Dorgon and Wu Sangui thought that the soldiers deserted because they were owed wages.
So some money was given to the soldiers.
I thought the soldiers would stop running away after they were paid.
The result was a severe slap in the face to Dorgon and Wu Sangui.
Many soldiers had already intended to escape, but they had never made up their minds.
After all, they had sold their lives to the Jiannu, but had not received any benefits from them.
Now, the Jiannu are giving out money.
After receiving the money, all previous accounts were settled.
They could then leave the Jiannu without any worries and return to the embrace of the Ming Dynasty.
"Report!" Hu Xinshui came to Wu Sangui's camp in person and said, "Sir, several hundred soldiers escaped last night."
"Ah?" Wu Sangui was about to cry, "So many soldiers have escaped again? Are the night watchmen blind?"
"Uh..." Hu Xinshui pondered for a moment, then lowered his head and said, "The soldiers on duty ran away as soon as night fell. Some people got up in the morning and found that there were no patrols, so they rode away on their horses."
Wu Sangui said helplessly: "In this case, let my elite troops guard the night. They are loyal to me and will not run away."
Hu Xinshui reminded him, "Sir! Three to five days is fine, but they won't be able to stand it for longer. If we encounter another war, they will be exhausted to death by fighting during the day and guarding at night."
Wu Sangui was even more helpless: "Three to five days is three to five days, maybe after three to five days, fewer people will want to escape."
That night.
Wu Sangui's elite troops were on duty at night.
The effect was very good, and there was not a single deserter at night.
Just when Wu Sangui was happily planning to eat one more steamed bun, bad news came again.
In the past, deserters would choose to escape at night.
After all, visibility is poor at night, so it is easy to evade pursuers.
Now there are elite troops on duty at night, so there is no chance of escape.
So the deserters turned their attention to the daytime.
So.
Some Guanning Army soldiers found various excuses to leave the camp and then escaped in broad daylight.
Some soldiers, led by their respective generals, walked out of the camp in the name of training and fled in an organized manner.
Wu Sangui wanted to stop this situation, but he didn't know where to start.
The entire Guanning Army was in chaos.
Seeing that Wu Sangui's control over the Guanning Army was getting worse and worse, Dorgon could no longer stand it.
If this continues, Wu Sangui will have no soldiers left.
His attempt to persuade Wu Sangui to surrender lost its original meaning.
to this end.
Dorgon personally met with Wu Sangui and asked, "What's wrong with you, King Pingxi? You can't even control your own subordinates."
Wu Sangui said terrifiedly: "It's not that I don't want to manage it, but I don't know how to manage it."
"First, set up an ambush outside the camp and kill a group of deserters. Then adjust the location of the camp and set up camp in the valley. The elite troops will be stationed at both ends, and the remaining soldiers will be stationed in the middle. In this way, the problem of deserters will be solved."
Wu Sangui knelt down immediately and said, "Thank you for your advice, Your Majesty. I will do as you say."
"No need to be polite," Dorgon helped Wu Sangui up and asked in a low voice, "Have you had any correspondence with Mr. Hong recently?"
Wu Sangui was stunned: "No! I don't have much friendship with him, let alone anything to say. Even if I want to say something, I will only talk to him in person instead of writing a letter."
"Oh," Dorgon nodded gently, "I understand."
"Your Highness..." Wu Sangui asked tentatively, "What happened to Mr. Hong?"
"It's okay. I'm just asking casually." Dorgon patted Wu Sangui on the shoulder, turned and left.
How can it be okay!
In recent days, soldiers from the Guanning Army went to see Hong Chengchou every day in the name of delivering letters.
It is said to be a handwritten letter written by Wu Sangui to Hong Chengchou.
Hong Chengchou was so smart that he immediately realized that there was something wrong.
So he reported to Dorgon immediately.
When Dorgon arrived, the soldier who delivered the letter had already committed suicide.
There were only the bodies of soldiers at the scene, let alone any beliefs, nothing else.
Dorgon felt that this was a divisive plot by the Ming army.
But he was afraid that he had made a wrong judgment, so he decided to ask Wu Sangui in person.
Unfortunately, Wu Sangui was unaware of this.
After returning to the camp, just when Dorgon was about to put the matter behind him, someone suddenly came to report: "Huang Degong, the governor of the Ming court's Ping Liao, sent a messenger to visit, saying that he had important matters to discuss."
"Huang Degong?" Dorgon was a little surprised: "How did Huang Degong become the governor? Where is Wang Yongji?"
Hong Chengchou thought for a while and suddenly realized: "Wang Yongji is dead, otherwise it would not be Huang Degong's turn to be the governor."
"That makes sense!" Dorgon happily ordered, "Let Huang Degong's messenger come in. I want to see him."
After going through layers of inspection, the messenger came before Dorgon.
Dorgon asked first: "What does Huang Degong want to discuss with me?"
As he asked, he observed whether the messenger and Hong Chengchou had any eye contact.
"To discuss Wu Sangui's affairs."
"What do you want to discuss with him?"
"Wu Sangui was originally a minister of the Ming Dynasty, but he surrendered. As long as you hand over Wu Sangui, the Ping Liao army will withdraw."
"Haha!" Dorgon laughed wildly. "Do you think I'm a three-year-old child? Do you think I'll believe it? Besides... he has already surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and has become my right-hand man. How can I hand him over to you?"
“It’s true.”
"Nonsense! I won't believe it!"
The messenger tried for a long time but failed to convince Dorgon, and finally had to leave helplessly.
Seeing this, the others also left.
After everyone left, Dorgon fell into deep thought.
Because during the entire conversation, the messenger never looked at Hong Chengchou directly.
If it was a strategy of sowing discord, the Ming army messenger would have to deliberately reveal his flaws to make him think that there was something wrong with Hong Chengchou.
But the result is quite the opposite.
Dorgon was a smart man.
Smart people have one thing in common: they like to think and are suspicious by nature.
In Dorgon's view, the reason why the Ming army envoy did not reveal any flaws was probably that he was protecting someone.
As for who that person is...
It's somewhat self-evident.
However, Dorgon was a smart man.
He would not make such a stupid mistake.
So his approach was to remain calm and continue to let Hong Chengchou help him with advice as before.
at the same time.
He secretly sent more people to monitor Hong Chengchou day and night!
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