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Volume One: Invasion of the Capital, Chapter 922: Surrender and Surrender

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    When the Shandong Army first arrived at the city, Commander-in-Chief Liu Zhaoji suggested taking advantage of the fact that the enemy's main force had not arrived and their footing was not yet firm, to fight out of the city.  Shi Kefa said: "Don't test your spirit lightly, and prepare a full front to wait for him to die." As for the city defense, Shi Kefa also arranged: "The terrain of the west gate of the old city is humble, and the high tower outside the city overlooks the city. It is very powerful, and  In order to promote Li Huan's ancestor's tomb, the trees are shaded from the outside to the inside, and there is no obstruction. The branches are interconnected and have little power. The generals often say that they cannot bear to cut down the trees.  The generals will use this place as a danger, and I will defend it myself."  On the night of the second day of the sixth lunar month, the officials and gentry in Yangzhou City gathered hundreds of people in the city, launched a rebellion, and opened the city gates to invite the Shandong Army into the city.  The fierce fighting lasted until the early morning, and Yangzhou City fell into the hands of the Daping Army on the third day of the lunar month.  Liu Zhaoji died in the battle, Yangzhou magistrate Ren Minyu, He Gang and others were killed in the battle. Shi Kefa and others were unwilling to surrender after being captured and were beheaded on the order of Chi Ming.  Shi Kefa¡¯s vow not to surrender can indeed be regarded as his loyalty to Nanming.  However, Shi Kefa had no commendable achievements during the entire Chongzhen period; his status and reputation rose rapidly during the Hongguang period.  However, as a politician, Shi Kefa made a fatal mistake in setting up a new king, which resulted in the military generals stealing the credit for "setting the policy" and losing power; as a military strategist, he ran Jiangbei for nearly a year as the dignified governor of the cabinet, spending a lot of time  A large amount of manpower, material resources, and financial resources have been used, but nothing can be done and nothing has been done.  Until the Shandong Army, a non-main force of the Daping Army, moved south, most of the generals under his control switched sides and surrendered, becoming a powerful force for the Daping Dynasty to conquer the Southern Ming Dynasty. Shi Kefa's incompetence in controlling generals is evident.  Take the Battle of Yangzhou as an example.  Shi Kefa also failed to organize effective resistance.  Before the Shandong Army attacked the city, Shi Kefa was pessimistic and disappointed and left all military affairs to his staff.  As a result, Yangzhou fell in less than a day.  As the commander-in-chief of the Jianghuai heavy troops of the Southern Ming Dynasty, Shi Kefa's knowledge and talents were really ordinary.  But there are two points in his life that deserve recognition: first, he was honest and diligent in his official career, and second, he would rather die than surrender at the last moment.  As for his entire political career, it is not worthy of over recognition.  It can be said that Shi Kefa made almost all mistakes in his decision-making on important military and state affairs, and he was inescapably responsible for the collapse of the Hongguang court.     certainly.  Shi Kefa's death was also due to the fact that Wu Shigong did not know his "heroic reputation" in the original history.  There are now a large number of high-ranking officials from the former Ming Dynasty who have submitted to the Daping Dynasty, and there are more than ten people with higher status than Shi Kefa.  Wu Shigong only regarded Shi Kefa as one of them.  So there is no possibility of special treatment.  To be honest, Wu Shigong still needs to pay more attention to Liu Zongzhou, the world's leader of literati.  Otherwise, Wu Shigong would at least explain to Chi Ming that he should not deal with Shi Kefa at will.  And at this time, Chi Ming.  There is only one new army that can be safely controlled.  Among them, there were only more than a thousand officers and non-commissioned officers from the former Runing Army.  Even with the more trustworthy Lu Army of the original Ming Dynasty, the total number of troops was only 30,000.  But now, facing the Nanming army that was swarming in and surrendering, Chi Ming felt anxious that he could not control the troops.  Coupled with the crooked lips of those surrendered generals, they said: Shi Kefa was the chief assistant governor of the Southern Ming Dynasty and had the highest status.  If he is spared alive, it may cause the morale of the surrendering army to be unstable.  So Chi Ming also "followed the good and followed the flow".  Before and after the Shandong Army captured Yangzhou, the Ming Army in the north of the Yangtze River had almost no fighting spirit.  He surrendered hastily without firing a single shot.  Gao Jie's tribe surrendered successively under the leadership of his son Gao Yuanzhao, the crown prince of Xingping Hou, the admiral Li Benshen, and the commander-in-chief Li Chengdong. Guangchang Bo Liu Liangzuo also led his troops to surrender.  In the short period of less than four months from June to early September (this year was a leap month), as many as 23 Nanming generals and 47 deputy generals came to surrender from the entire Huaiyang area.  The total number of horse and infantry reached an astonishing 238,300.  What is particularly worth mentioning is that the troops of commander-in-chief Li Chengdong, Li Benshen, Jin Shenghuan, Li Guoying, Tian Xiong, Ma Degong, Xu Yong and others are well-equipped and have excellent combat skills.  It can be said that as long as they combine two or three troops, they can fight evenly with Chi Ming's Shandong Army.  But even such troops were demoralized and the entire army surrendered to the Daping Dynasty without firing a single shot.  It was really a crushing defeat.  The major vassal towns in the Hongguang Dynasty surrendered in this way, not because their soldiers were unable to fight, but because they formed a powerful power group by virtue of "decided strategies" and other reasons. They had the intention of threatening the imperial court and had no ambition to serve the country loyally.  Since all they care about is preserving their own glory and wealth, once a powerful enemy comes to the fore, the best strategy is to surrender and "account for merit".  One sentence can be said: the Hongguang court relied on winning over the feudal towns, and it was precisely the feudal towns that rebelled and surrendered.  On June 17, Zhou Xun and Xue Qiang led an army of 130,000 people down the river, and first encountered Zuo Menggeng, the son of Zuo Liangyu.  Zuo Menggeng's men had ten soldiers and more than 70,000 soldiers. They did not dare to attack Zhou Xun and Xue Xun who were coming from the west.The troops did not dare to go east to fight with Chi Ming's troops, and were not even willing to go south to Jiangxi to temporarily avoid the main force of the Daping Army. On June 29, they led their troops and horses to surrender to the Daping Army on the Yangtze River from Jiujiang to the east.  .  Along with Zuo Menggeng, Huang Shu, the censor of Huguang Patrol Bureau, surrendered.  Yuan Jixian, the governor of the Nanming River, became a prisoner of the Daping Army under Zuo Menggeng's force.  After Yuan Jixian was coerced to see Zhou Xun, he flatly refused to persuade him to surrender. He was then escorted to Beijing under house arrest. Later, during the five-year amnesty in Qiongyuan, he was released to his hometown to be raised.  Because Zuo Liangyu and Wu Shigong had a personal grudge, the surrender negotiations took a long time.  It was not until Hou Xun came in to lobby for guarantees that Zuo Menggeng's tribe surrendered with confidence.  And because the military discipline of the left army was so bad, it took more than ten days to reorganize the surrendered army.  Therefore, by the time Zhou Xun and Zhang Biao's troops took action again, it was already the 20th of leap June.  By the way, let¡¯s talk about the fate of this notorious unit on the left.  After that, almost all of this army was demobilized, and all the generals returned home after being given generous sums of money.  Only Zuo Menggeng was made an earl, but most of Zuo Menggeng and his generals met a good death.  It¡¯s really admirable - the thief of the country!  The reorganized Daping Army troops wanted to make a detour to the northeast and cut off the heavy Nanming troops stationed in Fengyang and Luzhou.  He responded to Zhang Biao's Daping Army, which was weak in strength.  But just two days after they set out, they were delighted to hear that the Nanming Army in Fengyang and Luzhou had also surrendered to the Daping Army.  After Zhang Biao, who was stationed in Ye County, Nanyang Prefecture, received the general order for Zhou Xun on June 24, he immediately led 5,000 soldiers and horses who had been ready to go, and rushed to Runing.  Then another 10,000 new soldiers gathered in Runing.  Since the original Runing military station was well-established in Runing Prefecture, this unit was able to march at high speed and arrived at the junction of Runing and Fengyang on June 30.  At this time, there were more than 60,000 Nanming troops stationed in Fengyang and Luzhou.  However, they were composed of two parts: one part was the Ming army left in Fengyang Mansion when Ma Shiying went north; the other part was the troops left behind by the late Gao Jie.  And the Ming army left behind by Fengyang Mansion was originally a mess, because the elite of this army had long been mobilized north by Ma Shiying.  In addition, Fengyang's army was doing a lot of business with Runing's army, and the two armies were inextricably linked.  So when they saw the arrival of Zhang Biao's troops, they surrendered without hesitation.  And the other Nanming army was even more disorganized.  In March of the first year of Qiongyuan, Gao Jie, together with Henan governor Yue Qijie and patrol commander Chen Qianfu, led the army to Luzhou, preparing to go north to occupy the "three no matter" areas of the two armies in Xuzhou and other places. It would be best to go north to invade the hinterland of Henan.  This march north was also the only military operation of the Nanming Army to actively attack the Daping Dynasty.  Xu Dingguo, the commander-in-chief who guarded the area, had already secretly communicated with the Daping Army in Runing, Henan Province, and at the request of Xue Qiang there, he sent his sons Xu Er'an and Xu Erji to Runing Mansion to serve as hostages.  So when Gao Jie's army arrived in Luzhou, Xu Dingguo was panicked and lost control of his advance and retreat.  He knew very well that his troops were no match for Gao Jie, so he asked Xue Qiang to send troops to support but was rejected, so he could only take the risk.  So Xu Dingguo went out of the city to see Gao Jie, which was mistaken for respect, and secretly planned a way to deal with it.  In fact, at that time, Gao Jie already knew the news that Xu Dingguo had sent his son to Runing. In order to prevent him from leading his men to dedicate the Luzhou area to the Daping Dynasty, he wanted to use his superior military strength to coerce Xu Dingguo and his tribe to march north with the army.  On the twelfth day, Xu Dingguo held a grand banquet in Luzhou City, nominally to cleanse the dust of Gao Jie, Yue Qijie and Chen Qianfu.  Yue Qijie advised Gao Jie not to enter Luzhou City easily to prevent accidents.  However, as Gao Jie was a martial artist, he thought that he had more troops and was more powerful. Xu Dingguo never dared to act rashly, so he only brought 300 personal soldiers into the city for the banquet, accompanied by Yue Qijie and Chen Qianfu.  Xu Dingguo ambushed the troops in advance, used flower cards to persuade them to drink, and made Gao Jie and others drunk.  In the middle of the night, an ambush broke out and killed Gao Jie and all the soldiers accompanying him. Yue Qijie and Chen Qianfu fled Luzhou in panic.  The next day, Gao Jie's tribe was furious when they learned that their general had been killed. They immediately invaded Luzhou and massacred the soldiers and civilians in revenge.  Xu Dingguo fled westward with his followers and returned to Runing.  After Gao Jie's death, the army had no leader and his troops were in chaos.  The nearby generals such as Huang Degong also wanted to take the opportunity to carve up the troops and territory of Gao Jie's tribe, and the two sides were at war with each other.  People at that time said: Who calls Fanshan Harrier (Gao Jie was nicknamed Fanshan Harrier in the peasant army), Chuangzi is not harmonious (Huang Degong is nicknamed Huang Chuangzi).  Swordsmen were raised on the ground, and my wife came to suppress the stronghold (original note: Mrs. Xing), but she killed the old matchmaker (original note: Shi Gong), and walked across the Yangtze River and Huaihe River. The emperor was drunk with soju and ignored her.  Anyway, it¡¯s just chicken feathers all over the place.  "The military plan to go north this time not only failed completely, but also caused internal disputes within the Nanming Army.  It can be said that misfortunes never come singly.  (UnfinishedTo be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!
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