On the eighth day of October in the 22nd year of Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty, in the afternoon, outside the south gate of Yishui Villa of Confucius Mansion in Qufu County, Yanzhou Prefecture, Shandong Province. Kong Yuqi, the 67th generation grandson of the sage Confucius, is now the sage of Yan, Kong Yuqi, fully dressed in formal robes and coats, standing by the roadside with great fear. Behind him were a group of Confucian retainers and Shandong local officials, all of whom looked gloomy.
500 Kongfu's servants and 500 Kangwangfu's guards, all neatly dressed, lined up on both sides of the official road, standing face to face, waiting quietly. On both sides of the road, a little far from the south gate of the Confucius Courtyard, there is a post every five steps and a sentry every ten steps. They are all Qing soldiers wearing linen coats, carrying matchlock guns, waist knives and wearing warm hats. A little further away from the official road, there were some rather capable cavalrymen guarding them. Some were carrying muskets on their backs, and some were holding long spears. They all looked around with their chests raised and their bellies raised.
This scene was already highly guarded and airtight, but the expressions on the faces of everyone present did not show any calmness. Instead, everyone was restless since Kong Shenggong.
Although the servants of the Kong family and the guards of the Kang family are all dressed similarly and are all grown-up men, they are standing face to face and looking at each other with eyes that are quite cold and even a little gloomy.
The servants of the Confucius Mansion are all Shandong people from Yishui. They have taken refuge in the Confucius Mansion for generations. Many of them are also surnamed Kong. They know the Confucian family's rules best. Since Kangxi was defeated in Zouxian, then the Confucius family in Qufu was based on The laws of the ancestors would of course be transferred to the Ming Dynasty, so King Kang Jieshu who ruled the Tai'an Mansion was the enemy of the Confucius Mansion and the famous religion!
The guards of Prince Kang's Mansion are all immigrants from Beijing or Liaodong who came to Shandong. They are here to oppress the people of Shandong! Otherwise, how could the small Tai'an Prefecture support an army of 20,000 people? Moreover, Tai'an Fucheng and Prince Kang's Mansion in Jining Prefecture are still so luxurious? Every brick and every wood is the result of Shandong's people. Some of them were taken from the Confucius family's farm in Tai'an.
The rents of these farms were supposed to be paid for by the servants of the Confucius family, but now they all belong to the servants of Prince Kang's palace. Confucius must have been angry!
Stealing the food of the servants of Confucius's house is fucking "anti-Confucian and anti-Confucian"!
And the people in Prince Kang's Mansion didn't like the Kong family either. The Kong family in Qufu has surrendered! Whoever surrenders is the master! Now the emperor suffered a defeat in Zouxian, saying that he lost 30,000 troops. According to past practice, 30,000 times two is almost the actual loss. That’s sixty thousand!
This battle of Zouxian only lasted a few days, even if it started from crossing the Yi River and marching into Zouxian. A loss of 60,000 yuan in a few days. Why can’t the emperor master the skills of using soldiers? Alas, after the battle of Zouxian ended this way, Qufu will definitely be lost next time!
Once Qufu was lost, the Kong family surrendered 100% to the Ming Dynasty!
By then, the Kong family will not only be used by the Ming Dynasty and become a tool for the Ming Dynasty to win over the powerful Han people in the north, but the savings of the Kong family for many years, especially the grain reserves, will be used by the Ming Dynasty. It is better to raid the Kong family in Qufu now!
I heard that the Kong family was richer than the emperor, and the family had so much money that they couldn’t even count it!
Moreover, the funerary objects brought into the coffin by the saintly princes of past dynasties are also priceless. This "fight" of the Confucius Mansion will be toppled no matter what!
Kong Shenggong himself was of course the most uneasy. Although his family is an "old surrender family" and has "secrets of surrender" and "secrets of protecting the family" passed down from ancestors, this situation has never been encountered before.
In previous surrender incidents, the Kong family has always watched the world's competition from a distance, kowtowing to whoever wins, and supporting whoever comes to power. But the Kong family themselves have never appeared at the center of the stage of competition for hegemony. But this time, the Kong family actually stood at the center of the stage. Although he was not the protagonist, he was also a supporting player. And it was also involved in a major treason case of regicide and rebellion!
Although Kong Shenggong was very reluctant to get involved and passed the blame to Shang Shuying. But if Shang Shuying messed up the matter, would the Kong family be able to get away with it? She was going to be caught and tortured, but she wasn't allowed to confess the Kong family?
But he didn't dare to ask Kong Shenggong to betray Shang Shuying to protect himself!
Selling a "dog" depends on the owner!
Shang Shuying was Li Zhongshan's "dog". Kong Shenggong dared to sell her. Then Li Zhongshan came to Qufu and sent him, Kong Shenggong, to meet his ancestors. Isn't that an easy thing?
Killed Kong Shenggong and the "gong" later! If there is a new Holy Duke, he will still praise General Li. Even if the General wants to be the emperor, he will take the lead in persuading him to join.
Therefore, Kong Shenggong now feels like walking on a hemp rope across an abyss. If he is not careful, he will fall and become the "Xiangong"!
Seeing the worried look of the Holy Duke, Sun Sike, the admiral of Shandong Province, walked to Kong Yuqi's side and coughed.
Kong Shenggong looked back and found that the No. 2 court official on the ground in Shandong had arrived. He quickly asked in a low voice: "Sun Junmen, do you have any orders?"
Although Sun Sike was a Han soldier and was historically classified among the four Han generals in Hexi, he was different from Zhang Yong, Zhao Liangdong, and Wang Jinbao. Those three "slaves were shallow" and they all surrendered to the Tatars after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs. Yes, and he, Sun Sike, was a glorious "second generation slave", the son of the traitor Sun Degong, who was a slave of the old Han Army's Zhengbai Banner! The ones he looked down upon the most were the junior slaves like Zhang Yong, Zhao Liangdong and Wang Jinbao. Oh, of course, it also includes the current queen Yang Xiaomi and the North Korean supervisor Yang Qilong.
Neither of these two can be considered true Eight Banners disciples. Yang Xiaomi joined Prince Yu's palace by pretending to be a citizen. After Prince Yu's fall, she should be made a slave. But Kangxi actually married her directly as his queen!
It's so outrageous
Sun Sike, a "minion", has always had the problem of "showing emotion and anger", so he is very unpopular. In history, although he worked hard for the Qing Dynasty, he could not even be awarded a baron. Later, Qianlong still looked at him. It's pitiful, I'm not a second minister, and I've made so many achievements, why can't I become a lord? So he was given a posthumous title of first-class baron.
This time, his problem did not change. Empress Yang regarded him as a potential confidant from the beginning, but he seemed to look down on the empress. So much so that Queen Yang wondered if he had a Longyang habit? Queen Yang has become particularly attractive to men since she grew taller. She has rarely encountered someone like Sun Sike.
So Empress Yang didn't take it seriously. The Qing Dynasty couldn't help it, so it gave him an admiral of Shandong who had few soldiers to supervise, and sent him to Shandong, where there were many princes, as an official. The admiral of Shandong said he was an admiral, but because Shandong Almost all the territory in Jinan Prefecture was distributed to various princes. The only territories under the direct jurisdiction of the imperial court were Licheng, the first county of Jinan Prefecture, the capital of Shandong Province, and Qihe, Yucheng, Pingyuan, and Dezhou, which also belonged to Jinan Prefecture. There were a total of one state and four counties.
This bit of territory is jointly managed by the governor of Shandong, the chief envoy of Shandong, the envoy of Shandong, the admiral of Shandong, and the prefect of Jinan. Although the territory is small, there are a lot of troubles (it has to be maintained among a group of untouchable princes), and there is no money. However, Sun Sike still worked hard to maintain the bid of 1,000 people, and he had not given up his loyalty to the Qing Dynasty. This time when Kangxi was marching south, he even took the bid to Jining Prefecture to listen to it.
However, Kangxi looked down upon his 1,000 bid-raisers as they all had outdated weapons. Many of them actually carried bows and arrows, which was simply ridiculous. However, Kangxi did not let him return to Jinan, which would be too demotivating. Instead, he sent him to garrison in Qufu.
So Sun Sike entered Zhongwumen, which was a blessing in disguise - otherwise, he would probably have gone down to see Sun Degong by now.
After Sun Sike arrived in Qufu, he was very motivated and always tried his best to protect Kong Shenggong. Now seeing that Kong Shenggong was upset, he took the initiative to calm him down: "Shenggong, don't worry, although the emperor suffered a small setback in Zouxian, his strength is still there, and there is a strong city to defend in Qufu. If the Ming army dares to come, I will defend the city with you, Shenggong. Even if the Ming army has 100,000 people, they can't even hope to capture the strong city of Qufu! Moreover, the Ming army's food road is cut off, and we only need to defend the strong city of Qufu for ten days and eight days. God, it’s time for them to run out of food and retreat.”
Kong Shenggong sighed and said in his heart: You Sun Junmen know nothing. According to the 'parallel trench siege method' that I learned from the textbook of the Ming Army Lecture Hall, Qufu can only be defended for a month at most! Moreover, the Ming army will not run out of food, because in order to show his sincerity in surrender, I have sent someone to tell General Li the location of a granary on Mount Ni containing 200,000 stones of wheat and 100,000 bales of hay! Just these 200,000 stones of wheat can feed General Li's 800,000 troops for at least thirty days!
Just when Kong Shenggong was calculating how many days Li Zhongshan could survive after receiving the food he contributed, he suddenly heard the sound of horse hoofbeats coming from far away. He quickly looked up and saw from a distance the people sent out to greet Kangxi. Mahada, the deputy commander of Prince Kang's palace, had already rushed back with more than a dozen fast horses. From a distance, he shouted to Duke Kong Sheng: "The emperor is here, the emperor is here!"
The servants of Kong Mansion and the guards of Prince Kang Mansion, who were already a little impatient, all buzzed and made a low noise, and then each of them stretched their necks and looked south.
Everyone knows that Kangxi was defeated, but what kind of defeat was it?
After a while, a yellow flag finally appeared on the horizon, fluttering in the wind. I couldn't see clearly what graphics were on it, but it was probably a dragon flag, right? After some time, everyone saw a jump of spears, helmets and tassels. At the end, thousands of knights of various colors appeared in sight, surrounding Emperor Kangxi.
These thousands of cavalry do not belong to one cavalry, but to a total of six flags: two red, two blue, white and yellow. There is also a cavalry wearing a blue coat, who is a member of Prince Kang Jieshu. , and some wearing breastplates are Kangxi's elite white armors.
Thousands of cavalry from different origins were now mixed together, and there were no flags or formations. They were just coming in a large group, looking like stragglers.
Sun Sike and other Qing officials' hearts sank, while Kong Shenggong let out a sigh of relief and made a successful bet!
By the way, the soldiers from the Kongfu who have to follow Shang Shuying will give instructions to them to help Shang Shuying perform meritorious service! If the great achievement of killing Kangxi was really taken by Shang Shuying, it would be taken by Li Zhongshan!
This favor is quite big!
At this moment, Mahada with a mournful face had already arrived in front of Kong Shenggong and Sun Sike. Kong Shenggong was thinking about how to handle the surrender this time and didn't pay attention. Sun Sike had already seen Mahada's expression clearly and asked quickly: "How is the situation with Deputy Dutong Ma? How is your prince?"
It's okay that he didn't mention "Prince". When he mentioned "Prince", Mahada fell off his horse and cried: "My Prince is gone. My Prince is gone."
Jieshu died in battle! Totally dead.
According to Goshiha who came out from Prince Kang's side, Prince Kang was shot at the front line in person on the afternoon of the seventh day of October (actually the front line was approaching him) to supervise the battle. His left leg was shot in the thigh, and he was bleeding. , the bullet penetrated deep into the bone marrow, and there was no way to remove it, so he had to call in an army doctor to rescue him. This doctor, a disciple of Divine Doctor Le, who is said to have learned the true teachings of Divine Doctor Le, just made a brief observation and asked someone to use a saw to cut off his leg!
Jieshu refused to agree at first and tried to persuade him, but in the end he had no choice but to reluctantly agree to abandon his leg to save his life.
As a result, Jieshu's good thigh was cut off alive by the miracle doctor. Just after the sawing was done, before Jieshu could take a look, the Ming army came over. The doctor did not bandage Jieshu with medicine to relieve the pain. Instead, he left the prince who was missing a leg and ran for his life.
"This, isn't this too tragic?" After hearing Mahada's description, Kong Shenggong gasped on the spot, "How many of the emperor's troops are left?"
Mahada shook his head: "I don't know if this is the only one I'll encounter, but the emperor said that there are 30,000 infantry and horsemen behind us, as well as more than 20,000 elite soldiers with white flags and two red flags, for a total of 60,000 people."
It’s over, only about 30,000 are left!
Sun Sike knew the rules. If the number of remaining soldiers in a defeated battle was reduced by half, that would be the true data. If you win the battle, just destroy the enemy in half and then in half! So Kangxi's true strength was immediately calculated.
And Kong Shenggong also knew that Kangxi was defeated so miserably that he couldn't even put out a full cavalry. How could there be still 60,000 people?
The Qing Dynasty is over!
Although I knew in my heart that something was going wrong, I still had to save my face, but I couldn't show that the Qing Dynasty was about to end.
So Kong Shenggong, Sun Sike, Mahada, and other high-ranking officials went south to meet Kangxi's defeated army. After a while, the two sides met. As they got closer, Kong Shenggong and Sun Sike discovered that each of these "flower cavalry" were dejected and looked exhausted. Their horses were also wilting, dragging their feet and reluctantly moving forward.
Kangxi himself looked so drowsy that he almost fell asleep on his horse. Like Li Zhongshan, he was under great pressure, and he had been so worried that he couldn't close his eyes for days and nights.
"I respectfully welcome your Majesty, I respectfully wish you His Majesty's blessing."
The sound of greetings from a group of energetic ministers made Kangxi tremble with surprise, and most of his sleepiness disappeared immediately. He rubbed his eyes, cheered up a little, and looked at the Kong family courtyard in front of him, which was called a fortress. My eyes were sore and there were tears in my eyes.
"Your Majesty," Sun Sike saw that Kangxi was about to cry and quickly advised him, "victory and defeat are common matters for military officers. Your Majesty, the green mountains are still there, so why worry about not having firewood to burn the enemy? Besides, there are ten thousand elite soldiers in Qufu City, with sufficient food and grass, and the army The resources are abundant, and if the defenders get their hands on him, they can withstand a hundred thousand thieves!"
When Kangxi heard this, he felt much better. At the same time, he felt that he could not be timid now and had to show confidence, so he burst out laughing.
His smile made everyone there feel stupid - could it be that they suffered too much from the defeat and couldn't bear the blow, so they went crazy?
"Your Majesty, why should you laugh?" Kong Sheng said.
Kangxi laughed and said: "I laugh at Li Zhongshan for falsely claiming that Marquis Wu was reincarnated and Sun Wu was reborn, but after all, they are still one move away from each other! If Marquis Wu and Sun Tzu used their troops, they would definitely divide their troops in Qufu and set up a killing move here. My soldiers After being defeated at this point, they must be eager to rest. The three armies are sleeping peacefully. If they suddenly attack at night, they will definitely win a complete victory. It's a pity that Li Zhongshan is just Li Zhongshan after all!"
After hearing this, Kong Shenggong thought to himself: Your Majesty, Li Zhongshan has already prepared his killing move! Just use it slowly
(End of chapter)
