Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 495 Chaos in Central Shu on the Eve of the Northern Expedition and Li Dingguo's Recapture of Chengdu (Part 0)
Before the world was in chaos, Shu was in chaos first, and the world was governed before Shu was ruled.

Before Chongzhen's 22nd Northern Expedition began, Zhu Youjian had already caused the Ming army to start a war in the southwest. However, the real Northern Expedition has not yet started in Sichuan.

The other Northern Expeditionary armies had already crossed the Yellow River one after another, began to regain lost ground, and counterattacked the Qing army.

But Sun Kewang and Hauge in Sichuan are still coming on stage like clowns.

It was the first time for Prince Hauge of Manqingsu to come to this mild climate in Shuzhong. He did not expect the winter here to be so warm. He fell in love with it immediately, especially when he saw that this fertile land was actually snowing. There is also a gurgling trickle, and when there are so many cottages and very noisy market towns among the green trees, he is as excited as seeing a virgin that can be trampled.

Hauge only sent a small group of troops to plunder Jintang, Pixian, Xindu and other places.

And he himself brought the main force of the Zhenglan Banner straight to Chengdu City.

At this time, Sun Kewang also knew that the Qing army had appeared nearby, and that there were Qing troops looting around his Chengdu mansion, so he was quite annoyed.

Now he has regarded Sichuan, especially Chengdu, as his territory. His own officers and soldiers can plunder, but he doesn't want the Qing army to plunder in his own territory.

However, Sun Kewang also knew that he was now attached to the Manchu Qing, so he still sent an envoy to meet the Manchu General of the Western Conquest, Hauge.

"Our Royal Highness the King of Shu has joined the Qing Dynasty, and is about to send troops to take back the two cities of Xuzhou and Jiading to protect the southwestern border for the Qing Dynasty. Prince Bu Laosu led the army into Shu, so as not to deprive the people of the army. For this reason, the King of Shu His Highness specially donated 20 stone grains and 50 taels of silver, and also invited Prince Su to return to the court triumphantly, and convey the sincerity of our Highness the King of Shu for the court," the envoy Sun Kewang said to Hauge respectfully.

"His Royal Highness the King of Shu? Who gave him the title?"

Prince Su Hauge had to admit that Sun Kewang was really sincere, and in order to send him away, he even sent 50 stone grains and [-] taels of silver directly.

But also because of Sun Kewang's generosity, he realized more and more that this land in the middle of Sichuan is indeed very rich, and he can easily take out 20 stone grains and tens of thousands of taels of silver. Saving money and grain, recruiting soldiers and buying horses in order to seek dominance?

Therefore, the first thing Prince Su Hauge had to question was the legitimacy of Sun Kewang's throne of Shu.

"Don't dare to lie to Prince Su. Our Highness has sacrificed to heaven and earth in Chengdu on October [-]th. We have established ourselves as the King of Shu and enshrined His Majesty the Shunzhi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty as the Lord. We have established our country as Zhou and changed it to Yuan Yanqing."

After Sun Kewang's emissary said with a smile, Prince Su Hauge slapped the table:
"Absurd! How can he be a bandit who decides to seal the king and build the country? Go and tell Sun Kewang that if he really intends to surrender me to the Qing Dynasty, I will protect him as the king of Jianzhou in the Qing Dynasty, but if he wants to separate Chengdu and stand on his own, there is no way! If you don't obey From what I mean, in three days, I will attack Chengdu and take his life!"

Prince Su Hauge's statement also angered Sun Kewang.

"Extremely shameless! It's unbelievable! These Tartars dare to threaten Gu. If so, why should you be the master!"

When Sun Kewang knew that Prince Su Hauge had changed his previous promise to occupy his Chengdu mansion, he also resolutely pulled down the banner of Feng Qing as the main force, and then he directly declared himself emperor, directly proclaimed himself Zhensheng, and officially He stated that he regarded the Hauge Department of the Qing Army as an enemy, and began to strengthen the city defense.

But at this time, Prince Su Hauge had already arrived at the foot of the Chengdu prefecture, and began bombarding the Chengdu prefecture with giant cannons, and sent a large number of Qing troops to attack the city. It was less than half a day before he was proclaimed emperor, and the order for the selection of concubines by the people was issued, and people searched everywhere for girls from good families.

Therefore, Sun Kewang was completely desperate to spend money to motivate his soldiers to fight bloody battles with the Qing army. Therefore, although the entire Chengdu prefecture city was not an easy to defend and difficult to attack, the killing around the city wall was quite fierce.

Hauge, the Prince of Su, was not reconciled to the fact that he could not eat the meat on his lips. While threatening to take down the Chengdu Mansion, he promised to rob it for three days. The Qing army also worked very hard.

Moreover, Prince Su Hauge also got a lot of money and food from Zhou Ze, and he desperately gave away the reward silver.

The entire area around Chengdu City has become a meat grinder, almost into a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood. The water of the Jinjiang River has turned bright red, and even the sound of fighting between the Qing army and the Sun army appeared in the vicinity of the Shu Palace.

In order to keep Chengdu and repel the Qing army, Sun Kewang tried many methods, including all the methods of attacking the dead soldiers at night, and he even went to the battlefield himself, and personally expressed his willingness to reward all the captured women. As long as the soldiers take down Chengdu Mansion, let them enjoy it.

Prince Su Hauge also ordered the attackers under his command desperately, and even sent someone to notify Zhou Ze, ordering him to send reinforcements to Chengdu.

However, Sun Kewang's military strength was still inferior to that of Prince Su Hauge, and in the end the Qing army still occupied Chengdu Mansion.

And Sun Kewang was also torn to death by the angry Hauge, and all Sun Kewang's officers and soldiers were slaughtered.

Immediately afterwards, Hauge began to order a three-day scramble to start at Maoshi tomorrow, and also ordered to prepare for the selection of concubines, and also kept Sun Kewang's women and civil and military officials, and he couldn't wait to start enthroning and proclaiming himself emperor.

Hauge knew that it was impossible for the Manchus to keep Beijing, so he didn't bother to take care of Shunzhi's feelings, so he simply became emperor in Chengdu impatiently. Even Hauge couldn't help thinking that if Beijing's Shunzhi really fell to Ming In the hands of the army, his doing so can be regarded as the continuation of Guozuo for the Qing Dynasty, even if he met Huang Taiji under Jiuquan, it is justified.

Hauge had the idea of ​​being an emperor very early on.

Therefore, he is more anxious than anyone else now, and soon he began to change Yuan Jingning, and even added Zhou Ze as the first-class prince, and ordered Zhou Ze to come to Chengdu to worship him as the king.

However, Hauge still used the Qing Dynasty as his country name, and it is a rare event in the history books that two emperors appeared in the Manchu Qing Dynasty when he disappeared from the historical stage.

But Hauge, the emperor, was only the emperor for one night.

At Maoshi the next day, when the Qing army, which had rested all night, was about to start its own carnival, it rushed into the homes of officials, gentry and common people in Chengdu to rape and plunder money.

Li Dingguo's Department, the Pinglu Army, which had been attached to Ming Dynasty, had arrived in Chengdu.

At the same time, a heavy artillery battalion of the Second Corps of the Seventh Army of the Guards arrived at the same time. Hundreds of heavy artillery bombarded the already incomplete city walls of Chengdu Mansion into flat ground again.

Li Dingguo personally led two thousand cavalry to kill them.

However, Hauge’s officers and soldiers of the Qing army were really caught off guard. At this time, they only thought about looting, and they did not expect the sudden appearance of the Ming army. Almost some Qing soldiers cut off their heads when they dragged a woman out of a private house. Yes, the excited Qing army found himself missing the lower half of his body before he recovered his senses, and the civilian girl who was robbed was also frightened and fainted.

(End of this chapter)