In the newly built fortress in Laizhou, Liu Chao, the eunuch and eunuch in charge of rituals, gently awakened Zhu Yihai.
"Your Majesty, emergency report from Southwest."
Zhu Yihai sat up with red eyes, "Failed? Wu Sangui entered Sichuan?"
Liu Chao looked worried, "It was King Guangen of Yunyang who rebelled and surrendered."
"?" Zhu Yihai was full of doubts. Although Wang Guangen was from the peasant army, after returning to the Ming Dynasty, he defended the city in Yunyang for many years and defeated the peasant army several times. Before that, he pretended to surrender to the Tatars, killed a Yunyang governor of the Qing Dynasty, and seized the
It can be said that the two cities of Xiangfan and Xiangfan suffered heavy losses to the Tatars.
Even not long ago, Xu Qiyuan, the governor of Yunyang, reported to the emperor that the admiral Wang Guangen sent troops to pretend to attack Xiangfan, and led the Tatars Sun Dingliao, the admiral of Huguang, to send troops for reinforcements. Then Wang Guangen led his troops out of Yunyang, captured Xichuan County of Nanyang Prefecture, and then attacked Xiqiao.
This is an important town that the Wuguan Road from Xiangyang to Guanzhong must pass through.
After Sun Dingliao heard the news, he quickly sent troops from Xiangyang and joined the general troops of Nanyang, Henan Province to go to the rescue.
Wang Guangen waited for Sun Dingliao to arrive, then withdrew and returned to his division. Sun Dingliao pursued him. Wang Guangen faked defeat and lured the enemy deeper, and finally ambushed him at Anyangkou in the north of Xunyang.
Sun Ding's Liao army was defeated in an ambush and retreated to the bend of the river. Wang Guangen led the soldiers and horses of the Zhongkai Town battalions who had been ambushing here for a long time, and pursued them fiercely.
Sun Dingliao was shot by Wang Guangen's bow and arrow, fell off his horse, and rolled into the river. As a result, Sun Dingliao, who could not swim, drowned and died, and the Qing army was defeated.
Wang Guangen even led a large-scale counterattack and then besieged Xiangfan. The main force of the Qing army was completely defeated. There was insufficient defense and was surrounded by Wang Guangen's army. Using the technique of hole attack and blasting, the newly repaired Xiangyang city wall collapsed again. Zhongkai's army entered
, Xiangyang fell again.
When the few remaining Qing troops in Fancheng in the north of the Yangtze River saw this, they were so frightened that they abandoned the city and fled to Nanyang.
In this battle, they annihilated Sun Dingliao, the Tatar admiral of Huguang, routed thousands of his troops, beheaded more than a thousand, broke through the important town of Xiangyang, and captured Fancheng. It was a very fruitful battle.
Therefore, the emperor specially issued an order to confer the title of Marquis Wang Guangen as the Duke of Xiangguo.
This sealing decree is probably still on the way, so why did Wang Guangen go against it?
"what happened?"
Zhu Yihai rubbed his head to wake himself up and said, "Pour me a cup of tea."
Liu Chao quickly asked someone to get hot water to make tea.
Hot water pours into the teapot, the dragon well inside the pot rolls, and the aroma of tea overflows.
Zhu Yihai took the tea and sat there without saying a word.
Liu Chao reported the emergency report he received.
The incident happened suddenly, and the urgent report was sent by Zhu Dadian, the governor of Huguang. There were not many details, but it was clearly reported that Wang Guangen had rebelled.
Not only Wang Guangen, the admiral of Yunyang, rebelled, but Xu Qiyuan, the governor of Yunyang, also rebelled. It is now known that in Zhongkai Town, only deputy general Wang Bin guarded Fang County and staff general Chen Jiao guarded Zhushan and did not rebel.
In addition, Wang Guangen's brother Wang Guangtai had previously entered Guanzhong to fight, but was now in Zhongnan Mountain and did not participate.
Others seemed to have followed Wang Guangen in his rebellion.
Now Wang Guangen is sitting in Xiangyang. The Qing court granted him the title of King of Yunyang, granted him the title of Yongzhen, and was appointed as the admiral of Huguang. He was awarded a bid of 5,000 troops. His younger brother Wang Chang succeeded Wang Guangen as the former Marquis of Xiangyang.
Xu Qiyuan remained as governor with a commission of three thousand.
Jiang Chongwu and Wu Shiying were stationed in Yunxi and Junzhou, and General Luo Yineng was stationed in Gucheng.
Gao Shiqing, Cui Shineng and others were all promoted to guerrillas.
Wang Guangen's younger brother Wang Chang was granted the title of general town of Yunyang, with a town mark of three thousand, and was stationed in Yunyang.
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"What Zhu Dadian means is that the Tartars gave Wang Guangen the title of king and promised him to control Yunyang for the rest of his life, and then he rebelled?"
Liu Chao didn't know how to answer.
"Isn't there any sign of this?" Zhu Yihai took a sip of tea, put it down, and couldn't help but lose his temper, "Wang Guangen just killed the Tatar Admiral Huguang and captured the two cities of Xiangfan and defeated the Tatars. This seems to have been planned for a long time.
Is it the opposite? Why is it that now that you have made great achievements, you suddenly become the opposite?"
"There has to be a reason, right?"
Liu Chao could not answer.
"Go and check quickly!"
"Your Majesty, how should we deal with Yunyang?"
Zhu Yihai was deep in thought while holding the tea cup.
The situation in Sichuan had just been sorted out, but Yunyang turned against him. This was really unexpected.
You know, even when the two capitals fell, Yunyang still held on and fought with the Chuang army for several years without retreating. When the Qing army went south, Wu Sangui personally went to recruit them, but they did not surrender.
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But now, the situation is improving, but they have surrendered, even after a great victory. This is unreasonable.
Not only did Wang Guangen surrender, but also Xu Qiyuan, a Fu minister, surrendered.
He couldn't understand.
After Liu Chao withdrew, Zhu Yihai sat there, holding a tea cup, but he couldn't fall asleep anymore. It was still midnight, and Zhu Yihai sat there in a daze.
Looking back on this journey, it was indeed not easy.
However, he has already embarked on the high road here, but many places are still very difficult, such as Yunyang. Huguang fell into the hands of the invaders before. They supported it alone for several years. They finally waited until Huguang recovered and got some relief, but soon Wuchang
The army was defeated and Yunyang was left alone again.
Fortunately, the Zhongzhen Battalion established a foothold in Badong, which also gave them a flank support.
However, as the Qing army collapsed in Xi'an and Hanzhong Ma Ke surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, the situation in Yunyang also became worse. Hanzhong in the upper reaches, Nanyang in the north, Xiangyang in the lower reaches, and Jingzhou in the south were all controlled by the Qing army, with only the southwest
The Badong Mountain area is still occupied by the Ming army, but this side is full of steep and steep mountains, making it difficult to communicate.
Yunyang has always been fighting alone.
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But they were able to persevere before, why can’t they persevere now?
Zhu Yihai has been thinking about the key here.
Daybreak.
Liu Chao came back. The emperor's eyes were red and he was still sitting there thinking hard.
"Your Majesty!"
"Did you find out clearly?"
"There are a few more urgent reports, from Zhu Dadian and Wen Anzhi. In addition, some news has arrived from Dongchang, Jinyiwei, the editorial office, the Detective Department and other departments. When they are gathered together, it becomes clearer."
"Let's be honest, why did you rebel?"
Liu Chao hesitated, "Judging from the current situation, it seems that Wu Sangui used a plan to sow discord."
"What kind of alienation plan can be so powerful?"
It's a long story, but it's not very complicated.
The rebellion of Wang Guangen brothers had both external and internal reasons. The external reason was that the situation in Yunyang became more dangerous. After two major defeats in Wuchang and Xi'an, Yunyang was once again fighting alone, and Wang Guangen's brother Wang Guangtai left the border.
In the middle, they were also defeated and collapsed into the Zhongnan Mountains.
After Hanzhong Ma Ke surrendered, Yunyang was almost surrounded from all sides.
Not only that, Yunyang was facing a serious famine. Although they also engaged in reclamation and farming, they were unable to support themselves. Although the Qing army failed to break through Yunyang, they were surrounded on all sides, but they kept pressing forward step by step, sending troops to raid from time to time, and other
Materials were blocked and the situation in Yunyang was very bad.
Wu Sangui, Hao Ge and other main forces of the Qing army went south to Hanzhong and Xi'an, which intensified the crisis in Yunyang.
In addition, there are internal reasons.
That is, Wang Guangen has been fighting for the Ming Dynasty since he was recruited by Gao Dou Shu, but there is one thing that cannot touch him, and that is his soldiers. Soldiers are his lifeblood.
The three brothers guarded Yunyang for many years for the Ming Dynasty, but there were only a few thousand soldiers left. After the establishment of Zhongkai Town, Wang Guangen brothers expanded their troops aggressively. Zhongkai Town once expanded to 50,000 troops.
However, after Wen Anzhi left Yunyang and went to Pianyuan, especially after the Sanzhong rebellion, the imperial court was extremely dissatisfied with the chaotic expansion of local military leaders and demanded reorganization, downsizing, etc., as well as real training and real pay.
The reorganization order of Zhongkai Town was also issued to Yunyang early, requiring Zhongkai Town to be divided into one lifting bid and one Fu bid, with a lifting bid of three thousand and a Fu bid of one thousand and five. Next, two associate camps and one tour camp will be set up, with a total of six reservations.
The remaining troops are to be organized into rural regiments and garrison troops.
Wang Guangen was extremely dissatisfied with this reorganization order.
It was originally expanded to 50,000 troops, but now it needs to be changed to 6,000. This will basically return to the situation before the establishment of the Zhongkai Army in Yunyang Town, and no one wants it.
In times of trouble, having soldiers gives you power.
Especially for the Wang Guangen brothers who were born in the peasant army, they were increasingly unwilling to give up their military power.
Marquis and admiral, these are all fictitious in their view. What is really real is military power and territory. Wang Guangen has been bargaining with the court and is unwilling to reorganize.
This matter has been delayed.
Then Wen Anzhi completed the reorganization in Sichuan. Although there was a mutiny, it was still completed. Ma Gan, Zeng Ying and other governors, admirals and other military leaders were kicked out of Sichuan and sent to Nanjing.
This incident shocked Wang Guangen greatly.
He seemed to have seen his own end.
Then it happened that Wu Sangui kept coming to recruit him to surrender.
Wu Sangui's envoy made good use of the dramatic changes that had just occurred in Sichuan to provoke and persuade Wang Guangen, saying that the emperor of tomorrow has always been like this, and Zhongwu and other three loyalists were like this before.
When he was weak, he immediately and mercilessly declared him a traitor, sent out troops to attack, leaving no room for any chance, pursued Chaos Xuan, Zhang Xianbi and others to the end, and finally killed them all.
The Sichuan generals worked even harder for the Ming Dynasty. As a result, the situation in central Sichuan improved a little and they were immediately arrested and sent to Nanjing, where they would surely die.
Then he used the Qing court's recruitment and surrender conditions to lure Wang Guangen, such as making him a king, Yongzhen, etc. These all moved Wang Guangen very much.
According to the conditions of the Qing court, Wang Guangen was granted the title of king, and his two brothers were both granted the title of admiral-general, with each commanding thousands of pacesetters. Then, their generals were also granted the title of deputy general, general of staff, guerrilla, etc., each with actual duties.
, and retain the headquarters, etc.
These conditions really impressed Wang Guangen.
What's more, the conditions in Yunyang are now harsh, the famine is serious, and the Qing army is pressing hard. Even though they just won a battle, the situation has not improved much and they are still surrounded from all sides.
In the end, Wu Sangui and Wang Guangen met secretly in Xing'an and reached an agreement on surrender terms.
Change the banner.
Governor Xu Qiyuan was originally unwilling to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, but Wang Guangen and his generals wanted to surrender, so they had no choice but to be coerced into surrendering. Among the Yunyang generals, only Wang Bin, Chen Jiao and Liu Erhu did not surrender.
In addition, Wang Guangtai and Li Shiying are still trapped in Zhongnan Mountain without knowing it.
It was not just Wang Guangen who was against it, but almost the entire Zhongkaizhen.
The reason why they rebelled against the Ming Dynasty and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty was simply because they were surrounded by Qing troops from all sides and fought alone. They also suffered from famine and lack of food. Internally, there were strict orders from the imperial court to rectify the army. These generals who were surrendered by the peasant army refused to give up.
With the military power in his hands, he finally rebelled against the Ming Dynasty and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty under the temptation of the Qing court to grant him the title of king or duke.
After understanding this, Zhu Yihai felt somewhat relieved.
From the rebellion of Sanzhong in Huguang, to the previous rebellion of Sichuan military chiefs such as Wang Xiang and Zeng Ying, to the current rebellion in Zhongkai Town of Yunyang, they are all the result of the military chiefs who respected their troops and refused to hand over power in troubled times.
"Let Li Chixin and Gao Bizheng of Zhongyi Town send troops into Zhushan, Fangxian, Zhuxi, Pingli, Xing'an and other places to protect the mountainous area south of the Han River in Yunyang, west of Jingshan and north of the Three Gorges, and stabilize it
Stay in control of the situation.”
Zhu Yihai took the map, looked at it for a while and then issued an order.
"Where's Yunyang?"
"Let's stabilize these places first. Don't worry about Yunyang and Xiangyang for now."
Controlling these places can first block the communication between Hanzhong and Yunyang, and at the same time ensure the communication between Kuidong, Yunnan, and Jingxi, and maintain the Three Gorges area.
