Officials of all sizes in Nanjing are busy moving, merchants are busy raising funds to prepare to go north to participate in the railway freight company's stock offering, and Chongzhen, who is far away in Beijing, is not idle either.
After controlling the inner city, that is, the entire city, troops were then sent to control the outer city.
After taking control of the outer city, they began to arrest people. Fan Wencheng, Ning Wanwo, Zu Dashou and other Han officials who did not go to Chaoyang Gate were not spared and were all arrested.
In the end, hundreds of thousands more were arrested.
Of course, it's just to arrest people.
After all, the New Army of the Ming Dynasty were not slaves, nor were they Li Zicheng's bandits, nor were they the Ming Dynasty's frontier troops. There were scholars and Guozisheng as the backbone of the New Army, and they would never do anything like burning, killing, raping, or raping women.
The fact is that order was restored in Beijing the day the Ming army entered the city.
The lives of ordinary people have not been affected in any way and everything remains as usual.
But there is still a lot of work waiting for Chongzhen to do, and the remaining forces of the slave establishment have not yet been eliminated.
Before the arrests were over, Chongzhen began to prepare intensively to send troops to suppress Wu Sangui and Jiang Xiang. While he ordered Xu Yingwei to lead a town south to Yanzhou, he personally led two towns east to conquer Shanhaiguan.
Yan Yingyuan led another Zhenbei out of Juyongguan to prevent the Mongolian cavalry from going south.
Guguan and Zijingguan have been controlled by the puppet army, and Chongzhen has no time to pay attention to them for the time being.
Three days after the decisive battle of Baliqiao ended, it was June 21, the 22nd year of Chongzhen.
At the same time that Nanjing's civil and military officials left for the north, Chongzhen also began to eliminate the remnants of the slave-building movement, mainly to eliminate Jiang Xiang who was entrenched in Yanzhou and Wu Sangui who was in Shanhaiguan.
Among them, Wu Sangui of Shanhaiguan was the main target.
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At noon two days later, Wu Sangui was pacing anxiously in the hall of Shanhaiguan.
Although five full days had passed since the end of the Battle of Baliqiao, Wu Sangui still did not obtain any information about the Battle of Baliqiao. This was because the intelligence was completely cut off.
The blocking of the battlefield was of course done by Zhu Cijiong and his cavalry.
And now Zhu Cijiong is becoming more and more professional in doing this.
Ye DaDa, who was sent by Wu Sangui to the capital to inquire about news, had all been hunted down by the Ming army.
Wu Sangui became more and more anxious after receiving no news from Gyeonggi.
His beloved concubine Chen Yuanyuan came over and kindly advised him to go back to the back office to rest for a while, but instead Wu Sangui scolded him with a muffled face. Chen Yuanyuan had to hold back tears and returned to the back office without mentioning it.
Seeing Chen Yuanyuan's graceful figure disappear behind the arch, Fang Guangchen reluctantly withdrew his gaze, this woman is a true beauty in the world.
For such a beauty to follow a reckless man like Wu Sangui is a waste of natural resources.
But on the surface, Guangchen was very respectful to Wu Sangui: "Is the prince worried that the victory of the Ming and Qing wars has been decided?"
"Can you not worry?" Wu Sangui said, "If the Qing army wins, that's all. If the Ming army wins in the end, you and I will have no chips in our hands, and it will be troublesome."
What Wu Sangui feared most was that the Ming army won a decisive victory before he surrendered.
"Your Majesty is overly worried. It is absolutely impossible for the Ming army to defeat the Qing army in one battle." Fang Guangchen said eloquently, "So the battle between the Ming and Qing Dynasties must be a long-term process."
"Even if the Ming army can win, I'm afraid it will be a miserable victory in the end."
"This also means that after defeating the Qing army, the Ming army will no longer be able to continue to use troops against Shanhaiguan and Yanzhou Prefecture. Therefore, if nothing unexpected happens, Chongzhen will most likely adopt a strategy of appeasing the prince and Jiang Xiang. After all, he and the prince have been appeased.
Jiang Xiang can protect the people in the north from weapons."
After a pause, he added: "Didn't Chongzhen always claim to be people-oriented?"
After listening to this analysis, Wu Sangui finally felt a little relieved, because Fang Guangchen's analysis was undoubtedly reasonable.
Even if Chongzhen doesn't want to see him, Wu Sangui, Jiang Xiang and other ministers, the people in several northern provinces always have no hatred against you. Don't you always flaunt yourself as a benevolent and righteous king? Then you should consider the people and appease them.
For the top.
Thinking of this, Wu Sangui sent a servant to call in his eldest son Wu Yingxiong.
Wu Yingxiong was actually Wu Sangui's legitimate second son, but because his eldest son Wu Yingqi adopted Wu Sanfeng as his stepson, Wu Yingxiong became the eldest son.
Wu Sangui liked Wu Yingxiong's son very much.
Although Wu Yingxiong's martial arts skills are not as good as Wu Yingqi's, he is tall and handsome.
"Father." Wu Yingxiong first bowed to Wu Sangui, then turned to salute Fang Guangchen, "The student has met the teacher."
Wu Sangui grunted and said: "I'll give you a job to move all the Liao people outside Guancheng to resettle inside Guancheng. Anyone who dares to resist will be killed without mercy!"
This is to use the Liao people as bargaining chips to blackmail Chongzhen.
Speaking of which, the land in the Western Liaoning Corridor is quite fertile.
Therefore, after the political situation of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties stabilized, the Liao people who had taken refuge in Yanshan because they had shaved their heads and changed clothes, returned to the Western Liaoning Corridor to farm, and then took shelter under Wu Sangui.
However, Wu Sangui always only used these Liao people as his bargaining chips.
It was the same when he was the commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty, and it is the same now as the admiral of Ji Liao in the Manchu Qing Dynasty. The only thing that remains unchanged is that these poor Liao people will always be Wu Sangui's bargaining chip.
Watching Wu Yingxiong leave, Fang Guangchen asked: "Does the prince want to use these Liao people as bargaining chips?"
Wu Sangui did not deny it, nodded and said: "This method is of no use to the Qing army. The Qing army does not care about the life and death of the Liao people at all, but it may be of some use to the Ming army. If the final situation really comes to the worst, as long as
Driving these Liao people onto the city wall will make the Ming army's artillery have some scruples."
Fang Guangchen said in a dark voice: "Unless the Ming army can ignore the life and death of the Liao people in the city, they will have no choice but to recruit the prince, and they will still have to appoint him as the admiral of Jiliao and the commander-in-chief of Shanhaiguan."
While the two were talking, Wu Yingxiong suddenly came back with a dark face.
"Why are you back?" Wu Sangui asked, "Didn't I ask you to arrest Liao people?"
"Father, the Liao people have been taken away by the Ming army." Wu Yingxiong said angrily, "It was the Ming army in Liaodong that did it. Wang Fuzhi promised to give the Liao people a hundred acres of land per ding, and they will not have to pay for food for three years!"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Didn't Wang Fuzhi's Liaodong Ming Army always stay in the Gaizhou Guard?" Wu Sangui's expression suddenly changed, "When did they arrive in western Liaoning? What night did they go out?
If you don’t accept it, why don’t you repay it?”
"Father, our Ye Da is afraid that he has already been killed by the Liaodong Ming Army."
"This is impossible." Wu Sangui said flatly, "No matter how powerful the Ming army's scout cavalry is, it is impossible for them to kill all of our soldiers at night."
Wu Yingxiong said: "That means you were instigated to rebel."
Hearing Wu Sangui, Wu Yingxiong and his son arguing there, Fang Guangchen couldn't laugh or cry.
At that moment, Fang Guangchen advised: "Your Majesty, since the Liaodong Ming Army has entered the Liaoxi Corridor, what's the point of arguing whether Ye Bushou was killed or instigated rebellion? The top priority is to quickly figure out the Ming Army's exact intentions, and what's coming
Is it just the Ming army from Liaodong, or is it also the Ming army from Beijing?"
"The Ming army heading toward Beijing?" Wu Sangui's face changed drastically.
If the Ming army from the direction of Beijing also comes, it can only mean one thing.
That is, the decisive battle between the Ming Army and the Qing Army has already decided the winner, and the Ming Army won a great victory. This is undoubtedly the worst result for Wu Sangui.
However, the more you fear something, the more it will come.
Wu Sangui was worried about the Ming army in the direction of Beijing, when a servant came in and reported: "Your Majesty is in trouble, a large number of Ming troops have been found at the southern foot of Yanshan Mountain, less than 20 miles away from Shanhaiguan!"
"What did you say?" Wu Sangui was furious, "Why didn't you report it until now?"
The servant said in a panic: "Because none of the Yebuzai we sent to Yongping Mansion came back. In the end, we only found out when a hunter spotted the Ming army and came to report it."
"Damn it." Wu Sangui said bitterly, "It seems that Chongzhen no longer wants to appease this king."
After a pause, Wu Sangui gritted his teeth and said: "In that case, let Chongzhen know that Shanhaiguan is my Wu Sangui's territory. When I come to Shanhaiguan, I will be a tiger lying down for me, and a dragon will be coiled for me!"
Fang Guangchen also nodded in agreement: "Now that things have come to a point, we can only fight to the death with the Ming army."
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The two towns that conquered Wu Sangui this time were Town 1 and Town 2, with Town 2 acting as the main force. This was actually a way of balancing, because Town 2 did not participate in the Battle of Baliqiao.
In order to increase the speed as much as possible, neither the 1st nor 2nd towns carried field artillery brigades.
Because there was no drag from field artillery, the march was extremely fast. It only took two days to reach an abandoned village called Yiyuankou at the southern foot of Yanshan Mountain, which was still about twenty miles away from Shanhaiguan.
The sound of horse hoofbeats sounded, and Zhu Cijiong led Xu Wuniu and dozens of other scout cavalry back to the group.
"Father, it seems that an Orion escaped and sent the news to Shanhaiguan, so the Wu army in Guancheng is already making preparations to defend the city."
"Where are the common people? They weren't arrested in Shanhaiguan, were they?"
"We didn't meet many common people here in Yongping Mansion, and Wu Jun couldn't catch them even if they wanted to. But there should be Liao people on the Liaoxi Corridor, so I don't know if the Liaodong Army can stop Wu Jun."
"The problem is not big, Wang Fuzhi is still trustworthy."
"Father, I have something unclear and I would like to ask for advice."
"Are you wondering why Wu Sangui was not recruited?"
"Yes, we can definitely appease Wu Sangui first, and then find a way to deal with him. For example, we can seduce him into the capital and then execute him in the name of a memorial. Wouldn't it be easier?"
"You think Wu Sangui is too stupid. Even if you appease him, he will not easily enter the capital."
"Also, if a big traitor like Wu Sangui is not resolutely suppressed and instead adopts the policy of appeasement, it is equivalent to setting a very bad precedent. It is equivalent to encouraging border officials like Wu Sangui to support the troops and respect themselves.
, it won’t even matter if the bandits show respect for themselves, and more border ministers will follow suit in the future.”
"Therefore, Wu Sangui must be suppressed and no chance of surrender will be given to him."
After a pause, Chongzhen said again: "Because Wu Sangui broke through the bottom line of a military commander."
