The Ming army started provoking the Mongols from Zhangjiakou and Chengde, and finally fought all the way to the city of Shengjing. There were also some literary dramas in the diplomatic declaration link (that is, it was declared that the Manchus and Qing Dynasties were also involved in Mongolia's previous violation of the Ming embargo with the Xuanda traitor merchants.
It was for this direct reason that the Ming Dynasty attacked Jinzhou immediately after capturing Tongliao). All these actions taken together took a total of two or three months.
Of course, the imperial court in Nanjing had enough time to react, so since the siege of Jinzhou began, Zhu Shuren himself had gone north to Beijing to personally take charge of the overall situation.
Jinzhou city was broken, Guangning and Haizhou were taken one after another, and Shengjing was besieged before taking Haizhou. Zhu Shuren knew every step of this step immediately.
On the Liaoxi Corridor, six hundred miles of urgent couriers will travel back and forth every few days to bring the latest developments on the front line back to Beijing.
Now, knowing that Hauge actually chose to escape, taking half of the main force of the Qing army to the east, bypassing the Liao River Basin and retreating to Ninggu Pagoda, Zhu Shuren immediately realized what Hauge was thinking:
"Does this guy want to be Wu Sangui himself and let his younger brother Shunzhi be Chongzhen? Let the 'first emperor' die for the country, and then he can start a new career in Ninggu Pagoda? Can he directly ascend the throne and become the emperor of the Qing Dynasty without having to bear the name of regicide?
I got the highest political benefit, and also saved a considerable part of the main force of the Qing Dynasty. What a calculation."
After all, Shengjing was the capital established during the Nuerhaci period, and was the foundation of the Puppet Qing Dynasty and even the Later Jin regime. The Qing government did not have to sacrifice an emperor to abandon Beijing. Anyway, Beijing was not left to them by their ancestors.
I just shot it down, so I don't feel bad if I can't hold it.
But surrendering to Shengjing without a fight would definitely be a disgrace to his ancestors, Nuerhachi and Huang Taiji. Everyone in the world would poke his spine and scold him for betraying his father's land and not feeling sorry for him.
One emperor died as a sacrifice, and the others turned their grief and anger into strength, carrying on the legacy of the late emperor and continuing to resist. At least there was an explanation.
At this moment, Zhu Shuren even understood why Chongzhen did not dare to run away without anyone to take the blame for him.
After figuring out Hauge's motives and Shunzhi's situation, Zhu Shuren couldn't help but discuss with his staff and generals how to deal with this situation.
Because all the generals and famous generals were sent out for actual combat, there were not many generals left in Beijing. Cao Bianjiao was seriously injured in the Huang war in the past few years and was somewhat disabled. Now he rarely leads troops in person, so he stayed in the city. Zhu Shuren
Just invite him.
After clarifying the situation, civilian staff Gu Yanwu was the first to answer: "Your Majesty, since Hauge is betraying the king for survival, if we let him escape to Ninggu Pagoda and continue to consume the Ming Dynasty for a long time, I am afraid it will be protracted.
Shengjing is easy to get this time, but because the Liao River leads to the Bohai Sea, and the sea power of the Bohai Sea has been controlled by the Ming Dynasty for many years. Although Shengjing cannot be said to be close to the Liao River, the city is not far from the Liao River. Our imperial army marches into Liaodong
, the logistics supplies can keep up smoothly.
However, if the Qing army retreats to Jilin in the future, the Song and Nen river systems are blocked from the Huang and Bo rivers, and it will be extremely difficult to supply the food and grass needed for the pursuit of the army. The Qing army will hide in Tibet and it will be difficult to search for a long time.
From this point of view, it is better to send envoys to try to persuade the pseudo-emperor Shunzhi to surrender, and let him know the advantages and disadvantages, letting him know that the court will not kill him, and that he is still valuable, and use him to break the resistance of Hauge's subordinates. If he is willing to surrender, there is no need to worry
The Manchus cannot be completely conquered, and there is no need to search and kill them slowly through white mountains and black waters."
Upon hearing this, Zhu Shuren was not in a hurry to draw a conclusion, but smiled and said nothing, looking at Cao Bianjiao, who was the representative of the generals.
Cao Bianjiao knew his soldiers, but he hadn't read many other history books. He scratched his head and said, "Your Majesty, what Mr. Gu said may be reasonable, but by capturing a weak young man with no prestige, the false emperor wants to restrict Hauge in the future.
, the general also thought it was impossible.
To put it bluntly, when Yingzong was captured by Wala, he went to the border gate to call for the door, but the generals at the border gate did not listen to him. After Yu Shaobao supported the new king, he... In short, as long as Shunzhi surrenders today, even if he is still alive,
Hauge is also eager for this, he will definitely stand on his own feet immediately!"
Zhu Shuren then commented: "It's right to be lenient when you anticipate the enemy. Brother Tinglin, don't oversimplify the problem in this regard."
Gu Yanwu quickly said that he had been taught: "It's because of the pedantry of humble position. The humble position is just thinking that when Qin Shihuang destroyed Zhao and conquered Handan, he gave Zhao Wangqian preferential treatment in order to prevent Zhao's followers from supporting Zhao Qian's brother Zhao Jia and continuing to fight against Qin.
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Although Zhao Jia was still supported later, because Zhao Qian was not dead, Zhao Jia could only be called the acting king but not the king of Zhao. After all, his appeal fell short, and he was still destroyed by Qin six years later.
In the time of Yingzong, although Oala's invasion of the north did not endanger the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, it was more because Oala and our Ming Dynasty were far different in strength and weakness. But now, between our Ming Dynasty and Jiannu, we are attacking the strong and defending the weak.
The gap in strength is far greater than that of Qin Dynasty. A weak country may not be able to overturn the king of a strong country, but a strong country can easily have miraculous results if it takes the king of a weak country."
After listening to Gu Yanwu's analysis, Cao Bianjiao also shut up for a while. Finally, he thought of another angle of rebuttal and couldn't help but say:
"Even if what Mr. Gu said is feasible, it only means that the Ming Dynasty should make an emergency landing in Shunzhi, the puppet emperor, and cannot kill him. But even if he has to make an emergency landing, he can also make an emergency landing after breaking the city. What can we do to send envoys to negotiate?
Our Ming Dynasty now has strong ships and powerful artillery, and attacking a city is like searching for something. As long as we can fight in the field to annihilate the enemy, it doesn't matter if there is one more city wall or one less city wall. Therefore, Sun Tzu's saying of "encircle it ten times, attack it five times" has become invalid.
With a large number of Hongyi heavy artillery, two or three times the number of troops can storm the fortified city!
In this case, there is no need to worry about "killing one-third of the soldiers and not being able to enter the city". The soldiers have served the imperial court and fought to the death for ten years in order to achieve the final victory.
Now Shengjing is right in front of us, and the city is hoarded with wealth obtained by decades of looting and extortion caused by the dog Tatars during the Ming Dynasty! If we open the city without blood, how can we not seal it for three days and take away the things that the Tatars have robbed for decades?
Take it back? Do you still have to admit their stolen goods? Let me tell you, go to the city and finally ask not to kill Shunzhi, but to capture the prisoners alive instead."
Zhu Shuren's eyes lit up, and he felt that a reckless man like Cao Bianjiao was rarely more reliable than a prudent man like Gu Yanwu.
Indeed, just because Huairou was forced to surrender to Shunzhi does not mean that the city cannot be attacked. There is too much wealth accumulated in Shengjing City, which is different from the past. It is even richer than the city of Beijing that the Qing army abandoned.
The Qing army retreated from Beijing in an organized manner and moved away all the valuables and supplies. This time, Shengjing did not have time to rush for supplies, nor did it give up in an organized manner, so it was directly surrounded.
What else do you have to hesitate about?
Of course, it is impossible for Hauge to be completely unprepared. During the farming truce in the past few years, the senior officials of the Qing court must have considered the issue of "the possibility that Shengjing may not be safe in the future" and may have transferred part of the treasury to Jilin Ning in advance.
Ancient pagoda.
However, it is impossible to transfer private wealth in advance on a large scale, especially the "Ten King's Pavilions" that the Manchus left in Shengjing, and the private property of so many royal palaces granted since Nuerhachi.
If you don’t kill Shunzhi, you should also kill the dignitaries who live in the Ten Kings Pavilion! Just keep one Shunzhi (it’s not that you won’t kill him forever, but just keep him for a few years, and you can’t kill him before Hauge dies)
Shunzhi himself is a puppet and does not know how to fight. He may not have much blood on his hands, so he can put it aside for the time being.
But which of the Manchu princes and princes who lived in the Ten Kings Pavilion were not generals leading troops? How many Han people’s blood debts were on their hands? It is only right that these people be exterminated!
"I hesitated, so there is nothing to say. Let Li Dingguo and Wu Sangui attack the city with all their strength! After the city is broken, you are not allowed to kill the pseudo-emperor, and you are not allowed to invade the inner palace, but the rest of the city is full, and the inner city can not be sealed for three days!
The outer city where the Han people live is not allowed to kill at will. When the time comes, the inside and outside must be sealed off! We must also be careful of the inner city full of people escaping to the outer city and blending in with the Han people and pretending to escape!
Therefore, it is best to attack the outer city first, and then attack the inner city. The time between the two attacks should be slightly spread out. Even if you have the strength to attack the inner city immediately after you attack the outer city, you are not allowed to attack it right away, as you will not give a chance to fish in troubled waters!"
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Zhu Shuren's order was quickly delivered to Shengjing's army within three or four days.
During this period, Li Dingguo and Wu Sangui mainly prepared firepower for the outer city. During this period of time, several parts of the outer city wall had already been blasted.
After confirming the prince's request, Li Dingguo quickly came to his senses and understood the prince's true and deep thoughts, so he resolutely implemented it.
After five or six days of bloody fighting and killing thousands of Qing soldiers, the Ming army broke through the south gate of the outer city of Shengjing on the evening of the ninth day of November.
The troops of the Ming Dynasty poured into the outer city and searched and killed each other. Because the sky was too dark, they could not take advantage of the situation to continuously attack the inner city, leaving the Qing army half the night to escape and shrink.
At dawn the next day, the remnants of the Qing army in the outer city were naturally searched and killed by the Ming army. The Ming army then took the time to demolish some residential areas, brought in siege artillery, and set up positions inside the outer city and outside the inner wall, digging holes.
Digging trenches for bombardment.
When the war reached this point, Shunzhi actually felt extremely guilty and even tried to send an envoy to negotiate with the Ming army.
But the outer city was destroyed and there was only one inner city left. How could the Ming army talk to him? Li Dingguo had already ordered him to go down and be more careful when patrolling at night. If he saw the Tatars, he would shoot them without thinking about taking prisoners alive.
Therefore, no one of the two groups of people sent by Shunzhi had a chance to speak.
Together with his brother-in-law Tong Guogang, he also sneaked out of the inner city under the protection of the guards and wanted to approach the Ming army camp to negotiate with Li Dingguo under a white flag. As a result, he was randomly shot to death by Ming army sentries on the way.
Even if Tong Guogang has Kan Ze's eloquence, how can he still be a fool if he can't even meet Cao Cao?
On the fourth day after the outer city was captured, the inner city of Shengjing was also captured.
One hundred thousand warriors of the Ming army, who looked like wolves and tigers, swarmed in. The number of Ming army soldiers was greater than the population of the Manchus in the inner city, and they were simply crushed.
The civilians in the city were furious when they saw the Ming army killing them, and they also picked up hatchets, hunting knives and bows to resist.
The Manchus generally had a living custom of fishing, hunting, woodworking, and wood-gathering, so what they always kept at home were not farm tools, but hunting tools. When they mobilized civilians to resist and join the war, their combat effectiveness was indeed stronger than that of the Han civilians in the Central Plains.
The Han civilians were forced to resist, and most of them could only use hoes. At least they could use hunting bows to fight against the cuirass riflemen.
Upon seeing this, the Ming army also used shotguns one after another. Because the Manchu temporary resisters on the opposite side were all unarmored, it was too wasteful to use single-pointed bullets with low hit rate and huge lethality. It was better to use shotguns, which had a sufficient number of projectiles.
The increase is tenfold, but the ability to break armor is given up, and it is just enough to kill unarmored soldiers.
Some officers in the army who had followed Zhu Shuren for more than ten years couldn't help but feel a little dazed when they saw this scene before them, recalling the past - only when Zhu Shuren first led the troops, could they deal with the rotten troops like the Gezuo Fifth Battalion?
Use shotgun shells to bully the opponent's lack of armor. Later, when facing Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, the enemy's old camp's armor rate increased, and shotgun shells were restricted.
Unexpectedly, after more than ten years of fighting, the final battle turned out to be a return to nature. The Manchus who took up arms temporarily were also unarmored.
But regardless of whether you have armor or not, whether you are male or female, old or young, as long as you take up arms, you are the enemy of the Ming Dynasty.
After two days of brutal street fighting, most of the tens of thousands of people in the inner city of Shengjing died.
Li Dingguo personally led his troops into Chongzheng Palace, sealed the palace, killed all the eunuchs, and captured Shunzhi and his entourage.
There were piles of firewood in several places in the Chongzheng Hall. It seems that Shunzhi had the idea of setting fire to commit suicide before destroying the city, but in the end he was afraid of death and did not dare to do it. Until Li Dingguo came to kill him, he still made a torch and stood on the firewood pile.
inside.
Li Dingguo held a sword and surrounded the soldiers, shouting for the other party to abandon their weapons. He also said that as long as he surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, he would be spared, and his concubines and children could be spared. If he dared to commit suicide, his wife, children and other relatives would also be killed.
Kill them all together.
Shunzhi thought that if it fell into the hands of the Ming army, it would be a hundred times worse than being burned to death because Tong Guogang and other envoys sent to negotiate were dead and failed to bring back the negotiation conditions.
Now I heard that immortality is possible. A sixteen-year-old boy, who has no integrity and has never seen blood, was captured as soon as he hesitated.
After all this was done, Li Dingguo breathed a sigh of relief and asked people to seal up the property and treasures of Chongzheng Hall. When the time comes, they will have to be transported back to Beijing and handed over to Prince E for disposal.
In comparison, the jobs Wu Sangui got were less famous than Li Dingguo, but more affordable.
The main reason is that Wu Sangui did let the Qing soldiers enter the pass after all. This stain will always exist, so the final storming of Shengjing may not allow him to enter the palace and capture the pseudo-emperor. Before the battle, Zhu Shuren had ordered restraint, and Wu Sangui knew it in his heart.
Therefore, after Wu Sangui entered the inner city, he just went to the Ten King Pavilion and other places, massacred the Manchu princes, the princes and their families who had stayed in Shengjing, and looted all the property and treasures of the Ten King Pavilion.
For this part of things, you can get some labor or share some privately, but you still have to take out the bulk and pay homage to it, so you can't keep it all to yourself.
Because this battle is a must-win battle, giving you the opportunity to fight and assigning it to a good job is the trust of the leader, and you need to reciprocate the favor.
Zhu Shuren asked the confidant who sent him the military order to bring him a password. It was not written in words. The general idea was that Wu Sangui must kill people before Shunzhi surrenders. In this way, it would be considered as "the opponent led troops to resist and was killed during the war."
Those who died in battle were not killed by the Ming Dynasty after they surrendered.
This is not because the Ming Dynasty did not want to give these criminals a fair trial and standard punishments, such as being sentenced to death or being cut in half, so as to calm the anger of the people in the world.
But since we still want to use the banner of Shunzhi to attack the Hauges who fled to the Songnen Plain and elsewhere to fight guerrillas, we should try our best to downplay the issues of trial and surrender, and kill them on the battlefield, then no one will have anything to say.
Wu Sangui knew very well the strategy explained by Prince E, and also knew that it would be difficult for these people to survive until the battle subsided, so he was happy to do this kind of work. Anyway, he could also grab a piece of it, and these gold, silver and jewelry were considered as labor expenses.
Two Manchu princes, three or four county princes, and a bunch of family members of princes who were not in Shengjing were all packed up and fell under Wu Sangui's butcher's knife.
If Shunzhi asked afterward, it would be Wu Sangui who killed him on the battlefield. The Ming Dynasty treated the prisoners preferentially, so they could surrender with confidence.
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PS: After all, I have written about the capture of Shengjing, and the Manchu and Qing Dynasty sections are almost finished, so let’s leave it at that.
I'm taking a day off tomorrow. I need to entertain some relatives——
These old 6 guys have learned a lesson. They know that Hangzhou is very crowded on May Day, so they actually chose their workplace to apply for duty on May Day instead of joining in the fun, and then they took time off to stagger with the mainstream holiday crowd, and didn’t come to Hangzhou until after May Day...
In addition, some book friends have been asking about the new book recently. All I can say is that I have ordered a new book to write about the Three Kingdoms, but the specific outline and beginning have not been reviewed yet. I will submit it for review this week and then take a look (it was submitted for review last month).
Several outlines and beginnings of other era settings were proposed, but they were all rejected.)
I hope everyone understands that the main thing I signed with the website is a long-term contract with a basic recommendation position (some great masters have guaranteed long-term contracts, but mine does not include a guarantee. If the writing is bad, you will lose money. The meaning of my long-term contract is just to ensure new books.
In the future, small recommended positions below Sanjiang can go to three or four rounds. The treatment is worse than the guaranteed long-term contract, and the restrictions are less than the guaranteed long-term contract, but you still have to obey the website's instructions.
If it is a temporary appointment with one book and one signature, only one trial promotion is guaranteed. The subsequent follow-up will depend on the number of followers and compete with other books in the same period. If the number of followers is small, there may be "popular serialization/category new books" in the previous week.
If you push it, you will be killed forever, and there will never be a day when you can turn around and be exposed)
Because after I signed a long-term contract, I wrote two bad books, none of which were selected as high-quality products. I also embarrassed the editor who recommended me to sign a long-term contract, so now I have to follow orders. (When I first finished writing "Fooling Liu Bei," I was very talkative.
Quan, mainly to fool Liu Bei into his masterpiece, so you can freely choose the topic for the next one)
Therefore, I sincerely apologize to those readers who have left messages asking me to write about the unpopular dynasties: People who are in a long-term relationship need to prove that they are worthy of being used by the website before they are qualified to choose unpopular topics on their own. This kind of me
If you want to write about an unpopular dynasty, you must first prove yourself with a masterpiece, otherwise I can only go back to the most stable old path.
As a human being, you must not implicate others, and you must not implicate the guarantor of the contract.