Chapter 511 Assassination of Dorgon
In the city of Beijing, Dorgon's eyes were red, and he sat in the hall with his face as heavy as water.
After the news of Hong Chengchou's defeat came to Beijing, Dorgon was extremely furious. Zhao Zamao actually captured Shengjing, destroyed the tombs of Nurhaci and Huang Taiji, burned, killed and looted all the way, and swept across the entire Liaohe Plain.
It doesn't matter if Dorgun is the tomb of Huang Taiji, but the destruction of Shengjing City and Nurhaci's Eastern Tomb by Zhao Zamao made Dorgon unacceptable. The morale of the Qing Empire will be greatly hit and his prestige will be completely wiped out.
Nurhaci, Taizu of the Qing Dynasty, Shengjing City, was the capital run by two generations of the Qing Dynasty. Now Nurhaci's tomb has been destroyed, and his body has been scattered in the wilderness. Shengjing City has been occupied by the Ming army, and the family members of the Eight Banners of Manchuria were slaughtered by the Ming army. How Doorgn explained to the Eight Banners of Manchuria in Beijing?
Previously, the opposition forces in the court were already very strong, and now they may be rebounding again.
Therefore, Dorgon urgently ordered his confidant to go to Shanhaiguan to block the news, arrest Hong Chengchou, prevent the defeated troops outside the pass from coming to Beijing, and then try to recover the pass from outside and stabilize the people's hearts.
However, Dorgon's prestige was no longer as good as before. His continuous failures gradually made him lose the hearts of the people. In addition, the case of Haoge's murder was framed by Bumubutai, which made him lose the trust of the Manchu nobles.
As soon as Hong Chengchou entered Shanhaiguan, he was arrested by the people who had withdrawn from Doer. The Manchu family members, Baoyi, and the Qing army defeated soldiers who fled behind were blocked outside Shanhaiguan.
He Luohui, who was in charge of Shanhaiguan, gave the defeated soldiers and the fleeing Manchu family members, and ordered the royal family among the defeated soldiers, Basha, the fifth son of the Zhenguo General of Yuetuo, to rectify the defeated soldiers and their relatives, and went to the former site of Ningyuan Fort to build a city as an important stronghold of the Qing army in the western Liaoning Corridor, and to recover the outpost for the army to recover Shengjing.
After the Qing army entered the pass, Daishan stayed outside the pass and stayed in Shengjing City for the most part.
After Daishan's death, most of the relatives of the two red flags still guarded their hometowns outside the pass and made a lot of contributions to the Qing Dynasty. In this battle outside the pass, the relatives of the two red flags suffered extremely heavy losses.
Now that everyone fled to Shanhaiguan, He Luo would not let them enter the pass, but instead let them go back to Ningyuan Fort, which immediately made the defeated soldiers angry.
Zhao Zamao was so fierce. Isn’t it equivalent to dying when he went back? Basha and others were extremely indignant. The defeated soldiers and their families were entrenched at the gates and were unwilling to leave.
Many of the flag troops guarding Shanhaiguan were outside the pass, and at this time they were very dissatisfied with Doorgun.
Dorgun wanted to block the news, but Hong Chengchou was defeated and Zhao Zamao occupied Shengjing and burned the two tombs still spread to Beijing.
This shocked the Eight Banners nobles in Beijing and completely lost trust in Dorgon.
In Beijing, the mansion of Beilemandahai.
Mandahai was the seventh son of Daishan. He was originally one of the three kings in the early Qing Dynasty. After Dorg died, he worked with Boluo and Nikan to deal with the Qing Dynasty's affairs. He was one of the highest controls of the Qing Dynasty's power.
Mandahai is now quite miserable. He inherited Daishan's title of prince a few years ago, but because he failed to defeat Zhao Zamao in the Battle of Hudong, Zhao Zamao was allowed to stabilize Su Songchang's three palaces. He was punished by Doer's several crimes and was demoted to Beile and recalled to Beijing for house arrest.
In the past two years, the situation facing the Qing Dynasty has gradually deteriorated. Mandahai is willing to serve. He has been rejected by Dorgun several times. He also told people in many occasions that Mandahai is a waste. Zhao Zamao was able to become bigger because Mandahai was incompetent, which made Mandahai feel extremely indignant.
At this time, in Mandahai's mansion, Wakda, Chang Ade, and other descendants of Daishan gathered secretly together.
Wakda said in grief and anger: "The Regent is stubborn and self-righteous and does not listen to others. Now, Shengjing is lost, the two tombs are destroyed, and Taizu and Taizong are shamed. It is really chilling!"
Chang Adai said angrily: "Ama, the state affairs are now at the moment, and they are all regents' decision-making mistakes. Now in the south, Sun thieves besieged Chengdu, the pseudo-Ming Tang King Xing approached Wuchang, and the pirate Zheng Sen went north to Fujian. The Qing Dynasty was full of war and it was difficult to deal with it. The Regent still insisted on his strategy of unifying the world. It was simply unreasonable. It would definitely lead the Qing Dynasty into the abyss!"
Mandahai said with a gloomy expression: "Now the guards of the palace are all Regents. The emperor and the queen mother were under house arrest by the regent. The regents took the emperor to order the ministers and the military and political affairs to decide by the regent. Prince Zheng Jirhalang was also under house arrest in the royal palace. There was no one in the court who could compete with the regent. The pseudo-Ming army was eyeing the covetous and external troubles were raging. What can we do?"
Nowadays, Doorgun controls the imperial palace and the capital, and controls the military power of Beijing. He suppresses all the people in the court who can compete with him. In addition, the external Ming army launched a local counterattack, which made some people who opposed Doorgun dare not act rashly.
This is because Doergun held military power and the Qing emperor Fulin and Empress Dowager Bumubutai had no chance of winning the coup.
Second, because the Ming army outside was launching a counterattack, once the Qing court was in chaos and internal struggle occurred, it would inevitably lead to a large-scale counterattack from the Ming army, making the opposition concerned about the overall situation and dare not act rashly.
Wakda said angrily: "Do you just watch Doer destroy the Qing Dynasty?"
In the room, many clans of the royal family couldn't help but remain silent. For a long time, Mandahai squinted his eyes, looked around, and then lowered his voice: "To overthrow the Regent, if the coup or the hard fight is not great, it may also make the south side profit. Now it seems that if you want to seize power smoothly, you can only let the Regent die suddenly, so that the Emperor can take power and take over the power from the Regent."
Everyone was shocked when they heard the words, but then they all frowned and thoughtful.
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Under Huguang and Wuchang City, the Ming army camp spread, and warships were everywhere on the river.
When Zhao Ming attacked North Korea and fought against the Qing soldiers outside the pass, the Ming army in the south seized the opportunity and launched a large-scale counterattack.
The last time the Longwu Dynasty won a great victory, it recovered two important towns, Yuezhou and Xiangyang.
In this way, conditions were created to capture Wuchang.
In the past two years, after Du Yinxi re-entered the cabinet, a large number of pro-war factions began to be promoted and held important positions.
Du Yinxi developed production in Huguang, supplemented food and wages, recruited soldiers in Hunan, Guangxi and other places, and recruited Portuguese from Macau, cast firearms, trained the army, and prepared for the battle to restore Wuchang.
Because the Qing army was strong, Du Yinxi never found a chance. It was not until Zhao Ming occupied North Korea that he felt that the opportunity had come.
In October, almost on the way to Shenyang, Du Yinxi asked for an order to attack Wuchang City.
After listening to his plan, Zhu Lujian agreed to send troops to collect Wuchang and decided to command the emperor in person to increase his prestige.
In October, Zhu Lujian took advantage of the sixth division, combined with a land and land army of 150,000, and headed east from Yuezhou and approached the city of Wuchang.
At the same time, Zheng Chenggong accepted the order of Zhu Lujian and led a 50,000 army out of Fujian to Ganzhou. He met with Jiangxi Governor Wan Ji and Tang King Zhu Lue, and led 100,000 troops to attack Nanchang, hoping to capture Chu and Gan in one fell swoop, and then hunt Jinling.
Chapter completed!