Chapter 90: Self-destruction

Liu Yongxi is really difficult to answer this question, in another time and space, Zhang Xianzhong has been trapped in Sichuan and waiting to be killed, from a certain point of view, Zhang Xianzhong's policies and responses in Sichuan are even worse than sitting and waiting to be killed.

But there is a huge variable that the Yue Ming army was born, and it has become a big question whether Zhang Xianzhong will always sit in Sichuan, after all, the eight kings Zhang Xianzhong was a thief on the same level as Li Zicheng, but Liu Yongxi still maintained a relatively optimistic attitude: "Now Zeng Ying, Yang Zhan and others are all in Sichuan, although under the banner of King Fu, but we can win these people over!"

Strictly speaking, the Sichuan Ming generals including Zeng Ying and Yang Zhan used to play the banner of King Fu, and now many people have changed to the banner of King Tang, but under the foundation of the establishment of the southeast of the Yue Ming Dynasty, they completely strive for these Sichuan Ming generals, and Empress Zhang feels that what Liu Yongxi said is extremely true: "With these righteous teachers in Sichuan, Zhang Xianzhong will not be in trouble even if he goes out of Sichuan!"

However, Azig's thoughts are completely opposite to Empress Zhang and Liu Yongxi, and they are trying their best to get Zhang Xianzhong out of Sichuan: "The biggest problem now is that Chongqing Mansion and other places are in the hands of the Ming army, and we must think of more ways to invite this eight kings out of Sichuan!"

Zhang Xianzhong's power in Sichuan has almost reached its limit this spring, but it has been declining in the past two months, and it is said that Zhang Xianzhong, a rogue who is already considering whether to stay in Sichuan or return to Shaanxi.

This is a very normal idea for a thief, but since Zhang Xianzhong has been the emperor of Sichuan and once possessed all of Shu, this kind of thief thinking will naturally become an important reason for his failure, and Wu Sangui immediately gave Azig an idea: "Give Wuchang to him, Zhang Xianzhong has always been thinking about Wuchang City!"

The capture of the provincial capital of Wuchang can be said to be a major turning point in Zhang Xianzhong's life, Zhang Xianzhong has always been obsessed with Wuchang City, and King Azig is also very interested in this matter: "I can write a personal letter to Zhang Xianzhong, but how to make Zhang Xianzhong believe that I have the sincerity to give Wuchang City to him?" ”

Wu Sangui laughed: "If Zhang Xianzhong takes Wuchang City, he will first defeat the 300,000 thieves in Jingzhou Mansion!"

Azig has already understood that if Zhang Xianzhong wants to go out of Sichuan, no matter how he goes, he will have to clash with the so-called 300,000 thieves in Jingzhou Mansion, and King Azig even thought of a more vicious idea: "I can give up Jingzhou Mansion to him, and I can also tell Zhang Xianzhong that the Zhenyi lady in Jingzhou is preparing to enter Sichuan to integrate the Ming army!"

Although the Dashun Army and the Daxi Army were allies in history, after hearing the news of Li Zicheng's defeat at Shanhaiguan, Zhang Xianzhong completely turned his face with the Dashun Army and attacked the Dashun Army in a major event, although now the Dashun Army in Jingzhou has been renamed the Loyal Battalion, and the Empress Dowager Gao has also changed its name to "Mrs. Yipin Zhenyi", but the grievances between the two sides last year have not been resolved.

And now Empress Dowager Gao regards herself as the spokesperson of the Yue Ming Dynasty, and the activities of the Zhongzhen Battalion in Jingzhou will definitely affect Zhang Xianzhong's business in Sichuan, Azig feels that as long as he adds a head to it, Zhang Xianzhong will definitely go out of Sichuan at any cost.

Just as Azig wanted to supplement the plan, he heard the sound of horses' hooves outside, and then a bloody Eight Banners soldier rushed in and said loudly: "King Ying, the big thing is not good, Jin Shenghuan rebelled in Jiangxi, and announced that he supported Emperor Longwu of the Ming Kingdom!"

Jin Shenghuan?

Azig was first taken aback, then rejoiced: "What did you say? Which emperor of the Ming Kingdom did Jin Shenghuan announce to support? ”

The Eight Banners soldiers who came to report the news didn't understand why Azig laughed out loud: "King Ying, Jin Shenghuan announced that he supports Emperor Longwu of the Ming Kingdom!"

Azigna slapped the table excitedly: "Okay, good, Admiral Jin did a good job, this thing is beautiful!"

If Jin Shenghuan announced his support for the Yue Ming Dynasty, it would naturally be a fatal blow to the Huguang Qing army, but he announced his support for Emperor Longwu, and the situation not only did not deteriorate, but developed in a direction that was very beneficial to Azig.

Azig laughed: "Isn't it just the opposite of Jin Shenghuan?" There are no Eight Banner soldiers in Jiangxi Province, they are all green battalion soldiers and new attached troops, so let the Jinhua thieves have a headache themselves!"

For Liu Yongxi and the Yue Ming army who had just entered Nanjing, Jin Shenghuan was a sudden news in Jiangxi anyway, and more importantly, Jin Shenghuan announced that he supported Emperor Longwu, that is, the Tang Dynasty, rather than the Yue Ming Dynasty, which had just achieved legitimacy.

Not only Zhang Niangniang, Zhang Guowei, Zhu Dadian and other important ministers could not understand Jin Shenghuan's choice, but even Liu Yongxi felt that Jin Shenghuan was simply messing around, in the current situation, Jin Shenghuan's support for Emperor Dai Longwu was naturally the most wrong choice in life, just like Jin Shenghuan's brain suddenly went into the water to attack Ganzhou.

It's just that Liu Yongxi soon found out what happened in Nanchang, Jin Shenghuan was even two days earlier than the Yue Ming army to recover Nanjing, and more importantly, in terms of the situation at that time, the Qing army in Jiangnan still had 100,000 people, and it would take at least ten days and a half months or even longer for Liu Yongxi and the Yue Ming army to recover Nanjing City and the entire Jiangnan, so Jin Shenghuan made the wrong choice between the Yue Ming Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty.

Hearing Liu Yongxi's analysis, Empress Zhang felt that there was still room for Jin Shenghuan to fight: "Since this General Jin just took a wrong step, he can naturally fight him!"

Liu Yongxi shook his head and said: "Where did he take a wrong step, he made a wrong step, every step was wrong, now it is difficult to ride a tiger, and now that most of the main force has crossed the river, Jin Shenghuan will have more ideas after he has a chance to rest!"

Although it had been decided that Zhou Zhisheng, Wang Puxiang, and Zhang Huangyan would be in charge of the defense of Jiangbei, the premise was to completely wipe out the Qing army in Jiangbei, so Empress Zhang and Liu Yongxi ordered the main force of the Yue Ming army to start crossing the river to fight for the remnants of the enemy in Jiangbei while worshipping Xiaoling.

It's just that no one expected that most of the main force of the Yue Ming army had just arrived on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and such shocking news came from Jiangxi.

In the past, although Zhejiang and Fujian did not recognize each other, they never tore their faces, but Jin Shenghuan was such a thing, and the small court of Yue Ming naturally regarded Jin Shenghuan as the number one enemy, and Empress Zhang immediately asked: "Do you want to transfer the troops who crossed the river back first?" Now Jin Shenghuan is the number one enemy of this dynasty!"

Liu Yongxi said calmly: "The confrontation between the north and the south of the past dynasties is at least bounded by the Huai River, and only by taking Xuzhou can we take the initiative, and now that the army has just crossed the river, we can't let them fail!"

Empress Zhang couldn't help frowning and asked, "Xiao Xi means that he is going to go west in person?" But as soon as I entered the city of Nanjing, there are still many things to do!"

If you look at the problem purely from an orthodox point of view, the Yue Ming Dynasty can be said to have lost a mess, but because of this, after taking Nanjing, the Yue Ming Dynasty needs to use a series of ceremonies to make up for it, and Liu Yongxi, as the protagonist of this series of ceremonies, naturally has no way to leave Nanjing, after all, this series of ceremonies is just to complete the worship of filial piety.

And Liu Yongxi also knew that there was no way to leave Nanjing for the time being: "Then let Jin Shenghuan spend the New Year first, the southern capital has been restored, and the soldiers have been fighting for more than half a year, and they really need to take a little rest!"

Although there is a boudoir June this year, the rise of the Yue Ming Dynasty is still an incredible miracle.

From the beginning of the Jinhua Uprising in May of the Yue Ming Army, it has only been seven or eight months now, but the Yue Ming Army has won many battles, and the provincial capital Hangzhou was recaptured in August, and at the beginning of December of the first year of Hongzhi, that is, in December of the second year of Shunzhi, the city of Nanjing was recovered, and the Qing army was completely expelled from Jiangnan.

It's just that the Yue Ming army has been engaged in battle after battle again and again with almost no rest in these seven or eight months, and now it really needs to rest a little, and there are too many affairs to deal with after the capture of Nanjing.

One of the most typical examples is that the Yue Ming Dynasty has been using the era name of the first year of Hongguang like the historical Lu Jian State, but the Hongguang Emperor has been martyred on the battlefield, and it is impossible to continue to use the Hongguang year name next year, and the monarch and ministers naturally have to reach a consensus on this issue, and it is already December, and there is not much time left.

Moreover, the Yue Ming court has always been a grass platform team before, and it has also formed two sets of central institutions that coexist in the front and rear, although the efficiency is very high, but there are too many problems, and after the conquest of Nanjing, it must be reorganized and adjusted on a large scale.

There are too many similar problems, the failure of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong is largely such a transformation is almost a complete failure, and Liu Yongxi and Empress Zhang are naturally unwilling to become the second Li Zicheng, so Empress Zhang can only say with great regret: "It is really unfair that such a blind person can still have a good year!"

Empress Zhang felt that this was a pity.

If Empress Zhang was always a little panicked at the beginning of the incident, she became more and more confident with the victories of the Yue Ming army one after another, and now that the Yue Ming army has recovered Nanjing and recovered Jiangnan, she feels that she is indeed the daughter of destiny.

But although Jin Shenghuan killed himself, he actually went to serve the Tang King, who had little time to serve, but he didn't put Queen Zhang, the daughter of destiny, in his eyes, which made Queen Zhang really angry, and Liu Yongxi immediately said very clearly: "Although we can't immediately send troops to attack Jiangxi, we won't let him have a good year, we have Wang Sun Fan in Jiangxi, and Jin Sheng Jin Shangshu in Anhui!"

As soon as Liu Yongxi said this, Empress Zhang immediately understood: "That's right, there are still tens of thousands of Qing troops in Jiangxi Province, and now Jin Shenghuan is anyway, and the rest of the Qing army is not anyway, inform Wang Futai and Jin Shangshu that as long as they have not been attached to our army, they are all Qing troops who are trying to pass the customs under the banner of rebellion, and they must not raise tigers to cause trouble!"

Now Jiangxi Province must still be in chaos, anyway, as long as it refuses to belong to the Yue Ming army, it is the Qing army trying to get by!