When Zhou Yanru re-entered the cabinet, Liu Zeqing was interested in him. He calculated Zhou Yanru's journey north from his hometown Yixing, rushed from Linqing to Yangzhou, and reported it to Zhou Yanru's staff. He also specially prepared a large ship.
He invited Zhou Yanru to go north by water and gave Zhou Yanru 20,000 gold.
Therefore, not long after Zhou Yanru entered the capital, Liu Zeqing was re-activated as the Shandong Army General. When the Chuang army attacked Kaifeng for the second time, the Ming court asked Liu Zeqing to lead troops to rescue, but he refused to patrol and collapsed at the first contact. After that, he fled back to Shandong, and the Qing army
When he invaded, he always took the preservation of his troops as his primary goal, and always hunkered down in Dongchang Prefecture, sitting back and watching the fall and massacre of other cities.
Liu Zeqing originally had plans to escape when Li Laiheng occupied Xuzhou. However, because Xuzhou was occupied by the invaders and water transportation was cut off, it was inconvenient for him to flee south to the Jiangzuo area, so he prepared to go to Denglai, collect ships, and use the sea route to float on the sea.
Escape to the south.
However, because the Shandong area was severely damaged by the Qing army and was in dilapidated condition, local officials and gentry were unable to organize regiment training to resist Li Laiheng's large march. Therefore, the speed of the army's advance was completely beyond Liu Zeqing's expectation, so he had to shelve the collection.
The ship's plan to escape south.
Before this, the imperial court had moved Liu Zeqing to Huaiqing to resist the Northern Expedition of Li Zicheng's middle army in Baoding, but Liu Zeqing was certainly not stupid enough to throw himself into a trap. So he used the excuse that he was injured and unable to move, and refused to mobilize any soldiers.
Death.
Chongzhen now had no choice but to deal with these domineering and lawless generals, and he could only let it go as Liu Zeqing was openly deceiving the emperor.
Think about the time when Sun Chuanting was in dire straits and requested to become an official in the name of suffering from ear disease. Emperor Chongzhen did not allow it. He even sent people to investigate whether the ear disease was real. After getting the news that the ear disease was real, Sun Chuanting was
Go to jail with the investigators.
Comparing the treatment received by Sun Chuanting and Liu Zeqing can be said to be the best explanation of the changing times.
After the road to the south was cut off, Liu Zeqing had to reconsider. At this time, Chongzhen sent an envoy to express condolences to Liu Zeqing and rewarded him with forty taels of tattooed silver for healing purposes.
Liu Zeqing claimed that after receiving forty taels of silver reward for treatment, his foot disease had been cured, and he immediately decided to lead his troops northward. Before leaving, Dongchang was burned and robbed. Although the red team obtained Liu Zeqing in time, he fled north.
However, the invading army moved a little slower. When they reached the vicinity of Dongchang Mansion, they could only see the remains of the city that Liu Zeqing had plundered from a distance.
This time it was Chen Yongfu who led the charge again and was the first to enter Liaocheng, the capital of Dongchang Prefecture. Because Liu Zeqing set fire to the city before withdrawing, most of the houses in the city were in ruins and were filled with homeless people inside and outside the city.
refugee.
Chen Yongfu has become very familiar with Li Laiheng's temperament during this period. He knows that Li Laiheng values his reputation as the "Benevolent and Righteous Mr. Li" among the people most. So after entering the city, the first thing he did was to arrange for soldiers to put out fires and clean up the city.
After destroying the ruins, they sent troops to restrain the refugees, and used the remaining wood from the ruins in the city to set up camps outside the city.
After that, Chen Yongfu also allocated part of the military rations and allocated rations according to the headcount statistics during the settlement of the camps. Although the quantity was small, the overall rations could barely guarantee food and clothing.
Most of his various methods were based on the measures taken by the Chuang army to calm the people when they occupied Xuzhou and Suqian, and there were few innovations. However, Li Laiheng followed Hao Yaoqi's troops, and after the second group arrived at Dongchang Mansion, he saw Chen Yongfu learning from
It was so fast that I had to admire the talent of this Ming army general.
It is not an exaggeration to call this man a general of peace.
Considering that after the fire in Dongchang Mansion before Liu Zeqing evacuated, there was nothing left in the city and there was a lack of houses for people to live in. Li Laiheng did not enter the city. He left Chen Yongfu to garrison Dongchang and recruited scribes from the army.
A group of people were transferred, with Xu Shengzu, a student from Xiangyang, as the governor of Dongchang Prefecture, and they were asked to stay in Liaocheng with Chen Yongfu to be responsible for resettling and rescuing refugees.
Li Laiheng himself, accompanied by Secretary Fang Yiren, Marching Sima Gu Junen, Guoyi General Hao Yaoqi, Guoyi General Zhang Pilu, Cavalry Biaowei General Ma Bao, Artillery Biaowei General Li Shiwei and others led a group of people.
A mighty army carried out an armed march in the direction of Jinan Prefecture.
After Liu Zeqing escaped, the Ming Dynasty, except for a Fubiao force with little actual combat strength in the Denglai area, could be said to have no soldiers left in the entire Shandong region.
What's more, Xie Bi, who had long been in contact with the Chuang Army, was also in Jinan City. When the soldiers of the Chuang Army arrived at the gates of Jinan City, the frightened officials and gentry in the city wanted to rely on local children and students to defend and resist. Xie Bi took the opportunity to seek help.
As a leader in organizing city defense, he had already accepted Xie Zheng's persuasion to surrender, and that night he took his servants to open the city gate he was responsible for defending. The pro-army cavalry, which was ready for an assault, immediately came to Zhang Pili's side.
Under the command, they rushed into the city.
The officials and gentry in the city did not expect that the city's defense would change hands so quickly. They were completely unprepared and lost control of Jinan City in the middle of the night. By the time Li Laiheng entered the city at ten o'clock in the morning, Zhang Pili had already cleared away the remaining enemies in the city for several hours.
Because they captured the city overnight, the invaders did not engage in any fierce fighting under Jinan City, so the situation inside the city was much better than that of Dongchang Prefecture.
However, in the past few years, Jinan has been massacred and plundered twice by the Qing army. When the Qing army massacred and plundered Jinan for the first time, Fang Yiren was in the city. At that time, Fang Yiren still managed to escape by pretending to be dead.
Fang Yiren revisited his hometown. The last time he came to Jinan, he was still a student studying abroad. Now that he came to Jinan, things and people had changed. Jinan City was a ruined city that had been massacred and plundered twice by the Eight Banners soldiers, but he had become a subordinate of Li Laiheng, a prince of one side.
's number one plotter.
He looked at the Shandong officials and gentry who were lined up in two rows and kneeling on the edge of the city gate avenue. Many of them looked very familiar to Fang Yiren. They were probably people he had met several times during his study tour.
Bar?
These officials and gentry still don't know how they will be dealt with after the intruders break through the city. Therefore, everyone is uneasy and filled with fear. Those kneeling in the back row are afraid that they will meet the vicious intruders and be dragged out and killed by them.
They all lowered their heads and buried their foreheads in the ground, fearing that no one would see them.
Those kneeling in the front row were even more nervous and scared. Fang Yiren was riding on the horse and could see very clearly. Some people were trembling with their arms and legs trembling all over. Some people had dull eyes and were dumbfounded. They were probably frightened.
They have lost their souls, and some people are even more stinky, with filth between their legs, which can be said to be a gentle sweep.
He suddenly thought of the situation when Xiang Yu gathered the princes after the Battle of Julu. The princes and generals "all kneeled forward and no one dared to look up." This is probably the power of the general!
I now know the power of joining the army in killing and conquering.
Li Laiheng was walking in the middle row, surrounded by pro-military standard cavalry. He looked at the kneeling officials and gentry on the side of the road, snorted lightly, and then whispered to Hao Yaoqi beside him:
"The public trial of the Jinan officials and gentry should be postponed for a while. Jinan is the administrative seat of Shandong, and we must handle it with caution. The braided soldiers that Brother Gu captured on the edge of the Yellow River last time are still in your army, right?"
After the Battle of Dangshan, the Chuang army captured a large number of Eight Banners soldiers. Only a few of them were killed, and their heads were taken and displayed in the capital together with the dead. Most of the prisoners were detained in camps, and almost all of these prisoners participated
After the Qing army massacred and plundered Shandong in a series of wars, both the officials and the gentry of Shandong and the common people of Shandong had a real blood feud.
Therefore, after Li Laiheng occupied Jinan City, the first thing he did was not to put the officials and gentry on trial, but to bring those Eight Banners soldiers who had been imprisoned but not killed or tried in public to Jinan at this time and put them before the Shandong officials.
In front of the gentry, military and civilians, there should be a good trial.
This is Li Laiheng's far-sighted political performance. He wants to declare to the people of all walks of life in Shandong that the Ming Dynasty is no longer capable of sheltering and protecting your personal and property safety.
And Chuang Jun is now the only one who is a more qualified ruler.
These hundreds of prisoners of the Eight Banners were Li Laiheng's first great gift to the people of Shandong. During the public trial, some took revenge and some held injustice. He believed that even the unjust gentry elements who hated and were most hostile to the intruders would
At least now I will give some hatred to Donglu.
Even if the Donglu invaders invade the Pass in large numbers in the future, these officials and gentry will still choose to side with the Qing army, and will choose to be traitors and antagonize the invaders to the end. Li Laiheng still hopes that his current approach can be changed to some extent.
The balance of a dotted scale.
This makes the people of Shandong more likely to choose to side with the invading army in future wars, even just a little bit.
"Waving the flag, I told you before that the public trial in Shandong should be more lenient this time. This has nothing to do with the prisoners of the Qing Dynasty. For those Eastern captives, don't worry about killing too many, search and kill them as soon as possible, and just wipe them out.
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Hao Yaoqi had long been unhappy with Li Laiheng's various restrictions on public trials and plundering since Chuang's army marched into Shandong. Now that he had the opportunity to let go and serve him, he immediately became happy.
smiled and said:
"In the past, outside the border wall in northern Shaanxi, I saw pits and valleys full of Tatars who deserved to be killed but were not killed. Now that these people fall into my hands, they will definitely know my grandfather's tricks."