The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 669
In the 12th year of Chongzhen, Qing soldiers first entered the customs, then Zhang Xianzhong rebelled, Luo Rucai also rebelled, and the peasant army became more powerful. Then Li Zicheng and Wang Weiguo came out from Shangqiu to join in the fun. It is a piece of erosion.

But Ding Yi first won Jinan, then Jizhen and Tianjin, and Linqing and Lingshanwei. Taking advantage of the decline of Ming Dynasty, he grabbed land and population everywhere to expand his power.

As the Ming Dynasty declined, Ding Yi became stronger and stronger.

As for the other opponent, Man Qing, he was not idle either. In October, the Qing soldiers came to attack Daming again, and an incident happened because of this, which in turn affected the general soldiers of the Ming army's towns.

It turned out that when Dorgon entered the customs last time, on March [-]th, Huang Taiji personally led the Eight Banners troops to fight against Songshan to contain the Ming army and help Dorgon leave the customs.

At that time, Jin Guofeng, the deputy general of Jinzhou, was stationed in Songshan.

Songshan is the barrier of Jinzhou. Huang Taiji first planned to destroy the barrier first, so that he could attack Jinzhou in the future. Of course, at the same time, he could also use his best siege points to fight against the Ming army. Now as long as they defeat the Ming army in field battles, they can get a large number of Ming troops. This is Huang Taiji's experience in fighting the Ming army for many years.

When Zu Dashou heard that the Qing soldiers were besieging Songshan, he immediately led his troops to prepare for rescue. Emperor Chongzhen also issued an edict to let him go to support, so the Qing soldiers followed the old routine and prepared to surround the spot for assistance.

As soon as Zu Dashou set off, Lu Qing soldiers came to beat Zu Dashou immediately. When Zu Dashou saw it, he quickly turned around and hid in Ningyuan, never to come out again.

In this way, Huang Taiji was very depressed, and felt that the tactic of surrounding the spot to fight for aid seemed useless now, and the Ming army would not accept it.

Then attack Songshan first.

At that time, there were about 3000 Songshan defenders. Huang Taiji attacked from the 26th to the [-]th, and was unable to attack several times. Huang Taiji was not reconciled, and sent the Han army to transfer [-] artillery pieces from Shengjing, with [-] shells and [-] gunpowder. Hundreds of Dendrobium fired artillery around the city, and the battlements on the towers were destroyed, and the Ming army in the city could only march with the door panels on their backs.

Jin Guofeng ordered the soldiers to repair the destroyed parts of the castle with bricks and stones overnight, and strictly guard against it.The Qing soldiers boarded the castle several times on ladders, and were repulsed several times. At this time, someone suggested that Huang Taiji use Ding Yi's method, that is, Dorgon's technique of breaking Jinan, and pushing cannons to attack the city gate.

But the front of Songshan Fort was difficult, and the Hongyi cannons were heavy and difficult to push. The Qing soldiers pushed forward with light cannons made by Ding Yi, and several of them were destroyed by Jin Guofeng's cannons.

Finally, a door was pushed up, but after several shots, Jin Guofeng understood immediately, and immediately assembled a manpower to block the gate of the fort with large bricks and mud bags.

In the end, although the artillery of the Qing soldiers hit the city gate, it was still useless.

Now Ding Yi's method didn't work anymore. At this time, the Han army offered another plan to dig a tunnel.

Huang Taiji had no choice but to dig a tunnel in the south of Songshan City. In order to boost morale, he announced: "Those who can collapse with gunpowder will serve as leaders when the city is broken. Then reward people and cows, and leave the master; he instructs the supervisors and officials to increase the rewards according to the example of the first to climb the big city. Cooperate with the soldiers in the cave city, and reward them with money depending on how much they contribute."

However, Jin Guofeng's strict deployment and multiple refusals did not capture him. In the end, Huang Taiji had no choice but to send envoys to appease him, declaring: "If you can observe the will of heaven, follow the trend of the times, and return to your orders quickly, then the army and the people will not be spared from death, and half of you will be saved." How can there be any limit to your great achievements?" Jin Guofeng sternly refused, and until mid-April, Huang Taiji felt that he was in a dilemma, so he had to withdraw his troops and return to Shengjing. The officials and people in the capital learned about Zhengming: "Most of the soldiers were defeated, and several generals were also killed. People walking in the streets were mostly panic-stricken. In the distance outside the city, there were loud cries among the squares and songs. sky".

Emperor Chongzhen was overjoyed when he heard the news, and promoted Jin Guofeng to serve as the governor of the Ningyuan Regiment.

He also often said to the officials that Ding Yi is not the only one who can fight in Ming Dynasty, our Jin Guofeng is also a good general.

Of course Jin Guofeng is a good general, but you don't even look at what soldiers you bring or what the circumstances were at the time.

There are many generals in Liaodong, supporting each other, and they have always been very exclusive.

Jin Guofeng was from the Xuanfu, and had never received the support of the generals of the Liaodong Army. This time Songshan defended so well, it immediately became apparent that the other generals of the Liaodong Army were no good.

He has 3000 people guarding Songshan, Huang Taiji can't be broken, and Dalinghe Zu's birthday is not guarded by tens of thousands of people, what a shame.

And Jin Guofeng was promoted to be the commander-in-chief of the Ningyuan regiment, which made the Liaodong generals dissatisfied.

So in October of the 12th year of Chongzhen, Hauge and Duoduo knew that Jin Guofeng was in Ningyuan, and led the Qing soldiers to attack Ningyuan again.Although there are over [-] soldiers defending the city, the battalions are so diverse that it is difficult to give orders.

Jin Guofeng arranged the layout at the top of the city, and all the generals of the army obeyed the Yin only, and did not obey orders.

Jin Guofeng was angry and furious. The later Ming history was revised by the Qing people. There is no record in it why he rushed out impulsively, but someone must have said something that irritated him.

As the commander-in-chief, Jin Guofeng couldn't command the local Ming army. In a rage, he took his two sons and led dozens of family members to rush out of the city, and fought fiercely with the Qing soldiers on the northern hill. He and his two sons were all killed in battle.

One of the few good generals in the late Ming Dynasty, his whole family died in battle.

At this time in Ming Dynasty, there were actually some loyal ministers and generals like Jin Guofeng, not all of them were like Wu Sangui, but in this era, the result of being a loyal minister and general was death, and it was a tragic death.

And the result of being a traitor and a traitor is to live, and to live nourished.

Let me talk about a few marginal people here. When Songshan was besieged in March, the governor Fang Yizao discussed sending troops to rescue, but none of the generals dared to respond. Zu Dashou came back halfway through the run. Only the deputy general Yang Zhen volunteered to lead the troops to Lu Hongshan. Encountering an ambush by the Qing army, the entire army was wiped out.

Yang Zhen was captured, and the Qing army escorted him to Songshan to surrender. He pretended to agree, and walked for more than a mile. Yang Zhen sat on the ground facing south, and said to Li Lu, the official accompanying him, "Tell me the people in the city to stand firm, and reinforcements will arrive soon. "Li Lu went to the city and shouted what Yang Zhen said, and defended Yijian in the city.

Then both of them were brutally killed by the Qing army.

Like Yu Zhenlong who inspected Lu Xiangsheng's body, Yang Zhen and Li Lu who made Songshan stand firm, these soldiers of the late Ming Dynasty who defended the country loyally and bravely, although they are only a few strokes in the glorious history, they all devoted their blood to destroying the Ming Dynasty on the eve of its destruction. Dynasty, leaving a sonorous footnote: The rise and fall of the dynasty may have its own definite number, but the strong Chinese man will live forever.

And after Ding Yi knew about these things, he could only sigh endlessly.

Later generations Wu Sangui, Zu Dashou and others left famous history books, a certain subject records their lives in detail, and how many records are there of these warriors who died for the loyalty and bravery of the Ming Dynasty.

However, Jin Guofeng's death quickly caused a chain reaction, and also led to an important event, which benefited Ding Yi and his three towns far away in Dongjiang.

Governor Hong Chengchou said: "Guofeng has always been loyal and brave. Before guarding Songshan, there were less than [-] soldiers, but he was able to resist a strong enemy and defend the isolated city. It is not because of his superior talents and abilities. He is dedicated to matters and orders, and his people are respectful. He was promoted to be a general, with nearly [-] soldiers, but he died instead. It is not because of his lack of talent and ability, because the battalion is divided, it is difficult to give orders, and the hearts of the people are not united. I beg that from now on, we will set up the law of company and battalion restraint. Defend the city, and command the troops to fight, but the command of the commander-in-chief is to be obeyed. The general army has a solid heart, and has the resources to fight and defend, so it is very important to seal the border." The emperor agreed to do it.

The general meaning of this passage is that in the future, don’t transfer the garrison troops here and there. If you move troops around to defend a city, people will not obey the command. It is easy to direct and not move.

In addition, in a town now, there are guards, army supervisors, governors, and military equipment. Who do you listen to?In terms of military affairs, you should listen to the commander-in-chief, so that you won't disobey the command.

Chongzhen actually understood this time, and he quickly ordered that the town be moved from now on, and all the soldiers and horses under it should be mobilized.

This means that if Ding Yi wants to be transferred to a certain place in the future, he can take all the soldiers and horses with him.

In the past, when a general army moved to a town, the imperial court only allowed three to five thousand soldiers and horses to be brought. Of course, some people would bring more, but the imperial court only recognized the salary of these people.

This incident benefited Ding Yi and his three towns, and strengthened the power of the three towns. Wang Weizhong, Shen Shikui, and Xu Fuzuo's power in each town was more justified.

But this also has Chongzhen's bad intentions.

If you want to transfer Zhang Jing and Xu Wei from Lushun and Pidao in the future, you can ask them to take all Ding Yi's elite soldiers away.

In the past, in the Ming Dynasty, only Dongjiang Town had no supervisory army and guards. At that time, Yuan wanted to give Mao a supervisory army and guards, but Mao disagreed, so Yuan wanted to kill him even more.

Since then, Dongjiang Town has never had a supervising army and guarding eunuchs. Now that Chongzhen has withdrawn the supervising army and guarding, it has also greatly facilitated the three towns of Ding Yi.

It can be said that Jin Fengguo exchanged the death of the whole family for Chongzhen to remove the supervising army and guarding eunuchs.

If Lu Xiangsheng knew about it, he would vomit blood depressedly, because he was killed by the supervising army that day.

If Chongzhen had done this earlier, Lu Xiangsheng would not have been defeated and died.

But now that he has done this, it is actually more suitable for a general like Ding Yi who has a lot of troops.
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In October, Ding Yi returned to Dengzhou from Linqing, and successively allocated resources to support the construction and storage of land by Shen Shikui of Tianjin, Xu Fuzuo of Jizhen, and Wang Weizhong of Linqing.

The terrain of these three towns is relatively good, and they can be transported by land or by water. Among them, the boats to Jizhen and Tianjin don't need a day from Changsheng Island and Lushun, and it only takes about two days to get to Linqing.

It is that the port needs to be expanded in the early stage, and it will take a little time.

A few days later, Lu Chao also rushed over from Lingshanwei. Ding Yi waited for him and called a civil and military meeting.

At the end of another year, Denglai's side is getting better and better.

Before the meeting, Song Zhe handed Ding Yi a pile of books with a smile.

Said that they were all bought from a trustee in the capital, he knew that Lord Ding likes books.

(End of this chapter)