The tower at the south gate of Fushun County was filled with Manchu and Qing officials who were distracted. The leader of them is Le'erjin, the prince of Shuncheng County. He is accompanied by the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, Mo Luo, the governor of Sichuan, Luo Sen, the admiral of Shaanxi, Bai Yongfu, the admiral of Gansu, Wang Jinbao, and a lot of other military officials who have come to Sichuan to gild their seniority. , consult military aircraft and other banner officials.
These upright officials, who usually stomped their feet and made the ground shake for ten miles around, were so frightened that they could not speak and half of their souls were lost. Of course, it was the one who was said to have had a stroke and was already about to die. Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, died.
And this rumor is completely false!
Wu Sangui, who had just won a great victory in the battle of Daguan Town, was shaking. How could he look like he was dying of a stroke?
I saw Wu Sangui wearing a yellow robe with a round dragon collar and a yellow hood. Under his crotch was a tall maroon horse. Surrounded by a group of neatly dressed generals and soldiers, he was walking along the official road from Daguan Town to Fushun County. Come slowly.
When he approached Rongxi Bridge, countless red-turbaned Wu soldiers lined the road to welcome him, and they all shouted together: "Qingtian is dead, Zhoutian should be established, the fields should be equalized, the world will be divided, long live the King of Anxi! Long live! Long live!" Long live!"
This is long live the King of the West.
And driving over with Wu Sangui were tens of thousands of Red Turban troops! Most of them wore red scarf robes, holding large banners embroidered with Chinese characters such as "Qingtian is dead, Zhoutian must be established", "Equalize the land and divide the land, the world will be safe", "Drive out the Tartars, fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty" and other Chinese characters. Carrying spears, sabers, shotguns, and artillery, they sang the song "Welcome the Ming King", swung their arms, and came with long strides.
This morale is so high that it can be observed with the naked eye!
And their high morale is not unreasonable, because they have just beaten the main force of the Qing Dynasty - the Eight Banners in the Battle of Daguan Town!
This "beating" was not just a few ordinary beatings, but a beating of the 20,000 Qing troops, including the 10,000 Eight Banners New Army and the 10,000 Green Camp New Army, until only a few people were left and the 10,000 Green Camp were destroyed. That's all, but there were ten thousand Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers who were also wiped out easily!
Moreover, it was the powerful Eight Banners force led by the Qing Dynasty's current number one general and Prince Shuo'an Yue Le, so they were beaten even more like a dog.
Among them, the 3,000 Eight Banners cavalry led by Prince An himself were stabbed in front of the Eight Banners and Green Camp soldiers on the other side of the Rong River by the bamboo spear cavalry, which was only more than half of them, and fled. No one knows where they are now. where? Life or death is unclear!
It is no exaggeration to say that in the just-concluded Battle of Daguan Town, these red scarf Wu soldiers had broken the pillar of force supporting the Qing Dynasty!
Without the myth that the Eight Banners were invincible, should the Qing Dynasty belong to the master of these red-turbaned Wu soldiers? Long Live the King of the West?
"That's right, it's Wu Sangui." Shaanxi admiral Bai Yongfu, a veteran of the Liaodong Ming Army, was from the same hometown as Wu Sangui and was an old acquaintance. So now he looked with a telescope from a distance and recognized the man surrounded by people. The man in the yellow robe and hood is Wu Sangui.
"Wu Sangui is still fine, but we were fooled!"
"What should we do? Wu Sangui will call us soon."
"Your Majesty, why don't we withdraw first?"
"Yes, yes, keep the green hills and don't worry about running out of firewood!"
"Thirty-Six Strategies to Go is the Prince, let's leave quickly!"
After hearing that Bai Yongfu confirmed the authenticity of Wu Sangui, the loyal ministers and generals of the Qing Dynasty on the city wall began to discuss countermeasures, and soon they came up with the "Thirty-Six Strategies for the Best".
But Leerjin, the king of Shuncheng County, was undecided.
Because he knew that if he really got ahead, the whole of Sichuan would be "lost"! Even Guizhou and Shaanxi Hanzhong have to be lost!
In the blink of an eye, Wu Sangui went from living in Yunnan and Guizhou to becoming one of the three most famous people in the world!
If this old immortal is a little more fierce, he might be able to keep up his efforts and fight his way into the Guanzhong Plain! At that time, the Qing Dynasty will have to compete with Wu Sangui.
He can't bear such a big responsibility!
Thinking of this, Leerjin turned to look at Rosen, the governor of Sichuan, and said, "Yue Zhai, you are the frontier of Sichuan. Come and take this idea!"
Rosen, a middle-aged white-faced scholar, is now livid. He still doesn’t know what Leerjin is thinking? Are you asking him to make up his mind together? Shall we take the blame together? But he is not afraid of taking the blame, because he has made up his mind to rebel!
He was originally a Han Chinese in Beijing. He was a Jinshi in the early years of Shunzhi. His ancestor was a member of Qianhu, a hereditary Jinyiwei family. At that time, all the houses in an alley in the inner city of Beijing belonged to his Luo family! When Dorgon came, he took possession of it immediately. The whole family was forced to rent a house in the outer city. The ancestral farm outside the city was also occupied by the Manchus. In this way, the good family was ruined. Although he was good at studying and could take exams, he won the Jinshi and became an official. But among the hundreds of members of the Luo family, less than 10% survived in the end.
This is a blood feud!
Now you bullshit prince wants me to take the blame. I quit, and I want to join Wu Sangui!
Thinking of this, Rosen said to Leerjin: "Your Majesty, I have a plan to retreat from the enemy."
"A plan to defeat the enemy?" Leerjin immediately asked, "What's a clever plan? Tell me quickly!"
"Have you forgotten that Wu Sangui's eldest son Wu Yingxiong is still in Fushun City?" Rosen patted his chest and said, "I will take people to tie him up and take him to Rongxi Bridge, and use Wu Yingxiong to force Wu Sangui to retreat."
"Using Wu Yingxiong to force Wu Sangui to retreat?" Leerjin frowned, "Wu Sangui is willing to retreat?"
"Your Majesty, we don't ask Wu Sangui to return to Yunnan now. As long as he is willing to temporarily return to Yibin, we can evacuate to Baoning Mansion, Taiping Hall, and Long'an Mansion. As long as we can defend these three places, we can seal Wu Sangui in Yunnan and Guizhou. Sichuan has been in Sichuan for some time. Sichuan has been devastated for a long time and cannot support an army to fight for a long time. And Wu Sangui’s hometown, Yunnan, is also a poor place! If we can block him in Sichuan even for a year or two , it can also block his sharp edge. And with this period of respite, the imperial court can also manage Shaanxi, Gansu, and Huguang with impregnable strength. By then, the imperial court will still be able to eliminate this thief Wu Sangui!"
"Okay!" Leerjin couldn't help but shout loudly after hearing Rosen's analysis, "Yo Zhai, that will be a lot of work."
As he spoke, he took out a token and handed it to Rosen: "Yue Zhai, with this token, you can bring Wu Yingxiong out."
"Come back as soon as you go!" Rosen clasped his fists, took the token, turned around and walked down the tower. Then he called his Fubiao general, mobilized a thousand Fubiao elites, and went straight to Wu Yingxiong, who was under house arrest. Go to the house.
When Rosen and his pacesetters arrived at the mansion where Wu Yingxiong lived, the prince of Pingxi already knew that Wu Yingqi (Wu Sangui) had rebelled. However, he did not know that his father and his brother had become good at rebelling in the past two years, and now they had There was a big hole in the sky of the Qing Dynasty.
Moreover, Prince Pingxi’s phobia of the Eight Banners is worse than that of his father!
In his opinion, Yue Le has 20,000 Eighth Banner New Army, 10,000 Green Camp New Army, 10,000 Shaanxi-Gansu Green Camp, and a bunch of miscellaneous Sichuan troops. The number of troops around Fushun County alone is no less than 40,000. This is definitely A sure win!
So when he found out that the Wu family had really rebelled, he felt that his death was imminent. He stopped struggling, just had something to eat and drink, and went on his way with peace of mind. When Rosen ran up to him shouting "The Prince is very happy", Wu Yingxiong was drinking wine and eating side dishes!
When he heard "great joy", he thought he was about to go on his way, so he straightened his clothes and prepared to die. But what happened next surprised him! Luo Sen ran up to him, knelt down on his knees, and shouted loudly: "The hereditary royal guard Qian Hu Luo Sen respectfully invites the Crown Prince of the West to be safe. Crown Prince, I am so happy!"
Jinyiwei? Wu Yingxiong was stunned. Wasn't this Jin Yiwei from the Ming Dynasty? Isn’t Rosen the governor of Sichuan in the Qing Dynasty? How did he become a royal guard of the Ming Dynasty? Could it be that this prince drank too much?
Wu Yingxiong lowered his head and saw that there was still half a bowl of glutinous rice inside the wine bowl. Sichuan glutinous rice is also called fermented glutinous rice in some places. Although Wu Yingxiong is now in Wuliangye's hometown, he couldn't buy it for a long time, so he could only drink some fermented fermented juice. After half a bowl of fermented fermented fermented juice, he got drunk? Isn't it?
Thinking of this, Wu Yingxiong looked at Rosen who was still kneeling on the ground and asked, "Luo Futai, who do you think you are?"
"Jinyiwei!" Rosen patted his chest, "I am a hereditary Jinyiwei Qianhuchen. Although I am settled in Daxing, my ancestral home is actually Dingyuan County in Nanzhili. My tenth ancestor, Ke Enigong, was still a minister during the Yongle period. Here is the commander of the Imperial Guards!"
"Then you are now"
"I, like the prince, are both in the Qing camp and have a clear mind!"
Wu Yingxiong couldn't laugh or cry, "I, I am a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty!"
"Your Majesty!" Rosen laughed, "Your loyalty to the Qing Dynasty has come to an end. The King of the West has defeated that old thief Yue Le and wiped out his entire army! Your Majesty, let's fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty together!" "
Wu Yingxiong was startled, "What? Revolt against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty? Luo, Luo Futai, are you crazy?"
"I'm not crazy!" Rosen stood up suddenly, strode to the window sill, and pushed open the closed window (this Wu Yingxiong secretly drank his "decapitation wine" with the window closed), Then he said to Wu Yingxiong, "Master, please listen!"
Wu Yingxiong doesn’t know what happened? But he still walked to the window and listened. Faintly, he heard the cheers of the crowd: "Long live! Long live! Long live the King of the West."
Wu Yingxiong suddenly thought of something and asked in a trembling voice: "King of the West? Did my Ama, no, my father win the battle?"
"We won. A complete victory! Yue Le's 20,000 troops, including 10,000 Eight Banners soldiers, were completely wiped out!"
"The Eighty Thousand Banners were wiped out." Wu Yingxiong could hardly speak, "Then, what should I do?"
Rosen said: "You want to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty! Of course you have to lead us to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty!"
Wu Yingxiong looked confused, "Reverse the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty? But I can't!"
Rosen said: "If you know how, you can shout with me!"
Wu Yingxiong asked: "What are you shouting?"
Rosen shouted: "The Qing Dynasty is dead, the Zhou Dynasty should be established, the fields should be equalized and the land should be divided, and the world will be peaceful against the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty!"
Wu Yingxiong hesitated for a moment, and then shouted: "Qing Tian is dead, Zhou Tian should be established, equalize the fields and divide the land, and the world will be peaceful, fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty!"
After Wu Yingxiong finished shouting "Reverse the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty", he realized that there was a courtyard outside the window, and the courtyard was crowded with Qing soldiers!
He just shouted "Reverse the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty" to the Qing soldiers in a courtyard. He was so smart!
These Qing soldiers all looked at him blankly! Wu Yingxiong also looked at these Qing soldiers blankly.
What happened next was something Wu Yingxiong never expected.
The Qing soldiers in a courtyard suddenly burst into cheers the loudest: "Anti-Qing and Fu-Ming! Oppose Qing and Fu-Ming! Oppose Qing and Fu-Ming!"
It turned out that these Qing soldiers were all Luo Sen's model soldiers. Luo Sen, the governor of Sichuan, had a total of two thousand model soldiers, and he brought them to Fushun County. One thousand of them were brought to Wu Yingxiong's place, and another thousand were guarding them. Several important places in the city can be attacked at any time!
When shouts of "anti-Qing and restoration of Ming" erupted in Fushun County, the Wu and Qing armies were confronting each other on both sides of the Rong River in the south of Fushun County.
Wu Sangui came with the power of a great victory in Daguan Town, so he naturally had to continue his efforts and directly drive away the Qing army in Fushun. As soon as the Qing troops in Fushun leave, the Qing's power in Sichuan will most likely collapse!
Because Zheng Jiaolin, Wu Zhimao, and Tan Hong, the admirals or commander-in-chief of Sichuan Province, are all connected with Wu Sangui. As long as Wu Sangui allows them to see the hope of victory, they will definitely join in the rebellion.
And as soon as they joined, the rule of the Qing Dynasty in Sichuan almost collapsed. After all, the Sichuan people in this era deeply hated the Qing Dynasty!
As long as Leerjin retreats, it is a delusion to retreat calmly as Rosen said before and retreat to Baoning, Longan, and Taiping (Ting) on the Sichuan-Shaanxi border. There is a high probability that even Hanzhong will be destroyed. If he can't keep it, he will be pushed across the Qinling Mountains by Wu Sangui. Being able to set up defenses in Guanzhong is already a good thing.
In addition, Wu Sangui was not that easy to talk to. If Leerjin's soldiers were to retreat, Wu Sangui would definitely send troops to chase them all the way. It's hard to say how many Eight Banners soldiers could come back alive!
Therefore, Le Erjin and others could only bite the bullet and confront Wu Sangui's army on the north bank of Rong River!
But Wu Sangui also has so many soldiers! The morale is also really high!
Troops came in a steady stream, and the entire south bank of Rong River was full. It looked like there were not more than 50,000 but 40,000. Moreover, these Wu soldiers with their heads wrapped in red scarves all looked like "I am the best in the world". It's as if I could spread my wings and fly across the Rong River to kill people.
"Hurry up, burn the pontoon bridge!" Leerjin didn't want to show weakness before, so he deliberately left the pontoon bridge unburned. But now, Leerjin couldn't stand it any longer, and kept asking people to burn the pontoon bridge.
"嗻!"
The two guards from the Shuncheng County Prince's Mansion roared and ran down the tower as fast as they could. But before they could pass on the order to burn the bridge, someone in Fushun County started shouting "Reverse the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty!"
On the city tower, King Leerjin of Shuncheng County and others still felt that they heard wrongly, but they still turned around and looked inside Fushun County. At first glance, they were frightened!
The "Red Scarf Army" has entered Fushun County at some point. These "Red Scarf Army" are divided into many teams of dozens of people. There are people in each team holding torches and setting fires everywhere in Fushun County!
Many houses have been set alight by them, and fire and thick smoke are emitting from everywhere in Fushun County! There were many officers and soldiers wearing red tassel hats running around, shouting as they ran: "The rebels are coming! Wu Sangui is coming! Run!"
With such a shout, Fushun County, which was already panicked, fell into chaos. The soldiers who stayed in the city to guard the general's residence, granaries, warehouses and various temporary government offices were now all in a panic!
When Leer Jinzheng didn't know what to do, the Wu soldiers on the other side of Rong River also started to attack! Thirty or forty bronze cannons began to roar, and solid bullets weighing two to three kilograms hit the Gansu and Shaanxi green battalion soldiers guarding the north entrance of Rongxi Bridge like raindrops.
These green camp soldiers had long been panicked. They had been frightened by the Wu soldiers guarding the south entrance of Rongxi Bridge. Later, they witnessed Wu soldiers' bamboo spear cavalry stabbing the Eight Banners soldiers into flight. They had already regarded Wu Sangui as He was the "True Dragon Emperor", and everyone wanted to quickly vote for Wu Conglong to become the founding hero of the country. Now being coaxed by the cannon, the group immediately dispersed.
When the Wu soldiers on the other side of the Rongxi River saw it, they immediately became furious. They picked up the guy and rushed towards the bridge. Their morale was simply exploded.
Moreover, these soldiers leading the battle were not "red scarf robes", but "red scarf uniforms". They had red scarves on their heads and wore the uniforms of Qing soldiers! They are all soldiers from the Green Camp New Army and the Gansu-Shaanxi Green Camp who have just defected to join Wu Bing!
They were used as cannon fodder by the Eight Banners soldiers before, but now they have become the invincible Wu soldiers. Their resentment towards the Qing government has directly turned into high morale. Planting projectiles, launched a desperate attack, and went forward one after another, not caring about casualties at all.
This charge, coupled with the chaos in Fushun County and the collapse of the Gansu-Shaanxi Green Battalion, directly caused the Eight Banners soldiers under Leerjin to collapse - Wu Sangui's soldiers were too fierce and were not afraid of death at all. , the artillery rushes, the people in front fall down, and the people behind are rushing up like the tide. Let alone them, such an enemy, even if their villain Ama is resurrected, they probably can't resist it, right?
Leerjin, the king of Shuncheng County, couldn't stand it anymore. If Yue Le was an expert in fighting with the wind, he wouldn't know how to fight at all. This was his first time on the battlefield!
The first time he went to the battlefield, he encountered such a huge defeat and chaos. How could he continue to fight?
"Retreat quickly, retreat quickly," Leerjin shouted loudly, "All the soldiers of the Eight Banners mounted their horses and retreated with me to the Green Camp of Zizhou, Gansu and Shaanxi, leaving behind the rear!"
Moro Luo beside him is still a little sober. At this time, the Ganshan Green Camp left behind is not the rearguard, but to send troops to Wu Sangui! He quickly grabbed Leerjin who was about to run down the city: "Your Majesty, the Gansu and Shaanxi Green Camp has been defeated. If they are allowed to stay behind, they will surrender to the enemy!"
Leerjin stamped his feet: "Then, let's run together! Let's see who runs faster."
(End of chapter)
