Why did the old shun army soldiers in the Party and Ta’s Divisions, who made up the majority, shave their heads and surrender to the Qing Dynasty?
It’s not that they can’t fight, it’s not that they don’t dare to fight.
If they didn't dare to fight and couldn't fight, they wouldn't have persisted in resisting the Qing Dynasty for twenty years in the Three Gorges area!
The fundamental reason is entirely due to despair and loss of confidence to persevere.
To put it more bluntly, I don’t know who I am fighting for.
Even if Dashun died, they could still fight for the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty died, who did they fight for?
This scene not only happened in Shunying, but also in Xiying.
Yongli chilled the hearts of the Xiying soldiers time and time again. However, as long as Yongli was still alive, the Xiying soldiers still fought bravely against the Qing army under the command of Jin Wang Li Dingguo, even if they retreated to the wilderness, they would not surrender.
But the news of Yongli's death also caused those Xiying soldiers who insisted on resisting the Qing Dynasty and restoring the country in the rainforest to lose their last fighting spirit and belief.
Even though Li Dingguo's last words were that he would rather die in the wilderness than surrender to the Qing Dynasty, his son Li Sixing, Liu Zhen, the eldest son of Shu King Liu Wenxiu, and others still embarked on the road to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.
Everything is due to not knowing who to fight for!
But soldiers are never the ones who decide whether to fight or not to fight!
The wavering of the military officer ranks was the final step in promoting the collective shaving of hair.
Li Sixing, Liu Zhen and others "monopolized" the choice of whether to fight or surrender in Xiying.
The military officer group headed by Dang Shousu and Ta Tianbao also "monopolized" their right to choose whether to surrender or not.
After the officers who refused to surrender were killed, the soldiers who had no choice were forced to follow the party and tower to shave their heads.
Since Wang Wu killed the party and blocked the way for his troops to surrender to the Qing Dynasty again, he must point out a direction for these people.
That's what we fight for.
Otherwise, even if these people are willing to fight again, their military morale will not be too high.
The previous rescue of Liu Tichun was the goal and hope pointed out to them by Wang Wu.
Now that this hope was shattered, in order to prevent Liu Tichun's death from affecting the morale of the military and thus shaking the will of the party and the old Tatmadaw troops to continue resisting the Qing Dynasty, Wang Wu naturally had to give a new direction.
A feasible direction, a direction that everyone can strive for.
This direction is divided into short-term and long-term.
In the short term, we are looking for a new commander-in-chief.
At present, there are only three heavyweights in the Ming army who can stand alongside Liu Tichun.
The first is Li Zicheng's successor-Linguo Gong Li Laiheng.
It used Maolu Mountain as its base to resist the Qing Dynasty. With more than 30,000 soldiers and civilians, it was by far the strongest Ming army.
The combat effectiveness is also the strongest.
The great victory on the eastern front that defeated Huguang Admiral Dong Xueli and killed more than 30,000 Qing troops the year before last was due to Li Laiheng's troops as the main force.
The second is Yuan Zongdi, the "Mianhou" of the Dashun regime and the "Jingguo Gong" of the Ming Dynasty.
The third is Hao Yaoqi, the "Marquis of Nan'an" who once dared to hold Yongli hostage.
Yuan and Hao used to be the strongest and largest forces in the Ming army in Kuidong. Now they were forced to retreat to Huangcaoping due to successive defeats by the Qing army in Shaanxi. Their vitality was severely damaged, but there should be two to three thousand remaining soldiers.
According to Ma Changyuan, Hong Yu'ao, a civil servant sent by the Yongli imperial court to supervise the army in Kuidong, and Pan Yinglong, a eunuch to supervise the army, were among Hao Yaoqi's army, as well as two princes Zhu Ming.
Therefore, Yuan and Hao's remnants actually have greater political influence than Li Laiheng's.
Any one of these three people is enough to replace Liu Tichun as the leader of the Ming army's continued struggle.
Become a new banner in the Kuidong region!
The long-term direction is what Wang Wu shouted without any taboo.
If there is no imperial court, they will build another one!
If there is no emperor, they will get another one!
With the court and the emperor, it is not the hope of the remnants of the Ming army behind Zhuangfang, but the common hope of all the Ming troops who still insist on resisting.
This is why Wang Wu immediately paid great attention to the existence of Emperor Dingwu when he heard about it.
Throughout the history of the Qing Dynasty, there have been many uprisings under the guise of Zhu Ming's descendants, and every time they were supported and followed by the people, this shows that Zhu Ming's regime still has strong appeal among the people.
A fake Zhu Third Prince could make the Qing court sleepless and sleepless, let alone a real Zhu Ming regime!
The slogan of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty continued until the end of the Qing Dynasty.
Strictly speaking, Mr. Zhongshan, who overthrew the Manchu Qing Dynasty, was also one of them.
In the early days, they were not only members of the Hongmen who aimed to "reverse the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty". After the success of the revolution, they were the first to go to Xiaoling to offer sacrifices.
So under the premise that he was too inexperienced to coordinate the various Ming armies to jointly resist the Qing Dynasty, Wang Wu must raise the Zhu Ming banner again, so that the various Ming army ministries that had lost their belief in resistance could reunite and cheer up.
What Ma Changyuan said would not only give Wang Wu enough confidence to call on everyone to follow him to find Yuan Zongdi and Hao Yaoqi, but would also very likely persuade Yuan and Hao to support the establishment of the new emperor.
Make the possibly non-existent Emperor Dingwu real.
The pro-vassal King Han is a ready-made "mascot".
I can no longer stay in the village behind me.
There is no food at all here.
Laomukong, which has been in ruins, is also unable to operate.
Even if Wang Wu led his men to carry the Qing army's former enemy headquarters in a bamboo cage.
No matter what the soldiers of the Party and Tower 2 think, Wang Wu must act quickly.
"Young Master, the top priority is to immediately move to Huangcaoping to join forces with Yuan and Hao Ershuai. Otherwise, once the Sichuan Qing Army and Shaanxi Qing Army on the western front come forward, we will not only be unable to stop them, but we will not even have a chance to move!" "
Wang Wu expressed his attitude to Liu Heng and briefly explained the rescue situation along the way from Wujiayuanzi with his troops.
Wang Wu respected Liu Heng very much.
There is also a sense of relief deep in my heart.
Although he failed to save Liu Tichun, he saved his two children.
He always temporarily preserved the bloodline of his Liu family, instead of killing all the members of the family, leaving only loyal ministers with no heirs for future generations to lament.
Since he was only a general in Jingzhou, Wang Wu left the final decision-making power to Liu Xiaogong.
In fact, regardless of whether the young master agrees or not, he will lead his troops to Huangcaoping.
"good!"
Liu Heng was also very straightforward and agreed to go to Huangcaoping to meet Yuan Zongdi and Hao Yaoqi.
He also said that his father had said before his death that Yuan and Hao wanted to protect King Han and King Andong to retreat to Xingshan to join Hushuai. Now that it was difficult for them to gain a foothold in Laomukong, they could only join forces with Yuan and Hao to break through the encirclement and go to Xingshan. Mountain.
The people on Wang Wu's side naturally had no objections.
At present, both sides were cleaning up, counting casualties, rescuing the wounded, and clearing away all supplies that could be taken away.
Wang Wu confessed to Liu Heng that he still had troops on the way to Laomukong.
"Although the last general led his troops to kill the Manchurian deputy commander Du Min, there are still many Manchu soldiers deployed from Lao Mukong to Huachanggou. The last general needs to bring people to support them."
This is a reasonable thing. There is no reason for Liu Heng not to agree.
Afterwards, everyone went to the place where Liu Tichun died for his country.
The fire had reduced the entire house to rubble.
Liu Tichun and his wife were reduced to ashes in the raging fire.
"Fifth brother!"
Wang Wu's sworn brother Wang Liu led several soldiers to carefully put the ashes of Liu Tichun and his wife into an altar in the ruins.
Looking at the jar containing his parents' ashes, Liu Yun couldn't stop crying again.
Everyone is also sad, and the sound of crying is everywhere.
Wang Wu didn't say much. He only led his subordinates to kowtow three times to the martyred Liu Tichun and his wife.
After getting up, he thought Liu Heng would take his parents' ashes with him.
Unexpectedly, Liu Heng took the jar and remained silent for a while, then reached out and picked up his parents' ashes and threw them in the air.
This move made everyone dumbfounded.
"My father once said during his lifetime that if one day he died for his country, there would be no need to build a grave or erect a monument. His ashes would be scattered on the place where he had fought."
Liu Heng's nose was sore and he wanted to cry loudly.
But he knew he couldn't cry.
His parents’ spirits in heaven would not allow him to cry!
