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

Chapter 358
The world is full of fragrance in April.

In April of 1645 AD, the weather was already quite warm, and the land of the Central Plains was warm in spring, with a hundred flowers blooming, and the nature was thriving.

Even in Shengjing outside the customs, the ice and snow melted, the grass spewed green, the trees bloomed, and the spring was full of vigor.

However, the Shengjing at this time is the Shengjing in the second year of Shunzhi. More precisely, it is the Shengjing in the second year of Shunzhi that Lin Yi traveled through, not the second year of Shunzhi in the history textbook.

Everyone in the capital of the Qing Dynasty was in panic, as if the end of the world was about to usher in.This place is similar to the city of Beijing in early 1644. The saddest ones are the high-level officials of the Aixinjueluo family.

Little Shunzhi, seven years old, is not going well at all.Ever since his nanny dressed him in new clothes last year, braided his hair, and led him to the throne, he has been in trouble.

It is manifested in the defeat of the Ming Dynasty in the Qing Dynasty. The princes, Baylor, and ministers were killed or injured. It can be said that it is good to send an army, and lose an army.Including the most prestigious regent, Dorgon, also rolled back in embarrassment.

Now that the Ningjin line of defense has fallen, Hong Chengchou, their hopeful minister of the Ministry of War, has struggled for several months, but in the end he failed to hold the line of defense. Several reinforcements, including Nikan and Boluo, died and surrendered. All ended in failure.

Now Hong Chengchou's army has been wiped out, Jinzhou has fallen, and 20 Ming troops, under the personal command of Lin Yi, the supervisor of the Ming Dynasty, have left Jinzhou and pointed their swords at their capital.

Jinzhou is only five or six hundred miles away from Shengjing, and even thinking about it makes one shudder.

It seems that the dream of entering the Central Plains and ruling and harming people has been shattered. Of course, all of this is caused by Ji Dong's time travel.

Now Xiao Shunzhi also firmly remembered the name of Lin Yi, who had a blood feud with him.Although he had never met Lin Yi, his ears were already closed. The eunuchs, maids, and ministers around him told him about it, and the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang told him about it.

In Xiao Shunzhi's impression, this Lin Yi must be superhuman and vicious...

In the Kunning Palace in Shengjing City, the capital of the Qing Dynasty, the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang sat high and high, and the seven-year-old Xiao Shunzhi blinked, not knowing what he was thinking.

At this time, the regent Dorgon of the Qing Dynasty, the university scholar Ning Wanwo, the university scholar Fan Wencheng, the assistant ministers Sony, Sukhasa, and Ebilong, the ministers of government affairs Xihan, Tulai, and the admiral Zu Dashou of the Beijing Camp, The Mongolian prince Tieshuwuhua, the Mongolian general Subotai, etc. all came in one after another.

Everyone knelt down to greet the emperor and the empress dowager.The regent Dorgon did not kneel, but bowed to their mother and son and bowed.

"Everyone who loves you, please be free from courtesy." Xiao Shunzhi said.Its voice is immature like a second-grade elementary school student reading a book.

"Thank you Lord Long En." These well-known figures in the early stage of the relationship stood up from the ground, shook their sleeves, stood with their heads bowed, and waited for the hadith.

Shunzhi didn't say anything further down, because he didn't know what to say.The regent Dorgon doesn't say anything now, because since he returned from Shanhaiguan and Huanggutun defeat last year, he crawled on the bed for several months before he dared to get out of bed and walk.

Up to now, the functions of all parts of the body have not been fully restored. During this period, some of the affairs in the court were known to him, and some were not. Of course, he, the regent, could not take any power.

Today's meeting is only attended in the capacity of the regent.

Presiding over the meeting today, of course, is Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, a legendary woman in Qing history.

This woman, who is just in her early thirties this year, is naturally beautiful, with a natural beauty, a beautiful face, and a beautiful appearance. No words can be used to describe her beauty as a flower.

But at this time, her face was also full of sadness, uncertain.

Conceived with her aunt, she married Huang Taiji at the age of 13, and lived together with her aunt, becoming the pride and sustenance of the Horqin Department.

In the past 20 years, she has created an immortal legend of a woman and became the first empress of the founding of the Qing Dynasty.

But a year ago, her husband Huang Taiji suddenly passed away and drove west, which caught her by surprise, because the Qing royal family was facing a disaster of cannibalism.In the end, with her vigilance, wisdom and excessive gentleness, she turned hostility into friendship and finally survived this political crisis.

It was also to pass on the crisis. After overcoming this crisis, they mobilized the power of the Qing Dynasty to wage the war against Ming, preparing to conquer the Ming Dynasty in the south, realizing the will of Nurhachi and Huang Taiji, and achieving the goal of ruling the Han people.

However, things didn't go according to people's wishes, and now she, who is orphaned and widowed, encountered another big problem.

The Faming war failed again and again, each time was more miserable, and each time the consequences were more serious.

Right now, the Ningjin line of defense fell, Nikan and Boluo's reinforcements returned without success, Nikan was killed on the battlefield, Boluo was half dead, and now he is still lying on the bed, and Hong Chengchou's entire army was wiped out.Not only was Jinzhou City lost, but Yizhou City was also lost. What's even more hateful is that Ezhe, who had been crowned prince by Huang Taiji, surrendered. Daming betrayed Qing Dynasty and offered the city to surrender.

These evil results directly led to the miscarriage of Fan Wencheng's ingenious plan based on the Han system. Even if their Ningjin defense line can be defended until now, it seems that this ingenious plan has not improved.

Because so far, Zhang Xianzhong of the Great Western Kingdom and Zheng Zhilong, the king of the sea, have not caused much trouble after all, and have not affected Ji Yi's rear at all, let alone forced him to retreat.

It's just that in Fan Wencheng's circle, he lost two large quantities of gold, silver, jewelry and beauties in vain. With the plan of Han to control Han, it only blossomed but did not bear fruit.This made Fan Wencheng also look depressed, so the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang no longer gave him face.

But this is not the most important thing, because regardless of Yizhou, Ningyuan and Jinzhou, these are not their inherent territories of the Qing Dynasty. They were all plundered from Ming Dynasty and Mongolia a few years ago. If they are lost, they will be lost. At worst, it can be lost and recovered.

The tricky thing right now is that after Lin Yi, the supervisor of the Ming Dynasty, won the Ningjin defense line, he didn't have any troops to return to the court, and he became more and more entangled. 20 soldiers and horses left Jinzhou to point their swords at their Great Qing capital. The place is invincible. Judging from this situation, the time for soldiers to approach the city is numbered.

The current Qing Dynasty is empty and has no soldiers to send. Even the Korean soldiers lead the Mongol soldiers, the Han people lead the Tartars, and they make up all kinds of miscellaneous people. If you pat your head, you can count it as one. The whole Qing Dynasty is added together, and there is no one. There are tens of thousands of people.All those capable of fighting in the entire capital were sent out to defend the city on the battlefield, and there were not a hundred thousand soldiers.

Moreover, the Qing Dynasty has suffered a serious loss of national power in the past few years of wars. Originally, the territory and strength of the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty are incomparable. How can they bear the years of wars?Now it's not just that the soldiers are in urgent need, food and salaries are in urgent need, ordnance supplies are in urgent need, and the business relationship with Daming has long been cut off.

The heavy corvee taxes and military service in the country have made the people miserable.Even under the watchful eye of the Qing capital, Liao riots occurred.This is a very scary signal. If things go on like this for a long time, if Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng's thieves appear again like Daming, they will really be unable to stop them.

What's more terrible is that there are only a handful of generals who can be used to fighting.Jierhalang of the Aixinjueluo family has become disabled, like Daishan and others are old, unable to ride a horse, wield a knife, let alone draw a bow, and unable to go to the battlefield.Those mainstays and young rising stars, like Dorgon, Duoduo, Aoboi, Haoge, Azig, Yuetuo, Yuele, Mandahai, Nikan, Boluo, etc., died or were injured. It's all useless.

The remaining Han Chinese, Mongols, and Koreans are also useless, and some of them dare not use them.

Because now the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang has learned from the side that due to the successive defeats of the Qing Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has won successively and is advancing step by step.The position of many Mongolian tribes has been shaken. Mobei Mongolia, which had agreed to be attached to the Qing Dynasty, has not mentioned a word now. It is obvious that they are holding a wait-and-see attitude.

The powerful Moxi Mongolia used to send envoys to make friends with them, but now they have also stopped their contacts.

It is said that the king of North Korea also began to obey them.

The country of the Qing Dynasty, with internal and external troubles, was precarious, like a lamp in the wind, precarious.

Under such circumstances, who can deal with Daming's 20 iron army?

As the queen mother of a country who listens to politics, she has to gather together civil and military affairs to discuss the state affairs.

Because she knew very well in her heart that the crisis in front of her was more terrifying than the political crisis faced by the Qing Dynasty when her husband Huang Taiji passed away, and it also tested her wisdom and ability.

(End of this chapter)