Chapter 71 The decisive battle "good" "What a magnificent statement" After the words fell, Dingzhu and He Weiwei laughed and clapped their hands one after another.
In the past few days, what I heard was almost all the bad news that civil and military officials from all over the country were rushing to surrender to Zhu Tutu.
Suddenly, Li Hanqing, an alien who was willing to live and die with the Yuan Dynasty, was really shocked.
As for whether his plan to unite Vietnam and entrap Wu was effective, that was secondary.
Anyway, this is the moment, and the court will definitely not be stingy with another short title.
Even if Zhang Shicheng refused to raise troops to attack Zhu Tutu's back, there would be no loss for Dingzhu and He Weiwei, and they could also take the opportunity to recruit the three thousand musketeers Li Hanqing had trained so hard.
After quickly weighing the pros and cons in his mind again, Dingzhu smiled and nodded.
"Well, since you are willing to issue a military order, I will give you a chance.
If you come, I will serve you with pen and ink."
"Come here, and prepare a letter for Zhang Shicheng for Your Prime Minister.
I told You Prime Minister, I, and Li Zhi, who are in charge of the Privy Council, to jointly recommend him as the Prime Minister of Zhejiang Province, King of Yue, and allow him to open a palace and appoint hundreds of civil and military officials.
Recommend the letter It has been sent to the court.
As long as he agrees to send troops to harass Zhu Tutu, the imperial edict and seal will be boarded from Haigu."
He Weiwei also smiled and added loudly.
According to the habit of high-ranking Mongolian officials, they all carry reliable pens with them.
Note 1 So, after a while, two middle-aged literati with handsome faces came in with hunched waists.
One was grinding ink and writing a letter to Zhang Shicheng for Dingzhu.
The other one spread out the paper, wrote the military order for Li Hanqing, and then asked the latter to sign it.
After all the busy work was completed, Dingzhu immediately sent out his confidants and flew to Haigu on Pegasus.
He dispatched the fastest sentry ship and sent his letter to Hangzhou.
He Weiwei fulfilled his previous promise and promoted Li Hanqing to Lu Dalu Huachi, the third rank of the Privy Council, and allocated 7,000 elites from the Chinese Army to join the Loyalty and National Salvation Army, led by Li Hanqing.
Military pay and rations are all allocated according to the maximum limit.
"Thank you two prime ministers.
From now on, I will go through fire and water without hesitation."
Li Hanqing finally got what he wanted and pretended to be grateful and bowed to the ground to thank him.
"Get up, there's no need to go through fire and water.
In the decisive battle, just do your best."
Seeing his servile appearance, He Weiwei had just felt a good feeling in his heart, but it was gone in the blink of an eye.
He forced a smile and whispered instructions.
"Get up and carefully integrate the new and old ministries when you go back.
Don't betray the trust of me and the Left Prime Minister."
Dingzhu changed his previous confused look and walked forward with a smile.
He helped Li Hanqing up from the deck with both hands and spoke eagerly.
Admonished.
"Thank you two adults."
Li Hanqing struggled to prostrate himself again, respectfully.
"Get up, I and Mr.
He are also promoting talents for the country, so you don't have to be too polite."
Dingzhu smiled and pulled Li Hanqing up again.
Then, like an elder, he patiently gave a few instructions on how to control the army, then called the left prime minister Taiping, and sent him out of the cabin together.
However, when the man jumped onto the communication boat, Dingzhu's eyes quickly began to turn cold, "This man has ulterior motives and must not be entrusted with important responsibilities."
"Let him be happy for a few days.
I have already arranged for confidants among the newly merged troops of the Loyalty and National Salvation Army.
If I find any disobedient behavior, I will punish them immediately."
He Weiwei's eyes were as cold as a knife. , said while staring at Li Hanqing's retreating figure.
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Both of them were powerful officials in the dynasty, and it was their due righteousness to die for the Yuan Dynasty.
And Li Hanqing was just a lowly servant.
He had never received any serious attention from the court in his life, and his former boss was unjustly killed.
But now, this person still shows extraordinary loyalty, and his words and actions are really incomprehensible.
As the saying goes, abnormal things are monsters.
For a geek who he cannot understand and is not sure whether he can control it, neither Dingzhu nor He Weiyi will take the risk of keeping him and let his strength continue to grow. .
However, for the two of them, the most important thing at the moment is not to find an excuse to kill Li Hanqing and avoid future troubles.
Instead, they tried every means to delay the encounter, trying to postpone the date of the encounter between the main forces of the enemy and ourselves until Zhang Shicheng could react.
Therefore, the two discussed it for a while, and stationed the army in the wilderness beside the canal that night in the name of conserving their strength.
The next day, the marching speed was slowed down by half, and the march was slowly crawled forward at the speed of ten miles each morning and afternoon.
Maybe Li Hanqing's strategy worked, or maybe Xu Da suddenly felt the danger.
Just as Dingzhu was greatly slowing down the march of the soldiers and horses in his hands, the Huai'an army suddenly launched a new wave of offensive.
On the eighth day of March, the Fourth Army of Huai'an forcibly crossed Zhangshui and defeated Julu.
On Shunde Road, Dalu Huachi died in battle, and more than 40 civil and military officials, including the prefect and governor, surrendered to Xingtai City.
Mongolian and Han officials from Guangping and Zhangde fled across the Taihang Mountains to Jining.
Handan, Yongnian, Linzhou and other cities fell without a fight.
There were so many new prefectures and counties in an instant that the Huaiyang Administration Council had no time to send civilian officials to take them in.
It could only temporarily promote local gentry "village sages" who were brave enough to serve and had provided convenience to the general manager of Huaiyang to take charge.
On March 15th, Xu Da personally led the army to conquer Enzhou.
Immediately, Zhang Dingbian led an elite brigade to capture the old city.
Wu Liangmou led the fourth army to conquer Wu Bridge, and together with the main force, formed a joint attack on Lingzhou.
Zhang Haobuhua, a wealthy businessman in Lingzhou, was the father-in-law of Wang Keji, the prefect.
He donated 100,000 yuan to reward the army, and invited famous officials and gentry in the city to a banquet at home to discuss strategies to resist the Huai bandits.
Wang Keji didn't know what the plan was and went happily.
Zhang Gao spent no time during the dinner and threw a cup on the ground.
He killed all the dead members of the family and the Huaiyang Military Intelligence Action Team, and killed all the civil and military officials in Hecheng.
Lingzhou was destroyed, and the surrounding Mongolian and Yuan officers and soldiers and local warriors were unable to continue to support it.
On March 20th, the Huai'an army divided into three groups: left, middle and right.
They advanced together and recovered Nangong, Zaoqiang, Ningjin, Leling and other places within a few days.
At the end of the month, all the prefectures and counties along the way changed their banners, and Xu Da's troops pointed directly at Dongguang.
Dong Pei of Dalu Hua Chi in Hejian Road was Dong Wenbing, a long-time general in the early Yuan Dynasty.
He assessed the situation very early and established close contacts with the Huaiyang General Manager's Office.
Hearing that Xu Da's army was approaching, Dong Pei was eager to make a contribution.
In the name of "fighting the Huai bandits", he personally led his troops to Dongguang.
Then he invited the Mongolian and Han officials such as deputy Wanhu, experience, and governor to the government office to conspire to support the Huaihe River in order to seek wealth for the rest of his life.
Unexpectedly, Xu Deguang, his sworn brother whom he single-handedly promoted, was publicly scolded by him for embezzling military pay, and he held a grudge against him.
Ming Ming promised to go down and rectify the army and horses, and together they abandoned the darkness and turned to the light.
Privately, they colluded with Hu Saiyin, the magistrate of Semu, and Li Hui of Qianhu, and suddenly launched an army in the middle of the night to "capture the rebels."
Daru Hua Chi Dong Pei is a hereditary military officer.
His own ability to govern is average, he is also rough and arrogant by nature, he has a wide circle of friends, and he acts according to his heart.
As a result, in a hurry, Hussein and others were caught off guard.
In less than an hour, the prefect's Yamen, which served as a temporary camp, was breached.
Except for a young son who was sent to contact the Huai'an army, Dong Pei and his four sons and two sons-in-law who accompanied the army all died in the rebellion.
The fighting lasted all night, and in the morning of the next day, Hu Sein, Xu Deguang and others slaughtered all the confidants of Daru Hua Chi and Dong Pei, as well as the Huai'an MIDI executioners in the city.
Most of the more than 10,000 local soldiers and horses originally attached to the Wanhu Mansion in Hejian, as well as the 20,000 volunteers temporarily recruited by the Dong family some time ago, also fled.
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The total number of people left behind by Hussein and others was less than five thousand.
Hussein knew that with only 5,000 troops, he would never be able to stop Xu Da's 200,000 troops.
So they openly ransacked the city and took away all the gold, silver, jewelry, and other valuable items.
Then he set off another fire and led Xu Deguang and others to escape to Nanpi, trying to defect to Dingzhu.
As a result, they were only halfway through when they were overtaken by Wu Liangmou and his troops who came after hearing the news.
As soon as the two sides formed a formation, the five thousand yuan army collapsed immediately.
Hu Sein, Xu Deguang, Li Hui and other generals were unable to escape and knelt down to pray for surrender.
Shi Lu Deshan, commander of Huai'an's Fifth Army, hated Hu Sein and others for causing harm to innocent people.
Citing the old practice of Zhang Mingjian's trial, he executed a group of subordinate generals on the spot and hung their heads on a high pole as a warning to those who would come after him.
Three days later, the Dong family in Hejian heard the bad news and returned to Huaiyang with their family.
In early April, Xianzhou, Hejian, Fucheng and other places were conquered without attacking.
At this time, the main force of the Yuan army under Dingzhu had just arrived in Cangzhou.
It is still more than a hundred miles away from Nanpi.
The Dong family has been entrenched and multiplied on Hejian Road for nearly a hundred years.
It is known as a family with ten masters, and it can be said that it is a big tree with deep roots.
Therefore, the Dong family took the lead in surrendering to Huai'an, which caused great shock to the local area.
Soon, several other families of Han military nobles on Zhending Road also raised righteous flags in the cities where they lived.
Either directly declare their surrender to Huaiyang, or follow the example of the late Jin Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty and form a stronghold to protect themselves.
Be prepared to assess the situation and wait for the price to sell.
As soon as the princes' control over the people was loosened, the people became more and more eager to welcome the Huai'an army.
Everyone knows that behind the Huai'an army are thousands of grain ships.
Whenever a Chinese homeland is recovered, the first thing they do is to stop the ships to release grain and provide relief to the victims.
And as long as you walk to the area controlled by the Huai'an Army, no matter whether you are male or female, old or young, as long as you do a few very easy things according to the other party's instructions, or help drive a carriage, or help pull a few cables, you can exchange for a whole day's rations. .
The various places in Hejian were not affected by disasters last year, but they were too close to the capital, so most of the grain they produced was plundered by the government to support the Yuan army.
Therefore, the people have not had a full meal since the beginning of spring.
After receiving the first bowl of food from the civilian officials trained by the Huaiyang General Manager's Office, they were all grateful and virtuous.
Some smart, young and strong people simply asked to join the army on the spot.
Those who were weak and timid also spread the name of General Manager Zhu's benevolence and righteousness, hoping that the Mongolian Yuan court would be finished soon and that Zhu Fozi, a wise and wise king, would ascend the throne and save all the people in the world from fire and water.
Unlike the common people who were looking forward to the Huai'an army, there were also gentry and powerful gentry who were determined to be slaves along the way, as well as lustful tax collectors, fleeing north.
The latest trends on Xu Da's side were continuously sent to Dingzhu and He Weiwei for free.
The two men realized that they were close to the main force of the Huai'an Army and immediately stopped.
While sending his trusted general Arutai to "recover" Hejian Mansion, open up the passage between Hejian Road and Baoding Road, and urge Yue Kuochaer to immediately lead various local troops to come for reinforcements, he also seizes the surrounding favorable terrain and prepares to use Cangzhou He relied on the city to fight Xu Da for a life-or-death showdown.
Note 2 Note 1: Secretary was called Bi Shi Qi in the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties, and Bi Tips in the Qing Dynasty.
Note 2: Tax official.
A kind of lazy government in the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties.
The tax revenue of a certain place was contracted to the Semu people, and they collected taxes on behalf of the court.
After paying a certain amount, the rest can go into your own pocket.
And these lustful tax collectors were greedy, which led to the decline of local people's livelihood, and the commercial culture that had been booming since the Song Dynasty quickly shrank to nothing.
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