Ma Guanghui, governor of the three provinces of Zhili, Henan and Shandong, looked at the urgent newspaper that had just been sent and was worried.
"What should I do?"
Ma Guanghui looked at everyone in the hall.
Ma Guanghui is a bannerman of the Han Army with the Yellow Banner, and is a servant of the emperor, because the current owner of the two yellow flags is the young emperor Shunzhi. Ma Guanghui was born in the military examination of the Ming Dynasty, and followed his brother Ma Guangyuan to the Qing Dynasty. Now he is the Minister of the Ministry of War and the censor of the right capital.
The governor-general of Shandong and Henan directly controlled the three provinces, and Prince Shaobao was granted the title of third-class Ashanihafan (third-class baron).
Among the traitors, he is actually at the top of the list.
This was mainly because he had a good elder brother. Ma Guangyuan was from Daxing, Shuntian. In the late Ming Dynasty, he served as a general in Jianchang. He led his tribe to conquer the captives in Yongping and was assigned to the Zhenglan Banner. He was awarded the title of first-class viscount, Meile Ezhen.
Because he surrendered early, he made a lot of achievements.
In the first year of Chongde, Wuzhen Chaoha was divided into two wings, Gushan Ezhen Er was set up, Shi Tingzhu governed the left wing, and Ma Guangyuan governed the right wing. Two years later, it was renamed Han Army Two Banners, and then divided into four banners, with Ma Guangyuan as the two
The Han army with yellow flags stood firm in the mountains.
After entering the customs, he begged for leave because of his old illness.
Ma Guanghui first served as the deputy governor of Mount Ezhen in Xianghuangqi, and later served as the official department. During the Battle of Songjin, he performed well in forging cannons and was promoted to the first-class Jia La Zhangjing. He entered the customs and served as the minister of the official department. He once accompanied the army in the southern expedition.
, meritorious service.
After Hong Chengchou became the governor of three provinces and rebelled halfway, most of the Han officials in the Qing court were investigated or even demoted, but there were still a group of Han generals who were not affected, namely the generals of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty who had joined Nurhaci and Huang Taiji as early as possible.
Most of these Han generals who joined the Eight Banners of the Han Army were still trusted and reused by the Qing court.
Ma Guanghui was even awarded the post of governor of the three provinces because his brother was one of the earliest Lianggu Mountains in the Han Army Banner. However, it was not easy for him to be the governor. Before leaving Beijing, Damingfu, the residence of the governor of the three provinces, was discovered.
The army captured.
He had to open a yamen office in Baoding instead.
Although brothers Ma Guangyuan and Ma Guanghui were demoted to the Qing Dynasty as military generals, they actually did not have much military merit. When they were demoted to the Qing Dynasty, their military positions were not high. In the Later Jin Dynasty, they actually spent most of their time as civil servants in the center.
However, for the two uncles who are now regents, the Ma Guangyuan brothers had offended Dorgon before and were suppressed, but now they are re-employed. Moreover, the Ma brothers have been promoted to seniority and their ability to do things in the court is not bad.
But the situation was so precarious that even Ma Guangyuan was helpless.
"Tu Guobao, the puppet governor of Tianjin in the Southern Ming Dynasty, captured Jingxing, captured deer, and leveled the cities in the mountains. Now Ma Guozhu appears and captures Shijiazhuang? Wasn't this Ma Guozhu martyred in Huainan long ago?"
Ma Guozhu was a member of the Zhengbai Banner of the Han Army. He was a native of Liaodong and started his literary career. In the eighth year of Tiancong's reign, the imperial examination was established. He took the exam and passed the examination. Later, he was appreciated by Huang Taiji. After the establishment of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, he was appointed as a director.
After entering the customs, he patrolled Shanxi.
Later he was promoted to Grand Governor, and then transferred to Jiangnan to serve as the Governor of Jiangxi, Henan and Jiangnan provinces. After the Battle of Jiangning, he went to Henan to move reinforcements and disappeared. The Southern Dynasty said he was executed.
Now he suddenly appeared, appeared in Zhengding Mansion, and even led troops to besiege Shijiazhuang Town.
Shijiazhuang Town and Zhengding Fucheng are separated by the Hutuo River.
"If it were Tu Guobao who destroyed Shijiazhuang, the headquarters would not be so surprised, but where did Ma Guozhu come from? Didn't he die for his country long ago?"
Ma Guanghui was puzzled. When the news of Ma Guozhu's death reached Beijing, he was still serving as a minister in the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Later, when he went south to reinforce Huguang, he heard that Ma Guozhu had died for his country.
The imperial court also named him the crown prince and Taibao, so why is he out again now?
"Could it be that Tu Guobao sent someone to fake it in order to shake the morale of the Zhili army?" Lang Tingzuo, bachelor of the Secretariat and governor of Zhili, said.
River Governor Yang Fangxing retorted, "But many people who returned from Zhengding's defeat said they saw Ma Guozhu with their own eyes. Ma Guozhu even tried to persuade them to surrender, but they refused. Ma Guozhu gave them severance pay and let them come back. They all swore that it was definitely
Ma Guozhu is absolutely unmistakable. If one or two people say he is Ma Guozhu, it may be false, but if dozens or hundreds of people say so, how can there be any mistake?"
"But can Ma Guozhu be brought back to life?" Lang Tingzuo asked back. Lang Tingzuo was also a member of the Han army. His family was from Guangning, and his father was a scholar of the Ming Dynasty. After Guangning was defeated, he surrendered to Nurhaci, was awarded defense, and later was awarded the world for military merit.
After his death, his eldest son Tingfu took over the post, and Lang Tingzuo was the second son. He taught the inner court pen post as an official student. He conquered Li Zicheng from Ajigenan, followed Hao Ge to ping Guanzhong, and then followed Yue Leping to Datong Jiang Xiang. Therefore
Promoted to governor.
The Lang family is also a family of old traitors and belongs to one of the powerful families of the Han Army Banner. Several brothers of the Lang family hold important positions.
It was hard for this young governor to believe that Ma Guozhu had come back from the dead. If he had not died, how come he had not heard any news about him for several years, but he suddenly appeared at this time.
The river governor Yang Fangxing did not argue with him. Yang Fangxing, the river governor, was almost executed because of the Yellow River bursting its embankments and changing its course. Fortunately, when it came to appointing people, it spared the old traitor of the Han army flag and allowed him to perform meritorious service. But the court simply did not accept the crime.
There was no money, food or energy to regulate the Yellow River, and there were Ming troops everywhere along the Yellow River in Shandong and Henan, so he could only stay in Baoding to help raise money and food.
Also in the same awkward situation as him was the governor of water transportation, Wang Wenkui. The water transportation was blocked and there was no grain to transport. As a governor, he could only stay in Baoding.
In one Baoding city, there were actually three governors.
As a result, Ma Guanghui, the governor of the three provinces, even lost Daming Mansion, where the governor was based. The Yellow River, which was the river governor, fell into the hands of the Ming army. The governor of water transportation had neither grain nor canals to manage.
The three governors came together, but they couldn't even get the food and salary requested by Prince An Yue Le.
However, there was a fire in the backyard. The governor of Zhengding Prefecture, Ma Guobao, became more and more aggressive in suppressing the fire. Now Ma Guozhu, who had been dead for a long time, appeared again.
If this continues, I don’t know if people like Chen Jin, Zhang Dayou, and Li Shutai will come back to life.
The three governors and one governor were helpless.
Not long ago, Prince An Yue Le led his army southward, but as soon as they arrived in Hejian, the Tianjin general army rebelled and led the Ming army to land from the sea. The regent uncle Jierhalang and the auxiliary king Nikan urgently mobilized the Eight Banners of Beijing.
Rescue Tianjin.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The Eight Banners in Beijing and Tianjin went all out to rescue, and the two sides fought fiercely in Dagu for seven days. Finally, the Ming army evacuated Tianxiong Town from the sea, and the remaining rebels followed suit.
Evacuate.
Although Tianjin was saved in this battle, Daku was burned, the forts, floating cities, and water fortresses were all destroyed, and the stored money, grain, equipment, gunpowder, artillery shells and other losses were incalculable.
Even Yue Le, who was marching south to rescue Shandong, had to travel three hundred miles a day to help.
As a result, the battle to defend Tianjin was won, but Jinan was lost.
Boluo, Tu Lai, a group of princes and generals, plus the Eight Banners soldiers, Bao Yi, slaves, etc., died in the battle and surrendered 8,000. Later, Yang Jie of Jinan Green Camp rebelled and massacred the whole city at night, killing Beizi Bo and Tuo, Admiral Tong Yangjia and Governor Zhang Ruxiu, etc.
Thousands of Manchu family members, old and young, who were stationed in Shandong were massacred.
As for their so-called victory in the defense of Tianjin, they actually killed only a few hundred of the Tomorrow Heroes and more than 3,000 rebels, but many of them were civilians who joined temporarily. The rebel defenders were wiped out only more than a thousand, but they were still defeated.
More than a thousand escaped.
However, the Qing army lost the town of Dagu, the fort, the water fort, the land camp, and a lot of equipment, gunpowder, money and food.
This battle was not as victorious as they advertised.
After news of the rebellion in Tianjin, the defeat of Boluo in Shandong, and the fall of Jinan came, Hebei became even more turbulent. Many Han generals and green camps took the opportunity to rebel, and even many prefects and county magistrates planted the sun and moon flag in the city.
Yue Le had no choice but to start a campaign from Tianjin. There were too many rebels, so he had to massacre and shock them, but it had no effect at all.
Because the Qing army also carried out sea orders in the north and west of Liaoning, moving the coastal people thirty to fifty miles away from the coast. This has led to the fact that the coast is now full of bandit dens. The Ming army can come and go freely, and even support them here.
There were many acts of righteousness and bravery.
The deserted coast was full of reeds. If the rebels could not defeat them, they would retreat to the coast. If the Qing army pursued them in a hurry, they would be ambushed accidentally, and sometimes the main force of the Ming army would even come from the sea.
The famous king of Yue Le's clan has also suffered several losses, and now he cannot be cautious.
In other words, Yue Le is now in the coastal areas of Tianjin and Cangzhou, and he cannot ignore these people, otherwise he will not be able to lead his army south to Shandong with peace of mind, and his retreat will be cut off.
But if you can't suppress it, it will only be a waste of time, money and food.
Yue Le also kept asking him to raise money and food to transport there.
But now the Tu Guobao and other rebels in the Jingxing area of Taihang in the east have begun to gain momentum, and even Ma Guozhu has appeared. They can't sit back and watch.
If Zhengding Fucheng falls, Baoding, the first town in southern Beijing, will be next.
"Do you want King Yuele to lead troops to suppress the Zhengding rebels?" Lang Tingzuo asked.
"The coast of Tianjin has not yet been wiped out, and after the Ming army captured Jinan, it has captured Dezhou, Linqing and other places. Now only Yanzhou is the only city in Shandong that is still holding on. Not to mention whether King Yuele wants to go to Shandong for rescue.
It only means that the army has already been stationed in Dezhou. How far is it from Beijing and Tianjin?
If we don't clear up the area around Beijing and Tianjin as soon as possible, and the Ming army rebels in Tianjin again, then the Ming army from Dezhou will come directly along the canal." It was Ma Guanghui who answered him.
In fact, everyone now knows that Yue Le is no longer able to go south to Shandong. Not only he has no money and food, he does not dare to go south even if he has food.
"What about borrowing troops from Governor Xuanda?"
Governor Xuanda not only governor-generaled Xuanfu, Datong, but also Shanxi. However, the main force of Yue Le's southern expedition army was the Eight Banners who originally attacked Jiang Xiang of Datong.
These tens of thousands of people are still in the Cangzhou area of Tianjin.
"But we have to do something, we can't just sit back and wait for death!" Lang Tingzuo panicked.
Ma Guanghui was also panicked.
Tu national treasures flowed from the Tianjin area to Zhengding Prefecture in the Taihang Mountains. The Qing army did not encircle and suppress them, but they were infiltrating in the Taihang Mountains, and the Qing army could not do anything. When Zhili was encircling and suppressing them, they went to Shanxi, and Shanxi was there.
During the encirclement and suppression, they went to Zhili. The two sides said several times that they would join forces to carry out the encirclement and suppression, but there was no cooperation.
In fact, these Han army bannermen have already discovered that the green camps in Zhili, Shanxi and other places are not reliable at all. But the number of bannermen is limited, and even the Han army banners don't have many by now.
"We have to dispatch a troop of troops to reinforce Zhengding Mansion. Zhengding cannot afford to lose anything."
"Where are the soldiers? Where are the soldiers who can be trusted?"
Nowadays, the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia cannot even trust the Han military flag, and the Han military flag cannot trust the Green Camp, let alone the local regiment training. Everyone is just like guarding against thieves, they are suspicious of each other, and there is no half trust at all.
"The general troops stationed in Dingzhou are on the march. He has thousands of troops under his command. He can be sent to Zhengding for reinforcements." Wang Wenkui said, "He is a Mongolian, so he should be trustworthy."
Yang Fangxing suspected, "Hai Shixing's ancestor was a member of the Yexian tribe. He was captured by Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty during the Tumu Fortress Incident. Later, Yexian sent people to escort him back to Beijing, and then he seized the door and resettled. After Yingzong was restored, he treated the people who sent him back.
The Mongols granted rewards and gave them Han surnames and official positions. Hai Shixing's ancestor was one of them, and he was named a Tartar officer commander and was hereditary.
After all, our ancestor Hai Shixing has been in the Ming Dynasty for over two hundred years, can we still believe it?"
"It should be believed that Hai Shixing was originally stationed in Tianjin, then in Laizhou, and later in Dingzhou. Although it was not too early for this guy to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, the several places he stationed after he surrendered did not have a good reputation.
Some former Ming officials who refused to surrender to our court had their property confiscated by him for the crime of desertion. The generals and commanders under him also followed the example. Everywhere they were stationed, they caused great anger and resentment, and the land was scraped three feet away, even if they were not deserters.
He would find reasons to extort and plunder the wealthy gentry.
Therefore, I feel that although Hai Shixing has been an official in the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, he has already surrendered to our dynasty. Moreover, based on his performance in several places, I know that this person will not surrender to the Southern Dynasty."
There were many Mongolians like Hai Shixing in the Ming Dynasty, and they had even been completely Chineseized long ago. Except for their appearance, which was somewhat Mongolian, their speech and habits were no longer distinguishable from the Han people.
"Hai Shi's conductor is greedy, violent and cruel. If we want him to go to Zhengding to support the defense, we have to give him money."
"Then give it to him. If you want food, you can't give it, but if you want money, you can still get some money." Lang Tingzuo was decisive.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Several people discussed it and finally decided that they could not count on Yue Le of Tianjin and Jin Li, the governor of Xuanda, nor could they count on Zhuoluo, the deputy capital of Taiyuan, or Baoding.
Wu Rujie, the deputy commander of the capital, was also a bannerman of the Han army. He did not command many bannermen, so he could not leave Taiyuan and Baoding lightly.
Of course, these three governors were also unwilling to go south, and they did not have many soldiers under their command.
"Sent Xu Dayong, who was assigned to guard Daotai, to carry 10,000 taels of silver to Dingzhou, distribute silver to reward the army, and ordered Hai Shixing to lead the army to assist in the suppression of Zhengding Prefecture."
Ma Guanghui, the governor of the three provinces, wanted to send Governor Lang Tingzuo to Dingzhou to mobilize troops in person, and then go to Zhengding to take charge of the overall situation. But Lang Tingzuo spoke first and proposed to go to Hejian Prefecture to raise money and food, organize team training, and strengthen prevention.
It was clear that he was unwilling to go to Zhengding to wade into the muddy waters. Ma Guanghui thought that the Lang family was also very powerful in the Eight Banners of the Han Army, so he had to give up the idea. Although Xu Dayong was lower in rank, he had to let him go at this time.
went.
Yang Fangxing and Wang Wenkui were both governors, and he could not command them.
When Xu Dayong was summoned to receive the order, he was shocked and refused in every possible way, but Ma Guanghui directly pressured him and threatened to jail him if he didn't go. In the end, he had no choice but to agree and leave the city on the same day as he was urged.
He collected the silver from the treasury and took the governor's note to collect ten thousand taels. In the end, he received only nine thousand taels. Xu Dayong was not surprised and silently signed and signed the money and left.
After leaving the city gate, he asked his servants to take one thousand taels of silver back to his hometown.
When he arrived at Dingzhou City, he first went to see the prefect and others, and then called Hai Shixing and handed him the money.
Hai Shixing was bearded and vulgar, but after all, his family had been in the Ming Dynasty for more than two hundred years, so he knew all the rules. After receiving eight thousand taels of silver, he directly used one thousand taels to honor the superiors.
He took seven thousand taels of silver and went back, and ordered the troops to assemble at the camp.
"There are five thousand taels of silver here. You keep two thousand taels. The remaining three thousand taels are divided among the three thousand brothers. Each of them will be rewarded with one tael."
The Chinese guerrilla was also a bearded Mongolian, and he responded with a smile, "Damn it, the court asked us to hunt for the national treasure, Ma Guozhu, and just give us this little money, it will help us a lot, why should we work for him?"
Hai Shixing nodded, "We usually do business with Yang Guohai and the others. Let's inform him quickly. Don't say we are not friends enough."
"Sir, why don't we just do the opposite? I think these Tatars are at the end of their rope. There is no need for us to accompany them to the burial."
Hai Shixing just smiled.
"Then tell me, should we surrender to Dingzhou Prefecture anyway, or should we surrender to Zhengding Prefecture anyway?"
"I think it's better for us to do it here. This is our territory, and we are familiar with it after all. If we go to Zhengding to do it, someone who is not familiar with this place will be afraid of making mistakes."
"Well, then, let's not give out the three thousand taels of silver now."
