Galdan reached the pinnacle of his life in the early tenth year of Kangxi - he transformed from a great monk to Huitai Ji (also translated as Huang Taiji) of the Oirat Mongol Choros tribe, and he also married his widowed Bai Fumei sister-in-law Anu. Can Dun be a wife.
Look, this is "Huang Taiji" marrying Bai Fumei again, and he was a monk before! Does this life trajectory look a bit similar to that of Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty? Anyway, they are quite proud.
In the first month of the second year after Galdan got a satisfactory job and slept with the beautiful sister-in-law he had been lusting after for several years, he formally appealed to the Qing court and asked the Qing court to confer him the title of Huitai Ji in the Chuo Rui army. At that time, Emperor Kangxi was busy dealing with domestic rebels such as Wu Sangui, Li Zicheng, and Prince Zhu. He had no time to ask how a monk from Oirat Mongolia returned to secular life, married his sister-in-law, and became an "Emperor Tai Chi".
Therefore, Kangxi readily approved Galdan's memorial, which was regarded as selling him a small favor.
After receiving Kangxi's imperial edict, Galdan sent someone to ask for a Houtai auspicious gold seal from his teacher, the fifth generation Xueyu Grand Lama, thus receiving the double endorsement of the emperor and the Buddha, and obtained the Oirat Mongolian seal. All the righteousness of the Ross Department.
However, what Galdan received was only the righteous title of the Churo tribe, not the righteous title of the entire Oirat Alliance.
At this time, the leaders of the Oirat Alliance were the relatively weak Horqin tribe and Shuote Mongolia. Their surname was Borzhin. Although they were not Borzjins of the Golden Family, they were much stronger than Galdan's Choros. Galdan is just a descendant of Grand Master Yexian.
Although it is not bad at first, it is not as good as "Bole Jijin" after all. The Mongolians on the grassland still do this!
In addition to blindly worshiping Bor, the Mongolians on the grasslands are now more afraid of the Qing emperor.
Firstly, it is because the Qing emperor also served as the Great Khan of Mongolia. Kangxi himself was a Great Khan, and his khan name was Enkh Amgulang Khan.
Secondly, it was because Fuquan, the brother of the Great Khan, had just cut off the heads of two generations of Chahar Mongolian princes!
That's a direct descendant of the Golden Family!
Although they are very good, the Mongolians who don't know the truth still think that they are quite powerful, so the prestige of this guy Fuquan on the grassland is constantly rising!
If Galdan, a Huitaiji who was born as a monk, now wants to make further progress and become the "General Taiji" of Oirat Mongolia, then it is best to get the support of Kangxi Khan. At the very least, Kangxi Khan cannot be allowed to oppose him. Otherwise, if the Great Khan had sent his "Eagle" Fuquan to kill people on the Junggar grassland, what kind of "general auspiciousness" would he have had?
Therefore, as long as Kangxi could make good use of this, he would be able to draw the capable Chuo Luo troops to his side - if Wu Sangui did not come out of Qishan to occupy Longyou, it would not matter whether he pulled the Chu Luo troops. If this Gar If Dan really gets big, it might even become a trouble for the Qing Dynasty.
But now, it is only a matter of time before Qinzhou falls!
Once Qinzhou was captured by Wu Sangui, Kangxi would have to shrink his defenses in the Guanlong area. By then Gongchang, Lanzhou, Liangzhou, Xining, Ganzhou, Suzhou, Anxi Prefecture, and perhaps Ningxia will all be captured by Wu Sangui.
By then, Wu Sangui would be caught between the Mongols and the Qing Dynasty.
Moreover, Wu Sangui, who had to rely on Han landlords and farmers, would definitely fall out with Mongolians like Heshuote, Yeerqiang, and Choros who came to grab a piece of them whenever they wanted!
Kangxi thought about it for a while, then nodded and agreed to the suggestion of Grand Scholar Jin Batai, but he also planned to kill two birds with one stone!
"To pass on my decree, I ordered King Yu Fuquan to be in charge of the left and right wings of Chahar and the prince's headquarters, and to concurrently serve as Prince of Chahar. Then I ordered Fuquan to lead the Chahar cavalry in the name of Prince Chahar to inspect the Monan grassland in the west. In order to demonstrate the power of the Qing Dynasty, and to form an alliance with Huitaiji from the Oirat tribes in Anxi Prefecture!"
After listening to Kangxi's words, the minister kneeling below felt his heart sinking - they are all human beings, who doesn't know Kangxi's thoughts?
Kangxi gave his good brother three difficult problems!
One is to divert the tiger away from the mountain!
Fuquan wanted to integrate the Chahar tribe, inspect the Monan grassland, and host the alliance in Anxi Prefecture, so he had to leave Beijing.
Although Kangxi would not remove Fu Quan from his post as the left-behind minister in Beijing, as long as he could not return to Beijing, Kangxi would have a way to poach him.
The second is to roast Fuquan on the fire!
The left and right wings of General Chahar are nothing like the prince's headquarters, but the fact that he is also the prince of Chahar is a big deal!
Fuquan's surname is not Bo'er but only Jin! His surname is Aixinjueluo! Although he also has the bloodline of Bo'er Jijin, his Bo'er Jijin comes from Horqin, and the ancestor of the Horqin tribe is Genghis Khan's second brother Hesar. It's enough to coax those country bumpkins in Oirat, but what does it mean to thousands of households in Central Chahar? How could he secure the position of Prince Chahar?
The third problem is how to get the four Oirat Mongolian tribes and the Yerqiang tribe from the Chagatai clan to recognize Aixinjueluo Fuquan, Prince Chahar. Just thinking about it gives "Fu Haohao" a headache!
"Long live the King of the West, drive out the Tartars and restore China"
Just half a month after Emperor Kangxi presented a problem to his good brother Fuquan, cheers of "Long live the King of the West" finally rang out both inside and outside Qinzhou City!
This important town located at the northern entrance of Qishan Road was the city of Qinzhou that had just become "loyal to the Western King" last night. Before that, the new Eight Banners Army commanded by Fei Yanggu held on for a full half month.
In ten of these fifteen days, the city of Qinzhou was under bombardment. Wu Yingqi had been preparing for the battle of Qinzhou for more than a year. He even opened a military base in Xihe County, which belongs to Gongchang Prefecture, south of Qinzhou. The cannon foundry spent more than half a year casting 20 bronze and red cannons that could fire twelve kilograms of shells and 30 or 40 small cannons and mortars near the battlefield. After the Battle of Qinzhou began, the artillery commanded by Wu Shicong dragged the twenty heavy artillery pieces and arrived at Qinzhou City on the not-so-wide road at the end of Qishan Road for eighteen days.
But the power exerted by these twenty twelve-pound red cannons in destroying the city wall was worthy of all the hard work of the craftsmen and artillerymen and the civilians who dragged them! After ten days of intense bombardment day and night, the small city of Qinzhou had been riddled with holes. Gaps were opened one after another in the city wall covered with rammed earth and bricks, the largest of which was twenty or thirty steps long!
The upper half of this section of the city wall was completely gone, and the city bricks collapsed and formed a slope. The rammed soil layer inside is also full of pits, which are the craters left by the red cannons firing iron sand bombs at close range!
The Qing army and the Wu army fought fiercely to compete for this gap in the city wall!
The Wu army's dead soldiers launched more than 20 attacks in five days, while the Qing army's garrison commander Fei Yanggu personally went to the front line to supervise the battle, and did not leave for four days and five nights, insisting on commanding his men. The Eight Banners New Army repelled the Wu army time and time again.
After the fight, Wu Shicong, who was red-eyed, simply ordered his people to push all the eighteen 12-pound red cannons that could still fire to the front line, and aimed at the gaps in the city wall and the crenellations of the nearby city wall to fire iron sand bullets like crazy!
Under the intensive firepower of the Wu army, the Qing army suffered heavy casualties. The gaps in this section of the city wall were filled with corpses of the Qing army. At that time, Wu Shicong used the night to quietly move the artillery up. After dawn the next day, Wu Shicong sent hundreds of people to launch a feint attack, leading a large number of Qing troops in dense formation to the slope of the gap. As a result, they were ambushed by the Eighteen Gates and Twelve Jin Red Army who were ambushing at the front. The fierce bombardment of clothes and artillery killed almost all the Qing troops, turning the place into a big pile of corpses. It was on this pile of corpses that the Wu army soldiers made a breakthrough and broke into Qinzhou City!
At this time, Feiyanggu, who was guarding the city, already knew that the situation was over. In order to avoid the annihilation of the entire army, he had to lead the remaining troops to break out of the encirclement. Of the last 4,000 people, only less than 1,000 people were left to follow Feiyanggu and escape. The others either died in the battle or died in the battle. He became a prisoner of the Wu family army.
After learning that Qinzhou had been captured by Wu Yingqi and Wu Shicong, Wu Sangui personally led 20,000 elite troops to ambush in Fuqiang County in the northwest of Qinzhou, waiting to attack the reinforcements of the Qing army. He swaggered out and arrived at the Western King who was loyal to him. Long live Qinzhou City!
However, it was beyond the expectations of Wu Yingqi and Wu Shicong. Although they organized all the people in Qinzhou who could move to go out and shout slogans to welcome the King of the West, Wu Sangui still looked ugly, and he could tell he was angry.
This is incredible!
Old man Wu is angry, and the consequences will be serious!
But who is this old man angry with? Wu Yingqi looked at the old man's face and murmured in his heart. Doesn't he think he plays too slowly? This battle is not easy to fight! Qinzhou is a fortified city, and it was once the base of Laita's Qishan camp, and it was reinforced. If Laita hadn't suddenly left Qinzhou with his troops, it would have been possible for the battle of Qinzhou to last for three months!
In this way, full of grievances and confusion, Wu Yingqi finally brought his father into the best house in Qinzhou City - it turned out to be a mansion owned by a local rich man, but was later requisitioned by Laita and became the Qishan Mansion. The residence of the Chief Minister's Yamen of the camp. Now it has become Wu Sangui's palace again.
Wu Sangui had just entered the palace lobby angrily. Before he could sit down and take a sip of tea, Wu Yingqi came up to him without thinking: "Sir, why are you so angry all the way? Who made you unhappy? Baby, teach him a lesson for you!"
"Who?" Wu Sangui lifted up his robe, sat down on an imperial chair, and snorted, "Huh, Yue Le is the old boy, Li Zicheng is the traitor, and Kangxi is the treacherous Tatar. One too!"
Fortunately, I was not there. Wu Yingqi breathed a sigh of relief and quickly asked people to serve tea and snacks to Prince Wu. Then he picked up his robe and sat down on a high chair next to Wu Sangui.
"Dad, why did they offend you?" Wu Yingqi asked Wu Sangui.
Wu Sangui said with a gloomy face: "I just received a six hundred mile express delivery from Xiangyang yesterday. It was sent by your brother! He got the news from Yue Le that Kangxi, a foolish emperor, actually wanted to negotiate peace with Li Zicheng, a traitor! "
"What?" Wu Yingqi was startled, "Kangxi wanted to recruit King An Chuang? Doesn't he know what happened to Chongzhen?"
Wu Sangui glanced coldly at Wu Yingqi who was talking nonsense. Wu Shicong, who came in with Wu Sangui and Wu Yingqi, already understood what happened, "Grandpa, don't Yue Le intend to hand over Jingzhou, Jingmen and other places to his uncle, but instead want to hand over Jingzhou, Jingmen and other places to his uncle?" Leave it to Li Zicheng there, and then take the Yangtze River to counterattack Nanjing?"
It turns out that Wu Yingqi and Yue Le have been negotiating for "land in exchange for passage" for a long time. Although the land transportation in Jingzhou and Jianghuai areas where Yue Le is located has not been cut off, that does not mean that Yue Le can lead the Seventh and Eighth Army. Tens of thousands of flag soldiers, green camp soldiers, family members, domestic slaves, as well as officials and official family members who gathered in Jingzhou evacuated by land without Wu Yingxiong's permission.
There are so many people, taking care of their families, supporting the old and the young, traveling across mountains and rivers, and traveling thousands of miles. As long as Wu Yingxiong sends elite fusiliers to go around and set up an ambush in front of them, he will definitely be able to defeat Yue. Le is just like Uncle Liu who led the nobles and people who escaped from Xiangyang to run away together!
Emperor Yueyue didn't want to lose all his capital, so after he learned that Geng Jingzhong rebelled and besieged Duolong, the governor of Liangjiang, he asked Kangxi for instructions and started negotiations with Wu Yingxiong to exchange land. Passage.
On the one hand, Wu Yingxiong wanted to capture Jingzhou, Jingmen, Anlu and other places without a fight; on the other hand, he also wanted Kangxi to release his wife and children. The values of the two sides hit it off.
Seeing that Yue Le was about to reach an agreement with Wu Yingxiong, Yue Le actually sent someone to tell Wu Yingxiong that the negotiation was off the table because Kangxi had sent an imperial envoy to talk to Li Zicheng!
Kangxi wanted to give all the territories of Jingzhou, Jingmen, Anlu, and De'an to Li Zicheng. This not only made Wu Yingxiong Kong happy, but also made Wu Sangui very angry!
Li Zicheng is his father-killing enemy!
Now Kangxi actually wants to hand over so much territory to Li Zicheng. Can Wu Sangui not be angry?
"Your Majesty," Wu Sangui's military advisor Liu Xuanchu said, "Kangxi wants to use the state capitals in Huguang to drive a wedge between you and Li Zicheng! Don't be fooled!"
Wu Sangui slapped the table, "Gu and Li Zicheng are irreconcilable, there is no need for Kangxi to separate us!"
"Your Majesty, you still have to put the overall situation first!" Liu Xuanchu advised, "Xi'an has not been captured yet, and the Qing Dynasty's strength still exists. This is not the time to fall out and fight with Li Zicheng."
"Don't fall out?" Wu Sangui said with a dark face, "If we don't fall out, Jingzhou City will belong to Li Zicheng! If Li Zicheng takes Jingzhou, then our territory in Huguang will be divided into two. The boss can't open up the situation in Xiangyang. He currently only has the manpower and material resources in Xiangyang and Yunyang that are easily accessible. The other Hubei prefectures are either in the hands of Yue Le and Li Zicheng, or Yue Le is stuck on the roads and waterways, making it difficult to transport and dispatch. Military advisor, we must at least get Only by going to Jingzhou, Jingmen, and Yuezhou can we truly connect Hunan and Hubei together! Only then will the boss become powerful in China!"
Wu Sangui's words are certainly reasonable, but his principles are all "minor" and have no great meaning.
If you want to shock China, Li Zicheng can do it!
But Wu Sangui would not give Li Zicheng such a chance.
"Sir," Wu Yingqi knew how much his father hated Li Zicheng, so he did not dare to reason with the old man, so he had to ask, "Are you going to send troops to capture Jingzhou from Li Zicheng?"
Wu Sangui nodded and said: "Yes, as a father I must go to Huguang. If you don't go as a father, your eldest brother and the third child will not be able to defeat Li Zicheng."
"But you went to Huguang, what should you do here in Longxi?" Wu Yingqi was also a little speechless.
Now the main force of the Wu Jiajun is roughly divided into four, with Wu Sangui, Wu Yingqi, Wu Yingxiong, and Wu Guogui each leading the way. Among them, Wu Sangui and Wu Yingqi were in charge of the northwest area, while Wu Yingxiong and Wu Guogui were in charge of Huguang.
If Wu Sangui left the northwest and went to Huguang, then Wu Yingqi would have to support Li Zicheng alone in the northwest, and it would be difficult to deal with them. Kangxi and Laita would also be difficult to deal with!
Wu Sangui seemed to know what his son was thinking, and immediately said to him: "Second brother, don't worry, as long as I capture the traitor Li Zicheng, I will immediately send troops to Zhongzhou together with the boss and the third child. By then, won't everyone in the northwest be rogue?" "
Just the northwest.
Wu Yingqi was a little disappointed! Although he never expressed that he wanted to be the emperor, everyone wanted to be the emperor!
But Wu Sangui didn't seem to notice his son's little thoughts, and he was still there to make arrangements for his son!
"Second brother, after I leave, don't rush forward. Consolidate Qinzhou first, and then capture Gongchang nearby. If everything goes well, capture Lanzhou. You have the four prefectures of Qin, Gong, Lan, and Jie in your hands. Even if you have established a foothold in the northwest, then you should stop trying to make progress, just consolidate and wait. As long as the boss and I take Zhongzhou, northwest, and Shaanxi, we will be sure."
Northwest Shaanxi?
Wu Yingqi was even more disappointed now. The Northwest does not include Shaanxi, so what about Gansu? After working hard for so long, fighting for life and death, almost losing my life, and finally fell to the throne of Gansu King?
Gansu looks quite big, but its wealth is not as good as Wang Zhongxiao’s Guangzhou!
This reaction did not achieve the expected benefits!
However, Wu Sangui doesn't care about this. In his opinion, Wu Yingxiong is his legitimate successor - unless Wu Yingxiong is really incompetent, he cannot abolish the elder and establish a younger one.
But Wu Yingxiong is still somewhat capable, and his son Wu Shifan is even more capable, not inferior to Wu Shicong. Therefore, it is even more unacceptable to abolish the elders and establish the younger ones.
Wu Yingqi. Still not satisfied with being given the title of King of Gansu? What else does he want to do? Do you want to learn from King Zhu Di of Yan?
Based on these reasons, Wu Sangui must now suppress Wu Yingqi. If Wu Yingqi refuses to accept it, Wu Sangui will be angry!
Wu Yingqi knew his father's thoughts. He was not convinced now, but he did not dare to oppose Wu Sangui. Even Zhu Di did not dare to oppose Zhu Yuanzhang back then! You still have to endure it now!
"Don't worry, sir," Wu Yingqi said, "With me in Gansu, everything will be safe. Sir, please feel free to go to Huguang!"
"Okay!" Wu Sangui laughed, "This is my Wu Sangui's good second son!"
(End of chapter)
