The chief military officer of Xuange Town came to Beijing to follow Yuan Shijie's advice, trick them into killing them all, and then collect all the green battalion soldiers under the chief military officer. In this way, he could get an empty-handed army in a short period of time.
More than 30,000 green soldiers came out. 【】 With these green soldiers, Zhili and Gyeonggi Province will not be in danger of being pressed by the army within two or three months. Even if the news leaks out, King Qin's troops in Shandong, Jiangsu, Shanxi and other provinces will go north.
It can also be blocked for a while.
Here, the imperial edict announcing the deployment of the general military officers of various towns to Beijing flew away, and over there, the hundreds of households and general bannermen drawn from each regiment also went to various prefectures and counties with their respective appointments. Suddenly,
The official roads in all directions near the capital were filled with cavalry and convoys whizzing by.
Those soldiers in the green camp only knew that they were under the orders of the commander and could receive pay and food. They were not like the private soldiers of the generals of the Ming Dynasty who would not recognize them if they were replaced by the chief military officer. Therefore, as long as the leaders of each town were
If you kill the big-headed soldiers below, you won't be able to cause trouble. The newly appointed commander-in-chief Guan Ning and the guerrillas will continue to coax and show kindness, and this soldier will no longer be surnamed "Qing" but "Guan Ning"
Already.
There is no money in the Ministry of Household Affairs to give favors, but there are quite a lot of royal estates and estates under the control of the Imperial Palace and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. There is also a lot of money in the houses of princes and ministers that have been inspected. Let’s not talk about the princes, let’s just talk about the ministers.
, only the two houses of Suo'etu and Mingzhu were confiscated, including more than two million taels of cash, as well as countless other gold bricks, jades, famous paintings and jewelry. If we really had to count them one by one, I would probably not be able to count them all within a month.
Once the money was available, the soldiers were also available. The officials who went to take over the affairs of various places and General Guan Ning rode out of Beijing, and the Ministry of Revenue drove carts and carts of money out of the city.
It is useless to talk to those green camp soldiers about expelling the Tartars and restoring China, but the money is real. If you put a lot of money there, people will have people's hearts. Plus now you still have a big money in your hand.
Emperor Xuantong of the Qing Dynasty, who also had a great righteousness, led them to fight one or two battles with the "rebels". By then, even if he knew that he had changed from an "official army" to a "traitor army", there would be no burden on his mind. If he continues
After winning a few battles, they are still just soldiers, but they are determined officers and soldiers!
For the officials of the prefecture and county who took over and the officers of the Guanning Army who replaced the green battalion generals, generals, guerrillas, and generals, Zhao Qiang's first order after taking office was also what they must do. They must immediately block the road and only allow people to
North, no one is allowed to go south. Whenever anyone asks, they only say that the late emperor died outside the pass, and now the rebels outside the pass are marching towards Shanhaiguan. In order to protect the safety of the capital and prevent the rebels from spreading in all directions, disturbing people's hearts, and damaging the place, the imperial court
It was decided that martial law would be temporarily imposed in various places and would be lifted after the rebel offensive was repelled and the safety of the capital was ensured.
The proclamation of Emperor Xuantong's accession to the throne, the posthumous edict of "Emperor Daxing", and the "edict of grace" from the Queen Mother and the Emperor must be posted all over the territory of Zhili. People in the countryside, even villagers in the mountains, must be notified wherever there is a way to enter. As for the
Zhao Qiang's own edict to appoint the emperor's father as regent and the queen mother to marry should be slowed down. These two things were Zhao Qiang's bad taste. The purpose of doing so was just to wait for him to stabilize his footing. Kangxi knew
My wife has become the concubine of a thief general, and my son has become the son of a thief general. I wonder if he will be so angry that he will vomit three liters of blood and die. If he really has his braids, it will save him trouble.
Everyone is talking, as long as the people in the outer city are not allowed to leave the capital, who in the world will know about the massacre in the inner city? The country of the seventeenth century is not the information age of the twenty-first century. Mobile phones, the Internet
Flying all over the sky, if something big happens, it will be heard all over the world. In this era, as long as we block the land and water and let the gods come, we will have to wait for several months to know the truth.
However, Zhili territory is so large, with several official roads and small roads. Trying to block the roads and conceal the truth can only have a temporary effect, but it is not a long-term solution. But Zhao Qiang can't control that much. He needs the time now, even if
It’s always good to strive for one more day.
The 1st Cavalry Regiment has been withdrawn from the inner city, and together with the 15,000 soldiers of the 1st Mixed Division, they are heading towards Shanhaiguan. They will be nailed to Shanhaiguan, relying on this "first pass in the world" decades ago.
Keep Kangxi's army firmly outside the pass until the day they fall apart.
Unable to return to the pass and unable to clear his name, Kangxi's final outcome could only be to retreat to Shengjing, guarding the place where his grandfather and great-grandfather made their fortune, waiting like a bereaved dog for the final verdict. Zhao Qiang did not even doubt that once Galdan knew
After Guan Ning's army captured the city of Beijing, he would immediately launch his troops to kill Shengjing at all costs, because Kangxi in Shengjing had the thing he wanted most, the Imperial Seal!
This jade seal was obtained by Huang Taiji from the wife of Lin Dan Khan, the last great khan of the Golden Family. It is said that Kublai Khan obtained this jade seal from the Southern Song Dynasty. Later, Emperor Shun of the Yuan Dynasty took this jade seal with him when he fled north.
After more than two hundred years of wandering around the desert, it finally fell into the hands of the Jurchens.
The long history and the continuation of the bloodline destined this jade seal to be extraordinary. Galdan dreamed of restoring the glory of the Yuan Dynasty, so naturally he would not let go of this jade seal that could legitimately command the Mongolian tribes.
Galdan should be very happy to beat up the drowned dog.
But Galdan is a wolf, and Zhao Qiang is even more ferocious than a wolf. He doesn't care about this jade seal, what he cares about is when Galdan can abandon the Mongolian tribes in Monan and command his troops in Shengjing.
As soon as Zhao Qiang knew how Hu Wang was fighting in Qingyuan and what the situation was like, he had lost all contact with outside the Pass since he entered the Pass. "Benefiting" from the massacre of the Liaoxi Corridor by the Guan Ning Army, a day later
Burning a city without leaving a single person alive, the Liaoxi Corridor, which is hundreds of miles long, has become a human area. Not to mention the meticulous work of Guan Ning's army, even the Qing army's probing horses are enough.
Calculating the time, the vanguard of the Qing army should have already moved towards Shanhaiguan. Although the human zone created by Zhao Qiang could temporarily conceal his intention to go south, it clearly gave the Qing army in the north instructions to move south.
Shanhaiguan must be guarded, and must be guarded!
If you cannot defend Shanhaiguan, Beijing will be the place of execution!
Regarding the 15,000 new recruits of the mixed division who joined the Guan Ning Army for the reward of silver, Zhao Qiang asked the officers to tell them that this trip to the north to defend Shanhaiguan was not only to repel the rebel attack, but also for them.
Your own property and life. Your hands are all stained with the blood of the Beijing bannermen. You are all burdened with blood debts. If Shanhaiguan does not protect it, the silver reward and the fields in the suburbs will be nothing more than a mirror, and you will have to lose it.
He lost his life. Therefore, we must defend Shanhaiguan. For yourselves and for your wives, children, and children, you must defend Shanhaiguan at the risk of your own life.
Humans are the most realistic animals. As long as the stakes are clearly explained, the recruits will know what to do.
Although the 15,000 soldiers mixed into the First Division have no combat effectiveness, it is not difficult to successfully defend Shanhaiguan with the presence of the original 4th and 1st Cavalry Regiments and the 6th Regiment that remained in Shanhaiguan.
As a precaution, Zhao Qiang asked Deqiu to send people to transport all the 26 red cannons placed in the outer city of Beijing to Shanhaiguan, and set up military depots in Changping and Yongping counties. They were stationed in Tongzhou and originally planned to be sent to Shenghai.
The grain and grass from Beijing were transferred to Shanhaiguan. The Ministry of War was ordered to immediately recruit troops near the capital. The number of recruits this time was 100,000, and they must all be children of farmers. The reward was to receive the Eight Banner's fields in the suburbs of Beijing.
Divide fields and houses.
For the serfs in the Eight Banners farms on the outskirts of Beijing, this was undoubtedly very tempting.
Nan Huairen from Qintian Prison was captured and was tied up before Zhao Qiang because the soldiers said that the foreigner tried to pick up a firecracker to resist.