Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

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Officials big and small in Nanjing are busy moving, merchants are busy raising funds to prepare to go north to participate in the prospectus of railway freight companies, and Chongzhen, who is far away in Beijing, is not idle.

After controlling the inner city, that is, the full city, troops were sent to control the outer city.

After controlling the outer city, they began to arrest people. Fan Wencheng, Ning Wanwo, Zu Dashou and other Hanchens who did not go to Chaoyangmen were not spared and were all arrested.

In the end, several 10 people were arrested.

Of course, it's just a simple arrest.

After all, the new army of the Ming Dynasty was not Jiannu, nor was it Li Zicheng's rogues, nor was it the frontier army of the Ming Dynasty. With scholars and Guo Zisheng as the backbone of the new army, they would never do such things as burning, killing, kidnapping and raping women.

The fact is that on the day the Ming army entered the city, order was restored in Beijing.

The lives of ordinary people have not been affected in any way, and everything is business as usual.

But there is still a lot of work waiting for Chongzhen to do, and the remnants of Jiannu have not yet been eliminated.

Before the work of arresting people was over, Chongzhen began to prepare to send troops to suppress Wu Sangui and Jiang Yu. On the one hand, he ordered Xu Yingwei to lead a town to go south to Yanzhou, and on the other hand, he personally led two towns to conquer Shanhaiguan.

Yan Yingyuan took another Zhenbei out of Juyongguan to prevent the Mongolian cavalry from going south.

Guguan and Zijingguan have been controlled by the pseudo-shun army, and Chongzhen has no time to pay attention to them for the time being.

Three days after the decisive battle at Baliqiao, that is, June 22, 6 Chongzhen.

At the same time that Nanjing's civil and military officials left for the north, Chongzhen also began to eliminate the remnants of the slavery, mainly to eliminate Jiang Yu who was entrenched in Yanzhou and Wu Sangui in Shanhaiguan.

Among them, Wu Sangui of Shanhaiguan was the main target.

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At noon two days later, Wu Sangui was pacing restlessly in the courtyard of Shanhaiguan.

Although five full days have passed since the end of the Baliqiao battle, Wu Sangui still has not obtained any information about the Baliqiao battle, which means that the information has been completely cut off.

The interception on the battlefield was of course done by Zhu Cijiong leading the cavalry.

And now that Zhu Cijiong is doing this, he is becoming more and more professional.

Ye Daren, who Wu Sangui sent to Gyeonggi to inquire about news, was all hunted and killed by the Ming army.

Wu Sangui became more and more anxious when he couldn't get any news from Gyeonggi.

The concubine Chen Yuanyuan came to kindly persuade him to go back to Houya to rest for a while, but was scolded by Wu Sangui, and Chen Yuanyuan had no choice but to hold back tears and go back to Houya without mentioning it.

Watching Chen Yuanyuan's graceful figure disappear behind the arch, Fang Guangchen reluctantly looked away, this Jurchen beauty.

Such a stunner followed such a reckless man as Wu Sangui, it could be described as reckless.

But on the surface, Guangchen was very respectful to Wu Sangui: "The prince is worried that the victory of the Ming and Qing Dynasties has already been divided?"

"Can you not be worried?" Wu Sangui said, "It's fine if the Qing army wins, but if the Ming army wins in the end, you and I will lose the bargaining chip, then we will be in trouble."

What Wu Sangui was most afraid of was that the Ming army would win a decisive victory before he surrendered.

"My lord is too worried. It is absolutely impossible for the Ming army to defeat the Qing army in one battle." Fang Guangchen said eloquently, "So the battle between the Ming and Qing Dynasties must be a long-term process."

"Even if the Ming army can win, I'm afraid it will be a miserable victory in the end."

"This also means that after the Ming army defeated the Qing army, it was no longer able to continue to use troops against Shanhaiguan and Yanzhou. Therefore, if there is no accident, Chongzhen will probably take measures to appease the prince and Jiang Tuan. Jiang Yu can save the people in the north from swords."

After a short pause, he said again: "Isn't Chongzhen always advocating people-oriented?"

After listening to this analysis, Wu Sangui finally felt a little relieved, because Fang Guangchen's analysis was undoubtedly reasonable.

Even if Chongzhen doesn't want to see him, Wu Sangui, Jiang Yu and other ministers, the people in the northern provinces always have no enmity with you. Don't you always advertise yourself as a benevolent and righteous king?Then the people should be in mind, and appeasement should be the top priority.

Thinking of this, Wu Sangui sent a servant to call in his eldest son Wu Yingxiong.

Wu Yingxiong is actually Wu Sangui's second son, but because the eldest son Wu Yingqi adopted Wu Sanfeng as his stepson, Wu Yingxiong became the eldest son.

Wu Sangui likes Wu Yingxiong's son very much.

Although Wu Yingxiong's martial arts is not as good as Wu Yingqi's, he is tall and handsome.

"Father." Wu Yingxiong bowed to Wu Sangui first, then turned to salute Fang Guangchen, "The student has met the teacher."

Wu Sangui hummed and said: "I entrust you with an errand to move all the Liao people outside the Guancheng to resettle in the Guancheng. Anyone who dares to resist will be killed without mercy!"

This is to use the Liao people as bargaining chips to blackmail Chongzhen.

Speaking of which, the land in the Liaoxi Corridor is still very fertile.

Therefore, after the political situation of the Manchu Qing Dynasty stabilized, the Liao people who originally hid in Yanshan for refuge because of shaving their hair and changing clothes, returned to the Liaoxi Corridor to farm, and then took shelter under Wu Sangui's command.

However, Wu Sangui has always only used these Liao people as his bargaining chips.

It was the same when he was the commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty, and it is the same now as the admiral of Ji Liao in the Manchu Qing Dynasty. The only thing that remains the same is that these poor Liao people will always be Wu Sangui's bargaining chip.

Watching Wu Yingxiong leave, Fang Guangchen asked, "Does the lord want to use these Liao people as bargaining chips?"

Wu Sangui did not deny it, nodded and said: "This method is of no use to the Qing army. The Qing army doesn't care about the lives of Liao people at all, but it may be useful to the Ming army. If the final situation really reaches the worst point, as long as Driving these Liao people to the city wall will make the Ming army's cannons have some scruples."

Fang Guangchen said in a dark voice: "Unless the Ming army can disregard the life and death of the Liao people at the head of the city, they can only recruit the prince, and still have to appoint the prince as the admiral of Jiliao and the general soldier of Shanhaiguan."

While the two were talking, Wu Yingxiong suddenly came back with a dark face.

"Why are you back?" Wu Sangui said, "Didn't you be asked to arrest the Liao people?"

"Father, the Liao people have been taken away by the Ming army." Wu Yingxiong said angrily, "It was done by the Ming army in Liaodong. Wang Fuzhi promised to give the Liao people every [-] mu of land, and they would not have to pay for food within three years!"

"Didn't Wang Fuzhi's Liaodong Ming army stay in Gaizhouwei all the time?" Wu Sangui's face suddenly changed, "When did you arrive in Liaoxi? Why didn't you report it if you didn't collect it?"

"Father, our Ye Dare may have been killed by the Liaodong Ming Army long ago."

"It's impossible." Wu Sangui said decisively, "No matter how powerful the scout cavalry of the Ming army are, it is impossible to kill all of our Ye Bu Shou."

Wu Yingxiong said: "That means being rebellious."

Hearing Wu Sangui, Wu Yingxiong and his son arguing there, Fang Guangchen couldn't laugh or cry.

At that moment, Fang Guangchen persuaded: "Your Majesty, since the Liaodong Ming army has entered the Liaoxi Corridor, what's the point of arguing about whether Yebushou was killed or instigated rebellion? The most urgent thing is to quickly find out the exact intention of the Ming army, and, come here." Is it just the Ming army from Liaodong, or is the Ming army from Beijing also coming?"

"Ming army in the direction of Beijing?" Wu Sangui's expression changed drastically.

If the Ming army from Beijing also came, it could only explain one thing.

That is, the decisive battle between the Ming army and the Qing army has already been decided, and the Ming army won a big victory. This is undoubtedly the worst result for Wu Sangui.

However, the more you are afraid of something, the more you will come.

Wu Sangui was worried about the Ming army in the direction of Beijing, and a family member came in to report: "My lord is not good, a large number of Ming troops have been found at the southern foot of Yanshan Mountain, and it is less than twenty miles away from Shanhaiguan!"

"What did you say?" Wu Sangui was furious, "Why didn't you report it until now?"

Jia Ding panicked and said: "Because none of the Ye Bu Shou we sent to Yongping Mansion came back. In the end, it was a hunter who found the Ming army and came to report to find out."

"Damn it." Wu Sangui said bitterly, "It seems that Chongzhen no longer wants to appease me."

After a pause, Wu Sangui gritted his teeth again and said: "In that case, let Chongzhen know that Shanhaiguan is my territory, Wu Sangui's. When I come to Shanhaiguan, I will lie down with tigers and coil with dragons!"

Fang Guangchen also nodded and agreed: "At this point, we can only fight to the death with the Ming army."

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The two towns in the conquest of Wu Sangui this time are the first town and the second town, and the second town is the main force. This is actually a way of balance, because the second town did not participate in the Baliqiao battle.

In order to increase the speed as much as possible, neither the 1st nor 2nd towns carried field artillery brigades.

Because there was no field artillery to drag them down, the marching speed was extremely fast. It took only two days to reach a small abandoned village called Yiyuankou at the southern foot of Yanshan Mountain, about [-] miles away from Shanhaiguan.

With the sound of horseshoes, Zhu Cijiong led Xu Wuniu and dozens of scout cavalry back to the brigade.

"Father Qizuo seems to have escaped a hunter and sent the news to Shanhaiguan, so the Wu army in the pass is already preparing to defend the city."

"What about the common people? They weren't caught in Shanhaiguan, right?"

"I didn't meet a few people here in Yongping Mansion. Wu Jun couldn't catch them even if he wanted to, but there should be Liao people in the Liaoxi Corridor. I don't know if the Liaodong Army can stop Wu Jun."

"It's not a big problem, Wang Fuzhi is still trustworthy."

"Father, my son is unclear about something and wants to ask for advice."

"Do you want to ask why you didn't recruit Wu Sangui?"

"Yes, we can appease Wu Sangui first, and then find a way to deal with him, for example, lure him into the capital under the pretense of being right, and then execute him. Wouldn't it be easier?"

"You think Wu Sangui is too stupid, even if he is recruited, he will not enter Beijing easily."

"Also, if a big traitor like Wu Sangui does not resolutely suppress it, but adopts a policy of appeasement and appeasement, it is tantamount to setting a very bad precedent. , and even raising the bandits’ self-respect will do nothing, and more frontier ministers will follow suit in the future.”

"Therefore, Wu Sangui must be suppressed, and he must not be given the chance to surrender."

After a pause, Chongzhen said again: "Because Wu Sangui broke through the bottom line of generals."