Win the Ding 1617

Gao Qiqian, who was tied into the East Nuan Pavilion by Cao Huachun, was still dressed in a three-mountain cap inlaid with gold, a robe of tufted brocade, and an exquisite jade belt around his waist.However, the description is quite haggard. In his 40s, he is tall and tall, and he walks vigorously. If he is not white and beardless, outsiders will definitely think he is a fierce general.

Yang Sichang took a sneak peek, Gao Qiqian looked very haggard, he had long since lost the demeanor of the day when he loudly boasted in front of himself how to ask Lu Xiangsheng for his beloved horse and asked for Xuanda and Guan Ning's two soldiers, the gold-embedded three-mountain cap on his head was broken A big hole was made, and several places were sunken.The tufted brocade robe on his body was covered in mud, covered in scars, and there were several holes burned by the smoke.

Behind him, Wang Tingchen, the former commander of the Tunwei, Cao Bianjiao, the commander of Yutian, Ma Ke, the commander of Shanhaiguan, and Bai Guangen, the commander of Jizhen, are the four generals of the Guanning Army. Defiled and dilapidated.

As soon as he saw Chongzhen, Gao Qiqian knelt down in front of Chongzhen's knees with a plop before Chongzhen had an attack, and let out a cry of grief.

"My lord! I never thought that I would see my lord again in this life! If I see my lord today, my servant will die without regrets even if I die under sword fire!"

Seeing Gao Qiqian's affectation, Yang Sichang felt relieved.Based on his understanding of Chongzhen's temperament, most of the people he trusts will be fine.Of course, except for people like Yuan Chonghuan who made him lose the emperor's face too much.Gao Qiqian was an eunuch at the beginning of the ceremony, but was pushed out by the chief eunuch Wei Zhongxian and transferred to the Zhidian supervisor to sweep.After Wei Zhongxian was removed by Chongzhen, who had just ascended the throne, Gao Qiqian, Cao Huachun, Wang Dehua and others won the favor of Emperor Chongzhen.Served as the palm print eunuch, in the fifth year of Chongzhen, he went to Dengzhou to supervise the army, and then went to Ning and Jin to supervise the army.Gao Qiqian claimed to know soldiers and was skilled in military affairs, but in fact he was cowardly and ugly and did not dare to fight, but only cut the head of the dead and pretended to be meritorious.

But one advantage is that Chongzhen thinks he is a loyal domestic slave.

With such a cry, Gao Qiqian couldn't die.

"You slave! How did you completely defeat our tens of thousands of troops!?"

"My lord! The defeat of the servant is not because the soldiers under the servant's command did not work hard, and they were not heroic in killing the enemy. It was. Rather. The servant did not dare to say it!"

Gao Qiqian's words skillfully attracted Chongzhen's attention.

"Your Majesty, our army is only more than 20 hungry and tired with insufficient armor and weapons. How can we face the [-] Dongnu iron cavalry bombarded by hundreds of artillery round the clock?"

Yang Sichang heard this.I couldn't help but jump in my beautiful eyes.This eunuch is really talking nonsense!

Gao Qiqian, as the commander-in-chief of the reinforcements, is responsible for the records of military achievements on the battlefield, and is also responsible for the supply of food and equipment for each army.He has supervised the army in various places in Guanning for many years.He gave priority to the supply of food and grass for the reinforcements from the capital, and the officers and soldiers of the three towns of Xuanda had only a small amount of food and grass, and they were all aggrieved.

How could Yang Sichang, who is also in charge of the Ministry of War, not know about these things?

It is understandable to say that Lu Xiangsheng's troops were defeated due to hunger and cold. Did Gao Qiqian and Guan Ning's generals lose less food, grass and supplies?That day before Wang Chengen left Beijing, he had told him with a livid face that tens of thousands of stones, grain and grass, and more than a hundred cannons bought from Nanzhong with a lot of money had become Jiannu's spoils of war.

Don't worry about him, let's see how he ends up diving high.

"My lord! The servant is guilty, and he deserves to die if he loses the army! However, even if the servant is desperate to die, he still wants to join a treacherous minister and expose his mask! lest this person continue to bring disaster to the country and the people."

Yang Sichang's heart skipped a beat, he instinctively felt that something big was going to happen!

Over there Gao Qiqian still kowtowed like pounding garlic, muttering endlessly.

"My lord, the servants led the army to Jibo. They should have rescued Lord Lu quickly, but they were only a few dozen miles away from Lord Lu, and they were besieged by Jiannu who were nearly ten times as large as me. Jiannu were all dressed in iron armor and their weapons were also They are all excellent, and there are hundreds of artillery bombarding our army barracks day and night. Projectiles rain down, and our soldiers are flying all over the place!"

"Your Majesty! You only know that the man uses food, rice, and silver as offerings every year, but you don't know that this man also sells a large number of weapons and artillery to make slaves, collaborating with the enemy and supporting the enemy! Your Majesty!"

"It's over, this eunuch is doomed!" Yang Sichang lamented in his heart, and he decided to quickly abandon this ally of the peace negotiation faction.

What is wrong with saying that Li Shouhan had an affair with Jiannu?Returning to the enemy and collaborating with the enemy?You castrate!Could it be that when the lower head was cut off, the upper head was also cut off?Use your brain to think about it, and you have to make up nonsense!

Chongzhen's face turned blue, red, and white, and the voice of venting his anger became more and more rough.Tang Tong and the others, who were kneeling behind Gao Qiqian, had already regretted their guts, and they shouldn't have come to this muddy water with Gao Qiqian.

"You four commanders are all my minions and hawks. After returning from a bloody battle, I won't blame you for the time being. Let's get up and speak first!"

Tang Tong, Cao Bianjiao and others suddenly fell to the ground with a stone, knowing that the emperor would not deal with them as military officers.At most, it is to reprimand and fine some salary.For the rest, how the emperor dealt with Director Gao has nothing to do with them.

Seeing that Chongzhen distinguished the four generals from Gao Qiqian, Yang Sichang was secretly startled, and hastily left his seat and kowtowed: "Your Majesty, I think that although the generals of Guan Ning's army lost their troops and lost their land, they are at a critical time for the country. , It is also good to be able to save some soldiers and horses. Therefore, I think it is not as good as the imperial court's imperial edict. Forgive the mistakes of the generals in the towns, and they will do their best to serve the imperial court with gratitude."

After hearing Yang Sichang's words, the four chief soldiers became more and more determined.There is no responsibility for the defeat this time!

"How many troops did you bring back?"

"Returning to the elders of the pavilion, although the humble rank and others were heavily surrounded by Jiannu and bombarded by artillery fire, the subordinates tried their best to fight to the death. Although there were a lot of losses, more than half of the soldiers still broke out. But the loss of armor, horses and weapons was quite large. There are many casualties among the soldiers in the battalion and they need to be compensated and treated, so please send money, weapons and horses as soon as possible, so that the soldiers will not be chilled and unable to defend against the enemy."

What Ma Ke said is not true. In the main barracks of his army, only a thousand servants escaped from the sky. The rest of the people are also in the same situation. In total, only more than six thousand people escaped. Where can I find the half of them? The above generals?but.Naturally, these things can't trouble these old fried dough sticks. In this troubled world, when the recruitment flag is raised, there are people who eat food.It really doesn't work, just grab the strong man!

"Your Majesty, all the servants and maidservants led the soldiers to move in in time after the bloody battle, so that this team can be saved!" Gao Qiqian felt that something was wrong and the situation was obviously not good for him, so he hurriedly asked for credit.

"You bastard! You slave! You didn't even mention your defeat, but you falsely framed the minister and spread the rumors. Wouldn't it make the loyal soldiers feel cold?! Come!"

Cao Huachun on the side hastily agreed. "Slaves serve."

"This dog slave wantonly framed my ministers, provoked the relationship between the monarch and his ministers, and pulled him out! He was charged with fifty sticks! Then he was sent to Kangling of Tianshou Mountain to act as a sweeping eunuch!"

A series of screams were blown into the warm pavilion by the cold wind mixed with the dull sound of the torture rod being knocked down on the ground.Hearing this voice, Tang Tong and the others turned blue and pale.Emperor Chongzhen snorted. "Zhang Qiping abandoned Baoding Jiancheng without authorization. As a result, the southern barrier of the capital was completely lost. Where is this person hiding now?"

Yang Sichang hurriedly replied: "This person is now in the Tianjin Army together with Liu Yuliang."

"Go out of Beijing with Jinyiqi school and bring him to Beijing for questioning!"

"Order to pass the decree to Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting quickly. If they can't lead the army out of Niangziguan within ten days, and take back Baoding. Liang Tingdong the year before last is a lesson for the two of them!"

Liang Tingdong was executed by Lu Xiangsheng and Li Shouhan's army as a governor because he shrank and avoided the battle. This incident shocked the government, the army and the people.

And Chongzhen was dissatisfied with Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting for more than a day.

After Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting defeated Li Zicheng in Tongguan that day, he eagerly hoped that the two of them could kill Li Zicheng and others, and it would be best to capture them as prisoners.In the end, the two men's memorials came out, the officers and soldiers were victorious, and the entire army of the bandits was wiped out, but the bodies of Li Zicheng and others were not found.Regarding the matter of exterminating the exile thieves, the imperial court also has a consensus.That is, the bandit suppressor must destroy the leader.Either captured alive or beheaded.Otherwise, as long as the leader and the old battalion are still there, no matter how many rogues are killed, in time, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of hungry people can be gathered to become new rogues.

And on the way Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting led the Qin soldiers out of Guan Qin, another news that was extremely unfavorable to them came. Li Zicheng, who had died in their report, and Chuangying, who had been wiped out, appeared again in the Dengxian County and Lingbao area.At that time, Chongzhen was furious, and almost ordered Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting to be arrested and brought to Beijing for punishment.In the end, he was worried that doing so might disintegrate the fifty thousand King Qin's army, or even cause a mutiny.It added fuel to the already difficult situation of suppressing thieves.That's why he suppressed the anger in his heart and continued to make false claims with him.Hong Chengchou has outstanding talent, and Chongzhen has already made arrangements in his heart, and he will have a big use in the future, but for Sun Chuanting, Emperor Chongzhen will not easily forgive him.

Of course, Yang Sichang was well aware of the emperor's thoughts, and he and Sun Chuanting also had deep conflicts over matters such as suppressing bandits' salaries and strategies.

When Yang Sichang first served as Minister of the Ministry of War, in order to implement his "four positives and six corners" comprehensive encirclement and suppression strategy, he added 12 troops and sent nearly 300 million taels of military pay.Sun Chuanting disagrees with this. He believes that the people's strength has been exhausted after years of fighting, and this move may not achieve the expected results.This is tantamount to driving the fish for the Yuan and driving the sparrows for the bushes. It is in vain to drive the good people into refugees and provide soldiers for the rogues.At that time, when the Ming Dynasty collected the numbers of recruits reported by the governors of various places, only Sun Chuanting's memorial had not been delivered.

At this time, Yang Sichang was keenly aware of the emperor's dissatisfaction with Sun Chuanting, and he secretly rejoiced that perhaps after Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting was his next target.

"Aiqing needs to urge the troops to work hard to kill the enemy."

Although Chongzhen spoke harshly to others, he was very polite to Yang Sichang.

In the city of Baoding, the number of flags of the Eight Banners has decreased a lot. The Eight Banners Manchurian Xianglan Banner, the Eight Banners Mongolian Zhenghong Banner, and the Xianghong Banner have set out to escort a large number of looted property, people, captured weapons, armor and horses to Shengjing. Dedicated to Huang Taiji.

In front of the governor's office in Baoding, there are four huge gold-woven dragon banners standing tall. The owners of the dragon banners are Dorgon, Prince Rui, who is the owner of the Zhengbai Banner, and Duo Duo, the owner of the Banner Banner, his younger brother. The other two are Baya Latuzhangjing belonging to the two white flags.

In the study room that originally belonged to the governor, the calligraphy, paintings, rare books, antiques and other things collected by the governor were carefully packed up by a dozen or so coaters under the supervision of several Ba Yala soldiers, and put them in boxes and cages.

"Second brother, what's the use of these things? Still tidying them up? With all that time, why not grab some population and gold and silver!"

Duo Duo was somewhat disapproving of Dorgon's emphasis on these old writing papers and yellowed pictures, as well as those bottles and jars covered with verdigris.To him it was all junk.

"These things are useless to us, but in Shengjing, someone will pay a high price to take them away from us!"

"Second brother, are you talking about him?!"

Dodo suddenly realized.

"That's right, the day before we set off, his treasurer in Shengjing came to my residence to tell him. This time he entered the customs. If there are books, calligraphy, paintings and antiques seized, they can buy them at a high price!"

"Cough! My second brother! Why didn't you tell me earlier?! Those slaves under my banner, I'm afraid they are cooking with these good things! This group of dog slaves!"

"My lord, the day after we broke the wall and entered the entrance, Ba Ya La Tiao Zhang Jing of the Zhengbai Banner was ordered to inform the slave. The slave has already greeted the slaves of Jiala and Niulu below. It is not allowed to use it. Light the paper for heating and cooking, and don't destroy things you don't know."

"hey-hey!"

Hearing that the second brother thinks about himself so much, and is so considerate of himself.After quietly making arrangements for himself, Dodo couldn't help but grinned loudly.

"I also took a rough look at the numbers reported by the servants below, and asked a few barbarians accompanying the army to do the math. If it is calculated according to the quotation given to me by the second brother of the Li family, it is only from my side. If you harvest it, you will be able to replace the people of Quanzheng Baiqi with cloth for three new clothes!"

"Second brother, can you change into three new clothes for the entire Zhengbai Banner?"

Duoduo was a little surprised. He didn't expect that the rags that could only be used to ignite fires were so valuable!

"Fifteenth brother, you've missed the job. It's the whole Zhengbaiqi people, not just the bannermen, Yu Ding's family, including those coated Ahha."

"This!?" Dodo gasped.

He looked out vigilantly. In the yard, the soldiers guarding him were all his and his second brother's Bala soldiers.

"You counted correctly? Even those newly attached servants are counted?"

What he was talking about were those who came from the Guanning Army.They were compiled into 57 Niulu, and Dorgon generously distributed [-] Niulu's coated soldiers and horses to his younger brother.

"Not bad. Count them in."

Duduo became more and more surprised, he laughed to hide his gaffe.

"Master, the banquet is ready."

The four sat down around a rosewood dining table.Cups and plates were lined up on the table, and a round table was filled with more than a dozen dishes, large and small.

However, although they seized a lot of money after entering the customs, these Manchu nobles still liked dishes made of beef and mutton.The housekeeper under Dorgon ordered some fat sheep to be slaughtered to cook for the masters.

The flames happily licked the bottom of the pot made of stainless steel, the soup in the pot was tumbling, and the fresh and plump mutton was sinking and floating against the background of chili and Chinese prickly ash.

"Don't say it, although the Guan Ning army is not good at fighting, but the equipment for daily marching and daily life is really good!" Duoduo exclaimed.He tapped the edge of the pot with the chopsticks in his hand. "This set of guys can be used whether you are marching and fighting, hunting outside or staying in the mansion! We will meet again next time, but we must grab a few sets for the servants below!"

"This time we captured a lot of good things from Lu Xiangsheng and Gao Qiqian in Julu." Baya Latuo Zhangjing, with a white flag, made fun of his master.

"Second brother, the slaves came to me yesterday and told me that when the slave Jierhalang with the inlaid blue flag returned to his division and headed north, he brought a lot of confiscated with him. The slaves said, even the second brother, you ordered him to bring him back to Sheng Gold and silver ingots were stuffed into the barrels and carriages of dozens of cannons that Beijing presented to our emperor mynah in order to deceive the public! Second brother, why are you so kind, and let our two white-flag soldiers fight to the death from Xuan Dajun, All the spoils seized by Guan Ning’s army have been handed over?! Especially those cannons?! What a good cannon! I dare say that the black fat man has never seen such a good cannon!”

Jierhalang of Xianglan Banner brought back 150 large Buddha Langji and 24 small Buddha Langji from the camps of Xuan Dajun and Guanning Army, all of which were from Nanzhong.There are also 24 general cannons, [-] [-]-pound cannons, and [-] [-]-pound cannons, most of which were seized in various cities.

In this regard, Duo Duo, who is Prince Yu, is very dissatisfied with the selflessness of his second brother Dorgon.

You must know that it is already an open secret among the Qing army to hide spoils and lead domestic slaves to go out to obtain more property.For this reason, Huang Taiji issued decrees many times to reprimand, and even threatened the officers and soldiers of the Qing army and the Manchu relatives by dismissal and beheading, but in the face of interests, his measures were pale and powerless.

Even the soldiers of the Qing army had the habit of hiding silver taels privately. After they were captured in various places in Ming Dynasty, each of them kept at least a dozen or 20 taels of silver privately, and used them for enjoyment after returning to Shengjing.

The soldiers hid gold and silver privately, while the officers and generals and nobles accompanied their slaves to the expedition and ordered them to plunder their property so that they could spend it when they returned to Shengjing.

And Jierhalang himself, in addition to bringing a large number of domestic slaves to the war, was full of wanton corruption and intercepted the looted property from the Xianglan Banner.This is also the reason why the spies with the white flag found that gold and silver keys were stuffed into the barrel of the gun.

In contrast, Dorgon's impartial and selfless behavior seems a bit silly. (To be continued..)