Peixian County is named after the word "Pei Ze" in ancient times. Peixian County is the hometown and place of prosperity of Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty. It is also the ancestral home of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty. Li Zicheng is also known as "the elder Peishang, the resurrected son of Taiyuan" among the people.
To make a call, this city, which is no longer high in administrative level, had a unique symbolic meaning in this critical period of the late Ming Dynasty.
The word "Pei" in Pei County refers to a place with water and grass in ancient times, which corresponds to its meaning. A long time ago, the ancient Si River flowed here, and there were not only swamps and wetlands, but also large lakes.
The Historical Records "The Benji of Emperor Gaozu" records that Emperor Gaozu led his disciples to revolt in the west swamp of Peifeng, and his mother worked in the fields, "taking a breath of the other side of the great swamp", that is, resting on the shore of the great lake.
It can be seen that Peixian County was a place with abundant water and grass a long time ago. Today, the lake area here is more magnificent than that in the Qin and Han Dynasties, and the scale is several times larger than before.
However, the severe cold climate and hydrological conditions during the dry season have weakened the defense capabilities of swamp lakes.
The strong wind blows and the clouds are flying. The name of Feiyun Bridge comes from the song played by Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, when he returned to his hometown.
The Qing army's offensive was fierce. Almost all of the Han soldiers of the Qing army who fiercely attacked Feiyun Bridge under the supervision of the Manchu Taijun's detachment were considered to be the elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty's frontier army.
In the Ming Dynasty, they had martial arts and extraordinary military talents, but due to various problems such as arrears of pay, vacancies, the use of culture to control military affairs, and the hereditary inheritance of generals, their hands and feet were constrained and they were unable to pursue their goals.
competence.
After the Qing army came, these barbarians with pig tails on their heads were indeed cruel to the common people to a level that even Emperor Chongzhen would never be able to match.
However, for the remaining border troops of the Ming Dynasty, the arrival of the Donglu also meant the reorganization of the order of the border troops.
Dorgon took great measures and gave these Han soldiers enough benefits. Full pay, which is the most important point, and he was also generous in raising flags and promotions.
What's more, there has been a legend among the Qing army that the "remnants of criminals" hid 70 million taels of silver in Kaifeng. This news inspired the fighting spirit and morale of the Qing army's Han soldiers, making their eyes red and looking for thieves.
Being jealous of wealth, he finally launched a full-scale attack on Feiyun Bridge under Nikan's supervision.
Even if we don’t talk about the legendary story of the 70 million taels of silver looted, even if we just talk about what these Han soldiers saw along the way since the Qing army’s southern expedition: the orderly social order in the Dashun-controlled area, and the steaming
The rising vitality convinced them that even if Henan did not have such an astonishing amount of wealth, it should at least have a large amount of grain reserves.
This can be confirmed from the seizures after Dorgon defeated Cizhou, Daming, Puzhou, Yuncheng and other places.
From the Shunjun camp at Feiyun Bridge, like thunder roaring and rocks piercing the sky, a large hail of bullets was fired intensively. The guns and cannons were released together, and the firepower was particularly fierce.
The Qing soldiers and Han soldiers in the front row who attacked the Feiyun Bridge camp suffered the most tragic casualties. In an instant, Nikan made a rough estimate and estimated that the Han soldiers had killed and injured as many as two to three hundred people - at this time, they were far away from the full-scale war in Xuzhou.
It took less than a quarter of an hour for it to erupt.
There is a county seat in Pei County. There are clear records, which are said to have been built in the 22nd year of Jiajing: "It is five miles around, two feet high, one foot eight feet wide, the moat is two feet deep, three feet wide, and there are 1,320 battlements.
One, four gates, each with a tower."
Gu Kecheng gathered troops in Xuzhou and ordered Dashun troops from all over Shandong to guard troops, leaving infantry to defend Azige. After dispatching most of the cavalry south to reinforce Xuzhou, he did not remove the defenses in the north of Xuzhou.
He actively made use of the existing city facilities in Peixian County, north of Xuzhou City. He and Xu Du personally broke the ice, took a boat and ran across the ice for a distance, then rushed to the county seat of Peixian County and actively organized defensive operations.
After Gu Kecheng and Xu Du arrived at Pei County, Gu Kecheng, with his extremely high status as a military general in front of Dashun Palace and Shandong Economic Envoy, personally led the guards to the remaining city on the south bank of Feiyun Bridge to set up defenses.
Xu Du stayed in Peixian County and was responsible for coordinating and organizing the reinforcements from the various armies coming from the east bank of the Grand Canal. By the way, he also met with many local gentry leaders, green forest heroes, poor tenant farmers and leaders of slave revolts in Peixian County.
To appease people's hearts, they stepped up arrangements and organized a group of civilian men to support the front line to participate in the war.
The four prime ministers in the early Western Han Dynasty, Xiao He, Cao Shen, Wang Ling, and Zhou Bo, were all from Pei. Sima Qian's historical records list more than 100 heroes of the Western Han Dynasty, and more than 40 of them came from Pei County.
This city brewed the birth of the Han Empire and was also the place where Zhu Yuanzhang's dragon flourished. Although Peixian was already in decline compared to its glorious period in history, Xu Du still brought out the glorious history of Peixian.
, to call on the local gentry and people to support the Dashun Army’s defensive operations.
"Pei County is the capital of the Tang Dynasty of the Han Dynasty, and also the place where the Hongwu Dragons flew. The emperors of the Han Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, two generations of powerful emperors, started their benevolent and righteous soldiers from here, saving the people from the fire...
...the so-called righteous soldiers are all like Chen Wang, Han Gao, Hongwu and others, who kill the people's thieves internally and resist the barbarians and rapes externally...
Peixian County is the land that the King of Jin personally took over. Everyone in this county knows what King Jin is like...Everyone in this county knows how King Jin's facilities are arranged...
...The Dashun Army has mobilized benevolent and righteous soldiers in the Central Plains, has cut off the Qin and Jin Dynasties, and swept away the dust. It is already in sight. The Rui Chief used the army with no return to escape to kill Peixu. Is there any reason to be invincible?"
Xu Du was familiar with the psychological state of the gentry class in the Ming Dynasty, so when he met with the elders of Peixian County, he emphasized the significance of the Dashun Army for the inheritance of Han Emperor Liu Bang and Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, emphasized the scale and facilities of Li Laiheng's establishment, and set out from there
, compared with the brutality of the Qing army, there is no mention of the "evil laws" in the eyes of the gentry such as the camps of the Dashun army.
When meeting with several armed groups of rebels arriving from the east bank of the Grand Canal, Xu Du shifted his offensive and emphasized the Qing army's massacre of the famous cities, as well as Dorgon's brutal raids on Puzhou, Yuncheng and other counties in southwestern Shandong.
Efforts were made to stimulate the rebels' awareness of the local indigenous people in Shandong Province.
But when it came time to meet with the local poor, tenant farmers and slaves in Pei County who were revolting and armed, he changed his story again.
During the great victory in Liaocheng, Ren Jirong inadvertently started the complete destruction of the Ming Dynasty's base system. After Li Laiheng learned of this situation, he immediately discussed it with Gong Yan, the minister of the Li government, and Chen Kexin, the minister of the criminal government, and determined to completely abolish the Ming Dynasty.
and spread the word widely, immediately extending it to areas already controlled by the Dashun Army and areas not yet controlled by the Dashun Army.
As soon as this news came out, it immediately spread astonishingly.
Not only in the areas controlled by the Dashun Army such as Henan, Huguang and Shandong, the liberated slave armed forces organized themselves. But also in areas where the Dashun Army's front had not yet reached, such as Sichuan, North Zhili, and South Zhili.
, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Lingnan and other places, the ordinary people who received the news started the uprising with particularly amazing enthusiasm.
Xu Du also regarded the slave revolt in Peixu area as a force that could be used. He showed the slaves the decree drafted by the ceremonial government and the criminal government to abolish all old systems of low status as a call to action, and they were quickly available.
There are thousands of people.
Xu Du is not a particularly good general, but he is good at carrying out some valuable social activities. Whether it is building connections, building relationships, or simply relying on words to persuade, Xu Du has a way to win over the gentry, the local bandits, and the poor.
Among completely different classes and groups, the movement produced enough energy that could be useful for the Dashun Army's defensive operations.
"In ten days, tens of thousands of civilians were organized. This can play a small role in the frontline war, right?"
Xu Du joined the Dashun Army not long ago, but his ambitions for his career were not low at all. Dorgon actually used his main force to risk a long march and quickly hit the vicinity of Xuzhou, which was completely beyond the expectations of the Shandong Shun Army generals.
, but in Xu Du's view, Dorgon was trapped in a desperate situation of either victory or death, which also gave himself a great opportunity to obtain immortal achievements.
"Today is the time when Dashun was founded. The King of Jin must employ extraordinary people. How can the gentry and those who are aspiring to an official career miss this opportunity?"
At Xu Du's call, people from all walks of life in Peixian, Fengxian, Dangshan, Xiaoxian and Xuzhou areas were actively and quickly mobilized.