Anti Qing

Chapter 88 Xiangyang
"Li Zijing, who lived in Mizhi for a long time, is the third younger brother of Li Zicheng. Mizhi's surname is Li. He is divided into the Erjia Li family in Tai'anli and the Li family in Yonghe Shilou."

"One branch is Tai'an Li Erjia. Brothers Li Zicheng and Li Zijing belonged to Tai'an Li Erjia and migrated from Tai'an Li, Gansu."

In the Hall of Martial Heroes, Dorgon was lowering his head to deal with government affairs, listening to the sentry report for a while, but suddenly raised his head to interrupt.

"That's not what I want to hear. It's been so many days, and you haven't found out yet. What exactly does this Li Zijing do?"

"This Li Zijing, what is his status and prestige among the rogues? Has he ever led an army alone in battle?"

Hearing Dorgon's series of questions, the sentinel groaned slightly, his whole body shivered, but his head was sweating profusely, and he quickly apologized.

"Uncle Regent, that's all."

"Li Zijing's ancestor lived in Li Jiqian's village in Mizhi for generations. Before he joined Chuangying, he had never made a name for himself, and there is no record about him."

"The slaves received the decree from the regent, and they visited day and night, and asked many green camps who were former rogues. Many people didn't even know that there was such a person."

"At present, we only know that when Li Zicheng established the government in Xiangyang in the 16th year of Chongzhen, he intended to let his third brother Li Zijing lead the army, but he gave up because of too much opposition."

"Based on this, it can be inferred that Li Zijing's prestige among the many leaders of the rogues should not be high."

Dorgon stared slightly, repeating in a deep voice.

"You mean, this Li Zijing, as Li Zicheng's third younger brother, didn't even do anything big before Chongzhen 17 years ago?"

"Are you telling me that this Li Zijing is just an ordinary rogue?"

The sentry cavalry's breath was slightly flustered, and he lowered his head to reply.

"Yes."

Dorgon was silent for a while, then slapped the table with a slap.

"fart!"

"How can someone who can see through Duoduo's ambush join the camp for so many years without any news?"

The emperor's uncle, the regent, was furious, and the white-armored sentry cavalry quickly knelt down on the ground. He was very nervous and didn't dare to breathe.

"Okay, it's none of your business, you go down."

Watching the sentry cavalry retreat as if he had received an amnesty, Dorgon leaned back on the chair, staring at the direction of Guanzhong in the distance.

"Tell Duoduo, Li Zicheng and Li Zijing, the two rogue leaders, don't let either of them go. If you live, you want to see people, and if you die, you want to see corpses!"

Naturally, Li Zijing didn't know that the battle of Tongguan made him famous in Dorgon's eyes.

And Duoduo regarded the Battle of Tongguan as a lifelong shame, and when he heard about Li Zijing's name from Beijing, he gritted his teeth with hatred.

With the deployment of control in the direction of Beijing, the Qing court once again operated with extremely high efficiency, and the Qing troops in Xuanfu, Datong and Jizhen were mobilized one after another.

Hauge in Shandong also received news that he would lead his troops westward in early February, using both water and land, to Xuzhou, leaving only some troops in Shandong to maintain the situation.

Azig on the northern front also started the final attack on the Yan'an and Yulin defense lines, and was secretly preparing to strike back and recuperate.

It can be said that with the victory of Dashun in the Battle of Tongguan, the situation in the whole world has quietly changed, and Dashun and the Qing army are facing each other tit for tat.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the success or failure of Dashun and the Qing army in the Central Plains battle is related to who will win the world in the future.

As for Nanming, he was just a soy saucer.

From Li Zicheng to Dorgon, and then from Li Zijing to Duoduo, they were all worried about each other, and no one even regarded Nanming as an opponent for the world.

The fight in the north is in full swing, and the Hongguang court is still on the banks of the Qinhuai River, singing and dancing, and sensuality.

Just like in history, the emperors and ministers of the Nanming Dynasty fought endlessly in the court hall all day long, party disputes continued, and wars of lip service were fought happily.

The Minister of Military Affairs, Shige Department is one of the few hard-working factions, and has a good reputation among the common people, but the road has gone astray.

During the first month, Shi Kefa asked himself to leave Nanjing, stationed in Huaiyang as a supervisor, and restrained the four towns in Jiangbei.

The good news is that after Gao Jie's death, the high-ranking troops scattered. Some of the four towns in Jiangbei watched the fire from the other side, and some absorbed the rout. They all had their own affairs to attend to.

But Shi Kefa, who wanted to come out to control the four towns in Jiangbei, made a mysterious operation at this time.

Perhaps it was the aloof character in his heart that caused trouble, but Shi Kefa still looked down on these former rogues from the bottom of his heart, so he justly refused Gao Jie's son Gao Yuanjue's request to worship him as a foster father.

It's fine to refuse, but what's funny is that Shi Kefa even set up a thread to make Gao Yuanjue worship Gao Qiqian as his father.

Although they are all surnamed Gao, this line is not a mess!
Who is High Dive?
This guy is a eunuch, and his reputation in the Ming army is not very good.

At the beginning, Chongzhen used Lu Xiangsheng to supervise the soldiers of the world, and Lu Xiangsheng fought a bloody battle with the invading Qing army in Julu Jiazhuang.

It can be said that Lu Xiangsheng died indirectly at his hands.

Not only that, Gao Qi was notorious when he was lurking in Nanjing to supervise the army. Many righteous generals of the Ming army were dismissed and investigated just because they didn't salute him when they met.

Asking Gao Yuanjue to worship Gao Qiqian as his father is completely shooting himself in the foot. I really don't know whether Shi Kefa is really stupid or thinks he is smart.

As soon as this news came out, there was an uproar among the high-ranking officials in the Xuzhou area, and everyone was filled with righteous indignation.

What, let the young marshal worship a dead eunuch as his father?

Isn't this a way of insulting them, senior veterans?
To the ears of the senior generals, Shi Kefa's move was no different from feeding a pot of excrement into their mouths.

Didn't say it, it's the other way around!

But for Li Zijing, Shi Kefa's various coquettish operations just bought time for Xiangyang's development.

There is no leader in the high department, and Shi Kefa is called the supervisor, but he can't subdue these arrogant soldiers at all, let alone make Gao Yuanjue worship Gao Qiqian as his father.

In a short period of time, Dashun in Xiangyang still couldn't be noticed.

In such a turbulent situation, Li Zijing led the front battalion in the second ten days of the first month of the second year of Yongchang (1645), and successfully crossed the Fancheng Pass through the pontoon bridge and arrived in Xiangyang.

The fear of being intercepted did not appear.

Xiangyang, known as the first city in China since ancient times, is one of the three strategically important places for the northern army to go south, or the southern army to go north.

Historically, Xiangyang was breached in the Southern Song Dynasty, and the entire south of the Yangtze River collapsed without a fight. Guan Yu's northern expedition to Jingxiang shocked China, forcing Cao Cao to almost move his capital.

Ships from the south to the horses from the north, the thoroughfare of the seven provinces.

These eight characters are perfectly suitable to describe Xiangyang.

After Li Zijing's front battalion arrived outside Xiangyang City, it really surprised the defenders in the city. After all, there are very few troops of this size in Xiangyang Prefecture.

Fortunately, after the soldiers and horses of the former battalion entered the territory of Xiangyang Mansion, the battle was clear, and the defenders in the city quickly put down their guard and sent people out to verify the seal.

But for some unknown reason, Niu Quan, Yin of Xiangyang Prefecture, the son of Niu Jinxing, Prime Minister of Dashun, rejected Li Zijing's proposal to enter the city for a rest.

(End of this chapter)