At the end of June in the 17th year of Chongzhen, more than 10,000 slaves invaded Xuzhou. They fought fiercely with the Ming army in Xiazhen for ten days and were defeated. Zhenbaiyintu, who set up a yellow flag in Manchuria and Gushan'e, only led Aobai, Yabulan and Chentai.
Dozens of riders escaped by chance.
This disastrous defeat was also the biggest defeat suffered by Nurhachi since he raised his army.
When Bai Yintu, Yabulan and the others fled back to Beijing, Dorgon couldn't believe it. Such a thing could happen?
"What did you say?" Dorgon stared at the Baiyin Tu, his eyes showing the desire to eat people, "The 12,000 troops that accompanied you on the expedition only came back with a few dozen riders? Dozens?
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Hong Chengchou, Ning Wanwo and Fan Wencheng, who happened to be discussing matters at Prince Rui's Mansion, were also petrified on the spot.
Hong Chengchou and the others would not be too surprised if Baiyintu's partial division was defeated by the Dashun Army.
Because the Dashun Army was still quite effective in fighting, if the equipment was better, the Qing soldiers might not be able to defeat the Dashun Army. It was actually a fluke that the Qing soldiers won the battle at Shanhaiguan.
But now Baiyintu's partial troops were defeated by the Ming army!
It was just a defeat to the Ming army, but it was actually defeated so tragically?
There were more than 12,000 people when we left, but only a few dozen were left when we came back?!
The Qing Dynasty has never suffered such a miserable defeat since the old Khan Nurhaci declared his Seven Great Hatreds to Heaven and launched an army.
Baiyin Tu really broke the record of the Qing Dynasty this time. In one battle, he eliminated two Jia La's Eight Banners Manchuria, ten Niu Lu's Eight Manchu Han Army, 3,000 surrendered troops, and more than 3,000 soldiers.
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When the news reaches Shengjing, Xianghuangqi will probably have everyone wearing sackcloth and mourning.
Not only the masters' families must wear filial piety, but also the families of the servants must wear sackcloth and wear filial piety.
Moreover, Xianghuangqi will probably have a hard time this year. After such a huge defeat, the spoils will definitely be very small when divided up. There is also the upcoming horse race, which may also be the last one.
There are also so many prime-age packers who died in the war. This year's autumn harvest and next year's spring plowing are all big problems.
Thinking of this, Fan Wencheng couldn't help but look at each other with Ning Wanwo. If the yellow flag can still maintain unity, that's fine. If it can't maintain unity, then it will probably fall at a speed visible to the naked eye.
This gave the regent an excuse to rectify the yellow flag.
The two hardcore traitors seemed to have foreseen a power struggle.
Can the orphaned and widowed couple still hold up the scene?
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News of the great victory at Xia Town reached Nanjing almost at the same time.
King Fu Zhu Yousong is really living like a year during this time.
He did not dare to live in Han Zanzhou's Nanjing garrison eunuch office anymore, but when he fled from the feudal mansion, he did not take any belongings with him. He was truly destitute and was finally reduced to living in a private home in Wuyi Lane.
Not only do they have no place to live, but sometimes they don’t even have food to eat.
That is to say, Uncle Sincerity and other distinguished nobles saw him as pitiful and gave him some help, otherwise he would really be reduced to begging for a living.
On this day, Liu Kongzhao, the sincere uncle, was entertaining a friend by the Qinhuai River, so he called Zhu Yousong over and let him have a drink. After getting on the boat, he found out that the person Liu Kongzhao was entertaining was Ruan Dacheng, a remnant of the eunuch party.
Zhu Yousong felt a little regretful. Now that the Donglin Party was in full control of the government, Ruan Dacheng, a remnant of the Eunuch Party, had become a street rat in Nanjing. What good could be gained by messing with him? Sincerity is foolish.
If any censor saw him going to court to read a copy, he would be in big trouble.
"Prince Fu, please be patient." Liu Kongzhao saw Zhu Yousong was unhappy and took a drink to persuade him, "If you are stubborn, Xuzhou will be defeated sooner or later. There is still room for change."
Jiannu had already reached Xuzhou, and the news had already spread back to Nanjing.
Right now, people are talking about this in the streets and alleys of Nanjing, even in the Fireworks and Willow Alley.
If the Jiangnan scholars could not express their unique opinions on the Xuzhou war situation, they would even be embarrassed to ask for advice.
After decades of efforts by the Donglin Party and the Restoration of Society, it has become common practice in Jiangnan for scholars in the field to discuss government affairs, and Nanjing officials turned a blind eye to this.
"Not necessarily." Zhu Yousong shook his head and said, "The Holy One is said to be quite knowledgeable about military affairs."
Zhu Yousong, like Liu Kongzhao, dreamed that Chongzhen would defeat Xuzhou, and that it would be best to be defeated and die, but he did not dare to say so.
"The Holy One knows how to fight?" Ruan Dacheng laughed out loud, "If even the Holy One dares to say that he knows how to fight, then there will probably be no one in the Ming Dynasty who doesn't know how to fight."
"Sir, be careful what you say." Zhu Yousong was so frightened that his face turned pale.
"Prince Fu, what are you afraid of? What else is there to be afraid of?" Liu Kongzhao drank several cups of yellow soup and his courage became stronger. "Do you really believe that the rumors are true? Do you really believe that it was the Holy One who led Wang Jiayan and the others? Breaking the siege from Beijing? Do you really believe that the Holy One took the nine ministers who were in trouble to Chahar Mongolia? It's all fake."
The nine ministers who went to disaster are the collective name given to Meng Zhaoxiang and the nine others by Nanjing officials.
During the national calamity in Jiashen, only Meng Zhaoxiang and the other nine civil servants followed Chongzhen and escaped from the capital. As a result, they gained a huge official reputation. However, Chen Liangmo, the seventh-rank censor, also became one of the nine ministers who went to the disaster.
Because everyone can see that Chen Liangmo will surely become one of the Nine Qings sooner or later.
"Yes, it's fake, it's fake!" Ruan Dacheng also firmly believed that it was fake.
Liu Kongzhao continued: "The truth is probably that Ping Xibo Wu Sangui sent a thousand Yiding soldiers to enter Beijing from Chaoyang Gate on Jiashen Day and took out the Holy Sage and Meng Zhaoxiang. That's probably the case."
"Yes, that must be the case." Ruan Dacheng was already drunk and said with a red face, "I am going to write a new play, telling the story of the Jingkang period. The Jin soldiers went south, and the second Qinhui clan and a large number of clan princesses and princes were kidnapped. , only Zhao Jiu was known for his military knowledge, and he led the nine ministers to fight out of Bianjing, first defeated Huanglong and then went to Lin'an to establish the Southern Song Dynasty."
"Sir, you are drunk and sour, so you don't dare to say that."
When Zhu Yousong heard what Ruan Dacheng said, he was so frightened that he stood up to leave, but Liu Kongzhao pushed him back to his chair.
"Why don't you dare? I, Ruan Dacheng, have no other abilities, but my ability to see people is top-notch. Let me tell you, I, Ruan Dacheng, can't even look at people without looking at them!" Ruan Dacheng was drunk and daring, and hid his deepest feelings towards Dong Lin. The party's grievances against Chongzhen were finally vented.
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"The Holy One is stubborn and suspicious, and has the most impatient temper. All major affairs of the country require continuous efforts, and the results will not be seen in ten, twenty or even fifty years. However, the Holy One can only wait for three years at most. Many major events will be ruined by two years." Character."
"However, in the past, it was just about doing things carefully, but now, the Holy One has actually begun to usurp the merits of military commanders to show off for himself."
"If the Holy One is not in Xuzhou, we, the Ming Dynasty, can take advantage of the dangers of the Huanghuai River and cross the river with Jiannu to rule. But now that the Holy One is in Xuzhou, I am afraid that the day of national subjugation is not far away."
"Sir, be careful what you say, be careful what you say!" Zhu Yousong was so frightened that his hair almost stood on end.
"What are you afraid of, King Fu? What are you afraid of?" Liu Kongzhao was also very drunk. He put his wine cup on the table and shouted, "The country's destruction is right in front of us. It is nothing more than the word death. Why be afraid? What should we be afraid of!"
Ruan Dacheng also shouted: "If the Holy One is not in Xuzhou, Jingnan Bo can still fight against Jiannu. However, if the Holy One is in Xuzhou this time, the Ming Dynasty will undoubtedly be defeated, will be defeated! There will be no doubt that it will be defeated!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of rapid horse hooves suddenly sounded outside the window.
There seemed to be fast horses galloping through the bluestone street beside the Qinhuai River.
Accompanied by the rapid sound of horse hooves, a loud voice rose up: "Great victory in Xia Town! Great victory in Xia Town! Our soldiers of the Great Tomorrow achieved an unprecedented victory in Xia Town, Xuzhou, beheading more than 9,000 people and taking more than a thousand prisoners alive!"
Liu Kongzhao frowned and asked, "What are you shouting about?"
Zhu Yousong said uncertainly: "It seems to be shouting a great victory in Xia Town, beheading more than 9,000 people..."
Zhu Yousong's voice suddenly paused, and Liu Kongzhao and Ruan Dacheng suddenly turned their heads to look. The three of them looked at each other, some of them unable to believe their ears.
The next moment, the three of them stood up suddenly.
Ruan Dacheng lost his center of gravity and fell.
When Ruan Dacheng squeezed to the window and looked out, he saw that the painted sails on the Qinhuai River had all opened their windows, and dark clouds were poking out of the embroidered windows, looking towards the north bank of the Qinhuai River.
On the shore, a postman rode away like a whirlwind.
This time I heard it more clearly: "Great victory in Xia Town! Great victory!"
"This is..." Ruan Dacheng still didn't believe it, "We won the battle?"
"Maybe he won a battle." Liu Kongzhao almost cried. Ming Dynasty won a battle in Xuzhou. Ordinarily he should be happy, but why did he just want to cry?
Zhu Yousong was even more sad and began to cry loudly.
"God bless the Ming Dynasty!" After crying, many scholars on the shore began to cry.
Even the girls and prostitutes on the boat on the river and in the embroidery building on the bank also wiped away their tears, which made the rich young men who came to look for flowers and flowers coaxed for a while, but Liu Kongzhao and the other three no longer had the intention to drink flowers and wine, so they ended hastily.
The postman on the cavalry shouted all the way along the Qinhuai River and headed straight to the Imperial City of Nanjing in the east corner.
When the good news came, Shi Kefa, the chief assistant of the cabinet, summoned Gao Hongtu, Jiang Yueguang and Jie Xuelong to discuss how to appease the censor Yanguan who was secretly working together.
After Shi Kefa formed the cabinet, he began to recruit officials in the capital.
Now Nanjing officials have added more than 7,788 people.
As a result, the imperial censor Yanguan who had just entered Beijing as a candidate began to secretly communicate with each other, threatening to go north to Xuzhou to die in front of the emperor, forcing Chongzhen to leave Xuzhou and return to Nanjing to take charge of affairs.
Gao Hongtu said: "We must stop them anyway."
"Yes, we can't let them go north." Jiang Yueguang said, "Because the Holy Spirit was worried about the invasion of the slaves from the south, he did not hesitate to defend the border for the country. Although it will only cause chaos in the border town in the end, his original intention is still good."
Okay, this is not very harmful, but it is extremely insulting.
Fortunately, Chongzhen couldn't hear him, otherwise he would have died on the spot.
Xie Xuelong also echoed: "Let the imperial censor Yanguan go north to Xuzhou, we will definitely not let them go north to Xuzhou, but the Holy One cannot stay in Xuzhou anymore, otherwise it will only cause chaos to the border town. If the Holy One is not there, the border town will be okay.
In a battle, if the Holy One is here, the Twenty-Eight Towns of Xuzhou will definitely be defeated!"