family is also a family of old traitors, belonging to one of the powerful families of the Han Army Banner, and several brothers of the Lang family hold important positions.

It was hard for the young governor to believe that Ma Guozhu had risen from the dead. If he hadn't died, why hadn't he heard any news for several years, but it happened at this time.

Yang Fangxing, the governor of the river course, didn't argue with him either. Yang Fangxing, the governor of the river course, was almost executed for his crime because of the Yellow River's embankment diversion.But the imperial court didn't have the money, food and energy to manage the Yellow River, and the Ming army was everywhere along the Yellow River in Henan, Shandong, so he could only stay in Baoding to help raise money and food.

The same embarrassing situation as him is Wang Wenkui, the governor of water transport. The water transport is blocked and there is no grain to be transported. He, the governor, can only stay in Baoding.

In Baoding city, there are three governors.

As a result, Ma Guanghui, the governor of the three provinces, even lost the governor's resident Daming Mansion, the Yellow River of the river governor fell into the hands of the Ming army, and the governor of water transport had neither grain nor canals to manage.

The three governors got together, but they couldn't even get the rations requested by Prince An Yue Le.

However, the backyard was still on fire, and Ma Guobao, the Ming Tianjin Governor of Zhengding Mansion, became more and more rampant, and now Ma Guozhu, who had died a long time ago, appeared again.

If things go on like this, I don't know if people like Chen Jin, Zhang Dayou, and Li Shuitai will also come back to life.

The three governors and one governor were helpless.

Not long ago, Prince An Yue Le led the army to go south, but as soon as they arrived in Hejian, the Tianjin General Army rebelled, and even led the Ming army to land from the sea. The shocked uncle Regent Ji Erhalang and Assistant Regent Nikan urgently recruited Beijing Eight Banners Rescue Tianjin.

The Eight Banners in Beijing and Tianjin went all out to rescue. The two sides fought fiercely in Dagu for seven days. Finally, the Ming army evacuated Tianxiong Town from the sea, and the remnants of the rebels also evacuated with the ship.

Although Tianjin was saved in this battle, Dagu was burned, the forts, floating cities, and water villages were all destroyed, and the losses of stored money, food, equipment, gunpowder, shells, etc. were incalculable.

Even Yue Le, who went south to rescue Shandong, had to travel three hundred miles a day to help.

As a result, Tianjin won the defense battle, but Jinan lost.

Boluo, Tulai, a group of princes and generals, plus Eight Banners soldiers, Baoyi, slaves, etc. died in battle thousands, down to eight thousand, and then Jinan Green Camp Yang Jie rebelled, massacred the city at night, killed Bei Zibo and Tuo, admiral Tong Yangjia, governor Zhang Ruxiu, etc. Thousands of Manchu family members, old and young, who were stationed in Shandong were slaughtered.

And their so-called victory in the defense of Tianjin, in fact, killed only a few hundred tomorrow's heroes, killed more than [-] rebels, but many of them were civilians who joined temporarily, and the rebellious defenders were only wiped out. More than a thousand escaped.

However, the Qing army lost Dagu Town, forts, water villages, land camps, and a lot of equipment, gunpowder, money and food.

The battle was not as victorious as they advertised.

After the news of the rebellion in Tianjin, the defeat of Boluo in Shandong, and the fall of Jinan, Hebei became even more turbulent. Many Han generals and green camps took the opportunity to rebel.

Yue Le also had no choice but to mobilize from Tianjin. There were too many rebels, so he could only massacre and frighten them, but it had no effect at all.

Because the Qing army also issued a sea-moving order in the north and west of Liaoning, moving the coastal people away from the coast for thirty or fifty miles. This has led to the fact that the coast is now full of bandit dens, and the Ming army can come and go freely, and even support them here. There are many volunteers.

The deserted coastal area is full of reeds, and the rebel army will retreat to the coast if they cannot defeat them. If the Qing army is in a hurry, they will be ambushed if they are not careful, and sometimes the main force of the Ming army will come from the sea.

Yue Le, a dignified and well-known clan king, also suffered several losses, so now he has to be cautious.

In other words, Yue Le is now in the coastal areas of Tianjin and Cangzhou, and he can't ignore these people, otherwise he won't be able to lead his army south to Shandong with peace of mind, and his way back will be cut off.

But the suppression can't be done, it can only be a waste of time and money.

Yue Le also kept asking him to raise money and food to deliver.

But now the Tu Guobao and other rebels in the Jingxing area of ​​Taihang in the east are beginning to gain momentum, and even Ma Guozhu has appeared, and they can't just sit back and watch.

In case Zhengding Fucheng falls, Baoding, the first town in south of Jing, will be next.

"Do you want King Yue Le to lead troops to suppress Zhengding's rebels?" Lang Tingzuo asked.

"The coast of Tianjin has not yet been leveled, and after the Ming army captured Jinan, it has captured Dezhou, Linqing and other places. In the whole of Shandong, there is only one isolated city in Yanzhou that is still holding on. Not to mention whether King Yue Le will go to Shandong for rescue. It just means that the army has already stationed in Dezhou, how far is it from Beijing and Tianjin?

If the vicinity of Beijing and Tianjin is not promptly cleaned up, the Ming army will rebel in Tianjin again, and the Ming army in Texas will come directly along the canal. "It was Ma Guanghui who answered him.

In fact, everyone now knows that Yue Le is no longer able to go south to Shandong, not to mention that he has no money and food, and he dare not go south if he has food.

"Then borrow troops from Governor Xuan Da?"

Governor Xuan Da not only ruled Xuanfu and Datong, but also Governor Shanxi, but the main force of Yue Le's Southern Expedition Army was the Eight Banners that originally attacked Datong and Jiang Yu.

These tens of thousands of people are still in Cangzhou, Tianjin.

"But we have to do something, we can't sit still!" Lang Tingzuo panicked.

Ma Guanghui was also panicked.

The national treasures fled from the Tianjin area to the territory of Zhengding Mansion in the Taihang Mountains. The Qing army did not fail to encircle and suppress them, but they drilled in the Taihang Mountains, and the Qing army had no choice but to encircle and suppress the Zhili side. For the encirclement and suppression, they went to Zhili. The two sides said several times to join forces to encircle and suppress, but there was no cooperation.

In fact, these Han Bannermen had already discovered that the green camps in Zhili, Shanxi and other places are not reliable at all.But the number of banner people is limited, even if the Han army banner, there are not many now.

"We have to dispatch a troop to reinforce Zhengding Mansion, Zhengding cannot be lost."

"How can there be soldiers, how can there be trusted soldiers?"

Now the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia can't even trust the Han Army Banner, and the Han Army Banner can't trust the Green Camp, let alone the local regiment training.Everyone is like anti-thief, suspicious and wary of each other, there is no half trust at all.

"The commander-in-chief stationed in Dingzhou travels all the time. He has thousands of troops under his command. He can be transferred to Zhengding for reinforcements." Wang Wenkui said, "He is a Mongolian, so he should be trusted."

Yang Fangxing doubted, "Hai Shixing's ancestor was a tribe of Yexian. He was captured in the Ming Yingzong Civil Fortress, and was escorted back to Beijing by Yexian. The Mongols conferred rewards and bestowed Han surnames and official positions. Hai Shixing's ancestors were among them, and he was named the commander of the Tatar officials, hereditary.

After all, Haishi Xingzu has been in Daming for more than two hundred years, can you still believe it? "

"It should be credible that this Haishixing was originally stationed in Tianjin, then in Laizhou, and later in Dingzhou. Although it is not too early for this guy to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, the few places he was stationed after he was attached did not have a good reputation. Some former Ming officials who did not surrender to our dynasty were all confiscated by him for the crime of fleeing from office. The generals and schools under him also followed suit. He will find reasons to extort and search for rich gentry and wealthy households.

So I think that although Hai Shixing has been an official of the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, he has long been attached to our court, not to mention his performance in several places, and he knows that this person will not be sent to the Southern Dynasty. "

There are many Mongols like Hai Shixing in the Ming Dynasty, and they have even been completely Sinicized long ago. Apart from their Mongolian appearance, they can no longer tell the difference from the Han people in terms of speech or habits.

"Haishi's behavior is greedy and cruel. If you want him to help Zhengding, you have to give him money."

"Then give it to him. If you can't get food, you can get some money." Lang Tingzuo was decisive.

Several people discussed it, and finally decided that neither Yue Le in Tianjin nor Jin Li, the governor of Xuanda, could count on Zhuo Luo, the deputy capital of Taiyuan, or Wu Rujie, the deputy capital of Baoding. They are also Han Bannermen , there are not many flag soldiers under his command, and he cannot leave the two important towns of Taiyuan and Baoding lightly.

Of course, with the three governors and one caress, they themselves were also unwilling to go south, and they didn't have many soldiers under their hands.

"Send Xu Dayong, the guard of Daotai, to Dingzhou with 1 taels of silver to reward the army, and order Hai Shixing to lead the army to help suppress Zhengding Mansion."

Ma Guanghui, governor of the three provinces, wanted to send governor Lang Tingzuo to Dingzhou to transfer troops in person, and then went to Zhengding to preside over the overall situation.But Lang Tingzuo opened his mouth first, and proposed to go to Hejian Mansion to raise money and food, organize group training, and strengthen prevention.

It was obvious that he didn't want to go to Zhengding to wade through the muddy waters. Ma Guanghui had no choice but to give up his mind when he thought that the Lang family was also very powerful in the Eight Banners of the Han Army. went.

Both Yang Fangxing and Wang Wenkui are governors, so he can't command.

When Xu Dayong was summoned to receive the order, he was taken aback and refused in every possible way, but Ma Guanghui directly pressed him, and if he didn't go, he would be imprisoned. In the end, he had no choice but to agree to leave the city on the day he was urged.

He received silver from the treasury, and took the governor's note to collect 1 taels, but he only got 9000 taels.Xu Dayong was not surprised, and silently signed and pledged to receive the money and left.

After leaving the city gate, he asked his servant to send 1000 taels of silver back to his hometown.

When I arrived in Dingzhou City, I first went to see the magistrate and others, and then called Laihai Shixing, and handed over the money to him.

Hai Shixing was full of beards and was vulgar, but after all, his family had been in Ming Dynasty for more than two hundred years, and he knew the rules. When he got 8000 taels of silver, he directly took out 1000 taels to honor the superiors.

He took 7000 taels of silver and went back, and ordered the soldiers and horses to gather at the school field.

"There are 5000 taels of silver here, you keep 2000 taels, and the remaining 3000 taels will be distributed to [-] brothers, and each will be rewarded with one tael."

The guerrilla of the Chinese army was also a Mongolian man with a big beard, and he responded with a smile, "Damn it, the imperial court asked us to fight Tu Guobao and Ma Guozhu, and just give this little money. It's a big deal, why should we work for him?"

Hai Shixing nodded, "We usually do business with Yang Guohai and the others, so let him know immediately, and don't say that we are not enough friends."

"My lord, why don't we just go against it? I think these tartars are dying. We don't need to accompany them to the burial."

Hai Shixing just smiled.

"Then tell me, should we annex this Dingzhou prefectural city anyway, or go and annex Zhengding mansion anyway?"

"I think it's better for us to do it here. This is our territory. After all, we are familiar with it. If we go to Zhengding to do it, people who are not familiar with the place are afraid of making mistakes."

"Well, that's it, the 3000 taels of silver is gone, so I won't give it away."

(End of this chapter)