Wang Shangli died on the top of the main hall, and in exchange for all this, Emperor Yongli had to immediately change out of those underwear that had been soaked with sweat every day after Wang Shangli left. However, until this Xiying general chose to commit suicide, the cold, wet, and sticky feeling was still attached to his body and did not disappear at all. I don't know if it's the underwear that gets wet with sweat again, or it's a hallucination caused by psychological effects.

The corpse had already been cleaned up by eunuchs and guards, Mu Tianbo called the officers of the Praetorian Guard, and boosted his morale, so he hurriedly took his own soldiers out of the palace.

There is also an army of tens of thousands of Wang Shangli in the city, which is more than the subordinates of Jin Tongwu and Mu Tianbo combined. Mu Tianbo is an outsider and is not easy to interfere with, so he needs Jin Tongwu, a general under the command of King Jin, to take charge. And Mu Tianbo's side wants to take over the city defense that Jin Tongwu is responsible for.

His family is a noble who has guarded this place for generations, and Mu Tianbo is very familiar with every grass and tree here. In fact, the shape of a city in Kunming was specially designed by Mu Tianbo's ancestor Mu Ying. The master looked at the veins of the long insect mountain and believed that this mountain was a dragon vein, which had to be overcome, transformed, supplemented and changed by spirit beasts, so he designed Kunming City as a spirit turtle, which determined the layout of the city and the direction of the city wall and city gate.

The Great South Gate of the Spirit Turtle is the head, the North Gate is the tail, and the Weihe Gate, Yongqing Gate, Guangyuan Gate and Hongrun Gate on the east and west sides are the limbs of the Spirit Turtle respectively. However, the defense at this time has nothing to do with the layout - when Zhang Sheng and Wu Dading attack, he will rush to the place where he meets the enemy to assist in the defense, that's all.

Mu Tianbo hurriedly arrived, and Jin Tongwu was already waiting in the city. As soon as the two met, General Jin Tong made a brief account of the situation of the defense, and then hurriedly left - he was going to Wang Shangli's camp to sit in the town, where there was absolutely no way to go wrong.

"The list has been posted in accordance with His Majesty's will."

"That's good, that's good."

Jin Tongwu hurriedly left the city wall, and Mu Tianbo focused all his attention on the rebels outside the city. Zhang Sheng and Wu Dading's 7,000 iron cavalry had already arrived, if it weren't for the fact that the war horses lacked wings and couldn't climb the city wall, they would have entered the city long ago, and they would not have been blocked outside the city by Jin Tongwu.

The two glanced at each other, knowing that at this time they could only return to the rhythm of frontal assault, so they hurriedly ordered the soldiers to capture the people outside the city, and demolish the gates and beams of the people's houses to obtain building materials to build siege equipment.

This is all due to the meaning, but after a while, an officer ran back sweating profusely and handed over a copy of the list to Zhang Sheng, who and Wu Da Dingzhi just glanced at it, and then they were stunned like a chicken, and did not say a word for a long time.

"This is, Lubu Feijie, His Royal Highness the King of Qin has been defeated, that is an army of 180,000!"

Aside from their 7,000 horsemen, there were 170,000 over there. This figure is several times more than that of Yunnan. It stands to reason that this battle will not be lost, at least it will not be defeated so quickly, and according to the time, Sun Kewang has already agreed with Li Dingguo on the time of the decisive battle before sending them to attack the city, and the time will be too early.

"Where did you get this?"

As soon as he reacted, Zhang Sheng grabbed the officer's neck and asked. The latter's answer was that the article was posted in Jinmafang, and he heard that it seemed that even Bijifang had posted it. As for whether it is true or not, he does not know.

"It should be posted earlier than when we get to the city."

It was not impossible for the defenders to make special preparations when they learned that they were coming to attack the city. However, if this is true, then they are now alone, and they should not continue to prepare for the siege, but leave as soon as possible, so as not to be attacked from both the returning troops and the defenders.

"The King of Jin is so good at fighting......"

Li Dingguo's good fighting is a well-known thing, which is not unusual. But at the same time, they also noticed one point, that is, the good news mentioned the credit of Bai Wenxuan and Ma Weixing, and it was obviously the two who defected to each other, so that the army of such a strong scale under Sun Kewang collapsed in just one day.

Especially that Bai Wenxuan, on the eve of the expedition, Sun Kewang specially appointed him as the "general of the expedition", and now it seems that Bai Wenxuan is indeed a fruitful rebel, but this rebel is a traitor in the eyes of the Yongli court, not a rebel in the eyes of Sun Kewang.

"Let's go, His Royal Highness the King of Qin has been defeated, and the King of Jin will definitely return to help immediately, if you don't leave, you won't have a chance."

Seeing that Zhang Sheng was hesitant slightly, Wu Dading hurriedly persuaded him. Now the problem is not only the credibility of the list, they have been tossing and turning under the city for a long time, but there is no movement in the internal response that has been agreed in the city, and some are just waiting for the city, which can already explain the situation.

This is a matter of urgency. Seeing this, the two of them couldn't care about the people they had just arrested, so they hurriedly gathered their troops and left. It was Mu Tianbo at the head of the city, after taking Wang Shangli, who rushed over in a hurry, but the battle was not fought, and he just admired the back of the rebels in the distance.

If you don't fight, it's actually a good thing, Mu Tianbo hurriedly told Yongli and Jin Tongwu the good news to ensure the safety of Kunming. When the news was sent to Jin Tongwu, Jin Tongwu announced in public that those generals who originally planned to follow Wang Shangli to make trouble had also reined in their deeds one by one, and they dared to do more and say more.

Kunming City turned from danger to safety, however, Zhang Sheng and Wu Dading, who had gone away, encountered Li Dingguo's reinforcements in the muddy pond.

Just as they hit the muzzle of the gun, the two wanted to flee, so they hurriedly launched a fierce attack. Historically, Zhang Sheng and Wu Dading launched a fierce attack, and the reinforcements who were exhausted by the battle of Jiaoshui were defeated by the rebels. Seeing that he was about to be defeated, it was Ma Bao who staged another thing that Bai Wenxuan and Ma Weixing did in the battle of Jiaoshui to defeat Zhang Sheng. However, this time, after a slight setback in the reinforcement troops, Li Dingguo, who was much stronger than in history, mobilized the elite of his headquarters, and with a little effort, he also defeated Zhang Sheng and Wu Dading, and Wu Dading led the army to surrender, only Zhang Sheng jumped away with some of the remnants of the defeated army.

Zhang Sheng fled in a panic, and by the next day, he had already entered the boundary of Zhanyi Prefecture. It is the northern part of Qujing Province, which is the gateway to Kunming, and then to the north is Wusa Province in southern Sichuan, where the Wusa Houshu is also located, and to the east, you can return to Guizhou. Zhang Sheng fled all the way, originally chased by the pursuers, all in order to get rid of the pursuers, but he was about to return to Guizhou after running down this night, which was also an unexpected joy.

informed the soldiers of the news that they were about to return to Guizhou, and after boosting their morale a little, he hurriedly sent someone to report to the side of Zhanyizhou.

It is true that Zhanyi Prefecture is the boundary of Yunnan, but fortunately, Li Chengjue, the guard general here, was originally the chief military officer under Zhang Sheng, and was later stationed here. He was kind to Li Chengjue first, and the army here was in urgent need of supplies and rest, so he had to go there for a while, otherwise before he fled back to Guiyang, the remnants of the army would be scattered in a hurry, and it was very possible to tie him up and hand him over to Li Dingguo to receive the reward.

Not long after, a group of people from Zhan Yizhou came, and Li Chengjue enthusiastically invited them to Zhan Yizhou City, without any intention of avoiding suspicion, and his face was full of excitement that Zhang Sheng could still think of him at this time. Seeing this, Zhang Sheng's heart was also relieved a lot, and then he was invited to the big tent by Li Chengjue, waiting for the banquet, and he gave an explanation of the ins and outs of this time, which was also grateful to Li Chengjue for the responsibility he would bear.

"King Jin is back, and His Royal Highness King Qin seems to have really been defeated. Brother Xian, let's leave this place as soon as possible, whether to go back to Guiyang to join the King of Qin and the King of Xing'an, or to fend for ourselves, is it better than staying here and risking our lives in the hands of others, right? ”

Saying this from the bottom of his heart, Zhang Sheng also has a lot of thoughts about increasing his own weight. After all, these are troubled times, and the number of troops has a great impact, and if you want to turn over, you have to think of more.

In this way, Zhang Sheng tried his best to persuade him, and Li Chengjue also agreed. It's just that it didn't take a while, when the banquet was ready to inform him, I saw him cough lightly, and a team of Ming troops rushed in, and before Zhang Sheng could react, he had already tied it into a dumpling.

"You used to be my general, how dare you betray me?!"

"If you dare to betray the Son of Heaven, why can't I?"

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The remnants of the defeated army under his command will be disarmed and detained by Li Chengjue, and his people will be sent directly to Kunming. Waiting for Zhang Sheng's fate, there are no surprises at all.

Wang Shangli committed suicide, Zhang Sheng was captured, Wu Dading surrendered, and Kunming was already worry-free. Li Dingguo has already entered the work of dealing with the aftermath, and at the same time is waiting for Liu Wenxiu's situation to be sent back. Liu Wenxiu's main job was to capture Sun Kewang, and at the same time recover Guizhou and southern Hunan, Guangxi, these Qin feudal control areas, as far as possible to minimize the losses, at least not to let the Qing court take advantage, but also to prepare for a future counteroffensive.

It's just that Zhang Sheng first entered Yunnan and then fled to Guizhou. And that Sun Kewang, at the beginning of the defeat of the sailors, fled directly to Guizhou with his own soldiers, and the good horse under his crotch went all the way, and soon left the pursuers without a trace.

Fleeing from Jiaoshui all the way to Guiyang along the official road from which he came, at first, the news of the defeat had not yet arrived, but Sun Kewang ran all the way and was extremely down, but the actual situation was exposed. Some welcomed him into the city and provided him with supplies, while others simply turned a deaf ear to him as if he had never been there. Later, the news spread more and more, and when Sun Kewang arrived in Anshun Prefecture, the guard there was Ma Jinzhong, the king of Jiading who he had canonized half a year ago, but the county king did not think about his benefits at all, not only refused to accept it, but also sent soldiers to chase after him, forcing Sun Kewang to go around the city and go straight to Guiyang Fucheng.

By the time they arrived in Guiyang, the horses under the crotch and the mounts of the soldiers had already run out of strength, and the attachés had been reduced to fifteen or sixteen people. Compared to the tens of thousands of troops at the time of departure, four zeros have been cut down!

Feng Shuangli is not like Ma Jinzhong, he is Sun Kewang's confidant, and he has been deeply kind and righteous for many years, and when he saw Sun Kewang like this, he couldn't help but say that he welcomed him into the city. Sun Kewang entered the city, and he hurriedly sent Feng Shuangli to guard the Weiqing main road, while he sent people to mobilize troops in the direction of Huguang to do that desperate fight.

"Your Highness, King Qin's army has been annihilated, so we can't delay our own lives in vain."

Sun Kewang fled back in such an embarrassment, and without anyone explaining, Feng Shuangli and his subordinates had already seen it. The 180,000-strong army, which went out for a month, only returned with 15 or 6 people, such a comparison is really shocking. Feng Shuangli stayed in Guiyang, and there were still some troops, but he was undoubtedly a mantis arm against Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu. The generals under his command persuaded him vigorously, and Feng Shuangli also moved some thoughts, and then ordered his subordinates to fire three horn cannons in a row.

"Lord, this is the last time the minister will repay your kindness."

According to the agreement, once Liu Wenxiu's pursuers were discovered, Feng Shuangli would fire three trumpet cannons in a row to give Sun Kewang an early warning. The purpose of the early warning is naturally to respond, and if it is a little later and the army is mobilized more, it may be to strictly defend it. But not long after he went out, the three consecutive horns sounded, and Sun Kewang couldn't care about anything beside him anymore, and hurriedly took his wife, children and entourage out of the city and ran east.

On the next road, Xintianwei, Biqiao, Zhenyuan, Pingxi, and Yuanzhou, "all the guards will close the camp and do not accept", "the city gate is closed during the day, and it is called again and again, and only the big pot is expected to be paid; And there are those who should not". His Royal Highness the King of Qin, who was once powerful and invincible, has already rebelled and left, like a lost dog.

"Today, Li Dingguo has humiliated the lonely here, and the lonely will not hesitate to pay for the Qing master to avenge the immortal enemy."

said to his entourage, their wealth had already been tied to Sun Kewang's body, and at this moment, Sun Kewang had no choice but to continue on the road with him. Until Jingzhou, Hunan, this is already the junction of the Ming and Qing dynasties in Huguang, Jingzhou Dao Wu Fengsheng was pulled up by Sun Kewang, and not like those guys in front, not only led the troops to meet, but also took precautions in the direction of Guizhou. On Sun Kewang's side, he was in Jingzhou, and sent his cronies Yang Yuxian and Zheng Guoxian to Baoqing to contact the Qing side and surrender.

Just didn't wait for the Qing court to react, Bai Wenxuan's pursuers arrived first. So, he took his wife and children, Wu Fengsheng, Cheng Wanli and others and went straight to Wugang. However, Yang Wu, the general of Wugang, did not have the slightest shadow of Wu Fengsheng, not only refused to accept it, but also led the army to intercept and kill, blocking Sun Kewang in a panic.

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"Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu and others are rebellious and poison living beings. But Wangxingshi asked for guilt, but he was tempted. His Majesty the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty begged to play on behalf of him, and sent 10,000 iron horses, willing to sacrifice Yunnan, Guizhou, and Shu to unify and avenge the unworldly. ”

Changsha City, the second hall of the Yamen in the southwest, Huang Zhixuan read this passage over and over again, the smile on his face became thicker and thicker, and in the end, he laughed irrepressibly, as if he had been hit by someone.

In the second hall, there are only him and Hong Chengchou, Hong Chengchou naturally will not be able to do such a thing, only the person who wrote the letter is the culprit. However, this invisible miracle of laughter is really breathtaking, so that although Hong Chengchou is not as good as Huang Zhixuan, he is also inevitably smiling.

"Heng Jiu is really a clever plan, this time Sun Ke is expected to belong to the imperial court, even if my black cauldron is not in vain!"

The injected internal force began to be gradually dissolved, and Huang Zhi slowed down, and said this in the first sentence. What he was referring to, Hong Chengchou naturally knew it best - originally, Hong Chengchou had been waiting for the Ming army in the southwest to have internal strife, and Sun Kewang was the most optimistic about him. Subsequently, Li Dingguo took Yunnan to meet him, and Sun Kewang fought against him, and he knew that the collapse of the Ming court in the southwest was imminent.

At this time, it is enough to wait, and when the Ming army is infighting, the Qing court can sit and reap the benefits of the fishermen. But at this time, the heartless Ningnan Jingkou general Arzin actually led the army to capture Chenzhou, and Sun Kewang, who was already about to do it, hurriedly rebuilt the old friendship with Li Dingguo, and mobilized Feng Shuangli, Chen Guoneng and other great future to recapture the gate of Chenzhou.

"After the death of the old batch of noble marshals, the remaining batch will not be able to see the overall situation more clearly than the other."

Seeing that the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity was about to be wasted by Arzin, Hong Chengchou made a heart and directly asked Huang Zhixuan, the political envoy of Huguangzuo, who was in charge of food and wages, and Liang Zhi, the prefect of Wuchang, who was in charge of grain and wages, to attack it first, and the rice beans and forage were drifted and stranded during transportation, and to put it bluntly, he directly cut off Arzin's food and salary, forcing him to give up Chenzhou. As a result, the Qing court chose Hong Chengchou in the verbal battle between the two sides, and transferred Arzin back to the capital, and Hong Chengchou successfully gave up Chenzhou. And after acting in a good enough scene, he deceived Sun Kewang's eyes, and only then did he let this infighting continue.

Hong Chengchou's goal was achieved, as for Huang Zhixuan and Liang Zhixian, of course, they were inevitably punished by the Qing court, the former was slightly better because of his close relationship with Hong Chengchou, but on the side of the Qing court, his reputation for greedy ink was already in place.

"It's a pity that Sun Kewang lost too quickly, if he loses both, it will take less effort for the imperial court to attack Yungui in the future."

In any case, Hong Chengchou had already waited for the day he had been waiting for, and it was within two years of Chen Kai's establishment of the Advisory Bureau, and it had not even been a year since such drastic changes had taken place in the southwest. Time is no longer so malicious to him, but it is still grim. For this reason, after receiving Sun Kewang's intention to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, he hurriedly sent Li Ruchun, the general soldier of the Huguang Middle Road, and Wang Ping, the general soldier of the left road, to lead his troops to attack Yang Wu, the general soldier of Wugang, and tried to take Sun Kewang into the area controlled by the Qing court. Now, they have successfully defeated Yang Wu and brought Sun Kewang, his wife, children, and attachés to the Baoqing realm.

"Heng Jiu, it's time to meet His Royal Highness King Qin at this time, right?"

"No, the more times like this, the less you can rush. Let's hang him for a few days, and report to the court at the same time. The more eager he is for self-efficacy, the more beneficial it will be to the court and us. ”