Han’s Son is Not a Slave

Sun Kewang is in power, and there is no problem in forcing Yongli to "cede", but his intention was opposed by the original people such as Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu, which put Sun Kewang in a dilemma. He knew very well that if he forced himself , Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu and others will definitely not recognize him as the emperor, so the matter of Zen has been dragged down.

However, Sun Kewang did not have a yellow robe, and Emperor Yongli, who was in Anlong Mansion in Guizhou, felt that a sharp sword was hanging above his head, and he was in danger of being deposed or even killed at any time. In order to seek the safety of himself and Yongli's small court, Yongli, at the suggestion of the great scholar Wen Anzhi, issued a secret edict to summon Li Dingguo to lead the army into the guard.

Wen Anzhi said to Yongli: "The friendship between Liu and Li must be reconciled, and all will be with Sun Li, but I don't know what the opportunity will be."

Yongli then said to the internal supervisor Zhang Fulu and Quan Weiguo: "I hope that I will no longer be courted by others. The treacherous ministers Ma Jixiang and Pang Tianshou are my eyes and ears, and I can't sleep or eat. I recently heard about the master of Li Dingguo's own lineage from the Western Domain, and I went straight to it. Chu and Cantonese, captured the rebellious Chen Bangfu and his son, served the country with great loyalty, broadcast for a long time at home and abroad, and the military voice is very strong. In the future, I will be in danger, and I will be this person. And there is a gap between the country and the hope for a long time, I want to secretly write an edict, the difference is The official rushing to the camp and summoning Dingguo to protect you, can you secretly plan this matter for me?"

Although Zhang Fulu and Quan Weiguo were internal prisoners, they were extremely loyal to Yongli. Even if it was suggested that Xu Ji, Lin Qingyang and others had once accused Ma Jixiang and Pang Tianshou of being attached to the King of Qin, they were loyal and reliable, and it was suggested to discuss this matter with them.

After Emperor Yongli agreed, Zhang Fulu contacted Xu Ji and others to discuss together. After the discussion, he went to Wu Zhenyu, the cabinet assistant of the Yongli court, to discuss the specific measures in secret.

Wu Zhenyu was dissatisfied with Sun Kewang's domineering, and now he also agreed to call Li Dingguo to join the army. He said to Xu Ji and others: "Today the imperial court is on the decline, and it is the deadly autumn of my generation. Not secret. Who among the dukes can act as this messenger?"

Lin Qingyang volunteered to do it. Wu Zhenyu immediately ordered Jiang Ganchang, the priest of the shrine of the Ministry of Rites, to draft the edict, and Zhu Dongdan, the chief of the Ministry of War, wrote it, and Zhang Fulu and others held it in the palace to cover the emperor's treasure. Lin Qingyang asked for leave to bury his relatives as planned. In the sixth year of Yongli (the ninth year of the pseudo-Shunzhi), he set off for Ding*zhong in November. At that time, Li Dingguo was fighting against the Qing army in Hunan and Guangxi. Too busy to look inside.

Emperor Yongli saw that Lin Qingyang had been on an envoy for half a year, and there was no sound consumption. In a hurry, he asked Wu Zhenyu to send an envoy to check the news. Wu'anbo Zheng Yunyuan suggested that we should try to send Sun Kewang's cronies Ma Jixiang to avoid leaking information. Emperor Yongli asked Ma Jixiang to go to Nanning to stay behind in the name of the need to send important officials to stay behind after recovering Nanning.

After Ma Jixiang left Anlong to take office, the secret envoy went on the road in secret. After arriving at Li Dingguo's camp, the secret envoy read the edict of mourning to Li Dingguo. Li Dingguo was deeply moved, he kowtowed and bleeded, and burst into tears: "Chen Dingguo is not dead for a day, I would rather let His Majesty suffer humiliation for a long time, but I am fortunate to be patient with him. I hope that my brother will have a long time, and I would rather be a friend than a king." .

Unexpectedly, after Ma Jixiang arrived in Guangxi, he met Liu Yixin, a courtier of Yongli from Li Ding*. Liu thought that Ma Jixiang had been favored by Emperor Yongli for a long time and was honored as a marquis. He must have participated in the secret summoning of Dingguo, and after meeting, he had no scruples about the circumstances of the imperial court's two orders to Li Dingguo to lead troops to welcome him, and said: "The Xifu has been ordered. I am grateful, and I will come to Anlong to welcome him soon. "

Ma Jixiang was taken aback and immediately sent someone to report to Sun Kewang. After Sun Kewang was rewarded, he knew that once Li Dingguo succeeded in welcoming him, the situation of his sole control of the state would be completely changed. Therefore, he was determined to investigate the matter and sent his trusted generals Zheng Guo and Wang Aixiu to enter the Anlong Palace on the sixth day of the first lunar month in the eighth year of the Yongli calendar to force the Yongli Emperor to clarify the whole story of the incident and ask those who asked for it.

Yongli was persecuted by the second generals. He couldn't help but shirk the blame: "The court officials will not dare to do the secret edict. For several years, there are many fake edicts and fake treasures outside, and you still need to visit secretly. Is it all a matter of the court?"

Zheng Guo and Wang Aixiu joined together with Pang Tianshou, and arrested about 20 officials related to the secret edict, including Wu Zhenyu, on March 6th. The courtiers colluded with the internal supervisor Zhang Fulu, and Quan Weiguo secretly ordered Li Dingguo without the knowledge of the Yongli Emperor.

Zheng Guo asked, "Does the emperor know?" 

Wu and the others insisted: "It is not documented."

Zheng Guo and the people in the Yongli court who depended on Sun Kewang could not imagine, so they had to convict the crime of "stealing treasures and correcting edicts, deceiving the king and misleading the country" and reporting to the King of Qin. Sun Kewang ordered to organize a trial in the name of the Yongli court, and on March 20, Zhang Fulu, Zhang Fulu, and Quanweiguo were sentenced to be executed; Jiang Ganchang, Xu Ji, Yang Zhong and others were accomplices, and they were executed immediately; Wu Zhenyu was the mastermind, and Gu Nian was the minister, and ordered himself to commit suicide. This is the famous "Mr. Eighteen Case" in Nanming.

Politically, Sun Kewang was extremely wary of the Yongli court, but militarily, he was determined to forge ahead. As early as November of the sixth year of Yongli (the ninth year of the pseudo-Shunzhi), Sun Kewang personally came to Yuanzhou, Hunan from Guizhou. He sent general Bai Wenxuan to lead more than 50,000 horses and infantry to attack Chenzhou. On the 21st, the Ming army divided the water and the 62nd road into the city of Chenzhou and surrounded the city on all sides. Xu Yong, the commander-in-chief of the Qingchen army, ordered deputy general Zhang Pengxing to lead the battle, but was killed by the artillery fire of the Ming army. Xu Yong was still trying to hold on to the city in vain.

The next day, Bai Wenxuan used the elephant as the forerunner to break through the east gate. The troops and horses rushed into the city. Xu Yong was hacked to death in the melee. Captured and beheaded. Afterwards, Sun Kewang changed Yuanzhou to Qianxing Prefecture, with the prefecture governing Xingyuan County attached to Guo, and leading one state and nine counties: Jingzhou, Xingyuan, Qianyang, Mayang, Tongtong, and Pingxi.” The government was transferred to Guizhou Province.

At the same time that Sun Kewang captured Chenzhou, Li Dingguo killed the Qing army commander Nikan in Hengyang. At this time, the Qing army suffered major setbacks one after another. It was a good time, but Sun Kewang did not seize this favorable opportunity. Instead, because of Li Dingguo's two famous kings, he moved the world, and he was afraid that Li Dingguo's achievements would shock him as the "lord".

When Li Dingguo deployed the Hengyang campaign, it was originally proposed that Ma Jinzhong and Feng Shuangli should move the army to Baigao City, and the main force of Dingguo should be stationed in Hengzhou, waiting for the Nikan army to pass through Hengshan County. In one fell swoop, the Qing army commanded by Nikan was wiped out. Sun Kewang learned of this deployment, fearing that Dingguo would be successful, he secretly ordered Feng Shuangli to withdraw from Baoqing, and Ma Jinzhong followed. Due to Sun Kewang's dismantling, although Li Dingguo killed the Qing army coach Nikan, he gave up Hengzhou in December due to his loneliness.

After the Battle of Hengzhou, Sun Kewang conspired to hold a military conference in the name of holding a military conference, and he would arrest Dingguo only when he arrived, and the army under Dingguo was handed over to Feng Shuangli to command. If Sun Kewang's removal of Liu Wenxiu's military power still reflects the principle of rewarding merit and punishing defeat, the murder of Li Dingguo, who has outstanding military exploits, must be extremely unpopular. Therefore, some people who knew the inside story rushed to Ding *zhong to inform him and advised him not to come to the meeting.

Li Dingguo originally hoped that Sun Kewang would lead his troops eastward from Chenzhou and join forces with his troops to attack the Qing army in Hunan (after Nikan was killed, the Eight Banners who entered Hunan were led by Beiletunqi). Lost, the far and near are frightened; then the thirteen troops of Kuidong will join forces to take Hubei in the north and attack Jiangxi in the east, which is likely to form a situation that is overwhelming. When he learned that Sun Kewang ignored the overall situation and deliberately murdered himself, he was very indignant, and said to his generals: "Unfortunately, I have been trapped in the army, prepared for dangers and hardships, made great achievements, helped the royal family, and immortalized my name. I had to behead a famous king and make a great victory, and suspicions arose everywhere. Besides, my brother Funan and I went to Yunnan together. If I made a mistake, I would be abandoned. I must be jealous of me, especially. My wife is in Yunnan, so I have no choice but to run Yay!"

In late February of the seventh year of Yongli (the tenth year of the pseudo-Shunzhi), Li Dingguo led his 40,000-50,000 troops to abandon Yongzhou and retreated into Guangxi through Yongming Yuelonghuguan, thus avoiding meeting with Sun Kewang. The brotherhood that had been fraternal for twenty years was wiped out by Sun Kewang.

Sun Kewang forced Li Dingguo away and soon suffered the consequences. At that time, Sun Kewang led the army from Jingzhou to Baoqing via Wugang, and his subordinates included generals Bai Wenxuan and Feng Shuangli, with a total force of 100,000. On the sixth day of the third month, the Qing Dingyuan general Tun Qi led the main Manchu and Han forces from Yongzhou north to Baoqing. ten miles.

The next day, the Qing army entered Zhoujiapu. Because the Ming army camp was on the top of the mountain, the terrain was dangerous, and it was raining, so the two sides faced each other. That night, Sun Kewang led his own troops to be reinforced by Baoqing House. On the 17th, the Ming army went down the mountain and launched an all-out attack on the Qing army. As a result, the Ming army commanded by Sun Kewang was defeated and suffered a lot of casualties. The Qing army captured more than 700 horses, one elephant, and the Qing army took advantage of the victory to occupy Baoqing Prefecture. However, the Qing army also paid a great price in this battle. Two Mongolian Meilezhangjing, Weizheng and Wujing of Zhenghuang Banner were killed in the fierce battle.

After the victory in the Battle of Baoqing, the Qing army of the Tunqi Department failed to occupy the entire Hunan due to heavy losses, and Sun Kewang was unable to fight with the Tunqi Department again, so the Ming and Qing armies were at a stalemate in Jingzhou and Wugang for a long time.

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There may be suspicions of water injection in the first and second sections of the situation. The original intention was to explain the problems between Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo through characters and storylines, and the reasons for the stalemate between the main force of the Nanming army and the Qing army in the Hunan battlefield, but because these things happened in the fifth year of Yongli. In the next 6 years, the Taiping army was trapped in the Xinhui for the ninth year of the Yongli calendar (the twelfth year of Shunzhi). It is difficult to show the readers through one or two chapters and storylines, so I have to briefly describe it. Please forgive me (to be continued)