Chapter 549 It’s Broken, This Is Chongzhen’s Script

"Order Dingxi General Tu Hai to lead the Eight Banners elite soldiers currently stationed in Huguang and Sichuan to rush to the capital!"

"Issue an order to recruit green banner soldiers and Han soldiers in the capital, and we must stop the thieves outside the pass from entering the capital!"

Although Kangxi is young now, he is still talented in military and political affairs.

Otherwise, he would not have been able to sit on the throne for decades.

In addition, the Qing Dynasty was established less than 50 years ago, and the capable ministers and generals who followed Dorgon into the pass in the past have not died out.

In addition to the 60,000 Qing Eight Banners soldiers who first supported Shanhaiguan, there are still about 90,000 Eight Banners troops in the capital.

Including the number of green banner soldiers, Kangxi can mobilize nearly 200,000 troops.

As for Dingxi General Hai Tu, who was urgently summoned to the capital by Kangxi, he originally led the Eight Banners and was responsible for clearing out the rebels and traitors in various parts of the Central Plains.

After the fall of Li Zicheng's Dashun regime, the Qing Dynasty won the world, but there were still remnants of Dashun and Southern Ming in the Central Plains, who stubbornly resisted in various border areas.

In the original book "The Deer and the Cauldron", the Tiandihui was the most famous.

The so-called Tiandihui refers to many overseas Han people who are unwilling to submit to the rule of barbarians and are determined to overthrow the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty.

In the original history, the Tiandihui did cause a lot of uprisings in coastal areas, but they were all suppressed by the Qing Dynasty in the end.

In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the slogan of Tiandihui to overthrow the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty became more of a empty word.

Instead, the Tiandihui became the ancestor of later gangs, the Qing Gang, active in Southeast Asia and overseas countries.

But now.

Many peasant armies under the banners of Dashun and Southern Ming are very active.

So during the Shunzhi period, the Qing Dynasty made great efforts to encircle and suppress these peasant armies. Even when Kangxi ascended the throne, this military force was still stationed in Huguang and other places.

And the commander of this Qing Eight Banners Army was Tu Hai.

This Tu Hai was a member of the younger generation promoted by Shunzhi, and was a backup plan for Kangxi.

Although Oboi excluded the other three ministers in the court, his followers almost fell apart instantly after Kangxi captured Oboi.

It can only be said that with Tu Hai, Oboi could hardly threaten Kangxi's throne, let alone rebel.

From a certain perspective, Oboi probably wanted to be a powerful minister, but the young Kangxi was not weak.

Back to Tu Hai.

When Kangxi's imperial edict arrived, Tu Hai was shocked.

During this period, he was stepping up the encirclement and suppression of a peasant army under the banner of Dashun, with great results, and was about to be surrounded and strangled.

But he didn't expect such a big thing to happen outside the pass and the capital!

Tu Hai, without hesitation, immediately led his troops to help the capital.

Of course, he did not forget to leave 40,000 Eight Banners troops to prevent the remnants of Dashun from continuing to grow.

He led 100,000 elite Eight Banners back to Beijing.

At the same time.

Kangxi received a secret report about Lin Chen's army.

"How is it possible?!"

This was Kangxi's first thought after reading it.

It is hard to imagine how the other side quickly gathered nearly 300,000 soldiers when all the places in the Central Plains belonged to the Qing Dynasty.

More importantly.

Apart from the hundreds of thousands of Jurchen Eight Banners rebels, there are still 100,000 Han troops under their command, whose combat power is far superior to that of the Ming army!

At least the 60,000 Qing troops sent by Kangxi before were ambushed by the Han army with less than 40,000 people, and then annihilated!

Kangxi, who saw these news, felt it was extremely absurd.

Fortunately, this force that called itself the Later Jin did not go straight to the capital.

Instead, it slowly eroded the prefectures and counties along the way, and organized to clean up the Manchus in the cities everywhere!

During this period alone, the memorials received by Kangxi recorded that nearly 200,000 Manchu civilians died at the hands of the other side!

You should know that since the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, the number of its tribes has been less than 10 million.

As soon as the news came out, the people of the Qing Dynasty in the prefectures around the capital were in panic. They took their families and packed up their belongings to run to the capital to avoid the war.

The ensuing haze weighed on Kangxi's heart.

Fortunately, the news that General Dingxi Tu Hai was about to lead 100,000 elite Eight Banners troops to arrive in the capital cheered him up.

He firmly believed that as long as the Eight Banners were there, all problems would be solved!

In Kangxi's cognition, the Han army was definitely not a match for the Manchus!

As the saying goes, the Manchus are no more than 10,000, but more than 10,000 are invincible!

However.

A few days later, another bad news reached Kangxi's ears.

It was Wu Sangui, the King of Wu, who started a rebellion!

It is known in history as the Three Feudatories Rebellion.

It is reported that when Wu Sangui learned that there were new forces outside the pass entering the pass and approaching the Qing capital, the young emperor Kangxi had no choice but to order Tu Hai to come to Beijing, and he had the intention to rebel.

This was several years earlier than the original history of Wu Sangui starting a rebellion.

Wu Sangui echoed with Jingnan Wang Geng Jingzhong and Pingnan Wang Shang Kexi, and established his own army!

At the same time,

Wu Sangui called himself the Grand Marshal of the Army and the General of Xingming and the Suppressing the Enemy, and issued a manifesto, listing the seven major crimes of the Qing Dynasty and calling on the world to fight against it!

As soon as the news of Wu Sangui's uprising spread, the Han people in the southwestern states responded one after another, and the entire southwest region was shocked.

At the same time.

The army led by Wu Sangui entered Huguang, with the potential to take over the entire south and compete with the Qing Dynasty in the north.

After the Qing army led by Tu Hai left, there were not many Qing Eight Banners soldiers in the south.

The reason is very simple, the population of the Qing Dynasty is really small.

Even if the Green Flag soldiers are needed to help the Han people in normal times, in the face of Wu Sangui's great power, the Green Flag soldiers are almost the first to turn against him.

Wherever Wu Sangui went, he encountered almost no resistance.

The local officials who were Han Chinese opened the city and surrendered immediately to show their submission.

The Manchus in the city wanted to resist, but it was useless.

There was even a funny story during this period.

A group of Manchu students in the city planned to burn themselves to death to show their determination, but they didn't expect to be rescued by Han officials and then beheaded in the street!

In order to show that he was irreconcilable with the Manchus, Wu Sangui naturally carried out a brutal cleansing of the city.

It was just like what the Qing Dynasty did to the Nanming city when it went south.

It can only be said that the first person to do something will have no consequences?

For a time, the Qing Dynasty was on the verge of collapse.

So much so that the Manchu ministers in the capital were discussing whether to leave the interior and return to the place of dragon's rise outside the pass.

But now.

There are three vassal states in the south, and there are traitors outside the pass heading straight to the capital.

Kangxi inexplicably felt that the situation he was in was very familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere before.

Thinking back, isn't this the script of the late Ming emperor, Chongzhen? !

Today, on Coal Hill, the crooked tree where Chongzhen was hanged is still growing well, as if waiting for the next generation.

Thinking of this, Emperor Kangxi suddenly felt a chill on the back of his neck.

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