Wu Mengming's face turned red and he leaned against the wall and bowed. He was startled by the cool breeze that shook his spirits. He raised his hands and let out a long whimper towards the outside of the city. He looked particularly relaxed and happy. Chang Yu looked at him and chuckled silently.
"Unexpected difficulties, but unexpected gains." Wu Mengming couldn't hide his excitement. Chang Yu chuckled: "Xungui, all of you are like pigs and are not afraid of boiling water. I want to take advantage of them."
It's not that easy to get money out of pocket, but Mr. Wu looks like he is enjoying it. Although money is not easy to make, the popularity and reputation are enough."
Wu Mengming laughed loudly: "To be honest, I never thought that one day my reputation would be so prominent that everyone would praise me."
He spent all his money to donate money to the court to fight against the Tatars. He called on the nobles of the capital to raise donations in his own name. He spoke fiercely and even cursed those worms who could eat the emperor's salary and be disloyal to the emperor. He even once led the people to come to the house to besiege and force donations, which caused an uproar in the capital.
, the people all praised him for his righteousness, Ling Ran, being loyal to the emperor, patriotic and not afraid of power... It can be said that he was famous and received rave reviews. In addition, he was naturally more favored by Emperor Chongzhen. Of course, his share of the raised funds was also indispensable. It can be said that he achieved both fame and fortune in one fell swoop.
receive.
"You've got all the good things, so just do your best." Chang Yu smiled slightly. Wu Mengming couldn't calm down for a while, and he was even more excited because of his drunkenness. He talked nonsense for a long time, saying that those nobles really didn't see the coffin.
In tears, Chang Yu listened for a while and then interrupted him: "The Tatar soldiers will besiege the city tomorrow and I can help you."
Wu Mengming trembled violently: "The Tatars are coming to the city tomorrow? Why so soon... Factory Supervisor, do you think the Tatars will invade?"
"It's impossible to break in, but you must let them fight. At least you have to make a show of fighting, otherwise you will still make money. You also know that those nobles will not shed tears without seeing the coffin. In this case, let them see it.
coffin".
Wu Mengming exclaimed: "Mr. Factory Superintendent, are you sure that the Tatars will attack the city tomorrow?"
"Definitely! The governor has already smelled Dorgon's scent." Chang Yu nodded slightly, his eyes drifting far to the north. The night was thick, and there were no stars or clouds.
Shunyi County is more than sixty miles away from the capital. Even if Dorgon had body odor, Chang Yu could not smell it, but he was really here. In the evening, Dorgon personally led more than 10,000 troops south, ten miles away from Shunyi County.
While I was resting, I suddenly heard that Tan Ma had arrived. A large Ming army had appeared twenty miles away to the south, and thousands of them were hunting Tan Ma.
If it were normal, Dorgon would either ignore it or send a team of troops to fight, but since his defeat outside the pass, he has become cautious. After all, he only has so much capital. If he loses again, there will be no hope of turning around, so he has to
careful.
It is said from previous intelligence that the Ming court had no troops in the Gyeonggi area. After he entered the pass, thousands of Ming troops in Changping to the west were easily defeated by Azig and returned to Changping City. However, Tang Tong's troops traveled from Ji Town to Pinggu where they encountered Nikan and Wa.
Keda avoided fighting and retreated into the city.
So where did this Ming army from the south come from?
The Manchu Qing Dynasty had numerous spies hiding in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming court was suppressing thieves in Baoding Prefecture. The information about the emptiness in the capital was sent by these spies. The second day after he entered the customs, he learned that the Ming army in the south was hurriedly returning to the capital.
So who is the Ming army twenty miles away? Are they the garrison in the capital or the reinforcements from the south? Dorgon is unsure for a moment. He has naturally heard about the behavior of the Ming army in the Beijing camp, and he usually treats the Qing army
They were all frightened by the news. Now they actually had the courage to leave the city and come to confront them? And most of them were infantrymen.
Only the perennial field troops have such courage. For example, Wu Sangui's Guan Ning Army may have returned to Beijing with reinforcements led by the young eunuch, but how could it be so fast!
Dorgon, who was unsure, decided to test it out. Just when he was about to send Duo Duo and lead 5,000 cavalry, he came to report that the Ming army was leaving. According to observation, it should be the troops from the Beijing camp.
Hold!
Dorgon gritted his teeth and regretted that he had hesitated earlier and missed the opportunity to beat the Ming army. Was he a little too cautious and lost the opportunity to fight?
Regretful, he vented his anger in Shunyi County, and ordered the army to besiege the city and capture it before dark. He had built some simple siege equipment when breaking through the dense clouds, and it was just in time to use it.
I thought it would be easy or even self-defeating without attacking, but unexpectedly, although there were only a few hundred defenders in Shunyi County, they refused to surrender and the people in the city came to the city to help in the battle. Without artillery and heavy siege supplies, the Qing army attacked for nearly an hour.
Returned without success.
Dorgon was furious, but he didn't want to waste his manager's time in a small broken city, so he ordered plundering, but found that the surrounding villages and towns had already been empty, and the income was very little. Unwilling to be reconciled, he ordered the army to go south.
They wanted to send troops to attack the Ming Dynasty's capital city, plunder and humiliate the Ming Dynasty wantonly.
He had already made up his mind and planned to surround but not fight. If you leave the city, I will beat you. If you don’t come out, I will go around burning, killing and looting. He can enjoy himself and leave when he wants. Even if reinforcements from the Ming Dynasty arrive, he will not be afraid. What a big deal.
After leaving, he didn't believe that the Ming army dared to chase him and fight him!
In this social night of spring and summer, many people could not sleep late at night. The little eunuchs in the imperial capital climbed the city wall to blow the wind, and Dorgon, due north, rode his horse and whipped his whip to march at night.
Hundreds of miles away in Ren County, Shunde Prefecture, Gao Jie was drinking and chatting with Liu Zeqing. At least on the surface, it seemed like that, but in fact, tensions were about to rise. What did they mean?
It's just an uneven distribution of the spoils.
It is said that late the night before yesterday, Li Zicheng gathered his army and decided to forcefully break through the checkpoint. Gao Jie fought with more than 10,000 troops. He did not have an advantage in strength, but his morale and physical strength were not comparable to that of the thieves. More importantly, he bet that reinforcements would arrive soon, even if they did not.
He can come and leave calmly.
The two armies fought bloody battles on the banks of the Li River. The sky and the earth were dimmed without the light of the stars and the moon. After half a stick of incense, Gao Jie's troops were defeated and were about to retreat. Suddenly they heard a loud killing sound from the north. Liu Zeqing and Li Chengdong led their troops to kill. The morale of the officers and soldiers was greatly boosted.
Gao Jie, who wanted to retreat, gritted his teeth and fought again.
Liu Zeqing and Gao Jie had about 30,000 troops, which was slightly inferior to the rebel army. They were exhausted from chasing all the way and were not at their peak. However, they were evenly matched with the rebel army. This was mainly because the rebel army was flanked from the front and rear and the night battle was unclear in the complex environment.
The morale of the army is in great confusion and they have no desire to fight.
But the officers and soldiers are different. Although they are tired, they are full of fighting spirit. The reason is very good. These two troops are not good people. They are rushing to kill people and get goods. They all know that if they defeat the bandit army in this battle, they will get rich and reach the pinnacle of life.
However, the rebel army was also anxious to jump over the wall, knowing that if they did not fight a bloody road, they would die. After fighting fiercely for nearly half an hour relying on their superior strength, they finally broke out of the jam and were unable to escape. Gao Jie and Liu Zeqing led their troops to pursue them several miles behind.
In the end, they gave up due to exhaustion. In fact, both of them were cautious. After all, the rebel army left a lot of baggage behind and they had to go back to harvest it quickly.
The rebel army left, and the two people who were fighting side by side just now were about to fall out. Gao Jie said that I would naturally take the big head after fighting hard for many days. Liu Zeqing rolled his eyes and disagreed. I chased him down from Zhending Mansion non-stop without closing his eyes, beating him while chasing him.
How difficult it was. If I hadn't come to help you just now, you would have run away with your tail between your tail and not a hair. Of course, I took the big head.
Gao Jie yelled, "If I hadn't stopped you from catching up, I probably wouldn't be able to touch the horse's butt by now. Besides, the reinforcements are not yours, and it's the work of his general Li Chengdong. You are so shameless."
Take it upon yourself.
Neither of them was a good quarrel, and they refused to give in to each other and even faced each other until dawn. Both sides were exhausted and could not hold on any longer, so they each took a step back and transported their gains to Ren County to rest and discuss again.
When Ren County was resting, Gao Jie did not forget Li Zicheng. In terms of personal grudges, he wanted to beat up the drowned dog, so it was best to kill him. In terms of public affairs, Chang Yu ordered him to intercept and pursue him, not to mention that he was thinking about the supplies Li Zicheng had looted, which were countless.
House income.
So he ordered general Liu Cheng to lead 3,000 cavalry to keep an eye on the bandits, and ordered all the troops in Fucheng to go south to pursue the bandits. As for him and Liu Zeqing, they slept soundly in the city for a day and night, and began to argue.
Peace means a win-win situation for both sides, but division means both sides suffer losses. Liu Zeqing was very resourceful and finally took a step back. Gao Jie used what he had gained previously, and what he gained the night before was shared equally between the two. They then went south side by side to pursue the enemy, and worked together to chase the thieves, and the gains were equally divided.
Gao Jie thought for a while and felt that what he said was reasonable. The bandits currently had fifty or sixty thousand troops. No one of them could match him in a duel. However, although they could not devour the bandit army at once after joining forces, they could still bite them one by one.
It can't kill it, but it can bite off a big piece even when it reaches the Yellow River.
After reaching a consensus, the two men were about to dispatch troops to chase the thieves, but at this moment soldiers came to report and captured a big figure, King Qin Zhu Cunji (history mistakenly thought he was his eldest brother Zhu Cunshu).
How come Zhu Cunji is in the bandit army?
Gao Jie and Liu Zeqing looked confused, but in fact they didn't know that when Li Zicheng captured Xi'an, the King of Qin surrendered, and Li Zicheng won over him and instead of harming him, he made him General Quan.
General Quan has the highest rank among the thieves, and is the first person among the thieves, such as Tian Jianxiu and Liu Zongmin. It can be seen that he also spent money to win over the King of Qin and stabilize the people of Xi'an.
Historically, Li Zicheng ordered the King of Qin to accompany him during the Eastern Expedition. Later, he was defeated at Shanhaiguan and fled from Beijing. He killed Zhu Cunji on the way. It was around this time, but history changed. This time, Zhu Cunji did not die but was captured.
After all, they were the vassal kings. Gao Jie and Liu Zeqing did not dare to neglect them. They hurriedly welcomed them into the city and entertained them well. They also asked people to report to the capital how to deal with it (to be continued).