Win the Ding 1617

As the saying goes, it is the shortest to take others' hands softly and eat others'.Since Wang Dehua arrived in the area under the jurisdiction of the South China Army, he has collected countless valuables along the way in Guangzhou and other places.After a rough calculation, there are tens of thousands of silver dollars in the account of jewelry alone.Of course, this is based on the price in Beijing and South Beijing.

What's more, he came here this time to ask for something.

Based on the above two reasons, after entering the hinterland of Nanzhong, he was puzzled and apprehensive about all the places he saw that were inconsistent with the ancestral system of etiquette and regulations.Why is it necessary to elevate the status of craftsmen and doctors who are originally humble people to such a high position?Why put the status of scholars on the same level as ordinary people?

With these problems at the bottom, when he saw Shou Han's obviously over-the-top living style and palace architecture, Wang Dehua didn't think much of it.The living, eating and drinking of the military officers in various places is much more than that of the guards.

"General, our family came to Nanzhong this time to deliver an order. The Holy Majesty ordered you to lead troops to the north to serve the king as quickly as possible to deal with the Liaodong rebels who invaded and looted."

In Shouhan's palace in Hue, on the Yin'an Hall, the prince explained the imperial decree and the emperor's mission to Li Shouhan.

"Two ones, our family is going to be the eunuch of the Nanzhong Army Qinwang Bingsupervisor. I hope the general will take care of it in the future."

After revealing his identity, Wang Dehua smiled and looked at Li Shouhan who was sitting on the throne, fearing that he would hear any bad news from him.

After carefully reading the imperial decree of Emperor Chongzhen, Shou Han gently put down the scroll.Order people to collect the imperial decree.Send it to the ancestral hall and worship it carefully.All this was done so that Wang Dehua, the eunuch in charge of etiquette, couldn't pick out the loopholes in etiquette.

"My lord, the cabinet and the chief inspector have already asked His Majesty for their orders. Nanzhong is far away, and it is not easy to dispatch officials. The division of administrative regions, the establishment of government agencies, and the appointment and dismissal of officials are all in the hands of your majesty. The cabinet and the chief inspector Just make a save file!"

"I also hope that your lord will make a copy of the city, population, and officials in Nanzhong and give it to our family."

Hearing Wang Dehua's words, several officials and generals who accompanied Shou Han to receive Wang Dehua's father-in-law showed bursts of resentment on their faces.This is clearly to find out the family background of Nanzhong!

"As for Taiwan, Guangdong, Guangxi, and various places overseas, officials below the prefect are all appointed and dismissed by the general."

Seeing Wang Dehua throwing out a shiny, fat and thick pie.Shou Han is also happy to turn this pie into a banner to legalize his newly captured land.

"Thank you, father-in-law, and thank you for your majesty's grace. Then, this general will make a proposal to father-in-law first. This general intends to appoint the dog Li Huayu as the commander of the Taiwan Guard."

This immediately surprised Wang Dehua.

first.He has also seen Li Huayu before.Although some talents and insights.But he is a young and weak young man. In the mainland, I am afraid that scholars are young and promising.Now, he has to become a fifth-rank magistrate in one step.this.Some promotions are too fast!However, after thinking about it again, I felt relieved.Since the bandit rebellion, the chaos of official promotion in various places has been far more excessive than this.What is a commander of a mere guard station?Anyway, this official position is on the territory of your Li family, even if it is an inheritance!

However, what surprised him was that, as the eldest son of Shou Han, if he wanted to experience some experience, gain some knowledge and experience, and accumulate some qualifications, he should naturally be familiar with government and military affairs by his father, but how could he go to Taiwan?Hanging alone overseas, where barbarians haunt the smog?

well!I don't understand!

"Please don't worry, General, Young Master Ling is a dragon and phoenix among people. Our family is shocked to see it. It's not our family's bragging. The title and official position of a mere commander can only be entrusted to our family! The cabinet, the Ministry of officials, the Ministry of war Over there, our family is going to say hello to them in the name of the Supervisor of Rituals! Please just tell Mr. Ling that you should pack your bags and get ready to take office! If anyone dares to come out to stop them, your lord can just come and talk to our family!"

"Thank you so much, Eunuch. Come!"

Following Shou Han's order, several officials and generals present all stood up and saluted. "Your subordinates are waiting to listen to Jun's orders!"

"First, select elites from the First Guards Brigade of the general, and transfer a battalion of troops to serve as the prince's personal soldiers. Second, each division quickly copied the names of the officials, cities, etc. in various places into a book, and sent them to the prince At the office, please ask your father-in-law to file the files with the cabinet and the supervisor of ceremonies. Third, the military department quickly organizes money, food, soldiers, horses and ships, and prepares to cross the sea and go north to serve the king!"

"Order!"

With an order, everywhere began to get busy.

First, a guard battalion with complete equipment, capable of blinding the eyes of the prince and a dozen eunuchs of all sizes, reported in front of the prince. There was a whole team of 800 people, all with bright armor and shining swords and guns.Moreover, from the perspective of mental temperament and physique, Wang Dehua's eyes that are used to seeing people can tell at a glance that these people are definitely not soldiers and horses with embroidered pillows and beautiful embroidered pillows like the three major battalions of the capital!Absolute elite!Thinking that this team is now the personal soldier of himself, the eunuch who supervises the army, Wang Dehua couldn't help laughing non-stop, and generously rewarded each soldier with ten silver dollars.

After that, the officials copied the names and responsibilities of the officials from various places into several booklets and sent them over. Although there were no numbers of soldiers, horses, money, food, and population, the prince felt that he could do business.

In the next few days, news came from everywhere that food, grass, troops and horses were being mobilized to gather ships.Seeing that the South China Army is about to march north.

However, another shocking bad news came.

Wang Chengen, the eunuch holding the pen who was in charge of ceremonies, stumbled off the ship, and rushed into the palace of the guarding Han with flimsy footsteps.Regardless of the servants in the mansion cleaning the courtyard and preparing for the New Year, they crashed straight into the Yin'an Hall.

"General! Send troops quickly! Something serious has happened! Lord Lu! Lord Lu!..."

"What happened to Master Lu?!" Shou Han's heart sank suddenly.

Since the Qing soldiers entered the bandits, Lu Xiangsheng's situation has been deteriorating.The biggest difficulty and enemy is not Jiannu on the opposite side, but the cold arrows from inside behind him.Most of these cold arrows came from Yang Sichang, Gao Qiqian, Chen Xinjia and other people who advocate peace talks.

First, Gao Qiqian, the great eunuch who supervised the soldiers and horses of King Qin of the world as a military supervisor.Separate tens of thousands of Guan Ning troops as his bodyguards.When they saw Jiannu, they stood firm, and turned a blind eye to the burning, killing and looting of these guys and watched from the sidelines.

Afterwards, Chen Xinjia divided half of Xuanda's army as the governor of Xuanda, and even Lu Xiangsheng's direct army Tianxiong Army was also forcibly removed.

In this way, although Lu Xiangsheng is the governor of the world in name, the number of troops that can be used under his command is less than 2, and even Xuanfu Town has a lot more soldiers than his troops.

"Lord Lu and the Dongnu army successively fought in Qingdu, Zhending (now Wangdu, Zhengding, Hebei) and other places. Although they won many victories and gained a lot, they were hindered by Yang Sichang, Gao Qiqian and others inside. There were Zhang Qiping and others outside. Working as a minion for a tiger. Cutting off the supply of food and grass, although the soldiers fought bravely against the enemy, and the equipment relied on the help of the general, they were also quite sophisticated, but five thousand old, weak, sick, disabled and hungry soldiers. How can they endure this ice and snow? Tens of thousands of slaves took turns to besiege ?”

Wang Chengen cried bitterly when he said that.Eyes full of tears.

"On December 24th of this year, Mr. Lu moved his troops to Julu Jiazhuang. It has been out of food for seven days. It is all based on the people's voluntary donation of food mixed with ice and snow. However, none of the soldiers in the army rebelled. Bird, with tens of thousands of troops in Jize, less than [-] miles away from Jia Zhuang, Mr. Lu sent Yang Tinglin, one of his subordinates, to ask for help, but Gao Qiqian ignored it. Mr. Lu was determined to die, and vowed to fight the Qing army to the death. Pull out the stronghold and fight the Qing army at the Haoshui Bridge. The captives rode tens of thousands of rings for three turns. Like the soldiers who raised their troops to fight, the voices moved the sky. Jia Jie entered, killing dozens of people with his hands, four arrows and three blades in his body, and then fell. Yang Lukai, the shepherd in charge, feared that the crowd would mutilate his corpse, so he fell on top of him, carrying [-] arrows on his back to die..."

"Snapped!"

"Boom"!

Shou Han slammed his right hand on the table first, trying to vent his anger, but he shook the pen holder and paper on the table and flew several feet away, but he didn't feel a little relieved, so he simply flew up and smashed the paper several inches thick, The entire table weighing hundreds of catties flew out, and the ink and cinnabar splashed onto the robes of Wang Chengen and Wang Dehua.Seeing this, the two exchanged eye contact with each other, quite delighted.

"The Great Ming Dynasty did not perish by Jiannu, but by the hands of others!" Shou Han's eyes were burning with fire and his voice was hoarse.These words scared Wang Chengen and Wang Dehua to their knees and kowtowed.On Shou Han's territory, he would be fine even if he put the spirit card of Emperor Taizu Gao in the toilet, but after the two of them listened to his words, I am afraid that the two father-in-laws will not be able to see the sun tomorrow morning , is a problem.

After a roar, Shou Han suddenly felt pain in the palm of his hand. The mansion doctor came over to treat him, and said in shock: "My lord, the ring finger and little finger of this right hand are broken, you must not use any more force!"

After hastily bandaged and dealt with it, Wang Chengen, who was shivering in his clothes, took his seat, intending to ask about the circumstances before and after Lu Xiangsheng's death in battle.

"Let me ask you, Master Lu's troops, especially his Tianxiong Army, are mostly armored swords and guns equipped by my Nanzhong, and their combat power is naturally extraordinary. How can they be besieged by Jiannu and not break through?"

"General, this time, although Xuan's army is well equipped, they have been divided and transferred many times. In the end, Mr. Lu only had a few thousand people under his command. Even Tianxiong's army was transferred away by Chen Xinjia. Most of the army and horses at this time It’s not the one from Xuanda! Besides, it’s already a remarkable thing for the old, weak and remnant soldiers suffering from hunger and cold without food for several days to face tens of thousands of Jiannu iron cavalry!”

Wang Chengen, who had recovered from his shock, began to introduce the military situation before and after Lu Xiangsheng's death to the guard.

"As for that guy Gao Qiqian, who has tens of thousands of elite Guanning troops fifty miles away, he has never supported him with a single soldier, arrow or gun. When he heard that Mr. Lu was defeated and died, he panicked and wanted to flee westward. Unexpectedly, in a panic, he led the army eastward for [-] miles, and was defeated by Jiannu's two white flags. More than ten thousand officers and soldiers were captured!"

"The case of the Dongchang attack happened to be plundered by Jiannu as civilians into the camp. There were more than a hundred artillery pieces, large and small, piled up like mountains of gunpowder, bullets, armor and weapons. Jiannu selected the gunners of the Guanning Army from among the captives to form an artillery team. To be used as a sharp weapon when attacking the city and plundering the land. All the captives of the Guanning Army were shaved and made into the armor of the Dorgon and Duoduo brothers, as soldiers who charged into the battle. This generation has no heart, and was captured Afterwards, he didn’t want to escape. Instead, he worked as a minion for the tiger. When the slaves left Beijing, they established the slave chieftain Duoduo tribe and sent troops to the north. Leading by thousands of soldiers, they intended to deceive Baoding. Unexpectedly, they were seen through by the guards at the top of the city. They were furious. Duoduo sent troops to attack the city. The governor of Baoding, Zhang Qiping, first cut off the food and grass of Mr. Lu Xiangsheng. At this time, seeing that Jiannu was in a hurry to attack the city, he abandoned the city and handed over the gate of the capital. Hundreds of thousands of troops and horses The common people are all in the purse of the slaves!"

That's it!

Baoding, the southern gate of the capital.It was handed over to Duoduo by Zhang Qiping!In this way, from the south of Zhuozhou, the entire North China Great Plain was dominated by Jiannu cavalry.Moreover, the Dorgon brothers seem to have learned a lot from their entrance this time.No longer simply killing.Instead, the captured population, soldiers and horses were immediately shaved.cut off their way back.In this way, the subordinates will fight more and more!

No wonder Chongzhen will send his trusted eunuchs again!It turns out that the situation is getting more and more critical!

After Lu Xiangsheng was defeated and died for his country, the morale of the Qing army was like a rainbow.Another 2 captives from the Guanning Army were used as cannon fodder to attack cities and loot land, so naturally I no longer worry about it.After conquering Baoding, an important town in Jifu, Liu Yuliang, who asked to inspect the military situation, heard that Baoding had fallen from Zhuozhou, and immediately retreated into Jinzhou in a panic.However, the Qing army took advantage of the victory all the way and drove straight in, capturing Changping, Baodi, Pinggu and other places, and the capital was shaken.On the [-]th, Emperor Chongzhen ordered the governor Hong Chengchou to lead the army into the defense.Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi, accompanied the army as the Minister of the Ministry of War to supervise the reinforcements.

"Another foolish trick! In this way, those peasant army units in Shaanxi who have just been suppressed will have no scruples, and they will definitely rise up immediately!"

Shou Han couldn't help shaking his head.Next year, it will be even more difficult for Chongzhen.

"This prince invited me. I am a ruler under my lord's command. I don't know something. I plan to ask my father-in-law for advice."

Commander Chen Tianhua bowed to Wang Chengen, who calmed down a bit after drinking two sips of tea, and stepped in to salute.

"Don't dare to be the general! If you have something to say, please speak!"

"As far as I know, the Guan Ning army is known as the elite. There is a saying about Guan Ning's iron cavalry. There are also a large number of our Nanzhong military equipment in each department. Eunuch Cai also said that the artillery alone was captured by Jian Nu for a hundred There are so many families, why don’t you dare to fight? Master Lu dared to confront tens of thousands of Jiannu with five thousand hungry and exhausted soldiers, why did these tens of thousands of people collapse at the first touch?"

"If this generation can't fight, and dare not fight, why do they act like wolves and tigers once they shave their hair and become slaves' accomplices? Lian Kejian City?"

Chen Tianhua's few words were neither fast nor slow, neither fast nor slow, but they were like a series of slaps on the faces of Wang Chengen and others non-stop. Shou Han seemed to hear the crackling sound of the slaps.

Wang Chengen's face turned red and then turned pale, and finally he just let out a long sigh, "Alas! The country is unfortunate, and it feeds a group of silverfish and national thieves with heavy wages!"

"Chen Tongzhi! National affairs are naturally dealt with by the emperor and the princes of the court! Don't talk too much! Just pass the order on my behalf and gather troops! Call the Liao brigade in your town to guard Guangzhou, and call the Chaozhou garrison brigade to carry it All combat equipment is waiting for ships near the mouth of the Pearl River. As soon as the ships are adjusted, go north immediately!"

"Order!"

Chen Tianhua was stopped by the guards from questioning, which relieved Wang Chengen and others a lot.What the officers and soldiers did made them feel very chilled.

"The military commander dispatched a fast boat to Mount Huangyi on Tamra Island, and ordered them to prepare for the expedition. Two regiments of cavalry, with more mules and horses. The troops going north this time did not bring mules and horses. Tamna Island supplies all the mules and horses they need!"

Huang Yishan has been raising horses and training cavalry on Tamra Island for the past two years. The four cavalry regiments under his command have more than [-] riders and more than [-] war horses.

Chongzhen sent a second angel to urge King Qin to come, and this series of bad news brought a series of bad news, which completely disrupted Shouhan's original plan to send troops to the north after the new year.Originally thought that after Lu Xiangsheng's careful rectification in the past two years, and his own great help, it should be said that the combat power of Xuan Dajun has been greatly improved, but today he does not want Lu Xiangsheng to still be defeated and martyred.However, the servants and others raised in the towns of the Guanning Army were still vulnerable to Jiannu's fierce offensive.And the Dorgon brothers, in order to expand their own strength, even went further on the basis of the original compilation of the coats as Jiala and Niulu, and directly compiled the captured Guanning Army soldiers into an army to expand their strength. , become their own peripheral armed forces.These are things that Shou Han did not expect.

After the intensive work, the two princes dazzled to mobilize people, horses, money, food, guns, receive supplies and ammunition, arrange the order of boarding, stipulate the contact signals of each ship when marching at sea, and many other details. The twelfth lunar month of the year is 11.

Because the plan for guarding the guards brigade, Liao Dongzhi brigade, and Wu Biao brigade to go north to King Qin on New Year's Eve has been drawn up, the New Year's Eve dinner at the General's Mansion will be held on the 28th in advance.

Amidst the sound of firecrackers, Shou Han raised his wine glass to toast the two eunuchs.

"You two princes, this time going north, there are tens of thousands of horses guarding the Han Dynasty, and you need to ask your father-in-law to protect you in front of the emperor. Thank you in advance from a certain family."

Hearing that the taste of Shou Han's words was not right, Wang Chengen and Wang Dehua couldn't help but looked at each other, and immediately asked in surprise, "Why did the general make such a statement? Don't ruin the lives of the servants!"

"Since ancient times, there has been no powerful minister inside, but the general can make contributions to the outside. Although the Shou Han did not read much, he has heard this truth. Since the second year of Chongzhen, this is the fourth time that the Eastern Captives have committed crimes, and it is more in-depth than before. Every time the captive cavalry invaded the customs, the capital was under martial law, and the imperial court was helpless. They allowed the captive cavalry to roam around and ravage Jifu. The state and county officials would only flee when they heard the wind, and did not dare to stick to the city. The local gentry and rich families also fled first when they heard the wind , No one is willing to think about the country, no one is loyal to the emperor and patriotic, let alone call on the people to protect their homes. When the officers and soldiers come, they are as fearful of the captives as tigers and leopards, and as fierce as jackals to the people. Every time the captives commit crimes, the Houses were burned, women were raped, cattle, agricultural tools, livestock, and property were plundered, and people died in the battle or were taken away by slaves. These are what Shou Han saw two years ago when he was King Qin. Today , Gao Qiqian had [-] Guanning iron cavalry and did not save his allies, and then he was defeated and fled. He handed over more than [-] elites from the country who spent money and money to support Jiannu, and became a sharp weapon in Jiannu's hands! Then Yang Sichang, Chen Xinjia , Zhang Qiping framed his colleagues and did not hesitate to destroy state affairs, his crime is even more punishable!"

"If Shou Han and others are lucky enough to win with the protection of their ancestors, they must boldly report to His Majesty and impeach Yang Sichang, Gao Qiqian, Chen Xinjia, and Zhang Qiping for their crimes of ruining state affairs for their own selfishness!"

When Wang Chengen and Wang Dehua heard this, they were secretly happy.It's done!

That Gao Qiqian thought that he was a eunuch in the army, he had a heavy army in his hands, and Yang Sichang, Chen Xinjia and others were his Austrian aid, so he was not very respectful towards them.They have long planned to get rid of this person, but they don't have strong evidence of high potential in their hands, and what's more terrible is that they don't have a strong military leader to assist them.

Although most of Wang Cheng'en's words are true, they may not be without elements of deduction and guiding Shou Han.

"If your lord wants to eradicate traitors for the country, the two of us are willing to follow you!" (To be continued...)