The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 767 Confiscation of military power
Shanhaiguan.

Wu Sangui received news in early May that Ding Yi had defeated Li Zicheng outside the capital, and Li Zicheng's remnants fled the capital.

At that time, he felt that he had made the right choice. It was right to go back to Shanhaiguan first and sit on the mountain to watch the tigers fight.

At the same time, he was taken aback by Ding Yi.

Back then, he had dealt with Ding Yi, and together they punched Youde and fought in chaos. At that time, he heard that Ding Yi was an elite soldier. Later, he found out that Ding Yi and Jianu had won many battles and never lost responsibility.

What is more intuitive is that in the battle of Songjin, Ding Yi's subordinate Xu Fu played troops and was the only strong army that repelled Jiannu.

From then on, he knew that Ding Yi was not only an elite soldier, but also a lot of soldiers.

But this time, he heard that Ding Yi gathered more than 20 soldiers and horses under the city of Beijing, claiming to be 50, and fought against the [-] Chuang army, and won the battle in one battle.

Then Ding Yi supervised the country as King Zhenbei.

Ding Yi has so many soldiers and horses, and he is still in charge of the country. As long as everyone in Ming Dynasty is not blind, they all know what Ding Yi wants to do.

On May [-], a eunuch arrived in the capital and ordered Gao Di and Wu Sangui to lead troops into Beijing.

Wu Sangui and Gaodi didn't hear clearly at the first time, but Gaodi asked again: "Lead troops into Beijing?"

"That's right." The eunuch said with a smile: "The prince's troops will come over soon and take over Shanhaiguan. They should arrive tomorrow. Prepare yourself and lead the troops into Beijing."

The two looked at each other.

It doesn't matter to Gaodi, he was relatively timid in history, he also followed the crowd, and he always listened to Wu Sangui.

But Wu Sangui thought about it carefully.

He originally wanted to sell it for a price, and he didn't want to go to Beijing casually and follow Yuan Chonghuan's footsteps.

But now it is not Chongzhen, but Ding Yi who is in charge of Ming Dynasty.

Based on his understanding of Ding Yi, this guy is more terrifying than Chongzhen.

To go or not to go?
Seeing that he was silent, the eunuch said nicely, "General Wu's father and family are still in the capital looking forward to it."

"The meaning of the prince is to let you take your family back home and change places to stay in the town."

"Where should I go?" Of course Wu Sangui knew that Ding Yi was such a powerful military leader, and he was from the military, so why would he let himself be stationed at Shanhaiguan.

"The servants know about it, but changing the town is for sure. The prince asked the servants to tell the general that Daming is so big that it still needs a lot of generals to garrison it."

The family members are all in the hands of Ding Yi. If they don’t go, they will resist the edict. Ding Yi has hundreds of thousands of troops. He can fight more than Jiannu, unless he escapes from the pass and surrenders to Jiannu?

Of course Wu Sangui would not surrender at this meeting, or else Dorgon would have surrendered the last time he came to recruit.

There was indeed no choice, Wu Sangui thought about it, and finally sighed: "The last general will accept the order."

On the morning of May [-]th, Zhang Qidong led [-] Ming troops to Shanhaiguan.

In Shanhaiguan, Wu Sangui originally had 7 soldiers and horses, [-] high, and [-] soldiers. These [-] people were also the main force in the war with Li Zicheng in the original history.

Zhang Qidong asked Wu Sangui to take away 2 people, [-] in total, and a total of [-] went to Beijing, leaving another [-] and [-] troops to Zhang Qidong.

Wu Sangui and Gaodi arrived in the capital on May [-]th.

As soon as he arrived outside the city gate, he saw a familiar figure in the distance.

Wu Sangui was overjoyed, and rushed over quickly.

"Father."

"Haha Sangui my son." It was his father Wu Xiang.

Seeing that his father was fine and in a good mood, Wu Sangui felt relieved a little.

He was afraid that Ding Yi would not talk about martial arts and would trick himself into the capital and deal with him.

"My son, don't be afraid, the prince is a hero, upright and wise, and will definitely use you again." Wu Xiang probably also looked at Wu Sangui with a guilty conscience, and patted him on the shoulder to remind him.

It's okay to be a hero, but you don't know if you are upright and wise. Wu Sangui doesn't know what ecstasy soup Ding Yi gave his father, but now he can't help him, and they have already gone to Beijing.

When he entered the capital, he only brought ten soldiers and family members with him, and all the troops stayed outside the city.

Along the way, Wu Sangui asked his father carefully, and was even more shocked.

Ding Yi was outside the city that day, and it took only half a day to defeat Li Zicheng's army of 50 troops.

Ding Yi selected the strong and strong among them, and gathered another [-] soldiers and horses.

Then on May [-], two days before his arrival, Ding Yi paid the whole army a monthly salary of one tael and five silver per soldier.

In the past, Ding Yi only had one or two soldiers, but this time he received more than 7000 million taels of silver, and Ding Yi directly increased his salary.

Ordinary sergeants, one to two five per person.

"My lord paid a few 10 taels of salary that day, the morale of the army was greatly shaken, and the morale of the soldiers is good." Wu Xiang smiled wryly.

He had to admire Ding Yi's ability to win people's hearts.

After incorporating Li Zicheng's soldiers and horses, they were paid first, and then trained separately. Now Tianjin, east of the capital, is full of Li Zicheng's soldiers and horses. Every thousand people form a battalion, trained by Ding Yi's soldiers and horses.

The corners of Wu Sangui's mouth twitched when he heard that, Li Zicheng's soldiers and horses were considered elite, and Ding Yi needed to be trained again. Fortunately, he had no other intentions, otherwise the [-] soldiers and horses would be against him in the future.

"Where will I move the town?" Wu Sangui asked at this time.

Gaudi also asked on the side.

"I don't know, but according to the habits of the prince's subordinates, everyone will not have servants in the future." After Wu Xiang finished speaking, Wu Sangui and Gaodi looked at each other again, feeling a little unwilling.

There are no servants, which means that in the future, as long as the court wants to deal with them, it will become very easy.

Seeing his son's expression, Wu Xiang hurriedly said: "My lord is a hero of a generation, with hundreds of thousands of soldiers under him. Sangui, the times are different."

It turned out to be persuading his son to accept it calmly.

On the day they entered Beijing, Ding Yi did not summon them, and Wu Sangui and Gaodi went back to their homes.

At the same time that Wu Sangui entered the capital, a large wave of troops arrived at Wu Sangui's camp. There were more than 500 cavalry, all of whom were elite cavalry, and everyone was wearing iron armor, with a large number of carts behind them.

As soon as the cavalry arrived, their armor was heavily armored and their aura was solemn, Wu Sangui's camp was in a panic.

Wu Sangui's confidant who stayed in the camp, the deputy general Zu Jinzhong, a descendant of the ancestor's family, was shocked, and hurriedly mobilized his family members to the camp.

"Who is here? Trespass into the important area of ​​the barracks and beheaded." Zu Jinzhong shouted loudly at the door in full armor.

The cavalrymen glanced at him silently, and suddenly the two sides separated, and two Jinyiwei and palace eunuchs wearing flying fish suits slowly appeared from behind.

"The imperial decree has arrived, Zu Jinzhong, the deputy commander of the Liaodong regiment training, and Pan Yongchang, the general—received the order—" the eunuch reported the names of many generals in Wu Sangui's army in one breath.

Zu Jinzhong suddenly looked dull.

He looked left and right, and everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.

When Wu Sangui left, he asked them to strictly guard the camp of the Chinese army, but now that the imperial decree has come, what should we do?
Zu Jinzhong's face was flushed, he didn't know whether he should set up a big camp or accept the order.

"Vice General Zu, what are you thinking, General Wu is in the capital, do you want to resist the order?" He Daping rode on the horse and looked at them coldly.

Of course Zu Jinzhong's right battalion guerrilla Fu Wenyuan knew him and knew that this man was Ding Yi's general.

He bowed his head and said loyally to Zu Jin: "This man is He Daping, a general of the King of Zhenbei."

Zu Jinzhong couldn't help it. Just as He Daping said, Wu Sangui has gone to Beijing, what can they do?
"Open the door, open the door, ready to receive the order." Zu Jinzhong said helplessly.

Then he hurried to call the generals, and the eunuch's name just now read almost all of Wu Sangui's army commander above Qianzong.

Just as they were setting up the incense table and preparing to receive the order, five hundred fine horsemen from outside the camp rushed in first.

All the generals are veterans on the battlefield, and one can tell by looking at these elite cavalry that they are the elite of the elite.

The 500 people of He Daping first experienced the Battle of Qingshuibo with Wang Weizhong, and fought against the Manchus for the rest of their lives.

In these two battles, they all survived hand-to-hand combat with the Manchus. They were not ordinary gun soldiers, they could be described as true elites in all battles.

After the five hundred elites came in, there were a lot of soldiers hoarding one after another, pushing carts into the camp.

The generals in Liaodong were dumbfounded, not knowing why such a large cart was being pushed forward.

After their generals assembled, the carts were still coming in before they had finished pushing them. Hundreds of carts came in.

"Zu Jinzhong, the deputy commander of the Liaodong regiment, Pan Yongchang and other Liaodong generals received the order--" the eunuch screamed.

All the generals knelt down one after another.

At this time, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial decree was issued by Ding Yi, the king of Zhenbei, in the name of Jian Guo, and it was still stamped with the jade seal.

This imperial decree is very long and has many things to say, it is probably the first time for the generals to hear it.

The first is the promotion of a large number of officers.

Zuo Jinzhong, the deputy general of Zuoying, was promoted to the commander-in-chief of Chengdu, and led [-] troops into Sichuan to attack Zhang Xianzhong with Ding Yi's troops.

Zu Jinzhong's heart skipped a beat when he listened, not knowing whether it was joy or sorrow.

The imperial decree also said that rewarding the ancestors into a house in Zhongjing City, one thousand taels of silver, and descendants inheriting brocade clothes and guards to hundreds of households.

Almost at the same time as the imperial decree was finished, a cart was pushed not far from Zu Jinzhong, and the hoarded soldiers fell to the ground.

Crash, a thousand taels of silver were scattered on the ground.

All the generals have bright eyes, watching each other.

Zu Jinzhong groaned secretly, hoping that Wu Sangui would appear quickly.

The eunuch then said that Pan Yongchang, a member of the right battalion, was promoted to the general of Wuchang, and took twenty soldiers to Wuchang to take up his post.

The guerrilla Fu Wenyuan was the deputy general of Changping, and he took a thousand soldiers to garrison Juyongguan.

Wang Jiamo, a member of the Chinese army, was the deputy general of Qingdao, and he led [-] troops to garrison Qingdao Port.

Zhang Dajing, a Chinese military officer, was the deputy general of Tianjin and stationed at Tianjin Port with [-] soldiers and horses.

Others include Wu Chaozhong, Wu Youxian, Wu Youliang, Wu Yongren, Wu Guozhu, Fang Chenggong, Li Chenggong, He Qilong, He Qifeng, Ba Keyong, Bai Hanzhen, Chen Taihe, Chen Yijing, Zhao Zhixiang, Li Kezhi, Sun Wenhuan, Meng Ketu , Keshitu, Xuelichu, Wu Batan, Jin Qiluo, Gao Zi, Chen Menglong, Zhang Qiwei, Fu Tiande, Shen Hongbao, Guo Youlong, Zhu Yuncheng and other Liaodong generals were all promoted to one level and then transferred to various places.

Some can bring battalions there, while others can only bring their own soldiers. The imperial decree also mentioned that in the future, the Ming Dynasty will not have family members.

After reading the edict, Zu Jinzhong and the others looked at each other again.

Then Zu Jinzhong bit the bullet and asked, "Can we see the general soldier (Wu Sangui)?"

"Of course, we can leave in three days. You can go to Beijing to see Mr. Wu at any time during these three days."

(End of this chapter)