In the Mengchun period of the thirteenth year of Kangxi's reign in the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Kangxi, who was trying hard to learn bad things, finally won the first battle to defend Xi'an!
Wu Yingxiong and Wu Yingqi, two great warlords whose moral standards have yet to decline, have now taken up Uncle Liu's script.
They led the refugees who were driven out of Xi'an, plus the refugees mobilized from Lintong, Gaoling, Jingyang, Xianyang, Xingping, Huxian, Lantian, Liquan and other counties around Xi'an, a total of four to five million people. Everyone ran away calmly.
Although they have Uncle Liu Huang's script, the two of them have the strength of Prime Minister Cao!
The brothers have a total of 100,000 troops!
Moreover, they were all victorious soldiers who had won battles all the way. It was really not easy for Kangxi to force them away from Xi'an.
But Wu Yingxiong and Wu Yingqi will not give up easily. For them, this Xi'an battle is also a great victory and full of rewards!
Wu Yingxiong's ten guards with a total of 50,000 troops set out from Xiangyang. They first captured Nanyang Mansion without losing any blood, and then marched westward to break through Wuguan and capture the entire Shangzhou.
Now that the government and the state have been firmly secured, Wu Yingxiong doesn't want to spit it out again.
Therefore, he has arranged for Wu Shifan, Guo Zhuangtu, Yang Laijia, Cai Lu, Huang Zhengse and others to lead 17,000 troops to guard Nanyang and Shangzhou - firmly guarding the gate entering Guanzhong from the southeast. When will I miss Kangxi? You can use Shangzhou as your base and be outside Xi'an in a few days!
Naturally, he himself led the main force to escort the more than 200,000 refugees he "rescued" from Xi'an Prefecture, and took the grand and smooth Baoxian Road that was built smoothly by the good governor of Shaanxi, Jia Hanfu Jia, in the third year of Kangxi's reign. Withdrew to Hanzhong and then to Chongqing.
It's overwhelming, not panicked. More than 200,000 refugees were organized into 60,000 households, and each 10,000 households selected 6,000 civilians. They were led by officers sent by Wu Yingxiong to guard the front and rear of the 10,000 households. Wu Yingxiong and Wang Pingfan personally led more than 30,000 Wu family troops to rear behind! Facing such a powerful rear army, even if Kangxi had already learned bad things, there was nothing he could do. If he wanted to imitate Cao Cao in chasing Liu Bei, who was running away with his people in Jingzhou, and chase Wu Yingxiong, that would not be bad, but stupid!
As for Wu Yingqi, he also won this wave. Before the heavy snow closed the roads last winter, he had already conquered Qinzhou, Gongchang, Lanzhou and other prefectures and two prefectures in Gansu. In addition to the Jiezhou he had already captured, there were a total of two prefectures and two prefectures within his direct control. under control. The fight between these two prefectures and states was not easy. Except for Lanzhou Prefecture, the others were conquered by force.
I originally thought that I would continue to gnaw after the spring of this year, but who would have thought that his "Brother Bear" suddenly went berserk. A bear rushed into Guanzhong and surrounded Xi'an, directly destroying the Guanlong defense line that Kangxi and Laita had worked hard to manage.
After Wu Yingqi got the news, he immediately gathered his troops and rushed into Fengxiang Mansion, which was well defended. He captured Dashanguan Pass, Chencangshan, Xixian County, Xieguguan, Wuzhangyuan, and Qishan County - you can tell where they are just by looking at the place names. Already? So important! Then he rushed to Xi'an to join forces with his brother, and together they surrounded Kang Mazi with "one bear and one unicorn".
Because his brother Wu Yingxiong had too much conscience, he lost the opportunity to beat Kangxi to death with a stick, but the harvest was quite good, and he still had the opportunity to continue beating Emperor Kangxi.
Because Fengxiang Mansion, which was closest to Gansu in Guanzhong, had all been owned by Wu Yingqi, he then ordered the officials of Fengxiang Mansion to build a "residence city" for him at Wuzhangyuan in Qishan County, preparing to use it as his base camp for operating Guanzhong.
He built a city in Wuzhangyuan where Zhuge Liang was working on farming. This shows that he wanted to imitate Zhuge Liang during the last Northern Expedition. He worked directly on farming in Guanzhong and spent time with Kangxi while farming.
Didn’t Kangxi cherish the Han people? Okay, let’s compete in farming next!
Do the bannermen under Kangxi and their family members know how to farm? Are there any Han farmers doing well in farming?
In order to compete with Kangxi in farming, Wu Yingqi did not take the refugees assigned to him to Sichuan. Instead, he asked his son Wu Shicong to lead less than 200,000 people to Chengdu through the pass, while he led 10,000 households (not (口, is a household) is working in the fields here in Fengxiang Mansion!
Although Er Wu's soldiers and horses did not even leave Guanzhong, and the two gates in Guanzhong, Wuguan and Dashanguan, were also in the hands of the old Wu family, the Wu army around Xi'an finally retreated, and Kangxi also temporarily obtained the inheritance. Freedom of edicts and freedom of reading memorials!
The imperial edict of him, the ninth emperor of the Qing Dynasty, can now be sent to those loyal ministers of the Qing Dynasty who also have more freedom. Originally, only Han officials had the freedom of loyal ministers. The Manchus and Mongols seemed not to have this freedom. What freedom. But now, the Manchu and Mongolian officials of the Qing Dynasty also have freedom! They had a choice between Emperor Kangxi and Prince Regent Fuquan.
Moreover, this multiple-choice question is also a multiple-choice question. You can choose loyalty to the emperor and loyalty to the regent at the same time. Loyalty to one is loyalty, and loyalty to both is also loyalty!
The Imperial Envoy of the Qing Dynasty who was stationed at the Qixia Mountain Camp, the Minister of Military Affairs of Liangjiang, Zhejiang, and Fujian, the Minister of Management of the Jiangdong Camp, the Governor of Liangjiang, and Acting General Jiangning, Prince An Yue Le was such a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty.
Although this prince has a lot of loyalty, his errands are actually not very good - mainly because he is not bad enough!
When he followed his Ama Abatai and Hauge, the boss of the Huang Taiji family, on various expeditions, his moral standards were actually very low. They were massacring a city, killing prisoners, and plundering. There is also a lot of work to do to capture the current trends of the Han people.
But later, after being tricked by the "dying" Shunzhi with an emperor's hat that was impossible to wear on his head, he had no choice but to stay at home every day and learn - he had no power to do bad things in those years. If you are deprived and still under residential surveillance, how can you dare to do all kinds of evil? They are short of excuses to deal with him. If they really want to do many evil things, they will just take advantage of him.
And after being this cautious and good person for a long time, Yue Le's ability to do bad things has declined. Practice makes perfect in everything! He has not done bad things for so many years, and now he is a little bit reluctant to let go.
For example, this time, although he drew a picture of "Slaughter Nanjing without sealing the sword" to encourage his soldiers, but before he could massacre Nanjing, he had to conquer Nanjing first!
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His army is now blocked in the east of Nanjing City and north of Purple Mountain. It is simply an impossible task to break through the city walls around Shence Gate, Jinchuan Gate, and Zhongfu Gate.
After Yue Le completed the construction of a series of hard forts such as Qixia Mountain Camp, Lime Mountain North Camp, Jubaoshan South Camp, and Xuanwu Lake Front Camp, he organized several tentative attacks starting in February of the 13th year of Kangxi's reign. As a result, they all ran into the Ming army's defenses, which were like copper walls and iron walls. They didn't even touch the real city wall of Nanjing. In front of the moat and the sheep and horse wall outside the Shence Gate, Jinchuan Gate, and Zhongfu Gate, the defenders used their bows to attack them. The crossbows and guns forced them back. And every time, they retreated only after leaving corpses on the ground. The firepower of the Ming army defending the city was not only fierce, but also accurate!
As long as the troops sent out by Yue Le to test the city within a hundred steps of the Nanjing trench, they would be shot dead by the enemy's sharpshooters with muskets!
Although there are not many sharpshooters in the Ming army, they can kill or injure each time (which is about the same as beating to death). Even if Yue Le and two or three hundred push the shield cart upwards, the situation will not be much better. They can only leave the moat. Closer.
Yue Le's exploratory attack only mobilized two to three thousand people and lost 10% of the heads. Who else would dare to continue to charge forward without knowing death?
So Yue Le tried it several times, and each time he broke up and gathered the team when they were dozens of steps away from the moat. This was the first step in storming the fortified city - filling the trenches, and it ended before it even started.
Just when the whole Yue Le army was a little discouraged about the invasion of Nanjing and the killing spree, Emperor Kangxi's imperial edict to teach people to learn bad things was suddenly sent to the Qixia Mountain Camp!
"Your Majesty, the Emperor's letter has arrived!"
In Qixia Zen Temple, which was occupied by Yue Le's Chinese army, he was sitting in the lobby and discussing with Mingzhu, Ma Hu, and Mu Tianyan, several leading figures in Liangjiang official circles, how to raise more food and salary to maintain Jiangdong University. Yue Le, who was dealing with the increasing expenses of the camp and Jiangbei Camp, suddenly heard a piece of news that made him a little confused.
"What? A letter from the emperor? Which emperor?" Yue Le was stunned for a moment when he heard the news, and then blurted out a seemingly treasonous question.
However, Mingzhu, Ma Hu, and Mu Tianyan who were present did not mean to criticize Yue Le at all, but asked along with them.
"Your Majesty, please take a look, which emperor has sent us a letter."
"That's right. Could it be that the regent has ascended the throne? I haven't handed over my proposal form yet!"
"Ma Futai, why haven't you asked me to come in yet? I've already done it!"
"Shuai Mingcao, how can I compare with you? How close are you to Prince Yu? I heard that Prince Yu's beloved concubine Nalan is your niece!"
"Commander Cao, now that King Yu has become the emperor, you will be of great use!"
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If Kangxi wanted to see this admiration, he had to be angry.
He also wanted to teach his subordinates to be bad, but in the end, his subordinates didn't need him to teach them to be worse than the others. It's just that this bad habit was not used in the right place!
"What?"
Just when Mingzhu, Ma Hu, and Mu Tianyan all thought that Fuquan had become the emperor, Yue Le suddenly exclaimed: "It's actually the emperor of Xi'an who is giving us the decree!"
"The Emperor of Xi'an? He, he can't..." Mingzhu was about to ask if Kangxi couldn't bear to surrender? Then I thought something was wrong, so I quickly stopped talking and looked at Yue Le blankly.
Ma Hu and Mu Tianyan were also inexplicably surprised - in their opinion, Wu Yingxiong and Wu Yingqi had joined forces in Xi'an! Two of the four main players of the old Wu family are there. How can Kangxi still be good?
How can I still send it to the court now?
"Ancestors bless you!" Yue Le was already in tears at this time, crying! While crying, he said: "The emperor actually defeated Wu Yingxiong and Wu Yingqi! The siege of Xi'an is over, and the Qing Dynasty can be saved!"
Is there such a thing?
"How did the emperor do it?" Mingzhu asked with a trembling voice.
"Yes, how is this possible?" Mu Tianyan's expression also changed drastically. What he admired now was Fuquan's Tianyan!
"I knew the emperor would be blessed with great blessings!" Ma Hu was very happy now. Although he was ready to persuade him to enter the palace and thought of sending it to him in the next two days, he hadn't sent it yet after all!
As long as the petition of persuasion has not been sent, Tamayu will be the loyal minister of Emperor Kangxi! Then I made a secret discount and sold Yue Le, Mingzhu, and Mu Tianyan! In this way, the emperor will definitely regard him as a confidant!
Yue Le closed the fold and frowned: "The emperor's message did not say how he defeated Wu Yingxiong and Wu Yingqi, but the siege of Xi'an must have been lifted. There should be no problem for the time being, because the emperor did not let us send troops. King Qin instead urged us to take Nanjing as soon as possible!"
"As soon as possible? This." Ma Hu, the governor of Jiangsu Province, had never given Fuquan a petition to persuade him to join the army. Now that he was a die-hard loyal minister of Kangxi, of course he had to be more active in military affairs, so he discussed it with Yue Le enthusiastically, "Your Majesty, this matter Can you get up quickly?"
Yue Le didn't say much to Ma Hu, and directly handed the letter to Ma Hu, "Ma Futai, you can see for yourself that the emperor has already issued instructions that are related to you!"
"With me?" Ma Hu was stunned, quickly took the decree, opened it and read it. After looking at it for a while, his brows knitted into a ball, "This, this prince, is it okay to do this?"
"Ma Futai, what does the emperor want us to do?" Mu Tianyan asked quickly.
He felt that he could change his position in time. Unlike Mingzhu, Mingzhu's niece was Fuquan's beloved concubine! If Fuquan becomes emperor, Mingzhu will definitely be able to go to the main hall again.
And he, Mu Tianyan, is just a loyal minister who goes with the flow, as long as his position changes quickly enough.
So he must be more positive now and work hard to get closer to Ma Futai.
Ma Hu said: "Your Majesty asked us to learn how our ancestors used to deal with the fortified cities of the Ming Dynasty. When the city should be massacred, massacre it. When it was time to drive the people to fill the trenches and attack the city, drive the people to die. Even if one million Jiangnan people were sent away, we must still do it. Break Jiangning City!"
He looked up at Yue Le, "Your Majesty, can we do this? Can we break Jiangning City like this?"
Yue Le frowned and seemed to be in a dilemma.
According to Kangxi's method, it is indeed possible for him to defeat Jiangning. It is nothing more than forcing the people to kill one after another. As long as the opponent's gunpowder and muskets are used up (the barrel life is limited), won't Nanjing be defeated?
But the problem is that he can't catch a few Ming people as cannon fodder - he can't enter Nanjing City, and it seems too risky to bypass the Purple Mountain and march to the southwest of Nanjing.
Therefore, he could only seize Qing people from his own territory, that is, several state capitals in Jiangsu, and use them as cannon fodder. Although Kangxi and Fuquan "sealed" a lot of territory for him, he was the governor of Liangjiang and the governor of several provinces. Military affairs, but the one really under his control is Jiangsu. If we go to Jiangsu under the control of the Qing Dynasty to capture ordinary people and use them as cannon fodder, what will happen to the literati and landlords in Jiangsu who continue to resist taxes and grain, or even collectively defect to the Ming Dynasty?
In addition, many local squires in Jiangsu now also organize group training. Although it is only a group training for the Bao family, they are still very effective when defending their homeland!
If they are forced to rebel, they will be in trouble!
Seeing that Yue Le was in trouble, Ma Hu had no choice but to tentatively say: "Your Majesty, why don't we first mobilize the militia groups from various prefectures in Jiangsu to come to Qixia Mountain Camp? Don't ask them to attack the city, just ask them to repair the walls of Nanjing's outer city so that the imperial army can Surround Nanjing! When they arrive, how they are used is a matter of your words! Although the number of militia groups from various places that can be mobilized is limited, it is impossible to have more than ten or two hundred thousand, at most tens of thousands. But it is better than It’s better not to do so, and it will also weaken the power of the gentry everywhere.”
"Can we really mobilize tens of thousands of people?"
"Yes!" Ma Hu nodded, "There has been a lot of good news recently. First, Li Zicheng and Wu Sangui in Huguang upstream have finally started fighting; second, half of the main force of King Kang's Jiangxi camp has advanced to Hezhou, and they will soon be able to fight with him. We have attacked the bandits in Jiangning; thirdly, now that the siege of Xi'an has been lifted, there will definitely be many gentry eager to show their loyalty to the court!"
"It makes sense!" Yue Le nodded, "Then let's do this for now! We have to try again, maybe we can surround Jiang Ning!"
"There is the subjugation of the country, and there is the subjugation of the world. How do you distinguish between the subjugation of the country and the subjugation of the world? Xi said: "Yi changed his surname and changed his name, which is called the subjugation of the country; when the Hulu were in charge of the country, they were full of benevolence and righteousness, they shaved their heads and clothes, slaughtered the cities and enclosed the land, the people were slaves and the Hus were the masters , which is called the destruction of the world'."
Just when Yue Le was trying to regain the lost "badness" so that he could become completely bad again. In the Jiangnan Gongyuan in Nanjing City, the sound of reading was heard loudly!
These are students from the Nanjing Martial Arts Hall, learning what it means to "destroy the world"!
This is actually learning bad things!
The Jiangwu Hall teaches not only Gu Yanwu's "Destroy the World", but also "The Theory of the World as a Public", "The Land System of the Celestial Dynasty" and so on! In addition to these, there are of course military courses, including martial arts and military command.
Although it is just a simple crash course, it is not important. What is important is that all the students who come to study in the Jiangwu Hall, no matter what their backgrounds were before, have now become students of Li Zhongtang and become three students in the Jiangwu Hall. students from the first phase (the previous two phases were only offered in Guangdong).
From now on, everyone will be in the same group and must work together to cause trouble! This is called "It's better to be bad alone than to be bad if everyone is bad"!
As for the evil they have learned, of course it is evil in a way that makes sense, is so bad that it is justified, and is so bad that it is inspiring!
This kind of high-dimensional bad learning! That bit of badness that can definitely crush Kangxi!
Kangxi's bad learning only damaged him, and at most affected a small number of civil servants and generals. Moreover, those people under Kangxi knew that they were doing bad things and that they were heinous bad guys.
In the Nanjing Martial Arts Lecture Hall hosted by Li Zhongtang, Li Zhongshan of the Ming Dynasty, those who "learned to be bad" were not only bad, but they did not know that they were "bad" and thought that they were good people serving the country and the people. I still think that the "former monarchs" and "former ministers" who do not want to be the emperor and are not the royal servants, and the way to restrain the powerful and equally distribute the land are all just!
Moreover, this "bad" person will be brought to the following teams by the students taking the crash course here, that is, Yingtian Tuanlian and Yingtian Militia.
(End of chapter)
