Nanjing Forbidden City, Wuying Hall enclosure.
Zhu Heji, who had just completed the enthronement ceremony the day before, did not give himself a two-day holiday. Early the next morning, he was in a conference hall inside the Wuying Palace building hurriedly talking to the Prime Minister, the Six Ministers, and the Military Advisor. , and the Heavenly King Zhu, who had just been crowned the Supreme Emperor, were discussing how to kill the Qing Dynasty.
"Hahaha, it won't be long before Kangxi knows that three of his Gushan troops have surrendered to me... He only has a total of twenty-four Gushan new troops, and one-eighth of them surrendered at one time. People's hearts have been broken, so what else can he use to fight me? I see him running out and becoming Emperor Shun of the Qing Dynasty."
Zhu Heji, who had officially ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, seemed very excited at the moment, as if it would not be long before he could dominate the world and drive Emperor Kangxi out to become Emperor Shun of the Qing Dynasty.
"Emperor! Kang Mazi will not give up easily and become Emperor Shun of the Qing Dynasty... He is like a gambler who loses red-eyed. He will not give up until he loses everything. This kind of person I’m much more visible!”
The person who called Zhu Heji "Emperor Boy" was the "Zhu Tianwang" who loved to give people nicknames. He was now the Supreme Emperor, and he was not serious at all.
But what he said still makes sense. Kangxi is now a loser gambler!
Thinking of this, Zhu Heji nodded: "Father is right. Kangxi will not become Emperor Shun until he vomits blood. We will make him lose all his money this time!"
"Emperor," Heavenly King Zhu said with a smile, "How do you want to set up a trap to deceive him?"
Zhu Heji smiled and said: "The situation has actually been set up... Xiangyang has trapped a Tu overseas and added 20,000 Qing troops. Prime Minister Zhuge still has Dong E, Leerjin and Mang Yitu in his hands. Taking advantage of it, we held another prisoner presentation ceremony in Nanjing. It was enough. We are not afraid that Kangxi will not take the bait!
As long as he takes the bait and gambles with his capital, Prime Minister Zhuge will definitely find a way to trap him in Xiangyang. As long as it is delayed until next spring, Liaodong and North Korea can start taking action. When the weather warms up, I can send troops from Nanjing to the north to attack Shandong. . When the time comes for a three-pronged approach, no matter how much money Kangxi gambles, he won't be able to lose. "
Having said this, Zhu Heji confidently said to King Zhu Tian: "Father, it seems that next winter, we will be able to sleep in the Forbidden City in Beijing!"
...
With a bang, the desk in the south study room fell to the ground. The eunuchs and maids standing around were so frightened that they all fell to the ground.
The seven ministers of the South Study House did not even dare to raise their heads.
Kangxi, who had just pushed down the desk, stood there, breathing heavily, his chest rising and falling rapidly, his face pockmarked and red, and he looked like he was going to explode with anger.
Then I heard Suo'etu's voice.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty...the people below are all greedy for life and afraid of death. You have to hold on..."
Time flies so fast, today is already the first day of November in the 18th year of Kangxi's reign. What happened at the triumphal military parade in Nanjing a month ago has been transmitted to Jingzhao Mansion through the two lines of Nianganchu and Confucianism.
Zhu Heji ascended the throne as emperor and announced the implementation of the "Ming Dynasty Covenant" and so on. Of course, Emperor Kangxi would not be so angry. What almost made Kangxi angry were the prisoners of the Eight Banners who appeared at the triumphal parade in Nanjing... There were almost 20,000 people under the three banners, wearing cotton armor and bare heads, lining up in a long line to let Ming Ming The army escorted him from Yifeng Gate to Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum!
How embarrassing!
The majestic Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers made people organized and captured 20,000 people... No, not 20,000 people, but the three new flags of the red, white and blue flags in the Guodiwan encirclement. Jun Gu'an surrendered to the Ming army!
The surrender of the three Gu'an formations has never happened in the history of the Eight Banners Army. Not only has it not happened, but no one has even thought about it.
So before today, Kangxi and the Manchu civil and military officials of the Qing Dynasty all agreed that the three Gu'an armies were completely annihilated because they were outnumbered after a complete resistance. As for Dong E, Le Erjin and Mang Yitu, most of them have died heroically for their country.
Therefore, Emperor Kangxi showed great compassion and held a grand funeral for the three of them. He also granted them posthumous titles, posthumous gifts, and posthumous titles. He even stayed away from court for three days in order to honor them.
But now it seems that these three people are likely to become the second minister!
Two of them are still Aixinjueluo! One of them is a prince, and the other is Baylor.
If these two Aixinjueluo voted for the Ming Dynasty and were granted official status...
Thinking of this, Kangxi gritted his teeth and shouted: "Hurry, go and find out for me whether Dong E, Leerjin and Mang Yitu really died for their country!"
Upon hearing this, the ministers in the South Study Room below all looked at each other in shock... In fact, they already knew something was wrong!
Because for more than a month, good news came one after another from Xiangyang. The Ming army killed, wounded and captured more than 3,000 people!
Although this number must be extremely generous, Tuhai and Laita are not particularly unreliable people. At most, they can only blow up the killing of one thousand enemies into three thousand.
However, several ministers of the Nanshufang who knew Tuhai and Laita felt that something was not right, so they successively went to the horse-armed soldiers who had been fighting for the siege of Xiangfan to deliver the news for Tuhai and Laita to find out the truth.
After some interrogation, these Nanshufang ministers learned that the captured Ming troops were all new officers and soldiers of the original Eight Banners, and most of them belonged to the three flags of Zhenghong, Xiangbai and Zhenglan...
"Your Majesty, it's better not to investigate..."
Suo'etu dissuaded Kangxi with tears while kowtowing.
"Your Majesty, stop checking..."
"Your Majesty, please calm down and stop chasing me."
"Your Majesty, you don't have to be angry with them!"
"Your Majesty...the morale of the army is unstable!"
When several ministers of the Southern Study House saw Suo'etu taking the lead, they all agreed.
If the collective surrender of three Gushans, a prince, and a Baylor was really done, then the next battle would be over. Just pack your things and become Emperor Shun of the Qing Dynasty!
In fact, Kangxi only said angry words, and he also knew that now was the last chance to make things right. If morale collapses due to the collective surrender of three Gushans, a prince, and a Baylor, then the opportunity for a last-ditch effort will be missed.
Because Kangxi wanted to take this gamble, he had no choice but to do it in winter!
Since the most powerful "old brothers" soldiers in the Ming army were all Cantonese and were not used to the severe cold in winter in the north, it was impossible for Zhu Heji to send troops from Nanjing to the north to attack Shandong in winter. And his other two trump cards, the Liaodong Army and the Korean Army, are unlikely to be dispatched in winter. The winter in the Northeast is not that cold!
In other words, before spring bloomed in the 19th year of Kangxi, most of the Ming army would be in a state of rest, and it would be impossible to launch a new offensive in the direction of Shandong and Liaodong.
It is based on this judgment that Kangxi has been frantically raising gambling capital since October... no, raising troops!
In addition to the more than 40,000 people brought back by Yue Le and the 10,000 Eight Banners new troops that Kangxi kept to save their lives, all the Eight Banners new troops originally left behind in Beijing and Datong were all lost to Nanyang.
He also mobilized all the green soldiers in the Gansu and Shaanxi areas.
In addition, Kangxi continued to mobilize the cavalry of various Mongolian tribes to go south in the name of the Mongol Khan. The previous four Gushan groups, composed of warriors from the four Eastern Mongolian alliances, also received orders from Kangxi and were heading south.
Even Lu Yong, the newly formed Shandong regiment, received orders from Kangxi. Kangxi asked them to mobilize as many troops as possible, not for the decisive battle in Xiangyang, but to fill the defense gaps in Beijing and Datong.
He even sent people to the snowy plateau to borrow troops from Heshuote Mongolia, and to the Western Regions to borrow troops from Galdan.
In short, Kangxi tried his best to mobilize both those who could and could not be mobilized, and finally assembled an army of 120,000 to 30,000 troops.
In addition to cobbling together the army, Kangxi also sold iron and steel to raise money to raise grain... In order to make money, he even ordered Niangan Department to arrest the heads of the eight imperial merchants, and also accused them of being traitors to the Ming Dynasty. Finally, he Got two to three million.
