Chapter 1049: A Road

This situation made Bolo, Shuosai, Wakda, and Mandahai all their sons and nephews kneel, and sighed together with Dolgon, and blamed themselves. Zilharang said to the princes and princes: "The situation is critical, we have no time to sigh and pity ourselves, we must immediately send reinforcements to Jinan, otherwise our decisive battle in the Central Plains will be in vain!" ”

Dolgon said: "Tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of artillery pieces can't hold a Qingzhou, is there anything different in Jinan?" It is better for Prince Zheng to sit in the Central Plains, and the main army of the lonely marshal will go to Shandong to eliminate Li Yuanyin and Zheng Chenggong. After the victory, he will have a decisive battle with Zhu Yulang! Otherwise, all the main forces of our Qing Dynasty will be deeply surrounded by the Ming army on three sides, and it will be extremely dangerous to conduct a decisive battle in such a situation! ”

Zilharang said: "Regent, if my army is well supplied with logistics, this strategy is the best strategy. However, after the Ming army captured Jianghuai, we had already lost our main grain-producing areas. Shandong and Henan are in the midst of a melee again, and the Ming army is infiltrating eastern Henan and Huaiyou, how can the Gyeonggi and Liaodong regions alone support the supply of the army? Moreover, even if the main force of our army is now going to Shandong, Li Yuanyin is most likely to retreat to the sea. When it comes to our army's division, he will land again, and in this way, he will lose the opportunity to fight a decisive battle with the main force of the Ming army. If Zhu Youlang couldn't see the certainty of victory, it would be impossible for him to make his main force attack the Central Plains, and so many prefectures and counties in eastern Henan and Huai were occupied by his forwards, and we all stood still, isn't it just to put a long line to catch a big fish? If we can't settle the situation in one battle, with the huge cost of my hundreds of thousands of troops and the long supply line, there is only one way to exit the border in the end. ”

Dolgon said: "Yes, withdraw from the customs, the war horses still have grass to eat, and in the Central Plains, they can only eat grain." I don't believe it, Zhu Youlang has formed a three-sided encirclement of our army, and he still refuses to release the main force to fight a decisive battle with us? What kind of opponent is this, I have let hundreds of thousands of troops sit in vain, but we have no goal to find, but he is like an ant colony eating the elephant, and the elephant wakes up only to find that there is only a pile of bones left. Let's fight, come to the decisive battle, win or lose, the lone king doesn't want to wait any longer. At least let my hundreds of thousands of Manchurian iron horsemen be fierce and fierce, and not be killed by knives and hidden arrows. ”

Seeing that Dolgon had dispelled the idea of going to Shandong in person, Prince Duanzhong Bolo said: "Uncle, my nephew invited himself to Shandong to eliminate Li Yuanyin. Dolgon said: "Just by your words, we can't go to Shandong, now our main purpose is to induce the main force of the Ming army to come to the Central Plains, a established battlefield to fight a decisive battle with our army, and it is not easy to divide too many troops in other battlefields." As long as we can eliminate the main force of the Ming army in one battle, then whether it is Shaanxi or Shandong, it will be easy to take it back. Fortunately, after Gu ordered Zuo Mengeng to go to Qingzhou, Prince Zheng dispatched Geng Jimao's 20,000 Zhenghuangqi Han army to Jinan, and the Ming army in Shandong couldn't take it there for a while. However, for the sake of safety, Lone also has to send another strong army there, and I believe that in this way, it will be foolproof. ”

Zilharang asked, "Who else can be sent to Shandong at this time?" Dolgon said: "There are also 33,000 Han troops on the front line of Huai'an and Yizhou who can move north to Jinan, and he will help defend Jingnan Wang to ensure that Jinan is temporarily worry-free." The focus of the Ming army's attack is still in Xuzhou, and Tong Yangliang's station has lost the meaning of bait, so let him go where he needs it more. As long as our army can completely annihilate the main force of the Ming army this time, who can compete with our Qing Dynasty in this huge country? ”

Zilharang has also been played by the Ming army over the years, and he has long wanted to fight to the death with the Ming army, he said to Dolgon: "As the regent said, it has to be like this, I hope God bless the Qing Dynasty, this time you can fight the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty to the sea." "The hands and feet of the two regent are temporarily tied to a chariot, for the future of the Qing Dynasty and for the glory of their ancestors. Because two more important figures of the Qing Dynasty came to Jinan, Zu Zepu, the former governor of Shandong, was transferred out and shelved after returning to Beijing.

Let's talk about who Geng Jimao is and why he is a big man. Because this person is the son of Geng Zhongming, the king of Huaishun, because Geng Zhongming has sheltered the fugitives from Liaodong many times and has been accused many times, Geng Zhongming committed suicide in fear of being cleaned up. Dolgon didn't want to kill him, but he just wanted to beat him, but he killed himself, which made Dolgon also a little sorry, so Geng Jimao inherited his title as the king of Pingnan.

Geng Jimao did not retire according to his father's orders like Kong Youde's descendants, he still continued to be an eagle dog in the Qing Dynasty, and surpassed his father, and treated his compatriots more ferociously. In real history, Geng Jimao and Shang Kexi, the king of Pingnan, defeated Li Chengdong in 1650 AD, broke through the city of Guangzhou, and launched a massacre against the city, known as the Gengyin Catastrophe. According to history, the massacre was 'the killing of eighteen people, the corpses of the six veins. ’

At that time, after the Qing soldiers Geng and Shang Erwang commanded a large army to besiege Guangzhou for more than nine months, they used various siege equipment and even hired Dutch gunners to finally break the city, and then slaughtered the residents of Guangzhou for 12 days. According to the official history of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing army pursued and killed the people of Guangzhou to the shore of the sea, and countless people drowned. You must know that Guangzhou is not near the sea, and it will take several hours to walk from Guangzhou to Shenzhen, which shows that this group of animals has long been extinct in human nature.

According to conservative estimates by modern historians, more than 100,000 people died in the Guangzhou Massacre. According to the statistics obtained by some monks who collected the bodies of the victims that year, the number of victims of the Gengyin catastrophe exceeded ...... 700,000! Whether it is 100,000 or 700,000, this is a blood debt, and the author believes that if I go to the monks and do not speak, I feel even more sorry for those so-called 'experts'. However, in my heart, I actually hope that this massacre has never happened, and that even if it did, the fewer victims the better.

Here I will explain what it means to 'kill eighteen people and fill the six veins of corpses'. Legend has it that after the two kings captured the city of Guangzhou, they suffered heavy losses because they were met with desperate resistance from the soldiers and civilians of Guangzhou before the city was broken. Geng Jimao and Yi Kexi vowed to wash the city of Guangzhou in blood, and they started from the west gate of Guangzhou, and killed eighteen paves in succession. A paved road is ten miles, and eighteen paved roads are one hundred and eighty miles.

It is rumored that a Qing army general at that time learned of the inside story, hoping to save the people of Guangzhou, anxious and anxious to let two henchmen rush to make eighteen wooden signs, from the "first shop" to the "eighteen shop". Then I took the sign overnight and went around nailing it. Starting from the first jin of the Liumai Canal, the distance between each shop was narrowed, and the ninth shop turned back, so that many people in Guangzhou were spared from being killed. Whether this is a legend or not, I don't know, I only remember that Shi Zaiqing's army has been killing people to the sea, and the sea is not in the west gate in the south. However, it is true that the corpses filled the six veins of the canal.

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