Seeing the boss roll from the horse to the ground, the guards next to him exclaimed in amazement, hurriedly dismounted, quickly helped him up from the ground, and then pinched the person, Zuo Mengeng woke up slowly.

He looked around the crowd with a distracted gaze, but with another pop, he spat out a mouthful of dirty blood, and then he wept bitterly.

The guards, as well as all the left troops, at this moment, were also terrified, and their faces were sad and sad.

Alas, Ningnan Marquis Zuo Liangyu was beheaded by the Tang Army, so what future can he have with Zuo Mengeng, whose ability is far inferior to his father's?

Such a heavy question pressed on everyone's hearts, making the atmosphere more and more depressing and dull.

With a bang, Zuo Mengeng took out a detoxification knife and swiped it fiercely on his forehead, and a touch of red immediately diffused and oozing.

He raised his right hand and wiped it vigorously on his face, and his whole face immediately turned a terrifying red, and with his hideous expression, it was like a ghost.

"Father, the child hereby swears that in this life and this life, no matter what the price is, he must cut off Li Xiao's dog's head, sacrifice the soul of the hero with blood, and avenge you!"

In the mountains, Zuo Menggeng's voice was like a terrible wolf howl, echoing in the valley for a long time.

Although he screamed so painfully, but in his heart, he knew that the wish for revenge could not resist the cruelty of reality.

After all, with only nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses who had no foundation in their hasty retreat to the south, it was difficult to confront the Tang army, which was in the limelight and morale was like a rainbow, and the only feasible strategy for now was to defend itself in this corner of southwest Hunan with the steep terrain and try to recover at the same time.

So, after crying for a while, Zuo Mengeng could only lead the army to continue to retreat south, preparing to withdraw to the Jingzhou area in the southeast of Huguang, where he took root and recuperated.

In the wilderness, the demoralized and scattered team marched farther and farther away, and finally disappeared completely into the mountains.

Wuchang City was captured by the soldiers without blood, and Ningnan Marquis Zuo Liangyu was also killed, such good news was soon transmitted by Huang Degong in the form of flying pigeons, and reached the ears of Li Xiao, the king of the Tang Dynasty, who was in Nanjing.

Wow, now that Zuo Liangyu is dead, the important town of Wuchang and the entire Huguang land will fall into the hands of the Tang Army, the most plastering land in Central China, and finally firmly held in his hands.

Li Xiao was overjoyed, and immediately ordered to arrange the specific actions of various units of the Tang Army.

He ordered that Liu Guoneng's soldiers and horses of the Sixth Town should be withdrawn to Jianghuai and stationed at various key points, so as to prevent the Dashun army from taking advantage of the situation to attack Jiangnan. After all, the area south of the Yangtze River is the most critical base of the Tang Army, and there must be no mistakes.

Huang Degong's soldiers and horses of the Ninth Town continued to sweep away the remnants of the Left Army in the entire northern part of Huguang, and wanted to bring the entire northern part of Huguang under the rule of the Tang Army.

As for Monk An's soldiers and horses in the second town, they went straight from Jingzhou to the south of Huguang, and occupied all the southern parts of Huguang except for the southwest of Hunan, and never gave the left army any chance to revivenation.

As for Zuo Mengeng's more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, they are now occupying a precipitous place like Jingzhou in a poor mountain and bad water to survive, Li Xiao decided to let them go for the time being, and use their troops in more important and urgent places, after all, it is foreseeable that Zuo Mengeng will not pose any threat to himself for a long time, and it is okay to let them go for the time being.

At the same time, Li Xiao decided to expand the soldiers and horses of the 11th Town of the Tang Army on the basis of absorbing a large number of troops from the Left Army.

The mayor of the eleventh town is Mo Changrong, the former deputy mayor of the second town of the Tang Army, and concurrently serves as the commander of the first battalion, the deputy mayor of the eleventh town is Wang Deren, who showed his loyalty to the Tang army with Zuo Liangyu, and he is also the commander of the second battalion, and as for the commander of the C battalion of the eleventh town, Jin Shenghuan, who surrendered to the Tang army outside Huangzhou City, is the commander.

After Mo Changrong served as the mayor of the tenth town, the post of deputy mayor of the second town was held by Gao Jie, the former commander of the second town C Battalion, and the new commander of the C battalion of the second town of the Tang Army was held by Hao Jiaozhong, the old general of the left army who led his troops to surrender to the Tang army under Jiujiang City.

Li Xiao hoped that, on the premise of basically eliminating the forces of the Left Army, he would vigorously reuse such generals of the Left Army as Wang Deren, Jin Shenghuan, and Hao Xiaozhong, so as to win the hearts of the people and let these generals know that the Tang Army could make good use of people regardless of previous suspicions, so that they would be convinced and better serve the Tang Army loyally.

Of course, the newly formed troops of the 11th Town, and its subordinate middle and low-ranking officers, were all transferred from the rest of the Tang Army's towns in the formation of other Tang Army military towns, and they also established units unique to the Tang Army, such as the Supervision and Restoration Department and the Security Department, in this way, to ensure that there was no deviation in principle in the entire army and to realize Li Xiao's strong control over the military town.

According to Li Xiao's request, the whole army of the newly formed 11th town soldiers and horses will be trained in Wuchang, and if the training and preparation are completed, the whole army will enter Sichuan to wait for the next move.

According to Li Xiao's concept, after the Tang army pacified Huguang, Huang Degong's soldiers and horses of the Ninth Town guarded the entire Huguang, mainly guarding against the Dashun army in the north.

Liu Zehan's Eighth Town soldiers and horses were stationed in Jiangxi to guard against Zheng Zhilong's troops in the south. As for the soldiers and horses of the Tang Army's second and eleventh towns in the Huguang region, they are ready to fight in Sichuan.

When the soldiers of these two towns entered the east and south of Sichuan, they joined the soldiers and horses of the tenth town of Zeng Ying's department of the Tang Army, and the soldiers and horses of the three towns worked together to attack Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi Kingdom, striving to completely eliminate this relatively weakest rogue force within one year at the latest.

Up to now, the Tang army has occupied Shandong, Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Huguang, and eastern Sichuan, which are the most elite lands in ancient China, and has a large number of people at their disposal. Moreover, the various regions have been connected, and it is very convenient to transport and deploy troops. If coupled with its vast overseas territory and population, Li Xiao's strength is second to none in this late Ming Dynasty.

With such strong strength and military strength, next, how to eliminate such as Taqing, Dashun, Daxi, and the remaining Hongguang puppet dynasty forces has become the top priority and top priority of the Tang army.

There are no two days in the sky, there are no two kings in the people, and the moment to sweep away the heroes and dominate the world is finally coming.

According to Li Xiao's concept, after eliminating the soldiers and horses of the left army of Zuo Liangyu's department, the whole army would work together to wipe out the Southern Ming Hongguang puppet dynasty in one go, but considering that the Zheng Zhilong department, which was the most powerful in the Southern Ming Hongguang puppet dynasty, was difficult to destroy suddenly because of the huge naval division and overseas strongholds, so it could only be considered in the long term for the time being.

Of course, Li Xiao still has a choice, that is, to give up eating the most powerful Zheng Zhilong in the Southern Ming Dynasty first, but to annex its Yungui and Guangxi first. However, in view of the remoteness of these provinces and the barren people, the significance of the actual occupation is not too great, but after the occupation, it is necessary to spend a considerable amount of troops to occupy them in the early stage and spend a lot of money to develop them, which is obviously not a top priority.

Therefore, after careful consideration, Li Xiao finally decided to let go of the remnants of Hongguang for the time being, and to attack Zhang Xianzhong, who had the smallest territory and the weakest force, but was still ambitious and vainly expanding in all directions.

The terrible news that the Tang army swept Huguang, Zuo Liangyu was killed and destroyed, and the land under his rule was basically in the hands of the Tang army, soon spread to the Great Western Kingdom.

Hearing this thunderous shocking news, everyone in the Daxi monarchs and ministers was terrified, and the Daxi Kingdom advocated loyalty, and immediately convened the ministers in the original Shu Palace, which is now the Daxi Palace.

Zhang Xianzhong, whose face was gloomy, silently looked around at the ministers of civil and military affairs below who bowed their heads and were speechless, and the troubles in his heart became more and more difficult to describe in words.

Finally, he let out a long sigh and broke the deathly silence in the hall: "Grandma, I really didn't expect that the Tang Army would be able to sweep through Huguang in just a few months, as if entering a no-man's land, Zuo Liangyu's hundreds of thousands of troops were defeated and fell apart. What's even more ridiculous is that Zuo Liangyu, a coward, was also beheaded by a mutinous general, this, this is really fucking unexpected! ”

When Zhang Xianzhong said this, he said hatefully: "The combat power of the Tang Army is really fucking strong. I think that at the beginning, I sent 60,000 elites to attack southern Sichuan, but I was attacked by the Tang army before and after, and I returned with a big defeat. Hey, one of you stands like a mallet, all of you fucking give Lao Tzu some opinions, and you all fucking talk about your own thoughts. ”

As soon as Zhang Xianzhong's words came out, many of the civil and military ministers below began to turn their heads and ears in a low voice, and for a while, the hall was noisy and chaotic, buzzing like dense flies.

Among these courtiers, the most ugly look was Zhang Xianzhong's righteous son Kewang (now known as Zhang Kewang), he raised his head slightly and looked at Zhang Xianzhong timidly, but found that Zhang Xianzhong's two angry eyes were poked in his face honestly, and he couldn't help but tremble subconsciously.

Since the defeat in Xuzhou City that day, only more than 10,000 of the 60,000 elites escaped, and after the loss of his righteous brother Ai Nengqi, Zhang Xianzhong was very dissatisfied with Sun Kewang, a general who was so incompetent, and after he led the defeated army back to Chengdu in a gloomy manner, Zhang Xianzhong, who was furious, immediately ordered Sun Kewang to be pushed out and beheaded.

Fortunately, a group of ministers pleaded hard, saying that although Sun Kewang, the king of Pingdong, was responsible for the defeat of the army, he had many military exploits in the past, and he could not be punished with death because of the defeat in the first battle. And the Tang army is strong and too cunning, although this battle is lost, it is not Sun Kewang's sin. What's more, under the difficult situation of the Tang Army's front and rear attacks, Sun Kewang still fought without chaos, and finally brought back more than 10,000 remnants of soldiers and horses, which can be regarded as a little offset.

Because of the hard persuasion of these courtiers, Zhang Xianzhong finally spared Sun Kewang from death and spared his life. However, the death penalty can be avoided, but the living crime cannot be escaped, Zhang Xianzhong ordered that Sun Kewang be beaten for thirty battles, and his title was demoted from the king of Pingdong to the marquis of Pingdong, and at the same time fined 10,000 taels of silver as a punishment.

Therefore, during this period of time, the relationship between Sun Kewang and Zhang Xianzhong has dropped to the lowest point since the two have been together. Sun Kewang was burdened with the major crime of being a defeated general, and his prestige in the court was greatly reduced, and he became the object of ridicule by the ministers.

"Hopefully, let's talk about it, in your opinion, how will Tang Jun act next, will it be unfavorable to my Daxi?" Zhang Xianzhong stared at his dodgy eyes, and asked sullenly.

Sun Kewang saw that there was no way to hide, so he had to reply stubbornly: "Your Majesty, in the foolish opinion of your sons, now that the Tang army has swept away Zuo Liangyu and annexed Huguang, then next, it will definitely go all out to attack our Great Western Kingdom." ”

Zhang Xianzhong frowned: "How can you see it?" Could it be that the Tang Army didn't go to destroy the Hongguang Dynasty first, so he thought that he would not be able to come to my Daxi first? ”

"Your Majesty, with all due respect, the current Hongguang Imperial Court has no place worth occupying by Li Xiao again." Sun Kewang sighed softly and replied in a low voice.

"Oh, tell me more."

"Your Majesty, now that the Hongguang Imperial Court, most of the essence of the land has been lost, and only Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, and Guizhou are left. Among them, the richest and best places are Guangdong and Fujian, and these two provinces are the territory of Zheng Zhilong, the southern marquis of Nazhen, and the Hongguang court is the lord in name, but it does not touch the power of these two provinces at all. ”

"Go on."

"Your Majesty, you must know that Zheng Zhilong, who occupies the two provinces, although his land strength is insufficient, but he has worked hard for many years, but he has a more powerful sailor than Li Xiao's Tang Army. Therefore, Li Xiao, who is strong in land and weak in the sea, and Zheng Zhilong, who is strong in the sea and weak in land, are in a state of rivaling each other, and they dare not carry out an all-out attack without obvious certainty of victory. What's more, since the Tang Army moved south, Zheng Zhilong's troops only wanted to keep their own territory, and they were not interested in competing with Li Xiao in Nanming. Li Xiao attacked the city and plundered the land in the Southern Ming Dynasty, and Zheng Zhilong was only in a state of wait-and-see and self-protection. His only move was to move the Hongguang court from Nanjing to Fuzhou, so that he could better control himself and become a puppet under his rule. He thought about it so carefully, Li Xiao could see it very clearly. Therefore, the military operations of the Tang army were deliberately not to clash with Zheng Zhilong, and on the whole, the two were able to maintain a temporary balance and calm. This state of affairs, Erchen believes, is likely to continue for a long time. ”

Seeing that Zhang Xianzhong listened carefully, Sun Kewang continued: "It can be seen that after Zheng Zhilong has no intention of competing with himself, Zheng Zhilong's territory will not be Li Xiao's target for the time being. The other three provinces, Guangxi, Yunnan, and Guizhou, are all very remote and remote places, barren land, poor people, and scarce products. For Li Xiao, who has already occupied the essence of China, it is not very attractive. Therefore, I think that for Li Xiao, an ambitious guy who doesn't know how to be satisfied, the next place he will use troops must be Taqing, Dashun, and our Daxi outside the Southern Ming Dynasty. And among the three kingdoms, the most likely place for him to use troops is my Daxi. ”

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