Chapter 51 The emperor is bitter
Wang Yongji's position as the first assistant was removed in this way, and then he was replaced by Li Yutian, who had been in charge of the northern front affairs in Ningyuan. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
As for Li Shoufu, there is nothing to say, he vigorously and resolutely implemented the will of His Majesty the Emperor, and made the people in the Guangfu District of Eastern Hebei boiling, and the voices of traitors and traitors misleading the country were endless. But it's useless to scold, Li Yutian is not Wang Yongji, Wang Yongji is from Gaoyou, I am afraid that doing this will anger the scholars, including the gentry in his hometown, and then scold him for being a traitor and digging his ancestral grave, you must know that Gaoyou is very likely to become a fallen area, so how can those gentry be grass on the wall? But Li Yutian is a native of Qianzhou, Shaanxi, what else is there to be afraid of now, his hometown has become a den of thieves many years ago! Now there are still a few of those gentry who have not been cut by Li Zicheng, and he can't say! He didn't have any psychological burden to do this kind of angry and resentful thing.
That's all broken jars!
In the following time, the Ming army recovered Leting, Qian'an, and Fengrun with extremely fast and bloodless blades, until the Qing army suffered a small defeat in Yutian, and then gave up the plan to recover Jizhou.
In the end, the Ming army stopped at Yutian.
Yang Feng's goal was achieved.
Li Zicheng abandoned Shunyi and retreated to Beijing after the defeat of Huairou Army, and although he suffered heavy losses, there were still 80,000 horses including 40,000 elite soldiers in the old battalion who retreated into Beijing.
After all, the battlefield was not Shanhaiguan, and it was only eighty miles away from Beijing, and the cavalry ran back with all their might, and the infantry ran across the Wenyu River in the same day, and the rout was a rout, but it was not the kind of rout that could not be controlled.
Although Dolgon was victorious, he lost more than 10,000 elites of the Eight Banners, of course, Yang Feng had a share in this, especially the death of Aobai was a great blow to the morale of the Qing army, he was not just a yellow flag Lama Zhangjing, he was the most famous general in the Qing army, a warrior who specialized in overcoming difficulties, and even Dolgon was afraid of him when Huang Taiji died and fought for the throne. With his bravery and specially designed tactics, but still on the battlefield, the horror of the dog emperor is also terrifying, plus Wu Sangui's army slaughtered out of Shanhaiguan, and Dolgon, who was afraid that Yang Feng would raid the flank, was also very cautious, so he did not attack Beijing for the time being, but divided his troops to seize all parts north of the canal.
Of course, the main thing is that he doesn't know how to attack the city of Beijing.
He didn't have enough artillery.
He was frustrated in Ningyuan, he was afraid of these fortified cities, and the city wall of Beijing was obviously not comparable to Ning Yuan, this thing could not be solved by hand-to-hand siege at all, and even if he risked his casualties to capture Beijing, the final result would probably turn himself into a dish that Yang Feng could eat.
Therefore, he must capture Beijing at the lowest cost, so that the cannon is the best choice, he first has to repair the cannons captured from the Shun army, and also have to wait for a batch of cannons from Jinzhou to arrive, so that after the Huairou War and a series of small battles in the later period, the situation of tripartite confrontation in Beijing is temporarily formed.
Jidong is the Ming army.
Stopping at the modern Qianxi, Yutian, the south at this time still belongs to the Ninghe area of Baodi, this area floods every year, there is no attraction at all, it is a buffer zone, anyway, the southernmost Ming army is stationed in modern Tangshan, this area belongs to Fengrun and Luanzhou, for Yang Feng as long as the coal mine is in hand, he has no interest in anything else.
South of the canal is the Shun Army.
But Li Zicheng can only control Beijing, and there is also a road to Baoding, and other places are in love, in fact, from Tongzhou to the east are controlled by the original Yuzong, the former Ming Dynasty's Tianjin Bingbei Dao is watching to see who he sells to at this time, so that he can sell it at the best price. Originally, he should abandon the darkness and return to the emperor's arms, but the problem is that at this time, the emperor began to take the route of fainting the king, not to mention him, even those gentry in Tianjin and other places did not do it. Even rumors began to appear in this area that the emperor was actually a demon, which shows that Yang Feng's original judgment was completely correct, and the downline of these gentry was completely at the height he expected.
To the north of the canal and west of the Ji Canal is the area controlled by the Qing army.
At this point, all three parties strangely stopped.
Yang Feng is not motivated, Li Zicheng is incapable, Dolgon is both motivated and capable, but he has no confidence, it is good that he can easily open Beijing, but if he is really blocked under the city of Beijing, then Yang Feng will be stabbed.
Now the key is the people's will.
The point is that those gentry are also very entangled now, on one side are thieves, on the other side are faint kings, and on the other side are tartars, this multiple-choice question is really difficult!
Of course, they can't do this kind of thing by choosing a thief, as long as it is in line with their wishes, the thief can also become the Holy Lord Mingjun, but the problem is that Li Zicheng does not meet their wishes! Choosing the emperor was originally the most reasonable choice, but now it is not good, which is the Holy Lord Mingjun, this is clearly developing towards the flow of the Emperor! It's nothing to choose a tartar, after all, the gentry have knelt down and worshiped a lot of stubble tartars since the Northern Song Dynasty, but the problem is that I don't know the number of this stubble! It's going to take some time to get to know.
In short, the gentry of Zhili during this period were also full of sorrow......
I'm at a loss!
"Your Majesty, just listen to the old minister!"
Liu Kongzhao said.
He, Wang Duo and Zheng Zhilong are all ready to return to Jiangnan, and of course the troops they brought will stay, but before leaving, they still want to persuade the emperor to retract their previous will and treat the gentry in the occupied area well.
"Your Majesty, they had no other choice under the circumstances, although they did not follow the holy car to be loyal, but after all, they did not really rebel, and now the top priority is to suppress the rebellion and expel the Tartars to recover Beijing, and they should be given a chance to make meritorious service and atone for their crimes. For example, let them give some money and food, and then let them organize their children to serve the court, I think they will be willing, instead of rushing to punish them in such an indiscriminate way, Your Majesty now needs to let the world feel the light of spring, not the power of summer, otherwise it will make the people in the occupied areas fearful. ”
Then he added.
The emperor's approach has little impact on the gentry in Jiangnan, because as long as they are not attacked by the rebellion, then naturally there is no need to worry about this problem, Jiangnan has the Yangtze River moat, and the rebellion cannot be defeated, so they can look at this matter from the perspective of an outsider, but even from the perspective of an outsider, it is too much to look at the emperor.
"Uncle Sincerity, my queen is dead, my daughter is dead, my sons are still unknown to this day, my most respected sister-in-law also committed suicide in order not to be defiled by thieves, I have killed so many relatives, can't I breathe a sigh now!"
Yang Feng roared like an eruption.
At the same time, he grabbed the cup in front of him and fell to the ground.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty's anger!"
Liu Kongzhao was so frightened that he knelt down and said.
"Get up, I know you're for my good, but this time, no one wants to change my mind, these capricious little people have ruined my family, I have to teach them a lesson no matter what, otherwise I will have the face to go to see my relatives who died under the Nine Springs."
Yang Feng sat down on the chair dejectedly, squeezed out some tears and said.
Liu Kongzhao didn't dare to say any more, so he hurriedly and cautiously retreated, and after going out, he was stopped by Li Yutian, who happened to come over.
Li Shoufu looked at Yang Feng, who was still pretending to be in pain, and then whispered to Liu Kongzhao: "Uncle Sincerity, Your Majesty has encountered this great disaster, and he is also bitter in his heart, not to mention his respect for the Son of Heaven, even if ordinary people are killed and their families are broken and their wives are separated, then there must be grudges accumulated in their hearts." He will always be uncomfortable if he doesn't let the emperor take this breath, anyway, most of these people deserve it, so he simply let the emperor take this breath, and the notoriety official will give the emperor a top, and after some time, the emperor will calm down, and it will not be too late to slowly persuade him, you go back and tell the adults in Jiangnan, so that they don't have to worry too much. ”
Liu Kongzhao nodded.
"Elder Li Ge, you are also tired!"
He said with some emotion.
"For the sake of the emperor, it's not a big deal for us to be infamous as courtiers."
Li Yutian said with a sigh.
"Uncle Ning Yuan, what's the matter?"
Yang Feng said inside.
Li Yutian hurriedly entered, and then saluted and said: "Your Majesty, the Pingxi Hou reported that the rebellious Pseudo-Zehou Tian Jianxiu led three thousand subordinates to surrender to the imperial court, according to which His Majesty had pardoned him and his subordinates on the battlefield. ”
"Yes, send them to Shanhaiguan!"
Yang Feng said.
Tian Jianxiu's surrender was actually expected by him, there was no other way out after they hid in the mountains, Jizhou was occupied by the Qing army, it was impossible for thousands of them to cross the Qing army and return to Beijing, and outside the Qing army-controlled area was under the control of the Ming army, they also could not cross the Ming army-controlled area, and there was not enough food in the mountains, so they couldn't hold on and didn't come out to surrender.
"Also, the rebellious Tianjin defender Yuan Yuzong surrendered to the Tartars."
Immediately afterwards, Li Yutian said again.
"Surrender the Tartars?"
Yang Feng smiled instead.
"Look at it, this is the Tianjin Soldier I had high hopes for, before he got there, he not only surrendered himself, but also forced Feng Yuanyang to surrender together, and also led troops to intercept Cao Youyi who was unwilling to surrender, now that the Tartar is here, and before he arrives, he can't wait to surrender to the Tartar, this is my good courtier, his sage books have been read to the dog's stomach, I am really to blame for falling to this point today, my eyes were really blind back then!"
Then he said.
"That's not forced by you, people want to surrender to you, but you have ordered to surrender and exile, how dare people surrender to you!"
Li Yutian sneered.
Of course, he didn't know that this was the effect that His Majesty the Emperor wanted, if they didn't surrender to the Tartars, how would His Majesty the Emperor cut them in the future? You must know that it is not enough to abolish the tax exemption, but also to get the land out of the hands of the gentry.
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