Great time travel

1 Fifty chapters, the short-lived Qing Empire
August of the sixth year of Chongzhen, Shandong, Qingzhou Prefecture, Shouguang County

"...Boom! Boom! Boom!"

"...Kill the Tartars!"

Accompanied by the roar of artillery and the screams of killing, [-] Dengzhou troops entered Qingzhou from Changle County, and their first target was Shouguang County on the west bank of the river.Facing such an overwhelming offensive, the small number of Qing troops deployed by Huang Taiji at the frontier of Qingzhou collapsed at the touch of a button.In just ten days, the Qing army successively abandoned counties such as Shouguang, Linqu, Le'an, and Guangrao, and even Qingzhou Prefecture fell after a mere day of resistance.The soldiers and horses from all walks of life either broke up and surrendered after the defeat, or ran wildly towards Jinan, the provincial capital.

——After Huang Taiji led the main force of the Eight Banners to attack South Zhili, the Qing army stationed in the area around Qingzhou only had a total of 7000 people, and they were basically the former Shandong Ming army who had just surrendered. In two or three months, food, fodder and military pay also depended on looting and looting on the spot. Neither fighting skills nor loyalty to the Qing Dynasty had time to develop. Once faced with a strong enemy attack, the army would naturally be defeated.

At this time, Hauge, the eldest son of Huang Taiji, was leading a thousand Manchurian flag soldiers and five thousand Ming troops who had recently surrendered, and was in charge of guarding Jinan City.The bad news of the upheaval in Liaodong has already caused the army in Jinan to be in chaos.Seeing the collapse of the Qingzhou battlefield, and Chen Xin's Dengzhou army continuing to approach Jinan, Hauge, who had only a handful of soldiers, couldn't help but feel his heart beat, so he had to ask for help from his father Huang Taiji who was stationed in Xuzhou.

Facing the sudden force of the Dengzhou Army on the Shandong battlefield, His Majesty Huang Taiji, who had just received the news of the upheaval in Liaodong, was frightened and vomited blood for a while, and was about to faint.In desperation, the "Emperor Chongde of the Qing Dynasty", who had just ascended the throne for a few days, had to order the Eight Banners soldiers and horses to be summoned to prepare for another imperial conquest, turning around from Xuzhou and heading north to compete with Marshal Chen Xin's Dengzhou Army.

However, many people are not very optimistic about Huang Taiji's prospects. Two months ago, when the main force of Wenxiangjiao's army was marching south to Yangzhou, the Eight Banners soldiers drove straight into Xuzhou from the north and exploded their buttocks. As a result, the leader Wang Ke He had to lead his troops to turn around in a hurry to rescue the old nest, and then was defeated by the Qing army who was waiting for work, and was wiped out from then on.The current situation of the Qing army is almost a replica of the previous Wenxiangjiao. How can people with insight be optimistic about it?
As a result, Huainan and Huaibei, where the flag of the Qing Dynasty had just been planted, immediately began to be turbulent again.Many Wenxiangjiao backbones and Ming Dynasty officials who had just paid homage to the Qing emperor in Xuzhou immediately turned into anti-Qing elements after returning to their hometowns.From Xuzhou to Yangzhou in the two Huaihe Rivers, except for a few prefectures and counties where the Eight Banners soldiers stationed, the rest of the more remote places are full of undercurrents.But at this time, Huang Taiji was so devastated that he had no time to take care of these trivial matters. Just gathering the soldiers and horses and food fodder to go north to rescue Shandong had already given him a headache.

At this time, the Eight Banners of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties were not so much a state power as an armed robbery group integrating the army and the people.Its most basic combat unit was Niulu. At that time, each Niulu of the Eight Banners of Manchuria usually had [-] strong men, and usually one out of three men was drawn, that is, [-] strong men were drawn as soldiers.Bannermen who serve as soldiers are called "armored men", and bannermen who are not serving as soldiers temporarily are called "Yu Ding" or "idle".Even these "Yu Ding" or "idle" who are not soldiers do not produce on weekdays, and they are all supported by the Han people. They are all paramilitary personnel who can fight on horseback. In fact, all the people are soldiers. In many cases, even Manchu women Must receive military training.When expanding the army during wartime, strong Jurchen men other than armored men were often conscripted.

The social structure designed in this way has indeed squeezed the war potential of the Jurchen clan to the limit, but because the total population of the Eight Banners is limited after all, even if they are so aggressive, the Qing court can only gather about 1 Eight Banners soldiers at most.During the conquest of Southern Zhili this time, Huang Taiji brought a total of 1 Manchu soldiers, 5 Mongolian banner soldiers, a small number of Liaodong Han troops, and more than [-] surrendered Ming troops that had just been incorporated.In addition to the more than [-] people brought by Dorgon from the Henan battlefield, the total strength is more than [-].Of course, these more than [-] people cannot all be soldiers, but also include a large number of auxiliary soldiers such as handymen and civilian husbands.But for the Qing Dynasty, which had just entered the Central Plains not long ago, it could already be called an all-powerful soldier.

But the problem is that after Wen Xiangjiao's troops occupying the two Huaihe Rivers were defeated and surrendered, Huang Taiji dispersed a considerable part of his troops to take over the prefectures and counties that had surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and let these soldiers plunder towns and grass valleys by the way. Getting rich, as a reward for the previous military exploits, has already gone away by now.Now that they were suddenly gathered together again, there was a sudden chaos.It took a lot of time for the messengers to go back and forth, and then we had to prepare the rations, ordnance, coolies and ships for the northward battle... After Huang Taiji assembled and reorganized the whole army, he arranged for the troops to stay, and then went northward along the canal By the time we marched to Shandong, more than a month had passed.And this is already a rare high efficiency in the ancient army.

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Fortunately, when Huang Taiji rushed northward with more than 3 people in a hurry and rushed back to Shandong by water and land, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty was relieved that Jinan City had not yet been captured by the Dengzhou Army. Invasion, but still flying the flag of the Qing Dynasty!
But this is not the credit of the eldest son Hauge.In fact, as early as when the Dengzhou Army was just approaching, Hauge, who seemed brave but actually timid, took all the more than 1000 Eight Banners soldiers under his command to escape from Jinan under the pretext of ensuring the smooth flow of the Grand Canal, and retreated in a hurry to Dongchang in the west. government.

However, although the master of the Aixinjueluo family had already fled, the prefect of Jinan appointed by the Qing court showed amazing loyalty and courage.This person first beheaded all his wives, concubines and children, and exposed the corpses in front of the government office to show his determination to fight to the end. Then he called on the gentry in Jinan City to send food and people, and vowed to fight against the Dengzhou rebels. the response to.Next, the magistrate's yamen organized scholars to spread rumors in the city, saying that the Dengzhou rebels killed people without blinking an eye, ate people's hearts, and ate their stomachs and lungs.

—— Marshal Chen Xin, who is in charge of Dengzhou Town, although he did not fly a red flag with a sickle and hammer pattern, his land policy is exactly the same as that of the "our party" in the early days. They all forcibly confiscated or bought the fields of landlords and gentry, and then distributed them to the families of soldiers , thus establishing many military farms named Tunpu.The goal is to use this to win over the army and create a group of hardcore supporters in Dengzhou as quickly as possible.At the same time, Dengzhou Town has virtually reduced the potential sources of opposition forces, disintegrated the original organization and mobilization forces of the people without a trace, and ensured the stability of the base camp.

Obviously, whether it is expropriation or redemption of the land, it has seriously touched the sensitive nerves of the world's gentry and landlords, because according to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, only they can seize the land of the poor and lowly people by clever means, and did not let the lowly warriors The truth of riding on the head.As a result, Chen Xin began to suppress and massacre the landlords and gentry as early as when he was still flying the banner of the Ming Dynasty.After the anti-flag was erected, Marshal Chen Xin's method of carrying out land reform intensified. Not only did many poor people who had nothing to stand on were allocated to the fields, they became Marshal Chen's die-hard supporters, and he also killed the landlords and gentry in Jiaodong. The hatred is as deep as the sea, and the situation is irreconcilable.

——Although traversers with strong productivity are not unable to afford the money to buy land, the problem is that in many cases, it is not possible to buy land as long as they have money.It should be known that in the era of the feudal dynasty, the relaxed and leisurely life of the landlords and gentry was entirely based on the pain of the tenant farmers.And most of the political power in rural areas was manipulated in the hands of a few gentry and landlords.The basis of its status and power is a large tract of land.

Although the landlords and gentry in the feudal era were stubborn, they saw this very clearly, so they naturally held on to the land tightly and refused to let go.Because once the land is lost, the landlord will lose his original power base, which cannot be bought with more gold and silver treasures!
On the other hand, in the eyes of Marshal Chen Xin, since these landlords and gentry will not submit to obedience no matter whether it is redemption or confiscation, and they will definitely jump out and make trouble, then simply save this money for military expenses and directly use bullets and sabers Speak to the landowners!
Since the Eight Banners of Manchuria, who were "unparalleled in bow and horse" in history, were able to enclose land around Beijing, not only took away the land, but also made the original landlords serve as serfs, then the modernized Dengzhou Army, which is more powerful in combat, can obviously do the same. to something like this.Anyway, there is no such thing as humanitarianism these days. No matter what kind of massacre is a normal ruling measure, as long as you want to kill and kill as much as you want.

As a result, in Jinan City at this time, many landlords and gentry who escaped from Dengzhou Prefecture, Laizhou Prefecture and Qingzhou Prefecture in the east gathered. Everyone has a hatred for Marshal Chen Xin.Under the cries and publicity of these distressed people, the landlords and gentry in Jinan Prefecture also knew of Dengzhou Dashuai Chen's "perverse actions". , Change Xia with barbarians", "I have never heard of such harsh treatment of gentry in ancient times"!For a while, the hatred exploded.

Of course, if no one stood up and raised their arms and shouted, most of the gentry could only pinch their noses to recognize them because of the fierce reputation of the Dengzhou Army, or drag their families and flee farther away.But now that the magistrate is willing to take the lead in destroying the family, the gentry in Jinan naturally developed an infinite loyalty to the Qing Dynasty, and would rather go bankrupt than fight back the Dengzhou rebels and overseas thieves.

As a result, when about [-] Dengzhou troops marched all the way to the city of Jinan, they found that they had hit a hard rock and were beaten back several times. .Next, a ruthless vanguard was launched, and dozens of cannons were quickly mobilized and lined up around the city wall of Jinan. The violent artillery fire smashed the bricks and stones on the wall, exposing the yellow rammed earth inside.But the Qing army defending the city was also bloody. Even in the face of the metal storm fired by so many cannons, they still screamed and refused to retreat.

Although the Dengzhou Army once bombarded a section of the city wall to the east of Jinan with cannons, then ants rushed up and poured into the city in an attempt to take the government office directly.Unexpectedly, there are tens of thousands of local village braves in Jinan city who have been summoned temporarily.When guarding his hometown, he was extremely tenacious in fighting spirit.After an unprecedented chaotic and brutal street battle, the Dengzhou Army that had invaded Jinan City was pushed back, and hundreds of people were killed and injured, and their morale was greatly damaged.

At the same time, there were also problems in the rear of the Dengzhou Army.Because the army advanced too fast in the previous stage, it only had time to occupy the towns and main lines of communication. As a result, after the initial shock, the local gentry in Qingzhou quickly began to counterattack aggressively. The forces of the Qing army in the west and Dengzhou officials who ambushed the countryside to collect grain and taxes at the same time created cruel and bloody cases one after another.

In this regard, Marshal Chen Xin is not a hypocritical Holy Mother. He immediately mobilized troops from various fronts, used violence to deal with violence, and began to wipe out the rebellious gentry one by one, preparing to plow the remaining landlord and gentry forces in the occupied area again. again.However, due to the rebellion one after another, the Dengzhou army was unable to defend against one another for a while, so in a short period of time, it was really unable to continue to maintain the supply line of the Jinan siege troops.

Therefore, Chen Xin, who was not reconciled, reported to the East Asia Theater Command, and applied for the deployment of [Random Gate] and the aviation unit in order to solve the Jinan problem quickly, but was flatly rejected by Huang Shi, on the grounds that priority should be given to ensuring the mopping up of Liaodong. Complete victory, and at the same time warned Chen Xin not to be greedy for big things, but to read more about "On War" - any attack must have a limit!
In the end, Chen Xin had no choice but to yell and curse that he was raised by his stepmother, while angrily ordered the Jinan frontline troops to retreat...

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When Huang Taiji led his army back to Jinan, the tragic siege battle had ended for many days, and the Dengzhou army also made great strides to retreat to Qingzhou Prefecture, hundreds of miles away.However, looking at the blood-stained and dilapidated city walls, and listening to the gentry in the city telling the story of the battle, Huang Taiji still couldn't help sighing with emotion, and sighed that my Great Qing is indeed the destiny of fate. Even if the situation is unfavorable for a while, there are still such loyal ministers exist!However, just as he was about to reward the meritorious officials, he learned that the prefect of Jinan in the Qing Dynasty named Sun Zhixie had unfortunately been shot to death at the end of the battle.

Therefore, Huang Taiji was so excited that tears welled up in his eyes for a moment, and he decreed that Sun Zhixie, the prefect of Jinan, should be named a bachelor, and his wife should be bestowed with a first-rank imperial order.And personally wrote a sacrificial article for this loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty in recognition of his unparalleled loyalty and bravery.At the same time, a monument was erected beside Daming Lake in Jinan to record Sun Zhixie's achievements.

Then, Huang Taiji ordered Hauge to be punished in front of the whole army, punishing him for the crime of fleeing without fighting, so as to declare that he was clearly rewarded and punished.

However, just when Huang Taiji tried his best to set a positive example in Jinan City, trying to inspire people and boost morale.Thousands of miles away, in the Yamen of the General Army of Datong, the two leaders of the Guanning Army, Zhou Wang Wu Xiang and Jin Wang Zu Dashou, are politely receiving Li Yunrui, the secret envoy of Huang Shi, the commander-in-chief of the East Asia Theater of the Chinese League, and with them Li Yunrui's Zhou Wangshizi Wu Sangui also stood beside him with a smile on his face.

"...The meaning of what General Huang wants to express, I think the two princes should also understand it!"

Li Yunrui ate tea and cakes unceremoniously, and said with a big face, "...Speaking of which, you two princes are also heroes of a generation, so why are you willing to be slaves to the Tartars? Instead of being bulls and horses for others, what Are you comfortable being in charge of your own family?"

"... Your Excellency taught me that we are also Chinese citizens. Although we had no choice but to surrender Huang Taiji earlier, we had long wanted to set things right and expel the Tartars. It's just that the nine-tailed fox demon Huang Taiji was very shrewd. I really can't find a suitable opportunity. Now that General Huang has taken all of Liaodong, smashed the old dens of Jiannu, and all the Eight Banners soldiers in the Central Plains have become bereaved dogs, how can we continue to work for the Tartars?"

Jin Wangzu Dashou hurriedly said nonsense with a smile on his face, "...it's just... that the land of the Central Plains in the Great Wall really belongs to us?"

"...It's true, my lord only needs Liaodong, and the northern Zhili area in Shanhaiguan can be shared by the two princes. Our army doesn't want a single piece of land, and we don't take any property. Even Shanhaiguan can continue to be occupied by your army. , this sincerity should be enough!"

Li Yunrui smiled, "...Of course, the two princes have to make a clean break with the Manchurian Tartars and hand over a vote! Otherwise, how will we know whether the two have repented? Could it be that the two princes are Do you feel that you don’t have enough troops to defeat the remnants of the slaves who stole the capital? That’s okay, my lord is happy to send a Funing army to help the two princes recover the capital from the captives..."

"...Uh... well, there is no need to bother General Huang! Right now, the elite soldiers who build slaves are either in Shandong or in Nanzhili. There are only a group of old and weak women and children in Beijing. I can deal with it myself! Please hurry up! Report back to General Huang and let him wait for the good news..."

King Wu Xiang of Zhou broke into a cold sweat immediately, and quickly waved his hand to decline. At the same time, he gave his son Wu Sangui a wink and asked him to bring a plate of gold and silver, and put it in front of Li Yunrui. A small gift is not a respect..."

"...Hehe, His Royal Highness Zhou Wang is really polite, thank you very much, then I will be disrespectful..."

——The wheel of history rumbled over, and in this conspiracy, the Qing Empire, which was short-lived in the pan, came to an end...