Chapter 15 Impeachment
There is also a third reason, that is, he ran away with Wu Sangui during the Songjin War and then couldn't escape, and Tang Tong, who couldn't bear it, surrendered, and Tang Tong and Wu Sangui were good friends. The Wu and Tang families are considered world friends. There is also Jinzhou Shou Zu Dashou is Wu Sangui's own uncle, if Wu Sangui is kept, maybe Tang Tong, Zu Dashou and others can return to the Ming Dynasty. In this way, the Ming Dynasty was able to increase its strength. forced Wu Sangui too tightly, Wu Sangui defected to the Manchurians, which would be a heavy blow to Daming!
Combining three reasons, Wu Sangui is very important! Chongzhen would never have touched Wu Sangui! As for Wang Puma, the first person to escape, he disrupted Hong Chengchou's perfect retreat strategy, so that Hong Chengchou could not escape, but caused the great rout of the Ming army, and he was to bear the first responsibility.
The most important point is that Wang Pu's troops have already been exhausted, and there is nothing to worry about killing him! In addition, Chongzhen remembered the repeated battles, Wang Pu ran away, he was a well-known general who escaped, what was the use of keeping him any longer? Do you still want him to continue to run, and continue to let the Ming army repeat the pain of the Songjin War?
Lu Xiangsheng had impeached Wang Pu in the previous chapter and wanted to kill Wang Pu, but Chongzhen disagreed! Even if you Lu Xiangsheng have the sword of Shang Fang, you can only cut the small generals and pawns, and you are helpless against the chief soldier and the deputy chief soldier! Therefore, Chongzhen's Shang Fang sword is useless for a general with heavy troops.
Now you must kill the high-ranking generals, and be wary that others can't escape from the battle again! You have to fight bravely! You have to borrow Wang Pu's head to be a wake-up call!
Chongzhen thought of this, how could he tolerate Wang Pu now? Wang Pu is certain to die.
Zhang Biwu looked at Wu Sangui, he knew that even if Wu Sangui could save his life, he could continue to garrison Ningyuan, but he still needed to strengthen his strength, and his men and horses stayed here to garrison with Wu Sangui, so he had to prevent Wu Sangui from swallowing his men and horses.
Of course, Zhang Biwu has to let the strong general stay here, if his masters Han Runchang, Zhang Pan, and Lin Xiangfeng are there, even if Wu Sangui wants to swallow it, he can't swallow it! Of course, there is one exception! Zhang Biwu will be executed or put in prison if he goes to Beijing, it will be a disaster! His army will be swallowed up by Wu Sangui.
And this army, the recruited men and horses will definitely not be able to be saved, only the loyal children of the three counties may still stay, and then wait for Zhang Biwu's call.
After Zhang Biwu made some arrangements, he went to the capital. Of course, Wu Sangui knew that Zhang Biwu and Zhang Biwu were separated from him, and he was definitely anti-merger, so unless Wu Sangui waited for Zhang Biwu's exact news to come, Wu Sangui would not attack Zhang Biwu's men.
Beijing. At this time, Chongzhen was in the upper court with his hundred officials. Guang Shiheng stood up again and said, "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that Zhang Biwu's crime should be punished!" Although Zhang Biwu dared to rescue Songjin, he was guilty! Listen to the ministers count their sins! ”
Chongzhen looked at him and sighed in his heart, he had to listen to what Guang Shiheng had to say.
Guang Shiheng Chen Zhang Biwu's crime: "First, Zhang Biwu's strategy to save Songjin did not play the imperial court, and acted without authorization, which is an expression of no imperial court!" Since ancient times, if you want to win, you have to rely on the temple! But he acted on his own, did not report to the court, and did not play the Holy Lord! He has made up his mind, but it has made the court and the whole country worried, resulting in the failure of the queen to save Songjin! What's worse is to worry the monarch! This is his great sin! ”
Guangming Heng avoided talking about Zhang Biwu and Chongzhen's conspiracy, and let another army pretend to be Zhang Biwu's army to go out of Shanhaiguan by land, and at that time, the whole court was concealed except for Chongzhen, and these civil officials were very angry! They didn't dare to say that Chongzhen was not, as for Zhang Biwu, of course he was going to be impeached and vented! The ministers began to be confused, saying that Zhang Biwu had deceived the Holy Monarch.
Especially Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the military department who is the soldier, is still kept in the dark, and Chen Xinjia has to be called by Chongzhen to urge Zhang Biwu to enter the army, which is obviously acting! Chen Xinjia is very hot in his heart, but he can't play. Chen Xinjia was already dissatisfied with Chongzhen.
Chen Xinjia had to rely on these officials to impeach, and now he has shown his eyes to the military department. The military department hurriedly came out in the middle of the matter and said, "Yes! That's right! Zhang Biwu planned but did not report to his own soldiers! Does he have a military department in his eyes? If he reported to his army in the morning, when he entered Gaizhou, he would not have worried his father, and he would not have been able to save Hong Shangshu when he was in Songshan! ”
The left and right military departments also came out and said: "Yes! Since ancient times, more plans and more wins, less plans and fewer wins! When does the army go out to fight, isn't it a temple to strategize and win a decisive victory thousands of miles away? Hong Shangshu can't be saved, everything is because Zhang Biwu has no court! Where will he put the court? Where is the monarch? ”
The ministers unanimously agreed: "Yes! That's right! That's right! Chongzhen was silent, Zhang Biwu secretly took the waterway in front, this was agreed between him and Zhang Biwu, but later Zhang Biwu went straight to Songshan with a strange plan, Zhang Biwu didn't say it to him, which really made Chongzhen unhappy.
How did Chongzhen think that the battle situation thousands of miles away is changing rapidly, if he waited until Zhang Biwu reported to Chongzhen and Chongzhen approved the execution, Zhang Biwu would have been defeated a long time ago! Give the generals enough autonomy in case of trouble, this is a must!
At this point, Chongzhen can't do it! I always thought that I was in the deep palace, and with the one-sided information found by Jinyiwei and Dongchang, I thought that I knew everything and could strategize to win thousands of miles away. It often causes the generals to be defeated, and the worse the national fortune is.
Guang Shiheng saw that Chongzhen's face was displeased, and he wanted to continue to impeach: "The second crime is that Zhang Biwu missed the opportunity!" After arriving at Songshan, he could not solve the siege of Songjin, he appeared as a surprise soldier, he could defeat the Qing army in one fell swoop, and then with Songshan, Xingshan, Jinzhou our army together to flank the set of great achievements! But his mediocre nature but missed the opportunity in vain, a supposed defeat into victory, in the end can only end in failure, but was chased by the Qing army, fortunately Wu Zhen rescued, only to save the people! ”
Chongzhen didn't say anything, Chongzhen is not a faint king, he knows that Zhang Biwu is only 9,000 people, and he also went deep into the territory of the Qing Dynasty, and then divided his troops to Songshan, there is not much left of the Ming army in Songshan, most of them are hungry, how to fight against hundreds of thousands of Qing soldiers?
This can be seen from Qiu Minyang's recital, the Ming army's combat strength has been greatly reduced, although Qiu Minyang is angry that Zhang Biwu did not save Hong Chengchou, but he also praised Zhang Biwu for using strange things to make them break out of the Qing army full of cavalry.
Chongzhen still listened patiently to Guang Shiheng said the third sin: "The third sin is greedy for life and afraid of death, and I dare not save Lord Shangshu!" When Zhang Biwu led his army to Songshan City, he met Qiu Minyang, the governor of Liaodong, and Cao Bianjiao, the general soldier, and met Lord Hong Shangshu, who was captured by the rebel generals, causing Lord Hong Shangshu to fall into the hands of the enemy. Now Hong Shangshu is on a hunger strike in Shenyang to be loyal to the emperor! Zhang Biwu was only more than ten feet away from Hong Shangshu and the rebel generals, and if he rose up bravely, he would definitely be able to save Hong Shangshu! ”
"And Liaofu Qiu Minyang once begged Zhang Biwu to quickly rescue Zhang Biwu, but Zhang Biwu didn't go! When he was about to leave Songshan City, he saw Hong Shangshu, but Zhang Biwu still didn't save him! It can be known that Hong Shangshu was captured by the Eastern Captives, and everything is in Zhang Biwu! ”
Chongzhen's desk also has Qiu Minyang's recital, everything Guang Shiheng said is right, except for the second article, disagree, the first and third crimes, Zhang Biwu is really inescapable!
All the ministers were waiting for Chongzhen's cadres to make a decision, and Chongzhen said: "Delay Zhang Biwu's crime!" First of all, it was agreed that Wang Pu, the chief soldier of Datong, escaped from the battle! There is also the prison army Zhang Ruoqi who blindly urged the battle, lost his teacher and committed a felony, and he escaped alone when Beacon Hill was lost! Unforgivable! ”
Chen Xinjia was afraid, because Zhang Ruoqi was sent by him, if Chongzhen punished Zhang Ruoqi and kept pulling up to investigate the responsibility, he would also be responsible when he fell to the head of the military department.
After retreating, Chongzhen returned to the inner palace, and Princess Kunxing had been waiting. As soon as Chongzhen saw his daughter, he seemed to have thrown all his troubles out of the clouds.
"Concubine, my father's pistachio! Come! Come to Father! Chongzhen beckoned to Princess Kunxing. Princess Kunxing came jumping on the ground.
Princess Kunxing grabbed Chongzhen's hand and said, "Father, you were very happy when you heard that Zhang Biwu broke into Songshan and rescued thousands of Ming troops!" You said that Zhang Biwu deserves to be a general! I thought that Songjin's soldiers couldn't be rescued! Now I have a few thousand soldiers and I can still get the generals back, and I can prove to the East that I am a Ming person! Let the Dongyu not despise the Celestial Empire! What a feat! ”
Chongzhen remembered that this was what he said when he was happy, Princess Kunxing was by his side at that time, and she heard it, so it is not surprising that Princess Kunxing said this now.
But as soon as he received Qiu Minyang's recital, he changed, and he was angry! He didn't understand, why Zhang Biwu didn't save Hong Chengchou, in fact, what Chongzhen wanted most was that Zhang Biwu could rescue Hong Chengchou, even if it was only one Hong Chengchou, all the people and horses were trapped in the Qing army, and he was willing.
However, Zhang Biwu was able to come forward when the whole country was afraid and did not dare to save him, and he was able to rescue thousands of people, which is indeed a great thing to boost the country's prestige!
Now that the state affairs are difficult, Li Zicheng is getting more and more fierce in Henan, Zhang Xianzhong is also making a comeback in Jiangnan, and the Dongyu has seized the land of Liaodong, eyeing the tiger, and there is a great tendency to attack in a big way, really execute Zhang Biwu?
Suddenly! Chongzhen has a good idea in his heart! Of course, he can't put Zhang Biwu in prison anymore, and if he votes for the third time, he is afraid that his rebellion will rise! It's just that he still has to see if Zhang Biwu deliberately killed Hong Chengchou, and then decide how to deal with Zhang Biwu.
Just as Chongzhen was thinking about it, Princess Kunxing said, "Father, can you let me meet this big hero!" I think he will work harder to serve his father when he sees me, a beautiful princess! ”
Chongzhen looked at it again, his daughter was fourteen years old, and she could get married at the age of fifteen! Oh, yes! It's not too young! A thought moved in Chongzhen's heart.
Just then, someone came......