Chapter 24 Chapter 6 How the Qing Soldiers Entered the Customs

At the time when Wu Sangui and Li Zicheng had a bloody battle, Dorgon was saying goodbye to Xiaozhuang Yiyi, and led a brigade back to defend Beijing. He didn't know that Beijing had been captured by Li Zicheng.On the marching road, after he learned the news, he immediately called two people—Fan Wencheng and Hong Chengchou, and then raised a banner.This banner is very weird, it is called "revenge for the great emperor", as if he and Emperor Chongzhen are in the same group.Why did he play this banner?Because Li Zicheng is all plundering and destroying, no matter how unbearable and unworthy Emperor Chongzhen was before, Li Zicheng's actions are even more grievous in comparison, so at this time, no matter who plays "Revenge for the Great Son of Heaven" If the banner comes, it will win the hearts of the people.

Just as Dorgon raised the banner and marched towards Shanhaiguan with his troops, envoys sent by Wu Sangui came and asked to borrow troops.When Dorgon heard the news, his first reaction was: This is Wu Sangui's deceit, so he didn't agree.Wu Sangui sent eight batches of envoys that day, but Dorgon still refused.In the end, Fan Wencheng couldn't stand it anymore, and suggested to Dorgon: Wu Sangui is already like this, he is definitely a real borrower. But Dorgon still refused to agree, unless Wu Sangui came to see him in person.Under such circumstances, Fan Wencheng personally rushed to Shanhaiguan to guard Shanhaiguan for Wu Sangui, and then Wu Sangui made room to meet Dorgon.

Before meeting Dorgon, Wu Sangui went through three difficulties: crossing the mountain of knives, going into the sea of ​​fire, and jumping into the oil pan. After meeting Dorgon, he narrated what Li Zicheng did.In the end, Dorgon expressed his position: The world is too miserable. I can't bear to talk about the past, and I don't need to talk about the future. I will make an agreement with you. After our Qing army enters the Central Plains, if we take a grain If you want to move the people a blade of grass, I will fight with my life. But Wu Sangui was still worried, and hoped to get a guarantee that Dorgon would make a poisonous oath.So Dorgon swore: If I break my promise to you today and do something sorry to you after I arrive in the Central Plains, then after my death, my body will be dragged out and my head will be chopped off.It roughly means being dismembered after death.

It was a prophecy, Dorgon's poisonous oath was really fulfilled later.Later, Dorgon led the Qing army into the customs, and Emperor Shunzhi moved his family to Beijing, and the Qing army settled in the Central Plains.These facts all violated his promise to Wu Sangui, and Wu Sangui couldn't ask him to fulfill his promise, and finally fell to the point of being a traitor in the eyes of the Han people. But Dorgon died suddenly not long after. The cause of death was exhausted from repeated battles.After he died, Emperor Shunzhi avenged his mother with a sword, and also held a meeting, declaring that Dorgon was a villain, leveled Dorgon's tomb, dragged out his body, and chopped off his head.After hearing the news, Wu Sangui burst into tears. He felt that the world was so bizarre. Things that everyone thought would not come true had all come true; things that should have come true hadn’t come true yet.Why do you say that?

Notice what we call rivalries, what are the key factors that dominate them?It is human nature, because human nature is changeable, difficult to observe and predict; it is precisely because of this difficulty to observe and predict that it leads to the complexity and change of history, although it also has its inevitability.History is such a process. After Dorgon and Wu Sangui reached an agreement, the two sides prepared to attack Li Zicheng together. At this time, Li Zicheng didn't know that the battle was unfolding in a stone.The situation at that time was that Li Zicheng's army of 300,000 troops stormed Shanhaiguan, and at night, the gate of Shanhaiguan had been quietly opened, and Dorgon's two braided troops had quietly entered.During this process, Li Zicheng didn't know, because he was a rogue, not used to observing the enemy's situation, and always counted where he went.After dawn the next day, Wu Sangui led his army out again and started a bloody battle with Li Zicheng.According to the agreement between Wu Sangui and Dorgon, when the battle reached a certain level, Wu Sangui was responsible for biting Li Zicheng's long snake formation and preventing it from closing, and then the Qing army suddenly broke out and crushed Li Zicheng's men.

But at the end of the fight, Wu Sangui discovered that Dorgon's Qing soldiers could not come out of the city. Wu Sangui had no choice but to send envoys into the city to urge Dorgon.But Dorgon made another request at this time, saying: We were too anxious when we made the agreement two days ago, and one key clause was left out, that is, your Liao army must wear braids.What does braiding mean?It means surrendering to the Qing soldiers.This trick made Wu Sangui miserable, but at this point, there is no way to turn back. If he doesn't agree, he can only be hacked to death by Li Zicheng now, but if he agrees, maybe he will have a chance in the future.So Wu Sangui bit the bullet and agreed, and the Qing army also dispatched as promised.

In an instant, Li Zicheng's 300,000 army fell apart, because they did not expect that there would be a braided army.This battle fully exposed a blind spot in Li Zicheng's thinking, that is, he only knew how to kill people, but he didn't expect that the other party would ask for help. After reaching this step, Li Zicheng had no choice but to flee, until he fled to Beijing.After arriving in Beijing, Li Zicheng ascended the throne in a hurry and established the Dashun Dynasty.But it's already at this juncture, is there still time?Li Zicheng didn't care, not only had to establish the Dashun Dynasty, but also had to follow the rules: first, all the generals knelt down and begged Li Zicheng to ascend the throne, and then Li Zicheng put on a straight face and said some things like "how can he be lonely, what can't be done, what can't be done?" Finally ascended the throne as the emperor.

After becoming emperor, Li Zicheng ordered the artillery to be fired, and the whole city of Beijing was destroyed to the ground. After all the soldiers entered the city, burned, killed and looted, they led the troops and fled.Why did he do this?As I said before, Li Zicheng is an ambassador of sabotage. He takes away everything he can take away, and destroys what he can't take away. He will never take advantage of others.He fled back to Xi'an in one breath, closed his door and became the Tu Emperor.After Li Zicheng became the emperor, his management method was only one, that is, no matter whoever made a mistake, he would make a verdict: kill.When mother-in-law and daughter-in-law quarrel, pull them over and stab them to death; steal a chicken from someone else, pull them over and stab them to death; disrespect His Majesty, pull them over and stab them to death.

How can this be called governing the country?This is clearly a scourge.So when Wu Sangui joined forces with Duoduo and Azige to attack Xi'an, Li Zicheng had no choice but to abandon the city and flee across the Yellow River.The Qing army has been chasing him across the Yellow River, Li Zicheng was attacked by Wu Sangui and others countless times, and he was in a panic. Later, Li Zicheng thought of a way. He said: Qing soldiers have been chasing my large army. Although I have many troops and theirs are few, their combat effectiveness is stronger than mine.The best way now is to let the large troops attract them, and I will lead the small troops to escape by other means.

This idea made Li Zicheng miserable. In fact, the Qing soldiers wanted to force him to this road, so when Li Zicheng was leaving with a small group of troops, he met a small group of Qing soldiers, and was killed by the Qing soldiers as soon as they met. Killed all.In the end, Li Zicheng fled alone, and was finally killed by a farmer. Here I have to mention Li Zicheng's wife, Empress Gao Guiying. This Empress Gao is a very interesting character.We know that when Li Zicheng got mixed up to the end, the Qing army would also kill him, the Ming army would also kill him, and Wu Sangui would also kill him. It stands to reason that his queen's situation is not too safe.In fact, Empress Gao's political status was very high. After Li Zicheng's death, Empress Gao first took troops to defect to He Tengjiao, and He Tengjiao treated her like a queen.Later, Empress Gao led some of her troops to continue fighting against the Qing Dynasty in a mountain depression, and was finally captured by the Qing soldiers, and sent to Beijing City to live in a mansion for the elderly.

Empress Gao Guiying finally lived to be in her nineties. The reason why I want to describe this anecdote about Empress Gao is actually to reveal a kind of soft beauty in the rules of history.What kind of rule is this?This is a male fighting rule, and in this male rule, women have certain immunity, and they can get enough living space.This kind of male rule can also accommodate them. For example, Dorgon will not force Xiaozhuang to death, so Dorgon eventually lost the world, and when it came to the Shunzhi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, they would not force the empress; Taiji forced Abahai to death, why?Because this is a cold-blooded, cruel and inhumane emperor's art, which is what our nation deeply hates.