The Sun Never Sets Great China

Chapter 30 Battlefield and Chips

As the sun gradually rose, Zuo Menggeng was gasping for breath on the horse. His own troops paid the price of [-] casualties and [-] deserters, but the other party saw few casualties.

It turns out that the guard soldiers are protected by brick and tile armor, and each soldier has a helmet on his head. Every dozen soldiers carry knives and guns to form a circle to protect a musketeer, and the musketeer uses a quick gun. The vigorous "ba, ba, ba".Soldiers of the left army fell down one by one, and the brave soldiers of the left army rushed up, but only a few people with high martial arts skills could injure the guard soldiers, and others could not even hurt the hairs of the guard soldiers. People with high martial arts skills were knocked down by the bang, and deserters appeared later, and there were more and more deserters, and then the troops stopped moving, and they crawled to the ground when they heard the bang, Zuo Meng Geng hurriedly mobilized his Shenji Battalion to go up to the top, only to find that the muskets of the escort musketeers were reloading surprisingly fast, and the shooting distance was much farther than the muskets of the Shenji Battalion he had spent a lot of money to build.More than 800 of the 2000 musketeers fled back before beating them a few times. The guards moved forward and seized all the more than [-] muskets he had painstakingly obtained from foreigners at a high price.

Zuo Menggeng's army retreated again and again, and when Zuo Menggeng was about to lose his temper, suddenly 6 Dashun soldiers rushed over from behind. The soldiers shouted: "Revenge, revenge!" and rushed forward frantically Fight with the left army.Zuo Menggeng's army fought again and again, out of 13 men, there were less than 5000 left, and they were tired and hungry. This attack was defeated immediately.

Zuo Menggeng was closely guarded by his own soldiers, and ran away quickly on horseback. Zuo Menggeng's soldiers scattered and fled in all directions. Many people fled after Zuo Menggeng, and many people fled back home.

According to Zhang Huahan's training course, the guard soldiers practiced running first, and the eager guard soldiers waited for the order to chase the enemy when they were ordered to come down, but the order was to stand by on the spot.

Cao Gang brought three generals, Gao Yigong, Li Guo, and Bai Wang, to meet Huang Ziya and others. When Gao Yigong, Li Guo, and Bai Wang saw Huang Ziya, they immediately knelt down to meet Huang Ziya. Huang Ziya quickly helped the three generals and said: : "We don't pay attention to kneeling and worshiping. When we come, we are brothers of the revolution. If we have anything, we can just say it." Chen Zilong said: "Yes, I also admire a few of you. When I went north and wanted to join King Chuang I heard that the five generals Li Yan, Hong Niangzi, Gao Yigong, Li Guo, and Bai Wang were still righteous and reasonable when other generals were greedy for pleasure and caring for the common people. They were real heroes, true heroes.” Gao Yigong Li Guo, Bai Wang, and Li Guo and Bai Wang looked gloomy when they heard the names of Li Yan and Hong Niangzi. In fact, they were also dissatisfied with King Chuang who listened to the slander and killed the general and his wife. King Chuang is loyal.Gao Yigong has the highest position and prestige among the three. He said: "I won't say much else. Mr. Cao Gang came to tell me about Chief Zhang's idea, which gave us a new goal. At the time of the incident, we wanted to realize Chief Zhang’s vision, but you also know that we went astray later. We would never have surrendered to you if our emperor had not died, but now our old master is gone, and we have no home to return to. Now that there is such an enlightened leader as Chief Zhang, even if you don’t come to surrender, we will come to join us. Not for anything else, just to build a society where everyone is equal without hunger and poverty. The same criminal system is really wonderful, Chief Zhang is really great, by the way, where is Chief Zhang? We want to meet him." Huang Ziya said: "He serves as a bodyguard next to Emperor Hongguang." Gao Yigong, Li Guo and Bai Wang were both stunned. Li Guo said, "Master Huang is joking? According to my information, Chief Zhang has already been ranked among the third princes after he rescued Emperor Hongguang. You said he served as a guard in front of Emperor Hongguang? Since ancient times I’ve never heard of a first-class official going to be a bodyguard.” Huang Ziya said: “Boss Zhang told Emperor Hongguang to turn a blind eye to our revolutionary cause in our territory. Have you heard of it? Anyway, Emperor Hongguang actually used Chief Zhang as a bargaining chip to protect his safety while keeping Chief Zhang away from us. Some reforms would slow down our progress without Chief Zhang in front of us, and he It will also let Chief Zhang have less influence on us and reduce our loyalty to him." Gao Yigong said: "I really didn't expect that Emperor Hongguang's ideas were so awkward, so that he could turn a blind eye to the revolutionary cause. One eye is a good thing, I have made a high achievement to be our leader. But the three of us and more than 6 soldiers have a condition, that is, we will not accept Zuo Menggeng's surrender, and keep destroying him until he is killed. You must agree to the conditions." Huang Ziya nodded and said, "Even if you don't say it, I will do it." Gao Yigong, Li Guo, and Bai Wang immediately knelt down to Huang Ziya and swore their allegiance.

The [-] soldiers led by Gao Yigong, Li Guo, and Bai Wang were broken up by Huang Ziya into four divisions, and added to the third division, fourth division, fifth division, and sixth division. [-] old people were selected from each of the four divisions, the fifth division, and the sixth division, to form three divisions, the ninth division, the tenth division, and the eleventh division. The teacher is Bai Wang.

Huang Ziya asked Zhao Qijin, commander of the third division, Gu Yanwu, the commander of the fourth division, Chen Zilong, the commander of the fifth division, and Hong Ying, the commander of the sixth division, to march while training. The three divisions attacked and occupied the area controlled by Zuo Menggeng together.

Zuo Menggeng led more than 3 remnants, called back all the local guards, and recruited or forcibly recruited more than 2 strong men to supplement the number of troops. After gathering [-] troops, he rushed to Kaifeng immediately.

Ma Shiying looked at the corpses of tens of thousands of his own soldiers under the city of Kaifeng, and his heart was bleeding.Ma Shiying finally solved the problem of lack of food by looting the food in the surrounding areas, but he only had fifteen cannons in his hand, and the gunpowder and shells were scarce, so he could only attack by force. I have already lost more than 5 soldiers and suffered heavy losses, while the defenders of Kaifeng City had less than [-] casualties, which is too disproportionate.

Just as Ma Shiying was looking at the high city wall and was worrying, Zuo Menggeng's envoy came. Ma Shiying immediately invited Zuo Menggeng's envoy to enter the main tent of the Chinese army to discuss the military situation.After seeing Ma Shiying, Zuo Menggeng's envoy said: "Master Ma, my Master Zuo knows that you are in difficulty here, so he has dispatched [-] cannons and enough gunpowder and shells from Wuchang, and personally led [-] elite soldiers to help." After talking about this, he also said how the guards and the Dashun army combined together to defeat Zuo Menggeng's army by deceitful, ambush, poisoning, and setting fire. Ma Shiying shares honor and disgrace, advances and retreats together.Ma Shiying understood when he heard it, and thought: So this guy Zuo Menggeng was defeated by the nurse and came to find the alliance, but that's okay, as he also needs Zuo Menggeng's help, but the nurse can defeat Zuo Menggeng Meng Geng's army, then his own army is no match, if not, just retreat to the west of Huguang.

After Ma Shiying sent Zuo Menggeng's envoy away, he besieged Kaifeng without attacking, waiting for Zuo Menggeng's army and cannon.Moreover, people are sent to rob every day to collect treasures and food.

Kaifeng emperor Hao Yaoqi and his fierce general Liu Zongmin finally breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that Ma Shiying was not attacking the city. In fact, the Kaifeng Dashun army had no morale. Kaifeng City will be captured in a few days.

After half a month, Zuo Menggeng brought [-] cannons, enough gunpowder and shells, and [-] troops. Ma Shiying and Zuo Menggeng allied forces smashed down a city wall with cannons and went in. Hao Yaoqi and Liu Zongmin was killed in the rebellion, and [-] Dashun soldiers surrendered.

When Ma Shiying and Zuo Menggeng happily entered the prison where the prince was held in Kaifeng, they saw a skinny body starved to death.

At the Hall of Martial Arts in Nanjing, Zuo Menggeng sent people to deliver the heads of Empress Gao and Li Baichi, and added a memorial to condemn the guards for colluding with the Dashun Army to attack him and intending to rebel.After Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong read the memorial, he glanced at Zhang Huahan who was not looking sideways in front of him, and then picked up the memorial that Huang Ziya said was forced to fight back after being attacked by Zuo Menggeng, who was attacking the Dashun Army.Emperor Hongguang Zhu Yousong said: "This time Prime Minister Zuo Menggeng and Huang Ziya attacked each other in a disregard of the overall situation. Both of them have made great contributions and made great mistakes." In this performance, Huang Ziya's guards first launched an attack on Zuo Menggeng's army, which was fighting hard with Dashun's army. This approach made relatives and enemies quicker, and caused Zuo Menggeng's army to suffer heavy losses. Please the emperor to fight for Zuo's army The dead soldiers are the masters! The heads of the false empress dowager and the false emperor can testify to their merits, Your Majesty." But Hou Fangyu stood up and said, "Master Gao, have you seen the situation on the battlefield? Why do you only say that the nurse is Mrs. For the hands-on, the troops led by Gao Yigong, Li Guo, and Bai Wang had already surrendered to the guards. The time when Zuo Menggeng and the guards clashed was after Zuo Menggeng had made achievements and retreated. The spies on the front line found out the matter, and the spies found some Zuo Menggeng deserters and asked about it, and it was indeed Zuo Menggeng who launched the attack first. All kinds of things show that the Marquis Zuo is lying, please judge the emperor." Emperor Hongguang asked in a low voice Zhang Huahan: "What do you think? I still need to rely on the left and horse armies to withstand the Qing army." Zhang Huahan said in a low voice: "Punish Huang Ziya's salary for one year, make Zuo and Ma the third princes, and make them grand masters." General, Ma Shiying was also exempted from the crime of sending troops without authorization. Let the two armies defend the west line of Henan and defend the east line. The two armies are not allowed to cross the defense zone of the other side. Once there is an act of crossing the defense zone, the other side can regard it as an enemy When attacking, the three armies are not allowed to retreat, and whoever retreats will kill him." After hearing this, Emperor Hongguang looked at Zhang Huahan and said, "Where is Huang Ziya retreating?" Zhang Huahan said, "Kill."

Emperor Hongguang immediately issued an order to make Zuo Menggeng the Duke of Ning, and to fight against the generals.Ma Shiying was exempted from the charge of sending troops without authorization, and he was named Duke of Lu and General Pingbei.Let the two armies defend the western front of Henan, and cut off the one who retreats.And ordered to punish Huang Ziya for one year, let him defend the current occupied area, and kill those who retreat.

When Ma Shiying and Zuo Menggeng, who were preparing to withdraw to the south in Kaifeng, both looked happy after receiving the imperial edict, but later they both became worried. Zuo Menggeng thought: Emperor Hongguang asked them to defend the western front, and there were more than 30 soldiers in the Qing Dynasty. The Wan Han army and the 30 Manchu and Mongolian elite, and the Dashun army incorporated by the two of them is only 30 people. If it is against the [-] Han army of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it is okay, but if it is against the [-] Manchu and Mongolian elite, it will be far behind. .Although the two of them would not be killed if they retreated, they clearly broke with the Emperor of Nanjing. If the emperor really issued a call to exterminate himself, then he would only have to go to the Manchus, to the Manchus?By the way, take refuge in Manqing.

Zuo Menggeng immediately told Ma Shiying about his idea of ​​joining Manqing. Ma Shiying didn't want to join Manqing at first, but he was really afraid of Manqing's strength. In addition, he had already deeply offended Emperor Hongguang, so he might as well join in. Man Qing, who had not offended him, agreed.The two immediately sent their cronies to ride fast horses to the Qing army to contact the regent Dorgon.

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