A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 866 Switches

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After the messenger returned to Shanhaiguan, Wu Sangui and Fang Guangchen couldn't wait to reply and watch.

In Guanxin, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty had the intention of destroying the thieves, and he also praised Wu Sangui greatly, praising him as a loyal minister and righteous man, but he did not specify whether he would borrow troops, but instead had a great desire to win him over.

While Wu Sangui was a little disappointed, he was also faintly proud. It was the feeling of being valued and affirmed by others.

There is also the peace of mind that is valued by others and has a retreat.

Dorgon said that if Wu Sangui led his people back home, he would be enshrined in his homeland and Jin would be a vassal king, just like the old story of the Nanjing Road in the Great Liao Dynasty. To be honest, Wu Sangui would not be moved.This sentence guaranteed the interests of his entire Liaodong Group and Wu Sangui.

In history, the Daoqi-Han Alliance in Nanjing, Liao Kingdom lasted for several 200 years, and many families benefited from it. If the matter of the capital cannot be done, this is an ideal retreat.

He paid special attention to the sentence "Although Bo has always defended Liaodong and is my enemy, don't be suspicious now because of the past. In the past, Guan Zhong shot Duke Huan in the bait, and later Duke Huan used him as Zhong's father to become hegemony." Disappointed Dashun and Remnant with an uncertain future, this Northern Dynasty emperor is more ambitious and ambitious, if he takes refuge in him in the future...

But he thought about it, and it would be better to take advantage of the captive Pingkou and recover Shenjing first.After all, no matter how sincere Dorgon's mind is and no matter how ambitious he is, the Qing Dynasty is only a corner of the eastern frontier, a small country with the largest layout of the Liao Dynasty.If there is a prospect of Daikin, Wu Sangui will not hesitate so much.

So after discussing with Fang Guangchen, he wrote back: "I received a letter to know that the Qing army went to the mountains and seas in Ningyuan, with the intention of saving the people and fighting violence, helping the weak and eliminating the strong, and the sound of righteousness shook the world. The person who helped him was actually my late emperor. But Sangui's feeling is still small. Today, Sangui has learned that Jian Jingrui used pictures and cameras to suppress thieves. Begging the emperor to quickly organize the tiger brigade and go straight to the mountains, seas and Jingdong, and the rebels can be captured. Also, the teacher of benevolence and righteousness is the first to focus on peace of the people. The proclamation is the most stringent, and I pray that the army will not commit any crimes in the autumn, so that the people will be convinced and the wealth and land will be obtained, so nothing will happen."

Dorgon replied: "Bo and others are willing to avenge the old master. The righteousness is commendable. The current affairs of the late emperor need not be said today, and we can't bear to say it. But it was an enemy country in the past, but now it is a family. When our soldiers enter the pass, if you touch a grass , one grain, will be put to death by military law. You are telling the residents, big and small, not to panic."

In his letter, he also persuaded him to surrender: "Today, Mingzuo is declining, and Bo has already understood. Bo and I have never had any enmity, and Bo's relatives are also in my place. The scale and situation of my Qing Dynasty will surely lead to great things in the future, but when Bo is prime minister Measure the potential, plan it early."

Seeing Dorgon's reply, Wu Sangui's heart sank again. He was most worried that when he borrowed captives to fight against the bandits, if the borrowed Qing soldiers burned, killed and looted like bandits, then it would be a big deal.The emperor of the Northern Dynasty tried his best to protect his military discipline, which is no match for a thief.

Wu Sangui was still hesitant about surrendering, and he still wanted to borrow troops, but on the seventh day of the lunar new year, for some reason, Wu Sangui's secrets were leaked.Not only the matter of taking advantage of captives to suppress the invaders that he had discussed with the officials earlier, but even the matter of his secret contact with the Qing side later was leaked.

For a while, there was an uproar in Shanhaiguan, people's hearts were turbulent, ladies and gentlemen fought and fled in shock, and farmers and businessmen were shocked.Moreover, some people secretly reported to Wu Sangui, saying that Liu Zhaoji and others were extremely dissatisfied with his borrowing of captives to fight against the bandits, intending to seize his soldiers and horses, guarding the door tightly, and welcoming Wang Dou at the right time, etc.

Wu Sangui was dubious, it was not easy to verify such things, but most of him still believed in his heart.When he was discussing with everyone on the fourth day of the lunar new year, Fan Zhiwan and Li Yutian spoke indifferently, and Liu Zhaoji even cursed at him, embarrassing him.

They really didn't agree with what they said. In order to prevent the Qing soldiers from entering the customs, and even get credit for guarding the customs, it's not impossible for them to do these things.

What's more, the people who tipped him off were a few well-known gentry in Shanhaiguan, who were highly respected and had always been very close to Liu Zhaoji, Fan Zhiwan and others. What they said was even more true.

Wu Sangui's heart was filled with gloom, he had never expected the situation to turn out like this, at this moment he could not get off the tiger, so he had to go to the end on the road of borrowing captives to fight the bandits.

He decided to try one last time, and persuade Dong Pingbo, Governor Ji Liao, Governor Guanmen and others, and invite them to work together for a great cause.There is also Tang Tong, a bastard who originally promised to advance and retreat with him, but has been shaken for some reason recently, so he must be firm in his heart.

At the same time, he was secretly on guard. He calculated Liu Zhaoji's military strength, the main barracks consisted of more than 3000 soldiers, and there were hundreds of family members.When he served as the general army of Liaodong, he controlled more than 1 soldiers and horses, but it was just a restraint. According to the military system of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Zhaoji only brought the soldiers and horses of the regular army battalion when he took office in Shanhaiguan, and the rest remained in place.

Not to mention Fan Zhiwan and Li Yutian, their Supervising Biao Battalion and Fu Biao Battalion have 200 or [-] soldiers, and [-] internal servants, which are more of a symbol of strength than combat effectiveness.

He calculated himself again, there were 2000 elite servants in Shanhaiguan, and more than 1000 selected Wu Zujia elite riders. In terms of elite combat power, it ranked first in Shanhaiguan.

He was more thoughtful and only invited Liu Zhaoji, Fan Zhiwan and others to discuss matters in his mansion, and the necessary precautions were also indispensable.

After receiving the secret report, Wu Sangui was suspicious, and he no longer dared to be alone with Liu Zhaoji and others, let alone go to their mansion and other places.

……

At noon on the eighth day, Liu Zhaoji, Fan Zhiwan, Li Yutian, Tang Tong and others were invited to a banquet in Wu Sangui's mansion, and Liu Zhaoji and others happily went.

In fact, these few days of quarrels have disturbed Liu Zhaoji and the others, although some people hastily reminded Liu Zhaoji that there are slaves and thieves making trouble recently, Wu Sangui is unpredictable now, it is better not to go to an unsafe place.

The best strategy is to quickly take down Wu Sangui.

But Liu Zhaoji didn't take it seriously, thinking that Wu Sangui wouldn't be so frantic, he had a straightforward temper, so if he had anything to say, Wu Sangui had been in Liaodong for a long time, so he wouldn't be ignorant of his temper.And this kind of controversy is not without incident, when the capital fell, Dashun sent Tang Tong to surrender, and he himself had disputes with Wu Sangui and others.

In the end, Wu Sangui, Fan Zhiwan and others convinced themselves that all the officials in Shanhaiguan would go to Dashun together.

The previous quarrel was quarrelsome, but afterwards everyone was still in harmony.

Now it's time to convince Wu Sangui himself.

Fan Zhiwan and Li Yutian didn't think too much about it. Wu Sangui had always had a good reputation in Liaodong, and treated people with respect and humility. Fan and Li had been in Liaodong for a long time, and they always got along like a spring breeze.In the past few days, the relationship between the two parties has become a bit stiff, which is what Fan and Li do not want to see. They just took this opportunity to improve the relationship, and gently persuaded each other to eliminate misunderstandings.

As for Tang Tong, he originally agreed to Wu Sangui, but the people in Guancheng are in a turmoil these two days, and thinking about the prospect of taking advantage of the captives to suppress the bandits is unclear, maybe it will be safer to just guard the wall and wait for the imperial soldiers to come, so He hesitated a little.

Everyone has various thoughts and goes to Wu Sangui.Of course, although they didn't take it seriously, Liu Zhaoji and others were not careless. For example, although Liu Zhaoji went to Wu Sangui's mansion for a banquet, he still brought his most elite personal guards, about 20 of them.

Fan Zhiwan and the others were accompanied by family guards.

When everyone arrived at Wu Sangui's mansion, they saw Wu Sangui and Fang Guangchen greeted him out of the gate, talking and laughing at Yan Yan, they were still as courteous and sincere as before, which made Liu Zhaoji and others feel relieved.

After entering the mansion, Wu Sangui held a banquet in the lobby, several senior officials sat and drank, and set up many tables under the hall to entertain Liu Zhaoji and other accompanying guards.

At first these guards were worried, but when they saw the harmony in the hall and bursts of laughter from time to time, they let go of their concerns.

Some people are even laughing at themselves, they are making too much of a fuss, and people's rumors are too unbelievable, and it is true.

After three rounds of wine, five flavors of food, everything was so peaceful, the hall was still full of laughter, and the guards of everyone in the hall were completely relieved. Under the persuasion of the Wu family's family, they all went crazy drink up.

Just when everyone was drunk, there seemed to be some quarrels in the hall. The accompanying Liu Zhaoji's personal guard was still a little wary. He didn't eat and drink much. He heard the quarrels in the hall. It's my own marshal and Ping Xibo who are arguing.

"...Brother Wu, do you still want to borrow captives? Those Tartar beast-like things, if you let them enter the customs, the common people don't know how they will suffer, how can you bear it?"

As if Wu Sangui had said something, Liu Zhaoji yelled: "The slave chief said he would enforce strict military discipline? Those Tartars are the most cunning, they can be trusted with their words, and sows can climb trees. When they enter the customs, why don't they just let them flatten and make rounds?" , if they repent, what should they do?"

It seemed that Wu Sangui had said something again, and Liu Zhaoji shouted: "Great cause? Restoration of Shenjing? We will hold the side wall and prevent the Tartars from entering the customs. This is the great cause..."

He patted the table even more, and there was a clatter of bowls and chopsticks in the hall, and then he roared angrily: "...you know that Tang Suzong used the power of Huihe to take back Erjing, but you don't know that those who fell into the hands of Hu Gou How miserable the people are... What kind of bullshit great achievements, these are the blood and tears of the people of my Central Plains..."

Everyone in the hall looked in astonishment, many of them even stood up, and then heard the panicked persuasion voices of Fan Zhiwan and others, and Liu Zhaoji was still roaring: "This kind of big industry absolutely does not agree, I also advise you, Brother Wu, that the Great General Zhenglu hates the Tartars the most, if you really do this, even if you regain Shenjing, do you think the Marquis of Yongning will let you go?"

It seems that Wu Sangui fell silent, and then there was an uneasy silence in the hall, and the accompanying Liu Zhaoji's personal guard felt terrified. He was about to get up and move, but he heard that his commander seemed to calm down, and then he sincerely said Said: "Brother Wu, I am waiting for Han..."

Suddenly, there was a clatter of ping-pong in the hall, as if tables, chairs, bowls and chopsticks fell to the ground, and then Fan Zhiwan, governor of Jiliao, screamed in horror: "...ah...ah...you killed Liu Shuai? You killed Liu Shuai? It's just insane..."

The bodyguard of Liu Zhaoji who accompanied him trembled all over, he suddenly drew his weapon and rushed into the hall.

The situation in front of him made his eyes tear open, and he saw his commander lying on the ground with a sharp sword stuck in his chest, and blood was slowly flowing out from under his chest.He rushed forward, helped the commander in chief Liu Zhaoji and cried, but saw that his eyes were wide open and he could no longer hear his voice.

There was anger and confusion in his eyes, he looked at it, and seemed to be looking at thousands of miles of rivers and mountains. Amidst the crying, he finally closed his eyes slowly, with a trace of peace in the corners of his eyes, as if he had fought for a lifetime, and then fell asleep, and his soul returned to him in the end. back to the place.

The guard wailed loudly, and he cried out to Wu Sangui: "What have you done, Wu Sangui, you beast, you killed my commander-in-chief!"

Wu Sangui's hands were covered with blood, his face was completely bloodless, he seemed to be staggering, and he could only lean against the wall weakly.However, Fan Zhiwan, governor of Jiliao, and Li Yutian, governor of Guanmen, just crawled on the ground and screamed.Tang Tong's face was earthy, shivering in a corner of the wall.

There was also Fang Guangchen who stumbled and walked unsteadily, his face was ashen, and he muttered: "Out of control, out of control..."

The pre-discussion, at most, was to put Liu Zhaoji and others under house arrest, not to kill, but everything in front of us...

He covered his face in pain.

But at this time there was a lot of crying, but it was Liu Zhaoji's personal guards who rushed into the hall, and seeing the marshal killed, they all wept loudly.

"I kill you!"

At this moment, the previous personal guard shouted sharply, holding the weapon, he rushed towards Wu Sangui fiercely.Seeing that his long knife was about to strike Wu Sangui, a spear flew towards him suddenly. The guard spurted out a mouthful of blood, but was shot by the spear, then staggered back and fell to his knees.

He was pierced by the spear, and while vomiting blood, he was still crying in pain: "Wu Sangui, what are you doing?"

The servants who were ambushing behind the hall rushed out densely, hacked and killed the guards brought by Liu Zhaoji and others, rescued Wu Sangui and others, and also brought in Fan Zhiwan and others.

When Wu Sangui arrived at the back of the hall, he was staggering and sweating profusely. Hearing the shouts of killing from the front hall and the faint howling, his face was extremely pale.Beside him were Fan Zhiwan, Fang Guangchen, Tang Tong and others who were trembling as if their spines had been broken.

He didn't look at them, and hissed: "Send the order, immediately take over the Guanfang, and incorporate all the ministries of the Guancheng..."

……

In the afternoon, outside Shanhaiguan, Huanxiling, Weiyuan Fort.

A number of cavalry from Ningyuan rushed up Huanxi Ridge, and then Kabush Xianga La Angbang Wubai rushed into the official hall of Weiyuan Fort to report the news to the Qing Emperor Dorgon in the hall.

Dorgon stood up abruptly: "Is that really the case?"

Wu Bai said: "Exactly, when our Qing soldiers were about to conquer Yizhou, the soldiers and people in the city set themselves on fire, and no one surrendered to our Qing Dynasty."

He said: "Here are letters from Du Du and others who attacked Yizhou."

Dorgon silently accepted the letter from Du Du, Luo Luohuan and others that he had presented. He read it for a long time, gritted his teeth and said, "Cao Bianjiao and Wang Tingchen, even if they die, they won't surrender me to the Qing Dynasty?"

He roared loudly: "It has been 300 years, why are there so many loyal ministers and good generals in the Southern Dynasty, how can Zhu Ming He De deserve their allegiance?"

Everyone in the hall was silent. At this time, after the university scholar Ning finished, I came out and forced a smile: "There is a way that those who know the current affairs are heroes, and it is also said that good birds choose trees to live in..."

Dorgon shouted sharply: "Shut up!"

He said sternly: "Every dynasty has its own fate. If there is a day when I can't bear it in the Qing Dynasty, how can there be so many loyal ministers and righteous men?"

After Ning Wan, I remained silent, not daring to speak again.

Dorgon broke out for a while, then said dejectedly: "Collect their bones and build a temple for them."

Baylor Sahalian, who was in charge of the Ministry of Rituals, quickly responded.

Dorgon sat dully for a while, and finally asked Gao Hongzhong, who was in charge of the Ministry of Justice in charge of Manzi City, "Is there any news from Wu Sangui?"

Gao Hongzhong hurriedly came out, he was about to say something, when suddenly a Kabush virtuous soldier came in with a spy to report something.

Dorgon listened carefully, his face was cloudy and uncertain. After a long time, he laughed dumbly and said: "This Wu Sangui, I really underestimate him."

……

At the beginning of Yueshen Dynasty, Wu Sangui ran out from Dongluo City with dozens of riders, along with his good friend Fang Guangchen, the son of Fang Yizao, the former Minister of Rites.

Wu Sangui's face was pale, and he led his cavalry straight to the Qing army's barracks in Weiyuanbao, knelt in front of Dorgon, and asked him to lead his army into the customs immediately, and then waved his army straight to the capital.

Dorgon offered tea immediately, and closed the door face-to-face as the first achievement. He said that he appreciated Wu Sangui very much, and he was willing to marry the late emperor's daughter, Princess Jianning, to his son Wu Yingxiong, to strengthen their relationship, and immediately named him King Pingxi of the Qing Dynasty.

Wu Sangui listened silently and did not refuse.

Then Dorgon promised strict military discipline. He said: "I will make an oath with all the generals, and I will tell all the ministers and workers who will follow the expedition: this time, I will go out to eliminate the violence and save the people, and destroy the bandits to bring peace to the world. Now enter the Kansai expedition, do not kill innocents , Don’t loot property, don’t burn down the huts, and those who don’t agree will be punished!”

He also ordered to reward Wu Sangui with jade belts, python robes, sable furs, pommel horses, Linglong bags, bows and arrows, and finally said: "I am determined to go west to exterminate the rogues, but you and the rogues are both Han Chinese, how can we distinguish them in wartime? Fear of causing manslaughter, let it be justified!"

Wu Sangui was stunned, and finally said: "Yes."

Soon, he and Fang Guangchen beside him had their heads shaved, and the two of them touched the tail of the money rat on the back of their heads, all dumbstruck.

Then Dorgon ordered to enter the customs. At this time, all the gates of Shanhaiguan were wide open. The Qing army entered the customs in three ways, one at the South Water Gate and one at the North Water Gate.

After Wu Sangui opened the door and bowed to the robbers, fully armed, the mighty Qing army easily entered Xiongguan and entered the land inside the pass.

They are like a tide, with no head in front and tail behind...

(End of this chapter)