Chapter 33 Chapter 33 Two Kinds of War
The season has entered the freezing winter, and the heavy snow is falling as fast as it wants to freeze the whole world. After a few days and nights, the snow on the ground is more than an inch thick, the roofs are piled up, the trees are fatter, and the slightly steep mountain road is because of The road is slippery and impassable, people are afraid of the cold, and they all stay behind closed doors, and the birds and animals have long been extinct.
This year's winter was extremely cold, and the snow fell heavily. It seemed that the heavens paid special attention to the fact that the Ming Dynasty changed three emperors and two reign titles in one year, and thus increased the weight of the cold. White snow poured on the world——
However, this freezing and extremely cold weather not only did not make the weather in the Ming court into a cold one, but instead made the ministers' hearts warmer and their emotions more vigorous.
Winter is already halfway through, and spring is of course already in sight.
Everyone's heart is full of hope. Yang Lian's slogan of "co-creating the 'Government of Apocalypse'" has not only resonated, but also resounded through the sky. The court has entered spring one step earlier than the season, showing a A thriving atmosphere.
Fang Congzhe, who was regarded as incompetent, fatuous and old, was dismissed from his post, and went to Beijing to return to his hometown to retire; Ye Xianggao, who was scheduled to be the chief assistant of the cabinet, was still resigning and refused to go to Beijing to take office. Liu Yijing, the second assistant, took over, but everyone knew in their hearts: "Ye Xianggao's resignation is a custom, a form—if you make another decree, he will accept it!"
Therefore, this is a matter of "just around the corner", which does not affect hopes and prospects in the slightest.
Secondly, the "gentlemen" of Donglin have all been reused, ascended to high positions, and wielded real power:
In the past, Zhao Nanxing, who was once known as the "Three Monarchs" in the country along with Zou Yuanbiao and Gu Xiancheng, had resigned as early as the 21st year of Wanli's plan for Beijing officials. For more than 20 years, his reputation among the people has been getting higher and higher. But he has never been recovered; this time, he originally recovered as Taichang Shaoqing after Emperor Taichang ascended the throne, and immediately changed the right to Tongzheng and entered Taichangqing after the order was issued; and when he came to the capital from his original place, the emperor had already It was replaced by Tianqi again; Donglin gained power, he was promoted to the right minister of the Ministry of Industry before he took office, and soon worshiped as the censor of Zuodu—this position allowed him to stretch out his ambition of "taking the order of the world as his own responsibility".
Zou Yuanbiao, who has been famous all over the world since discussing Zhang Juzheng's "Duoqing", has been in the field for nearly 30 years; he lectures in the house, and more and more people learn from him, and his influence is also growing. His reputation is getting higher and higher, as long as someone recommends a social virtuous person, he must be the leader; when Emperor Taichang came to the throne, he called Dali Qing;
Gu Xiancheng's successor, Gao Panlong, who is currently the head of the Donglin Academy, although he only served as a pedestrian and annotated the history of the Wanli Dynasty as a minor official, but because of his high reputation in the academic circle and the Donglin Zhongren Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou, etc. According to people's strong words, the reason why Zou Yuanbiao was sparsely recommended before he took office was also reinstated by Guanglucheng.
Zhou Chaorui, who was originally appointed as an official official, was demoted because of his outspokenness, which angered Emperor Taichang.
Yuan Huazhong was promoted to official censor.
Sun Shenxing summoned the Minister of Rites.
Wei Dazhong was promoted to Shizhong.
Zhou Zongjian promoted the censor.
Others such as Feng Congwu, Gu Dazhang, Ye Maocai, Liu Zongzhou, Ding Yuanjian, Luo Yuren, etc. were also promoted, or got positions due to recommendation——
Among the officials of the Manchu Dynasty, Donglin accounted for more than half; the magistrates of many important places were also served by people from Donglin—the dream of "Donglin governing" has risen like the sun, and it is moving toward the sun and the sky. At the same time, thousands of golden rays of light were emitted.
Of course, hidden worries are also slowly taking shape—an extremely prosperous group is bound to be tabooed, this is an eternal law—the "non-Donglin" in the court has become a lonely minority, dissatisfied The feelings of injustice and injustice rose irresistibly.
The first thing that came to the surface was the censor Jia Jichun's Shangshu, attacking Yang Lian by discussing the "moving the palace" again.
Jia Jichun used Xi Li's counterattack power to make a fuss——
After Xi Li moved to the palace, not only did she lose all the privileges she had enjoyed before, but she also lost the ability to cover up some of the ambiguous things she had done before, and was teased out one after another; this time, it was her former confidant. The eunuchs Liu Xun, Liu Chao, Tian Zhao and others were revealed to have stolen the treasures in the palace, so they were imprisoned. However, in the confessions of these eunuchs, her father was also involved, saying that her father was responsible for supporting them outside the palace; Come on, she was suspected of being the mastermind.
She had no choice but to use the method of "crying, making trouble, and hanging herself" to defend herself; therefore, she threatened to commit suicide with her own daughter, the eighth princess, "to serve the late emperor under the Nine Springs".
Soon, the Yanluan Palace also began to spread the rumor that "Li Xuan's attendant cast a scorpion, and the emperor's eighth sister entered the well", hoping to use this rumor to divert the attention of the ministers.
Jia Jichun, on the other hand, seized on this topic and discussed the case of "moving the palace"; he believed that the ministers should not persuade the new king to bully his concubine as soon as he ascended the throne, which caused this human tragedy in the palace and made the former emperor uneasy.
These words; although they didn't name them, they aimed at Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou.
However, how can Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou, and even the Donglin forces behind them take it easy?So he immediately launched a counterattack to refute Jia Jichun's words; then, Zhou Chaorui also joined the battle, accusing Jia Jichun of causing trouble——
The matter came to an end after the Emperor Tianqi's decree came down from the palace. The Emperor Tianqi said that Li Xuanshi and Huang Bamei are both safe and sound now, and that Li Xuanshi's past evils were recorded, but he still cared about her serving the late emperor and cared for her well. The courtiers are relieved.
Back and forth, after many days, Jia Jichun finally came to a "speechless" end and stopped attacking Donglin; however, this did not mean that he had surrendered with complete conviction - the superficial calm was not the real calm However, the incident he caused was just the beginning.
What's more, there are other "non-Donglin" in the imperial court—some who think they can't join Donglin, who have been hostile to Donglin, and who know that Donglin will regard them as "villains". , some people have quietly combined to form an alternative party, ready to confront Donglin when necessary; among them, a few people with particularly keen political senses have already sensed that Emperor Tianqi canonized Ke Qingfeng as "Holy Lady" Because of the uniqueness and subtlety, I began to secretly inquire about the whole committee of the matter, and tried to make friends with Ke Qingfeng——
When spring comes, everything will recover, and insects and ants will also become active.
And when the spring of Liaodong is approaching, the Eight Banners of the Houjin Kingdom have a new mission.
After a winter of dormancy, all the pre-war preparations have been completed. The specially made hook ladders, camp vehicles, weapons, and stored grain and grass are all as expected; there is also an endless stream of information about Liaoshen The teleportation came, and the enemy's situation was well known-Nurhachi was very satisfied with all of this.
He has the certainty of victory, defeated the Ming Dynasty, owned the entire land of Liaodong, became the monarch of the whole Liao Dynasty, the Great Khan——
However, in the Daming Palace, a special form of war was fought before the arrival of spring, and Emperor Tianqi, who had been emperor for three months, was unable to parry.
What caused the war was an inevitability—
Since the first New Year's Day after Emperor Tianqi's accession to the throne is coming, and this day is the first day when the "Tianqi" year name is launched: "Tianqi first year, first month, first day"; It should be particularly grand and solemn to show the special significance of this day, so the Ministry of Household Affairs needs to raise extra expenses to make the ceremony perfect.
And in the process of discussing the New Year's Day congratulatory ceremony, someone put forward a suggestion: "Should the queen be registered on the same day? Or be registered before New Year's Day?"
This suggestion aroused a great deal of noise, and the ministers immediately had heated discussions on the matter of "establishing a queen".
Then, the two methods of this suggestion were derived into three kinds-originally, some people were in favor of registering on the same day as New Year's Day, and some were in favor of registering a few days earlier before New Year's Day; It’s better to wait for the spring than to be in a hurry!”
The argument for this theory is that before Emperor Tianqi came to the throne, he had no concubines and no planned candidates for concubines. Now that he has a concubine, he must first order to select ladies from all over the world, so he must have more time!
This statement made sense and was supported by many people; thus, the three parties fought fiercely, and after arguing for two hours, no conclusion was reached.
It was nearly noon—half the morning court had been spent on it.
Emperor Tianqi looked blankly at Wei Chao who was standing beside him, Wei Chao moved two steps closer, and suggested him softly: "Please discuss it tomorrow, adults!"
The little emperor sat in a daze all morning, he was already hungry, and even wanted to relieve himself!
So, retreat.
However, as soon as they returned to Qianqing Palace, they faced another difficult problem——
As soon as he stepped into the palace gate, he immediately felt that something was wrong; there was something important missing in front of him, and his heart was empty, as if he had stepped into a wilderness; he subconsciously asked the thirty or so people who were kneeling on the ground to greet him. The eunuch and maid said: "Where is the nanny?"
The eunuchs and maids uttered in unison, "Slaves and servants welcome Long live Lord back to the palace" just finished, and the echoes were advancing steadily, and his words that came out suddenly seemed particularly sharp, as if his uncomfortable emotions had directly rebounded come out.
On weekdays, when he went down to court, the eunuchs and maids waiting to greet him at the gate of the palace were all led by Ke Qingfeng, with Ke Qingfeng as the main one——
He asked again and again, but not only did no one answer, but they all lowered their heads at the same time, avoiding his gaze as if escaping; he didn't even know how to ask a question, and The anxiety and panic in his heart rose rapidly, which made him almost cry out.
"Where's the nanny?"
After asking again but not being able to answer, he simply walked in three steps in two steps, and went straight into the bedroom; however, the brocade tents, bedding, double pillows and all the furnishings in the bedroom were all the same, except for the guest Qingfeng. .
He couldn't bear it any longer, and burst into tears: "Where's the person? Where's the person?"
After being dependent for many years, he suddenly disappeared for no reason. He immediately felt that his heart was hollowed out, and the world was different.
"Where has she gone?"
Amidst the yelling, he suddenly thought that the expressions of the eunuchs and maids who came to greet him were all wrong, so he had an epiphany: "They all know it - they just won't tell it!"
Thinking of this, he became angry, and started yelling at everyone: "Say—tell me everything!"
However, no one spoke; he was angry and anxious, tears streaming down his face, trembling all over his body: "I will punish you for your crimes!"
As he spoke, he shouted repeatedly: "Call Wei Chao! Call Wei Chao!"
However, after the Wei Dynasty came down, he first went to the Supervisor of Rites to watch Wang An——
Fortunately, after a while, Wei Zhongxian rushed to him.
Wei Zhongxian seemed to be running in a hurry, blushing and out of breath, with beads of sweat on his forehead; after entering the door, he immediately knelt down on the ground with a "gudong", kowtowed his head and said, "Your servant is late, please forgive me!"
Then lowered the volume and said in a low voice and respectful: "Madam Fengsheng is now with the servant, and the servant spent a lot of effort to persuade Madam Fengsheng to leave the palace, so she came late, please forgive me!"
However, upon hearing this, Emperor Tianqi had no intention of blaming or forgiving him at all—Emperor Tianqi immediately stopped crying, and said in surprise, "What? With you? Let her come back quickly!"
Wei Zhongxian kowtowed three times in a row, and said in a low voice, "Long Live Lord, there is no need to rush this matter!"
Then, he explained the details carefully: "More than an hour ago, Madam Fengsheng was unhappy and ordered her servant to find her son and brother to pick her up from the palace; how dare this servant go out of the palace to do this for her in private? You can only be patient and persuade with kind words; how do you know that Mrs. Feng Sheng is really angry, and the servants persuade her left and right, but it is difficult to reduce it—until now, when the servants came to see you, they were still bulging cheeks Woolen cloth!"
As he spoke, he kowtowed again and again: "Long Live Lord, please forgive me. I really don't have the ability to invite Feng Sheng's wife back to the palace for Long Live Lord!"
Emperor Tianqi said in amazement: "Who offended the nanny?"
Wei Zhongxian shook his head and said, "Madam didn't tell the slaves!"
Emperor Tianqi asked again: "Why is she angry!"
Wei Zhongxian murmured, "Slave—I don't know!"
Emperor Tianqi thought for a while, and said to him: "No matter why, how she wants to calm down, I will follow her order - you go and tell her, come back first!"
After finishing speaking, he immediately added another sentence: "I will reward her with four pieces of jewelry first, and she will choose them all by herself—you first accompany her to the inner treasury to choose them, and after you have chosen them, come back to Qianqing Palace immediately!"
Wei Zhongxian answered "yes" with all his mouth, kowtowed again and said: "Your maidservant will do it immediately!"
Emperor Tianqi also immediately agreed: "If you do well, you will be rewarded a lot later!"
Therefore, Wei Zhongxian bowed his waist and exited the Qianqing Palace, and returned to his own house to rescue Ke Qingfeng for Emperor Tianqi, secretly delighted in his heart; but Emperor Tianqi stayed alone in the Qianqing Palace, and the time was not easy.
The eunuchs came several times to ask for instructions to pass on the food, but he had no appetite at all, he didn't feel hungry, and he didn't have any thoughts.
However, when Wei Zhongxian left, he didn't return after a long time. He sat and waited, his heart fluctuating in a trance: "Why is the nanny angry? Is she willing to come back?"
The more he thought about it, the more flustered he felt, and the feeling of waiting became even more uncomfortable; after a while, he thought of taking out the set of balls made for him by the carpenter to play with; Well done.
At three quarters in the afternoon, Ke Qingfeng finally returned to Qianqing Palace, accompanied by Wei Zhongxian.
The jewels she had chosen were packed into four brocade boxes, held by four young eunuchs, and delivered directly to the bedroom for her; and she herself walked directly into the bedroom without saying a word, without even looking at Emperor Tianqi.
On the contrary, Emperor Tianqi put down the wooden ball and got up to greet her as soon as he saw her return to the palace. Although she ignored her, he still accompanied her into the bedroom with a smile on his face.
Unexpectedly, Ke Qingfeng was still playing with anger, seeing Emperor Tianqi only two steps behind her, she simply walked straight to the dragon bed, took off her shoes, and went to sleep.
Emperor Tianqi lay down beside the bed and called her: "Nurse! Nanny!"
She didn't respond at all, and simply pulled the brocade quilt up to cover her face.
Emperor Tianqi had no choice but to put down the brocade tent himself, took off his shoes, and climbed onto the bed.
A yellow brocade quilt embroidered with flying dragons embroidered with flying dragons undulated as if covered by waves, the mattress underneath was all messed up, and the flowers, birds and butterflies embroidered with silk thread could not be distinguished.
After a long time, Ke Qingfeng hummed softly and said: "You are about to establish a queen, what do you want me, an old woman to do!"
Only then did Emperor Tianqi suddenly realize why she was so angry that day. She was thinking: "How did she know what the ministers said in the court so quickly?"
However, he was already drenched in sweat, so tired that he just wanted to sleep with his eyes closed, and he could only promise: "Okay, okay, okay, don't be angry, just tell them to move things to a later stage!"
After the words were spoken, he didn't dare to hold back - when he went to the court the next day, he told the ministers that the time for standing up should be delayed as much as possible, so as to avoid Ke Qingfeng's cold war with him again.
However, Nurhachi's scheduled working time has not changed at all.
"In February, go down to Fengji Fort and Tiger Skin Station—"
"In March, concentrate on attacking Shenyang!"
All pre-war preparations have been completed, and the newly built Saerhu City was completed on schedule, becoming an important intermediate stronghold for him to use his troops to the Ming Dynasty. Hucheng rewards the servants.
Although Fengji Fort and Tiger Skin Station are not famous big cities, they are important strategic locations——Fengji Fort is located forty miles southeast of Shenyang, which is the corner of Shenyang, and it is far from Fushun in the northeast and Liaoyang in the southwest Ninety miles each, is not only the main traffic road that must be passed between various places, but also the throat hub; the tiger skin post is located in the southwest of Fengji Fort, which is the corner of Fengji Fort.
The attack on Fengji Fort and Tiger Skin Station was an outpost to advance into Shenyang and Liaoyang.
On February 11th, Nurhaci personally led the army to set off; this time, he also made painstaking arrangements when ordering the troops, trying to give everyone a chance to perform; to give the younger generation a chance to practice, so, He Heli, An Feiyanggu, E Yidu and Hu Erhan were all given the task of staying behind at Hetuala. The four Baylors who had always performed outstandingly on the battlefield—Daishan, Huang Taiji, Amin, Mangurtai— — also retreated to the second line; and the seven sons Abatai, ten sons Dege Lei, and twelve sons Azige, who were rarely in charge on weekdays, were the pioneers, responsible for the first wave of attacks.
The Eight Banners sent out 2,000 troops from each banner, a total of 16,000, and marched in eight routes.
In comparison, the defense of Fengji Fortress is much worse - due to the small size of the place, the entire garrison is less than 5,000 troops, and the commander-in-chief Li Bingcheng is not an outstanding figure. Already available.
When Li Bingcheng received the news that the Jin army was coming to commit an attack, the strategy Li Bingcheng decided was a big mistake.
He neither sent urgent help to other places, nor considered concentrating his troops to defend the city. Instead, he led 3,000 cavalry out of the city and set up camp six miles away to fight.
He didn't know how to use troops, so he had a naive idea in his heart: "If my three thousand elites win a battle, the enemy will automatically retreat!"
Then, when he received a report that the enemy army was approaching, he also naively issued an order: "Send two hundred cavalry to scout first, and the rest will prepare for battle!"
After the order was issued, two hundred cavalrymen under his command came out; unexpectedly, within an hour, the sentinel came in: "Our army met the four banners on the left wing of the Hou Jin army—all of them were killed! "
He just woke up from a dream, and what followed was panic and bewilderment; however, the sentinel reached his ears again: "The Hou Jin army has come straight to our camp!"
The word "go" rose in his heart, and he stammered the order: "Quickly——pull out the camp——return to the city——"
Halfway through the journey, I remembered that I should ask for help from Shenyang, Liaoyang and other places. In a hurry, I ordered my attendants to do it; The report came: "The enemy army has caught up and is about to surround the whole city!"
He panicked, and it took him a while to speak: "Get ready to fire—"
On the one hand, he still remembered his identity at last, so he braced himself up and comforted his subordinates, saying: "It's okay, there are guns in the city, and they will definitely be able to repel the enemy! What's more, I have sent someone for help, as long as we survive In the next two hours, reinforcements will arrive!"
Although these words are both self-deceiving and deceiving at the same time, they have no practical effect-although the cannons fired from the city killed several young soldiers, they couldn't resist the overwhelming rush, and even, I can't stabilize my military spirit.
Nurhaci personally commanded from the high hill in the north of the city. His four sons Abatai, Degelei, Azige, and Babutai respectively led the troops to attack the city gates on all sides. With a wave of brightly colored flags, more than 10,000 people There was a loud cry of killing, and the four gates of Fengji Fort were completely surrounded; the cannons installed on the city had long since failed, and even the soldiers responsible for firing the cannons, like other defenders, abandoned the battle and fled up.
Dege class took the lead in breaking through the north gate, and drove straight in; then, the east, west, and south gates also rushed into the Houjin army; however, the street fighting did not happen, and there was no resistance in the city—all the defenders had fled, and the people They all volunteered.
In less than half a day, the war was over.
But after the war ended, a supporting army of the Ming Dynasty arrived at Fengji Fort under the leadership of the general Zhu Wanliang.
Dege Lei and the four brothers Azige, Babutai and Abatai have already joined forces and are counting the troops and preparing to return to Nurhachi. When he heard the report that the North Korean reinforcements were coming, Dege Lei said with a smile: "I will go Look, there are some people who are not afraid of death, catch a few and send them back to Hetuala!"
Among the four brothers, Azig was the youngest, still full of fun, and immediately called out: "Brother Ten, I'm going too—just now, the Ming army has all run away, and I haven't even loosened my muscles and bones to fight. , so suffocating!"
De Gelei nodded with a smile: "I'll let you have a good time later!"
On the one hand, he said to him: "Simply take Yuetuo, Shuotuo and Sahalin along, let them have more experience, and the second brother can explain it to me!"
Yuetuo, Shuotuo and Sahalin are all the sons of Daishan. Yuetuo is the eldest son, only one year younger than Degelei, but seven years older than Azige; Sahalin is six years younger than Yuetuo , and is still one year older than Azig-the two suffer from their seniority, and there are not many opportunities to be the main general alone.
Azig usually plays with Sahalin in the same way, almost forgetting his generation, but like brothers, of course he applauds now: "I still have to compete with Sahalin, whoever shoots down the Ming army?" Lots of brains!"
How did you know that this idea fell through——
These brothers, uncles and nephews flew on their horses and led a thousand flag troops to the battle; unexpectedly, Zhu Wanliang who came to help was a poor man at all. When he saw the posture of the Jin army rushing to kill, he neither dared to fight and resist, nor did he dare to defend. He turned around and fled, and of course the men and horses he led scattered like birds and beasts.
Victory came too easily, so simple that these big boys who wanted to make military exploits were useless——When they came to Nurhachi to hand in the order, Sahalin couldn't help but begged Nurhachi: "Mafa! , In this battle, nothing was used, and the martial arts that my grandson has practiced for a long time have not come into use; next time, you will send your grandson to fight a more difficult battle, okay?"
Nurhachi smiled and agreed to him, but he also reminded him: "Not every enemy will flee without fighting! No matter what kind of battle you fight, you can't underestimate your opponent - next time, Mafa will let you show your skills, These days, you should prepare well!"
Sahalin became happy, danced and danced around in circles, and said with a smile: "Mafa sent me to fight the tiger skin post—"