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Chapter 47: The Qing court pacifies the chaos (1)

? "Crash!"

As the table of hearty wine and food overturned, all fell to the ground, cups, plates, bowls and cups were smashed, and the wine was still emitting a tempting smell when it was spilled on the ground.

Unfortunately, Dorgon had no intention of having a meal at this time. Not only did he overturn the table, but he also threw all the chairs, tables, cabinets, etc., as well as all the decorations in the tent. Until there was nothing else, he still kicked the tables and chairs with all his heart.

Several of the close-fitting coats who were originally serving Dorgon, were hiding outside the tent at this time. They were all so scared that they were as cold as cicadas. No one dared to make any noise, for fear of touching Dorgon who was on the piss. If Dorgon called someone's name at this time, he would probably even have the desire to commit suicide on the spot. Facing Dorgon in anger, he would basically have a life of death.

In fact, it was not Dorgon's fault that he got angry. Although he expected Shang Yi would not miss the opportunity of civil strife in the Qing Dynasty and launched an army to fight north, he never expected that in just over two months, Shandong and Nanyang had been lost.

Moreover, Shandong has persisted for nearly two months, causing certain losses to the Chinese army. However, the Nanyang area did not hold on for even a month and declared its loss. In order to preserve its strength, Geng Zhongming feared the enemy and refused to fight, and ended up pushing each other. Wu Sangui accepted the four prefectures he assigned to him, but only stationed troops on the border of Sichuan and Lake, but he did not dare to attack the Chinese army, which eventually led to the defeat of Nanyang.

Now the Chinese army, east and west, echoing each other from afar, has formed a trend of attacking the Central Plains region between the east and the west. It can be said that the situation in the entire Henan Province is in danger. The fall of Henan means that the Qing court will lose the Central Plains.

Dorgon has considerable research on China's history. Since ancient times, no matter where the dynasties in China were built, they had to seize the Central Plains if they wanted to seize the world. For the northern regime, the Central Plains was still important. If the Central Plains were lost, the southern court could still settle in the corner of the south of the Yangtze River and defend half of the country, while the northern regime was facing a disaster of destruction. Therefore, Shandong was lost and the Qing court could still avoid the strong stabilization of the situation. However, the fall of Nanyang would be a great blow to the Qing court. Now the rebellion in the north has not yet been completely calmed down. How could Dorgon not get angry?

At the same time, Dorgon was also very dissatisfied with the behavior of Geng Zhongming, Shi Tingming, who were stationed in Nanyang, and Wu Sangui who had high hopes. Of course, how did the decision to make Geng Zhongming and Shi Tingming stand together in Nanyang was ignored by Dorgon.

Therefore, after receiving the news of Nanyang's loss, Dorgon finally got furious in the big tent. After smashing all the things in the big tent, Dorgon realized that he was the only one in the tent, and all the other servants were hiding outside the tent. Unconsciously, he was furious again and shouted: "Where are people? Where are people? They all died there."

Hearing Dorgon's shouts, several people dared not hide outside, so they had to enter the tent one by one, lowered their heads, and did not dare to conquer Dorgon at all.

But I couldn't escape this. When I saw them coming in, Dorgon immediately vented all his anger that had not been vented on these couples of them. He rushed over a few steps and said, "Die slave, I've been hiding there, and I'll ask me to find it."

As he said that, he raised his legs and kicked one of the people hard in the lower abdomen. The man immediately screamed, covering his stomach and rolling on the ground with pain. Dorgon then punched and kicked the others, making only these people scream.

But even if you get angry, the situation has reached this point and you still have to face it. Therefore, after Dorgon made a big move, he finally calmed down and began to think about the next countermeasures.

First of all, one thing is certain, that is, the number of troops must be sent to the south. Otherwise, once the Chinese army attacked the entire line and captured Henan, the Qing Dynasty might be over. Therefore, no matter what, the Chinese army could not be allowed to occupy Henan. However, at this time, the Qing court did not have much idle troops to send except around Beijing. Even around Beijing, it could only draw 50,000 or 60,000 troops at most. However, such soldiers were inferior and invested in the Central Plains battlefield, which was useless and could not help. They could only draw troops from the troops who quelled the chaos in the north.

Fortunately, the Qing army in the north had a good war. First, in Gansu, Nikan and Han Dai led the Qing army to conquer Taozhou on April 12. On the 14th, they joined forces with Gansu General Zhang Yong, Deputy General Ma Ning and others, and the Han soldiers gathered in Lanzhou and attacked the city in large numbers. The two sides fought three times, and the rebels were defeated. Milayin and Ding Guodong led the defeated soldiers and fled westward, and Lanzhou was lost.

Nikan and Han Dai led the Qing army to pursue the victory. On May 7, they chased Yu Shuiquan. Milayin gathered tens of thousands of return troops to fight against the Qing army. Nikan personally led three thousand elite Eight Banners Iron Cavalry to attack the return troops and defeated the return troops. Milayin was killed on the spot. The rest of the people were led by Ding Guodong, Hei Chengyin and others to retreat to Ganzhou and Suzhou.

On May 20, Nikan and Han Daihui, Zhang Yong, Ma Ning and others surrounded Ganzhou, blew up the city gate with artillery and attacked the city. Ganzhou was immediately captured and killed. Ding Guodong, Hei Chengyin and others were all captured and killed. The Qing army then launched a large-scale massacre of the city, slaughtering Gan and Suzhou. More than 50,000 victims were killed. The shocked Hui, the anti-Qing uprising jointly launched by the Han tribes, also failed.

At this time, Nikan and Han Dai gathered the local Gansu Qing army, with a total of about 60,000 people. Dorgon immediately ordered Nikan and Han Dai to lead their troops to Henan to help the war. However, Gansu was thousands of miles away from Henan. When Dorgon's order was passed to Gansu, Nikan and Han Dai's troops rushed to Henan, it would take at least two months.

On the battlefield in Shaanxi, Prince Ying Ajige, who was responsible for quelling the rebellion in Shaanxi, and Li Guohan, the Han army's Zhenghong Banner Gushan Ezhen. On March 23, Ajige, Li Guohan, General Zhang Tianfu, General of Han Qiang, and the guerrilla Sheng Jiadingdu of Xing'an Town, rushed to Xianyang, and joined forces with Huang Erxing, the governor of Shaanxi in Qing Dynasty, to defend the Xi'an Manchu Army, Hahamu, and others to discuss the fight against the matter.

Finally, the troops were divided into three groups, Li Guohan led his army to Huanglong Mountain, Zhang Tianfu led his army to Chengcheng County, and Hahamu led his army to Tongguan County, and planned to intercept and suppress the rebels in Shaanxi in Luozhou and Fuzhou. Ajige was in charge of Yijun County and supported the three groups.

Unexpectedly, under the leadership of Wang Yongqiang, the rebel army advanced very quickly. They led their troops south from Ting'an Prefecture and arrived in Pucheng on March 30. Instead, they went around the back of the Qing army. In addition to sending some troops into the city to defend, Wang Yongqiang led the main troops of the rebel army to continue advancing westward, attempting to capture Xi'an and use Xi'an's city defense to resist the Qing army.

At this time, all other people arrived at their respective positions, and Ajige had already arrived in Yijun County. After receiving the news, Ajige hurried back to Fuping County overnight, and urgently ordered the other three people to return to fight the rebel army immediately. On April 10, Ajige personally led 5,000 troops to stop the rebel year in Miyuan, north of Liuqu Town. Seeing that the Qing army had not had much strength, Wang Yongqiang immediately commanded the troops to launch an attack on the Qing army.

However, although the Qing army had not many troops, they were all elites of the Eight Banners. Therefore, the rebel army fought fiercely with the Qing army for a day and was still unable to break through the Qing army's defense line. At this time, three other groups of people also arrived at the battlefield. The rebel army was defeated by the Qing army and more than 30,000 people were killed on the spot. Wang Yongqiang, Wang Yongzhen and others were also killed in battle. Then the Qing army took advantage of the victory to attack Pucheng, and the residents in the city defended. By April 15, they were captured by the Qing army. After the city was broken, the rebel army massacred the city and killed more than 10,000 people in the city.

At this time, Gao Youcai's troops, who were fighting with Wang Yongqiang, were still guarding Beifugu County, Ting'an Prefecture when Wang Yongqiang went south. After Ajige eliminated Wang Yongqiang's troops, he led his troops north and surrounded Fugu in June. However, Gao Youcai led the soldiers and civilians of Fugu County to live in the city to defend. The Qing army attacked for a month in a row, but did not capture Fugu County. The two sides were in a stalemate.

In Shanxi, which had the greatest anti-Qing momentum, Dorgon personally led the army to quell the rebellion. After Dorgon arrived in Dayuan, he first sent Chengze County Prince Shuosai to lead a large army to siege Datong, and defeated the troops from the Jiaoma Road outside the Great Wall, Desheng Road and other places to assist Jiang Yan to send a supportive army, thus cutting off the connection between Datong and other Shanxi anti-Qing forces. However, Datong's defense was very strong. Although the Qing army transferred red cannons, it was still difficult to conquer.

But the situation in Shanxi was still very serious at this time. The Qing court could control only a few places such as the provincial capital Taiyuan and Pingyang in southern Shanxi, and other prefectures, prefectures and counties, which were almost all occupied by the anti-Qing and restoring Ming armed forces.

Dorgon also dismissed him from the position of Geng Yun, the governor of Xuanda, because Geng Yun failed to prevent in advance, and Tong Yangliang took over as the governor. After Tong Yangliang took office, he immediately led his troops to attack Liu Qian's troops in the Daizhou area, and defeated Liu Qian's troops in Pingxing Pass, Yanmen Pass and other places. Liu Qian was led by Hou to retreat into the Wutai Mountain Area to defend the enemy.

But at this time, Liu Qian's subordinates and generals saw that the situation was not good, surrendered to the Qing court. Zhu Yangliang led his army to cross mountains and hills and attacked the camps, and relied on his superior forces to squeeze Liu Qian's troops into a small mountainous area. Finally, the two sides fought fiercely in Huangxiang Village, and the Qing army won a great victory, and Liu Qian and his son were killed. Daizhou was recovered by the Qing army, and the back threat of siege to Datong was lifted, which initially made the battle situation in Shanxi finally beneficial to the Qing side.

Subsequently, Duoluo Prince Wakda led his army to conquer Shuozhou, Mayi and other places, and Prince Zheng Jiergalang led his army to conquer Xiaoyi, Pingyao, Liaozhou, Yushe and other places. Tong Yangliang, the Governor of Xuanda, led the Manchu and Han troops to cross the Yellow River to conquer Puzhou, Linjin, Hejin, Jiezhou, Yishi and other places. Bai Zhang, the leader of the rebel army, was killed in Ronghe.

Then Wakda and the two princes of Jirhalang joined forces to attack Fenzhou. On the night of May 22, they used red-clothed cannons to bomb Beiguan. The next day, they rushed into the city from the collapse of the city wall. The governor Jiang Jianxun, the governor of the rebel army, and Liu Bingran, broke through the siege and was captured and killed by the Qing army. After the Qing army captured Fenzhou, they massacred all the men in the city, and the women and their property became the spoils of the Manchu noble army.

The situation in Shanxi was finally reversed.

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