Aspiration

Chapter 185 Wu Sangui Escapes
This kind of discussion is not limited to one place, it is discussed in many places.

The squad sent by Lao Jiu is pretending to be a laggard in the enemy's team. A small group of them mixed in Wu Sangui's team to lay the foundation for the next step of disintegrating them.

After the troops settled down, they had already been on the road for a day and a night, and if they left, they would collapse without a fight. Therefore, after midnight, the general ordered to rest on the spot.

This kind of rest is very risky, if Wu Sangui's general order is not urgent, the leading general would never dare to rest on the spot so recklessly.According to the regular marching rules, the army camp must form a camp, set up obstacles, and put safety first in everything.But this time Wu Sangui's order was to rush back to Fuyang to help Fuyang regardless of everything, so they could only march day and night, not following the conventional rules.

After marching in a hurry all day and night, all the people were exhausted to the extreme. When they heard the order to rest on the spot, if they were amnesty, they fell to the ground and fell asleep.

However, it was such a coincidence that they slept here for less than an hour, when all of a sudden there was a roar of war drums and thunder and shouts.

"Fight traitors, kill traitors!"

"Down with Wu Sangui!"

"Down with traitors and traitors!"

Sounds come from all directions.There are thousands of troops and horses all around.Wu Sangui's soldiers will be surrounded.There is a feeling of hell.

Suddenly, a loud voice came.

"We are Li Laiheng's army. We are the invincible elite. It is our bounden duty to kill Qing soldiers and traitors. Now, let's clean up and beat the traitor Wu Sangui. If anyone is not afraid of death, we will let you all become Headless ghost. If you don’t want to be a traitor, but you are willing to fight with our general Li Laiheng to fill up the Qing Tartars, you go three miles to the east, where there is a large piece of fat waiting for you to eat, and there is a warm fire for you to roast, You don’t have to go to Fuyang to die. Those who are officials are still officials, and those who are soldiers take care of eating well and eating well. After making meritorious service, you are allowed to be officials. Now, you can act. Remember, go Dongsanli is your home."

The sound was so powerful.

"Don't move! Don't listen to the enemy!" Wu Sangui's general was trying to stop the commotion. Obviously, his stop was stopped by other people. Now, a trend, a trend of unwillingness to be a traitor, quickly infected the four people here. 5 people.

Wu Sangui is desperately waiting in Fuyang.

What's going on?The main force from Hefei should have arrived early.He was a little angry. The leader of the army was a confidant he had cultivated with his own hands. After he issued a tens of thousands of urgent orders to transfer the army, he came back slowly. This kind of person is really a fucking ungrateful bastard.

Well, you wait, and I will kill you when you come back.

Wu Sangui made a murderous move.

It was useless to send people to remind them. Every time the people sent out could not walk for two or three miles, they would be captured alive or beheaded by Li Laiheng's troops.Wu Sangui has lost contact with the outside world.

Wu Sangui was worried, and thought again, did something happen?The reinforcements have been delayed, and according to the most conservative marching speed, the reinforcements should also arrive.

There must be something wrong.

Something went wrong, why didn't you report back?Even if you encounter an enemy, it is impossible for the entire army to be wiped out, right?

Wu Sangui was impatient.

Another early morning, someone came to report, and there were a lot of slogans on the street with ugly words written on them, and rumors were spread, saying that all the soldiers who returned from Hefei had surrendered to Li Laiheng, and they were about to kill Li Laiheng.
He couldn't go on talking about what to kill.

Wu Sangui knew what he was "killing", and he must have killed the "big traitor Wu Sangui".

impossible.Rumors, they must be rumors. More than 5 people surrendered to Li Laiheng. This is impossible and unreasonable.However, he was a little worried, what if this happened?

Impossible, purely disturbing the morale of the army.How could the cronies who have followed him for so many years surrender collectively?
Wu Sangui comforted himself.

But why is there no news of his soldiers?
Fortunately, Li Laiheng did not come to attack the city these days.

It is indeed not easy for Li Laiheng to gather more than 4 surrendered soldiers. He divided this group of people into many small pieces, and then moved them all from the east of Fuyang to Shandong. It took a few days, and then this group of people accepted Adapted by Gu Ying and Gu Kecheng et al.

Gu Ying and Gu Kecheng are very experienced in reorganizing troops, and their recent work is mainly doing this kind of thing.

After Wu Sangui's surrendered troops entered Shandong, Li Laiheng returned to Fuyang again.This time, he was going to carry out a "big cleaning" to completely wipe out Wu Sangui's tribe in Anhui, especially to arrest Wu Sangui himself.

After entering the barracks, Wang Hu came to report that there was a battle last night. Thousands of soldiers and horses suddenly went out of the city to break through, and most of them retreated back into the city. up.

When Li Laiheng heard this, he vaguely felt that something was wrong. Did they go to rescue soldiers, or did Wu Sangui escape?Li Laiheng was eager for the former, but if it was the latter, it would be troublesome.Once Wu Sangui fled to Hubei, he might quickly implement his westward plan, and the chance of killing Wu Sangui would really become slim.

It has been several hours now, and it is rare to catch up again.Now there is no other way but to capture Fuyang.

How about attacking Fuyang and trying to persuade him to surrender?I have done more than ten days of preparatory work, and it should be time to disintegrate the enemy.

Li Laiheng sent hundreds of people with voices to shout around the city wall, encouraging the soldiers in the city to fight back.

After shouting for a long time, the morale of the army in the city was obviously shaken.

Li Laiheng said, let's try the power of the "pine tree cannon".

The so-called pine cannon is the simplest kind of artillery "invented" by Li Laiheng.Generally, guns are made of fine steel barrels.However, there were many difficulties in large-scale production of cannons at the end of the Ming Dynasty. First, the level of smelting was only at the initial level. It took more than half a month to smelt a furnace of fine steel, and the quality was actually the level of crude steel in the 21st century. Steel cannon life is also extremely short.Especially in sports combat, cumbersome cannons cannot be used effectively, so he thought of the simplest and most effective "pine cannon" in the early [-]th century.The pine tree cannon is to split the pine tree into two halves, hollow out the tree core, and then tie it tightly with ropes to form a gun barrel, fill it with gunpowder, fill it with iron sand and stones, ignite it, and with a "boom", hundreds of steps away A large area is full of iron sand and stones, which are extremely lethal.

Since this gun is easy to manufacture and the materials are available everywhere, it can be used as a sharp weapon in mobile warfare.

Li Laiheng is ready to try the power of this primitive weapon.

More than a dozen cannons were carried out, and they stopped five hundred steps away from the city.The people in the city were surprised and thought, why did they carry the tree out?

The people in the city looked at the tree-carrying man outside the city strangely and talked about it one after another.Just when they were puzzled, one of the dozens of trees suddenly flashed fire at the end of the tree, and there was a loud "boom" of inoculation, and with the sound, a large group of people fell down.

Forty or fifty people fell in a pool of blood.

"Red Cannon!"

The people in the city exclaimed.

How can a tree become a red cannon?Wu Sangui's soldiers have seen the real red-clothed cannon, and some of them even used it. A crouching red-clothed cannon weighs a thousand kilograms, and it takes more than [-] people to move it. Now the red-clothed cannon of Li Laiheng's army One person can carry it over, so how can this kind of battle be fought?
People in the city were panicked.

The morale of the defenders who were already shaken by Li Laiheng's cannon quickly collapsed after seeing the power of Li Laiheng's cannon.The generals defending the city wanted to suppress them at first, but when they saw that their posture was wrong, how could they dare to arouse everyone's anger?So, at dinner time, the white flag was raised in the city, and they agreed to sacrifice the city.

When Li Laiheng heard that the enemy agreed to sacrifice the city, his heart sank. He knew that Wu Sangui had a fate, so he escaped this time.

Indeed, Wu Sangui fled. Seeing that the Hefei reinforcements had not returned for a long time, he knew that something was wrong. He realized that being a traitor is not easy, and Han people hate traitors very much.Therefore, he used three thousand soldiers as a cover, and finally led a dozen people to escape successfully.

Now, he is in his unit in Hubei.Here, he still has [-] troops.

When Azige heard that Wu Sangui had lost the battle, he originally wanted to punish him severely, but then he thought again, although he was victorious now, there was a serious problem before him.That is, Henan and Shandong are already under Li Laiheng's control.The spies reported that Li Laiheng had a powerful force moving northwest, presumably preparing to capture Shaanxi.If these provinces were all controlled by Li Laiheng, he and his younger brother Duoduo would be cut off in the south, and they would be alone.

Therefore, Azig cannot offend the Pingxi king at this time.

"You lead the troops to attack Zuo Liangyu." Azig said to Wu Sangui.

Wu Sangui's heart skipped a beat, his heart was icy cold, who is Zuo Liangyu?He is a famous general of the Ming Dynasty who is as famous as him. Their soldiers are also Ming Dynasty soldiers, and their generals are also Ming Dynasty generals. If they are asked to fight against their own people, the outcome is already very clear, isn't it?A few months ago, he fought with Li Zicheng. It can be said that he fought with the people of the Dashun Dynasty to avenge the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. There was no reason to deceive them when he fought with Zuo Liangyu.

You can't start a war with Zuo Liangyu.They were already meeting their opponents at chess, and they had no name to teach, so they were bound to lose.He would rather fight soldiers from Hunan, Guizhou, and Yunnan than fight Zuo Liangyu.

But, how to say it in front of Azig?

Wu Sangui was Wu Sangui, and Azig changed his mind the next day, and he let Wu Sangui march into Hunan.

Do you know how Wu Sangui persuaded Azig?It turned out that he remembered bribery, the most common method used by the Ming court.He chose a person as the object of his bribery, and that person was Azig's counselor, a Han Chinese.Maybe all the Han people have a problem of love of money. Wu Sangui gave him a few pearls, and the counselor patted his chest and said, leave this matter to me, and guarantee that you will not start a war with Zuo Liangyu.

In this way, Wu Sangui went to Hunan.He stayed in Yuezhou for three days, then went west to Hengyang.Strange to say, he didn't want to leave as soon as he arrived in Hengyang. Suddenly, he thought, how about I just "proclaim the emperor" here? (Note, during the Kangxi period of the official history, Wu Sangui rebelled, and the other two vassal kings also followed suit. Wu Sangui's soldiers fought all the way to Yuezhou, and finally gradually failed. He hurriedly became emperor in Hengyang, and died of illness shortly after becoming emperor.)
As soon as he came up with this idea, he immediately got the approval of many people. They said that the reputation of being a traitor is brought into the coffin. The division of feudalism and the founding of the country still represent the Han people as emperors.

Some people disagreed, saying that Nanming was still there and they didn't want to be a traitor, so it would be better to surrender to Nanming.

There are also some people who object to this opinion, saying that it is definitely impossible to surrender to Nanming. Let’s not talk about whether we agree or not. Even if the country is restored in the future, with the current stains, won’t it be squeezed out by others?Now the world is in chaos, looking at the world, the Manchus are the most likely to become popular, and they should be loyal to the Manchus.

Opinions are inconsistent, all have reason, but there is no good reason.Wu Sangui hesitated in Hengyang for the time being, and it would not be too late to make a decision after he figured it out.

Li Laiheng fell short and failed to kill Wu Sangui. He thought to himself that it is really difficult to change a period of history. Although he has the ability of "foresight", it is really difficult to change a period of history.

While Li Laiheng was attacking Wu Sangui's troops, Hao Yaoqi's offensive went smoothly. He had taken Tongguan down and opened the door to attack Shaanxi.

However, after Hao Yaoqi entered Shaanxi, he was surprised to find that something went wrong.

The Shaanxi people did not welcome Li Laiheng's troops at all.

They are resenting Li Zicheng.They regarded Li Laiheng as Li Zicheng's subordinate.There are rumors among the people that Li Zicheng is back again.

It stands to reason that the birth of an emperor in Shaanxi should be the pride of the people of Shaanxi, but they did not welcome him back.That was because of some policy mistakes made by Niu Jinxing when he governed Shaanxi, which resulted in Shaanxi people not only not getting benefits from the appearance of the new emperor, but instead bearing a heavy burden, especially many rich people were killed, and their children and relatives were killed. Of course I hate Li Zichengluo very much.Then there are Xi'an people, Li Zicheng ordered to burn food when he left Xi'an, which made them extremely disappointed, so Li Zicheng was not welcome in Shaanxi.

Hao Yaoqi thought, this problem is not a trivial matter, the support of the people is the foundation of governance, without the support of the people, there is no way to gain a foothold in Shaanxi.He thought, what should we do about this?How to make up for Li Zicheng's past mistakes?

Have it.

After Hao Yaoqi thought about it, he came up with a solution.The next day, he sent many small teams to post notices everywhere in the occupied and non-occupied areas.The content of the announcement is to capture Niu Jinxing and appreciate 1 taels of silver.The notice stated that Niu Jinxing was a villain who lurks in the Dashun Dynasty in order to frame Li Zicheng. In fact, he was a secret agent of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Helping the Manchurians to do bad things, causing the people of Shaanxi to suffer and suffer. Now, Li Laiheng is back, one is to arrest Niu Jinxing, and the other is to seek happiness for the people of Shaanxi.

(End of this chapter)