On March 12, the first year of Chongzhen, Ningyuan.
Ping Liaohou hosted a banquet for the captured Jiubian generals in the hall of the General Military Mansion.
These include:
Datong Town Chief Soldier, Yansui Town Staff General, Ningxia Town Deputy Chief Soldier, Guyuan Town Staff General, Gansu Town Chief Soldier, Shanhai Town Staff General, Lintao Town Staff General, Jingxing Town Chief Soldier, and Yongping Town Deputy Chief Soldier.
There are a total of twenty-three people in Jiubian Thirteen Towns.
After the Battle of Saarhu, the Ming Dynasty established the post of generals and generals in the Thirteen Towns of Jiubian, with only 76 people in total.
In other words, Liu Zhaosun single-handedly forced one-third of the generals in the border army to participate in the game he organized.
This game is the Hongmen Banquet.
Until many years later, when imperial historical researchers reviewed and summarized this thrilling banquet, one word they mentioned repeatedly was:
communicate.
Due to poor communication, this banquet, which could have been a win-win situation for all parties, eventually turned into a horrific massacre.
At that time, all the generals and generals of the passenger army aiding Liao were on the spot.
Marquis Ping Liao said harshly that anyone who does not come on this day will be the enemy of Kaiyuan.
On the surface, no one wants to be the enemy of Kaiyuan Army.
Wang Zaijin sat next to Kang Yingqian. In just a few days, the two of them had changed from strangers to classmates to close friends who talked about everything.
Compared with the young and energetic Liu Zhaosun, Wang Zaijin was more willing to deal with Kang Yingqian.
There is no other reason, just because Lao Kang's personality is more stable.
Kang Yingqian reminded Wang Jinglue more than once that Marquis Ping Liao was in a restless mood recently and not to irritate the young King of Liaodong.
Wang Zaijin did not dare to provoke Ping Liaohou.
However, Liaodong Jinglue had a group of arrogant and powerful generals, but many people did not take Ping Liaohou seriously.
Most of these nine-border generals and generals were of the same generation as Liu Wei. In their eyes, Liu Zhaosun was no more than a child with a yellow mouth.
If it hadn't been for the support of his father-in-law Yang Hao and his comrade Xiong Tingbi, as well as the support of the factory owner Wei Zhongxian, how could this young boy with a yellow mouth have achieved such great military exploits.
They believe that Liu Zhaosun was able to defeat Jiannu in Hunhe because of women and eunuchs.
This boss, who was born as a servant, started his career by marrying into the Yang family.
Just ridiculous.
There was no hero at that time, so Zhuzi became famous.
They believed that if they had been in Sarhu and Hunhe at that time, they would have been able to repel the Jiannu and pacify Liaodong.
In fact, it is easy to understand why everyone thinks this way - after all, before Sarhu, except for Liao Town, other frontier troops had little contact with Jiannu.
Liu Zhaosun didn't know what the military leaders were thinking. After drinking for three rounds, he proposed his new strategy for opening up the Yuan Dynasty in public.
The general content is as follows:
1. The Kaiyuan Army has no intention of becoming enemies with the border armies, and values peace, and will try to avoid military encounters in the future;
2. All parties should protect the shops and dental shops opened by Ping Liao Hou in Jiubian. In return, Kaiyuan is willing to give up some commercial and trade interests to the military towns in Jiubian;
3. When the Marquis of Liao is pacifying the side of Qing Jun, the border troops are not allowed to stop him.
4. Recognize all the rights and interests of the Kaiyuan Army in Shandong and expand them;
5. Private factories, mines, and salt industries in Jiubian areas will be jointly operated by Kaiyuan and Bianzhen, and nearby mines are not allowed to be mined by anyone other than Liaodong Trading Company;
6. Border towns must provide necessary conveniences and must not make things difficult for intelligence personnel when they enter or leave the border areas.
Ping Liao Hou rattled off twenty-one things, which covered military affairs, people's livelihood, intelligence, and even allowed the free flow of talents from the nine sides. In other words, it was to send more talents to Liaodong and Western Liaoning.
The conditions are even more stringent than the "Twenty-One Articles" signed by Yuan Shikai and Japan.
History calls this agreement the "Ningyuan Twenty-One Agreement".
However, for the nine-border military leaders, the losses in the 21st chapter were all for the interests of the Ming Dynasty and had little to do with them.
Of course, the only drawback is that if this is implemented, Liu Zhaosun will sweep through the Ming Dynasty faster.
Liu Zhaosun particularly emphasized that as long as you strictly abide by the 21st, everyone here will not only get 20% of Liaodong's annual profits, but also get the 500,000 silver per year and southern goods of the same value that Kaiyuan promised.
For Kaiyuan, this is already a big concession.
After saying Article 21, Liu Zhaosun picked up the wine glass with a calm expression:
"Now that I have finished speaking, who agrees and who opposes?"
The generals and generals looked at each other, and these warriors began to make up their own minds, calculating the pros and cons of forming an alliance with Kaiyuan.
One hundred and twenty guardsmen of the Chinese Army stood around with murderous intent, holding fire blunderbuss and heavy knives.
It took a long time after Liu Zhaosun finished speaking, but no one in the room spoke. The situation was awkward for a time.
"I object!"
The generals followed the news and found that it was Wu Zimian, the general of Yansui Town, who was opposed.
Wu Zimian was arrogant and domineering. He was usually lawless in Yansui Town, and even the governor looked down upon him. This time he aided Liao and was the most active in fighting among the guest armies. He originally wanted to push the Kaiyuan army back to Liaodong and take advantage of the opportunity. I grabbed more money and went back, but I didn't expect to get nothing in the end.
After Zu Dashou's death, tens of millions of family wealth fell into the hands of Liu Zhaosun. Wu Zi couldn't help it, so he allowed his men to rob the people in the city. Dozens of Yansui soldiers were executed by Kaiyuan Zhenfu soldiers.
Liu Zhaosun had long noticed this Yansui general.
Wu Zimian is in his early forties this year. He was born in the Yansui general family. He participated in the Ningxia campaign among the three major campaigns of Wanli and gained some military exploits. Naturally, he did not take Liu Zhaosun seriously. Liu Zhaosun has always been dissatisfied.
Liu Zhaosun looked at this prickly head silently.
After Wu Zimian finished speaking, the other generals did not speak, expressing neither approval nor objection.
Sitting not far away from Wu Zimian, Zhao Zhenyuan, the commander-in-chief of the Jin and Gansu towns of the Liaodong Economic Strategy King, quickly winked at him and signaled Wu Zimian to shut up.
General Yansui didn't know what he was doing and continued to say loudly:
"Liu Zhaosun, it was not our idea to surrender Ningyuan this time. It was Master Jinglue who wanted to open the door. It was him who is old and stupid. Who am I afraid of in Yansui Town? I only brought five thousand troops this time. I don't want to fight with you." The former soldiers are just trying their best. You still have to push the envelope and want to sit on top of us and shit?"
Everyone was silent around the giant Eight Immortals table. Kang Yingqian looked at Wu Zimian coldly, and Wang Zaijin beside him shook his head helplessly.
When Wu Zimian saw that no one was speaking, he thought that everyone else agreed with him, so he continued:
"Liu Zhaosun, when I and your adoptive father Liu Dadao were fighting the rebellion in Ningxia, your kid was still nursing. What are you talking about now..."
Liu Zhaosun stepped on Xie Gong's clogs, turned over and jumped onto the Eight Immortals' table, walked to Wu Zimian's seat, bowed and drew his sword.
A cold light flashed, and Wu Zimian's head flew high into the sky, blood spurted out from his neck and splashed on the two commander-in-chiefs next to him.
With a bang, the head hit the Eight Immortals table and fell into the mutton soup on the table.
A pair of frightened and angry eyes stared at Liu Zhaosun who drew his sword, refusing to rest in peace.
Marquis Pingliao returned to his seat at the head of the table and glanced at everyone with a calm expression:
"You can question my sword! But it is best not to question my qualifications. Wu Zimian despises Kaiyuan. Do you think Kaiyuan's sword is not sharp?"
Wu Zimian's blood slowly flowed along the blade of the waist knife, dripping onto the table.
Everyone was as silent as a cicada.
"Do you have any objections to the twenty-one points? Please speak up."
"without."
"No."
"Agree."
The nine-sided warriors all avoided Liu Zhaosun's sharp eyes, shaking their heads like rattles.
Liu Zhaosun stretched out his hand to wipe off the blood on the blade and threw the head to the guard.
He raised the peach blossom cup, looked at a group of trembling generals, and said quietly:
"Okay, let's play music and dance."
"Life is like dew in the morning, and there will be many hardships in the days to come. I don't know when and where we will see you next. I am going to Shandong to kill people. Everyone, I will see you again if we are destined."
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The next day, the surrendered frontier troops were allowed to withdraw half of them and return to Shanhaiguan. The remaining troops were taken as prisoners by Ping Liaohou and escorted back to Liaodong.
The battle of Ningyuan is now completely over.
Except for the two towns of Xuanfu and Shaanxi, the losses of other ministries were not serious.
After experiencing the Hongmen Banquet, the morale of the border army generals was completely lost, and no one dared to use troops against Kaiyuan.
The generals and generals wanted to escape back to the pass as soon as possible, away from western Liaoning and away from the lunatic Liu Zhaosun.
Wang Zaijin sent a newspaper to the capital overnight, claiming that he had defeated Kaiyuan's army at Shanhaiguan and beheaded a thousand people. Liu was timid and would no longer covet Shanhaiguan.
The two supervisors' briefings to the emperor were roughly the same.
The so-called "thousand-level beheading" was just that the servants of Liao Town who were beheaded in Ningyuan City were given to Wang Zaijin by Kang Yingqian as a bargaining chip.
In mid-to-late March, general military officers from the Thirteen Towns in Jiubian, including Datong Town, Yansui Town, and Ningxia Town, all came to the rescue one after another, saying that their side had suffered heavy casualties and could not bear to fight again, and requested the court to stop the troops or increase Liao's pay.
Emperor Chongzhen was helpless. They had no choice but to announce that the war against the Liao Dynasty had come to an end, and that the Ming army should stick to Shanhaiguan and not allow Liu Thief to enter the pass again.
After Wang Zaijin returned to Shanhaiguan, he immediately contacted the Yushi Yanguan to impeach the main war faction for resorting to militarism. He also appealed to the emperor, hoping to use the victory at Shanhaiguan to send envoys to recruit the Liaodong rebels.
Wang Zaijin's memorial was firmly opposed by the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Supervisor of Ceremonies.
As a result, the court divided into two factions. One faction advocated continuing to use troops against Kaiyuan and deploying more troops to attack Ningyuan and Guangning. The other faction believed that the current treasury was empty and there was insufficient food and grass, so they could not easily declare war and should make peace with the Liu thief first.
While the two sides of the court were arguing, Qiao Yiqi and Yuan Chonghuan led the southern army to advance rapidly in southern Liaoning.
Most of the Ming troops stationed in various places in southern Liaoning were soldiers of the local guards. Not only were their combat capabilities poor, but most of them were unwilling to become enemies of the Kaiyuan army.
The Kaiyuan Army passed through southern Liaoning several times before, and every time it gave many benefits to the local guardsmen, including money and food, which left an excellent impression on these guardsmen.
Therefore, when Yuan Chonghuan appeared in southern Liaoning, there was almost no resistance from the guards in various places and they rushed to surrender to the Kaiyuan Army.
The choice of these guardsmen is easy to understand:
After surrendering to Kaiyuan and entering Tunpu, the whole family had food to eat. They continued to farm under the generals of Liao Town. After a year of hard work, most of the food was given to the master. The whole family was hungry. In a bad year, they had to Consider how much money your daughter can be sold for.
The Third and Fourth Guards attacked cities and territories along the way and successively occupied Anshan, Haizhou, Yaozhou, Gaizhou, and Yongning.
On February 12, the Third Army, the Fourth Army and the Fifth Army starting from Kuandian met at Hongzui Fort in southern Liaoning.
The remaining troops in Liao Town retreated to Jinzhou. On February 15, Kaiyuan's army captured Jinzhou and all the Jinzhou defenders surrendered.
The Kaiyuan Army continued to pursue southward and encountered a fierce counterattack from Liao Town in Lushun.
On February 20, the Liaodong Navy arrived at the twin islands in southern Liaoning.
Wu Aheng immediately ordered the bombardment of Lushun, and Qi Jin led the Fourth Guards Army to attack south from Jinzhou. Under a pincer attack from the north and south, Lushun was captured on the second day.
Qiao Yiqi was shocked when she heard that Yang Hao had gone to Wendeng.
He told Wu Aheng in detail about Song Yingsheng's collusion with Liao Zhen and his defection to Shandong. After hearing this, Wu Aheng said angrily:
"Marquis Ping Liao treated the Song family well, but he wanted to repay such kindness with hatred! How could he kill so many people? How could he do so!!"
Yuan Chonghuan saw that there were only eleven warships in the fleet and asked where the other one was. He remembered that Wu Aheng had twelve large ships in North Korea.
"Pei Dahu had to go to Dengzhou, so I sent a small boat to escort them there."
"Them? Who else?"
"There are also Wu Xiao, Shen Lian, Yang Hao and his servants, a total of ten people, and by the way, there is also a woman."
"Where's the big guard?"
Wu Aheng knew that Qiao Yiqi was asking about Lin Yu, so he quickly said:
"Whereabouts unknown."
Qiao Yiqi was worried that if these people went to Shandong, they would send more hostages to Song Yingsheng.
"Marquis Ping Liao ordered us to land in Weihai as soon as possible after sweeping the southern part of Liaoning and rescue General Anyuan. Now,"
Qiao Yiqi shook his head helplessly and said:
"Now that we have another Yang Hao, it's really..."
He didn't have a good impression of Yang Hao. The last time he met Yang Hao was three years ago in Saarhu. That time, Qiao Yiqi was almost killed by the old man.
However, Ping Liaohou personally gave the order, and he could not care about these personal grudges.
"Without further delay, Liaonan has been captured. Let's make a concerted effort to land in Weihai immediately. If there is anything wrong with Mrs. Ping Liaohou, we cannot bear the responsibility."
On February 20th, Qiao Yiqi led the Fifth Guards Army to stay in southern Liaoning, waiting for Ping Liaohou to move south.
Yuan Chonghuan, Wu Aheng, and Qi Jin led 6,000 soldiers to Shandong to quell the rebellion.
The Fourth Guards took ships and Fuchuan across the Liaohai Sea, landed in Dengzhou, faced Song Yingsheng, and cleared the door for Kaiyuan.
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