Chapter 20 Countermeasures
That night, Liaoyang.
More than 800 servants led by Wang Pu set up camp here.
Liaoyang is located more than a hundred miles south of Shengjing. It was once the town of Liaodong Town of the Ming Empire decades ago. At its peak, hundreds of thousands of Han people lived in the city. Later, the Jurchens emerged. Han people in Liaodong were either killed or fled. Liaoyang soon declined. After Nurhaci moved the capital to Shengjing, Liaoyang was completely abandoned and has now become a ruin with wild beasts.
Wang Pu looked at the broken walls and covered with artemisia outside the tent and sighed: "More than 20 years ago, what a prosperous city in Liaoyang was. Unfortunately, it was destroyed by Jiannu, alas."
Zhen Youcai's face showed a rare look of sorrow and whispered: "Yes, twenty years ago, after Jiannu broke the city, there were tens of thousands of people who hanged them alone. The beams of every household were hung with corpses, and even the branches outside the city were hung with dead people. The scene was so tragic. The villain looked back now, it looked like yesterday."
Zhen Youcai suddenly burst into tears as he said, "The villain's parents were also hanged in that day."
Wang Pu patted Zhen Youcai's shoulder and whispered: "Youcai, find a soldier to get some sacrifices, and then use a pot of water and wine to pay tribute to your parents. I don't know when I will come to Liaodong again after returning to the pass."
"Why."
Zhen Youcai wiped his tears and went away in a shrinking state.
Wang Pu asked Scarface to take more than a dozen servants to follow him, not because he was afraid that Zhen Youcai would run away. In Wang Pu's opinion, Zhen Youcai was greedy for life and fear of death, but he did not have the freedom of the Ming people to do it, but instead went to be a dog slave of Jiannu. What's more, this time the Jiannu's Shengjing was destroyed and Zhen Youcai made great contributions, so he would never dare to run back to be a slave of Jiannu.
With this skill, Xiaoqi had someone bring Huang Taiji into Wang Pu's tent.
Huang Taiji was so embarrassed at this time. His hands and feet were tied up because he was worried that he would bit his tongue and commit suicide. He also had a rag in his mouth because Huang Taiji was obese and weighed more than 300 kilograms, so it was really difficult to carry him on his way. Xiaoqi simply asked two servants to carry Huang Taiji into the tent like a stick.
Because of the bumpy day, Huang Taiji's complexion was very bad.
Wang Pu called Xiaoqi to him and whispered for a while. Xiaoqi was determined to take people there. Wang Pu then asked Huang Taiji to sit up and took away the rag stuffed in his mouth. Huang Taiji gasped for a moment and said to Wang Pu: "Wang Pu, I want to see Chen Fei."
After Huang Taiji said this, Wang Pu really wanted to know whether the charming Hai Lanzhu is dead or alive now?
Wang Pu immediately sent someone to call Li Changfu to his tent. Li Changfu and his grandson have been following the army since they showed their skills in Changyong Fort, and now they have become military doctors.
"Dad Li." Wang Pu asked, "Is that Jiannu woman dead?"
Huang Taiji couldn't help but ask: "Is it Concubine Chen? How is she doing now?"
"No, I'm living well." Dad Li scratched his head and said, "I'm about to report this to you, General. It's really evil. This Jiannu woman is about to die of anger, but after being stuck on the horse for a long time, she actually survived again. She was so angry that she looked rosy and had a rosy face. She was halfway through the disease."
Wang Pu frowned and said, "Can it be a comeback?"
Huang Taiji breathed a sigh of relief and whispered to himself: "It's fine, I'll feel relieved if Concubine Chen is fine."
"No." Dad Li shook his head and said, "I have already called her pulse, and it is definitely not a return."
"What's going on?"
"I guess that the Jiannu woman might have caused her qi to become stagnant due to excessive sadness. After pounding on the horse's back for most of the day, she did not let her breathe, but by chance, she accidentally dissolved the accumulated qi in her chest, so she was halfway through the disease."
"So that's the case." Wang Pu nodded, "Okay, Dad Li, you go down first. The wounded in the army will have to worry about you."
"What is the general?" Dad Li said quickly, "This is what I should do."
When Dad Li left, Wang Pu said to Huang Taiji: "Huang Taiji, you should rest assured now, right?"
Huang Taiji said: "I want to meet Concubine Chen."
"It's not the time yet." Wang Pu shook his head, "Hai Lanzhu's condition has just improved. What should I do if I feel excited after seeing you?"
"That's true." Huang Taiji said deeply, "I don't think about it."
Wang Pu said: "Huang Taiji, I heard that you like reading Romance of the Three Kingdoms?"
"No," Huang Taiji nodded, "The culture of your Han people is indeed profound and profound. It's a pity that the monarchs and ministers of your Ming Dynasty do not know how to make good use of them. They only know that the party is the same and the extortion of different parties, and the extortion of plunders, making a great country a mess, and the people are in trouble. My Qing Dynasty took the Ming Dynasty and replaced it can be said that it was to follow the will of heaven and follow the will of the people."
"You Wang Pu is also a good general. If you can abandon the secret and turn to the light and submit to the Qing Dynasty, I will grant you the King of Jingnan!"
"King of Jingnan?" Wang Pu laughed, "Hahaha, it's interesting."
Huang Taiji said solemnly: "You don't have any jokes, I'm serious."
"You have no joke?" Wang Pu said calmly, "Huang Taiji, you are no longer a slave chief, you are now a prisoner of the Ming Dynasty's official army! Don't say these boring words. I asked you if you like the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. There is no other meaning. I just heard that you once used Zhou Yu to kill Cai Mao with a knife from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Zhang Yun got inspiration and used the counter-espionage strategy to get rid of Yuan Chonghuan. Today, I also want to use the counter-espionage strategy to use your hand to transfer the eight thousand cavalrymen of the white flag, and then kill a few more traitors."
[It is hard to say whether Huang Taiji used a counter-espionage plan to eliminate Yuan Chonghuan's true or falsehood. This book is a novel. I believe it without exploring it in detail.]
"Transfer eight thousand iron cavalry?" Huang Taiji said disdainfully, "Wang Pu, stop dreaming. Returning from Liaodong to the inner gate is nothing more than two roads, except land and sea routes. But now you can't walk both roads. If you think you can take me as a hostage, then you are very wrong. If you know the current affairs, surrender to the Qing Dynasty. I can still protect you from glory and wealth throughout your life."
"Haha, are you just dreaming and just wait and see?" Wang Pu said that, and then stuffed the rag back into Huang Taiji's mouth, then pointed to the outside of the tent, and whispered, "Do you know who is locked in the tent next to you? It's Jiergalang."
Huang Taiji snorted from his nostrils, unmoved.
Wang Pu smiled and suddenly said with a loud voice: "Huang Taiji, you must be very surprised why the army led by me can bypass the Jiannu camp in Songshan without knowing it, and why can we easily take down Shengjing City, right? I will tell you the truth today. You Jiannu are the inner supporters of our Ming Dynasty!"
Huang Taiji obviously thought of something and seemed to want to say something, but unfortunately his mouth was blocked and he couldn't say anything.
Wang Pu smiled and then said loudly: "You must want to know who these inner men are, right? Anyway, you are dying, so let me tell you the truth today. These inner men are either others, Kong Youde, and Monk Geng Zhongming is very happy! Do you think they are really surrendering, but they are falsely surrendering, and they are following the imperial edict of Long Live My Lord to be the inner men! This general's army secretly came through the defense zone of the three of them. The gate of Shengjing City was also secretly opened by their slaves from inside. And the news about your presence outside Shengjing City was also sent by them to inform me of the general. Otherwise, I would not be able to catch you, hahaha..."
"Mmmmmmmmmmm..."
Huang Taiji tried hard to speak, but he could only mumble through his nostrils for a few times.
Wang Pu continued: "Didn't you just say that this general and his army are hard to fly even if they have wings? This general can tell you now that Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming and the others have already arranged ships on Lianyun Island. When the general's army arrives, they can immediately drive the ship out to sea and return to Dengzhou by sea."
"Don't think that the eight thousand Jiannu cavalry you transferred can stop me. Tomorrow, I will arrange a suspicious army to advance to Korea with great fanfare. I will lead the army to lie in the daytime and go south secretly. When the eight thousand cavalry you transferred will chase me to North Korea, I have already boarded a ship from Lianyun Island to go out to sea, hahaha..."
Huang Taiji's face changed drastically, and he finally knew Wang Pu's sinister intentions.
Wang Pu clearly intended to let Jiergalang hear these words, and then he made a flaw to let Jiergalang escape and took what Wang Pu said to Songshan Camp. Shengjing was destroyed and Huang Taiji was captured. Coupled with the "truth" that Jiergalang heard from the enemy camp, those princes and Beile were most likely to kill Kong Youde in anger, and the monk Geng Zhongming and Kexi and the other two vented their hatred.
There were also Duoduo's 5,000 cavalry. After hearing the "news" from Jirgalang, they would probably chase Lianyun Island in 1000, but ignored the Ming army that was moving towards North Korea with great fanfare. In this way, the Ming army of Wang Pu's troops could successfully enter the border of North Korea. Although North Korea is now a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty, it has always been towards the Ming Dynasty. If Wang Pu's army enters North Korea, it will definitely receive the courtesy of the King of Korea. The Ming army can board the ship from Incheon Port and go to sea and return to the Ming Dynasty smoothly.
Huang Taiji must be construed, and Wang Pu's counter-espionage plan is very vicious.
Huang Taiji knew very well that after something happened, the two men who took over the power of the Qing Dynasty were Haoge and Dorgon. Although Haoge was brave and good at fighting, he had no brains and could not see through Wang Pu's counter-espionage plan. Although Dorgon was brave and scheming, he was young and energetic in the end, and he might not be able to see through the conspiracy. Fan Wencheng, Ning Wan, I might be able to see through it, but they were Han people. They could not help but worry that they would cause themselves to be killed. In this case, they would not have come forward to reveal it.
In addition, Huang Taiji thought of something even more terrifying. Once the news of his capture reached the Songshan camp, the good situation of the Qing army in Songshan would be completely ruined!
Chapter completed!