On December 27, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty indeed issued an edict to punish himself and compensated the late Governor Lu Xiangsheng with high standards.
The civil servants who supported Lu Xiangsheng and the war against the Qing were inspired by this, became active again, and launched a fierce offensive in the court. Yang Sichang lost the trust of the emperor because he encouraged Zhu Youjian to force Lu Xiangsheng to death. Now he is in a difficult situation and can only fight in the main battle group.
He just defended the door under the attack, far less majestic than before.
Li Zhi asked for a pension for Lu Xiangsheng, and the incident of defeating Yang Sichang soon spread. All officials said that Li Zhi defeated a pavilion elder with just one sentence. Civil and military officials all understood Li Zhi's current power, and no one dared to do so for a while.
He called Li Zhi a traitor.
But this is a battle in the court, and it is not within Li Zhi's consideration. What Li Zhi has to consider is the war in front of him. Dorgon's Qing army is still in Gyeonggi, and Li Zhi needs to unite with other Ming armies to defeat Dorgon.
Gon.
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In the government office of Jiyang County, Jinan Prefecture, Dorgon looked at Du Du who was kneeling on the ground crying and sighed.
Defeating the Ming Dynasty's "Governor of the World's Reinforcements" and "Minister of War" Lu Xiangsheng once made the Qing army led by Dorgon rejoice for several days. However, this joy suddenly disappeared after Yue Tuo's defeat.
Yue Tuo still did not follow Dorgon's policy and took the initiative to attack Li Zhi in Fanjiazhuang. The 30,000 Manchu and Mongolian coalition forces failed to defeat Li Zhi in the end and were routed thousands of miles away. Du Du and the Mongolian banners gathered after the war.
Only 16,000 remnants of the defeated army were found. 14,000 of them were killed or wounded in the battle, or disappeared on the way to escape.
This was still the case when the reputation of the Qing army was spread far and wide, and the Ming troops in various garrison stations did not dare to attack the defeated Qing troops, but Du Du could calmly search for the defeated troops. If not, the casualties of this defeat would have been even more shocking.
The scene of the battle described by Du Du frightened the Manchu and Mongolian nobles even more. Li Zhi's fire cannon could penetrate the armor of the Qing army and kill people in more than a hundred steps, and the firepower was continuous.
.And the one hundred and forty cannons are even more terrifying. After firing, they can be fired again, using scatter cannons to continuously massacre the Qing army.
Listening to Du Du's description of the scene where the volley of fire cannons knocked down the charging cavalry, all the Manchu and Mongolian nobles felt chills on their backs. The firepower of this Ming army was terrifyingly strong.
Abatai sat under Dorgon. Hearing Du Du's description, he loudly said: "Now that the Ming army has killed Yue Tuo, their morale has greatly increased. Li Zhi is becoming more and more arrogant, and his reinforcements are getting more and more.
How can we transport the hundreds of thousands of nikans and livestock we looted outside the Great Wall?"
In Manchu, Nikan is a derogatory name for the Han people.
Previously, Zhu Beile of the Qing army laughed at Abate's collapse when he met Li Zhi. But now, in the context of Yue Tuo's defeat, Abate's retreat has simply become a wise decision to preserve his strength. Li Zhi's strength is too strong.
, it is no longer shameful for the generals of the Qing army to be defeated by Li Zhi.
Abatai now regained his right to speak. He began to worry about the results of this robbery of Gyeonggi.
Huang Taiji's eldest son Hauge looked at Abatai, nodded and said: "Indeed, now that soldiers and horses from all over the Ming Dynasty are gathering, there are more and more enemies. We are in Jinan, 900 miles away from Qingshan Pass, and we have to bring more than 300,000 people with us.
It is indeed difficult for humans and animals to retreat smoothly!"
Qingshan Pass was the pass of the Great Wall that Dorgon captured. It was from there that the left wing soldiers he led entered the fortress. Dorgon left two thousand soldiers to guard Qingshan Pass and prepare to leave from there.
But now that there are more and more Ming troops, it has become a difficult task to bring the looted people and animals out of the fortress smoothly.
Dorgon looked at the nervous people and said slowly: "To give you a detailed report, Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides of the Ming Dynasty, came with 50,000 troops and horses. They arrived in Tongzhou on the outskirts of Beijing yesterday."
Hearing this, the Manchu and Mongolian nobles in the county government turned pale, and they couldn't bear it. Abatai, who had suffered from Li Zhi, was even more panicked. He stood up suddenly and said loudly: "It's too bad, there are so many obvious things."
With the help of the army, Li Zhi can calmly start a war with us."
Hauge was also a little panicked and stood up and said: "General, with so many Ming troops cooperating with Li Zhi, our situation is very bad!"
Du Du, who was on the ground, got up, looked at Dorgon, and said loudly: "General, we have been ordered to throw away the robbed people and animals, and quickly flee back to Qingshan Pass to exit the customs!"
Dorgon thought about the situation, his face also looked ugly.
After defeating Yue Tuo, the morale of the Ming army was very different. Dorgon's more than 70,000 soldiers and horses encountered hundreds of thousands of Ming troops, and they also held a large amount of human and animal supplies. It was indeed dangerous. Especially Li Zhi's army.
Wan Qiang soldiers are still watching eagerly and will come up to take a bite at any time.
Dorgon pondered for a moment, shook his head and said: "We lost 20,000 people in the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and we relied on the plundered population to replenish it. These people and animals cannot be lost!"
Du Du was stunned and asked: "Then we take these more than 300,000 livestock and livestock burdens to fight Li Zhi? Li Zhi is not easy to mess with, and the Ming army has hundreds of thousands!"
Abatay shouted: "General, I have been ordered to do so. This is not the time to be greedy for money. The first thing is to save the lives of the warriors!"
Dorgon gritted his teeth and said: "Send someone to ask the emperor for help, ask him to enter the customs to support us and take us out of the customs!"
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After Li Zhi paraded in the capital, he stayed in Tongzhou in accordance with the emperor's imperial edict.
Li Zhi is waiting for Hong Chengchou.
In the first month of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Hong Chengchou led 50,000 Shaanxi soldiers and horses to defend the capital. Li Zhi, as the Tianjin general soldier who entered the guard, was placed under the command of Hong Chengchou and was to fight with the Shaanxi soldiers and horses known as the "Qin Army".
On the 19th day of the first lunar month, Li Zhi's scouts reported that Hong Chengchou's troops had arrived in Tongzhou.
Li Zhi walked outside the camp gate and greeted Hong Chengchou.
All they could see was smoke and dust billowing in the distance, and the dust raised by the fifty thousand Qin troops marching in the wilderness was overwhelming. In front of the army, ten thousand horses galloped towards Li Zhi's camp.
Hong Chengchou's cavalry arrived in front of Li Zhi's military camp and stopped. Among the ten thousand cavalry, a thin middle-aged man in his forties, wearing a python suit and a black gauze hat, rode out on a tall horse.
It was the governor of the three sides who photographed the military affairs of the five provinces of Henan, the minister of the Ministry of War and the censor of Youdu, and the crown prince Taibao Hong Chengchou.
Hong Chengchou led another middle-aged man wearing a third-grade civil servant uniform out of the crowd, rode up to Li Zhi, and jumped off the horse.
Hong Chengchou looked at Li Zhi, who was leading his men in front of the camp gate, also wearing a red python suit.
"This is General Li Zhi, the commander-in-chief of Tianjin whose bravery is known all over the world, and the commander-in-chief's colleague?"
Li Zhi cupped his hands and said, "I am Li Zhi. Your Majesty, the Governor, has given me the award!"
Hong Chengchou laughed loudly and said: "The general's formation killed Yue Tuo, the leader of the banner with a red flag, his reputation is as thunderous as thunder, how can he be rewarded?"
Although Li Zhi was an industrial designer, he also had some rough knowledge of history. I had heard of Hong Chengchou's name, Li Zhi, and Li Zhi knew that he was a traitor in the late Ming Dynasty. He later defected to the Manchus to help the Qing army and conquered the Central Plains for the Qing Dynasty.
Made a great contribution.
But when talking to Hong Chengchou, Li Zhi felt that this man was very friendly. A few words made Li Zhi feel like a spring breeze.
