scourge the qing dynasty

Chapter 180
After eight or nine days of running for their lives in a hurry and discarding all their supplies to reduce their burden, the over 2 remnants of the Qing army led by Tu Hai finally escaped from this living hell in Guizhou, but they were terrified by the Wu army. Tuhai, Yue Le, Zhou Peigong and others did not dare to stand firm in Huangzhou, and left the defense to the local government of Huangzhou and Yuanzhou, leading the defeated army and fled directly to Chenzhou, which is far away from Guizhou. Stationed here to discuss the next step of contingency countermeasures and aftermath.

Almost at the same time as Tuhai, Yue Le, and Tsani held a meeting of the surviving senior generals of the Qing army, new bad news came. The main force of the Wu army with 12 troops marched from Guiyang, and the Wu army stationed in Dading was also dispatched. Li Benshen, Wu Jun Han Daren Department stationed in Zunyi, and more than 20 auxiliary troops outside the establishment. The total strength of the three armies exceeds [-], and they claim to be [-]. He was heading towards Huguang, posing as if he was going to attack Huguang across the board.

Hearing this news, Tu Hai, Yue Le, Hua Shan and others who had already been terrified by Wu Jun inevitably turned pale. The combatable army in Pianyuan now is the more than 2 shocking remnants in Chenzhou City. Defeated, the rest of the local garrison is sloppy when they bully the common people, but when they are actually sent to the battlefield, they are not even qualified to use up the strength of the Wu army as cannon fodder.Urgently dispatching troops from other provinces, can we make it in time?
"Prince An, it is impossible for Tutang, Chanibele, and Chenzhou to defend." Zhou Peigong was very calm, and was the first to say: "Don't talk about Chenzhou, even Changde, Changsha and Hengzhou are impossible to hold. The best way is to return to Yuezhou and stick to it, trade space for time, and rely on Dongting Lake to wait for the navy to respond."

"Fart!" Yue Le was furious, "Return to Yuezhou and stick to it, and give the whole Pianyuan to the old thief Wu Sangui? If the old thief Wu Sangui storms Yuezhou, will you still go back to Wuchang?"

"My lord is right. If our reinforcements still haven't arrived when the old bandit Wu Sangui storms Yuezhou, there is only Wuchang." Zhou Peigong said very seriously: "Wuchang city has high moats and deep fortifications. The more than 2 troops of Tang, together with us, should be sure to defend Wuchang and buy time to wait for the counterattack."

"Say you're fat, and you're still panting?" Yue Le was even more furious, and roared, "Do you know what punishment is for losing a city or land? If you lose a county seat, you can beheaded, let alone lose the entire Yuanyuan?"

"My lord, of course this servant knows what the crime of losing the city and land is." Zhou Peigong asked in a neither humble nor overbearing way: "I just ask the lord, if you don't do this? What is the lord going to do? Do you plan to stick to Chenzhou? Changde? Changsha? Or Go south to defend Hengzhou and Baoqing?"

Yue Le was taken aback for a moment, and finally let go like a deflated ball, unable to utter a word—the actual situation of the Qing army at the moment is here, if you don't follow Zhou Peigong's suggestion, run to the Yangtze River To defend a few vital points, and to continue to hold on in the unarmed and helpless hinterland of Hunan, the more than 2 Qing army elites and army seeds that Oboi sacrificed his life to preserve will definitely be taken over by Wu Sangui's army.

"Okay, okay, let's stop arguing, let's discuss how to explain to the court and plead guilty." Tu Hai came out to smooth things over, and said helplessly: "Guizhou suffered a disastrous defeat, and the 10,000+ army died. When it reached 3 people, Taishi Ao died in battle, and Prince Kang, King Shuncheng and a lot of princes Baylor were captured. We are all to blame. Don’t say that you can’t keep Pianyuan, even if you can hold Pianyuan, In the future, the emperor and the imperial court will pursue the guilt of Guizhou's disastrous defeat, and we will still be dead, so why do we care about one or two more charges?"

"Tutang, so you are in favor of retreating to Yuezhou?" Duduo's fourth son, Belle Chani, asked tentatively.

"Lord Baylor, I'm in such a mess right now, I really can't decide what to do." Tuhai sighed, and said helplessly, "Let's ask Lord An and Chabelle to make up their minds, and I'm the only one who will follow suit."

"Old cunning, you obviously dare not bear the responsibility of abandoning the whole province of Pianyuan, and you still say that we are the only ones following the horse?" Chani cursed inwardly, saying that you are a traitor, and I am not stupid, anyway, there is a tall man like Yue Le Two hundred and five, who of us is afraid of whom?At that moment, Chani turned to Yue Le again, cupped his hands and said, "Brother Wang, you are the one with the most noble status and title in the entire army. Please give me an order. Let us stick to Chenzhou, and we will stick to Chenzhou. Let us defend Yuezhou, and we will defend Yuezhou to the death!"

"Yes, my lord." Tu Hai also said hypocritically: "Now that the situation is so critical, you should stand up and take the lead as the backbone. Please make up your mind, we are all up to you! If you think you should stick to Chenzhou , then we will stick to Chenzhou and wait for reinforcements, at worst, we will die with the last 2 elites of the Qing Dynasty, and fight to the death with the old thief Wu Sangui."

Yue Le is good at military affairs and civil affairs. Although he is lacking in tactics, he is not completely ignorant. Tu Hai and Chani are playing tricks to shirk their responsibilities, and Yue Le can also see it.At that moment, Yue Le said angrily: "Tutang, Pian Yuan is in critical condition now, and you know how to pull this king out to be the backbone? Then when you were in Pingyue, Guizhou, why didn't you just go back to rescue Taishi Ao? At that time, if you hadn't run so fast and left more troops behind, would Taishi Ao have died in battle?"

"Prince An, if you don't save the Grand Master, I dare not bear the crime." Tu Hai said shamelessly: "At that time, the humble official left [-] troops in Bajiang City and Guiding City to support him. After the Yifeng dog thief cheated to open the city gate, the army that was left in Guiding immediately returned to attack Bajiang City - as for why Bajiang was not broken, it seems that I can't be blamed on him, right?"

"Then why did your main force run away so fast?" Yue Le said angrily, "When I caught up with you, your main force had already passed Pingyue City. Support, will our main force lose everything in Bajiang?"

"Prince An, if you don't withdraw quickly, what will happen if the last army is surrounded by the old thief Wu Sangui?" Tu Hai continued to play tricks: "The thousands of miles of mountain roads in Guizhou are full of steep mountains and trails. If we don’t take the last army out of Guizhou as soon as possible, and get dumplings made by Wugou’s army like Bajiang, then let’s not say that we are guarding the Yuanyuan now. Whether someone can escape from Guizhou alive is probably a big problem. Question?"

Speaking of this, Tu Hai couldn't help but add, "Besides, your lord is also to blame for Bajiang's disastrous defeat, right? If the lord hadn't sent Zhao Liangdong to cooperate with A Jintai to counterattack Bajiang, but had personally led the army Counterattack, then the two generals Zhao Liangdong and Abatai will give in in the face of the barbarian's shameless threat, and dare not continue to attack Bajiang City?"

"I'm afraid that Zhao Liangdong won't beg you!" Yue Le cursed unbearably, "You ran away so fast at that time, I was afraid that you wouldn't dare to go back to the teacher to save Bajiang, so I personally came to chase you. Are you still here? Want to blame me for not daring to personally lead the army to counterattack Bajiang? Is I the kind of person who is greedy for life and afraid of death?"

"My lord, is that humble official the kind of person who is greedy for life and afraid of death?" Tu Hai asked shamelessly, "Even if you didn't catch up personally, my lord, and sent a personal soldier to pass the order, the humble official would definitely lead the army back to help." , will never dare to return to aid because of greed for life and fear of death."

"Now that the matter is over, of course you can say whatever you want." Yue Le was so angry at Tu Hai's shameless shamelessness that he almost pounced on him and strangled this shameless villain who had avenged his kindness to death.

"My lord, please calm down." Seeing that the situation is not good, Zhou Peigong hurried out to smooth things over and said, "My lord, now our army has just experienced a disastrous defeat, and the army is panic-stricken. The old thief Wu Sangui is about to counterattack. At this time, we should unite sincerely instead of pushing each other. Committee, shirk responsibility from each other."

"Don't shirk responsibility, that's good!" Yue Le pointed at Tuhai, and said angrily: "It's fine if you don't shirk responsibility, then you are the commander-in-chief of the whole army appointed by Taishi Ao before his death, should you stick to Chenzhou now, or should you retire? Going to Yuezhou, you make up your own mind, don't forget to push me."

"My lord, Grand Master Ao just asked the humble officer to take the army out of Guizhou, but he didn't say that after Guizhou, he continued to be the commander of the whole army." Tu Hai would not be so stupid as to take the responsibility of losing the entire territory of Hunan, so he hurriedly acted shamelessly. Said: "Now our army has withdrawn to Chenzhou, and the mission of the humble officer has been completed. My lord, you are a prince and the uncle of the emperor. The humble officer should hand over the army to you and obey your command."

"Thank you." Yue Le sneered: "You are very good at leading troops. Let the soldiers kill and set fire, rob and rape. The soldiers like to listen to you, and they don't like to listen to my pedantic military orders. , it’s better for you to bring this soldier, this king willingly obeys your command.”

"That's good, that lowly position will be disrespectful." Tu Hai suddenly became very straightforward, and said: "But the name is not right, and the words are not right. I also ask the prince to present a memorial to the court, and ask the court to make the lowly position command the entire army. Then The lowly position naturally takes on this burden. But before that, the prince is still respected in our army, and the lowly position still has to listen to the prince's instructions, and the lowly position will do whatever the prince says."

Yue Le almost fainted from anger, Chenzhou is thousands of miles away from Beijing, and the day lily will be cold by the time his request is approved, in the end, don't he have to bear all the blame alone?At this time, Tu Hai suddenly gave Zhou Pei a wink, and Zhou Pei understood, and hurriedly said: "My lord, Tu Tang, in my servant's opinion, the sin of abandoning Chenzhou and retreating to Yuezhou, resulting in the loss of the whole territory of Yuanyuan, is a crime. Neither of you need to bear the responsibility, the imperial court will ask others for their crimes in the future, and they can't find you."

"Then who is responsible for this crime? You?" Yue Le asked with a sneer.

"Fuck your mother's dog slave, don't you want to push me on?" Chani, who was the third highest official in the field, jumped up and cursed, afraid that Yue Le and Tu Hai would team up and push himself to the ground. This is the position of the commander-in-chief of the whole army who is destined to be questioned.

"Lord Belle misunderstood, even if this slave has a hundred guts, he wouldn't dare to pour sewage on you, would he?" Zhou Peigong smiled wryly, and then said: "As for the slave that Prince An said to bear the responsibility, this slave really wants to do it for the prince. , Zhongtang, and Master Baylor are used as shields, but a servant of the seventh rank is enshrined, is this enough?"

"Then who do you want to bear?" Charney asked with a wide eye.

"Master Belle misunderstood again. How can a slave have the virtue and ability to designate a master to bear such a big crime?" Zhou Peigong shook his head and said darkly: "There is one person who should bear this responsibility. It is he who took the risk and took the 20 The main force of the Qing Dynasty was led into Guizhou by more than 2 people, resulting in a disastrous defeat for the army and the loss of all the elite. It was also his command error, which still refused to retreat quickly despite the disastrous defeat of the main force, which caused Wu Sangui's lackey Lu Yifeng barbarian to cut off the retreat of the main force of our army. As a result, the main army suffered a disastrous defeat, and only [-] Qing soldiers fled back to Pianyuan in embarrassment."

"It's the same person who ordered our army to abandon Pianyuan when retreating, retreat across the board to the north of the Yangtze River, and abandon all the land of the Qing Dynasty south of the Yangtze River! And the three of you, Wang Ye, Zhongtang, and Baylor, not only fought with Wu Sangui's pursuers He fought bloody battles, killed countless enemies, and resolutely refused to carry out this man's indiscriminate orders, sticking to the Yangtze River fortresses such as Yuezhou and Wuchang, smashing the ambition of Wu Sangui's old thief to take the opportunity to cross the river north, and also won the precious opportunity for the whole army to counterattack for the Qing Dynasty. Time, there is great merit, but there is no passing..."

"Fart!" Before Zhou Peigong finished speaking, Yue Le slapped him hard, causing Zhou Peigong's face to bloom, the corners of his mouth to bleed, and roared tremblingly with anger: "Put all the blame on On a dead man, do you have a conscience? Don’t forget, it’s because the dead man fought to the death and wiped out the whole army with the old thief Wu Sangui, and severely injured the old thief Wu Sangui’s pursuers. All the shit bowls are put on him, do you have any shame?"

"My lord, if this servant is not loyal to you, I will never dare to say such a thing." Zhou Peigong slowly wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and said shamelessly: "Please don't forget, my lord, you are not very popular with the emperor in the court." Wait, if you don't find a scapegoat this time to resist all the crimes, your prince's hat will fly off, I am afraid that the gate of the prison of the Ministry of punishment will be opened to you, my lord."

"Don't say it's going to the sky prison!" Yue Le kicked Zhou Peigong upside down, and roared: "Even if Ling Chi is beheaded, I will never put a pot of shit on Grand Master Ao's head! I'm not like you , I want face!"

"My lord, if you firmly disagree, there is nothing you can do, then please give an order." Tu Hai said in a dark voice: "Whether to guard Chenzhou or retreat to Yuezhou, please be arbitrarily determined by the lord, and the slave will follow the order. "

"Tu Haizi, don't fan the flames here!" Yue Le pointed at Tu Hai's nose and scolded, "Don't forget that you were released from the prison by the emperor because Grand Master Ao cleared up your grievances. Your family members who were exiled to Ninggu Pagoda as slaves were rescued by Grand Master Ao, so they were able to escape from the sea of ​​suffering and return to the capital! You are still repaying your kindness like this, where is your conscience?"

"My lord, compared to the great kindness and virtue of the slave, the slave will never forget it." Tu Hai said even more shamelessly: "From now on, every 2th day of the Lunar New Year, the anniversary of Grand Master Ao's death, the slave will naturally burn more paper money to let him go underground. Enjoy. It’s just that if we don’t do this right now, we can’t explain to the emperor and the court, and the emperor and the court can’t explain to the people of the world. The 2 Qing soldiers are in a dilemma in Chenzhou. For the sake of the Qing Dynasty, for the sake of the [-] soldiers of the Qing Dynasty, and for the sake of the emperor and the imperial court, I can only wrong Grand Master Ao..."

"Shameless, shameless! Shameless!" Tu Hai said, and Yue Le cursed furiously. In the end, Yue Le slapped Tu Hai when he couldn't bear it, and roared: "Shameless villain! I'm too wordy, say one more thing, I'll kill you right now!"

"Brother Wang, I actually think what Tutang and Mr. Zhou said makes sense." Chani, who had been silent at the side, suddenly said with a smirk, "Anyway, Grand Master Ao is dead. No matter how many crimes he has borne, Your Majesty Can you pull him out of the coffin and cut him again? Why don't you let Grand Master Ao bear these responsibilities first, and then solve the urgent problem at the moment."

"Fart! I will never agree!" Yue Le roared: "If you dare to blame Grand Master Ao, I will carry the imperial list and go to the Meridian Gate to complain to Grand Master Ao!"

"Prince An, believe it or not, if Taishi Ao is still alive, he will definitely agree with us." Tu Hai said darkly: "When Taishi Ao asked the slaves to lead the army to withdraw first, the reason why The slaves must bring people like Laita, Mu Zhan and Wang Jinbao, and the slaves are not allowed to discard them. In fact, it is to leave some pillars for the Qing Dynasty, so that the emperor and the court will not have no generals to send when resisting the old thief Wu Sangui , no one can use it, a loyal heart can be seen as a lesson from the sun and the moon."

"Now, my lord, it doesn't matter if you ask us to bear these crimes together, and it doesn't matter if the emperor cut us all to pieces, but after we die, who else in the Qing Dynasty can take up the heavy responsibility of resisting Wu Sangui's old thief? Count on that Helping the slaves of the Han people, don’t the emperor and the court rest assured? No matter how many elite soldiers there are, no matter how many weapons and food, and no good generals to command and lead, are they still a mob? Your lord, you have the heart to let down the painstaking efforts of Taishi Ao and let Taishi Ao Can't the master rest in peace even under the Nine Springs?"

"Brother Wang, what Tutang said is quite correct." Chani also persuaded: "With Grand Master Ao's personality, when encountering such a thing, he will definitely take all the blame for it alone, and he will never pass it on to others. Why should we live up to his painstaking efforts? Let him die in peace?"

Yue Le closed his eyes in pain, Oboi's ugly, vicious, majestic and upright face flashed through his mind, and his heart felt like a knife was twisted.Zhou Peigong got up again and said: "My lord, we all understand and understand your respect for the grand master, and we respect the grand master more than you. The rewards and punishments are clearly defined, and you are loyal to the country, but the current situation.... Sigh, Lord, for the sake of the Qing Dynasty, we can only temporarily wrong the Grand Master. After the old thief Wu Sangui is wiped out, we will slowly find a way to restore the reputation of the Grand Master. Please ask the emperor to give the Grand Master a posthumous title. , I can rest in peace if I think about it.”

"Follow..., whatever you want." Yue Le is still Manchu after all, and has inherited the glorious lineage of the Aixinjueluo family. Although tears are already glistening in his eyes, he still choked up and said: "Whatever you want to do , I don’t care about it, I’m going to burn incense on Grand Master Ao’s spiritual seat, and you can do whatever you want!”

After finishing speaking, Yue Le turned around and strode away with tears welling up in his eyes.Tu Hai happily shouted at Yue Le's back: "My lord, we will finish writing the Military Information Pond report in a while and send it to you for your review. You should sign our joint report." Yue Le didn't answer. , Just strode out of the room, Tuhai and Chani couldn't wait to order Zhou Peigong to write, and let Zhou Peigong write the military report.

In this report, which was to be rushed to the capital in six hundred miles, all the responsibility for the Qing army's disastrous defeat in Guizhou was naturally on Oboi alone. During the decisive battle of Anshun, Oboi deliberately forced the cavalry to charge intensively despite the fierce firepower of the Wu army.When the airship of the Wu army appeared and the generals of the Qing army were still fighting bloody battles, Oboi took the lead in abandoning the crowd and fleeing for his life, which caused the Qing army to collapse and was slaughtered at will by the chasing soldiers of the Wu army.

After Anshun was defeated, Oboi's various ugliness made Wan Fu even more angry. Why did he urge the cavalry to trample on the friendly army in order to escape, personally hacked and killed the soldiers in order to open the way, and forced the wounded soldiers to come to the rear for his own life? After Jiang, Aobai knew that he could save the whole army by breaking through Bajiang, but he was greedy for life and afraid of death, and refused to lead the army to charge and retreat. He just ordered the remnant army to protect himself. As a result, Jie Shu was captured alive by the Wu army due to lack of troops when he attacked Bajiang. It also caused time delay for the main force of the Wu army to completely encircle the Qing army, so that the main force of the Qing army was completely wiped out...

In a word, Oboi's crimes are all the fault of Oboi alone. Tuhai led the army to successfully break through the siege, and he was not guilty. He retreated to the front line of Yuezhou and Wuchang. !Chanibele personally led the army behind the palace, killed countless Wu army pursuers, and beheaded many Wu army generals. He should be rewarded!At the same time, in order to block Yue Le's mouth and pull Yue Le into the water, Tu Hai also asked Zhou Peigong to praise Yue Le Yitong in the memorial. What a lone army attacked Bajiang to meet the main force and took the lead in killing the enemy like hemp. It's a pity that Oboi was greedy for life and afraid of death Not daring to charge so that the success fell short, why in Zhenyuan he tried to prevent the Wu army from chasing and killing countless enemies, blood stained the battlefield-and the heads of the people in Guizhou testify...

The rest is okay, anyway, Oboi is already a dead man who can't speak, it doesn't matter how Tuhai and others want to put shit on him, but when Jieshu ordered Abatai and Zhao Liangdong to retreat, Tuhai Hai and Chani had a problem——Jie Shu was one of the eight great prostitutes of the Qing Dynasty, and Xiao Mazi's direct cousin, and he still came up with Xiao Mazi's secret decree to order the Qing army to retreat. Book ugliness, Xiao Mazi and the Eight Great Masters are both hard on their faces, not to mention, it is tantamount to completely offending Zheng Hongqi to death, Zheng Hongqi and those banner masters are angry. ?

"Zhongtang, Lord Baylor, why don't you just skip this paragraph and just pretend that everything happened?"

Zhou Peigong's proposal was unanimously supported by Tuhai and Chani, who applauded together and said, "That's right, I can't play this part. Anyway, old man Ao doesn't itch if he has too many lice, and he doesn't worry about debts. Let him carry it all by himself." Come to think of it, he was greedy for life and afraid of death, and refused to send reinforcements to Prince Kang, which led to Prince Kang being defeated and captured."

Having said that, there is still one thing that makes Tu Hai very embarrassed. He doesn't know whether he should report the truth to Xiao Mazi-this matter is naturally the last two pieces of advice that Oboi wants Tu Hai to convey to Xiao Mazi One is to ask Xiao Mazi to negotiate a peace with the Wu army, so as to buy time to prepare the army for war; the other is to kill Wu Yingxiong, so that he can put all the charges on Aobai afterwards, and use the lives of Aobai's family to appease the traitor Wu Anger - this is also what puzzled Tu Hai the most.

Fortunately, there was a reliable counselor beside Tuhai. That night, when Tuhai disclosed the matter to Zhou Peigong in private, Zhou Peigong immediately came to his senses and explained: "Zhongtang, Oboi is doing this for the Qing Dynasty. To make plans in the future, right now my Qing Dynasty has lost all its elite, the people are panicked, the soldiers have no fighting spirit, and will have no courage. We can only temporarily stabilize the old thief Wu Sangui, buy time to prepare the army, build weapons, and concentrate the manpower and material resources of the whole country to kill Wu Sangui. Old thief, in this way, the losses caused by the old thief Wu Sangui can be controlled in the Huguang and Yunnan areas, so that the unrest will not expand."

"Of course I understand this point." Tu Hai asked puzzledly: "What I don't understand is why Oboi would rather risk the lives of his whole family than the emperor must kill Wu Yingxiong? Is this Wu Yingxiong really so important?"

"Zhongtang, this is the foresight of old man Oboi." Zhou Peigong said with a smile: "Wu Sangui, the old thief, is struggling. He has only two sons, and one of them is a well-known idiot. If you don't kill Wu Yingxiong, put Wu Yingxiong back. Yungui, the old thief Wu Sangui has successors, and the harm caused to our Qing Dynasty is bound to last for a long time, and may even be further expanded."

"But if Wu Yingxiong is killed, how long can the 60-year-old Wu Sangui live? After he is dead, who else can convince the crowd and convince the wolves and hungry tigers in Yunnan and Guizhou? At that time, whether it is Wu Yingqi or Wu Shifan After succeeding to the throne, there will inevitably be civil strife in Wu Sangui's old bandit army, and Wu Dog's civil strife, won't our Qing Dynasty have an opportunity to take advantage of it?"

"So that's the case. No wonder old man Ao would rather risk his family's life than ask the emperor to kill Wu Yingxiong. So he was planning for this!" Tu Hai suddenly realized, and began to admire Ao Bai's foresight.But after thinking about it, Tuhai inevitably felt even more embarrassed, and asked: "Pei Gong, now that you are me, should you report this passage to the emperor truthfully? If you do not, it will harm the country. Doesn't that prove that the old man Oboi was very sober and calm at the time, and the matter of letting me lead the army to withdraw first and him in the rear, wouldn't it be completely exposed?"

"Enxiang, do you still want to give it to others for such a great contribution?" Zhou Peigong said with a half-smile: "To kill Wu Yingxiong to break the root of Wu Sangui's old thief, to create an opportunity for Wugou's civil strife, such a far-sighted decision--en Since you are loyal to the country, can't you issue a secret decree and personally advise the emperor to do so?"

(End of this chapter)