golden scales

After hearing his father's words, Wu Sangui still hesitated in his heart, he said: "Father, there is a saying that it is easier to ask the gods than to send them away, but if the Eastern captives simply refuse to leave, or wantonly plunder, so what should I do?"

Wu Xiang twirled her beard and said: "Now you are the ruler of a country, but you still can't settle this account... The Eastern Captives will definitely not want to borrow troops from me for nothing, and the benefits will naturally come from the Ming Dynasty. As long as Dorgon can recognize our Guangning country, even if the Ming Dynasty will give it a little heartache, what does it matter to me?"

"Father, I'm afraid Donglu won't recognize my Guangning country." Wu Sangui's face darkened, and he said, "If I were still the commander-in-chief of a town, Dorgon would probably give me a high salary and a high salary to comfort me. But now With the three hundred miles of Guangning Kingdom, what price would he have to offer? Besides, the outside of the pass is the old land of Manchuria, so I definitely won’t rest assured that Liao Town will continue to sit and guard. Alas, if I knew today, I shouldn’t have received the canonization in the first place .”

"I knew today?" Wu Xiang said angrily, "If I knew today, I should train my troops well! I, Guan Ning cavalry, were never timid in field battles with Mongolian Tatars, but now I can't even beat a group of bandits!"

"Father, how can the current situation be blamed on the son." Wu Sangui was not convinced; "The imperial court has been suppressing the bandits for years, and when will it not send troops from our Liao Town to dig people? I hate those mediocre men who have exhausted my Liao Town. It even made the intruders so powerful!"

Wu Xiang knew what his son said was true, and when Zu Dashou was in charge of Liao Town, the imperial court kept mobilizing troops to poach people.At that time, Liao Town was not the private property of the ancestor's family. Zu Dashou just took the opportunity to send away the disobedient Liao generals like Cao Wenzhao, and planted cronies outside the pass.

At the time, it seemed that this was indeed a good strategy for borrowing a knife to kill someone.Cao Wenzhao did die in due diligence. .However, this also opened the way to mobilize Liao soldiers to suppress the bandits. Afterwards, blood was let out year after year, so that in the hands of Wu Xiang, Liao Town was no longer the glory of the day.

"If thief Li breaks Shanhaiguan Pass, my father and son will lose their lives, so why talk about Guangning Kingdom!" Wu Xiang didn't worry about the defeat.He himself has been on the battlefield for a long time, and he only relies on picking up cheap and running fast, and he regards victory as a floating cloud.

This is also the reason Wu Sangui thinks about. His family's assets in Beijing have been confiscated by Li Chuang, and the alliance under the city cannot be signed.

"Nowadays, the only option is to borrow captives to fight against the bandits." Wu Sangui said desolately. He originally wanted to take the entire eastern part of Gyeonggi into his pocket.

After the father and son discussed it properly, they sent envoys Yang Kun and Guo Yunlong to Dorgon's tent to borrow troops.

……

Dorgon let Yang Kun go down and rubbed his hands.Manchu and Han Wenwu under the account said with a smile: "It's destiny! If you can pass the Shanhaiguan Pass, you should be happy with the spirit of sweating in the sky! Mr. Hong. Please write a cursive letter for me and reply to Wu Zhen."

Hong Chengchou thought about it for a while, and he already had a draft.Said: "My lord, although Wu Sangui borrowed troops from me, he has not yet reached the end of his life..."

"Mr. Hong, our country was originally an enemy country, and they have been at war for decades. How can he say that he has borrowed troops from our country? How can he say that he has not reached the end of his life? The so-called borrowing troops is just a whitewash for surrender." Donglu is not like Han Fan Wencheng has always been dissatisfied with Hong Chengchou's aloofness and aloofness after his surrender. He has no respect for him, and even often shows contempt.

If it is in Daming.Fan Wencheng is not even worthy to speak in front of Hong Chengchou, but this is the Qing Dynasty!In terms of seniority and loyalty, Fan Wencheng is higher than Hong Chengchou. .

Hong Chengchou didn't even lift his eyelids, and said casually, "If he really has nowhere to go, he would have already abandoned Guannan and fled."

Dorgon narrowed his small eyes: "If he fled south, wouldn't he lose everything?"

"My lord is right." Hong Chengchou said: "If he doesn't leave, it's because he still has something to rely on. I know Wu Xiang well. He is a first-class businessman. On that day, he was favored by Zu Dashou and married his younger sister to him as his successor. It's not that he is good at fighting, but he is good at management. Such a person, as long as he has one tael of silver, he can't wait to make a deal of ten taels of silver. Now he comes to borrow troops, although he is in a difficult situation, but It’s by no means that you don’t even have a tael of silver.”

Hong Chengchou paused, looked around at the crowd, and said: "As for Wu Zhen... If you remember the Battle of Songshan, you can refer to it."

The Ming Dynasty and the Eastern Captives fought for the first time in Fushun in the 46th year of Wanli, and the Ming court went south in the 17th year of Chongzhen. In the past 30 years, they fought more than a hundred times.However, the most important ones are the three battles of Sarhu, Liaoshen, and Songjin.

Songshan is the main battlefield of the Songjin War. On the one hand, the Eight Banners of Mongolia and Manchuria led by Huang Taiji, the chieftain of the Qing Dynasty, and on the other hand, the 13 Ming army led by Hong Chengchou.At that time, Zu Dashou was trapped in Jinzhou City, with no salary and food, and he only hoped that Hong Chengchou would come to rescue him.Hong Chengchou absorbed the defeat of Sarhu, did not dare to divide his troops, and fought every step of the way. Finally, he stationed troops in Songshan City and set up a camp around Songshan, only eighteen miles away from Jinzhou.

However, Hong Chengchou made a low-level mistake that the back road was empty. The 13 army was surrounded by Huang Taiji, and was taken to the grain depot in Bijia Mountain.At that time, Huang Taiji divided his troops and set up an ambush, and cut off the enemy's rear, but surrounded more with less, which violated the taboo of military strategists.If the Ming army could concentrate superior forces, it would not be impossible to break through.

Hong Chengchou and the generals agreed on a day to break out of the siege, but Wang Pu, the commander-in-chief of Datong, fled "first", and the Ming army was in chaos.

This "first" is intriguing, because Wu Sangui, the general soldier of Ningyuan who "bravely crowned the three armies and filially heard the nine sides", escaped with Wang Pu.

The two were attacked by the ambush led by Duoduo in Xingshan Mountain at the same time, trampled by the infantry, and over [-] people died when they crossed the sea!In the end, Wu Sangui and Wang Pu fled back to Ningyuan with only their own escape.Judging from this ending, Wu Sangui and Wang Pu also escaped indiscriminately.

When the imperial court ordered the judiciary to convict, Hao Jin, the censor, said: "The crimes of the six towns are the same, and they all deserve to die." Especially to Wu Sangui, he said: "Sangui is the general of Liao Zuo. He fled without a fight. How can he add an admiral? However, Chen Xinjia, the minister of the Ministry of War at the time, said: "Gu Nian Sangui has meritorious service in guarding Ningyuan, and he can be demoted with Li Fuming, Bai Guangen, Tang Tong, etc. to serve as officials." Wan, fell to Hong Chengchou, Zu Dashou, Cao Bianjiao and other generals... Only one Wang Pu was killed for "first escape".

The root cause is that Wu Sangui was born in the family of generals in western Liaoning, he is the nephew of Zu Dashou, the son of Wu Xiang, the general soldier of Eastern Liao, and the adopted son of the great eunuch Gao Qiqian...Although Wang Pu's father, Wang Wei, was the governor of the left, he was not as deep-rooted as the Liaoxi general, so he happened to be a scapegoat.

"At that time, before the end of the mountain, Wu Sangui ran very fast. Like a father, like a son, the son is even worse than the father." Although Hong Chengchou had already surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he was still bitter about Songshan's defeat. Yu Huai is regarded as a stain on life.

Dorgon was also one of the main generals in the Battle of Songshan back then, and his memory of the First World War, which was related to the fate of the Qing Dynasty, is still fresh.He nodded and said: "The Ming court has no more generals available. If Wu Sangui flees south, there is a real chance for him to make a comeback. Now he will not escape or leave, he is just borrowing troops. It seems that it is indeed what Mr. Hong said, or he has something to rely on. "

Fan Wencheng seemed to have been slapped on the spot, his face was flushed, but it was irrefutable.He was just a young scholar from Shenyang, and he seemed inscrutable among a bunch of illiterates.Regardless of knowledge and opinion, how to fight against a genuine Jinshi who won the 24th place in the second class at the age of 12?What's more, this Jinshi has been a supervisor for [-] years, leading tens of thousands of troops, and almost wiped out the rogues who were rampant in the world.

"Mr. Hong thinks, what price should be given to Wu Sangui?" Dorgon asked with a smile: "As long as you can get Shanhaiguan, population and land, high-ranking officials and rich salary, just give it to him!"

Hong Chengchou said bluntly: "My lord might as well give some more." He paused, and then said: "The only way to make Wu Sangui's heart move is to give the lord's heartache."

"Hahahaha," Dorgon raised his head and smiled, "Is this king ever so petty? The Ming Dynasty first granted Wu Sangui the title of Ping Xibo and then the king of Guangning. Naturally, I, the Qing Dynasty, cannot lose him! As long as Wu Sangui is willing to shave his hair and sacrifice Pass, I will make him king of Pingxi! The five provinces of Qin, Jin, Sichuan, Longyun and Yunnan will be established for him! But outside the pass is the place where my Qing Dynasty prospered, and everything outside the pass must be left to me."

Hong Chengchou frowned slightly, knowing that Dorgon was speaking empty words and without sincerity, but he just wondered whether Wu Sangui would take the cake.

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