Emperor Shunzhi was not the only one who missed Dorgon. His dearest uncle, Emperor Duduo, was also thinking about his fourteenth brother at this time!
How come you have such a precious son? The troops were used so carelessly and the battle was fought aimlessly. Who did you follow?
On the seventh day of the first lunar month in the eleventh year of Shunzhi, Duduo had already arrived in Jizhou City. As soon as they entered the city, before they had time to settle down, they learned that Emperor Shunzhi had left Tianjin and was preparing to fight Shi Kefa of the Northern Expedition in Hejian Mansion.
"This, this... why are you out of Beijing? If you don't stay in such a good place like Beijing, why go to Tianjin? Can't Tianjin Guard just send Zhuo Butai to lead the firearms battalion to guard? Guard Even if the camps in Tianjin, Beijing, and the north and south of the Yellow River are not invincible, they will not be defeated! The confrontation between the Liao and Song Dynasties in the past is still there! Now that he is out of Tianjin, he has to fight Shi Kefa. If he is not careful, he will It will be a huge defeat!”
Duduo couldn't believe his ears, Shunzhi was so unreliable! If you don’t stay in the impregnable city of Beijing, why go for a walk? And he has to fight Shi Kefa... He thinks Shi Kefa always loses the battle and is easy to bully?
It is not easy for people to fail but not collapse, and to rise again and again after defeat, becoming stronger as they lose!
"Uncle Emperor, your Majesty will not be defeated by Shi Kefa, right?" Nikan followed Duduo to Yutian. He did not take Shi Kefa too seriously. "This Shi Kefa is our defeated general. He has been defeated many times." Got it!"
"That's when we fight Emperor Chengzong!" Duduo pressed his temples, "How can a little brat like the Emperor beat others? Moreover, the Ming army has become stronger and stronger in recent years. We can't do what we did five or six years ago. I’m looking at them with old eyes... Nikan, just watch, in less than two days, the news of the Emperor’s defeat should come!”
Nikan thought for a while and suddenly lowered his voice: "Uncle Emperor, will the Emperor pass away?"
Duduo glanced at him and sighed: "If it collapses, it will be worthy of his Amma!"
"By the way," Nikan looked around and found that there was no outsider, then asked again, "Uncle Emperor, who is the Emperor's Amma?"
"Taizong and Chengzong!" Duduo said, "They all know it, but you don't know?"
"No, I mean kissing Amma..."
"Of course..." Duduo was stunned and shook his head, "Then you have to ask the Queen Mother!" Only then did he realize something was wrong, "Nikan, why do you ask this?"
Nikan smiled awkwardly: "There are rumors outside that the emperor is the son of the emperor..."
Duduo snorted: "I don't look like...and I don't look like Taizong! My brain is not working at all, what can I do?"
He was speaking ill of Shunzhi, and the news that made him jump came again!
And they came two at once!
The first is that the Ming Army cavalry has appeared in Dong'an and Wuqing counties near Tianjin Wei!
The second is that Emperor Shunzhi is now trapped in Tianjin Wei, with only more than 10,000 people left around him.
"There are only more than ten thousand people trapped in Tianjin?" Duduo's eyes widened as he looked at an imperial guard who sent him a message, "Where are the remaining people? Won't they all be called Shi Kefa... ..”
"Uncle Emperor," the guard said with a mournful face, "the remaining people are all in the area south of Tianjin Wei... I guess they are in a hard battle!"
"What does it mean to be in a bitter battle?" Duduo asked.
The guard said: "I don't know exactly what happened, but I know that when the Emperor sent troops from Tianjin Guard to reinforce the Interior Minister Bai Yintu, he almost ran into an army of twenty to thirty thousand Southern Barbarians. Fortunately, he retreated in time to avoid it. A calamity. But this southern army did not follow us to Tianjin Guards. It must have gone south to attack the Interior Minister Baiyin Tu..."
It’s over!
Duduo rolled his eyelids, Baiyin Tu was no longer in good health! You can't run away if you lose more than half of your money... This guy Fulin doesn't know how to fight!
After sending away the guards sent by Shunzhi to ask for help, Duduo held a military meeting in the original Jizhou General Army Yamen in Jizhou City.
They called Nikan, Yue Le, He Luohui, Bahana, Tan Tai, Leng Sengji, Mulima, and Zhan Dai who had followed him into the customs.
"Uncle Emperor," Abatai's son Yue Le is now Dodo's right-hand man. This man is not only good at fighting, but also politically savvy. He reminded Dodo, "We are not afraid of the emperor's death, but we are afraid of the emperor's surrender! I heard that Emperor Zhu of the Southern Dynasties had already built Prince Gong’s Palace in Nanjing for the emperor..."
Once Shunzhi surrendered, it would mean the fall of the Qing Dynasty!
Although Duduo can still declare his accession to the throne, the negative political impact will be quite serious, because the ruling group of the Qing Dynasty will split again due to the return of Shunzhi to the Ming Dynasty, and a pro-Ming faction will appear!
The Mongols on the grasslands and the Khoshot Khanate in Tibet may all fall to the Ming Dynasty!
Yue Le continued: "If the emperor dies for the country, you, the emperor's uncle, will be the new emperor of the Qing Dynasty... What will the emperor's heirs do?"
yes!
Shunzhi died in vain!
His son Fuquan is not a prince, and has no chance to take the throne. He might even die young because of Duduo's suspicion...
"No," He Luohui said, "The Tianjin Guard City is deep and has abundant military resources. It is difficult for Shi Kefa to break it... As long as the city is not broken, how can the emperor fall down and become the king of subjugation? "
Leng Sengji said: "Then we can't let the emperor feel completely hopeless...otherwise Princess Jianning will be Emperor Zhu's favorite concubine."
"But what can we do?" Nikan said, "The army has just traveled a long way and must rest. Moreover, if Shi Kefa besieges Tianjin Wei, it will not be without benefit to us."
"What do you say?" Dodo asked.
"If Shi Kefa knew that the emperor was in Tianjin Guard, he would definitely go all out to besiege Tianjin Guard City, so that the Northern Expeditionary Army on the Eastern Route of the Southern Dynasty would be restrained by Tianjin Guard." Nikan paused, and then said, "Uncle Emperor, Why did we come to the customs?"
Of course Duduo entered the customs not to save Zhongzhou San Francisco, nor to keep Beijing intact. Because he knows that San Francisco cannot be saved and Beijing does not need to be saved - even if the Ming army can finally capture Beijing, it will be a few years later.
This time they probably won't go to Beijing!
Because Beijing has been transformed into a fortified city and is backed by Yanshan Mountain and Bashang Grassland, the Qing army outside the Pass can easily support Beijing.
In addition, Taiyuan Prefecture in Shanxi was still in the hands of the Qing army. The terrain of Shanxi is high and overlooks Hebei. If the Ming army attacks the fortified city of Beijing without taking Taiyuan, the rear will be unstable. The Qing troops in Datong, Taiyuan, and Pingyang towns are likely to attack their flanks and rear.
Therefore, most of the Ming army will first take the territory south of Shuntian Prefecture, then go to Taiyuan and Pingyang in Shanxi, and then attack Beijing. This order is the same as that of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Duduo said: "It's for the Henan and Hebei camps!"
According to Duduo's estimation, the Henan and Hebei camps are must-take by the Ming army and must be defended by the Qing army - the Qing army must defend it until the turn of spring and summer when the Yellow River rises in order to dig out the Yellow River dam and create a yellow flood. district.
In fact, the purpose of Duduo's actions was not to drown many Han people, but to create panic, destroy agricultural production in Henan, and allow Henan people who were afraid of the Yellow River water to flee. Once these people fled south, they would all belong to the Ming Dynasty. If there were one or two million refugees, Zhu Cixiang would have to find millions of stones. As soon as there is a problem with agricultural production in Henan, the logistics of the Ming Dynasty's Northern Expeditionary Army will have problems.
And Zhu Cixiang is not a fool, and he can probably see the purpose of the existence of the north and south camps of the Yellow River! If he wants to relieve the crisis of the Yellow River flood, he must storm the Henan camp, and then Duduo will have the opportunity to severely damage the Ming army.
Nikan smiled and said: "That's okay! Let's just go south via the indirect route, and then respond to Tianjin with a partial force and monitor Shi Kefa's headquarters."
Duduo nodded: "There is a way... If the emperor of Tianjin can become a fragrant bait to attract Shi Kefa, we will have a better chance of winning in the battle between the north and south camps of the Yellow River."
He paused and asked, "What's the news from Henan? Has the Southern Army begun to attack Henan?"
"Not yet," Nikan said, "but Emperor Zhu will definitely send troops, and it won't be delayed for too long."
