Chapter 378: Zhu Guozhi's Death
Gao Dejie was the first to yell: "Don't get it!" The Emperor of the Full Dog wants us to die! We will not! ”
Ma Bao, who surrendered to Wu Sangui instead of surrendering to the Manchus, had long wanted to return to the Ming Dynasty, so he also followed Gao Dejie and yelled: "Don't take it!" I, Ma, will never be from the Tartar Dog Emperor! ”
"We don't take it! Never get it! The soldiers of the Pingxi Royal Mansion naturally roared like thunder, brandishing steel knives and roaring in unison. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Zhu Guozhi, Yuan Maogong and others were so frightened that their faces were as pale as earth, Yuan Maogong was already peeing his pants, and the whole person was shaking like a sieve. However, although Zhu Guozhi was afraid, he still forced his composure and reprimanded sharply: "Wu Laogou! The court treats you well! The emperor and the regent are even more gracious to you! Do you want to rebel? ”
Wu Sangui laughed: "Yes! The little emperor Kangxi thought that if he took the old man's son, he would be able to blackmail the old man! Tell you, he was wrong! The old man cares about his son, but the old man can't watch the brothers who have followed the old man for many years go to death in vain! The Dog Emperor has intensified again and again, cut military salaries, forced the old man to disarm, and today he wants the old man's people to hit the knife edge of the Ming elite? Want to use the Ming army to eliminate the old man? Tell you, the old man has endured enough! ”
"Old dog Wu! You're not going to end well! The emperor will definitely kill your son's entire family! Zhu Guozhi scolded.
Wu Sangui pulled out his knife, pointed at Zhu Guozhi and shouted: "Come on!" Pull me out of the vermilion ground, a thousand cuts! Today, this king wants to use the head of Zhu Baidi to give an explanation to the Jiangnan scholars! ”
Several guards from the Pingxi Royal Mansion stepped forward and dragged Zhu Guozhi out.
When Zhu Guozhi was dragged out, he was still cursing and scolding non-stop. However, the guards of the Wu army would not be polite to Zhu Guozhi, and the two soldiers slapped Zhu Guozhi's mouth violently, beating him so that his face was covered in blood. Ma Bao, who had long been dissatisfied with Zhu Guozhi, stepped forward and punched Zhu Guozhi in the face head-on, knocking out his teeth.
"Wu Sangui old dog! You don't have to die well! Zhu Guozhi was already slurring his speech, and he was still desperately scolding.
The Wu soldiers who had been waiting outside the door for a long time pounced. Wu Sangui didn't have a professional executioner here, and the soldiers pulled out their knives and slashed them all indiscriminately, chopping Zhu Guozhi into meat puree, and even chopping up the bones.
Yuan Maogong and the others, who were still in the main hall, heard the screams made by Zhu Guozhi when he was chopped to death with a knife outside, and his pants were soaked, and Yuan Maogong was so frightened that he kowtowed again and again: "The prince spares his life!" The villain is willing to surrender! ”
Wu Sangui looked at Yuan Maogong, who was begging for him like a dog, and sneered: "Someone! Put these useless things on death row for the old man! On the day I raise my army, I will kill them again and sacrifice the flag!" ”
"No!" Several guards dragged Yuan Maogong and the others down.
Wu Sangui turned around again, walked back to the chair and sat down, and said to the soldiers: "Go and take out the armor of my pressing box!" ”
After a while, the soldiers carried a box to the main hall.
Wu Sangui took off the python robe of the Prince of the Qing Dynasty on his body, threw it on the ground, took off his hat again, threw it on the ground and trampled it with his feet, and then pulled out a knife and cut off the braid at the back of his head. With his pigtails in his hands, he opened his voice and shouted, "Brothers! I, Wu, have been fighting with the Tartars for nearly 20 years, and I have killed countless Tartars! But he had no choice but to take refuge in the Tartars! More than twenty years of hard work for the Tartars! From today onwards, we are at odds with the full dog Tartars! ”
"It's incompatible with the full dog Tartar!" The Wu soldiers shouted in unison.
Ma Bao took off his hat, threw it on the ground, stepped on the hat with one foot, pulled out his knife again, and cut his braid.
The soldiers of the Wu army drew their knives one after another and cut off the braids at the back of their heads.
Wu Sangui opened the box, took out the Mingguang armor and the six-petal Mingguang helmet from it, he put on the armor and hat under the service of the guards, and sighed: "Brothers, this king has not worn this armor for twenty-two years!" Back then, the king was forced to take refuge in the Tartars, and he was also forced to keep that shameful braid! Today, we want to take back our dignity from the Tartars! ”
Fang Guangchen stepped forward and arched his hand: "Lord Wang! Bian Sanyuan is stationed in Guizhou, the terrain of Guizhou is complicated, there are 30,000 green battalions, and 60,000 people, in addition, there are many Tusi in Guizhou, if we send troops from Guizhou, I am afraid it will not be easy to pass. According to the students, it is better for our army to go north directly, borrow the way from the Sichuan Ming army, and take Shaanxi directly! ”
Liu Xuanchu also stepped forward and said, "Lord Wang! The students went to contact the Ming army here, and they said that we had rebelled! In addition, about the matter of the prince, the students sent people to the capital and tried their best to rescue the prince! ”
Gao Dejie stepped forward and said: "Marshal, Guizhou Bian Sanyuan is not to be afraid!" As long as the marshal gives 20,000 horses to the last general, he can take Bian Sanyuan's head! ”
Liu Xuanchu said: "General Gao, although Bian Sanyuan is not to be afraid, but Guizhou Tusi is powerful, if we go to Guizhou, Tusi will use the complex terrain to harass us along the way, I am afraid it will not be easy to get out." ”
Different from real history, when Wu Sangui rebelled against the Qing Dynasty in real history, those Tusi in Guizhou were basically either suppressed by Wu Sangui or bought by Wu Sangui, and when Wu Sangui went out of Yunnan, Tusi did not cause trouble for him. In this time and space, Wu Sangui has not yet fully controlled the Tusi in Guizhou, and although some Tusi have surrendered, they have surrendered to the Qing court. If you send troops, you are likely to be harassed by the toast.
Wu Sangui said: "We want to block all roads from Yunnan to Guizhou!" No one is allowed to enter Yunnan, not Guizhou! As for Bian Sanyuan, that dog thief is not a climate! This king must take him down first, so that this king has no worries! In order to take advantage of Sichuan, go straight to Shaanxi! As long as Bian Sanyuan wins, those Tusi in Guizhou will not dare to attack Yunnan! ”
At that time, the speed of information transmission was very slow, and it would take a month for the news of Wu Sangui's rebellion against the Qing Dynasty to reach Huguang.
The news of Wu Sangui's rebellion against the Qing Dynasty had not yet spread out of Yunnan, and the Ming army in Huguang had already arrived outside Wuchang City.
The Ming army advanced by land and water and arrived outside the city of Wuchang.
The Qing army in Wuchang completely adopted a new way of defending the city, no longer relying on the city wall to defend it, but using the terrain outside the city to build various fortifications, with deer barricades, trenches, fortresses, forts and walls to form a line of defense. The Qing army dug up the ground outside Wuchang into a criss-crossed, dense group of fortifications like a spider's web, and arranged a large number of artillery.
The new army of the Huguang Green Battalion has also been semi-firearmed, and is equipped with a large number of artillery, muskets, and other firearms, as well as firearms such as tiger-winged guns, thunderbolts, rockets, and mines. Relying on the fort defense, the auxiliaries were responsible for loading the ammunition and then handing the musketeers to shoot, which greatly increased the rate of fire of the musketeers.
The city fortifications of the Qing army were quite strong and sturdy, and various fortifications echoed each other, which was called solid by Zhou Peigong.
"Ao Zhongtang, Wuchang city defense can be said to be impregnable! The students promise that they will let Minggou fail miserably under Wuchang City! Zhou Peigong swore to Aobai and assured.