Chapter 147 The world is in an uproar
The last time Dorgun and Yue Tuo led troops to enter the Daming Jingfu and Shandong and other places, the Mongolian Eight Banners also sent a lot of soldiers and horses to follow them into the customs. Originally, these Mongolians followed Jiannu. First, because they were not united and were afraid of being beaten by Jiannu, they had to be driven to the south and act as cannon fodder. In addition, they also need to plunder human slaves, gold and silver and other materials from Daming to meet their needs. To put it bluntly, their little brothers followed the boss to rob and took the opportunity to make a fortune.
However, it was not possible that after entering the customs, they encountered a fierce blow from the Xingtian Army in the Jingfu area. In every battle, Dorcon and other Qing generals ran back as their Mongolian soldiers. As a result, the Mongolian soldiers suffered heavy losses when they entered the customs this time against the Xingtian Army.
Originally, there were not many soldiers of the Eight Banners of Mongolia. The strength of the Eight Banners of Manchuria far exceeded that of the Eight Banners of Mongolia, and the excessive consumption of Mongolian soldiers made the flag owners of the Eight Banners of Mongolia very unhappy. In the past, they dared not say anything, but this time when they entered the customs, they found that although the officers and soldiers among the Han people were not good, there was a The Xingtian Army, which can fight head-on with the Tak Army, and this Xingtian Army can repeatedly defeat the Jiannu Army in the field, so they started to move.
After the Mongols arrived in this era, they were no longer as strong as they were in those years. Their forces were very scattered, not to mention their respective policies. They also fought with each other in order to compete for control of the grassland, so that in the face of the fact that the population far exceeded the Jurchens, they could only choose to rely on the slaves. They could It is said that it is a group of pure villains, who can help whoever is strong, and what they do is to eliminate the weak and help the strong.
In the past, they saw that Jiannu was more powerful than the Ming army, so they helped Jiannu deal with Daming. Now they suddenly find that there are still people who are better than the Jiannu army, so according to their habits, they began to become less obedient to Jiannu. After going back this time, they began to find ways to inquire about the Xing Tianjun. From the news collected back, it was suddenly found that Xing Tianjun has now become a huge thing. There are not only so many or twenty thousand horses, but has a comprehensive confrontation with Daming, and may even replace it.
Especially for more than half a year, these Mongols have found that the Xingtian army has occupied more than half of Shanxi in one fell swoop. At the same time, it also has great strength in the border area, and there is a "big plunder" in the area of Huguang in the south, but Daming has been repeatedly defeated in front of Xing Tianjun. Even Yang Sichang, the old man of Daming Pavilion, died in the entrance. In the hands of Kou Huguang's Xing Tianjun, several officials such as governors were killed by Xing Tianjun. Daming had nothing to do with them.
If it goes on like this, Daming will really be replaced by Xing Tianjun. Considering that it is necessary to prepare for a rainy day, once Xing Tianjun rises, he must continue to be the enemy of Jiannu. Jiannu is not the opponent of Xing Tianjun. Once the Xing Tianjun even cleans up the Jiannu one day, then he If you follow Jiannu now, won't it affect the fish in the pond?
So during this period, the Mongols seemed to be very unsipate. Not only did they not listen to the instructions of the slave chieftain Taiji, but even in some places, the Mongols began to secretly fight against Jiannu. Some Mongols began to take the initiative to send people to the Jinbei area, secretly contacting Wang Chengping, Li Lingfeng and others, and Xing Tianjun secretly started a business and sold the good horses, cattle and other livestock needed by Xing Tianjun to Xing Tianjun in exchange for Xing Tianjun to let go of the business road around Xuanda and trade with them.
Huang Taiji, as a slave chief, of course, soon found the small calculations of the Mongols. Of course, he knew that once the Mongols rebelled against them, he would have a big trouble if he had just established the Qing Dynasty. So now he wants to re-conceive these Mongolians as soon as possible. They will turn to Xing Tianjun in the future, so he will immediately agree to the peace proposal put forward by Chongzhen, and the idea is to solve the internal problems quickly.
So Chongzhen was relieved as soon as he received the news. In his opinion, the northern convenience could calm down for a period of time in a short period of time. Jiannu should not go south and enter the bandit in the near future after signing the peace agreement, so he quickly ordered Guanning Army to start to go south to "sup suppress thieves". The time has come. At this time today, he can't wait for a moment.
Although there was a lot of abuse in the government and the opposition, Daming still signed a peace agreement with Jiannu, ceding Jinzhou to Jiannu, and ordered Hong Chengchou to lead his troops to withdraw from Jinzhou and garrison in Ningyuan. A large number of Jinzhou people also moved south.
Such a move caught Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao, unprepared, and before the peace agreement between the Ming and Qing Dynasties, he did not know about it at all. Suddenly, the court reached a peace agreement with Jiannu, and ordered him to supervise the army and escort the people of Jinzhou to move south, which immediately surprised the soldiers and the people outside the customs, and then the soldiers and civilians came. In his rage, many soldiers and civilians immediately scolded the court, which made a big mess outside the gate for a while.
Hong Chengchou was also very stunned by this matter. He suddenly fell into a dilemma. As the governor of Ji Liao, he was the most direct target of attack by the people. As soon as the news spread that night, he was thrown into the dung in the governor's office of Jinzhou, and there was also a notice on the wall that scolded him. We should resolutely resist the peace with the people and never withdraw from Jinzhou. Some people even committed suicide to resist the cession of Jinzhou City to Jiannu.
Hong Chengchou then quickly sent someone to send a memorial to Chongzhen to the capital. Li Chen could not do this. Once he did so, the whole defense system outside the customs may collapse, and the army's heart would definitely be scattered, and the people's hearts would suffer a serious setback. Once Jiannu repented and knocked in again, then there would be no available soldiers outside the customs. Don't expect them to stop the Jiannu army from entering the customs. The territory outside Shanhaiguan will definitely be taken away by Jiannu sooner or later.
Although Chongzhen also realizes that doing so at this time may cause a great loss of people's hearts and the army's heart is lax, but now that he has no room to go back on his mind. If he still repents at this time, he will definitely immediately attract the fierce revenge of Jiannu. At this time, the Xing Tianjun in the mainland of the Ming Dynasty has become uncontrollable. At this point, once Jiannu goes south again because of his remorse, Daming will be completely finished under the internal and external attack of Xing Tianjun and Jiannu. Therefore, he knows that Hong Chengchou is right, but he does not dare to go back on his word. He orders Hong Chengchou to act in accordance with his imperial edict, give up Jinzhou City and take the governor to the people. The crowd immediately withdrew to the south and re-armed the area around Ningyuan.
As a minister of the Ming Dynasty, Hong Chengchou, after receiving Chongzhen's reply, he had no choice but to follow the imperial edict, order the withdrawal of troops to Ningyuan and give up Jinzhou City to Jiannu. The people had to clean up the soft things and go south with the army.
This retreat has basically caused the whole Daming defense system outside the customs to collapse. The military heart is shaken, and the people's hearts are lax. A large number of money has been spent. The materials stored in Jinzhou and those Tunbao, which have cost countless silver to build, have been discarded. Jiannu, many soldiers were scattered on the road, and the supplies were lost all over the ground. They were given to the Jiannu army who followed and monitored them to evacuate Jinzhou, which made the Jiannu army recruit tens of thousands of military services, pushed carts to follow the retreating Daming officers and picked up all kinds of materials discarded by the officers and soldiers, and made a lot of money.
With the spread of the news of the peace between the Ming and Qing Dynasties, those Mongolians who were a little disobedient just realized the crisis. Daming is completely hopeless at the moment. For the time being, they can't count on Xing Tianjun's side, and the sharp knife grinding on Jiannu's side can be cut to their necks at any time. If they don't If they are obedient, then they believe that the cunning Huang Taiji will definitely swaving the butcher knife at them without hesitation, so the Mongols suddenly became much more honest and immediately became obedient again.
For the news of the peace between the court and the construction of slaves, it has flowed out, and it was quickly spread. Feng Weihan, as the spy leader of the Xing Tianjun, naturally placed the details of the Xing Tianjun in the capital. These details sent the news out of the capital at the first time. As soon as Feng Weihan got the news, he immediately sent someone. As soon as possible, the news was sent to Xiao Tianjian.
At this time, Xiao Tianjian had just finished the first Xingtian Army's opening of science to recruit soldiers in Wuchang Prefecture. He was in a good mood and was waiting to rectify the soldiers and horses. Finally, he discussed a battle plan against Nan Zhili. After the Spring Festival, he only waited for the soldiers to lead the soldiers to go down the river and went straight to Nan Zhili.
But at this time, such news came from the north, which surprised Xiao Tianjian. Not only him, but the news had spread, and even the old officials of the court who surrendered Xiao Tianjian in Huguang immediately scolded.
In Xiao Tianjian's view of history, although he felt sympathetic to Chongzhen's loss of the Ming Dynasty, and he was also sad and a little angry about him, he was not very clear about the peace between the court and Jiannu at the end of the Ming Dynasty, so he always believed that Chongzhen did his duty in dealing with Jiannu. The gate of the country, until the overthrow of the dynasty, Chongzhen did not leave Beijing. He fled to the south of the Yangtze River like Emperor Huizong and Gaozong of the Northern Song Dynasty, which was very admirable, so he always subconsciously believed that Chongzhen would not really make peace with Jiannu.
But I didn't think about it. History was completely messed up by him. Chongzhen, who had never made peace with Jiannu, was forced by him to make such a bad strategy. He reached a peace agreement with Jiannu early, completely gave up Liaodong from the legal principle, and even gave up Jinzhou City, which was still under the control of the Ming army. In this way, he freed up his troops and came down to the south to deal with him.
In fact, when Xiao Tianjian captured Gao Qiqian, he learned from Gao Qiqian that at the end of the eleventh year, he instructed Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian to secretly make peace with Jian Nu. However, because of the news, the government and the opposition were in an uproar, forcing Chongzhen to make peace finally come to an end, and Xiao Tianjian didn't know. It was in the fifteen years of Chongzhen's history that he had sent people to make peace with Jiannu, but later, because of Chen Xinjia's carelessness, his servants revealed the news, which once again caused the shock of the government and the opposition, forcing Chongzhen not to reach a final peace with Jiannu.
However, when it came to historical development, it has completely changed since his Xiao Tianjian's interposition. This time, Chongzhen actually hid it from the world. Before the news was revealed, he reached a peace agreement with Jiannu and cooked raw rice into cooked rice. Although there was still a lot of opposition from the government and the opposition, After all, he has done this, and it's too late to repent.
Moreover, Xiao Tianjian didn't need others to remind him at all, so he could figure out why Chongzhen did this. In fact, to put it bluntly, he was forced by him. Now he has even destroyed several officers and military forces in the imperial court in the mainland, so that Chongzhen can't find any elite soldiers and horses to deal with him in the mainland, so in order to save it, he is about to recover. In fact, it is understandable for him to do so. The only thing he can call is those Guan Ningjun. If it were someone else, he would probably do it. It can even be said that Chongzhen would do this, which is still a wise choice.