Chapter 45 The world shakes
As the shaking cheers resounded between the world, in a flash, even the Ming and Qing armies who were still fighting in the distance put aside their fighting between them. From afar, it seemed that they could still see a Ming army commander lifting Nikan's level with a spear.
After hearing the cheers clearly, the Ming army, who was carrying out the main task of blocking the Qing army, was ignited almost in an instant. When the Ming army's jubilation seemed to make the winter dawn warmer, the Qing army, who were still fighting hard, were stunned and even their faces turned pale.
Prince Aisin Jueluan, Prince Jingjin, was once one of the three powerful rulers, the son of Chu Ying, the eldest son of Nurhaci, and the cousin of Shunzhi, the contemporary Qing Dynasty emperor.
Such an identity, especially when most of the nobles and nobles swept the world when they entered the pass, Nikan can even be said to be the most famous general among the nobles of the Qing Dynasty, except for Prince Zheng Jirhalang, who had not been concerned about things for a long time. But it is just such a person who was like a god in the eyes of ordinary Qing soldiers, who was killed by the Ming army on the battlefield. It is amazing that he is shocked.
The commander died, and even if he didn't go and see, he knew that the entire army had no intention of fighting again. Seeing this, senior generals such as Beletunqi, Bashan, Bezizakarna, Mueryou, Gushan Ezhen Handai, Yild, and Alashan quickly left behind the wounded soldiers and dead bodies, fled north in a hurry, for fear of being caught by the strong Ming army, and the entire army was wiped out.
On the battlefield, cheers continued, and Li Dingguo had also noticed the back of the Qing army's hastily flew north. However, at this time, Feng Shuangli and Ma Jinzhong had not arrived. After restraining the bodies of Nikan, Cheng Ni, the Qing cavalry who were guarding Nikan and the wounded soldiers who were abandoned, Li Dingguo had to lead the army back to Hengyang.
From the south gate to the city, three levels were hung above them at first glance. Li Dingguo knew that all three levels came from the northernmost part of Guangzhou Prefecture in Guangdong, namely the deputy general of Lianyang of the Qing Dynasty, Mao Shenghui, guerrilla Ma Sihan and the garrison Bai Shoufu. These three generals of the Qing army are his current generals, the previous masterpieces of Andingbo Ma Bao.
As early as when Li Dingguo killed Kong Youde and captured Guangxi, Ma Bao, who was still fighting against the Qing army in Guangdong, heard the good news and led his army to attack northern Guangzhou, Lianshan, Lianzhou, Lianshan and other prefectures and counties. After capturing these three Qing generals alive, he was ordered to enter Huguang with Li Dingguo to resist the Qing army. These three levels were also captured at that time and hung at the south gate of Hengyang.
In fact, it was not just Ma Bao. After Kong Youde's death, most civil officials and generals in Guangxi came out again to participate in the righteous act.
Among the military generals, such as Zhao Yinxuan, Duke Wei Hu Yiqing, General Zhangwu, Yuan Laichao, former Duke Qingguo Chen Bangfu, and General Wang Dajie, Lei Zhaosheng, and Ou Zhengfu, Duke Yongguo Cao Zhijian, all served in front of the army. In terms of civil servants, the Minister of War of the Yongli Court, Liu Yuansheng, the Minister of War of the Central Secretariat Guan Siqiu, and Zhu Changshi, the Chief of the Ministry of War of the Ministry of War, also came out of the Yao Mountains to meet with Li Dingguo, and jointly negotiated opportunities and defended Guilin. Wu Decao, the former Guangxi Inspector, also served in Wuzhou according to his order, "sitting in the gatehouse and catching the entrance and exit", and officials were set up in Guangxi provinces.
According to the grandson of Qu Shisi, the Grand Secretary of the Supervisor, and Qu Changwen, who was in Guilin at that time, Guangxi "the ministers of the eight counties, who were in the deep valleys, moved to the poor and difficult places, and waited for the time, and never changed their guards, were all recommended by the emperor. They were all lucky to be reborn, and the sorrows of the mountains, forests, wild zodiacs were all celebrated to see the dignity of the Han officials again."
Although there are many elements of Qu Changwen using this to show off and praise his grandfather Qu Shisi, the news of the Guilin victory did greatly inspire Guangxi's anti-Qing people.
As Li Dingguo expected, in the following days, such as Zhou Kanteng, the Minister of Works of the Chongzhen Dynasty, who was immediately appointed as Minister of the Ministry of Revenue but did not take office in the office, Guo Duxian, the governor of Jiangxi of the Chongzhen Dynasty, who was appointed as Minister of War but did not take office in the Yongli Dynasty, and later, the descendants of Tao Runai, who were later demoted to the monk, but were persecuted by literary inquisition, and the gentry of Tao Runai, who was brutally persecuted by literary inquisition, were also summoned one after another. As for the scholars who came to serve, there were countless righteous men.
As the portraits of Li Dingguo generals Kong Youde and Nikan were circulated around, and the news that Nikan was killed sounded like thunder in the Qing Dynasty's officialdom, the news of Li Dingguo's "two famous kings" spread like a flying degree, and more and more scholars who had already been discouraged rejoined in the fight against the atrocities of the Qing Dynasty's extermination of Chinese civilization.
It flowed down the Yangtze River and soon spread in the southeastern tribes. For a moment, even the limelight of Chen Wen, who had just killed the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, who had been unanimously favored, was suppressed.
"It is rumored that Xijima has gone down to Hunan.
Five ridges cover the sky with fog, and three fallen trees and winds.
After a happy day, the miasma and a hundred barbarians were among the miasma.
If there is no Three Kings’ ritual, who will win the battle achievements?
Twenty years after the river bridge, I am now hiding axe to conquer it.
The country's prestige was just shook, and the military power was coming.
Zhang and Chu ordered the three armies to respect Zhou Sihai's heart.
The scholar was preparing to go, but he didn't realize the tears were deep."
This "Rule" is a poem written by Gu Yanwu when he learned the news of Guilin's victory and was in a state of excitement. When the news of Li Dingguo's victory in Hengyang came, Gu Yanwu and Wu Zhenyuan, Wu Zongqian, Ye Hengzhao, Guizhuang, Pan Qizhang and other members of Jingyin Poetry Society gathered in Wujiang and wrote poems to praise this amazing achievement!
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The commander of the Southern Expedition, a prince of the Qing Dynasty, was killed by the Ming army. Dorobetunqi, the highest-level member of the Southern Expedition, hurriedly asked Beijing for help after fleeing back to Changsha.
The flying pigeon and the fast horse ran all the way and brought the news back to the imperial case in Shunzhi. But this time, the young Tartar emperor seemed to have been taken away by the request for help from the letter, just sat blankly on the dragon throne, without saying a word.
After a long time, in the eyes of the eunuchs who were trying hard to dodge in the hall, two lines of tears flashed across the corner of Shunzhi's eyes, and he murmured: "I have never lost anything when I use military service in the throne."
Nikan was twenty-eight years older than Shunzhi, and even two years older than Dorgon. When Dorgon was alive, Nikan was one of the three kings in charge of governing the country. After Dorgon's death, Nikan was suppressed by Shunzhi for watching Ajige secretly hide his weapons and did not report it. Shunzhi's crying naturally would not be sad about the death of his cousin, but Nikan's death, which made him begin to fear, fear the Han people who were inspired to flock to the sky, fear the possibility of a revival in the Ming Dynasty, and even more fear of the fate of him as a slave chief after the Han people restored their country!
After finally letting go of his thoughts to return to the harem to find his mother, the later Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, Borjijit Bumubutai, cried out, and Shunzhi quickly attracted several of his confidants and some outstanding slaves.
The crowd quickly arrived at the hall. Not only Sony and Oboi, but also Ebilong, the minister of the guards, Zhenghuang Banner, and Suksaha, Zhengbai Banner. Among other slaves, there were also old ministers like Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan, who were the only one who lacked the last time Chen Wen defeated Chen Jin, and swept the Qing army in southwestern Zhejiang to the point of asking Hong Chengchou.
Nikan died, and these people had naturally learned the details. The person underestimated the enemy and was not willing to die. However, the myth of the invincible Eight Banners of Manchuria was broken by a general of the Ming army. There were too many things and chain reactions that meant, so many of these loyal dogs in Shunzhi were as quiet as a cicada, as if they had turned into turtles and did not even dare to do any moves, as if they were just bombarded out like an amnesty before.
"For the sake of the present, the only way to increase troops to Huguang as soon as possible."
Everyone was silent, but Oboi, who had always been full of energy, stood up and said loudly. But even after saying this, Oboi knew that there was no military force to adjust at this moment!
Beijing is far from Huguang. Nikan walked for four months before he arrived at Huguang. As a result, he was killed before he could do anything there. It was obvious that he was going to give away his head.
But his death was over. The Ming army had just won a great victory and had a large army. How could they not pursue the victory? Then, even if the reinforcements in Beijing were at most, they could only collect the bodies of Tunqi, Bashan and others.
As for the nearby transfer, since Li Dingguo was able to defeat the army of the Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolia, the Green Camp soldiers in Jiangnan would die if they left. Besides, no one really dared to go, just like the Guangxi Governor Wang Yipin who tried to avoid taking office by bribery, the Green Camp general was afraid that he would not even dare to leave the bed.
At this point, even if there is reinforcement, they can only send out the Eight Banners Army. However, the Eight Banners stationed in Jiangning have never been moved lightly. Hangzhou’s Eight Banners stationed in Hangzhou are not afraid to leave Zhejiang at the moment. Although the Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolian in Aljin are the most recent and the strongest Eight Banners, the mobile forces of the Green Camp in Jiangxi have been attracted by Chen Wen to western Zhejiang. According to the report of Jiangxi Governor Cai Shiying, the anti-Qing rebel army in western Jiangxi has joined forces with a partial army of Li Dingguo, and the local Qing army is unable to eliminate them. How dare they transfer Aljin to the Huguang battlefield to reinforce the troops?
For a time, the Qing Dynasty powerful people, who had a million troops and occupied 708 of China, suddenly appeared. As the situation in the southeast deteriorated, they only had the path of "doing their power and leaving their destiny" on the southwest battlefield.
Since the late Ming Dynasty, civil officials and generals have been frightened when they mention the Qing army. Han bureaucrats who depended on the Qing court often requested the court to send "Zheng Manchu" to the war whenever they encountered military emergency. The Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty regarded themselves as the pride of heaven and were invincible.
In less than half a year, Li Dingguo rushed to fight thousands of miles, killing two princes of the Qing Dynasty, especially killing the Prince of Gui and personally commanding the power of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty to move south, aiming to eradicate the Ming army in the southwest in one fell swoop. Not only did he stifle the ambition of the Qing Dynasty to quickly destroy the anti-Qing movement, but he also broke the myth of the invincible Eight Banners of Manchuria in one fell swoop.
Although the killing of these two great victories on the Qing Dynasty's vitality was far less exaggerated than imagined and later rumors, the officials, gentry and people loyal to the Ming Dynasty were all excited and rekindled their hopes of revival.
Chapter completed!