After taking Guangping Mansion, Gao Jie did not stay much, but continued to move north.
To the north of Guangping Prefecture is Shunde Prefecture, which governs nine counties and is a thousand miles away from the capital.
During the Hongzhi period, the number of registered households in the prefecture was 21,614, with a population of 181,825.
In the sixth year of Wanli's reign, there were 27,633 registered households and a population of 281,957.
But by the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, there were only just over 10,000 registered households in Shunde Prefecture and a population of more than 90,000.
Successive years of drought and locust plagues are of course an important reason, but the more important reason is military chaos and man-made disasters.
During the Chongzhen period, the Eastern captives made many border breaches and plundered Jifu.
Shunde Prefecture, which is under the jurisdiction of Northern Zhili, is not immune.
In the eleventh year of Chongzhen, a great war broke out here that shocked the government and the public.
The two warring parties were the Eight Banners of Manchuria and the Ming army led by Lu Xiangsheng.
On August 23rd of the 11th year of Chongzhen, Emperor Taiji appointed Prince Rui Dorgon as the ordered general to lead the left-wing army, and Beile Yuetuo was appointed as Yangwu general to lead the right-wing army, and Beile Dudu and others were entrusted with the Ming Dynasty.
On September 22nd, Yue Tuo invaded through the breach in Qiangziling in Miyun and killed Wu Aheng, the governor of Jiliao in the Ming Dynasty.
Shortly afterwards, Dorgon led the left-wing army to break through the wall from Qingshan Pass on September 28.
The two armies finally met in Tongzhou and approached Beijing.
Emperor Chongzhen was greatly shocked and ordered martial law in the capital.
At the same time, Emperor Chongzhen gave Lu Xiang, who was then the governor of Xuanda, the Fang Sword to command the troops of King Qin in the world.
Although he is said to command the world's soldiers and horses, the only things Lu Xiangsheng can really command are the more than 20,000 soldiers and horses he brought from Xuanda and the tens of thousands of Guanning troops commanded by the eunuch Gao Qiqian.
Compared with the Eight Banners Army led by Dorgon and Yue Tuo, the soldiers and horses of the Ming Army did not have a numerical advantage, but if they worked together, they would be able to fight under the leadership of Lu Xiangsheng.
But the problem is that at this time, Emperor Chongzhen was already thinking about negotiating peace, and sent Chen Xinjia, Secretary of the Ministry of War, to contact the Qing army privately to discuss the details of the peace negotiation.
Dongge scholar Yang Sichang and the eunuch Gao Qi secretly considered their intentions.
Knowing that Emperor Chongzhen wanted to negotiate peace, they repeatedly suppressed Lu Xiangsheng of the main war faction.
If you want food and grass, you will not be given food and grass.
If you want armor, you will not be given armor.
Gao Qiqian also asked Lu Xiangsheng to divide his troops on the grounds of preserving his family wealth for Ming Dynasty.
After repeated efforts to no avail, Lu Xiangsheng had no choice but to agree to Gao Qiqian, with Gao Qiqian commanding the Guan Ning army and Lu Xiangsheng commanding the Xuan army.
The Ming army divided its forces.
After this division of troops, Lu Xiangsheng's troops were greatly reduced, but he still took the initiative to attack.
He left the capital, passed Zhuozhou, and arrived at Baoding.
Finally, he had an encounter with the Qing army in Qingdu.
Lu Xiangsheng won this battle, and he won very beautifully.
However, Yang Sichang and Lu Xiangsheng had a personal grudge at that time.
They did not want to watch Lu Xiangsheng perform meritorious service, so he asked Emperor Chongzhen to hand over some of Lu Xiangsheng's troops to the command of Chen Xinjia to achieve the purpose of checking and balancing.
Emperor Chongzhen agreed.
As a result, Chen Xinjia took away 20,000 Xuanda elites from Lu Xiangsheng, leaving only less than 5,000 old and weak soldiers for the Xuanda governor.
This was the second division of troops.
After this division, Lu Xiangsheng no longer had the strength to fight the Qing army.
If you force yourself to fight, you will definitely be defeated and killed.
But he knew very well that with Emperor Chongzhen's character, if he did not take the initiative to fight, he would definitely be arrested and taken back to the capital for being passive and lazy, and he would probably have to be beheaded.
This is something Lu Xiangsheng will never accept.
Therefore, he decided to actively seek a confrontation with the Qing army.
This is very similar to Zhuge Liang, who set an example before the Northern Expedition.
He knew he couldn't do anything but did it just to be worthy of heaven and earth and worthy of his heart.
On the march, Lu Xiangsheng met people who came spontaneously from Daming Mansion.
After seeing Lu Xiangsheng, they all advised him to move to Daming Mansion to rest for a while before making further plans.
But Lu Xiangsheng refused.
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He knew that this battle would be defeated, and he did not want to bring another war disaster to Daming Mansion and make the people of Daming Mansion sacrifice in vain.
An army bravely attacks the giant deer In December of the eleventh year of Chongzhen, Lu Xiangsheng led his troops to Julujiazhuang.
Lu Xiangsheng encountered the main force of the Qing army at Haoshuiqiao, not far from Jiazhuang.
He once sent people to break through and ask for help from Gao Qiqian.
At this time, Gao Qiqian, leading tens of thousands of Guan Ning's cavalry, was stationed in Jize, less than fifty miles away from Jiazhuang.
As a result, Gao Qiqian completely ignored Lu Xiangsheng's request for help and allowed the Qing army to surround Lu Xiangsheng and encroach on him step by step.
Lu Xiangsheng shouted to kill the captives to serve the country, and led five thousand men to fight hard until all the ammunition and arrows were exhausted, and the entire army was wiped out.
When Gao Jie led his army to Julujiazhuang, he specially ordered the army to be stationed.
He went to Haoshui Bridge to pay his respects in person.
Six years have passed, and today there are no traces of the war beside Haoshui Bridge.
There are only small mounds and clusters of weeds left, which is very desolate.
Gao Jie turned over and dismounted, took out the cowhide wine bag and poured the wine away: "Master Lu, the treacherous ministers misled the country and killed you.
Gao knows that you will not die in peace.
You want to see with your own eyes the day when the rebels are wiped out and the Ming Dynasty is revived." .now east With the capture of Guanji, Henan, Shanxi, and Shaanxi, the world was in danger.
Gao was ordered by His Majesty to lead the Northern Expedition and vowed to regain the lost land of the Ming Dynasty.
He also hoped that Governor Lu would bless Gao with success in this Northern Expedition. field" It stands to reason that Gao Jie and Lu Xiangsheng have completely different origins.
Gao Jie was a rogue, while Lu Xiangsheng was the governor of Xuanda and the governor.
Even after Gao Jie came to the Ming Dynasty, he only served as the general soldier.
A civil servant and a military commander did not have much interaction with each other.
But Gao Jie admired Lu Xiangsheng from the bottom of his heart and admired such a loyal and upright minister.
There were countless governors in the Chongzhen Dynasty, but only two people, Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting, could really admire Gao Jie.
Both of them died for their country, so that when Li Zicheng came to the capital, Emperor Chongzhen had no one to use.
This is such an irony.
After the news came that Emperor Chongzhen had hanged himself, Gao Jie even thought that the Ming Dynasty would be destroyed in Zuo for nearly three hundred years.
Fortunately, a series of actions by Zhu Cixiang, the eldest son of Emperor Chongzhen and Prince of the East Palace, after he ascended the throne gave Gao Jie hope again.
A good minister who is close to you, a villain from afar, who regulates the administration of officials and maintains the rule of law.
This is definitely the wise sage, the master of ZTE.
What makes Gao Jie most gratified is that today's people are actively fighting.
Even the late emperor Chongzhen once had the idea of negotiating peace with Donglu.
But as early as the beginning of Jian Zuo, I told the six ministers and nine ministers that anyone who dared to discuss money with Donglu would die.
This is the most direct statement.
With the emperor's statement, generals like Gao Jie dared to fight the Qing army to the end.
Gao Jie has not read any books and does not understand many principles.
But he knew that this world belonged to the Han people, not the Donglu.
If the Donglu were allowed to take over the country, the people of China would not be subjugated but the whole world.
When the country and the world are in danger, someone has to stand up.
There were Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting before him, now it’s Gao Jie’s turn :