Before receiving the order from the Ministry of War, Huang Zhengse, the deputy general of the Shangzhou Association of the Qing Dynasty, had already completed the work of cutting down trees to block roads and sealing the Wuguan gate with earth and rocks. The efficiency was still very high, and he was indeed a famous man in Fujian. He studied at Panhu Renying Academy in Jinjiang and read his surname from "Wan" to "Huang". He is a wise and brave general.
The Panhu Huang family that controls the Panhu Renying Academy in Jinjiang is a famous family in Fujian. The mother of Vice Admiral Huang is from Shuzong, a branch of the Huang family. He also has a distant cousin who is the current minister of the Ministry of War, Huang Xigan. This operation has the same surname as his cousin. Doesn’t it seem wiser to change your surname than to recognize your wild father?
Because his cousin was the minister of the Ministry of War and won the trust of the young Emperor Kangxi, Huang Zhengse, who had been a guerrilla in Xinghua Prefecture, still made a contribution after leading his guerrillas to Xi'an and was promoted from guerrilla to The deputy general was sent to Shangzhou to guard Wuguan.
He originally thought that Wuguan seemed to be an important place, known as the Sanqin Fortress, but it was actually quite safe. After all, there was an entire Nanyang Mansion in front of Wuguan!
And according to the provisions of "Longzhong Dui", Wu Sangui should order a general to move the Jingzhou army to Wan and Luo - to capture Wan, that is to say, after Nanyang, he should march to Luoyang!
As long as Luoyang was controlled by Wu Sangui's "general", Emperor Kangxi would inevitably abandon Guanzhong and withdraw to Beijing. It was impossible for him to stay in Guanzhong when Luoyang fell and Shanxi and Zhili were both under the attack of Wu Sangui. As soon as Kangxi withdrew, the defenders on the Wuguan side were free to be loyal. Wishful thinking was a good one!
It's a pity that no matter how good his wishful thinking is, he can't resist the other party. He doesn't care about "Longzhong Pair" at all, but just comes over blindly with his head covered!
The Wu army that came over this time was not the Wu army with tens of thousands of soldiers, but tens of thousands of people! Late at night, the official road outside Wuguan and both sides of the official road were filled with bonfires lit by Wu officers and soldiers for warmth. The stars looked like a river of stars falling from the sky.
What's even more troublesome is that when Huang Zhengse found out about the arrival of the Wu Army, he ordered people to cut down the trees piled up on the Guanxia Road to block the road. Now, instead of blocking the advance of the Wu Army's vanguard, they became the covering fire of the Wu Army's fusiliers. bunker!
These stacked tree trunks were effective in blocking cavalry, heavy infantry, artillery and baggage trains, but they could not block the lightly armored fusiliers.
Not only were they unable to resist, but the stacked tree trunks were also used by Wu Jun's fusiliers. During the day, Huang Zhengse and his men watched helplessly as the Wu Jun, who were carrying fusiliers without match ropes, flexibly He climbed over piles of trees blocking the road and kept approaching Wuguan. In order to block their advance, Huang Zhengse also sent 300 heavy armored infantry equipped with shotguns and simple knives, placed under Wuguan Pass in hanging baskets (Wuguan City Gate was blocked), and wanted to fight hand-to-hand with the shotgun soldiers of the Wu Army.
As a result, the fusiliers of the Wu Army who fired from tree trunk bunkers suffered heavy casualties!
The firepower of those Wu Army shotgun soldiers was very intensive, and the bullets came like raindrops, weaving into a large "impenetrable" net in the air. The 300 heavy infantry sent by Huang Zhengse bravely charged in several waves, leaving corpses on the ground. Finally, some soldiers rushed to the musketeers. As a result, the musketeers not only did not escape, but also used a trick to The two-foot-long sharp blade was put on the barrel of the musket and they fought hand-to-hand with Huang Zhengse's heavy armor soldiers. And the result of the hand-to-hand fight was that Wu Jun's musketeers won!
This simply shocked the jaws of all the Qing soldiers watching the battle!
The green battalion elites wearing heavy armor and holding long-handled swords were actually defeated in hand-to-hand combat by musketeers holding flintlock rifles with a sharp blade. They were defeated without any suspense, and all the Qing troops watching the battle were convinced. oral.
The reason why there is no suspense is that the Wu army has many musketeers! The second reason is that some musketeers do not follow martial ethics and use loaded muskets to pretend to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Qing army. When the two sides are still three to five steps away from fighting, they directly shoot the Qing soldiers on the opposite side!
How to fight this kind of hand-to-hand combat?
Risking your own life that the enemy's gun has no bullets in it?
Who has the guts?
Even if you have the guts to risk your life, you'll be done with one shot!
So after this wave of counterattacks was repelled, Huang Zhengse never launched another counterattack - even if he ordered it, the people below would not dare to carry it out!
Therefore, one thousand two to three hundred Qing troops stood on the wall of Wuguan City and watched helplessly as the Wu army calmly cleared the roads, set up camp, set up artillery, and then buried the pots to make rice and the whole army rested.
And they also roughly saw the number of Wu's troops, which was tens of thousands of troops! The number of defenders at Biwu Pass is dozens of times greater. If Xi'an doesn't send reinforcements quickly, when the energetic Wu army begins to attack the city early tomorrow morning, their 1,200 to 300 men will be forced to siege the city. There is not enough space between the teeth.
And just when Huang Zhengse and others were guarding the wall and waiting anxiously for reinforcements, the order from the Ministry of War came to trap people without paying for their lives!
"What? As long as the doors are closed and the roads are cut down, the enemy will retreat."
After reading the military cards issued by the Ministry of War, Huang Zhengse no longer knew how to curse.
Wu Sangui sent tens of thousands of people over!
This is not a feint! This is the main force! It's the main force!
"Xie Tai, no way! If you can't hold it, it's still..."
"Xie Tai, the people from the Ministry of War are giving such blind orders. It seems that the Qing Dynasty wants to do this."
"Associating Taiwan is not as good as us"
"Xie Tai, you are also from Fujian! Why not also learn from General Yang and General Cai?"
The loyalty of these Green Camp soldiers is indeed worthy of the military pay given to them by the Qing Dynasty.
Facing the menacing Wu family's army, everyone is ready to become two ministers together.
And he also found two role models for Huang Zhengse. Anyway, Yang Laijia and Cai Lu, two young Fujianese, have already appeared before, so now they might as well have one more!
However, Huang Zhengse snorted coldly, interrupted the group of unfaithful and unfilial people below, thinking about the surrendering officers and soldiers, and said calmly: "Who do you think Huang is? Huang has read books about sages. , how can you be like Yang Laijia, Cai Lu and others!
Come, go to my palace to pick up the Four Treasures of the Study and send them to the Guan Tower! "
"Xie Tai, do you want to leave a legacy to the Emperor?" Someone immediately asked in an admiring tone.
"What a waste!" Huang Zhengse glared at the man, "I want to write a letter of surrender!"
Fix the table?
Now everyone was convinced. This second minister, who was both civil and military, was very particular!
Huang Zhengse then sighed again and said: "Before I revise the surrender form, I have to give the emperor a break. I have to let the emperor know that Wuguan cannot be defended. Tens of thousands of Wu family's troops will soon enter the pass." Now. Let him run away quickly, but don’t imitate Emperor Chongzhen!"
He sighed again: "At any rate, there must be an explanation between the king and his ministers. This can be regarded as the last time of the relationship between ministers and ministers!"
Not to mention, this Huang Zhengse is still a bit loyal, at least better than Yang Laijia and Cai Lu who are determined to be the second and fifth sons. Before becoming the second and fifth sons, they also knew to remind their old masters to run away!
He is a loyal person among the twenty-five young men!
And this loyal and loyal man wrote articles very quickly. After getting the Four Treasures of the Study, he immediately wrote a memorial to Kangxi on the gate of Wuguan. In the memorial, he also very aggrievedly explained to Kangxi the reason why he had to become a second minister. He could not fight and fight, and he could not escape - he could escape by himself, but the family members of the Green Camp soldiers and family members below were all behind Wuguan. Longju Village and Shangluo Town, they refused to escape.
As for death, it seems that it was in vain!
So it’s better to surrender!
However, as a Qing minister, he still had to truthfully inform Emperor Kangxi of the Wu army's situation before surrendering, and he also had to give the correct advice for the last time - the emperor should run away!
After writing the "final memorial", he asked Tang Ma of the Ministry of War who had given him the order to work hard and take the memorial back to Xi'an.
Huang Zhengse then wrote another letter of surrender, and sent an eloquent subordinate to go down from Guancheng with the letter of surrender, and then went to find the senior officials of the Wu army to surrender under a white flag.
Huang Zhengse's operation quickly confused Emperor Kangxi and his ministers, who were still immersed in the joyful atmosphere of the Spring Festival. The most confused among them was of course Huang Zhengse's cousin Huang Xigun - this cousin They all have his last name, so of course he has to take responsibility!
Huang Zhengse, the deputy general of Shangzhou, was brought to the movement by him. He originally wanted to get some arms in these troubled times. If Kangxi could not defend Guanzhong, he would not have to die for the country, and he could still be a minister - he was a child prodigy. In the 13th year of Chongzhen's reign, he was awarded Jinshi at the age of 19. In the Southern Ming Dynasty, he was awarded the title of governor of Guangxi, when he was only 25 or 26 years old. However, he did not resist the Qing Dynasty to the end. Instead, he fled back to his hometown and became a "fugitive". He hid in his hometown for two years. In the fifth year of Shunzhi, he went to take the exam for the Hanlin Academy of the Qing Dynasty and officially became a second scholar. minister.
Since we have all been second ministers, there is nothing wrong with being third ministers. But he never expected that the Wu army would attack from Wuguan without any idea, and it would be tens of thousands of troops who would go deep alone. He was completely "reckless" "!
As a result, he was so "reckless" that the back-up plan he deployed became the second minister before him. How could he be the third minister now?
What made Huang Xigun even more speechless was that Huang Zhengse gave Kangxi a lesson before becoming the second minister. He made it clear why he wanted to surrender and the situation in front of Wuguan, and also suggested that Kangxi escape quickly.
What does this mean? Loyalty? Do you have to stand the last guard before surrendering?
When encountering such a cousin, Huang Xigun had no choice but to have himself tied up and went to the emperor of Kangxi to plead guilty.
And this day happened to be New Year's Eve, and Kangxi also gave himself a holiday. He was practicing wrestling and grappling skills with his newly acquired Portuguese coat collar in the palace. When he was in full swing, Xiao Guizi came to He hurriedly came to report that the Minister of War, Huang Xigan, who was on duty at the Ministry of War today, "tied himself up to see me."
Kangxi, who had just subdued a large-sized Xiyi beauty, was stunned and looked back at Xiao Guizi: "What? What do you mean by binding yourself to see me?"
"That's right, I just tied myself up with a rope and then came to see you."
Kangxi, who was practicing Kung Fu, was stunned, "What do you mean? Is he crazy? Does he want to remonstrate? Sheng. Remonstrance?"
I’ve never heard of it. I’ve only heard of “death remonstrance,” but I’ve never heard of “rope remonstrance.”
"No, no," Xiao Guizi shook her head, "Your Majesty, he is not here to remonstrate, but to plead guilty."
"Excuse me? What crime has he committed?"
"Committed the crime of negligence in recommendation!"
"Inadvertent recommendation? Who did he recommend?"
"He recommended Wuguan guard Huang Zhengse, and Huang Zhengse is his cousin. This morning, Huang Zhengse's note was sent to the Ministry of War, saying that he would soon lead his troops to surrender to Wu Yingxiong!"
Traveling to Xi'an, South Study Room.
When the ministers who came after hearing the call entered the study, they saw Huang Xigun still kneeling there dejectedly, while Kangxi walked impatiently around the table with a map spread on the table.
As Kangxi walked away, he muttered: "Who is this person? Who are the people I use?"
Suo'etu had just learned about what happened in Wuguan from Xiao Guizi, and now seeing that Kangxi was about to collapse, he quickly knelt down, kowtowed, and suggested loudly: "Your Majesty, the matter is urgent. Please leave first." , I will stay in Xi'an and fight with the man named Wu to the end!"
Kangxi stopped for a moment, looked back at Suo'etu, and suddenly laughed: "Hahaha, Suo'etu, what are you kidding me about? Why should I leave?"
joke?
Is this a joke?
Academician Jin Batai, who came in behind Suo'etu, quickly asked Huang Xigun, who was kneeling to plead guilty: "Zong Lin, what's going on?"
"Jinzhongtang," Huang Xigun said, "Wu Yingxiong's tens of thousands of troops arrived at Wuguan Pass yesterday. My cousin Huang Zhengse was defeated by the Wu army and surrendered. Before surrendering, he also gave the emperor a message explaining He learned about the situation in front of Wuguan Pass and the reasons for his surrender."
"This" Jin Batai was confused for a moment. Did he still need to explain the reason to Shangshu before surrendering? Is this the "gift" in the legendary "genuine gift"?
Kangxi took over the topic at this time and said with a smile: "Everyone, don't panic. Wu Yingxiong violated the taboo of military strategists who go deep into the country alone. He actually led tens of thousands of his elite troops and went straight to Xi'an after taking Nanyang. He did this You are seeking your own death! I was worried about how to annihilate the Wu army to open up the situation, so he came to the door himself. God is really helping the Qing Dynasty!"
These words made the ministers below even more confused. How could this mean that Wu Yingxiong had violated a military taboo?
You have lost the Wuguan, and the Wu family's tens of thousands of troops marched straight in to attack Xi'an. How can you go in alone? He went deep alone, so when Li Zicheng entered Guanzhong, did he go deep alone? Did Li Yuan enter Guanzhong alone? Did Duduo go deep into Guanzhong from Tongguan alone? Did An Lushan's army march into Guanzhong alone?
In history, there were quite a few enemies who entered Guanzhong alone.
"Your Majesty," Secretary of the Ministry of War Sai Se Hei said, "You are the lord of ten thousand chariots, but you must not put the enemy in danger in front of Xi'an. You should return to the capital first, and then mobilize the heavenly troops to encircle and suppress Wu Ni's troops."
Kangxi shook his head repeatedly: "No need, it doesn't have to be tens of thousands of Wu troops? It's still the twelfth month of winter, and Wu Ni's troops in Hanzhong and Longxi can't move at all. Moreover, Xiangyang is still threatened by Li Zicheng, and Amida and the others can counterattack Nanyang at any time. Cut off Wu Niyingxiong's retreat. So I have a sure chance of victory in the decisive battle with Wu Ni in Guanzhong. Why should I withdraw? If I withdraw, won't I show to the world that I am afraid of Wu Yingxiong? Besides, once I leave, people in Guanzhong will lose their confidence. It will inevitably fluctuate, and it’s hard to say whether it can hold on when the time comes.
Therefore, I won’t leave! I don't learn from Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty, and I don't learn from Yang Guang. I want to hold on to Xi'an, so I will defeat the thieves under Xi'an City, and then mobilize all the armies to besiege and annihilate Wu Ni's tens of thousands of troops in one fell swoop. As long as Wu Ni's tens of thousands of people are sent to Guanzhong, then the time for me to defeat all the rebels and rebuild the prosperous Qing Dynasty will be just around the corner. "
This is really a wishful thinking, but it seems to make sense. Wu Yingxiong's reckless entry into Guanzhong was indeed a bit lonely. If he was unable to capture Xi'an, and had strengthened his troops and strengthened the city, Kangxi could then mobilize a large army for a counterattack, and he would probably be able to keep Wu Yingxiong's main force near Xi'an.
And these tens of thousands of people under Wu Yingxiong are one of the "four main forces" under Wu Sangui! If everything were to be lost, Wu Sangui's vitality would be severely damaged, and it would not be impossible for him to go downhill from now on.
And if Kangxi slipped away first, would he still be qualified to continue to be emperor after sneaking back to Beijing? Fuquan seems to be doing a good job. Will everyone support an emperor who flees from battle, or an emperor who seems to be good at fighting? By then, Kangxi will really be "thinned out"!
So Kangxi really couldn't learn from Tang Minghuang and Yang Guang, he had to learn from Chongzhen!
Just take a gamble in Xi'an, an emperor will guard the country, and the king will die in the country!
Thinking of this, the ministers below no longer advised Kangxi to run away, but said in unison: "Your Majesty, your servants (minions) are willing to follow your Majesty to defend Xi'an to defeat the rebels."
(End of chapter)
