Win the Ding 1617

"Your Majesty handed over [-] pixiu to his ministers. Since he was ordered to do so, his ministers have been grieved day and night and dare not slack off at all. Therefore, there was a small victory in Songshan before, and Jinzhou was rescued later. Now it is all thanks to your majesty's blessing to recover Guangning. The shame of the death of the teacher is to avenge the plunder of Guangning. The morale of the whole army is like a rainbow, and they all say that the death of the slave clown has come. Those who submit the letter, about to abandon the dark and turn to the light at the right time, and punish the Nurhachi clan."

In the court hall, the officials of the Ministry of War were heard reading aloud the "Playing for the Title, The Army Recaptured Guangning Shu" sent by Hong Chengchou's order by the overnight fast boat. Although Chongzhen had already read it several times, he almost passed the article Recite all the paragraphs and chapters in the book, but I don't mind listening to it again in the court.

This inscription, which was co-signed by Hong Chengchou, Zu Dashou, Qiu Minyang, Zhang Ruoqi and others, was sent to the capital at a speed of eight hundred miles on the day the five generals conquered Guangning.Of course, this is just a so-called title. In fact, after writing the title book first, he quickly boarded a sea ship near Jinzhou, and then crossed the Bohai Bay and landed in Tianjin.

Although martial law was declared in the Jingji area at this time because Abatai led troops to loot the entrance, but overall it was quite peaceful, because this Raoyu Baylor just swept across the capital like the autumn wind. The area went south, and the ground in Gyeonggi was relatively calm.Moreover, the couriers along the way were relatively complete, and these good news were sent by the Liaodong frontline supervisors and supervising troops, and the specifications were super, so the officials along the way naturally did not dare to neglect.Therefore, the Baojie title book did not stop all the way after landing in Tanggu, changing horses without changing people.As anxious as a spark, he arrived in the capital on August [-].

On the day when the good news arrived, the entire capital was shocked.First, there were several consecutive victories of the Ming army, and each battle was beheaded by a thousand ranks, and even the false Xigong empress who captured the slave chieftain alive on the battlefield, but it is a pity that the barbarian woman was weak and died before reaching the camp. .However, the news of the capture of the slave chieftain and the false queen was still spreading all over the capital and all over the capital.

Now there is more news of the recovery of Guangning, which immediately makes the people in Gyeonggi rejoice.

The capital is boiling.Those Xuanjie personnel.Naturally, he also received super-standard treatment.On August [-]th, during the morning ceremony specially held by Chongzhen, all the members were led to the imperial court by officials of Honglu Temple, and they read the Jieyin one by one.

At that time, all the officials had their own auspicious clothes, waiting for Xuan Jie.The official of Honghe Temple delivered a speech.All officials perform five prostrations and three kowtows.Later, the Hanlin Academy wrote an article that Taichang Temple handled the sacrifices, and sent officials to recommend it to the suburban temple.Daxing sacrifices and celebrations.

All over the capital, firecrackers and thunder blared day after day, and the gentry and the common people had a lot of celebration.

The Battle of Jinzhou, Chongzhen was always on his mind, and he was often worried. What he worried about every day was not whether the food and salaries at the front line could be maintained, or how to deal with the swarms of rogues spreading like wildfire in the interior, attacking cities everywhere.Moreover, he had to face constant doubts from courtiers and Chinese officials, asking him to transfer Liaodong soldiers and horses back to the division to wipe out the bandits.

Now that the news of the great victory on the front line and the recapture of Guangning came, Long Yan was overjoyed and Sacred Heart comforted him, as if he had taken a reassurance and calmed down.

Listening to the eulogies of the civil servants in the court hall, Chongzhen students couldn't help smiling, and they were in a very happy mood. After the early court was over, they specially sent an order to summon the cabinet ministers Xue Guoguan, Chen Xinjia, and Li Daiwen to the Wenhua Hall to order the front line Officials will reward the matter.And the eunuch passed the decree to explain to all the adults in the cabinet: "The emperor has a decree, you old gentlemen are not allowed to wear official uniforms, please wear plain clothes to see you."

This is a bit like the emperor and his ministers treat each other as friends!

The adults all had their family members with them, and when they heard the decree, they immediately ordered their family members to take plain clothes and change them, and followed a few young eunuchs to the palace.

"Today, I also imitated those licentious lords, and set up a banquet in the imperial garden, and Li Aiqing ordered someone from the south of the Yangtze River to send fresh goods, and all the aiqings will join me in admiring chrysanthemums, drinking wine and composing poems." how?"

Several tables of sumptuous banquets have already been set up in the imperial garden, and each table is piled high with a plate of hairy crabs from Yangcheng Lake, Suzhou, all of which have purple-backed golden claws. escaped without being restrained by the rope, it seems that there are seven or eight taels of one.Surrounding the banquet are hundreds of pots of chrysanthemums in full bloom, including Yao Huang Wei Zi.

Seeing that even Chongzhen, who has always been frugal, is so extravagant today, several cabinet leaders are very clear-eyed, and the emperor is very excited today.Chen Xinjia couldn't help but blushed, and fell to his knees first: "How can I wait for a humble minister to dare to work for the emperor who loves so wrongly, he deserves death!"

"Your family has been suffering physically and mentally for the past few days. I have prepared some thin wine. It will be a great pleasure for you and my ministers to drink wine and enjoy the flowers together today."

"Your majesty's imperial banquet is a blessing, the king's kindness is so deep, even if we are smashed to pieces, it will be difficult to repay the holy kindness."

On behalf of the cabinet, Xue Guoguan made another act of thanking God.

The hairy crabs were carefully prepared by the locals of Suzhou with egg whites and minced meat. Although they were transported by sea, [-]% to [-]% survived when they arrived in the palace, and they were carefully fed for two days in the imperial dining room. A paste full of fat.

More than a dozen young eunuchs in the imperial dining room held trays in their hands, and a white copper charcoal stove lit with charcoal was blowing out flames in the tray.A small steamer next to the charcoal stove is exquisite and lovely.

There are naturally people serving at the desks of the cabinet ministers, and they asked in a low voice which gentlemen are going to eat first?Pointed navel or lumpy navel?After getting the answer, he carefully picked up the glaring crab with bamboo clips and put it in the cage.

Chen Xinjia looked at a set of tools for eating crabs placed on the table, small hammers, pincers, clips, and tweezers made of sterling silver, exquisite and lovely.

"It seems that the emperor is really in a good mood today. He will have to recite poems and make fuss later, so we have to make preparations first." Seeing that the always frugal Emperor Chongzhen had expensive seasonal fresh products and delicate silver tableware, Chen Xinjia couldn't help but Tut tut praise, made up his mind to flatter him.Not only him, but all the cabinet members present searched their brains and searched for chapters and excerpts.Prepare for a new poem in a while.

After a while, the soup was boiling and the crabs were cooked. Someone carefully put ginger vinegar and other things into the exquisite official kiln porcelain dishes, indicating that the adults can start.The young eunuchs who served the banquet served the best Shaoxing flower carvings after heating them up under the order of Emperor Chongzhen that "today's party must not be without wine".

"Gentlemen, please!"

After a few cups of Huadiao, the atmosphere began to become lively, and all the adults and gentlemen blushed under the influence of the good news of Jun's greatness and victory ahead.The words in the mouth also increased.

In order to add to the fun of the emperor and several cabinet members.Eunuch Wang Chengen, who was serving the banquet at the side, ordered the eunuch to take the latest issue of the mansion newspaper that was going to be published in the world, and read it aloud, thinking that it would be fun with the wine.

"On the eighth day of August in the 15th year of Chongzhen, Liu Zhaoji and Yang Zhuguo led a team to go northward. Recovered Guangning. Guangning is the gateway to mountains and seas. It has been trapped in the East for decades. Chinese soldiers. Every day they don't want to return to Guangning and report the loss of Guangning. Enemy. Tiger generals gather in Liaodong today, and their morale is like a rainbow. Therefore, all the way through the pass and beheading the generals, the gains are quite rich. The two generals led the way to Guangning, recording the beheading of three thousand prisoners from the east, and countless armors and equipment. Tang Tong Cao Bianjiao Wang's courtiers and three commanders swept the fort all the way, remembering the size of the castle 28. The eastern captives were terrified, and most of them opened the fort gates to beg for mercy. The officers and soldiers strictly obeyed the military order, and anyone who surrendered in Kaicheng will never blame the past. The five commanders We have joined forces and will soon attack Guangning. According to those who know the front, the city of Guangning is in chaos, and it should not be difficult to deal with it. The difficulty today is that only the slave chiefs are unwilling to fight and retreat all the way. I fear that the decisive battle will be in Liao Shen, it is easy to move for a long time, and waste the blood and sweat of the good people. Therefore, the five generals please condemn one of the human beings to attack Liao and Shen, and cut off the return of the eastern captives. If this can be done, the Liao will be flattened in March."

Everyone present knew very well that for the so-called don't send a general to attack Liaoshen, the only candidate is the soldiers and horses under Ning Yuanbo Li Shouhan's troops.In this regard, the imperial court has no doubts.

"Gentlemen, these crabs, these seasonal melons and fruits were purchased by Uncle Ningyuan in Jiangnan, Lingnan, Nanzhong, etc., and they were delivered by fast boat. Along with the boat, there was also an inscription book, claiming that the money and food for the soldiers and horses had already been collected. Once the ships are fully deployed, the army can go north."

"Once this mansion report is published tomorrow, the rebels in Liaodong know that their own death is approaching, and there is nothing they can do!"

Emperor Chongzhen's cheeks were also flushed, and he muttered in his mouth.

"Your Majesty, it is reported that there are constant quarrels and turmoil within Dongnu. Seeing that my army of rebels is fighting on behalf of the sky with a thunderous momentum, it is getting closer and closer to Shenyang, its old nest, and the internal chaos of the Liao thieves is still frequent. Wang Cai calmed down the situation, and the various ministries of the Eight Banners of the Eastern Slaves were arguing endlessly about whether to flee north or west."

"I have a fellow countryman in the Liaodong army, and I often send letters back and forth. It is said that since the Liaodong Hong governor launched an army crusade, he has wiped out more than [-] Dongnu and beheaded tens of thousands. When he marched into Guangning, he encountered the elite of the two white flags Suspected to kill Liao thief and puppet King Mergen Dai Qing. Except for the one who captured Huang Taiji and puppet Empress Hailanzhu of the West Palace a few days ago, his puppet queen, Yifu, Zhezhe, fell ill due to fear and died on the way to Shenyang. I got a good death! The Liao thief, the hypocritical prince, and the benevolent man chased after our army. When he fled, he panicked, his horses were panicked, and he fell into the cliff without leaving his bones!"

For a while, all kinds of true and false half-truths and half-false news were flying all over the sky on this highest-level occasion in Ming Dynasty. This kind of mutual fooling and hypnotizing each other was really effective.The monarchs and ministers nodded frequently and were overjoyed.

However, there were also people who were dissatisfied with Li Shouhan's behavior, and let it out through alcohol.

"Your Majesty, when the situation on the frontline of Liaodong was not clear that day, he had repeatedly issued orders to urge Uncle Ning Yuan to go north to relieve the urgent need, but Uncle Ning Yuan had various reasons to shirk his excuses. It’s just that the boats are in trouble, why did the good news come today and his title book also arrived? He also claimed that he could go north immediately? Isn’t this a big talk to deceive the emperor?”

Chongzhen was very happy today, he just pretended not to hear this kind of attack on Li Shouhan, but the two princes at the side firmly remembered this person who spoke out loud, and were going to give this guy a blow at the right time. Lesson, let him know what will happen to the benefactor who offended others.

Xue Guoguan was so shocked that he broke out in a cold sweat when he heard such words, this ignorant thing!Although Li Shouhan didn't send troops to the north, he paid out the food and money, and the armour-staff and weapons were transported to the front line of Liaodong in a steady stream. How can you obliterate this credit?

"Your words are different!" Before Xue Guoguan could speak, Chen Xinjia jumped out first, "If it weren't for the Jianghai joint defense agreement between Uncle Ning Yuan and Nanjing's left-behind, garrison and others that day, how could the chaos in Anqing be put down so quickly? If Anqing In chaos, Shucheng was besieged in March, and in May, Zhang Xianzhong, a rogue who pretended to be a Confucian scholar and stole Luzhou, took advantage of the opportunity of proposing to learn from Xu Zhiyuan, the imperial censor, to take the exam. The rich land in the south of the Yangtze River was bound to fall into rubble! Responsibility, can you afford it?!"

The Anqing Rebellion mentioned by Chen Xinjia was a mutiny that occurred in Anqing earlier this month.At the beginning, Liao Yingdeng, the deputy general, led 3000 people, and Wang Zhengguo and Li Zichun each led [-] people. They harassed everywhere and the people complained heavily.Xu Shiyin, the governor, has just arrived in office;This flamboyant article was published in the Mansion Newspaper before the unlucky governor arrived; so Liao Yingdeng and others led the army to make trouble, killing the capital and commanding Xu Liangkou.Shi Yin hurried from Nanjing to Anqing.At first, it was planned to transfer Liao Yingdeng's troops to Taihu Lake.Wang Zhengguo, Li Zichun and other troops dispatched troops to Tongcheng, but the rebels refused to leave unless they paid their wages in full, on the grounds that they had been owed wages for a long time.As a result, Xu Shiyin, a literati and official, suddenly became confused.Still with the help of Nanjing Garrison Mansion and Xinjian Bo and other nobles.Two thousand sailors of the Nanyue Army who were on patrol near the mouth of the Yangtze River were sent into the Yangtze River to attack the rebels.Chaos is certain.

Because the mutiny was quickly put down.Zhang Xianzhong, the eighth king who originally planned to take advantage of the chaos to enter the south of the Yangtze River, had no choice but to go back north, and happened to bump into the deputy general of the Beijing camp, Sun Yingyuan, and Zuo Liangyu, who had heard the news, and Zuo Liangyu, who had come to pursue him.Xianzhong was defeated, San Yaozi, Wang Xingguo and others were beheaded, thousands of elites were lost, and countless good vests and staffs were lost.

Regarding the quarrel among the ministers, Chongzhen is still very happy to see it, but he is not willing to do so on this occasion, because it really hurts the scenery.

Just as he was about to speak to stop him, a young eunuch who was on duty outside rushed in, muttered a few words in front of Wang Dehua and Wang Chengen, and handed a copy of the test book to the two kings.

"What's the matter? Is there another good report from Liaodong?"

"My lord, it's not from Liaodong, it's from Li Xianfeng, governor of Henan."

Wang Dehua stuttered to report to Chongzhen.

Li Zicheng's troops merged with Cao Cao's and Luo Rucai's troops, with a total of nearly 15 soldiers and nearly 20 auxiliary soldiers. They arrived at the city of Kaifeng on the fifth day of this month, and began to attack Kaifeng on the eighth day of the month.

"There are 30 elite thieves, all of which have distinctive armor and sophisticated equipment. There are also tens of thousands of fine firecrackers, large and small Franc machines, and thousands of six-pound guns. They bombard the city day and night. The ministers led the soldiers and civilians to fight In the battle, there were so many bandits, and they were not afraid of death, so they hit them with cannon fire and bricks, and the corpses of the bandits piled up under the city wall, almost leveling the city."

In order to make up for the lack of troops defending the city, Huang Peng, the governor of the Kaifeng government, erected a big white flag at Caomen, on which he wrote: "Heroes of Bianliang, I would like to set up this flag from my traveler." As a result, the upper-class figures in Kaifeng City, "Junwang, country gentry, scholars, and merchants are all unwilling to join the society." Because of the lessons learned from Luoyang, these local snakes not only took out their own property, but also took out money, food and weapons to protect their wealth and status. It is used to defend the city, and at the same time, all the strong men, tenants, shopkeepers, and servants under their control join the armed force of Giyong Taisha, which has a strong flavor of landlord armed forces, and has assembled a team of tens of thousands in a short period of time.The appointed chiefs were all clansmen, squires, and wealthy merchants.

These people are at odds with Li Zicheng, Luo Rucai and others. They know that as long as Kaifeng City is destroyed, their own hell will come immediately.Because there is nothing but hatred for the peasant army who attacked the city, and they fought bravely to kill them.

However, in the face of the prepared peasant army, this kind of resistance can only temporarily relieve the pressure on Kaifeng City.

"The thieves took all the cannons captured by the government and army from the prefectural and county capitals in Henan to the city of Kaifeng. Every time they attacked the city, they would line up a row with hundreds of cannons of various sizes. The sons are like rain. Before the sound of the cannons fell, tens of thousands of ants and thieves rushed to the city wall with the momentum of the crowd. The soldiers were too late to kill, although they knew that they were all young children of the Ming Dynasty and were coerced by the thieves, but if you don’t kill the thieves, the thieves will kill them You. Kill him with hatred. Among the thieves are eleven or twelve-year-old boys, jumping and jumping, carrying ropes, lifting ladders, and going back and forth in the gunpowder smoke. When a boy falls down, another boy catches up, and every time he comes out of the ladder, the ladder stands upright. From then on, dozens of boys lay down in a pool of blood."

"Gentlemen, what do you think of the battle in Kaifeng?"

Although I was spoiled by this short-sighted question, in comparison, the things in Kaifeng were not so much a headache for Chongzhen. After all, it was the ancient capital of several dynasties with high walls and thick walls. Far beyond Luoyang, there is nothing to worry about for a while.

"Your Majesty, although there are many intruders and powerful equipment, although Kaifeng is a high city and deep in the pond, there are many enemies and few people, and it is a place where relatives are important. You must be your own soldier, in charge of the military department. It means that the supervisors Ding Qirui and Fu Zonglong should be ordered to lead troops to rescue Kaifeng, even if they can't break the siege to save Kaifeng, at least they can disperse the troops of Cao and Cao to relieve the pressure on Kaifeng."

The drinking and chrysanthemum appreciation meeting organized by Emperor Chongzhen immediately turned into an imperial prelude.

Everyone put down their wine glasses and crab feet, and began to discuss in a serious manner how to dispatch troops to rescue Kaifeng.

However, according to the law of the devil, once things show signs of turning in a bad direction, they will definitely get worse.

"My lord, I just received an urgent report! The subordinates of the slave chief Abatai have already crossed the Hejian Mansion and headed towards Shandong. The urgent report from Dezhou has tens of thousands of slaves and thieves. There are real slaves in the army." There are thousands of soldiers, all riding fine horses, passing by like a storm."

This is a bit bad!Although the number of Qing soldiers was not as large as that of Li Zicheng's troops, the victory was due to their massive momentum, and the officers and soldiers in the interior feared the enemy like tigers.Often before the Jiannu arrived, they were already timid, and there were many people who abandoned the city and fled.If this group of Jiannu fled to Henan and contacted the thieves, then the Central Plains would not be as simple as a corruption!

If the slaves like Abatai flee to the hinterland of Shandong, then the key joints in Shandong must be more careful!One is the relatives everywhere. The last time Jinan fell, Uncle Ning Yuan happened to come to the rescue. I'm afraid it will not be such a coincidence this time!The two are the mausoleums of the saints in Qufu. If there is a loss here, I am afraid that it will make the scholars all over the world more angry than the thieves burning the imperial tombs in Fengyang.The third is the water transport in the canal south of Linqing. The harvest of autumn grain is imminent, and there are many large and small grain boats on the canal. If Abate is set on fire, the loss will be great!

"Your Majesty, I suggest that Zuo Liangyu, the general of the leveling thieves, go northward in the starry night to join Fu Zonglong, Ding Qirui, Liu Guoneng, Li Wanqing and other departments. The thieves are driven away from the east of Henan, making it difficult for them to meet up with the slave thieves. After that, we will take it slowly."

Xue Guoguan's method is more in line with Chongzhen's taste, he nodded slowly, "It's according to what you see."

"Old Ancestor! There is an urgent military situation in Liaodong!" A young eunuch standing in the distance quietly called Wang Dehua out with gestures and winks, with a flustered look on his face.

"It's a good thing that there is a military situation! It just so happens that the emperor is not in a good mood, so we can take this good news to reassure the emperor!"

"Old ancestor, it seems that it is not a good news." The little eunuch handed over the memorial book from the admiral of Ningyuan City, the military ration eunuch, hesitating and panicking.

Liaodong military situation suddenly changed!

When the brigade attacked Guangning in a mighty manner, and the remnants of the celebration banquet for regaining Guangning had not yet been withdrawn, a series of bad news came.

Hauge, the leader of the slave bandit Zhenglan Banner, led his army out of Qianshan, led by thousands of armored cavalry, and swept across dozens of miles. The guard of the Ming army, the commander-in-chief of Ji Town, Bai Guangen, was defeated, and Bai Guangen, the commander-in-chief of Ji Town, died in the chaos. Among them, more than [-] people died or surrendered, and only more than [-] people fled to Jinzhou.

"The chariots, artillery, armour, staff, weapons, food, gunpowder, cannons, etc. that Jizhen has accumulated over the years are all owned by the slaves! What's more, the slaves shaved the soldiers from Jizhen and compiled them into the Coated Niulu. They were driven to rush towards the back of our army, the army was caught off guard, and the slave Huang Taiji commanded two yellow flags, two red flags and other troops to rush in all directions. For a while, Hong Dushi had to temporarily defend Guangning City. In order to defeat the slaves."

"The slave thief Xianglan Banner Jierhalang's unit, counting the eight banners of Mongolia, rushed to the outside of Jinzhou City again, isolating the traffic between Jinzhou and Guangning. The slave chieftain Jierhalang turned to defend instead of attacking, and set up artillery fortifications Outside Songshan City, watch over the headquarters of our Daming Jingying Model Brigade."

"There are also slave chieftain Dorgon and other elite thugs from the two white flags, who came out of the way and rushed to Tashan Fort. The people, soldiers and horses in the city were caught off guard, and they were all caught off guard. The slaves are now guarding the city, preventing our army from coming to rescue. "(to be continued...)