1710, Xiling Chaoshui Wuling Boat, a chest with a square inch of land, can accommodate a lot of sorrow
Yang Fan sighed. In the end, Chongzhen betrayed his relatives and left his relatives. When he hung himself on the southeast branch, he was still complaining that his ministers misled me. But how did he treat his ministers?
For the sake of face, he forced Yang Sichang to death. Because Sun Chuanting did not go along with his wishes, he spoke sharply and made suggestions. He was imprisoned for three years, and then he was taken out to beat Li Zicheng, who died in the battle. He also suspected that he had faked his death and persecuted his family.
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Lu Xiangsheng was even worse. He and his courtiers forced him into despair and wanted to die on the battlefield.
Let's just say that this time King Qin had three mutinies in succession. They were all man-made disasters and forced the soldiers to go to Liangshan.
Shanxi Town is the closest to the imperial capital, and reinforcements from Shanxi arrived first.
These bastards in Donglin gave random orders and played the piano randomly. The Ministry of War transferred Shanxi troops to Tongzhou for garrison on the first day, to Changping on the second day, and to Liangxiang on the third day.
The mobilization of troops is a normal situation, and this is nothing at all. However, according to local regulations on supplying food and wages to guest troops, the court will not provide military food on the day when foreign reinforcements arrive at the garrison.
The last time Yang Fan brought down Zuo Liangyu, Dong Jishu and the others was just to warn the court. However, after the incident, nothing changed.
King Qin of Shanxi's reinforcements moved to three places in three days and could not get any rations at all.
The soldiers had limited dry food, and after they finished eating, it was gone. Many people began to starve.
The army is an armed group organized for the purpose of killing, and must be treated very seriously. Before you mobilize troops, you must prepare money and food. This is common sense.
If you don't prepare, the soldiers will raise it themselves. That would be interesting.
In this way, some soldiers began to rob the food of the surrounding people, and the generals turned a blind eye. They had no way to control it, and they did not dare to control it. If they were not careful, they would mutiny and grab some food.
It's a small matter, but if there is a mutiny, burning, killing, looting, and this is the imperial capital, then it will be a big trouble.
When the army gathers together to rob a place, the locals have no way of resisting.
Chongzhen didn't understand the difficulties of the grassroots officials at all, because they were trying to solve practical problems one by one.
Dong Lin didn't try to figure out the real situation. He simply thought that the commander-in-chief and the governor failed to restrain the army. They were all members of the Jin Party. If they got into their hands, they would not kill him.
As a result, both of them were imprisoned. The soldiers lost their commanders, panicked and didn't know what to do. In addition, the situation was grim and the Ming army was defeated one after another, so they were unwilling to die here.
In the end, the more than 8,000 reinforcements simply fled back to Shaanxi.
Emperor Chongzhen was furious when he heard the news. He ordered the commander-in-chief Zhang Hong and the governor Geng Ruqi to be beheaded.
Speaking of Governor Geng Ruxi, Yang Fan became increasingly dissatisfied with Chongzhen.
Like Lu Xiangsheng, this man was also a second-ranked Jinshi. He was also proficient in bow and horse, and was a rare military talent among civil servants. He had worked in the Fang Division for many years in personnel work. He had never been greedy for a penny and was respected by everyone.
He was one of the very few people in the Tianqi Dynasty who refused to give Wei Zhongxian a shrine. This man has bones.
The eunuch Wei Zhongxian was tyrannical and tyrannical, and shrines were built in various places to honor Wei's statues. Governor Liu Zhao asked Geng Ruchi to also build a shrine to Wei Zhongxian, but Geng Ruchi did not agree.
Later, when the governor led the civil and military officials to worship the statue of Wei Zhongxian, Geng Ruchi insisted not to worship. Someone said to Geng Ruchi: "If you don't worship, you will get into trouble."
Geng Ruqi said: "My head can be cut off, but my knees must not bend. My ancestor was an imperial envoy and was offended by the traitor Liu Jin. If my knees bend, how can I see my ancestors lying underground?"
Geng Ruchi's words quickly reached the ears of Wei Zhongxian. Wei Zhongxian was furious when he heard about it and ordered his cronies, Luo Zhi, to arrest and imprison Geng Ruchi, torture him and make him a capital offender.
Fortunately, Tian Qi was dead and Governor Wei was unable to deal with him, so he escaped with his life.
It's a pity that I dodged three shots but not one horse cross.
Because the soldiers robbed some food, he was first imprisoned by Donglin. The soldiers fled, and Chongzhen chopped him up again, killing the chickens to scare the monkeys. He used it as an example to establish a prestige and deter all soldiers and horses. What Wei Dugong failed to do, let Chongzhen do it.
Okay, it's really ironic.
In fact, the imperial court did not issue military pay for more than a year. The money for the expedition and the food and salary for the arrival were all raised by him from his grandfather and grandmother, and from everywhere.
In order to save the capital, he sold off his family property and his wife's jewelry. On the way to Beijing, there were several mutinies by officers and soldiers due to insufficient food and wages, and he tried his best to calm them down.
Exhausted physically and mentally, he finally reached the capital. The officers and soldiers were hungry for three days in a row, and he couldn't bear it any longer.
How could such a loyal minister and an upright official meet such an end, not to be chilling?
Yang Fan let out a long sigh, his heart filled with resentment and anger.
He has been in Ming Dynasty for more than three years. He has seen too much filth and filth. However, it still manages to anger him every time. He can't help but worry about this country, which makes him feel deep despair.
He couldn't save the Ming Dynasty, and he didn't want to save it. He couldn't help his majesty either. Yang Fan didn't want to care whether they collapsed or not. But why are the people in this world guilty?
"Wei Dahu, take a small banner of cavalry to the capital. Inform His Majesty and the cabinet that I am back. Tomorrow the army will attack Nanyuan and let the Ministry of War do a good job of cooperating."
"Here!" Wei Dahu, a tall man of 1.9 meters, raised his hands angrily and walked away after the order.
"The army has crossed the river and camped by the lotus pond," Yang Fan said to Donkey Dan.
The Lotus Pond is located five miles outside Guang'an Gate, the west gate of Nancheng. This place is convenient for the army to get water. It is a more suitable place for camping. It is also closer to the capital.
After the failure of Mangui, Huang Taiji gathered his forces and stationed in the barracks that Yang Fan had built for the Beijing camp, which was Nanyuan. Now the Eight Banners and Mongolia have stationed in Nanyuan. After all, the facilities here are complete, the living conditions are good, and there are many warehouses.
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The people, livestock, and materials they robbed can be stationed here. Nanyuan has tiger skin stone walls on the outside and is vast inside. There is no problem in stationing hundreds of thousands of troops and the hundreds of thousands of people they plundered.
The Lotus Pond is outside the west gate of Nancheng, and Nanyuan is ten miles outside Yongding Gate, the south gate of Nancheng. It is about twenty miles from where Yang Fan is stationed to Nanyuan.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The efficiency of transporting troops by train is still very impressive. After a large number of infantry got off the train, they quickly passed the Marco Polo Bridge and rushed towards the Lotus Pond Camp.
Lu Xiangsheng was woken up by his subordinates early in the morning.
He heard that a large number of Jurchens, more than 3,000 in total, came from Marco Polo Bridge in dense numbers. They seemed to be coming from Tianjin and heading for the capital. He immediately thought that it might be Duduo from Tianjin who had returned.
He quickly got up and went to the half-collapsed tower to observe.
He was surprised to find that these Jurchens looked much tougher than the Eight Banners, and wore armor with large metal plates that he had never seen before, and carried the flag of the Ming Dynasty. The weapons were actually axes with red wooden handles.
By this time it was getting daylight, and he saw three men in gorgeous armor and red cloaks, surrounded by a group of tough servants, walking over the Marco Polo Bridge.
The people behind were carrying black flags and banners, "Dingyuan Hou Yang, the general of the Ming Dynasty who conquered the west", "Tongzhi, the commander of the imperial guards," "the governor of the rear army governor's office" and "the censor of the right capital of the inspectorate"...
Lu Xiangsheng was shocked. Is this the legendary Dingyuan Hou Yang Fan? He looks really young. He is a twenty-two-year-old nobleman and a first-class official. He is already thirty years old this year and is still a prefect.
The two beauties wearing exquisite red armor next to them, one is arrogant and the other is coquettish, are they his two wives. I heard that these two are tigresses, and they can control Mr. Yang to be submissive.
Marquis Dingyuan has never had any scandals, nor does he go to the Qin Lou Chu Pavilion. He is usually either in the military camp or at home. He has almost no hobbies and does not go out for a walk.
Everyone in the Ming Dynasty knew that the Marquis of Dingyuan loved his wife.
"Everyone, please tidy up your robes and appearance, and I will go down to see Marquis Dingyuan. Marquis Dingyuan is back, and the capital is saved."