Chapter 117 (19) Hong Chengchou is a guide dog

In just three days, the battle of unprecedented scale ended, and the Ming army suffered a crushing defeat. A total of 53,783 Ming troops were wiped out, 7,440 horses, and 66 camels were captured by the Qing soldiers. In addition, the Qing soldiers also captured 9,346 pairs of armor.The corpses of the Ming army drowned in the sea were even more numerous, and there were densely packed corpses of the Ming army floating on the sea, as numerous as wild geese. The court was shocked and immediately held a meeting. At the meeting, the group was impassioned. Except for Cao Bianjiao and Wang Tingchen, the general officers of the other six towns abandoned the commander Hong Chengchou and fled privately.

The ministers suggested that kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill the six general officers who fled back. Chongzhen made a summary of the meeting: Everyone's suggestions are very good and correct. Wang Pu, the commander-in-chief of Datong, immediately launched the beheading, and Wu Sangui, the commander-in-chief of Ningyuan, was promoted to admiral. All of a sudden, the ministers shouted: Why, Your Majesty, Wu Sangui and Wang Pu brothers escaped together, why did they only kill Wang Pu and call Wu Sangui?Your Majesty, Wu Sangui will also be killed. Emperor Chongzhen just said: Kill Wu Sangui, and you will guard Ningyuan for me?

The ministers immediately shut up. At this time, Chen Xinjia, Minister of the Ministry of War, came out more and more: Your Majesty, I think we are going to kill Wang Pu, let Ma Ke write a review, and Wu Sangui and the other four general officers put forward serious verbal criticism.Also, Zhang Ruoqi, a doctor in the Ministry of War, and Ma Shaoyu, the principal, were mainly responsible for the failure of this battle. If these two men hadn't jumped up and down and forced Hong Chengchou to fight immediately, things wouldn't have gotten so bad.As Minister of the Ministry of War, I also have a responsibility. My responsibility is that I failed to stick to my correct opinions and wavered at critical moments, so I have to put forward severe self-criticism.

Emperor Chongzhen said happily: "It's very good that Chen Aiqing has the courage to make self-criticism. This is quite in line with the fine tradition of criticism and self-criticism in our dynasty."That's it, arrest Zhang Ruoqi immediately and sentence him to death.As for Ma Shaoyu, what I mean is, let him go through the retirement procedures. Then Emperor Chongzhen announced: The next topic is to immediately form the Hong Chengchou Funeral Committee, and I will personally serve as the chairman of the committee. This Emperor Chongzhen suffered from the old problem of trance and indefinite thoughts again.

That Hong Chengchou obviously lived a good life in the prisoner-of-war camp of the Qing soldiers. He had wine and food every day, but he was lucky, and a funeral committee was organized here. All court officials in the capital went to Hong Chengchou's funeral. In the prisoner-of-war camp of the Qing soldiers, Fan Wencheng was also going to visit the prisoner Hong Chengchou. When he entered the house, he saw Hong Chengchou standing on the ground with bare feet and loose hair, cursing: slave chief, what do you want to do?Kill me quickly, kill me if you have the ability. Fan Wencheng said: "Mr. calm down, sit down and let's chat for a while."

Hong Chengchou: Come on, I advise you to give up the idea of ​​persuading me to surrender as soon as possible. Fan Wencheng said: "The bastard just persuaded you to surrender. I was afraid that you would be lonely alone. Shall I chat with you?" Hong Chengchou: I don't know you well, so I have nothing to talk about. Fan Wencheng: Just chatting and getting acquainted, Zi once said that in the whole world, everyone is a brother.After all, we are all brothers, why are we so angry? Just as he was talking, a speck of dust fell from the beams of the house, drifted back and forth, and happened to land on Hong Chengchou's clothes.When Fan Wencheng saw him, he blinked and said, "Old Hong, if you don't want to chat, then I won't bother you, and I will come to accompany you when I have free time."

After leaving the house, Fan Wencheng hurried to see Huang Taiji. As soon as Huang Taiji saw him, he asked: Mr. Fan, will Hong Chengchou agree to me? I really want him. Fan Wencheng said: "No problem, Hong Chengchou will definitely submit to His Majesty." The emperor's wife was very happy: how did you see it? Fan Wencheng said: "I was chatting with him, and when some dust fell on him, he brushed it off immediately. This shows that he still cherishes himself. After all, he has learned a skill all his life. Who would be willing to live without a chance to use it?" ?So he is bound to surrender.

The emperor was overjoyed, so he rushed to the prison cell wholeheartedly. After entering, seeing Hong Chengchou wearing single clothes, he took off his mink fur coat, put it on for Hong Chengchou, and asked with concern: "Aren't you cold, sir?" In an instant, Hong Chengchou trembled all over. Huang Taiji's words can be said to be a pun, and they were hitting on his psychological weakness. Don't you, Hong Chengchou, feel chilled by working for someone like Chongzhen? In the Ming Dynasty, people turned into dogs. In the Qing Dynasty, dogs became humans. Such a stark contrast, Hong Chengchou could not remain indifferent.

Tears fell like rain, and Hong Chengchou fell. After getting Hong Chengchou, Huang Taiji was so happy that he didn't know what to do. He immediately held a grand party, took Hong Chengchou to sit together, and let the Baylors sing and dance and perform.Zhong Baylor was furious and said: Your Majesty, did you make a mistake?We fought in front of the two armies, and survived countless times, but His Majesty never pretended to us, and instead let us perform as geisha.This Hong Chengchou is just a defeated general, it would be a great kindness not to kill him, why should he be treated preferentially to such an extent?

Huang Taiji scolded and said: You know what a shovel, you are holding your own head, rushing to kill in front of the two armies, what are you trying to do?Don't you just want to enter the world of flowers in the Central Plains?But even if you have great abilities and are not familiar with China's terrain and culture, once you get in there, you will be no different from blind people.Now that we have Hong Chengchou, we are like a blind man getting a guide dog. Shouldn't you thank him well? A few words reminded the dreamer, all the Baylors were convinced, and immediately joined hands and began to tap dance in front of Hong Chengchou.