"In the winter of the second year of Chongzhen, our Qing troops entered the Pass and besieged Mingjing. Ke Gang and Dashou entered the defense from Chonghuan and made several meritorious deeds. Chonghuan was imprisoned, but he followed Dashou to the east. Four years after returning to the imperial court, the Ming Dynasty built the city of Daling.
The river was built by Ming Kegang and Dashou Huban. In August, it was just completed. We, the Qing Dynasty, attacked with 100,000 people, but Kegang and others could not hold on.
After a long time, they ran out of food and everyone was eating each other. Dashou and other generals wanted to surrender, but Ke Gang refused to obey, so they ordered two people to hide him outside the city and kill him. But Ke Gang's color did not change, and he did not say a word, and died with a smile on his face.
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Jinzhou, Fengguo Temple, the Sixth Emperor of the Reform and his ministers are offering incense to the former Ming Taibao, the Left Governor He Kegang.
Unofficial nature.
Private arrangements by Pure Jia Liu.
As an old professor of national history and responsible for the compilation of the "Sikuquanshu", Lao Ji naturally serves as the commentator on Any Kegang's life story.
"I thought that Ke Gang didn't say a word and only laughed when he was dying. Maybe he knew that it was a fraud to send him a birthday to our Qing Dynasty, so he did not hesitate to die in the name of his own loyalty and his birthday to win the trust of our Qing Dynasty."
Since the latest instructions of the Six Emperors are to treat historical figures in stages, and to objectively evaluate Zu Yingyuan, the old master of the Second Army, Zu Dashou, Lao Ji found He Kegang as a good starting point to prove that he did not get angry but laughed instead of dying.
It is false that the Qing Dynasty was reduced in the year of the birthday, so that the shining points of the birthday can be extracted and made a big fuss.
Queenie, who did not know the inside story, insisted on the true nature of history and corrected Lao Ji: "Dashou was not a fake surrender, but a real surrender. He made a secret agreement with Emperor Taizong to respond to Jinzhou, so he brought 26 people into Jinzhou, but in the city
The army and the people refused to surrender, and Dashou had no choice but to return to the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, it is true that he killed He Kegang, not that Kegang was willing to sacrifice himself to save Dashou."
The implication is that if the soldiers and civilians of Jinzhou were willing to go with Zu Dashou, then Zu Dashou would undoubtedly be a hero who helped the Qing Dynasty capture Jinzhou, instead of pretending to surrender to the Qing Dynasty and waiting for an opportunity to return to the Ming Dynasty.
"Lao Kui, the emperor said that historical issues should be broad rather than detailed."
Lao Ji frowned slightly, coughed slightly, looked at the Sixth Emperor, and winked at Lao Kui.
“Should it be thicker or thinner?”
Queenie's heart was agitated, and he quickly understood, and quickly added: "Of course, this is just my personal opinion. Whether it is consistent with historical facts has yet to be verified by the relevant departments. The wishes of my family do not count."
But there was no reaction from His Majesty the Emperor.
Looking up again, His Majesty the Emperor, with his hands behind his back, was looking intently towards the east.
Three feet above the head, there is a four-character "Big Bear Hall" with the meaning of "Yongyong".
Thirty thousand feet in the sky, the rising sun sweeps away the haze of the world and bathes the world with warm sunshine.
"Did you hear that?"
Jia Liu murmured, "I heard it, did you hear it?"
"What did you hear?"
Lao Ji and Queenie were both in a daze. They heard nothing. They couldn't help but wonder. Could it be that His Majesty is mentally ill again?
"I heard it, I heard it, it was the wind roaring, the horses braying, and the Daling River roaring filial piety!"
As the passionate voice continued to increase by one pitch, Jia Liu's body shook violently, and a burst of green energy immediately rose into the sky, flying towards the Daling River in the distance like a sharp arrow.
"The morning is clear and slightly cool, making people happy; on the river and on the fields, there is a hazy mist floating... After a while, the bright sunshine disperses the morning fog and shines on the countryside far and near. How intoxicating the earth is!"
Ruda, a reporter with the army in Xinyi Town, looked at the charging figures in the distance and listened to the thundering sound of artillery. He picked up a pen and continued to write in his notebook: "It seems that artillery fire and bullets cannot defeat the Manchu and Mongolian rebels. They are dead."
Then he resurrected and fought tenaciously, even rushing to the front of our cannon about thirty meters away."
"Amidst the sound of trumpets and war drums, my heroic reform officers and soldiers used sharp cannons and fast guns to completely overwhelm the rebel army's arrows, spears, dull knives and pitifully few cannons. Although the rebel army kept shouting to advance, they bravely and repeatedly charged and killed
, we will definitely suffer a disastrous defeat in front of our army’s red formation.”
After writing this, Ruda suddenly felt something in his heart. He looked doubtfully at the height of 30,000 feet. After a long time, he wrote a sentence on the paper - "The wind is roaring, the horses are braying, and the Daling River is roaring."
filial piety."
The tactics of the Reform Army were no different from those of the Ming Army. They also had the front layer standing on the ground, the middle layer leaning down slightly, and the rear layer standing tall. The front layer fired first, followed by the middle layer, and then the rear layer.
However, the heroic Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers a hundred years ago did not take this kind of tactics of the Ming army seriously, because this kind of tactics would be as easy as a day trip. However, now, they have discovered that this kind of tactics is simply going to kill them.
killed them.
The charge of the cavalry had almost no effect in front of the Reform Army's formation. The intensive sound of artillery and muskets knocked the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry off their backs. Once the horses were injured, they would inevitably collapse. But it was not the enemy that was in chaos, but the Manchu and Mongolian coalition forces themselves.
At this point in the battle, Andershan, the deputy governor of Xingjing, no longer had the courage to continue fighting, but Prince Zhuoliktu of the Horqin tribe, Gongglabutan, was still trying to give it a try.
The death of his second son Tenzin Wangpo in battle made the old Mongolian prince inexplicably sad and angry. The pain of losing his son made him resolutely ride his horse to the stone bridge and take over the apricot-yellow flag representing his prince from the hands of the auxiliary Duke Tabu.
Fearing the artillery fire of the New Reform Army, they waved vigorously.
The artillery shells of the Reform Army kept falling around the stone bridge, splashing water columns several people high, making dents, or smashing the stone pillars on the bridge into pieces.
The Mongolian soldiers guarding His Highness the Prince were hit by artillery fire and fell down from time to time, but the fallen ones were immediately replaced by new soldiers.
Just because their Royal Highness is still on horseback dancing a flag in one hand and holding a sword in the other.
When the stone bridge was littered with corpses, Gong Labutan still stood there, always alone, unmoved despite the roar of cannons all around him.
That courage greatly admired Jiang Biao, chief of staff of Xinyi Town, who was always observing the stone bridge with a telescope.
Apart from admiration, I also deeply understand the thoughts of this flag-waving warrior.
In the afternoon, the battle heated up.
The Manchu-Mongolian coalition forces fought a final desperate battle with the First Town of the Reform Army.
Seeing that the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry suffered heavy losses, Anmu, the commander of Xinyi Town, began to direct the counterattack.
The infantry units that received the order to counterattack immediately burst out with great fighting spirit. Even those who were slightly injured clamored to join the troops in launching an assault.
The morale of the officers and soldiers was high not because their weapons completely suppressed the rebels outside the customs, but because the Sixth Reform Emperor gave them high wages.
In addition to weapons and equipment seized on the battlefield, the remaining gold, silver and soft goods were also distributed among the officers and soldiers.
That is to say, you are invincible with full salary!
A certain section of the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry, which suffered heavy losses, did not retreat under the powerful firepower of Xinyi Town. They persisted for an hour before their defeat was declared with the death of all the troops.
The entire battlefield situation has been completely reversed. The Manchu and Mongolian coalition forces attacking one side were subjected to an all-round counterattack by the surrounded Reform Army. Both the Manchu soldiers and the Mongolian soldiers were on the verge of final collapse.