Outside the dilapidated south gate of Liaoyang City, Taisong's graceful figure was sitting on the coffin. She was dressed in white, barefoot and with hair hanging down. There were hemp ropes and riding whips on the coffin board beside her...
Five hundred Mongolian soldiers, neatly dressed and lined up, looked a little sluggish looking at their master's current attire.
This scene, of course, only occurred when the Empress Dowager Taisong carried the coffin out and surrendered unconditionally to the upcoming Emperor Zhu Youjian. Everyone here, including Taison himself, was sighing. Because a traitor to the Qing Dynasty appeared and their only surrender bargaining chip was taken away. There is no mention of the 30,000-year household seal, the three-state fiefdom, or the reward of hundreds of thousands taels. There were no conditions except surrender.
When Empress Dowager Taisong fled to Liaoyang City with thousands of households of Mongolian herders and more than a thousand households of slaves, she immediately sent an envoy to Haizhou, which had been recovered by the Ming Dynasty, to request surrender. Then, while preparing for the surrender ceremony, he stretched his neck and waited for Zhu Youjian's army to arrive.
And just when the Queen Mother Taisong was choosing a coffin, hemp rope and a riding crop for herself, Sonny, the envoy of the rebellious son Funing, hurried over and brought two new pieces of bad news to Taisong!
The first bad news was that the rebellious son Funing was smarter than she thought. Not only did he not send troops to hunt down her remaining troops, he also gave her the name to temporarily station troops in Liaoyang.
What was even more beyond Taisong's expectation was that the rebellious son Funing actually asked Zhu Youjian for peace, promising to cede Liaoyang, Haizhou, and Gaizhou, and also dedicated the Qing Empress Dowager to Zhu Youjian.
This is ceding land to sacrifice one’s mother!
In order to protect the Qing Dynasty, Funing really gave up all face.
But Taisong knew that Funing's performance could not deceive Zhu Youjian... The Shenyang Incident had revealed Funing's prowess as a young hero. If there hadn't been this Shenyang Incident, Funing's cession of territory and mother sacrifice would definitely have given the Qing Dynasty a breathing space. Perhaps Shenyang, Fushun, and Tieling, the important towns of the Ming Dynasty, cannot be saved, but the homeland of Jianzhou outside Fushun Pass should be saved for now.
But the problem is that Funing has shown the true face of the British Master! Can Zhu Youjian still tolerate him?
He is the master of Ying at such a young age, and he is so able to endure humiliation and bear the burden... If he is allowed to grow up, will he be the second Nurhachi?
The second bad news is that the troops of the two red flags have left the Liaohe Hetao area and the territory of Tieling and Liaohai, heading towards Amin's home base of the Songhua River Basin!
This means that Funing will lose the strong support of the two red flags, and will even lose Amin's men with blue flags. The only Manchu nationalities that can be relied on are the 25 Niulu people in Zhenghuang Banner and the 10,000 people in Xianghuang Banner... The total population may not even be 100,000.
With such a decline, if you stay in Shenyang any longer, you will be waiting for death!
I don’t know if he can wake up in time and flee to the mountains outside Fushun Pass before Zhu Youjian and Wu Liangha’s army arrives. Maybe he can survive the winter through the high mountains and dense forests...
Thinking of this, Queen Taisong sighed.
Seeing his master in pain, Chahar Gu Harun, the most confidant, quietly led the horse to Taisong's side.
Without looking back, Taisong knew that her distant cousin was coming. She asked in a low voice: "Where is the Great Tomorrow?"
"There are still about ten to twenty miles..." Chahar Gu Harun said, "The emperor came in a hurry. It seems that he still cares about the master."
Taisong shook his head, "Why would he care about me? He's doing it for Funing...Funing shouldn't be so smart, he should learn from Liu Adou!"
...
Taisong really guessed it right this time!
How could Zhu Youjian let go of someone else's "treason"?
When he heard Sony say "Don't leave, my mother, please be filial", his face turned green and he was frightened... He had heard similar words from his rebellious son!
How powerful my traitor is! Even in such a difficult situation, we can turn the tide and turn things around! That Fu Ning can be the same as Zhu Cixiang shows that he is no less a rebellious son than Zhu Cixiang!
Such a treacherous son... must not be kept!
Originally, he had no intention of killing Funing, and he didn't even think of letting Funing become a monk... The Ming Dynasty did not lack his share of glory and wealth!
Wouldn't it be enough to raise him like a pig for the rest of his life? After all, Zhu Youjian knew that he could live to be 90 years old, and that the successor would be the treacherous son, and after the treacherous son there would be a wealthy king. Three generations of heroic masters, when all three generations have passed, Funing's grandson may not even be around.
Moreover, Zhu Youjian also knew that he had many sons. In the future, he would grant more to Nuergandusi's territory, and then turn the Jurchen and Mongolian leaders there into his in-laws, and then recruit young soldiers from them to Young men who can fight will soon become Ming Zhongliang and be sent to fight all over the world. Isn't this the end of the world?
But he didn't expect that Funing was as powerful as Nizi...even their words were almost the same!
Moreover, he is more shameless than the rebellious son and can endure humiliation and bear the burden better! No matter how rebellious the son is, he will never "dedicate his mother's territory" to Dorgon! This rebellious son of the Qing Dynasty is simply Zhu Cihong plus Yue Wang Goujian! Such a traitor must be eliminated!
Therefore, Zhu Youjian made a decisive decision and prepared to expand the war in Liaodong.
Originally, because the catastrophe in the Central Plains had not yet passed, Zhu Youjian did not plan to expand the war in Liaodong - if it had not been for the Japanese and Qing coalition forces to take the lead, Zhu Youjian would not have started the war in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen.
But now that the Qing Dynasty has a traitor, Zhu Youjian can't wait any longer!
If you don't have money, you can find a way to borrow it. If you don't have food, you can find a way to buy it from the East India Company. In short, at all costs, you must completely eliminate Funing, the traitor of the Qing Dynasty!
Before Zhu Youjian led the army to leave Haizhou, a plan to besiege Shenyang and capture Funing in one fell swoop had already begun to be implemented.
In order to paralyze Funing and prevent this traitorous son of the Qing Dynasty from abandoning the city and fleeing, Zhu Youjian pretended to agree to Funing's peace condition of "ceding land and dedicating his mother to his mother". It was agreed that after getting the Queen Mother Taisong, Funing would be granted the title of King of Shenyang and the commander of the four guards of Shenyang, Tieling, Liaohai and Jianzhou.
Subsequently, Zhu Youjian deployed three routes of encirclement and suppression of soldiers.
The first line of encirclement and suppression troops was the 50,000 Ji Liao Army led by Sun Chuanting. This army had already moved to the west bank of the Liao River during the Battle of Gaizhou. Now Zhu Youjian ordered them to advance north along the Liao River and attack Tielingwei directly, cutting off Funing's northward escape.
The second line of encirclement and suppression troops was the main force of the tent cavalry led by Wu Sangui and the Pingliao army cavalry. They had one man and three horses. Under the leadership of the cavalry sent by Mang Gurtai who had surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, they went straight to Dongzhou Fort and Magen east of Shenyang. Danbao, Fushun Pass, Hoi'an Fort, Sanchaer Fort, Huabao Chongbao and Fu'an Fort left. In order to cut off the transfer channel of the rebels of the Qing Dynasty to Jianzhou Hetuala.
The third army is the main force of the Pingliao Army led by Zhu Youjian, plus tens of thousands of Han and Korean troops who were originally slaves and bandits collected in the Battle of Gaizhou (of course these people cannot become the official Ming army. But Zhu Youjian would not kill them, because developing the Northeast requires tenants!), plus the "white-headed cavalry" brought by Mao Chenglu, they gathered a total of 80,000 troops and drove towards Liaoyang in a mighty manner. .
At the same time, Zhu Youjian also sent military envoys to the Nenjiang grassland, ordering Concubine Wuliangha (she had just arrived there) and Batma Hong to lead the Mongolian cavalry in an eastward expedition to the Songhua River, striving to capture Daishan and Yue Tuo's subordinates were dispersed in one fell swoop to prevent them from developing influence in the Longxing land of the former Jin Dynasty.
Mao Kaitai, who was sent out by Zhu Youjian to lead the battle, had returned on horseback at this time, and brought good news from Liaoyang to Zhu Youjian: "Long live the Lord, congratulations to the Lord, long live the Lord...slave thief" The false Queen Mother Taisong has surrendered, and is now waiting for His Majesty outside Liaoyang City. Moreover, she came out holding the coffin with her hair disheveled and bare feet, tied with a rope!"
Zhu Youjian's sullen face finally relaxed and showed a smile. This was a victory!
He smiled at the generals on his left and right and said: "We will spend the night in Liaoyang today, and tomorrow we will cross the Taizi River and go north to Shenyang, killing that rebellious and unfilial slave and traitor in one fell swoop!"
