Go back to the end of the Ming Dynasty to be a soldier

Chapter 112
Shengjing, which the third Huangtaiji army left in mid-August, by the end of September, from Miyun to the south, the western, northern, and eastern parts of Daming Jingji, more than a dozen states and counties, were all lost, and half of Jingji was crushed by the Tartars Devastated.

Wherever the Tartars passed by, the troops from all parts of the Ming Dynasty fled and died, and the unlucky ones were of course the common people.

Regardless of what Fan Wencheng said very well, this time the use of troops against Ming Dynasty is to promote peace by war, and the Han people should be reused to surrender generals and prohibit killing. Fan Wencheng is actually using the strategy of using Han to control Han.

Huang Taiji also agreed very appreciatively, but in fact this is not the case. They were defeated last time, and this time they obviously have a tendency to retaliate, especially Amin's troops. A few months ago in this area, he encountered In order to avenge his fierceness, he came and fled in embarrassment.

This time he got even worse, he couldn't find Lin Yi and Lu Xiangsheng, and he vented his anger on these unarmed ordinary people.

Just like his character, with his nostrils turned to the sky, he yelled endlessly, raped everywhere he went, burned, killed and looted, burned down the houses of the common people, killed the weak and inhumane, and committed heinous crimes.

It's been less than a year since the Tartars harassed Gyeonggi last time, and the gods are here again. Is there still a way for us little people to survive?
The common people shouted loudly, they couldn't figure it out, the last time the Tartars suffered such a major defeat, it was less than a year, how could they make a comeback again?God really has no eyes. These days, people are dead and alive. If you know this, I and the others will not come back. It would be better to stay in the mountains and forests, or escape to another country.

The soldiers of the Tartars danced their butcher knives wildly amidst the screams of the Ming people and the screams of blood and tears, looking for pleasure and excitement.

In the Gyeonggi area, only Liu Zhaoji, who was stationed in Yuyang, led his troops to resist desperately.

Liu Zhaoji, Lu Xiangsheng's subordinate, was brave in battle. He used to be the commander-in-chief of Lu Xiangsheng's subordinates. After Lu Xiangsheng's accident, he led his troops to garrison Yuyang.

However, Liu Zhaoji only had 7000 troops, and he couldn't resist the attack of the 10,000+ Tatars. While defending the city, he asked the capital for help.But there was no news of reinforcements.

After several days of bloody battle, the city was broken, and Liu Zhaoji led the remnant troops to start a street battle with the Tartars. In the end, only a few hundred people retreated to Shimen Bridge, which is the area of ​​Sanhe City in later generations, and Yuyang fell.

The capital of the Ming Dynasty was shaken, and Emperor Chongzhen was so anxious that he turned back and forth on the Golden Luan Hall. The civil and military officials below stood there with their heads bowed in awe, as if mourning the dead, not even daring to breathe.

In fact, the current Ming Dynasty is not without soldiers to send, regardless of what is riddled with holes, natural disasters and man-made disasters, internal and external troubles, what is like a lamp in the wind, the building will collapse, and the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse after all.

The Ming Dynasty lasted for nearly 300 years, and Guozuo was quite strong in terms of strength. At this time, the Ming Dynasty had no fewer than one million elite soldiers.Even if Lu Xiangsheng is gone, there are Sun Chuanting, Hong Chengchou, Xiong Wencan, and Zheng Chongjian. There are more generals who are used to fighting. , He Renlong, Zuo Liangyu, Huang Degong, each of these people is the enemy of ten thousand people.

But the crux of the problem now is that Yang Sichang is the new minister of the Ministry of War. Like Gao Qiqian, the eunuch of the Yumajian, he is one of the figures of the Zhuhe faction. Emperor Chongzhen attaches great importance to this person.

How important is it? A few years ago, Yang Sichang's father, Yang He, was about to be executed for his ineffectiveness in suppressing the bandits. Because Yang Sichang's resignation had to be punished on behalf of his father, Emperor Chongzhen immediately changed his mind. Not only did he not kill Yang He, but instead He comforted Yang Sichang in every possible way, asking him to do a good job and never resign. "Deqing, it's too late to meet each other!" Emperor Chongzhen's words can be seen.

Now that Yang Sichang's political opponent has one less Lu Xiangsheng, the peace faction clearly has the upper hand. After the Tartars retreated last year, the peace faction became more plausible.

The peace faction mainly advocates compromise and peace with the Qing Dynasty, that is, the Tartars, and the so-called bloody suppression of the peasant army.His thoughts can be summarized into three points: to fight against the outside world, one must first secure the inside;And his three points are in order, the first two are the most.

Emperor Chongzhen agreed one by one as if he had found a treasure.Under the manipulation of this trend of thought, Emperor Chongzhen actually issued an edict to expand the army by 10,000+, but the treasury was short of money, and the country’s existing army food and salaries could not be paid. If there is another 10,000+ expansion, how can we raise troops without money and food?Emperor Chongzhen had no choice but to apportion the common people, and began to increase the training and suppression salaries.

Under such circumstances, the strategy of Emperor Chongzhen to increase taxes on farmers was tantamount to death.

Of course, Yang Sichang was happy to fool the emperor into accepting his strategy, and then he started his second plan, which was to suppress the thieves with all his strength.

In order to suppress the thieves, he and Xiong Wencan, the prime minister of the military affairs of the five provinces, proposed a plan to spread the net on four sides and six corners and ten sides after research.The so-called Four Righteousness, namely Shaanxi, Henan, Huguang, and Jiangbei, the governors of the four places divide and suppress and specialize in defense.The six corners are Yansui, Shandong, Shanxi, Jiangnan, Jiangxi, and Sichuan. The governors of the six regions divide their defenses and cooperate to suppress them.

After the memorial was submitted, Emperor Chongzhen praised it even more and immediately ordered it to be implemented.

Yang Sichang began to dispatch troops and generals. He transferred Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi, and Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides. Liu Zeqing, the commander-in-chief of Shandong, was also transferred to Henan.

In short, this transfer transferred all the elite soldiers and generals around Gyeonggi to Shanxi, Henan, Huguang, Jianghuai and other places, and set up a net to deal with Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others.

This caused the emptiness in the Gyeonggi area. At this time, Huang Taiji personally marched.Urgent documents from all over the world fell like snowflakes on Chongzhen's Longshu case, but the great powers of the Celestial Dynasty had no soldiers to send. King Qin's decree went down for many days, but there was very little response. The soldiers who came to King Qin had not yet died many.

Emperor Chongzhen was furious at the case, and all civil and military officials were ashamed. They all believed that Yang Sichang was to blame. As the Minister of the Ministry of War, he had to speak up.

Yang Sichang said to my majesty, what is so difficult about this?Since we have adopted the policy of making peace with the Tartars and not fighting, we must first secure the interior if we fight against the outside world.Now that the matter is at stake, just follow this strategy. What is there to worry about?Send people to negotiate with the Tartars, give them some benefits, ask for land for land, money for money, food for food, animals for animals, people for people.All in all, satisfy them, as long as they retreat.

But Yang Shichang didn't dare to say anything, because he knew that the Emperor Chongzhen in front of him was the most difficult to serve.Big temper, quick changes, self-willed and moody, and a bit desperate to save face.

The matter of sending someone to negotiate with Dazi for peace must not come out of your own mouth.Otherwise, after the Tartars retreated, if he felt that the business was a loss and he had to find someone to settle the score after Qiu Hou, this matter must be put on his own head, then his own eight heads would not be enough for him to chop off.

So Yang Sichang held back the words again.

"Is it possible for you to be dumb? Eat the king's salary and repay the king's favor. You take my salary, but don't help me solve my problems. When the country is in crisis, you are all playing meat here. What's the reason?"

Emperor Chongzhen pointed at the servants below, yelled, blew his beard and stared, and severely reprimanded them, almost scolding their mothers.

But no matter how Emperor Chongzhen lost his temper, other people would not speak at all on this occasion.Not to mention that these civil and military ministers are veterans in the officialdom, dispatching troops and generals to defend against the enemy outside the country, this is a matter of the Ministry of War, Minister of the Ministry of War Yang Sichang, and he is the chief assistant of the cabinet. They were also unwilling to intervene, and even the censors and officials of the Donglin Party, who were fond of picking faults, kept their mouths shut.

The last eyes of the Emperor Chongzhen fell on Yang Sichang. If you don’t say what is in your heart, I will let you speak out. You wholeheartedly advocate seeking peace with the Tartars. The matter of asking for peace must not come from my mouth, otherwise, what face will I have?Where is the majesty of the great kingdom of heaven?

"Yang Aiqing?"

"The minister is here."

Yang Sichang knew that he couldn't hide, so he hurried out of the class and knelt and climbed half a step, agreeing to kowtow up.

"The Tartars are raging in the capital, and the soldiers are suppressing the border. What should I do if you see me?"

"Your Majesty's lesson..." Yang Sichang prostrated himself on the ground, his face began to sweat, "Soldiers come to block, water comes to cover..." He said a few words of faceless nonsense, thinking that the emperor would definitely not be satisfied, but he didn't want to When it comes to sending people to ask for peace from the Tartars, Hu Lun started with two eyes.

Just in time to see Yang Tinglin in his row, who is relatively far behind, his eyes lit up as he found a replacement, and he was the only one!

The last time you brought soldiers and horses to search for thieves in the Yongping area, you were lucky if you didn't meet any thieves.This time the tartars are here, let you fight against the bandits, and see if you can come back alive!

Don't you advocate fighting the Tartars?This time I let you enjoy the fight, your life and death is a trivial matter, as long as you can solve the crisis in front of me.

So Yang Sichang continued: "Your Majesty's head of the Ministry of War, Yang Tinglin, is well versed in the way of armoring soldiers. My minister recommends him to lead the army and go out of the city to resist the establishment of slaves. He will surely succeed."

Yang Tinglin cursed secretly, the traitor started kicking the ball again.He deliberately kept quiet about the stalemate just now, because he, together with Lu Xiangsheng, advocated the resolute use of troops against the Tartars, to resist foreign return, and to keep the enemy from outside the country.

It's a pity that he couldn't fight, these eunuchs and powerful officials like Yang Sichang, the emperor favored them, they couldn't do it when Governor Lu was there, now that Governor Lu is gone, Yang Tinglin felt that he was outnumbered.

But right now he wants to see Yang Sichang laughing. They have sent out their soldiers to suppress civil uprisings and exterminate bandits. Let's see how you deal with this mess.I didn't expect to be bitten by him now.

Emperor Chongzhen saw that Yang Sichang didn't talk about sending people to negotiate a peace, but recommended people to fight with the Tartars. If he can retreat, then he can negotiate a peace.

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen said: "Yang Aiqing, are you willing to lead the army to fight against the Tartars?"

Yang Tinglin hurriedly got out of the class and knelt down: "Your Majesty is wise, although I am not talented, I am willing to fight the Tartars to the end. Even if the body is shrouded in horse leather, I must serve Long En."

Emperor Chongzhen was very pleasing to the ear, and nodded unceasingly: "It's rare that Ai Qing is so loyal, I will seal your official position now."

The head of the Ministry of War sounds nice, but he is actually a very small official. According to his rank, he is only an official of the sixth rank.This kind of official position is a little bit bigger than the seventh-rank sesame official in the local area.

But he is an official of the capital, and he is also the military department in the vital part of the six departments, so he is qualified to stand on the court.

Different from the previous one, last time Yang Sichang recommended him to quell the thieves and exterminate the bandits, and temporarily assigned him the title of deputy commander in chief, gave him several thousand soldiers and horses, and came back from Zunyi Yongping and Qianxi. There is no credit and no fault.

But this time is different, the enemy is in front of us, wouldn't it be a joke to send an official of the sixth rank to lead troops to fight against the Tartars?

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen made an exception and promoted him to be the governor, the governor of the diligent king's divisions in various places, guarding the capital to resist the Tartars, and also gave him a Shangfang sword.

Shangfang Baojian sounds good, but it is worthless if it is flooded.

In terms of official position, Yang Tinglin's official position is indeed not small. From a sixth-rank official to a second-rank military officer all of a sudden, he also has Shang Fang's sword.

But in fact, he is worse than Lu Xiangsheng. Lu Xiangsheng's subordinates, anyway, still have a certain number of Tianxiong troops, and now Yang Tinglin is similar to the bare commander.

After he took over, there were very few Qin Wang's troops in various places. He couldn't move the 2000 Beijing battalion guarding the capital at all. What he could mobilize was Liu Zhaoji's more than 15000 troops, and there were thousands of Qin Wang's troops from Daimyo and Zhending. Division, if you add the remnants of Miyun, Xuanfu, and Datong, and add them together, it will not exceed [-] people.

This time, Huang Taiji's three-way army came with a total of 10,000+, all of whom were elites from the Eight Banners of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, as well as their artillery unit Wu Zhenchao.

Therefore, such a battle can be imagined. As a result, Yang Tinglin lost every battle. Within half a month, Yang Tinglin's troops retreated to the vicinity of the capital.

The general of the Beijing camp, Huang Degong, who was the deputy commander-in-chief, took the initiative to ask Ying to fight. He brandished an iron whip and led five thousand soldiers from the Beijing camp into the group of Tartars, smashing the right-wing army of the Tartars to pieces.In the scuffle, I met A Min, and the iron whip was in a difficult situation against the mace.

At this time, Dorgon and Haoge each led a Tartar cavalry to rush to Huang Degong's side, and Huang Degong was killed and defeated.Yang Tinglin led troops to meet them. In a scuffle, the Ming army left thousands of corpses and retreated to the city to stand firm without fighting.

The Tartars headed by Dorgon, Amin and Hauge clamored for a massive attack on the city, captured the city in one fell swoop, captured Emperor Chongzhen alive, and wiped out Daming.

Fan Wencheng quickly suggested to Huang Taiji: "Your Majesty can't do it. The Ming Dynasty has not exhausted its vigor. Relying on the fortification of the city, there are still 10,000+ troops in the city. It will not be able to take this city in a short time. After a long time, the Qin King's divisions from all over the world will come. It is not good for us, the current plan is to force Chongzhen to agree to our conditions outside the city, and then we will retreat."

Huang Taiji nodded and accepted Fan Wencheng's suggestion. Originally, they did not intend to destroy Daming this time.

Therefore, the three armies of Huang Taiji approached the city and set up their cannons, but they did not attack the city.

Huang Taiji took Dorgon Haoge, Amin and others, and rode their horses to the tower in a safe area outside the city, shouting to Emperor Chongzhen, and the city leader answered...

At this time, in the mountains hundreds of miles away from the Great Ming capital, Lin Yi's camp was still training soldiers.

Sitting in the military tent, Lin Yi was opening the military book and strategy that Lu Xiangsheng had given him.

Xiaoying couldn't hold back any longer, so she bravely interrupted Lin Yi: "Brother Lin, 10,000+ Tatars have already besieged the capital. When are we going to send troops? If we delay any longer, it will be too late."

(End of this chapter)