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Chapter 161 I would rather die in the hands of Ming

Although there had been Gushan Ezhen and Jia Lazhen leading his army to surrender to the Ming army of Yue, these Gushan Ezhen and Jia Lazhen are all perfect parallel goods, most of which were temporarily promoted Niu Lu Ezhen. Even if the soldiers and horses they were in charge were covered with armor, the maximum number of slaves was less than a thousand.

But now Prince Su Haoge personally led his troops to surrender, and his troops were as many as 10,000 troops. The morale of the imperial camp was boosted and they congratulated Liu Yongxi: "Your Majesty, Prince Su Haoge's surrender only shows that the Qing Dynasty has been exhausted and the recovery of the capital is just around the corner."

Liu Yongxi laughed: "I believe others come to surrender, but King Su is Huang Taiji's eldest son. How could I believe it easily when he leads thousands of troops to surrender!"

In the eyes of civil and military officials, Haoge was just a defeated general. In the past six months, he could be said to have suffered a special defeat. Even at the moment when he heard the news of the Ming army going to fight, he turned around and fled. It was not a problem at all.

If Haoge had not led the army to expose the flanks of the Ajige Legion in Henan to the Ming army in the Northern Expedition, it would not be so easy for the Chengtian Dynasty to eat the Ajige Legion, so everyone thinks it is very normal for Haoge to surrender.

But Liu Yongxi had a very high opinion of Haoge. Although it was true that Haoge was defeated repeatedly and even fled without fighting, Liu Yongxi felt that Haoge, as Huang Taiji's eldest son and former second-ranked figure in the Qing Dynasty, could not have given up his goal so easily.

Queen Gao had already heard the implicit voice in Liu Yongxi's speech: "Your Majesty means that Haoge is surrendering this time? Since he is willing to surrender, then we have a way to deal with him!"

Although Li Zicheng was the most determined in the fighting spirit of the late Ming migrant army and never surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, fraudulent surrender was a common method. The official army had used the refugee army and also used it, not to mention that the Western Army was the great master of fraudulent surrender. Even the Ming army of Yue had used the trick of fraudulent surrender.

Now that he knows that Haoge has the possibility of a fraudulent surrender, the Ming generals present naturally have countless ways to deal with Haoge, and guarantee that Haoge will die without a burial place. Xing Shengping assured Liu Yongxi: "Haoge's command can be wiped out at most ten thousand defeated soldiers and defeated soldiers with just one word from His Majesty."

Liu Yongxi laughed: "In fact, Haoge is not easy. Although he is mostly a fraudulent surrender now, many times he can't get off as long as he gets on the boat. We'd better make him go from fraudulent surrender to real surrender!"

After all, many generals and gentlemen of the Ming Dynasty were like Hong Chengchou. When they first surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, they had a mentality of false surrender and false surrender. However, due to the changing situation, they became hardcore traitors, and were even more vicious to deal with the Ming Dynasty than the Eight Banners of Manchuria.

It is precisely based on this judgment that Liu Yongxi continued to say: "Anyway, you are responsible for bringing Prince Su Haoge here, regardless of life or death, but it is best to be a Prince Su who has changed his heart!"

The fact is just as Liu Yongxi's judgment. Although Haoge released the news that he had "leaded more than 10,000 troops and asked for surrender", since he was Huang Taiji's eldest son and the theoretical number one heir of the Qing Dynasty, he naturally had the Qing Dynasty dream of Emperor Qing.

"In fact, Jinhua thieves are not scary. The scary thing lies in the fact that Liu Yongxi is the only one. As long as Liu Yongxi is killed, Jinhua thieves will naturally collapse in all directions!"

Although this is already the old tune of the Qing army commander, and everyone knows that the Chengtian Dynasty is completely based on countless military victories, Liu Yongxi is only in his twenties now and does not even have a daughter. If he dies unexpectedly, he will be able to fight several civil wars for the issue of his heirs.

But Gushan Ezhen Bahana, who has been following Haoge for many years, feels that killing Liu Yongxi is the only feasible strategy at the moment: "That's right, as long as Emperor Chengtian dies, we can easily fight dozens of defeated generals like Wang Puxiang and Xing Shengping!"

Over the past year, Haoge was beaten by the Ming army in Yue countless times, so he became cautious: "It is not easy to kill Emperor Chengtian Liu Yongxi. This time you must try to listen to my arrangements so that the Han people feel that we are sincerely asking for surrender. Only when we really see Emperor Chengtian Liu Yongxi, listen to my orders before taking action!"

Bahana agreed deeply: "Yes, we all listened to King Su's orders, so I don't believe it anymore. Our ten thousand soldiers and horses are not moved!"

Haoge laughed even more: "Not only have more than 10,000 soldiers, but also I, Prince Su. Although the Ming Kingdom has seen Prince Ying who died in battle, Prince Su who is alive and willing to surrender to the Ming Dynasty will definitely see him for the first time. Emperor Chengtian will definitely meet us as soon as possible!"

No matter in the era of Nurhaci and Huang Taiji, let alone the great figures of Prince Su, even the Mongolian nobles who commanded hundreds of troops and the Han Dynasty surrendered in the future, Nurhaci and Huang Taiji would go out of the city to greet each other in person, and even receive them with higher standards and try every means to win them over.

Since Emperor Chengtian was the founding master, he would definitely follow this idea. The reason why the Qing Dynasty failed to kill Liu Yongxi before was entirely because he could not see the Emperor Chengtian himself.

Therefore, Haoge said confidently: "This time, there should be 60% hope to completely solve this Emperor Chengtian!"

But in his heart, Haoge always feels that the so-called "60% hope" is the minimum estimate, and the actual situation is much more optimistic, at least 80% hope or even 90% hope to solve the problem.

It's just that things always deviate from Hauge's expectations.

Although the Ming army of Yue sent people to contact and ensured that all of Haoge's original status and interests would not be affected, and Emperor Chengtian would still give him special rewards, the problem is that the news that Haoge surrendered to Ming was spreading all over the city immediately.

Whether for the Qing, Ming, or the fence-bearer who is temporarily waiting and watching, Prince Su Haoge's surrender to the Ming Dynasty is the most typical symbolic event.

Ajige died in the entire Henan army, and the regent Dorgon died in the internal strife between the nobles of Manchus. Now Prince Su Haoge led a large army to surrender to the Ming Dynasty. Everyone thinks that the Qing Dynasty is completely helpless.

Therefore, many desperate people who were still waiting and watching or even preparing to fight the Ming army to the death changed their attitude and directly surrendered to the Ming Dynasty. They even became very active, wishing that the Ming army would invade Beijing tomorrow, and there were many Manchu and Mongolian relatives among them.

The tens of thousands of generals and soldiers who finally retreated from Shandong were also in extreme chaos because of this news. Although many Han army and the foreign vassal Mongolia had solemnly considered the issue of surrendering to the Ming Dynasty, with Haoge in charge, they naturally did not dare to act rashly. But now that Haoge has surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, they naturally acted very positively.

In fact, now I am determined to surrender to the Ming Dynasty not only the Han army and the foreign vassal Mongolians, but also the Eight Mongolian Banners and some Manchurian Niulu under Haoge all think that since I want to surrender to the Ming Dynasty with Haoge, it is better to contact the Chengtian Dynasty directly and sell it at a good price.

As for the remaining Qing troops who refused to surrender to the Ming Dynasty, they were also in an out of control now. They felt that Haoge was the number one sinner in the fall of the Qing Dynasty and wanted to kill Haoge now.

This army preserved most of its strength under the pursuit of the Ming army of Yue, but due to Haoge's deceptive surrender order, it became fragmented within three to five days. At least two or three thousand soldiers and horses even said hello and crossed the front and surrendered directly to the Ming Dynasty.

The remaining thousands of soldiers and horses are now disintegrating. Haoge has encountered several assassinations and triggered several times of camp scrutiny. What made Haoge even more amused was that the rebels were the most loyal soldiers of the Qing Dynasty, while those who helped him suppress the rebels were all those who wanted to rebel the Qing Dynasty and surrender to the Ming Dynasty.

The reason why they still support Haoge is naturally hope that Prince Su can come forward to help them negotiate a good price with the Ming Dynasty of Yue. Now Haoge does not dare to talk to others about the issue of fraudulent surrender, but instead focuses on playing Prince Su who is completely disappointed with the Qing Dynasty.

At first, Haoge was just a show-off, and deep down he was thinking about how to take advantage of the opportunity of surrendering to the Emperor Chengtian, Liu Yongxi, but soon he found that he was already wrapped in. He was no longer Prince Su of the Qing Dynasty, but Prince Su of the Ming Dynasty, who was determined to help the Chengtian Dynasty surrender and accept rebellion.

As for those Qing ministers who refused to surrender to the Heavenly Kingdom, they all died at Haoge's hands. Although this was definitely not Haoge's original intention, the development of the situation has been in a direction he did not want to see. More and more loyal Qing ministers died at his hands, even more than those at the Ming army.

Although Haoge really wanted to explain the truth, he was completely under the sword now, and he had gradually changed. He felt that becoming Prince Su of the Ming Dynasty seemed to be good, and his butcher knife against the Qing Dynasty was getting faster and faster. He even personally took action to deal with some dead and hard-working elements of the Qing Dynasty.

Now the Qing Dynasty regards Haoge as the most dangerous enemy. Although everyone can understand that Haoge led his troops to surrender due to the situation, it is too ruthless to turn against each other after Haoge surrenders to the Ming Dynasty!

Originally, everyone thought that the Qing Dynasty could resist for a while and could even reach an alliance with the Ming Dynasty, but with such a fuss, the chips that the Qing Dynasty could play were almost wiped out.

Moreover, Haoge's surrender to the Ming Dynasty also played an example. The Qing army that surrendered to the Ming Dynasty had at most three or five thousand people. However, after Haoge surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, almost all the Qing army commanders in Shandong and Northern Zhili followed Haoge surrendered to the Ming Dynasty regardless of race.

Therefore, the idea of ​​the Manchu nobles and the Qing court has now changed from how to establish an alliance with the Ming army at the city to "it would rather be destroyed by the Ming Kingdom than by the King Su."

However, Prince Su Haoge's troops had become extremely cruel after surrendering to the Ming Dynasty, and even more vicious than the Yue Ming army. Whether it was the Eight Banners, Mongolians, or Han army, as long as they refused to submit to the Ming Dynasty, they would end up being tortured on the spot. Therefore, the Qing court suddenly felt that Emperor Chengtian seemed to be good.
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