"Your, Your Majesty, isn't this a little inappropriate?”
Li Yutian said with trepidation.
"Inappropriate? What was wrong? Didn't you teach me to take back Ningyuan and then defend Ningyuan to force Duo Ergun to go to Zunhua? What's wrong with that?"
Li Daoxuan said while holding his teacup.
"Your Majesty, this subject is referring to this!"
Li Yutian pointed at Eider, who was a little dry.
In fact, it was not only Ield. There were more than ten corpses of Qing Dynasty generals on the walls of Ningyuan. Some of them were dead, while others were injured and captured. They were wearing their armors like flags. Because most of them were yellow flags, it looked quite spectacular.
Below them was a truly spectacular sight.
There was a Qing soldier's head hanging on top of an arrow mound on Ningyuan's city wall. A brick was tied to the back of the braid, and the head was placed on top of the arrow mound. There were more than 3,000 heads hanging on the arrow mound, which almost circled the entire city wall. It was a spectacular scene.
Li Yutian hadn't expected Li Daoxuan to be so fierce.
A thousand cavalrymen seized Ningyuan.
7,000 infantry and cavalry defeated 6,000 Qing troops.
It had only been six days since he left Shanhaiguan, and he had beheaded more than three thousand Qing soldiers. This did not include those that had been blown up and could not be found. Including these, he had killed almost four thousand Qing soldiers, and half of them were real Tartars.
You're going to heaven!
If you have this ability, how did you get my hometown to kick you out of Beijing?
Of course, this was quite satisfying. After all, he was the governor of Liaodong. He hated the Tartars all these years, and unlike the officials inside the pass, he knew how the Tartars massacred the Han people. He hated the Tartars so much that he could eat their bones and skin. But the problem is, we are now studying how to borrow troops from them. You stabbed more than ten of their generals with flagpoles and erected them on the city wall, and hung more than three thousand of their heads outside the city wall...
Is this the attitude of someone borrowing troops?
"You mean this?"
Li Daoxuan sat on the armchair, drinking tea with his legs crossed. Looking at the scenery outside the city, he said as if nothing had happened,"It's just a small matter. That Dorgon, his father, and his brother have made me so angry all these years. Do I still have to look at his face to vent my anger? A loss is a loss. If he beats me, I won't say anything even if he skewers me together.”
Uh, you still have a reason for this?
Li Yutian was speechless.
"Your Majesty, do you think this bullet will do?”
The new assistant minister of the Ministry of Works, Wen Sheng, was the officer who was caught by Li Daoxuan that day. He held a box of bullets and asked.
It wasn't high tech to wrap a bullet in oil-soaked linen cloth. Wen Sheng and his assistant, Xu Shou, who was also the soldier who suggested that the poor breath-holding ability of the bullet affected its range, quickly made it.
"Try it."
Li Daoxuan said casually.
If this thing succeeded, it would be of great help to him. If he didn't use too much, he could increase the range of those muskets by ten meters, which meant that the threat to the Qing army would increase exponentially.
Xu Shou took out a musket and first clamped a matchlock. He then took out a small pot to fill it with gunpowder. Then, he took out a pellet wrapped in oil-soaked linen and also stuffed it into the muzzle. He pulled out the rod and pestled it to the end before opening the fire door. He poured a small amount of gunpowder into the small pot and shook it. He covered the lid and lit the matchlock. He raised the gun and aimed at a target 500 feet away from the city. Then, he pulled the trigger. The fire door cover opened and the dragon head with the matchlock fell. The gunpowder in the fire door instantly ignited the gunpowder in the chamber. And then…
"Bang!"
The chamber exploded.
The explosion was so refreshing.
The unlucky Xu Shou screamed and threw the musket away.
Fortunately, his eyes were closed, and the barrel was not completely blown apart. It was just the iron pipe opening. Other than blackening his face, he was not really injured.
"This, this, this subject has chosen well!”
Wen Sheng shouted sadly.
"Stop trying, this damn thing is a scam!”
Li Daoxuan said speechlessly.
He knew what was going on. The bullets wrapped in oil-soaked linen cloth had indeed achieved the effect of holding the breath, but the problem was that it also increased the chamber pressure. The originally crude musket could still withstand it, but the increased chamber pressure revealed its true form. In other words, he could not even realize this new technology. Although he might be able to find better quality ones, most of these muskets could not use such bullets.
That would be meaningless.
"Have you finished writing that letter?"
Li Daoxuan looked at Li Yutian, who was smiling brightly, and said in a bad mood.
"Your Majesty, please take a look."
Li Yutian hurriedly took out a letter.
This letter was for Dorgon, inviting him to Ningyuan to hold a summit with Li Daoxuan to discuss the great cause of borrowing troops to suppress the bandits. As a scholar who was born in the Jinshi, Li Cifu's letter was naturally written in a flowery manner. At least Li Daoxuan seemed to have a brotherly relationship with the Ming and Qing Dynasties on paper. Then, in order to show his sincerity, he specially proposed to repay the west of Taihang Mountain and Guanzhong after the event. In other words, in the future, the Ming and Manchu Dynasties would use the line from Yanshan Taihang Mountain to Qinling Mountain as the boundary, and the east would belong to the Ming Dynasty and the west would belong to the Manchu Dynasty.
It should be said that this was very sincere.
Moreover, from the perspective of Chongzhen, this was not impossible. After all, these places belonged to Li Zicheng. From the perspective of the Manchu Dynasty, it was also possible. Although they had to send troops to fight, it belonged to them legally. In the future, after a few years of development and stability, they could follow Li Zicheng's old path and enter the Central Plains.
However, Li Daoxuan wasn't Chongzhen, and Dorgon wasn't that stupid.
If he could defeat Li Zicheng in Guanzhong, then why not directly defeat Li Zicheng in Northern Zhili? Since he could take the opportunity to get rid of the remnants of the Ming Dynasty and Li Zicheng, why did he have to wait a few more years? Besides, how far would they have to go to Shanxi? How many steps to the south and North Zhili? In front of him was nothing more than Ningyuan Shanhaiguan. If he opened this road, he would be able to go straight to the Central Plains. Why did he have to go around the west? Were the ravines in western Liaoning easy to walk through?
"Not bad, just like this!"
Li Daoxuan said with satisfaction.
"Also, don't just send a letter to Dorgon. Send a letter to Shen Yang's Fulin as well. After all, that Fulin is the real owner!”
Then, he said.
"Your Majesty."
Li Yutian said.
As for the messenger, Wu Sangui sent a deputy general named Yang Kun and a guerrilla named Guo Yunlong. They said that they were more familiar with the situation in the Qing army, but…
"You two go find Fulin. Wang Chengen, you go find Dorgon and let him know my sincerity.”
Li Daoxuan said.
Alright, after assigning the tasks, they each took the letter and set off.
" Where's Tang Yu? Tell him to take the Red Cannon and blast the Center Right Station open first. The heads haven't even lined up in a circle. Those five hundred should be enough!”
the emperor said.
At this moment, in the living room of the new Great Ming's Five Armies 'Military Governor's Office, which was the former Shanhaiguan General's Office, a group of Ming army generals were toasting. This included Wu Sangui, Wu Sangui's trusted aide Tong Daxing, Fang Guangchen, Hu Shouliang, and Gao Di, Gao Di's trusted aide High School Selection. In short, at this time, the important figures of the two major factions at Shanhaiguan were present, and there was a special person among them…
"Brother Tang, although you and I are protecting our masters now, our old friendship is still there. You don't have to mention that disappointing matter, and this little brother won't say anything else.”
Wu Sangui said to a middle-aged general sitting on the guest seat while holding a wine glass.
"Brother Uncle Chang is quite straightforward!"
The middle-aged man also raised his wine glass and said.
Alright, this was Tang Tong.
Just like in the original history, he was ordered by Li Zicheng to come and persuade him to surrender. However, unlike in the original history, when he came, Wu Sangui readily agreed to surrender. This time, Wu Sangui refused, but his refusal was not so thorough. If it was thorough, Old Wu would chop off his head and give it to Li Daoxuan. After all, the Emperor hated this guy. Tang Tong also understood this point. Since Chongzhen was with Wu Sangui, he would have to bear a bad reputation if he wanted to surrender. It was normal for him to hesitate a little. In any case, he had already established this connection. As for when Li Zicheng's army came to the border in the future, Wu Sangui naturally had no choice.
A group of people were drinking when one of Wu Sangui's personal guards walked in and whispered a few words into his ear.
"Brother Tang, please drink first.”
Wu Sangui put down his wine glass and said.
Tang Tong smiled and nodded, before continuing to drink with Gao Di and the others.
Wu Sangui followed the bodyguard outside. A subordinate was already waiting there. The latter bowed to him and said,"Marshal, His Majesty has won a great victory in Ningyuan and beheaded nearly four thousand people.”
"What did you say?"
Wu Sangui said in disbelief.
"His Majesty took back Ningyuan with 1,000 cavalrymen and killed the first 800 Tartars. Yilde was pierced through and hung on the city wall in pain. All the heads of the Tartars were hung on the city wall. After that, Ai Du Li led 3,000 infantry and cavalry to counterattack Ningyuan. He arrived a step earlier than Tang Yu's infantry. He blocked Tang Yu with 2,000 cavalry on the north bank of Ningyuan River and attacked the city with the remaining 4,000. His Majesty personally destroyed all eight of Ai Duli's Red Cannons with 12 cannons, shot 110 Qing officers with 120 arrows from a giant bow taken from a ballista, and then single-handedly charged out of Ningyuan to attack the Tartar cavalry from behind. His two spiked clubs killed countless Tartars, and Tang Yu's army took the opportunity to cross the river and attack. Ai Duli withdrew the infantry to reinforce the cavalry. His Majesty threw a gunpowder bag made of 100 catties of gunpowder hundreds of feet away and exploded in the middle of the Qing infantry. Li Sizhong was blown up without a corpse. The Qing army was killed and injured by more than 1,000 people. Then, the camp was directly blown up. After Tang Yu chased after him, the heads of the 3,000 wounded Qing soldiers were also hung on the city wall.”
The subordinate said excitedly.
"Are you having a fever and talking nonsense?"
Wu Sangui said through gritted teeth.
"Marshal, this lowly one is also participating in the battle."
the subordinate said.
"Also, before we seized Ningyuan, it was His Majesty who attacked the city at night alone. He killed nearly two hundred Tartars alone and lured all of them to the east gate. Then, our army went in, opened the gate, and killed their way in.
Sir, I'm afraid that His Majesty really has the help of the Ancestral God now.”
the subordinate said.
Wu Sangui looked at him somewhat absent-mindedly. It was very obvious that he felt that this world was a little unreal. Of course, he would not doubt this subordinate. This was his most trusted aide, but this was too inconceivable. However, he quickly came to his senses. Then, he turned around with a sinister smile on his face to look at Tang Tong, who was raising his glass to him.
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