Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 526

The Hexi Corridor from Ningyuan to Shanhaiguan was the site of the Guanning Army in the past, and it was also the main concentration of military landlords such as Wu Sangui and Zu Dashou who voted for the Qing Han.

Of course, the Guan Ning Army here is different from the concept of the Guan Ning Iron Cavalry in the past, and there is actually no Guan Ning Army today.

However, the landlord class in this area is basically the Ding family generals of the Han military landlords such as Wu and Zu. It used to be the most important base for the Ming Dynasty to resist the Qing army.

In the past 40 to [-] years, Daming invested most of the treasury's income in this land, and there was even a special Liao Xiang among the three rings.

However, contrary to expectations, the Han military landlords in this area, after being nourished by the imperial court, raised their own self-respect and developed their own power to become a warlord. .

After these Han military landlords like Zu Dashou joined the Qing court, they might not have thought that Ming Dynasty would not perish one day, nor would they have thought that Ming Dynasty would even make a comeback, directly throwing troops from the sea to occupy their fundamental land.

Prince Zheng of the Manchu Qing Dynasty reappointed Zu Dashou as early as the 22nd year of Chongzhen, and appointed Zu Dashou as the general officer of Shanhaiguan to be responsible for the defense from Ningyuan to Shanhaiguan.

The Manchu Qing also knew that this area was the territory of the Guanning Army, and also knew that Zu Dashou was quite prestigious in this regard, so they thought of using Zu Dashou to rule the Liao army and people here to defend their own Qing Dynasty, and they might enter Beijing from outside the Guan Ming army.

Zu Dashou did not reject Man Qing's appointment.

Today, the Ming Guards’ severe punishment of the Qing gentry during the Northern Expedition has already made the entire northern gentry panic. More loyal than before, he tried his best to help the Manchus resist the Northern Expedition of the Ming Guards.

The same is true for Zu Dashou. He even issued a military order to Shunzhi, saying that if he didn't keep the Ming army out of Shanhaiguan, he would execute Shunzhi himself.

"Zhu Ming has no virtue. He tried to take advantage of the common people to restore the world, and he didn't treat us officials and gentry well. Don't you know that the rule of the world is based on us. Now that the Ming army is going to be a generation of thieves, we will You should swear allegiance to our Great Qing Dynasty Hall, and do your best to resist the enemy!"

Zu Dashou said this when he convened a group of cronies in the old department to discuss military affairs. His words revealed his hatred for Daming, but he didn't feel any gratitude for the old master.

"Father commander was the strongest general in the Liao region back then. If you hadn't been loyal to guard the territory for Zhu Ming, father commander, his Zhu Ming Dynasty would have been destroyed by my Qing Dynasty. He is still the most powerful general of the Han people, and we are also the most powerful Han soldiers. Those southern barbarians only have sharp firearms, and our firearms are no worse than them! And it didn’t come from us.”

Zu Zepu, the second son of Zu Dashou, said so.

Zu Dashou became even more proud. He really regarded himself as the most powerful general of the Ming Dynasty in the past. In his opinion, his nephew Wu Sangui could only be regarded as his disciple.

"I heard that it was Qin Zuoming who commanded the army this time, a brat who came out of nowhere. His father, Qin Minping, could only carry a chamber pot in front of Lao Tzu, and Zhu Youjian was still such an idiot. You came to be the coach, but you only captured Shenyang, Liaoyang, Guangning and other important towns with quick guns and cannons. Now, do you think you can really break through Shanhaiguan?"

Zu Dashou affirmed his son's flattery to him not only to boost morale but also to maintain his military prestige, without paying attention to the second quarter of the guards and Qin Zuoming in his words.

But what Zu Dashou didn't know was that it was not Qin Zuoming who was in charge of attacking Shanhaiguan this time.

In terms of knowing yourself, knowing your enemy, and winning every battle, Zu Dashou has already lost [-]%.

Whether it's Man Qing or Zu Dashou, it's not that they don't know the importance of information, and they also know how to send out eyeliners and scouts.

But one is limited by the underdeveloped communications of this era and the strict secrecy regulations within the Guards, and the other is that the intelligence system of Jinyiwei has been developed after more than 200 years of accumulation, and it is naturally better than Man Qing and Zu Dashou in terms of intelligence organization. The strictness, coupled with Zu Dashou's own blind arrogance, led to him not knowing the enemy on the opposite side, that is, the Second Guards Army.

If Qin Zuoming can only be regarded as a child in Zu Dashou's eyes.

He has never heard of Jiao Lian, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Second Corps of the Second Guards Army, who is now in charge of recovering Ningyuan to Shanhaiguan in western Liaoning.

What Zu Dashou and others would never have imagined was that the main force of the Second Corps of the Second Guards Army and the Second Corps of the Guards was not even the main force of the Second Corps of the Second Guards Army this time, but the hired Korean Army.

The Second Corps of the Second Army of the Guards only played the role of supervising the war and ruling the local area to punish traitors.

Jiao Lian was considered to be the fastest-rising general among the deputy commanders-in-chief of the Guards except for Yan Yingyuan.

Although it is not obvious in this era, it still left a strong mark in the original history of Nanming.

Today's Jiao Lian is even more stable than himself in that time and space. After receiving the training of the senior general class of the Daming Army Military Academy, he has changed from a fierce general who can only rush and fight. Become a Confucian general with both bravery and martial arts.

After occupying Ningyuan City, he did not continue to attack, but was waiting for the next intelligence news from Jin Yiwei, and he did not relax his attention to Zu Dashou and others.

Although the Second Corps of the Guards now has more than [-] soldiers and horses.

However, because of Jiao Lian's prudence, Zu Dashou's ambush plan did not come true, and Zu Dashou even began to think that the Ming army was really afraid because he heard his name under the flattery of his sons and subordinates. .

But what Zu Dashou didn't know was that Jiao Lian could now know that Zu Dashou slept with that concubine last night.

"Do you want to assassinate Zu Dashou?" Shen Lian, the person in charge of Jinyiwei intelligence in western Liaoning, asked Jiao Lian.

"No, Zu Dashou's death or not dying is of no benefit to the overall situation. If he dies, the Qing army in Liaodi will definitely retreat into the Shanhaiguan Pass and dare not come out again. If he hits the grass and frightens the snake, it is better to let him dance for a while, so that we can attack again. Eat up all this army of traitors before going down Shanhaiguan!"

At this time, Zhang Huangyan, the governor of the Second Corps of the Second Guards Army, also spoke:

"I have sent thousands of Liao people who are willing to act as instigators for us to instigate their relatives and friends in Shanhaiguan to Ningyuan, tell them that Ming Dynasty is good to the people and instigate them to resist these traitorous landlords, instigate more than ten people Those who come to Guangning will be rewarded ten yuan for an extra mu of land;

At that time, there should be very good results. The purpose of these traitorous landlords trying to coerce the people of Liao to resist Ming Dynasty will not be realized. Maybe they will start to mess up before we start fighting. "

(End of this chapter)