Shuotuo was defeated, the Red Banner Manchuria was almost completely annihilated, not to mention the death of the banner lord Wangye, and even with the news that more than a dozen Mongolian princes were captured and killed, they were quickly delivered to Beijing by fast horses. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info immediately caused an uproar in the city, causing the Eight Banners to panic and start a fierce quarrel.

Above the court, there were originally different views on the relocation of the emperor from Liaodong to Beijing, but now, the battle ahead has been lost, and it is still an unprecedented defeat. This immediately gave the Liaodong faction led by Dai Shan, who advocated grabbing a handful in the Central Plains, and then returning to Liaodong with gold, silver, goods, and slave craftsmen to enjoy it for a few years, and then trying to enter the customs for a few years, and began to attack those Guannei factions composed mainly of young officials.

"When the emperor was alive, he said to the kings and ministers, 'In the Ming Kingdom, if it is like a big tree, with deep roots and thick leaves, if you take Beijing, you will cut down a big tree, and cut it down from both sides first, and then the tree will be its servant.'" If you take the Beijing division directly, the time has not come, and I am afraid that there will be a repeat of the disaster of the Liao Emperor Deguang. The tree has deep roots, and it must not be coveted and eager. But you are anxious for quick success, and now you see, Beijing City has been taken, but we have suffered defeats in Shanxi, Henan, and Jinan. Now that the Shuotuo Banner Master has been folded, what else do you have to say at this time? In the old man's opinion, it is better to arrange to withdraw to Shanhaiguan as soon as possible, relying on the natural danger of Shanhaiguan to confront Mingguo! ”

In response to the accusations and suggestions of the Liaodong faction, the Kannai faction scoffed.

"Defeated? At the moment, it is just a confrontation between the two sides, so why talk about losing the war? As for the matter of Shuotuo Banner Master, let me ask, how many times have my soldiers and horses entered the customs to fight the Ming Dynasty, and there was a time when no general was killed? As for the natural risk, Shanhaiguan is a natural risk in front of the Nanyue Army and the land and water army! At the beginning, Shi Lang and Wu Sangui were able to wreak havoc for thousands of miles and turn Jinzhou, Gaizhou and other places into a blank land, could it be that after we retreated to Liaodong, they wouldn't come again in various places along the coast of Liaodong? ”

"Also, you just talked about the first emperor, have you forgotten how the first emperor died? It's not because of those barbarians in Heilongjiang? If the Southern Barbarians deepened their collusion with this group of barbarians, harassed the coastal areas of the Qing Dynasty with sailors all the way, and harassed the back of the Qing Dynasty with the Sauron barbarians as the vanguard all the way, what would happen to the situation of being attacked by the enemy on the back of the enemy? ”

The two sides insisted on their own words, accusing each other and scolding each other.

Most of the Liaodong faction are veterans and important ministers, with high positions and little power. The Guannai faction was composed of the Tashan system as the basic backbone, and most of them were young officers who had emerged in the previous battles in the customs and in the Liaodong War, and relied on their military exploits and families to gain official positions, power, and soldiers. It is when you are full of ambition and ready to show your skills in the Central Plains, how can you give up the good future in the Central Plains and return to the bitter cold land of Liaodong to endure the years with these old and immortal guys?

In the midst of the quarrel, there is no practical solution that can be accepted by the majority of people.

"Minister Li Huayu congratulates the Holy Lord on his health, relying on His Majesty's blessings, the soldiers use their lives, and the ministers and the Dongyu fight in Zhili. First with artillery rockets to lose their courage, and then with fine cavalry to attack its side, and because of the internal changes of the thief, Ozanikan revolted and rebelled, and finally broke the Dongyu Shuotuo Department, beheaded Shuotuo, completely annihilated more than 12,000 Liao thieves under it, and captured tens of thousands of rebel thieves. Now that the door of the East is open, the minister's march is smooth, and I hope that the Holy Lord will not miss the opportunity to urge the two roads to advance simultaneously in order to achieve great success. ”

The two documents with almost identical content appeared in front of two completely different camp leaders in the name of Li Huayu, Li Zicheng for Dashun and Zhu Yousong for Daming. They all call each other the holy lord and call themselves ministers. Of course, it is also slightly different, and the inscription to Zhu Yousong says that Ming Zhongxing is just around the corner. To Li Zicheng, it is said that Dashun will dominate the world just around the corner.

It's okay to give Li Zicheng a good report, for such a good news, Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin and others have not seen it. What's more, Liu Zongmin had just fought the Battle of Zhanghe not long ago, which also made Duoduo's nose blue and his face swollen. However, the internal contradictions became more and more prominent because of the victory in the Battle of Zhanghe, which made Li Zicheng a little anxious.

However, the treatment of the documents that arrived in Nanjing was very different. After seeing this report, Ma Shoufu didn't say a word, and with a stroke of the pen, he added a zero to the results! It has become a great victory of annihilating more than 120,000 Liao thieves and capturing and beheading hundreds of thousands of traitors!

As a result, there were many celebrations in Nanjing, and the court discussed how to reward the meritorious soldiers in front of them. However, Li Shouhan, who was standing on top of the court, couldn't laugh. Li Huayu's copies of the inscriptions for Daming and Dashun were handed to him through the family letter and the express boat. After seeing it, he was so angry that he jumped to his feet and scolded.

"Li Huayu, you bastard boy, you have been in the country for a long time, and you have actually learned the way of the Zong family!"

These words can be said casually in the Ming court. Because, except for the officials and generals of the Nanyue military system, I am afraid that few people know what is going on with the Zong family. The Tsushima clan is located on the island of Tsushima, adjacent to North Korea. For the benefit of trade, on the one hand, he called Edo a tribute, and on the other hand, he called a tribute to Korea.

This outrage can only occur in front of his own children.

Li Huamei and Shi Lang, after completing their honeymoon voyage, learned that great changes had taken place in the Central Plains, so they ordered the vice general to lead a huge fleet to come slowly, and they took a clipper ship to Nanjing day and night to meet their father and ask for his life. However, he didn't want to coincide with the meeting, so he caught up with Li Shouhan and became angry.

"Father, dissipate your anger. The body matters. Shi Lang smiled, stepped forward to pack up the paper that Li Shouhan had thrown all over the room, and carefully checked it to see if there were any omissions and losses, and then sealed it. Once these things are spread, they will set off huge waves.

His move was not big, but it made Li Shouhan very pleased.

"Honorable Marquis, what did you and Erya do you have to say about this trip?"

Seeing Li Shouhan inquiring about going to sea, Li Huamei breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that his father had diverted his attention, and no longer cared about the boldness of his eldest brother and stepped on two boats.

"Yes!" Seeing that his father asked about this, Shi Lang immediately perked up, he walked outside the door and took the chart from his relatives.

"Father, please look. This is the biggest harvest of the child's trip to sea! ”

Li Huamei proudly pointed to a patch of brown and green in the blue ocean, which clearly represented an island in the ocean.

"These islands are the largest of the archipelagos. Erchen ordered someone to roughly measure it, and it was about 10,000 miles away. There are homes on the island, water is abundant, and there are many ports. The most important point is that the Son Chan ordered the sailors to map according to the sextant taught by the gentlemen, and the island here is exactly between the two sides of the Pacific Ocean where our Nanyue army is located! In the future, the ships of the brigade will travel between the hometown of Fusang and the Central Plains and Nanzhong, which can be used as an important transit point to replenish water sources and vegetables! ”

Looking at the dotted routes marked with dotted lines on the chart, Li Shouhan was overjoyed. casually asked, "Where is this place called?" ”

However, Shi Lang's answer was that Lei De Li Shouhan had a feeling of being scorched on the outside and tender on the inside.

"Father, the natives here call this place Hawaii, which means primitive home in their native language. According to them, their ancestors came here thousands of years ago in two huge canoes. The sons and daughters thought, the whole world is not the king's land. I dared to change the name of this place according to the pronunciation of the natives, and called this island the Hawaiian Islands! Huaxia Weiyuanyi! ”

Li Shouhan almost didn't choke on a sip of tea by his eldest son-in-law's words! Unexpectedly, Shi Lang, who was in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, actually had the same mode of thinking as Liang Qichao and others in the late Qing Dynasty, and gave the name of the native to such a low-key luxury and connotative name.

On the way back, the child had already forwarded this discovery to the Toji and the Bing Division in the name of the commander of the Naval Division, asking them to mark the location on the chart and send someone to pick it up. Arrange for immigrants to come to the island. ”

I have to say that Shi Lang and Li Huamei are very thoughtful. Let Li Shouhan transfer his anger towards Li Huayu.

"Go, send someone to send a letter to your second brother, and ask him to put down the father-in-law at hand. Come back home to see his sister and brother-in-law, let's have a meal as a family! ”

However, things in the world are often contrary to people's wishes.

After nightfall, a table of sumptuous and delicious meals was placed in front of everyone in the Li family. Li Shouhan at the top, Li Huabao at the bottom, Li Huamei and Shi Lang sat opposite each other. Seeing that the children have grown up and have made quite achievements, Li Shouhan can't help but feel good.

"Come on! There are no outsiders here, so our family should not stick to those etiquette. Let's go! Just picked up the chopsticks, greeted his daughter, son and son-in-law with a smile, Li Shouhan was about to stretch the chopsticks to the dish on the plate, the figure outside swayed, and it was the deacon of the office who rushed quickly.

"Something again?" Li Huamei, Shi Lang, and Li Huabao all looked at each other, they knew that if something particularly important hadn't happened, the people in the official room would definitely not come to disturb at this time, which would be tantamount to touching the head.

"What's the matter?" Li Shouhan put down his chopsticks a little angrily. It is said that Zhou Gong is one bath and three grips of hair, one meal and three spit feeds, Lao Tzu is not Zhou Gong! Lao Tzu hasn't mixed up with so much power yet! Why didn't you even let Lao Tzu eat an Ansheng meal?

"My lord, there is an urgent military situation in Henan!"

The deacon in the public room didn't dare to say much, so he just handed the document with three feathers sealed with fire paint on it to Li Shouhan.

Henan? That should be talking about the area where Li Huayu is located right now! The rest of the large tracts of land are under the banner of Li Zicheng's Dashun! Hearing this, the four members of the Li family changed their expressions together.

Sure enough, it is related to Li Huayu!

Xu Dingguo, the chief soldier of Henan, in the process of Gao Jie going to reinforcements, first greeted Gao Jie with his will, and sought perfection with compromise, then the paralysis of the wine and meat beauties, and finally worshiped Gao Jie as the eldest brother. completely dispelled Gao Jie's vigilance. When Gao Jie was drunk, he ambushed Gao Jie and his 200 entourage and hacked him to death. Then, Xu Dingguo mobilized his descendants and fought against Gao Jie's troops under the banner of the Qing army. Gao Jie's subordinate generals were caught off guard for a while, and they suffered a big loss coldly.

When he came to his senses, Xu Dingguo's soldiers were unlucky. How are these soldiers and horses who have not fought any major battles the opponents of Li Chengdong and others? You must know that Li Chengdong and others followed Gao Jie to fight thousands of miles!

But Xu Dingguo also has his own advantages! That is, he has been in Suizhou for many years, and he has a wide range of contacts, and the nearby Tukou horse thieves are secretly looking at him. Before he started plotting against Gao Jie, he had already greeted the indigenous wandering forces of various tribes, and we must abandon the darkness and surrender to the Qing Dynasty. If you follow me, then the high-ranking officials will have to ride on horses. As a result, with Suizhou as the center, all kinds of bandits, poles, horses, and thieves within a radius of two or three hundred miles, all secretly contacted Xu Dingguo for self-protection.

Li Chengdong and others are strong in battle, while Xu Dingguo is a large number of people and familiar with geography and people. The so-called ants bite the elephant to death, and it is difficult to distinguish between them for a while.

As a result, all the prefectures, counties, villages and towns in eastern Henan have fallen into bad luck, and the villages are crying everywhere with smoke coming out. The rebels passed by, and the food, money, clothing, and livestock were swept away, and the houses were reduced to ashes.

Xu Dingguo raised the banner of the Qing Army, claiming that he was the vanguard of the southern expedition of the Great General and Prince Duoduo of Yu, and the whole army shaved his hair, calling on all kinds of variegated armed forces in the vicinity to join him in surrendering to the Qing Dynasty. "The big king, the small marquis, the generations have been torn apart." Use fame and fortune to lure those armed forces who have no concept of honor and disgrace and Yixia defense.

Suizhou, for Li Huayu, is not a big place, but it is very important. This city, known on our map as Sui County of Shangqiu City, happens to be near the course of the Yellow River. Li Huayu's heavy grain and grass were transported from Shandong to the Henan front through the Yellow River and the canal.

Now these guys are wantonly burning and attacking each other behind Li Huayu's back, seriously threatening Li Huayu's rear.

As for the requirements of the grain and grass baggage, the Nanyue Army, which has the characteristics of a modern army, naturally attaches more importance to it than Li Zicheng's Dashun Army and Dolgon's Daqing Army. In addition to relying on strict training and almost cruel military discipline, the combat effectiveness of the Nanyue Army relied on a strong rear supply to continuously transport the necessary material resources to the front line to supply the needs of the operation.

Moreover, on the issue of fighting against the Qing army, Li Shouhan wrote letters more than once and even warned Li Huayu in person that dealing with the Qing army was conducive to a lasting war and not conducive to a quick war. The Qing army pursued a quick decisive battle, while the Nanyue army wanted to weaken and consume the opponent's small war potential with strategic durability, and use time to offset their advantage.

However, now this strategic concept has been ruined by a completely neglected Xu Dingguo!

And another enemy report made Li Shouhan a little annoyed.

This sudden situation did not appear in the camp of the Qing army, but came from within the Dashun army, which in a sense had a certain friendly and allied relationship with the Nanyue army.

After confronting the Qing army in Shanxi and defeating the Qing army's Dashun army at Zhanghe in Henan, the situation was eased and the external pressure was reduced, and the internal contradictions suddenly became acute.

This is where an infighting ensues.

As for the reason for this infighting, it is basically a Rashomon. The people involved are all talking about each other, and the various material evidence is completely the donkey's lips and the horse's mouth. It's hard to piece together a complete cause for the incident.

However, the explanation that can be accepted by most people is that the "Niuwu infighting", or the infighting between the Qin law system and the Kejia system, is ostensibly a contradiction between the civil and official camp within Dashun, but in fact it is a general outbreak caused by the accumulation of various contradictions within Dashun.

Just as there are mountains and factions in the Qing army and the Nanyue army, there are also many factions and many mountains in the Dashun army. Geographically, there are so-called Shaanxi factions and non-Shaanxi factions. It refers to the place of origin of the generals. If the Shaanxi faction is divided in more detail, what else are the Northern Shaanxi faction and the Guanzhong faction, the Ansai faction and the Mizhi faction, and so on. The so-called kiss or not is close to the hometown, the same language and customs are easy to make people group. How much more is birth and death?

If we divide it from the historical source, there are camp-breaking factions and non-camp-breaking factions. This point is very clear, Li Zicheng's lineage and the team that annexed and annexed the fire through various means, such as Luo Rucai's Cao Ying, the team of the fourth battalion of Gezuo, and so on. However, there are also small hills in the camp lineage, such as Hao Shaoqi, who are not looked at by Liu Zongmin, Yuan Zongdi, Gao Yigong, and other people from the old eighth team. Because he is a general under the command of Gao Yingxiang, the former king of Chuang.

If it is divided according to blood and surname, it is the Li family, the Gao family, the He family, the Liu family and so on.

The contradictions that these mountains and factions have accumulated openly and secretly on weekdays have been fermented, ignited, and exploded in a seemingly inconspicuous incident.

Li Zicheng's army confronted the Qing army in Shanxi and Henan, and the army's salary, grain and grass were naturally consumed. It is necessary to have local officials responsible for the collection and transportation. In Shanxi, according to Wu Xing's promulgation of the recovery of the arrears of money and grain, Zhou Zheng, the same knowledge, because of the conflict with his boss, Huang Shiren's father of the Kejia department, because of the pursuit of the arrears, returned to the mansion in a rage and planned to mobilize people to seize the Huang family's property. However, I don't want to encounter something amazing.

When Zhou Zheng rushed to the Huang Mansion with people, he found that the old man of the Huang family had died of anger and fell on top of the living room. Just as he was about to do an autopsy, the bitter master and boss Huang Shiren appeared just right. He insisted that Zhou Zheng forced his father to death, at least Zhou Zheng's subordinates did it.

The two sides argued, and Huang Shiren suddenly turned his face and killed Zhou Zheng, and then rose up to resist the grain. The four township gentry responded one after another. He claimed to demand that Li Zicheng restore the preferential exemption rules of the Wanli period and expel Qin law officials like Zhou Zheng. Otherwise, even if the knife and axe are in front, they will never flinch.

After hearing the news, Wu Xing was ready to mobilize men and horses to carry out severe suppression, but he was prevaricated by the generals of the Dashun battalions and refused to send troops. And after Niu Jinxing heard about this, he gave Wu Xingda eye medicine in front of Li Zicheng. claimed that Zhou Zheng was at fault first, causing the civil uprising. The gentry everywhere should be appeased, or at least not heavily punished. At the same time, in order to show the bearing of the Son of Heaven, the officials of the Qin legal system who had similar situations when urging the department everywhere should be severely punished.

Faced with the constant fire in the backyard, in order to temporarily stabilize the rear and alleviate the crisis, Li Zicheng reluctantly agreed to Niu Jinxing's suggestion. As a result, it was strongly opposed by Li Yan. What's even more serious is that Wu Xing, in a fit of rage, led thousands of disciples of the Qin Law School and hundreds of officials who abandoned their official positions to defect to him as a teacher in a fit of rage, and at the instigation of his little concubine Jing Crimson, crossed the Dashun control area and defected to Li Huayu in Shandong. Not to mention being greeted by Lu Ma Hong for dozens of miles out of the city, he was even appointed as an envoy to discuss matters in Yimeng and other places.

At this time, the contradictions within the Dashun Army were suddenly made public. The thousands of people from the Qin Law School were able to march unscathed for more than 1,000 miles and directly crashed into the arms of the Shandong soldiers and horses of the Nanyue Army who came to meet them, which was enough to make Li Zicheng so angry that he jumped like thunder.

The Dashun Army, which claims to be good at mobile warfare, why didn't a single soldier pursue Wu Xing's thousands of people? Just watch them swagger and defect?

And the other point, that is, the fuse of the entire infighting incident, the death of Huang Shiren's father, almost everyone believes that his son Huang Shiren will definitely not be able to get rid of this matter! The evidence is simple, but it's indescribable. A few days after Huang Shiren rebelled against grain, after learning that Li Zicheng did not plan to send troops to recruit them, he took a few big girls in his old man's room.

The internal strife in Niu Wu seemed to be an internal matter of Dashun, but it was like hundreds of tons of explosives, which blew up an unfathomable and insurmountable deep trench in the cooperative relationship between the Dashun Army and the Nanyue Army.

My defector officer, you're actually contained? Also given an official position? (To be continued.) )