Nanming Yiming

Chapter 197 Datong Town Returns to Ming Dynasty, Wu Sangui Rebels Again

When Duoduo attacked the Sunite tribe two years ago, the Mongolian Bahrain tribe sent troops to help, and occupied a large area of ​​grassland in the original Sunite tribe.This time the Mobei Allied Forces went south, and the Bahrain Department was naturally the first to bear the brunt.

Teng Jisi and others came in menacingly. Bahrain's right-wing Zasak Sebuten and left-wing Zasak Manzhu were defeated. After losing a large area of ​​livestock, herdsmen and pastures, they led 5000 remnants and fled eastward to the Chahar tribe.

The Chahar tribe is one of the most famous tribes in Mongolia, known as the central Mongolian households in history.In the Northern Yuan Dynasty, it was a tribe directly under the Mongolian Khan, and its leader was a direct descendant of the Jin family.Even the Sunit Department was separated from the Chahar Department, and its strength should not be underestimated.

In line with the principle of "picking the soft persimmon first", Teng Jisi decided to attack the Smote Department in Guihua City (now Hohhot) first. Taking this place is like opening the door to the Yinshan and Hetao areas, which is very important for the Mongolian cavalry to go south in the future.

Here I have to sigh the horror of the Fan family. As the head of the eight imperial merchants of the Qing Dynasty, Fan Yongdou is indeed powerful. Apart from weapons and armor, he can even send artillery to Mobei.

Qian Mo and the Fan family teamed up to sell the Qing army's armor and firearms seized in the south of the Yangtze River to Mobei, earning a lot of money, including the red cannons of the Qing army.

Although Guihua City is the largest city on the Mongolian grasslands, and its walls are even completely wrapped with blue bricks, it is only two miles in circumference and three feet high.

For Sunit, which has hundreds of Lumi guns and 10 red cannons, it is easy to capture here.

However, Batu suggested that Guihua be besieged instead of attacked.Sure enough, not long after, King Abu Nai of Chahar Khan couldn't stand the urging of Smote's department, so he decided to send 15000 elite cavalry to support him.

Unexpectedly, just after Chahar's fine cavalry crossed the Ikturgen River, they encountered a surprise attack by 5 cavalry from the Tushetu and Chechen troops.The mountains and plains are full of Mobei Mongolian cavalry. The two sides have a huge disparity in strength. In addition, the Chahar tribe is fighting with their backs. Once they fight, they immediately collapse. The Chahar tribe was defeated in this battle.

Fortunately, it was already winter and the water in the Ikturgen River was relatively shallow, so they were able to lead the 5000 remnants out of the encirclement.However, after this battle, the vitality of the Chahar tribe was severely injured, and Monan Mongolia was powerless to prevent Teng Jisi and others from continuing to attack the city and plunder the land.

After the news of the fall of Guihua City and the severe damage to the Chahar Department reached Beijing, Dorgon could no longer sit still.He quickly appointed Prince Azig as the general of Fuyuan, and led 1 Manchurian Zhengbai Banners to garrison in the Datong area, so as to enter Mongolia at any time to quell the chaos.

Jiang Xiang, the chief soldier of Datong, was born in Yanchuan, Shaanxi. He came from a family of generals. Most of his brothers were senior officials at the level of chief soldier or deputy chief soldier.His family has been operating in the Datong area for many years, and most of his soldiers are old confidantes. At the same time, he is also a representative of the gentry in Datong, with the support of the gentry behind him. It can be said bluntly that Jiang Xiang is the emperor of Datong.

Originally, when the Qing army first entered the customs, Jiang Xiang once supported Zhu Gui, the acting king, and was forced to surrender to the Qing.This time Azig's stationing in Datong touched his bottom line, coupled with the successive defeats of the Qing army in the south of the Yangtze River, and even the loss of Nanjing, it made him determined to raise troops against the Qing.

Azig's expedition this time required to forcibly expropriate food and grass from all over Shanxi, which caused complaints from the people of Shanxi and provided a good mass foundation for Jiang Xiang's anti-Qing.

At this time, Geng Yu, the governor of Xuanda, said to Jiang Xiang, the general of Datong: "General Jiang, the troops of General Fuyuan are less than 20 miles away from Datong. Have you prepared the food and grass for the army to go to Mongolia?"

Jiang Xiang said with a smile: "The humble official has ordered people to adjust the grain from various places, and now 5 shi of grain can be stored outside the city at any time. If Governor Geng doesn't believe it, he can go and inspect it himself."

Geng Xuan thought that this Jiang Xiang was usually arrogant and domineering, and he valued money and food more than his life, but this time he agreed so easily, it was really suspicious.

So Geng Yan personally took the Governor's Mansion, Si Dao, and Zhifu officials at all levels out of the city to inspect the grain and grass, so as not to make any mistakes!

Unexpectedly, as soon as Geng Yun left Datong, Jiang Xiang ordered people to close the gate of the city, saying: "The Qing court perverted the law and made our people in Shanxi miserable. I will follow the emperor Yongli's order to raise troops against the Qing Dynasty. Today, our soldiers and people in Datong will return to the Ming Dynasty anyway."

After finishing speaking, Jiang Xiang cut off the braid first, and then arrested Geng Yu's family to sacrifice the flag at the head of the city.

The soldiers in the city also imitated Jiang Xiang and cut off their braids, and the shouts of "return to the Ming Dynasty anyway" resounded throughout Datong, scaring Geng Yu and others to rush to report to Azig.

Although Azig led his army to the city of Datong soon after, Datong was one of the nine important towns in the Ming Dynasty and a famous fortress. One can imagine how strong it is?

Azig stormed for 3 days in a row, causing more than 1000 casualties, and he never even climbed to the top of the city of Datong.He himself was even almost hit by the artillery on Datong City. If it weren't for a few soldiers who blocked him with their bodies, he might have been reunited with Duoduo in the underworld by this time.

Now that Qing's family property is running out, Zhengbai Qi is the capital of the Dorgon brothers' bottom line. No matter how powerful Azige is, he dare not use Zhengbai Qi to make fun of him.

He could only temporarily retreat to the Xuanfu in the east of Datong, waiting for reinforcements from the capital.

It was not a day or two before Jiang Xiang was preparing to rebel against the Qing Dynasty, and soon contacted the rebels from all over Shanxi;

In less than a month, the rebel army blossomed everywhere in Shanxi. Shuozhou, Hunyuan, Kelan, Baode, Ningwu, Xinzhou, Zezhou, Puzhou and other places were all captured by the rebels.

Even Shaanxi, which is across the river, was affected by Jiang Xiang anyway. Wang Yongqiang and others raised troops in Shaanxi to support them, and there was a huge momentum for a while!

Now Khalkha Mongolia may go south at any time, and Dorgon does not dare to throw all his little family fortune to Datong and Jiang Xiang to fight for his life.On the one hand, Jiang Xiang had to be persuaded to surrender, on the other hand, Azig was asked to stick to the line from Xuanfu to Juyongguan, and on the other hand, troops were sent to guard the Taihang Baxing, so as to prevent the uprising in Shanxi from spreading to Hebei and the capital.

Datong is only 700 miles away from the capital, so the threat is too great.At this time, the Mobei Mongolian coalition forces have also captured Guihua City, severely damaged the Chahar tribe of Mongolia, and may go south at any time.

If these two forces cooperate with each other, the consequences will be disastrous.

In desperation, Dorgon had no choice but to appoint Li Guoying as the admiral of Sichuan and Shaanxi, and cooperate with the trilateral governor of Shaanxi Meng Qiaofang to suppress the rebellion in Shaanxi, and transferred Wu Sangui's department stationed in Hanzhong to Shanxi to suppress the rebellion.

Although Wu Sangui opened the Shanhaiguan Pass, he put the Manchu Qing into the Central Plains.But his original intention was to defeat Li Zicheng with the help of the Qing Dynasty, and he had an agreement with Doer Gun that the Qing Dynasty would not be able to defeat the Yellow River.

But Wu Sangui himself did not expect that the seemingly powerful Dashun Army would be so vulnerable.After Li Zicheng was defeated by himself and Dorgon in the "Piece of Stone War", he was defeated by thousands of miles.This allowed the Manchu Qing to quickly control the situation in the entire north. At this time, Wu Sangui had long since lost the capital to negotiate terms with Dorgon, and changed from a "collaborator" to a subordinate.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Hongguang regime, Wu Sangui was granted the title of Ji Guogong, and a special envoy was sent to the north to reward the army with silver.He really has the idea of ​​being on two boats, anyway, he has elite soldiers in his hands, and both the Ming and Qing Dynasties must rely on him.It's just that he never imagined that the Hongguang regime, with hundreds of thousands of troops sitting on half of the south of the Yangtze River, would fall apart in less than a year.

At this time, Wu Sangui completely lost his political capital, and he could only be a servant of the Qing Dynasty honestly.

Although after occupying Beijing, Dorgon canonized Wu Sangui as the Pingxi King of the Qing Dynasty; but he was quite afraid of Wu Sangui and his Guanning Army, and even transferred Wu Sangui back to Liaodong to guard Jinzhou.

Afterwards, although he was allowed to guard Hanzhong, he also strictly controlled the money and food in Hanzhong, keeping him in a state of "not being full, starving to death", and strictly preventing Wu Sangui from expanding the size of the Guanning Army.The Guanning army under Wu Sangua is an independent system, neither belonging to the Han Eight Banners nor the Green Battalion, they only obey Wu Sangui.

If it weren't for the fact that the Qing Dynasty has encountered serious troubles on both the north and south fronts, Dorgon really didn't want to use Wu Sangui.

In the Pingxi Palace in Hanzhong, the senior generals of the Guan Ning Army have gathered together.

Wu Sangui took the imperial decree of Shunzhi and said: "Everyone, the imperial court has ordered our Guanning Army to go to Shanxi to put down the Jiangxiang Rebellion in Shanxi. Our chance has finally come!"

As soon as Wu Sangui said this, the generals under him were also very excited. They were really suffocated in Hanzhong for the past two years.

Wu Sanfeng said: "Hanzhong is a place where no birds shit. It's really not easy to raise soldiers. Now our Guanning Army only has 5 people. If the Qing Dynasty wants us to take action, it has to show something?"

Hu Guozhu, Guo Zhuangtu and others expressed their agreement. Hu Guozhu said: "There is a saying that the soldiers and horses go first before the food and grass are used. This time our army is going out, I don't know how much food the Qing government will give us."

Guo Zhuangtu was in charge of the logistics of the Guan Ning Army. He said: "Meng Qiaofang, the governor of the three sides, has prepared 25 taels of silver and 30 shi of grain and grass for us!"

Dorgon wanted to mobilize Wu Sangui's Guan Ning Army, so naturally he had to pay some capital. Although the silver taels were not much, the food and grass were enough for the army for several months.

Wu Sanfeng said: "It seems that Dorgon really suffered some blood this time. Since there is enough money and food, our army can leave the camp and go out to fight. In my opinion, Wang Yongqiang and others in northern Shaanxi are just a group of grassroots bandits. Our army does not need to go out of Tongguan to Shanxi. First go to northern Shaanxi to pacify Wang Yongqiang, and then take the opportunity to recruit the young men under him to our hands, and control the territory in northern Shaanxi."

"Then cross the Yellow River directly from northern Shaanxi and enter Shanxi. It will depend on the situation at that time. If Jiang Xiang's combat strength is mediocre, we will take the opportunity to take down Datong and Taiyuan, and take over Shanxi's territory;

Wu Sanfeng's words caught everyone's eyes. It is indeed a good idea to win Northern Shaanxi first, so that they can advance and retreat freely, and the strategic space will be much larger.

So they all expressed their support and asked Wu Sangui to send troops to northern Shaanxi.

Wu Sanfeng really spoke to Wu Sangui's heart. It is indeed a good move to win northern Shaanxi first. The folk customs in northern Shaanxi are aggressive, and it has been the best source of soldiers since ancient times. Li Zicheng can make such a big noise because of the support of a group of fellow villagers in northern Shaanxi.

However, seeing Xia Guoxiang's silence, he was somewhat puzzled.This son-in-law is both civil and military, good at planning, and is the person Wu Sangui relies on most.

So Wu Sangui said to Xia Guoxiang, "What's Zongbing Xia's opinion on this matter?"

Xia Guoxiang said: "Jiang Xiang's situation is actually similar to that of our Guanning Army. The Jiang family is also a family of generals in the Ming Dynasty. The family has been operating in the Datong area for many years and has a strong foundation. Datong is also an important town on the nine borders. It can be said that it is a strong city in the world. Azige's Manchurian Eight Banners can't help Datong. Why should we go to Shanxi to fight Jiang Xiang to the death?"

After hearing this, Wu Sanguo fell into deep thought.What Xia Guoxiang said is indeed not without reason.In fact, my situation is similar to that of Jiang Xiang, or even worse than that of Jiang Xiang.Although he has the title of King Pingxi, it can't compare to Jiang Xiang's old nest of Datong.In Dorgon's eyes, he and Jiang Xiang are actually threats. He obviously has no good intentions in asking himself to deal with Jiang Xiang. I'm afraid he hopes that we will lose both sides so that we will never suffer from future troubles!

Seeing Wu Sangui thinking, Xia Guoxiang knew that his words had an effect, so he went on to say: "In Xia's view, Jiang Xiang is not only not the target of our crusade, but also our rare ally. With him blocking Azig in Shanxi, Dorgon is beyond the reach of Shaanxi. Instead of going to Shanxi and fighting Jiang Xiang to death, we will lose both. Why don't we take the opportunity to seek Guanzhong?"

Wu Sangui was originally a hero, and wanted to make some achievements in this troubled world.Now that most of the main force of the Qing army has been ruined in the south of the Yangtze River, and the Ming Dynasty is in full swing, he took the opportunity to occupy Guanzhong, sitting on the danger of mountains and rivers, but he is the real king of the Northwest.

After having the capital, I can wait for the price between the Ming and Qing Dynasties again, and I can have both ways.

Soon the governor of the three sides, Meng Qiaofang, received a reply from Wu Sangui. He would send 5 Guanning troops north to Shanxi, and asked Meng Qiaofang to prepare a supply of money and food, and send people to take over Hanzhong.

After receiving this news, a stone in Meng Qiaofang's heart finally fell to the ground.In recent years, he has been instructed by Dorgon to strictly control the military rations in Hanzhong, and the quarrel between the two was very unpleasant.Dorgon was also afraid that Wu Sangui would not be able to move, so he asked Meng Qiaofang to prepare a large amount of money and food.

However, Meng Qiaofang still kept an eye out, fearing that Wu Sangua would not send troops after accepting the money and food, so he only sent someone to send 5 taels of silver and 5 shi of grain and grass to Hanzhong, and the two sides met to deliver the remaining supplies in Lintong near Xi'an.

Sure enough, not long after, dust billowed in front of him, and a large number of cavalry appeared in front of Meng Qiaofang.Meng Qiaofang was also shocked when she saw the Guan Ning iron cavalry in bright armor and with a murderous look on her face.

It really deserves to be the only Guanning iron cavalry in the Ming Dynasty who can compete head-on with the Eight Banners of Manchuria before.

If the green battalion under him fights with these Guan Ning iron cavalry, it may be 3 to 1 and they will not be their opponents.

Although Wu Sangui is a battle-tested veteran, he is only 36 years old now. Although he is not tall, he is still very conspicuous among the crowd with his fair skin and straight nose.

Meng Qiaofang cupped her hands and said, "Prince Pingxi is really quick to advance, and the Guanning iron cavalry under him is even more majestic, and the style is not lost in the past!"

Wu Sangui also cupped his hands and returned the salute and said: "Governor Lao Meng will welcome you in person. The army is on fire. I'm afraid I may miss the schedule. I wonder if the army's salary, food and grass can be prepared properly?"

Meng Qiaofang pointed to a pile of carts behind and said, "Prince Pingxi, don't worry, I've already shipped all the 20 taels of silver and 25 shi of grain and grass, just check."

Wu Sangui smiled and said: "This king trusts Governor Meng, so there is no need for an inspection. The war in Shanxi is tight, and there is no delay. I will lead the army out of Tongguan and go north to Shanxi. I don't know if the documents for customs clearance are ready!"

Soon a small official next to Meng Qiaofang handed the document to Wu Sangui. Wu Sangui checked the document and said to Hu Guozhu: "Mr. Hu, you lead 1 cavalry to Tongguan to open the way for the army. The king will escort the food and grass and then arrive."

Hu Guozhu said loudly: "The last general will obey the order of the prince!" Then he led the cavalry towards Tongguan.

Then Guan Ningjun rushed to the convoy behind, preparing to escort the supplies.

Meng Qiaofang just wanted to praise Wu Sangua for his swift and resolute actions, but Wu Sangui drew out his saber and put it on his neck.Then those Guan Ning troops quickly came from all around and disarmed the accompanying 3000 green battalion.

Meng Qiaofang was taken aback, and then said loudly, "Prince Pingxi, what do you mean?"

Wu Sangui laughed and said: "This king will not give up. I want to return to the Ming Dynasty and respect Yongli as Zhengshuo. Is Governor Meng going to fight with me, or will he be buried in the Qing Dynasty?"

Meng Qiaofang didn't expect Wu Sangua to turn against him directly, so she cursed angrily: "Prince Pingxi, I have treated you well in Qing Dynasty, why did you betray?"

Wu Sangui said: "At the beginning when I asked the Qing Dynasty to send troops to help, Dorgon promised to avenge the late Emperor Chongzhen, and the Qing army would never cross the Yellow River. It was the Qing Dynasty who lived up to its words and deceived the king first."

Then he snorted coldly and said, "In the past two years, Governor Meng has withheld a lot of food and grass for my Guanning Army. This is Dorgon's intention; even the food and salary cannot be paid in full, so how can you treat me well?"

Meng Qiaofang is a smart person, and now that she is in Wu Sangui's hands, if she refuses to submit, she may be killed by him directly to sacrifice the flag.

Seeing that Meng Qiaofang was still hesitating, Wu Sangui said: "The 1 green battalion sent by Governor Meng to Hanzhong may have surrendered to our Guanning Army at this moment. This king has ordered people to block the road from central Shu to Hanzhong. Li Guoying, you can't count on him. Governor Meng should put away those unrealistic fantasies?"

Wu Sangui's words can be said to have cut off his last escape route.

Originally, there were Manchu Eight Banners stationed in Xi'an, but Boluo Tonghaoge's second Southern Expedition moved all 4000 Manchurian Eight Banners away, and now there are only 2000 Han Army Banners in Xi'an.

And the entire city of Xi'an has only 15000 people, even if you count the 10000 people stationed in Tongguan, they can't compete with Guanning's iron cavalry.

Now that the Qing Dynasty is losing ground on all fronts, there is almost no possibility of a comeback.The situation is stronger than others, and it seems that he can only follow Wu Sangui to return home anyway.

With Meng Qiaofang's cooperation, Guan Ningjun's next move will be much easier.

Meng Qiaofang personally called open the city gate of Xi'an and ordered the defenders to surrender.Although some Han army flags also wanted to resist during the period, they were quickly wiped out by the Guan Ning army.

And Hu Guozhu also quickly captured Tongguan in the east of Xi'an and Wuguan in the southeast to prevent the Qing troops from Henan and Hubei from entering Guanzhong.

The entire Guanzhong area with Xi'an Mansion as the core is under the control of Wu Sangui.

Then Xia Guoxiang swung his troops to the west again, conquering Meixian County and Baoji all the way. The Fengxiang guard saw the Wu army's momentum and directly opened the city gate to surrender. So far, the whole Fengxiang Mansion has been recovered.

As Fengxiang and Hanzhong became one, almost all the dangerous areas in Longxi fell into the hands of the Guanning army, and there was a solid barrier in the west of the Guanzhong Plain.

At this time, Wu Sangui reorganized the 3 people from the Shaanxi Green Camp who had surrendered, and began to enter Yan'an Mansion to encircle and suppress the anti-Qing rebel Wang Yongqiang who was entrenched in Yijun and Luochuan.

Because Wu Sangui played the banner of returning to the Ming anyway, all the Qing troops under his command also cut off their whips and replaced them with the flags of the Ming army, which made the rebels less vigilant towards them.

Wang Yongqiang accepted Wu Sanfeng's invitation to meet in the Luoshui River Valley to the east of Yijun City to discuss the matter of accepting the canonization of the Yongli court.But he is not stupid, naturally it is impossible to go to the meeting alone, Wang Yongqiang secretly ambushed 5000 elite rebels in the valley.

But he never expected that this was a complete conspiracy.Wang Yongqiang waited at the agreed place for a long time, but Wu Sanfeng never showed up.

Not long after, news came that Wu Sanfeng took advantage of the chance that the rebel army brought the main force to the Luoshui River Valley, and took the opportunity to capture Yijun City.Wang Yongqiang knew that the strength of the rebel army would make it difficult to recapture Yijun, so he had to lead his people to retreat to Luochuan, but unexpectedly, after crossing Luoshui, he was attacked by Wu army cavalry.

Wang Yongqiang's rebel army was originally dominated by the green battalion, and their individual combat capabilities were relatively weak. Now they were hit halfway by Wu Sanfeng's men and horses, and suffered heavy casualties.Soon Wu Sanfeng took the opportunity to take down Luochuan, and so far the rebels in northern Shaanxi were basically wiped out by Wu Sangui.

Then with the help of Meng Qiaofang, the Qing army in northern Shaanxi surrendered one after another. Yan'an Mansion, Qingyang Mansion, Pingliang Mansion and Yulin Town, one of the nine border towns, surrendered Wu Sangui one after another.

On the third day of January in the third year of Yongli (1649), Wu Sangui, King of Pingxi in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, announced in Xi'an that the eight prefectures of Shaanxi had returned to the Ming Dynasty in his capacity as Duke Ji of the Ming Dynasty.

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