Han’s Son is Not a Slave

Ma Fengzhi capsized in the gutter, just like Zheng Sen's army was defeated in Nanjing, and he also suffered from underestimating the enemy and being arrogant.

In September last year, Zhou Shixiang sent Luo Lun, who was beside Zhang Huangyan, to Songjiang in secret to persuade Ma Fengzhi to change his flag. The condition given by Zhou Shixiang was that if Ma Fengzhi was wrong, he would be awarded the Duke of Zhejiang, and he did not need to send troops to deal with Guan Zhongzhong and Liang Huafeng. He only needed to lead troops to attack Zhejiang and contain Zhao Guozuo, governor of Qing, Fujian and Zhejiang, and Tong Guoqi, governor of Zhejiang. In addition, Zhou Shixiang also offered Ma Fengzhi a very high bargaining chip. This bargaining chip was never obtained by Zheng Sen. If Ma Fengzhi could win Zhejiang, then Zhejiang would return to Ma Fengzhi to raise troops.

Ma Fengzhi, whose original name was Ma Jinbao, was Zuo Liangyu's subordinate, and he followed Zuo Menggeng, the son of Zuo Liangyu, to the Qingying Prince Azige, who was in Jiujiang. When he served as the admiral of Su Songchang Town, his subordinates had more than 14,000 soldiers, and he was another strong force of the Qing army in addition to Liang Huafeng's troops in the south of the Yangtze River. However, when Zheng Jun invaded the Yangtze River aggressively, Ma Fengzhi first chose not to report what he knew, and then sat and watched Zheng Jun encircle Nanjing, playing a double-sided speculative abacus. Never thought that Zheng Jun was defeated in Nanjing City, and he was so frightened that he was in a constant state of panic in the camp every day. In order to cleanse himself, he personally led the troops to hunt down and kill Su Song's gentry who responded to the Ming army, and even led the troops to retake Chongming Island, making the Zheng army unable to gain a foothold in Haikou and had to withdraw to Jinsha.

Even so, Ma Fengzhi was still worried, living like a year, he was very afraid that the Qing court would find him to settle accounts. At this moment, the news that Nandu was captured by the Taiping Army came, which made him stunned. When he came back to his senses, he felt that God really did not let him down, so that he could live again. So when Luo Lun arrived, after listening to the conditions, Ma Fenghou did not hesitate to change the flag. He is also a smart man. He knew that if he didn't return anyway, the Taiping Army would definitely come to beat him, and he obviously couldn't beat the Taiping Army. Besides, if he died, he wanted to die for the Qing Dynasty, and he would support him in Songjiang. According to the temper of the Emperor of Qing Dynasty, he would not spare him in the future.

The fate of Yue Le, Lang Tingzuo, Guan Zhongzhong, and Ma Fengzhi saw it in his eyes. He didn't dare to rely on the young emperor to look at him so unreservedly. That night, the horse department all twisted their braids and hung the flag.

Zhou Shixiang really wanted Ma Fengzhi to fight Guan Xiaozhong and Liang Huafeng in Suzhou in Changzhou. Ma Fengzhi would definitely push back three and four, and even thought that Zhou Shixiang wanted to be cannon fodder and kill with a knife. However, Zhou Shixiang asked him to fight Zhejiang, but Ma Fengzhi was extremely happy.

No one knows the reality of Zhejiang better than Ma Fengzhi. First, the Jinxia naval battle initiated by the minister Dasu in the previous year destroyed most of the Zhejiang Green Battalion and all the naval forces, and then the Zheng army besieged the city. He brought 500 troops to support Nanjing, and later the governor Tong Guoqi sent Fubiao guerrilla Liu Chengyin to lead 500 troops to Nanjing. During the entire siege of Nanjing, Zhejiang sent a total of 1,000 troops to Nanjing. Why so few? Because Zhejiang has no soldiers at all!

Ma Fengzhi conservatively estimated that there would be no more than 1,000 green battalions in the hands of Tong Guoqi, the governor of Zhejiang, and the eight banners garrisoned in Manzhou, Hangzhou. Those who are full of eight flags are powerful, but they will not exceed 2,000 people when they are fully counted. In addition, there are some flood defense battalions in the provinces of Zhejiang, and they can't stand it. Ma Fengzhi has more than 14,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, five to one. No matter how he fights, he has a good chance of winning. Zhejiang is simply the fat meat delivered to his mouth. The Duke of Zhejiang is now.

The upsurge of Nanjing's recovery in the south of the Yangtze River is also the motivation for Ma Fengzhi to dare to enter Zhejiang. He said optimistically to his subordinates: "If I enter Zhejiang, the localities will definitely come to vote, and to Hangzhou, I don't even have to spend a single soldier."

The fact is that Ma Fengzhi guessed right. As the news of the recovery of Nanjing spread, after the Ma army invaded Zhejiang, seven of the ten county officials along the way fell, and the remaining three, one ran to Hangzhou, and two others. It is to directly abandon the seal and return home. Ma Jun set off from Jinshanwei in Songjiang, and went all the way to Jiaxing Prefecture in just eleven days.

This summer in eastern Zhejiang, there has been no rain for a long time, and several canals in Jiaxing have dried up. Ma Fengzhi saw that a farmer was bathing in the river, and the water was no deeper than a horse's belly, so he ordered to divide his troops into two groups, one consisting of the main horse infantry, wading through the water network from Tongxing and attacking; And enter.

The water network defense line deployed by Tong Guoqi, the Qing governor of Zhejiang Province, collapsed immediately. The Zhejiang Qing army lost more than 3,000 people, and the rest fled one after another. On October 14, Tong Guoqi fled back to Hangzhou under the protection of the Han army. Zhao Guozuo, governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, heard that Tong Guoqi was defeated, and in a panic, he mobilized the Qing army in Shaoxing, Ningbo and other places and the Eight Banners of Manzhou in Hangzhou to defend Hangzhou.

After the Ma army marched into Hangzhou, their arrogance was extremely arrogant. Zhao Guozuo, governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, Tong Guoqi, governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and Anbang Zhangjing and He Kui did not dare to fight. People in the city were terrified, thinking that Hangzhou was not guaranteed. I never thought that Ma Fengzhi started out as a thief. He was greedy and hated the rich very much. When he served as the admiral of Su Songchangzhen, he often plundered and tortured people from wealthy families for no reason. He was tortured first, then hung upside down and poured vinegar into his nose. The wealthy are miserable, and they have to spend all they have to buy peace.

The march into Zhejiang was unimpeded, and he knew that there were not many defenders in Hangzhou, so Ma Fengzhi became arrogant, thinking that Hangzhou was already in his pocket, but his old behavior reappeared. After garrisoning outside the city, he ordered soldiers to search for rich villagers everywhere, but was arrested. The residents began to torture and extort money. If you don't give it, then the fire will be set up, and the people will only be roasted to the point of anointing.

In ancient times, there was an animal called "marmoset", which looked similar to monkeys, but was much larger than monkeys. This animal is said to be the nemesis of monkeys. When the monkey sees the marmoset, it is like a commoner seeing a large official. His lips and teeth tremble, his limbs tremble, and he crawls on the ground, tears streaming down his face. The tamarin calls the monkey forward, reaches out and touches it, from the chest to the spine, examines its waist and abdomen, in order to distinguish fat and thin. The skinny monkeys were sent away, and the fat ones were left to eat. After the skinny monkeys came back, they reminded each other not to eat too much in the future and pay attention to losing weight, otherwise they would die at any time.

At present, the slightly chubby wealthy households near Hangzhou are like a group of monkeys, letting Ma Fengzhi skin the marmoset and knocking its bones, and even those officials and gentry who came to vote are not spared. , I wish he was immediately defeated by the Qing army. In this regard, Ma Feng knew but did not know it, he was still complacent, boasting to his subordinates that it would not take a few days for Zhao Guozuo and the others to open the city and surrender.

Tong Guoqi, governor of Zhejiang, was overjoyed when he heard that Ma Bu was walking under the city, and advised Zhao Guozuo that Ma Feng knew that since this man was greedy for money, he would do what he liked, let him relax his vigilance, and then choose a man who dared to die to attack his camp at night, and he would be able to break it. Of.

Zhao Guozuo had no other way, so he ordered people to collect the treasures in the city, loaded more than 30 horse-drawn carriages and sent them to the horse army camp, saying that as long as Ma Fengzhi could spare the officials and people in the city, all the treasures in the city would be offered.

It's not that Ma Fengzhi had no doubts that this was a treachery by Zhao Guozuo and the others, but he thought that Lang Tingzuo and Guan Xiaozhong only lied when Zheng Sen was besieging the city and surrendered within a month, but Zhao Guozuo and the others sent treasures directly, begging for forgiveness, not If you delay the date, you will have no doubts and collect all these treasures.

The next day, a lot of wine and food were sent from the city, saying that Governor Zhao and Governor Tong were rewarding the soldiers, Ma Fengzhi was even more proud of it, but he felt that he had scared Zhao Guozuo and Tong Guoqi out of his gut, which is why he bowed his knees so humblely to please himself. The person who came also said that the city was searching for goods, and they sent them out of the city after the search was completed.

Hearing this, Ma Fengzhi was even more relieved, and rewarded the person with money to let him go back and tell Zhao Guozuo and Tong Guoqi, as long as the money and goods were delivered, he would lead the army into the city without harming their lives.

Ma Fengzhi's two generals were still awake, reminding Ma Fengzhi to be careful, or to immediately attack the city and take Hangzhou as soon as possible. But Ma Fengzhi said that if they attacked the city now, what if the defenders in the city became mad and burned all their treasures, money and grain. Anyway, there aren't many defenders in the city, so it's better to wait for them to deliver the goods and money themselves before entering the city. In this way, even if Zhao Guozuo and the others still refused to open the city, they were not afraid that the savings in the city would be lost when they attacked the city.

Ma Feng knew that this also made sense, and his subordinates stopped persuading him. The Qing army sent grain, meat, wine and food for several days in a row, and another carload of goods and goods. All the horses were bewildered. The smell of wine and meat and the laughter of women have neither military discipline nor vigilance. As a result, that night, four hundred Qing troops fell from the city along the ropes and rushed into the Ma army camp~www.wuxiaspot.com~ hacked and set fire everywhere. It didn't take long for the Ma army camp to be filled with flames.

In the middle of the night, Ma Fengzhi did not know how many Qing troops came, and he was so frightened that he woke up, but instead of leading the army to fight back, he led his own soldiers to beat the horse and flee. As soon as Ma Fengzhi ran away, which of the remaining generals dared to stay, the tens of thousands of troops and horses were wiped out. Seeing the fire outside the city, there were thousands of Qing cavalry soldiers in Hangzhou, beheading thousands of Ming troops, and driving them into the river to drown.

After Ma Fengzhi fled to Jiaxing Mansion, he originally wanted to gather the remnants of the army here, but those Qing soldiers who did not want Jiaxing Mansion to surrender to him closed the city gate, did not let him enter the city at all, and even shot Ma Jun from the city head. Ma Fengzhi was so angry that he cursed, but he had no choice but to flee all the way to eastern Zhejiang. This journey has really let him taste the coldness of the world. Those gentlemen who had been very pleased with him in a country called him no longer welcomed him. Instead, they organized regiments of soldiers to intercept the horses. When he fled to Songjiang, Ma Fengshi had only 30 cavalry left, and desperate, he had no choice but to go to Suzhou for help.

After Suna put Ma Fengzhi into the city for resettlement, he immediately sent people to spread the news to Zhenjiang.

After listening to Guo Xiong describe in detail the story of Ma Fengzhi's defeat, Zhou Shixiang sneered and instructed the soldier Dong Changqing: "Send my words to Suna, Ma Fengzhi is so good at hanging people, so let him invite Ma Fengzhi into the urn. He also gave his body." (To be continued.)