Seeing Wu Sangui coming with the generals, Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao, and Qiu Minyang, the governor of Liaodong, both stopped talking with the supervisor Zhang Ruoqi. They looked at Wu Sangui with smiles on their faces. Only Zhang Ruoqi didn't seem to be too cold about him. .
Hong Chengchou stood up and said with a smile: "Uncle, are you here to propose a toast to Mr. Zhang and Mr. Chen?"
Wu Sangui stood where he was and saluted and said: "Return to the Governor, this is exactly what I meant!"
Hong Chengchou immediately stroked his beard and said with a smile: "That's right. General Zhang Cheng has outstanding performance in diligently suppressing thieves, and he is actually a rising star in our Ming Dynasty. Uncle, you are also good at strategy, honest and brave, and you are also our young man in Liaodong." Jiejun, the future is also limitless, so we should be close to each other more often."
Wu Sangui bowed again and said, "The governor taught me that, and Sangui thinks so too."
At this time, Zu Dale laughed and said: "There are outstanding people in Xuanzhen, and we also have outstanding people in Liaodong. From now on, the world will still belong to you young people."
Zu Dalue is the cousin of Zu Dashou, a famous general in Liaodong. The three brothers Zu Dashou, Zu Dabi and Zu Dalue are all the current generals in Liaodong. The ancestor's family was originally from Anhui. In the early Ming Dynasty, he moved to Liaodong with the army. After generations of reproduction, he eventually became a famous family in Liaodong. , extremely powerful.
Zu Dalue can also be regarded as Wu Sangui's uncle. In his words, he tried his best to support Wu Sangui.
The Liaodong generals who came to toast him all echoed when they heard what Zu Dale said. Only Liu Zhaoji, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, smiled and said nothing, with a slightly heavy look on his face.
Zhang Cheng looked at Wu Sangui and saw two bright eyebrows on his fair face and a straight bridge of nose, which fully evoked the heroic demeanor of a man. In his every move, he showed his demeanor as a son of a noble family.
What is even more eye-catching is the calm and steady aura between his brows, which is like a deep pool of still water, gleaming and striking. It is indeed consistent with the legend, and it is indeed the appearance of a beautiful man in this world.
Looking at the generals around them, they seemed to regard him as the leader. Many of them even spoke fawningly. Even Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao and Qiu Minyang, the governor of Liaodong, their eyes were full of love for Wu Sangui. There are more words of praise and praise.
"You're so good at winning people's hearts!"
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Zhang Cheng's understanding of Wu Sangui was limited to knowing that he was a proud young man like himself. He was promoted to deputy commander-in-chief or even commander-in-chief at a young age. Finally, at the time of the fall of the Ming Dynasty, he became the unique leader in the army in Liao Town.
After Li Zicheng attacked the capital and Chongzhen hanged Meishan, he "turned into a beauty in anger" and resolutely surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, becoming the first general to invade the Central Plains. He fought all the way to Yunnan and strangled Emperor Yongli of the Southern Ming Dynasty.
Finally, because he was dissatisfied with the Qing court's move to reduce vassal vassals, he raised the flag to rebel against the Qing Dynasty again, triggering the "Three Feudatories Rebellion" that lasted for eight years. Unfortunately, it backfired. It was smooth sailing for him to rebel against the Ming Dynasty and surrender to the Qing Dynasty. Now he raises the flag of righteousness again, hoping to He carried out the important task of eradicating the Qing Dynasty and reviving the Ming Dynasty, but everything went against his wishes.
Precisely because he knew Wu Sangui's life very well, but knew nothing about his specific circumstances, he was included in the list of key people under surveillance by the Intelligence Department after the eleventh year of Chongzhen's reign as King Qin.
According to information previously obtained by Zhang Cheng, in the early years of Chongzhen, Wu Sangui's father, Wu Xiang, led his troops on patrol outside Jinzhou City and was surrounded by regiments of Jiannu cavalry. Ding followed him personally, went out of the city without permission, and broke into the enemy's formation.
Wu Sangui charged forward personally with a sword in hand and a leaping horse. As the saying goes, "Capture the thief first, capture the king." Wu Sangui took the lead and shot the general Jiannu with an arrow. The man immediately fell off the horse.
He also wanted to cut off the slave general's head and go back to repay the crime of leaving the city without permission, so he bent down from the horse, but the slave general was not dead. He suddenly jumped up and struck with his dagger. Then he stabbed Wu Sangui on the bridge of the nose.
Wu Sangui said it too late, but soon, he raised his knife and cut off the head of the slave general. Then he rushed into the slave formation, charged and hacked, and finally broke out of the siege and rescued Wu Xiang. .
Saving his father alone has become a legend since then. Wu Sangui was not punished for leading troops out of the city without authorization. Instead, he rose to prominence in the Liao Zhen army. He was still in the emperor's heart. At this time, he was only eighteen years old.
When Liannu Chief Taiji learned the whole story later, he was full of praise for Wu Sangui and couldn't help but said sourly: "If my family gets this person, why worry about the world?"
However, this battle also left a thin scar on the bridge of Wu Sangui's nose. From then on, when he was not conversing with others, he would subconsciously "touch his own nose" with his hands, and it finally became a habit that he could not get rid of. .
Wu Sangui can be said to hate and love the scar on her nose.
What I hate is that this scar ruined his "beautiful and graceful" appearance. What I love is that this scar also completely opened up Wu Sangui's path to wealth, allowing him to rise from an unknown member of a small school in a border town to a high school student. A frontier commander in the late Ming Dynasty who went down in history.
Wu Sangui's life thereafter was like cheating. He was appointed as a guerrilla general at the age of twenty. He was promoted to the staff general of the forward right camp at the age of twenty-three. At the age of twenty-six, he was already the deputy general of the forward right camp.
At this time, the 28-year-old Wu Sangui had been promoted to the chief training officer of the Ningyuan regiment. With the full support of Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao, he devoted himself to training. In less than two years, he had trained 20,000 new brave Liao soldiers, who were very combat-effective. .
Together with his father Wu Xiang, Wu Sangui also privately raised an elite group of Wu's servants, which totaled 3,000 elite cavalry. They were divided into 60 teams with fifty cavalry in each team, and each team had a leader. official.
He wrote the names of these cavalry officers on bamboo sticks, and stuck them in his boots on weekdays. In case of emergency, he would take out a stick from his boots and shout out the name of such and such cavalry officer. , the cavalry leader will take command of the cavalry and follow him to fight and fight with no disadvantage.
Moreover, Wu Sangui himself is also extremely brave and good at fighting. Just last year, when the Tartars first besieged Jinzhou, whether it was the encounter at Jiama Mountain, the surprise attack on the Qing soldiers' Xianglan Banner camp, or the ambush at Wudaoling, his performance was outstanding. Very outstanding.
Especially at the beginning of the 14th year of Chongzhen's reign, the Jian slaves and horsemen were raging throughout Jinzhou and Songshan Fort. The situation was extremely rampant. There was insufficient food and grass in Jinzhou city and it was difficult to sustain the situation for a long time. However, the grain transport officials were afraid of the slave thieves' power and were too timid to go there.
Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao, summoned Qiu Minyang, the governor of Liaodong, and Wu Sangui, the commander-in-chief of the Ningyuan regiment, to discuss countermeasures. From this, it can be seen that Wu Sangui was already among Hong Chengchou's trusted core, and Hong Chengchou valued him significantly higher than other commander-in-chiefs.
Wu Sangui himself did not disappoint Hong Chengchou. Not only did he volunteer to transport grain to Jinzhou City, but he was also able to take things by surprise and accomplish this extremely difficult task very beautifully.
