I gather power with my gift of God and build the heaven.

In August of the ninth year of Chongzhen, Wang Chao led the Salvation Army to occupy Shuntian Prefecture of the Ming Dynasty and ordered the Salvation Army to conduct a house search and public trial. In the end, they seized gold, silver, antiques, houses, land and other properties worth hundreds of millions of taels of silver.

After getting the final reward, Wang Chao, Wang Zhiyuan, Wuchang and others had to sigh that the Ming Dynasty's demise was not unjust.

The country and the emperor have no money, the common people have no money, and the only ones who have money are a small group of people in the middle who do nothing. How can the Ming Dynasty not perish?

In addition, Zhou Kui, the father-in-law of the Ming Dynasty and the one who was highly regarded by Chongzhen, also betrayed his grandson, the Crown Prince of the Ming Dynasty, in order to save his life.

But in the end, the dynasty did not make an exception for him.

As for the Crown Prince Zhu Cilang of the Ming Dynasty, he was only a child of about ten years old. The dynasty naturally would not do anything to him. They just placed him in a villa of Zhou Kui and let him go to school with other children of the same age.

Wuchang and Wang Zhiyuan, who were following Wang Chao, looked at the fist-sized ball of golden light above Zhu Cilang's head and could not help but say:

"Heavenly King, will it be troublesome to keep him?"

However, they had no intention of surrendering.

Naturally, they had no choice but to give up resistance and wait for the Salvation Army to take over.

In October of the ninth year of Chongzhen, most areas of Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, and northern Zhili were conquered by the order of the embassy. Countless rescue troops and officials at all levels were sent to various places to completely control these areas.

The most important thing is that the various policies of the People's Salvation Army are a great temptation to the soldiers and civilians at the bottom. They even look forward to the arrival of the People's Salvation Army and anxiously imagine a better life in the future.

There is no need to even launch a violent attack. It is only necessary to occupy the surrounding areas and publicize the policies of the People's Salvation Army to shake the hearts of the grassroots soldiers and civilians, which is enough to force them to surrender.

As for the organizers, they naturally want to retain their own wealth and obtain some privileges.

Now, after careful consideration, Zu Dashou always felt that as a surrendered and rebellious general, if he surrendered to the Qing court, he might not have a good result.

However, in the end, the dynasty still accepted the surrender of this general who surrendered voluntarily and did not cause any harm to the Salvation Army.

Instead, after the Salvation Army took over the army, he resigned and returned home.

At the same time, he also ordered Dorgon and Yuetuo to lead an army of 10,000 each, and to break into the city from Xifengkou and other places while the salvation army had not yet fully gained a foothold and had not reached the Great Wall, in an attempt to carry out another looting.

If it jumps out, haha"

But if they were asked to lead the troops and continue fighting, they no longer had the enthusiasm.

The Salvation Army has now almost occupied the entire Ming Dynasty, so naturally they are willing to surrender.

But no matter what, as long as the reinforcements from the People's Salvation Army arrive, it will be fine.

As for Wu Sangui, who once opened Shanhaiguan and led the Qing army into the pass in history, he was only the lieutenant general of the right camp of the Liaodong cavalry vanguard at this time, and naturally he obeyed his uncle Zu Dashou.

After learning this, Huang Taiji was furious and immediately ordered his men to attack Jinzhou.

After all, to be honest, there were definitely quite a few people who had eaten humans during years of natural disasters and famine. Since the dynasty had accepted and resettled them as disaster victims, why should they treat him differently?

After sorting out various affairs in the capital, Wang Chao issued an edict to all directions, ordering the Ming troops in various places to surrender and wait for the rescue army to take over.

They were naturally unwilling to be asked to give up all their military power, enter the People's Salvation Army recruit camp for training, and then be assigned to work somewhere unknown. They were at the mercy of others in this way.

Wang Chao looked in the direction of Zhu Cilang and a sneer appeared on his face.

He now has no shortage of leading generals.

In the end, they all gave up resistance.

Some smart ones simply blocked the exchange of information between the inside and outside the country, fooled the people, demonized the Salvation Army, frightened the people and soldiers, and made them want to fight to the death, or at least get some promises.

But then, Zu Dashou frowned again and became worried.

Of course, there are bound to be some die-hard elements who are unwilling to give up the rights and interests they have obtained and force the military and civilians to resist.

He no longer cares much about the things happening within this world.

At that time, Zu Dashou, who was defending Jinzhou and waiting for reinforcements from the People's Rescue Army, suddenly heard his men report that someone from the People's Rescue Army wanted to see him.

You must never resist stubbornly or bully the people, otherwise you will be killed without mercy.

When Zu Dashou learned the news, he couldn't help but feel happy. The reinforcements of the People's Salvation Army had finally arrived.

In addition, before that, the 400,000-strong coalition army attacked Yingtian Prefecture and was then wiped out in one fell swoop by the Salvation Army, which left these places short of soldiers and generals, and their military morale and fighting spirit were gone, so they were unable to organize a decent army.

The commander-in-chief of Liaodong at that time was Zu Dashou.

When he arrived at the gate outside the mansion, he saw a middle-aged man in gray clothes standing quietly at the door, looking at him with a smile on his face.

As for those who refuse to surrender and even want to counterattack to save the militia, they will not be polite to them. No matter they are forced or deceived, they will shoot without hesitation.

On October 15, the People's Salvation Army took over the Great Wall.

The most important thing is that the subordinate soldiers are morale-destabilized and have no fighting spirit.

After entering the living room of the mansion and talking to each other, Zu Dashou asked about the reinforcements.

However, compared with the generals of the southern armies who have not been to the battlefield for a long time, they are real powerful generals with thousands of troops under their command.

Although he didn't know how the man from the Military Intelligence Department of the People's Salvation Army knew that the reinforcements of the People's Salvation Army had arrived a hundred miles away when the Qing army was surrounding them.

In the south, Wang Shi, Li Yu and others have already occupied Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces, leaving only Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian provinces.

On October 16, 20,000 soldiers of the People's Rescue Army entered the area outside the Great Wall and began to take over each city one by one.

However, in October, after a thousand militiamen arrived at Santunying, Jizhou Town and other places, the situation suddenly reversed.

Zu Dashou, who was originally in a bad mood, became overjoyed after hearing the report from his subordinates, and immediately ordered someone to bring him to see him.

In the end, Zu Dashou decided to surrender to the People's Salvation Army.

"Don't worry, General. Five thousand troops are already a hundred miles away. They will arrive tomorrow and lift the siege of Jinzhou."

But it doesn't matter. He has now set his sights beyond the sky and has a bigger goal, transcending the world.

They were granted titles of marquis, duke, or even king of a different surname like Shang Kexi and others.

Of course, the promise that the people want is definitely not to kill them, rob them of their food and land, etc.

However, this kind of behavior of forcing the military and civilians would naturally lead to resistance from the military and civilians. Before the rescue army arrived, they had already been killed.

"Wait, I'd better go and see him in person."

He was stationed in Jinzhou City to resist the attack of the Qing army. His ability and value had already been demonstrated, so there was really no need for him to do anything unnecessary.

As for these people, neither the dynasty nor the people's salvation army will ever indulge them.

It was not until 1642 that Zu Dashou truly surrendered to the Qing army.

But the next moment, he stopped his men who were about to turn around and leave.

The Ming Dynasty has fallen, who should they be loyal to?

It is because the current Salvation Army is too powerful. In just a few months, it has swept across the country and even occupied Shuntian Prefecture in the capital.

Zu Dashou walked forward with a big laugh, keeping a very humble attitude.

Since he was ready to surrender to the Salvation Army, there was no need for him to act arrogantly, let alone make a big show to demonstrate his authority and ability.

Moreover, this was the first militiaman he had come into contact with.

In 1631, Zu Dashou was besieged and surrendered by the Qing army, but later defected to Jinzhou and once again resisted the Qing army's attack on the Ming Dynasty.

However, after they refused, Wang Chao gave up the idea.

In addition, there was a huge gap in the combat power between the two sides. Even if they managed to pull the army together to fight, it would only increase casualties.

In history, Zu Dashou was stationed in Dalingh River in 1631 and was besieged by the Qing army. When he was forced into a desperate situation, he once ordered people to eat each other.

Or maybe no one dared to jump out.

When Wang Chao received the news, he was actually a little hesitant.

As he spoke, Zu Dashou straightened his clothes and walked quickly out of the mansion.

Since they are unwilling to serve as officials in the new dynasty, that's fine. They won't cause any trouble, so he won't be so narrow-minded.

"Trouble? What trouble? When they occupied the world, we easily overthrew them.

On October 20, 5,000 soldiers of the People's Rescue Army arrived in Jinzhou.

Even loyal and famous generals like Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting had lost all their fighting spirit at this moment.

Perhaps the Salvation Army has some special way of delivering messages.

After all parties received the news, the morale of everyone from officials and generals to ordinary soldiers plummeted and they no longer had the slightest fighting spirit.

"Haha, that's right, I am Zu Dashou"

As for those who are truly loyal to the Ming Dynasty, we cannot say that there are none, but we can say that they are very few.

What's more, nowadays?

The entire Ming Dynasty will be occupied by us. Even if there are still some people who care about the Ming Dynasty, they are only a small group.

It would be fine if they didn't cause any trouble.

With the favor of Zu Dashou, the highest-ranking military commander, the voices of surrendering to the Qing court were immediately suppressed.

"This must be the messenger of the Heavenly King."

In the beginning, they were indeed unstoppable.

"Haha, I'm Ye Changming from the Military Intelligence Department of the Salvation Army. The general must be General Zu Dashou."

At most, in consideration of your surrender and offering the city, you will be awarded a certain amount of military merit and then be appointed to a corresponding position.

At this time, Emperor Taiji of the Qing Dynasty also extended an olive branch to them.

Wang Chao did try to recruit these people.

In fact, most of the generals were unwilling to surrender to the Later Jin.

After receiving the dynasty's orders and learning about the various policies of the People's Salvation Army, the Ming army and civilians in the three provinces, after a period of unrest, began to wait for the People's Salvation Army to take over.

If someone really causes trouble in the future, then wouldn’t Zhu Cilang, the last prince of the Ming Dynasty, be the best target?

Let’s see how many people will jump out in the end.

How could only 5,000 soldiers of the People's Rescue Army lift the siege of Jinzhou?

It’s a pity that the Salvation Army is different from ordinary ancient regimes. They will not give you special treatment just because you are an enemy general who surrendered.

However, some people have a clear understanding. It is said that the Salvation Army once defeated the Qing army with a smaller force outside the Great Wall, and even almost killed Huang Taiji, Dorgon and others. This made them unwilling to surrender to the Qing army.

While the provinces in the south of the Yangtze River were opening their cities and surrendering one after another, the military commanders in the northern border were also wondering what to do next.

After seeing that person, Zu Dashou immediately moved forward quickly.

They were somewhat unwilling to surrender to the Salvation Army.

In this situation, even if there are still officials and generals who want to resist, it would be like a cook without rice.

But that was not what he was concerned about right now.

By making friends with him, he can also obtain more internal information about the Salvation Army, which will be of great benefit to his future career as an official.

Under the roar of gunfire, more than 10,000 Qing soldiers were killed and 5,000 were captured. Yuetuo died in the battle and Dorgon escaped in a panic.

Many people couldn't help but feel moved.

Are the People's Salvation Army and the Heavenly King Dynasty a little too arrogant?

But don’t let the reinforcements be completely wiped out by the Qing army, otherwise things would be bad.

Thanks to book friend [Taihao Qionggao] for the reward of 1100!