Chapter 1898: Defection
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Before Qian Qiao could ask, strange things happened.
The Qing army on the opposite side suddenly moved, stopped, turned around and left without saying a word.
Qian Qiaogong asked Zu Dabi in surprise what happened.
Zu Dabi smiled and said in a sarcastic smile, "General, it's a good thing... a good thing, a great thing!"
It's indeed a great thing.
On that day, the Fenglei Cavalry followed the Qing army into Pingshan Guard, and then changed the flag and became the "Qing Army".
On that night, Zu Ze led Pingshanwei to open the Liaocheng city gate with the reason of reporting the battle situation, and swept the entire city overnight with 800 cavalrymen.
At dawn, Dongchang Prefecture was under the control of Pingshan Guard.
No bloodshed!
Qian Qiaogong, who was standing on the Liaocheng City Tower, couldn't help but sigh that he was indeed a brother in war, and his father and son were fighting. At this point, attacking a city was like a long time in the clouds, killing Hua Xiong, and then he came!
When Zu Dabi was heard by the side, Zu Zerun's uncle and nephew laughed endlessly.
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Why is this happening?
That has to start with Zu Dashou.
Zu Dashou, no matter how he is now or later generations, is quite controversial.
In this world, there are many people who are about to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.
For example, the Sanshun King Kong was virtuous and happy, while Geng Zhongming and others were like Wu Sangui who was beauties.
People have an easy-to-understand and uncontroversial summary of these scums... Traitors!
But only this Zu Dashou seems to be unable to reach this level.
Speaking of which, Zu Dashou surrendered to the Qing Dynasty twice, so he should be a traitor.
But the problem lies in the word "before and back".
Zu Dashou, whose courtesy name was Fuyu, was from Liaodong.
He is also Wu Sangui's uncle, the kind of kiss.
The ancestors have been in the army for generations, and although they cannot reach the title of General, they are not far away.
Zu Dashou inherited the Ningyuan Guards' military post in the Ming Dynasty.
His father and grandfather Chengxun were appointed as the deputy general of Liaodong.
In the first year of Tianqi, Zu Dashou served as a guerrilla in the central army.
In the sixth year of Tianqi, Nurhaci attacked Ningyuan and was injured by Zu Dashou, who was guarding the city. The Ming army took the opportunity to defeat the Later Jin army, and Zu Dashou was promoted to deputy general for his military merits.
The following year, Huang Taiji personally led the Later Jin army to besiege Jinzhou and attack Ningyuan.
The Liaodong Governor Yuan Chonghuan ordered Zu Dashou to lead 4,000 elite soldiers to the enemy's backbone. Generals Man Gui, You Shiwei and others led their troops to the front of the enemy to form a horn, and fought fiercely with the Qing soldiers at the city of Ningyuan.
Zu Dashou and others fought outside the city, and many soldiers died in battle, but they still fought hard and refused to retreat.
Huang Taiji was defeated when he saw that the situation was not good, and it was known in history as the Ningjin victory.
Later, Yuan Chonghuan was in charge of Liaodong in the first year of Chongzhen, and Zu Dashou was promoted to the general of Liaodong vanguard, and was appointed as the general of Liao vanguard, and stationed in Jinzhou.
Logically speaking, unless you are willing to degenerate into the Qing Dynasty, it will be difficult to surrender to the Qing Dynasty!
Is it a shame to surrender to the Qing Dynasty?
But in the second year of Chongzhen, Yuan Chonghuan was imprisoned by the stubborn Zhu Youjian for cooperating with the enemy and treason.
Upon hearing the news, Zu Dashou was both disheartened and angry, so he led his troops to flee eastward.
But then he was persuaded to return.
In August of the following year, Yuan Chonghuan was executed by Lingchi.
In the fourth year of Chongzhen, Zu Dashou was besieged by Huang Taiji in Dalinghe City. The Ming army rescued soldiers from several groups of troops for four times, but were defeated by the Later Jin army.
Zu Dashou's many breakthroughs were not successful either.
Dalinghe City was besieged for three months. After eating the food in the city, they killed horses and ate each other. After eating the horses, they killed people and ate each other.
Huang Taiji wrote to Zu Dashou twice to persuade him to surrender. Finally, Zu Dashou killed He Kegang, who would rather die than surrender, and opened the city gate and asked to surrender.
This was his first surrender.
It can be heard that this surrender is a false surrender.
Zu Dashou tricked Huang Taiji into letting him go back in the name of helping the Later Jin Dynasty seize Jinzhou City.
But when you return to Jinzhou City, it is like a meat bun hitting a dog.
Zu Dashou not only failed to fulfill his promise, but also organized defense in the city to fight against the Qing army.
Emperor Chongzhen was not confused this time, and he promoted Zu Dashou to become the left governor and issued three edicts to him to come to the capital to meet him.
However, Zu Dashou was bitten by a snake once, and he was afraid of the ropes for ten years. He had the lessons of his old boss Yuan Chonghuan, so Zu Dashou took the excuse to refuse and dared not enter the capital.
In the 14th year of Chongzhen, the Qing army attacked again. Huang Taiji led a large army to attack Jinzhou and defeated Hong Chengchou, the governor of Ji Liao who reinforced Jinzhou, and Hong Chengchou retreated to Songshan.
In February of the following year, Songshan City was broken, and Hong Chengchou was captured and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty shortly after he was captured and went to Shengjing.
In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the food and grass in Jinzhou, which had been besieged for a whole year, were cut off, and people were killed and fed each other in the city. Zu Dashou led his troops to open the city to surrender again.
This was Zu Dashou's second visit to the Qing Dynasty.
This is really in line with the old saying - God wants to perish the Ming Dynasty, it is not a crime of war!
After surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, Zu Dashou was awarded the title of General of the Zhenghuang Banner of the Han Army and followed the Qing army into the pass.
Just as Zu Dashou surrendered to Qing for the second time, Huang Taiji did not intend to reuse Zu Dashou.
Give him a false title and place it in Beijing.
However, Huang Taiji still reused Zu Dashou's sons and nephews, such as Zu Dashou's nephew Zu Zerun, son Zu Zehong, adopted son Zu Kefa, etc.
For example, Zu Dashou’s nephew, Wu Sangui...
The reason is actually simple. The Liaodong army, especially the Guanning Iron Cavalry, had the status of the Ming Dynasty like the Beiyang army in the late Qing Dynasty.
At that time, all the entire world, all the army and those in the army had a close relationship with the Beiyang Army.
Zu Dashou was the soul figure in the Liaodong Ming Army after Yuan Chonghuan, his sons and nephews, old subordinates, and had great influence, covering the entire Liaodong Ming Army.
Does Huang Taiji dare to attack Zu Dashou?
I definitely don’t dare. It can be said that without the Qing army of Liaodong, the whole country could not be unified.
So, was Zu Dashou willing to surrender to the Qing Dynasty for the second time?
No, definitely not!
If you really want to surrender to the Qing Dynasty like Hong Chengchou, Zu Dashou doesn’t have to wait until the end of his life and kill people and eat.
But if he says he is absolutely loyal to the Ming Dynasty, it is a matter of opinion.
Perhaps there are only four words that can describe Zu Dashou's mood when he came to the Qing Dynasty, that is, he was discouraged.
There is no way to keep, no way to keep loyalty - what can you do?!
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Zu Dabi can hit it off with Zu Zerun.
The source still lies in Zu Dashou.
It’s not that I don’t want to resist Qing, but that I can’t resist.
It’s not that I don’t want to oppose the Qing Dynasty, but that I can’t oppose it.
Zu Dashou, who was "relocated" in Zujia Street, Beijing, had a little idea of what Zu Zerun thought, which was four words - relying on his opportunity to move.
This is why uncle and nephew hugged each other and cried, turned against each other, and earned Liaocheng.
This change changed the balance between the military strength of both sides and even Shandong.
It can be said that if the Fenglei Cavalry was an isolated army trapped in the enemy's abdomen, then with the gathering of Pingshan Guards, it would no longer be an isolated army, but a sharp army that could attack and retreat and defend.
So, what has Qian Qiaogong been doing in the past half month?
Why not go south immediately or send people to Xuzhou or Fengyang to report safety?
In the past half a month, there are so many things to do!
With the persuasion of Zu Dabi and Zu Zerun, Qian Qiaogong agreed to the uncle and nephew's suggestion.
In the entire Shandong and surrounding areas, how many old subordinates under Zu Dashou back then?
If connected in series, you can be a hundred thousand teachers as long as you connect them together.
The key is, if one loses one and the other rises, the soldiers will not be beaten!
And what is most needed to do this is to keep confidentiality.
Chapter completed!