1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 505 Bingfeng ([-])

On May 1644, 5, Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin led the Dashun Army to send troops to the capital, and the soldiers pointed directly at Shanhaiguan.

On May 5, the Dashun Army arrived at Shanhaiguan, surrounded Wu Sangui, and began to attack Shanhaiguan.

On May 5, the Dashun Army and Wu Sangui fought in Shanhaiguan.The Qing soldiers arrived, and after threatening Wu Sangui to shave his hair and surrender, Dorgon ordered Tulai to lead his army to attack Tang Tong's troops of the Dashun Army. His troops were wiped out, and Tang Tong fled with only a hundred cavalry.

At noon, the Dashun Army and Wu Sangui's Guan Ning Army were fighting in front of Shanhaiguan, and when they gradually felt exhausted, the Qing Army suddenly rushed in, the entire Dashun Army collapsed, and General Quan Liu Zongmin was injured by an arrow.The Dashun army retreated along the seashore, were killed or drowned, and the Qing army chased and killed for forty miles before retreating.

On May 5, all the soldiers and civilians in Shanhaiguan City shaved their heads and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and then led by Guanning Army, they pursued Li Zicheng's Dashun Army.Yu Yongping Honghuadian fought again, and the Dashun Army was defeated again.On the way to retreat, Li Zicheng beheaded Wu Xiang, the father of Wu Sangui, in anger.

On June 6, Li Zicheng, who fled back to Beijing, held a ceremony to ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor.

On June 6, Li Zicheng withdrew from Beijing.

On June 6, Dorgon entered Beijing. Wu Sangui requested to enter the city, but he was not allowed to stay. He ordered Duoduo, Azige and Wu Sangui to lead elite soldiers to pursue them quickly. The gold and silver property transported away by the army.

The innumerable gold and silver obtained by the Dashun army working overtime day and night fighting landlords in Beijing were discarded along the way while fleeing, all of which made it easier for Wu Sangui who was chasing after him.

The Dashun Army was defeated in Qingdu (now Wangdu County, Hebei Province), Zhending (now Zhengding County, Hebei Province) and Wu Sangui.The Dashun Army could no longer gain a foothold in Jifu, and retreated into Shanxi via Jingxing, leaving elite troops to guard Guguan.The pursuing Qing army then returned to Beijing.

Just when Wu Sangui defeated Li Zicheng in Zhending, in Cangzhou, more than a hundred miles to the east, more than [-] people from the original Daming New Army, led by the guerrilla general Jiang Yongrui, attacked Yiyi Town and obtained some supplies. Delay, continue to run southeast, and come to Shandong.

After Li Zicheng broke through the city of Beijing, Zhu Shirui, the deputy commander of the new army arrived in Daxing, and discussed with the generals to vote for Li Zicheng's Dashun Army, and most of the officers and soldiers responded.Only Jiang Yongrui's troops opposed it, and wanted to lead the troops to withdraw to Tianjin, sail south, and return to the rule of Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Shirui originally wanted to annex Jiang Yongrui's troops, but the opponent has a lot of prestige in the army, and his troops are well-trained, and after the war of attacking North Korea, he is not the enemy of the troops under his control, so he can only watch Jiang Yongrui helplessly. He led more than a thousand troops who were unwilling to surrender to the bandits and left.

Jiang Yongrui led his troops to avoid the Dashun army, and went out at night and day by a remote path, and returned to Tianjin after five days.But the officers and soldiers of the guard here had all fled, and the people were found to inquire about the news of Qi, but they learned that the other party had left Tianjin and returned to Changshan Island in more than 20 ships a few days ago.

Wandering in Tianjin for several days, unable to find a ship to go to sea, and the supplies he carried were about to run out, Jiang Yongrui had to leave Tianjin with his troops, preparing to go to Shandong along the land route.

Relying on plundering rich households and gentry all the way, it took more than ten days for more than a thousand new troops to stop and go, and it took more than ten days to reach Qingxian County, Cangzhou.Unexpectedly, Tan Ma came to report that a group of Dashun Army with more than [-] soldiers had come from Beijing.Shocked, the new army immediately turned around and returned to Tianjin, and hid on a mountain.

While avoiding the Dashun army's front in the mountains, he wiped out several bandits, added some food and cloth, and incorporated the bandits into the army.

After staying on the mountain for more than ten days, Jiang Yongrui thought that this place is too close to Beijing. If the Dashun Army can gain a firm foothold, Tianjin will definitely be brought under its control, and they will also be wiped out by the Dashun Army, so he led the troops to continue. Shandong rushed to.

After traveling for five or six days, on the way, I kept meeting court officials and civilians who had fled from Beijing. After some inquiries, I learned that the Dashun Army had been defeated by Wu Sangui of Shanhaiguan and the Jiannu Allied Forces, and now Li Zicheng's army was fleeing Beijing in a hurry. He was driven westward by the Guan Ning Army and Jiannu Eight Banners who were chasing all the way.

Jiang Yongrui discussed with several officers in the army and felt that it might be a disaster for the Guanning army to introduce Jiannu to Beijing.Therefore, everyone stopped delaying and continued to hurry towards Shandong.As for how to decide the next step after going to Shandong, Jiang Yongrui and other new army officers and soldiers were at a loss and had no bottom in their hearts.

However, he felt that it would be best to find the Qi people from Changshan Island, and instinctively thought that they might have some way to deal with this complicated situation.In addition, although many bandit routs were accommodated along the way and the team was expanded to 2000 people, the army was short of salaries and weapons, especially the muskets that were cited as weapons, only a hundred or so were intact, and the gunpowder bullets There is not much left.Therefore, the new army must go to Dengzhou to get in touch with the people of Qi to replenish their equipment and gunpowder.

On June 6, Jiang Yongrui's troops arrived near Dezhou, Shandong. He heard that Guo Sheng, General of the Dashun Army in Shandong, had led thousands of troops to suppress the rebellion in Dezhou, and then turned eastward to Binzhou.

At this time, the entire Shandong region was already in total chaos.When Guo Sheng led his army to Shandong from Beijing, the situation was almost fixed. After Li Zicheng defeated Shanhaiguan and then escaped from Beijing, the situation took a turn for the worse.The military defeat of the Dashun Army caused a major political earthquake, and the gentry in Zhili and Shandong launched rebellions one after another and killed Dashun officials.

On June 6, Ming guerrilla Gao Gui rebelled in Tai'an, killing Dashun defense envoy Guo Du and others, and was suppressed by Guo Sheng.

On June 6, Liu Fuyan, the magistrate of Laiwu County, was killed by Bi Weidi, the former commander of the De Wangfu of the Ming Dynasty, during the rebellion. Guo Sheng suppressed the rebellion and reappointed Li Kaifang as the county magistrate.In Linyi County, Jin Can, the former county magistrate of the Ming Dynasty, captured Dashun's county magistrate Yang Xuan and county magistrate Xu Guangqi. Guo Sheng led his troops to arrive and captured Jin Can.

On June 6, Yu Lianyue and Ling Yu captured Dashun's defense envoy Wang Huangji, Zhou Mu Liu Shizeng and others in Linqing. and others, then attacked Linqing, but failed.

Also on June 6, Yin Yuan, Ma Tenglong, Huang You and others from Shunde Prefecture killed Dashun officials from nine counties in Shunde Prefecture. Guo Sheng arrived and executed Yin Yuan and others.

On June 6, Jiang Yongrui's new army arrived in Laizhou and entered the Denglai area, but the city gate of Laizhou was closed and they were not allowed to enter the city to replenish supplies.

On June 6, near Zhaoyuan County, the gates of the city were still closed, and the city guards and civilians were standing by. Even though the officers and soldiers of the new army pretended to be Ming Dynasty officials and soldiers, they just ignored them and ordered them to leave without entering the city.

At this time, the new army was depleted of men and horses, and there was nothing to loot in the wild, and they were unable to move on. Hundreds of new conscripts fled.

On June 6, the new army stationed outside the city of Huang County (now Longkou City, Yantai, Shandong Province) saw several cavalrymen running from a distance, galloping back and forth to check their military strength.

Not long after, I saw that the army formation of the new army department was quite tight, with almost no gaps, and several cavalry rode their horses and headed east.

In the evening, several cavalrymen left and returned, but they still stopped and watched from a distance, with a vague intention of monitoring.

Jiang Yongrui hesitated for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth and sent a soldier to negotiate, asking where the other party's army was and what power he belonged to.

"That's right, how could the army on the border of Shandong have such a strict musket shooting array." Fu Jinbiao, the commander of the Qi Army Cavalry Wing, grinned and said, "It turns out that they are apprentices taught by our marines! , Tell you guys in charge, send a few people back to Penglai with me, let the Marine Corps confirm whether it is the new army taught by us."

Jiang Yongrui was overjoyed when he heard that the cavalry on the opposite side turned out to be from the army of the Qi State. He immediately ran towards the cavalry on the opposite side with several officers.

"Where is your Qi army? Are our teachings in Penglai?...Can you give us some food supplies?...Can we go to Penglai to rest?" Jiang Yongrui asked excitedly when he saw Fu Jinbiao.

"Gua!" Fu Jinbiao was stunned for a long time when he heard Jiang Yongrui's series of inquiries, and then cursed, and then said: "Restrain your team and follow me to Penglai. How to send you off will be decided by the general governor. However, you melons came at a bad time, and your people have gone to North Korea."

Qi Dajiang and his fleet arrived at Changshan Island on June 6, and immediately summoned the officials and Marine Corps officers left here to inquire about the latest situation in Ming Dynasty.

The city of Beijing was overrun by Li Zicheng's army more than a month ago, Chongzhen was hanged in Meishan, and the northern part of the Ming Dynasty belonged to Dashun.

Dashun tortured and plundered the officials and gentry in the capital, so that the officials had no means of living, and they fled southward one after another.

Wu Sangui's Guan Ning army surrendered and then rebelled at Shanhaiguan. Li Zicheng was going to conquer Shanhaiguan himself.

Guo Shengtong of the Dashun Army has thousands of elites, entered Shandong, and spread the call to more than ten prefectures and counties.Officials in Denglei area hesitated and had not yet raised the flag to join Dashun.

In the Jiangnan region, news reached Huai'an on March 29, ten days after the fall of Beijing.On the eighth day of April, Lu Zhenfei, the governor of Huai'an, announced to the local officials and gentry the major changes in the fall of the capital according to the Tang newspaper.Although the Nanjing No. [-] Ministry and other senior officials quickly got the news of the fall of Beijing, they did not dare to act rashly because they did not know the whereabouts of Emperor Chongzhen and his three sons.

When Qi Dajiang asked if there was any news about the establishment of slaves in Liaodong, everyone shook their heads, saying that they could not find out information about the establishment of slaves.However, they said that Li Zicheng's army of 10 people had poured into Beijing and was about to attack Shanhaiguan.

Qi Dajiang was silent. Before leaving Hanzhou, Qi Tian had told him that if Li Zicheng went to attack Shanhaiguan, Liaodong Jiannu would definitely come to help Wu Sangui, and it was very possible to defeat Li Zicheng's army, and even take advantage of the situation to capture Beijing. , established the capital, and then began to sweep the Central Plains.

For this reason, the Qi State should land in Liaodong after the Jiannu entered the pass in a large scale, and Liaodong should be relatively empty, so they sailed to Liaodong, attacked the Jiannu's rear, and forced them to withdraw part of their main force.If the troops of the Eight Banners who built slaves entered the pass and pursued Li Zicheng's defeated army, the state of Qi could strongly support the anti-established slaves in Shandong and Hebei, threatening Beijing and forcing them to be unable to focus on killing Li Zicheng.

Now that the situation of building slaves is unknown, and the outcome of Shanhaiguan is unknown, Qi Guo really doesn't know how to act next.Later, Xu Chuanxing, the battalion commander of the Second Marine Battalion, suggested that it is better to take advantage of this time to take troops to North Korea to "borrow" some food and supplies. First, it will allow the newly arrived Marines to adapt to the battlefield. Second, they can accumulate some reserves. Coping with growing numbers of refugees.

Qi Dajiang thought for a while, then nodded in agreement with the suggestion.

However, when Huang Zijia, Qi's envoy to Daming, mentioned that Chongzhen's prince and several sons and daughters were temporarily living on the island, how should they deal with it.

After hearing this, Qi Dajiang didn't take it seriously, thinking that he was just a subjugated prince, so he said that after he returned from North Korea, he would send a ship to Nanjing.

However, because of Qi Dajiang's negligence, he failed to send the prince Zhu Cihong to Nanjing in time, which caused fierce disputes among the various forces in the south of the Yangtze River. The Fu Wang Zhu Yousong proclaimed himself emperor in Nanjing on June 6, with the reign name Hongguang.

The huge inertia of the historical wheel seems to be driving ahead slowly and firmly, somewhat uncontrollably.

(End of this chapter)