Chapter 72 2.Wo Lidou

The Duoduo soldiers divided into three groups and marched towards the south of the Yangtze River in a mighty way. Only when the left and right armies reached Qi County and Taikang in Kaifeng Prefecture, good news came - Xu Dingguo, the commander-in-chief of the Southern Ming Dynasty who was stationed in Guide Mansion, was trapped and killed. Bo Gaojie of Xingping brought the city of Suizhou to surrender.When Duoduo heard the news, he couldn't help being overjoyed. While reporting his victory to Beijing, he wanted to reward Xu Dingguo heavily, and at the same time summoned Xu Dingguo to listen to him tell the story of Gaojie's beheading.

It turns out that after Gao Jie led the troops to Guide Mansion, Xu Dingguo was very disturbed, because he knew that Gao Jie was the only one who was strong among the four towns, and even Emperor Hongguang wanted to win over him. He annexed, fearful and uneasy every day, after receiving Prince Yu's reply, he strengthened his confidence in Jiangqing. At this moment, Gao Jie forced the door.At this time, Xu Dingguo camped in Suizhou, Gao Jie came to see him, and brought only 5,000 soldiers as guards. Xu Dingguo went out of the city to Wuli Temple to meet him.The next day, Dingguo held a large banquet in the city and invited Gaojie to drink together.Someone advised Gao Jie not to go to the banquet, but Gao Jie didn't see Xu Dingguo at all, and said: Dingguo is just an old Nini, am I afraid of him?

Lao Nini is their Shaanxi dialect, which means an old woman, who is always in a hurry and does nothing.Having said that, he went happily, without any precautions.During the dinner, Gao Jie said that some people said that my brother has the ambition to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, and the emperor ordered his brother to come and inspect it.Xu Dingguo said with a smile, in this case, the elder brother can arrest the younger brother.Gao Jie also said with a smile, if I want to arrest you, it will not be like today.But he also said, it's just for your sake, brother, it's really not suitable to garrison here.Xu Dingguo asked why.Gao Jie said, when you leave this place, people will stop talking.Xu Dingguo said, so I can only hand over my military power and return to the forest?Gao Jie said, if this is the case, the younger brother is a sensible person.

When Xu Dingguo heard this, he couldn't help getting angry, but he still held back his breath and said that it is okay to ask me to give up the right to send troops, but I will not be able to leave this place until a few days later.Gao Jie asked why?Xu Dingguo said that his wife was ill and could not leave the city for the time being. This Gao Jie was eager to win the army, and even said, brother is so ignorant, isn't she just a woman, why don't you kill her, and I will pay you a beauty.Xu Dingguo couldn't bear it anymore, and pointed to the tip of his nose and said, do you think I can kidnap other people's wives just like you?

Gao Jie was taken aback and was about to draw his sword.I don't think Xu Dingguo has already made arrangements here - he has asked his nephew Xu Si to arrange a banquet, separating Gao Jie from the guards. Right now, the banquet is full of people from Xu Dingguo. Gao Jie is alone. He was hacked to death by Xu Dingguo's men, and his five thousand elite soldiers were killed by Xu Dingguo because they lost their main general. What Xu Dingguo said in his letter to the King of Yu, "There will be good news after a long period of time", is an explanation today. After hearing the story, Duoduo thought to himself, Hong Chengchou is indeed a good guide, and he really knows everything about Hongguang's civil servants and generals.While admiring them, I thought, this group of Han people are really shameless. A powerful enemy oppresses the country like a swallow's nest on the curtain, but they are still obsessed with internal fighting. It is unreasonable for such a country to survive.Thinking of this, he couldn't help holding back the contempt in his heart, forced a smile on his face, and praised Xu Dingguo's act of "knowing current affairs" beautifully.

A few days later, Duoduo had completed his assembly, and when he was about to send his troops to the east, there was another news report that Zuo Liangyu, Marquis of Nanning, who was originally guarding Wuchang, was dissatisfied with Ma Shiying's domineering, and now led his headquarters under the name of "Qing Emperor's Side" The army of 800,000, which is said to be one million, is mighty and mighty, rushing to Jinling, and now it has gone to Jiujiang. When Duoduo heard the news, he went to the map to find Jiujiang.One can see that Jiujiang is on the edge of the Yangtze River, and it is much closer to Jinling than Guide is to Jinling.My heart was busy, and I couldn't help saying to myself: This is really Mo Daojun who walked early, and there are even early walkers.

After receiving the report that Xu Dingguo had killed Gao Jie and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Shi Kefa, who was the supervisor in Huai'an, really died. In September last year, after the imperial court sent a mission headed by Zuo Maodi to the north, he soon learned of the humiliation of the mission.At this time, the signs of Qing soldiers committing crimes in the south became more and more obvious. For this reason, he went to the imperial court many times to ask for food and salaries quickly to increase the strength of river defense troops.I don't want Emperor Hongguang to ignore it, but he still insists on soliciting songs for beauty pageants.At the end of the year, he was stationed in Hezhen, Huai'an. At this time, the Qing soldiers invaded Haizhou from Shandong, attacked Suqian and Pizhou, and Huaibei was in danger. He Shi Kefa wanted to use examples to narrate his achievements and falsely report military information.

Ma Shiying exercised power in the court, and the generals were domineering outside. Shi Kefa was at the end of his rope at this point. At dusk that day, he was reviewing newspapers in the camp.After Gao Jie was killed, Shi Kefa invited Emperor Hongguang to show his sympathy to Gao Jie's family, and promoted Li Chengdong, Gao Jie's old department, to be the commander-in-chief, taking over from the high department and still stationed in Xuzhou.This military newspaper is from Li Chengdong.According to Li Chengdong, the Qing army that attacked Tongguan before was led by Duoduo, Prince Yu of the Qing Dynasty. It has recently assembled in Xingyang, Zhengzhou and other places in Henan Province. Now the troops are divided into two groups. Under the guidance of Xu Dingguo, they will attack directly. Guide, please send reinforcements as soon as possible, otherwise the lonely city will be difficult to defend.

It was expected that the Qing soldiers would go east to Guide and Xuzhou with Xu Dingguo as their guide, but Shi Kefa did not expect them to move so quickly.He thought that Guide and Xuzhou were the gates of Jinling, if these two places were not guarded, Jinling City would be in danger.At this moment, Liu Zhaoji, the general soldier, walked in gently.Shi Kefa then showed him the military newspaper, called his name and said: "In the beginning, the rogues fled from the Guanzhong, and the Manchus did not follow behind, but they divided up their troops to attack Guide. It was very obvious that they were out of my own way. Could it be said that Ma Yaocao lied about the military situation?"

Yaocao is the name of Ma Shiying, the chief assistant. After reading the newspaper, Liu Zhaoji said fiercely: "My lord, Ma Shiying is responsible for the current corruption of the imperial court. I think this man's intentions are not righteous. He made a wrong idea from the very beginning and set up a foolish monarch so that he can gain power from him. The country is at stake. They still want to overthrow the case and frame Zhongliang. In less than a year, all the bad things have been done. Yimo will only kill Ma Shiying. There may be hope in the southeast half; A dead end." Shi Kefa waved his hands again and again and said: "At the beginning, at the beginning, it's useless to say these things now. When the country is in crisis, there can be no more civil strife. Besides, the titles of monarchs and ministers have been determined. If you talk like this again, it will be treasonous if it spreads. You and I will lose our lives." gone."

Liu Zhaoji looked around, lowered his voice and said, "My lord, why do you look forward and backward? There are books from Zuo Kunshan in Wuchang. Would you like to have a look?" It turned out that Zuo Liangyu's move to the side of the Qing emperor had been premeditated, and the reason why he didn't do it was because he was old and sick, and he was in the middle of the drama; second, he was scruples about Shi Kefa. , the remnant army pointed directly at Huguang, and Zuo Liangyu was the first to bear the brunt. He had experienced the power of the Dashun Army—in the summer of the 15th year of Chongzhen, he was defeated by Li Zicheng in the battle of Zhuxian Town, and he has not yet recovered. Yuan Qi, so when he heard that the bandits came from the east, he felt uneasy in Wuchang. In addition, Huang Peng, the inspector censor, encouraged him, saying that Wuchang was difficult to defend, and the southeast was rich.Liangyu's heart was moved. He first wrote a letter to Liu Zhaoji, Shi Kefa's general, asking him to find out Shi Kefa's tone. When Shi Kefa heard that Zuo Liangyu had a letter, he couldn't help being suspicious, and said, "Is there a letter for you from Zuo Kunshan?" Liu Zhaoji nodded, and said hesitantly: "Yes, Zuo Kunshan has always admired Donglin, especially Liu Zongzhou, Huang Daozhou and other stalwart ministers. At present, the court is chaotic, traitors are in power, and loyal ministers are angry. I can't stand it anymore, and I have the idea of ​​raising troops to clear the emperor's side. He really wanted to ask your lord to come forward to call, because he didn't know what your lord would like, so he wrote a letter first, and wanted to ask his lord to pay his respects—" Before Liu Zhaoji finished speaking, Shi Kefa waved his hands again and again, and interrupted him, saying: "At the beginning, don't talk anymore, I won't listen, I won't listen, right now the rogues are overflowing from Guanzhong, and they are fleeing to Huguang, Zuo Kunshan sits in Wuchang He didn't go to surround the bandits, but he came up with some tricks on the side of the Qing emperor, this, this, isn't this the opposite?" Seeing Shi Kefa's firm attitude, Liu Zhaoji couldn't help but burst into tears, and said, "My lord, Zuo Kunshan's move is certainly inappropriate, but the current situation in the court is too unbearable. In this critical autumn of life and death, this Hongguang has no way of cheering up." Look, I don't even want to think about who died at the hands of the first emperor, and at whose hands my own father died, but every day I associate with the villain, reject the loyal and good, and choose the treacherous. Because you don’t advocate Li Hongguang? Why does a villain like Ruan Dacheng get reused? Isn’t it because he will flatter horses? He doesn’t care about the soldiers in front of him without food and pay, and he doesn’t believe in the frequent alarms. , Licentious and shameless, there is a saying: treacherous ministers exercise power inside, generals cannot make contributions outside, if these treacherous people are not wiped out, this country will perish sooner or later." Liu Zhaoji went on to enumerate Ma Shiying's perverse actions, and while he was talking, he choked up and couldn't continue.Although Shi Kefa didn't refute it again, he still said that it was a radical move, and he absolutely disapproved of it. Liu Zhaoji talked for a long time, seeing that Shi Kefa was not moved at all, he could only bear his anger and back down. After Liu Zhaoji left, Shi Kefa became even more restless.He understands that what Liu Zhaoji said is true, but the country is at this point, can there still be a civil war?Over the years, the generals supported soldiers and set up their own families. He was in charge of the soldiers as a scholar, but he did not have his own army. In order to maintain this small court, for several months, he had to run among the princes from all walks of life, just like a slave. The tinkerer, mend the gaps everywhere.Troubled soldiers, Jiangnan is full of mourners, but a group of arrogant soldiers, but looking at a slightly better place, or the mouth of affluent prefectures and counties are full of halazi - first Huang Degong, Liu Zeqing, Gao Jie are all vying for the garrison In Yangzhou, Gao Jie arrived first, and he even plundered his troops; Liu Zeqing was even more unscrupulous in Huai'an, and wanted to meet Liu Liangzuo in battle in order to fight for the rich land.The imperial court ordered him to mediate, and he earnestly lured good people with earnest words, and managed to appease these self-respecting generals with great difficulty. He didn't want Gao Jie to be killed by Xu Dingguo, and Xuzhou, an important city in the north, suddenly became a dangerous city. He was just thinking about how to make up for this At the mouth of the mouth, Zuo Liangyu appeared on the west side of the Qing Dynasty. He thought, how many twists and turns can this small court go through? Thinking about it, I can't sleep or eat.A few days later, there was indeed news that Zuo Liangyu had sent his troops to the east. According to the intelligence report, Zuo Liangyu burned Wuchang and went east, from Hankou to Qizhou, and sailed for more than 200 li. Ma Shiying, who was not afraid of the Qing soldiers going to the south of the Yangtze River, was afraid that the Zuo army would go to Jinling. In the name of the emperor, he issued several edicts to Shi Kefa, ordering him to quickly supervise his troops to fight against Zuo Liangyu. The last thing Shi Kefa wanted to see finally happened...